Chapter 14: Beating Jace without taking Lucian is SB
After RA chose to block Dao Mei in the fourth move, LNG took away Hang's Luo in the last move.
LNG's intention to continuously take down Riel and Luo in the fourth and fifth moves is obvious, which is to limit the RA support position's ability to start a team.
"Which hero will RA ban in the fifth move? Should he continue to block Ale's hero pool, or choose to take down Thresh in the bottom lane?" 957 said.
"Ale's hero pool is quite difficult to limit. In addition to Qinggang Shadow, he has performed very well when playing heroes such as King of Destruction or Jax in the playoffs. Of course Jace can still get early lane rights by playing these heroes," Rita analyzed.
"Ah? RA chose to ban Kennen in the fifth move?" Colonel Guan's tone sounded a little unclear: "Jess is easy to beat Kennen..."
"Maybe they don't want Kenan to play a role in team battles..." Brother Leg guessed.
Although banning the first-hand Kennen when taking Jace first is indeed suspected of showing weakness before the game starts, the gap between Ale and Cube in terms of laning strength is obvious to all, so it is understandable to make such a choice.
"But..." Colonel Guan made a hesitant expression, and finally looked at 957 and said, "Brother Leg, have you forgotten? That person once said such a sentence..."
"If you beat Jace, it would be S if you didn't take Lucian..." Colonel Guan stopped there and then made a "B" mouth shape.
"Are you really not going to fight Lucian?"
"Oh..." Brother Leg suddenly realized: "It is true that Lucian is still out there. According to Ale's character, it is really possible for him to take out Lucian, the hero."
After all, if you were to beat a player like Cube, what would Ah Le not dare to take?
As for what Senior Colonel Guan said, “It’s SB if you don’t pick Lucian to beat Jayce”, this sentence is actually a joke that came out from a certain live broadcast of TheShy player.
In one of TheShy's qualifying live broadcasts in June 2020, the opponent locked the hero Jayce first, so when it was TheShy's turn to select a player, he decisively selected Lucian in seconds.
Faced with the question marks that filled the screen at that time, TheShy said this wise saying: "I know you don't want me to choose Lucian..."
"But I won't pick Lucian in this one, SB!"
As a result, although TheShy was severely targeted in that game, from a pure laning perspective, it still produced good results, and ultimately won the ranked victory.
However, TheShy later personally confirmed the correctness of this statement in the LPL arena.
In the second game of the 2021 Spring Split between IG and LGD, TheShy selected Lucian to face Jayce, and then played extremely terrifying suppression during the laning period, making Jayce, the LGD Cult player, unable to take care of himself. .
In less than 10 minutes, TheShy had already obtained three kills and pushed down LGD's first-blood tower on the road. The last-ditch count of both sides reached an exaggerated figure of 89 knives to 27 knives.
It is no exaggeration to say that Lucian really beat the shit out of Jace.
Of course, being able to achieve such a huge gap is also related to TheShy's extremely strong laning ability, but this game further confirmed that Lucian has quite good laning suppression when facing Jayce.
After Guan Zeyuan mentioned this, Brother Leg also began to worry about RA's journey.
However, LNG did not choose to help the top lane pick up heroes in the fourth round of selection. Instead, they locked Thresh in the auxiliary position.
It is really necessary to get Thresh first when neither side has released support.
After all, Thresh is also one of RA's signature heroes supporting Hang.
Next it was RA's turn to select, and RA selected Verus Gablon in the fourth and fifth hands respectively.
"If you choose Varus, it's hard to say what route this Iboy will take. It can form a double poke system with Jayce on the top lane, or it can use the attack speed special effects stream to cooperate with Braum to play passive faster." Colonel Guan road.
Poke style and attack speed special effects style are two common styles of equipment for Varus in the professional arena. Although Varus does not have displacement skills, he is also functional and can choose different styles according to different lineups. The outfit idea is very compatible with the team, so it has always occupied a place in the professional arena.
"LNG has left the upper unit until the end, let's see if we can get Lucian for Ale in the end." 957 said looking forward to it.
"Actually, if you don't take Lucian, Monkey is a safer choice." Rita said.
Although Jace is firmly in the upper echelon of the top lane ecological chain due to his long hand advantage, this hero is actually very afraid of the kind of top lane heroes who forcefully show off their faces, so heroes such as Dao Mei and Monkey are used to deal with it. Great choice Jess.
The commentators and the audience simultaneously focused their attention on the lower right side of the game screen, looking forward to what choice LNG would make in the final move.
When the black face with a resolute expression appeared in the hero selection box on the fifth floor of LNG, Guan Zeyuan blurted out excitedly: "It's locked!"
"LNG really locked Lucian for Ale!"
"It's exciting to go on the road now..." Brother Leg's eyes also flashed with anticipation.
Once this matchup is locked, it means that the confrontation on the top lane will become the focus of the entire game.
The pressure was put on both sides' midfielders and upper junglers at the same time.
Both Lucian and Jayce are the kind of heroes who dare to catch and die. Compared with their ability to engage in research and development, top laner Lucian is actually also a good player.
Therefore, even if Lucian has a certain advantage in the laning period, if the jungler and mid laner can provide effective support, as long as the top laner on either side dies for two consecutive waves, the snowball will be infinitely amplified by the other side.
"Okay, the lineups of both sides have been locked, let's enter the game screen together!"
In this game, the lineups selected by both sides of the game are as follows:
【RA.Cube Future Guardian·Jace】vs【LNG.Ale Lancer Lucian】
【RA.Leyan, General Manager·Xin Zhao】vs【LNG.Tarzan, Blind Monk·Li Qing】
【RA.JOJO Magic Queen·LeBlanc】vs【LNG.Icon Frost Witch·Lissandra】
【RA.Iboy's Punishment Arrow·Varus】vs【LNG.Light Waning Moon's Solemnity·Aphelios】
【RA.Hang Heart of Freljord·Bron】vs【LNG.Iwandy Soullock Warden·Thresh】
When the lineups of both sides were determined and the game entered the loading screen, Fang Jie chose to switch his destiny from [Ice Horse Yong] to [Ultimate Last Strike].
Fang Jie made this choice mainly due to two considerations.
First, the fate of [Ice Horse Yong] is not consistent with the hero of Deceiver Enchantress in terms of fate characteristics.
[Ice Horse Warrior] will increase the host's average output per game by 30% and average damage taken per game by 20%. The former is certainly good, but the extra damage taken is a huge drawback for LeBlanc.
LeBlanc is just too crispy.
The hero LeBlanc has extremely low growth attributes in terms of health and resistance. Although high mobility and the existence of passive mirror can improve the fault tolerance rate of this hero, it is still easy to die in a team battle.
Moreover, LeBlanc is a hero whose rhythm will be interrupted if he dies once, so the injury-bearing attribute of [Ice Horse Warrior] is not friendly to LeBlanc.
The second reason is that while loading a destiny, the host's game style will more or less move closer to the character template of that destiny.
In Fang Jie's opinion, the fate flaw of [Extreme Last Strike] can bring positive benefits to the game style of Rookie, the character template of the other fate [Two Balls and One Queen] he carries at this time. (End of chapter)