People are lucky.
Li Nian doesn't believe in gods or ghosts, but he only believes in luck.
As the saying goes, luck is part of strength.
The World Championship has not started yet, but Li Nian feels that WE's luck is really bad.
Perhaps it was because of his appearance that WE, which missed the qualifiers, was able to change their fate, so God gave them such a difficult test?
Li Nian has always been a very stable person.
Without sufficient preparation, he would not make any harsh words. He is a typical man of action.
Before the draw, Li Nian had quite lofty goals for this World Championship.
But now, Li Nian has lost his confidence.
He could no longer consider whether WE could qualify as the first in the group, but had to carefully consider whether WE could qualify in the group stage.
TPA, C9, SSW.
TPA, the former S2 world champion, is now just a shell. Except for bebe at the ADC position, the other four positions have all undergone personnel changes.
It is no exaggeration to say that this TPA is the weakest TOA team that has ever entered the World Championship.
In Li Nian's eyes, TPA is the experienced baby in their group, the kind that anyone can bully.
Putting this team aside, the remaining two opponents are C9 and SSW.
SSW, though seemingly inferior to SSB, has a game strategy that can actually be perfectly applied to the S4 finals version. It has countless reserve lineup systems, fierce team play, and players who can execute all tactics excellently.
There is no doubt that the boss of this world championship is SSW.
But sadly, no one knew the final outcome from the beginning.
Even in the previous life, the most favored team in the world at the beginning was not SSW, but SSB.
Who could have imagined that SSB would be so vulnerable in the confrontation with SSW!
Now the only person who knows that SSW is the boss is Li Nian.
The audience doesn't know.
The media doesn't know.
Even my teammates...don’t know.
In fact... it's a good thing to face the opponent with this unknown mentality.
Although the WE players may not have anything else now, they still have some self-confidence.
In everyone’s eyes, SSW is just the second seed from South Korea. If they can’t beat the strongest players, can they beat you, the second seed?
But Li Nian is worried that once his teammates realize the gap between the two sides when they encounter SSW, they will really despair.
There are many factors that can affect the game.
The individual abilities of the players, the strength of the team, the conditions on the day, and the mental pressure.
When masters fight, details are king.
In the face of absolute strength, everything is in vain, but if the gap in strength between the two sides is not very large, then some other objective factors become particularly important.
In Li Nian's view, encountering SSW in advance is both a good thing and a bad thing.
If the other team in the group is slightly weaker, Li Nian would definitely think that this is a good thing.
But it happened to be C9...
What kind of team is C9?
To sum it up in one sentence, he is a natural water ghost in the S game.
Just the second-best loser in North America, this may be the impression all viewers have of C9.
But in fact, this year's C9 has all the original members from the establishment of the C9 team until now, and the C9 lineup has never changed in more than a year and a half.
This means that C9 will have strong teamwork, and what limits them is their individual abilities.
This is actually very similar to WE.
WE's weakness also lies in individual ability.
It was inevitable that Xuexue could not shoulder the heavy responsibility, so Li Nian asked Strawberry to get familiar with some heroes with carry abilities that he had played before but rarely used in competitions.
Otherwise, you won’t get far just by relying on the bottom lane.
A tactical routine that is stronger than C9 + a weakened version of C9's teamwork + a bottom lane duo that is stronger than C9, that is the current WE.
When facing the C9 team, Li Nian is not afraid of anything else, but he is afraid that WE will be studied too thoroughly by others. Even when facing the SSW team, Li Nian would not care so much about this.
Because C9... has the support player LemonNation who is known as the Death Note!
Even veteran players may be unfamiliar with this North American player.
But Li Nian knew that if Madlife hadn't created the support roaming style of play, it would not be an exaggeration to say that LemonNation is the world's number one support.
He was the player who reached the top of the US server rank by playing solo in the support position during the S2 period.
The quality of S2's US server is still very terrifying.
Li Nian has reached where he is today by relying on his memory, brain, and experience.
But compared with this Jew, Li Nian had the illusion that she was an outsider.
C9…is not going to be particularly easy to deal with.
At this moment, Li Nian was wondering, is it because they were sacrificed that the grouping of EDG and Royal Club was so comfortable?
If WE were grouped into any of these two teams, Li Nian would wake up laughing in her dreams.
"Okay, let's all train."
Li Nian stood up, looked at the people who were chatting, and walked out of the training room.
He needs to get some fresh air.
…
Another two days passed quietly.
WE is getting ready to fly to Taipei.
As expected, the thing Li Nian was most worried about happened.
Li Nian called this impression flow.
With the publicity from major self-media outlets, led by Duowan, the qualifying situation of the three LPL teams in the S4 World Finals is unanimously optimistic.
But the sad thing is that the group that Royal Family was in was actually known as the group of death.
This is not surprising. Team A has two ancient god-level players and is doing well in the country. It is normal for them to be considered very strong.
Although LMQ is the third seed in North America, they fought hard all the way to the top. In addition, their playing style is fierce and all the players are Chinese. It is reasonable to think that there will be suspense in the match between the two teams when Royal Club is also the third seed...
As for the media's evaluation of WE's group, it's hard to describe.
The overwhelming performance of WE over several domestic teams in the qualifying round made the media unanimously optimistic about WE. In the eyes of the media, C9, a European and American loser, was not even put in front of WE.
Even SSW is not favored by the media.
As many as 70 percent of domestic media outlets believe that WE can qualify as the first in the group.
It is said that one is not afraid of god-like opponents, but is afraid of pig-like teammates.
Li Nian is not worried about the strength of his opponent because he has ways to deal with it.
What he is worried about is that if something unexpected happens, the huge gap will cause all public opinion to be directed towards WE.
As someone who has seen a lot of ups and downs, he has no problem dealing with the pressure of public opinion, but Li Nian is only one person after all, and cannot control the emotions and thoughts of his teammates.
Doing her best, studying, and playing well in every game is the only thing Li Nian can do now.
Of course, there has been good news in the past two days.
After a lot of setbacks, WE's latest tactics finally got better and started to have some flavor.
Under this circumstance, Li Nian will have more tactics to use, and will be more confident!