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Chapter 109 LPL's most hopeless year? [Please subscribe and ask for a monthly pass! 】

IG life in September was not comfortable.

To be precise, not only IG is uncomfortable, but also EDG and RNG.

The most intuitive manifestation of this discomfort is in the training game.

The three teams of the LPL are less than the South Korean team.

Even the teams with staggered groups couldn't make appointments, and the LCK teams rejected their appointments for various reasons.

European and American teams can make some appointments, but EDG and RNG are comfortable in this regard.

Both of their teams have invited TSM, who is invincible in the training match, and IG has no way to invite them to play the training match because they are in the same group as TSM.

Therefore, the quality of IG's recent training games is not high. Although the winning rate is good, this is not what Li Luo wants.

The three teams of the LCK seem to be holding back their energy and intend to shine in this S-series event held in China.

In this situation, there is not much Li Luo can do.

Before the rebirth, the three LPL participating teams all had full-body IG as their training team.

But now there is no one to accompany them.

The players of the WE team have all been on vacation, and the adc brother-in-law has returned to Korea. Under this situation, they can't even get together, let alone a training partner.

If you just replace them with an ADC, it won't be able to achieve the effect of sparring.

In this situation, Li Luo can only hope that the team can adapt to the meta in just six BO1 games in the group stage.

To be precise, they even have to adapt as much as possible in the first three games, that is, the first round of the group stage.

Although the schedule of the group stage is not too long, there are many tricks in it.

The first round is the stage of testing each other.

There are many teams that have achieved good results in the first round, but then they were found out by other teams, which led to the second round being directly dragged and lost in the version.

As the No. [-] seed in the LPL competition area, IG has recently attracted a lot of attention in the circle. Whether it is domestic or global, there are various analysis posts appearing.

There are good and bad in these analyses.

And as Riot Games successively announced their top 20 players in this year's World Championship, the topic of belonging to the IG team also reached its peak in an instant.

"top20, TSM North American big brother."

"top19, EDG junior."

"top18, RNG, mlxg."

"top17, C9, zven."

"top16, SSG, head security."

"top15, Lightning Wolf, Snake Snake."

"top14, RN Guzi."

"top13, Brother Crown of SSG."

"top12, IG, The shy."

"top11, SKT, bang."

"top10, TSM Pilsen."

"top9, IG, shine."

"top8, SSG, cuvee."

"top7, SKT wolf."

"top6, Lz. BDD."

"top5, IG, Rookie."

"top4, LZ, Khan."

"top3, LZ, Gorilla."

"top2, LZ, pray."

"top1, SKT, faker."

Among the list of 20 players, LPL is included in six places.

IG occupies three seats.

Among the three seats occupied by IG, Riot respectively gave the reasons why they chose to include the three IG players in this seat.

top12, The shy: As a rookie, he has a unique understanding of fighter-type top laners. His existence has changed the tactical ecology of the IG team, and at the same time, it will also make the selection of heroes for top laners in this World Championship easier. Interesting, if it can reduce the number of times of being killed by gank during the laning phase, I believe The shy's ranking will rise a notch.

top9, shine: It was very difficult for us to make this decision. As a rookie player, Shine’s excellence is obvious to all. From the microphone in the game, it is not difficult to find that the existence of Shine turned the originally messy IG into a training team. We would like to give him a higher ranking, but he is too young and lacks experience in major competitions. He needs to prove himself with his performance in the World Championship.

top5, Rookie: Rookie won the LCK Summer Championship in 2014, but because of the competition system, his KTA failed to enter the World Championship that year. This neglected player has always performed very well in the LPL. He The ferocious suppressing ability is obvious to all. Having him in IG is equivalent to owning a sharp knife. After two years, Rookie, who returned to the World Championship again, hopes to bring us a better performance.

When the list was fully revealed, the reactions in the circles of each competition area were different.

But there is no doubt that the controversy is very big.

The domestic Tieba forums have been swiped recently.

"Outrageous, this tainted milk list is outrageous, and Shine's summer playoffs Fmvp will give it No.9?"

"Hehe, I think No.9 is already high. Isn't it funny that he can be ranked ahead of bang who has won two world championships?"

"I think SSG's Chidi is quite strong, why isn't he on the list?"

"The tainted milk list produced by the fist, everyone should just take a look. Except for faker, this tainted milk list is not very accurate."

"The shy is too high, he is so easy to be caught and killed, and he can't play tank heroes so he can be ranked 12th?"

"Having said that, there are actually only three top laners in the top 20, and all three are Koreans. When will our local top laners stand up?"

Domestic forums are full of controversies.

Not to mention in other regions.

He has arrived at the SKT training room where he trained in Jiangcheng.

"Junzhi, have you noticed the ranking list given by Riot? That rookie player is still ranked above you."

Wolf gnawed on the bread and said vaguely.

Bang, who was playing ranking, glanced at him casually: "I see, I have never paid much attention to this kind of list. In 15, I was ranked No.19 on the list. I was the champion that year. I was ranked No.16 in 6, we are still champions, there is no reference value."

"That's right, for us, who also aim to be the sprint champion this year, these rankings are meaningless. Maybe they won't even be able to enter the knockout round and meet us."

"I remember that guy Cheng Xun had an interview before. Not long ago, that guy was very crazy."

Wolf, who swallowed the last bite of bread, seemed to think of something, and spoke.

What he said by Chengxun is also Huni.

"What he needs now is not to belittle his opponents in interviews, but to train well. Don't you think he is too unstable? Occasionally he can give you a bright performance, but most of the time he is giving away."

Bang shrugged his shoulders and said.

"You're right, Ala, I'm full. I heard that there's a good restaurant nearby. Shall we try it tonight?"

……

As a topic standing on the cusp of sealing waves, the home team IG team still did not have much response to the outside world.

IG had arrived in Jiangcheng ten days ago, and the club, which was not short of money, spent a lot of money on their domestic expedition. They rented a large flat near the Jiangcheng Sports Center for the players to train and live.

You can even play badminton in the huge living room.

"Brother Luo, the ranking of this fist is obviously lower for you."

Taking advantage of the gap in the line, King Ning complained while browsing the webpage.

"Will those who rank higher give more money?"

Li Luo looked at the small notebook in his hand and said with a blank expression.

"That shouldn't be..."

"Then what does it matter to me, the hero you trained is ready?"

"This...not yet."

"Then practice more."

Li Luo glanced at him: "Although this list is a bit like a poisonous milk list, but it didn't make it into the top 20, so you have to go to the World Championships and use your size 45 soles to slap them in the face?"

King Ning fell silent.

Of course he was not convinced.

He ranks No.30 on the list of all players.

It is the lowest of the three LPL junglers.

There are even two European and American junglers who have surpassed him.

Although King Ning didn't say it, he had secretly remembered it in his heart.

This is what Li Luo taught him a few days ago.

King Ning felt that what Li Luo said was reasonable, that he should not be so proud at ordinary times, and should be humble enough to accept criticism and lessons from others.

Then... remember these people who criticized and taught me, and silently write it down in a small notebook.

Well, that's right, that's it!
……

Soon, the play-in competition kicked off.

Everyone in IG only watched two or three of them and stopped studying.

The frequency of players' mistakes is too high. For example, the third seed C9 in North America and the third seed RNG in LPL can't be said to be killing randomly in this kind of finalist team, it is completely one-sided massacre!

In addition, FNC in Europe also performed well. Although 1907 Fenerbahçe from Turkey is not as dominant as the other three teams in the major competitions, they played rather anxiously, but their resilience is still worthy of respect. .

Not surprisingly, the team that lived a very good life ended up leaving the field with a record of zero strokes and no results.

With the emergence of these four teams, the four vacancies in the four major groups of ABCD are also filled one by one.

Group A: IG, AHQ, TSM, FNC.

Group B: LZ, MSF, IMT, FB.

Group C: G2, SSG, GAM, RNG.

Group D: FW, SKT, EDG, C9.

And when the dust settled on this list, these four groups were also clearly divided into two and a half districts.

Group AB is jokingly called the suspense-free zone.

LZ must be able to qualify. In foreign voting lists, 99% of people think that LZ can qualify, and 86% think that LZ can qualify as the No. [-] seed.

IG, another team known as a strong team, is deeply controversial, but at least 70% of people think that IG can also qualify.

However, it is worth mentioning that the number of voters who think that IG can be the top of the group only accounts for 30% of the total.

This is a foreign list, and domestic audiences cannot participate in voting.

It can be seen that the outer competition area is not optimistic about the No. [-] seed team of LPL.

Groups C and D are called death groups.

Voting in both groups was very confusing.

Every audience has their own opinions. It is difficult for the audience to judge which four teams will stand out from the two groups based on their strength on paper.

And in such an environment, an article came out quietly.

This article was written by Montecristo, an English stream commentator of the famous Korean fan.

It covers his own predictions and opinions on the World Championship, as well as interviews with many professional players.

But the title of this article completely ignited the anger of the LPL audience.

"Is this year the weakest year in the LPL division?"

This is the summary of the title.

Although there is a question mark, the irony in it is self-evident.

The most important thing is that I don't know whether the release date of this article is intentional or unintentional. If it is synchronized from Europe and the United States to the capital time, it happens to be October [-]st.

"On October 2015, [-], a team from the LPL division surrendered at the Paris Pullman venue."

"To face them is the FNC team from Europe."

"What's interesting is that the two teams are in the same group again this year. FNC, which broke out from the finalists, is looking for the next stone that can sharpen their knives."

"In addition to the TSM team, there is another team that also came from that year's group, and the personnel of this team did not undergo a relatively large turnover."

"What I didn't expect was that the IG team, which was unfortunately eliminated in the Pullman venue, could enter the World Championship as the No. [-] seed this year. Their luck and strength are commendable."

"I interviewed several players from that year and asked them to put forward their views on this year's LPL division."

"I interviewed Huni first. He was in the FNC team that year, but now he is in SKT, and there is only Ou Cheng left in FNC."

"huni said: I feel very sorry for the IG back then, because I don't think that IG's strength has reached the standard for entering the World Championship, especially when I played Revan and completed the counter-kill in the first tower. The IG branch is weak."

"Of course it doesn't rule out that the game will be my illusion, so I very much hope that IG can enter the knockout round, and then we are lucky enough to draw us. I want to play Raven again (laughs)."

……

"Fuck, how can this guy pretend so well?"

When King Ning saw this, he was in a state of suspense.

"Isn't that bad?"

Li Luo glanced at him: "You have to thank the attitude, he gave this guy enough confidence, and now this guy is obviously a bit flustered, if his performance in the World Championship is okay, then everything is easy to say, if he doesn't perform well, He may be sprayed back to the European and American divisions again."

"This commentary, I have an impression."

Rookie said thoughtfully.

He has seen too many similar articles recently.

This one just looks a little more extreme.

This feeling of being very angry but having no ability to refute at the moment made Rookie feel angry in his heart.

"The game is about to start in four days, calm down, we will face FNC in the first game after four days, we have to win, not only to win, but also to win simply."

mafa came up and said.

He is worried that the IG players will have mental problems due to the recent public opinion.

The style of play of these IG players is relatively easy to get ahead.

It would be a real laughing stock if someone dug a hole to ambush him because he was too angry and then took the bait.

"Where are you now? Forgot what FNC's adc said in the post-match interview at the end of the finalists two days ago?"

Li Luo's words made everyone in IG look a little weird.

It is true that most of the media these days is just writing about the old things of the year.

There are very few content aimed at other IG players.

Except for Li Luo.

As the Fmvp of the summer finals, Li Luo's performance was too dazzling. After Riot added another fire to the top 20 player rankings, the ADCs that did not make the list in each major competition area more or less looked down on Li Luo.

FNC's adc Ou Cheng was considered relatively restrained among these people during the interview.

Li Luo remembers very clearly that when Ou Cheng was asked what he thought of Li Luo at that time, Ou Cheng said bluntly that he used to think he was a dazzlingly talented ADC, but only after the World Championships did he realize that the world is too wide up.

These words didn't sound like they were aimed at Li Luo on the surface.

But the deep meaning hidden secretly is well known to all.

In addition, bang of the SKT team also commented on the LPL finals. According to bang, the bp done by the EDG team was too childish. He couldn't understand why EDG kept pressing Li Luo's playmaker to death.

The adc player who expressed the same opinion as bang is also C9's women's tycoon adc. He also thinks that the playmaker is not qualified to be banned in this version. Even if he plays well, can he play well?

Li Luo saw all these, but Li Luo didn't respond.

Li Luo has always believed that practice is the only criterion for testing truth.

He has no control over what others think of him, and he has no time to do so.

He just needs to do what he should do, and that's enough.

……

Under such a turbulent tide, the group stage of the 2017 League of Legends Global Finals finally kicked off in the Jiangcheng Gymnasium.

Under the arrangement of the tournament organizing committee, the match between RNG and G2 was scheduled for the first match.

Under the nearly full home stadium of the LPL, the players of the G2 team walked onto the stage waving their arms.

Li Luo looked at the high-spirited Ah P in the field, and felt quite emotional in his heart.

Ah P at this time is still little P.

The G2 at this time is not the one from the S8 season.

Although they are the No. [-] seed in the EU division, they have attracted much attention and are also favored by many people.

But according to the tactical drills Li Luo and Mafa did before this game, G2's chances of winning against RNG are not high.

IG's game today is at 06:30 in the evening.

There are three hours until their game.

IG still has time to observe the bp of other participating teams.

As for RNG and G2 who played for the first time, while they harvested the first wave of traffic, they will also become guinea pigs in the eyes of all teams.

Every move of their bp is likely to affect the bp trend of other teams in today's follow-up games.

Li Luo frowned slightly when he saw that Xia had been pressed directly on the first floor of RNG on the blue side.

RNG's bp strategy seems to have not changed from his impression before rebirth.

As the opponent, G2 is very targeted at pressing the big mouths of Calista and Uzi on the fixed ban.

As the opening match, the lineup chosen by G2 is quite conventional.

But RNG chose a somewhat weird chopper team.

When the top laner chose Dashu, Xiaohu's mid laner chose Jess, who tended to poke in the early and mid-term.

In this first hand, RNG seems to be planning to play in the way they think is the easiest way to win the game.

"Uzi's mouse has something to say. To be honest, I feel that G2's bottom lane resistance is not very strong. If their small cannon is not effective when paired with Lulu, the output is a bit exaggerated when the mouse is up and combined with Fengnv's shield. of."

King Ning commented at the beginning.

In the S4 period, uzi often chose heroes like mice on the field, and this is definitely one of uzi's signature heroes.

Although Xiangguo chose Zhumei, his playing style is obviously different from others.

The mid laner Ryze chosen by G2 is a bit too slow-paced. Under the strong gank of Zhumei in the early stage, Xiangguo suppressed the early rhythm of G2's jungle excavator.

Using a pig girl to press an excavator is a very exaggerated thing in the game.

In the end, Uzi's mouse successfully harvested the game with a score of 9/0 with the incense burner monster.

RNG, with a big lead in kills, completed their debut.

Mafa and Li Luo were discussing and recording something.

And the follow-up games were not as they expected. The Censer Monster has become the top priority in the current version. They hardly saw any team that would release Kalista, nor did they see any team that would choose to start a hard team. auxiliary.

Five thirty in the afternoon.

Finally it was the turn of Group A to compete.

However, there was an upset in the first game of Group A.

After a 45-minute stalemate with the AHQ team, the No. [-] seed TSM in North America was tricked by a wave of AHQ's strong drive of the ancient dragon, which caused TSM, which had a small advantage, to be wiped out in a wave.

AHQ scored the first point in Group A and temporarily ranked first in Group A.

Seeing the base crystal shatter, Mafa stood up and clapped his hands: "It's time for us to go."

"Ah."

Everyone on IG got up one after another.

Li Luo carefully observed the state of his teammates.

Except that Baolan seemed a little nervous and cramped, Li Luo felt that his worries about other people in IG seemed superfluous.

King Ning was still shaking his legs before getting up, looking like he was fooling around.

Rookie, who has already participated in the world championship once, is not nervous at the moment. Whenever nervous emotions are about to emerge in his mind, a figure will fill his mind instead of this emotion.

Rookie knows that this time he doesn't need to be the dean like S5.

His teammates, everyone can tell the truth, and there is a king of the truth.

In this case, what is he afraid of?

As for The shy...

Li Luo looked at The shy's casual look, and was a little speechless.

At this moment, even he himself felt the adrenaline soaring.

But The shy, a newcomer, didn't respond at all.

nervous?

Maybe he didn't even know what nervousness was.

This is also another combat advantage that Li Luo thinks the IG team has.

The character of the players determines their mentality.

And this mentality will also affect their on-the-spot performance on the field.

"This game is against FNC...we have to win, we must win."

Everyone in IG folded their hands together. Li Luo looked around and said word by word: "My requirement for today's game is only four words, focus and concentration."

"IG, just do it!"

"Dry!"

The skirts danced, and as the music and drums from the scene sounded, the IG players stepped onto the stage.

Today is their first match in the World Championship.

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