Dean, stop being C, your teammates are not worthy!

Chapter 251 -The first game of the playoffs, the rock climbing combination

August 15, 2016, sunny.

Hongqiao Tiandi Performing Arts Center.

For many people, today is a Saturday weekend, which is a rare moment of leisure.

But for League of Legends players who care about the game, today there is a semi-final match not to be missed.

IG, against WE.

Needless to say, there is no need to say much about the origins between these two teams. They were enemies as early as S2.

For a long time, WE's midfielder helped the bottom lane to expand its advantage, and in the mid-term, the ADC stepped up to dominate the game.

The top order is the pressure-resistant position.

But IG is just the opposite.

Their upper midfielder is the core.

WE has been suppressing IG in competitions, which has led to the LPL tradition of focusing on the lower half.

The special guest of today's game is Smile, who was once recognized as the world's number one ADC during the S2 era, and...

PDD.

"Welcome to the semi-finals of the 2016 LPL Summer Split, I am the commentator Zeyuan.

"Big guy, I'm PDD!"

"Hello everyone, I am Smile!"

Smiling, wearing a suit and leather tie, he stood at the commentator's seat with a bit of restraint.

"Is this your first time as a guest, right? Unlike Mr. PDD who has already commented on many games, the two are the core of the old WE and the old IG. Now I see ten completely different players representing IG and WE meeting on the court. There must be a lot of emotion in my heart.”

Zeyuan, as the controller, took the initiative to ease the atmosphere and make Xiaoxiao less nervous. When he asked this question, Xiaoxiao nodded "Yes", Zeyuan continued: "As a former professional player, I don't know what you think about it. What do you think of this game?”

"Let's see how it goes." He said with a smile: "Don't blame me, many current players can't understand IG's recent strength and state, but WE's recent state is getting better and better, especially Mystic, who is now It’s completely different from how it was at the beginning of the season.”

Mystic, a Korean aid player, was also a player who joined the LPL during the Korean aid boom last year.

However, unlike Pwan and Deft, who were famous before coming to the LPL, Mystic was unknown in the LCK local division. When he first joined WE, his performance and strength could only be regarded as a second-rate ADC player in the league. In WE's training and resources, he was tilted Next, he gradually grew up.

In the spring of this year, Mystic gradually became a first-tier ADC player in the LPL and gained recognition from many viewers and commentators.

In the summer, his performance and strength went to the next level.

What is missing is just the accumulation of honor.

In addition to the growth of his brother-in-law, WE's domestic top midfielder has also performed well recently. Top laner 957 is the stable mainstay of the team. He is known as "Leg Brother". He is the son of the jungle dragon and is famous in LPL for his unique skills of stealing dragons. Mid laner Xi Yehei RNG's Xiaohu is regarded as the twin stars of domestic mid laners.

But after participating in the Olympics, Xiye has stabilized his position as a young tiger and has become a leader of the new generation of domestic mid laners.

Especially since LGD did not enter the playoffs and it was rumored that Wei Shen would retire and switch to H1Z1, Xiye has become the light of hope for the domestic mid laner.

The strength of WE's entire team has been significantly improved in this year's S6.

This is inseparable from the guidance of coach Homme, who joined WE this year.

In the early days of domestic e-sports, the team coach was just a takeaway person who knew nothing about League of Legends.

But LCK's dominance has put all this in the face. Their mature coaching staff system makes the team's play method clear and organized, like an army.

A team without a coaching staff is like a wild team with no foundation and no foundation at all.

Homme really has two skills when it comes to coaching.

Historically, his achievements are as follows:

Samsung S4 champion in 2014, LGD's LPL summer champion in 2015, leading the relegation team VG to the World Championship qualifiers in 2016, WE team's LPL spring champion in 2017, leading JDG to the top three in the LPL in 2018, 2019 In the spring, JDG almost performed a black eight miracle.

Without him, LGD would explode in the World Championship.

Without him, WE's players' condition has plummeted.

With him, JDG will move from a relegation team to the LPL championship.

It can be seen from the controlled variable method that champion coaches really have two tricks.

The same example is during the S8 period, IG’s championship coach Jin Jingzhu.

"In other words, Your Majesty, are you more optimistic about WE?" PDD asked with a smile.

No no no. "Xiao shook his head and said: "I am still more optimistic about IG. "

"Oh? Why?" Guan Zeyuan asked with interest.

"Because they have won many championships, it would not be surprising to win another one."

"Wow, you are a person, you are optimistic about IG and I am optimistic about who will go!"

PDD said in surprise, and the scene burst into laughter.

The saying about smiling coincides with many players.

Only professional players know how much psychological pressure they need to endure when playing games, especially when facing a championship trophy they have never won, that kind of pressure will be infinitely amplified. On the contrary, after winning a championship, the mentality will be completely different.

Players' enemies on the field are sometimes not just their opponents, but themselves.

besides……

"Moreover, Yuan Shen has never lost any BO5 since joining IG." Weixiao said seriously: "He is the kind of player who is very envied by professional players. The bigger the stage, the better his condition is."

"What do you think the score will be today?" Guan Zeyuan continued to ask.

"3 to 2, WE is still very strong now." Weixiao said.

"I think it's 3 to 0." PDD said.

"Then, I'll bet 3 to 1!"

As soon as Guan Zeyuan finished speaking, the BanPick of this semi-final officially began.

The exciting BP sound sounded. In the first game, WE got the right to choose the side and chose the red side.

Three bans were quickly finalized.

IG on the blue side banned Tam, Morgana, and Olaf.

WE on the red side banned Ryze, Jhin, and Minotaur.

"Oh my god, the vampire is released!!"

Zeyuan and PDD said in unison.

"In the last version, the effect of Vampire's enhanced Q was weakened. This hit hurts a lot, maybe that's why WE thought it was okay to release it."

"Will IG choose it?"

The three of them stared at the first floor of the blue side expectantly.

But unfortunately, IG finally grabbed the T1-level mid-lane hero of the version.

Taliyah.

WE locked in the recently popular Lee Sin and Ashe.

IG followed closely and took down the bottom lane duo of Lucian and Thresh.

"Hmm..." In the WE player seat, Homme looked at IG's casting and fell into deep thought.

Banning Olaf is understandable, as it is a strong choice in the version.

But banning Tam and Morgana is a bit wrong.

Recent games are all about making things happen in the bottom lane, so the mainstream is carnivorous junglers and strong supports in the early line.

Zyra, Malzahar, Nami... These heroes have become the new upstart supports in the field.

Tam and Morgana are at best T2 level supports, why ban them?

The common feature of these two support heroes is that they are immune to control and have strong protection ability.

Homme analyzed this point.

But it is useless. The current professional games are all about the bottom lane. At most, it can be analyzed that IG may want to use a stable control combo lineup to train their bottom lane, so the support that can be immune to control is banned.

"Take Braum and Leblanc." Hoome finally decided.

Leblanc is counter to Taliyah.

In the Olympic finals, the development of Spicy Hotpot jungle Taliyah made this hero have the possibility of swinging.

But it doesn't matter. Even if it's not against Taliyah, with Leblanc's strength in the middle lane, she will not be afraid of any mainstream mid laner.

Homme thought he had a comprehensive analysis and showed a confident smile on his face.

But the next moment, he was dumbfounded.

Not only him, but also the commentary booth and the audience seats, all sounded an uproar.

All because of the last two hero choices of IG, which were too unexpected and too...swinging.

Rage Knight·Kled.

Lord of War·Pantheon.

Lucian and Thresh will definitely go down.

But the question is, among the three heroes of Pantheon, Taliyah and Kled, who will play mid, top and jungle?

IG's top, mid and jungle made everyone dizzy.

Originally, the swing of Taliyah turning jungle and Kled turning mid was eye-catching before, and now with the addition of Pantheon, the swing level suddenly rose from the swing in the park to the level of the pirate ship in the amusement park.

Homme doesn't know what the audience thinks, but he is a little nauseous now.

Taliyah and Kled are not new things.

The focus is Pantheon.

This prototype is a Spartan tough guy, who is unpopular in the arena and a popular high-win rate hero for Rabk.

In terms of positioning, he can play top or mid. EDG's Pwan played a mid-lane Pantheon in the regular season last year and won.

Jungle Pantheon became the mainstream of the version for a period of time in the S4 period. The famous scenes of level 4 Pantheon and level 6 Mantis appeared during this period.

The third generation of the scapegoat was born.

Royal jungler insec also used jungle Pantheon as a secret weapon in the S4 World Championship.

Of course, if even the passerby game is considered, Pantheon seems to be able to assist.

A support with shield and control, no problem.

This understanding is ahead of the version for many years.

Homme is very troubled.

IG's choice of mid and jungle is too flexible and full of flexibility.

Originally, the BP advantage of the red side lies in flexibility and backhand targeting.

As a result, the opponent's lineup is more flexible than theirs and cannot be targeted.

Considering IG's development capabilities, he couldn't help but think of several more possibilities. He always felt that the possibility of Taliyah being the top and Kled being the jungler seemed to have to be considered.

"Ah, this damn swing!!"

"Coach, what hero should I use?" asked the top laner 957, who looked a little confused.

After Khan returned to China, he became the only top laner in WE and secured the starting position.

He also performed very well in the regular season, and became a stable carry position in WE when Xiye left.

It must be said that Homme's ability to train the top laner is still good.

But this time, he couldn't handle it.

What kind of hero am I trying to fight?

"...Take Nar." Homme said.

Since the hero Gnar went online, he has immediately become a panacea for the top lane position in the professional arena.

Is the hero that the top laner is good at being banned?

Choose a hero first and don’t know what to do?

Then choose Gnar.

Like Kennen, he has no natural enemies in the lane and has smooth control.

Like clockwork, it has become a universal choice that can be used no matter what the cost.

No matter how the opponent shakes, whether facing Rock Bird, Kled or Pantheon, Gnar will never suffer.

According to the regulations of professional competitions, after the selection is completed and the countdown reaches 20 seconds, the division must be determined.

However, before the 20-second countdown, you can change the position at will, and it will not violate the rules if you change it several times.

I saw that Yuan Shen got Panson for one moment, Kled Rockbird for the next, and even Lucian and Thresh were moved to the jungle position, which was very exciting.

Kled as jungler, this choice has been speculated by some before, but Yuan Shen has never played it.

But the remaining junglers, Pan Sen, Rock Bird, and Lucian, have precedents! !

WE-Xiye: "Yuan Shen, stop it!"

IG-Rookie: “You have to get used to his sass.”

WEShy, I guess you don't dare to choose Thresh to line up with me. "

IG-TheShy: “Shoutu, come on.”

In the customized chat box of the competition server, WE players joked that since it was a text exchange without malicious ridicule, it was not against the rules and the referee would not stop it.

But after TheShy finished speaking, everyone in WE stopped talking.

"They seemed angry..."

Xiao Ming guessed carefully.

"Why? Didn't shoutu praise the opponent for playing well?"

TheShy tilted his head with confusion on his face.

Yuan Shen and Rookie had explained it this way before, and even though he wanted this evaluation, he was reluctant to give it.

Because the posture is really not shouting.

…

After IG's final naughty swing change, the lineups of both sides were finalized.

And IG's lineup has been completely determined.

"IG Blue Party:

Top laner TheShy: Furious Knight-Kled

Jungler Yuanshen: Yanque-Talia

Mid laner Rookie: King of War-Pan Sen

Bottom lane JackeyLove: Paladin Ranger-Lucian

Auxiliary Name: Soul Lock Warden-Thresh

WE red square:

Top lane 957: Lost Fang-Gnar

Jungler Condi: Blind Monk-Lee Sin

Mid laner Xiye: Trickster - LeBlanc

Bottom Lane Mystic: Ice Shooter-Ashe

Auxiliary Ben: Heart of Freljord - Braum. "

There was an enthusiastic cheer.

Unexpectedly, IG came up with new tricks in the first game of the semifinals.

This immediately raised everyone's expectations for this semifinal.

Today's LPL game has a very high level of attention. Not only domestically, but also people from all major competition areas around the world are paying attention to this game.

People are curious, with the ups and downs in the regular season and being repeatedly targeted by Riot designers, can IG still maintain its former dominance?

If you win this game and reach the LPL summer finals, IG will get the first ticket to the S game.

In other words, the bottom line is also the No. 2 seed.

On the contrary, if they lose this semi-final, IG will have to compete with others in the bubble tournament for the third seed seat.

In any case, everything will be revealed in this BO5.

"Go, go, go!"

As soon as the game entered Summoner's Rift, Yuan Shen gave the command.

"Duck!"

Jack and Xiao Ming are also very impressive, and they always enjoy themselves together.

Whether in a company or in a class, there must never be a lack of members with such an active atmosphere, otherwise the team atmosphere will be lifeless and without momentum.

Rookie's Panson took the lead, leading the IG army to attack and rush towards the opposite lower half of the jungle.

On WE's side, there was a long snake formation. When Ben, who was guarding the bottom, saw the IG army entering, he quickly lost his position and turned around to leave.

In WE's lineup, we have Braum, the king of the first-level team.

But IG’s lineup also has excellent first-level team capabilities, the stable control of Pantheon and Thresh, and the powerful combat ability of Rock Bird at level 1...

The main problem is that WE did not want to take the initiative to invade with Braum's strength, nor did they expect that the other side would take the initiative to invade. Therefore, the distribution of personnel was very scattered and they lost the initiative. There was no way to forcefully take over this wave of first-level groups and they could only Avoid for now.

I don't blame WE for this.

The first-level team is too unstable. Even if you choose a strong hero, there is no guarantee that you will be able to win the first-level team. No matter how strong the player's personal strength is, he will not be able to make waves in the first-level team.

As for Korean operations, the most taboo thing is uncontrollability.

Therefore, the stronger the operational capabilities of the team, the less likely they are to take the initiative to conduct first-level groups.

The Samsung duo of S4 told the world what "operation" means.

Under the guidance of Homme, the three-star champion coach, WE has also become a team that is proficient in operations.

WE's avoidance allowed IG to easily occupy the lower jungle area of ​​the red team.