Chapter 620 The Significance of the Training Match
Lin Cheng smashed the unique skills of all parties along the way, making the LPL audience begin to doubt the strength of the top of the canyon.
But in fact, the reason why professional players have been dominated in the past is not that the players on Top of the Canyon are really much stronger than other servers, but that the rhythm of Top of the Canyon is too difficult for ordinary players to adapt to, and the unique skills are rampant.
In fact, the unique skill brother is just unprepared to play professional players. What he said before that "any five passers-by on the top of the canyon can go to North America to compete for the championship" is completely nonsense.
Putting aside the hero pool issue, the two sides are not on the same level in terms of tactical literacy.
With the hero pool of professional players, you can quickly find a way to deal with the unique player after a few laning matches. Often when the unique player repeatedly encounters professional players, he will find that the opponent becomes more and more difficult to beat, and this is just in the laning.
Therefore, in the beginning, professional players were beaten by all kinds of unique skills, but after they got used to it, many professional players actually began to steadily improve their scores.
Even Ah P, who almost cried after losing all night, has now become a grandmaster. It will be no problem to give him some time to become a king.
Many people are upset, thinking that professional guys can only fight back with the blessing of a super account.
But in fact, opponents with high hidden scores for super accounts are also stronger, and when a professional player's super account reaches Grandmaster or above, it is not much different from an ordinary account, and it is not as exaggerated as most people think.
After taking a shower, Lin Cheng curled up on the bed feeling refreshed and ready to surf the Internet and rest.
After browsing domestic websites, Lin Cheng also saw online discussions about his RANK, but he didn't take it seriously.
He is originally an operational top laner, so his points gain is naturally much more advantageous than that of other players, but there is more to the game than just operations.
After casually registering a vest and shouting "Brother Cheng is awesome", Lin Cheng ran to check the RANK status of his teammates.
Lin Cheng is so fierce on his own, and the other KT brothers are still getting used to it.
Ai Ming has just reached the master level, which is the highest level besides Lin Cheng. It took more than two days to reach this level is already an exaggeration.
Bono has already reached Diamond 1, and the jungle position is relatively easy to score points.
Tu private is about to reach diamond 2, which is not bad for a support player.
Pantro has been perfectly integrated into the segmentation, and the fight with Diamond 4 is back and forth.
After sending a message and mocking the bastard, Lin Cheng saw that he didn't get a response, so he probably was still fighting with Diamond Boy.
Out of boredom, Lin Cheng went to look at the Internet again.
Because he uses a Korean mobile phone card, Lin Cheng doesn’t have to circumvent the firewall when using software like INS in China.
Only a few hours after the draw ended, each team expressed their opinions on social media.
G2 was very optimistic and sent a PS picture of dragging a lion. Apparently they thought it would not be difficult for Suning to handle it.
RGE, who is in the same group as KT and JD.com, is a bit autistic: our group is basically free, but that’s okay, so fans don’t have anything to look forward to.
TSM: Stable! In our group, there is a second seed in the LEC, a third seed in the LCK, and a fourth seed in the LPL. My ranking and strength obviously overwhelm them.
FLY, the second seed in North America, was assigned to a group due to playing against Tao and DWG, and the INS he posted seemed rather sad:
So... we will go home after the quarantine, right?
It’s very cool, and the first fan’s reply below is also very heart-wrenching: That’s right.
The second fan's reply also received countless likes:
Fly
After all, the ability of the North American brothers to survive is not inferior to that of Europe. Lin Cheng was very happy to see it.
After watching the live action of European and American brothers, Lin Cheng opened YouTube and watched the latest video of Miss Zhixiu.
Alas! With my girlfriend’s personal experience, Miss Ji Soo’s videos have become boring.
I miss Sister Shuyan so much.
Boringly surfing the Internet to pass the time, the empty and lonely night was filled with Lin Cheng's thoughts.
The next day, the entire KT team connected in the room to start a training match.
The opponent in the training match is North America’s second seed FLY.
I don’t expect to rely on my opponents to improve my technical and tactical skills. I mainly want to understand the opponents’ styles in different competition areas so as not to be unprepared when encountering opponents I am not familiar with later.
In this training session, Lin Cheng unexpectedly took Ornn, which surprised Ignar, who was already prepared to withstand pressure.
Of course, Ignar was not careless.
After all, the opponent is the world's best offensive top laner. Ornn might be able to beat him, so he has to be careful.
As a result, Lin Cheng was uncharacteristically not showing any aggression at all. He made it clear that he wanted to mess around in the top lane, leaving the burden of carrying to his teammates.
And the teammates are also very helpful.
With Lin Cheng making no sound during the laning phase, Brother Yegui was beaten by the KT duo in the bottom lane and lost his temper. He was constantly suppressed and suffered from plating.
The mid laner's trousers are also uncharacteristic. Yesterday he was fighting with Diamond Cubs on the top of the canyon. Today, he hit hard in the training match and beat North America's first-line mid laner POE.
In the end, KT easily defeated the opponent with Lin Cheng continuously choosing a team top laner.
KT's intention is actually very obvious, which is to store more tactics.
The whole world knows that Lin Cheng is the core of KT, but being able to reserve as many tactics as possible is the value of training matches.
In the next few days, each team will arrange training matches with each other.
KT also accepts everyone who comes, no matter how strong or weak the opponent is, as long as the opponent comes to make an appointment, KT will fight.
Even if a wild card team tentatively comes to schedule a training match, KT will accept it without fail.
Many teams will choose their opponents when scheduling training matches. Often a weak team cannot schedule a strong team because the opponent will find it meaningless to play a training match with a weak opponent.
But coach Kang Dongxun does not believe that his players need to rely on high-level opponents to hone their skills.
In fact, the overall level of KT is definitely one of the top teams in this S competition. What they need is to let the players in the team who have no experience in the World Championship play more games with teams from other regions to gain experience.
Not to mention, KT really saw a lot of new things when they played training matches with wild card teams.
For example, Lin Cheng was forced to change lanes at the first level by UOL, and the duo came up to suppress Lin Cheng at the first level, putting both top laners in a self-destructive position. This really caused Lin Cheng a lot of trouble.
This kind of thing is something Lin Cheng has never seen before in LCK games. Different opponents are creating surprises for Lin Cheng, a rookie participating in the World Championship for the first time.
Although it is possible to maintain the level by playing training matches with specific strong teams, the World Championship is a stage where different styles collide, and it is not advisable to work behind closed doors.
This is what scrims and worlds are about.
When SKT participated in the World Championship last year, they flew to Europe very late and spent a considerable period of time playing training matches with Griffin in China. As a result, the top four met G2 and were sent away by Joy. In 8, RNG and Flash Wolves also closed their doors.
They came to play a training match, but one of the two brothers fell in the group stage and the other fell in the quarterfinals. They both lost to opponents who were obviously weaker than themselves.
It can only be said that if they had played training matches with more opponents in advance, they might have been able to avoid this tragedy.