Chapter 206: In the world, people of the same age!
Weekend, June 19th.
The last day of the fourth competition week.
The match between LPL's new generation powerhouse IG and the galaxy battleship RNG came to an end the day before yesterday. The two teams that had been undefeated in their respective groups in the first round of the regular season finally decided the winner in that game!
After the initial stage of discussion and bragging, even if RNG fans are reluctant to admit it, many people have to face up to the strength of IG's "top and jungle changes" among the twelve LPL teams this season.
Especially Li Fu, the temporary top laner who was looked down upon at the beginning, with Crocodile in his left hand and Graves in his right hand, he seems to be much more powerful than many people imagined!
So much so that those who initially insisted that Li Fu was not a good top laner, had to admit afterwards that this LPL veteran who was living a second life seemed to have unexpected talent in the top lane position.
4pm, Hongqiao Tiandi LPL venue.
Backstage, LGD lounge.
"There is news that IG will use the same lineup as in the second game against RNG."
"What do you mean? Padre 6 is still on the road?"
"It seems that Chris wants to practice this system in the regular season."
"Yes, if one person is proficient in both the top and jungle positions, and note that I said 'proficient', then in the playoffs and even in the BO5 stage of the World Championship, it will be very difficult for the opponent to make a decision in the BP."
"Hiss, now that I think about it, it seems a bit scary."
"The good news is that Padre6's top laner hero pool is average. I heard that he is practicing top lane like crazy in the recent ranked matches. It will probably take some time for him to practice a hero that he can fully use at his age."
"Hmm... then how do we arrange our BP today?"
After Hirano Aya said this, everyone in LGD's starting lineup today looked at coach Heart.
"If Padre6 plays top lane, I feel... it's best to ban both heroes, Crocodile and Graves." said coach Heart.
The coach is not a fool, and he won't be as stubborn as RNG's fans.
After losing the game, many people on the Internet are saying that Looper, the top laner of S4, has been in a serious decline.
But Heart felt that since Li Fu could even pin Looper to the ground and beat him, his strength should not be underestimated, especially the opponent's best top laners, Graves and Crocodile.
LGD is not RNG. They don’t have so many idol baggage, and there is no so-called “team brain” in the team to cause disagreements. Naturally, they won’t be so stubborn as to not ban the opponent’s favorite heroes.
But after saying this, Coach Heart rubbed his brows with a headache and said with a wry smile, "But if this is the case, the ban position will be a bit tight. The opponent may very well set us up in other positions."
Hearing this, everyone fell silent.
There are only three ban positions in the current game version, and two of them are given to the "temporary" top laner. This means that there is no defense at all against IG's former dean Rookie and the young AD player Wuxx who is beginning to show his potential in the bottom lane.
Just as everyone was hesitating, Ma Datou, who was wearing a baseball cap and biting his thumb in thought, spoke.
"Crocodile doesn't need to be banned."
"Um? "
Coach Heart turned his head and looked at him, then suddenly realized what was happening.
"you mean?"
"Well, I can grab the crocodile on the blue side."
Everyone in LGD looked at Ma Run in unison, and they all felt as if they had suddenly woken up.
There is no way. In the past two days, Li Fu's battle against Looper in which the crocodile killed four people has been repeatedly included in various highlights, causing LGD, which is about to fight against IG, to suffer from "crocodile phobia" involuntarily, but they unknowingly forgot that the real "Crocodile King" in last year's World Championship was in the LGD team.
Not only that, he is also the only owner of the champion crocodile skin in the League of Legends events so far. Last year's World Championship, his forehand and backhand teaching of crocodile against Noxus and Noxus against crocodile was a classic.
If Crocodile can ban instead of grab today, it means that only one ban spot will be needed for the top lane.
"Trust Ma Run!"
"come on!"
"Come on, everyone!"
"Defeat IG tonight and treat us!"
"Fuck, why are you asking me again?"
"You have a high salary, if you don't hire someone, who will?"
“…”
At the game site, at 3 pm, Snake defeated WE 2-1 in a small upset, and then the two teams IG and LGD, who were playing the last game of the fourth week, also took the stage.
After the equipment was connected and debugged, before putting on the headphones, Ma Run heard countless voices at the scene shouting the name "Padre6", and his eyes subconsciously crossed the stage and looked across.
The only "peer" of his in LPL and even the entire league.
I still remember that when the two sides first faced off last season, Ma Run, who knew Li Fu's resume, felt sorry for Li Fu as a veteran with old age.
The saying "Become famous as early as possible" applies everywhere.
When Ma Run won the world championship at this age, he once thought with some melancholy that if he could be younger and meet the right people at a younger age, would he have a more brilliant life.
However, there are no ifs in life.
But Ma Run is already content.
At least he did it and became the SKT top laner remembered by the whole world last year.
However, Li Fu, who is of the same age, only just started to secure his position as a starter last season.
In the reality that the careers of older professional players are going from bad to worse, to be honest, Ma Run was not optimistic about Li Fu, his rising "peer", and even felt sorry for him for a while...
However, Li Fu's subsequent growth
Or it can be said to be "reverse growth".
Ma Run was really confused...
In the one-minute BO5 in last season's semifinals, you could say that you advanced by luck, but defeating RNG in the spring finals to win the regional championship was a real achievement.
Then they won the MSI all the way, and then faced the strongest opponent SKT in the semi-finals, but they created the impossible , fought five games to advance to the finals, and finally won the MSI Mid-Season Championship...
Age no longer seems to be an obstacle.
Instead, it became a gift bestowed upon him by the long river of time.
So, Ma Run, who was immersed in the unlimited popularity (targeting) of the LPL top lane for a whole season last season, picked up the top lane heavy tank again this season.
Although this is no longer the top version.
But Ma Run thought:
Since Li Fu can do it?
Why can't he?
Veterans meet veterans.
Isn't it a competition of who is crueler and more ruthless?
…
LPL commentary desk.
When the director switched the camera, Jide and Xiaosan appeared on the screen to comment on today's game.
"Welcome to the last match day of the fourth match week of our LPL Summer Season. The two teams that will bring us a wonderful match tonight are IG and LGD. I am the commentator, Dajie."
"Hello everyone, I'm the commentator Xiaosan." Xiaosan, a retired player turned commentator, pulled up his trouser legs to adjust his trajectory.
I remember smiling and saying, "Haha, the biggest focus of today's game must be the same as mine, that is the battle in the top lane . Yes, IG still used the new lineup today, with Fu Ge on top."
"So today, one side has the world's strongest top laner from last year, and the other side has the strongest 'temporary' top laner from this year. Umbrella King, as a professional player, what do you think of today's game?"
"How do you see it? Of course I'm standing in the commentary booth and watching." Xiaosan made a joke, and then continued, "But to be honest, I personally prefer Ma Run, because during the World Championship last year, I felt that this man was really super strong, the only one in the entire league in terms of top lane."
"Eh? What do you mean?" Ji De couldn't help asking, "I remember that at that time, the evaluation of Smeb, the top laner of the LCK Tigers, in Korea seemed to be much higher than that of Ma Run."
"That's true." Xiaosan said without hesitation, "But I personally think that Smeb's strength is more about his personal dominance in the lane. It's very stressful to play against this person, like facing some peerless warrior. But Ma Run's strength is not in his personal strength, but in his ability to empower the team with his personal strength, making the entire team very powerful."
At this point, Xiaosan paused and smiled, "If I were to use characters from the Three Kingdoms period to evaluate them, I would think Smeb is the peerless Lu Bu, and Ma Run is more like the heroic Cao Cao. Of course, this is just my personal feeling."
"Haha, this statement is quite novel." Jijie tilted his head and asked with interest, "What about Brother Fu? What do you think Brother Fu is?"
"Brother Fu..." Xiaoshan was stunned by the question, as if he had not thought about this question yet. He scratched his forehead and said, "Zilong, I feel like Brother Fu is like Zhao Zilong, the kind of person who can kill in and out no matter where he is."
After hearing Xiaosan's comments, the comments in the live broadcast room were all flooded with comments.
"You're talking about your horse!"
"Retired players, please stop trying to gain popularity, thank you."
"To be honest, Emperor Fu does look a bit like a dragon."
"Then the question is, who is the weak one in IG?"
"Ah Xun: Uncle Fu and I will kill people!"
“…”
Amidst the heated discussions off the field, both teams have already decided on their sides tonight.
In the first game, IG was on the blue side and LGD was on the red side.
Both sides came up and each took three hands.
IG: Minotaur, Thresh, and Maokai.
LGD: Graves, Liz, Lucian.
As soon as the BP came out, Aya Hirano, who was sitting in the LGD competition seat, started shouting.
"Fuck, the opponent's triple-ban support? Are they so afraid of me?"
"Come on." Eimy, a good friend, immediately said, "I believe you when you say Alistar and Thresh are considered bans for your heroes, but isn't Maokai targeting the top lane Alistar? What does it have to do with you?"
"You know nothing, I'm always the carry when I play Treant as a support." Hirano Aya quickly retorted, "What about you? Why doesn't the opponent ban a jungler?"
Eimy was choked up and could only say stubbornly, "I have a lot of jungle heroes, they can't ban me."
It has to be said that LGD is indeed an optimistic family. Even though the leader of the Tiandao clan has retired and been replaced by the new generation of magic king Punished to take the position of mid laner, the optimistic spirit is passed down from generation to generation.
Even when facing a game against a strong enemy IG who had won consecutive games, the jungler and support still had the mind to bicker about BP.
The coach and teammates were used to it. Imp, who was wearing round glasses, was also shouting, "Give it to the rats, I'm using my skin to suppress their bottom lane! New players will fall for this."
"I understand you, domineering aura, right?" Hirano Aya said with a smile.
"Get out of here, you two monkeys." said Eimy.
The coach ignored them and just stared at the blue team IG's steal.
They released the crocodile in this game as a kind of gamble, betting that IG thought they had a response and would not dare to snatch it.
Sure enough, IG did not take the crocodile in the first hand.
Of course, Chris on the IG side mainly considered that Crocodile was not a high priority in the current version, and the double ban of supports in BP today meant that there were not many strong supports left.
So IG immediately grabbed the female tank.
"Fuck, my female tank!" Hirano Aya wanted to curse after seeing this, "And you still say it's not targeting me?"
His favorite characters to play are hard supports like Alistar, Thresh and Leona. Now that two have been banned and one has been taken, it means that he doesn't have many choices left.
"Titan or Bard, choose one." asked the LGD coach.
"Titan, right?" Hirano Aya said firmly, "You told me not to be a coward. I must not be a coward in the bottom lane today."
"Okay, then Titan."
The good-tempered Heart nodded directly, then looked at Ma Run again, and the latter also nodded slightly.
So in the second hand right after Titan, LGD directly took the crocodile by grabbing it instead of banning it.
The moment Marin got it, he directly showed off the S5 World Finals champion crocodile skin!
"Wow! Good job! Ma Run just drew his sword!"
Jide on the stage suddenly became excited and said quickly, "It seems that after seeing Brother Fu's quad kill of the big crocodile the day before yesterday, Ma Run's desire to become the world's number one top laner can no longer be suppressed."
"That's right. What do you think about Brother Fu? There are many heroes currently available to fight against Crocodile, but the only heroes that can fight head-on are Noxus and Fiora. However, the appearance rates of these two heroes in the summer season are 0.4% and 2.2% respectively. They are not strong top lane heroes. Or should we just use strong top lane heroes like Troll and Poppy Shen?"
Xiaosan was analyzing something, but unexpectedly, the next second, IG took out a blood-red hero.
vampire.
Xiaosan was stunned for a moment, and asked uncertainly, "Is it the top lane vampire? Not the mid lane vampire, right?"
"It should be the top laner. After all, the opponent has already played the top laner. The IG mid laner must be moved back. Of course, it could also be a swing position." I remember pausing here, then smiled bitterly and said, "But the appearance rate of my top laner Vampire should be much lower than that of the mid laner. The appearance rate of Vampire mid laner is almost in the top four, which is also a popular version, but the top laner is really rare. I feel that it is more likely that Rookie will play the mid laner Vampire."
As the commentator on the stage was speaking, the BP of both sides happened unexpectedly quickly.
When he came to his senses, the lineups of both sides stunned him who had been so confident just now.
IG on the blue side: Vladimir on top, Centaur in the jungle, Clockwork in the middle, Jhin and Leona on the bottom lane.
Red side LGD: Crocodile on top, Lee Sin in the jungle, Corki in the mid lane, Twitch and Titan in the bottom lane.
IG competition seats on one side of the stage.
"Fuck, two more champions!" A Xun stared at the crocodile and mouse opposite with his eyes wide open.
"Why are you panicking? Work harder and try to get a championship title next year," Rookie joked.
"Can this thing be obtained by working harder?" A Xun said speechlessly.
There are so many teams in each major competition area every year, but in the end only three teams can enter the World Championship, and then the strongest team will be selected from among these teams. It’s scary just thinking about it.
There are countless professional players who have never even won a regional championship in their entire careers.
Just when Rookie and Ashun were teasing each other.
At this moment, Li Fu was looking at his [Position Details] of 86 and [Hand Speed Reaction] which had reached 100 on the empty panel in front of him, and then his eyes fell on the vampire selected on the game interface.
It is said that when a vampire's hand speed is fast enough, he can make a person's health bar disappear out of thin air...
So, can he do it this time?
Li Fu wanted to give it a try.
