The fans of IG and WE are old enemies.
They both belong to the remnants of the old era.
The bad fate can be traced back to the ancient times. At that time, someone threw a mineral water bottle after the game, and IG top laner PDD turned into a snake demon and launched a void search for the enemy!
Although the LPL fan base is now divided into two parts: pigs and dogs, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. As the former universal group 60E, WE's fan base can still crush the IG club.
Today's match was the first clash between the two clubs this season. Before the game started, fans of the two teams started fighting online, which immediately attracted the attention of countless passers-by and those who were just having fun.
"Who will win in the mid lane today, Xiye or Rookie?"
"Needless to ask? I definitely support the domestic midfielder."
"WE, please stop being 'Chinese'. It's like you don't have any Koreans in the bottom lane."
"That's better than your IG relying on a Korean player as the C."
"That's right. At least our top, mid and jungle players in WE are all Chinese, and the C is also Chinese."
"Just asking, can you IG win even a small game without Rookie?"
"Are all WE fans in the village network? Wasn't Padre6 good enough as the C against QG last week?"
"Hahaha, what you said makes me feel like you're saying EDG is winning because of Zzitai."
“…”
The fans of the two teams had different opinions before the game.
Neither gave in to the other.
However, verbal battles alone may not be enough to cause the opponent's base to explode. The final outcome will be determined by actual combat.
…
Hongqiao Tiandi, LPL venue.
"Hello, audience friends, welcome to the second week of the LPL regular season, IG vs. WE. I am the commentator Guan Zeyuan."
"Hello everyone, I am the commentator Wawa."
The camera was pointed and Guan Zeyuan and Wawa, who were responsible for commentating today's game, were already in place.
"Speaking of which, today's match between IG and WE is very important for both teams."
Guan Zeyuan said with a smile, "If WE can get this point, we will be able to overtake in Group A and take first place."
"Yes, WE was always suppressed by QG in the first round of the regular season." Wawa laughed first when he said this, "They should actually thank IG. If IG hadn't defeated QG last week and made them lose a game, WE would have needed to win at least two games to overtake QG."
"Well, both teams are established clubs, so we won't introduce them in detail here." Guan Zeyuan said with a smile, "This season WE is bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new. The 2.0 version of WE continues to bring more surprises to fans. As for IG, I think it's more appropriate to describe it as 'an old tree blooming'. Fu Ge's performance against QG last week stunned me."
"What? You called Brother Fu too?" Wawa couldn't help laughing.
"Hi." Guan Zeyuan smiled without any embarrassment, "In our LPL, whoever can play is a big shot. Although Brother Fu is still lacking an achievement to prove himself, I believe that those who work hard will be rewarded. This season, he will definitely go higher and further!"
"Well, let's wait and see."
"Yes, the players on both sides are ready. The camera is turned to our competition seats. We are about to enter the showdown between IG and WE, the two remnants of the old era."
Let me start with an explanation.
On the big screen, the camera was focused on the competition seats.
In this game, WE is on the blue side.
IG is on the red side.
Enter the ban stage.
IG banned Graves, EZ and Ryze respectively.
As for WE on the blue side, today's bans were a bit abnormal. None of the "two balls and one Ji" that were must-ban when playing against IG in the past were seen.
"Grandas, Nidalee, and Jarvan... wow! WE's squad is a bit unreasonable. They want to catch the old man, right?"
Shark, the live broadcast room of the most popular anchor PDD.
PDD, who was eating with a bowl in his hand, opened the LPL official event live broadcast room. As soon as he came in, he was stunned by WE's ban. He said "catch the old man" and the audience in the live broadcast room laughed.
"Three Ban Jungler, start to attack the old man, right?"
"You don't even let the old man go, you're such a bad guy! Who is Sun Xiaochuan to you?"
"I am dying of laughter. The jungle hero pool has been banned. Go check if Axun is dead. If not, bring Axun up."
“…”
The live broadcast room was filled with comments.
The commentator on the stage was also stunned for a second, and Wawa smiled bitterly and said, "WE's ban today had a clear goal. They knew it was not easy for our older players to practice a hero, so they directly put a throat choke on the jungler."
"Yes, but I think WE's ban is actually quite smart."
Guan Zeyuan raised his hand and analyzed:
"You see, when other teams played against IG in the past, they basically all played three Ban mid laners, but Rookie's hero pool is deep. Apart from two balls and one Ji, he can basically play any hero, and he can practice heroes quickly."
"If you ban the mid laner, at most it will make the mid laner play uncomfortably, but banning the jungler is different."
"Brother Fu's biggest problem right now is that his hero pool is too shallow. He only uses a few fixed and formulaic heroes. If you triple-ban the jungler, the jungler will simply become unplayable."
After hearing Guan Zeyuan's analysis, Wawa couldn't help but nod.
On the left side of the stage, the blue team WE took the first step in selecting players.
In the first hand, he directly picked a blind monk, and fans of Conti cheered at the scene.
There is a story behind this man's Lee Sin. His characteristic is that he is good at stealing dragons, and he can always get one accurately. He is considered as Kangdi's signature jungler.
In fact, it doesn’t matter whether there is a sign or not.
The important thing is that WE is very clear that after banning Gragas, Nidalee and Jarvan, if they then grab Lee Sin, it will be equivalent to almost completely locking up the opposing jungler's hero pool.
This blind monk grabbed it.
WE coach Hoon just started laughing right there.
Smiling contentedly.
It feels like I'm in control of everything.
At the same time, stage right.
In the IG competition seat, a trace of worry appeared on coach Chris's brow. WE's ban really hit the weak spot of their jungler.
So now the only jungler that can be used outside seems to be Sejuani.
But since the opponent dares to release Sejuani, there must be corresponding restraint. Once this move is chosen, you will fall into the opponent's design from the beginning of BP.
But since the other party has made a move, you have to respond, right?
Chris hesitated for a while.
I decided to ask Li Fu what he thought first.
"I'll take the mantis, coach."
Li Fu turned his head.
"ah?!"
Chris was stunned for a moment.
"Isn't Mantis's winning rate quite high when he appears on the field?" Li Fu smiled.
“……”Chris.
This season, Mantis' win rate is quite high, even up to 100%. The first person to use this hero was RNG's jungler Mala Xiangguo.
But on this damn LPL stage, Mantis only appeared in a handful of games, and in that game, Mala Xiangguo used him to bully the weak HYG. What does this 100% win rate mean?
You can’t just look at the win rate without considering the appearance rate!
Mantis is not Spider. Although they are both Zoo junglers, Mantis's appearance rate is not even a fraction of Spider's.
For a moment, Chris felt a little numb.
He looked at Li Fu again.
Trying to find a hint of joking on Li Fu's face.
This hero is basically useless if he doesn't play C. There has never been a concept of meat mantis either in competitions or in rankings.
However, Li Fu's eyes remained calm.
There was no ripple at all.
Rookie said, "You can let Fu Ge take the Mantis . I will watch the jungle this time. I will help Fu Ge."
After hesitating for a while, and seeing that the first two players on the red team were about to enter the countdown, coach Chris finally gritted his teeth.
"Okay! Then it's Mantis!"
Li Fu smiled and nodded at Rookie.
The next second,
The red side IG locked the first two hands.
Troll!
Mantis!
On the other side of the stage, when Kangdi saw IG's Mantis, he couldn't help but laugh.
He was actually a little worried that the opponent would pick a pure idler who would be farming from beginning to end, and then the jungle would become boring.
Unlike those successful junglers, Kangdi is a jungler who just joined WE this season.
He wants to win the game!
But what I want more is to prove my worth!
That’s why there are so many bloody dragon-grabbing scenes.
Only at that moment,
He will feel that the whole audience is focusing on him.
And now, an older player on the opposite side took out a hero like Mantis, and he had a hunch that the jungle area of this game would be a "big stage".
The WE fans in the audience laughed:
"Awesome! A divine move! The mantis is here!"
"Does he know how to play this hero?"
"This is so funny. Did the opponent mistake Kangdi for HYG's jungler, or Fuhuang for Mala Xiangguo? "
"Is it true that Emperor Fu will use a meat mantis again this time?"
"Hahaha, that scene is so beautiful that I dare not look at it."
“…”
The live broadcast room was filled with comments.
Immediately afterwards, the blue team WE also made two more moves.
Lucian + Braum.
It seems to be a standard bottom lane combination.
But when IG's Xiao Guang in the bottom lane took out Skateboard Shoes + Minotaur, Lucian in the opposite middle lane suddenly swayed and suddenly swayed to the middle lane, while the bottom lane took out Frost again.
The commentator on the stage was stunned.
"Mid-lane Lucian? Xiye's mid-lane Lucian?"
"There's some explanation for this. I feel like it might not be that easy for Lucian to play in the middle lane."
"Yeah, but my brother-in-law's Ashe did a little bit of a counter to IG's bottom lane. Ashe + Braum, the double deceleration of Freljord, it feels like the skateboard shoes can't slide all of a sudden."
"IG's last counter position was given to Rookie. What did Rookie say? Two balls and one LeBron are both out. Should we take LeBron?"
"Oh! It's Enchanter! Rookie is locked!"
“…”
At this point, the lineups of both sides have all surfaced.
Blue side WE: top lane Rumble, jungle Lee Sin, mid lane Lucian, bottom lane Ashe and Braum.
Red side IG: top lane Troll, jungle Kha'Zix, mid lane Leblanc, bottom lane Skate and Minotaur.
Guan Zeyuan analyzed on the commentary desk, "I think it was smart for WE to give 957 the Rumble in the top lane. The Ashe and Braum that came out from the bottom lane also helped IG to turn the tables. It's the Lucian in the middle lane..."
"It's not that hard to play against him, actually." Wawa continued, "Lucian should be the hero with the highest burst damage among all ADCs. He can deal eight shots in one second. As for the mid lane, I can only say that it depends on your ability. If Lucian can get ahead with an Infinity Edge, his damage will be especially explosive."
“……”Guan Zeyuan.
On the left side of the stage, WE's jungler Kangdi felt that Xiye was a little bit flirty today.
Oh shit,
You have to steal my limelight, right?
The mantis on the opposite side took it.
The highlight is obviously in the wild area.
However, as soon as Xiye's Lucian came out, Lucian versus Ahri, the mid lane immediately became full of suspense.
This old guy did it on purpose, right?
"Be careful in the middle lane, Rookie's Ahri is very strong." Conti squinted his eyes.
"I'm actually fine." Xiye lowered his head while speaking, looking a bit like an autistic teenager. "The opposing jungler likes to gank the mid lane. If you put more pressure on him in the jungle, my mid lane will be easy to play, and I don't have to go out of my way to gank Leblanc."
"So confident?" Kangdi smiled.
We usually like to joke around together.
Xiye was not used to joking, so he said directly, "I have killed Faker in the Rift International Server. Is he stronger than Faker?"
Conti suddenly stopped laughing.
Xiye is actually a nice person, but he can't tell when someone is joking. How should I respond to what you said?
No matter how strong Rookie is, he is obviously not as strong as Faker.
This year, Faker, who won the S3 and S5 championships, is at the peak of his career and is undoubtedly the best player in the league.
957 in the top lane also laughed when he heard this, and then said to Zero in the bottom lane, "Xiye doesn't have a teleport, so I'll go down to support you guys. IG's bottom lane is full of dishes, let me order some."
Zero played for Royal Club in S4 and won the runner-up in the S series. He is a strong player that WE just introduced this season and is also an early Korean player in LPL. He speaks very good Chinese and can serve as a channel for communication between China and Korea within the team.
Brother-in-law's Chinese is still quite poor, but Zero's Chinese is much more fluent. Upon hearing this, he immediately said, "In fact, we don't need to focus too much on the bottom lane. Shengjun and I can suppress the opponent. Let's play according to what Coach Hoon said and try to cooperate with Kangdi to suppress the opponent's jungler."
That is true.
WE coach Hoon's idea for this game was to suppress the opponent's jungler from BP to rhythm, making it impossible for IG to form a whole.
Yes, when other teams play against IG, they only focus on the middle lane and think about how to play around the middle lane.
But after reviewing and studying IG's game, WE's coach realized that the key to winning against IG today was not in the mid lane, but in the jungle.
As long as you can kill the jungler.
Rookie is alone in the middle lane and can't do anything.
…
Game loading completed.
Entering the game at this moment, both sides started with a long defensive position in a line, and the bottom lane support only served as a defensive ward at the river ward position.
However, before the wild monsters refreshed at 1 minute and 40 seconds, WE's top laner 957 suddenly went deep into the hinterland and placed a ward at the stone man in the upper half of IG.
The purpose is very clear.
That is to detect Li Fu Mantis's jungle route.
The hero Mantis is more focused on development and counter-jungle in the early stage, and it is not easy to catch people. However, once the jungle route is exposed, it is also easy to get into trouble when encountering enemies in the jungle.
If a Mantis's early jungle clearing rhythm collapses, then at least in the early and middle stages, it will be difficult for the hero to play any role in the team, while Conti's Lee Sin can completely dominate the battlefield.
This is also WE's tactic in this game.
In order to fully implement this idea,
Xiye in the middle also came to help.
At 2 minutes and 26 seconds, Xiye pushed the middle lane soldiers across the river and disappeared in the middle lane, placing his only trinket eye in the early stage next to F4 in the opposite jungle.
To be honest, in this game, WE's top and mid took good care of the jungler. It's not too much for Kangdi to give one to both 957 and Xiye.
But the competition is a game of strategy.
WE was targeting Li Fu. In the normal start of the second half of the game, Li Fu quickly noticed the movements of Xiye in the middle lane.
At this time, he quickly reached level three in the lower area with venom monsters + blue buff + three wolves in that order. With a slight thought, an idea popped into his mind.
Ding ding ding—!
The signal sounded!
Looking at the mark on Lucian's head, the commentator on the stage was a little confused.
"No? The Mantis comes to gank the mid lane at level 3?" Wawa said in surprise, "Brother Fu's Mantis, doesn't he farm the jungle?"
"It should be that Xiye's move to F4 to place wards in advance was guessed." Guan Zeyuan analyzed, "Xiye and 957's two wards at the beginning blocked the upper half of the area, but Fu Ge went straight around the lower half of the river after clearing the three wolves. This is a bit illogical. WE couldn't guess it at all."
"The key issue now is that Mantis is at level 3, but Rookie's Leblanc is only level 2. The two of them can't come up with a skill to keep the enemy. Xiye's Lucian is at full health and has flash. Can the damage of IG's mid and jungle be enough?"
This question is not only asked by the commentator.
During the game, Rookie was a little unsure at the moment.
His enchantress was only level 2, almost reaching level 3, so he asked Li Fu, "Do you want to wait? I'm only one soldier away from level 3."
"It's too late." Li Fu said slowly.
You know, he just judged that there was an opportunity because Xiye's Lucian had just left the middle lane and walked up to gain vision, so he chose to catch the middle lane.
But similarly, even though Xiye is the mid laner, he is not so clear about how long it will take Li Fu's Mantis to clear the upper half of the zone.
But if we compare it with our jungler Kangdi who also started from the lower zone and is now heading to the upper zone, if Li Fu doesn’t appear in F4, we will realize that Xiye will definitely retreat...
Then Li Fu's plan of ganking would fail.
As the saying goes, delay leads to change.
After all, he is a top-tier mid laner in LPL. When he heard Li Fu's rejection, there was no need for much explanation and Rookie reacted immediately.
There was only a slight hesitation for a moment, and the next moment, Ahri used QW to step on the face to keep the enemy.
Immediately afterwards, Ahri did not use the second stage of W to go back, and stood in the same place facing Xiye's Lucian and started to attack him with basic attacks.
Xiye raised his eyebrows immediately!
His first reaction was, how dare you, a Leblanc, compete with me, Lucian, in the basic attack.
Immediately a QAA.
But the next second,
But he realized something was wrong.
He glanced at the lower half of the river and suddenly alarm bells went off.
At some point, Li Fu's mantis, with a vision range of extreme distance, came up directly from the lower half of the river.
However, Xiye is still thin.
Lucian learned Q at level 1, but never learned any skills at level 2. He was guarding against this moment.
Seeing this, Lucian immediately learned the E skill and retreated away.
The volume of the commentary on the stage suddenly soared!
"Oh! Mantis attacked again, but Xiye reacted quickly and learned the E-slide to pull away in seconds!"
"The mantis has taken action... ah? The mantis has given up?"
Along with Guan Zeyuan's cry of surprise, under the camera of the big-screen director, countless viewers at the scene could clearly see that Li Fu's Mantis slipped and hit the mid-lane soldier at the moment Lucian pulled away.
Is this just eating a soldier without catching anyone?
A thief never leaves empty-handed, right?
Or is it because I am too green?
In the live broadcast room, WE fans couldn't help but laugh out loud when they saw this!
However, the next moment, Li Fu Mantis suddenly turned around and jumped up with the E skill, and followed up with QA the moment he landed.
Thunder triggered!
Lucian's health suddenly dropped below half.
"You can kill him!" said Li Fu.
"Okay." Rookie decided to trust Li Fu.
Without saying a word, he flashed up and cast an ignite, then raised his hand and used a basic attack.
Are you chasing all this?
Xiye frowned and simply gave up the flash.
Everyone has given up their flash,
Respect still has to be given.
When the commentator on the stage saw that the fight was still to go on, he immediately started explaining again at a very fast pace.
"What do you mean? Do we need to kill IG mid and jungle this time?"
"It must have been a mistake just now. But the damage was not enough in the first place, and the damage from the pause was even less."
"The main thing is that Leblanc is only level 2. Rookie's experience should be one soldier away from reaching level 3. There is a chain at level 3, so there might be a chance."
"It's difficult. Xiye's Lucian has already entered the tower. Leblanc held the tower for a while... Hey! Wait!"
"Oh my god! Enchantress...Enchantress has reached level 3!"
Almost at the same time as Wawa exclaimed, Rookie suddenly shot out a phantom chain and caught Lucian just before he entered the tower.
How did he get to three?
Xiye's pupils suddenly shrank, and he felt as if a pair of children's hands suddenly rested on his shoulders, and a chill ran straight from his heels to the top of his head!
The effective time of Leblanc's chain is 1.5 seconds.
1.5 seconds later,
Ahri held the tower for a while.
Lucian was imprisoned in place.
The next second,
Li Fu's mantis flashed.
AA!
Two basic attacks!
Mantis turned around and walked back.
At the same time, from the director's God's perspective on the big screen, everyone could clearly see that WE jungler Conti's Lee Sin had abandoned the wild monsters in the upper area and went here to provide support.
"Save me!" Xiye shouted.
"I have W, I have W!" Conti also shouted.
As soon as he finished speaking, Conti's Lee Sin flashed over the wall and used W Golden Bell Cover to support Lucian, who was at the bottom of his health.
The next moment,
Lee Sin's W has arrived.
But Lucian is gone!
That’s right, the moment before Kangdi used his W, Li Fu turned around and left the tower and used his W skill to void thrust!
It penetrated Lucian's body squarely, draining away Xiye's last bit of blood.
"IG-Padre6 killed WE-xiye!"
"Firstblood!"
The shocking first blood notification resounded throughout the canyon and the LPL scene. Every audience member at the scene was stunned for a moment as they watched the IG mid and jungle walk away.
no?
Can this fucking horse be killed?
etc!
Why did that enchantress suddenly reach level 3?
Without giving everyone too much time to be confused, the director on site quickly cut to the replay of the first blood, and the time went back to the point where Li Fu was lurking towards the middle lane from the lower half of the river.
Next, the scene reappears.
Suddenly, a deafening pig squeal was heard from Shark PDD’s live broadcast room!
PDD, who was eating happily, dropped his bowl in shock and pointed at the playback on the screen in astonishment:
"Wo~te~fa?!!"
Next to him, PDD's top fighter Xiao Ma slid over on a chair, also holding a lunch box in his hand, "What's wrong, Mr. Piao? You almost scared my lunch box away by making such a pig noise."
PDD pointed at the screen and said excitedly, "Oh my gosh! I'm telling you, this wave of Mantis is really detailed!"
"Really? I don't know if anyone else has seen it as well as I have. This move by Mantis is just a huge one!"
"What's going on?" Xiao Ma came over and asked.
PDD's live broadcast was accompanied by screen recording. The director's playback had already ended, so PDD simply cut out the screen recording and replayed the director's playback footage.
He turned around and asked Xiao Ma excitedly, "Did you see that? Wow! Brother Fu is really good at jungle."
Xiao Ma scratched his head, wondering, "This wave of kills was due to Rookie's accurate E dog chain, right? Didn't Mantis just deal some damage and then show off by pulling it back at the end?"
"Wow! You are such a fool!"
PDD did not keep the suspense any longer and directly brought the screen back to the moment when Li Fu's Mantis entered the scene. He pointed at the screen and said to Xiao Ma and the many viewers in the live broadcast room who were also puzzled, "Look, the soldier that Mantis attacked here is not an ordinary soldier. It is a melee soldier that is being targeted by the sports car and two ranged soldiers... Do you know what this means next?"
Some things are just a thin layer of window paper between us!
It breaks with just one poke!
The people in PDD's live broadcast room are all veteran League players. When they heard this, they all reacted immediately.
——It was Li Fu’s basic attack that accelerated the death of the soldier, allowing Rookie to reach level three at the critical moment.
If Li Fu hadn't attacked that time, by the time the soldier died and Rookie reached level 3, Xiye's Lucian would have already entered the tower.
And don’t forget, Kangdi’s Lee Sin was only one second away, so IG’s forced tower crossing was really dangerous...
It’s a pity that there is no if.
After realizing this key point, countless viewers in PDD’s live broadcast room couldn’t help but gasp.
"Fuck! Is Fu Huang so thin?"
"Outrageous! Isn't this too much?"
"A jungler can actually take care of the level experience of the laners. If I had a jungler like this, wouldn't I be able to gain points randomly?"
“…”
At the same time, LPL game scene.
After watching the replay, Wawa was still impressed by the IG mid and jungle duo's ability to cross the tower in turns and their tacit cooperation.
Guan Zeyuan next to him was stunned for a second, and the next moment, he and PDD discovered the details of Mantis's gank.
After Guan Zeyuan finished his explanation, the audience at the scene and in the live broadcast room were dumbfounded. No one expected that there would be so many small details in this wave of Mantis's gank!
Wawa also quickly made up for it, "I just said that after Xiye's Lucian learned the E skill, he actually had many opportunities to directly use E and flash to pull away, but he didn't flash. It's likely that Xiye thought that Rookie's Leblanc wouldn't be able to reach level 3 this time, the damage was not enough, and he didn't have the skills to keep people, so he wanted to save a flash."
Guan Zeyuan nodded and said, "Yes, by the time Mantis's damage was dealt and Leblanc was caught off guard at level 3, it was already too late."
"Tsk tsk! Brother Fu, this mantis... really has something to say!"
The two commentators sighed.
At the same time,
WE jungler Kangdi was also furious.
He didn't watch the replay on the field and didn't know so many details.
Kangdi only knew.
He released the wild monster he was about to kill, used his flash, and didn't save the person. The key point was that the opposing jungler got the first blood inexplicably...
Oh shit!
Xila is laughing at me? ! !