Watching the SKT players leave the lobby in the elevator, Gu Xing was about to leave when someone grabbed his shoulder.
"What's going on?" Song Jinghao asked in a low voice, "What did Li Sang Hyuk tell you?"
He was far away just now and couldn't really hear the communication between his jungler and Faker.
Gu Xing briefly conveyed Li Sang Hyuk's intention to Song Jinghao, "Faker wants to meet VG as soon as possible and plans to avenge last year's World Championship."
Smeb snorted coldly when he heard this, "I haven't settled the score with them yet, Lee Sang Hyuk is still beating them up, right? It's best to meet in the semi-finals, I want to beat SKT hard!"
He has had a long-standing feud with the barbecue stall on the playing field.
S5LCK Spring Split Finals, S5 Global Finals Finals, S6LCK Spring Split Finals...
In just over two years, the Tigers lost against SKT in three heavyweight finals!
ROX could have achieved perfect dominance of the LCK division in the first two years, but it came to nothing just because of the existence of SKT!
Song Jinghao was naturally unwilling.
He joined VG because he valued Gu Xing's outstanding performance against SKT. He wanted to smash the barbecue stall before his peak period was over, but he wanted revenge!
"There will definitely be a chance this year," Gu Xing said with relief, "no one can stop us."
Smeb muttered angrily, "SKT Nicole needs to be angry. If she is eliminated before she meets us, it will be too boring..."
The two of them left the hotel behind the LPL troops and met the Guodian members who returned happily with their bags on their backs.
"Wuhu!"
Liu Qingsong was the most excited. He went up and punched Ming Kai hard in the chest, "Finally, the top eight are hot. It's not easy, brother!"
Gui Jiao Qi looked relaxed and relieved, but also a little bitter.
I feel relaxed because I finally made it to the knockout rounds and lived up to the expectations of my hometown folks and fans.
If the local competition was to advance to the top 16, he could not imagine what kind of public opinion frenzy it would trigger!
Suffering is due to helplessness.
When did EDG have to worry about reaching the top eight of the World Championship?
Isn’t this the standard configuration of Guodian?
Now we are walking on thin ice, fighting until the last moment to win the qualifying spot in a dangerous and dangerous way!
Gui Jiao Qi felt deeply powerless.
Jin Yibo said with a happy face, "Why don't you quickly say thank you to Brother Xing?"
If FNC hadn't tricked FNC into playing jungler Xiao Huangmao, EDG might not have been able to qualify!
The selection of Yin Zerrell forced FNC to change from the double C system they are best at to the jungle axis, which gave Guodian an opportunity.
EDG members looked at Gu Xing with expressions of gratitude.
"It's okay, it's okay," Gu Xing waved his hand, "It's just a little effort. I've been working hard for a long time not just for you. The knockout round is the goal."
It can only be said that Xiao Huangmao’s jungle scam is extremely effective.
Judging from the results of the second round of the group stage in the past two days, the trap created by Gu Xing really confused many teams.
It is estimated that each team's originally small share of training matches has been divided into a bunch, and there is not enough energy to discover the secrets of the top lane environment change.
It has to be said that the World Championship is the event where a single version evolves most frequently.
Like the regular season of the league, there will be at most one or two iterations around the version.
First, due to insufficient training time, the version will be changed in just two weeks, and the coaching team will not dig in depth. Otherwise, they will spend time and energy searching for the real version answer, and they will have to change to the next version before they have time to produce results.
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Second, there are not enough strong teams in the competition area, and their styles are relatively single.
LCK, for example, started out as an operator. Except for the outliers like Longzhu, everyone's tactical ideas are very similar. It is difficult to quickly create advanced understandings when they collide with each other.
The World Championship is different.
Even without the playoffs, the total duration of the competition is about one month, not to mention that many teams will arrive at the host venue in advance for training.
Practicing a single version for a long time will inevitably lead to the evolution of each team's understanding!
Moreover, there are so many competition regions participating in the World Championship, and various styles are constantly mixed together in training and competition, which can easily give birth to new ideas!
Compared with the mid-season tournament, which is also an international event, the World Championship involves more teams and lasts longer. It is not unreasonable to say that it is the most valuable event in the LOL field throughout the year!
The test is not only the players' operations on the field, but also closely related to the hero pool, the coaching staff's version development and other factors.
The EZ jungler has deceived many teams, which is equivalent to forcing other teams to use traps to make useless efforts. It has reduced the number of teams participating in version development during the world competition, making it impossible for them to quickly iterate the environment, thus allowing VG to maintain its leading position!
"Lao Gu, how do you get such a brain?" Jack touched Gu Xing's head affectionately, "You just come up with some weird and weird ideas."
Gu Xing said modestly, "No, no, I'm just taking advantage of the situation to add fuel to the flames."
"I found that version poison always exists in the World Championship every year. Several heroes who were prosperous in the first half will be eliminated and thrown into the sewer in the later stage of the knockout due to the evolution of version understanding..."
"Isn't that what last year's excavator was like?" He spread his hands, "It's just that no one used it to set traps."
This was agreed by Ming Kai.
On the eve of the S6 World Championship, Reksai was once considered a strong choice by major teams.
In the group stage at that time, Rek'Sai played a total of 15 games, with a BP rate of 54% and a winning rate of 47%. In terms of popularity, it was even better than the current EZ!
Gu Xing also used it in the group stage match against SKT.
However, as soon as the S6 knockout rounds arrived, each team's understanding of the version changed. They realized that Rek'Sai was just a useless embroidered pillow. After that, the excavator only played 3 times in the 7 BO5s, and they were all in the eighth.
A strong match, only a small victory!
In his opinion, Rek'Sai and Yinzeriel played very similar roles in the two World Championships.
It is really useful in the group stage, but in the knockout stage it will stretch your hips and be abandoned like worn shoes!
Gu Xing was mainly responsible for lighting the fire.
Jin Yibo looked relaxed, "Just wait for RNG's game tomorrow. Qualifying should not be a big problem..."
Before the second round of the group stage, he was most worried about Guodian.
Now that EDG has successfully advanced to the quarterfinals, the pressure on Jin Yibo's shoulders has been drastically reduced.
RNG went 2-1 in the first round, so there’s no way they can’t even make it to the knockout rounds, right?
"It's best to try to win the first place," Gu Xing said his wish, "I don't want the top eight to have a civil war."
This is exactly the opposite of Gui Jiao Qi's wish.
Ming Kai quite hopes for a civil war.
He knows that the evolution trend of the top lane version in the knockout rounds will inevitably be the long-handed single-band top laner.
But my own top laner doesn’t know how to use it, and it’s impossible to practice it in a short time, so I’m at a natural disadvantage.
Moreover, it can be seen from the group stage that EDG's state is very average. The early offensive system that Nofe has worked hard to establish throughout the season has almost no use in this incense burner version that emphasizes slow operation!
Mingkai believes that if nothing unexpected happens, EDG will end up in the quarterfinals again this year.
Then the most honorable ending is to fall in the civil war.
It is better to lose to a brother team from the same division than to lose to an opponent from outside the division and be embarrassed!
Guijiaoqi is very familiar with this. In the quarterfinals of the S4 World Championship, they lost to the Royal Family and sent RYL to the semifinals.
If it weren't for the rumor that Nami ruined her career by eating beef noodles in the group stage, no one would have cared about the performance of EDG, the league's double champion that year, in the S4 World Championship.
In the end, they received an IOU from the Royal Club, so that some arrogant piggies and cheating boys clamored that if EDG could reach the finals, they could win the Summoner's Trophy - in fact, it would be considered a success if they were not blocked by Samsung in the finals that year!
Anyway, if you are not strong enough to win the championship and have no hope of winning, it would be the best ending to suffer a civil war in the division and send your brothers to advance to the Que family.
In this way, Mingkai also needs RNG to win first place in Group C, so the probability of civil war will increase to 2/3!
Gui Jia Qi raised his head and looked at the window of the room where the RNG training room was located in the Peninsula United Investment Hotel. The lights there were brightly lit, and the members of the royal family were obviously still training hard inside and watching the video review.
"Uzi, please do something!" He gave his old rival the most sincere blessing.
At this moment, an inarticulate and broken Chinese sentence suddenly came from the side.
"You're not counting on Uzi, are you? He's really not good, he's just a basket..."
Gu Xing didn't even need to look back, he could identify the person just by the sound of his voice and his habit of speaking.
"Young, isn't this poof!"
He was very surprised. He grabbed Gu Chengbin and pinched his increasingly fat cheeks to show his closeness.
Imp is still short and stocky, and he is fatter than when he first arrived in Wuhan three weeks ago.
Behind him were Perkz, who was of similar size, and Jankos, who was tall. The three of them stood together like two potato mines, standing in front of them like a tall nut.
"It's not interesting to ignore you," Gu Chengbin complained, "I don't even want to take the initiative to find you."
"Ai, aren't you too busy lately..." Gu Xing felt quite guilty when he mentioned it like this.
VG and G2 are not on the same floor of the hotel, are in different teams on the field, and the game times are basically staggered. They rarely meet even during filming.
Gu Xing was busy with EZ traps and daily training. He only met G2 and exchanged greetings with each other for a while after they landed in Wuhan and checked into the hotel.
Calculating carefully, this was the first time the two met in October.
"By the way, you two are going out for a walk during the game tomorrow?" Duan Deliang asked in surprise.
"That's right, we don't need much time anyway, wouldn't it be reasonable to go out and relax?" Imp nodded matter-of-factly, his words were so crazy that he said, "Besides, everyone in Group C is a basket case, in the nest
It’s not worth mentioning in front of me!”
Perkz thought so too, and immediately echoed, "Imp is right!"
G2 does have crazy capital.
In the first round, they had three wins and zero losses. Except for some resistance when facing RNG, the other two games were overwhelming.
The power of the European Galactic Battleship is so terrifying!
"Hurry up and finish the fight tomorrow. I also want to go to the bar..." Gu Chengbin chuckled.
Ah P showed a tacit smile, presumably because he was full of confidence in tomorrow's game and believed that Group C would be the first to win.
Jankos didn't look so optimistic, with a worried look on his face.
He originally wanted to stay in the training room and continue to study the opponents in the group stage, but the double Cs in the team couldn't stand the hard work of Xiaoyang, so they insisted on dragging him out for a walk by the river to relax.
Jankos has reason to be worried.
The quality of G2's recent training matches has been really average.
The root cause does not lie with yourself, but with your opponent.
The strength of those teams is almost the same, but they are always thinking about that B Yin Zeriel jungler!
Logically speaking, it should be easy for a team of G2's strength to get a training match with a strong team.
But this year is different. After the LPL formed a sparring group, the training matches were basically digested in the competition area.
Furthermore, G2 is a team from outside the division after all, so everyone relies on their connections to schedule training matches. As long as there is no deep grudge, everyone likes to play with fellow players.
This results in a very limited number of games for G2 to play against Chinese and Korean teams.
Most of the time, they can only hug together with the European and American gangsters to keep warm.
But what good results can come from practicing with these insects?
Jankos felt very dissatisfied when he thought about it.
With G2's strength, only the Rabbitohs are interested.
You know, the main way for a team to maintain competitive status is not through rankings, but through training matches!
If you can't find a suitable opponent, you will just play with bad chess players. Over time, not only will you not make progress, you may even run the risk of being assimilated!
It's like a player who borrows an account to fry fish at a low level. It's easy to fry for a day or two, but the harder it gets, the harder it becomes. In the end, he turns himself into a fish!
This is what Jankos is afraid of.
If it weren't for the blessing of substituting Madlife and relying on seniority to have a few games with the LCK team, G2 would probably have gained nothing from the version before the second round of the group stage!
In the first round of the group stage, they were able to win three games in a row with their own strength.
When the second round begins, G2 can never be said to be a guaranteed winner!
On October 14, the second round of Group C begins.
RNG came up and crushed RED first, then used the Brazilian wild card that they narrowly won in the last round to attack.
Once BrTT's German language is banned, the Brazilian team will be completely dead.
The gap with the top league teams is clearly demonstrated!
However, in 28 minutes, RNG extended its economic advantage to more than 1W and won the game smoothly.
Immediately afterwards, G2 faced North America's second seed IMT.
Gu Xing took the time between training matches to watch the live broadcast of this game.
Who would have thought that they would not have missed the most exciting part of this match.
G2 wants to be stable in this game. They want to secure the qualifying spots first. They will advance step by step and gradually make the snowball bigger.
When the game went on for 30 minutes, the head score of both sides was barely over 10.
The somewhat dull operational transition made the audience drowsy.
But soon the big one came.
The two teams fought around the Fire Dragon Group, and G2 was the first to kill the IMT top laner Princess.
Then he pursued the victory and killed the support and mid laner one after another!
However, the IMT players all dealt considerable damage before dying, reducing the G2 players' health volume.
However, this still couldn't stop G2 from pursuing.
Beryl's Wind Lady added [Ascension Talisman] and passive double acceleration effect to her teammates, and the whole team pressed forward step by step towards the remaining shooters and assistants.
"IMT still has EZs and cannons left. The heroes' characteristics are relatively flexible and have flash. It should be easy to move over the wall later..."
As soon as Su Xiaoyan finished speaking, a tsunami-like voice suddenly erupted from the audience, which was no less loud than when VG won the game!
"What's going on with gods and demons?" Su Xiaoyan's voice was thin and sharp, "What kind of operation is this?!"
, transliterated as Kedisun, is to use your English name as an ID.
Originally from the old Imperial City, he later immigrated to Canada with his parents and joined IMT to join the top league and serve as a shooter.
Kedisun is just like Sun Xiaochuan, another family member who does all kinds of evil. He is quite abstract.
The same is true for operation.
He operated a small cannon and handed over a career-defining flash to the G2 crowd, dove into the enemy's circle, and used R [Destroying Shot] to push Ah P's Snake Girl back into the face of his own jungler EZ.
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"He actually turned the cannon into a blind monk and launched a wave of spinning cannons!"
Su Xiaoyan couldn't believe it.
"Ah this..." Gu Xing was speechless for a moment, not knowing how to evaluate it.
"Is this an operation that humans can do?!" Duan Deliang, the bystander, was dumbfounded.
Perkz under the camera was baffled by Xiaopao's abstract operation, and then a triumphant smile broke out at the corner of his mouth.
Lay down the earth-binding poisonous mist, and two shots of E [Twin Fangs] will ruthlessly cripple the confused EZ's health!
The IMT jungler was so numb that his own shooter actually gave him a big treasure!
He never expected that the mole was in the team!
Seeing Ah P activate the shield provided by Seraph's Embrace, Yin Zeriel decisively gave up treatment and stopped where he was waiting to die, with the IMT team logo dog tag above his head.
Naturally, the small cannon that handed over the flash to advance alone could not escape the fate of being focused on the fire. After Imp won the double kill, he showed two big teeth and smiled like a rat.
After a brief trough, the amount of barrage in the event live broadcast room suddenly filled up the entire screen!
[Damn it, Armstrong Swivel Cannon!]
[As expected of the European and American divisions, China and South Korea are far behind in terms of overall survival capabilities!]
[Qiuqiu, don’t show off, I’ve already cooked two bowls of rice and I really can’t eat it anymore]
[This is not an actor? Check your phone carefully!]
[The thief is afraid that G2 will not be able to catch up with him, right? He will kill his teammates by the way]
[One thing to say, if this small cannon operation is applied to a domestic team, tonight’s Weibo headlines will definitely arrange for retirement immediately! 】
[Everyone understands it, isn’t it just a replica of Gao Dewei’s reverse Q]
Gu Xing almost couldn't hold his breath when he saw the last barrage.
The properties are quite similar.
When Gao Dewei hit the reverse Q in that game, the defeat was already certain. The same was true for this IMT game. After three heroes were killed, the baron was definitely not safe. It was basically a guaranteed loss.
But similar unfavorable operations are tantamount to taking the blame on oneself!
After the game, when everyone mentioned these two games, what they thought of was definitely not the real war criminals, but Gao Dewei and Kedi Sun who performed outrageously when they were about to lose!
The good director specially cut the camera to give a close-up of Kodisun.
This optimistic boy could no longer laugh. He was slumped in a chair with a gloomy face and doubts about life.
For a newcomer entering the World Championship for the first time, if you can give him a little buffer time, he might be able to regain his composure.
But there is no time at all in the second round of the group stage!
After losing to G2, IMT faced back-to-back games against RNG.
Cordisun was so confused that he had no chance to adjust and hurriedly went into battle to face Uzi.
Needless to say the results.
Uzi was full of firepower, taking advantage of his illness to kill him, and pushed a health tower in just 11 minutes!
Xiangguo is even more like a wolf and a tiger, raising pigs in the wild area opposite.
As for Xiaohu...
If Gu Xing hadn't seen the post-match data panel, he would have almost forgotten about Li Yuanhao.
RNG made another victory with high morale, winning its fourth victory in the World Championship and ensuring a qualifying spot!
The remaining suspense in the second half is the battle between the Royal Family and G2 for the top spot in Group C.
Then G2 started to reorganize.
When facing the Brazilian wild card RED, Imp seemed to want to show off its hero pool in front of the live LPL audience and selected Jinx.
When it was locked down, the whole place was filled with shouts of surprise.
The VG members in the training room all felt baffled.
"What is Ju Chengbin doing?" Gu Xing was confused, "Can this version steal Jinx?"
Although the Incense Burner version emphasizes choosing a late-stage, large-core, attack-speed ADC, Jinx just meets the requirements.
But first, the strength of the hero is too low. In the S7 season, it is a complete sewer.
Second, one of the reasons why Jinx is so strong in the later stage is that she participates in the start-up after a kill in team battles. As long as she can run, she is really the only one in her class.
But this version of Jinx can’t run at all!
The tankiness of the front row is very solid, and Jinx has no real damage or percentage output skills. Just relying on the range advantage of the cannon form, you may not be able to kill people for a long time and start running mode!
"You are a cake, right?" Duan Deliang felt anxious for his good brother, "Are you too crazy? You really don't regard RED as a human being!"
Perhaps it was North America's exaggerated operation against IMT in the first game today that made all G2 members laugh, and now they are very happy when they BP.
Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye, and the G2 players stopped smiling and looked solemn.
Judging from the expression, it is almost the same as the comparison of IG team member S5 before and after facing the Fat General's ground fire.
Because Imp really can't run.
The top laner of the Brazilian wild card played a big bug, and the second piece came out with the gargoyle stone plate armor. In the team battle, he stayed at the front of the formation for 15 seconds without dying!
The front row of G2 has been wiped out by the RED rear row, and the Imp hasn't started yet!
C-bit continuous output is not a level at all!
Even so, G2's personal strength is still online, relying on frequent opportunities to fight the opponent back and forth.
But when the time came to 60 minutes, G2 finally couldn't stand it anymore.
On the face of it, Liushen Jinx can't defeat the passive big bug of Liushen's 11th-level ultimate move!
The impact of the weakening of armor penetration in the spring version is still there, and Whisper’s armor penetration percentage is nothing compared to the big bug!
RED fought fiercely for 61 minutes, won the team battle with difficulty, and then flattened the G2 base!
"It's really tricky," Jack said with emotion, "I can't even figure out what G2 is thinking!"
"It's normal, you just get used to it," said Li Zhixun, who often watched European competitions. He was very calm at this time, "G2 has always been like this. If you didn't know better, you would think they were buying spinach."
That is to say, the competition system has not yet been reformed. If it becomes a double-elimination system like Dota2, G2 may have to push itself to the loser group every game and then fight back.
"As long as RNG wins the last game, will it be able to become the first in the group?" Jin Yibo repeated this sentence repeatedly, trying to get a definite answer from the players.
"Yes, yes," Gu Xing finished the training match and leaned lazily on the backrest, "I just don't know if RNG can compete, opportunities are coming!"
Originally, if G2 was not upset by the wild card, if RNG wanted to win the first place in the group, it would have to win the opponent and then win a playoff.
It doesn't have to be so troublesome now.
There is only one game, and the winner is the first in Group C.
"RNG, hurry up!" Jin Yibo highlighted a true feeling, "If you win this set, you will be successful!"
Letme take out Galio in this round, and use the Prince with Incense Pot to do a linkage.
To be fair, the strength of top laner Galio is already very low.
But fortunately I can survive.
G2 obviously hasn't figured out the secret of changing the environment in the top lane yet, giving Wunder a big tree to mess with.
This is exactly what Letme wanted.
He just likes to drag others along to mix things up!
The bottom lane of both teams is also developing steadily. Beryl is not a lane support, and Ming is also inexperienced. The ADCs on both sides have no way to attack the lane!
In the middle, Ah P opened up the matchup gap. When the game came to 25 minutes, Perkz was 40 dollars ahead in the matchup with one and a half levels of experience.
This is already quite an exaggerated advantage in the current version!
Unfortunately it's of no use.
The judgment of the version evolution direction made by Gu Xing and others is correct.
In the later stage, the magic core is limited by the skill cooldown time and mana consumption, and its strength is not as stable as that of the shooter.
Moreover, the clockwork has not yet moved, and the prince of Xiangguo took care of it for two waves, causing the team battle to become a misfire!
G2 has still not recovered from the 60-minute fierce defeat in the last game. Their brain cells are almost drained, and the further the game goes on, the more unclear they become.
Uzi’s cannon naturally took over the game!
In BO5, Uzi did not beat Imp, but he won a lot in small games.
Facts have proved that Uzi, who has no mental breakdown and no red face, is quite trustworthy.
Although Xiaohu tried his best to be invisible, under the cover of the upper and jungle front rows, Xiaopao jumped continuously in the team battle. After establishing an advantage, he started to use an alternative three-step move to roll the equipment snowball, leading the team to overtake economically and finally win the game!
5-1, RNG won three consecutive games in the second round and advanced to the quarterfinals!
"Handsome!" Jin Yibo's face glowed red and he clenched his fists, "I won the brothers!"
There was warm applause in the VG training room, cheering for the brother teams in the same division.
Three LPL teams, two of the teams ranked first, definitely a successful completion of the task!
In Group D, Longzhu undoubtedly topped the list with 6 wins.
The remaining three teams fought bloody battles, and the Rabbitohs narrowly won a step, relying on their playoff victory to squeeze out C9 and get the last ticket to the top eight!