Chapter 81 Sorry, my coaching staff is better!
[meiko: Come on tomorrow! ＞_＜】
As the last training match ended, Mei Guan typed the words "Come on" on the public screen of the custom room.
Deft and Pawn on the opposite side also sent blessings to their old teammates. Deft also said that he wanted to compete with the factory director in the mid-season!
smeb also used their communication tool to send a message of encouragement to coach nofe, and agreed to have a meal together if they could go to MSI.
Now that he has moved to KT, smeb's salary has increased dozens of times compared to the ROX period. He naturally wants to repay coach nofe who stayed with the team during the most difficult period last year.
On April 22, the LPL playoff semi-finals kicked off, and the LCK spring finals also officially started!
"Dear Summoners, good afternoon everyone! This is the scene of the 2017 LPL Spring Playoffs semi-finals!" The doll's voice was as hearty as ever: "I am today's commentator doll!"
The baby is here, so his partner must be his old teammate Miller.
"Hey! I'm Miller! There will be two exciting games waiting for you today! The first one will be EDG vs. OMG!"
Miller crossed his hands and stared at the camera: "You must be familiar with these two teams! EDG has been the leader of our LPL in recent years, and the other OMG team can be regarded as an ancient giant!"< br>
Seeing Miller stop, Wawa immediately continued with a tacit understanding, "These two teams only played each other once in the regular season, and OMG lost 1:2 at that time. But! Today's OMG is fierce!"
"OMG ranked eighth in the regular season, but they took away their opponents 3-0 in two games in the playoffs, and they kept getting in front of the defenders!"
"In today's battle, can they continue to write their own Black Eight legend and bring OMG's legacy to the final stage?! Let us witness it together!"
In a few words, the two commentators described a game that was originally very different in support rates as a close match, with OMG even having a slight advantage, which greatly aroused the enthusiasm of the audience!
But this is the charm of e-sports!
Who can say that a lower-ranked team in the regular season will not be able to beat a higher-ranked team in the playoffs?
OMG can defeat the top in two games, and naturally it is possible to win the third game!
The camera moves from the commentary booth to the player booth, and the OMG five-member team looks relaxed.
They came with the momentum of winning two consecutive games, looking down on winning or losing, and fighting for life and death!
On the other side, everyone in EDG looked much more solemn!
On the one hand, their recent training match results are not very good, and on the other hand, their opponents' winning streak has also put pressure on them.
Not to mention that Jack is still a rookie in the playoffs; while he can play in the regular season without any nerves, the playoffs are a different story.
Regardless of winning or losing in the regular season, at least all 16 games can be played; but in the playoffs?
If you lose a game, go home!
They achieved a record of 15 wins and 1 loss in the regular season, and their goal is naturally to win the championship.
You can't just win the first round and win the semi-finals, right?
Facing OMG, according to the analysis of the training team, the most important thing to pay attention to is the bottom lane.
Regardless of the fact that the two BO5s won by OMG were opened by a single kill in the middle, in fact, the old thief's stable carry in the late stage is also the guarantee of the team's victory!
As for icon, it plays more of a role in helping the team start the early rhythm.
Compared with the defeated mid laner doinb and attitude of QG and Snakes, nofe believes that Scout is stronger; on the other hand, with the protection of the factory director, the strength of EDG's midfielder combination is obviously not something that the two teams can compete with. .
So nofe is worried about the bottom lane. If Jack cannot stabilize when facing Sima Laothief, it is likely to cause an ecological imbalance in the bottom lane.
"EDG still chose to let the factory director start today!" Miller said loudly: "The return of the factory director will have a relatively large impact on EDG as a whole. The most obvious thing is that the team's early operations have become clearer."
"As for OMG, it is still their five-man starting lineup this year, and there is no change. The only thing that needs to be noted is that the game version used in this playoffs is 7.7, which is a change from the 7.4 version we used in the last regular season. Quite a lot! ”
"That's right!" Watana introduced: "One of the most important changes comes from version 7.5! The AD bonus damage of the [Touch of Hellfire] talent has been slashed! This has a huge impact on the bottom lane ecology. For example, Varus, Jhin, and Lady Spear, three heroes who take great damage from Hellfire, are now not as good as before!”
"On the contrary, the duration of the effect of the [War Zeal] talent has been extended by two seconds! As a result, heroes such as Han Bing and Policewoman are more suitable for this talent. I think we can consider it when the pressure on the bottom lane is not very high. Choose this talent! ”
When the two commentators were chatting about the version changes, the director also gave a timely comparison of the regular season data of the two teams; OMG and EDG both have black and white team logos, and they look like brother teams.
"Looking at the data, EDG's 15-1 in the big game is still much better than OMG's 8-8!" Miller laughed: "EDG's average game time is 32 minutes and 22 seconds, tied for the shortest with LGD, both at 33 minutes Within this range. The average duration of most teams is 35-38 minutes. These four or five minutes in advance demonstrate EDG’s ability to end the game!”
"In addition, EDG ranked top two in the league in terms of 15-minute lead rate, number of barons per game, and first-tower rate. It is worth noting that the team that ranks first in the number of barons per game is one of the teams in the next game - Team WE."< br>
After introducing the team's data comparison, next comes the player's data display.
Because EDG has won more games and there has been a comparison of team data before, everyone is mentally prepared that the data of EDG players will be better.
However, when the player data was displayed and EDG hit two lines, it still aroused bursts of exclamations from the audience!
The two commentators who were used to big scenes were stunned for a while.
On the big screen located in the center of the arena, Li Mufan and Scout were back to back, arms folded, looking at the camera in front of them with stern eyes.
On both sides of their posters are some key data for the top and middle positions.
"Player Mu Fan has 0 solo kills!! How stable is this!" Wawawa yelled: "Not only that, he also has 14 solo kills, ranking third in the entire league! Scout has 21 Single kill ranked second! ”
Li Mufan was still adjusting his headphones at this time, and happened to hear the commentator introducing the situation of a solo kill. He rubbed his nose and felt a little embarrassed, because he had seen these data before. In addition to him and Scout ranking second and third, naturally there was also the first place.
The single kill king of the Spring Split is Li Mufan's old teammate, Broiler. His 27 single kills top the LPL single season history!
In the face of Broiler's terrifying 27 solo kills, his 14 solo kills on Queshi were nothing to brag about. He felt that zero solo kills were more impressive.
"Mu Fan ranks first in the league in injuries sustained per game, and Scout ranks first in kills per game. These two are like the spear and shield of EDG, jointly supporting EDG's luxurious record of 15 wins and 1 loss!"
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The factory director sitting next to Li Mufan tilted his head when he heard this, and said to Li Mufan: "Stop bragging, we will be sent away by OMG later, and all the data will be backfired by bragging now!"
Li Mufan got the headphones, keyboard, and mouse ready, put the headphones on his head in a comfortable position with both hands, and said, "Isn't it enough just to win? Qi Jiang, you don't have the confidence to play OMG, right?"
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The factory director was provoked by Li Mufan, and his eyes suddenly widened, and he retorted: "This is just a mouthful of milk before the game! In a real fight, a world of 6 is not enough for me!"
Li Mufan smiled and closed his mouth, and behind him came the referee's command to announce the start of the game.
"According to the rules of the competition, EDG, which ranks higher in the regular season, automatically gets the right to choose sides in games 1, 3, and 5. They took the initiative to choose the blue side in the first game! The first contest between the two sides begins now! ”
As the commentator finished speaking, there was a crisp sound, and the live broadcast screen suddenly switched to the game screen!
The audience at the scene had been waiting for a long time, and the two commentators were so thirsty that they couldn't help but feel refreshed!
"EDG took the lead in banning Eye of Twilight!"
This hero has both laning and quick support, and is not highly dependent on the teleport summoner skill in the mid-to-late stage. It also has an advantage in the top lane against heroes that rely on level A, so it frequently appears in the second half of the spring split.
But it's a pity that Li Mufan is not interested in this hero yet, mainly because of the team's tactical focus. EDG prefers to keep the double C to advance, rather than the cutting-in team battles and sidebands that Shen is good at.
Now this hero is basically the same as Qinggang Ying in the early season, in a state where both red and blue side EDG will be banned.
On the other side, OMG backhandedly banned Jayce. Needless to say, Scout’s Jayce was too dominant in the LPL. He once scored a luxurious record of 14-1-10 in a regular season game on March 16. !
Nofe then decisively killed Big Mouth in his second choice. This hero from smlz has left too many famous scenes. At this time, it happened to be the version of Big Mouth, so it was impossible to play it on the opponent.
OMG then used a backhand to ban Syndra, as if targeting Scout.
EDG aims at the old thief, and then presses the ice with the third hand. As a result, the only conventional AD available outside is Varus and the policewoman.
On the surface, it looks like one person per person, but in fact, the old thief Varus has a dismal winning rate, winning only 1 small game in 7 games.
"EDG wants to steal the female police and play with the female police system!" Miller said thoughtfully, "Marco Verus is not very proficient. I guess in the end he will either mess around with EZ or forcefully take it by going against the version. Jhin!”
"But this is not a good choice!"
Miller didn't say the second half of the sentence, why wasn't it a good choice? Because OMG is a team that relies heavily on the bottom lane to take the bottom in the late game!
In the last ban of the first round, OMG gave Spider.
After the version change, the spiders have obviously become more adapted to the version. The director even played fifteen spiders in the Korean server and reached a high score. Everyone in the league knows this.
The third-hand ban spider has other functions.
OMG I think it's simple, if you want to rob the policewoman, that's fine, just leave the enchantress to me!
I only play in the early and mid-term!
icon is currently performing well in the playoffs. The two veteran mid laners, Doinb and Doinb, are not afraid of the stage, and have crazy solo kills in six games!
If Icon can get the best enchantress, I can accept EDG snatching the policewoman.
But at this time, everyone in OMG and the coaching staff could not see the situation on EDG's side, and nofe was already smiling!
In fact, he didn't want to play in the second half at all!
The policewoman is the smoke bomb he released to the OMG coaching staff!
So far in the playoffs, the policewoman's appearance rate and winning rate are indeed very high. She has played 4 games and won 4 games. It looks very powerful, right?
But EDG data analysts have long paid attention to another set of data!
In the 4 games won by the policewoman, the MVPs were all mid laners, and in two games it was mid laner Jayce and in two games it was mid laner Clockwork.
This is also in line with EDG's current understanding of the version, that is, the female police officer can either use Jace's tactics of pushing the defense tower quickly, or you can use the big core to drag back.
As a result, the policewoman who seemed to be the key point in the lineup could not win the MVP and her performance was mediocre.
Nofe, Maokai and other members of the coaching staff carefully studied and found that the victory in these games had little to do with the policewoman, and was entirely due to the extraordinary performance of the mid laner!
Not only that, although the bottom lane of the policewoman has the right to push the lane, it is easy to be caught in the laning phase; the policewoman cannot provide sufficient output in the mid-term, and in the later stage, it is not as capable as vampires, clockwork and other spell cores to instantly provide a large amount of AOE. .
The summary is that even if the female police officers in the four games are replaced by other ADs, they can still win the game at will!
At this time, the ability of the coaching staff is reflected. If it is an ordering team that only looks at superficial data, it will definitely be a policewoman at this time!
Nofe waved his hand and asked Li Mufan to lock onto the Enchantress!
"This EDG didn't steal the policewoman?!" Watou opened his mouth and said in surprise: "This hero has a 100% winning rate in the playoffs! And EDG itself is also very good at the lineup of the female police system! Not only that, it grabbed the policewoman It can also be said that the old thief has no heroes to use!”
"The Enchantress is very decisive in locking in, and it looks like it has been planned for a long time!" Miller pondered for a moment and then said: "In the playoffs, we directly skipped three major versions and came to 7.7. To be honest, the previous teams played The game is all about fumbling forward, so it’s not surprising that EDG has new understandings!”
But Miller himself couldn't think of a reason. He buried this doubt in his heart and prepared to enter the game later to see what strategies EDG had to restrain the old thief policewoman!
EDG ignored the policewoman and snatched the enchantress, which stunned OMG for a second.
Then the coach happily chose a policewoman for the old thief!
You don’t have to, I’ll use it!
Immediately afterwards, OMG took Kalma as a match, firmly holding the right to the bottom lane!
"It's EDG's turn. I think the first three moves must select the middle and jungle! Otherwise, once the jungle is targeted in the back and the combat effectiveness of the middle and jungle drops, the effect of the Enchantress selection will be reduced!" Miller decided. I looked towards EDG's floor to see what heroes they would take.
As we all know, Lee Sin is a hero that is very suitable for Enchantress in the jungle position. OMG relied on this combination to win consecutive victories in the playoffs.
But the factory director, the factory director’s blind monk is too cunning, I’m afraid it won’t be easy to get out!
But even without the Lee Sin, the Excavator is still a good jungle choice.
At this time, in the EDG player bench, coach Nofe was standing behind the director and shouted loudly with a smile: "You take the blind monk! According to my experience in the World Championship, the blind monk paired with the Enchantress is very powerful! ”
"No midfielder can compete with them!"
The audience sitting in the first two rows of the auditorium could clearly hear the coach's shout, and burst into laughter!
"Don't do it, don't do it!" The factory director looked helpless. He knew that Nofe liked to joke when he was happy: "Don't do it, I'm very cooperative with the excavator."
The mouse selected the blind monk, the factory director shook his head, and finally locked the excavator Reksai.
So it was quite interesting from the perspective of the commentary and the audience. The moment the blind monk appeared on the second floor, the whole audience cheered!
[It’s all my fault that you always like to play 4396. Now the factory director doesn’t play blind monk at all. Who will make fun for everyone? 】
[What are you afraid of? This is a collection of the factory director’s walking memes, and I’ll give you a lower Rexel in the next game]
【Support the factory director! As long as you don't go to the World Championships, you will be the best pig! 】
[EDG is starting to work hard again. Why don’t they give Jack a policewoman? Don’t wait until it’s EZ again. Man, that EZ is really torturous]
"In the third move, we should get a guarantee for the bottom lane first to ensure that we can fight in the opposite lane!" Nofe calmed down his smile and said plausibly.
"There are still many choices for auxiliary positions. Let's lock down Varus first." Meiduo went through her hero pool in her mind and said with a relaxed face.
"OK OK, first Verus!" nofe agreed.
Then OMG took down the blind monk in the third hand, giving the jungler World Girl room to play.
Everyone knows that World Girl Lee Sin has a high selection rate and is really strong in playing, but there is no way for everyone to ban this hero every time.
None of the three heroes that EDG has knocked down now is as important as Lee Sin in OMG's hands.
In a BO5 game, you have to try first to see if you can let it go!
"The two sides came to the second round of BP competition, and each other began to target the positions that the other party did not choose in the first round!"
OMG took the lead in killing Lulu and Qinggangying.
In the latest version, Qinggang Shadow has been severely cut again. W [Tactical Sweep] scrapes the outer circle of the minion and no longer provides treatment!
This greatly reduces Qinggang Shadow's early laning ability. After all, no one can guarantee that his Qinggang Shadow's W skill can hit the opponent's top lane hero in waves. This requires good cooperation from the opponent!
It is precisely because of this that Qinggangying went from being a first-floor ban on the red side at the beginning of the season, to rarely being banned by the red side and often being grabbed by the blue side, to now that both sides have time to take care of this hero in the second round!
The journey along the way vividly demonstrates the process of Qinggangying being targeted by designers.
Needless to say, Lulu is a soft assistant with a T0 level of laning strength in the bottom lane.
It's EDG's turn to press down Malzahar and Snake Girl respectively.
Snake Girl is easy to understand. The existence of a ground-binding hand can make the Enchantress W come up and consume it, and she will not be able to go back. In a team battle, it is very likely that a wave of concentrated fire will kill the Enchantress.
"EDG also targeted Malzahar, very cautiously!" Miller smiled: "The inspiration for this BP came from the previous two days of the game. A team moved the previously selected Kalma to the mid lane, and finally selected him. A Malzahar support! ”
The doll looked surprised: "Swinging Karma? What's the point of doing this? Karma's middle lane damage is seriously insufficient!"
"Karma can indeed only provide a part of the damage of a traditional mid-lane mage, but the key is that she is worthy of facing the Enchantress!" Miller's smile became even bigger: "Karma can produce the Holy Grail as the first thing. It has blood regeneration and RW combos in the lane, so it can completely withstand the pressure of the Enchantress!”
"With the support of Malzahar, it will be difficult for the Enchantress to consume first in team battles!"
At this point, even if the baby can't keep up, he can still understand, "It's true! When you come in and consume it, you can directly suppress it with your ultimate move, so that the enchantress will never come back!"
"And this OMG is still a female police lineup. There is actually nothing wrong with picking a Karma in the mid lane and four guarantees!" Miller then added: "Now that EDG can just ban Malzahar, there won't be so many problems. ! ”
The OMG coach didn't look very good. EDG banned Malzahar and completely saw through his BP.
He gritted his teeth and realized that EDG was indeed much stronger than the two teams he had defeated before! Not only the strength of the players, but also the strength of the competition training is far ahead!
This kind of BP only appeared once in the game the day before yesterday, and EDG noticed it and banned it. What kind of reaction speed is this?
Now the OMG coach has another big move left in his hand. He originally wanted to wait until the semi-final decider or even the final to use it! But now it seems that if I don’t use it in the first game, I won’t have a chance to use it in the future!
He first selected the top laner Dashu for Sunset, and then walked to icon to discuss something with him.
"Okay, okay, come on, I have a unique skill for this hero. In fact, I think everyone on the other side knows it." Icon rested his chin on one hand and nodded casually.
The scene once again comes to EDG's selection. They will completely determine their lineup in the fourth and fifth moves.
"Let's warm up the Titans first!" As usual, Li Mufan ordered some Titans for himself first.
Nofe has lower requirements for the top lane. All the heroes in Li Mufan's hero pool can be played. The core of this strategy is the midfielder.
"Thresh, can you take it?" Nofe put his right hand on Meigui's shoulder and asked solemnly: "I was not satisfied with your Thresh in the last game. It didn't have much roaming effect. I don't think it was Your upper limit!”
Meikou put her fingers into her mouth and bit them in shame, which was what he would do when he was nervous.
For a moment, Mei Kou took a deep breath, adjusted her expression, and replied with a serious face: "I can get it! Thresh is my best hero, I just need to change my game thinking!"
"Okay! Then I believe you, choose!" Nofe patted his right hand with satisfaction.
The double hook combination appears again on EDG's BP interface. This set of lineup control skills is extremely sufficient. As long as someone takes the first control in a team battle, they will take countless control!
The two commentators, Miller and Wawa, set their sights on the fifth floor of OMG, where the final composition of OMG's lineup will be determined.
"Kassadin? This hero may not feel comfortable fighting the Enchantress." OMG assistant Xiao Wu first pointed out Kassadin on the fifth floor. As soon as the baby raised his doubts, he saw Xiao Wu cut to Azir, the Emperor of the Desert. on the avatar.
"The Tsar is not very good either. He needs too much development. It's a disadvantage in terms of roaming!" Miller shook his head. He didn't think OMG would choose the hero Tsar.
At this time, a heroine with scantily clad clothing and a charming appearance replaced the Tsar's head.
"Fox!"
Miller immediately shouted: "Why have you forgotten this hero?! It's easy for a fox to beat a witch!"
"The key point when a fox fights a fox is that the fox can bring weakness! With a level 6 burst, the monster will never be able to fight! Moreover, the fox has to consider whether to bring purification when fighting the fox, otherwise she will be charmed and kissed during a small group battle. It’s a bit difficult to get there!” Miller analyzed the advantages of the mid lane fox very quickly.
As mentioned before, the Foxes' appearance rate this season is not very high, and they are also last in the mid lane position and are not well known.
But icon is definitely a master of using the nine-tailed demon fox!
This can even be said to be his signature hero!
icon was obviously very satisfied with this choice. He kept shaking his legs and stretched his hands to both sides.
This is the reaction a person will make when entering a relaxed and comfortable mental environment from a tense atmosphere.
Nofe didn't expect that the opponent would get the Fox on the last floor; in the middle of the season, he got this hero for Scout and won the game, but this doesn't mean that Nofe will write down all the heroes in his little notebook.
Heroes like Fox, who rarely appear in games and whom Riot pays no attention to, are already on the fringes of the professional league.
In other words, the fungibility is too strong.
"It's okay for a weak fox to beat a witch, but it's still not good!" Nofe's words made Jack faint.
"Are you leaving this alone? Is it okay or not?" Jack was anxious and asked quickly before Nofe got off the stage. He felt that if he couldn't find out the reason for this, he would be anxious to death.
What a Riddler, he only talks half of what he says!
"Yes, it means that we can fight." Nofe said slowly while closing the notebook: "No, it means that there is still a gap between the two, and there is no obvious restraint and substitution relationship!"
"The strength of Enchantress lies in her burst and control when roaming to catch people. She can also play the role of harassment and consumption in team battles. In comparison, the hero Fox is not weak at all against Enchantress, and can even be said to have a small advantage. !
But she relies too much on her three-stage ultimate move, and it’s easy for her opponent to catch her during the laning phase, and her skills will create a gap during the vacuum phase! When it comes to team battles, it’s easy to use the ultimate move and get pulled, so this hero is a bit like licking blood from the edge of a knife! ”
Under the urging of the referee, Nofe took the earphone and said the last words into the microphone: "As long as you don't give icon a head, you will win this round!"
He didn't panic after seeing the fox. On the contrary, he was satisfied.
Of course nofe knows that the fox is icon's unique hero, which shows that his BP has pushed the opponent to a desperate situation!
Now he only needs to win the first game to prove that the policewoman with a 100% win rate does not have a higher priority than the mid lane hero. From now on, he can BP and manipulate the OMG coaching staff at will!
Although I was only in the semi-finals last year, my opponent was a triple crown coach who buckled the horse!
And in that world-famous BO5, nofe's BP once forced the buckle horse into a desperate situation!
Nofe was in a good mood. He folded his jacket in the middle and extended his right hand towards the head coach of OMG in a gentlemanly manner.
As the coaches from both sides came to the middle of the stage to shake hands, the director also put the entire lineups of both sides on the big screen!
Blue side EDG: top laner Titan, jungler Rek'Sai, mid laner Enchantress, bottom laner Varus, and assist Thresh.
Red square OMG: top laner Big Tree, jungler Lee Sin, mid laner Fox, bottom lane policewoman, and assistant Karma. The first battle of the semi-finals is about to begin!
(End of chapter)