Chapter 487: LPL Monster Lands in Berlin
As the popularity of League of Legends continues to grow and the scale of commercial cooperation grows, Riot Games has expanded the capacity to include eight wild cards before the official group stage.
Together with Vietnam and LMS, which has not achieved any results in recent years, they form the first and second rounds of screening.
When EDG arrived.
The screening round has entered its third day.
Xing Dao took a look out of curiosity, and found that it would be better not to look at it.
It is now the S8 season, and the playing styles and even the selection of some wildcard teams remain the same as two or three seasons ago.
Instead of studying these, it is better to play more Rank games.
As for the training matches...
There were some twists and turns.
The EDG team, which won the Grand Slam and double championship throughout the year and participated in the MSI as the defending champion, was regarded as the biggest opponent by other clubs and was closely guarded against.
KZ refused the challenge without hesitation, leaving no room for negotiation.
The European champions FNC, the North American champions TL, and the Taipei champions Flash Wolves FW played together.
But there are obvious reservations.
"Damn it, they're playing house, right?"
After playing a game of poor quality, A Shui couldn't help but slap the mouse and start complaining.
In the so-called training match with FNC, we didn't see any operations that a professional team should have. From the beginning to the end, FNC only used the development + ganking style of play.
Ou Cheng picked a policewoman and only focused on last-hitting, while the support also chose a wind girl with extremely strong protective abilities.
After more than ten minutes of grinding, the winner was decided on the top lane.
Then it entered garbage time.
This made A Shui, who had done a series of warm-up exercises and wanted to go all out for a big fight with Europe's No. 1 AD, very unhappy.
"FNC really went a little too far."
Meiko frowned slightly: "At least the Electric Wolf is serious, TL is okay, FNC is just a joke!"
"They want to compete for the championship." The factory manager is very open-minded.
This year's MSI uses version 8.9.
In this version, AP heroes have been comprehensively strengthened again following the major changes at the beginning of the season.
Doran's Ring changes from restoring mana when last hitting minions to restoring mana and adding +5 damage to minions.
The income is more stable.
It is also much more comfortable to last hit.
In addition, AP equipment has generally improved cost-effectiveness and strength.
For example, the price of the lost chapter increased by 200, and the magic power increased by 15.
Luden's Echo costs 100 less and costs 100 more mana.
The price of the Spellbinding Orb increased by 100, the basic spell power increased by 20, the total spell strength after active activation remained unchanged, and the movement speed bonus was changed from 30% to 50%.
Twin Shadows, Ice Staff, Demonic Codex and subsequent equipment all have attributes added for free.
Heroes such as Syndra and Kassadin that are suitable for European and American magic kings have obtained BUFFs, one with a full-level Q damage +15%, and the other with a 50% increase in early shield value.
certainly.
Not all of them have been enhanced.
There is an AP-related item that has been nerfed.
That is the Tear of the Goddess, which is most suitable for mixed lines. On the basis of increasing the price by 100 gold coins, the mana recovery is also cut by more than one third.
Needless to say who it is specifically targeted at.
You know.
FNC’s mid laner is the European King of Magic, Caps.
TL's mid laner is a Korean player, nicknamed "American Tiger" Pobelter.
KZ's mid laner is BDD, who is always a dead carry and has unstable strength but a high ceiling.
FW’s mid laner is the Bay Tiger Maple.
Among the five major regions, the only one that cannot benefit from version 8.9 is EDG, which has a mixed mid laner.
"It's okay. If you don't want to fight, then don't fight. There are other ways."
Abu waved his hand and said, "I'll contact those domestic teams. Even if they're on holiday, we can still make up for it with five players. At most, we can give them a few more games in the summer season."
EDG results are here.
The relationship with other regions is indeed not good.
But in LPL, clubs that want to train with EDG can fill the main stage of Zhengda Plaza.
This is because the vast majority of clubs have no need to enter the World Championship, they just want a decent ranking, to show up in the playoffs and increase their presence.
Just a little bit of what we learn from playing against EDG will be enough to give the mid- and lower-level teams a hard time.
The most notable examples are Snake and RW.
One is located on the same Lingshi Road as EDG, has unique conditions, and can visit each other occasionally.
One picked up the championship fragments from EDG, and there is a bond of connection.
After the spring season, one was second in the Western Conference and the other was second .
Very telling.
So, it only took Abu a few hours to get the job done.
Saint Spear Brother, Ning, Doinb, Iboy, and Xiao Ming temporarily formed a group to serve as sparring partners for EDG.
There are several substitutes waiting nearby.
but.
This kind of thing is more hidden.
It will not be known to the outside world in a short time.
The four teams, KZ, FNC, TL, and FW, as well as foreign media that have learned some gossip, generally believe that EDG is in a dilemma of having no quality games to play.
So much so that some media outlets, which are eager to see the world in chaos, began to speculate for the sake of popularity.
For example, "World champions have no training games to play", "Shocked, EDG actually did this", "The championship system collapsed, can General continue to maintain his tens of millions of dollars worth", "The world's top top and jungle are addicted to Rank, is it a moral decline or a distortion of professional spirit", "LPL monster landed in Berlin" and other posts that are mainly fabricated.
It is even worse than the UC shock department.
"Oh my god, Europeans are also good at gossiping."
Ai Loli, who came with the team as a substitute to see the world, browsed English forums and Twitter and was shocked by a series of comments.
"Translate, translate." The factory director looked very interested.
"Use the built-in browser." Ai Loli gestured: "It's all nonsense, and the machine translation can basically understand it."
"Let me see... hmm... it's really funny." The factory manager found new fun.
After a while.
At the invitation of the sponsor, Xing Dao, A Shui and Meiko returned to the e-sports hotel after shooting a short commercial.
While waiting for a sparring partner, let’s watch together.
"These people are even more outrageous than the uncle party on Tieba. How come they are even spreading rumors?" A Shui discovered a little secret.
"It's not skirting the line, the SQ industry in Germany is legal." Ai Loli does scientific research.
"Is it true?" A Shui was very surprised.
"Really? Check it out if you don't believe me." Ai Loli was very sure: "During World War II, Germany was called the European brothel. It has always been very open. If you meet a beautiful girl on the street and she greets you, don't get too excited. She may want to do business with you."
"Damn!" Ah Shui put on an angry expression: "No wonder when I went upstairs, a girl in a robe and a headscarf asked me what my number was. So this is what she thought."
"Isn't it beautiful?" He came closer.
"Pretty... it's not about being pretty or not!" Ah Shui said angrily: "Luckily Brother Jie helped me refuse, otherwise I would be disgusted."
"There's nothing wrong with chatting. It's great to get to know the local customs and culture. Why would you reject them?" His attitude was a bit regrettable.
"It wasn't a rejection. I misunderstood and thought she was asking for her number, so I told her we always called her by her name..." Xing explained.
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