Chapter 119 Watch me kill Huni!
"Would you like to watch the G2 game? Top laner Qinggangying's unique skill!"
On May 3rd, I was on the plane heading to the MSI venue.
Jack squeezed next to Li Mufan's seat. The spacious seat was folded down and turned into a sofa bed, big enough for the two of them to sit side by side.
As the three regional representative teams of this MSI that do not need to participate in the qualifying rounds and directly enter the main draw, it is normal for SKT, G2, and EDG to study the content of the competition with each other.
After all, other teams may not be able to pass the finals selection at this moment. If you study in advance, you may end up studying for a long time without them coming.
Thanks to the fact that most teams in the LCK went on vacation early, EDG was able to schedule an appointment with SKT for a training match some time ago. Both sides have an understanding of the opponent's S7 new player lineup.
But regarding G2, EDG still has a dark eye.
You must know that the LCK finals end on April 22nd, and the LCS.EU finals end on April 23rd. After completing their respective division finals and getting tickets to MSI, they all have enough time to study the decisions that have been made. Opponents, and the 7.8 competition version used in this MSI.
But the LPL finals ended on April 29, and MSI started the play-in tournament on the same day. It was a seamless connection!
Although the factory director says every year in the finals that Saohua has studied the MSI opponents, in fact EDG is the team that has studied the least other teams among the teams participating in MSI!
For the two teams G2 and SKT, as well as the remaining three teams to be selected from the qualifying rounds, the EDG coaching staff has made a rough plan. Training matches and research on the 7.8 version will be carried out after the players land in Brazil.
However, this schedule is too tight, so it’s always a good idea to do some research in advance.
Thinking of this, Li Mufan readily agreed to Jack's invitation.
This flight across half of the Blue Star took more than thirty hours in total. It would be too boring to do nothing.
It seems to be a very good choice to use it to study the opponents we are about to encounter.
Seeing Li Mufan showing interest, Jack immediately began to eloquently introduce some of the information and data he had learned.
"Expect is a Korean player who is good at offensive top laner!" Jack glanced at Li Mufan and saw that he had no reaction so he continued;
"Captain, Qinggang Shadow's unique skills, in the regular season and playoffs, Qinggang Shadow and Captain are all available. The winning rate of the two heroes is higher than 80%, and they have basically won the MVP of the official competition! ”
Seeing Li Mufan finally look a little moved, Jack felt that he had some chemistry. In his opinion, these two people have similar hero pools and playing styles. There is no reason why you can be so calm.
But the next words Li Mufan said directly shattered Jack's illusions.
He pinched his fingers and said with an indifferent expression: "I do have something, but I'm still a little behind. My Qinggang Shadow seems to have nine wins and one loss, and only lost one WE. Besides, I'm not the unique skill of Qinggang Shadow." ! ”
When Jack thought about it, it seemed like he was the same. The heroes that Brother Fan pulled out were basically as powerful as the unique skills brother. To put it this way, he should be the unique skills brother of eight or nine heroes. He was not comparable to the hero coins of the opponent's forehand Qinggangying and backhand captain. of.
"Mobibi! Watch the game first!" Jack connected his phone to the large screen opposite the seat and started playing the game video that had been downloaded to his phone.
The two started watching the first game of the semi-finals of the G2 playoffs, watching two BO5 games in a row, and even had an exquisite meal served by the stewardess in the middle.
"How was it? How do you feel after watching it?" Jack handed the mineral water bottle under Li Mufan's chin as a microphone: "Brother Fan, please comment!"
"Go, go, go!" Li Mufan waved his hand, "Overall, the strength is pretty good. I feel it is much better than RNG. We have encountered a tough guy!"
"Especially for the mid laner in the team, after perkz experienced a disastrous defeat in the World Championship last year, their strength has improved significantly this year!"
After reading this, Jack put away his previous loose thoughts.
Although domestic players always joke about the competition between Europe and the United States, the performance of the LPL in the past two years is really no better than that between Europe and the United States!
Let’s not talk about the European powerhouse FNC who severely damaged EDG in S5. Even in S6, Europe also had a H2K team that broke into the semi-finals; and in the LPL, the best results in the past two years were the top eight!
If EDG hadn't won the first MSI championship two years ago, it would be impossible to compete in the playoffs like LMS right now!
After conversion, I'm afraid Europe is still laughing at the LPL's ratio.
"How does it compare to Scout?" Jack tilted his head, wanting to see what kind of evaluation Li Mufan would give perkz.
In fact, the evaluation of perkz on the external network is not very good.
Last year, G2 dominated the entire European division and proudly won the league's spring and summer championships!
Looking at the history of LPL, only EDG, which was just established in 14 years, has achieved this achievement.
However, they first failed at MSI with a record of 2-8; importantly, apart from China and South Korea, the other two teams in the top four of MSI are LMS Flash Wolves and North American CLG!
And CLG defeated Flash Wolves in the semi-finals and reached the finals!
This is not to suppress one end of G2, but to suppress both ends!
European audiences can tolerate their teams losing to China and South Korea, but they cannot accept losing to North America!
At present, comments about the Civil War Fantasy God and the Competition Soft-footed Shrimp are flooding the external forums.
It has to be said that even among spectators from different competition regions, their aggression and angle of attack are surprisingly consistent.
Half a year later, they came to the World Championship. G2 was full of ambitions and wanted to avenge their previous humiliation. As a result, they went 1-5 in the group stage and almost had their heads shaved!
In the end, Europe still relied on the third seed to squeeze into the semi-finals, and G2, the first seed, naturally had to bear the infamy.
It took off twice a year and crashed twice, no one could argue with it.
But when perkz returned to Europe dejectedly, ready to lie down and be laughed at, he found that the audience didn't like him at all!
Everyone invariably turned their attention from G2 to the glory of the European Division - FNC!
They introduced new mid laner Caps during the transfer period, and Caps is also quite impressive. Ryze, Clockwork, Syndra and other mage heroes are playing quite well.
Half a season has passed, and caps has been regarded as the hope of the European Division, and has been dubbed the new king of Europe!
Even when perkz led G2 to sweep FNC three to one, the audience actually said that it would be better for G2 to lose the game and stay at home, otherwise they would lose points again in the mid-season!
Thanks to such an exaggerated public opinion environment, perkz was able to perform better and better this year, winning the LCS.EU league championship for the third consecutive time.
Li Mufan recalled Perkz's performance in these two BO5s in his mind, coupled with some official video clips of G2 after the game that he had watched two days ago, and said in a deep voice;
"In terms of operational details, Li Rucan is slightly better, but perkz serves as the conductor of part of the team, and his ability to roam and lead the rhythm is much better than Li Rucan!"
"That's right!" Jack snapped his fingers, "It's exactly what I thought. His Ryze and Enchantress both have roaming gameplay; combos and other moves are not as smooth as Scout's, but he can make full use of them. Field!”
"The general strategic restrictions in dealing with this kind of people are more important, leave it to Nofe and Dashu!" Li Mufan stretched out.
Maokai has always emphasized that his nickname is Maokai and not to call him Big Tree, but unfortunately everyone agrees that Big Tree is more affectionate than Maokai.
"I'm going to take a nap, what about you?" Li Mufan called the stewardess and asked for a small quilt.
"Then I'll go back and lie down for a while. I'm not sleepy yet, but if you sit on this plane for a long time, you'll feel like the space is too small and you can't move around. It's quite uncomfortable!" Jack put away his phone and returned to his seat. superior.
It was already the evening of the 4th when the plane arrived in Brazil. Under the fiery red sun, Rio de Janeiro exuded exotic beauty. Everyone was lying next to the plane's portholes and recording this beautiful scenery with their mobile phone shutters.
"It's finally my God!" The factory director held his old waist and howled in pain. He glanced at Li Mufan who looked like nothing was wrong: "Damn it, you are older than me. You really don't feel any pain at all?"
"Brother, you exercise every day, go to bed early and get up early to keep healthy. Your waist is fine!" Li Mufan packed up his things and prepared to get off the plane. "I think the factory director should ask Abu to find a nutritionist to plan a health training for you when you get back. Don't go too far. I have to go to the hospital to carry you during the finals half a year ago!”
The factory director really wanted to refute you, so he went to the hospital to lift you, but he couldn't find the angle, so he sighed and pinched the painful waist again.
When getting off the plane, it was Ai Luoli who helped the factory director go down. Jack laughed wildly at the side: "Zhao Zhiming, you have to serve your father well. Be careful if you don't provide good service. The factory director will find another one when you go back." When the second prince comes back, just wait for the second prince to seize the throne, hahahaha!”
As soon as we got off the plane, Riot staff came to pick us up, and all arrangements were made including pick-up buses, hotels, etc.
This place is not as good as in China. In every city in China, Abu will organize a special car in advance, and he will choose whichever hotel is comfortable and close to the venue. But in Brazil, even though Abu can remotely use Boss Zhu’s money-making ability, there are still some problems for a while. If you are caught blind, you can only follow the arrangements of your fist.
Fortunately, the fist is quite generous.
The group of people arrived at the Grand Hyatt Hotel by car. Li Mufan hadn't noticed anything from this side of the road. He only thought that the hotel building looked like a university dormitory.
After entering the room, Li Mufan suddenly realized that this Taima room was a sea view room!
When you open the door of the room, you can see through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the balcony all the way to the outside of the tied curtains, where you can see the beach and waves at a glance.
"Holy shit, shit! This is my first time staying in a sea view room!" Jack's eyes lit up, he threw his luggage and rushed to the balcony.
"Abbu should give us some time to rest after the game, but don't think about it now. We are short on time and have heavy tasks, and we have a training meeting tonight!" Li Mufan came to his senses after a brief exclamation,
"Hey! I understand!" Jack walked back from the balcony with his head hanging down like a Shiba Inu without any bones to chew on.
The meeting time and location were set an hour later, at the restaurant on the first floor.
Jack packed everything, took a shower, changed his clothes and lay down on the bed. On the other two beds in the room were Li Mufan and the factory director.
"I said, what kind of hotel room has three beds?" Jack was very curious.
"Family room, what are you thinking about?" The factory director rolled his eyes at him.
Li Mufan turned on his mobile phone and searched for the room price of this hotel in the past few days. After the exchange rate conversion of the software, the price of 4396 (including tax) was finally displayed on the screen of the mobile phone.
He closed the screen silently, thinking that we are now people with an annual salary of several million, and staying in a hotel worth several thousand a night is not too wasteful.
"Who is the father and who is the son?" Jack jumped up from the bed.
"I think you're humiliating yourself!" Li Mufan bent his arms. His muscles were not very prominent, but they had strong lines.
Jack immediately shrank back.
At the appointed time, the three of them tidied up their clothes and went downstairs to eat.
I have to say that this kind of hotel is expensive for a reason. As a hotel in Brazil, it is half a world away from China, but it has a Chinese food area, which is convenient for people like Li Mufan who are not used to eating foreign food.
Jack accepted everyone who came, taking a round of the more expensive ones first, and then a round of the ones he had never eaten before!
By the time I finished eating, my belly was bulging out and my walking posture was a little uncoordinated.
After everyone had finished eating, Abu asked the hotel staff to lead them to the private conference room that Riot had booked.
A conference room at Novo University has been modified by Riot Games in advance. In addition to the original conference table, a row of computers with network cables, comfortable chairs, tactical whiteboards, etc. are also placed.
It is almost exactly the same as the facilities in their base training room. It must be said that as the league enters its seventh year, the conduct of large-scale events such as Riot Games has become more and more standardized.
nofe came over with his laptop and connected it to the conference room's projection screen.
Abu turned off the lights in the first three rows to make the projection screen clearer.
"Compared to the 7.7 version used in our playoffs, the 7.8 version used in this mid-season has not many changes, but it still has an impact on us!" nofe called up a series of pictures.
The first change in the version is the introduction of the Xia Luo duo. However, these two heroes will not be available in the mid-season, so there is no need to pay attention to them for the time being.
Then we come to the main topic, the first is the weakening of Titan!
The main clearing skill E [Undercurrent] has an increased mana cost, and the natural mana regeneration attribute has also been weakened by nearly one-third. This is equivalent to a big blow to the top laner Titan, and the fist is probably meant to force him. The Titans return to the support position.
This sword still had some impact on Li Mufan. Originally, he was very good at playing Titan, and he was almost banned in the playoffs.
Then came Malzahar's weakening, with the Void Swarm's health reduced by one-third and Malzahar's own armor reduced.
This will greatly weaken Mazar's consumption effect when walking down the lane, or whether he plays the middle lane to develop his lane-pushing style.
And it will also affect another hero - Galio.
In the finals, RNG once used mid laner Mazar in the early stage to limit Galio's roaming, and the effect was quite good. After this weakening, EDG has not yet used the new version of Mazar against Galio, but it can be imagined. The repressive power must have declined.
Galio's mid lane strength may improve.
There is also the strengthening of Ryze and the weakening of Shen, which also have an impact on the BP priority of the game.
There are not many things that need to be explained. After clicking all the pictures, nofe put his hands on the desktop and said to everyone: "There is no training match tonight. You can first use the super account sent by Riot to play the ranking of the local server. Tomorrow Get ready to resume training matches and post-match reviews!”
For this MSI, nofe and the coaching staff have studied a detailed training plan in the past two days.
There are both specialized training for the commonly used lineups of SKT, G2 and other teams, as well as intensive training for your own lineup.
Compared with SKT and G2's preparation time of more than half a month, they only have one week to study their opponents, which is indeed a bit tight.
In addition, just this afternoon, the first team to stand out from the qualifying rounds and enter the main competition has been confirmed. It is the North American fantasy god who is as famous as G2 and EDG - Sky Dragon TSM.
Their promotion was not smooth. In fact, they played 3:2 with their opponent GAM team, and they still had two to chase three.
In the middle of the game, all the people cheering for the GAM team in the live broadcast room were a group of Europeans. They desperately hoped that TSM would fail in the play-in round.
In this way, North America will have a more shameful result than last year's European G2!
I have to say that sometimes being worse than worse is also a kind of victory!
Although GAM lost this game, they still have a chance; they will face the loser of tomorrow's Flash Wolves and SUP teams three days later to compete for the last spot to advance to the main draw.
"This qualifying round is really not interesting." Li Mufan, while waiting for the rankings, fast forwarded and browsed several games at a faster speed: "Operation and operation are all a mess. Fortunately, we don't have to compete in the qualifying round, otherwise we have to be careful. Brought into segmentation! ”
"Why don't you thank me for winning the championship the year before last? Otherwise, you would have to enter the finals now!" The factory director shook his legs and looked proud.
This is indeed true. According to Riot’s explanation of the play-in rounds and direct promotion to the main draw, the most critical honor in the LPL division is the 2015 MSI championship.
"Hey! I want you to win a championship again this year!" Li Mufan pretended to be helpless, shaking his head and sighing.
The factory director didn't react when he heard it, but when he thought about it carefully, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.
This is a roundabout way of saying that I have held my thighs for 15 years, right?
"Hey, hey, don't get excited! Your ranking is open!" Li Mufan saw that the factory director wanted to come over for a real-person PK, so he pointed at his computer screen and shouted.
When the factory director turned around, he found that he had indeed found a match.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye. On the second day after EDG landed in Brazil, SKT and G2 also arrived at the hotel.
The room Riot arranged for them was not on the same floor as EDG, but the training room converted from a conference room was right next to each other.
EDG didn't know much about these two teams. They would have only exchanged greetings when they met, but Little Peanut, who considered himself a fan of the factory director, was an acquaintance. He rushed over at a trot and was about to exchange team uniforms with the factory director.
Even Nofe, who had a close relationship with him like a mentor, was forgotten by Little Peanut, and Jack looked at him in a daze.
When the factory director returned to the team, Jack asked in an incredible tone: "Brother Mingkai, is Little Peanut really your fan?"
"Isn't that true? Didn't you see how excited he was?" the factory director asked.
"I thought it was a prank by your black fans." Before Jack could finish his words, the factory director sneaked over and pinched him.
When all the qualifying rounds end on May 7, all six teams that have entered the main event of this MSI will be revealed.
They are: SKT, EDG, G2, TSM, FW, and GAM.
It is basically consistent with what everyone predicted before the game. Except for the five major competition areas, GAM is the strongest presence in the wild card. The teams in other competition areas are basically different in strength from these six teams.
The next day, all the teams were dragged out by Riot Games to shoot a promotional video. The protagonist was, as always, the triple crown champion mid laner Faker from SKT!
The short video is only one and a half minutes long, excluding part of the beautiful scenery of Rio de Janeiro, leaving each team with only one sentence, but Faker can say three sentences.
This is the confidence that the Triple Crown gave him!
Li Mufan stood behind and looked at Faker, even his back was shining brightly.
When can I go up and say a few words?
While watching the photographer pointing the lens at others, Li Mufan, Jack and others were also busy surfing like crazy with their mobile phones.
During this period, they have to play training matches during the day and hand over their personal mobile phones during their evening breaks. There is no time for surfing at all.
This is very anxious.
It’s been 17 years, and my whole body feels uncomfortable if I don’t hold my phone in my hand!
"It seems that the online expectations for us are not too high?" Jack browsed the forum for a while and found that not many people were booking the championship in advance, and more people were saying that not being defeated by SKT three to zero would be considered a success.
It’s not surprising that netizens have such thoughts. After experiencing the inflated S5 World Championship, opening champagne before the game has become a taboo!
Not to mention that SKT is very dominant in this year's league. In a news agency battle against KT, the final result was a clean sheet.
Even KT couldn't win a point from SKT, just based on this year's EDG?
Is it the factory manager who was beaten by Little Peanut with both hands and backhand?
Or should we rely on newcomer Jack to face the double-champion bottom lane bang+wolf?
Not to mention the middle. Scout was originally a substitute for Brother Li, and at most he was just a little Brother Li.
The only thing that made everyone think they could still fight back was Li Mufan's path.
But huni is not made of clay either.
Li Mufan flipped to a post, which showed several pictures and detailed Huni's personal data for the spring competition.
Li Mufan clicked in and took a look, what a guy!
In the LCK Spring Split, his average kills per game, average damage per game, KDA, and average CS ranked first in the league!
The first three statistics are enough to illustrate his offensive intensity, and the average last hit can reflect a player's development ability. Taken together, huni is a complete carry-type top lane template!
The poster said below, [The historical record of Brother Fan and Huni is 0-2, but to be honest, I really want to see Brother Fan kill Huni! 】
The comments below are full of different opinions, some are bragging and some are worried.
[This year, Mortal Emperor is in this state, if nothing else, he can definitely kill himself in S5! Looking forward to his revenge! 】
[Huni ranks first in all statistics. Isn’t Huni first in all statistics in the Fanhuang League? No need to be too flattering! 】
[Laughing, is the intensity of the LPL top lane comparable to that of the LCK? Huni is playing the S6 solo kill king cuvee, Riot Games has designated the world's number one top laner smeb, and the only world championship top laner FMVP Marin! What kind of rotten fish and shrimps did you, Emperor Fan, fight? 】
[Han Za comes out to dance again? MSI hasn’t launched yet! 】
[This year’s MSI is a success if it can qualify from the group stage. After all, wasn’t RNG just a top four last year? 】
[It’s started, it’s started, you’re going to surround the emperor and rescue him before he fights, right? 】
【It’s hard to say! The junglers in this MSI are all top-notch. Peanut, Soldier, and the Wolf King of Flash Wolf can also compete with the factory director. I think the piggies should first think about how to clean up if they can't get out of the line. ! 】
Originally there were still some EDG fans fighting back, but as the fans released a few animated pictures of the factory director doing 4396 last year, being taught the forehand and backhand by Little Peanut;
I also took out the animation of the factory director being kicked like a ball in the All-Star game after S6 between the Ice and Fire teams.
The starches suddenly stopped.
Li Mufan liked the poster's first comment and replied: Okay, watch me kill Huni! (End of chapter)