With GENG unexpectedly dragging AFS down, the final playoff schedule was officially determined.
In the first round, KT will play against a sandbox team, and the winner will play against SKT in the next round.
[I made a mistake earlier. The one that was renamed DRX was KZ, so the one competing with AFS for the last position was KT. GENG raised KT and killed AFS directly.]
The winner of KT and the sandbox team will play against SKT.
Keep going up the rankings like this until you face the unquestionable number one in the final regular season, UR!
Xu Ruoguang doesn't have much time to watch games. Watching BO5 in the playoffs is a waste of training time.
In the chilling canyon, the opponent has already gathered at Dalong.
This is the training match between UR and SKT.
SKT's operating system is still excellent. When Xu Ruoguang usually stops playing in training matches, they can usually gain some advantages in the mid-term.
Xu Ruoguang held back the attack, not because of any hidden moves.
That's what KKoma should do.
The reason why he held back the beating was because KKoma told him.
"If you kill dozens or twenty people in every training match, it won't have much training effect on other players."
Every time I hit the road and kill directly, where does the training effect come from for my teammates?
Xu Ruoguang also agreed with this idea, so he played very relaxedly in the training matches. Even if he saw the opportunity for a solo kill, he still chose to last stably.
The effect is very good.
When Xu Ruoguang didn't exert his strength, the problem of UR appeared.
Currently, the starting bot lane group of UR in training matches is deft and meiko, and viper is more of a rotation choice.
It’s not that deft is stronger, but because of the special circumstances of deft.
Because deft is also an older player, if he cannot maintain high-intensity training, his condition and strength will fade faster and faster.
This is an irreversible process.
If you want to desperately seize the tail of time, you have to train hard.
If you relax for one day, you may never be able to keep up with others.
No one really thinks that the status of professional players is the same every season, right?
Not to mention every season, the state is different every day.
This is one of the reasons why some strong teams sometimes overturn.
And deft, as an older player, his condition is not fluctuating.
Others rise, stay, and fall.
Three status cycles.
And what about deft?
Only keep and fall.
There may be short-term explosions sometimes, but the reason why the explosions are explosions is because the probability is too low.
Xu Ruoguang still chose the newly revised version of Angel.
This is a relatively rare training match, because I have been playing this game for forty minutes now.
SKT gained enough advantages in the bottom lane.
The first team was mentioned recently. Gumayusi, who once shined in the Freshman Challenge, has been reused by SKT.
He has appeared in more and more training matches, and has almost squeezed out teddy's share of training matches.
Although it is only a training match, it can already be seen that SKT has gradually discovered his talent and will definitely reuse it in due course.
Facing the young and energetic Gumayusi, although deft was not directly knocked off the line, it was clearly visible to the naked eye that it was somewhat powerless.
This year has been his worst season.
Even though I got good training at UR, I'm still... a little overwhelmed.
In the Dragon Pit Team, Xu Ruoguang's entry position was very good. When he caught the opponent's jungler rushing Baron, he decisively flashed into the field. QAEA almost slapped Gumayusi's Jinx to death.
He also forced Tam's W to swallow people,
Seeing a wave of UR harvesting team battles, deft made a mistake in its position.
Khan caught him directly, using a move called Ten Thousand Thunder Heavenly Prison and Gumayusi who came out of Tam's belly to instantly drop the deft.
It was too late for Xu Ruoguang to give up, and deft was still far away from his position.
Jinx, activated!
Even though Xu Ruoguang's angel development is still abnormal, it is still somewhat powerless to face the continuous control of the opponent's midfielder.
In the end, the team battle ended in three for five.
SKT took advantage of the situation and won the Baron.
Because the time has reached forty minutes, the hero's resurrection time is already very long, enough for SKT to end the game in one wave.
So UR also took advantage of the situation and played GG.
The moment the game ended, deft punched the computer table hard, biting his lip and looking unwillingly.
Xu Xiu shook his head and said with a smile.
"It's just a training match, calm down."
Canyon nodded slightly,
"I will help you more, don't blame yourself too much."
Deft still looks ugly.
He is not angry with others, he is angry with himself.
"My mistake was too big."
Even though I know in my heart how to operate, my concentration is not as concentrated as before, and I sometimes even ignore my own position.
I clearly know how to fight, and I have already thought about how to fight.
But I just can't get that kind of effect.
Deft hates this feeling.
"It's okay, deft."
Tian Ye looked at him worriedly.
"I'm fine."
Deft took a breath and stood up.
"Coach, can I take a short break?"
"Well, it's okay. I just need to tell my opponent, SKT."
kkoma nodded.
Deft said thank you, turned around, opened the door, and disappeared from the gaze of his teammates.
"Brother deft is really angry. I can see how he wants to operate, but the operation is wrong. If I were him, I would also be angry with myself."
Viper sighed.
He also plays AD, so he naturally understands why deft is so uncomfortable.
"His condition is getting worse. Viper, you need to train more recently. We need more rotations just in case."
kkoma said softly.
As a coach, his sensibility makes him want to save Deft's state as much as possible, but his rationality tells him that this is almost impossible, and it is more realistic to hope for viper.
Viper shook his head,
"Coach, give him a little more chance. I'm not in a hurry."
He is really not in a hurry.
We are still in the period of career advancement for VIPer. It is not that he has completely stopped playing in training games, at most he has played a little less.
Training matches are not that important to VIPers.
He knows very well that if UR buys him, it is impossible for him to always play in the rotation and one day he will become the starter.
Besides, it's only the spring season now.
What is he so anxious about?
On the contrary, because they are both ADCs, Viper has a kind of sympathy in his heart for deft, a senior with whom he gets along very well.
He knew deft didn't need his sympathy, so he never said it.
"It's useless to persuade him."
Xu Xiu frowned.
"Deft, very stubborn."
It’s been a regular season, and as our relationship gradually gets better, we can see what kind of character our teammates are like.
"Not necessarily, I have a plan."
Canyon suddenly said.
"Um?"
Xu Xiu looked at him in surprise,
"Elaborate."
"You won't let Brother Guang take action, right?"
There are already speculations in the field.
Canyon nodded slightly?
"Brother Guang has very strong persuasion skills. I think Brother Guang should be able to untie his knot."
So everyone turned their attention to Xu Ruoguang next to them.
Xu Ruoguang, who was drinking Wangzai milk:...
"No, I'm not a master of hypnosis. It may not be useful if I tell him."
Xu Ruoguang spread his hands and said helplessly.
"No, if Brother Guang, it's definitely possible."
Canyon said seriously.
"Yes, if you can't do it, no one can."
Xu Xiu also nodded.
Even KKoma nodded in agreement.
Xu Ruoguang:......
"Okay, I'll give it a try. Don't have high expectations."
He sighed and walked out of the training room.
On the rooftop, deft leaned on the railing, his eyes lost focus, and stared blankly at the distant clouds.
A breeze blew, the early summer wind was cool yet gentle, making deft's heart calm down a little.
He silently raised his hand and placed it in front of himself.
One second, two seconds, three seconds.
When the time comes to eight seconds,
His hands began to tremble slightly.
Seeing this scene, deft had a self-deprecating smile on his face.
Is it no longer possible to maintain even the basic stability?
I... am really a... useless person.
For professional players, especially top professional players, hand stability is very important.
Because professional players’ operations are very intensive, and they must try their best to ensure that there are no invalid operations.
Correspondingly, your hands must be steady, a scary kind of steady!
Because if your hands are not steady, errors will occur during operation.
No coach can help you with this kind of operational error, there is no possibility.
Therefore, many youth trainings have a special link during trial training.
Let the contestants in the trial take a pen, hold the pen straight, and keep it still. The longer you persist, the better your results will be.
Once your hands shake, brush them off immediately.
[This is real LDL youth training content. Some clubs do use this method to test the stability of players’ hands, and the corresponding front part can also be found in some documentaries about professional players.]
Deft's heart fell further and further to the bottom.
One of the most annoying words used by deft was "talent".
Because after the failure of S4, he has been compared with imp by others.
They say imp has talent, but he doesn't.
Otherwise, why would Samsung White be three to zero Samsung Blue?
It’s because your deft talent is so poor!
At least it's nothing compared to imp.
It’s funny to say that before deft won the championship, deft would get anxious when they heard that he was not as talented as imp.
After Imp won the championship in Deft, during the live broadcast, if someone said, "This wave of Dai Putt is here to kill everyone" and "Why is the anchor playing in the Korean server and Dai Putt is playing professional?", they would also get anxious.
However, there is one thing to say, imp unilaterally declared:
The relationship between the two is actually quite good, at least they have always been gaming friends.
"Is it possible that my talent is really bad?"
Deft said to himself in a low voice with unwillingness.
The next moment, a hand roughly rubbed his hair, and a clear voice sounded behind him.
"I knew you were here, deft."
"ah……"
Deft heard who the person was and couldn't help but say something.
"Emporer, no one told you that you should be more respectful to your seniors? Don't just touch other people's heads just because you are tall!"
Looking at deft who seemed a little angry, Xu Ruoguang smiled indifferently.
"Wo, stop and understand!"
"I'm Chinese, you know?"
"Axi, you can obviously speak Korean!"
Deft complained.
"hey-hey."
Xu Ruoguang smiled, walked to his side, and also leaned on the railing.
"What's going on? Are you upset?"
"Then can you not be irritated? I am so good at cooking now that I can't stand it anymore."
Deft sighed.
Being roughly rubbed on the head by Xu Ruoguang interrupted his thoughts and made him less negative than before.
"Cheat? Isn't that normal? You have been a player since your debut, and now you are in S9. Lee Sang Hyuk called me some time ago and said that he has become more and more good. You must also change."
Xu Ruoguang said as he should.
"Ah? Does Faker also have such troubles?"
Deft was really surprised.
In the eyes of most professional players, Xu Ruoguang symbolizes invincibility, and Lee Sang Hyuk symbolizes perseverance.
"He wanted to save face and suffer the consequences. He kept it to himself and didn't say anything. His teammates didn't even know, so he just told me."
Xu Ruoguang curled his lips.
"Like this……"
Deft mused.
"Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention to you, imp is playing very well in JDG now and has a chance to enter the World Championship this year."
Xu Ruoguang seemed to suddenly remember something and said casually.
Deft was stunned and murmured in a low voice.
"imp...?"
"Yeah, I heard that my performance is getting better and better, and I will be reviving my second life recently."
"Like this?"
deft is somewhat silent.
"Well, although one of you is the AD of the former Samsung White, and the other is the AD of the former Samsung Blue, and you have lost to him before, there is really no need for you to compete with him. Not many people should remember this kind of thing.
thing."
Xu Ruoguang said with a smile.
Don’t you remember this very clearly?!
Deft couldn't help but complain in his heart.
He did hear Xu Ruoguang's provoking method, but he was also provoked by Xu Ruoguang's provoking method.
Thinking back to those previous comments from the media...
"Deft's talent is completely incomparable to imp. The two are professional players from two different worlds. Even if imp works a little harder, deft will never be able to catch up."
Deft's originally somewhat negative attitude suddenly changed.
"I see."
He took a deep breath.
"He didn't give up, and I had no reason to give up."
"Brother Emporer, I need more intense training."
Xu Ruoguang smiled, turned and left.
Leave only one sentence.
"Get some rest and come down quickly. There are still training matches to play."
"okay, I get it!"
This time, deft put down the shackles in his heart and replied loudly with a smile.
Time passed by bit by bit.
In the first round of the playoffs, KT easily defeated the sandbox team.
After all, it is considered a relatively established team. It has obviously more experience in BO5 and can better maintain the intensity of BO5.
After winning the sandbox, KT's next opponent is SKT.
In this BO5, what shocked everyone was not that SKT almost lost, but Faker's catastrophic performance.
In the fourth game, SKT originally had a huge advantage, but before the start of the canyon group, faker's Neeko cut the screen and had a vacancy in her attention, which led to a huge mistake.
Being blocked directly in front of the canyon group caused SKT's original smooth rhythm to be interrupted instantly.
KT seized the opportunity and beat SKT directly, losing ground.
The camera also cut to Faker at this time.
He looked serious and silent, and moved his hair with a trembling wrist.
As a top player now, his obvious actions immediately aroused huge popularity.
"Did I see it wrong? Faker's hands are actually shaking?"
"It seems that you are really old. Do such mistakes happen?"
"Faker has aged a long time ago, but now he has aged more completely."
"It's really time to retire. I've reached S9 and I'm good enough."
"Hahaha, Faker is dying. Are you in a hurry to do the chores?"
"SKT's biggest cancer right now is faker. If this old guy hadn't stayed in SKT and refused to leave, SKT's current results would definitely be better."
"If you can't do it anymore, retire as soon as possible. Stop being a faker and leave a good impression on everyone. Don't let your old age be unknown by then."
All kinds of doubts and abuses instantly flooded the Internet.
This time, even some SKT fans couldn't stand faker's criminal performance.
So much so that when some people with ulterior motives posted pictures like the one below, they remained silent.
What picture?
Just a straightforward personal attack.
The first picture, Day1.
The person who turned into faker's avatar is holding a piece of shit in his hand and there is a line of words next to it.
"I'm going to prank my mom when she comes back!"
The second picture, Day3.
The person who turned into faker's avatar is still holding the piece of shit, and the words next to it have changed to "..."
The third picture, Day947.
The person who turned into faker's avatar is still grabbing the poop, but this time there are no words next to him.
The fourth picture, DAY1746.
Only the last sentence remains.
"Oh, by the way, I don't have a mother anymore."
Pure personal attacks are a hell of a joke.
There are many similar memes.
This time, Xu Ruoguang was also forced to join the group.
He was photographed on a man wearing the clothes of the Four Crown Champions.
In the next picture, faker walks over with his hands in his pockets, and the word "four" appears on his clothes.
In the third picture, Xu Ruoguang grabbed faker.
"Young man, could it be that you also won four consecutive championships?"
In the fourth picture, faker turned around, and the words on his body clearly read "Four consecutive lies".
It was insinuating that Faker was lying four times in the game against KT.
There are countless similar memes, and the entire LCK and LPL have fallen into a carnival of liquidation against faker.
What makes them even happier is the match between SKT and DRX.
Although SKT still won this game, faker's condition was obviously worse.
If we talk about the BO5 against KT in the last game, he was just a little confused. Compared to the past, he couldn't C, and it seemed more of a disaster.
So this time, his problem is too big.
Not only were the five effects in a row completely destroyed by the opponent, but the support was also slowed down by a beat every time, and even powerful heroes in the lane were ineffective.
Moreover, in the second game, DRX's mid laner, who was also old and trained, completed a solo kill.
If SKT hadn't decisively replaced the newcomer ADC Gumayusi in the third game, it would have improved the laning strength of the bottom lane.
SKT was almost taken away by DRX three to one.
But even if he wins, faker is still being criticized verbally and verbally.
"Why are you so good if you don't have a few?"
"At first glance, I judge it to be pure and simple."
"Get out of here, Uncle Fei! You're such a bitch but you still have the nerve to stick around. Give the little AD a few thumbs up and let him take care of you more in the future!"
"Already old!"
"You're going to beat an old Pawn to this level of virtue, and your hands won't be shaking to death right now?"
"Haha, faker is already like this, and maybe Xu Ruoguang won't be able to do it either after a while!"
Xu Ruoguang couldn't hold back after seeing the last comment.
System: Where is your horse?
As the time comes to April 9th, the final spring split is about to begin.
The two sides playing against each other were UR, who had been waiting for a long time, and SKT, who had been stumbling all the way, playing two consecutive BO5s, and finally entered the finals.
Today's LCK still implements a single-elimination format.
Let’s not talk about all aspects of the warm-up before the game. Most people already know the outcome of this BO5.
On one side is UR, which has been playing increasingly overwhelming games since the start of the spring split.
On the one hand, SKT's core figure Faker is getting worse and worse, and instead needs young player Gumayusi to carry the game.
It is already clear who will win.
Many people pay attention to this game not to see who is the champion of this year's LCK Spring Split.
But to see how talented the current faker is.
UR came relatively early.
After signing autographs as usual, Xu Ruoguang met Faker, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, in the dressing room.
He still looks the same, wearing the iconic SKT uniform and the awesome Jarhead.
There is a saying, Xu Ruoguang thinks that his pot head...
It doesn’t feel as good as S6’s cauliflower…funny.
Faker smiled happily when he saw Xu Ruoguang.
"Although it's been a difficult journey, in the end it's still me and you."
"Good."
Xu Ruoguang thought for a while and nodded.
"Stop speaking for me, Ruoguang."
Faker suddenly became serious and said seriously.
Xu Ruoguang knew what he was talking about.
Because the Internet is too dark and involves personal attacks.
Xu Ruoguang directly scolded those bastards who liked personal attacks.
[One thing to say is that today's Kangba is really a stinking cesspit of pure rice circles, with personal attacks at every turn.]
[It’s not that I insist on maggot babies to have any bottom line, the main thing is that the current anti-bar can’t even do the most basic thing of blowing when you win and spraying when you lose. You have to scold after you win. What’s the point? It’s already pure.
Has it become a gathering place for fans to vent their emotions?】
Now no one can restrain Xu Ruoguang, he still has achievements, LCK also supports him, Riot Games has him in promotional videos every year, and he has been dubbed the new father of Riot Games.
The number of fans is terrifying.
When others say you are a fan, you'd better be a fan.
Xu Ruoguang now has more fans than Faker, and it is already an order of magnitude larger. He has a huge number of fans all over the world.
It was all achieved bit by bit by his grades.
Those people couldn't criticize him at all. Even if they wanted to say that his quality was low, Xu Ruoguang said generously, yes, I didn't go to school much. Isn't it normal to have low quality?
Those people were made mute.
But faker doesn't want to see this.
"If they scold you, let them scold you. The performance of professional players is the most important."
"My performance is not good, I have to admit it."
He spoke calmly.
"Can not be done."
Xu Ruoguang shook his head.
"When they belittle you, aren't they also belittling the value of my championship trophy?"
"Can I bear this?"
He said seriously.
Lee Sang Hyuk blinked and smiled.
"You're right."
It’s 4:30 in the evening, and there is still only half an hour left before the game starts.
UR did not relax at all against SKT and was still arranging tactics seriously.
When a lion fights a rabbit, he must use all his strength!
What's more, after two difficult rounds of BO5, SKT.
It is not yet known whether the rabbit is a harmless rabbit.