Chapter 179 Begins and ends with Sri [Happy Children's Day everyone! 】
For fans, the edg team's debut was undoubtedly very satisfying.
Before this, many EDG fans had not yet come out of Jiangcheng in the S7 World Championship.
In the second half of the 2017 Summer Split, edg changed its previous conservative play style and began to focus on early offense. At that time, many fans still felt that edg would have great potential in the s7 world championship.
There may be players who like the game between operators.
But most players prefer to attack.
Unfortunately……
Since the winter transfer period, EDG has released almost no news.
Today's German Cup allowed fans to see the new edg.
Fans on Tieba and Weibo also started to interact with each other.
"Although beating the rw team doesn't mean anything, the rhythm of edg's game makes me feel very comfortable."
"Indeed, I feel that Brother Luo is much more stable than iboy. Moreover, Brother Luo is the kind of player who won't give you a chance if you want to find him a chance, but if he gets a chance, he will not hesitate to take action."
"What you notice is the bottom lane, but what I notice is the top laner. To be honest, in the past, edg could only recruit top laners with only big trees, but Jin Gong's captain moved me a little. With an experienced captain who has played thousands of games
Judging from my own perspective, Jin Gong’s captain is quite proficient.”
"Xiaotian fought so fiercely, young people who dare to fight and fight hard... Although, I still want to see the factory come on stage."
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuoriuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusha, I, Collier's Dirty Dancing Seven, removed the number 7 from the back, and now I am a substitute. This gives me a bad feeling. Brother Seven is not going to retire, right?"
"Hush! Hush, brothers, please keep a low profile. Winning rw is nothing. We must stabilize our mentality and not be arrogant!"
"That's right, we can only determine whether we are a strong team after playing against ig and rng. Just hold steady and silently cheer for Brother Luo and other players!"
"Yes, I feel that ig's new adc is very good. The others have also improved a lot after going through the competition. Except that they are still a little unstable, ig is definitely one of the best teams in this spring split."
"I can only play with ig, rng didn't even participate..."
…
Edg fans are cautious as if they have lost something.
The German Cup schedule continues one after another.
The teams in the same half zone as edg are we and sn.
After we defeated sn with a score of 2 to 1, we met up with the edg team in the semi-finals.
However, from the beginning of edg's formation to now, we have only defeated edg a handful of times.
When the two teams collided, an unexpected scene occurred.
In the eyes of fans, our biggest advantage is that we are very stable.
Their ability in each position does not seem to be top-notch, but there are few fluctuations in strength in each position.
Only Xiye has relatively large fluctuations, but most of the time Xiye is above the level.
But when facing the edg team, WE's jungler Kandi sleepwalked for two consecutive games as if he had too many guides.
Moreover, in terms of version compatibility, there is a huge gap between we and the current version of ADC that can only play functional roles.
When they met SN, they relied on the personal strength of the brother-in-law and used the reverse version of the hero to penetrate SN's bottom lane.
But now they encountered EDG.
What I met was Li Luo, the FMVP finalist in 2017, and Meiko, one of the top three domestic supports!
It would be a fantasy for us to try to achieve a suppressive effect by using heroic counterpoints like using the policewoman's mouth.
The only hero they can get in this version of the bottom lane is Ezreal.
As soon as ez was banned, we immediately misfired in the bottom lane.
The jungler was very confused. Even though the mid laner Xiye used Kassadin to great effect, he still couldn't win the game on his own.
As for the most stable point 957...
In terms of stability, Jin Gong is no worse than 957.
When both sides are inseparable, the only ones competing against each other are their teammates.
Even my teammates can't compare...
Then lose.
Another 2 to 0.
edg successfully advanced to the semi-finals.
On the way back from the battle booth backstage.
"It's so weird for them to play jungle."
Xiaotian yawned.
These two games today made him sleepy.
Although Xiaotian didn't show it publicly before the beating, he did a lot of homework secretly.
After all, Kandi was known as the Son of the Dragon last summer.
We also like team battles, and the two sides inevitably engage in firefights near map resources.
Once there is competition for resources, there may be a situation where the little dragon or the big dragon is robbed.
Therefore, Xiaotian's first shot was very cautious.
But after the beating, Xiaotian found something was wrong.
mdIs this the Son of the Dragon?
The only LPL team that EDG had not played in training games during the offseason was Team WE.
Because my brother-in-law just came back from South Korea not long ago, we just gathered together the starting five. Maybe the appointments with other teams were full, but the two sides never made an appointment.
Therefore, all the information that edg has about the WE team comes from WE last summer.
Different versions have different reference values.
However, when the fight actually started, everyone unexpectedly discovered that we were still the same we.
They don't seem to have adapted to the current meta so far, and their play style is still the same as last year.
This plays into edg's favour.
They don't even need to think too much about tactics, they can just use the normal version system to win easily.
Two games have knocked out Xiaotian's self-confidence.
At this time, Xiaotian can't wait to welcome the ig team in the main game.
After the semi-finals of the winner group between edg and team we, on the other side of the winner group, ig and snake also started a duel.
This game seems to be a game without any suspense in everyone's eyes.
One is a world champion.
One is Snake, who didn't even make it to the bubble games last year, had a miserable regular season record, and had extremely unstable team results.
Snake hasn't changed much in this year's lineup.
Gangzi returned to the adc position.
Support is still a butterfly.
The holy gun brother in the top lane.
The jungle saufen.
The mid laner introduced the second Korean brother.
That is, the mid laner of NJ White Shield in the S4 season, the one who was kicked into a ball by OMG's jungle elixir.
The first impression the Korean second brother gave to the audience when he came to China was that he was very good.
After all, his historical record is not very good.
I was also abused by the old OMG.
But after he came to the snake team, he unexpectedly developed a good chemical reaction with the team.
This is not the most important thing.
The most important thing is that Sao Fen, who has always been a smart knife, is so excited.
In the backstage lounge.
Only teams will understand which team and which player will benefit the most under the current version.
In the first match between ig and snake team, Saofen got the flying skills of Prince's various rhythms.
In contrast, the ig team, which should be on the offensive side in the early stage, was suppressed by Sao Fen's rhythm.
Li Luo glanced at Xiaotian, who was sitting next to him with a serious expression, and said, "Don't try to learn someone's playing style. Some playing styles cannot be learned. The most important thing is to find one that suits you and belongs to you."
style of play."
Xiaotian was slightly startled when he heard this, and then nodded silently.
This version of edg has been discussed unanimously by everyone.
The person who has benefited the most from the jungle position is the jungler of the snake team, Sao Fen.
If the snake team's other configurations, except for the top laner, were not relatively poor, then snake would have completely taken off at the beginning of this year.
"The jungler Sao Fen's vision ability is so terrifying. The talent of Zombie Guard feels like it was tailor-made for him. His vision score completely blew away King Ning, who is not very good at vision."
Mingkai looked at the situation on the court and shook his head slightly: "I feel that if ig doesn't make adjustments, it will be sent to the loser group."
"Don't panic, our Qi Jiang still has experience in beating Sao Fen."
Abu's words caused bursts of laughter in the lounge, and Mingkai looked at Abu with a black streak in his head.
He knew that his title as "Qi-chan" was well established.
Somehow, Mingkai suddenly had an impulse.
That is to change your player ID to Collier's Dirty Dancing 8.
If you have the ability, you can call me Bachi again?
The first game between snake and ig ended with ig being crushed.
But ig soon regained its footing and came back in the second game.
However, in the third game, Saofen showed off one of his unique heroes.
poodle.
The appearance of the poodle disrupted the BP strategy of the ig team.
Without Li Luo, the ig team's adaptability is obviously much inferior. Although Mafa is a good coach, a considerable part of all the abilities he has shown before are based on the suggestions given by Li Luo.
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This allows the ig team to often come up with some reverse versions of heroes that fit the lineup when BP is blocked.
Now they have lost this ability.
At the scene, as the third game progressed, ig fans sank to the bottom.
"No, Brother Crystal feels a little fierce after resting for a while..."
"Is it Brother Crystal who is strong or JackeyLove's suppression power is not enough? It feels like the fights in the bottom lane are evenly matched, and Baolan doesn't take the initiative to find opportunities..."
"In this version, Rookie's suppression power has been reduced. Why doesn't he use the assassin hero?"
Many ig fans cannot accept the fact that they have to stand on the edge of a cliff to take a snake, and they feel a bit uncomfortable.
In the current version, most of the mages in the middle lane, except Zoe, are late-stage big cores.
These big-core rookies are relatively good at it and can be used, so there is no problem of shortcomings in the hero pool.
However, the shrewdness of the fist is precisely reflected in this aspect.
When the winning teams in history began to decline, many fans didn't know where Riot was targeting them.
All they would say is that the team was targeted by Riot.
Fans of other teams can’t stand it and think they are making excuses, so they will jump out and say that it has nothing to do with the version, it’s just that the players have changed. If you don’t believe it, look at something in the version. The heroes mastered by the players are obviously not very good.
It's obviously weakened. There are so many heroes that can be obtained. It's their own problem if players don't dare to obtain them.
Then some fans of the winning team will feel a sudden realization when they listen to other people's analysis without knowing anything about it.
So that’s it.
Then... I believed it and started to join in the discussion of analyzing the decline of players' strength.
As everyone knows, the problem must be viewed as a whole.
Rookie's big core mage hero can be obtained, but it is almost impossible for such a big core mage to defeat the opponent in the early stage of the laning.
And even if this kind of hero has a laning suppression effect, what can it do before it develops? Can it provide enough help and feedback to teammates?
So when the version becomes popular with big core mages, it will be a huge weakening for players like Rookie who need to coordinate with the jungler to lead the rhythm.
Rookie actually has a solution.
All great nuclear mages are afraid of assassins.
He can use assassin heroes to suppress or even kill the mage alone.
But the question arises again. If we take the assassin in the middle, do we need to play a big core on the sideline?
You can't play the big core in this version of the bottom lane, so you can only play it in the top lane.
Okay, if you go on the road and play big core, then your going on the road will become our breakthrough point in the early stage.
lpl is best at military training.
This creates a closed loop.
The first time ig played snake was on the shy.
As a result, the first half of the jungle fell in Sao Fen's vision battle. After that, a series of chain reactions caused the shy to be violently targeted.
Brother Shengqiang is not a soft persimmon, he can do it if he takes the economy.
So in the second game, ig decisively replaced the shy and played duke.
But in the third set, snake's lineup began to change again.
This continuously changing style of play makes it difficult for the ig team, which is limited by the version, to make timely adjustments.
In the end, ig unfortunately lost and fell into the loser group.
ig lost to snake, this is undoubtedly the most exciting news during the German Cup.
Little did they know that what would make ig fans even more uncomfortable was yet to come.
Snake can use this tactic against ig because ig's top laner is one of the cores of the team and needs to stand out.
But this tactic is not very effective when used against EDG.
Especially... when the edg team replaced Mingkai.
Ming Kai's appearance made countless piggies cheer wildly.
Before the winner's bracket finals with snake started, more than half of the fans at the scene belonged to the edg team.
One can imagine the scale of the two extremely large fan groups of LPL, Li Luo and Ming Kai, brought together.
In the first game, Snake spent a ban position focusing on Jin Gong's captain.
They tried to deal with edg the same way they dealt with ig.
Then... Jin Gong took out a vampire.
Unlike other vampires.
Other people's vampires need to eat a lot of money and receive a lot of care in the early and middle stages.
After all, only developed vampires are effective.
But Jin Gong is not.
Are you targeting me?
okok, let you target.
Anyway, if my teammates can suppress you, that will be it.
When your teammates are so disadvantaged that they have to distract themselves to help, I will develop them properly.
Then I'll tear off all your heads.
Facing the traditional development-style mage brought out by the Korean second brother, the younger brother decisively took out the Enchantress to punish him.
In the bottom lane, Brother Jingshu, who was outplayed by Li Luo in the summer game and suffered from Shinephobia, is also in a state of being suppressed.
"Why don't they dare to get Draven for labor and management? Ouch."
When Brother Crystal was killed again, he looked at his 1/5 Verus and said a little irritably: "This factory director is directly looking at the labor and management, which is boring to the labor and management! If I get Draven, I will educate him
he!"
The corner of Butterfly's mouth that was assisting him twitched.
He suddenly began to miss the days when the posture was there.
If the posture is there...
Just then Butterfly's thoughts were interrupted by Brother Holy Gun.
"It's okay, it doesn't matter if we lose today, your mouth will live on your computer forever."
"Oh, don't you believe it..."
…
The snake in the first game started to fall apart when it lasted 28 minutes.
Saofen did cause a lot of trouble for EDG in terms of vision.
But Mingkai and Meiko's vision network deployment control is not covered.
The two have been linked together since 2015, and no other pairing in the entire LPL can match them in terms of Nosuke's affinity.
Although Mingkai, who had not played a game for a long time, had some flaws in his form, these flaws were covered up by his use of a simple and unpretentious hero like Pig Girl.
edg performed very well overall in the first game.
However, at the beginning of the second game, there was a little incident at the snake battle table.
"Yang Fan, do you want me to get you Draven first?"
Brother Shengqiang had a joking look on his face.
Brother Crystal covered his mouth and looked at the screen.
"Heh...hehe."
His sudden relieved smile made Snake and the others not hold back, and they all started laughing.
Dare you take it?
Dare to der!
Of course, objectively speaking, Brother Jingming is not particularly worried about being beaten up by Li Luo.
What he was really worried about was being beaten up by Li Luo and Meiko.
You must know that their lack of ban positions is destined to release all the auxiliary heroes who can restrain Draven.
As long as he dares to choose Draven, then EDG will definitely choose Niutou to teach him how to behave.
Brother Crystal has no choice but to still use regular heroes to fight this game.
Unfortunately, the final outcome was not very ideal.
2 to 0.
edg advanced to the finals neatly.
By coincidence, the team that Snake will face in the loser's bracket finals...is the team that climbed up from the loser's bracket after defeating the WE team.
The two teams in the upper bracket semi-finals met again.
Farce, reappearance.
Two bo3.
Two 2 to 1.
The winning team in the end is all snake.
It’s not just IG fans who are numb.
Even the EDG people watching the battle from behind felt a little numb.
Especially Li Luo.
In his impression, in the German Cup before his rebirth, ig was indeed defeated by snake twice in a row.
There are indeed differences in version understanding between the two teams.
But ig, which has already won the championship, should theoretically produce a butterfly effect.
From the perspective of a professional player, Li Luo can understand the reason for ig's defeat through review.
But from the perspective of his former teammates, Li Luo couldn't accept this fact.
The same goes for the organizers.
The schedule they arranged was to witness the showdown between the edg team with Li Luo and the ig team without Li Luo.
But in the end, this event really started high and ended low.
Edg and snake have just played in the upper bracket finals, and now they will meet again in the finals.
Naturally, this amount of attention cannot be compared with the duel between edg and ig.
But what can the organizers do? ig clearly told them that the former ig has temporarily returned. You can't predict any of our games in this German Cup.
The finals started in a bo5 situation between the edg and snake teams.
However, the result never changed at all.
From the upper bracket finals to the finals, EDG defeated Snake 5-0.
On the one hand, there is indeed a gap in the hard power of the teams.
On the other hand, the main reason is that Zhu Kai, the former coach of the snake team, is in edg.
Zhu Kai really understands Snake, which he has coached for many years.
As for those guys like Snake, Zhu Kai knows everything about them.
After the playing styles of Snake and the others are thoroughly analyzed by a team like edg, all situations will naturally be in edg's hands.
The German Cup competition has come to an end.
There is another German Cup championship trophy on the wall of the edg base.
For the spectators, the second half of the German Cup did not satisfy them.
But most viewers don't care.
Because there are less than ten days left, the 2018lpl Spring Split is about to begin.
lpl is the real battlefield for the top domestic teams!
A total of fourteen teams will be divided into two groups, AB, to compete in the regular season in a bo3 format!
Moreover, the regular season schedule this time is also quite compact, which is enough for the audience to enjoy.
The 2018 League of Legends Professional League has also officially entered the era of alliances and home and away games.
This year's competition will not only be held in Shanghai, but also the home teams in the capital, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Chongqing, and Chengdu will face challenges from other away teams!
As the start date of the Spring Split is approaching, the groupings of the two groups ab have also been announced through draws.
Inside the edg base.
"We are in Group A... The teams in the same group include snake, blg, we, fpx, omg, vg... This... I'm afraid we will be ridiculed by the teams in Group B."
Meiko was speechless after reading it.
It’s not that he thinks the other teams in Group A are weak.
But compared to the teams in Group B, the overall confrontation of Group A is indeed not very strong.
Let’s look at Group B, the S7 World Champion IG Team, and the S7 World Championship semi-final team RNG Team. With these two strong teams in the same group, there are also RW, JD.com and Suning, the two major e-commerce companies, and Happy Family.
lgd, and top, formerly the dan team.
"Actually, the grouping is just a formality. According to the schedule, all teams in the two groups must compete, so we just need to do our best."
Zhu Kai said with a smile after reading the groupings.
Recently, the edg team's rhythm on the Internet has been relatively healthy.
Edg fans are very stable. The late schedule of the German Cup is not a good thing for the audience, but the advantages for the Edg team far outweigh the disadvantages.
Fans will not praise them mindlessly just because they won the German Cup. After all, throughout the entire German Cup, edg only had three opponents, rw, we and snake.
These three teams are not top-notch in the eyes of the public, so fans don't exaggerate about EDG.
If no one brags about it, there will be very few people who will use this excuse to get into trouble.
It is enough for the players to keep their mentality and train calmly.
The time soon came to January 15th.
The opening game of the LPL Spring Split was held at the RNG home court in the capital.
The two sides in the opening battle are the ig team and the rng team that are regulars in the opening match.
According to the schedule, the teams of the two groups ab will compete against the teams in the same group in the first half of the schedule. After playing one round with the teams in the same group, they will compete against each other in the second group.
ig and rng are in the same group, and the two teams have great gimmicks. It is perfect to put the confrontation between these two teams in the opening battle.
This game was watched by everyone at the EDG base.
In Li Luo's impression before his rebirth, although rng did not play uzi, ig still lost the bo3 in the end.
Li Luo doesn't remember the other scores clearly, but this opening game caused an uproar at the time.
In the first game, rng's players were the walking monster A and the jungler's newly introduced player Kasa this year.
However, the effect is not very good.
rng relied on Rookie's ultimate move to steal the baron, but was discovered by ig. With Rookie's world-destroying clockwork magic ball, the rng team was quickly annihilated.
Immediately afterwards, they adjusted their substitutions and replaced the jungler's Xiang Guo and y4.
After making changes, they won the second game with Xiangguo's carry ability.
But in the third game, history changed.
The ig team has obviously made many adjustments during the offseason of the German Cup.
Although their command in the third game was still very chaotic, it was obviously much better than the previous two games.
With decisive and ruthless playing style, the ig team completed the reversal in the third game and won the opening game with a score of 2-1!
"I feel like ig has found some rhythm in the version. The fine-tuned fists of the previous version were not targeted at them, and they really figured it out."
Abramovich said thoughtfully in the base, and clapped his hands after him: "The first opponent we face in the spring split is FPX. Everyone, prepare yourself. Tomorrow we will do our best in the cleanest way possible."
Get them!"
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ps: It’s a few hundred words short, and today is Children’s Day, and I’ve already ordered 10,000 of them. It stands to reason that I should add more updates today, but when it comes to the plot in the Spring Split, there are many things that need attention, so I have to look for a lot of version information to check and code.
There will inevitably be less time, so Brother Mengrong Xiaosi will take it slow, and more updates will appear at the right time. Regarding the upcoming spring competition, the pace will not be too slow. Xiaosi will only choose a few games to change the version or compare the key points.
I’m going to write about the game. Readers, please rest assured that I won’t drag out the word count. If you have any suggestions, I hope you can speak freely~