Chapter 132 Welcome to the Delai Alliance!
The number of viewers for this group match is unprecedentedly high!
Even though the game started in the early morning of a working day in China, every live broadcast platform was still crowded with barrages.
Everyone hopes EDG can win this game.
Judging from SKT's past record, BO1 is the only chance to defeat SKT.
But there are also many Han Zai who took the opportunity to jump around and show their LPL record against LCK in the previous two years and make crazy faces.
Whether it was on site or in the LCK or LPL broadcast booth, all commentators were exaggerating the first-round collision between the two top divisions.
Completely arouse the mood of the audience!
However, there was no tense atmosphere among the ten contestants sitting in the middle of the live stage. On the contrary, they were chatting and laughing in the custom room.
After the non-stop training and sparring in the previous week, these young guys not only have a good relationship, but at least become familiar with each other.
Particularly outgoing is Huni, who has become close to everyone in EDG.
Even someone as cold as Brother Li couldn't ignore the younger brother's message. The two of them were chatting about the hero's performance in the mid lane position in the MSI version in the chat box.
[SKT_peanut: Brother Mingkai, give it to me in this game. If SKT wins, we will be tied for first place. 】
As soon as Little Peanut said this, the factory director suddenly panicked.
What's the meaning?
Let me let you?
Do you still want to give in to your seven-minute super blind monk?
This was almost the same as 'I am your fan', which made the factory director feel a great crisis!
[EDG_clearlove7: No, no, no, you are very strong. I will use all my strength to show respect! 】
Little Peanut can’t understand Chinese, but he can ask Huni. After a period of self-study, Huni is no longer a problem in simple Chinese typing communication, but it is still more difficult to use spoken language.
Today, Huni has become a trilingual master in Chinese, Korean and English, and is definitely the only language genius among league players.
"He said he thinks you are strong, so he will try his best!" Huni conveyed the factory director's message to Xiaohuatai.
When Little Peanut heard that he had been recognized by the factory director, he leaned back happily and waved his arms!
Just as the game was about to start, the director moved the camera to the contestants' bench and captured the scene of little Peanut.
After Little Peanut's transfer this year, with his good looks, high strength, and the addition of the legendary team SKT, his number of fans is climbing at an extremely terrifying growth rate!
With the scene fully prepared, the referee urged the players to start the game.
"The game has begun!" Guan Zeyuan was still chatting with Miller, and quickly brought the topic back to the topic: "In today's game, EDG is on the red side, and SKT is on the blue side. They took the lead in defeating Jess Send me a ban!”
Among the teams that came to participate in MSI, except for the young boy Scout who is good at using mid laner Jayce, several other teams can also use it, but the effect is not as good as Scout's previous performance in the game.
In addition, EDG also showed the famous scene of four kills on Jayce in one hand, and SKT did not want to release this hero who can swing up and down in EDG's hands and can also focus on offense!
Then EDG immediately clicked on MSI's popular top order - Kenan!
Although Huni's Kennen is not used many times, you can't think that he can't use it; on the contrary, there are almost no LCK top laners who can't play Kennen. In addition, this hero's recent AD style makes it difficult for Huni to use it. Acrobatics' top lane style is also quite consistent.
There is another deep-seated reason why nofe chose to ban Kenan.
Huni has never played Kenan in MSI. Now the duke coach must be eager to give him a try in a strong game.
Otherwise, when the opponent is released in the knockout rounds, he will still have to take the deduction.
What if it turns out that the thought was beautiful, but the ending will be cruel.
The knockout round only has one continuous BO5, which leaves them too little time to make on-the-spot adjustments. If they want to practice Huni, this game is definitely the best training ground right now.
Nofe and Kuuma are rival coaches, and they have a very good grasp of Kuuma's thoughts.
At this moment, seeing Kenan board the red ban seat again, Kuma couldn't help but sigh deeply; he kept turning a black pen with his right hand, instructing Huni to make the next ban.
Qinggangying!
"SKT is targeting Brother Fan very much, and they are using his carry heroes like crazy!" Miller was actually a little excited when he saw this scene.
In previous games against LCK, who would care about your top lane hero? In most cases, they would focus on the bottom lane and jungler. Now that SKT has started to ban the top lane, it just shows that the top lane of the LPL is slowly catching up with the top lane of the LCK!
"Or to put it another way, it's impossible to say that he wants to limit Brother Fan's single belt." Guan Zeyuan said thoughtfully: "The top lane is currently at the single belt end, with Kenan and Qinggangying leading the first echelon, and the following is Shen and Troll, and further down, there are heroes like Xiaoyu and Gnar who can be single-banded, but the single-band effect is also very average!”
Guan Zeyuan was watching the picture on the screen to see if BP would make any more surprise moves, while explaining: "Now Kenan and Qinggang Shadow are banned respectively. If SKT bans Shen again in the third move, they will Definitely want to rob the troll!”
"What about the male gunner? If EDG sees SKT ban Shen in the third hand, they will not ban the male gunman in the third hand. This will force SKT to make a choice on the first floor." Su Xiaoyan listened carefully. Guan Zeyuan’s analysis raised questions.
"Male Gunner? I gave the male spear to you!" Guan Zeyuan said loudly: "As a jungle core hero, the biggest shortcoming of the male spearman is that it makes the lineup lose a jungler to start the team! Even if you go to the road to add a Titan or something, , the entire team also lacks the means to start a team! No matter how fat your male gun is, what can you do if there is an invincible troll on the side?”
"Isn't SKT best at line switching, pulling and replacing resources?"
Guan Zeyuan's rhetorical question stunned Su Xiaoyan.
Indeed, if EDG takes the male gun on the red side, it is very likely to fall into a situation where the team fight is strong but there is no team to take over!
I don’t know how many times I have qualified in a scenario like S6. SKT was at a disadvantage in the early stage, but they just didn’t pick up the team with you. Operations were just running smoothly, and you found that SKT got the economy back!
After a while, you find that the team battle is no longer possible!
This is the scariest thing about SKT!
Before Su Xiaoyan had time to ask Guan Zeyuan if he had any solution, she saw that EDG's second-hand ban selection had been determined.
"EDG also banned Rambo, and they are targeting each other on the road with SKT!" Old God Miller explained: "Huni's Rambo is really scary now! He used Rambo in a total of seven games in the spring split, with a 100% winning rate. ! And in a regular season match against KT, Rambo had an explosive output of nearly 83,000 in the final game! ”
"Didn't everyone call huni 'Hu Burou' before? Do you know what they say now?" Miller turned to the other side to interact with Guan Zeyuan.
"How do you say it?" Guan Zeyuan answered the question very understandingly.
"Now huni has a new nickname, it's called 'Hu Bawan!'" Miller's tone increased on the last three words, emphasizing heavily.
"What the hell, 80,000 damage is too exaggerated!"
Some viewers who didn't pay attention to off-field news and LCK games were also shocked by Miller's popular science.
A top laner doing 80,000 damage?
Are you sure you're not playing a custom human-machine? !
80,000 for double C is relatively acceptable to everyone, but the difficulty rises exponentially when it comes to 80,000 for singles!
"All in all, I think EDG's Rambo ban is very good. Don't let Huni get this hero!"
Huni was shaking his head under the camera of the players, his chubby face looked harmless. When he saw EDG banning Rambo, he couldn't help but smile proudly.
Then, SKT's last ban player in the first round, just as Guan Zeyuan expected, directly eliminated the eye of twilight that had both single belt and support - Shen!
Miller and Su Xiaoyan let out a burst of exclamations.
“Brother Guan really guessed it right!”
"This will make it difficult for EDG! They have to choose between trolls and male guns to ban." Guan Zeyuan said seriously: "Actually, banning both is not a good choice!"
"EDG can ban neither of them, so that they can get a consolation prize, but in fact, under the current BP situation, the priority of trolls is higher than that of male guns! And on the other hand, it is difficult to guarantee whether SKT will target them. What countermeasures did the male gun take? Otherwise, why would they dare to shoot the male gun on the blue side? ”
Guan Zeyuan's analysis is to the point, and nofe also takes these two aspects into consideration.
However, nofe's ideas and explanations are fundamentally different.
He just wants to use the male gun for the factory director now. As for the effect, it is secondary.
If SKT's countermeasures against the male gun were lured out by using the male gun, the loss in this small round would be worth it!
But if SKT didn't use any hidden tricks and let them win, that would be unacceptable to nofe.
So he is ready to come up with another combination that has been honed for a long time.
Reluctant to let go of the child, nofe believes that SKT will not easily let go of this opportunity to return to the top of the list.
He doesn't mind adding more fire below, making this focus battle that has already attracted countless eyeballs even more heated!
"EDG's third ban is? Braum!" Miller exclaimed: "The formation has changed! The first five moves of both sides were all laying the groundwork, but EDG's last move suddenly switched to the support position!"
"What is ban Bronn planning to do?" Rao understood Guan Zeyuan as the best BP among the current commentators, and could not figure out the purpose of Nofe's move.
There was an undercurrent of bans in the first three moves of both sides, all of which were testing the bottom line of what the other side would accept.
However, when it comes to the selection stage, because it has been tested before, the selection is just an extension of one of the several previous banning plans.
It's much faster.
SKT snatched away the trolls and let Huni take on the heavy responsibility of single belt!
And after the first round of five bans on the road, now there are basically only some tank heroes left on the road. It just so happens that this troll is also very targeted at tanks!
An expression of eagerness appeared on Huni's face. He was very interested in Li Mufan, who suddenly rose again this season.
Recalling the previous duel in the World Championship, Huni really wanted to try Li Mufan's strength again in this international competition!
"EDG must take the male gun. Since their third hand is not banned, they must take it, otherwise it makes no sense to give it to SKT."
Guan Zeyuan looked at EDG and locked the male gun on the first floor, and then directly grabbed the Enchantress on the second floor, creating a mid-field combination that was extremely strong from the early stage!
"EDG's move to grab the mid laner can also force SKT to increase the priority of the mid lane. Coupled with their third move to restrict Braum, it shows that they most likely have a design for the bottom lane!" Miller laughed; < br>
"This move is very critical. They have restricted SKT's BP strategy on the red side. Now SKT must consider the selection of players in the mid lane and auxiliary positions, otherwise these two positions will be further targeted by EDG in the second round!"< br>
Kuma was pacing back and forth gently behind the player. He wanted to get the hero for Wolf first. Wolf's recent performance was very good, and investing in him would always get the rewards he deserved.
But he is also worried that this is just a smoke screen for EDG in order to waste the key positions of SKT's first three players.
After much hesitation, the duke horse was decided on the midfielder and auxiliary pairing of Lulu and Fox.
Fox rarely appeared in the last year, but she was once the hero of Faker, a young genius who just debuted!
faker once said personally in a live broadcast that the fox is his favorite hero. If possible, he would like to get a fox champion skin.
In the S7 season, with the major changes and weakening of many mid laners and assassin heroes, the fox, who was not affected much, returned to the public eye again.
According to statistics, so far in the S7 season, Fox has appeared 20 times in the LPL Spring Split, 28 times in the LCK Spring Split, and 13 times in MSI!
Not much, but not much. As a counter-attack hero, this data shows that she can be used as a counter to some heroes, which is enough.
If you get the fox in the middle, he is at least the only hero who can arm-wrestle with the enchantress in the jungle after level 6. This is enough to protect the little peanut's wild area from being eaten away too much by the factory director's male gun.
In the last selection of the first round, EDG gave the top laner, locking in the top laner Galio who has been playing more and more recently!
Although the Troll's Pillar has the effect of restraining Galio's E [Righteous Punch], Galio's ultimate move [Hero's Appearance] is indeed very suitable for male guns. Together with Shen, he is the top laner hero with the highest appearance rate as a wild core partner.
Both sides showed their talents in the second round. SKT banned Han Bing, who was likely to be snatched away by EDG on the fourth floor, limiting the pressure-free anti-wild combination of Han Bing's map opening and factory director's invasion!
EDG also retaliated by killing all the spiders and leopard girls that Little Peanut might use to shoot men.
Little Peanut's Blind Monk has been performing very well recently, but that's just because his Spider and Leopard Girl have not been released.
In the last ban, SKT gave Verus.
Jack's Varus is also used well. Another aspect is that when Huni is single-handedly leading, he doesn't want to give EDG too many ways to start a team.
"In this way, the bottom lane should become a battle between EZ and the policewoman."
Guan Zeyuan said while thinking about the bottom lanes with higher appearance rates in MSI. However, before he could finish speaking, he heard the shocking screams and shouts from the scene!
‘Welcome to the Delay League! ’
"Jack's signature hero!" Miller exclaimed in surprise: "He was already a famous Draven master before playing the game, but we have never seen him use this hero in the game, and we finally got to see it today. ! ”
Guan Zeyuan frowned: "I can't deny Jack Draven's proficiency, but the error tolerance rate of this hero is too low in the game! Especially against a team like SKT that is very good at seizing opportunities."< br>
Miller did not let Guan Zeyuan continue to cry. He interrupted the opponent enthusiastically: "What are you afraid of?! Young players must have the courage to fight! Even if EDG loses this game, it will only be the score and SKT." Tied; but as long as they win this game, every team that encounters EDG will have to weigh Jack Draven's weight!"
On SKT's side, Bang watched Jack pull out a ranked killer like Draven, and he did it with ease.
"Oh? The young man is a bit arrogant. It seems that we must teach him a lesson!" Bang geared up, with a strong fighting spirit on his face; "We must let him know what it means to respect our seniors!"
"Junzhi, do you want me to get you an EZ?" Kuma chose to play it safe.
"Okay, just EZ, but my EZ is not a bastard!" Bang is very confident in his EZ proficiency. On the other hand, he also specially prepared a high-pressure laning routine for EZ, which is definitely enough to deal with EDG. Draven goes down the lane.
As usual, Little Peanut got his specialty, the blind monk.
To be honest, since that seven-minute super game, he felt that his interest in using Blind Sin suddenly dropped to a low point.
It's like you keep trying to conquer something, and once you've perfected it, it immediately becomes boring.
This is how little peanut feels now.
However, his opponent never showed up his other signature cards, so he could only keep choosing Blind Sin for him.
"EDG has been holding back support and not picked it up. Could it be Thresh from Sister Kou?" Guan Zeyuan speculated on the final pick.
"It's possible that Thresh and Draven are more suitable." Miller nodded and agreed.
But the ban position that nofe invested in Bron in the first round is obviously not in vain!
He doesn't have a big trump card, but it's a good idea to try some small tricks first to see the effect.
The girl locked the steam robot for herself in the fifth counter position!
"A robot with Draven?!" Guan Zeyuan felt that he might not have woken up: "I don't think I've ever used a robot before, right?"
"The training match must have been tried. I can only say that this time EDG dared to play better than we thought!" Miller was excited.
"To deal with a veteran team like SKT, whose defensive operations are impregnable, you have to use robots and Draven to severely penetrate their defense!"
In the middle of the big screen, there are pictures of the players' seats of both teams.
EDG's final choice of two bottom lanes made the coach Kumamoto unexpected!
He took a deep breath, pursed his lips and frowned!
"What do you mean? EDG started to use more tricks in the group stage?!" Wolf was also surprised and couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear.
"I don't think it's a big move, it's just an attempt by them to improve their lineup." Kuma reacted, shook his head slightly, and comforted his team members;
"Just play as usual, and play a little more steadily in the bottom lane. The bottom lane pair of Robot + Draven will not be as good as you in team battles. As long as there are no problems with the lane, they will have to play again. Draven presses back under the box! ”
The coaches from both sides came to the middle of the stage to shake hands. The collision between the first and second place players in the group stage was already sparking! (End of chapter)