After Meixia defeated rng, the team's schedule did not become easier, but faced "strong enemies" one after another.
They faced challenges from omg, vg, im and gt one after another. These opponents were all well-known teams at the top of the rankings.
Of course, the so-called devilish schedule of EDG is only for the e-sports media and coach Abramovich.
The former marketing account only pulls data to look at the standings, thinking that the top five teams must be evenly matched, and even the media who understand clearly the weak situation of the LPL, one super team, and many, in order to cooperate with the promotion of the popularity of the LPL event, will deliberately
The game is written to be full of suspense.
For example, the news before OMG was written, [Dark forces are making a comeback, LPL solo kill king I faces solo kill queen Mika, who is the first LPL mid lane matchup! 】
Playing vg is [easyhoon half-flesh vampire vs. mika assassin vampire, who is better! 】
On IM, there is another [Decisive Battle on Lingshi Road, Athena, who was once a substitute for EDG, can she defeat Mika and defeat the top!]
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In short, the media writes from an eye-catching perspective.
Coach Abramovich is limited by his conservative character and habitually prepares for his opponents before games.
As for Mika, her answer to Luo Xin's interview was somewhat off-putting. In fact, she was more concerned about rng, but she really didn't study it carefully when facing these teams.
She only regards herself as the king who accepts the challenge!
The process and results of the competition proved her confidence!
In the game against rng, Miha showed off a killing spree of vampires. Coupled with the already proven unstoppable Czar and Vampire, her mid lane mage hero bowl was basically completed.
Even though it is now recognized that Mika's mage hero is not as good as the assassin, all the coaches of the team have to admit that the three ban positions cannot handle Mika's mage three-axe!
In the match against OMG, she was a vampire and a bewitcher. She defeated OMG led by i with both her forehand and backhand, and beat the autistic SMLZ to the end of the game.
And on June 25th, in the match against vg, she took out the new hero Thalia, the rock bird, in addition to the mage's three axes, and defeated easyhoon's signature vampire and tsar in a head-to-head manner.
At the beginning of July, in the game against IM, Meixia pulled off the ancient beauty amazingj's signature Galen and made everyone faint. With Athena, she showed with a superb record why it was she, Meixia, who was firmly in the starting lineup at the beginning of the year, while the opponent was
Abramovich was assigned to the second team of EDG.
After that, we played against the bottom team gt, and won extremely easily. The game ended 2-0, and the total time was less than an hour.
These teams that were considered to have the potential to overthrow Mika were all defeated without exception.
The LPL schedule is now halfway through, and EDG leads Group A with a 9-0 record.
This means that edg has continued its unbeatable record from the Spring Split to the MSI and then to the Summer Split, and continues to break through the winning streak created by itself!
lpl25 consecutive wins!
If you include the playoffs and MSI games, it is an unprecedented 39 consecutive victories!
Not only that, edg also set a record of 20 unbeaten games in small rounds!
Personal aspects.
Meixia herself is also far ahead of other players in the division in various statistics, proving to everyone with perfect results——
Even if it is the least skilled mage version, the EDG she leads is still the strongest team in LPL, and regardless of player strength, tactics or coordination, it is ahead of all LPL teams!
After the invincible strength of edg was continuously verified, and the hero pool issue of America Summer was solved, coach Abramovich finally no longer regarded domestic teams as opponents and began to look towards other competition regions.
And it is this study of possible opponents in the World Championship that puts the whole team into a more nervous state than when they were preparing to face rng...
Unlike the continued dominance of the LPL in the LPL division, the situation in the LCK next door in the summer split has changed drastically.
The lck spring champion, skt, who represented the Korean division in MSI, seemed to have been really shaken by mika. After returning to China, their regular season record was shocking, ranking last with 4 wins and 6 losses!
mvp, rox and kt are ranked in the top three.
So as the Summer Split is halfway through and the World Championship is looming, online discussions about the value of the Mid-Season Cup and the World Championship are gradually rising.
On one side are the viewers who support edg.
"Anyone who understands the game can understand the dominance of edg today! Their tactical style and personal strength have changed. They are no longer the edg of last year!"
"39 consecutive wins and MSI championship, this can prove the strength of edg. They have come out of the shadow of Waterloo in last year's World Championship!"
"Mika-chan is the most beautiful player, edg is the first team, and lpl is the first division! Mika said it."
"Mika never said she was the most beautiful, right?"
"I asked my wife mika-chan lpl before going to bed last night who was the prettiest, and she admitted it herself."
"Don't go crazy here."
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There are also many people who hold the opposite view.
"MSI is really worthless."
"Reasonable discussion, can edg's two msi championships be combined into one world championship trophy?"
"No, I don't really think MSI has much value, do I? Edg won the MSI championship last year, and the experience of going home to the top eight of the World Championship is still fresh in my mind!"
"EDG beat SKT, which was ranked third from the bottom in the LCK Summer Split, and they think they are the best team in the world?"
"I don't understand why a civil war phantom like Edg is worthy of belief. Just because they replaced Sakura Girl, the fear in their bones will disappear? Impossible!"
"EDG fans really don't know how high the world is. They started to praise the world's number one team before the summer split ended..."
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The tension and increasing pressure from edg, from coaches to players, stems from various tit-for-tat discussions on Tieba and even Weibo.
Obviously MSI is an honor earned through hard work.
The complete victory of lpl is also a proof of strength.
But it seems that in the eyes of many people, these real results are insignificant. Only the World Championship is the only chance to prove that they are not the illusion gods of the civil war. Once they lose the game on the world stage...
The situation that they received after being defeated in the quarter-finals last year and received all kinds of criticism is lingering in their minds, as clear as if it was yesterday.
The factory director began to insist on playing more games in ranked games every day. Abu often talked about lck in meetings, and occasionally made some small mistakes in the operation of meiko and deft.
Fortunately, these changes are insignificant for the time being and cannot affect the outcome of the game.
The worst thing is that Mixia sensed the subtle changes in the mentality of her teammates, and she also tried to reverse it, but the factory director and the others had developed an almost instinctive fear of the World Championship due to their two consecutive experiences of hatred in S4 and S5.
Just like many mid laners in lpl now are afraid of her because they were killed by explosions.
This state of shrinking self-confidence cannot be easily changed through words.
Only by actually going to the World Championships and using brute force to help edg get rid of the curse of the top eight can his teammates regain their confidence!
In this way, the LPL competition came to the sixth week, and edg faced off against the WE team, which had a deep grudge against them.