As each player's ID was announced, the packed Verti Concert Hall in Berlin burst into warm cheers.
G2 eliminated the all-powerful RNG last year, and this year became the first team in the European division to win the MSI championship. As a result, it gained unprecedented support from players, and with its outstanding record, it firmly sat in the G-level (World) in Riot Games’ evaluation system. one of the strongest) positions.
Griffin is not a weakling either.
As a young team established in 2017, GRF performed mediocre in the secondary leagues in the first year due to lack of experience and did not attract much attention.
However.
In the second year, the GRF team suddenly emerged, sweeping the secondary league with a 14-0 record, defeating the MVP team in promotion and relegation, and winning tickets to the LCK Summer Split; it even defeated KZ consecutively in the LCK League where the strongest players gathered. , AFS, GEN and other strong teams also completed the feat of overturning SKT from a financial deficit of 10,000, creating the strongest newly promoted record in LCK history.
Riot Games gave Griffin an S-level rating, which means it is a very threatening team in the international arena.
The collision between G2 and GRF is definitely the focus of the group stage. Both LCS.EU and LCK viewers are paying close attention to it.
What’s interesting is that the audiences in these two major areas combined are not enough to account for a fraction of the number of LPL audiences.
Before Ye Tian officially debuted, the LPL ratings began to skyrocket. When Ye Tian officially stood on the stage, the LPL ratings reached twice as much as before. This shows how high Ye Tian is in the eyes of the audience. status.
"Both players are still preparing, let's take a look at their summer split information."
Six-speed mouth Drakos showed his professionalism: "Through the historical lineup, we can notice a phenomenon. When the Griffin team has jungler Tarzan as the core, the selection of personnel is a bit limited, or it will fall into a certain situation. Weird Circle - Very few heroes have been used.”
"That means the hero pool is shallow." Vedius added.
"It's not necessarily that the hero pool is shallow. There are few heroes that have been used, which can be understood as simple and efficient." Drakos has a more comprehensive view: "But it also means that it is not easy for them to make particularly skilled formation changes, especially in the face of changes like G2. A very capable team, GRF may suffer.”
The other side.
The LCK commentator expressed a completely opposite view, believing that the reason for G2's fancy swings was a lack of strength, and that GRF's immovable style is in line with the characteristics of a strong team.
"Tian, do you want me to go on the road and help you pass the level?"
G2 jungler Jankos had an eager expression on his face: "I used to either watch you play or be beaten by you, but this year I finally play with you!"
"You don't have to help me deliberately, just follow the normal rhythm." Ye Tian made pre-match arrangements: "In addition to the two default bans, Kyle will also be banned. I don't want to break through Kyle too early, as that will easily scare others. Team.”
"You want them to use Kyle as a life-saving straw when they really have no other choice?" Caps couldn't help laughing when he thought of that scene: "When they picked Kyle, they found that he exploded faster than other heroes. It was so interesting. Hahahaha.”
"Scheming!"
"It is indeed the 'Sun Tzu' Art of War!"
"Six six six!"
The G2 players burst into laughter.
After a brief discussion, enter the custom room, confirm with the referee, and jump to the Ban/Pick interface.
GRF's first team was given to Luo, which represents sufficient confidence.
"GRF didn't target the top order. It seems they wanted to test Tian's quality."
According to data analysis, Vedius said: "With the callback of critical equipment, Xialuo became the bottom lane combination with the highest appearance rate, which attracted the attention of the World Championship team. The first ban of G2 was given the reworked Panson. During the qualifying period , Pan Sen received a 100% ban rate and was not released once.”
In the second half, Griffin was given to Syndra.
G2 gives Kiana.
Pantheon and Kiana are the default ban positions that the red team will assume in the World Championship version.
In the third team, after discussion, GRF gave a quite unexpected hero-Demacia Wings-Quinn.
"Tian has used Quinn a lot in Rank recently, and GRF still respects it."
"G2 responded with a Kyle. The invincibility effect provided by Kyle's ultimate move is quite restrained from Pike's kill."
Drakos expressed his understanding: "We can notice that the captain, who has a high appearance rate and winning rate in the playoffs, was released. I wonder if Griffin will grab it first... Oh, no, GRF did the opposite. Then, I grabbed the crocodile!”
"This is a very strong choice." Vedius combined with the analysis of the previous game: "GRF should think that their top laner Sword uses a development hero and cannot easily withstand Tian's offensive, so they simply use Crocodile to stabilize the lane. As long as the top lane can hold on, GRF is capable of fighting.”
During the summer split, Griffin's style was centered on mid, bottom and jungle.
Mid laner Chovy, bottom laner Viper, and jungler Tarzan all performed top-notch in the LCK regular season. Especially Tarzan, who is considered capable of competing for the world's No. 1 jungler. Even if his performance in the playoffs is slightly worse, no one dares to underestimate him. Look at these three carry points.
"But, Tian got the captain!"
"Is Tian going to adapt to this top laner-focused meta?"
Drakos said with a tone of watching a good show: "When Tian takes the offensive hero, the pressure is on Sword. When Tian takes the development hero, the pressure is still on Sword."
"That's right." Vedius's mouth was filled with the pride of thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi: "We have always said that we must withstand Tian's offense during the laning period, but this does not mean that Tian is only good at laning. On the contrary, compared with laning, Tian’s other abilities are better.”
"In terms of laning, the top top laners have the ability to hold Tian back, such as IG's Theshy, but even IG's Theshy cannot compare with Tian in terms of support and teamfights." Drakos explained: "G2 II After Lou gets Kai’Sa and Luo is banned, Kai’Sa becomes the bottom lane hero with the highest priority.”
It's GRF's turn to choose.
What was taken out was the pair of functional heroes of Rock Bird + Titan.
The rock bird is basically positioned as a jungler, but it is not completely incapable of hitting the center, and it has a slight swing.
Titan is destined to support. In the support position, he chose a team-opening point where he can control everything, which means that GRF has the possibility to use strong AD to attack. Considering that the A monster is notoriously weak in the lane, this possibility is in Baidu More than eighty points.
Therefore, G2 got Dawn Goddess on the third floor, a hard support suitable for backhand against Titan, and banned Xayah and EZ in the second round of banning.
Xayah's E skill [Barb] can cooperate with Titan.
EZ is Viper's signature hero.
During the LCK Summer Split, Viper used EZ in 11 games with a winning rate of 81.8%. In addition, the popular AD had its attributes reduced by a round before the World Championship. The unweakened EZ was equivalent to being strengthened. In order to ensure that there are no problems in the bottom lane, It's best not to let it out.
GRF bans cards and Pike.
Caps hasn't used a card all year, and GRF's ban is a precautionary measure.
The same goes for Pike. Although Pike's AOE damage to minions has been cut off, and his positioning ability has been greatly reduced, Griffin is also worried that G2 can forcefully take out Pike.
On the fourth floor, G2 chooses first.
The one chosen was the Clockwork Demon that fit the lineup.
Here you can see the self-confidence of the peak hat king.
Even though the opponent was Chovy, the new generation mid laner who performed well in the LCK division, Caps still dared to show off a weak mid laner to the opponent first!
[Wound directly, the King of Hats can do it]
[Just kidding, Caps beat up Faker, is he still afraid of Chovy? 】
[The two development heroes in the upper and middle are really confident]
[Brother Tian said that none of you can withstand my attack, it’s boring, let’s try your attack instead]
[To be honest, it is still a bit dangerous to choose people like this. GRF is best at attacking three axes. If G2 doesn’t need any early game, it may really overturn]
[Brother Youtian is here, is the car overturned? It has only been a year and I have forgotten how to write the three characters "Tongtiandai"? 】
The LPL audience had a lively discussion.
GRF got Dao Mei and Lucian on the fourth and fifth floors, putting all their chips on the offensive side.
G2 finally added a Spider Queen, which does not have particularly good coordination with online heroes. The focus is on jungle confrontation.
After the exchange, the lineup was determined.
Blue side: GRF
Red side: G2
Top order: Crocodile vs Captain
Jungler: Rockbird vs Spider
Mid laner: Dao Mei vs Clockwork
AD: Lucian vs Kai'Sa
Support: Titan vs Dawn
"It's obvious that G2 needs to use the jungle as a fulcrum to withstand GRF's early offensive."
"GRF knows this very well and is here to interfere with Jankos!"
Vedius reads the situation on the field.
The G2 lineup is not suitable for playing a first-level team. The five heroes are scattered and guarding the intersection in the jungle.
The GRF merged together, passed through the upper half of the river, and cut in unceremoniously from the F6 pass.
When Jankos saw his opponent, he turned back and headed to the lower half of the jungle, flipping his original plan of farming from top to bottom.
"GRF left a jewelry eye each in the F6 and red BUFF grass. They circled half a circle from the jungle and passed through the triangle grass to try to catch Tian. However, this was obviously a wishful thinking and could only be a waste of time..."
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"Huh?"
As Drakos spoke, his voice changed: "GRF Ueno turned around and grabbed G2's red BUFF, but G2 did not exchange resources. In this way, Tarzan should start the game with three BUFFs! ”
"The middle and lower lanes can't get lane rights, and the jungler can't invade." Vedius frowned: "Tarzan is so arrogant. After eating the red buff, he still wants to play F6. Caps came over to take a look, but the first-level clockwork didn't dare In a head-to-head confrontation with the second-level rock bird, Tarzan broke the hatred immediately and was not robbed of the bird.”
"The geniuses in the LCK region are indeed very detailed." Drakos praised reluctantly.
Caps used clockwork to fight against the sword girl. He couldn't accept being behind in level. He helped look at the jungle and immediately went back to gain experience.
Monster A suffers from both personal abilities and heroes. Even though Dawn Goddess with Ignition + Aftershock is better than Titan, it only relies on the troop clearing ability of Q skill [Icathia Heavy Rain] to remain invincible.
What?
Spider in the lower half?
It's useful.
Is it hairy?
Not even one!
Any jungler who has played Spider knows that Spider must reach level 3 before he can take action against online heroes. Forcing GANK with E at level 2 may be enough to steal a chicken in the passerby game. If you dare to go to the professional league If you do this, you will definitely be beaten by the brush hero on the opposite side.
In the preseason and version 9.2 at the beginning of the year, the designers weakened the experience gains of wild monsters twice in a row.
You don’t need to read the specific changes in detail, you only need to know one detail - blue BUFF + Demon Marsh Frog + Three Wolves can no longer upgrade the hero to level three.
Even if Spider rushes down at full speed after eating just enough experience to level up to three, the threat to the bottom lane will not be established until three minutes. Before that, GRF bottom lane can fight with confidence and boldness without worrying about unpredictable attacks from any heroes. threaten.
Ye Tian also encountered certain restrictions on the road.
A first-level captain can rely on the long-range consumption of Q [Gunfire Negotiation] and the passive fire knife to chase the crocodile and beat it to reduce the crocodile's health.
In the confrontation between the crocodile with Dolan Shield + red potion and the captain with corruption potion, lowering the crocodile's blood volume at one level means that the captain can maintain the lead for a long time, and he will be at ease in both development and confrontation.
But.
Yanque is clearly in the upper half.
Ye Tian couldn't do such an action.
The crocodile advanced the army line very comfortably, filled up the anger, and lived a prosperous life.
"GRF's strategy at the start has taken effect!"
The Roaring Emperor highly praised: "It is difficult for G2 to perform well in the dual lane before team battles. Although Caps is very strong, it is impossible to compete with the Sword Girl before level 6. As long as you be careful of Tian's explosion, don't let Tian break through in the top lane. GRF has great advantages.”
"It won't be as easy for Tian to open up a breakthrough as before." CloudTemplar was repeatedly slapped in the face when commentating on Ye Tian's games in the past two years. This year he is much more cautious: "Sword, the top laner in GRF, is a smart player. He knows very well what is going on. When to try to engage in battle, and when to not take action at all, what is needed most when facing Tian is this kind of self-knowledge. ”
CloudTemplar's words aroused a lot of recognition.
If you are as strong as Theshy, you will be killed in a head-to-head confrontation with Tian. If you are as weak as Huni, you can still survive by squatting under the tower with a troll. It can be seen that you must avoid fighting when facing monsters like Tian, and you must not be complacent.
Sword does a very good job.
The second-level crocodile has 100 points of anger. He doesn't even use the red fury Q to try it once. He holds the skill tightly in his hand. It does seem to be a bit "cowardly", but as long as he doesn't die, he has completed the mission.
No matter how terrifying Tian's strength is, he can't break through the original setting of the League of Legends game. He can use the captain to hack the crocodile full of blood and anger to death, right?
【Come on Sword! 】
[As long as you are not killed by Tian alone, you will be a new generation of undead top laner]
[Take out the ability to resist Khan and Nuguri, don’t be broken by Tian]
[Ten minutes, ten minutes without death is enough]
Sword seemed to feel the support of the crowd of sticks, and its movement was extremely delicate. It got stuck on the edge of the captain's Q [Gunfire Negotiation] several times, making the captain unable to lift the musket in his hand.
"The level is good." "Better than I thought."
Ye Tian praised him and cut the screen to look at the situation on other roads.
Take a few steps back.
Place a powder keg in the grass in front of the stone beetle.
When the gunpowder barrel decayed to its last level of durability, the rock bird just arrived nearby and launched a set of AEQ combos against the largest stone beetle.
And this.
It happened to be within Ye Tian's observation range.
Sword handled the situation well during the laning phase, but the problem was that he was too careful and refused to lose any blood. Naturally, he was unable to cross the line and cause trouble for Ye Tian.
Sword does not cross the line of troops, and there is no support jungle area.
If Tarzan doesn't farm the stone beetles, then the stone beetles will definitely become... orphaned children with no fate!
When Tarzan's skills were released, Ye Tian stood in the grass and fired a Q [Gunfire Negotiation].
Check out the 16-9 book bar and see the correct version!
Whoosh——
Lead bullets shot out.
When the damage was caused, Tarzan gained vision of the area where Ye Tian was, and then he saw a powder keg ready to go under Ye Tian's feet.
The next second.
The second powder keg hits Tarzan's face!
Boom——
Boom——
The two consecutive explosions caused dual effects of damage and slowdown. Ye Tian controlled the captain to move forward, passively approaching the rock bird with [Fire Interrogation].
As mentioned before, the jungle experience has been greatly weakened, making it impossible for the third-level jungler to find trouble with the second-level or even first-level top laner.
now.
Ye Tian is level two, and Tarzan is also level two.
None of the initial equipment provides hard attributes.
Looks evenly matched.
However, Ye Tian hit both of his first two skills, while Tarzan's two skills were used on the stone beetle. Even if Tarzan had an extra red BUFF, he was far from being Ye Tian's opponent, so he could only turn around and run back.
Take a few steps back.
Tarzan's second Q skill improved, and he used the Q punishment combo against the large stone beetle, hoping to cause two pieces of damage at the same time.
For professional players, this operation is very simple and you won’t make a mistake even with your eyes closed.
But after some pulling and pulling, the stone beetle's patience was about to bottom out, causing Tarzan to be a little anxious when releasing his skills. Before Q [Stone Penetration] could fly to the stone beetle, Punishment was clicked out.
Ye Tian turned around and struck with a knife!
Get it you!
The fire sword swept across and cleared the stone beetle's health bar. Tarzan worked hard for a long time and even handed over the summoner skills, and finally made a wedding dress for Ye Tian.
【Wooooo~】
【Nice! 】
[Ah hahahahahaha, Tarzan exploded! 】
[Tian’s reaction is really exaggerated, he can catch the gap between Punishment and Rock Bird Q]
[The advantage of rock sparrows is much greater than that of spiders, but the stone beetles are gone, the third level is gone, and the rhythm is gone]
There were bursts of excited shouts from the audience.
"Ah?!"
A familiar burning feeling came over CloudTemplar's face: "Sword's cautious play has harmed Tarzan. If Sword moved closer to the jungle, Tian would not be able to grab the stone beetle!"
"There is no way, we can't ask the player to be stable and also ask the player to do things outside the lane." Roaring Emperor was relatively calm: "Things have happened. No matter how unwilling we are, we have to accept the fact that the jungle is at a disadvantage. ”
Tarzan was interrupted by Caps after defeating the red buff. He got rid of the hatred once in the F6 camp. It took more than ten seconds to go back and forth. After being interfered by Ye Tian, he not only lost the largest stone beetle, but also the small stone beetles that split off. There is no way to eat, and counting the time spent on the road, it is equivalent to wasting more than forty seconds.
More than forty seconds!
What will happen if the jungler hangs up for 40 seconds at the beginning?
One word.
——Explosion in the wild area!
As the number one jungle king in Europe, Jankos has a very clear mind. He first went to the middle to help Caps capture a sword girl, and by the way gained experience to level up to three, and then swaggered into the jungle with the former GRF's F6 camp.
GRF mid laner Chovy looked at the spider at the same level as him and a clockwork at the same level who could support him at any time. He didn't dare to cause trouble to Jankos. Viper and Lehends pressed under the tower and entered the jungle to help Jankos get the red buff.
At this time.
The director switches perspectives.
I saw that the rock bird was still at the second level, and it was attacking the swift crab's butt in the upper part of the river.
"OMG!"
"Tarzan is having a hard time!"
Drakos tried hard to resist the urge to laugh: "The Rock Bird cannot fight against the Spider Queen. If you want to maintain an equal situation with the Spider Queen in the jungle, you must rely on development - keep your level and equipment to not fall behind, and then call your teammates for help." , but we can see that Jankos is already one level higher than Tarzan.”
"There is an old saying in the ancient and mysterious East. Ginger is still spicier when old." Vedius has recently added a lot of Chinese sayings: "Jankos has reached level 4 and continues to go to the middle. The sword girl used by Chovy is certainly stronger than Clockwork, but regardless of There is no way we can win against the two heroes Clockwork + Spider.”
The jungle rhythm is interrupted.
Griffin can only place its rhythm on online heroes.
The spider has been wandering near the middle lane, and the chance of winning in a 2v2 is not high.
The difference in strength on the top lane is too big. When the captain holds the orange and flashes, his ability to protect himself is still very strong.
Look around.
GRF agreed that they must count on the bottom lane to stand out.
Moreover, the attribute of the first dragon in this game is earth. After strengthening, the first earth dragon can cause 16% additional real damage to buildings and ancient monsters. Tarzan runs to the lower half according to the team's needs, forming a two-man lane. Protect and protect.
Ye Tian switched the perspective and looked at it, confirming the location of the rock bird, and thought of killing the crocodile.
The crocodile cornerstone rune carries [Strong Attack], and the secondary system chooses [Resolute]. It is reasonable to say that it is the most powerful combination.
but.
Through testing, Ye Tian discovered that the crocodile sub-system did not have [Skeleton Plating], but brought [Wind of Resurrection] + [Explosion].
Crocodile, as a line-dominant hero, plays against the captain, and has no problem with blasting and touching the defense tower plating.
The reason for using the Wind of Resurrection to replace the skeleton plating is that the captain will continue to use Q to consume it, and the skeleton will be broken as soon as it is refreshed. In this case, it seems reasonable to choose the Wind of Resurrection, which is more suitable for battery life.
But only by looks.
Let’s take the simplest example: in the boxing ring, can anyone survive eight rounds with pure defense?
Doesn't exist.
In the same way, if you want to hold up the lane, you need not only battery life, but also methods that can threaten the opponent.
If you can't even come up with the means to threaten the opponent, it is equivalent to a pure sandbag. Can this kind of sandbag withstand Ye Tian's sharpness?
joke!
The crocodile has a skeleton coating, which is indeed not as good as the Resurgence Wind in terms of pure pressure resistance, but when the skeleton coating improves, the crocodile has the ability to come to the captain with E and force a blood exchange, so that the captain cannot Q the crocodile unscrupulously.
On the contrary, the crocodile does not have bone plating. As long as the bone plating on the captain's body is not broken or the barrel is robbed, he can kill the crocodile while standing in the pile of soldiers and using the red and angry Q. It is not an exaggeration to say that he can ride on the crocodile's face and shit.
Logically speaking, players from strong LCK teams would not make such stupid mistakes.
But when GRF just entered the World Championship, there was a scene of severance between the coach and the players. The original coach cvMax was fired by the club, and the coach who was hastily replaced focused on studying the version, designing Ban/Pick and on-court tactics, and it was difficult to pay attention to the hero deputy. Small issues such as what to tie, coupled with the fact that Sword himself is not a talented player, and the pressure on Ye Tian is too great, this kind of error that can easily be ignored happened.
When the top lane troops push back.
Ye Tian fired Q [Gunfire Negotiation] one after another with the indestructible effect to lower the crocodile's health, and soon formed an absolute lead of more than half of the full health of level 5 to level 4.
4 minutes and 43 seconds.
A large wave of troops entered under the blue square tower. Ye Tian held the passive position and placed a [gunpowder barrel] in front of the crocodile.
Sword runs back, and when the gunpowder barrel loses one layer of durability, Ye Tian can use the combo of A barrel + release barrel + Q barrel. If Sword doesn't use E [Rampage], he will be blown up. If he uses E, he won't be able to counterattack at all. Ability will become a living target in the next eighteen seconds.
then.
Sword made a choice that most professional players would make - go up with E to break Ye Tian's bone coating, move sideways to avoid attracting the hatred of minions, take a step and turn back immediately, Red Fury Q [Tyrant Strike] in After the plating disappeared, Ye Tian and the melee soldiers were included.
After using the skill of integrating consumption and recovery, Sword hit two AW blows at the gunpowder barrel. In order to break the gunpowder barrel, he used the second stage of E to distance himself.
But when the hand-raising movement took shape, a scene appeared on the road that made Sword's eyes wide open.
The captain's musket fired a shot of lead.
The direction is... grass!
The gunpowder barrel Ye Tian had hidden in advance took effect, and the two consecutive explosions hit the crocodile. The refreshed fire knife struck the crocodile again. He resisted the damage of the defense tower and moved forward. A flash lock + orange unlocked [Cold Hunting] stun in one go. The crocodile hung up on the third floor [Fire Interrogation], turned around and exited the tower.
behind.
The raging flames evaporated the crocodile's health bar.
FirstBlood! !
"Single kill in a confrontation, a familiar solo kill in a confrontation!"
Six-speed mouth Drakos was extremely excited: "In the first game of the group stage, Tian used the captain's triple fire to kill the crocodile alone, creating a reversal for the inferior hero against the superior hero!"
"This kind of picture used to belong to the LPL division, but now it belongs to us in Europe." Vedius's view of Ye Tian was completely reversed: "It takes 12 seconds for the crocodile to resurrect. After resurrection, there are still 4 seconds to read the teleportation bar. These 16 seconds Time will cause him to lose all his melee soldiers."
"One, two, three, four!" Drakos counted with a childlike innocence: "With four melee soldiers and killing experience, Tian is also ahead of the whole level in the top lane, and after the captain reaches level six , the ultimate move can radiate any position in the Summoner’s Canyon, and the safety of the bottom lane can be well guaranteed.”
"That's right." Vedius looked at the replay: "Tian's thinking is too clear. He knows exactly what his opponent wants to do at what time. Sword is being played with like a little boy in front of Tian."
[The little boy was played by the priest? 】
[Priest: The devil quickly gets out of this little boy’s body. Devil: You get out first]
【Too hell】
[There is a little knowledge, Tian once called UZI God and called himself a priest]
[Isn’t the priest the spokesperson of God? 】
[In the Chinese context, there is another understanding of splitting, priest = father of God]
Some of the atheist audience members chatted happily.
Anyone who knows a little bit about League of Legends can tell that GRF has come up with a purely offensive lineup. In addition to the Crocodile, which is a stable line choice that relies on offense instead of defense, the mid-lane Sword Girl and the bottom lane Lucian + Titan all need to establish advantages.
now.
The crocodile who used offense instead of defense lost his head.
The knife girl was chased by clockwork A.
Lucian + Titan look good, but in another minute, Lucian will easily be UZI in the COS bathtub under the [Cannon Screen].
G2 develops heroes in the top and middle lanes, and suddenly develops absolute initiative! (End of chapter)