Everyone from the LPL representative team set off on their return journey on the third day after the All-Star Game ended.
The German Cup will start in more than half a month.
The German Cup has continued since 2014, and the prize pool has expanded to 1.2 million.
The winning team will receive a bonus of 500,000.
Compared with the LPL league, the prize money is not large, and some large clubs are not interested in it. So in the previous German Cup, many teams sent their second teams to participate, while the main players continued to rest.
, actively preparing for the LPL.
But this year's situation is slightly different.
LPL achieved a milestone first championship, and Riot Games once again made changes to rune talents after two years.
This innovative change made all the coaches of the teams a little unsure.
Therefore, this German Cup is not just a cup competition.
It is also a training ground for many teams.
It's perfect for players to test each other's strength on this training ground.
It is precisely because of this that the officials attach great importance to this German Cup.
You must know that judging from the player rosters of each team at the end of the winter transfer period, there are indeed many teams with strong competition in 2018.
Moreover, major commentators have also discussed the strength ratings of each team during live broadcasts or programs.
It's just that even the commentators have a hard time judging 100% the strength of the major clubs this year.
In normal times, the IG team that won the 2017 World Finals would definitely be rated as the only team in the league. After all, the overall dominance of the IG team in the summer of 2017 was obvious to everyone.
But IG made personnel adjustments. What they lost was not only an excellent adc player, but also the leader of the entire team.
One can imagine how critical command is.
Before Jackeylove's strength was recognized, IG's situation was confusing.
In comparison, EDG is pretty much the same.
Although Li Luo has joined, the problems that EDG has accumulated over the years cannot be solved by Li Luo alone, and not many people will take a good look at the newly introduced top and jungle players.
Even if someone has popularized Jin Gong's ability and used his wonderful operations as examples, he is still not favored by the public.
In e-sports, results speak for themselves.
Jin Gong didn't achieve much in the GT team, and even fell all the way from the relegation round to the secondary league. This is a fact.
RNG's mid laner Xiaohu is also from the GT team, and his achievements are real.
In addition, although the WE and RNG teams that have not changed their personnel may not have much reinforcement on the surface, they are teams that have been working together for a long time, and their teamwork will most likely be much better than teams that have been rotated.
As the starting lineups of each major team were released, countless spectators were silently looking forward to it.
December 26th.
The German Cup qualifiers have begun.
There are 28 teams from all over the country, including minor leagues, and more than half of these teams need to compete in the qualifiers.
Only by breaking through in the qualifiers can it be possible to compete with the strong teams in the LPL.
Everyone in EDG did not pay attention to their opponents in the qualifiers. After Li Luo came back and devoted himself to training, they have been busy preparing for the German Cup.
A relatively easy-going person like Li Luo can easily integrate into the team's atmosphere.
For Li Luo, EDG does have advantages over IG. Especially after Zhu Kai joined, the players' training arrangements were in order, and there were almost no late arrivals or bad performances.
Under the training mode of the EDG team, the players' strength will steadily improve, which is inevitable.
Overall it looks very standard.
Of course there are disadvantages to this.
That is, the overall atmosphere of the EDG team is slightly heavier than that of IG.
Although professional players are essentially no different from working.
But the feeling of working at IG is lighter, more like a few friends playing games in an Internet cafe.
On the other hand, EDG really has the feeling of working step by step in the studio.
People like Ning Wang who are out of touch and active may not be able to stand this kind of atmosphere.
Li Luo feels fine.
From joining EDG to now, Li Luo has not mentioned the issue of command power at all, but every time when discussing the content of the game with Ming Kai, Li Luo's own understanding beyond Ming Kai's makes Ming Kai subtly give up command.
right.
In addition, Ming Kai was a very sullen person in private, so Li Luo quickly became familiar with Ming Kai using his own communication method.
At least "Qi Jiang", "Why don't you zoom in" and "Little Bear Spreading Hands" have become Li Luo's common tools for teasing Ming Kai.
Ming Kai was unable to refute such ridicule.
He is a very obsessive and stubborn person.
Ming Kai has always believed in a dead truth.
That is... you are the world champion, you are awesome and you have the final say, my honor is not as high as yours, I admit it.
When the connection between Li Luo and Ming Kai is connected, the connection with other people will naturally be very simple.
The first thing EDG needs to connect is Xiaotian and meiko.
After joining the team, Xiaotian was taciturn at first and only communicated with Jin Gong and Li Luo.
But with Li Luo's suggestion and Zhu Kai's arrangement, when Xiaotian and Meiko queued for a period of time and marked a new account as the Korean server king, the relationship between the two quickly heated up.
In particular, Xiaotian's hard training fits well with the EDG team's model and suits them very well.
EDG players have been exposed to it for a long time, and their first impression of players who are willing to train hard is quite good.
This is the case with Mingkai.
Xiaotian's hard work made him pay attention to Xiaotian, and he discovered Xiaotian's shining points. Under Li Luo's subtle guidance, Mingkai had led Xiaotian to develop in the direction of Lao Liu.
Li Luo likes the feeling of watching his teammates grow little by little.
It's just that they currently lack actual combat capabilities.
In a blink of an eye, New Year's Day has passed.
The busy Li Luo had no choice but to make a phone call to greet his family, and then continued to devote himself to the intense training.
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January 3rd.
afternoon.
In the training room, except for Li Luo who makes decisions, everyone on the EDG team is very quiet. Occasionally, a player will report the opponent's summoner skills and share the information he knows with his teammates.
"Old Li, this wave..."
Meiko glanced at the five people standing in a stalemate with her own lineup not far away.
Today is their training match against the IG team.
The current situation is a bit anxious.
In the first two of the three training matches, EDG suffered a bit of a regretful defeat, but this did not discourage everyone at EDG.
Especially Ming Kai, who was watching the game, and the senior team members, junior juniors and Meiko who were on the scene.
Losing a training match is relatively normal, and there is also a difference between losing and losing.
In some training matches, ten minutes into the game, the player died before the laning phase was over.
In some training matches, the opponent was suppressed throughout the whole game. Even if one or two counterattacks happened by chance, after the match was over, one could clearly understand the huge gap in strength between the two sides.
There are also some training matches where the two sides were clearly evenly matched in the early stage, and they even had a slight advantage, but in the end they lost the game due to a certain wave of decision-making errors.
Different losses have different impacts on players' self-confidence.
EDG has been making frequent appointments with the IG team for training matches a long time ago.
At first, it was difficult for EDG to last more than thirty-five minutes in the hands of the IG team.
King Ning still restrained himself every time he faced Mingkai, but once he faced Xiaotian, IG would use the midfielder to get a strong hero and forcefully open the gap.
Even though Jin Gong can resist the pressure of The shy and also has an advantage in the bottom lane, IG's aggressive play style will speed up the pace of the game a lot.
The weak compatibility of the midfielder and jungler is an advanced problem discovered by EDG after countless training games.
This problem will only be exposed when facing IG, but not so obvious when facing other teams.
Over the past half month, Abramovich has continuously made tactical adjustments based on the team's situation and communicated with Li Luomingkai.
In today's two games, the reason why EDG lost was because the lineup they chose had similar characteristics to the IG team, with the focus on midfield and jungle clashes in the early stage.
Facts have proved that although today's EDG still has a disadvantage when it comes to getting a strong midfielder combination, this disadvantage has been greatly improved compared to the EDG half a month ago.
In this kind of collision, if the economic gap between the two sides in the early stage is not widened, then the competition in the later stage will be the teamfighting ability of both sides.
The goals in all training matches of IG and EDG are highly clear.
Kill Li Luo.
Hearing the doubts in Meiko's voice, Li Luo pondered for two seconds and then said: "Let's work hard. I will sell this wave and give them a chance. As long as I don't die, their formation will definitely be messed up."
The hero Li Luo chose for this game was Ezreal.
Ezreal, who was strengthened again in the preseason, is undoubtedly Riot's biological son.
Among the bottom lane choices in this version, Ezreal’s transition in the early and mid-term is the smoothest, and due to the changes to the Tear of the Goddess, the development cycle of Ezreal for dual cultivation is not that long.
The other heroes on EDG's side are Ornn in the top lane, Jungle in the jungle, Tsar in the mid lane as a junior, and Niutou in the assist Meiko.
In contrast, the hero selections of the IG team are Gnar in the top lane, Lee Sin in the jungle, Zoe in the mid lane, Jackeylove's Varus in the dual lane, and Sapphire's Rakan.
If it really drags on to the later stages, EDG's lineup will undoubtedly have an advantage.
However, most of the neutral resource dragons in this game were controlled by IG. Now that 35 minutes of game time have passed, IG is ready to look for opportunities in the ancient dragon.
They didn't seem to be in a hurry with Rookie's poke.
But EDG must take on this wave of team battles.
"It's too risky. I can try to drive in."
Xiaotian controlled the men and horses to wander around and said.
"listen to me."
Li Luo has his own considerations.
Although they have Ornn and Centaur as two major means of starting a team, IG's formation is too flexible, and they also know how threatening the two starting points of Ornn and Centaur are, so they deliberately spread out in order to avoid being caught.
EDG made the first move.
The battle line is too long, and the bull's head and hands are short, so even if there is a flash, it may not be able to reach the critical point.
But it would be different if someone sells it.
"Like killing me."
Li Luo recalled Prince Ning's temperament, and a smile appeared on his lips: "Then I'll give you this opportunity."
Three seconds before the ancient dragon refreshes.
Rookie's Zoe initiates consumption again.
But this time, when facing Zoe who jumped up, Li Luo took the initiative to attack.
He controlled his Ezreal, predicted Zoe's landing point, and then decisively used the E skill [Arcane Leap] to avoid Zoe's flying star while jumping to the side, and the Q skill hit Zoe's big
The fallback position of the move.
At this time, Ezreal's damage was extremely high. After QW hit Zoe, Zoe's health plummeted rapidly and was directly cut by half.
IG’s training room.
"I'll drive him, I'll drive him!!!"
King Ning howled, and after his precise Tianyin Wave hit Li Luo's Ezreal, he directly handed over the second Q skill.
Prince Ning didn't want to give Li Luo a chance to react, so he kicked him over and flashed R in seconds!
When King Ning launched his first attack, the rest of IG pressed forward.
But what shocked King Ning was that he... didn't kick Ezreal!
The Raptors' tail has indeed been kicked out.
Ezreal's blood volume has also dropped significantly.
But with the two rays of white and golden light blooming from Ezreal, Ezreal was pulled out of the siege on the battlefield in an instant!
The instant gathering of IG's formation allowed meiko to seize the opportunity.
On top of the wall, Meiko's bull head decisively flashed into the field, knocking four people away in two consecutive blows!
"Fuck!"
In the IG base, King Ning cursed: "Is this still a human being?"
No matter how fast your reaction is, it can't look like it's barely moving, right?!
He watched helplessly as Ornn's ultimate move struck from far to near, and in conjunction with the cavalry's ultimate move and the Tsar's sudden thrust, the five EDG players formed a perfect team in an instant!
"Wave after wave!"
Xiaotian, who was sweating on his forehead, became excited all over, as if he had won a championship.
Seeing IG playing GG on the public screen, the EDG players smiled for the first time in a long time.
Finally, for the first time, they successfully defeated IG without guaranteeing Li Luo and playing four guarantees and one.
finally!
At the same time, Zhu Kai looked at his phone, clapped his hands and said: "Okay, okay, I played very well in this training match. My hard work during this period has not been in vain. I'm telling you, just believe in yourself.
Don’t have too much baggage when playing training matches, and don’t have too much baggage when playing games. As a coach, I believe in you 100%, but if you don’t even believe in yourself, wouldn’t I become a joke?”
Zhu Kai was making a fool of himself by the side.
But when Abramovich, who used to be a bad guy, saw the smiles on the faces of the five young men, he couldn't find anything he could criticize in this training match.
In the past, Abu would definitely have said something about the last wave of the group.
Previously, the overall style of the EDG team was inseparable from coach Abramovich.
Abramovich is not a very radical coach, and his coaching style also hopes that the players can win steadily.
But since the arrival of Li Luo, the style of the EDG team has also changed recently.
They would never have picked up many of the key regiments commanded by Li Luo in the past.
However, EDG now dares to take it.
Not only do they dare to take it, they can also win it.
This has caused Abu to reflect on his past self recently.
He gradually realized that no team's road to winning the championship is smooth or smooth.
Risks and opportunities coexist.
But if you want to seize the opportunity, the first thing you need is courage.
Recalling what Li Luo said when he first came to the base, Abramovich's coaching style has also quietly changed recently due to the influence of the team as a whole.
After praising the players, Zhu Kai picked up the small book in his hand and took a look at it, and said with a smile: "Tomorrow is the first game of our German Cup. We will face the RW team. If we lose, we will fall into the loser group.
If we win, we'll be in the semi-finals."
"Guys, don't forget that since the establishment of EDG, we have only lost the German Cup championship in this year's Changsha Station."
"Before this, we... got five crowns!"
ps: Something happened at home in the afternoon, so I was delayed for a while. I won’t delay the update in the evening. I’ll try to make it longer before midnight~
