In the following period, discussions about grouping were abuzz on the Internet.
RNG has become the unlucky one that everyone recognizes.
Li Luo's evaluation of this was only in four words.
Fortune and misfortune depend on each other.
The high-intensity competition in the group stage may destroy a team, or it may make a team reborn from the ashes.
In the S8 World Championship before its rebirth, RNG got a relatively good script, and even eliminated the world champion of the previous year in the group stage, making the Korean team fail in the group stage again after many years.
But the final outcome was not satisfactory.
Under high pressure, there is no guarantee that they can break through that threshold.
What Li Luo really cares about now is the World Championship version.
The span between versions 8.18 and 8.19 is more than ten days.
It wasn’t until the finals were about to begin that version 8.19 of the World Championship officially arrived.
Li Luo had reason to suspect that Riot Games did this on purpose. After all, last year, Riot Games finalized the version of the World Championship much earlier than now, giving the major teams enough buffer time.
But this time...
Even for the teams that entered the group stage directly, it was a little rushed, let alone the playoffs.
On the day they arrived in South Korea, everyone in EDG held a meeting.
Everyone is in the training room, looking like top students from a high-quality high school. I don't know if their grades would have changed if they had focused more on studying.
Li Luo had already carefully analyzed the two versions that would determine the direction of the World Championship on the plane.
However, in the end Li Luo only came to one conclusion.
smoke bomb.
The fist is releasing smoke bombs.
A large number of heroes have been adjusted in both versions.
The first is the ADC aspect that Li Luo is most concerned about.
There are actually two adjustments to adc. One is that Lucian has been strengthened, and the ad bonus damage of his Q skill has been increased by 0.2.
This is a big improvement for Lucian, and can elevate the already strong Lucian to a higher level.
However, the previous weakening of Lucian's mobility, that is, the E skill, has made it impossible for this version of Lucian to become a very powerful AD in the later stage like the previous strongest version.
To put it bluntly, it's just a bit tasteless.
In contrast, Kai'Sa's chop before the World Championship was extremely brutal.
Kai'Sa's passive trigger damage was originally 15%-20% of the target's lost health.
Now it has become 15% for all levels.
This means that Kai'Sa has been greatly nerfed in the later period, and her early abilities have not been strengthened. From the perspective of version data alone, Kai'Sa seems to be becoming an abandoned adc.
However, after combining his impressions of the S8 World Championship and other changes in the two versions, Li Luo realized that Kai'Sa would probably still be active on the field as a mainstream hero in the World Championship version.
There is no other reason than that there are too few ADCs available for this version.
And there are even fewer adcs with a certain degree of flexibility.
Sword Demon, which had just been weakened before, was inexplicably strengthened in version 8.18, and the magnitude of the strengthening was not small.
Sword Demon, with enhanced E skills and ultimate moves, is a hero that will 100% become the mainstream of the version without any surprises.
Another thing about the S8 World Championship version that is very similar to the original S5 is that the hero Noshou has also received substantial enhancements.
It's just that in Li Luo's impression, no one seems to have used Nuo Shou in the S8 World Championship.
In terms of jungle, the fast-paced junglers Spider Queen and Mantis have been enhanced to varying degrees.
In the mid lane, Akali has been severely weakened, and the damage of her ultimate move has been reduced, but the overall hero mechanism is there, and the impact of weakening the damage of her ultimate move is not so great in comparison.
Combining the experience in his memory and Li Luo's own understanding of the game, he gradually cleared up the fog of the S8 World Championship version.
The EDG players are very convinced of Li Luo.
Therefore, when Li Luo analyzed the version, everyone listened very carefully, even coach Abramovich.
"To put it simply, there are a lot of smoke bombs in this World Championship version. Heroes like Mantis and Spider Queen will be very useless if they can't get the rhythm."
Li Luo glanced around and said slowly: "For this version, as long as the lineup is good enough, even if there is a disadvantage in the early stage, you can counterattack with a group in the later stage. This kind of extreme rhythm hero is not suitable."
"In terms of top lane, heavy armor warriors will become the mainstream. In most cases, I won't be very worried, but we must pay attention to one hero on the BP side, and that is Akali."
Li Luo's words made Xiaotian spread his hands: "It's over, our top laner is an old fool, we can't play this thing."
Jin Gong glanced at Xiaotian, but rarely refuted.
He had to admit that what Xiaotian said was actually right.
Jin Gong also feels that the hero Akali is not suitable for him.
"but……"
Li Luo changed the subject: "We can take Akali in the middle. This is our advantage. By the way, any team that can swing from mid to top in this version will have a hard time dealing with it."
"Although we are not good at this aspect, as long as there are one or two systems that can swing in this way, it is actually enough. We just need to do what we are good at."
"Also, don't practice Nuo Shou's version of the trap."
Li Luo said to Jin Gong directly: "This thing has a very strong ranking now, but it has too many limitations in the game. At this time, we don't need to train a hero that we don't need in order to increase the score."
"clear."
Jin Gong nodded.
For professional players, players can more or less feel which heroes are strong in a version through their usual rank training.
Although this feeling may not all be correct, it is still of great reference value in most cases.
Nuoshou has great limitations in the competition because it cannot lead sprinters.
If you bring a TP, you will be easily walked around.
According to recent joint research by everyone at EDG, the mainstream mid lane heroes in the S game are either functional heroes like Galio and Lissandra, or heroes with strong lanes like Syndra and Enchantress.
A lot of control is a characteristic shared by these players.
The popularity of heavy warriors will inevitably mean that the threat of the top laner to the C position has increased significantly. Under this situation, it is a certainty that the adc position will prefer heroes with displacement or mobility.
Li Luo didn't know whether the fist was unintentional or intentional.
Judging from the version, Wheel Mom can appear in this World Championship and even have a chance to become mainstream.
In other words, one of EDG's signature tactics, the Mobile Fortress, has a large operating space.
However, the W skill of the hero Ryze has been weakened in the World Championship version, and the control time of the enhanced W has been weakened by 0.5 seconds.
The essence of Moving Castle is to push the tower on the one hand, and to capture people on the other.
The 0.5 second control weakening can easily lay the groundwork in this situation. Of course, the more important thing is that Ryze faces many mid lane heroes in this version and is no longer able to gain an advantage in the push lane.
And Riot's enhancements to multiple adcs a few versions ago seem to have no effect in this world championship.
On the contrary, Vayne has been strengthened again, and the CD of her Q skill is reduced by two seconds when the skill level is low.
This enhancement is not insignificant.
Just considering the heroic characteristics of this thing, it may not be realistic to let it stand as well as Kai'Sa in the World Championship.
But the strengthening of this thing is a good thing for Li Luo.
"This is what you need to pay attention to in the World Championship version. Specifically, we need to use the teams in the finals as guinea pigs to provide us with reference."
After Li Luo finished speaking, he nodded slightly: "This World Championship is not very targeted for us. Of course, it is not strengthened."
"This is pretty good, better than I expected."
Abu smiled and said.
This is like the adjustment of professional balance in DNF. Some professions have been strengthened, while others have remained unchanged. Although they have not been weakened, they are still weakened from the perspective of relativity.
But overall, as long as it is not weakened, it is still acceptable.
"That's it. Everyone, have a good rest tonight and start training tomorrow."
After thinking about it, Abbu had nothing to add. Li Luo's analysis was thorough and comprehensive, so he simply let the players rest so that he could devote himself wholeheartedly to the BP.
"The meeting is dismissed."
End of the meeting.
The players didn't feel much sleepy.
Because some people are hungry.
After landing, they had a hearty Korean meal.
There are as many as six dishes.
But except for Jin Gong and the younger disciples, almost no one present had enough to eat.
So after a vote, everyone unanimously agreed and decided to have a barbecue.
Because there is no need to participate in the qualifying tournament held in Seoul, the city where everyone from EDG will land is Busan, where the group stage will be held.
As one of the larger cities in South Korea, Busan is quite easy to find a barbecue restaurant. Price aside, the taste is pretty good.
After eating and drinking, Xiaotian, who was checking his cell phone, suddenly said: "Brother Luo, I feel like something dirty is targeting you."
"What?"
The junior student sitting next to him moved forward curiously, and then smiled: "Brother Luo, you are on the top of the poisonous milk list."
"This is not surprising. I would only be surprised if Lao Li was not at the top of the list. I haven't even paid attention to this year's list. Who else is there?"
Meiko, who was sitting next to Li Luo, said curiously.
It’s no wonder Meiko said this. Even before the World Championship quota was finalized, professional players both online and in the industry knew that Li Luo would be at the top of this year’s official Riot Games “Top 20 Players” list.
Spring champion, mid-season champion, continental champion, Asian Games champion, summer champion.
This year Li Luo won all the championship awards, and also won 80% of the final FMVP.
There is no judging for the intercontinental competition, so I say it is 80%.
This means that in the main game, Li Luo’s probability of winning FMVP in the finals is 100%!
At the same time, Li Luo is also the mvp player in this summer regular season.
The mvp player in the Spring Split was given to IG mid laner Rookie, who had 18 consecutive wins. This was not surprising. After all, Li Luo spent a long time in the Spring Split playing functional AD to coordinate with his teammates.
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It is also more difficult for adc players to obtain MVP than other positions.
Especially in games where there are no two team fights in a game, the MVP is usually given to the player who drives the team's rhythm in the early stage or determines the direction of the game.
For EDG, which focuses on upper midfielder and jungler in the spring split and focuses on honing Jin Gong's ability, the MVP ratio of upper midfielder and jungler will be higher.
In the summer split, EDG shifted its focus to the lower half, and Li Luo's MVP numbers naturally increased.
With so many honors, and Li Luo was the champion of last year's World Finals, he has long been the top player.
"Let me see……"
Xiaotian glanced at the list: "There are a lot of players in our LPL on the list this time, more than in the LCK. Brother Luo is first, Rookie is second, Uzi is sixth, The shy is seventh, Tian Ye...
…You are eighth, Xiao Ming is 12th, I am 15th, 7-chan is 16th, hey, I am still in front, Jack Ai is 19th.”
"Li Rucan, you are 17th. This is seriously underestimating you."
After Xiaotian finished speaking, he habitually started to say: "Hey, no one is embarrassed."
Jin Gong was not angry, he just laughed, then picked up the barbecue tongs, held it tightly, and made a stabbing gesture.
Not surprisingly, Xiao Tian was stunned in seconds.
Li Luo also heard the contents of the list and was thoughtful.
According to Xiaotian's retelling, there are indeed many more players in the LPL this time.
There are fully ten seats in the top twenty, and five in the top ten.
Four of the other five are Korean players, and one is Snake from Flash Wolves.
"Brother Luo, so far it seems that only the S5 faker has escaped the curse of fist's poisonous milk, but I believe you will be the second one."
Xiaotian tried to divert the attention of Jin Gong who was holding his neck by changing the topic.
"As long as someone breaks the curse, it is no longer a curse."
Li Luo smiled and said.
When EDG returned to the hotel, they did not rest immediately. Instead, they each played two more ranking games before returning to the room.
This has become a habit among the players.
The low-latency rank environment indeed makes players feel a significant difference.
You must know that when playing Korean servers in China, most of the delays remain between 30ms and 40ms, and there are indeed quite a few delay fluctuations.
But in South Korea, even the temporary training room in this hotel can achieve a stable performance within 10ms, which is very comfortable.
It's just that the good times didn't last long.
Li Luo's account plummeted by two hundred points in one day.
This incident gradually fermented in domestic forums.
Players in the Korean server began to target them maliciously.
From the Asian Games to the playoffs, the number of rankings performed by the players was not much compared to usual times. In addition, during the offseason, the players had nothing to do and kept ranking, so the scores of the strong team players were all at this point in time.
Not too high.
Li Luo's account still has 700 points left before training for the World Championship.
Now it has fallen below 500 in the blink of an eye.
You must know that the hidden points of professional players' accounts are relatively high, and usually even if they lose the rank, the points deducted will not be many.
Li Luo rarely has a page with all red, and his performance in every game is excellent.
But when you click on the record, you can see that all kinds of monsters and monsters have occupied the remaining positions on Li Luo's side.
After a day like this, even a fool will know what's going on.
In a certain tooth, Xinghen OB’s live broadcast room.
"Brother Luo is about to lose this time. The support just needs to choose Xerath. He is still keeping K soldiers. He will show his expression when K loses minions. Isn't this intentional? But the opponent is still GEN.
The illegal three rows...Chiku Di has a chance to win."
As a host, Xinghen was also very annoyed when his OB came down that day.
What annoys him even more are some NT barrages that are deliberately used as a joke.
This is truly a grudge game.
GEN's bottom lane duo is together.
Li Luo brought a mole to face him in the bottom lane.
Not to mention that Li Luo doesn't have three heads and six arms. Even if he does, he still has to consider whether the hero himself has such high strength, right?
At this moment, a barrage fell in Xinghen's eyes.
"Shine had no choice but to run when she saw GEN."
This simple sentence seems to have reached the threshold of star marks.
At this moment, as the anchor, he calmed down and nodded: "Indeed, if you run slower, the trophy will be withheld."
