The first round of bans officially began. Lu Haoran’s first three bans once again targeted SKT’s top laner Huni.
Although he wanted Lang Xing to fight Huni in the first game, he didn't want Lang Xing to be defeated by Huni, so he needed to press down his two signature heroes.
Enchantress, wine barrel, Lulu.
The skt team's banners respectively targeted the top and mid-level assistants of the lgd team. They were regular banners, with nothing special about them.
When it was the LGD team's turn to grab players on the first floor, Lu Haoran, after thinking for a long time, decided to take out a swing hero to see the SKT team's selection situation, and then make subsequent selections.
Karma the Revealer!
In the first hand selection, the LGD team locked Fan Ma, and directly came with a midfielder to sway, and prepared to determine Fan Ma's split based on the SKT team's subsequent selections.
But this time, the skt team did not struggle with the swing position, and directly chose two very strong heroes on the first and second floors.
Top laner Huni once again chose Rambo, while jungler Peanut used grab instead of ban to win the male gun!
"Rambo and the male gun, it seems that the SKT team does not want to play operations in this game, but wants to play offense with the LGD team."
Seeing the first two picks of the SKT team, the three commentators immediately exclaimed.
In the battle between the LGD team and the SKT team in the group stage, although both sides won one game and lost one, it was actually very ugly for the SKT team to win that game, and they were constantly operating and operating.
This time, when they met again on the stage of the finals, the SKT team was not prepared to continue to select a purely operational lineup in the first game, because they also understood the principle of working hard in one go.
Especially top laner Huni!
In the first two duels, not only did he fail to play the best top laner in the world, but he was repeatedly suppressed by Lang Xing. This time Huni must defeat Lang Xing in the lane no matter what to prove his strength!
"Lambo plus male gun..."
Seeing the selection of the SKT team, Lu Haoran's mouth showed a smile.
If we say what the five players of the LGD team are most afraid of at this time, the most fearful thing is that the SKT team will enter operational mode again. After all, as long as the game time is extended indefinitely, their probability of making mistakes will be higher than that of SKT.
But when it comes to choosing a fighting lineup, the five players of the LGD team have never been afraid of anyone!
"Xiao Ning, choose the blind monk."
"Wei Shen, choose another small murloc for Langxing. As long as we win this round, Huni's mentality will collapse on the spot."
Lu Haoran chuckled softly, and the two offensive heroes locked on one after another.
Blind Monk Li Qing!
Tidal Sealing Fizz!
Although the hero Xiaoyuren will most likely go to the lane, because there has never been a mid laner Xiaoyuren during the entire MSI period, but in fact, Wei Shen also practiced the mid laner Xiaoyuren.
If faker waits for a while and chooses a hero without displacement, he will also have a chance to swing the Murloc to the middle.
Tide Summoner Nami.
For the skt team, the third floor did not play the mid lane hero in the matchup, but showed the support in advance, leaving the choice of adc and mid laner at the end.
It seems that he is also hiding his tricks, but Lu Haoran doesn't think that the horse-dumping coach can show such a shocking hero in the first game.
At this point, the first round of BP ends, and the second round of banning begins.
Policewoman, Thresh.
The banners on the SKT team were a little bit intimidated, and directly blocked the duo combination of Sima Laothief and Xiao Ming to prevent the LGD team from playing the bottom lane policewoman pushing tower rhythm again.
The LGD team's last two bans were to give Faker's mid laner Ekko with one hand, and with the other hand to Bang's ez, to prevent the combination of ez and Nami from unlimited consumption and gain a laning advantage.
When it was the SKT team's turn to select players for the fourth floor, they became entangled here.
Although the counter on the fifth floor will definitely be reserved for faker, but Bang will choose which adc to cooperate with Nami, but skt is hesitant. It feels that no hero should be chosen to support the mother.
Just as the countdown to selection was about to end, Bang finally decided on his hero choice and revealed the Arrow of Punishment Varus, an adc with a little ability to push lanes, poke, and start a team.
And with the selection of Varus, the SKT team's tactical intentions for this game have become clear.
That is, the bottom duo will serve purely as tools, and the cary game will be left to the upper midfielder!
"Comparing with the old thief Sima as a tool man? Isn't this like getting a big ax in front of Luban's gate?"
When the opponent picked Varus, Xiao Ming immediately let out bursts of chuckles.
After all, from the group stage to the semi-finals, Sima Laothief's Han Bing performed extremely well, and his ultimate move almost hit the mark!
In this game, SKT did not grab Ice but Varus. Apparently, they thought Varus was easier to beat against Ice.
But in fact, the old thief Sima has proven through countless games that his ice shooter is the best in the world!
Ice shooter Ashe is locked!
The old thief Sima didn't speak, and quietly locked the ice for himself, his eyes full of indifferent eyes, as if this game was not the MSI finals, but an ordinary ranking game where he must win.
As for the final hero choice for the LGD team, Lu Haoran also thought about it for a while, and then decided to put the murloc on the top lane.
After all, if the Murloc appears in the middle, Faker can choose heroes such as Ryze and Galio to counter him. At the same time, if the Wolf Line does not use the Murloc and wants to continue to attack Huni, there seems to be no better hero. choose.
As for what hero Wei Shen uses in the middle?
The dark leader Syndra is locked!
The next moment, Xiao Ming showed up for Wei Shen, a mid laner hero who could advance, attack, retreat and defend, and also had a certain error tolerance rate.
The most important thing is that Syndra's inference combined with Blind Sin's gank is almost invincible, and anyone who stares will die!
And this is also the reason why Lu Haoran just banned Ekko, because there are not many heroes who are good at beating Syndra. Ekko is one, and the enchantress that skt banned is one.
Now, both heroes who can counter Syndra have been banned. Then, unless faker chooses a mid laner like Jayce, it will be absolutely impossible to counter Wei Shen in the lane. !
Clockwork Golem Oriana.
Sure enough, after the SKT team thought about it for a long time, faker still did not dare to choose the mid laner Jess, who had a very low fault tolerance rate, and once again chose the snake oil mid laner Clockwork.
But what I have to admit is that faker's clockwork is really powerful. Even if Wei Shen chooses the ball girl, if he wants to have an advantage in the lane, it still depends on his own performance.
At this point, the lineups of both teams for the first game of the finals bo5 have been officially locked!
The blue side LGD team has top laner Murloc, jungler Blind Sin, mid laner Syndra, bottom lane Ice, and auxiliary Fan Mom!
The red side skt team, top laner Rambo, jungler gunner, mid laner Clockwork, bottom laner Varus, assist Nami!
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"In the first game, the two teams were very competitive right away."
"The lineups on both sides are all offensive lineups, and there is no front row. It seems that this game is a fight. The game will be very exciting!"
The lineups of both sides were finalized, and Wawa immediately became excited. He never expected that the SKT team would dare to directly come up with a fighting lineup in the first game. After all, viewers all over the world know that the LPL's fighting ability is the strongest in the world.
But in this round, the skt team was so unbelieving that they wanted to fight against the lgd team. Obviously, they also wanted to prove that lck was not only good at operations!
"In this game, I think there is nothing interesting about the bottom lane matchup. The main attraction is definitely in the upper, middle and jungle."
"And I am more optimistic about the lineup of our LGD team. After all, Xiaoning Blind Monk's early rhythmic ability must be stronger than that of Peanut Boy Gun."
"As long as in this round, Xiaoning Blind Monk can still do things in the early stage, and the LGD team can continue to maintain a 100% first blood rate, then I believe that the LGD team can win this round easily."
Miller said confidently that there seems to be nothing wrong with the SKT team's lineup, but in fact the control methods are extremely scarce.
Leaving aside the bottom lane, the top, middle and jungle trio of the SKT team did not have any hard control before level 6. Even at level 6, they only had one big move from Faker Clockwork.
On the other hand, in the upper midfielder of the LGD team, the e-skill of the pre-level 6 murloc can slow down, Syndra can push the ball, and the blind monk can move and chase people. The success rate of gank is very high.
If you reach level 6, the success rate will be even higher. Unless skt goes to the middle and jungle to dodge, you will never be able to escape when you are gank!
"We do have a lot of control, but when it comes to playing in the upper, middle and jungle, it still depends on the operation."
"But I believe that the LGD team will still win. After all, they have rich fighting experience. As long as the game is brought into the rhythm of chaos, it is absolutely impossible for the SKT team to come back!"
I remember to take it seriously. It can be said that as long as the SKT team dares to fight with the LGD team in this game, then every time they fight, the LGD team's winning rate will increase by one percent!
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"Wolf Xing, you'd better bring Ignition and fight Huni directly if you have the chance."
"Wei Shen, you too, consume Faker's blood as much as possible during the laning, and then wait for Xiaoning to gank."
"Xiao Ning, just ignore the bottom lane in this game if you can. Just keep wandering in the upper half of the jungle. If you have a chance to gank, just gank. If you don't have a chance, just invade. We have lane rights in the top and middle and can go to the jungle to support you at any time.
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With the last minute countdown before the start of the game, Lu Haoran once again began to arrange on-the-spot tactics. After arranging the tasks of the upper, middle and jungler, he walked behind Sima Laothi and Xiao Ming.
"You two just need to develop normally. Don't think about fighting. After all, the opponent is not easy to kill."
"Old thief Sima, remember to use your E skill frequently. Try to capture the position of the little peanut as much as possible. Use your ultimate move depending on the situation. It would be great if you can provide remote support."
"Also, everyone still needs to do a good job with their eyes. If everyone has money when they go out, they must buy me real eyes."
"Only when we take the initiative in vision can we take the initiative in the game. You have experienced this in the group stage, so I hope you will learn from it and gain wisdom!"
Lu Haoran said to the team members word by word, vision is very important when competing against the SKT team, which will affect the laning, gank, team battles, competition for resources in the jungle and other factors!
"I don't have anything else to say. Just play well in the first game and try to win the game right away!"
"lgd, come on!"
After saying cheers, Lu Haoran took off his headphones and walked toward the center of the stage. After smiling and shaking hands with the duke coach, he turned and left, walking away from each other.
And at the moment when the two coaches left the field, the European and American spectators at the scene finally gave them an extremely neutral cheer that almost blew the roof off.
"lgd! lgd! lgd!"
"skt!skt!skt!"
The lights in the audience once again focused on the msi championship trophy in the center of the stage. Only the winner of this finals bo5 can finally win it!
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"Welcome to League of Legends!"
The game ends loading, and as the screen enters the Summoner's Rift, the first game of the finals officially begins.
At the beginning, the LGD team did not carry out any first-level team design. It started normally according to the five-star consecutive positioning method.
On the other hand, the SKT team seems to be eager to gain an advantage before sending troops, so the little peanut gun first inserted a defensive ward at the entrance of f6, then went directly to the top lane to join Huni Rambo, and then invaded Xiaoning's blue team together.
district.
However, they were caught by the wolf-walking fishmen stationed here in advance, so they immediately retreated without fighting, and at the same time placed a defensive position between the blue buff and the toad.
Although the movements of the top and jungle players of the SKT team were clearly seen by LGD, the little peanut gun still forced Xiao Ning's blue buff to start the game. As for Xiao Ning's blind monk, he opened f6 in the half jungle area alone, and then went straight to the little peanut.
blue zone.
"Although SKT doesn't seem to have much of an advantage in this opening, in fact, their opening plan was successful."
"SKT forced Xiaoning to switch jungle areas, which meant that Xiaoning's blind monk lost the opportunity for level three gank and delayed his first rhythm start point."
"In this way, the little peanut boy will have more time to develop and even have the opportunity to do things first!"
In the first three minutes, nothing happened, but in Miller's analysis, the LPL audience still frowned.
They clearly remembered that when Xiao Ning got the blind monk, he could often do a level three gank or even a level two gank.
But in this finals, the skt team clearly designed it for Xiao Ning and directly prevented his first early gank.
Although it doesn't matter if there is no level 3 gank, the LPL audience is still a little unhappy when they are forced to accept this.
"You must not lose your first blood!"
Looking at the little peanut boy on the screen who was minding his own business, the lpl audience gritted their teeth.
It's just that in such a tense finals, it is still too difficult to continue to get first blood kills on the SKT team as usual.
After all, everyone in SKT is also aware of the early offensive capabilities of the LGD team, so even if they choose a dueling lineup, they must be very careful in the battle before the sixth level.
Under such circumstances, Sima Laothief and Xiao Ming, who did not receive any tactical care, gained some laning advantages in the bottom lane!
The game lasted for 5 minutes. Sima Laothief and Xiao Ming successfully caught a wave of positioning errors by Bang and Wolf, and forcibly knocked down Bang Varus's health until there was only a trace of blood left!
Although the two of them did not dare to pursue further, at this moment, Xiaoning, the blind monk who had just finished killing the crabs in the lower river, pinned a signal towards the bottom lane that was on the way.
"First blood, here I come!"
Xiao Ning smiled and licked her lips, like a bloodthirsty beast!