Chapter 227 Aiming at the Finals!
SKT lost.
Faker also lost.
Although Faker's Clockwork showed enough resilience in the unfavorable situation, he was no match for Rookie's Syndra, who was favored by Li Fu, in both solo laning and team battles.
Under the camera of the big-screen director, it was almost visible to the naked eye that a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on Faker's forehead.
In SKT's team chat, the man spoke more and more frequently, and even took over the command of the game from Wolf at one point.
However, after every long conversation, SKT's voice chat would often fall into deathly silence.
At this moment, everyone, including Faker, fell silent.
Because Faker was caught by Rookie's Syndra, who killed him instantly with a combo of the ultimate seven balls.
This is equivalent to charging into battle, with a commander chattering non-stop, and then suddenly being shot dead by someone.
Naturally, whether everyone wanted to laugh or cry, they could only choose to remain silent .
Until it perishes in silence.
“Congratulations IG!”
"Congratulations to IG for winning the game 1-1!"
"What can I say about this game? I can only say that Rookie proved with his strength that IG's mid laner is no worse than anyone else."
The commentator on the stage also began to express his emotion.
At the same time, the audience in the live broadcast room and IG fans also breathed a sigh of relief.
Coming back from 2-0 to 3-0 is easy when playing against a weaker team, but on the stage of the World Championship against a strong team like SKT, once IG loses the first two games, it will be a fantasy to come back from 2-0 to 3-0.
"It's okay! I managed to hold it steady this time."
"Stop talking nonsense, haters! Who said Rookie is incompetent? Not only did he kill your Fei Ke dad?"
"What a joke. A solo kill? Not a random jungler?"
"Oh! You don't allow catching when playing mid-lane, then didn't your Fei Dad help you in the last game?"
"Indeed, but to be honest, Brother Fu's rhythm is really good."
"That's right, Brother Fu should just play jungle instead of top lane."
"It's not that Fu Ge's top laner is not as strong as his jungler, but when he plays top lane, he can only be strong in one area. When he plays jungle, it feels like the whole team is activated all of a sudden."
“…”
In fact, this was not only discovered by the audience off the field, but also by IG's coach Chris.
But Li Fu has to practice playing top lane.
Why?
Because if you play against a team with a very strong top laner, there will be a problem. You will find that after the top laner has helped, he not only has no advantage, but may even be at a disadvantage.
You know, although the top laner cannot radiate the entire court like the mid laner, it is also an absolutely important position.
In a game, if the mid laner is the core, then the top laner is the backbone.
If the backbone is broken, it will be difficult for the team to win, so it is necessary to keep Li Fu as the top laner. However, today's match against SKT was a different situation.
Because SKT's top laner is not last year's Marin,
But his successor Duke.
Thinking of this, Coach Chris decisively patted Li Fu on the shoulder.
"Brother Fu, you should play jungle in the next game."
"no problem."
So, the break ended and the third game began.
Li Fu appeared in the jungle position again.
In this game, SKT chose to make a substitution in the jungle position.
The stupid chicken was replaced by Xiao Hei.
Because Coach Leehom watched Benji's game in the last game and sensed Benji's problem, which is that this player can only make others successful, and once he is dragged down by the person he has made successful, he will never be able to C the game on his own.
But Xiao Hei and Ben Ji are at the other extreme.
Xiao Hei is a jungler who can stand on his own.
So in the third game, SKT coach Kouma decisively put on Xiaohei, who had been ready to fight for a long time.
However, what Kouma didn't expect was that Xiaohei lost even faster.
In the last game, SKT dragged the game to at least twenty-nine minutes, nearly half an hour.
But the game lasted less than twenty-five minutes after Xiao Hei came on the court.
Backstage, ROX's lounge.
"Blank played too hastily. He wanted to show off too much."
The coach of ROX was noncommittal. "It's embarrassing that his current level is at a stage where he's neither good nor bad. His offensiveness in the jungle is better than Benji's, but his ability to protect people is much worse than Benji's. It's okay when he meets a jungler who can't beat him, but it's not good enough when he meets an MSI champion-level jungler like Padre6."
At this point, the ROX coach shrugged and said, "So if it were me, I would definitely not change anyone."
"What do you mean?" asked the teaching assistant next to him.
"I think Hei is really not as good as Jiji." The ROX coach shook his head. "Jiji can't beat Padre6 in the matchup, but at least he knows who the boss is. Hei can't beat Padre6 in the matchup, and he doesn't even know who the boss is. If this kind of jungler plays, who will lose if SKT doesn't lose?"
Everyone couldn't help but think about it when they heard this.
Suddenly, someone asked, "Do you think Coach Kouma will replace Benji again in the next game?"
“I think it’s highly unlikely.”
"Why?"
"Because if they replace Ben Ji, SKT's weakness will be exposed. Now they can only go down this path."
“…”
It has to be said that ROX, as the overlord of LCK this summer and also the No. 1 seed of LCK in this World Championship, has won consecutive games and secured a place in the finals of this World Championship.
The predictions made by the team's coach are still quite accurate.
After SKT lost the third game, in the fourth game, even though the jungler lost in the previous game, the one who played in this game was still not Benji, but Xiaohei.
When he came on the court, Xiao Hei pursed his lips and his expression no longer showed the excitement he had in the previous game.
At first glance, it's full of pressure.
Looking at Faker again, he looked a little unnatural after two games without the man standing behind him. He turned his head to look at the jungler several times, but then looked away after realizing that it was not someone he knew.
In this game, IG won two games, and the life-and-death game officially began.
Rookie got Clockwork, Prince Li Fu.
Faker and Xiao Hei are the combination of LeBron and Elise.
I have to say that judging from the lineups on both sides, IG places more emphasis on cooperation between the mid and jungle.
On the other hand, on SKT's side, in the last game, Xiao Hei chose Jarvan IV who could cooperate with the mid laner, but this time he went straight for Elise, and Faker also locked on Leblanc. These two heroes completely compete on personal ability.
If their individual abilities are strong enough, they can force a breakthrough through their opponents by fighting on their own.
It’s a pity that IG did the opposite this time. They didn’t compete with you on individual ability, but directly competed on the cooperation between the mid and jungle.
In the early stages of the game, Xiao Hei relied on Spider's ability to fight alone in the wild area and was able to invade frequently.
But once he reached level 6, he was counterattacked by Rookie during the invasion. Xiao Hei's rhythm was interrupted, and Li Fu's Prince quickly gained momentum and then directly counterattacked.
Of course Xiao Hei refused to accept it.
He felt that he could defeat Li Fu by only giving him a kill.
After all, Spider's one-on-one ability is there.
However, Li Fu never fought alone. He always pretended to invade the opponent's jungle, then pretended to be discovered, and finally pretended to run away with his gun... But as long as the spider dared to bite, there must be someone behind him.
Either the mid laner, the support, or both.
Just like that, ten minutes later, Xiao Hei's jungle area was blown up, but Prince Li Fu's side played better and better, and soon radiated his advantage to three lanes.
After 20 minutes of the game, IG started to force a team fight.
Although Rookie failed to find an opportunity to use R to ascend through the wall like Faker did in the first game.
But he has the cooperation of the prince.
A sudden wave of dribbling into the field directly pulled the opposing double C, killed them instantly, won the team battle and took down the big dragon.
Immediately, amid the advance cheers of countless LPL spectators and fans, they made steady progress and steadily broke through the high ground in two lanes. Then, they directly fought a team battle on the high ground in the top lane and took away three opponents, leaving only the mid and jungle Spider and LeBlanc.
The problem is that both heroes are difficult to clear lanes.
That's it.
After IG broke through three lanes, they took advantage of the super soldiers coming up in the middle and lower lanes and drove straight in to break through the two front towers.
After that, the three SKT players were resurrected and joined the team at the front tower.
SKT was very powerful in this team fight, killing 1 for 4, but it was a pity that IG had a "divide slave".
Li Fu's Prince EQ crossed the opposite crystal. Wherever there was a fight, he would EQ to the other side. He even set up a block to retain people and flashed to continue attacking. Finally, with the attack speed of the E skill, he destroyed SKT's main crystal.
"Holy shit! We're in the finals!"
"Brother Fu is awesome!"
"I'm also very good at this wave, okay."
"Okay, okay, you're awesome too!"
Everyone in IG's competition booth was excited.
Rookie won today's SKT despite the adverse public opinion and defeated his inner demon Faker. He originally thought that he would be very excited, but he turned around and looked at Li Fu who had a calm expression on the side.
Suddenly, he felt that he was not so excited anymore, but the words that Li Fu said to him after losing the first game emerged in his mind.
"Do you believe me?"
"In the next game, I'll play jungle."
Next...
Everything just fell into place naturally.
Rookie let out a long sigh and a relieved smile appeared on his face.
