On April 18, the matching results of the top four matches of Summit S3 were announced.
The matchup situations are: [Alliance of Losers] vs [Heaven’s Gate], [Hell Front] vs [Order].
Because these four teams are all favorites to win the championship, there are not many flaws in this pairing... Anyway, no matter how the pairing is, it is a strong matchup, and the audience has no reason to say it is a shady match.
However, the introduction of "artifacts" has indeed made the situation more interesting.
The effects of these four artifacts are as follows:
[Crown]: Apply the "King's Deterrence" special effect to all enemy units that enter the battlefield. The targets affected by it will continue to reduce their survival value by a percentage until they die (Note: The damage of "King's Deterrence" cannot be damaged except by the effect of artifacts.
effects, including battlefield barriers).
[Holy Grail]: All our team members will receive the "Divine Blood Gift" special effect after entering the battlefield. If the target affected by it does not receive any damage for ten consecutive seconds, a "Divine Blood Energy Shield" will be automatically generated around it.
It can resist/eliminate the special effects (including artifact effects) exerted on us by an opponent.
[Philosopher's Stone]: Periodically releases the "Midas into gold" special effect on all enemy units that enter the battlefield. Once every thirty seconds, the equipment, skills and items affected by it will be attached with a layer of
The "value improvement" buff will increase the "quality" and "use/equipment conditions" of the item/skill, but the special effect remains unchanged (this effect can only be eliminated by the artifact effect); when the item/skill is used/equipped
If the conditions exceed the holder's ability, it will be invalid or unable to be activated.
[Amulet]: All our team members will receive the "divine protection" special effect after entering the battlefield. When our team members are affected by the opponent's continuous ability (including artifact effects), the debuff and damage effects will be reflected, and the buff effects will be retained.
and strengthen.
Judging from the official information, the restraint relationship between artifacts is quite obvious.
[Crown] must be a counterweight to [Holy Grail], because the "King's Deterrence" can start to cut the opponent's blood through the barrier from the first second the enemy enters the battlefield; this kind of uninterrupted "continuous" attack cannot be resisted by the player's own means.
Damage" is equivalent to abolishing the "gift of divine blood".
The [Holy Grail] restrains the [Philosopher's Stone], because the "Divine Blood Energy Shield" can eliminate the latter's continuously superimposed "value enhancement", and the energy shield is generated more frequently than the "value enhancement" frequency.
Next, [Philosopher's Stone] defeats [Amulet], because "Divine Protection" not only cannot counteract the "pseudo-gain" effect of "value improvement", but also makes it stronger.
However, because "Divine Protection" can cause rebound debuffs and damage effects, when [Amulet] encounters [Crown], it is a perfect counter-suppression.
Finally, let's look at the cross comparison... There is no obvious restraint between [Crown] and [Philosopher's Stone], [Holy Grail] and [Amulet], and they can interact with each other.
The above is the information about the artifact; although it cannot be said that the side with restraint will win, but the advantage is huge... at least it can make up for the gap in hard power to a large extent.
Therefore, in this round of strong showdown, the choice of artifact has become the key to victory or defeat.
According to the rules, [Heaven's Gate], which was moved to the "bye position" in the last round, has no right to participate in the distribution of artifacts in this round, so I won't talk about it here.
Let’s talk about the other three teams…
First of all, because the [Wasteless Alliance] finished the second fastest in the previous round, it gained the right to be the first to allocate artifacts in the semi-finals.
This kind of brain-intensive work was naturally left to Honghu; after thinking carefully... he finally chose the [Philosopher's Stone] for the team and assigned the [Amulet] to [Heaven's Gate].
The [Holy Grail] was assigned to [Order].
Honghu's idea is very clear, and he will try his best to reduce (it is impossible to completely eliminate it theoretically anyway, so it can only reduce) the possibility of his team being "restrained".
How to reduce it? The allocation he made is the best answer...
Honghu not only settled the accounts of his own team, but also settled the accounts of [Order] together.
After the selection of the [Wasteless Alliance], the initiative will fall into the hands of [Order]; although [Order] can choose whether to replace the artifact of [Heaven's Gate], this exchange cannot change it for them.
My fate of being "restrained" is because [Hell Front], which was the first to finish in the last round, (according to normal logic) will inevitably get an artifact that restrains [Order] in the end.
Therefore, this choice of [Order] is actually just deciding whether to be defeated with the [Holy Grail] or with the [Amulet].
If you keep the [Holy Grail], the whole field will be affected by the continuous blood loss dot; change it to the [Amulet]... During the battle, as time goes by, all the items and skill special effects are gradually abolished, and because of its own artifact effect,
This process of being abolished will continue to accelerate.
Comparing the two, in this evenly matched duel, it is obviously better to keep the [Holy Grail].
Thinking about it this way... [Order] naturally chose not to change.
Of course, [Order] can also forcibly choose to exchange... After the exchange, they will get the [Amulet], and [Heaven's Gate] will get the [Holy Grail]; and in order to restrain [Order], [Hell Front] will definitely use
[Crown] is exchanged for the [Philosopher's Stone] in the hands of [The Loser Alliance]. In that case, the final situation will still become... [The Loser Alliance] uses [Crown] to restrain [Heaven's Gate].
Holy Grail], and [Hell Front] uses [Philosopher's Stone] to restrain [Order]'s [Amulet].
In other words, no matter how they are changed, [Wasteless Alliance] and [Hell Frontline] will be the restraining parties, while the other two teams will be the restrained parties.
There is only one possibility for the [Wasteless Alliance] to become the restrained party, and that is... regardless of whether [Order] is changed or not, the last chosen [Hell Frontline] forces itself to be on the suppressed side, dragging [Wasteless Alliance]
Chai Alliance] launched into the water.
No matter how crazy Feng Bujue is, there is no reason to do such a thing...
It is one thing to use madness to cover up reasonable intelligence or certain beliefs and intentions, but it is another thing to do illogical or even stupid actions in order to appear crazy.
Therefore, the final situation is consistent with Honghu's layout.
The battle of the top four begins under the distribution of the set of artifacts [Alliance of Losers] - [Philosopher's Stone]; [Gate of Heaven] - [Amulet]; [Hell Front] - [Crown]; [Order] - [Holy Grail]
