Chapter 128 Back-to-back schedule
The second day of the group stage begins with a battle between SKT and TSM.
It was originally thought that TSM, which suffered its second consecutive defeat on the first day of the group stage, would be in better shape to face the next game after going back to adjust for a night.
Against SKT, let alone win the game, at least the loss should not be ugly.
You must know that last year's North American representative team CLG had a one-to-one tie with SKT in the group stage!
It is conceivable that the North American audience has great expectations for TSM this year.
It's a pity that TSM's rhythm engine racial knight encountered another problem today.
In the game between jungle areas, if one side favors farming and the other side invades, as long as both of them do what they are good at to the best, they can eventually have a 50-50 situation.
But if two people have similar styles, the weaker one will definitely suffer miserably!
This is the case between the racial knight and the little peanut. Both of them are carnivorous junglers who play rhythm!
Although Little Peanut is also a top-notch wild core player, invasion and fighting are his specialty!
In this scene, Little Peanut took out his signature blind monk, and the racial knight once again grabbed the male gun on the blue side.
At first, everyone thought it was a bit too stubborn to buckle the horse. Yesterday, we just lost a game with levi, so we still let him go today?
But less than three minutes after the game started, everyone realized that this was not about being stubborn, it was called confidence!
SKT went back for an emergency meeting last night to discuss the level-1 jungle strategy used by EDG in the last game, believing that this was the key to targeting male guns.
Today, they immediately applied it to the field vividly.
The difference from EDG is that they directly took out Thresh for Wolf, and the first-level team rushed into TSM's jungle area and directly started the brawl mode!
Wolf Thresh's hook was extremely accurate, and combined with the killing effect of Little Peanut Lee Sin's Q skill, SKT drove straight in and killed three TSM players in a row!
Little Peanut got two of the heads. He went home and took out two long swords and started to dominate the wild area.
His Lee Sin almost never farmed in the jungle. After eating the buff, he stayed in the TSM jungle to look for racial knights. However, TSM's jungle and SKT's lane support was faster!
He couldn't beat him in a duel, and his support was not as fast as his opponent's. The racial knight was blasted by Peanut in the jungle within a few minutes.
The blind monk kills from the top lane to the bottom lane. Little Peanut has a huge equipment advantage. He Q when he sees anyone, and he immediately goes up to the second level when Qing!
Either force him to dodge or kill!
In 7 minutes, Little Peanut Blind Monk was super awesome, and in 15 minutes, he took down fourteen heads and set an MSI record!
In the ensuing wave of dragon team battles, TSM was knocked unconscious and wanted to pick up the team.
Little Peanut [Echo Strike] rushed into the crowd, and the blind monk kicked TSM in conjunction with huni Rambo's ultimate move!
The final game was settled at 19 minutes and 55 seconds. SKT flattened TSM's base a few seconds before Baron Nash refreshed, giving them a three-game losing streak.
"Not as fast as us!" Jack raised his head and said proudly.
In yesterday's opening game, EDG blew up TSM's base in 18 and a half minutes.
"Are you going to play Super Mario? A racing competition? Who can pass the levels faster and who is better?" Meikuan lowered her head and fiddled with her phone, saying without raising her head.
"TSM seems to have a hard time qualifying for the group stage this year! They should only have a chance to lose one or two games later, but looking at their state, it will be difficult to win even one or two games!" the director sighed.
"What a death!" Jack laughed without any sympathy at all. He wanted TSM to go home 0-10.
However, that is also difficult to achieve. Any team that wins the division championship and emerges from the play-in round must have its foundation.
It's no problem to use all your trump cards to drag the two teams down in the second half.
"I didn't expect that North America could beat the Flash Wolves and reach the finals last year. This year's group stage was so stumbling. E-sports is really cruel!" Li Mufan filled his water cup with hot water and checked it again to bring it to the stage. equipment.
"Get ready to play. We will play against Flash Wolves in the next game. We must not be soft and strive for three consecutive victories!" Abron shouted: "Come on, everyone!"
The Flash Wolves are also old acquaintances. In the S5 World Championship, their double-kill team logo in the group stage was KOO's Tigers, who became famous in one battle!
In the subsequent MSI of 2016, they once again defeated SKT twice in the group stage!
So far, Flash Wolf has also been dubbed the "Anti-Korean Hero" by many netizens.
Except for the factory director who played against Kassa in the All-Stars, no one else has actually had a head-on collision with Flash Wolves. At most, they encountered one or two in the Korean server.
They look familiar, but have very little fighting experience.
Flash Wolves defeated G2 yesterday, but lost to SKT.
Judging from the game process and pre-match information, Casa's jungle style is very distinctive.
He is good at early ganking and doing things, and he is also good at anti-crouching.
If I have to say it, among the six teams participating in this MSI, only the factory director is similar to him.
And there is another thing that the two are similar about, that is, neither of them can bring out a male gun in the competition.
Unlike Factory Director Ranking, which is still usable, Kassa is simply an insulator for wild cores, and is a little more proficient than Leopard Girl, who must have been in the jungle before.
It’s no wonder that Casa is called ‘Bay Factory’.
This kind of jungle style, the scene is invincible!
They can seize every opportunity to attack and give their opponents a beating. When the opponent's organizers want to counterattack, they will be detected by their keen sense of smell, and they will be reminded in advance or directly counterattack; but once the situation goes against the wind, Casa and Factory You will be confused for a long time and don’t know what to do!
Invincible with the wind and invisible against the wind, Casa is simply the factory director’s ‘other self’.
The factory director who was walking at the front of the team didn't notice anything. When he came on stage, he waved to the audience with a relaxed expression.
"If Flash Wolf releases the male gun, how about you take it as the top laner?" Jack was still quietly discussing their tactics with Li Mufan from behind.
"Top lane male gun? This is indeed an idea."
Li Mufan pondered for a moment and said: "I have practiced the male gun operation myself. I have played many jungle male guns before, and they are not stuck. But I think I still can't use the top lane male gun."
After a pause, Li Mufan organized some words to explain to Jack: "The reason why the male gun is strong now is not because of its own data, but because of the version. At present, the only people who can have an advantage in one-on-one collisions with the male gun in the jungle are spiders. No more.
If not targeted, the male gun can easily develop to its strong stage, which is equivalent to having an extra output core on the male gun side in the later stage. ”
"But if you play as a male gun in the top lane, you are actually eating the resources of the top lane, and you will not achieve the result of having one more core in the later stage."
There is no doubt about the strength of the current version of the male gun. When developed, it will form a dual-shooter system with the bottom lane, and the output in the later stage will be explosive.
But if you get it on the top lane, it will lose the original meaning of the male gun. Instead, it will put the top lane into a dilemma of struggling to develop and being unable to work with the group in the early and mid-term.
Jack nodded, "Forget it, let Mingkai figure it out on his own. Didn't he say last night that he would take it if he released it?"
"I have to take it. The factory director's male gun skills are definitely among the best. As long as he doesn't have any problems with his thinking during the game and plays according to the male gun mentality, the effect will definitely be good!" Li Mufan watched the factory director play male in the rankings. Gun, thinks highly of him.
In terms of jungle planning and some difficult combos, it is no worse than the male gun of Lolita and Peanut.
Training matches play little role in this situation. After all, mentally speaking, everyone will be very relaxed during training matches and it is easy to follow the tactical plan formulated before the game.
But the game is another story.
What the factory director needs now is a real battle, a game full of pressure and concentration!
As long as he can bring his ranked status into full play in the game, nofe will no longer have to worry about the trouble caused by the male gun hero in terms of BP.
But it's a pity that Flash Wolves didn't give this opportunity. They slammed the male gun on the red square, and then helped Kasa get the blind monk in the first three hands.
Lee Sin, the Lee Sin, has become the hero with the highest selection rate on this MSI. Almost every team's jungler has the unique skill of Lee Sin. Even the factory director, Lee Sin, has performed quite well recently.
And if the main focus of the male gun is development, then the blind monk uses the mid-field linkage offensive system, which is also very strong in the current version!
The factory director also used his signature Rek'Sai to counter Kasa's blind monk.
The two battled wits and courage in the jungle in the early stage, disrupting the jungle farming rhythm in various ways, just to complete the gank unexpectedly.
As a result, I just played chess in the wild area for four or five minutes, but I couldn't find a particularly good opportunity to catch someone.
At this time, the Flash Wolf line couldn't stand it any longer!
Kasa is indeed strong in the jungle, and the other lines of Lightning Wolves are not weak either, but compared to Li Mufan and Scout, who are in very good shape now, they are far behind!
The situation in the upper and middle lanes was precarious, forcing Casa to take desperate risks and take the initiative without being sure whether he had bypassed his field of vision.
The field of vision is indeed bypassed, but the factory director's Rek'Sai also has the key to hearing. He can find the movement trajectories of nearby units by escaping into the ground!
Kasa's proactive attack was arrested on the spot by the factory director. Even if the Blind Sin collided with Reksai head-on, the outcome would only be a four or six. When he was counter-crouched, the 'four' would be gone, and it would be a zero or ten. open!
After being killed in a wave, the Flash Wolf seemed to have only sent away two heads, but the actual loss was huge!
The factory director took the opportunity to defeat Casa in the jungle for a round, and Li Mufan also had a huge advantage in the top lane.
The originally disadvantaged matchup became even more difficult after the failure of 2V2. Li Mufan quickly killed the first-blood tower in a single line and the snowball grew!
Taking advantage of his equipment advantage, the factory director began to take the initiative frequently. Moreover, after Rek'Sai had his ultimate move, he was still in the bottom lane one second and could teleport to the middle lane the next second.
The jungler's lane change became very fast, and Kasa couldn't keep up with the rhythm!
The top, middle and jungle are all torn apart. No matter how good the idea is, Swordart, the team brain of Flash Wolves, can't turn the tide - after all, he is just playing a soft assistant.
Li Mufan uses Shen in the top lane against Titan. Shen is a tank with a huge nine-turn tank. After getting the core giant Hydra, his pushing speed skyrocketed, and his tanking ability is also quite good!
The opponent's Mimi Egg not only lags behind in terms of last-hitting, tower defense, kills and other economics, but also has two Doran Rings that slow down the production pace; a titan that has not yet developed into a fully formed one has to tremble twice when it sees Shen walking over!
As Li Mufan's second ultimate move turned better, Flash Wolf no longer had the idea of looking for opportunities in other ways - Shen, who could fly over with his ultimate move at any time, who could Flash Wolf attack?
The game reached the middle stage. As the director and Scout swam down to help Jack pull out the tower, EDG began to enter its own rhythm of changing lanes.
Li Mufan went directly to the curb!
Mimi Dan also wanted to take care of the front and look for opportunities to start a team, but Li Mufan ignored the front and just led, and soon threatened the second tower of the Lightning Wolf bottom lane.
"Brother Fan will carry out the solo lane to the end in this game! The most fearful thing for a team-playing top laner like Titan is to encounter a brainless solo laner!"
On the second match day, Guan Zeyuan was assigned to the first half. At this moment, his passionate voice spread throughout the domestic live broadcast platform!
This Scout is playing Syndra, his favorite hero. The E skill [The Weak Retreat] is very useful to prevent unintended attacks.
The Flash Wolves couldn't stand being led on the wing, and they couldn't find a good opportunity to start a team in the front, so they were pulled in and felt extremely uncomfortable.
"The second tower is broken! Brother Fan will continue to lead the high ground!" Guan Zeyuan shouted in a high tone: "The Flash Wolf must make a choice, whether to fight for a wave of barons, or to give up the baron vision and send people back to defend the single lead. ? ”
The Flash Wolves lived up to their name, they chose to fight for the Baron's power with all their strength!
As long as they can get the Baron buff, three and a half minutes of Baron buff is enough for them to counterattack and knock down all the outer towers of EDG. As long as their Titan lineup gets an economic lead, the requirements for starting a team will become more relaxed.
Flash Wolf's baron rush action was quickly exposed by Jack's blue jewelry. The Brazilian commentator on the scene already shouted passionately about the countdown of the baron's remaining health!
Suddenly, a white shield appeared on the director's body!
"Shen gave a big move! EDG decided to go in and grab the dragon!"
The factory director used ground escape + tunnel displacement to overcome the wall and the outer Titan's blockage, and used Li Mufan's ultimate move [Secret Art! Mercy saves the soul] rushed into the dragon pit!
Everyone in the Lightning Wolf was in a panic, and the dragon still had two thousand blood left!
They didn't want to fight for punishment, so everyone stopped and turned their guns to concentrate their firepower on killing the factory director's Reksai first.
However, the Factory Director is a fully fleshed-out item, and this one is quite well developed. Coupled with Shen's secondary ultimate move and shield, he easily withstood the first wave of Flash Wolf's concentrated fire!
This pause gave time for the other three EDG players to rush over.
"Punishing, punishing! Look at me!" Scout's voice was loud!
He used W [Driving Telekinesis] to drag a dark magic ball and throw it into the dragon pit, while pressing QE at the same time!
The damage from Syndra's three WQE skills hit the dragon instantly, pushing the dragon's health bar, which had been paused for several seconds, down to the punishment kill line!
The director almost without thinking pressed Punishment at the same time as Scout took action. The damage to both of them occurred at the same time, and the dragon fell directly into EDG's pocket!
The situation was immediately controlled by EDG. Li Mufan's Shen Yi with two and a half pieces of equipment landed on the ground, capable of resisting and fighting!
The position was still right in the middle of the Lightning Wolf formation. He turned his head and pushed towards the double C of the Lightning Wolf. Shen waved the soul blade in his hand, and the sword was bloody!
"Big Dragon plus three kills! Only Casa and mid laner Maple of Flash Wolves escaped by chance. EDG fought well this time!"
Amid the excited shouts of the commentators, EDG had already widened the economic gap to 8,000.
This is before the Baron buff is used.
As EDG's three-way split push removed all the outer towers of Flash Wolves, the economic gap between the two sides no longer supported the lineup of Flash Wolves to continue to struggle.
In the last wave of highland groups, Kasa wanted to kick Jack back, but Jack had already been wary of this Flash Wolf’s only teamfight variable!
The moment the blind monk touched his eyes, the two of them flashed simultaneously, and Jack was kicked in the direction of the EDG crystal, without any danger.
However, Kassa, who was surrounded by EDG, lost his life. EDG took the opportunity to launch a team and wipe out the opponent in a wave, taking advantage of the situation to win the game!
"Congratulations to EDG for winning their third consecutive group stage victory!" Guan Zeyuan said with a smile on his face: "Don't leave, everyone. EDG has back-to-back schedule today. The next game will be EDG against G2. We will be back soon!" (End of this chapter! )