Chapter 171 [Fight between gods! 】
At 6 a.m. on October 22, domestic time.
Madison Square has long been packed, and although the North American teams have long fallen outside the top nine, today's showdown is likely to be recorded in the history of the S-League.
Both teams are new and powerful teams in the top divisions, and the styles of their early battles were very similar. It was like Mars colliding with the earth. The level of competition they unleashed can definitely surpass any previous semi-finals or even finals.
In previous years, SKT was always the weakest single-handedly defeated team, but this year among the four competing teams, except for SSG's slight weakness, the other three teams all have the hope of winning the championship.
Especially the battle on the road.
Dow and Smeb are officially rated as the top two top laners in the world by Riot Games. Today is the time to verify who is first and who is second!
Chu Ge, who was still in the waiting passage, looked out of the stage through the black cloth.
Good guy, I almost missed the end!
Each row is higher than the other! There is also a special aisle for people to walk in the middle, but the slightly free seats are filled with drumming staff from Riot Games.
If you are sitting in the last row, let alone watching the contestants, even watching the big screen is a bit difficult. You might as well watch the live broadcast on your mobile phone.
Live version of VR?
Right here, the lights suddenly went out. Not only did the audience not panic, but they cheered louder.
On the four large screens hanging above the stage, the countdown numbers began to flash, and the sound similar to the countdown of 'biochemical mode' resounded throughout the garden square!
The audience at the scene also shouted in unison:
"Three!"
"Two!"
"One!"
When the sound of 'One' ended, the Riot Games logo shattered the glass, and the scene turned again!
Famous landmarks such as New York's Times Square and the Statue of Liberty began to appear on the screen. Players from the four teams appeared one after another, and each player announced the game declaration in different landmarks.
Finally, when the Summoner's Trophy appeared on the screen, blue fluorescent lights suddenly lit up around the stands.
Riv, the white-bearded North American host, slowly walked onto the stage wearing a blue and purple suit and waved his hands toward the surrounding stands.
"This is Madison Square Garden!"
"Welcome to the quarter-finals of the 2016 Global Finals. The semi-finals that will be held today are RoxTiger versus InvictusGaming!"
"Now let's invite the No. 1 seed player from LCK to appear!"
"Top laner Smbe, jungler Peanut, mid laner Kuro, bottom laner Pary, support laner Gorilla, substitute mid laner Cry and their head coach Nofe!"
The silver-haired little peanut was in front of the camera, confidently raising his hands and waving to the audience. The buttery boy's face made countless viewers excited!
After the players on the other side of the stage finished their introductions, the host raised his voice and said, "Next, we invite the players from the 2016 LPL Summer Split champions and the No. 1 seed team to appear!"
Contrary to the lighting of the RoxTiger team members, IG was all shrouded in light blue light, and unexpectedly it looked like the appearance of Poseidon, the god of the sea.
"Top laner Dow, jungler Ning, mid laner Rookie, ADCarryWuxx, support Baolan, substitute Kid and their head coach Mafa!"
Chu Ge still had his hands in his pockets, and under the blue light, his whole appearance was shrouded in a hazy feeling.
Under the guidance of the staff, the players from both sides came to the player seats. At this moment, the equipment has been debugged and can start the game at any time.
Today's LPL commentary seats are occupied by Wawa, Miller and Shenchao.
After a simple verbal broadcast, Miller took over the topic and said loudly: "Today is also a match that we have been looking forward to a lot. As our Dow players said in the post-game interview, Rox is their biggest stumbling block on their way to winning the championship this year."
"And it feels like the first game between the two sides will be very fierce!" Wa joked, "The director should pay special attention to switching the camera. I feel that both Dow and Smeb have bad tempers and will start fighting at any time."< br>
"I think both sides will test it out in the first game," Shenchao tilted his head habitually and analyzed. "After all, the hero pools of both sides are very close. With the same strength, the version of the hero actually represents a higher level. Numerical intensity.”
"Indeed," Miller agreed with Shenchao's view, "but if Dow can't stand up, then King Ning will have to consider using wild core heroes to make up for the damage."
When the three commentators were warming up, the director gave the data of the opposing players. In terms of bloodshed, the two teams were evenly matched.
It is even said that due to IG's field of vision problems, IG's face was stuck in the bushes, and many fights should not have been fought, so that the average number of kills now ranked first among the 16 teams.
Chu Ge ranked first in the top lane with 17 solo kills, and Smeb followed closely with 13 solo kills.
Judging from the LPL style, Chu Ge's numbers are actually quite normal, but in the LCK division, which is dominated by stable operations, Smeb's single kill numbers are really exaggerated.
After the data came out, the audience in the LPL live broadcast room cheered completely and kept tapping the keyboard to vent their inner excitement.
【The war of the century! Let us remember October 22nd as a day! 】
[Dow has really single-handedly changed the stereotypes of our top laners in other competition regions! 】
[Can you start quickly? I’m going to be itchy! 】
[Please, let’s just have a brawl. I want to see which one is stronger, IG’s Shock Wave, or Rox’s Hedong Lion Roar! 】
[Hey, now Han Za has learned to beat around the bush and curse people. 】
[Didn’t you read the post? After IG entered the semi-finals, all three LCK teams were rejected for training matches! 】
As soon as this barrage was posted, the domestic live broadcast room was completely in chaos.
At this time, the director gave close-ups of the faces of both players in sequence. It was obvious that everyone's mentality was relatively stable, and there was no situation similar to Hong Wen gritting his teeth and wanting to solo offline.
Actually.
With the fighting power of IG, they may not be able to defeat RoxTiger's five people. After all, one South Korean death declaration ParY is enough for IG to drink a pot.
Even Prince Ning looked a little thin in front of them.
"Player Smeb please start the game!"
Following the referee's order, the BP screen suddenly appeared.
"Hey" Watanabe frowned, "IG failed to guess the coin. They can only get the red square, so BP is a little disadvantaged!"
After entering the semi-finals, the ranking advantage of the group stage will no longer exist, and the two sides will guess who has the priority to choose the side through coin guessing.
"RoxTiger sent Syndra to the Ban position!"
Today, Syndra is the mid lane hero with the highest BP rate in the S6 World Championship, as high as 97.3%.
Normally, this hero should be the ban position that the red side needs to assume, but Rox took the initiative to ban it. This is mainly because Kuro doesn't play Syndra very much.
I played it once in the entire S6, and I lost the game against the wild card ANX.
And it cannot be given to Rookie, who is known as a two-ball player, otherwise Kuro will be very uncomfortable in the middle lane, unable to support, and will be knocked out of the MidGap.
IG always bans Leopard Girl.
Even as analyzed in previous posts, IG cannot give it to Rox, not even in exchange for BP design.
"The blue side took the initiative to ban Olaf!" Shenchao frowned, "Ning King Olaf didn't use it many times. He probably wanted to get spiders for Little Peanut."
Peanut is not only the leopard girl who is terrifyingly strong, but spiders are also one of his unique skills. He is affectionately called the 'Spider King' by Korean netizens!
Before the semifinals started, little peanut Elise's statistics were a terrifying 25 wins and 2 losses, and she had won 13 consecutive victories.
The most important thing is that the games he played were basically carry games, and he performed at the MVP level in every game.
IG's coaching staff naturally knows these data.
After all, in EDG's four games in the quarterfinals, Spider King was banned in all of them, otherwise they might lose faster.
However, Mafa did not block the spider first, but instead banned Kuro's unique skill Dragon King.
Nofa is not surprised by this.
Kuro's Dragon King's performance against EDG in the quarterfinals was absolutely remarkable. He probably stole a lesson from KT's mid laner Fly.
Roxtiger went step by step and did not ban Kled in the third ban position. Instead, he banned Morgana, who had performed very well in the group stage.
"Ban Morgana, are you trying to get the ice!?"
There is something about ParY's ice.
It's not that he can produce high output, but that this guy's ice ultimate move can reach the power of Lu Bu's halberd, and he often hits the opponent head-on.
The most important thing is.
Han Bing's E [Eagle Strikes the Sky] can help Little Peanut detect King Ning's position, indirectly increasing his pressure in the jungle,
Miller looked serious, "If IG gives Spider the third hand, then RoxTiger will definitely grab Jace, and Spider-Kled combination can't come up with it, so IG is a little passive online."
"But Dow has the skills to deal with Lucian," Shenchao continued to analyze while looking at the director's shot of the IG player seats, "IG has to make a decision, should they ban spiders?"
As the ban countdown sounded, Mafa finally decided to give up the option of Spider and Jace and chose to disable EZ.
IG's BP on the red side is really difficult to do.
Wuxx's EZ has not been practiced until now. If it is not banned and given to Rat King ParY to get it, IG's bottom lane will be very uncomfortable.
Instead of doing this, it is better to continue to play games with the opponent and exchange heroes.
"Very smart!"
Shenchao's eyes lit up, "Dow can take Jace! If you, Roxtiger, choose to grab Jace, IG will directly train you with Kled the Spider."
"You have to make a choice!"
Nofa frowned slightly.
In their training matches with SKT and SSG, neither team could come up with Jayce's version of the T0 hero. This is the advantage of their hero pool.
They haven't played a training match with IG in the past few days, which also caused them to slightly ignore the existence of Dow Jayce.
In the entire S6 World Championship, IG never got one!
This creates darkness under the lamp.
Nofa hesitated.
Now that Olaf has been banned, if he doesn't grab the spider first, IG will definitely lock it down, which means he lost the first round of BP.
"Sure enough, Rox just grabbed the spider!"
“Let’s see what IG will decide!”
IG's thinking was very clear. They decisively helped Chu Ge win down Jace, and then helped Wuxx lock Han Bing down to grab Ban.
"In this case, if the top laner on IG is released, RoxTiger will be able to lock down the policewoman + Karma in the bottom lane!"
"Can ice hit a policewoman?"
Miller was a little confused, "Why do I feel that IG's bottom lane BP has been suppressed? There has never been a female police officer fighting the ice in this World Championship!"
The doubts in the commentator's seat were exactly what made Chu Ge laugh.
The priority of the female police officer was raised in the group stage. The reason is the change of the 1 blood tower in version 6.15. Another point is that the female police officer is very good at beating the current version of T0AD Yin Zeriel online.
Combined with Karma, you can push the lane stably and quickly take down the first tower in the bottom lane without the [Fortification] effect.
But
From the strategic perspective of the S6 version, the current coaching staff and players do not know that Hanbing is very good at beating policewomen, so RoxTiger was not prepared for this.
Obviously, IG can easily lock down Zyra, and Ning Wang only has the blind monk left to choose, leaving the counter position to the mid laner Rookie.
Last two picks in Rox.
They locked Victor and Poppy down.
The biggest reason why Bobby was able to enter the professional arena again was because when Jess and Spider couldn't get the fixed-point kill lineup.
The hammer-shaped cannon has become Spider's best partner.
After RoxTiger locked down Poppy in the last pick, the current audience booed. The exciting duel they imagined in the top lane did not appear.
Instead, the Tigers stabilized.
If Smeb chooses a signature Rambo, in fact, Jace's lane is not very easy to promote Mecha Poppy, but Jace beats Poppy.
This is the case of laning with pure defensive towers.
IG finally locked another ball at Rookie's request.
In this case, the lineups of both sides are finally determined:
Blue team ROX: top laner Poppy, jungler Spider, mid laner Victor, bottom lane policewoman + Karma
Red square IG: top laner Jayce, jungler Lee Sin, mid laner Clockwork, bottom lane Ice + Zyra.
The moment the lineup came out, the barrage in the LPL live broadcast room started rolling like crazy.
[The BPs on both sides are really fighting between gods! ROX Gaming helped Peanut get his signature spider, while IG helped Dow get Jace]
[The key is that RoxTiger doesn’t take the lead at all. Their lineup chooses Rambo, which only has 4 APs. Obviously Poppy is definitely a good choice. It doesn’t have many resources, and it’s also good to match the spider in the lane]
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[Sitting back and watching your pigeon world championship, Jess was slapped in the face in the first game, but don’t forget that he was only mastering thunder and lightning in the top lane of the LPL]
[Do you understand the lineup? IG's offensive rhythm in the early stage has been curbed. How can it pick up the team in the middle and late stages? It's impossible to win, right? 】
The director once again showed footage of both players.
You can clearly see the proud look on the face of the RoxTiger player, as if he is very satisfied with the lineup he got.
There were no expressions on the faces of the IG players, but the referee behind them knew clearly that these guys were causing trouble behind their backs!
Before the referee drove them away, the coaches from both sides continued to give a few instructions before taking off their headphones, shaking hands and leaving the field.
Accompanied by the loud cheers and cheers from the gongs and drums below the stage, the full view of Summoner's Rift was suddenly displayed on the big screen! It’s the end of the month, let’s vote! Thank you readers!
(End of chapter)