From the moment Roaring Blue Rain decided the winner to Tyranny Tiny Herb starting the second round of the knockout rounds, the playoffs were suspended for four days.
These days were originally used to arrange a possible third round of competition. However, in the first round, no group ended in a tie in the first two rounds.
Fortunately, the eight games that have ended are all exciting and remarkable. Therefore, even if there is a four-day window, the excitement for the playoffs will not diminish.
Especially in the battle of Howling Blue Rain, the Kongji Divine Realm was used again just after the ban was lifted, which triggered a heated discussion. Most fans believed that if a map was changed, Howling might not lose, but it would never be possible to win.
So relaxed. And the long-famous Sword and Curse will not say goodbye to this summer without any performance at all.
However, the excitement was only for the masses after all. The defeated Lan Yu returned to Yangcheng to lick his wounds silently; while the victorious Wuxiao was racing against time to prepare for the next round with Excellent Era.
For Wuxiao, Excellent Era is an extremely powerful opponent, even more powerful than Tyranny, the recognized favorite to win the championship. At least, in the regular season, Wuxiao's record against Tyranny was a loss in both games!
However, if Wuxiao wants to make a breakthrough this year while Lin Jingyan is still on the team, Excellent Era is already an unavoidable hurdle. Either they can get over it, or they can stop there, there is no third possibility.
"Let's fight." Lin Jingyan said.
Tactics masters are not unsolvable. In the past four years, only Yu Wenzhou has won the championship once. And that time he won the championship, he was not the most critical winning factor in the final.
Copying homework sounds easy, but in practice, various surprises will always occur.
The way Samsara defeated Blue Rain last year is not going to work for Wuxi. First, it is impossible to temporarily improve skill points like Samsara. Second, Excellent Era's Xiao Shiqin is different from Yu Wenzhou. His operational ability is not as good as in All-Stars.
Everyone in the queue is of superior quality, and it cannot be interfered with by just any attacker approaching.
Fortunately, all roads lead to Rome. Restricting the command of the master tactician does not only target the master tactician himself. How did Whistling win in the last round? This time, the idea is reversed and it can still be effective.
A place of exile.
Lin Jingyan, Fang Rui and Qiu Fei finally discussed it and decided to place the first battle against Excellent Era on this famous leveling map.
When fighting Lan Yu, of course I hope that Huang Shaotian and Yu Wenzhou will be together and not go anywhere.
When fighting against Excellent Era, one must hope that Sun Xiang and Xiao Shiqin would be separated and run far away from each other. It would be best to not even see each other until death.
After deciding on the map, the next step is training. The broken and complex terrain is most suitable for small team operations. And this is precisely the only place where Whistling is better than Excellent Era.
On July 3, the second round of the playoffs started at Tiny Herb’s home court in Beijing.
Tyranny is known as the Four Heavenly Kings, but looking at Tiny Herb's lineup, it's actually not inferior. In addition to the three All-Stars Wang Jiexi, Xu Bin, and Gao Yingjie, Liu Xiaobie is also ranked very high, but is just a little less popular.
Strong enemies were ahead, Tiny Herb and Tyranny, no matter host or guest, they did not dare to neglect. In the opening arena match, both sides used their main strength and went all out.
On Tyranny's side, the moment he appeared, it was the team's most famous player, captain Han Wenqing.
Tiny Herb's side seemed to have guessed the opponent's formation. The one facing Han Wenqing was Xu Bin, who was good at overcoming strength with softness and was the most restrained in his style of play.
King of Fighters vs. King of Grinding, these two players with completely opposite styles seem to be walking on two paths from the very beginning of the game. One side is courageous and presses forward step by step; the other side walks away as soon as they touch it.
Definitely not fighting for real.
The two characters fought from the upper left to the lower right of the map, destroying several tents and rows of fences along the way, throwing a perfectly good Afaria camp into chaos.
Fang Rui, who was watching the game in his conference room, commented: "It's a good idea to use Xu Bin to polish Han Wenqing's form. But with the situation like this, it feels like the gain is not worth the loss. The second and third formations of Tiny Herb came up
I’m afraid it would be difficult for people to make a fuss about terrain.”
"Perhaps, it's simply not necessary." Qiu Fei thought for a while and said, "The magic path itself does not have high requirements on terrain, and Liu Xiaobie does not seem to be good at making use of terrain."
Fang Rui smiled and said, "That's right, I've been too involved. I always think about how I should fight, but not how they want to fight."
The situation on the field began to change at this time, and Desert Guyan was about to be forced to live alone.
Knights are a plate-armor profession, with a high load-bearing capacity, and are inherently clumsier than boxers. In addition, the equipment for solo workers is not as good as that of Desert Guyan, so it is inevitable that Han Wenqing will catch up with him.
Compared with Han Wenqing, Xu Bin's qualifications are certainly far behind. But he became the main force as soon as he debuted. After three years, he has experienced hundreds of battles and has rich competition experience. He did not wait until he was chased to the end before he started to resist.
, but counterattacked when there was still room. This move made Han Wenqing spend a lot of effort before he won the game.
Desert Guyan still had over 30% of his health left, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that it was almost impossible for Han Wenqing to win the next round—unless he didn't want to play in a team match.
The second player from Tiny Herb is Gao Yingjie. The magic scholar's attack range is much further than that of the knight, so even with repeated tactics, he poses a much greater threat to the boxer.
Han Wenqing was also very aware of this, so he made up his mind, sold some blood, then leaned close to Yun, used his double tiger palms, and struck with a back fist.
Gao Yingjie is no longer the young boy who couldn't even deliver a speech at the All-Star Weekend that year. More than a year of experience has greatly improved his self-confidence. Although Han Wenqing's playing style was beyond Gao Yingjie's expectations,
But he did not panic, and responded calmly. Mu En held a broom in his hand to block him, not only keeping him protected from the wind and rain, but also using the force of the counter-shock to try to regain the distance.
However, Jiang is still hot as ever. Han Wenqing sensed Gao Yingjie's intention and used all his strength. He punched forward, then jabed, then elbowed and stuck firmly. Then, Damo Guyan twisted his waist and used two long legs.
Flying up and down, he kicked with his whirlwind legs in a series, kicked forward and high, and kicked down the lower part. For a moment, Mu En could only parry and had no power to fight back.
Han Wenqing has mastered this set of combos over the years, and there is no flaw in the connection between skills. Even if Wang Jiexi is in front, he can only suffer at this moment. Gao Yingjie can resist it steadily at this moment.
It has been quite difficult.
Seeing that Han Wenqing could not defeat his opponent, he felt a little regretful, but he completely gave up the idea of winning.
The tiger's flurry, the lightning speed punch, and the desert smoke's ultimate move ended his first appearance tonight.