On March 25th, Saturday, lpl ushered in the third match day of the eighth week of the Spring Split.
The game between edg and ig was scheduled for the first game of the day.
Although IG's top laner is now in good shape after introducing SKT's top laner Duke, his current record is six wins and three losses, ranking among the top three in Group A.
However, even rng, the top team in Group A, lost miserably to edg 0-2. Even the most loyal dog son has no hope that ig can defeat edg today.
Of course, the competition scene was still very lively and there were many spectators.
The two commentators, Watanabe and Zeyuan, also strongly encouraged ig fans to balance the one-sided support rate.
"In last year's World Championship, although edg won in the end, the duel between Aguang and Duke on the top lane was very controversial." Wawa was the first to introduce the topic.
Zeyuan continued, "Yes, many people think that Duke actually completely defeated Mouse in the lane, but Mouse won the game by relying on tank heroes to follow Mika around in the mid-game.
Some people also say that Mouse can develop peacefully as a tank against Duke. In four games, he was not single-killed by the lane, and his replenishment economy did not lag too far behind. He was able to shoulder the damage when starting a team, and he was already a blue-collar top laner.
Extreme..."
"Now, we LPL viewers are very lucky. We don't have to wait for the MSI or the S7 World Championship. We can re-experience the powerful showdown between Mouse and Duke, the two world champion top laners, in the regular season of the division!"
"Even in lck, it's hard to see..."
The audience did buy it.
[In the EDG World Championship, except for Mika, all other three lanes were beaten by SKT?]
[Haha, Duke, the elderly top laner who was kicked off by SKT after playing in the World Championship, really doesn’t think he can compete with the world champion A Guang]
[The cloud audience is in trouble, I still vividly remember the scene where Duke almost led me through the Mouse World Championship! Is this how the history books begin? 】
[Korean blowing roll]
[Duke is so awesome, why didn’t he get the championship skin? 】
[If a woman from an island nation wins the championship, what’s there to brag about? 】
…
Before the game even started, the barrage was already noisy.
The game has just entered BP, and the popularity of the scene has reached a new level.
The blue side edg banned Jess the poodle and barrel in the first three moves, and banned people in the first two hands normally. In the third move, one was to block the opponent Duke's top laner Ice Fist Barrel, which had a very good effect in the previous bo5 game, and the second was to block the ig barrel.
Possibility of Ueno swing.
The first three hands of red square ig are Enchantress, Varus and Qinggangying.
So the two jungle versions of Male Gun and Mantis are left out.
edg immediately grabbed the male gun for the factory director, and ig grabbed Rambo and Malzahar with the first two hands!
"I'll grab Rambo in the first place!" In the EDG player seat, coach Abu was a little surprised, "What does the BP of ig mean?"
Last year, Marin's Lambo was in trouble at LPL, but Duke actually dared to steal the Lambo first hand. This is because he doesn't take the factory director and Mika seriously.
"Ah Guang, just grab a big tree and grab it when the time comes!" the factory director said with a grin.
But mouse glanced at Mika and had a different idea than the factory director and coach.
He has transformed and improved from the World Championship, and is no longer the weak A Guang of the past.
"Coach, I want to get Kenan!"
"This..." Abu still wanted to hesitate.
"That's right. It's up to you to do damage in this round with mouse!" Mixia first expressed her support.
"Well, what Mika said is right, let's go with Kenan!" Abu immediately changed his mind and nodded.
I’m sure I want to get Kenan for mouse, but there’s no need to pick it in the first round. If I put it in the second round, I might be able to cheat ig into two ban spots.
So edg picked Lulu and Syndra with two or three hands.
Then it’s ig’s turn to select someone.
Mafa, the coach from South Korea, has a gentle personality. He likes to communicate with players regardless of training or BP, and he is also willing to listen to the players' personal ideas.
This is also the reason why most of IG's BP in the S8 season is actually led by him, but the team still found coach Jin Jingmo to work with him as a professional coach - he alone can't control several tough players in the team.
In this regular season, after realizing early on that the physical strength gap between ig and edg was huge, his BP in the game relied on the players' personal expertise from the very beginning.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have robbed Duke of Rambo in the first place.
He then asked the jungler, "Kid, do you still want to take Kha'Zix?"
The kid shook his head quickly. How dare he choose Mantis in front of Syndra and the male gunner, "Rookie wants to take the robbery, and the top laner is AP, so I will choose Spider or Blind Sin to cooperate with the control!"
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The blind monk and Zed don't cooperate as well as the spider, so ig locks the spider in the third hand.
The first round of bp is over, and the commentator is already analyzing it non-stop.
"Edg doesn't have a hero in the first three hands? Then in the second round, ig will start to pick up the top laner! Titans and trees are easy to cooperate with the jungle!" Wawa said.
"There is another Shen, but Shen may have a harder time facing Rambo." Zeyuan said.
Shen's sword formation mainly protects against AD damage, so it is really difficult to face Rambo.
So ig banned people in the second round, as analyzed by Wawa, banning Titan and Dashu.
EDG bans Ekko and Male Blade. The former is Syndra's ter position, and the latter is Rookie's hero who most often cooperates with Spider.
Let’s start with selecting people.
ig first showed off adc. As the position with the biggest strength gap between the two teams, they could only choose this hero for marge.
Then edg chose adc Yin Zeriel as the fourth player. The top, middle and jungle players were all late-stage heroes, and iboy chose a mid-term hero to match the lineup.
In the fifth move, mouse’s Kennen finally appeared!
First, the audience cheered.
Then the barrage filled the screen.
【Mouse wants to prove himself?】
[LPL’s territory does not allow Koreans to be arrogant!]
[In my opinion, Mouse has forgotten how he won the World Championship by lying on Mika’s thighs, and then he lost his mind after defeating a few fish-eating Lashi in LPL! 】
…
Although the audience reacted strongly, it was normal to choose Kenan in front of Duke.
Then it’s ig’s turn for the fifth move.
Unlike Kid who gave up on Mantis after hesitation, IG mid laner Rookie is more confident and has the courage to prove himself.
ig directly locked the Lord of Shadow Stream in seconds!
This was a choice that surprised all the audience including the commentators!
Because since winning the World Championship last year, there are really not many mid laners who dare to pick Zed or Assassin in front of Sakura Girl in the game!
"It's really locked! Rookie locked the Shadow Stream Lord Zed against Mika's Dark Queen Syndra!" the doll shouted.
"This reminds me of the showdown between Mika and Rookie in last spring split, Zed and Yasuo. Mika used Zed and Yasuo to defeat Rookie in two consecutive teaching games, and then she proved her strength!" Zeyuan said about last year's game.
Having done thorough research on the game, I can say that he knows all the games that Mika has played by heart.
"It's Rookie's turn to prove his ability in this round!"
"The game was great!" When the heroes of both sides were confirmed, the baby shouted excitedly.
The edg lineup includes top laner Kennen, jungler Lancer, mid laner Syndra, adc Yinzeriel and assistant Lulu.
The ig lineup includes top laner Rambo, jungler Spider, mid laner Zed, adc Jin and assistant Malzahar.