On January 15, 2018, the LPL spring regular season officially started!
In the new season, LPL has adopted a brand new system-division home and away system!
Officially, this year's LPL teams are divided into two groups: the Eastern and Western groups, each with seven teams.
The regular season schedule is also divided into three rounds. The first round is a confrontation in the same group. Each team will play a BO3 with the other six teams in the group. The second round is a confrontation between different groups. Each team will play a BO3.
The team will play one game with each of the seven teams in the other group, continue to compete in the same group in the third round, and then play one game with each of the six teams in the same group.
In the end, the top four teams in the two groups will be determined by points wins and advance to the playoffs.
It has to be said that this competition system has relatively high requirements on luck. Some teams are very strong, but are unlucky enough to be drawn into a group with more strong teams, which will make it more difficult to enter the playoffs.
If other teams are lucky and are assigned a smaller number of strong teams in the group, their chances of entering the playoffs will be much greater than last season's Brawl format.
However, this is also a competition system developed by the official in order to increase the intensity of the competition.
This competition system also allows for a lot more events, which not only presents more exciting games to the audience, but also provides more opportunities for players from each team to practice.
It's just a challenge to the energy reserves of players and coaches. After all, they have to travel back and forth across the country for a long time, which is tiring and can easily affect their performance.
As the two teams in last summer's finals, IG and RNG entered a division respectively, and then the other teams were allocated according to their results.
Finally, the Eastern Conference of the new season consists of: RNG, SNG, EDG, JDG, LGD, TOP, and RW!
The west is composed of: IG, OMG, WE, SNAKE, BLG, VG, FPX!
At the same time, as last year's global championship and the opening game of the spring split, IG naturally took the responsibility.
The official opponent for their opening match was WE, who had the best record in the same group last year!
WE won the championship in the spring playoffs of 2017, entered the semi-finals in the summer playoffs, and finally entered the world championship through the bubble game. It reached the quarter-finals as the first place in Group D. It is already the strongest in the Western Conference except IG.
team!
RNG, the runner-up in last summer's split, and EDG, another top four, were assigned to the Eastern Conference.
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"Ah Shui, are you nervous?"
At 4:30 in the afternoon, in the lounge of the venue, Chen Yu looked at Ah Shui who was frantically pouring water beside him and asked.
This is already the third bottle of mineral water Ah Shui has filled.
"I'm so nervous! I'm not nervous, buddy, I'm just thirsty!"
Ah Shui said harshly.
"I didn't say anything about you drinking water!"
Chen Yu exposed him without hesitation.
Ah Shui shut up, screwed on the kettle, and threw it aside.
"Don't worry, I will keep you in the bottom lane today. My brother Shui will make his debut in the regular season. Brother, I will definitely give you great statistics!"
Prince Ning on the side laughed and joked.
"As long as I'm here, you don't have to worry about it. Just take care of yourself and get on the road!"
Chen Yu glanced at Prince Ning and said softly.
Chen Yu was not worried about whether Ah Shui would be nervous. He was just teasing her a little bit!
In his previous life, Ah Shui was known for his big heart, and his psychological quality was among the best among professional players. There was no blame he didn't dare to take, so how could he be nervous?
"You mean you don't have to worry about the middle lane?"
Prince Ning was a little dissatisfied and began to sow discord.
It's a pity that Broiler, who was in the honeymoon stage of his relationship, didn't listen to his teammates' words at all. He was engrossed in sending messages to Xiaoyu without any response.
King Ning was asking for trouble and went to Lao Sha's ear to discuss the matter of grabbing the MVP.
Ah Shui was discussing with Chen Yu whether he could choose a Draven for himself.
The atmosphere in the entire lounge is quite relaxed.
Not long after, the door to the lounge opened, and coach Mafa greeted everyone to come on stage!
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"Hello, viewers, I believe you were not satisfied with the Demacia Cup a week ago! Today the 2018 LPL spring regular season officially kicked off. The first game will be played against last year's summer champions and the global finals.
Champion IG and last year’s spring champion WE!”
In the commentary box, remember to be in the warm-up area.
Senior Guan also commented on the result: "Players from both sides have already entered! IG's lineup has had some changes this year. After the retirement of the child god, Ah Shui appeared. Although he performed very well in the Demacia Cup, he was ranked first in the Demacia Cup.
ADC, but I haven’t encountered a top bottom lane combination so far, and my true strength is still open to question!”
"Today their opponent is the well-staffed WE team. Last year, WE reached the quarterfinals of the World Championship and failed in five fierce battles with SKT. It is an honor to lose! After the whole offseason of running-in, they retained last year's World Championship
With the competition lineup, I wonder if it will go further and cause trouble for this new IG?"
Colonel Guan introduced the two teams, but between the lines, he still revealed his distrust of the IG bottom lane combination!
Among all those who question IG's bottom lane composition, he is the leader.
"Okay, the machines of both players have been debugged, and BP is about to begin! In this round, IG came to the blue side!"
"In the first round, they got rid of Luo, Gems, and Morgana! Three auxiliary heroes, it's really rare to see them!"
I remember being a little surprised when I saw IG’s first round of reservations.
IG has the best assistant in the world, Chen Yu, and it is indeed unusual to have three assistants in a row in the first round.
"We have a lot of people to handle in the first round on WE's side, because IG has the power to grab the blue side, and both Lucian and Kalista have to be sent to the spot. In addition, there is also Galio.
It can't be released, but WE chose to only kill Lucian and Kalista. Instead of dealing with Galio, we killed VN in the third hand! I don't know whether it was to deal with the top laner or Ah Shui.
AD."
"I heard that Ah Shui's VN is also very good!"
The senior school officer was very satisfied with WE’s first round of admissions.
Compared with other Kerry heroes, it is obviously easier to deal with the broiler Nagalio as the mid lane tool man.
With it being uncertain whether Ah Shui can maintain Kerry's ability in the top league, as long as IG holds the broiler point in the middle, IG will only have a stable big C on the road.
"This version of Galio has been weakened several times and can be released occasionally! However, IG still chooses to lock Galio on the first floor!"
"WE on the first and second floors directly grabbed the Prince and Qinggang Shadow who can cooperate with Galio's entry! To be honest, when it comes to Galio's system, no one should understand it better than WE. They played BO5 against SKT.
At that time, SKT had to get rid of WE’s Galio!”
When I saw the prince and Qinggang Ying being snatched away from the first and second floors of WE, I remember nodding along with them.
"Kayin? King Ning's Kayn is said to be very Kairui in the ranking game. IG directly locked him on the second floor! Then on the third floor, IG chose Jace! Jace beat Qinggang Shadow, I can only say that it is not difficult to win.
Well, it mainly depends on the operation! In real comparison, it is definitely not as easy to fight as the weapon Crocodile! But Jace has one advantage, that is, he can swing in the middle and up! But IG chose Galio first, and this Jace is probably on the road."
Looking at IG's choices for the second and third floors, Colonel Guan made a stern comment.
If IG plays Jace after confirming Galio, it won't be able to create a confusing effect.
"WE chose the loudmouth that my brother-in-law is good at on the third floor, which is really good!"
"Then in the second round, WE chose to get rid of Draven and Verus! In the Demacia Cup, Ah Shui was Draven with his left hand and Verus with his right hand. He defeated all the players in the Demacia Cup.
Bottom lane! It seems that WE still choose to respect Yishou!"
"On the other hand, IG has eliminated Lulu and Karma one after another for assists! Including the three assists in the first round, IG has eliminated five assists! But there are still too many assists, and WE still have
There’s a wind girl to take!”
I remember being slightly taken aback when I saw IG’s second round of reservations.
IG has five auxiliaries in a row, and the purpose is obvious, targeting WE's auxiliary ben's hero pool!
Chen Yu's hero pool is all kinds of strange and he is not afraid of being targeted, but the hero pools of many support players are not that broad.
After the incense burner version was rampant last season, most of the assistants have mastered soft assistants. There are so many soft assistants that even five office positions cannot be filled. There is still one soft assistant left outside.
Suitable for big-mouthed girls!
However, WE did not choose Feng Nu, but chose Kassadin on the fourth floor!
I remember I was stunned immediately, but Colonel Guan next to me explained: "We are right not to have support on the fourth floor of WE!"
"Chen Yu's support is all kinds of weird. If the bot lane combination goes out first, it is very likely that Chen Yu's back-up combination will target him! WE has a counter position here, and auxiliary counter Chen Yu's hero selection can at least ensure that the bottom lane is not blocked.
Got penetrated by Chen Yu’s saucy tricks!”
"And even if Feng Nu is robbed by IG, they still have Xing Ma and even Qin Nu to use, and Ruan Fu can't finish it!"
"In addition, if it is confirmed that Galio is in the middle of IG, it is also very good to get Kassadin. It is guaranteed in the later stage and you don't have to worry about being suppressed by Galio in the lane! If you Galio roams, I will develop Kassadin, no matter what
If you can kill someone, I won’t lose anyway!”
"WE handled this wave well! Kassadin's late game is trustworthy!"
The head coach is very satisfied with WE's BP. He thinks that WE's coaching staff has figured out IG's identity, which is to put the tool player and Kangte Chen in the support position. They only need to solve one Kerry point and that's it!
However, seeing the heroes on the fourth and fifth floors of IG made them slightly stunned.
EZ on the fourth floor, vampire on the fifth floor!
I remember being confused: "What do you mean? A vampire can't be an auxiliary, right?"
Colonel Guan also reacted after a brief shock: "It's Galio as the assistant! Vampire is the top laner, and Jace is the mid laner! Oh no, IG is just ok? Xiye is going to suffer a lot!"
The IG picture shows the full picture of the lineup finally!
Guan Daxiao thought that WE's response was perfect, but IG actually forced a swing and used Galio, who he judged to be in the middle, to assist.
With Chen Yu's weird hero pool, it's not surprising to get any kind of support, and it's not impossible for Galio to do it.
At the same time, if IG was not a fool, he would definitely put Jace in the middle to suppress Kassadin, who only had 19 points of armor, so that justice would not be served!
Although this move is forced, it is a masterstroke for the WE lineup!
Moreover, if the vampire switches to the top lane, although there is not much advantage in playing Qinggangying, he will not be crushed to death, not to mention that the operator is currently the world's number one top laner, Xin Shao!
WE's fifth floor Kang special selection instantly became entangled. After hesitating for several seconds, I finally chose Feng Nu!
