archer ferocity

Chapter 361 The drums sound, the finals start, and the first round is intense! (7.4k)

11 month 3 day.

Incheon.

Wenhe Stadium.

There was a long queue early in the morning in front of the stadium, which can accommodate 5 people.

Quite a few of them are fans from the LPL division who came to watch the game. It sounds a bit unreal to have so many domestic fans come to support in a foreign home court.

In fact, it was very difficult for many LPL fans to get tickets before the tickets went on sale. Perhaps the Koreans themselves did not expect that the S-series tournament held in Korea again after four years did not come from their LCK team.

What happened in a certain time and space is now re-happening in another time and space in a foreign country.

The scalpers in South Korea cried.

No matter how many LPL fans go to South Korea to watch the game at home, it is far from being able to empty the hoarded tickets in the hands of ticket dealers.

They had to choose to sell at a reduced price. After all, no matter which country they are in, there are fans who have no home team and really love the league.

It is precisely because of the combination of various situations that the number of on-site audiences is still frighteningly large.

The players of the IG team and the EDG team met in front of the player channel on the other side of the venue.

Except for the two newcomers Jin Gong and Xiaotian, the old players of EDG and the players of IG have long been familiar with each other.

"Brother Luo, let me tell you, even though I call you brother, I will go down the road to fuck you at this point today."

Ning Wangjian leaned forward and said very straightforwardly.

"Think our Guokui is vegetarian? You haven't beaten us this year."

With a smile on his face, Li Luo pulled Xiao Tian beside him.

Xiaotian looked at King Ning, and narrowed his eyes which were not too big.

"Him? He can't."

King Ning smiled and said deliberately.

Xiaotian wasn't angry either, he had expected this to happen before he came.

So Xiaotian explained a fact very calmly: "You have never won."

King Ning smiled stiffly, then curled his lips: "I can blow you up in the wild."

"You haven't won."

"Do you have the ability to release Lao Tzu Camille?"

"Don't let it go."

"Boiled!"

King Ning swears: "Choose a blind monk for me, and I can kick you to death."

Xiao Tian grinned: "Who can't do a blind monk, I can too."

"Yes yes yes, you will, when you are riding a horse to play in the summer game, you can empty the first R and then the Q, you will."

"That wins me."

King Ning turned away.

He didn't want to say another word to this man.

With such a straight temper like him, I really don't like Xiaotian's character.

The yin and yang are strange, very annoying.

On the other side, Rookie is also having friendly exchanges with the elementary school students.

The shy's Chinese is still difficult to communicate in daily life, so he just came over to say hello to Li Luo, and then went to the side to talk to Duke.

Baolan and Jackeylove walked over. Jackeylove didn't look much different from last year, but his professional career over the past year gave him an inexplicable aura.

There is such a thing as temperament.

When two adcs stand together, one can tell who is confident and who is not.

"Brother Luo, be gentle today."

Jackeylove said with a smile on his face.

Li Luo glanced at him, and after two seconds of silence, he suddenly spoke: "Looking at you, you should have figured out how to hit me, right?"

Jackeylove was taken aback when he heard the words, and there was a moment of astonishment in his expression.

However, such a momentary change of expression was captured by Li Luo. Li Luo knew that he had got some kind of answer.

On the other side, Baolan didn't shy away and said, "Brother Luo, you'll know when the time comes, and I won't be soft."

"Then you have to be tougher than me."

Meiko leaned over and said leisurely.

Soon, the staff came over and took the players from both sides to the backstage lounge of their respective teams.

The players on both sides just said goodbye.

On the way to the lounge, Meiko glanced at Li Luo who seemed to be thinking, and asked, "What's the matter, Old Li?"

"It's okay, I just feel that today's IG may be very well prepared."

Li Luo shook his head slightly.

Over the past year, IG has never won EDG in BO5 or BO3.

But when it came to the last match that could be said to sum up the whole year, Li Luo was not [-]% sure in his heart.

The World Championship version fits the IG team very well.

EDG has come to today by virtue of its changeable tactics.

In other words, the EDG team is not the chosen one in this World Championship.

They just played well.

From the most intuitive point of view, EDG has not had any team's bp in this world championship that would make them feel tricky.

However, when facing IG, during the discussion between Abu and Li Luo, they felt the pressure of BP for the first time.

BP is one of the most important parts of a game, whether or not one can win in BP will dominate at least [-]% of the chance of winning.

This is no exaggeration at all.

Many teams feel this way when they face EDG. They have to make a lot of ban concessions against Li Luo, and against Li Luo's backwardness, the restrictions on other positions of EDG will be severely insufficient, and the strength of other positions in EDG is not good. Weak, between shrinking and shrinking, it magnifies the space for other positions of EDG to play.

But when EDG faced IG, they had to target some necessary heroes.

The unrestrained combat style of the IG team will also become a major obstacle for EDG.

"Preparation is a must."

Abu smiled after hearing Li Luo's words: "But it's okay, you know the professional ability of our coaching staff."

"Yes."

Zhu Kai also echoed.

Although... His professional ability is just like that.

But Zhu Kaiqiang is not in this regard.

His strength lies in the cohesion of the team.

"Of course I know, and you can rest assured that no matter what kind of targeting IG makes, I can handle it."

Li Luo smiled and said, he has already won the world championship once, and having worries in his heart does not mean that Li Luo will be discouraged.

Especially when both parties know the bottom line.

After all... the most important time in life is spent with each other.

……

Time passed by minute by minute.

Soon, the opening ceremony of the S8 finals kicked off.

Riot loves to have some mixed shows at opening ceremonies.

Of course, the "praise" in the mixed praise and criticism here only accounts for a small part.

And the theme song of S8 is the peak of perfection.

This point has not changed in the slightest with the arrival of Li Luo and the change of the champion of the S7 World Finals.

Li Luo didn't care about this, and didn't even think too much about it.

Before the rebirth, both the media and the general public like to associate the theme song with the winning team, and find out from the title or lyrics of the theme song that it seems to be connected with the winning team.

For example, the most intuitive ones are the pole in the peak and the pole behind the IG team uniform.

The Nirvana resonance produced by FPX's team logo Phoenix and the theme song of the S9 World Championship.

Etc., etc.

In Li Luo's view, the reason why people are strong is largely from the level of thinking.

In fact, no matter which team wins the championship, someone will always associate the elements in the theme song with the team, and it will make people feel very reasonable.

After the opening ceremony, the pre-match promotional video link belonging to the two teams also came.

In the majestic music, Li Luo's figure was the first to appear.

Under the Seoul Tower, while Li Luo looked up at the top of the tower, Li Luo's voice also sounded.

"I have climbed that peak once, but this mountain does not have only one side. Different directions also correspond to different challenges. I want to climb a second time."

As Li Luo's voice fell, Jackeylove's figure also appeared.

"I once watched my teammates successfully reach the top, but at that time I was just a substitute who couldn't play, but it doesn't matter, my predecessors have left a path to the top, I just You need to follow in the footsteps of your predecessors, and you will definitely be able to reach the top."

Meiko stepped up the steps and walked to Li Luo's side. Wearing the EDG team uniform, he stood still with his arms folded in the shot: "It is true to say that, but climbing needs a leader. Now, once climbed The guides to the summit are with us."

……

As one figure after another appeared, on both sides under the Seoul Tower, almost all the players from both teams were present.

It is worth mentioning that, whether it is Chinese domestic players or South Korean players, they all speak Chinese, just like last year's IG.

When all the players were counted, the scene in the arena was broken apart like pixel blocks, and the players all fell into a void surrounded by dark special effects.

As the light above his head lit up, the S race trophy shone brightly above.

For the contestants who stood still on the stage, they didn't even have the mind to think about how the promotional video was shot at this time.

After all, the countdown to the life-and-death struggle between the two sides on the field has come.

"Hello, audience friends, what you are watching now is the final of the 2018 League of Legends Global Finals! Hello everyone, I am Doll."

"Hello, I'm Miller."

"Hi everyone, I'm Zeyuan."

Three figures appeared on the screens of domestic players.

They explained the semi-finals between EDG and KT, and they went into battle again after only resting the BO5 of IG and VIT.

In the first civil war of the LPL, of course, the three most famous commentators will still be on the scene.

"Today's game... I can only say that no matter who wins, it doesn't really matter. As a commentator, I can see the civil war in the LPL division in my lifetime. Personally, I feel that it is really worth it."

Guan Zeyuan wisely did not analyze who would win. His simple sentence also blocked the mouths of Miller and Wawa who were about to set him up.

In a word, express your position directly.

"Indeed, between EDG and IG, one is the world champion last year, and the other has won all the championships so far this year except the S game. To be honest, I am still more optimistic about EDG in this game."

Miller said bluntly.

Wawa also nodded at the side: "I am also optimistic about EDG, but I am optimistic about EDG for a reason."

"Oh? Let's hear it."

Guan Zeyuan became interested.

"Does that matter? Of course it's because of Brother Luo."

The baby seemed to be holding back a smile: "Hey, I just want to ask you a question. Among the ten people on the field, nine of them are my teammates. Tell me, how can I lose?"

The corner of Guan Zeyuan's mouth twitched as soon as the baby said this point of view.

It sounds reasonable, but it's actually no different from nonsense.

Indeed, apart from Li Luo, the other nine were current or former teammates.

But what can teammates do, is it that teammates can voluntarily kill you two in such an important event?
"I think the tactical preparations of both sides in today's game are very important. According to what you said, if you think about it from another angle, the IG team actually knows Brother Luo very well. It is possible for them to think about it. How are you going to deal with Brother Luo?"

What Guan Zeyuan said was right.

Everyone in IG is Li Luo's teammate, that's right.

But on the other hand, Li Luo is also their teammate.

Li Luo understood them.

Why don't they understand Li Luo?

"It is indeed the case, so today's game, the key is the reserves of both sides."

While Miller was speaking, the director's prompt also came.

The doll sitting next to her cheered up: "OK, the players from both sides are ready, we got the news that IG got the priority to choose the side, and their starting five are The shy, ning, Rookie, Jackeylove , baolan."

"The starting five players on the EDG team are Jin Gong, Xiaotian, Scout, Brother Luo and the support meiko!"

"The BP between the two sides... has officially begun!"

As the voice of the commentary fell, the screen between the screens switched to the bp interface.

And the barrage is also discussed in various swiping screens.

"Hey, what about me, Qijiang? Why did you go down just after playing a BO5?"

"To be honest, I think Qijiang's fight is better than Tiantian."

"Are there any mistakes? If I remember correctly, King Ning has been beating Xiaotian for the whole year, and even going up against Xiaotian."

"Arguing, quarreling, anyway, for me, whoever wins is acceptable, the beer and melon seeds are ready, just enjoy the game and it's over."

"One thing to say and one thing to be sure. I am a bronze and silver, and I know how to bully Lai Lai on the Internet every day, spraying this, spraying that, and questioning this. Why don't you teach players how to play games?"

"Go on IG!"

"EDG come on!"

"Brother Luo, come on! Go for your second crown!"

……

During the barrage discussion, the top three bans of both sides have also been released one after another.

The third ban of the EDG team on the red side is very simple and rude.

Jess.

Camille.

Knife girl.

The three ban positions on the IG team were given to Ryze, Luo, and Ezreal respectively.

When the first three bans of the two sides were released, many viewers felt a little at a loss.

IG's ban... isn't it a bit crazy? ! ?

Even the three commentators in the commentary booth thought so at the beginning.

Fortunately, the three of them have made a lot of preparations for this final, especially Guan Zeyuan.

After a little contemplation, Guan Zeyuan said slowly: "The ban people on EDG are very easy to understand. Whether it is Jess or Daomei, these two heroes IG can be used to swing in the middle and top, and Rookie and The shy's proficiency with these two heroes is very exaggerated."

"Camille's words should be mainly aimed at King Ning. King Ning's most outstanding hero this season is Camille. We still have to respect it."

"But in this way, EDG can only release Akali."

"Yes."

Miller also nodded slightly, and then said: "As for the ban people on the IG team, to be honest, I think they know very well that Luo Ge's heroes can never be banned, but EDG can only choose one ADC in a game. Anyway, they won’t be able to finish banning, so let’s just release them all.”

"Ryze needless to say, this thing is EDG's system hero, and since ban Luo...probably wanted to avoid letting EDG get Xialuo while grabbing Akali."

Miller's analysis is more or less accurate.

As for the point of pressing Ezreal, he didn't elaborate, because they had already analyzed this issue as commentators before.

As the son of Fist, Ezreal is a panacea hero, no matter which version he is in, he has a chance to play.

The best thing about Ezreal is that he doesn't need too much equipment to fight, and with his flexible body, he can play quite well when the two sides have small-scale or large-scale collisions in the early and mid-term. Excellent effect.

What's your favorite thing about IG?
Needless to say, it was fighting.

Needless to say, Li Luo's Ezreal is proficient. The last match of the S7 World Finals was Li Luo's Ezreal's victory over the dragon.

Therefore, in the eyes of the audience, this may be a bastard hero, but in the eyes of the IG players who were teammates with Li Luo, it would be very troublesome for Li Luo to get this hero.

Ezreal is not weak during the laning period, and his laning strength will directly soar to the T1 level when paired with Karma, so it will be better to press it.

As for the other heroes...

Anyway, Li Luo can only take one!
That's right, that's it!
As the voices of the two commentators analyzed fell, Akali was locked on the first floor of IG in an instant!
"Snatch Akali, it really is!"

Guan Zeyuan smiled.

The sense of accomplishment in the commentary job is to successfully predict which hero the professional players will choose.

"Then the EDG team can take Sword Demon, and I think Xia or Kai'Sa can be added."

Not to be outdone, Miller followed suit.

EDG did choose this way.

Although it is Xia in the first hand and Sword Demon in the second hand, as long as the hero is right, this order of left hand to right hand does not matter.

For the casters, at least the first two moves are very clear.

Going down, they can't actually guess.

There are only a few strong heroes that have no solution in the version, and they are all there. You take one, and I will take the other two. It is not difficult to guess this point, the difference lies in which side's focus.

At the EDG battle table.

Li Luo was thoughtful.

Play it all, ban Ezreal.

Li Luo had really thought about this possibility.

And the reason why Xia was released for him was actually not too difficult to guess, it was nothing more than to weaken Li Luo's aggressiveness.

Xia is a hero who tends to defend and fight in groups. Although it is version T0, it is only because of the position of the adc. As the version goes on, the ad with a strong offensive is not as easy to win as the ad who defends and counterattacks and cooperates with the team.

This is a fact.

However, how IG will make a choice next is difficult for even Li Luo to guess.

Soon, the heroes on the second and third floors of IG were locked down.

On the second floor, Xin Zhao.

The third floor... Lucian.

"Xin Zhao..."

Li Luo narrowed his eyes.

Among the teams in the LPL division, IG and RNG are the ones who prefer to choose Xin Zhao.

Xin Zhao after the rework is very popular.

It's just that the EDG team has more choices, so the number of times Xin Zhao is selected is very small.

And Xin Zhao's selection means that he will attack.

Look at Lucian again.

Not to mention, what King Ning said before the game didn't seem to be hilarious.

He doesn't really want to keep coming over to fight the way down, does he?

And Lucian made Li Luo understand the IG team's thinking in this BO5 game.

That is to force them to take a defensive adc, and then give Jackeylove a strong ad in the early stage.

To put it bluntly, it's just a test of strength, to see if Jackeylove can suppress Li Luo when he gets a strong hero.

For professional teams, the first game of BO5 is a trial and error.

Perhaps in the eyes of the audience, the heroes that many teams took out first made them incomprehensible, especially in the case of a loss, they would be charged with "how could the team's coach be so stupid as to choose this hero?" Fight?" Or "How can there be a brain-dead coach to put this powerful hero" hat.

It can be said that one thousand is ten thousand, but the fundamental problem is that as long as you lose, your breathing will be wrong.

Just like this one, IG released Xia who no one dared to release to EDG before.

If EDG wins, it will definitely be sprayed by IG fans and some people who don't know the truth and like to join in the fun.

But what if... IG wins?
That would mean they wouldn't have to think about dealing with the Xayah ban anymore.

On the other hand, EDG must consider the possibility of IG's bot lane laning strength. As long as IG can win, the blue team will have no brains to choose Lu Xian.

Therefore, in the first game of BO5, both sides are actually playing games, trying to make mistakes.

For the relatively proactive IG, their trial and error costs are acceptable. After all, even if they lose this game, their next move is to ban Xia at most, but they don’t need to ban Xia once they are banned. Luo, Baolan can also choose his champion skin signature Luo to match with IG to make other tactical adjustments.

One link after another is what the coach really needs to do in the entire BO5.

Once Xin Zhao and Lucian are locked in, EDG will have to consider a unilateral choice.

The third floor of the red square is actually equivalent to a well-off position.

So the advantage of the red side is actually that they have two counters.

Therefore, the selection of the third floor is very critical.

After a little hesitation, the EDG team directly chose the Demon Fairy for scout.

"The enchantress...locked! The enchantress of the primary school boy, from this point of view, in fact, the first three hands of EDG are all C positions, and the strength is indeed high enough. The next step is to see what the IG team will do. Cope with it."

As Guan Zeyuan's voice fell, the two sides started the second round of banning.

There is no ambiguity on the IG team. A Thresh and a bull head respectively pressed the signboard of meiko and the bull head chief who ranked first in the auxiliary bp rate in this world competition.

On the other hand, the EDG team ignored the possibility that IG might let Akali go to the middle, and continued to target Rookie desperately.

Lissandra, who is considered to be a well-off girl, and Syndra, the signature hero in Rookie's signature, are all pressed to death!

IG battle table.

Rookie smiled helplessly at the camera cut by the director.

For this, he is also numb.

"Good guy... is it so targeted?"

After seeing Olaf locked on the fourth floor of EDG to increase the strength of the middle field, Guan Zeyuan said thoughtfully: "The two-handed bp behind the IG team should be careful. The question now is whether IG should Let Akali stay on the top lane, this version of Akali is actually good at fighting Sword Demon."

"But if they swing Akali to the middle lane and let Rookie play, there will not be many choices left for The shy. Although The shy can also produce a hero like Jian Ji who is more powerful in single-lane fighting against Sword Demon, IG currently has The heroes brought out are relatively lack of late game ability, if you play Akali for Rookie, it is best for The shy to play a big core."

"But the big-core Sword Demon is not very easy to fight in the laning phase. This will sacrifice The shy's laning ability... It is a closed loop."

While Guan Zeyuan was speaking, the fourth floor of IG first locked Bron.

Immediately following the fifth floor...the Snake Girl has been finalized.

"Sure enough, Akali is on the road."

Guan Zeyuan said with a smile: "Let me tell you some common knowledge. At present, Rookie has produced a total of 7 mid lane heroes in the World Championship, namely Lissandra, Enchantress, Syndra, Galio, Ryze, Daomei and Jess."

Don't worry about Zeyuan's further words, the audience already understands it.

Seven heroes.

There are currently five in the ban position.

EDG took one themselves.

In other words, if Rookie doesn't take the eighth hero Snake, there will only be one Galio left in his hero pool.

For a while, many IG fans also broke into a cold sweat.

Fortunately, fortunately.

He is Rookie.

If you were the mid laner of any other team, you basically wouldn't have to play if you were targeted like this.

Rookie's hero pool is deep enough so he can hold up.

At the EDG battle table.

"I knew it."

Meiko showed a knowing smile.

After all, what the commentators can see and analyze is only the superficial layer.

For the EDG team, they don't care whether Rookie plays Akali or The shy plays Akali. What they really care about is whether their counter position can be useful.

Normally, before the opponent's mid laner and support come out, the team on the red side will consider playing support first and leaving Kang's special position for the jungler.

In this way, they can also stand perfectly from the perspective of God while taking into account the strength of the middle field and the linkage between the field and the auxiliary.

But EDG didn't do that.

They chose to take the jungler first and leave the special position for the support.

The reason is that IGban dropped too many supports.

Luo, Niutou, Thresh.

These three heroes are very good with Xia, and the overall lineup is also very good.

But if these three heroes are gone, what else can EDG get?
Titans, female tanks?
Or...Tahm who seems to be forgotten by IG?
From the perspective of the lineup, IG has Xin Zhao and Akali's double cuts.

Xia, who already has a strong life-saving ability, if paired with Tahm, then the output point of EDG's back row will be like an impregnable wall in team battles.

But in terms of results, IG took Bron, if EDG really took Tamm, it would be more difficult to beat Bron and Lucian during the laning phase.

In addition, Natam EDG will lack the starting points.

In the professional arena, theoretically, a team cannot fail to start a team.

But there is one exception.

That's when the opponent is under pressure to attack.

IG has Lucian and Akali in this game. There is no doubt that they have a little offensive pressure.

So EDG can abandon the team start, and then... add something that can be pulled to the team.

For example...

Meiko looked at Abu with a smirk: "Then I'll just play."

"Take it directly, this thing is very good."

Abu smiled and said.

On the fifth floor of EDG, a hero appeared.

And it was quickly locked down.

Old Man Time, Kieran!
"Time...the fifth floor of EDG has time! This... the first move is a big move?!"

At the commentary table, Guan Zeyuan's expression was full of astonishment.

"Hey, then the lineups of both sides will be determined."

Miller was also quite surprised.

But it is undeniable that a hero like Old Man Time is Tianke against the relatively cumbersome Braum.

Moreover, the Ueno brothers on the EDG team sometimes have such a guarantee with the old man, and there will be a lot of room to play!

"The blue IG team, Akali in the top lane, Xin Zhao in the jungle, Snake Girl in the mid lane, and Lucian and Bron in the bottom lane duo!"

"The red side EDG team, top laner Sword Demon, jungler Olaf, mid laner Enchantress, and bottom lane duo are Xia paired with Old Man Time!"

"The players from both sides are ready, let's enter the LPL autumn competition together... Ahem, just kidding, let's enter the first match of the S8 Global Finals!"

(End of this chapter)