The interview is over.
The first week of competition has officially come to an end.
IG is the leader in Group A.
Li Fu's view on choosing a partner at the competition is that he must be able to beat him in playing games.
After saying this, Feng Sichu's expression at that moment was immediately captured by a netizen and made into an emoticon package of "You must be sweating profusely, sister", which circulated wildly on the Internet for a week.
However, as the joke spread, a netizen with the ID 'Last Whisper' suddenly said in the comment section, "Even such a straight man has girls who like him. Brother, you can't be still not liked by girls today, right?"
In an instant, the carnival of the people was suddenly put on pause!
The last whisper,
This armor-piercing weapon in the League game...
It's really armor-breaking.
Li Fu didn't care about what was circulating on the Internet.
For the next week, he basically focused on the training games because coach Chris was preparing to try a new lineup next week.
Wuxx in the team played pretty well.
But this season, IG also introduced Korean aid Rain in the bottom lane. How will he perform? Will he be more surprising than Wuxx? These always depend on practice to draw conclusions.
However, Rain is a Korean player, and LPL stipulates that each team can only field no more than three Korean players. Rookie's position cannot be moved without a substitute, so if a Korean player is used, Save must be replaced in the top lane.
Obviously, IG's only substitute top laner is Li Fu.
Therefore, in the training matches and regular rankings scheduled for the next few days, Li Fu basically played the top position, and the netizens who noticed this became excited.
In the semi-finals, Li Fu was ordered to replace the top laner who killed Graves pentakill. It is still fresh in the memory of countless people. Everyone is looking forward to Li Fu's first professional game in the summer season.
Next week, IG's first opponent is Snake. If Li Fu plays top lane, he will have to compete against his former teammate, the top laner. This is full of drama and many people are looking forward to it.
Except Save, of course.
Although he was also arranged to play a training match this week, Save felt a little uncomfortable after seeing Li Fu playing top lane in the training match. Has this day finally arrived?
He knew that the purpose of the coach and the club's move was to try and train the players in the regular season and find the best lineup system, but Save still felt that even if it was training, his position should be as stable as Rookie's, and having his own top laner was the best lineup system.
But he couldn't say that. Save was new to the team and his performance in the first week was just average. He even had a small setback in the opening match against NB. Therefore, he could only secretly observe Li Fu.
Of course, he knew about Li Fu's performance in the semi-finals when he was given the task of taking on the task in a critical moment, but Save didn't think that Li Fu's performance in helping the team beat SKT in a life-and-death game and win a place in the finals proved that he was a top-notch top laner.
Being a truly top-notch top laner...is not that easy to prove.
Therefore, after seeing the coach and the club decide to do so in the second week, Save couldn't help but secretly look forward to it. He expected Li Fu to suffer a defeat in his first appearance, and then he would be entrusted with the task at this time.
Use your strength to prove to everyone that not everyone can play the top lane position.
Thinking of this, Save's training became even harder.
He firmly believes that opportunities always come to those who are prepared.
…
Time flies.
In a blink of an eye, it was June 2nd, Thursday, the day after Children's Day.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, VG from Group B played against LGD.
After a spring baptism, LGD's top laner Ma Da Tou is no longer the rookie who first entered the LPL last season, and has become much more mature.
In comparison, VG's mid laner Hou Ye seems to have not found a suitable position in the team yet.
After a round of B03, LGD defeated VG 2-0 as expected.
Next it was IG and Sanke's turn.
This season, the Snake team introduced the Vietnamese jungler Sofm, known as the Vietnamese Little Faker. Originally, the jungle duel should have been a highlight, but IG announced today's starting lineup in the morning.
Top laner Li Fu, jungler Achung, mid laner Rookie, bottom lane Rain and Baolan.
This means that Li Fu will be facing his former teammate Zhiti today.
They played at 7pm. After LGD defeated VG at around 6:30pm, the Weibo War God Zzitai posted a Weibo in the lounge, "Let's play against Brother Fu to see who was the former No. 1 top laner of IG (Nigo)."
As soon as the Weibo post was released, it was immediately forwarded by many netizens.
"Some people can't tell the difference between the big and small kings."
"It's so funny. Wasn't Zizi the number one bootlicker of Emperor Fu?"
"Posture: The past was the past, the present is the present, and I forgot what happened next..."
“…”
Seven o'clock arrived quickly.
However, after the two teams actually started fighting, everyone was shocked to find that the real winning factor between IG and Snake today was not in the top lane or the jungle, but in the bottom lane.
In the past, Korean players gave people the impression of being cold and ruthless masters.
But today, the new AD, Rain, in IG's starting lineup broke everyone's "stereotype" of Korean players.
The first game ended in 34 minutes. IG won by chance, not because the two teams were evenly matched, but because from the early laning phase, as long as the mid and top lanes were slower, the bottom lane would give back the rhythm.
In the mid-to-late team battles, ADC should be the absolute focus at this time.
Unfortunately, the Korean aid Rain's movement is like sleepwalking, and team fights are like shopping. Either he gets killed instantly before the fight, or he moves for ten seconds and outputs for one second during the fight, and then is taken away directly by Zzitai's Fiora.
As a result, IG, who clearly had an advantage in the early stages, ended up fighting back and forth with Snake. In the end, it was because Snake had changed the three core positions of top, jungle and AD this season, and the team itself was not very well-coordinated, and made several fatal mistakes that gave IG the opportunity to end the game that lasted for 34 minutes.
However, after the game, IG's coaching staff and audience fans were stunned.
It was probably Wuxx's outstanding performance in the two games of the first week that made many viewers feel that IG's former manager Su Xiaoluo really did a good job. Before leaving, he strengthened IG's most criticized bottom lane last season in a very cost-effective way. Subconsciously, they felt that if Wuxx was like this, then wouldn't the Korean AD be "powerful" when it played?
Unexpectedly, the first game of the snake-hunting team today was really surprising.
Throughout the entire game, it was the Snake team's rookie Martin who played, but he had almost no redeeming qualities from laning to team battles. It was really puzzling and I couldn't understand where Su Xiaoluo found such a Korean aid.
Backstage lounge,
Everyone on the IG coaching staff was also scratching their heads.
What should I do?
Are you still letting me go up?
It's a military training exercise, and the plan is to replace players if we lose.
But won,
I will definitely give it to you in the next game.
However, today's Rain seemed to have a bug. He clearly won, but the coaching staff hesitated whether he should play.
In the end, it was head coach Chris who made the final decision.
"Go ahead and let him try again," Chris said decisively.
It is normal for players to be nervous in professional competitions. Everyone was a rookie once, and there is no need to completely deny someone because of one game. It is also normal to give them another chance in the regular season, not to mention that they won the previous game.
So after a short break, the game between the two sides started again.
The audience does not have as many considerations as the coaching staff. They only care about whether the player plays well or not. Rain's performance in the last game was really terrible. When they saw the IG coaching staff let him play again in this game, there was a burst of boos in the audience.
This atmosphere is not right.
During the BP stage, coach Chris was worried that it would further affect the mentality of the new players, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Rain, but unexpectedly, Rain, the Korean player who currently basically cannot understand Chinese, had a very calm expression.
???
Coach Chris is a little unsure of Rain's approach.
This kid... isn't he nervous?
Without thinking too much, the second game of BO3 started soon.
Compared with the previous game, IG did not have such a big advantage in the early stage of this game, but was actually at a disadvantage.
Because the Snake team held a meeting during the match and figured out the pattern of IG's lineup, the top and mid played timidly but steadily, while the Vietnamese jungler Sofm tried to find the rhythm in the bottom half and bottom lane, and almost destroyed IG's bottom lane.
Fortunately, more than ten minutes later, when Sofm was looking for a rhythm in the bottom lane again, Li Fu and Rookie saw the opportunity and double TPed to the bottom lane together, exchanging one for three, thus turning around the early disadvantage in the bottom lane.
In this wave, Li Fu, Rookie and Rain all got kills.
I thought that with this wave, IG's bottom lane would at least be more stable, if not stronger.
But before three minutes had passed, bad news came from the bottom lane again.
"Oh my god! Rain's positioning...why didn't he use flash?"
"No, the key point is why he gave up his flash at the end when he died."
Jide and Guan Zeyuan on the stage were also speechless.
The last game was even more exaggerated than the previous one. The time went straight to the 44th minute. The kill ratio between the two sides was 20:22. The bottom lane was 1/8, and i8 was successfully developed.
IG relied on the outstanding performance of the top, mid and jungle despite being at a disadvantage in terms of kills, and with Li Fu's top lane Graves making up for the ADC output to some extent, they won the final decisive team fight and won the game.
After the game, coach Chris in the backstage lounge wiped his head and opened his hands, only to find that his palms were sweaty after the decisive game.
It was not until this moment, looking at the Korean AD player sitting in the bottom lane of IG, that all the IG coaching staff finally confirmed one thing.
Damn it!
This kid is not nervous!
He is really a dish.
The viewers in the official event live broadcast room also burst into laughter.
"WTF! Where did IG buy this genius AD?"
"You still want to be a Korean player? I guess no team would want you to play professionally in LCK, right?"
"Rain! Rain Emperor? Pi Emperor!"
"I am dying of laughter. You guys from IG must be sweating profusely."
"Damn it, if Fu Ge's top laner Graves hadn't temporarily acted as ADC, IG would have won by a long shot."
"Turtle, Fu Huang is a jungler and a substitute top laner, and now he has to work part-time as an AD. He has to work three jobs for one salary. Are you human, IG?"
"To be honest, he is definitely not a human being."
“…”
After the game, everyone was complaining crazily on the barrage.
At the same time, RNG Club.
The RNG players who were watching the game also laughed out loud and looked at Su Xiaoluo.
Su Xiaoluo shrugged and said, "Why are you looking at me? If I had money, I would buy Uzi, but my budget is limited. Some people are asking for a huge salary increase, so I can't do anything about it."
"It's not that Uzi can't afford it, it's just that Rain is more cost-effective." Someone next to him joked.
Uzi scratched his head somewhat "shyly".
There was a burst of laughter.
After laughing, Xiaohu couldn't help but say, "But IG's win today was a little beyond my expectations. When I watched the first game, I felt that the bottom lane should lose if they gave up like that, but they didn't. In the second game, I thought they were basically going to lose, but they actually won again . If Padre6, the top laner Graves, had played against us..."
After hearing Xiaohu's words, the laughing crowd couldn't help but quiet down a little.
RNG coach Fly hesitated and said, "If it doesn't work, just ban it. Although it's not a jungle core version now, it's okay to ban that guy's Graves."
That makes sense.
Everyone nodded.
"I don't think it's necessary."
At this moment, Mata suddenly sneered, "He can play so smoothly as the top laner Graves, but it's just that the long-range player bullies the short-range player and snowballs in the lane to gain advantages. He can only play against top laners at the level of Zzitai."
A top laner of Zzitai’s level?
As the top laner of the MSI champion, it might sound a bit arrogant to hear someone say this.
But the confidence and momentum when Mata said that made people involuntarily choose to believe him, because this man is the champion support of the S championship, and the value of the S championship is far beyond the MSI mid-season championship.
Moreover, Mata is the FMVP champion, while Zzitai is only an MSI champion who won a life-and-death game easily. The value of the two championships is incomparable.
Mata took in everyone's expressions with satisfaction, then turned around and looked at Looper, then suddenly smiled and said, "But that may not happen if you meet us."
"Hmm? Shiheng, do you have a way to deal with IG's top lane Graves?" Coach Fly asked urgently.
He is called a coach, but in front of Mata, who is known as the brain of the team, he never puts on airs as a coach.
However, Mata kept it a secret and said with a smile, "It depends on whether Looper is sure of it."
Looper smiled and didn't comment.
…
The second week of the LPL Summer Season.
After defeating Sanke, IG successfully won three consecutive victories and led the Group A standings at the end of the second week.
And you have to know that among the other five teams in Group A except IG, the three teams that IG has defeated are all at the top in terms of strength, and the remaining two are GT and SAT.
The predecessor of GT is EPA.
The predecessor of SAT is HYG.
These are all teams that failed to make the playoffs last season and are now playing in the relegation matches.
Even though the lineups have been strengthened to varying degrees this season, a team's strength depends on coordination, and the coordination of these two teams is obviously not satisfactory.
GT’s current score is 1/2, with one point in hand.
SAT was even worse, 0/3, which means they lost three games and didn't get a single point. Even among the twelve teams in the LPL Summer Season, they would be at the bottom.
According to the schedule, the third game week of LPL is also the last week of the first round of rotation within the same group.
IG will play against SAT on June 11th and against GT on June 12th.
They are Saturday and Sunday respectively.
In the three rounds of competition, IG, the leader of Group A, which has not lost a single small game, is immediately given great expectations. After all, RNG in Group B has begun to sweep the group round-robin competition like a galaxy battleship.
After the third week, there will be competition between different groups, and teams from different groups will meet.
Most of the audience are looking forward to a strong showdown.
Instead of RNG sweeping all the way.
Even RNG fans are like this.
In the words of RNG fans, RNG's goal this season is not to be first in the regular season, not to be the LPL champion, nor to be in the top eight of the world championship...
They have only one goal.
That is the S-League champion.
To achieve this goal, it is unrealistic without some training within the region, so they very much hope that IG this summer can become a "sharpening stone" for RNG to aim for the S game.
The better the quality of the whetstone, the sharper the knife will be.