With seven days until the semi-finals, the news of edg's victory over rox quickly spread around the world.
Although Mixia did not watch the news of the island country due to shame, but due to her sister Risa's talkativeness, she still learned about the events that day on TV Tokyo [lpl Lone Wolf defeated lck Juehuhu!] and [Tokyo E-sports Diao Chan scored half a goal]
Finals!] news reports.
In comparison, in China, titles such as [LPL’s last hope] [Breaking team history] [A string of three first steps] [Eliminating the lck’s No. 1 seed] are simply plain.
LPL's report is objective and calm, but the audience is much larger than the island country, but the enthusiasm of the audience is far greater than that of the spectators in Tokyo who know Mika but have no understanding of e-sports.
Although a small number of viewers remained calm, thinking that Mika's "three to zero three stars" was just a kid's joke and that it was not serious. They also thought that EDG broke through the quarterfinals for the first time and reached the finals as a success.
But the lpl audience, whose hope has been ignited, has greatly increased their confidence in edg!
[Have you ever broken a promise you made during an interview with Sakura Girl? If you say three to zero, then it’s three to zero!]
[The No. 1 seed in lck is at a 10% discount. What’s wrong with beating the No. 3 seed 3-0! 】
[We won’t really let edg kill the Korean team three times to win the championship! Lck fans are not allowed to vomit blood on the spot?!]
[Is this the most promising year? 】
【Edg kill me!】
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Not only off the court, but also the edg coaches and players were filled with an unprecedented desire to win for this historic breakthrough.
After all, there are only two steps left. Neither last year nor the year before, we were so close to the Summoner's Cup. It seems that if we work harder, we can grasp it!
However, no matter how high the fighting spirit is, at this time, only the top half of the team that EDG can get a training match with is h2k. Playing games with such teams is equivalent to practicing in vain.
Therefore, there are still very few training games, and the team is still the same as when preparing for Rox, mainly studying video and tactics.
But soon the coaching staff’s preparations ran into trouble!
The third seed's ssg is actually more difficult to target than the first seed's rox!
The two teams have completely different styles.
The outstanding part of the Rox team is particularly outstanding. The top laner Smeb ranks first in the official Riot player rankings, which shows its strength.
At the same time, although the jungler Peanut in the team is a newcomer, his performance in the World Championship exceeded that of Factory Director Benji and other players, and he is already the best jungler in this World Championship.
On the other hand, Rox's shortcomings are in a particularly low-lying position, Kuro is confused in the middle, and ADC player Pray relies heavily on Ice. This is also the breakthrough found by Edg in the quarterfinals.
However, SSG has the same bust size as Mika, and the whole body is ordinary, with no protruding parts or any breakthroughs!
It is the most traditional LCK team, relying on operations and team execution to win. In the previous quarterfinals against wild card ANX, the average game duration was extended to 35 minutes, which shows its style.
What's even more troublesome is that the last round of SSG was against a wild card team, and the space was used for the unique hero of e-sports Scarlett Likkrit. The ones banned were heroes like Fire Man and Bard, and they won three to zero in the end.
, not even a single trump card was played.
In the end, we had no choice but to summon the players to analyze together.
In the edg conference room, Abu said after staying up all night, "The ruler's hero pool is very deep, four rounds of Jhin, two rounds of Ezreal, and one round each of Ice, Policewoman Sivir... But the support corejj
I haven’t shown off my female gun so far. I heard that I’m practicing ranked recently, but I don’t know if she can... Mika, what do you have to say?"
Seeing Sakura girl raise her hand, Abu was very happy to let her speak.
After all, it was her idea to ban Ice against Rox, so I guess she will have to rely on her in this semi-final!
"Coach, let's discuss it based on corejj's ability to play female gunners." Meixia stood up and replied, "The lck team has been playing training matches with each other, and Samsung, which is good at rox, will definitely do the same!"
"It makes sense!" Abu nodded quickly in confirmation.
The factory director then put forward his idea, "Then it will be difficult to make a breakthrough in the bottom lane. Do you think there is a possibility that Leader An doesn't know how to play Blind Monk and Leopard Girl? I don't think he has any use until now.
Pass."
He regards Leader An as his other self in the World Championship!
Without waiting for Mixia's rebuttal, Abu made the first analysis.
"The blind monk can be given to An Bixin for a try. The leopard girl will never do it unless she has no choice..."
Neither the bottom lane nor the jungler can target BP, so only the top mid laner is left.
No, just blend in by default when you hit the road.
Only the mid lane position is left.
Abramovich actually has his own analysis of the three-star mid laner, "Actually, I noticed something. From the group stage to the knockout stage, crown only played Viktor, Ryze and Snake. Dragon King and Syndra were not played. The top eight played against anx.
They are all third-level Syndra, and I prefer that he doesn’t know either Dragon King or Syndra, so we can start from here during BP.”
However, Mei Xia is sure that LCK mass-produced players like Crown may not be able to play Syndra, but they can definitely choose Dragon King!
But she didn't refute it here.
She discovered that Abramovich and the coaching staff had entered a blind spot in their thinking.
Because they have lost to the Korean team too many times before, and edg’s two previous bo5 wins against the lck team were all due to the surprise victory of Sakura Girl.
This resulted in an inertia of thinking, which caused everyone to prepare with a challenger mentality every time they faced the lck team, trying to win by surprise.
But the situation against Samsung this time is completely different from that against Rox!
At that time, mouse was weaker than smeb, the factory manager was weaker than peanut, and the duo was not as good as Xuan Ming and Xuan Ming who had obtained the Ice Lady Spear.
Except for mid laner Mei Xia, the other three lanes lagged behind in all aspects.
But playing against Samsung is different. This time the opponent relies on operations and cooperation, so the players are average in strength. On the other hand, we have outstanding players!
Miha and her duo are superior to each other in terms of hero pool and laning strength. Like Ryze, Varus, Time, Gunslinger, and Jhin, these are the trump cards that Samsung will need in the quarter-finals.
Consider response locations.
In other words, our measurements are higher than those of our opponents.
So in the next bo5, it should be rox's turn to find ways to limit our hero pool, instead of us worrying about how to break through the opponent's hero pool!
When thinking of this, Meixia understood - telling Abu directly that Crown will definitely play Dragon King will only make others more ambitious!
So what you have to do is obey.
She immediately raised her hand.
Abu asked, "Mika thinks something is wrong?"
Meixia added, "It's not just Syndra Dragon King. In fact, I watched the video and felt that Ryze, Snake, and Clockwork who were selected by Crown in the group stage all played very average."
The conference room fell into brief silence.
So crazy.
Although we know that Mika has always had such a frank character, everyone was still shocked to hear that several of Samsung's signature mid lane heroes are not as good as her.
The crown seemed useless in her eyes.
Abu came to his senses, "In other words, not only the Dragon King, but also Ryze's priority is not mentioned? This is more risky than the top eight against Kuro..."
Meixia nodded calmly.
The only advantage Samsung has over Rox is the mid laner, but that little gap in the mid lane is almost zero in front of her.
No, it should be said that without her teammates holding her back, she would be more relaxed!