Chapter 116 [The atmosphere is here]
It has to be said that Wang Boqin and Yuan Shanyan's coaching abilities are getting stronger and stronger, and it is rare to see them making chicken soup for the players.
It is even rarer to open champagne at halftime. The most popular thing said is Ge Yan’s classic saying, “Let’s order first.”
Chu Ge hadn't discovered that Tabe had this kind of ability before, but he didn't expect that after his arrival, IG's crappy training team would look a little better now.
Although they can't keep up with the EDG regular army that Chu Ge knows, at least everyone has begun to consciously take up the challenge and clarified their respective division of labor.
Tabe and Mafa are in charge of training, and Chris is in charge of closing and ordering takeout. They both have a bright future.
Seeing that the atmosphere had reached this point, Wang Boqin patted the table to signal everyone to quiet down, and began to arrange the BP for the next round.
Just kidding, Yuan Shanyan is responsible for singing the white face and beating the chicken blood. He, the black face, is the one who is serious about regulating IG's competition and training team.
You don’t really think you can win by just fighting, do you?
RNG can win the spring championship, and is still first in Group A in the summer regular season. It is recognized as a strong team besides EDG. How can it be a weak team!
It is no exaggeration to say that, except for the middle and top lane, the other three lanes are not weaker than them, and are even slightly better in terms of experience.
RNG lounge.
After losing two games in a row, the players' emotions were very low, and the whole room was enveloped in a low-pressure environment.
Coach Fly stood in the center of the room.
With the help of a translator, he said impassionedly and loudly, "I know you are feeling very uncomfortable right now, and I am the same as you."
"I apologize first. There was a big problem with the top BP, and I have to take the blame."
"Similarly, I also heard your voice exchanges on the field. Everyone would still communicate with each other at the beginning of the game, but after the team fell into a disadvantage, everyone completely went their separate ways."
“No communication during the whole process.”
"Guys, we are a whole, and we must communicate in time if there are any problems."
"Take advantage of this time to say whatever you want to say, so as not to feel resentful towards your teammates if you don't believe them in the next game!"
He looked around. The team members still had their heads lowered.
Uzi chewed his nails with blurred eyes and kept turning the gaming chair. He didn't react until he heard the translator calling his name.
"Jian proudly, please tell me first."
Uzi took a deep breath and suppressed the irritability in his heart.
"I don't know how to win!" He spread his hands and said patiently, "I can't win in line-to-line, and I can't win in groups. With this lineup, I know I'm going to lose."
"I was facing each other in lane, and the first half collapsed. I couldn't find any output space in the mid-term team battle. The jungler was always in my face, and the support didn't know what he was doing."
The team members raised their heads and looked at Uzi in surprise.
Looper took a breath and took the initiative to reflect, "I had a big problem in these two games, I'm sorry to everyone."
Watching the team members apologize to each other, Fly finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"One more game."
Fly raised a finger, "In the spring finals, we defeated EDG, which was stronger than IG, and also defeated SKT, a world-recognized strong team, at MSI. We have defeated these teams, so compared to these two teams, Is IG strong or weak? ”
"Weak!"
Hearing this, everyone in RNG almost responded with roars.
Fly nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile, "Forget about the losses in the first two games and just treat the next game as the first game. Don't leave any regrets this summer!"
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South Korea, Seoul.
SKT base.
The team members gathered together to watch the LPL semifinals.
The LCK summer finals won't be held until August 20. Whether SKT will play in the qualifying rounds for the World Championship spots will have to wait until the two teams in the finals decide the winner.
If KT wins the championship in the final, they will advance to the global finals as the number one seed.
RoxTiger will take the second seed as the first in points.
In this case, SKT will have to compete with other teams for the third seed.
But if RoxTiger wins the championship.
SKT will automatically gain the second seed status with the advantage of being first in points.
Therefore, in the finals on August 20, the SKT team still has plenty of time to study their opponents in the World Championship.
For SKT's supervisor Kkkoma, he prefers the dark horse RoxTiger to win the summer finals.
Although the version of the World Championship has not yet been released, judging from the update trend of Riot version 6.15, RoxTiger's tactical play is destined to become the answer to the version.
KT's chances of winning are not high.
But for SKT, Riot's update almost once again weakened the system they are good at.
Kkoma did not dare to be idle during this period.
Collect information through various channels and research new tactics and strategies to avoid the weakening of fists.
At the same time, it also allows players to see if there are other answers in other competition areas.
As for other competition regions, only the LPL has reference value. As for NA, EU, and LMS, they are all rotten fish and shrimps.
After all, in the eyes of LPL viewers, these regions are all European and American, and anyone who loses to Europe and the United States will be criticized for several months.
Therefore, as the leading team of the LCK in the first division, it is no wonder that SKT thinks so.
As insulting as it is, it is what it is.
As for why we started researching before the LPL finals.
Purely a coincidence.
In a double row chat between Duke and his old teammate Score, he mentioned the training match between IG and KT.
This piece of information attracted Kkoma’s attention.
You must know that both KT and IG had a BO5 game that day, and both sides arranged a training match when they were extremely tired.
Kkoma is well aware of the devilish training methods of the LCK team.
At the same time, the occasional training matches with the top teams in the LPL also made him clearly aware that the training time of the LPL teams generally cannot keep up with the LCK.
In this case, it is obvious that LCK is more capable of withstanding pressure and has the advantage.
But even in this situation, IG still played 5 full games with KT.
Although ultimately defeated.
But it also shows that the strength of this team cannot be underestimated.
According to Kkoma's gossip, the two training matches between LPL's top teams EDG and KT were defeated by 3:1 and 3:0.
Although the intensity and gold content of the training games are not as good as those of the main games, the early disadvantages are too great, and the game will basically end early and start the next game.
But Kkoma still captures a hint of menace.
Especially the new top laner named Dow.
Pushing open the door of the training room, he saw on the screen that the third game of the two teams was in BP. Kkoma pulled up a chair and sat next to his top laner.
Since there is no Korean stream for LPL games, they can only watch the game through English streams.
"Coach Jungkyun, we are in trouble!"
Hearing this, Kkoma turned to look at the frowning Duke and said softly, "Haocheng, please tell me."
Duke is concise and to the point.
He recounted the battles of the first two rounds.
"Is it as exaggerated as you said?"
After listening to Li Haocheng's words, Kkoma turned to look at the other team members and found that except for Li Sang Hyuk, they all nodded in approval of Duke's words.
"Lucian's top laner can beat Jayce, and the redesigned Ryze is stronger than the previous version. Are we talking about a game?"
Kkoma murmured to himself and looked at the TV in confusion.
When he saw IG locking Sword Lady on the fifth floor to face the captain, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "You little brats, why don't you gang up and lie to me?"
Duke shook his head seriously.
"Why don't I think so?"
"In this version, you can choose Sword Girl to fight against the captain. If you choose a hero against the version, he will never be a problem."
"On the contrary, it is the key to our victory in the game."
I don’t blame Kkoma for saying such things.
In his philosophy of coaching SKT for many years, the positioning of the top laner is more of a sacrificial position for the team.
Radical hero selection, unless the strategy allows it, is a taboo for the team.
But it is obvious that IG's selections are all heroes in the early and mid-term. If you cannot get an economic advantage of more than 4,000 in 20 minutes, you can vote directly after 20 minutes.
Sword Girl’s choice was even more unreasonable.
Just like Duke, who just joined the team at the beginning of the year, his aggressive laning and hero pool were finally shaped into the shape of SKT by Kkoma.
Obviously, Chu Ge's style of play is a time bomb for the team in his opinion.
Kkoma glanced at Lee Sang Hyuk, then turned his attention to the TV again.
Game time is 4 minutes and 53 seconds.
The Sword Lady cooperated with the wine barrel and jumped over the tower to kill the captain and gain first blood.
"Is Zhang Hengshuo too good, or is the opponent too strong?" Wolf chewed the fried chicken and looked at Duke with confusion on his face, "Why do I feel like the captain is missing a skill?"
In less than five minutes, the captain's barrel was completely used as a cash machine by Sword Lady, and no useful damage was done.
"Looper?" Duke slapped Wolf on the strong back, "Li Zaiwan, have you forgotten that the winning rate of SKS against SSW in S4 was 0?"
The SKTT1S team is referred to as SKS.
After the S3 finals, SKTT1 formed two teams, namely the original champion team SKTT1K and SKTT1S.
All composed of newcomers Marin, Horo, Easyhoon, Bang and Wolf.
It was not until after the S4 global finals that Riot Games issued regulations prohibiting top leagues from having multiple teams at the same time that SKT integrated players from Team K and Team S.
Strictly speaking, the team that won the championship in S5 was actually not the K team from the S3 period, but the newly built S team.
"If I didn't say it, then I can only say that the LPL teams are really good."
Li Zaiwan pulled off a piece of fried chicken with his mouth and said nonchalantly.
He is called the Iron Warrior Wolf for no reason. He has been known to everyone in the live broadcast room for saying that he is a bad guy in the LPL region.
Bang smiled foolishly beside him.
"Please be quiet and watch the game," Kkoma scolded, showing the dignity of a supervisor, "I suddenly feel that what Li Haocheng said makes sense."
After watching the performance of the first two teams in the first 10 minutes, the originally joking look in Kkoma's eyes gradually became serious.
He suddenly felt that his preconceived ideas seemed to influence his rational judgment.
Although IG's top laner chose Sword Girl, and she played very aggressively.
From a God's perspective looking at the overall situation, Dow's Sword Girl plays in a very methodical manner, and is not a brainless villain. She plays it just right every time.
The most peculiar phenomenon is that he is always dancing on the tip of the knife, repeatedly teasing the opponent's jungler's nerves.
This also caused RNG to invest too many resources in the top lane, but in fact it did not accomplish much. Instead, it allowed IG's midfielder to set the pace.
If the jungler doesn't care about the top lane, the captain will have a very uncomfortable life in a 1v1 situation on the top lane.
But if you take care of it.
The IG midfielder took action against the RNG duo in the second half.
By the time the game reached 20 minutes, IG had completely established a winning streak and was ahead of RNG1W's economy.
"RNG felt like they were beaten in the first two games," Duke shook his head. "In the third game, IG completely led the way, with this top laner."
Before he finished speaking, Kkoma interrupted him and asked, "Does IG have a chance to enter the global finals this year?"
"Huh?"
Duke was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "You only get 10 points in the spring split. You can advance to the summer finals only if you win the championship. Otherwise, you have to play in the bubble tournament to get the No. 3 seed."
Unlike the third seed in the LCK, which goes directly to the group stage, the third seed in the LPL needs to advance to the play-in round before entering the main round of the global finals.
Kkoma nodded.
The game on TV progressed to 28 minutes and 23 seconds. MLXG wanted to grab the dragon. Jian Ji decisively teleported to pick up the team. With a huge economic advantage, the team successfully defeated RNG with 1 for 5.
Seeing that his supervisor was facing a formidable enemy, Faker, who had been silent for the whole time, whispered, "Coach Zhengkyun, from my point of view, IG has many flaws. After this semi-final, I only left the most profound impression. Ryze, the second player from Dow”
“I don’t have much other impression.”
"Wow," Wolf exclaimed, "It's rare for my brother He to say that he plays Ryze well!"
Duke also nodded repeatedly.
Being able to force his fist to be reworked twice and weaken Ryze multiple times, the dominance of Li Guapi's blue bald devil is obvious to all.
Lee Sang Hyuk spread his hands, with a hint of fighting spirit in his eyes, "I hope IG can also enter the global finals, and I hope I can personally learn from his Ryze on the court."
Before he could pretend, Kkoma next to him slapped him on the head, "What are you thinking about? Someone else is the top laner, and your opponent is Rookie!"
"Rookie"
Listening to this name, Lee Sang Hyuk's lost memory suddenly hit him.
It was a sunny and rainy day. A certain fat mid laner from the KTA team used a fox to kill his Ryze. When he wanted to take revenge, he was already pushed to the bench by Hou Ye.
Faker picked up the mineral water on the table and poured it into his mouth in an attempt to suppress this damn memory.
Kkoma banged the table.
With his eyes fixed on the TV, IG gathered the strength of the entire team to bulldoze the old crystal of RNG's base.
He seemed to have figured out something about this game.
If it can succeed, the team will most likely be able to reverse the meta again, and the Triple Crown club may not be a dream.
"Pei Xingxiong, come with me.
Kkoma got up and walked outside the training room.
"Okay."
Hearing this, Bengi made a face at the team members and followed his supervisor out of the training room.
"Congratulations to IG for successfully winning the semi-finals 3:0," I remember saying loudly, "They were the first to get tickets to the finals at the Guangzhou International Sports and Performing Arts Center."
"The next EDG vs. IM will determine who is IG's opponent."
The audience burst into thunderous applause, and the dog boys cried with joy.
This is the first time that the IG League of Legends division has entered the LPL summer finals since its establishment. (End of chapter)