"Let us congratulate the IG team for defeating NB 3-0! At the same time, we also hope that in the next game... they dare to fight hard and strive to reach the top."
Guan Zeyuan calmed down. He originally wanted to say "smooth sailing" and "make further progress", but when the words came to his lips, he felt that there was something wrong with saying this, so he immediately changed his words.
"It is true that IG showed great dominance in this BO5 against NB. I also hope that the NB team can regroup during the offseason and compete in the LPL again next year!"
Hao Kai next to him took the next sentence.
Backstage lounge.
The IG group and others walked toward the stage in a mighty manner.
At this time, the five members of IG had already shaken hands with several people from the NB team. Li Luo was quite lucky to have shaken hands along the way. Fortunately, the announcement was not replaced in the third NB.
"I'm not going to do the interview today. Whoever wants to go can go. I'm tired."
On the way backstage, Li Luo waved his hand angrily.
According to today's tactics, this group of people was clearly meant to carry him, but in the end, except for the second set, he was not idle at all in the other two sets!
IG did show some relatively good coordination today, but some other trivial problems still exist.
In the third set, it was because they faced NB, a team that was not very strong. A wave of mistakes in the bottom lane gave Li Luo an opportunity. If it had been a strong team, it would have been impossible to let him down in that situation.
They found a breakthrough.
The 3-0 ending was something Li Luo had expected. In Li Luo's view, he could be happy, but he must not be proud.
Before his rebirth, Li Luo had seen countless living examples, which also made Li Luo always adhere to two words in his attitude towards his career.
cautious.
"Okay, then I'll go and you go back and rest."
Prince Ning was in a very good mood at the moment and took over this task with great enthusiasm.
After everyone returned to the backstage, Li Luo watched with a smile on his face as he watched Prince Ning being taken away by the officials.
Li Luo was in a great mood to win today.
On the one hand, the team's performance is one step closer to the small goal he expected.
On the other hand... naturally I can go home soon.
Even if they don't play in the subsequent games, they can still go to the capital to play in the bubble game.
Of course, unless forced to do so, Li Luo really doesn't want to play more BO5s.
Today's match against NB was Li Luo's first BO5 in his career. Although it only took three rounds to end, Li Luo worked hard in these three rounds and felt the intensity of this playoffs.
Still need to get used to it slowly.
Suddenly, Li Luo suddenly thought of something, walked to Su Xiaoluo's side and said, "By the way, Brother Su, does our club have any extra on-site tickets?"
"Tickets on site?"
Su Xiaoluo was stunned at first, and then nodded after remembering Li Luo's home after the BJ: "This is not difficult to get, how many do you want? I'll bring it to you when we set off later."
"Just two. Thank you, Brother Su."
"You're welcome. I'll tell Aning later and let him take care of it."
With the ticket matter settled, Li Luo felt a little relieved.
IG's semi-finals will be the day after tomorrow.
In other words, IG still has one day to train tomorrow and sort out tactics for the semifinals.
RNG is the first place in the regular season. In the eyes of Mafa and Li Luo, their bones are even harder than EDG who sprinted to second place in the second half.
This is bound to be a tough battle for them.
Su Xiaoluo obviously also knew the importance of this game. For the first time, he did not propose to celebrate after the game, but asked Aning to order takeout and beer.
Of course, the beer belongs to him and Aning.
…
That night.
As the current team commander, Li Luo discussed BP with Mafa until very late.
After today's three games, will RNG seriously consider banning his fortune teller?
Li Luo is not 100% sure about this, but he is at least 70% certain.
"Tomorrow RNG will have priority to choose the side. According to their team's preferred tactical play, they will definitely choose the blue side."
Mafa looked serious, while the translator yawned beside him.
Recently, the translator felt that he should ask Su Xiaoluo whether he could get a salary increase.
Everyone has an eight-hour working day.
But recently, the coach of the IG team and this newcomer who has enough say in the game have been acting like crazy. As long as one of these two people has a little more novel ideas in their mind, they will definitely drag him over.
Although this is his job...but compared to before, the workload has increased dramatically recently.
"The question we have to consider now is what should we ban on the purple side. Kalista and Policewoman are both heroes that the RNG team is very good at. They are really strong in this version."
Mafa has been thinking about this issue since before playing NB.
With Xiangguo here, RNG is a team that plays in the middle and jungle. When Xiangguo is there, Xiaohu's ability can be maximized. In this situation, the laning strength of the bottom lane is particularly important.
In the previous version, Li Luo was able to establish an advantage in the bottom lane with a wave of extreme operations, but this version is different from the previous version.
It can be seen from the three NB duels that as long as the opponent has no intention of interfering with Li Luo's development, it will be difficult for Li Luo to suppress his opponent in turn. The hero's characteristics are there, plus the curtain blade
After the weakening, Destiny Master can no longer intimidate the opponent much when he has the first completed piece of equipment.
Kalista and Policewoman, these two heroes dominate the bottom lane.
Small cannons, ice, and Verus are the next best.
Mafa is not worried about Li Luo's hero pool.
In this BO5 game against NB, their tactical concealment was extremely perfect. Both heroes, Kalista and Policewoman Li Luo, could be used.
Li Luo, like Ice Verus, is even more familiar with the road.
Li Luo has said that he can play heroes like Little Pao and Big Mouth. Based on Mafa's understanding of Li Luo, since Li Luo has said it, there is probably no need to worry.
The real question against RNG is how much they can reveal.
Since IG began to rise in the second half of the regular season, it has now become the subject of research by many teams.
As the saying goes, the first bird is shot.
At the beginning of the summer split, there were only four strong teams competing for the three world championship spots as if they recognized each other.
These four teams are the runner-up in the Spring Split, RNG, the new generation of all-China class, EDG, a regular player who has never missed the World Championship since the team was founded, WE, a 2.0 rising star who won the Spring Split, and OMG, which performed well after introducing old thieves in the Spring Split.
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Judging from the performance in the Spring Split, IG is naturally not included in this category.
But now they happened to appear in that ranks.
How can people not worry about this?
Not to mention RNG, I'm afraid EDG also started studying them at the end of the regular season.
Although real gold is not afraid of fire, but with so many teams staring at it eagerly, IG, which has been gaining momentum recently, really feels like it is walking on thin ice.
Li Luo pondered for a moment and suddenly said: "Coach, do you think they will ban one of the two heroes and choose to grab the other when they are on the blue side?"
"This...should not be possible."
Mafa shook his head slightly: "They don't know you know Kalista, so they probably won't ban you. If you are a fortune teller, you might ban it."
"What if they're on the purple side?"
"Then even less so."
Mafa was a little confused, he didn't understand why Li Luo said this.
"That'll be easy."
Li Luo smiled, then our BP for the first game can do this...
…
People don't get bored when they have something to do.
Don't get bored and time will pass quickly.
The IG team made an appointment with a team from outside the competition area on the second day and practiced for a full afternoon in a training match.
When the last training match ended, Li Luo already had a clearer idea of how to deal with RNG tomorrow.
Originally, Li Luo was a little worried about the status of the players, but King Ning was extremely serious during the training match today.
He knows who he will face tomorrow.
Spicy hotpot.
Although Prince Ning didn't think he was any worse than the incense pot, the pride in his heart supported him from feeling any fear when facing the incense pot.
But Prince Ning also knew something.
It stands to reason that a player like Xiangguo, who has a distinctive style but fluctuates in form, should be less stable than himself.
However, in the public eye, the audience does not think so.
At least in the current season, more than 90% of people think that Xiangguo is stronger.
The former King Ning didn't understand why.
In the past two months since Li Luo came to the club, King Ning had a vague understanding.
Tomorrow, he will challenge Mala Xiangguo again in this season.
He wants to win once.
A deep intuition told him that if he won this duel, his strength might change qualitatively.
This is something that sounds very mysterious.
But many examples in history show that a game can sometimes determine many things.
For example, when the high-spirited Yue Lun met Faker...
…
Game day.
Li Luo got up from the bed in a daze, turned on the phone screen and took a look, and found a text message.
"Come on, son! Fight RNG, daddy is watching you from a distance."
The corner of Li Luo's mouth twitched, and he replied dully "Okay" and got up to wash up.
Recently, it seems to have become the norm for all members of IG to arrive before the start time of training.
After playing two simple games of ranking to warm up, the group of people set off for today's competition venue.
"By the way, it's not Guan Zeyuan who's explaining it to us today, right?"
In the car, Li Luo suddenly asked.
"It seems not, today it's Wawa and Miller."
Prince Ning thought for a while and said.
"That's good."
Li Luo breathed a sigh of relief.
When reviewing the video, Li Luo listened out of curiosity to hear how this person analyzed it.
It didn't matter if he didn't listen. Once he heard it, he was a good guy.
Gu Ni
Li Luo even wondered whether the god in the S7 season before his rebirth was not as popular and well-known yet, so no one took his words seriously.
The most terrifying thing is that Li Luo himself didn't think there was anything wrong with what Guan Zeyuan said, and according to his analysis, it was indeed the case.
It’s a bit difficult to encounter a resistance switching mistake like the NB team’s bottom lane mistake again.
Li Luo felt relieved and began to close his eyes and rest his mind.
The same goes for other members of IG.
The car was very quiet along the way, and you could vaguely hear even breathing and some irregular snoring.
After a while, everyone arrived at the venue. Li Luo stretched out and walked out of the air-conditioned car, which was filled with a small cool breeze. The heat wave outside the window hit Li Luo, which made Li Luo's breathing slightly stagnant.
"This damn weather, it's going to rain again, it's very wet."
King Ning tugged on his team uniform behind him: "Can't our IG team uniform be made pure white? It has to be completely black, it's really terrible."
"After I win the RNG, I will give it directly to the principal... No, I will make the arrangements myself, okay?"
Su Xiaoluo didn't know where he got a pretty fan, flashing it and grinning.
"Isn't that necessary? I'm telling you, my buddy is in great shape today."
"Go in first."
Li Luo ignored Prince Ning's bragging. It was the last time this guy said this.
The preparation time for the semifinals was obviously much longer than previous playoff games.
IG waited boredly in the background for about an hour before receiving a reminder from the referee to come on stage.
It was more than twenty minutes later than the normal start time.
"Play steadily today and be prepared for a protracted war. There is no rush to get rid of this bone."
Mafa said to everyone with a serious face.
"learn."
Everyone in IG nodded in agreement. Before going on stage, everyone gathered together for a skilled group cheering ceremony, and then the five of them stepped onto the battle table.
At the pass leading to the stage, the eyes of everyone from IG and RNG met.
There was no laughing and joking between them, they were full of fighting spirit.
…
"Welcome to the semi-finals of the 2017 League of Legends LPL Summer Split! Hello everyone, I am Wawa."
"Hello everyone, I'm Miller!"
In the commentary box, Wawa and Miller, who are old partners, looked at each other and smiled and started today's work.
"To be honest, I have been looking forward to today's game for a long time."
Wawa said straight to the point.
"I'm about the same. Both teams started to work hard in the second half of the summer split, but the IG team started working a little later and played an extra BO5."
After Miller finished speaking, he looked at the baby preemptively: "If you don't tell secret words, how do you think this game will go?"
"Well... I think it's fifty-five."
The doll looked like I knew you, an old fox, were going to trap me, and started kicking the ball.
"Fifty-five? Do you think IG can tie RNG with their recent performance?"
Miller asked thoughtfully.
"Yes, to be honest, I always felt that something was missing from the previous IG. Ever since Shine, a new player, joined IG, I suddenly felt that this IG had a complete internal flavor."
After hearing what the baby said, Miller chuckled: "Actually, I feel the same way."
The two people chatted and talked on the stage, and when the topic got close to sensitive levels, they would automatically change, leaving the audience listening with gusto, but nothing happened.
In this atmosphere, the preparations before the game passed quickly.
After receiving the notice from the director, Miller cheered up: "The players on both sides are ready. The first BP of the semi-finals has officially begun. Blue side RNG! Red side IG!"
The camera switched, the music started, and the fans at the scene became slightly tense.
"The RNG on the blue side directly clicked the fortune teller on the first floor... Good guy, you didn't hesitate at all?"
Banning the person for the first time caused a burst of exclamations from the crowd.
"6666, a newcomer can actually ban a hero."
"I can only say that it's awesome. The key is that this ban position was given by RNG."
"The Jinchūriki, the dramatist, is gone. I don't believe how he can show off anymore!"
"IG, charge me! Shine will win today!"
"Stop talking nonsense, if he can beat Uzi today, I will stand on my head on the toilet!"
"That's right, newcomers still have a long way to go. Let's wait until the World Championship first."
As the barrage scrolled, most of them were still optimistic about Uzi's news. Only a few fans from Shine were quickly submerged in the barrage.
"Sure enough, the fortune teller still respected him. As expected, RNG's other two ban positions were given to Syndra and... Jace? It seems that they don't plan to target The shy's Camille.
"
In the commentary box, Miller was a little surprised.
"The red team's IG has given three ban positions to Spider Queen, Camille and Bull Head respectively. Well, it seems that IG is well prepared. If they know that if Camille is not banned, RNG may directly grab it on the first floor.
,letme has selected Camille quite a few times this season.”
While the baby was talking, the RNG team on the first floor directly selected the female police officer.
On the battle table.
"Do you think their AD will release Kalista?"
After letme helped Uzi finalize the female police officer, she looked at the first and second floors that IG had not selected yet, her eyes sparkling.
"I don't know. If they don't take this, it means that the newcomer really doesn't know how to play this hero. Then our BP on the purple side will be much easier."
Xiangguo thought for a while and said.
"Yeah, so their casting for this first game is very crucial."
Brother Feng, who was standing behind him, had a serious look on his face and was slightly worried at the same time.
The role of the fortune teller in the tactics implemented by IG during this period is too important.
As long as it can't be suppressed, this thing is very effective in the mid-term.
IG's top, middle and jungle strength is there. Even if they can take some advantage in the upper, middle and jungle with their tactical planning, IG is still strong in the mid-term.
The shy is okay, letme can handle it, and can even operate it when the condition is good.
Rookie is really too fierce.
The restriction of BP made it impossible for them to ban two goals and one girl, so they could only let Xiaohu carry it.
Under the expectant eyes of everyone in RNG, the first and second floors of IG locked down.
Ice, Luo.
Both heroes have good team-starting abilities.
However, after seeing this scene, the big stone in Brother Feng's heart suddenly fell to the ground.
That's great, he doesn't know how to play.
"Then it will be much easier for us next. Just take the big bug, right? Shi Senming, what are you playing, Thresh?"
"Get me the Titan."
After hearing Xiaohu's words, Shi Senming thought carefully and made a decision.
The two heroes, Titan and Big Insect, were locked directly!
After it was IG’s team’s third turn to choose, IG decided on Olaf for King Ning.
"Is Olaf here?"
Xiangguo looked at the hero interface and frowned.
Strictly speaking, Olaf is not a very popular jungle hero in the version.
But for those who know how to play, this hero is a great weapon against some versions of popular heroes.
"I think wine barrels, wine barrels would be better."
As Xiang Guo was talking, he saw that the IG team, which had entered the second round of bans, immediately banned the wine barrel.
"I'm just treating him like a monkey..."
The incense pot is speechless.
For a lineup like IG that starts the team forcefully and enters the field forcefully, Wine Barrel is undoubtedly the best candidate to restrain the opponent.
Even if one of your own is attacked, one big move can resolve most of the crisis.
It's better now, it's gone.
"Press down Enchantress. Their lineup will be very strong with Enchantress's single-point burst."
Brother Feng said.
They directly clicked off Rookie's Enchantress and Clockwork.
The other hero of IG on the other side is the prince who killed the incense pot.
Then on the fourth floor, he picked up Gnar for top laner The shy, who was relatively easy to kill big bugs.
"I'm so sad about this."
The somewhat helpless Xiangguo thought for a while and said: "Let's think about centaurs. We can only play centaurs. There is nothing else to play with. Or trolls or trolls will do."
"Hello troll."
Brother Feng made a decision for the incense pot.
Only the last remaining tiger is left.
Xiaohu thought about it for a long time. He actually wanted to play with airplanes, but Xiaohu also knew that it would be bad for his team to use airplanes.
They all need to be developed, and they are all heroes that can only be used in the late stages. This is too slow.
"For the Rock Bird, I think the Rock Bird will be much better, and it can seal Olaf's position, but I think Rookie may take Lucian after I choose the Rock Bird."
"It doesn't matter. Let him take Lucian. I'll just come and get him and that's it. If I catch him twice, he'll be scrapped."
Xiangguo said expressionlessly.
"Okay, OK, then rock bird."
RNG's fifth floor is locked.
The fifth floor of IG locked Lucian almost instantly, which was exactly the same as RNG's prediction.
Li Luo looked at his lineup and slowly let out a breath.
They can't delay this game very late.
If it can end quickly in the mid-to-early stage, it means that this tactic is feasible.
