"Which team do you like, Brother Lang?" JackeyLove looked at Chen Lang beside him and asked.
Today's game is between the two teams in Group A, VG and IM.
There are a total of 8 teams in the playoffs, of which Group A is VG, IM, WE and CP.
Group B is IG, snake, EDG and RNG.
Among them, VG, IM and IGsnake are the opponents in the first round of the playoffs.
It is worth mentioning that this year PDD's YM lost to IM in the LSPL final, thus failing to win the LSPL spring championship, and failed to win the opponent in the relegation match. In the end, they were only one step away from the LPL.
It's a pity that I still couldn't make it to the LPL stage, so I once again practiced in the LSPL in the summer split.
IM changed its name after joining the LPL. The club's predecessor was EDE, the second team of EDG.
Due to Riot regulations, a club cannot have two teams in the league, so EDE was sold.
Among them, the IM mid laner is Athena, the mid laner who briefly replaced pawn in the EDG Spring Split.
He helped EDG reach the finals in the German Cup, but was defeated by Chen Lang in three games. EDG failed to win the German Cup for the first time since its establishment.
The loss of the game was certainly not entirely due to Athena's fault.
After all, how many mid laners can meet Chen Lang without being suppressed?
Athena also played for a while in the Spring Split, until Pawn returned after his health recovered, and Athena was once again put back into the second team of LSPL to play mid lane.
IM was able to reach the LPL playoffs in their first season, which also shows that their team's potential and strength are not bad.
There are no star players in the team, and the most well-known ones are amazingJ and Athena, two people who have played in EDG.
However, the situations of the two are very similar, and they both fell from the LPL league to the secondary league.
amazingJ’s performance in S5 is impressive. He became famous because he was praised by Marin as “the crocodile beats Nuo’s hand, and Nuo’s hand beats crocodile”...
"IM." Chen Lang thought for a moment and answered.
"Why?" JackeyLove was a little surprised.
On paper, VG is much stronger than IM.
Regardless of the players' resumes, abilities or other aspects, VG has more advantages than IM.
"I think IM is more like a team." Chen Lang replied: "Their decision-making and operations are very consistent, and the team coordination is better."
Many times, in this game, 1+1 does not necessarily mean greater than 2. OMG in the S5 Spring Split illustrates this point well.
This is a team game with limited resources, so someone in the team must make sacrifices.
Only those who are willing to be green leaves can bring out the red flowers. If no one wants to sacrifice themselves, then there will not be enough resources, and there will be many conflicts within the team.
Another point is that in order to prevent the S5 "Oscar" scene in this playoffs, the teams that play against each other in the first round of the playoffs will automatically win a game based on their regular season rankings.
IM's points in the regular season are higher than VG's, so IM has a 1-0 lead at the start.
To win the game, VG needs to win three hands, while IM only needs to win two hands.
For BO5, being one game ahead is a huge advantage.
Chen Lang has watched many of IM's games. There are no big-name players in the team. The players are all working hard for victory. In this environment, it is easier to succeed.
But VG is different. Ever since Mata and Death announced their break, the atmosphere in the team has become more subtle.
The ADC currently playing is not as good as Death Declaration, but he can still start.
Perhaps in the management's view, AD's role is just to hang up and play output, so they put all their hopes on dandy and easyhoon, Han Yuan's midfielder!
One is the SSW champion jungler, and the other is the S5 runner-up substitute mid laner. Relatively speaking, these two are much stronger than the average player.
And as a position that requires communication and tacit understanding, both of them are Koreans, so their communication is smoother than that of Chinese and Korean players, making it easier to coordinate.
It's just a pity that VG's record is not particularly outstanding.
Last summer, VG also entered the playoffs, albeit in the first round.
VG's current situation is inseparable from their management.
The strength of the players is one thing, and the management of the club is another thing, which can definitely affect the players' status and on-site performance.
Currently, the best management in the LPL club is EDG's management.
There is also a system of clear rewards and punishments for caring team members.
Therefore, EDG's team atmosphere has always been pretty good.
Although the club has a "notorious reputation", in fact, for EDG players, they still receive a lot of protection and encouragement.
JackeyLove held his head in his hands and leaned back on the gaming chair, then stretched out.
"I didn't expect that VG's lineup would be so difficult."
Xiaotian nodded and said: "Yes, I think they should be a very strong team, but they are just a little strange."
Xiaotian had a clear feeling about this when they were opponents.
Dandy obviously plays very aggressively, and sometimes VG can get an advantage, but something goes wrong out of nowhere, and then the advantage is gone.
"Actually, it just doesn't fit." Chen Lang said: "It seems like a good lineup, but the players have different playing styles and cannot effectively complement each other."
"Easyhoon is a relatively stable player, while dandy is a jungler who prefers rhythm and attack. He likes to invade the jungle and play the early rhythm, but this is exactly the rhythm that easyhoon is not good at."
"Furthermore, VG's support is not mata and cannot effectively cooperate with him, so dandy is often isolated in the jungle. His style of play will actually drag down the team."
"It seems like this..." JackeyLove recalled the previous game, and it was indeed the case.
They saw dandy invading the bottom jungle area in the bottom lane. At that time, JackeyLove thought that the opponent was coming to attack him, so he and lqs quickly retreated.
As a result, there was no one behind Dandy, which frightened him in vain.
Then he called Xiaotian to catch dandy in the jungle. Dandy encountered a gank in the jungle, and the VG duo had no choice but to go to support them. As a result, everyone in the field was killed, and the VG rhythm exploded.
Chen Lang laughed and said: "So, players often have to adapt to the rhythm of their teammates and the team."
"Either change yourself to integrate into the team, or let the team match you!"
"It makes sense." Xiaotian agreed very much with Chen Lang's words.
The former is what ordinary players do. They follow the team and do things as long as they do what they are expected to do.
The latter is the play style of a strong player. Because he is strong enough and has the ability to end the game and can lead the team to victory, he can let the team play around him.
Such as sofm.
Snake is the first team to develop a game centered around jungle, which also shows SS's recognition of SofM.
Another example is UZI. No matter which team he goes to, he always ensures that the team has four guarantees and one. On the one hand, his strong strength can protect the team. If he is given enough resources, he can win the game.
On the other hand, it may also be related to his personality. If you play around him, he will be happy. If you don't play around him, you will get emotional, which will hurt the team.
However, after joining RNG, his personality has improved a lot and he is no longer as irritable as before.
Looper and Mata in the team are not inferior to him in terms of honor or strength, and he can no longer be as willful as before.
Sometimes, it may not be a good thing to have such veteran players in the team.
Of course, there are exceptions.
Such as IG.
This team's style of play is very strange and hard to understand.
Obviously Rookie has the ability to play alone, but IG just doesn't play around him. Instead, Rookie needs to match the team's rhythm...
IG's game depends on the performance of rookie and Gemini. If rookie kills slower than Gemini, then IG's game will be useless.
Otherwise, you will win.
Therefore, the audience made fun of the IG Club and felt that Principal Wang was such a good boss. He kept the two players without expelling them, which was really benevolent and righteous!
KID is an old problem, not a technical problem, but a mental problem that is too serious.
In fact, Kid wanted to win the game so much that he switched to jungle for the team in the summer split. His desire to survive is much stronger than his attitude.
In contrast to Kid, who will admit his mistakes, Stance is often the one who leads his teammates and the rhythm of the team. He is a bad guy without even realizing it, but he still speaks harshly. This makes many IG fans very dissatisfied, and they are looking for a top laner to force Stance into a loser.
Walk.
As Chen Lang said, IM directly banned the card and then snatched the Ice Girl.
The ban card is to prevent VG from playing support, and the same is true for grabbing the ice girl, and easyhoon's ice girl is very good, so it can be regarded as using grabbing instead of ban.
Athena's personal strength is not bad, and the current version of Tsar is not a particularly good choice.
All IM did was to keep easyhoon online and prevent him from cooperating too much with dandy's rhythm.
easyhoon chose Kalmar, but the results are still different.
In the end, IM won the first game after a fierce battle.
"VG is difficult."
After the first game, Chen Lang shook his head.
"What's wrong?" JackeyLove and others looked at Chen Lang with puzzled faces.
The first game has just ended, why does it sound like VG will definitely be eliminated?
Chen Lang said calmly: "Momentum is very important. IM winning the first game is an opportunity for their team to greatly increase their morale, while VG will fall into a trough."
"Isn't it a match?" lqs asked doubtfully: "They are all veteran players, not newcomers, so their condition adjustment shouldn't be that bad, right?"
JackeyLove and others nodded in agreement.
Chen Lang smiled and did not answer lqs' question directly, but asked in a different way.
"We lost the game, you must be sad inside, right?"
Everyone nodded.
Chen Lang continued to ask: "What if the opponent we lose to is RNG or EDG?"
JackeyLove responded: "Their strength is not weak, and winning or losing is normal."
"Yes." Chen Lang nodded: "Because our strengths are not much different, everyone can accept it no matter whether we win or lose. This is also the construction of psychological expectations."
"But what if the opponent you lose to is OMG or LGD?"
"That would be difficult." JackeyLove hesitated and replied with a wry smile.
RNG and EDG are teams with the ability to compete for the championship, while OMG and LGD are teams at the bottom of the pile. This is completely incomparable!
OMG focuses on cultivating new people and basically no longer values performance.
Of course, LGD has nothing to do. The lineup they originally wanted to win the championship achieved this record, but the double kings are really "kings"!
OMG is starting to train new mid laner icon and AD player smlz, with its sights set on next season!
"Similarly, compared to VG's lineup and players, IM is a secondary league team. Although it has entered the playoffs, its background is still inferior to that of LPL teams, let alone VG [Galaxy].
Battleship] lineup!”
"VG players and IM players have completely different mentality when fighting."
"For IM, after reaching the playoffs, winning any game is a bloody gain, but VG definitely doesn't want to lose. Once they lose the game, the players' inner pressure will be very high, and there is no solution to this problem.
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During a game, when a player has a mental problem and cannot adjust well, it is basically difficult to win the game.
To put it simply, VG has a burden, so every time they lose a game, the pressure on the team members will double day by day, while IM is a "civilian" lineup. They have no pressure and only have momentum, so they can work harder!
When players have the momentum to move forward and are fearless, their combat effectiveness will be greatly improved.
Chen Lang and the others entered the LPL league just like IM. When the team wins consecutively, the players will become more and more confident and their operations will be better.
When a team falls into a losing streak, the atmosphere within the team will deteriorate, and the players will become self-doubting, hesitant, or even afraid to operate, and will only dare to play the game conservatively.
The first thing they think about is not how to win the game, but how to avoid taking the blame.
If you don't do something, you won't do anything wrong. The more you do, the more mistakes you make...
Sure enough, as Chen Lang said, although VG successfully regained the game, they were defeated by IM one after another. In the end, IM3-1
In the next few games, IM always implemented this idea and did not give VG a linkage effect. AmazingJ's warrior level on the top lane was poor, but he was very good at tanking.
His sense of smell for team play is very sensitive and he can always make good team shots.
IM finally defeated VG 3-1 and advanced to the second round of the playoffs!
Unfortunately, VG's playoff journey ended here.
After the game, easyhoon and dandy left the field very sadly.
Before leaving the stage, easyhoon once again looked back at the cheering IM crowd and the bright lights on the stage, feeling infinitely lonely in his heart.
When I left SKT, I wanted to prove myself.
However, this year’s journey ends here.
He couldn't even make it to the World Championships, which was really hard for him to accept but he had to accept this cruel reality.
His and Marin's situations are very similar. Both of them wanted to come to LPL to start another career journey. Who would have thought that it would end just after it started.
One failed to enter the playoffs, and the other missed the first round. This is a very bad year for them.
"IM's toughness is very strong!" After watching the game, JackeyLove stretched and sat up from his chair.
"Yeah." lqs nodded.
VG once had a very big advantage, but IM resisted tenaciously and finally completed the comeback after being broken in two lanes.
"amazingJ's entry timing is really strong!" Xiaotian said.
In a team battle that decided the outcome, amazingJ's Poppy circled around everyone in VG and moved to the C position. He was the main contributor to IM's ability to win the team battle!
"We need to be careful about IM's field of view when the time comes." JackeyLove and Xiaotian were discussing IM's field of view arrangement.
The important reason why amazingJ was able to successfully bypass the scene is that the previously arranged field of view position was very tricky, and VG failed to eliminate it, which resulted in this situation.
Nosuke, lqs and Xiaotian, are the main figures in vision control, so they control IM's vision more carefully.
Chen Lang saw their serious looks and smiled and said: "Don't worry, whether IM can pass WE is still a question."
Now 2.0WE is very powerful!
In fact, to be honest, compared to IM, they are considered a "new" team.
It's just that they have been training in the LPL for a year, while IM is a team that has just been promoted from the LSPL.
