According to the schedule of the 2017 LPL Summer Split, the top eight teams in Group B and AB with total points will enter the playoffs to compete for the Summer Split Championship while also vying for a spot to participate in the World Championship.
After defeating RNG, the IG team successfully ranked third in Group A.
The two teams in front of him are EDG and WE.
There is a reason why Su Xiaoluo feels extremely confident about entering the playoffs.
IG's subsequent schedule is relatively simple compared to other teams.
IM, SNG, OMGDAN and Snake, these are the opponents IG will face in the next five games of the Summer Split.
If IG, which has currently achieved six wins and five losses, can win all five teams, the final summer split score should be 11/5.
This kind of score is not only safe for entering the playoffs, but it is also very possible for them to advance one more place.
Among the five teams, except for OMG, which is a relatively tough nut to crack, the remaining four teams are nothing to worry about in Su Xiaoluo's opinion.
But in the eyes of countless viewers, the results of this year's LPL Summer Split seem a bit worrying.
The LPL seems to be divided into two tiers in the summer split.
Playoff echelon and relegation echelon.
In the past, there would have been at least one team that was clearly ahead of the other teams in terms of strength, and its results in the regular season would have been better.
But look at this year...
The teams at the top also have wins and losses. Everyone's record is similar, and their strength seems to be about the same.
As the World Championship approaches, fans in the LPL region can't help but start to worry.
With this configuration of each team this year, can they really compete with South Korea's strong teams in the world championships?
Will they be beaten like last year and all be stagnated in the top eight?
The audience's ideas are different from those of professional players.
At this moment, all teams that have a chance to enter the playoffs are training hard with all their strength.
Moreover, in the circles between teams, there is gradually a saying that is praised by many teams.
"Even IG has trained so hard, why don't you have any reason not to work hard?"
IG has recently started to make appointments for training matches with major teams based on "games", instead of based on BO numbers like before.
In fact, in the past, only IG was the only team that would arrange BO3 or BO5 training matches with others, either crushing them 2-0, or taking a break after losing 0-2.
But not long ago, IG started to play a few games at a time, which surprised many teams and also secretly included the IG team on the "more dangerous" list.
IG fans have been quite happy recently. From late July to mid-August now, the IG team has won four consecutive victories.
It's just that the lineup is not stable enough, which makes many fans who can understand the game feel that this is a hidden danger.
During this period, IG's rotation continued.
There are simply too many of them.
Mafa is not a very courageous coach, he is a bit like a good old man. Unless the players' condition really begins to decline, or the training results are greatly different, Mafa will not directly put a player on the bench.
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This is also something Li Luo is quite worried about.
It has been a month and a half since he arrived at the base. During this period, Li Luo used King Ning's words to subtly improve many of the team's problems.
But Li Luo couldn't solve the problem of rotation alone.
IG has been on a smooth road recently. Among the three consecutive victories except against RNG, only one was won 2-1, and the remaining two games were all 2-0 crushes.
There are only so many games, but the problem is that there are too many people on IG.
If the team's performance is not good, Li Luo can still make some suggestions, but if the team's performance is relatively good, Li Luo has no reason to make these suggestions.
Li Luo roughly knows what Mafa is thinking. Currently, IG’s main team plus substitutes only have eight players who can play.
I have been in good form recently, so coach Mafa has begun studying the lineup for the World Championships in his spare time.
According to the regulations of the S7 World Finals, IG can only bring up to five main players, one substitute, and one emergency substitute, a total of seven people.
Moreover, emergency substitutes are still used to make up the number. Unless the main player is unable to play due to force majeure and the substitute conflicts with his position, the emergency substitute can only play.
So the question is, IG has eight people, how to choose?
Duke and Youshen have been working hard in training recently. Youshen previously felt that it was a bit mysterious for the team to enter the World Championship, so he was not active in training games except for playing a lot of ranking games.
Duke didn't think much about it at all. Anyway, he was the world champion last year, and he played in more than half of the spring and summer games, and his performance was good.
If we really make it to the World Championships, no matter what, he will have a place.
But when Li Luo came, everything changed.
If the team is currently ranked according to priority, Li Luo's priority among the two ADCs must be far ahead.
Considering the diversity of IG's current tactical system, Duke also began to worry.
…
Training room.
West was watching his teammates playing training matches, and listening to Li Luo's methodical command, Duke was full of envy but also a little worried.
But soon he comforted himself in a low voice: "It's okay, okay, Li Luo can only play with the three heroes of Destiny Master, Han Bing, and Varus. My tactical position should not be replaced."
He is a C.
He has a big mouth.
Meet Calista.
Li Luo doesn't play these two heroes.
He West still has greater value to the club.
As long as you can maintain your condition!
West calmed down and continued to start ranking.
I don’t know when IG started to get involved.
However, this kind of involution is benign for IG who is eager for a spot in the World Championship.
There was a game the next day, and that night, after training, MAFA announced the starting lineup for tomorrow's final game against Snake.
The shy,ning,Rookie,shine,morgan.
After announcing the roster, Mafa said slowly: "If we can win this game 2-0, and if EDG can defeat WE afterwards, we can move up a ranking and rank second in Group A, which will also allow us to play less games.
A BO5."
"So, come on, everyone."
After mafa finished speaking, he went to submit the playing list to the LPL.
IG people were left waiting there chatting.
"Be nice to your posture."
The child's wandering mind patted Prince Ning and said seriously: "Just catch him eight or ten times. Don't catch him too many times."
"One person's first meal."
Prince Ning tilted his head and said seriously.
"Rice is not good, but peaches are good."
The child thought for a while, then ran away without saying a word.
"Peach? What peach?"
Prince Ning was a little confused.
"He means to feed you shit."
Baolan's faint words came to him, and Prince Ning was stunned for another two seconds before he finally realized it. He stood up suddenly, made a gesture of rolling back his sleeves, and rushed out of the training room.
Li Luo watched the two people leave with a smile on his face, and then turned his attention to the screen.
He was watching Snake's recent game videos.
Brother Crystal, who played most of the summer split, returned to the adc position at the end of the summer split, and in yesterday's game, he overturned the WE team, which had an absolute record advantage in Group A, with a score of 2-1.
This seems incredible to many people.
After all, Snake's record in the summer split was neither good nor bad, and when it was weak, it was even infinitely close to being a relegation team.
IG is the final battle, and the same is true for Snake.
Their current record is 5/10, ranking fourth in Group A.
It looks like the fourth place in Group A is good.
But on the overall list, Snake has reached ninth place.
And there are three big wins behind Suning in eighth place.
To put it bluntly, now they have completely lost the chance to enter the playoffs. They have turned into water ghosts, just to lurk in the dark like LGD and work hard to rewrite the playoff rankings.
Li Luo wouldn't worry at all if he were playing against another team.
It just happened to be the extremely unstable Snake.
The top laner in Team Snake, Holy Spear, is at his peak, but despite his strength, it is difficult for him to perform well despite the continuous substitutions in the team.
The status of the jungler's SofM fluctuates greatly, and it feels like being slapped with a random buff. It looks quite exaggerated when it's fierce, and it's even more exaggerated when it's stretched.
The posture of the mid laner... is also strange. The new support Butterfly on the bottom lane is mediocre, and Brother Crystal, who has returned to the adc position, is still recovering and training.
Not to mention that he is not a top-notch coach in terms of tactical preparation at this moment. Even if he is, there is nothing he can do in the face of such a team full of problems.
They can only hope to improve the overall team's integration as much as possible before the holiday, and then try some tactics that are ahead of the version. Anyway, they will not be able to enter the playoffs. It is always good to experience the new version in advance.
The version of the competition server has just been updated, but many teams still use the lineup of the previous version because that is their best lineup.
Rushing to switch to other tactics during the crucial stages of the playoffs may lead to acclimatization.
The strong teams are focusing on stably grabbing points, while the weak teams naturally start to fish in troubled waters.
"Brother Crystal..."
Li Luo opened his little notebook and listed the heroes that Crystal Brother has played the most since he returned to adc.
Varus, the fortune teller, Draven.
Except for Draven, the other two heroes highly overlap with Li Luo's hero pool.
In other words, Brother Crystal has mainly been a functional adc in the team recently. Occasionally, when the team needs him, he will bring out Draven to kill him.
This is... to use "mixed" to "mixed", and then bet on the status of the richest man Sofm and his posture to play in the middle and jungle?
Li Luo seemed to understand Zhu Kai's configuration.
