"Are the names of the LGD players in the national server like this?" Gu Xing was shocked by the nicknames of these top players.
Top laner Long Ge laughed, "Last year, the entire LGD team had IDs starting with 'Songjiang'. Now there are only three left. Jungler Taobao Quan, top laner Acorn and Flame have all left the team."
Someone has to pay for the Waterloo of the 2015 Global Finals. Players want a new environment, and the team also needs fresh blood to join. Taobao Quan and two rotation top laners, either voluntarily or forced, all left LGD.
The club management made a heavy bet during the transfer period at the end of last year, buying the champions of the global finals.
Top order MaRin.
This is the first top laner FMVP in the history of the global finals, and there is no doubt about his overall strength.
For the jungle position, I found Eimy.
In this way, the Ueno combination and the three middle and lower players who stayed on the team - Gao Dewei, Imp and Hirano Aya formed a new LGD.
Before the start of the spring split, many LGD fans, nicknamed the Optimistic Family, believed that this new team would be more powerful than last year and should perform even better.
As for what happened this spring, Gu Xing had a certain understanding of it because he had made amends for his past mistakes.
LGD's spring split results were actually worse than VG!
Currently, the league divides the 12 teams in the LPL into two large groups AB with similar strength on paper based on the rankings of the previous season, with 6 teams in each group.
LGD ranked fourth in Group A in the spring and stumbled into the playoffs.
As a result, we met our good brother VG in the first round of the playoffs.
LGD, which had high hopes from the optimistic family, ultimately failed miserably!
This result is absolutely unacceptable to LGD who strives to further achieve a breakthrough.
Gu Xing roughly summarized LGD’s experience in the past six months.
I feel a lot of pressure.
Although Redmi said that this training match did not focus on winning percentage, the two teams just met in the playoffs two weeks ago, and VG won in the end.
The other nine people have not changed yet. If they lose the game...
The opponent is a team from the LPL league. Even if LGD fails in this spring split, it is still better than Greedy Sa and Yi Zhi Internet Cafe team!
He tried not to think about these things and quickly diverted his attention in other ways.
In the custom room, Easyhoon was chatting happily with Marin, the top laner on the opposite side and his former teammate. However, the letters that were typed out were all strange arrangements. It seemed that they were letters typed out using the Korean input method, and Gu Xing couldn't see it.
Understand.
Top laner Long Ge was also typing and chatting with the opponent's jungler Eimy, and also told the opponent to be wary of Gu Xing, who came to try out, so as not to cause any embarrassment.
Gu Xing saw that the two of them were talking very close to each other, so he couldn't help but ask, "Brother Long, are you familiar with each other?"
Although the League of Legends divisions of VG and LGD are from opposite sides, the tone of their words did not seem like a simple neighbor relationship.
"That's right," Brother Long unscrewed the cap of the mineral water bottle and replied casually, "We were both in the second team of VG before, and we entered the LPL from the secondary league last year."
Only viewers who have a certain understanding of LPL or VG will know about this kind of thing.
Gu Xing, who originally only watched the World Series, could not grasp so much information in a short period of time just by looking up information. After all, there were four teams that were going to try out this time.
EDG, IG, VG and WE are all veteran clubs in the League of Legends field. There are countless twists and turns in them, and they are simply incomprehensible. At most, he only understands some recent things.
At this moment, Gu Xing recalled that a club could not have two teams from the top league at the same time. It was inevitable that the second team of VG would change its name. After searching for a while, he found the answer, "Then the name was changed to UP?"
"That's right," Brother Long said a lot, "UP finally dropped the level, so I returned to VG, and Eimy went to LGD next door."
Gu Xing suddenly realized.
He still knows some about the dirt reincarnation technique used by the two-time global finals runner-up club Royal Club after they were relegated in 2015, and the team UP was involved in it.
"It's not just Eimy," Assistant Duan also added, "Now LGD coach Heart was originally from VG's second team... We are almost becoming LGD's reserve talent base."
At this time, Hongmi, who was standing behind everyone, reminded them to prepare for the banning session.
Gu Xing quickly adjusted his condition and waited for the training match to start.
As the grand music played in the headphones, he saw the familiar recruitment mode screen again!
Hongmi stood behind Gu Xing and communicated with him through a translator, "I have read your information before. Most of the rhythm junglers and brush heroes such as male guns are good at playing..."
"Then use the wine barrel for this game. Let me test your rhythm ability."
He also has his own considerations.
Spiders and blind monks are very rhythmic, but due to their high one-on-one intensity, they can defeat most of the mainstream jungle characters in the field even in 1v1 battles, and it is extremely easy to invade the enemy's jungle area.
In the end, it was difficult to tell whether the jungler was too strong or the hero he was operating was too powerful.
Wine barrels are different.
He is not very good at one-on-one, and basically has to lead the pace online in the early stage, so he can accurately judge the jungler's ability to seize opportunities.
Redmi really didn’t care about winning or losing in this training match.
The new jungler is definitely not as strong as Dandy, and the probability of winning against LGD is very low. The trial training mainly focuses on Gu Xing's ideas and hero pool. If he is signed, he can shine in the second team.
Gu Xing agreed, and he, who was on the blue side, first helped Endless take down Lucian, a very strong lane character, otherwise the bottom lane might be crossed by the opponent's combination of Imp + Hirano Aya.
"It hasn't been updated to the mid-season version yet, so we still use the spring game idea." The translator conveyed Hongmi's words to everyone's ears.
The Chinese server will not come to the mid-season 6.9 version until May 10th. Even the Korean server, whose patch was installed a week in advance, has not been updated and can only follow the tactics of the spring split.
LGD directly showed the bottom lane combination, Spear of Revenge + Bull Head.
"Double Lista, this intensity is outrageous..." JackeyLove, who was sitting next to Gu Xing, glanced at it. The opponent's duo used the hero's real name, Calista and Alistar, and "Double Lista"
'It's an appropriate abbreviation.
"Imp's Spear of Revenge?" Ding Ran could always associate this character with Tetsuo, making it difficult for him to hold back.
The final lineup is determined.
Blue side VG: Troll in the top lane, Barrel in the jungle, Plane in the mid lane, Lucian + Braum in the bottom lane.
Red side LGD: top laner Big Tree, jungler gunner, mid laner Desert Emperor, bottom lane Spear of Revenge + Bull Head.
Before officially entering the game, Gu Xing quickly checked the talent configuration.
This version of Thunder is very strong, but the wine barrel is not easy to trigger. Most of the players carry the 'Power of Time' cornerstone talent, which allows the hero and nearby teammates to increase the siege minions by 20 and 10 points every time they kill large wild monsters.
Permanent health.
The upper limit is 300. If it is triggered again after the stack is full, 6% of the maximum health can be restored.
For the jungle position, it can be completed by brushing 15 groups of wild monsters. The conditions are not harsh. Most of the giant belts can be obtained out of thin air, which is very cost-effective.
"Come on, Brother Xing!" Ding Ran was still cheering him on.
JackeyLove, Hongmi, and Lu Wenjun were all staring at his computer.
The world focuses on me?
Such a sentence suddenly appeared in Gu Xing's mind.
"You don't want to play a first-level group, just start normally." Hongmi warned him alone.
Gu Xing didn't understand why.
In terms of lineup alone, the VG side he is on is quite strong. The Desert Emperor on the opposite side is just a pure pendant at level 1. It only has the skill of W Sand Soldier, which is a large long-range soldier.
It was Lu Wenjun who helped explain, “We basically don’t play first-level teams in regular training matches. First, because the first-level team design is the core tactic of the team. Basically, it is only by surprise that it can be effective. Once the tactics are exposed in the training matches, they will have no effect in the main game.
Already."
"Secondly, once the first-level team has too many kills or the summoner skill gap is widened, the opponent may feel that there is no point in continuing the training match, and may choose to quit the game and restart it."
Only then did Gu Xing, who was considered a pure and newbie in training matches, understand the reason.
Just as the game was loading, Gu Xing quickly calmed down and focused on the game.
After buying jungle equipment and reusable potions, he operated the wine barrel and went out to take position with his teammates.
"Gu Xing, please stand here and wait for one and a half minutes before returning to the jungle." Assistant Duan is currently the commander of VG. He marked a signal between the middle lane and Xiaolong Pit, indicating that Jiugong should stand at the front.
Although you don’t play a first-level team by default, you still need to stand in a defensive position and develop good habits, otherwise problems will arise if you are attacked in the main game.
"Don't go into the grass above the dragon pit, otherwise it will be difficult to escape." Xiao Duan knew that Gu Xing was a newcomer, so he specifically warned him.
Gu Xing knew this very well. If he stood in the grass above Xiaolongkeng, once the opponent came to double-team him, his escape route would be quite narrow.
Moreover, the wall between the grass and the red BUFF camp is very thick, and the wine barrel's E [Meat, Egg, Onion, Chicken] cannot move directly through the grass. If someone catches it, it can only flash.
All in all, you can't stand in that place.
Gu Xing studied hard and thought about his route plan for this round.
The troll in the top lane fights the big tree, and there is a proper restraint relationship. The troll can now play in the top lane, all thanks to the big tree, Poppy and Titan, the three phantom gods in the front row. R [Power Supremacy] absorbs the percentage of resistance and health.
It's simply a front-row nemesis.
Unless the troll was killed several times in a row, it could still hit the big tree, so Gu Xing lowered the priority of his gang.
The mid-lane plane and the yellow chicken are two big brushes. Among them, Gao Dewei's Desert Emperor may find opportunities after level 6, and the rest of the time they will develop each other.
However, the yellow chicken can obviously push the plane's lane in the early stage. Gu Xing feels that opportunities can be found appropriately in the middle.
As for the bottom lane, there is no need to think about it. The combination of both sides has full control and burst, which is very easy to catch.
Gu Xing studied it carefully and decided to open the field from the stone beetle camp in the lower half.
"Marin made an eye here." Long Ge, the top laner, helped to go to the red BUFF camp in the upper half of the opposite area to get a view. When he came back, he saw the big tree on the opposite side walking in and dividing the wall between the blue BUFF and the Demon Swamp Frog camp.
With an eye for jewelry, he quickly reminded Gu Xing.
"Okay, I understand..." Gu Xing looked at the time.
The eye position falls in 1 minute and 34 seconds, which means it will disappear in 2 minutes and 34 seconds.
If Gu Xing brushes all the way up, this eye cannot see his specific position, but it can roughly guess the movement of the wild.
His brain was spinning rapidly and he came up with his own early strategy.
When eating stone beetles, he didn't pay any punishment, and the bottom duo helped him get a lot of hits.
As soon as the red BUFF was started, Gu Xing saw Eimy's male gun through Brother Long's vision in the upper half of the opponent's red zone.
When you find that the last hit count is also 2, you know that the other party is also a field attacked by stone beetles.
Gu Xing took his time and used his first punishment on F4, gaining a 90-second true vision effect that allowed him to detect whether there were artificial eyes made by the enemy around him.
While brushing all the way up, I was still cutting the screen to observe the status of the three channels.
Endless and Xiao Duan's bottom lane were beaten a bit miserably, and Imp's strength is quite strong. Although there was a famous scene in the 2015 World Championship where Kalista was hit by Tetsuo with a hammer until her health bar disappeared, his proficiency in this hero
The degree is really hard to say.
The mid laners on both sides are always facing each other. Easyhoon is known as the defense tower in the middle. It is a real defense tower, not Otto.
He is as steady as a mountain.
Long Ge, the top laner, also deliberately seduced the saplings thrown by the big tree into the grass, brought them to the army line and exploded them. In this way, he reduced the health of his own soldiers, and then pulled the army line position in front of his tower.
Gu Xing speeded up and handed the second punishment to the Demon Swamp Frog, and in about 3 minutes and 20 seconds, he devoured the six groups of wild monsters in his first round.
He thought for a moment and said, "I'll come and help you catch him later. How about you keep a thunder to make up for the damage?"
Easyhoon was a little surprised. He was not used to receiving help from the jungler because he used a steady brush line, but he still agreed to Gu Xing's plan.
LGD was also communicating in the team voice at this time.
"The jungler on the opposite side should have finished six groups of jungles," Gao Dewei muttered, "I guess if I eat a river crab on the way, I will catch or hit it. I will make a ward first..."
Marin did not see Gu Xing's position during the previous inspection, but he did not notice that the VG blue BUFF and the Demon Swamp Frog were brushed until they disappeared, so he could guess that the opponent came all the way up from below.
He relied on his yellow chicken to push the line quickly in the early stage and control the line. After finishing the pawn, he ran to the river in the upper half of the area and made a false eye in the grass in the river to watch Gu Xing's movements.
Sure enough, when I lowered my eyes, I saw the wine barrel eating crabs.
Gao Dewei knew that his jungler Eimy was in the bottom half, so he did not dare to interfere with the wine barrel and simply returned to the line to continue to replenish troops.
"If the wine barrel eats the river crabs and doesn't catch anyone, B should go home to make a jungle knife, and he will go down in the next round!" LGD assistant Hirano Aya thought clearly. He knew that there were no wild monsters in the upper half of the area.
If you want to arrest people or not, you can only go back to the city to supply supplies.
"I know he can't catch me." Gao Dewei was very confident.
From the VG perspective, Gu Xing finished eating river crabs and used the true vision effect obtained by punishing F4 before to eliminate Gao Dewei's vision in the grass on the upper river.
After clearing his vision, he did not choose to return to the city. Instead, he entered the upper jungle area of LGD and squatted in the grass between the enemy's red buff camp and the dragon pit, making sure that he was not seen by the opponent's ward along the way.
"Wait a little longer, and he's going to reveal his flaws..." Gu Xing reminded Easyhoon not to be impatient.
Hongmi, who was standing behind him, frowned, as if aware of Gu Xing's thoughts.
Gu Xing squatted for 20 seconds, and the true vision effect provided by F4 had disappeared.
During this period, a wave of conflicts broke out in the bottom lane. Eimy's male gun came to arrest people after clearing the wild monsters, forcing two flashes and one healer from the VG duo. Although they did not get a kill, they still took advantage of it.
In order to avoid being caught on the top lane, Marin forcibly pushed the line of troops controlled by Long Ge in front of the VG tower with his body.
Brother Long used E [Pillar of Ice] to jam the opponent, flash up and bite him, and also replaced Marin's flash, and in the process, he crippled the opponent and sent him home.
But Gu Xing was still there.
Ding Ran, who was watching, was stunned. He couldn't understand what his friend was doing.
A big game of chess?
Until Gu Xing issued a clear and crisp command, "Prepare to freeze your hands!"
Wine Barrel hurriedly left the grass with a chubby belly and headed for the middle road!
At this time, the LGD yellow chicken is in a very high position!
Gao Dewei calculated that almost half a minute had passed, but the wine barrel still hadn't appeared. He must have returned to the city to resupply and continue to clear the jungle below.
He even took two steps up to avoid being caught.
As a result, Gao Dewei, who was pressing the line, never expected that the belly of a wine barrel would suddenly appear in the shadow view above him, which knocked him out!
His heart trembled suddenly and his eyebrows were raised!
It is already difficult to escape at this time.
Gu Xing didn't give him a chance, and all the damage from his skills was poured in.
Easyhoon operates the aircraft W [Valkyrie Dive] to come forward and get close to the face, and QE uses two skills to deal damage and trigger thunder.
The hero Yellow Chicken was extremely brittle in the early stage, and Gao Dewei, who was focused by the two men, was instantly reduced to half health!
Gao Dewei quickly flashed to WEQ to control the sand soldiers to lead him away, but he was slowed down by Gu Xing's Q [Rolling Barrel]. Easyhoon flashed to catch up and forcibly killed him with two shots!
First blood is born!
"Beautiful!" Xiao Duan immediately cheered, "Gu Xing, you're so stupid!"
Easyhoon also smiled and praised softly.
Hongmi nodded, and it could be seen that his expression was quite satisfied.
Gu Xing had no time to pay attention to this. The signal he was on the road hit the LGD Ueno area, "I want to counter a group of Stone Beetles!"
After calculating the time, Eimy's second group of stone beetles must have been refreshed. The opponent was still catching them just now, and they must have no time to rush to the jungle area above to wipe them out.
Gu Xing decided to take a counterattack.
But when he broke into the opponent's stone beetle camp with E [Meat, Egg, Onion, Chicken] through the wall, he found that the place was empty and there was nothing!