On July 20th, the sixth week of LPL competition officially begins.
That night, OMG first played against SS. The OMG team, which had just lost to EDG in last week's game, was in full swing and easily defeated SS led by Holy Spear Brother 2-0.
Then edg came on the scene. This time their opponent was the WE team that won the first game of the intercontinental finals and helped lpl gain key points.
Although this game is scheduled on a Thursday on a working day, the excitement in the venue is no less than last Friday when EDG returned to the LPL for its first game.
This is really because of edg's poor performance in last week's game, and the incident of fireloli being dragged off the players' bench at the end of the game, which added too much topicality to this game.
A completely physical EDG may crush WE, but Abramovich continues to play as a substitute, so the excitement of this game is likely to be higher than the game against OMG!
And if blank performs poorly and loses the first game, is it possible that the factory director will play!
Even if we maintain our performance in the intercontinental competition, do we have a chance to defeat edg!
Amid high expectations, LPL's ace commentator Doll and Miller introduced the regular season with smiles on their faces.
"Welcome back, the next step will be the highlight! Edg and We, the two major heroes of LPL in the intercontinental competition, have only been fighting in the same room less than two weeks after returning from the intercontinental competition. They have changed from teammates to players in the game.
My opponent!!" the doll joked.
"And I heard that we learned a lot from the training matches with edg in the Intercontinental Championship. The two teams can be said to know themselves and each other. At the same time, there are no major changes between the 13th version of the competition and the 12th version of the Intercontinental Championship. The BP of this game has not changed.
It's okay if there are changes. If there are changes, I will probably make a big move!" Miller was making predictions seriously.
"Okay, the game starts bp! Edg chooses the blue side in the first game!"
The blue side edg banned Cregalio and Prince in the first three moves.
Block all heroes who have performed well in MSI and returning LPL games!
Although these three are also the best heroes in EDG, they still have no intention of releasing them. This is how serious Mixia is taking them!
After all, we really shouldn’t be underestimated. I remember that in my last life, they even won SKT in the intercontinental competition!
The red side, after disabling Zack, which the red side must do, then blocked the excavator and the big tree respectively.
Redmi didn’t ban any of its mid laners in the first three hands, which was also very unexpected.
But let’s not talk about the mid laner first.
All six offices have been confirmed by both parties.
So the Xia Luo combination, and the policewoman Kalista, a pair of combinations plus an AD, these three intercontinental competitions shine, and the strength of the other bot lane heroes are all released.
According to the intercontinental competition selection strategy, edg directly grabbed Luo Fangxia.
There is no problem with this.
If we don't take Xia Luo next, iboy and meiko will be able to form an invincible combination of Xia Luo!
Sure enough, it was our turn to lock in the first two moves of adc Xia and top laner Crocodile respectively.
It’s still the same as the intercontinental competition.
Edg's second and third hand then took out adc Kalista and the wild boar girl.
Then we select someone, and lock the jungler Lee Sin with the third hand.
So far, the BP strategy of both sides has not changed much from the intercontinental competition.
By the second round of processing, it was still ordinary.
edg bans Karma and Thresh.
We banned Syndra and Jax.
Go to the second round of selection.
We locked the auxiliary Lulu in the first hand.
Meixia and her teammates locked up mid laner Clockwork and top laner Big Worm.
The top laner, Big Bug, is a small change. I chose this hero because the hero will be strengthened in the next version, and mouse is also a trial version.
Mitsu's Clockwork Demon.
It’s simply about seeking stability.
She also had a vague hunch that Coach Hongmi, as the man behind the successful rise of the second-generation WE team, would never simply believe that the set in the intercontinental competition was the final answer to the version.
After all, the intercontinental competition is here for two weeks. Hongmi is definitely not a freeloader. If he plays tricks first, he may really suffer a big loss for BP...
And WE itself has stronger strength than OMG. In their last life, they defeated SKT in the intercontinental competition! Therefore, if the mid laner is countered and cannot be beaten, edg is very likely to lose!
Meixia doesn't care much about winning or losing in the regular season, but if the jungler blank is demoted because of himself, it will be completely different from the situation with fireloli last week - fireloli was cheated by himself and has nothing to do with her Mika.
This brings the game bp to our final choice.
Commentator Miller almost thought that the entire BP match lasted for the intercontinental match.
The situation on the field changed suddenly.
We selected a mid laner hero who has not appeared in lpl throughout the summer split.
Malzahar, Prophet of the Void!
"Malzahar, are these the heroes that our coaching staff has researched to be able to counter the edg system?!" I don't care what the conditions for Malzahar's selection are, and just think it's the red rice ultimate move.
"This hero shouldn't have a big advantage against Clockwork in the lane. When Clockwork is developed, QW can clear out all the bugs." Miller was a little confused, "And I remember that Ma was weakened in the previous version 12.
Erzaha? Really?"
You can't blame Miller for not figuring it out.
Malzahar was reworked from the mid-season version, but unlike Rek'Sai, who immediately shined after the rework, Malzahar often appeared in the rankings and moved from the mid lane to the support position, and was a perennial player in the game.
On the bench...
In order to correct Malzahar's positioning, designers made huge and complex changes in versions 11 and 12 before the Intercontinental Championship.
Version 11 enhances the damage of qer, but the initial distance of the bugs released by the w skill is halved, the movement speed is weakened, and the duration is shortened...
Just drive Malzahar back to the middle.
But it still had little effect.
The designers finally realized the problem - Malzahar was too restrained by mercury.
So the biggest change in version 12 is that even if Malzahar's ultimate move [Grapple of the Underworld] is interrupted by mercury or control skills, the continuous damage caused by it will not disappear.
After this change, Malzahar only relies on the damage of his skills that have been strengthened many times, and he can basically be regarded as a powerful mid laner, but he is still unpopular in the professional arena.
Meixia remembered that in her previous life, it was the Samsung mid laner Crown Brother who completely made this hero popular in the World Championship and created a famous scene of pushing sticks, so she deliberately hid it and prepared to use it as a secret weapon in the World Championship.
But I didn't expect that in this world, we would be involved enough to research Malzahar so early!
etc.
If you crush xiye's Malzahar yourself.
Will everyone, including the LCK coaching staff who must be paying attention to this game, think that Malzahar is not effective?!
Thinking like this, Meixia's fighting spirit became stronger than ever before!
then.
Blue side edg top laner Big Bug, beat Wild Boar Girl, mid laner Clockwork, adc Kalista and auxiliary Luo.
The red team's top laner is Crocodile, jungler Blind Sin, mid laner Malzahar, adc Xia and auxiliary Lulu.