Chapter 99: RNG's trump card frequently appears. Li Mufan's thoughts before the game!
“I didn’t expect KT to send it like this.”
On the way back to Supermarket Square, the factory director was still sighing, with deep worry in his tone: "You said that even if we have played in the finals, can we win against this SKT team?"
"Why are they always at the top!"
Li Mufan is also a little curious as to why SKT can still maintain such dominance.
Last year, jungler Bengi and top laner Duke left the team one after another. Everyone's view was that the SKT dynasty was coming to an end, and the man who held the Triple Crown was already old.
After all, compared with the S3 and S5 two world championships where SKT crushed other teams, SKT's journey to win the S6 World Championship last year was obviously much more difficult. The semi-finals and finals of the two BO5 games required five fierce battles to win.
Among them, jungler Xiao Hei's performance is even more disastrous. Without Bengi as a savior, SKT may not be able to win its third championship!
Bengi is gone now
But SKT introduced Little Peanut!
It even created a new tactical system specifically for new players - a style of play with jungle as the core.
Triple Crown mid laner Lee Sang-hyeok helps Little Peanut and chooses Lulu Karma to protect Little Peanut!
Including the wolf in the bottom lane, he will even sacrifice bang's troops to help Peanut gain an advantage in the jungle.
Such a tactic was unimaginable for SKT in the past - leaving the two top double Cs in the world, Li Ge and Bang, to support the jungle?
But the most shocking thing is that SKT's new tactics have achieved great success!
KT entered the finals with two games of 3-0, but SKT hit them head-on with another 3-0!
Peanut’s KDA in the three games are: 5.5, 14, and 20!
At the same time, Little Peanut’s blind monk appeared 11 times in this spring split, with a winning rate of 100%!
The total KDA is 14.2!
As a jungle hero who needs to enter the field to deal damage, this KDA is quite terrifying!
What is the Blind King?
The blind monk of World Girl is simply not enough to look at in front of Little Peanut!
Suddenly, the car was parked in the underground parking lot. Li Mufan opened the door and walked out, breathing in the air outside.
When he was thinking about SKT in the car, he was so stressed that it made him feel breathless!
"What's wrong? Motion sickness? I brought motion sickness pills." Abu ran over and asked with concern. As a qualified team manager, he would always have motion sickness pills on him, right?
Moreover, motion sickness medicine is not only used to treat motion sickness, but can also be taken when you are knocked unconscious while playing games.
"It's okay, it's just a little stuffy in the car." Li Mufan waved his hand.
"Okay, tell me if anything happens!"
Abramovich is now particularly concerned about Li Mufan's condition. Anyone who is not a fool can see that he is the most stable and C-level person in EDG today, no matter whether he wins or loses the game!
I didn’t expect that I would bring a big daddy to the team with just a casual move at IG!
Abu was overjoyed, Su Xiaoluo, Su Xiaoluo, you have made a huge loss-making deal!
When the spring competition is over, Abramovich is going to discuss it with the big boss and keep Li Mufan at all costs!
Even if he can win the finals, Abramovich will no longer consider Tong Yang as the substitute for MSI.
The reason is very simple. Abramovich originally bought Li Mufan to play tank and Tong Yang to play DPS. But now that Li Mufan can play both types, with full pressure resistance and carry ability, why would he bring Tong Yang there?
However, these are all predictions in advance. I still don’t know for sure whether I can go to MSI!
Abramovich led a group of players and two members of the coaching staff through the check-in area, while the rest of the staff returned to the base first.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! The first round of BP is done!" Jack held a mobile phone in his hand to broadcast live, urging the factory director who was walking in front.
Qi Jiang turned around and glared, and he immediately shut up.
Everyone came to the front row area and found their seats and sat down. They all wore masks and sunglasses, but they still couldn't prevent the audience next to them from recognizing them.
The audience burst into loud cheers.
After all, they had just won the semi-finals in the afternoon, and many spectators were still on the verge of losing their excitement. Now when they saw the EDG crowd again, they immediately remembered the scene at that time.
Especially in the last scene where the vampire rides alone as the savior, he is almost the same as General Pawn, who had his waist broken by the factory director last year!
"Well, can I ask you for an autograph?" a young fan sitting next to Abu asked tentatively.
Very polite.
Abu turned around and took a look, then took the postcard from the little fan's hand with a smile, "Okay, if you want someone's autograph, I'll hand it over to you."
"Mortal Emperor Mortal Emperor!" the little fan shouted softly.
The factory director on the side had a dark look on his face, good guy, are you really not here to cause trouble?
The little fan realized something was wrong just after he finished speaking, and quickly changed his words and explained: "It's Brother Fan! I'm sorry, I'm his old fan, so I shouted a little smoothly."
Li Mufan graciously said that it was okay, and asked if he wanted to sign something. The fan's eyes suddenly lit up with excitement, and he looked like he must be a real fan.
Jack was sitting on the right side of Li Mufan, showing him the phone screen in his hand, and whispered: "Your fans are calling you this now, Fan Huang is already a nickname!"
Li Mufan frowned and looked at the phone screen, what a guy!
Jack hid in a fan group of 2,000 people organized by Li Mufan fans, and even got involved with the administrator!
"I'm not in this group, how did you get in?"
"Don't worry about it, the immortal has his own clever plan anyway!" Jack happily took back his phone.
He showed it to Li Mufan, obviously not wanting him to misunderstand his fans.
After watching Abramovich dismissing the spectators who were looking for autographs from various players, Li Mufan adjusted his back position and was finally able to take a look at the situation on the field.
The first game has been going on for eight minutes. WE currently has a small lead, but the development of RNG's jungler Xiangguo is a bit broken!
As mentioned before, Xiangguo's hunger strike strategy is completely ineffective against WE!
With the overall lead, none of the three routes gave Xiangguo any gank opportunities. Xiangguo wasted his time in the early stage of farming and leveling up.
Without a jungler to drive the rhythm, UZI was unable to break through Big Brother in a single line in the bottom lane, and RNG was extremely passive.
When WE delayed its development until it was time for its lineup to exert its strength, two waves of team battles directly defeated RNG and won the first game.
"WE is a bit strong!" The factory director tutted: "It seems that we will have to fight against WE three times in the spring."
"It's so natural for RNG to lose in the first game. If we don't want to put our hope in letting the second team chase the third player, I feel like RNG has to show its trump card in the second game!" Li Mufan said with interest: "I saw Xiangguo said they had a new training Tactics, look at the BP in the second game!”
Soon both sides adjusted and returned.
At the beginning of bp, WE didn't make any adjustments and still banned Lee Sin, Jace, and Kennen on the red side.
It is worth mentioning that this Kennen ban position is rarely banned or picked in EDG games.
The reason is that Kennen usually acts as a counter hero to counter Kled.
As we all know, WE's top laner 957 is a Kled master. Before the two teams' game, RNG's top laner Letme trained a wave of Kennen through crazy ranking, forcing WE to use the first three bans to limit this move.
"BP has not changed much. RNG grabbed the ice here first." The factory director muttered: "The prince came out in the third hand? Are you trying to shake things up?"
As of this game, in the entire spring split of 273 games, the prince's appearance rate is 1%, which is terrifyingly low!
This once dominant top laner is now hard to see on the field anymore. The main reason is that the mechanism is too old and he cannot take advantage of many top laners. Maybe it would be a good choice to go to the jungle position, but currently the male gunner, poodle The existence of carnivorous heroes makes it difficult for the prince to survive in the jungle!
Li Mufan was also stunned, that's it?
If Xiang Guokou's secret weapon is a prince swing, and it has a high probability of swinging to the jungle, if you want to close the overall strength gap between them and WE with such a trump card, then you are thinking too much!
This hero has a ban rate of 0 in the entire spring split. He picked three games and won one. Such dismal data is enough to show that the prince is no longer suitable for today's competition environment!
"Wait and see, I don't think a prince alone is enough to become a secret weapon." Jack put his chin on his hand, with a hint of inquiry in his tone.
When the red side WE finished selecting the fourth floor and the formation was established with only one top laner left, something unexpected happened!
The blue RNG locked Galio and Rambo in seconds on the fourth and fifth floors!
WE were not given any time to react or think!
Li Mufan suddenly sat up from his chair and looked at the big screen in the field with shock!
That's right, it's the reworked hero that he has been thinking about for a long time and doesn't know how to develop and use - Galio!
At this point, the secret weapon in Xiangguokou has obviously been revealed!
It’s the top, middle and jungle hero combination of Prince + Galio + Rambo!
"So that's it!" Li Mufan felt like he was enlightened, and his thinking suddenly became clear!
He lay back on the chair again and found a comfortable position to watch the game; Jack on the side came up and asked: "Is that so? What does it look like?"
"I have been thinking that Galio's ultimate move has target damage reduction and range knock-up effects, so the most suitable jungler may be a poodle that can directly cut into the back row formation!" Li Mufan said: "In this way, Galio can It plays the role of a strengthened version of Shen and improves the combat effectiveness of the poodle. ”
"But in actual combat, such a combination can easily be pulled apart by the opponent in advance. Once the double ultimate moves come into play and fail to achieve results, the two ultimate moves are wasted, and the subsequent battle will be at a disadvantage!"
"I have also imagined the combination of Prince and Galio in RNG, but the problem is that Prince is currently in a situation where no one in the jungle can beat him. Such a weak mid-field combination is likely to explode in the early stage, so there is no need to talk about the rhythm in the middle and late stages. Li Mufan shook his head when he said this: "I have always thought about two heroes cooperating, and I have never thought about the possibility of three or more heroes matching a set system!" br>
"RNG completely solved the problems that bothered me with the addition of top laner Rambo!"
Li Mufan eloquently expressed all his opinions and insights. As a result, Jack looked confused, and then yawned blankly: "Brother Fan, you spoke so fast that I really can't understand you!"
Li Mufan rolled his eyes speechlessly, turned around and saw Nofe behind him looking at him with approval.
"Your analysis is basically in place. Rambo's super high AOE damage solves the problem of insufficient damage of Galio and Prince." Nofe concluded: "We will study Galio's system when we go back tonight. I feel that RNG has not yet Develop him completely.”
Li Mufan also felt the same way, and he thought along the lines of RNG;
So since Rambo can be added to form a system with three people, can other members be added to form a more complete system?
For example, the American test server has been updated, and the Chinese server will be officially launched the day after tomorrow, on April 24, two new heroes, Xia and Luo!
Luo Fu attracted the attention of various team coaches as soon as he appeared on the scene. As an assistant, he has online recovery, small skill control and displacement, and super team control ability with his ultimate move. These characteristics make everyone judge that this hero is very suitable for the game!
If Luo is added to this Galio system, the intensity will definitely be even higher!
Of course, these are just preliminary ideas in Li Mufan's head. The specific performance and which heroes are suitable to join the Galio system will still depend on the subsequent research and discussions of the coaching staff and the actual results of the training games.
The lineups of both sides in the final second game are as follows:
Blue square RNG: Rambo, Prince, Galio, Ice, Thresh.
Red side WE: Little Fish, Spider, Enchantress, Policewoman, Karma.
WE here is a classic upgraded version of the female police system. It uses Spider and Enchantress, a pair of mid and jungle combinations with strong roaming and rhythmic abilities, to increase the probability of the female policeman getting a first-blood tower in the early stage. It is better than just getting a female policeman. Much more effective.
This is obviously a case of increasing the strength of the system by adding heroes to the system. Li Mufan is even more convinced of the truth he has realized before.
At the beginning of the game, although RNG lost one point after revealing its trump card, it played with confidence and every step was very stable, without giving Kandi's Spider any chance to drive the rhythm.
Xiangguo also changed his previous hunger strike style and went wild in the early stages until level six!
After being promoted to six, this combination began to exert its power. Every time the Xiang Guo made a move, WE was either dead or injured!
Either dodge to dodge the prince's control skills or the terrain restrictions of the ultimate move, otherwise WE will have to wait on the spot for RNG to follow up with several subsequent ultimate moves!
But one flash time is enough for RNG to use all its big moves for two rounds. No matter how careful WE plays, there is no way to completely avoid RNG's group start.
Twenty minutes ago, RNG had already accumulated a huge economic advantage!
"RNG should have won this one." The director said in advance: "I am more curious about what else RNG can do if Galio is banned in the next WE game."
"I think this trump card helped RNG equalize the score and regain momentum, and at the same time occupy one of the opponent's first three ban positions. It is already very successful!" Li Mufan shook his head: "If RNG still can't beat WE like this, it shows the gap between the two sides. It’s ridiculously big, and it’s natural for WE to advance to the finals.”
"You're right!"
But what's a pity is that after losing the second game, WE was really upset, and still released all three heroes, Galio, Prince, and Rambo in the third game!
"Isn't this too stubborn?!" Jack sighed: "It's really rare to see such a stubborn coach in S7. After all, S5 suffered such a big loss!"
Nofe shook his head: "It's not necessarily that he is stubborn, maybe he is too confident!"
Nofe then explained: "The first WE won was too simple and easy. Now although WE has been pulled back by one point, I still think mentally that you used a weird lineup to catch me by surprise. In fact, I still Better than you!”
"That's why WE gave another shot and at the same time came up with the response plan that the coaching staff came up with during the previous game;
If we can successfully break through Galio's system in the third game, we can naturally take advantage of RNG in the follow-up. If banned directly, RNG will play another trump card, and WE will be unable to deal with it! ”
"This also shows in disguise that WE is not as well prepared as RNG. They have nothing new to sell now!" Li Mufan added.
In fact, don’t think it’s stupid or strange for a strong team to have such an idea. It’s as strong as SKT and as smart as the dunk coach. In the semi-finals of S6, she also served as the secret weapon female gun support against ROX in the S6 semi-finals. She has a tough head. After two rounds of operations, he was almost knocked to the ground!
As a person involved, nofe naturally has a deep memory. He can understand dunking horses and he can also understand WE coach Hongmi.
The short analysis ended and they continued to watch the third game.
The adjustment WE made this time was to bring out the Jungle Nightmare, in an attempt to break RNG's Galio system by turning off the lights and providing quick support!
You know, when Nightmare turns on and off the lights, as long as their teammates are not around, the two heroes Galio and Shen cannot release their ultimate move even if they click on their teammates' avatars!
Li Mufan sat upright and watched the game quietly.
WE has done quite well in being able to find the Nightmare jungler to counter Galio in such a short period of time.
It's a pity that even if WE can use Nightmare to turn off the lights every time the prince enters the field, so that Xiaohu cannot enter the field simultaneously, the cooperation between Rambo's ultimate move and the prince's ultimate move is still quite powerful; and once WE wants to counterattack, When the time for Nightmare's ultimate move ends, Xiaohu backhands and releases Galio's ultimate move to crush WE's counterattack!
The impact of Nightmare on RNG was that the jungler's prince died a few more times and his record was uglier. It did nothing to prevent the collapse of the entire team battle!
The time of the third game was fixed at 38 minutes. RNG used Galio to win two consecutive sets and hold match point!
The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense!
Many fans of WE even yelled, "What a tough coach!"
When the fourth game came, WE stopped being stubborn and knocked down Galio and the prince together, eradicating the root of the problem!
But just as nofe was worried, RNG took out the novel combination of policewoman + Lux in the bottom lane, catching WE off guard!
In the early stage of the bottom lane, UZI used the skillful Kaping A range to constantly consume the brother-in-law on the point. However, in the fourth game, the brother-in-law was obviously in a decline, and he was unexpectedly forced to fight against the point and lost half of his health!
Coupled with Guanghui's powerful control and consumption capabilities, a huge gap was soon torn open in WE's bottom lane; Xiangguo took advantage of the situation and ambush Kandi who came to help the bottom lane!
The WE situation suddenly became extremely bad!
By protecting UZI, RNG steadily pulled out the three outer towers of WE. The policewoman who should have been weak in the mid-term became somewhat unstoppable!
In the 28th minute, RNG played a wave of group destruction in the river and won the baron.
"No more!" The factory director shook his head: "I never thought it would end like this!"
He looked worried: "We know the strength of WE and it's not that easy to beat, but RNG showed a few cards and won three games without any hindrance!"
"To be honest, these three games have no reference value for us at all. In the last week, if we can't crack the things RNG has come up with, I'm afraid the final will be difficult!"
Li Mufan has a completely different view.
After watching the LCK finals, he had a feeling: If EDG still wins the LPL finals easily, then MSI will definitely be defeated!
The strength shown by RNG now is exactly the pressure that forces EDG to move forward!
If we can break through this mountain, MSI will have a good chance of winning against LCK teams!
Li Mufan looks forward to the finals in a week!
In reality, WE was indeed the strongest that spring, and this is undisputed. In order to add to the story in the novel, the author made changes to the world line in this chapter. Otherwise, I believe you will be tired of watching the True Three Wars WE.
(End of chapter)