The third match day of the MSI group stage officially started at 15:00 BJ time.
The first matchup is between g2 and evs.
After being defeated by ym yesterday and breaking the undefeated gold medal in the group stage, g2 obviously played more restrained.
After all, having a five thousand economic advantage and being overturned is unacceptable to any team.
In this game, the G2 midfielder used the roaming system of Ryze Lee Sin. Wunder still chose Jayce on the top lane. However, this time the G2 midfielder frequently roamed the road in the early stage, helping Wunder knock down a tower in nine minutes.
Jayce, who has advanced development, destroyed nearly half of his opponent's health with one electromagnetic pulse in the mid-term team battle, and Perzk's Ryze is also very skilled in single-player, constantly using the advantage of the army line to eat into EVS's jungle resources.
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At 22 minutes, after g2 gained an economic advantage of 8,000, a wave of barons forced the team, and the team destroyed the entire evs team and won the game.
After winning this game, g2 also scored four points, once again tied for first place in the standings with ym and geng.
16:00, tsm vs. Flash Wolves.
In the day 2 schedule, after tsm defeated evs, they finally got their first victory on the msi journey.
But the Flash Wolf on the other side looked a little miserable.
It's the third day of the group stage, and they haven't won a game yet.
Tied for last place with EVS, without scoring a single point.
But in fact, in terms of strength, Flash Wolves and EVS are not at the same level at all.
It's just that the schedule of the first two days was really too devilish. I clashed with the top seed Samsung twice in a row, got fucked by g2 once, and was taught a lesson by ym again.
The war horse on the stage looked unhappy, with heavy dark circles under his eyes. It was obvious that he had stayed up late for the team's future.
However, this time, Flash Wolf finally found its place.
In this game, War Horse used the command flag of Thain in the middle and the fast-pushing system of Policewoman Fengnu in the bottom lane, successfully gaining the advantage of the defensive tower in the early stage.
In this game, TSM's top laner Huazer was also infinitely dominated by Flash Wolf's top laner Hanabi. Big Bug was single-killed by Crocodile twice before level 6.
TSM failed to drag down the three-piece set of the two North American gods, and the game was ended by a surprise attack by the Flash Wolves.
After winning this game, the entire Flash Wolves team raised their arms and shouted, as excited as if they had won the MSI championship.
The war horse also breathed a sigh of relief.
After two warm-up games.
bj time 17:00.
The highlight of today's competition, the competition between Samsung Geng and YM, is about to begin.
The ym players were waiting in the aisle early.
Su Chen took the lead, Xiaotian, Zuo Zuo, Zhang Xiaowen, bovy, and alu stood behind him in turn.
"Welcome the third group of participating teams, young miracle players to the stage!"
In the voice of host sjokz, Su Chen also took the lead to walk out of the aisle and came to the stage brightly illuminated by spotlights.
The moment he appeared on the stage, the director immediately focused the camera on him, and a close-up of Su Chen's expression also appeared on the big screen.
The audience in the audience frantically shook the light sticks in their hands, raised their mobile phones to take photos of the show, and shouted "jkd" one after another.
Compared with yesterday's warm atmosphere, it has risen by more than one level.
Su Chen felt a little surprised himself and raised his hand to say hello to the audience.
"You are already a superstar in Berlin, jkd." Sjokz held the microphone in his hand and said with a smile.
"I'm surprised." Su Chen looked at a male fan who tried to rush onto the stage and was dragged away by security guards.
"You probably don't know that because of your wonderful performance yesterday, ym's official Twitter gained two million fans overnight. Now not only the lol circle, but also other fields are sharing your story.
"sjokz said.
"So that's it." Su Chen nodded.
For any competitive event, the best way to continuously expand its influence and gain attention is to create representative players or athletes.
Su Chen's current high popularity is partly due to his extremely outstanding performance on the court.
On the other hand, it was the organizers of MSI who were behind it.
By promoting the rise of a super star like Su Chen, MSI's popularity has also increased, and all business partners bound to this event will also benefit from this.
Of course, if Su Chen failed to win the MSI in the end, he would obviously suffer backlash from public opinion.
Reputation is also a double-edged sword.
The higher you stand, the harder you fall.
Su Chen also knew this very well, so he didn't feel too excited about it.
"The next one to appear is Team Geng from lck!"
On the left side of the stage, Samsung players took the stage one after another.
The leader is the captain of Samsung, the jungler position leader An.
The next person to come out was the second most senior AD position player in the team, Chiku.
Then there is Brother Crown in the middle.
Khan, who is new to the team, follows the end of the team and appears with the support players.
Judging from the order of appearances, it is enough to see the seniority culture in the LCK division.
Although Khan is currently the best player in the Samsung team, his voice in the team is definitely not as good as that of An and Chi.
During the break between the Samsung players taking the stage, the camera also captured some details on their uniforms.
On the black jacket, there are two stars printed on the front of the chest, which represent the two Samsung championships won in S4 and S7 respectively.
On the back of the uniform, there is an earth shape composed of blue lines. One of the grids contains the national flag of the cold country, highlighting lck's transcendent status.
After Samsung came on stage, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became colder.
The audience in Berlin likes ym and Suchen because they are dark horses from LPL. They came to MSI as challengers, and the outside world is also looking forward to their performance.
However, as this year's LCK Spring Split Champion and last year's S Split Champion, Samsung gives people a completely different feeling.
It seems like a dangerous beast.
Gives people a natural sense of distance.
Just like in the past few years, lck has given people the feeling of being invincible.
The gap between the host’s introduction.
The boys in ym are also looking at Samsung on the other side.
Xiaotian was looking at Leader An who was standing with his hands behind his back, Emperor Chi proudly holding his head high, and Khan with a serious look on his face. Then he looked at himself. Except for Su Chen, the temperaments of the others were not at the same level at all.
On the third day of the group stage, although YM defeated the North American TSM, the European G2, and the Flash Wolves, this was also the first time they encountered the LCK team.
"Everyone, come on." Meng Ma clapped his hands on the side, breaking the silence.
"Don't pay too much attention to the opponent, we just have to deal with our own." Su Chen also spoke.
"Come on, come on." Zhang Xiaowen, who was completely confused about the situation, also clapped his hands and said.
Although he has outstanding gaming talent, Zhang Xiaowen actually doesn't watch many games. It was only after this year's MSI that he realized that geng was the Samsung who won the championship last year.
Unlike people like Zuo Zuo and Xiaotian, they have a deep feeling about the dominance of LCK in the past year.
After the host has finished his introduction.
The players on both sides took their seats.
During this interval, the commentary seats in various regions were also in place.
This kind of focus game attracts a lot of attention from all competition regions.
The studio of lck competition area.
Lira, the competition commentator in a suit and leather tie, appeared in front of the camera.
"Hello everyone, my name is Lira. The next game is about to start between geng and the lpl representative team ym." Lira said calmly.
In front of the camera, he still looks like a lck host. He is in a suit and leather shoes, with oily hair and pink face, and is dressed very delicately.
"Today we also invited a special guest to join me in explaining this game. Can you guess who it is?" Lira deliberately let it slip.
After the barrages guessed for a while, he spread his hands to the right.
"Qiang Qiang!"
The camera moved sideways.
Faker appeared in front of the camera wearing a suit and headphones.
"Hello everyone." Faker looked around and after finding the camera, he waved and said hello seriously.
"It's really an honor to invite faker players to participate in the commentary of this game." Lira said with a smile.
"Actually, I would rather stand on the stage as a player." Faker said frankly, looking at the screen.
"Yes, we are really only a little bit away from MSI this year, but it doesn't matter. Let's work hard in the summer split," Lira nodded. "For today's showdown, who does Faker think will be the final winner?"
Faker held up the headset and thought for a moment: "Both sides are currently winning teams in the group stage and are in very good condition. Geng is more experienced than YM, but YM seems to be well prepared this time, and the outcome is very good."
It’s hard to predict.”
"I heard that player faker and ym's top laner, jkd, are very close friends. Is it true?" Lira started gossiping.
"We occasionally play games together in the cold server. After I lost the game, he also sent me a special message to encourage me," Faker winked. "But we haven't met in real life yet. It might be more accurate to call us netizens."
a little."
"It's really rare to be able to have such a close relationship with an LPL player, but I believe you will meet each other soon," Lira said with a smile, "In this year's MSI, player jkd performed very well. Do you think he can
How far can you lead ym?"
"He has been improving and is now the best top laner in LPL," Faker said seriously, "but YM's way of winning games is still a bit single, and I believe Geng can see that too."
"Just relying on the laning advantage on the top lane to open up the situation is not enough to support ym to the finals. I think Su Chen still has a lot that can be changed. He needs to learn how to motivate his teammates."
Lira nodded in agreement.
As a talented mid laner who debuted in S3, Faker's style has also undergone great changes in the past few years.
From the assassin in the middle of s3 to Galio who guarantees four in s7, he knows exactly what to do to win the game.
During the conversation between the two parties.
The coaches on both sides also ended the coin guessing session.
In this round, Samsung geng won the blue square.
The big screen switched to the bp screen.
In the first round, the ban positions on both sides.
Blue party: Akali, blind monk, airplane
Red party ym: ez, scorpion, Thain
"Oh, today Geng sent the plane to the ban position in the first round. He has a very keen sense of smell." Lira said.
"The two games that ym won yesterday were obviously the outstanding performances of jkd, but the plane in the middle is a very important part of the team battle," Faker said. "Because of the lack of firepower in the bottom lane, ym relies heavily on the mid lane.
For explosive output in team battles, airplanes are currently the most suitable option for them.”
The blue side, geng's first choice, paused for a few seconds, showed the wheel Ma Sivir, and then locked it down.
"Mom, snatching the wheel? This is really rare." Lira said in surprise.
"Ban the plane first, then grab the wheel mother. This round is to weaken ym's output ability in team battles." Faker thought for a moment, "In this case, the only bottom lane AD options suitable for ym are Han Bing and
It’s so functional as Jhin.”
"As support, they need to grab Tam Tam first. If Geng gets the wheel Ma Tam combination, the rule will become very difficult to deal with."
Sure enough, it was just as he said.
ym’s first choice was Han Bing.
The second choice was to grab Tam.
"Sure enough, I feel relieved to be commentating with professional players." Lira praised.
faker shook his head and didn't care.
Blue side, it’s geng’s turn to choose second or third.
For the second choice, geng locked Malzahar.
Taking out this option can be said to have closed ym's option of taking the Enchantress in the middle in advance.
As for the third choice, after a moment of pause, geng revealed an emerald green hero.
Qinggangying!
"Wow! Geng was very decisive and locked the Qinggang Shadow on Khan. This is so interesting." Lira smiled.
He also knew that this was Jiang Ke University’s famous hero.
"If you get Qinggang Shadow, you can save a ban position in the second round, and ym probably won't be able to take out Sword Demon. This is a very good choice." Faker said solemnly.
Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but think of the memories from the spring finals.
At that time, Samsung also used this chain-like BP to suppress all the strong points of SKT and win the game.
If you get the blue square, because you can grab it, it is equivalent to having an extra ban position.
Samsung is a team that can take this advantage to the extreme.
It's the red side's ym's turn to make the third choice.
In the live broadcast, Meng Ma frowned and turned his notebook back and forth.
His expression looks a bit grim.
Obviously, ym's bp is currently at a disadvantage.
The stable double AD structure of the aircraft and wheels is locked.
The Enchantress in the middle can't use her left hand.
The three options of Qinggangying, Sword Demon and Akali on the road were all rejected.
It does seem a bit passive.
Ten seconds later, ym finally locked the third hero.
Ryze was still taken down with his left hand.
"This Ryze is a bit reluctant," Lira commented, "Morgana or Karma, the two options, may be more suitable in the middle."
"Knight's roaming ability is not that good. Besides, taking these two heroes is equivalent to handing over the task of team battle output to Han Bing, which is not appropriate." Faker shook his head.
The second round of bp begins.
The remaining two ban positions.
Samsung is not polite either. Banner first, then Jess.
And ym banned Lulu and Troll.
It's ym's turn to make the fourth choice.
At this time, Meng Ma came to the seat between Su Chen and Xiaotian.
"After Jess is banned, we have only two plans. The first is to take Vampire/Rambo on the road to supplement the team battle output, and the second is to play wild core, and get the male gun/Kindred/Leopard for Xiaotian.
Girl, what do you two think?" Meng Ma said.
When Xiaotian heard this, he immediately hesitated.
The last time he took the male gun, the early rhythm was really not good.
What's more, in this game, he has to face the champion jungler An Zhang.
This is an opponent at a higher level than Little Peanut.
I really feel unsure.
"After all, we have to give it a try. This is not the only battle between us and Samsung." Su Chen spoke.
"Brother Chen, what do you mean..." Xiaotian turned to look at him.
"Get the male gun for Xiaotian," Su Chen looked at Meng Ma.
"But I think..." Xiaotian hesitated.
"I think it's okay," Meng Ma nodded, "It doesn't hurt to try again."
"Be more confident, Tianbao." His left hand also spoke.
"Don't worry, you can do it." Su Chen said firmly.
Xiaotian didn't know why Su Chen was so sure, maybe he was just comforting himself.
Following the coach's instructions, he finally locked the male gun.
"Oh, ym actually came up with a jungler like a male gun again. I remember that Tian's use of a male gun in the last game was very effective. He is a very rhythmic player, and it is rare to see this kind of jungle play." Lira looked at it.
With information.
"The only choice left is the top laner." Faker looked at Su Chen on the screen.
Seeing that ym's fourth pick got the men's gun, geng's coach couldn't help but smile.
Obviously I think this is a forced and helpless choice.
On the blue side, geng’s fourth and fifth choices are Nightmare in the jungle position and Karma in the auxiliary position.
"geng's lineup is perfect," Lira commented, "the control chain, the rhythm of the nightmare in the early stage, the right to push the lane with Karma Wheel in the bottom lane, and the single belt of Qinggangying in the mid-to-late stage."
"It's really good, just look at ym's last option." Faker said.
After geng completed the entire lineup, the camera moved to ym's side again.
After getting the male gun in the jungle position, ym's current lineup and output capability are sufficient on paper.
We still need a tank hero who can start a team.
With Gnar being banned, Kennen seems to be an option.
However, this way Khan can play very freely in the lane, and there will be no obstacles in the single belt in the later stage.
What ym needs is a shield.
Faker was thinking about what hero Su Chen would come up with.
The red square, ym's fifth choice, has been revealed.
With a goat's horn on his head, his burly body was covered in red, and he held a pair of hammers tightly in his hands.
Demigod of the Freljord!
Flame hidden in the mountain!
Ornn!
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After I finished writing the chapter "The Sword Comes", I felt that the effect was not very good.
I have been thinking about it for a long time these days.