Chapter 225: Specialize in hitting the idiots!
After ROX secured its spot in the finals, the world's attention instantly shifted to the matchup between SKT and IG.
October 23rd.
New York's Madison Square Garden was packed, with the arena, which could accommodate tens of thousands of spectators, completely packed.
From the moment the players took their seats, the enthusiastic European and American audiences shouted slogans to cheer them on from time to time. The LPL fans and overseas students who came from afar were not to be outdone and shouted IG's name.
On the LPL commentary desk, Miller and Guan Zeyuan's faces jumped into the camera.
The latter said loudly, "Hello everyone from all over the world, welcome to our 2016 League of Legends World Championship semi-finals. I am the commentator Guan Zeyuan."
"Hello everyone, I'm the commentator Miller."
Miller glanced up at the promotional video playing on the wall and said with a sense of emotion, "Honestly, IG is now the LPL's last hope in this Worlds. But the difficulty of this Worlds is truly hellish. They were placed in a death group against SKT in the group stage, and then in the quarterfinals, semifinals, and even the finals, they faced strong opponents from the LCK."
"really."
Guan Zeyuan nodded and said, "I think hell is a bit hellish, but if IG can overcome these difficulties and defeat LCK three times and three times, they will become the most valuable champion in the history of the S-League, which will be a great encouragement to the entire LPL region."
That's true.
Since S3, Koreans have dominated the League of Legends World Championship for too long, which has given the Koreans a kind of pride deep in their bones. Even though EDG and IG won the MSI championship from SKT twice, it still didn't matter to the Koreans. At most, they were careless and accidentally attacked.
With this mentality, even if the S-League championship is won by LPL this year, the Koreans will probably not accept it in their hearts.
As I said, you were careless and were attacked by surprise.
However, IG has a bumpy schedule. If they can really win the championship, it will completely extinguish the Koreans' mentality.
Just imagine, if I defeated three of your LCK S-seed teams, what else can you say?
Thinking of this, the audience in the live broadcast room was also a little excited.
Of course, this is just a final idea, and everything will naturally have to be tested in person.
Because of the MSI game half a year ago,
IG defeated SKT in the fifth life-and-death final with a lineup with Li Fu as the top laner, so the same lineup was still used in the first game of the BO5 semi-finals today.
In the coin toss, SKT got the right to choose the side first, and chose the blue side in the first game. In the end, they used the mid-jungle system of Prince and Clockwork. Graves was banned, and Li Fu played Crocodile on the top lane.
In the first ten minutes of laning, Li Fu slightly suppressed Duke and Poppy in the top lane and always had the advantage in the laning phase.
But at the same time, BenJi's desperate defense of the middle lane also allowed Faker's Clockwork to develop faster than Rookie's Syndra. There would have been nothing wrong if they continued to play like this.
The problem occurred at 20 minutes. Before the big dragon fight, IG took the initiative to attack the opponent's support, and then relied on Rookie's Syndra's burst to kill him instantly.
Logically speaking, with one player lost before the team fight, SKT is not capable of joining the team fight in the river. The only chance is to wait for IG to take the lead and then they can find an opportunity.
But at this moment, Faker in the SKT competition seat suddenly turned red in the face and spoke very quickly.
The next moment, the most exciting Clockwork ultimate skill in this World Championship appeared!
Faker was seen hiding the ball behind the blue buff wall, and when IG let their guard down, he suddenly flashed and pulled in four IG players except Li Fu.
In this game, Clockwork developed extremely well by protecting the jungler and letting the economy grow. His ultimate shock wave plus W instantly caused the health of Rookie, Wuxx and others who were pulled over by the gravity field to plummet, and they almost "ascended" on the spot!
The sky is falling and the earth is splitting!
Ahahahaha!
It never rains but it pours!
At this moment, SKT's bottom and jungle also played a perfect cooperation. Benji's Prince flashed EQ and added the ultimate skill, and Bang's Caitlyn in the distance was even more powerful.
With Faker's Clockwork's perfect first move, the double ultimates of Jarvan IV and Miss Fortune were a sure kill. Ashun's Kindred didn't even have time to use his ultimate before he was killed instantly along with the mid and bottom double Cs.
Only Li Fu and the support Baolan who flashed out with low health were left. This time, the situation was reversed in an instant.
"Nice!"
"Fuck them!"
"Big dragon, big dragon, we can be big dragon!"
The four SKT players were excited to take the Baron. With the opposing jungler still alive, Li Fu, lacking a smite, had no intention of stealing the dragon and simply chose to go back to the top lane to clear the lane.
The competition is not a RANK. In this case, if Li Fu chooses to believe in the non-existent "protagonist halo", then he is really giving it away.
"Oh, what a pity this wave."
"It's not a pity, it's just that Faker was in great form this game. I saw him take the blue and was walking back, thinking he was going to reunite with his teammates, but who knew he would flash over the wall and unleash a devastating ultimate the next second."
"That's right. All I can say is that Faker is still Faker. Only Faker can find such an opportunity."
"Oh, now SKT has taken the Baron. After returning to the city for supplies, they directly chose to split the Baron buff 4-1. Eh? Was it Faker's Clockwork who was splitting the push for SKT in this game?"
"Oh! Clockwork went a little too deep. IG wanted to try to pick off a single player, but Faker used Sprint. He missed a lot of skills, and this R at low health! Oh my god! Alistar and Kindred were both pulled back."
Accompanied by the commentator's exclamation, Faker was in hot form and contributed the second famous scene of the game, escaping from a situation where he was outnumbered four times.
At the same time, because IG sent too many people to capture Faker, the rear was left empty, and SKT, carrying the Baron Buff, broke through two high grounds in a row.
With 24 minutes left in the game, SKT took advantage of the Baron attack and won the first game of the BO5 in one go.
As soon as the game ended, the audience in the live broadcast room and on the scene couldn't stand it anymore and started to swipe the screen frantically.
"Where's the one-on-three deal? Is this it?"
"It's over, it's over. What's with all the talk about a promising year? It's all bullshit."
"Where's Rookie? Dean? Help me!"
"I feel like Rookie has no presence in this game compared to Faker."
"Indeed, this is the gap between the world's top midfielders and the average world-class midfielder. You don't feel it normally, but in a tournament like this, the gap is truly enormous."
“…”
The comments in the live broadcast room were flooding the screen with comments like crazy. Many people were dissatisfied with Rookie's performance in the last game against Syndra, and some even called him a traitor.
On one side of the stage, in IG's competition seat.
After the game, looking at his 1/3/6 panel, Rookie couldn't help but fall into a daze, holding his head with both hands.
"Hey! What are you doing?"
At this moment, someone pushed him from behind.
Rookie turned his head and what caught his eye was Li Fu's handsome face with sharp edges.
"The last game was my fault." Rookie said in a low voice.
Unexpectedly, Li Fu didn't respond. He stared at him intently, "Do you believe me?"
Rookie was stunned for a moment, then his mind flashed back to IG's past. He nodded firmly and said, "I believe it! Of course I do!"
"Just believe it."
Li Fu smiled and said, "Let's go. I'll play jungle in the next game."
Rookie was slightly startled when he heard that, and finally a slight smile appeared on his face.
There is nothing wrong with Ashun playing as a jungler.
But since Li Fu came on the jungle team, he has been able to play comfortably in every game, which is an effect that Axun does not have.
…
Backstage, SKT's lounge.
SKT, which lost two consecutive games to IG in the group stage of this world championship, won the first victory in today's BO5. They couldn't help but waved the notebook in their hands vigorously, and then patted Benji's shoulder heavily, looking at Faker with burning eyes, "Ha, I knew that as long as you play well, you will definitely win. Play like this! Keep playing like this in the next game."
Upon hearing this, Benji glanced at Faker, scratched his head with a silly smile, and Faker patted his good friend on the shoulder.
The two looked at each other.
Everything is self-explanatory.
"By the way, here's some news." Coach Kouma suddenly remembered something and said, "The opponent will change their formation in the next game, and you will meet an old opponent."
"Hmm?" Benji frowned slightly.
Coach Kouma stared at Benji and nodded slowly, "Yes, that's him. He will return to the jungle position in the next game."
The events in the jungle area at MSI half a year ago suddenly flashed through Benji's mind, and his heart unconsciously became hot. "Don't worry, Xianghe and I will kill them all!"
Besides, I, Benji, am not someone who doesn’t have a competitive spirit!
Come on, let me see whether you, who have been wavering between top and jungle for a season, have become stronger or weaker after returning to jungle.
…
After a short break, the second game of BO5 started soon.
In the second game, IG, who got the right to choose the side, returned to the blue side. After three bans each, the two sides fought back and forth and the lineup was quickly locked.
Blue side IG: Kennen on top, Centaur in the jungle, Syndra in the middle, Jhin and Thresh in the bottom lane.
SKT on the red side: Fiora on top, Sejuani in the jungle, Clockwork in the middle, Annie and Luke Shaw in the bottom lane.
The lineup is determined and the game is loaded.
The second game will start soon.
In this game, neither side had any intention of invading at the beginning, and they stood in a long snake formation.
However, at around 1 minute and 10 seconds, the mid laners on both sides each placed a trinket eye near the opponent's F4. The purpose was naturally to make up for the lack of knowledge of the jungler's movements at the beginning of the game.
in case.
Seeing this, Miller and Guan Zeyuan on the LPL commentary desk quickly started talking to each other.
"Haha, the mid laners on both sides, Faker and Rookie, are in perfect harmony at the beginning of this game."
“Yes, but I feel like Faker has taken advantage of this, or to be more specific.”
"Oh? What do you mean?"
"Look, Faker finished placing wards and returned to the lane, but was stuck just before Rookie went back to place wards and the troops went online. In other words, without Faker's movements, IG couldn't be sure that he was placing wards, but Rookie..."
Guan Zeyuan didn't say the second half of his sentence.
Because at this moment, under the director's camera, everyone can clearly see that when Rookie's Syndra came back after placing the ward, SKT's vision can clearly observe him coming back from the upper half of the river.
This means that the ward Rookie placed next to the opponent's F4 at the beginning was almost an open card.
As expected.
On the small map on the big screen, Faker quickly signaled twice at F4 and said something to Benji, who nodded.
"Ah... it feels like Benji has an advantage over Fu Ge at the start of this game. And he can also bypass the ward when he reaches the upper zone later, making it impossible for IG to find his position. On the contrary, Fu Ge is... completely exposed."
At this time, Li Fu's team started to jungle directly from F4 in the lower half of the area. No matter how you look at it, his jungle movements were clearly seen by all the SKT players.
You know, exposing early movements is very fatal to a jungler's rhythm.
"It's broken! How the hell can we play this game?"
"Fu Huang has played too much top lane, and his sense of the jungle has decreased ."
"I feel like this is mostly Rookie's fault. The details of his ward placement at the beginning of the game are much worse than Faker's. Look at Faker's ward placement, it's not exposed at all."
“…”
Just as the live broadcast audience was complaining, Miller on the commentary desk suddenly exclaimed, with a puzzled look on his face, "Brother Fu... does he really not know that F4 has wards for the other side?"
At this moment, under the big screen, the blue team's Li Fu Centaur F4 opened the jungle in the lower half. Logically speaking, he must have cleared the three speeds downwards and looked for a chance to protect the bottom lane.
However, the strange thing was that after Li Fu defeated F4 and the red buff, the Centaur, who was only level 2, suddenly bypassed the wall behind the red buff and moved towards the middle river.
"Ah, this? Brother Fu, do you have any ideas about the middle lane?"
"But there's still no news about the ward that Faker put in the beginning of F4. When Brother Fu comes here, isn't he accurate in every glimpse?"
"Wait, Brother Fu's positioning... I don't think so!"
At the moment when Miller may not have said this out loud, the director also cut out the unilateral vision of the red team SKT on the big screen.
The ward that Faker left at F4 at the beginning of the game really illuminated the entrance to the bottom half and the middle river.
However, it was not completely sealed.
Because, at this time, Li Fu's troops with red buffs were quietly sneaking through Chencang.
He actually stuck to the wall behind the dragon pool and walked in the shadow at the edge of the ward's field of vision, completely unnoticed by the SKT players.
Even in the middle lane, Faker, who got the Clockwork again, used the same trick again. He pushed the line to seize the middle lane right at the beginning. Obviously, he expected Li Fu to go down to farm, and wanted to seize the line right in the middle lane to cooperate with his jungler Benny Chan's early invasion.
But Faker never expected that Li Fu's troops had already circled around to the river grass below the middle lane.
The next second, Rookie's Syndra in the middle lane took a step back to level three, and directly stared at the consumption of Faker's Clockwork QW and used a QE to stun the opponent.
Faker was quick to control the puppet to shield himself the moment the dark orb hit him, and then he couldn't help but frowned slightly - wouldn't the opponent be at a loss by exchanging blood like this?
Are you in a hurry?
The next moment, the centaur that suddenly rushed out of the river with its hooves flying in the wind made Faker's pupils shrink suddenly.
He subconsciously wanted to dodge, but found that he was still dizzy. This time, he got anxious.
Damn it!
Shouldn't the Centaur be able to quickly catch the Stoneman?
How come you came to China?
My eye position is fake?
Before he could figure it out, he leaned forward and was kicked back by Li Fu.
You know, if you want to take control of the lane in the early game, it's impossible to do it without losing any blood. Faker's blood was just over half, and he had a bottle of blood potion on him but didn't take it.
When Li Fu kicked him back, Clockwork's health was also reduced to less than half.
Seeing that the situation was not good,
Faker quickly flashed, sprinted, took medicine, and pulled back in one go, but Li Fu and Rookie were determined to kill him!
Swish!
Rookie's Syndra flashed over directly, grabbed the black ball with W and smashed it down to slow down, and Li Fu's Centaur also started sprinting and used the red buff to stick to him for a while.
“Sang Hyuk hold on!”
Seeing that the situation was not right, the stupid chicken in the jungle quickly gave up the three wolves and walked over here, but it was too late.
I'm gonna fuck you!
Faker's face turned black, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, then was killed by Li Fu's troops with a Q.
"IG—Padre6 killed SKT—Faker!"
"Firstblood!"
The shocking first blood kill resounded throughout the venue.
Countless LPL fans at the scene were slightly stunned!
Immediately, everyone looked at Faker, who had a gloomy face as Clockwork, who had dual skills including Flash and Sprint, gave away first blood so quickly and was unable to TP to the line, and recalled the frustration of Faker's team in the previous game where he had a one-on-four show. Suddenly, they felt as refreshed as if they had drunk a bottle of ice-cold Kuo Luo in the dog days of summer!
Hahaha!
Should!
Let you, a fool, run fast to show off!
