"What the hell! What kind of lineup is this IG?"
"Six people in the bottom lane? Two extra substitutes for a Mahjong table?"
"Hahahaha it's so funny, Fu Huang is also subbing in the top laner, it seems the new top laner Korean aid is not very strong."
"The key point is, didn't RNG want Wuxx? Why did IG pick him up as a treasure?"
"I heard that Su Xiaoluo was desperate and broke the net, so he did something to IG before leaving."
"It's game over now. With this lineup, does IG still have a chance in the summer season?"
"Don't think too much. There's a new god in each version. The mid-season version is coming soon. Let's just look at RNG and EDG in the new season."
"The key is that I think IG was not at the level of being a legend last season. If they hadn't picked up QG in the semifinals, it's hard to say whether they could have advanced to the finals."
"Haha, this season QG has become NB, and with the strong addition of the Great Emperor, I'm afraid there won't be many scenes of IG."
“…”
With the exposure of IG's starting roster for the summer season, it immediately attracted the attention of countless people on major forums. In the country's largest e-sports forum, the Anti-Pressure Forum, there are countless posts almost every day discussing the paper strength of each team's lineup for the new season.
After the final comparison, everyone still feels that judging from the lineup alone, the old big three and the new dark horses such as EDG, WE and NB are better.
In the summer season, IG retained only the mid and jungle, and replaced almost all the others - although other positions besides the mid and jungle were not very good before, most of the replacements were new faces, and it seemed that there was no difference from not changing them.
Even with the added points of Li Fu, the world champion FMVP jungler, many netizens feel that IG's strength in the summer season is at most second-tier, about the same level as the Snake team.
Some people may ask, the first echelon is EDG, WE and the new Hema NB, and IG and Snake team are the second echelon.
What about my RNG?
Where did you put my RNG?
I'm sorry, judging from the current luxury of the lineup and the support from fans' votes.
RNG is neither T1 nor T2.
But it is the unique T0 in LPL this summer!
With two world champion top supports, two-time world runner-up AD, and a mid-jungle with the highest salary cap in China - this team is considered by countless fans to be the most promising galactic battleship that will help LPL break through the clouds and win its first S championship!
Some netizens said that the S League and the MSI mid-season tournament are different, both in terms of event scale and competition intensity. Even if the MSI champion gets a spot in the S League in the summer, he or she will most likely be eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Factory Manager: Who are you hinting at, little bastard?
Yes, that’s right, I’m talking about you, EDG.
With such precedents, it is understandable that many LPL viewers are not optimistic about IG, which has undergone a major change this season, after the roster announcements of major clubs.
…
The opening game of the summer season will be at 5 pm on May 26th.
On May 19, just after the summer transfer window, all major clubs officially announced their starting lineups for the new season. The twelve teams that entered the LPL top league this year began to draw lots for grouping under the official organization.
The location is still in Hongqiao Tiandi.
The draw process was broadcast live on the entire network. Each team sent a representative. The draw ceremony was over in about half an hour. The host Guan Zeyuan announced the grouping of the summer season.
Group A: EDG, SNAKE, GT, NB, IG, SAT.
Group B: RNG, VG, WE, OMG, LGD, IM.
The grouping situation has just been announced, and the official schedule of the LPL Summer Season will also be announced soon. Like the Spring Season, it is still a round-robin within the same group and a single round-robin between different groups. There are ten BO3 games per week, and the entire regular season consists of a total of 96 BO3 games.
And not surprisingly, the organizers of the summer season opening game on May 26th still made a lot of hype.
Don't let IG and EDG play the opening game.
But IG and NB.
The NB team may be unfamiliar to some new LPL viewers, but QG is definitely familiar to them - it is the team that played a "one-minute BO5" against IG in the semi-finals last spring. The empty seats in the game once became an eternal pain and regret in the hearts of countless fans who supported QG.
Even when IG won the MSI championship, there were QG fans who expressed regret - if QG hadn't had a split between the mid and jungle, they would have definitely won the semi-finals, and maybe it should have been QG standing on the MSI championship podium!
It's hard to get over the missed opportunity.
It is always the most unforgettable and hard to let go.
Looking back, it’s all Doinb’s fault.
But QG is different this season.
Not only was the name changed to NB, Doinb was also exiled to LSPL. However, this move did not weaken NB's mid lane. The addition of Dade, the mid laner of the Samsung Ten Blue Team, made NB even more powerful.
Judging from the starting lineup of NB Summer Games, the only regret may be that Uzi was not kept.
Of course, this regret is just what the NB manager said to the outside world, and maybe it’s not that regrettable.
After all, when the original QG broke into the LPL from the LSPL and was far ahead of the rest, there was no Uzi in the team at that time. Now they have also guaranteed the three original QG players to the maximum extent.
After the summer season draw was completed and the schedule was announced, Swift, the main jungler of the new NB, posted a Korean Weibo.
NB-Swift: "I'm here for the summer season. What I lost in the spring, I will take back in this summer!"
This Weibo post was also reposted by NB's official Weibo account. After all, NB's new boss chose to exile Doinb and save Swift when the mid and jungle split last season, so he must be very optimistic about him.
In fact, after Uzi left the team, Swift was the one with the most say in the team.
It can be said without exaggeration that the new NB's lineup system this season is completely built around the jungler.
However, Swift's Weibo post, which was reposted by the official Weibo account, seemed a bit unusual at this time when the opening game of the LPL Summer Season is approaching.
Everyone knows that NB's opponent in the opening match of the summer season is IG. Everyone also knows that NB lost everything in the one-minute BO5 incident last spring. Everyone also knows that Swift has had a rift with the current MSI champion jungler Li Fusu since last season...
Therefore, Swift's Weibo post became a hot topic as soon as it was published, and many netizens who were eager to watch the fun saw it as a declaration of war against IG.
A "semi-final" that was more than a month late.
Even the LPL organizers, in order to build momentum for this year's summer season, started making all kinds of hype with "Opening game? A semi-final that was delayed for more than a month" as the central topic.
One is the dark horse who lost in the semi-finals in the past!
One is the upstart who just won the MSI world championship trophy!
For a while, even many netizens who had not paid much attention to the event after the MSI Mid-Season Invitational ended were attracted to it. A large number of people began to predict this "semi-final that was delayed for more than a month" on Tieba. There were even many netizens who liked to stir up trouble and forwarded Swift's declaration to Li Fu's Weibo.
Ask Li Fu what he thinks?
Unfortunately, Li Fu has focused most of his energy on the new version of the mid-season tournament during this period.
Yes, version 6.9 was updated during the MSI mid-season tournament.
The changes in the new version can be roughly divided into three categories. One is the adjustment of mage heroes, which makes heroes like Vampire, Brand and Snake Girl stronger and more clearly positioned in the mage team.
The biggest changes to the equipment are the Hextech equipment and the enhancements to the AP synthesis small items Tear of the Goddess + Catalyst Stone + Holy Grail, making the laning development and equipment synthesis in the middle lane smoother.
Overall, the impact on the mid lane rhythm is that the AP mid laner's equipment formation time is shortened, the participation rate in team fights is increased, and the influence of the mid laner in the first 20 minutes of the game is significantly improved compared to the old version.
It is foreseeable that the summer season will be a transition stage from jungle core to mid lane mage core.
However, the positioning of this mage core is different from that of the jungle core in last season. It is not about which Leblanc and Zed are killing people all over the field. Judging from the equipment adjustment, the mage core in the summer season actually reduces the laning intensity of the middle lane, and emphasizes roaming support and team battle capabilities, which is actually very unfriendly to the assassin hero in the middle lane.
In general, with the strengthening of 14 AP mages, the mid-season version is undoubtedly a version of the rise of mages.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that jungle is not important.
In fact, the biggest change in the mid-season version is the addition of elemental dragons.
Feng, Shui, Earth, and Fire, different elemental dragons correspond to different buffs. If you get two dragons of the same element, the buff effect will be doubled. This undoubtedly brings diversity and randomness to the game, increases the chances of fighting between the two sides in the early and middle stages, and may allow the advantaged team to end the game early, speeding up the snowball.
Of course, it may also relieve the pressure on the disadvantaged side in the game.
Li Fu's understanding of this is that it will enhance Xiaolong's tactical position in the next season.
In fact, as a jungler, he didn't pay much attention to controlling the dragon throughout last season.
There are many junglers like him who will take advantage only when they have the advantage.
This resulted in the last version's punishment for giving up/losing the dragon not being severe enough, so that many operational teams like EDG would choose to strategically give up the dragon in the early stages, and then make an effort to win the game in the mid-to-late stages, which greatly reduced the viewing experience of the game.
Riot is obviously not satisfied with the current situation.
The new version of the elemental dragon greatly improves the tactical position of the dragon in the early stage. And because of the uncertainty of the elemental dragon's refresh, both sides of the game will pay more attention to the attributes of the dragon.
For example, in one game, the first player spawned a water dragon.
If one side happens to use a Poke lineup to take the first one, then in order to prevent the opponent's attributes from doubling, the fierce competition after the second water dragon is refreshed by will probably be no less intense than the big dragon group.
In short, the direct result of the addition of the elemental dragon is that before the Ancient Dragon refreshes in thirty-five minutes, both sides of the game may have to launch one or even multiple "mandatory" dragon fights around the dragon, which will undoubtedly make the pace of the game more tight and intense.
Even with Li Fu's divergent thinking, different elemental dragons seem to correspond to different lineups and tactical systems, such as 4-1 split push and pull flow, fighting flow, stealing home flow, pushing tower flow, poke flow and so on.
This means that even if the coach has determined a tactical system in advance, the addition of the elemental dragon as an uncertain factor will place higher demands on the players' ability to respond flexibly...
Of course, all of the above is just Li Fu’s personal version of “reading”.
Different people reading different versions will inevitably have different levels of understanding, and this is the talent of the contestants.
This is also why some people are only strong for one season, while others can win two championships and sprint for a triple crown dynasty.
Li Fu attaches great importance to the version changes after this mid-season game. When he is waiting for rank or training games, when he is eating, or even when he is on the toilet ... he will take out his mobile phone to check the different changes from beginning to end, and he can have different insights and experiences every time.
Several new players in the bottom lane who had just joined the IG club family couldn't help but feel thoughtful when they saw Li Fu staring at an official version change page and chewing on it over and over again.
They thought they finally understood why Li Fu, an older player, could adapt to the new version so quickly. It seemed like he had mastered the reading comprehension skills.
You know, most professional players’ attitude towards the new version is “you’ll get it after playing a few games”.
This is indeed the case.
That's talent.
Being able to become a professional player means they have the talent.
Even if there are some minor details left, the club's coaching staff will help to make up for them. There is no need for Li Fu to watch them every day, so everyone was amazed but did not follow suit.
But not everyone is like this.
Wuxx, who had just joined IG, looked at Li Fu's back. After thinking for a while, he followed Li Fu's steps awkwardly and began to read the new version with his own understanding.
Coach Chris saw this and felt very relieved.
The early bird catches the worm.
Among the players Su Xiaoluo bought before leaving, only Wuxx did he feel like he had found a treasure. After a few training matches, Chris even wanted to thank Su Xiaoluo.
What was IG's bottom lane like before?
If you don't give it away, you win.
However, Wuxx's fierce laning ability and his aggressive game style are what the former AD Xiao Shiguang did not have. This will allow IG to at least be able to cope with some multi-core systems in the future.
The only drawback is that it is still a little young, like a rough jade that needs to be polished.
But a rough jade is still a rough jade.
Therefore, coach Chris was even more confused as to why RNG's Mata looked down on such a young domestic AD player and was easily bought back by Su Xiaoluo.
Is it the anger and shame after the defeat in this year's spring finals?
Or are you simply unable to tolerate an unknown person having his own ideas?
Chris doesn't know.
He just vaguely felt that it should be both.
After all, champion support players like Mata are used to having the final say in the team.
Of course, if an AD plays without any ideas, then Mata will think he is a loser, but if he plays too well, Mata will think he is not obedient enough... Why shouldn't an unknown AD listen to the champion support?
This may also be the contradiction.
That's why Mata specifically wanted to partner with Uzi this season.
Perhaps in his opinion, only an ADC like Uzi who partners with him is worthy of having his own ideas.
But IG also got a chance to win, which is very comfortable...
When Chris thought of this, he, who had been feeling uneasy recently, gained more confidence in the upcoming summer season.
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May 23rd.
The third day before the start of the summer season.
It’s time for Li Fu, or the MSI champion, to make his live debut on the Panda platform.
At 6pm, after finishing the training match and having lunch, Li Fu posted a status and a link to Panda’s live broadcast on Weibo, which now has 1.2 million fans, and then opened the live broadcast room with his teammates.
The current top player of Panda is PDD, but with the popularity of the MSI world champion FMVP jungler and a week-long live broadcast preview on Panda’s homepage banner, plus Li Fu’s first broadcast after more than a month’s absence.
This immediately made him more popular than PDD just after he started broadcasting for more than ten minutes, and he briefly became the "number one" in the evening slot on the Panda platform. PDD even came and performed 19 copies of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall.
"Fuck! Fu Huang has become the number one panda."
"PDD teacher also gave gifts, it's so impressive!"
"Fu Huang Fu Huang! Recently, NB's jungler Swift has been hinting that you stole the championship FMVP."
"Hahaha, this is so funny. This Korean guy is so confident that he acts like he will definitely win the semi-finals."
“…”
Of course, there are also many critics and haters who are flooding the screen with comments.
"Haha, if you're confident, why didn't you allow Dade to play in the semi-finals?"
"That's right. Isn't it because someone behind IG put pressure on the league to not let Dade play?"
"If Dade plays, will they still have a chance to advance to the finals?"
"Don't say any more. In this opening match, we, QG, will be reborn from the ashes. We will take back everything we lost by then."
“…”
The comments in the live broadcast room were flooding the screen like crazy.
Li Fu was debugging the live broadcast equipment with IG staff. He glanced at the comments and smiled without responding.
But today the principal who had been "cloud supervising" was not happy.
Student Wang has only experienced emotional pain once during his youth, but has never experienced the feeling of being bullied. It is impossible for him to not fight back when being scolded by netizens.
Immediately, an ID named "Principal Wang" started to criticize Li Fu in his live broadcast room.
"Are you crazy to paralyze some people?"
"Your own club management is stupid and the reporting procedures are not in compliance. What does it have to do with me?"
"I apply pressure? Pressure that paralyzes you."
"We still have to take back what we lost. Do you understand the value of an MSI champion jungler? Would it work if someone else replaced him? I really don't want to scold you guys anymore."
At this point, Principal Wang really stopped criticizing, but before leaving, he gave Li Fu 99 Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, which immediately set off a site-wide announcement on Panda TV and attracted countless viewers from other broadcasters' broadcast rooms to grab the lucky bags, causing Li Fu's broadcast room to soar to more than 7 million at this time in the evening, achieving a brief gap-like lead.
IG club training room.
The other teammates who joined Panda TV today also saw the site-wide announcement. When they saw that the person who gave the reward was actually their boss, they looked at Li Fu with unconcealable envy.
Not to mention the traffic and popularity that Buddha Jumps Over the Wall brings to the live broadcast room.
You know, Buddha Jumps Over the Wall is the most expensive gift among the panda's gifts, which is twice as expensive as the shark's rocket, and costs one thousand yuan each. 99 Buddha Jumps Over the Wall are enough to make people jealous just by converting them into RMB.
Of course, no matter how envious you are, there are some things that you cannot envy.
Who says he is the MSI world champion FMVP jungler?
It can only be said that Principal Wang's lavish spending has allowed these new players who have joined the IG club to see the tyranny of the new boss, and they have secretly made up their minds to make a name for themselves and gain the boss's appreciation.
Among them, the top laner Save is much more straightforward.
I simply changed the name of the live broadcast room to "Principal, please come in and watch my performance."
It’s a pity that after Principal Wang finished his online conversation with netizens, he gave some tips and left, never to be seen again. This made IG’s new Korean top laner quite melancholy, as he had just killed the opponent once in the first game, but was killed by the opponent in return.
Damn it!
Save is a little sad.
…
"Ahem, good evening everyone, thank you for the company of our old friends who came to Panda with us."
Li Fu debugged the equipment with the help of the base staff, cleared his throat as a greeting, and then clicked on the ranking of the international server of Canyon of Heroes.
During the ranking, he basically ignored the gossip and some provocative topics .
Although now LPL audiences think that Li Fu and Clearlove are the two best when it comes to pre-match trash talk, those are all official requirements. Li Fu feels that he prefers to see the real test on the field.
But he knows that live streaming is different from playing games, and interaction is very important.
Especially since his contract with Panda TV also stipulates the length of live broadcasts and the minimum number of online viewers, Li Fu naturally wanted to keep more people, so he would occasionally pick some game-related topics to answer.
The most popular thing about the game recently is naturally the version update.
After reading the versions for the past few days, Li Fu has memorized the netizens' suggestions on strengthening elemental dragons, equipment, and mid-lane mage core heroes. Basically, he can answer any question in the barrage.
"Swain is actually a kind of buff. His Q is much more efficient in clearing minions. Combined with the passive of Catalyst, he has a good chance of entering the professional arena next season."
"Anivia? Anivia wasn't actually strengthened, it was weakened in disguise. The change to her ultimate skill was really unfriendly. Players who like Anivia can continue to play, and those who want to rank higher can switch to other heroes."
"Kindred? The CD of her Q skill has been lengthened and the Devourer jungle item has been removed. I think Kindred's ability to cause trouble has been severely weakened. It is highly likely that she will hardly appear in the next season. There is no other way. Kindred was too strong last season. She was bound to be hit by this blow. However, you can play her in ranked games. After all, her damage output and high mobility are there."
“…”
Whether it is a hero, equipment or elemental dragon.
Regardless of whether it is your position.
Li Fu handled all the questions from netizens in the live broadcast room with ease, which amazed many viewers.
"Turtle! As expected of the FMVP champion jungler!"
"To be honest, Fu Huang's reading ability in this version is quite good."
"What is the value of being a champion jungler? Do you understand?"
“…”
Of course, there are also cynics and haters who are sneering.
"Fu Xiaozi, just wait and see. If he says we can't play, then we can't play."
"That's right. When Kindred has the highest appearance rate in the competition, I'll slap him in the face."
“I don’t think anyone is really learning technology in the live broadcast room. To understand the jungle, you have to watch Mala Xiang Guo and Swift.”
“…”
Li Fu ignored these provocative comments.
At this moment, I heard a clanging sound in my ears, and the first ranking match of today's live broadcast room finally entered.
However, as soon as he entered the game, Li Fu saw several familiar IDs appear in the room.
Second floor: SKT-Faker!
Fourth floor: NB-Swift!
Speak of the devil; he will appear.
No one expected that Li Fu would meet Swift in his first live show on Panda TV today.
For a moment, the viewers in the live broadcast room became very interested, and soon someone discovered the blind spot.
"Haha, Faker's position in this game is ADC."
"Eh? How did the two junglers pre-select together?"
"Oh, it was Swift who immediately filled in as the support."
"Wait, Swift seems to have typed something, it's in Korean, he said he wants to play jungle."
"Will Emperor Fu give in?"
"Give him the face he deserves, and compete with the world champion for the jungle position."
“…”
The live broadcast room was filled with comments.
Li Fu glanced at the dialog box on the BP interface. The teammate on the fourth floor was indeed typing. He didn't recognize the Korean words at the beginning, but he knew the English word "Jungle" at the end, which means jungler.
But Li Fu was not a good man, he simply ignored it and locked on to the blind monk.
All of a sudden, the viewers in Li Fu’s live broadcast room gave thumbs up.
"Yes, he shouldn't let him go! Who gave him face?"
"Hahaha, come on Brother Fu, give him a hard C and show him what a champion jungler is."
"Wait a minute? Swift picked the Graves!"
"Fuck, this stick is too soft to use force, just grab it."
"Turtle! This is a double jungle game, right? Doesn't that mean Faker will become an empty nester in the bottom lane?"
“Faker:???”
“…”
For a moment, Swift's "hard play in the jungle" immediately set off Li Fu's live broadcast room.
Moreover, due to the popularity and attention brought by the recent marketing of the opening match between NB and IG, the fact that the junglers of the two teams met in advance in a ranking match where they encountered Faker by chance quickly became a hot search headline in major e-sports self-media and Weibo forums!