In the audience, looking at the many foreigners nearby who looked disappointed, Xiangguo looked a little serious.
"To be precise, the G2 team is in terrible shape."
Brother Holy Spear shook his head slightly.
Although Li Luo on the side did not speak, he quite agreed with Brother Shengqiang's words in his heart.
The G2 team is indeed in poor shape.
Before the game started, although Li Luo felt that SKT had a greater chance of winning, the score in Li Luo's heart was 3 to 2, or 3 to 1.
Because before the rebirth, the G2 team defeated SKT twice in the Intercontinental Championship and the World Championship, and even made Faker famously shake his hands.
Both emotionally and rationally, they should not be beaten 3-0.
But the reality is so cruel.
If we analyze it objectively from the perspective of hindsight, the fact that G2 lost to SKT so simply has an inseparable relationship with the bottom lane.
Bang is a participant in two of SKT's three world championship trophies. Even though Bang's status may have declined with age, the adc position is relatively stable compared to other positions.
At least 50% of the stronger adcs can ensure that their competitive status will not drop off a cliff for a long time, while 10% or 20% of the adcs can almost turn into evergreen trees and endure for a long time.
Looking at other positions, the strongest faker at his peak will also experience various fluctuations depending on the version.
Even if the adc position is revised, most adcs will not get rid of the cornerstone concept of "relying on flat A as the main output method".
Moreover, the style of Korean ADC also greatly guarantees the continuation of players’ career life.
Before the rebirth, SKT's bottom lane duo in the S9 season was Teddy and Mata.
It's not that the two of them are not strong.
Teddy was once a big figure in the aircraft fleet, and it would be no exaggeration to say that he single-handedly dragged the aircraft fleet forward.
Although after coming to SKT, there was a famous scene where Senna did not dare to point out anyone at level 300, but it is undeniable that Teddy's performance in SKT for a period of time was quite outstanding.
But compared to Bang, who seems to be able to give people enough peace of mind at all times, Teddy's strength has fluctuated after all.
Not to mention mata, mata’s commanding ability and some small designs in the game are outstanding.
But he also has fatal instability.
Putting aside the possibility of a fake match, can a normal support pick Zyra the Windspeaker in the World Championship?
His instability also greatly caused SKT's fluctuations at the time.
Especially in a disadvantageous game, Mata's brain seems to be occupied by Malphite. Even if he also has a world championship, compared with Wolf, after all, Wolf is more reassuring.
What SKT lacked in S9 was this kind of stability.
The upper jungler is offensive enough, and the faker in the middle can provide a "patch" effect for the team. He can play whatever the team needs.
So what the bottom lane lacks is a big core that is stable enough to stand out in the later stages.
After AP transitioned to the bottom lane, he was not very aggressive.
Bang likes laning AD so much.
As long as both sides can develop, Bang's ideas when switching lanes in the mid-term and his positioning ideas for team fights in the later stages will completely overwhelm Ah P.
G2 is also the kind of team that builds and executes tactics around the top, middle and jungle.
The top, mid and jungle can't open up the situation, and the bottom lane is not good in the late game. From this perspective, it seems reasonable that they lost to SKT.
It's just that they didn't force SKT to make substitutions...
Li Luo shook his head slightly.
The soldiers came to stop him.
The water comes and the earth covers it.
Although he didn't have a thorough understanding of this SKT team, the power of Thorn Birds was the confidence in Li Luo's heart at this time.
They are united enough and have enough tactical reserves.
In the finals, show off your real moves!
…
Everyone in the Thorn Birds did not leave the field after the game.
Instead, I waited for the post-game interview session.
The English stream interviewed Faker and Bang of the SKT team.
SKT’s double C’s appeared together.
The Korean mixed with English translation made the other people in Thorn Birds feel like they were listening to a book from heaven and could not understand what they were saying at all.
"Brother Luo, hurry up, translate, translate."
Xiangguo pulled Li Luo a little.
Li Luo, who was fascinated by what he heard, smiled and said, "It's nothing, I'm just saying harsh words."
"Stop being so pretentious, Brother Luo...you don't understand when you bully us, do you?"
Liu Qingsong was a little speechless.
Li Luo glanced at the bang on the field.
The host did ask just now about whether he would play against Li Luo again in the finals.
Bang's answer was a bit evasive, like he was playing football, but there was a slight resentment in it that Li Luo could really hear.
"He felt it was a pity that he didn't meet me when he was at his peak."
Li Luo said with a smile.
Everyone was a little surprised.
Brother Shengqiang's mind turned quickly and he immediately said: "Doesn't this mean that he felt that he was not at his peak when he met you? Tsk, tsk, I thought that when he met Brother Luo when he was at his peak, he was also abused."
Before he finished speaking, Brother Shengqian saw Li Luo shaking his head: "No, I haven't reached the peak yet."
The interview had just ended at this time.
After saying this, Li Luo stood up and stretched: "Let's go back to training."
Li Luodang walked forward first, leaving behind a group of petrified teammates.
Xiangguo Ka looked at Li Luo's back and was dumbfounded: "Oh my God, he's so good at pretending."
"Brother Luo is Brother Luo after all. With Brother Luo's peak pretentiousness, even I have to stay away from the edge for a while."
Liu Qingsong sighed with emotion.
"If you avoid me, I will avoid you."
Brother Shengqiang nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
"Me too."
Everyone in Thorn Bird left the scene one after another.
On the way out of the venue, fans will inevitably stop them to sign autographs.
After staying at the venue for about an hour, the Thorn Birds players just got on the bus back to the base.
The semi-finals are over, and apart from training before the finals, both teams face many things.
First up is the final promo and trash talk.
Thorn Birds players don’t need to worry too much about this.
After all, their initial goal is to win the championship, and the LPL division has won the final championship trophy for two consecutive S games. Under this situation, the LPL division is in the position of "accepting the challenge."
The former league hegemon, LCK, is now in the position of challenger.
What kind of trash talk should be used to disrupt the mentality of the Thorn Birds players? This is a question that the LCK needs to figure out.
In addition, there is mutual momentum building between the media on both sides.
Korean media has always been very brave in this regard.
The Thorn Birds don't bother to do this. In e-sports, strength is the most important thing. They can say whatever they say harshly and build momentum without affecting the mentality of the players. As long as they win in the end, they will shout more joyfully before the game.
The more pain you get after being slapped in the face.
However, domestic media are not to be outdone in the face of the impact of Korean media.
The Korean media specially made a promotional video of their own, which hyped up what the players went through for this revenge, such as only having four or five hours of rest a day.
However, what domestic netizens said made Korean netizens speechless.
It’s about hard work, right?
I don’t know how many years ago, my factory director could play forty ranks in one day!
Of course, Korean netizens actually believe this kind of ridicule that has been circulated among netizens for a long time.
After all, no matter what industry they are in, Chinese people are famous for their diligence all over the world.
What makes Korean netizens even more angry is that the major forums in the LPL region actually opened voting.
Vote with what score you think the Thorn Birds can take them away.
Among them, the number of voters who voted for the 3-0 score accounted for 66.77%.
The score ratio of 3 to 1 is 22.35.
Others, including the score options that SKT can win, accounted for just over 10% of the total.
This really made Korean netizens very angry.
In their view, if they can avenge G2, SKT will no longer be the same SKT they were before.
5o win, don’t you LPL understand this eternal truth in the S game?
Just when the atmosphere among netizens on both sides was anxious, the official promotional video for the S-Games finals also came out.
The audience has seen many promotional videos.
Most viewers are not very fond of this kind of promotional video, especially when the contestants from both sides make harsh remarks, they always feel that the second-tier promo is full of atmosphere and a bit awkward.
And this time is no exception.
Each of the SKT players talked a lot about defending SKT's glory, rebuilding LCK's glory, and so on.
Not to mention LPL viewers, even LCK viewers would subconsciously dig their feet into the ground after hearing such harsh words.
I have said similar cruel words countless times in the past two and a half years.
But what's the result?
As long as they can complete even one revenge, they will not feel that this statement sounds like nonsense.
But what the players of the Thorn Birds team said won the trust and praise of the audience.
In this finals, the Thorn Birds highlighted the fact that "people are ruthless and don't talk much."
Brother Shengqiang said cheerfully to the camera: "I was ready to fight you during MSI, but you ran away. Fortunately, you can run away but the monk can't run away from the temple."
This kind of unintelligible words is very familiar to LPL fans.
"Gunbao, you're so crazy!"
"Just rush and let them know who said that our domestic top laner is unmanned?"
"It's okay, Xuan Jun'er. The person opposite you is a runner-up professional, and he will give it to you in the competition."
Xiangguo just smiled when faced with clid's long speech: "You didn't beat me in the LPL, and it will be the same when you go back to the LCK."
This is just the Ueno duo.
Xiye is the most troublesome.
When he said in a serious tone, "I think I was born to play the LCK mid laner," many domestic netizens looked weird.
When it comes to domestic mid laners, several faces can come to mind.
There is Xiaohu who has become a veteran.
There is the current toothpaste from JD Team.
There is also the top rising star mid laner Knight.
Or it could be Wei Shen, who was once a flash in the pan, and Wu State, who was the first to appear in the World Championship and complete the solo kill of Faker.
Of course, there is also the man who can make people stand up.
But when it comes to playing Korean mid laners, many of them will be passed.
Xiye, among many domestic mid-lane players, if we talk about his domestic performance, Xiye is really not very outstanding.
But if we talk about playing mid laner in LCK, especially playing faker...
I won't be sleepy that night.
Assistant Liu Qingsong, as a standard sharp-tongued player, only said coldly in the promotional video of the finals: "The thing you should thank most is that the designer added a layer of skin to the defense tower, otherwise the two towers would be in line in ten minutes.
It should be ugly."
The last mother who appears in the finale is undoubtedly Li Luo.
Li Luo's painting style is different from other players.
Facing the camera, Li Luo was very serious and concise.
"The third world champion, here I come."
The Riot Games logo appeared, the screen shattered, and the promotional video ended here.
Inside SKT’s temporary base.
The players are training in full swing.
They have no shortage of training games.
Because from the moment SKT advanced to the finals, all the powerful teams in the LCK division canceled their vacations.
SKT has deep pockets.
Griffin and DWG, who had not yet returned to China, were directly paid by them to stay. The cost of the training venue was all provided by SKT. Together with two or three domestic teams, SKT assembled six sparring armies.
It can be said that except for the two or three teams at the bottom, everyone else is here.
For the glory of LCK.
This time the entire division is working hard!
In contrast, in addition to the EDG team that is a friendly sparring team, the Thorn Birds only has the IG team that volunteered.
With the help of these two brother teams of the Thorn Birds, the Thorn Birds have no shortage of training games to play.
In such a tense atmosphere, the finals kicked off.
The game scene.
Crowds of people.
There are many foreigners here today, but there are also quite a few Chinese.
Many people even came to the scene specifically for this final.
In the eyes of most people, this behavior is "foolish and rich", but it has extraordinary significance to these viewers.
They all know clearly that this may be the closest the All-China Class has come to reaching the top of the S Championship since the S3 World Championship.
There were also many Korean audiences.
Netizens also started discussing when they saw all the Asian faces in the blockbuster.
"If you don't understand, just ask, how can we differentiate between us and Koreans?"
Some netizens asked.
And the reply below is also very fast.
"It's very simple. If you throw a bunch of kimchi to a dog on the street, the Koreans will be the ones grabbing it with the dog, and we will be the ones standing by and laughing."
"Damn it, invincible."
"66666, although it feels like it's a little too much, I can't find any reason to refute it for a while."
…
This type of pre-dinner dessert appears endlessly on forums.
Finally, the LPL commentator appeared in front of the camera.
There is no doubt that the three cast members today are the three heavyweights in the LPL region.
In addition to Wawa and Miller, Colonel Guan Zeyuan is naturally indispensable.
"Hello, viewers, welcome to the League of Legends 2019 Global Finals. Today we will usher in the finals! The Thorn Birds and SKT teams are dedicated to us!"
In the commentary box, as the baby's words fell, Miller followed up and said: "I believe everyone has seen the trash talk session before the game. To be fair... the players of the Thorn Birds still seem to have a very stable mentality.
This makes us feel more reassured.”
Guan Zeyuan also nodded.
"Yes, in a final like this, the quality of your performance has a lot to do with your mentality. The Thorn Birds have more veterans. They have experienced MSI and intercontinental competition. The younger Liu Qingsong and Holy Gun Brother
They all have experience in competitions, I believe, they..."
Before Guan Zeyuan could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Wawa: "Yes, we don't have to worry about the mentality. What I'm really worried about is the tactical reserves. Although the Thorn Birds have a lot of tactical reserves, after all, there is only one substitute player, Mole.
SKT has a lot of room for adjustment in this regard."
Miller followed up and said: "Anyway, just let us believe in the Thorn Birds. The BP here will start immediately. SKT got the priority to choose the side. They chose the blue side in the first game!
