"Good fight Wuxx!"
Backstage IG lounge.
At this moment, the place was full of laughter and joy. Coach Chris came up and patted Wuxx on the shoulder.
“This Jinx really works.”
Rookie also said with great relief.
It's really not easy. I have been in IG for such a long time, and it is rare that I have the feeling of being carried by the bottom lane.
What can I say?
It's quite amazing.
When Ashun heard what Rookie said, he immediately came over to take credit.
"Don't just talk about the bottom lane, what about my Sejuani?"
"Your pig sister plays like a factory manager."
"Actually, I'd be happier if you said I look like Brother Fu."
"Huh? You look down on the factory manager?"
"Don't do that! The factory manager is my idol."
“…”
A Xun quickly denied it.
Play is play, joke is joke, but don’t make fun of Qijiang.
Axun has played in LPL for so many years. Whether it was the ancient WE or the later EDG, he has always lived in the shadow of that man, even though he has turned the tables this year and become the master.
But in his heart he did not dare to deny the dominance of that man.
We won the game and everyone was happy.
However, for Save in the corner, happiness belongs to others, and there is a sadly thick barrier between them. When he realized this, he couldn't help feeling a little lost.
Top lane male gun.
Is it that this guy’s male gun is too powerful?
Or is it that the hero Graves is the hidden T0 top laner in the new version?
Save reviewed the previous game in his mind and a look of confusion appeared on his face.
Can't tell.
He really can't tell the difference.
Shaking his head, Save forced himself to calm down and told himself that none of this mattered.
Because no matter how well the hero Graves performs in the top lane, a player who only has one unique skill and cannot gain a foothold in the top lane cannot become a true top laner.
What is a top-level top laner?
Do you think you are?
Save feels like he is.
Any hero can be used.
Instead of being paralyzed when your unique skill is banned.
Just wait.
Save doesn't believe that RNG, after suffering a crushing defeat in one game, will still be stubborn and let go of Graves in this game.
After this game is over, I believe the coach and the audience will know that playing against RNG will harm him!
…
The break between games ended quickly.
When the players from both sides came on stage again, there was an extremely enthusiastic cheering sound from the audience. The fans of both sides competed with each other, one wave louder than the other, making people feel the strong desire to win of the fans in the audience.
If you didn't see it with your own eyes, it would be hard to believe that this scene would happen in the regular season.
There is no way, because the outcome of this game is also very important for the two teams with winning streaks. In addition to whether the "unbeaten streak" since the start of the summer season can be continued, on the other hand, there is the invisible but real "momentum". Whoever loses will lose this momentum.
After a while, the camera on the big screen turned to the LPL commentary desk.
"Okay, dear audience, welcome back to our game. I'm the commentator Miller."
"Hello everyone, I'm Ze Yuan."
After the usual opening remarks, Guan Zeyuan continued with a smile, "In the last game, Fu Ge's Graves was certainly powerful, but if you ask me, I can only say that it was a 'stable performance'. What really exceeded the expectations of our commentators and many viewers was the performance of the IG bottom lane duo. It was hard to imagine that they could resist the pressure and then rebound from the bottom when facing Uzi and Mata, the strongest bottom lane combination on paper in the LPL. It was simply unstoppable."
"Yes, I think this is the charm of laning against top bottom laners." Miller pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose and continued, "Many new players are afraid or unwilling to laning against top bottom laners like Uzi and Mata because they feel the pressure is too great, but what I want to say is that as long as you can withstand this pressure and be carried by him, there is a saying? Dapeng..."
"One day the great roc soars up with the wind, and can reach up to 90,000 miles." Guan Zeyuan said with a smile.
"Yes, that's it." Miller said with a smile, "Here I have to talk about IG's starting bottom lane duo today. Many people may not know Baolan, because he is indeed a rookie selected by IG this season, but Wuxx must be familiar to everyone. He was RNG's AD last season."
Miller paused and continued, "But to be honest, Wuxx didn't have that kind of eye-catching performance last season, but this season, or today, under the pressure of Uzi and Mata, this young player completely exploded. This is the path to becoming a top AD."
"That's right. Although what Mr. Miller said sounds a bit mysterious, it is actually... well, it is still quite mysterious." Guan Zeyuan continued with a smile, "But the competitive state of the players is something mysterious. I think Mr. Miller's analysis makes sense."
Miller and Guan Zeyuan on the stage analyzed the second game.
However, in the live broadcast room off the field, there were many viewers who simply did not buy it.
"Come on, Wuxx has to sing to Mata, "Listen to me, thank you for warming the four seasons," right?
"It's so funny, these two commentators are really licking."
"That's right. It's so cool to beat up my old boss. Why did he have to do this to me?"
“To be honest, I think Wuxx played well last season, but he just didn’t find a support that suits him.”
"Is Mata a support? This idiot has always regarded himself as a father. Is one-handed Jayce a human-made one?"
“…”
Of course, many RNG fans’ rebuttals soon appeared in the live broadcast room.
"Come on, without Mata, Wuxx was just a piece of shit last season."
"IG's son of a bitch is so funny. He won a small game by luck and then got into trouble. I thought this BO3 is not over yet? Did you forget that you got beaten up in the first game?"
"Let me be honest. Wasn't it because the Graves in the top lane restricted Xiaohu too much in the last game? Wasn't Xiaohu's bottom lane suppressing Wuxx in the early stage?"
"It's a pity that this male gun was banned. Someone is going to be beaten back to his original form, and there will be more than one person."
“…”
The live broadcast room was filled with comments.
The players from both sides took their positions, and after the dynamic BMG music, the third game began.
In this game, IG returned to the blue side, and RNG went to the red side.
"We can see that the BP has already started. Let's take a look at IG on the blue side. The third ban is Maokai, Troll and Lee Sin. The ban positions in this game are not much different from the previous game."
"Yes, let's take a look at RNG. Oh! Graves! Fu Ge's Graves was banned as expected. Will Jinx be banned too?"
"Uzi seemed to be shaking his head at the coach, probably indicating that this hero should not be banned."
“Haha, I can actually understand Uzi. After all, his Annie completely suppressed Jinx in the last game. In comparison, maybe he should ban other heroes.”
"They came out. Graves, Lucian and Ezreal. The three heroes that RNG banned were targeting IG's top and bottom lanes. But then again, IG's top and bottom lanes did perform very well in the last game."
"Yes, during the break just now, I took a look at the game data of the second game in the backstage. The total output of Graves and Jinx accounted for nearly 80% of the second game. The economic damage conversion rate of the two was also very high. It was really an exaggerated data."
"So now that IG is back on the blue side and Graves is banned, which hero will they pick first?"
"Digger! Oh! This should be the jungler with the highest appearance rate since our summer season."
"Right. RNG also directly picked the jungler and support, Thresh and Gragas. It seems that the junglers on both sides have started to set the tempo. Both Gragas and Jarvan IV are jungle heroes that can gank the entire field at level 3. In addition, it seems that Mata's Thresh is also intended to carry the team very much."
"Well, the hook-type hero of the M-support is not easy to deal with. What about IG's second and third hands?"
"Aliu Tauren and Clockwork. Aliu Tauren should deal with Thresh. Clockwork, the first mid laner, is not afraid of counters. He is a versatile mid laner hero."
"What about RNG? What is Xiaohu going to use to fight against Rookie's Clockwork? In this game, LeBron is still out there. Xiaohu, eh? Fan mother?"
"Midlane Fanta + Titan + Thresh, double hooks and shields, hiss! Is RNG going to play four protecting one?"
After hearing Guan Zeyuan’s speculation, many fans of Uzi and Royal Club were excited.
Some people even chanted the ancient LPL motto with trembling mouths - when the wind is in your favor, Jian is proud; when the wind is against you, Xiao Gou becomes crazy; when you are in desperate situation, Uzi becomes desperate!
The life-and-death game of BO3 is already a desperate situation for RNG!
"So what should Fu Ge choose for top lane? RNG's Titan is obviously going to be top lane. Now that Graves has been banned, I feel like if Fu Ge still picks another squishy long-range hero, he'll probably be targeted by RNG's top and jungle. The combination of Gragas and Titan is too easy to catch people."
"Crocodile? Eh? Really crocodile? Crocodile is okay, at least this hero is not very fragile, and the special effect of W can break the shield, but I feel that overall it is not that easy to beat Titan."
"IG's fifth pick was Jinx in the bottom lane, Wuxx's pick remained unchanged, and RNG didn't ban Jinx in this game, so it seems there should be some solution."
"What do you mean? On the red side, RNG gave the last counter position to the AD, which is very rare. What should Uzi choose? Annie? Jhin? Kog'Maw?"
"Oh! It's Kog'Maw, locked in! This Uzi is the ultimate core of RNG."
“…”
As the commentator on the stage finished speaking, the lineups for the third game for both teams were completely formed.
IG on the blue side: Crocodile on top, Jarvan IV in the jungle, Clockwork in the middle, Alistar and Jinx on the bottom lane.
Red side RNG: Titan on top, Gragas on jungle, Mad Max on mid, Kog'Maw and Thresh on bottom lane.
As soon as the lineup came out, comments at the scene and in the live broadcast room started to praise the king.
"The male gunner is banned and he plays crocodile? Is Fu Huang's crocodile old?"
"I guess he thinks Crocodile is an easier hero to fight against. After all, Fu Huang doesn't have anything else to show for it."
"The veteran Crocodile who has played 10,000 games said that Crocodile is a hero that is easy to learn but difficult to master. It is really not that easy to play well."
“I feel like something is not right with IG’s top lane.”
“…”
IG coach Chris looked slightly nervous when he finished his BP and left the competition booth.
He couldn't help but patted Li Fu on the shoulder, "The opponent banned Graves against you, but this is only targeted during the BP. You may be targeted more during the game. Be careful, Brother Fu."
Chris's concerns are not unfounded.
Once the hero Crocodile breaks down, he has no output and no damage. In a team fight, he just rolls around and dies. He is completely useless.
"Okay, I'll play it safe." Li Fu agreed with a smile.
Ah Xun, who was standing next to him, curled his lips when he heard this.
Li Fu said that he was a stable jungler, and he believed it. Last year, the opponent relied on Sejuani to pull IG back from falling to the center of the earth.
But he totally doesn't believe that the top laner is stable.
I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but every time I see Li Fu playing top lane in a professional game, Ah Xun feels like Li Fu has become a different person, as if a different soul has been switched inside his body when he sits in the top lane position.
It's completely different from his usual steady style.
Extremely radical.
But how can one person have two souls?
A Xun thought it must be his illusion.
…
Soon, the game loading was completed and the third game began.
At the beginning, both sides were in a defensive position and basically did not do any invading wards.
After the wild monsters refreshed, both the red and blue sides started with their respective red buff jungle scene, with Achung brushing from the bottom up and Mala Xiangguo brushing from the top down.
Just by looking at the jungler's start, you can see the focus of the junglers on both sides in the early stage.
It is obvious that IG's Axun still focuses on the top lane. On the one hand, Li Fu is worth helping, and on the other hand, Axun and Li Fu's top lane are bound together. Only when Li Fu is in the top lane can he have the opportunity to play in the jungle, so it is natural for Axun to hope that Li Fu can go further in the top lane.
Don’t play Graves as the crazy C in the last game, just switch to Crocodile and the game will be over.
Professional competitions are not ranked games, and no team will appreciate a guy with special skills who goes silent when a hero is banned.
As for Mala Xiang Guo's Gragas, although the meeting between the games set the tone of four protecting one for this game, Mala Xiang Guo didn't want to choose Sejuani and have no presence, so in this game he chose Gragas to gank the bottom lane while defaulting to four protecting one, just to do something beforehand.
Since ancient times, red flowers have been paired with green leaves.
However, when flowers bloom in spring, people only remember the red flowers, but not many people remember the green leaves.
Catching the bottom is his default limit of four protecting one.
But this also gave Li Fu an opportunity.
RNG's lineup choice was so obvious that it was impossible for Li Fu to fail to guess it.
Although the invading vision at the beginning could not be penetrated due to the opponent's strict defense, so that the opponent's jungler's movements could not be caught at the beginning, but Li Fu relied on his rich jungle experience to guess the opponent's jungler's opening ideas, so his top lane hit made Chris in the background twitch his eyelids.
You call this stable?
"Wow! Good job! Brother Fu is really fierce in the top lane."
At the commentary desk, Miller couldn't help but say in surprise when he saw that both sides in the top lane had less than half of their health when they reached level 2.
"It's mainly because Brother Fu's Crocodile played too aggressively. From the time he was online at level 1 at the beginning of the game, he was either exchanging blood or on the way to exchanging blood. I personally feel that he was a little too aggressive."
Guan Zeyuan paused for a moment and continued, "This style of play is quite impressive, but actually Brother Fu didn't gain much from the blood exchange. You can't see that Brother Fu's blood was 12, while Looper Titan already had 15. This means that he missed at least three bloods when he took the initiative to exchange blood, and the soldiers were pushing towards Looper's tower. If this continues, once the soldiers are controlled by Titan in front of the tower, Crocodile will be in a very passive situation."
Guan Zeyuan finally sighed.
"Alas, I feel that Brother Fu's crocodile is still a little too young."
Miller on the side stroked his chin, looked up at the big screen thoughtfully and said, "But I think that although Fu Ge's blood-exchanging style misses the target, it is not without advantages. At least the Looper line cannot be pushed out, which means he has no chance to go to the river to ward. There is news that Ashun quickly reached red in the lower half of the area. What do you think of this..."
"Level 3?"
Guan Zeyuan said uncertainly, "Titan is a hero with so many control points and can also back-hook and move. He's not that easy to catch, right? I feel like he can only flash at best. It's not realistic to cross the tower at this level. Whoever is holding the tower will have to be replaced."
Miller was also stunned when he heard Guan Zeyuan's words. After thinking about it carefully, it seemed to be true.
If Li Fu still wants to lead the jungler to cross the river in this situation, it can only be said that his crocodile is really a bit young and is far inferior to the male gun.
…
Seoul, South Korea,
Roxtigers Club.
The Tigers, who are studying their "MSI" opponents in advance, did not have a game today and also watched the games in the neighboring LPL division.
In fact, it’s not just the Tigers.
Nowadays, coaches and analysts from other LCK teams will open the LPL event channel after the game to see if there are any new tactics and operational ideas, and if so, they will steal some information.
Anyway, pickpocketing is not considered stealing in Korea.
But to be honest, if this situation had happened in the past two years, it would have been basically impossible.
In the eyes of the arrogant Korean club coaches, LPL is nothing more than an e-sports desert that needs support from Korean aid. What is worth watching? It would be better for LPL to steal from them.
So when did everything start to change quietly?
The earliest should be the BO5 finals between EDG and SKT two years ago. They won the official world championship in the first MSI of that year, which stunned many Korean coaches who were immersed in the "top country" of e-sports.
But he was just stunned.
Until this year's MSI, an unknown IG from the LPL directly eliminated SKT in the semi-finals. The final FMVP was not a Korean, but an equally unknown LPL veteran...
This time, many Korean teams were really surprised!
Two years of Korean aid export!
The LPL region, which they once regarded as a region with lots of money and fools, has actually grown to its current state without them noticing?
Therefore, in order to understand the opponents in advance, or to absorb (steal) some new ideas and tactics to complement their own strengths and weaknesses, many LCK clubs will privately follow the LPL events, especially the top clubs, which are their top priority.
Like today, LPL's MSI champion IG is facing off against the galaxy battleship RNG. At least ten of the twelve clubs in the summer season in South Korea must be watching the game simultaneously.
As for the remaining two, well, they were playing games and didn’t have time.
Of course, watching the game is just watching, but different teams have completely different thoughts when watching the game.
A super strong team like RoxTigers, which won six games in six games this summer and even defeated SKT 2-1, Smeb, the No. 1 top laner in the LCK, looked at Li Fu's crocodile operation and remained silent.
"He can't fight like this."
The man with eyes as sharp as a hawk said so.
"Brother Jinghao, what's wrong?" Little Peanut asked immediately.
After all, the guy sitting next to him is currently the most feared top laner in LCK.
Smeb immediately shook his head and said, "Crocodile's pushing seems to have gained the lane control, but when the line of soldiers reaches the tower and is controlled by Titan, he will be the one who suffers next. Moreover, their jungler has no chance to cross the tower at this level."
"If I were this Titan, and they dared to cross the tower, both of them would die."
This sounds very domineering.
But coming out of Smeb's mouth, it was full of unquestionable calmness.
Peanut was stunned when he heard this. "Brother Jinghao, what you mean is, how should we not fight crocodiles?"
“He had a problem with his thinking from the beginning.” Smeb did not comment.
Kuro next to him took a sip of water and said with a smile, "That's normal. You expect a temporary top laner to come up with any top-level ideas. His signature weapon, Graves, was banned, and it's not bad to pick a crocodile. You really expect him to get kills in the early game."
“Not every top laner is named Smeb.”
The invisible lick is the most deadly!
Smeb looked calm on the face, but he felt very happy in his heart.
Kuro is such a good kid.
Should I reward him well tonight?
…
However, at the same time, in the game.
Li Fu saw that jungler Ashun's excavator had arrived in the upper half of the area, and immediately marked the opposite Titan.
"Ah? Crossing the tower?" Ashun was stunned when he heard that.
Objectively speaking, thanks to Li Fu's early loss of soldiers and blood, Looper Titan's health was only half left, which was indeed a good opportunity for the jungler to catch him.
The problem is that the hero Titan has a shield and control. If he tries to force his way over the tower, he will probably die.
"Over what tower?" Li Fu glanced sideways.
"Then how do we catch it?" A Xun was stunned.
The soldier line is almost reaching the opposite top lane tower. By the time he catches up, he will probably be stuck in front of the tower. If he wants to kill someone, he will have to cross the tower.
Li Fu smiled slightly.
"Don't worry, he will give you a chance."
Yes.
Looper will give it a chance.
The reason why Li Fu was so sure was,
Because you see,
The commentator can see that Li Fu's blood exchange = shaking people, and the audience at the scene can also see this. It doesn't make sense that a world champion top laner like Looper would naively think that the opponent is just exchanging with him for fun when facing Li Fu's crocodile who rushes into the face.
Is anyone willing to lose soldiers and exchange blood for fun?
At this point, Looper could more or less tell that the opposing jungler must be clearing the jungle from the bottom up.
Now the troops are heading towards the tower and Looper is only half dead. Although the audience and others at the scene think that he is safe even with half dead, it is difficult for Looper, as a player in the game, to remain calm.
What should I do at this time?
Get insurance!
Because the crocodile pushed the line as soon as it met, Looper had no chance to establish vision of the river, and now it is pitch black on the triangle grass side.
Then the safest way is naturally to establish vision of the triangle grass before the soldiers enter the tower.
Even if there is someone, they can see it in advance.
You have to know that the success rate of counterattack when you are caught with foresight and when you are caught without any precautions is completely different.
Looper did it as soon as he thought of it, and immediately walked towards the triangle grass.
Upon seeing this scene, the commentators on the stage and the audience were all stunned!
Under the director's lens on the big screen, they clearly saw the third-level excavator sneaking into the underground of the triangular grass, like a hunter lurking in the shadows, waiting for its prey to fall into its trap!
In fact, Axun was also feeling a little numb at the moment!
Li Fu told him to squat on the triangular grass and someone would deliver him, but he didn't believe it.
But now, looking at the half-blood Titan approaching step by step, Axun was really a little shocked.
"Oh! Looper is going to be in big trouble this time!"
"He was about to place a ward, but A-Chun was discovered. Looper reacted quickly and turned around to Q the wall!"
"Excavator flashes W! Titan is interrupted and falls down!"
"The excavator with double buffs has high damage. It can knock the Titan down directly after landing."
"Looper flashed into the tower at low health, he still had a shield, he was holding the shield in his hand!"
"Oh, Fu Ge's crocodile also flashed and used E to rush under the tower. Titan opened the shield, but the crocodile's anger triggered the W special effect and broke the shield directly. He used A and Q to take her away directly, and used the second E to get out of the tower!"
"Oh my god! Is this the first blood?"
"Tsk tsk, this wave of tower diving seems to be a little different from what we expected!"
Before the commentator finished speaking, a kill notification appeared on the big screen.
"IG-Padre6 killed RNG-Looper!"
"First-Blood!"
Ah Xun, who succeeded in one strike, was also shocked!
He couldn't help but turn his head to look at Li Fu, who looked calm as usual, and remembered the words "It's okay, he will give you a chance" and then let him stay in Triangle Grass. This time he was really convinced.
Who would have thought that even though this man no longer plays jungle, he can still dominate his opponents like a jungler!
South Korea, Tigers club base.
Peanut and Kuro stared at the screen blankly, then secretly glanced at the "King of Force" Smeb who had a frozen face, and they all stood up at the same time and said they were hungry and were going to make some ramen.
If this horse doesn't move, considering Smeb's emphasis on face, won't he be so embarrassed that he will carve out a two-bedroom, one-living-room house on the floor?
At the same time, the barrage in the LPL event live broadcast room also cracked!
What the hell?!
What kind of incredible first blood rate is this?
Wasn't it too easy for that man to get the first blood?