Chapter 201 The world’s best top laner? No, the world’s number one swing top laner!
S7 Global Finals.
This is the only world championship in all previous S games that has been hailed as the grandest before it has even been held.
One of the most important reasons is that next year’s World Championship will be held entirely in China.
China is the country with the most popularity, the most players, and the strongest popularity of LOL in the world.
The S6 finals are actually at the end now. As next year's host, we have been looking forward to the home game for 7 years. Everyone in the LPL division is preparing and working hard for it.
The second game of BO5 in the semi-finals ended today. Apart from SKT, ROX has completely entered the LPL division's field of vision.
In the new season, they will spend huge sums of money to strongly support the super players who have performed well in S6 this year.
In ancient times, there was the saying of ‘catching a son-in-law on the list’, but now there is ‘catching a son-in-law in the competition’.
All ROX members seemed to feel this ‘enthusiasm’, and in the third BO5 game that followed, their performance was extremely aggressive in the life-and-death game.
In this game, ROX's female gun and Han Bing were targeted without any surprise, but the Rat King took out another signature policewoman + fan mother.
Because there are only three bans in this version, we chose to target the female gun Han Bing. SKT's ban positions were no longer enough, so they released Kuro's Dragon King.
Kuro finally got his favorite hero after being invisible for two games.
The game was fierce for 35 minutes, with both sides going back and forth. In the last wave of ancient dragon team battles, Peanut blind monk started a team at the god level, and the rat king's hugely fat policewoman took over. In terms of output, the two sides engaged in a wave of two-for-three team battles. When they separated, ROX took advantage of the time difference in vision and decided to walk a tightrope and choose to steal the dragon.
In the end, he successfully obtained the ancient dragon, then took the powerful buff of the ancient dragon, and then obtained the big dragon. The two dragons converged and the game came to an end.
In this game, ROX started to fall behind in the early and mid-term, but in the mid-term, a wave of peanuts on the road cooperated with the Rat King Policewoman, and 2V5 actually succeeded in counterattack. The two of them killed the entire SKT team. The scene was very shocking for a time, and this also established the foundation of the game. A chance for a late comeback.
At the end of the game, the score between the two sides reached 2:1. ROX successfully regained one victory under the extreme pressure of the life and death game.
The commentators and audiences in major competition areas around the world were in an uproar, and the LPL official eyes were gleaming.
Everyone in SKT finally felt the pressure - if they lose another game, the outcome will be hard to say.
After a short break, the game came to the fourth game.
Everyone in SKT simply packed up their peripherals and walked to the stage.
“Welcome to the fourth game of BO5 in the semi-finals of the 2016 Global Finals...Welcome back.”
“After the fierce battles in the previous three games, the score between the two sides is now 2: 1,SKT2,ROX1."
"Yes, For now, SKT is still two match points ahead of ROX, but judging from ROX's performance today, the probability of another victory is not impossible... Both sides are very likely to complete today's BO5..."
In the LPL commentary booth, the three of them, Doll Miller and PDD, were sweating profusely and excited.
Today's four consecutive high-intensity duels have made them forget their identities and that they are still LPL commentators. They have completely begun to enjoy and immerse themselves in today's exciting duels.
“Of course, it is still a life and death situation for ROX. If they lose next, today’s BO5 will end with 3:1... It is worth mentioning that ROX is in this year’s S game. The only team to beat SKT in small games."
Miller nodded and sighed: "Today's semi-final...I can only say that the audience who bought tickets at the scene are all blessed."
"The players on both sides...regardless of success or failure, they have actually won. .”
“Yes…”
No matter who wins or loses, both players have already won.
This sentence has two meanings, and the inner meaning is very simple.
With this intensity, with this Tigers team, if they lose, their value will probably skyrocket, and all members will become the new favorites in next year's transfer period.
A few people said a few words briefly, and the horrifying noises from the audience suddenly rose to the sky--until they reached the sky.
SKT and ROX are on the court.
This time on the court, the mental state and expressions of both sides have reached their peak, and ROX, who is clearly lagging behind, is still smiling.
A calm and unrestrained smile.
——The fourth game of BO5 officially begins.
In this game, SKT returned to the blue side and ROX to the red side.
As soon as they came up, SKT immediately banned the three heroes: Gunslinger, Ice, and Policewoman.
Such an outrageous three-ban AD was not what they wanted, but with Rat King's performance today, it is really difficult not to target the opponent.
For this reason, Jhin Zyla and her ilk have all been released.
ROX basically has the same feeling as SKT. They banned the three heroes Jace, Ekko, and Ryze, and also highlighted the target of a BO5 breakaway version.
In fact, in the S game BO5 now, it no longer only depends on the version, but more on the strengths of the players on both sides, as well as the various black technologies between each other.
"The ban is over... SKT has a triple-ban AD, and ROX has a triple-ban top laner... Hmm... But you can't ban all the top laners. Reaper's Sword Queen and Vampire have all been released. Come out..."
"The Reaper hero pool is really exaggerated..."
Everyone saw that ROX's banners had tried their best, almost banning Chen Yiqiu's most popular heroes today, and Ryze also prevented them from swinging in the middle. A must-ban hero.
But despite this, they still released many heroes they didn’t want to release.
"Which one to choose? Take the vampire? Or the swordswoman?"
In the competition room, Kkoma looked at Chen Yiqiu. After three fierce games, he was also a little tired.
"...Be more stable in this game, try to end the game directly, and get a guaranteed victory?"
Lee Sang Hyuk made a suggestion.
Guaranteed hero.
In fact, Reaper's Sword Lady and Vampire are both guaranteed, but in terms of stability, the Vampire who became a god in the first battle is undoubtedly more in line with the current environment and the choice of this game.
“OK, let’s be a vampire.”
Chen Yiqiu nodded without much hesitation.
“One on each side.”
Kkoma nodded, SKT got the vampire first.
As expected, ROX decisively grabbed the Sword Girl - not because they had to play a "skin game" for Smeb, but mainly because the vampire might be moved to the middle in this version.
The probability is very small, but once it appears, ROX will be in trouble if the opponent picks up Sword Lady.
And Sword Girl is also Smeb's most confident hero. In this life-and-death battle, perhaps the Tigers want to show their most confident style, show their own style, and exert their greatest strength.
“Hmm hum hum…”
ROX competition room.
Little Peanut wore sound-isolating headphones, making circles with his hands, humming songs, soothing his nervous mood and the atmosphere in the team.
Smeb, Rat King and others next to him didn't respond at first, but then they started humming with him.
"We can definitely win, brothers."
"Yes, yes."
"I still recognize Jing Hao's Sword Girl, and if Sword Girl fights vampires, online Very strong. Since the opponent wants to gain some stability, we We must seize their weaknesses, tear apart their weak points wildly, and strive to reach the fifth game.”
“It’s a choice.”
The two sides talked. The players who came down quickly determined the lineup for this game.
SKT: Top laner Vampire, jungler Leopard Girl, mid laner Clockwork, bottom lane EZ+Fan Mom.
ROX: Top lane Sword Lady, jungler Blind Monk, mid lane Dragon King, bottom lane Jhin + Zyra.
The game screen loads and enters Summoner's Rift.
"Brother Xingxiong, pay attention to this ward position. I have suffered losses many times before."
Entering the game, Lee Sang Hyuk immediately marked a blind spot in the lower half of the jungle.
"OK."
This game has been played again. Bengi, who has high hopes from the SKT team, nodded, paused, and gave his teammates confidence: "I have studied in Taiwan before, and we can invade. "
"Yiqiu, please cooperate with me."
"Wait for me to find you."
Chen Yiqiu nodded.
——This is actually the first time Bengi has used a jungler like Leopard Girl who is very aggressive in the early stage.
To be honest, not only the outside world, but everyone in SKT is worried at the moment.
Of course, Chen Yiqiu didn't have too many worries. The strategy set in the early stages of this game required him to cooperate with Bengi and seize the opportunity to invade ROX's jungle area and harass the little peanut.
As the most explosive player in today's four games, Little Peanut's weight on SKT is second only to the Rat King.
This requires relying on Chen Yiqiu's terrifying sense of smell, but this opportunity is not guaranteed.
The game started normally. After SKT and ROX set their sights in the second half of the jungle, they returned to the lane and began the laning period.
Get on the road.
Vampire is recognized as having weak explosive power in the early stage, and its damage is very low, which is obviously not the same as Sword Queen's online strength. However, due to its own skill mechanism, Vampire has a strong ability to rely on lane. As long as it maintains stable development, even if it is suppressed by Sword Queen during the laning period, SKT can actually accept it.
“But my recovery effect online is not bad, Yiqiu.”
Smeb's tone was confident. Not long after Sword Queen went online, she found an opportunity. Q went to fight with the vampire. Chen Yiqiu avoided Sword Queen's output, but was still blocked by Sword Queen and cut behind the line.
The status declines, and the strength of Sword Queen is clearly visible.
“At present, vampires in the top lane have to be suppressed in the early stage... Smeb’s proficiency is too high. ROX may have chosen Smeb’s top laner because of this skill.”
Outside, Miller looked at the laning situation on the top lane.
Reaper will most likely be suppressed by Smeb in the early stages of this game. If he cannot survive, SKT's rhythm will enter a period of collapse in the mid-term.
At this moment, the director's camera suddenly turned.
But in the bottom lane, Peanut was suddenly caught at the second level, catching SKT off guard. Bang was forced to flash out, and Wolf was stuck by the ROX trio and fell to the ground with hatred.
First blood broke out and was obtained by the Rat King.
"ROX... such a fast wave of gank, SKT's support was killed, the first blood was gone, and Jhin got it!"
The scene instantly erupted into terrifying screams and cheers.
The Rat King got the head, but it was different from the others.
According to the performance of previous games, once the Rat King develops, he will definitely be able to lead ROX to victory.
“Bengi is taking advantage of the opportunity to invade the jungle...Both sides may need to change buffs.”
Here, when the little peanut is catching people in the bottom lane, Bengi has already taken advantage of the situation and entered the opponent's upper half of the jungle. area, and Little Peanut also invaded SKT's lower half jungle area after the gank ended.
The junglers of both sides swap jungle areas. ROX actually thought of this when they captured the second level.
But this way, the jungler Leopard Girl is on the top lane, which alleviates Chen Yiqiu's pressure on the line.
Smeb did not dare to be as arrogant as when he first went online, so the jungler helped the top lane invisible for once.
Time passed and it came to just over 4 minutes.
During this period, Bengi's Leopard Girl performed unexpectedly strong. After returning to the jungle, she counter-crouched in the middle and successfully caught the blind monk's flash. After that, she counter-attacked the jungle several times, and her route was very tricky. , which made Little Peanut feel a little uncomfortable as expected.
“Brother Xingxiong, the leopard girl’s jungle route at the beginning is very strange... He started from the upper half of the jungle, and after the invasion, he went in the opposite direction and did a counter-crouch... I feel that his proficiency is better than imagined The middle one is higher.”
Little Peanut frowned and said: "It's a bit annoying."
"It's okay, vampires are miserable, and the rhythm is okay."
Smeb said cheerfully.
It's just over 4 minutes now, and both sides are already at level 3 on the road, but the vampire side is visibly suppressed. It's really a bit too difficult for a vampire to fight Sword Girl in the early stage.
Even the tone of the commentator doll was a bit sad and ridiculing, shouting "When has Reaper ever been so suppressed?"
Fortunately, everything went as SKT expected. The vampire was suppressed, but its own development did not fall behind. The last hit has always been about the same as that of Sword Princess.
At this moment, due to several fierce battles between the two sides and Bengi's visit to the top lane once, the state is no longer good.
When it was close to six minutes, the first opportunity to return to the city came.
Similarly, the opportunity for counterattack that Chen Yiqiu has been looking for has arrived.
“The jungler on the opposite side has a high probability of going red. I’ll block my vision. Brother Xingxiong, are you coming with me?”
"Okay."
It is actually very difficult for vampires to do things in the early stage, but Chen Yiqiu has to do something. So when he can't beat Sword Girl online for the time being, he will cooperate with the powerful jungler Leopard Girl to invade and go to the jungle. Linkage is the best choice.
But linkage cannot be done immediately. It requires finding the right opportunity.
For example, at this moment, under the deliberate control of Chen Yiqiu, both sides have reached the point where they have to go home, otherwise no matter which side comes from the jungle, both of them will die suddenly.
In this case, it is easiest for the opponent to relax their vigilance, and it is also the easiest opportunity for successful linkage.
Not to mention that Chen Yiqiu deliberately blocked the refresh time of the opponent's wild monster. Although he couldn't accurately grasp it because he had no vision, as long as the opponent was in the upper half of the jungle at the moment, he would have a chance.
On the road, the vampire and the swordswoman completed their last consumption. Both of them dragged their bodies with residual blood and retreated. Smeb returned to the city normally, but Chen Yiqiu was stuck on the road and entered the river.
On the other side, Bengi is a little slower and passes directly through the jungle.
"The vampire...he didn't respond here. What is he going to do in this state?!"
The director's footage was shown at the right time, and everyone outside was stunned.
The vampire's condition is very bad at the moment. If a single player encounters the opposite jungler at the river, he may get lost in the river in an instant.JPG.
And even if they want to cause trouble and try to trick ROX, they can easily be discovered at this moment.
Because both sides now have TP, Smeb will definitely be on T after returning home. It’s okay if the vampire doesn’t T for a short time, but if the time is a little longer, ROX may have expected it.
What on earth does he want to do?
While everyone was thinking this, they saw that the vampire had already gone around the dragon pit.
Then without any warning, he flashed decisively, and actually flashed directly by himself, entering ROX's jungle area through the wall.
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"Reaper, just cross-dodge...he wants to invade this time?!"
"No...no, Bengi is also coming."
On the other side, Bengi's Leopard Girl found a weak wall, and Leopard Girl easily jumped over the wall, and then met the vampire below ROX's jungle area.
——Looking at the previous operations of the two, you will find that ROX has a dense field of vision and almost perfect defense, but did not see the two of them.
The vampire flashed, and the leopard girl separated from the wall, avoiding all ROX's vision.
"Wow... SKT!! This wave is too decisive, are you so confident? They have avoided all ROX's vision this wave!"
Miller opened his mouth wide: "Then like this If so...Little Peanut is in danger.”
Due to the importance of jungle, ROX has always invested huge resources in jungle vision from the beginning in this game. Therefore, after Xiao Hei met Xiao Peanut, he not only played with his personal ability, However, the field of view is also completely blown out.
In fact, ROX's vision in this wave is not perfect yet, after all, the game is still in the early stages.
But their eyes have already illuminated several core locations. What they want to prevent is the invasion of the Leopard Girl. In this case, the Leopard Girl invades alone. With the flexibility of the blind monk, the most is a loss. Pointing to wild monsters is still acceptable.
Therefore, this wave of little peanuts were in a very relaxed jungle state. ROX never thought that a vampire with residual health who had clearly returned home would suddenly appear in the jungle.
Still flashed over the wall.
If you can’t catch anyone, then you are just a clown.
At this moment, Smeb had already landed on TP and did not see the vampire's TP.
"Eh...he's coming up?"
Smeb let out a light sigh, and then said to Little Peanut warily: "The vampire is not online, please pay attention..."
Before he finished speaking, Peanut's confused voice sounded: "Xiba, where did they come from?!"
"Huh?"
Smeb quickly switched the camera angle and saw the Leopard Girl make a precise dart. Originally, he wanted to grab the spotlight, but by coincidence, the dart landed directly on the blind monk.
“The target is here, kill it directly!”
Bengi’s eyes lit up, and Leopard Girl pounced on him.
Chen Yiqiu came around from the other side, taking a sip of the red fury Q he had accumulated, and then EW avoided the blind monk's Q and blasted to slow down the opponent.
Little Peanut didn't dodge, W touched his eyes and tried to distance himself, but both Vampire and Leopard Girl were heroes with long hands. They were already a few steps ahead and continued to stick to the Blind Sin for output.
There was no accident. Five seconds later, Little Peanut fell in his own jungle.
Bengi gets the head.
【SKTBengi killed ROXPeanut! 】
"Blind monk, dead! This wave of Leopard Girls got the kill... SKT Ueno is so decisive. This wave of linkage is so unexpected. ROX didn't expect them to appear here at this time!"
The doll was in an uproar.
There were screams and applause from the audience.
"It's just that... the top lane vampires will lose a lot. In terms of army experience, the top lane Reaper can't beat Smeb."
Miller noticed this wave of top laners. loss.
Although SKT got a kill, the kill was given to the jungler. The top lane vampire's laning situation was not improved, and even worsened the disadvantage.
But…
SKT has no worries in this regard.
"Come on, come on, hit the road, let's fuck him together!"
Chen Yiqiu directed his teammates: "Jing Hao, going on the road is not just about 1V1, you have to learn to shake people!"
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(End of this chapter)