The ranking strength of the European server is really not that good for everyone in the Thorn Birds.
Even the bad guy mlxg in rank can be perfectly integrated into the European server, easily getting high scores.
Therefore, the main training of the three LPL teams is still focused on daily training matches with other teams.
The Thorn Birds are quite popular, and their strength is now recognized as T0 level in the world competition. Therefore, there is an endless stream of teams who choose to take the initiative to schedule training matches with the Thorn Birds.
Even SKT issued an invitation to the Thorn Birds for a match.
When Zhu Kai found Li Luo and told him the request made by the SKT team, Li Luo agreed after thinking briefly.
SKT's goal is to strive for the top spot in the group stage.
The same goes for thorn birds.
If both teams can achieve their goals, it means that the earliest meeting between them and SKT will be in the semi-finals.
Li Luo certainly knew the purpose of SKT's challenge to them. First, he used the Thorn Birds as a tool and used the Thorn Birds' outstanding rhythm ability to hone the SKT team's early lineup that had not yet been adjusted to the extreme.
Secondly, of course, it was also to find out the truth about the Thorn Birds team.
SKT's calculations are good, but why don't the Thorn Birds want to get something from SKT?
After all, the addition of kanavi and a has indeed brought about certain changes in SKT's playing style. Li Luo is also curious about the specific capabilities of this SKT team.
Except for the training with SKT, the team that the Thorn Birds trains the most is FPX in the same division.
But every time after playing a training match with FPX, the Thorn Birds players would feel a little confused.
"This FPX... Logically speaking, it shouldn't be like that."
After Xiangguo was teased by Sofm in a match, he said with some confusion.
FPX performed very well in training matches.
Compared to their mismatched coordination in the main game, which was like mercury pouring down the ground, FPX in the training games seemed to be completely transformed.
But that's why it's a bit deformed.
"I don't quite understand it either. It stands to reason that the mentality of several people in FPX should be pretty good for the competition."
Li Luo also shook his head slightly.
Judging from Li Luo's impression of the FPX people in his memory, it is indeed inappropriate to perform like this.
This is different from the FPX before the rebirth.
After all, all members of that FPX team were making their first appearance in the World Championship, and everyone's adaptation to the World Championship was relatively slow.
But this is not the case for today's FPX. Although the 957 on the road has entered the World Championship for the first time (the S7 spot was squeezed out by IG), according to Li Luo's understanding of 957, it is unlikely that the 957 in the competition will suffer from stage fright.
The same is true for doinb. He can shine in the intercontinental competition without much mental problems.
As for the bottom lane, Hope and Li Luo also know it quite well. Even in games that FPX lost, Hope dared to fight and fight hard.
As a young player, Hope is really good.
In other words, the problem may most likely occur in Xiaoduan and sofm.
Although the relationship between the two teams from the same LPL division is not as good as that between the Thorn Birds and IG or EDG, they must always be open to the outside world before the civil war in the same division.
Broken bones and tendons.
It’s not like Li Luo didn’t think about giving FPX some inspiration through training matches.
But Li Luo played so well in the FPX training matches that Li Luo couldn't help him.
They can only rely on themselves for everything.
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The second round of the group stage has arrived as scheduled.
The intense second round was also divided into four days.
Each of the four groups ABCD will submit answers to three games within one day, and these three games plus the cumulative points from the first round will compete for a spot in the knockout round.
There is no doubt that every day of this second round is exciting and cruel.
Every day there will be teams leaving. Maybe there are teams that had a good advantage in the first round but were reversed in the second round. There are also teams that went 0/3 in the first round but made a comeback in the second round.
Too many miracles have happened in the S game.
The first day of the second round of the group stage has nothing to do with the LPL division.
Group C, the only group without an LPL team, ushered in their battle today.
As the number one seed in Europe, G2 only achieved a 2/1 record in the first round of the group stage. The 3/0 team in the same group was the third seed DWG from South Korea's LCK division.
North American Light C9 only won the first victory of the Vietnam Division GAM team.
To them, this group is the death group.
The Thorn Birds still watched the whole game on this day. On the eve of the game, the Thorn Birds went to a supermarket in Germany to do some shopping. They got a feel for the local prices and also bought a lot of snacks for entertainment while watching the game.
They did not go to the scene, but set up a large screen at the temporary base. Although watching the live broadcast here did not have the atmosphere of a scene, it was much more free.
The temperature in Germany has started to drop in October.
However, the temporary base has sufficient heating equipment, especially the ceremonial and artistic stove, which has become every player's favorite.
Eating fried chicken sausage snacks and drinking authentic imported cola...
Although Li Luo didn't feel there was much difference from domestic Coca-Cola.
Soon, the Group C competition began.
Whether it is the Thorn Birds team or the European audience watching the game, there are only four words to describe today's game.
It's a worthwhile trip.
G2 knows how to steal from others.
In the second round of the group stage, they first relied on their own strength and tactical reversal to defeat DWG, completing the revenge of the first round of the group stage, and then went on to win the other two teams with great success.
C9 is very unlucky.
The buff from North America's Light didn't work this time.
They only achieved two wins in the group stage, while Vietnam's GAM handed in a goalless draw.
In Group C, two 5/1 teams will need to compete in an extra game to decide who is the first in the group!
But when the BP of both sides in this playoff was finalized, everyone in the Thorn Birds was happy.
G2 came up with almost the same lineup system as when the Thorn Birds faced the Griffin team in the first round.
Pike, plus Jewel Knight.
But G2 shook it more thoroughly than the Thorn Birds.
They let Apna Syndra, who had transitioned to the AD position, go down the lane with gems.
caps used his small cannon to suppress DWG's mid laner showmaker.
Wunder, who was on the road, used his specialty Pike.
The top laner Pike was originally brought out by Wunder on the field first.
Now wunder can be regarded as returning to his old profession.
It is worth mentioning that G2 has such an avant-garde lineup, but the hero paired with the jungle position is the outdated pig girl.
The selection of this Pig Girl is very intriguing. Everyone knows that before the World Championship version, Pig Girl has been weakened twice in a row, and she has actually separated from the main force in this World Championship.
Jankos, the comedian on the G2 team, unconsciously focuses more on a more aggressive jungle style.
But G2's coach chose a jungler like Zhu Mei who was lagging behind.
What's the purpose?
However, when seeing the BP finalized, Li Luo couldn't help but sigh.
G2 is still G2.
Before the rebirth, even though G2 finally fell to FPX 0-3, it was undeniable that G2 dominated the whole year, and their strength was well deserved.
If the training atmosphere in Europe wasn't too relaxed, G2 might be able to improve with less work.
G2's tactical thinking is really flexible.
Pig Girl seems to be weakened, but after Pig Girl is selected, it means that DWG's sharp knife player Niu Guli on the road will suffer in this game.
The fact is just as Li Luo said.
Niuguli got this one from Jace, which he is very good at.
The matchup can easily push Pike out of the experience zone.
But when faced with the gank of Wild Boar Girl, Niuguli was really weak.
It is not easy for Cluster Blade's Pike to cooperate with Pig Girl to fully stack the passive of E skill.
Niuguli has relatively little experience in competitions, and his playing style is aggressive but occasionally a bit reckless.
This kind of recklessness led to the G2 team's top and jungle linkage.
G2 directly trained Niuguli's army to 0/6. Even so, Niuguli still performed well in the mid-term, but Wunder's Pike was released too early, which also put huge pressure on DWG's other lanes.
The stable aker and DWG's more stable bottom lane were suppressed by the ghost heroes that G2 swung out.
While they were being suppressed, Pike came over and kicked them crosswise, which was undoubtedly very fatal to them.
G2 finally successfully defeated DWG and won the first place in Group C!
After G2 in Group C gave a satisfactory answer to the European audience, EDG in Group D was not to be outdone.
Just like last year's World Championship, even without Li Luo this year, EDG relied on its sufficient stability to successfully win the other three games in Group D, a group that is not very competitive.
6/0.
EDG became the first team to qualify 6/0 in the S9 World Championship.
And their stability is quite terrifying in the eyes of countless viewers.
Domestic star players are also very happy with EDG's momentum of progress.
Lin Weixiang finally gained recognition from a large number of stars through his very stable late performance in the World Championship group stage.
In this way, at least in the competition, everyone on the EDG team has passed the test. They are not weak in the competition!
Li Luo was not surprised by the results achieved by EDG.
EDG's current configuration can be considered as half of FPX before its rebirth.
The ferocity of the younger brother coupled with the control of Meiko, the sea-fixing needle, allowed Jin Gong, Xiaotian and Lin Weixiang to perform like a duck in water.
Being able to double kill TL teams that perform well is also EDG's skill.
EDG is the first in Group D.
The second TL in the group!
AHQ and SPY were unfortunately eliminated.
The third day is the showdown between the groups of the Thorn Birds team.
The Thorn Birds still didn't choose to stay with the CG team, which was already a little scared by them in the first round.
However, this time because Piglet, the former champion AD player, deliberately avoided the confrontation between ADs and chose Bomber to act as the team's gangster, the Thorn Birds were slightly hindered in pushing the tower in the later stage.
In the end, CG managed to hold on until 26 minutes before it was flattened due to the inability to clear the Baron buff and the huge economic gap between the two sides.
JTema is no exception.
Jay Chou's team has always been tepid. Although they won two North American CG teams, their situation is obviously similar to that of North American Light C9 in Group C.
After CG handed over 0/6 of the answers to the World Championship, all three North American teams were eliminated in this World Championship.
Moreover, among the 18 games played by the three teams, they only won 4 games.
Extremely cruel.
After the G2 team was eliminated as the last team in North America, they immediately sent a congratulatory message... Oh no, comfort.
From the perspective of the G2 team, although their European third seed SPY has been eliminated, at least the qualifying situation for FNC in Group A is clear.
In this way, there is a high probability that two teams in Europe will advance to the knockout rounds.
If there is another civil war and they send away FNC, who will most likely qualify second in the group, that would be too comfortable.
However, the Thorn Birds' race for top spot continues.
The showdown with Griffin was still the finale of the day.
Griffin changed their BP method in the first round of the group stage, choosing to let Chaowei play a hero with relatively strong early offensive power, the Trickery Enchantress.
But the hero pool on Xiye's side is also quite rich, and Lissandra is perfect for counter.
Of course, Chaowei relied on his excellent laning ability to try to suppress Xiye, who was already an older e-sports player in the early stage, but Xiye in the World Championship was like taking hormones, and the buffs in the World Championship improved him
Strength perfectly bridges the gap between age and super power.
Coupled with the advantages in hero attributes, Xiye is invincible in the middle lane.
However, Griffin's other paths have been a bit painful.
The Sword King went on the road and took out his signature heroic sword demon.
However, Raven once again brought cheers to the scene thanks to Brother Holy Gun's World Championship.
For the second time, Raven's Holy Spear Brother and Xiangguo connected perfectly in the early stage and successfully penetrated the Sword Emperor, making the Sword Emperor a breakthrough point.
The hero chosen by the viper in the bottom lane this time is Kalista. He does not expect to be able to suppress Li Luo, but he just hopes that the strength of the early laning will give the auxiliary players a chance to roam the wings.
Facing the viper Kalista, Li Luo very steadily took a move that he rarely used on the field, but has always had its legendary hero on the field.
German.
It is paired with Liu Qingsong’s Thresh.
You must know that after joining the Thorn Birds, Li Luo never used the hero Delaiwen again.
The last time he used German, it was paired with Meiko's Thresh.
It is actually difficult to decide which one is stronger between Meiko's Thresh and Liu Qingsong's Thresh.
But if we talk about the compatibility between lane and German, Liu Qingsong’s Thresh is still better.
Compared with Meiko, Liu Qingsong's Thresh's play style during the laning phase will focus more on operation and agility.
Although Meiko's own suppression ability is strong, his Thresh is a relatively comprehensive one, very good in all aspects, but lacking a little spirituality.
When Niutou's second consecutive attack was predicted by Thresh three times in a row and interrupted by the Pendulum of Doom, Griffin's bottom lane was unable to line up.
Following a wave of four-for-two, Li Luo used Delaiwen's ultimate K to kill a head and explode the passive bounty, and Delaiwen took off completely.
Griffin lasted 31 minutes in this game.
Compared to the previous encounter with the thorn bird, it was a slight improvement.
The Thorn Birds perfectly won the first place in the group with a score of 6/0!
Griffin ranked second.
Six seats have been finalized in the knockout quarter-finals.
