The personnel changes of a team like SKT naturally attract media attention from all major competition regions.
But when this news reached China, a series of forums, including Tieba and Hupu, all expressed negative attitudes towards SKT's behavior.
The two IDs kanavi and a are indeed a bit too unfamiliar to them.
In the eyes of the public, these are nothing more than two newcomers.
"Did you really get sick and seek medical treatment? Or are you saying that SKT has completely given up?"
"One thing to say is that although my performance in the finals of world-type events was relatively poor, you wouldn't think that just bringing in a new guy would be better than my handsome brother, would you? No way?"
"It's so funny. Clid is a blind monk with unique skills after all. He can play Spider Prince and so on. Now you have a new guy. Will this help the team in any way?"
"Don't ask, just asking is because SKT is drawing cards. I suggest you wait and see. After all, I, Brother Luo, also drew cards from IG."
"Draw a card? The card you drew is an EDG card!"
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Li Luo didn't pay attention to how netizens commented on this matter. He only believed in his own evaluation.
First of all, these two players are definitely not weak.
But Li Luo is considered an old man in the professional circle in his past life and has seen and experienced more people than most players. Therefore, Li Luo's views on players are also different from many others.
First of all, performance is an important indicator to measure the strength of a player, but it is not the only indicator.
Secondly, not all players who have won the S-game championship are the strongest at that position, because whether a player is strong or weak depends on many factors, such as the team's tactical focus, such as his role in the team.
positioning.
The reason why we can win the championship is because this is a game of five people. The chemical reaction produced by five people together is the key to the highest honor. No matter how strong the individual is, if he is not compatible with his teammates and cannot produce a chemical reaction, not only will
If you don't get good results, you may have conflicts within the team.
Therefore, there are very few teams that are recognized as number one in the world in all five positions and win the championship. Most champions just meet the benchmark of "no shortcomings".
There is no doubt that neither Brother Pian nor Little Mouse's personal abilities can be called shortcomings.
How well they can perform depends on their integration with the team.
Of course, in Li Luo's impression, a also has the same attributes as khan.
Both of them have a similar problem of being invincible in the league, but becoming more and more unbeatable as they go up in the competition.
However, based on the actual situation at the time, Li Luo had some different views.
Again, the lineup.
The problem with the current SKT team's configuration is that they rely too much on clid's early rhythm.
The bottom lane duo of bang and wolf is a more traditional one.
Khan's performance in the laning phase in the league can beat the top laners in the LCK division, but in the competition, he is easily targeted in the fast-paced mode of other divisions, and with the increase in the adc position in the league
The sense of existence is getting weaker and weaker, which leads to Bang choosing more functional heroes.
Such a hero will not be able to protect SKT in the late stage. If you choose a big core in the late stage, it will become increasingly difficult for Bang, who is not a laning player, to cope with the current situation.
Therefore, if Li Luo were Kkoma, he would consider developing the status of kanavi and a in the team's tactical system, so that the bottom lane can become a tool player that does not need to bear any pressure in the early stage. Both of them can be C.
It’s just that in Li Luo’s impression, the S9 World Championship is not a wild core version.
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The difficulty faced by the Thorn Birds against the BLG team was just a minor episode.
Although this feeling of being a little exciting but ultimately winning the game makes fans a little uneasy, as long as they don't lose, they are always happy.
As the intercontinental competition ended about two weeks ago, the Thorn Birds' exploration of the version has reached a higher level.
Especially when facing RNG on July 16, the Thorn Birds even took out the Jungle Death Song, assisted Pike's alternative system, and directly killed the game with these two heroes.
Xiangguo had a lot of fun that day. Although he was always being beaten by Pike, he had nearly 40,000 output in one game, which is quite rare for him in the jungle position.
However, while being happy, Xiangguo also had some doubts.
Although the tactics of the Thorn Birds are varied, because the Incense Pot itself is a rhythm jungler, the Thorn Birds have rarely tried the jungle core play style.
Even when Xiang Guo gets a hero like Dream Demon that needs to be farmed and developed, his role in the team is more functional.
Hero incense pot like Death Song is something that I like to play in rank, but I have never used it in the competition.
This thing is a wild core hero through and through.
For a person with Xiangguo's temperament, if he is given a platform that requires his C and his teammates can provide assistance, he will certainly be very happy.
Could it be that the plan is to make him feel better when facing his old team that abandoned him?
Or...does this day have any special meaning?
Xiangguo doesn't understand.
Li Luo also saw Xiangguo's doubts, but he smiled and said nothing.
July 16th, this day was indeed very special for Xiang Guo before his rebirth.
What Li Luo didn't know was that it was his "unintentional" move that caused many teams that had a chance to enter the playoffs to have a headache for the Thorn Birds' tactical reserves.
They watched helplessly as Uzi's Wheel Mom took a big move from Death Song and lost two-thirds of its health.
The damage was too exaggerated.
Other teams have also begun to use Death Song as a jungler one after another, and the results are relatively good.
But when FPX brought out Olaf to deal with Death Song for the first time, Death Song's jungle path seemed to be blocked.
Faced with a hero like Olaf who rushes into his face, the existence of Death Song is naturally more embarrassing. After all, if this thing encounters Olaf in the jungle in the early stage, it will definitely hand over the flash once it is slowed down by an axe.
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Time flies.
In the blink of an eye, the LPL is approaching the playoffs.
This timing is rather delicate, because when the playoffs of each major region are approaching, it also means that the general direction of the World Championship version will be finalized.
This is what countless teams are concerned about.
This general direction can basically be finalized when the announcement of version 9.16 comes out.
When this news came out, most League of Legends players didn't pay much attention.
After all, for the vast majority of players, every version update does not affect their ability to compete in matches or thrive in the Silver segment.
Of course, I will not read the official version announcement of League of Legends. Only when wegame clicks on the runes, players will know whether the hero they want to play has been strengthened or weakened.
But version is always the most sensitive to professional players.
The Thorn Birds team held a small meeting during the version update.
Likewise, many teams in the LPL have chosen to hold meetings tonight.
There is no other reason than that the impact of the version on the major teams is simply too great.
Especially for those teams that are qualified to compete in the World Championship, this version update has really cast a layer of gloom in their hearts.
"This... is a bit uncomfortable. The hero was reworked before the World Championship version, and judging from the condition of this hero, he must be a bit of a supermodel. Shouldn't he be directly banned like Tetsuo in S5?"
Xiang Guo frowned and said.
The first change in version 9.16 is the rework of Pantheon.
Although Pantheon lost his passive shield after the redesign, his ability to resist towers was weakened.
But the E skill can also withstand damage from defense towers, which is too buggy.
The passive has also been changed to a superimposed layer to increase the skill effect and damage, especially the strengthened W. After stunning the enemy, it will be followed up with A three times. This means that once Pan Sen makes a black cut, he wants to max it out directly.
The number of layers of black cutting should not be too simple.
This means that Panson is no longer a useless pure laning hero. He has also become one of the heroes that can play in the late stage. Because of his tankiness, it seems that he can no longer use extreme armor-breaking equipment.
"Yes, not only Panson has been reworked, but the changes to other heroes are also very troublesome."
Xiye also nodded slightly and said: "The Tsar has been nerfed, the Pig Girl has been nerfed, and even Yin Zeriel has been nerfed. Among these heroes, the Tsar is better. I don't play much at first, but Pig Girl has been nerfed in two versions in a row.
The weakening will still have an impact on us, and there is also Yin Zeruil..."
"There are also airplanes. The basic attack power is weakened by 5 points, and the growth attribute is also reduced by 0.5. This weakening is already huge. If the World Championship version is not strengthened before, it basically means that the World Championship will not be seen."
Li Luo's addition made the atmosphere in the venue even more solemn.
Yin Zairiel is the hero who played the most in the Thorn Birds Summer Split.
Because this hero is so comprehensive, it would be awkward for other teams to do BP when facing the Thorn Birds. They usually choose to target heroes that they can't handle at all, and then release Yinzeril for the Thorn Birds to get.
This is an attempt to weaken Li Luo's carry ability.
After all, no matter how strong Li Luo is, he can't hit all of his skills like he unlocked his head.
Choosing Yinzeriel and then pressing down the exclusive hero Karma paired with him will greatly weaken Yinzeriel's suppression during the laning phase.
The Thorn Birds didn't care about this either. Li Luo had already prioritized the team's top, middle and jungle when formulating subsequent tactics.
The World Championship version is undoubtedly a key version for the mid and jungle core.
Now that the version results have come out, it has confirmed Li Luo's memory.
adc, further weakened.
In this version update, the CD of Yin Zeriel's E skill Arcane Leap has been increased from 19 seconds to 25 seconds.
This was no longer an ordinary knife, this knife almost cut into Yin Zairui's main artery.
I don’t know how much the fault tolerance rate has been reduced in the early and mid-term.
Yin Zerrell is no longer the darling at the World Championships, so who can become the darling?
Wheel Mom has also been greatly weakened in this version. It can be said that the two major systems of Thorn Bird have been directly abolished.
Li Luo thought about it carefully and found that there seemed to be only two mainstream AD heroes left in this World Championship.
Kaisha and Kasumi.
Then once these two things are pressed down by the opponent, he has to choose from the remaining replacement ADs. In addition, in this version, everything can appear in the bottom lane. It can be said that the ADC position has been somewhat occupied.
The situation has been cut to pieces.
In recent games, most teams facing the Thorn Birds will choose to abandon their AD attack in the first three bans and focus on killing Karma and Cat.
Now that the cat has been shaved off, all they need to do is ban Karma.
In the world competition, Pan Sen was a fixed ban on the red side, which impressed Li Luo deeply.
In other words, if the opponent is on the blue side and does not need to bear this fixed ban, a Karma, a Kai'Sa, and then grabbing a Xayah can block the Thorn Birds' bottom lane from a version perspective.
This is actually very scary.
If this were the case, there would actually be no need to attract the attention of the Thorn Birds or even other teams in the LPL.
After all, everyone is on the same starting line, and there are still about two months to face this World Championship. In theory, there is no problem in two months for the team to familiarize themselves with the general direction of the World Championship version.
One and a half months to get familiar with the version, and half a month to practice heroes with strong versions, is completely enough for professional players.
But the real problem is that the LCK is using version 9.16 in the playoffs.
But LPL uses 9.15.
The difference between 9.16 and 9.15 is just a small version.
However, the gap between the content and the direction of team training between the two is as wide as a chasm.
The two or three minor version changes after 9.16 until the World Championships, based on past experience, will basically focus on strengthening heroes, giving more heroes a chance to appear in the World Championships.
Even if a hero is weakened, he will not be killed with a single sword.
The LPL playoffs are a whole version behind the LCK playoffs.
This means that if the LPL teams that have the ability to compete in the World Championship want to qualify for the World Championship, they must practice according to the 9.15 version. However, this will create a huge separation between the 9.16 version and 9.15.
Feeling, because these two versions have completely different emphases.
If the World Championship version of the tactical system is prepared in advance, it is very likely to be eliminated early in the competition among the major teams in the LPL playoffs.
This makes people think of something the factory director once said.
I'm already looking at MSI's opponents.
The result of that time was also obvious. After studying it, I decided not to go.
You can not have it both ways.
If we really wait until we get a spot in the World Championship before we prepare the content for the World Championship version, time will be too tight.
"It must be entered through two threads."
Li Luo sighed.
After being reborn and experiencing this scene, Li Luo finally understood why IG was still the IG that relied solely on personal ability in the World Championship before his rebirth, and RNG was still the RNG that was too slow to understand the version.
Under this situation, IG, which is not good at operations, and RNG, which is relatively good at operations but has poor adaptability to the version, have a serious sense of separation from the version.
On the contrary, FPX, a hero with its unconstrained style, tactical system and hero selection that has always been different from the mainstream of the version, succeeded in winning the championship.
In addition to the personal factors of the players, the sense of fragmentation in this version is also one of the key reasons.
In theory, is this fair?
This isn't fair.
But where can anything be absolutely fair?
The Thorn Birds must face it.
LPL must also face it.
A dull sense of oppression hangs over the LPL competition area.
Most teams have begun to prepare intensively for this World Championship.
The LCK division next door is no exception.
Especially SKT.
In the second half of the summer split, Kkoma boldly activated two young players who had just been introduced to the team.
And the surprise these two young players brought him was undoubtedly huge.
This makes Kkoma’s ambitions for this world championship infinitely larger!
