Chapter 64: Damn it
The biggest difference between professional competitions and Rank is that in Rank, the victory or defeat is decided after entering the game, while the victory or defeat of professional competitions is often foreshadowed in the BP stage.
In the second BP phase of the IG vs. OMG match, the coaches of both teams went back and forth and quickly determined the final lineup.
OMG on the blue side: top laner Titan, jungler Nidalee, mid laner Viktor, ADEZ, support Karma.
Red side IG: top lane Fiora, jungle Sejuani, mid lane Lizzie, ADC Caitlyn, support Thresh.
On the LPL commentary desk, Wawa saw the lineups of both teams confirmed and couldn't help but fold his arms over his chest and analyzed:
" OMG's intention in the BP was still very clear. All three ban positions were given to the mid laner, banning Leblanc, Syndra and Clockwork respectively. This is a direct stranglehold on the mid laner."
Many IG fans at the scene also gasped, with a bad feeling in their hearts.
Everyone has seen how far IG has come since last year. It is basically Rookie, the driver of the baby carriage, who is carrying the former "Twin Stars" and "Double Heroes in the Bottom Lane" forward.
In IG's games over the past year or so, if he didn't kill the enemies in the mid lane as quickly as he did in the bottom lane, the game would basically be declared GG.
Now OMG triple-banned the mid laner right from the start, forcing Chris to choose Ashe for Rookie, and was forced to move the core to the top lane to let Zzitai pick Fiora.
I can only say that OMG’s match against IG today was not a random one.
They obviously came prepared!
Wawa looked at OMG's lineup and continued, "Tsk tsk, OMG's lineup is full of oppression in this game. It seems that they are planning to press on. The jungle Nidalee is biased towards rhythm in the early stage, and the Ezreal and Karma in the bottom lane are also full of oppression. This lineup is a bit like a three-POKE system. In addition, the Viktor in the middle lane is also a long-range hero. Once OMG gets the advantage in the early stage, IG will become very difficult to beat."
"That's right."
Miller nodded, but his eyes remained on IG's new jungler Li Fu.
He said with interest:
"Brother Fu was given the task in this game. To be honest, we have commented on many games. Whether it is B05 or B03, the team that lost the game earlier usually replaces players. The players who replace players are eager to perform and choose some offensive jungle heroes. But Brother Fu chose Sejuani this time... I am a little bit confused."
"I think there are pros and cons to having a conservative jungler like Sejuani. At least she won't make big mistakes, but if she can't set the pace, it will be hard for her to help the team."
At this point, Wawa smiled and shook his head, "Haha, I can only say that the old players' playing style is still steady."
However, many IG fans in the live broadcast room did not accept this explanation, and the barrage of comments started to go viral again.
"Be a coward, be careful!"
"I changed players and played a pig girl again. I don't know what the difference is between changing players and not changing players?"
"This substitute jungler is outrageous. He dares to go up but doesn't dare to fight. Then what are you doing here?"
"I found that these old bastards all like to play Sejuani, and then sleepwalk on Sejuani throughout the game, and mainly use non-stick pans. Do they really rely on Rookie to carry alone? The problem is that Rookie can't carry even if he chooses Ice Girl."
"I am so disappointed with the current IG from top to bottom. Can't they get some new junglers with blood and drive? They have to keep focusing on a few losers."
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Obviously, IG changed the lineup on the spot and replaced Li Fu but chose Sejuani to "play badly", which made the fans in the live broadcast room very dissatisfied.
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On the stage, coach Chris had already started shaking hands with the coach of OMG, and the other party looked at Chris with a playful look.
The coach's game on BP is equivalent to deploying troops and finding the most suitable hero for the players among the popular heroes in the current version, but sometimes even a good cook cannot cook without rice.
If a player is very weak and cannot play the strong heroes in the version, and fails as soon as he plays them, making him useless in the whole game, then he can only choose some mixed heroes to develop and provide meat shield.
In the eyes of OMG's coach, the opposing jungler Li Fu, a veteran with a mediocre resume and no outstanding achievements in all his years of career, belongs to this category.
Do you understand what it means that the waves behind push the waves ahead?
Oh, I really don’t know what IG is doing with these old useless players in the league who can’t produce any results?
Chris also read some amusement in the other person's eyes.
But unexpectedly,
But his heart was very calm.
Because when Li Fu said "I'm taking Sejuani" during the BP, his tone was equally calm, revealing an unquestionable confidence.
It seemed as if he was saying that playing against a team like OMG wasn't worth it for him to bring out his best weapons.
Although he is a player who has not even played a training match this year, he exudes an aura that makes the coach and teammates involuntarily convinced and at ease.
This feeling... is very strange.
Coach Chris thought about it at this moment and found it a little unbelievable. He was clearly planning to let Li Fu play with Graves or Kindred.
In the backstage passage, he turned around and looked at the calm veteran sitting in the jungle position in IG's soundproof competition room.
Take a deep breath.
I hope he didn't trust the wrong person today.
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5:56 pm.
The second game of OMG vs. IG has finished loading.
The competition officially begins.
"Haha, the opposing jungler picked Sejuani."
As soon as he entered the game, OMG Xi Yang couldn't help laughing when he saw the Pig Girl in the opposing lineup.
Hahaha!
He winked at the rookie jungler Fishball and said with a smile, "Fishball, it seems that the opponent was really scared by your last game. Even if an older player comes up this time, they won't dare to fight you head-on."
Rookie jungler Fishball thinks so too.
However, he has a good emotional intelligence and knows that Xi Yang is also the big brother of OMG, so he quickly said modestly, "That's not the case. It's because you, Brother Yang, are the one who topped the lane and protected my jungle. Otherwise, I wouldn't have it so easy."
These words made Xi Yang feel relieved.
The boy's juice is good.
Come to my room and sleep with me tonight.
When Wushuang heard Ueno's commercial praise, his brows furrowed slightly and he felt a little annoyed.
Damn it! It seems that I played the whole game under the pressure of the opponent Rookie in the mid lane, and I have nothing to do with winning the game, right?
"Don't review the game here. Do you want to invade this time?" Uzi gave a signal in the lower half of the opponent's area.
In this game, their lineup had a strong control player, Titan, on the top lane, so they had a big advantage in the first level team fight. Although the opponent also had Thresh, the overall strength of their lineup at the first level was weaker than theirs.
"In, in, in! Into them!"
Fishball quickly signaled towards IG's lower blue zone.
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At the same time, on the red side IG.
Ding ding ding—!
Li Fu was also giving signals in the lower half.
It's the signal to retreat.
Zizi controlled Fiora to place a ward at the intersection of the blue zone and the river opposite the upper half. When he came back, he was stunned and asked, "How do we go? Don't we defend?"
"Let go." Li Fu said concisely.
Well……
Ziti glanced at Li Fu's calm profile, as if he wanted to say something but stopped himself. He turned his head and looked at Rookie again.
"Brother Chicken, what do you say?"
There is a tradition of jungler commanding the team in IG, but Rookie is the mainstay of the team and speaks Chinese so well that he often takes over the command during the game.
However, at this moment, although Ashun was substituted, Rookie obviously has not yet recovered from the emotions of the previous game.
To be honest, Rookie felt a little regretful at this moment.
The Axun people are a bit incompetent.
I like to order dishes when eating.
In the game, I am often ordered to play by the opponent's jungler.
But he is a nice person usually. He helped Rookie a lot when he first came to IG and had not yet adapted to life in China.
Some words,
In fact, I can hold back from saying it.
Or say it in private.
Rookie did the same thing throughout last year.
Just in the last game, when Rookie was about to lose the game that he had originally won, he was suddenly overwhelmed with emotions for a moment.
Suddenly I didn't want to endure it anymore.
The result is now like this...
Ah Xun's emotions were completely out of control.
Can't play.
His own condition was also affected.
Maybe I should have held back.
Just bear with it and it will pass.
Isn’t it?
As soon as this regretful thought came up, it began to linger in Rookie's mind, and he didn't even hear clearly what Zizi had just asked him.
"Brother Ji, stop sleepwalking. Do you want to fight at level 1?" Seeing this, Zzitai couldn't help but ask Rookie again.
"Ah? Oh oh..." Rookie finally woke up from his dream and glanced at Li Fu's profile. "Listen to Brother Fu."
"Uh... okay, I'm leaving then." He looked a little disappointed.
Zzitai actually likes to organize a level 1 team fight or something, and create some small surprises and accidents in the early stages, but it's a pity that the new jungler Li Fu is too stable.
But think about it,
The pig girls are all out.
Can it be unstable?
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The red side's lower jungle area.
OMG and the others who invaded unhindered were a little surprised. Jungler Fishball shook his head as he looked at the unguarded blue buff and suddenly sighed with some boredom.
"IG's jungler is getting more stable as he gets older."
As soon as these words came out,
Everyone couldn't help but laugh.
"You think everyone is like you, so fierce at the beginning." Xi Yang said with a smile, "Stop this time, respect the elders, okay? Don't let others autistic you again."
"My, my." Fishball apologized.
"Be careful, the opponent may steal your blue." Wushuang reminded.
Xi Yang immediately returned to the city and said, "It's okay, I'll go and help watch it. It's not that easy to change the Buff in my hands."
"Brother Yang is awesome." Fishball said flatteringly.
Wu Xiang said nothing more.
He helped place wards on his body in the river, and after making sure that the opponent had really given up the blue buff, he waited until the melee soldier in the middle lane was about to die before returning to the line.
So in this game, OMG showed its suppressive power at the beginning and successfully snatched a blue buff from IG's bottom zone.
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On the commentary desk, the baby-faced man in the OB perspective was a little puzzled. "IG's opening was a bit... steady. How could they let go of the blue in the lower zone so easily?"
"After all, we lost a small game before. Now OMG has the match point, so it's understandable that IG is more stable." Miller explained.
"The problem is that Padre6's Sejuani doesn't eat his own blue zone, nor does he go to the other side's blue zone to exchange jungle to start the game?"
Wawa said this and shook his head again, "It's no use not going over. Xi Yang and Uzi are both moving upwards. Unless IG's top and jungle help, there's no way to take the blue buff."
"Haha, I can only say that Brother Fu is quite wise." Miller laughed and teased, then continued, "We can see that Brother Fu's Sejuani has directly given up the lower half of the area, and the Malphite is starting the upper half. So Fishball's Nidalee is comfortable in this game, and she starts the game with three buffs."
Seeing the jungler giving in, there was bound to be no conflict in the jungle in the early stage, and the director's perspective was quickly shifted to the online area.
The Fiora in the top lane fights the Titan in the sunset.
There is nothing much to say about the early laning phase. Titan who has learned W shield at level 1 is very stable, and Fiora has few opportunities to use Q to consume.
In the middle lane, Stateless Viktor fights Rookie's Ice Maiden.
Before Viktor's E skill was upgraded, he was definitely no match for the Ice Girl in pushing the line, and he also had to be careful not to be accidentally hit by the opponent's Q.
Fortunately, Wushuang was in good form today.
Pay attention to the details of the line.
Even though his troops were pushed under the tower by the Ice Girl in the early game, he still managed to avoid the Ice Girl's harassment while performing a beautiful wave of last-hitting, fully demonstrating the solid basic skills of the No. 1 mid laner in the LPL during S3S4.
As for the bottom road,
IG is at a disadvantage.
On the one hand, they were at a disadvantage in laning heroes. OMG had a great time in the last game, and this time they brought out a strong bottom lane combination of EZ and Mad Max. In the early game, Thresh and Miss Fortune were no match at all.
On the other hand, IG's bottom lane has changed from A-Shun who had not yet switched to jungle last year to Xiao Shiguang now...
It’s always been hard to describe.
They are the type that some of their actions seem outrageous, but when you think about it being them, it suddenly feels very reasonable...
In just a few moments, Xiao Shiguang in the bottom lane accidentally got hit by an enhanced Q of Fan Zi Li. His own Thresh cast a hook to help the AD and used a predicted Q to throw behind the opponent's EZ.
Unexpectedly, OMG's expressionless AD Sima Laozei in the bottom lane became more and more aggressive. Instead of pulling back with the E skill, he jumped directly into the face of Miss Fortune and walked around with the shield of Fan Zi Ma.
In the first wave at level 2, Xiao Shiguang’s Miss Fortune was forced to flash and receive healing.
It was fortunate that Fanzijie had not reached level 3 and had not learned W, otherwise if she had flashed up and been pulled by the leash, she might have been killed.
But even so, many IG fans at the scene and in the live broadcast room felt depressed and started to post comments one after another.
"Fuck! What's going on in the bottom lane? "
"Every time they get beaten, every time they get beaten? I'm really impressed by IG's bot lane."
"The jungler is so cowardly again, he has already given up the bottom half of the jungle. This time I feel like the first blood will appear in the bottom lane again."
There were IG fans holding signs at the scene to vent their dissatisfaction:
"Fuck you, give me your money back!"
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