The RNG team's lineup this time is slightly different from their starting lineup in the spring split.
Since each team can only bring one substitute player, RNG made a choice between top laner and jungler and decided to bring two junglers and one top laner.
And the top laner they brought was not the letme who had been firmly in the starting lineup before, but the attitude.
The team members from both sides had a good relationship and greeted each other in a friendly manner.
Only then did Shi Senming pay attention to Prince Ning.
Prince Ning's face dropped, and he turned away and pretended not to hear.
"Ouch, what's wrong with you?"
Shi Senming chuckled and leaned forward. Maybe he and Li Luo weren't that familiar yet, but he and Prince Ning were definitely close friends.
Coming closer, Shi Senming jumped up, turned into a koala and pulled King Ning up, causing King Ning to shout with disgust: "Go, go, get down quickly!"
After a while, the people from RW also came over with their luggage. Under the guidance of the staff, the four teams from the LPL expedition went to the hotel arranged by the official to check in and began to adjust the equipment in their respective training rooms.
The coaches of each major team also held a group meeting that night.
At this time of unanimous publicity, the LPL teams are still very united, especially when the players do not have much time to train according to the 8.13 version due to the version change.
The coaches of each team can exchange understandings with each other, which can make up for the shortcomings of each team to a minimum extent.
In contrast, the players took advantage of that time to get together in groups of two and a half to chat and talk nonsense.
"Brother Luo, please be patient and teach me your experience in playing KZ from the first level."
Dahu came to Miller's side and put his arm under Miller's shoulders naturally.
Being entangled by that Jilaisu, Li Rong looked at Morgana helplessly and helpfully. However, Morgana turned her head away, talked to Uzi, and pretended to notice Li Rong's eyes.
Uzi pouted at Li Rong and shrugged, looking helpless.
"Playing KZ is very complicated, just focus on the bottom lane and you're done."
Miller put forward his "good strategy" concisely and comprehensively.
But Miller felt that Dahu was just here to show off. It can be seen from RNG's starting lineup. Although Erzi... oh, it was still a thief at that time, even though Zizi's strength was in the order position.
It's not super weak, but what's important is that its posture is less defensive than Letme's.
1v1, fighting Khan with his posture is really annoying.
But if it's 2v1 or less v1, Khan's strengths will be exposed very slowly.
BDD is not a player with weak laning ability, but that kind of player is exactly the one who is most restrained by Dahu.
After all, a mid laner like Dahu would be at a disadvantage when facing a mid laner with extremely weak laning ability, but he was really afraid of beating others.
Let's talk on the road.
Although his arrival has changed history, and Uzi has still been able to win the trophy, from the end of last year to now, after several contacts with Uzi, Miller can sense that the anger he is holding in his heart has not yet been released.
At that time, Uzi had transformed into a player who was aggressive in lane and stable in team play.
When performing abnormally, Pray may suffer less setbacks than when facing himself.
Overall, when RNG played KZ, there was some restraint in team style.
What makes Miller confused is that I remember that the format of the Rift Rivals is not the same as this year.
According to the competition system of the Intercontinental Tournament, the competition system after rebirth is that the first place in that division will inevitably face the first place in another division.
Therefore, the spring champion RNG at the time would face the LCK spring champion KZ and the LMS spring champion FW.
However, the format of the group stage that time was based on the ranking of the first in the division, the seventh in the division, the seventh in the division, the first in the division, the eighth in the division, the seventh in the division, the seventh in the division, and the seventh in the division.
eight.
According to the official statement, it is to increase the suspense of the confrontation between the various competition regions.
At the same time, it is also to strive to make the point difference between each division larger when the final ranking points of the large group are calculated.
After all, it is impossible for the No. 1 player in a strong division to defeat the No. 7 player in a local division.
But correspondingly, the seventh place in a weak division has no chance of defeating the first place in a local division.
This way, the suspense will be smaller.
It is said that the inspiration for making that decision came from a certain IEM tournament. At that time, the WE team, which was at the bottom of the LPL, defeated the LCK's No. 1 Rox Tiger despite being favored by some.
This tournament can undoubtedly be regarded as an example of the strong defeating the weak.
In order to increase the competitiveness of the competition area, it is understandable that Riot Games has set up a schedule like this.
Of course, we may have gone too far. The interval between the first and seventh place and the eighth and seventh place was divided.
If you can make it to the finals, your strength will be relatively close.
After all, from Riot's point of view, given the current situation in each small competition area, the possibility of the seventh place defeating the first place is extremely slim.
In other words, according to that competition system, RNG needs to face Flash Wolf FW and KZ in the two games.
What EDG has to face is GREX, the seventh-ranked team in the LMS division, and AFS in the LCK division.
And on the first day of the group stage, there will be a fight between EDG and AFS!
Recently, many viewers on the Internet have stopped discussing the highlight.
The fact that adc has been cut has been put on the table.
Whether EDG's strength has been affected or not will depend on that game to prove it.
Dahu's flirtatiousness was not just because of that intercontinental match.
There are no further Asian Games events.
Although the list had not been completely finalized at that time, it was basically a matter of whether four or four would be close to ten.
Although Dahu's usual mentality is very wrong, deep down inside he is still confused whether he is panic or not.
Miller can also chat with Dahu. After all, Dahu's emotional intelligence is wrong and he is relatively talkative. Miller needs to find topics, and Li Rong's chat strategy is that as long as he can find topics, you can
Chat with him for the rest of the day.
"It's a pity that the champion skin won't be released until the last version. Otherwise, there will be no chance to see Xia Luo's roar in that intercontinental competition."
Meiko deliberately said to Li Luo while drinking her drink.
Li Luo glanced at me: "My skin is thin."
Meiko was also concerned before hearing this, but continued on her own: "You can use it in the intercontinental competition, but there is always no chance to use it in the Asian Games. In the past, you could only use two of them before your friends lost the championship skin!"
"Weak and thieves logic."
Li Luo has something to say.
I think meiko is so mean.
I really want to punch me twice.
After looking at his big body and comparing it with Meiko's body, Li Luo gave up that idea.
The main reason is that we are both too thin, and Li Luo is afraid that his punch may cause me to withdraw from the hospital, me to withdraw from the game, or the other way around, or both of us.
It’s still garlic.
"In other words, he thinks it's not a bit disgusting to do that with fists. Lulu's 6-second shield was suddenly reduced to only 2.5 seconds, and it happened to weaken heroes like Rat Cannon."
Li Luo seemed to have thought of something and said suddenly.
That's right, both of them were still concerned when they learned at the end that Lulu's shield had been weakened.
But who knew it would be so badly cut.
Although Pixar still hangs under the hero for 6 seconds.
But it’s disgusting that the shield’s duration has been cut in half.
In Li Luo's opinion, the damage of E skills that have been weakened by rats and cannons is useless.
If there are no suitable heroes to protect them, even if they are greatly strengthened and weakened, it will still be difficult for the two heroes to survive the late stage.
"In that version, the only soft assistant is Lucian, and Xing Ma can play... Of course, Luo counts."
Meiko shook her head: "As for AD, Xia and Shi Senming should be the best. Those two heroes are the most suitable for that version. Kai'Sa will be weaker in the early stage. Out of the seven teams that participated in our competition, all ADs are strong.
That’s your LPL’s advantage.”
"If you want to beat KT, you should know that you can beat it."
Li Luo sighed.
With or without Miller, although I feel that my game level has not improved through constant efforts, my mentality is always empty and I always feel too solid.
Although the players are using chatting to divert their attention, they will consciously return to the game while chatting.
Xiaojia is still thinking about the match that is about to end next.
…
Game day.
The game between RNG and FW kicked off as the opening match.
The eight LPL teams watched the game collectively as spectators in the large and small lounges arranged by the organizer.
When he saw that RNG had chosen an unusually conservative lineup, Miller inadvertently glanced at RNG's accompanying coach Sun Xiaoyong and Heart, who had just returned to the lounge.
Thinking from the perspective of a professional player, Li Rong feels that RNG's BP... always gives me a feeling that I can't put into words.
Of course, this is also due to the fact that Miller's team has less room for BP selection and more flexible ideas.
If Miller were asked to use a more euphemistic way to describe the lineup RNG faced with the lineup chosen by FW, Miller could only use two words to express it.
"keep."
Too conservative.
And the coach who resigned from BP seemed to have thought too little.
We think of FW too simply.
Regardless of tactics, there is a gap in the personal abilities of the players on both sides.
So, although there is no point-and-shooter perspective on paper, Miller still feels that choosing a more aggressive lineup for RNG and letting us rely solely on our personal performance will be weaker than that lineup.
He obviously changed his posture, but chose a young master for me.
Then choose a plus outer for Dahu.
First, get a Kaisha for Uzi.
Okay.
Single core.
Put the treasure under Kai'Sa who is very difficult to play in the later stage.
The top lane has to be weak in the lane and it also has to take over the game in the early stage.
FW is very good at causing trouble.
Judging from the lower midfield, with one hand a vampire, one hand a scorpion, and one hand a captain, we seem to be still living in the MSI version.
But looking at the combination on the top lane, there is a Pike and a Iron Girl, both of whom have paid their dues and pretend to go out.
The selection of these two things means that FW does not have enough research on RNG. Although Kai'Sa can suppress the iron girl, because the line is weak enough, it is impossible to suppress her to death.
And in that version of the salary-equipped Holy Relic Shield, he was asked to replenish it because he replenished too few soldiers.
RNG's lineup relies too much on Kai'Sa's development, so we have to delay it in the early game.
By the time Kai'Sa's eight-piece set was introduced, both the vampire and the captain had also developed.
The damage in team battles is completely at the same level.
In the end, RNG lost the opening battle amidst the sighs of countless spectators.
The opening battle of LPL was lost like that.
To the countless spectators who followed that game, it was truly the "opening lightning strike."
"You're vomiting. Dahu knows how to play Jiawai Oo, so don't let me play."
"You completely understand what BP is. The output point is Kai'Sa. Kamil and Gawai'o will die when they exit."
"Mr. Meng is pretty tough, but it's useful."
"You can fight eight lanes alone, and you have output when playing in a group. That's how you evaluate Kai'Sa."
"Haha, there is a vampire standing behind, the captain's little trick is to block the way, and then use the bucket to greet him, he is going to steal the output space?"
"The key is that we don't have Pike yet, so we lose too little health in a group fight, and those Iron Maidens are pretty good."
"You vomited, and Wanwan smiled."
"Is Hua Zi still okay...you suddenly felt that the intercontinental competition was going to be cold."
"Forget it, you later felt that the schedule was unfavorable to you, and now...you are worried that EDG will also overturn."
"Okay, if EDG overturns today, you will split into four pieces on the spot."
"It's true. EDG has encountered AFS before. What we are best at is killing familiarity..."
…
The audience complained in the discussion room, but there was joy outside the LCK lounge.
As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Although we have been defeated by the LMS division many times, and FW has been known as the anti-Korean hero because of this, the audience will only remember the person who came to the front.
Therefore, we would rather see the LPL region suffer than the LMS region.
"With RNG in such a state, I feel like your opportunity has come!"
pray is also full of excitement.
Frustrated by Miller, I urgently needed someone to help me get back on track.
In Pray's view, that intercontinental tournament was an opportunity to prove himself.
Did you beat him Shine, or did you beat Uzi who was overpowered by him in the LPL?
Khan also had a little joy in his expression.
I can tell that the micro-manipulation of the posture is relatively smooth.
At least that's the case for me.
With such an RNG, we really have no chance.
Seeing the joy among everyone in KZ, several members of the AFS team also became slightly excited.
As professional players, we naturally only look at appearances.
RNG's defeat and BP let us see whether LPL seems to have adapted to that version.
It's no wonder, after all, the official server updates will always be one version behind us.
RNG has adapted, and other teams may have adapted as well.
AFS is in excellent form in the recent LCK summer split. At the same time, out of the seven teams in the LCK, AFS is also the team with the deepest understanding of the current version of the game.
If we are faced with EDG who has a special understanding of the version, we really have no confidence in winning against them!
…
The seventh game of the intercontinental competition is a contest between the IG team and MAD, which is ranked seventh in the LMS division.
Just after winning a game in their own division, everyone in MAD walked off the stage with great momentum.
Then...it took 22 minutes for IG to beat me 17 to 4, and I went to work at the speed of light.
When everyone on IG came up from the stage with Lishe packed up with expressions on their faces, LPL fans finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, IG's status is still there.
Although... we don't seem to have any understanding of the version, and MAD was completely penetrated by pure matchup.
Before the brief period of excitement, the game that the audience was most excited about, and also the one they were most looking forward to, came.
Under the commentary table, Wawa, Baolan and the invited guest commentators smiled. Before the director's camera turned to us, Wawa was the first to speak: "Welcome back."
"That game, you think, is probably the most watched game today, AFS versus EDG."
Baolan followed up and said: "Have you ever known Xiaoxiao about the AFS team? Where does he think our strength ranks among the seven teams that participated in the LCK?"
"that……"
Smiling firmly for two seconds, he said: "If you speak from the perspective of the adc position, do you think AFS's top lane duo is not outstanding, at least compared to the top lane duos of the other eight LCK teams.
That kind."
"But...if you take into account the overall strength of the team itself, you think AFS is definitely one of the seven out of the seven teams in the LCK."
"As long as we can make Aiming resist Shine's retreat, it feels like it will be easy to fight, so you think AFS will definitely take action at Kalista's point."
Xiaoxiao's analysis made Li Rong and Wawa slightly nod, especially Baolan, who agreed with Xiaoxiao's statement: "The 8.13 version has another big buff against Kalista. It can be said that since the start of the summer split, EDG has only Shi Senming.
Here, the hero who got the least number of hits in the top lane is Kalista."
"So the key point of that game is the lower midfielder of both sides. To put it wrongly, the key point should be in the middle. If you think Scout's performance is wrong, there will be no chance to penetrate Kuro head-on."
He said with a serious smile.
kuro.
KZ’s mid laner last year.
This year KZ chose BDD, so I came to AFS.
In 1994, Kuro was not known as the Korean Tiger.
Steadiness and conservatism are synonymous with me.
But that type of mid laner is exactly restrained by college students.
There are no two sides to everything.
The college student's nerve knife is very stable, which is a very fatal flaw in my body.
If that kind of stability is shown behind Kuro, it is extremely unlikely that the experienced veteran will take advantage of the college student's psychological regression when he is forced to play an advantage.
Before finishing that sentence, he continued with a smile: "Our jungler spirit... I feel like he is one of the best junglers in LCK recently. Kiin who placed the order said that I am the absolute core of AFS at the moment.
, if they can block me, EDG will win by less than half."
"Whether it depends on the actual operation or not depends on how prepared EDG is. The BPs on both sides are no longer female. The blue side is AFS, and the red side is EDG!"
"The last eight bans of AFS are given to Kai'Sa, Kalista and the Captain respectively!"
"Ka'Sa's words are to limit EDG's ability to take over the game in the early stage. Kalista... Just like what you just said, it limits the possibility of breaking through the lane in the later stage. The captain at the front, the one who is suspected of being right
A kind of Jin Gong is no longer a woman."
"The eight bans of the EDG team were given to Dao Mei, Sword Demon, and Braum respectively! They blocked Kiin's two-handed heroes, which is a very wrong BP. This shows whether EDG has serious enemies. It really has not seriously studied AFS.
"
Following Smile's analysis, the AFS team instantly selected Li Rongyi on the first floor.
"Shi Senming, there is something wrong with that first pick. It is one of the weakest adcs in the version. If that happens, what if EDG wants to directly pick the Xia Luo combination?"
The doll's eyes lit up.
I have seen Xia Luo's combination for a long time.
"It should be that all the top duo will be selected directly."
Smiling and shaking his head slightly: "In this case, AFS's bp will be too comfortable."
"It's wrong. If EDG directly chooses the top duo, and AFS directly takes Lucian, EDG will have a huge headache."
Baolan also saw the clues.
EDG quickly gave us a solution.
First floor, Xia.
Seventh floor, Bobby.
"Poppy... is a very standard defensive counterattack choice. That version of Poppy has never been buffed, and it can also suppress another hero who has been buffed and has become an unpopular hero, Keg!"
Sapphire's tone lowered.
In version 8.12, the CD of Poppy's passive skill is reduced, the CD of Q skill is also reduced, and the damage is weakened.
As for why the wine barrel is mentioned, it is also because the wine barrel's W skill Drunken Fury has been slightly weakened in version 8.13. It is 8 seconds at level 1. The CD of the decreasing W skill in the previous sequel has been changed to a CD of 5 seconds at all levels, and
The attack range is also increased by 50 points before releasing W.
That's a terrible weakening for professional players.
The choice of EDG is obviously to let AFS have less to weigh when choosing the next unit.
However, AFS's choice was more decisive.
The wine barrel on the seventh floor, the pig girl on the eighth floor!
“Good meat.”
The two heroes were selected, and the eight commentators under the commentary table all frowned.
The reason why Kasumi was unpopular in that version was because the compatibility between that hero and Arashiri was low, that was one of them.
Seventh, it is because it is balanced enough.
No explosion, no control, no life-saving.
Will such an ADC do high damage in the current version, or will it be difficult to die?
But leaving Kerry alone is probably too realistic.
As far as the last eight heroes of AFS are concerned, the EDG sequel must add a small output core under the mid-range unit.
The problem is that the laning ability of small output cores is bound to be very weak. So...is this what AFS expects?
The eighth floor player who passed EDG did not choose to use Luo to form Xia Luo's match. Instead, he settled on a Troll.
"I got the troll, which is better."
Smiling and slightly frowning, his brows relaxed: "Without Troll, AFS is equivalent to having a thick back row during team battles, and Troll and Poppy have no argument. In this case, EDG's lineup is actually pretty good.
, there is very little choice for college students.”
"In the seventh round, we should focus on supporting players."
Baolan stared at the seventh-round ban positions of both sides without thinking.
But unexpectedly, EDG's seventh-round ban positions were given to Niutou and Li Rongyi respectively.
AFS first pressed down the blind monk in one hand and then pressed down Rakan.
The reason why the blind monk is killed is because the blind monk has been weakened in two consecutive versions, especially the 8.13 weakening, which directly reduces the CD of the blind monk's W skill for two seconds.
It's outrageous to be ashamed of Fist's own son.
EDG has no trouble dragging the trolls to play support.
That point AFS must be on guard against.
After all, Lee Sin is a hero that Datian is very good at using, and once EDG chooses Lee Sin, the weakness of our lower, middle and jungle will plummet.
Even though Pig Girl and Wine Barrel are relatively weak in large-scale battles, they still have to consider the risk of being caught and taken away together.
In such a situation where the auxiliary heroes are being targeted by many, EDG has locked up a rather disappointing hero on the seventh floor.
Pike.
That hero RNG just suffered a loss at the hands of FW.
EDG has now taken it out directly.
"Pyke... EDG is such a good defender. There are very few teams that dare to use Pyke at this stage. After all, it has only been out for a long time. In addition, it is a hero that requires a very low degree of unfamiliarity. Special players really dare to use it.
,meiko’s courage is quite good.”
Smile said in astonishment.
Of course, as an adc, I can roughly guess why Meiko does not have such courage.
In fact, few players are unfamiliar enough with certain heroes.
It's just because of my mentality that I dare to win in the competition.
With that kind of mentality, even if we really take out the hero, it will be difficult because it is easy to perform well. In the end, the audience really criticized him as "I know how to play but dare to use it".
"How should I put it... Putting aside the lack of female characters, you think the choice of Pike is very boring. You all know that Pike is a hero. My roaming ability is very exaggerated. AFS's BP idea is to let him go on the road to suppress
, you just go steady in the top lane and hit the middle and jungle, and that’s it, but EDG told us, it’s a good idea, you can press in the top lane, and you can resist the pressure, but as for them wanting to take down the middle and jungle... you, the support Meiko, want to step in!"
Li Rong smacked his lips: "EDG's counter move, do you think it's okay?"
"There are a lot of choices in AFS. Our mid laner needs to choose someone who can swim, like Rock Bird. As for support, Tahm Kench is lacking."
With a thoughtful smile, he spoke directly.
And a second ago, AFS actually did that!
The barrage also floated a small piece of 666 to give a smile.
But for Smile, being able to guess the two heroes is the most extraordinary thing.
"Although the rock bird has been weakened in two consecutive versions, fortunately the level of enhancement is small, and in AFS, before the rock bird is gone, it will be very slow for the lower and middle wilds to unite as a team.
The personal control chain can make up for the damage. As the saying goes, the damage is enough, and the control can make up for it. The control of the two plus the burst of the rock bird, it must be said that the midfield combination in AFS is very weak."
He smiled and said: "Of course, it still depends on what hero EDG will choose for the college student in the mid lane."
And as Smile's words fell, EDG's seventh floor was also freshly released.
“Zoe…locked!”
Baolan rubbed his chin: "There is no doubt that it is the choice of confidence. The college students have to weakly fight in the lane. From the support ability and large-scale combat capability of the lower, middle and jungle, EDG is slightly inferior.
, only weak laning can explain the reason for the instant selection of Zoe."
"No matter what, the BP game between the two sides can reveal the skills of the coaches on both sides. From the BP, it can be seen that both sides are very well prepared."
Smile and sigh.
"It depends on the performance of the players. Well, the lineup over there has been determined! The blue side AFS team, the wine barrel that placed the order, is playing the Wild Boar Girl, the mid laner Yanque, and the top duo is Shi Senming and Tahm Kench!
"
"The EDG team on the red side, Poppy who placed the order, the jungler Troll, the mid laner Zoe, and the top duo are Xayah and Pike!"
"The players on both sides are ready, let's get into the focus of the battle together!"
ps: Last night was okay, but I couldn’t sleep from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m....emmm, I hope I can fall asleep at 0 a.m. today~
