Chapter 190: Please do something, Mingkai!
The battle between the new and old MSI champion teams.
The strongest name in Group A's first week.
As soon as the lineups of both teams were locked, they attracted heated discussions from countless viewers. The two commentators, Wawa and Miller, on the stage also began to analyze the lineups of both teams.
"IG's lineup in this game is very classic, with Prince in the mid and jungle and Clockwork in the middle. It is obvious that they want to open up the situation from EDG's mid and jungle positions. Perhaps to some extent, this is also a response to the absence of EDG's Fat General."
"That's right, but I think the timing of the formation of Crow and the power of Prince's clockwork system may have to be pushed to the mid-to-late stage. The power point in the early stage still feels like IG's bottom lane. Wuxx's Lucian is really fierce. It feels like he has a signature style just like Xiao Xiaoguang's skateboard shoes last season."
"Yes, but unlike Skateboard Shoes, Lucian is more suitable for laning, so now IG's bot lane gives people a very strong feeling. The early confrontation point of this game should still be in the bot lane."
"Well, on the other hand, EDG has a very balanced system, which includes teamfighting, damage output, and protection. It is also EDG's best operational lineup. The starting point of this lineup is even later than IG's lineup. If the water dragon or fire dragon is not spawned at the beginning of this game, I feel that the factory manager should be more inclined to let go of the small dragon in front in exchange for other jungle resources in the early stage."
“…”
As the commentator spoke, the game loaded and the competition officially began.
Facing the newly crowned MSI champion, EDG started the game very energetically, basically forming a long snake formation.
IG also started the game conservatively against EDG, which was invincible in the regular season last season. Li Fu was in the river in the upper area, and the junglers on both sides were standing guard in the river in the upper area. They looked at each other and understood each other's movements.
The middle and bottom lanes were basically safe. IG's bottom lane wards were placed very conservatively, directly at the triangle grass position.
At this moment, Li Fu suddenly pinged the signal several times.
"Saiwu, place a ward in the grass in the river top lane."
"ah?"
Save was stunned for a moment before realizing that Li Fu's Chinglish was calling him.
He was thinking whether it was too early to place a ward at this point. Since the opponent's Sejuani was spawning from top to bottom, theoretically the opponent would have time to come to the top lane after three minutes, unless they ganked the top lane at level 2 right from the start.
But what's the point of catching a crow?
Save was puzzled.
However, after the opening game the day before yesterday, Li Fu's prestige in the team had been established.
Even though Save didn't think Li Fu's top lane could replace him, he had to admit in his heart that in terms of jungle sense, Li Fu was definitely the strongest jungler he had ever seen in his career.
Therefore, after just a slight hesitation, Save still placed a ward according to Li Fu's river mark at the beginning... This scene was also accurately captured by the director's camera which had nothing to do at the beginning.
On the commentary desk, Miller suddenly said:
"Give him a ward right at the start? Brother Fu is going to catch him at level 2?"
"Huh? How did you know that?" Wawa asked in confusion.
Miller smiled when he heard this. "I've watched a lot of game replays recently and found a very interesting point. I won't keep you in suspense and will tell you directly. If the ward position on the side lane is placed after one minute, it is a standard anti-gank ward position. Whether you come here directly after clearing the first jungle area or come to gank after clearing two jungle areas, this ward position can effectively play a reconnaissance role in the maximum time limit."
Miller paused and continued to explain, "But if you place a river ward at the beginning of the game on the side lane, then this ward is most likely not for defending against ganks, because the ward at the beginning can only defend against level 2 ganks at most. But now most junglers will not choose level 2 ganks in order to improve jungle clearing efficiency and their own development, so the ward at the beginning of the side lane plays another role."
"Oh? What's the function?" asked Wawa.
"The reconnaissance eyes of the opponent." Miller said in a nesting manner.
But there was no need to explain this. As soon as I said this, Wawa reacted, "I understand what you mean. The 'opening ward' on the side lane is not to prevent ganks, but to find the opponent's anti-gank ward position so that our jungler can bypass the opponent's anti-gank ward to gank."
“You can also understand it in a simpler way.”
Miller smiled and continued, "Now that IG's top laner Crow has placed a ward in the river at the beginning of the game, it is basically certain that after Fu Ge's team finishes the blue buff in the upper half of the map, he will most likely come to the top lane to do something. Even if he doesn't kill anyone at level 2, as long as he can lower their health or use flash, it will be very difficult for EDG's top laner Mouse to face him next time."
"That makes sense." A smile appeared on Wawa's face. "Although the jungle position does not require much laning and does not require too many reaction operations, the real top junglers often start the game as soon as the game starts. Now Brother Fu has already made a move, it depends on whether the factory manager can catch this point."
Ding ding ding—!
Unexpectedly, as soon as Wawa finished speaking, several red signals lit up in the upper river of the small map. The person who pinged the signal was actually Zz1tai who was preparing to start with a red bar in the upper half of the area, and the position of Ping was almost the same as the position where he had just saved and placed a ward.
At this time, the director's camera gave another facial expression to the factory manager in the EDG competition seat. The man with a bowl-cut hair in the picture turned his head with a serious expression and spoke very quickly to the top laner Mouse.
Mouse, who replaced Kou Rou as the top laner this season, nodded quickly.
Wawa and Miller couldn't help but look at each other in surprise.
"The factory director... guessed it?"
"It's probably a guess. Just look at what he spawns after he kills the red team and you'll know."
Next, as expected, after the factory manager's Pig Girl killed the red buff, she used a Q and went straight through the wall and crashed into the Stone Man.
You know, if you follow the normal double buff speed 3 route, it is possible that after Piglet kills the red buff, she can go on to kill F4 and the three wolves, but there is no reason to go back to kill the stone man.
Since the factory manager has chosen this jungle route now, there is only one truth: he is going to counter-camp in the top lane next.
Obviously, the extremely experienced and sophisticated manager accurately judged the intention of IG's opening river eye through the small detail of Save Crow's opening eye, and took advantage of the situation and came to counter-camp as soon as possible.
hiss-!
The audience at the scene and in the live broadcast room couldn't help but gasp!
"Turtle! Can you guess so much from just one eye position?"
"Awesome! Factory Manager is still old enough to play jungle!"
"I've already said that 7 is greater than 6. I declare the factory manager the winner!"
"Wait a minute! Don't you see a problem?"
“…”
Just then, an audience member in the live broadcast room noticed something wrong.
It is said that the factory manager’s anti-camping awareness is invincible.
But you can keep counter-squatting and counter-squatting...someone has to come and catch you, right?
In the game footage on the big screen, the director pulled the camera and saw that after Li Fu's Prince killed the blue + three wolves, he directly used EQ to rush to the lower half of the area.
At this moment, Miller, who had just analyzed the role of "Side Lane Eye" for a long time on the commentary desk, was suddenly embarrassed. He looked at the big screen blankly and opened his mouth but didn't know what to say for a moment.
How could this happen?
This is the rule he summarized after reviewing many games.
Is there something wrong with the rules?
Or does IG's new top laner simply not understand the difference between the "starting eye" and the "one-minute eye" on the side lane?
It shouldn't be.
How can you place an order when the food is so bad?
Wawa glanced at his old partner with a sidelong smile, and couldn't help but laugh to save the situation, "Being misunderstood is the fate of professional players, just like doing reading comprehension when we were in school. Maybe the author didn't think that much, haha."
"impossible!"
Miller flatly rejected it.
Among the current LPL commentators, he is known for his seriousness, rigor and solid professional skills.
If you said something wrong, you can admit it.
But when he thought about it carefully, he didn't think there was anything wrong with his initial analysis.
From Save's perspective as a professional top laner, he certainly couldn't be unaware of the difference between "starting ward" and "one-minute ward", but he chose to place a river ward at the beginning.
Oh, by the way...Brother Fu seems to have given Ping a signal!
Suddenly!
A flash of lightning flashed through his mind!
Miller blurted out excitedly, "I know! We were right! But this... this was all Brother Fu's plan!"
"Ah?" Wawa was stunned when she heard that, and subconsciously asked, "What are you designing?"
But at this moment, the director's camera suddenly turned to the Prince who had just defeated the red buff and reached level 3 in the lower area. The Prince did not continue to kill the stone man or F4. Instead, he walked directly to the bottom lane from the triangle grass where there was a ward.
This time, without Miller's answer, Wawa also reacted.
He widened his eyes and said in disbelief:
"You mean... Brother Fu deliberately let Save look at the river at the beginning of the game to confuse the factory manager, with the purpose of keeping the factory manager in the top lane, and he can use this opportunity to gank the bottom lane at level 3."
"That's right!" Miller said with certainty, "Everyone in the LPL knows that Clearlove loves to gank the bottom lane. Just imagine, if Save didn't have that ward at the beginning, Clearlove's normal route would definitely be the same as Fu Ge's, which is to gank from top to bottom. If both junglers were in the bottom half, it would be difficult for Fu Ge to do anything at the beginning."
This is indeed the case.
Li Fu chose the prince this time.
But the Prince is a rhythm-oriented hero after all. The opposing Pig Girl can just focus on farming, but if he is also caught in the opposite position and can only farm together, it will undoubtedly be a loss.
Therefore, from the moment he met the factory manager in the river in the upper half of the game, Li Fu acted on the spot and deliberately let Save cooperate with him to create the illusion of a "level 2 gank".
If this little detail is changed to a random game or a match against other teams, Li Fu might not use this design.
But he knew that the factory director was a thoughtful and meticulous person, and he would definitely get to the bottom of the matter and find a reasonable reason.
Then he gave the factory manager a "reason".
What a pity,
Caught on is his lie.
At this time, the director's camera on the big screen has been turned to the bottom lane.
In fact, IG's bottom lane duo Lucian and Lulu are no match for Annie and Bard in terms of pushing lanes or exchanging blood before level 3. Only when they have all the skills at level 3 can they achieve counter-pressure. This is the hero mechanism.
But this time, Li Fu revealed from the beginning that there was a high probability of catching it at level three.
Therefore, IG's bottom lane duo Wuxx and Shekeke actively exchanged blood from the beginning, with the aim of lowering the opponent's health and creating gank space for the upcoming jungler.
When Li Fu arrived at the bottom lane, the opposing AD and support both had only half of their health left.
“Well done!”
He couldn't help but verbally praise Wuxx.
Wuxx couldn't help but smile shyly after hearing this.
Young people are not used to being praised in public.
But objectively speaking, the performance of the new bottom laner Wuxx is indeed much better than Xiao Shiguang in terms of offensiveness.
无论是前天打NB还是今天打EDG，无论下路对线谁，这个年轻的AD小将骨子里总有一股稳中求进的拼劲，这就很对李甫胃口。
At this time, under the director's lens,
IG's bottom lane duo started the game at a disadvantage and exchanged blood. EDG's bottom lane Dai and Meikou naturally took control of the line, and the troops began to cross the river and push towards the IG tower.
Even though Zz1tai gave the information that the opposing jungler was on top, seeing that his own bottom lane was about to be pushed, Bard still habitually stopped at 2 minutes and 20 seconds and went to the river grass to give the first trinket eye to prevent the speed triple gank.
There is an eye in the river, and the blood volume has an advantage.
Mr. Dai took a look and said, "Okay, let's continue pressing."
You know, when Annie plays against Lucian, there aren't many happy moments when she can push the line.
When Lucian reaches level 3 and has all his skills, and can fire six shots in one second, Annie will definitely not be able to defeat the opponent.
Not to mention that the opponent's support is Lulu, who not only has strong consumption ability, but can also put on a shield and turn into a sheep.
Mr. Dai is very clear about this, so naturally he wants to lower the opponent's health as much as possible before Lucian's strong period.
This pressure... caused trouble!
"Oh! Brother Fu's third-level prince is coming!"
"EDG had vision of the bush in the river. EDG had seen it, but the duo was too far forward. They retreated immediately!"
"Oh no! Deft's Annie learned QW at level 2 in order to push the lane and trade blood, but didn't learn the E skill shield. So she has to use flash this time. As long as she flashes to dodge Prince's EQ, she can run away!"
" What does Brother Fu say? The Prince is coming up and intercepted Annie in the middle of the bottom lane. Use W to slow her down. Should I attack her a few times first? Can Bard's Q stop the Prince?"
Just as he finished speaking, the prince actually waved the Debon battle flag, and then a giant dragon rushed forward!
"Oh! Brother Fu directly EQed it!"
"Antelope flashes! Deft reacts quickly!"
"Wait! Oh my god! The prince also followed the flash!"
"EQ flash! Deft was knocked away!"
"Oh no, IG's bottom lane has also caught up, Lucian directly uses E skill to hit the face and output damage."
"Deft's health is dropping very fast! Lulu is dead from Ignite, and the healer can't raise his health!"
"Oh! Teleport! Two teleports!"
It happened in the blink of an eye!
The factory manager was hiding in the top lane for a long time, but when he looked down, he saw Li Fu attacking the bottom lane directly, and he immediately exclaimed "Fuck" in his heart.
Mouse, who played in the top lane, finally got the chance to play as the starting top laner this season when Kou Rou and the club had problems. However, with his serious lack of experience, he was treading on thin ice when playing in the top lane.
Greedy for development but no support?
Does not exist.
As soon as the problem occurred in the bottom lane, Mouse immediately used TP to protect the bottom lane.
When Save in IG's top lane saw Mouse using his teleport to protect the bottom lane, he wanted to interrupt him immediately. However, Mouse, a blue-collar top laner, was too experienced and Save couldn't reach his TP position to interrupt him.
What to do then?
How about... I push the wave line in the top lane?
As soon as this thought came into his mind, it was immediately rejected by Save, who shuddered all over.
Just kidding, after the incident in the second game against NB the day before yesterday, the coach originally wanted him to play Titan, Maokai or something like that this year, but in the end he gave him a break and let him play a revised top lane Crow to try the waters.
If we don't support development at this time, then I guess we can only play Maokai in the top lane in the future.
In the words of coach Chris, when playing as Trek, you won't be too greedy for development, right?
In a flash, the top laners from both sides appeared in the bottom lane at the same time.
Li Fu looked around and saw that his top laner's TP was following closely behind, so he kept chasing Deft.
I chased him to the tower and used Q to take down the first blood.
"IG-Padre6 killed EDG-Deft!"
"First Blood!"
At this moment, Poppy, who had TPed down from EDG's top lane, also landed, activated W to accelerate and flashed away!
Whoosh!
Very soon!
"Oh no! Poppy is going to flash and E the Prince into the tower!"
"Wait! Lulu is turning into a sheep!"
"Oh! Poppy who flashed over was turned into a sheep!"
In the split second of life and death, Li Fu quickly reached the same level as Poppy who had flashed over.
The next second, Mouse recovered from turning into a sheep and used E again, but this E only pushed Li Fu against the wall from the side, but failed to knock him under the tower.
In this case, the damage inflicted by Poppy and Bard alone is obviously not enough to take Li Fu away.
Then when Save's Crow TPed and landed right after him, even though Li Fu's health was less than one-third, the EDG top and support players who had used up all their skills had no choice but to retreat.
At this point, the first round of the match between the two sides came to an end.
The game time is 2 minutes and 51 seconds.
Li Fu killed EDG in front of the bottom lane tower.
It was not until this time that the audience at the scene and in the live broadcast room came to their senses.
“66666!”
"This EQ flash is awesome!"
"Deft: We agreed to gank top at level 2, why the hell did you gank bottom at level 3?"
"Where is the factory director? What is he doing?"
“…”
"Fuck! The factory manager pushed the wave line in the top lane! Hahaha."
The next second, the director's camera suddenly turned to the top lane.
I saw Piglet, who had been hiding in the top lane for a long time, suddenly teleporting down when he saw the top laners on both sides. He was alone and just pushed the line in the top lane. The back of the man riding the piglet looked a bit funny.
Wawa and Miller at the commentary desk couldn't help but smile bitterly at each other.
"This time... This time I can only say that the hearts of these veterans who played tactics are really dirty." Wawa couldn't help but tease, "The factory manager thought he was dirty enough, but he didn't expect that there were people who were dirtier than him."
"That's right, but Brother Fu's progressive design at the beginning and the decisive EQ flash at the end also opened up the situation for this game. Not to mention the advantage of Prince getting first blood in the jungle, the top laners from both sides TPed down, and Mouse also lost a flash, so the top laner needs to be very careful next time."
"Yes, and the most important thing is the bottom lane. I won't talk about the fact that Deft had to use both of his skills after being caught. The key point is that he originally had an advantage in the bottom lane, but now Lucian got an assist and a minion advantage. I must emphasize here that the early development curves of Lucian and Annie are completely different. Even if they have the same equipment, Lucian's early burst will be much higher than Annie's."
"Hiss! From this point of view, Brother Fu's ganking the bottom position has opened up three opposing positions in the top, bottom and jungle."
“…”
The commentator on the stage was right.
But the rhythm of professional competitions is linked together, and the actual impact of Li Fu's catching up is more than that.
You know, EDG's bottom lane was caught while pushing the line, and then was chased under the tower and killed.
This means that after Deft's death and both sides are back online, the soldiers in the bottom lane will be controlled in front of the IG tower for a long time. Not only will they lose the line, but the Annie who has been hit with two skills will have no way to go up and connect the line.
But Annie is an AD that develops in the mid-to-late game. If her development fails in the early stage, there will be no need to fight later.
In order to avoid this situation, after Zz1tai's Sejuani pushed the top lane and went home to clear the bottom lane, even though she knew that IG's bottom lane had been cleared out by Li Fu and there was no way to counter-jungle, she still had to patrol the bottom lane for more than half a minute, in order to protect the bottom lane connection without dual skills.
The chain reaction that followed was that the factory manager's Sejuani, whose jungle clearing efficiency should have been much faster than that of the Prince, was overtaken by Li Fu in terms of development and jungle clearing because of this stroll in the lower half of the area.
Backstage EDG lounge.
When Abu saw this scene, a trace of worry appeared between his brows.
The advantage... doesn't seem to be in my hands.
However, even so, the next second, when his peripheral vision inadvertently swept across the small map in the lower right corner, his body shook slightly unconsciously!
broken!
Under the director's lens,
Even with such strict patrols after the factory manager and the pig girl gave up development, a figure still broke through the factory manager's defense like a ghost and came silently towards the bottom lane.
Who else could it be if not the prince?
broken!
Abu's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and he quickly went to find out where the factory manager Zhu Mei was.
Please do something, Mingkai!
