Chapter 526 Chapter 526: The mantis stalks the cicada?
Seeing VG's choice, Wawa couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Smeb really liked playing Kennen today. If he hadn't been banned by the opponent in the second game, I feel like he would have picked him."
Miller thought for a moment and explained, "After all, Electric Mouse has no natural enemies in the current top lane environment. It is indeed very suitable for a top laner of Maibo's level."
"During MSI, he could beat AD Kennen even with Lucian, but there is no way to play this version..."
Lucian was severely damaged.
After the changes in version 7.18, the early cooldown of E slide is now too long, and its strength has been greatly weakened whether it is a single lane or a two-player lane.
Originally, Lu Xian could take the initiative to exchange blood on the line by sliding, and gain an advantage through frequent pulling and consumption.
This wave of nerfs directly hit the main artery, and no one played in the World Championship!
In addition to Lucian's own weakening, Kennen's equipment plan has also evolved.
It turns out they are all based on Ruined Hurricane - Runaan's Hurricane can be stacked with W Electric Blade, which is a bit like using scattered arrows to stack Caitlyn's passive headshot.
As a result, in version 7.13, the policewoman was severely weakened because VG used it too hard, and the linkage with the hurricane was deleted.
In order to show that they treat everyone equally and not discriminate, Riot also cut off the adaptation gameplay of Kennen and Hurricane.
This appears to be a nerf.
But it promotes the rapid evolution of the assembly plan of electric mice!
After all, if there is no hurricane, there must be another substitute, right?
Players with bright minds quickly found another replacement.
Green cross.
It has a good attack speed bonus, and the price is not too high. It only sells for 2,600 gold coins, which meets the needs of AD Kennen.
And the most important thing is to have a passive.
【elegy】.
The last enemy hero hit with a basic attack will deal 12% less damage to itself.
The intensity of team battles will be lower than that of hurricanes, but this is a perfect duel weapon!
It can be said that under the same level and economic conditions, whoever has a green cross will have the absolute upper hand in a duel!
In order to make up for the hurricane's gap, Kennan always made the green cross second.
Not Lucian.
After he is defeated, he has to buy a black cut, increase the cooldown to reduce the skill CD, and the green cross has to be purchased for the third piece at the earliest.
But when it comes to single-band heroes on the top lane, I don’t know how much better Green Cross is than Black Cut!
The changes in the strength of the hero and the equipment plan make it difficult for AD Kennen to encounter opponents on the top lane!
Lucian, the former Counter, was helpless when facing him!
"What's more, AP Kennen's strength is pretty good now," Miller continued. "The designers have been strengthening the AP power rat throughout the summer split, and it has an advantage against most tank heroes on the top lane."
The only pure tank tank that can restrain AP Kennen is the Magic Stone Man, but this version of Malphite is impossible to choose. The strength is too high, let alone the Magic style style.
In other words, whether it is AD or AP, Electric Mouse can have a place on the top lane, and there is no problem in grabbing it in the first round!
The third choice in G2 was Gnar.
"Hey, Wunder is a bit rebellious," Wunder said happily, "In the last game, I chose a big tree to resist the pressure. This game seems to want to be frightened, so I chose Gnar to compete with Smeb on the top lane!"
"But Gnar can't compete with AD Kennen. Dinosaur Bobby is just a younger brother to Thunderbolt Bobby!"
As long as Jace is not around, AD Electric Mouse is a pure rogue, invincible on the road.
No matter in terms of range or damage ability, Gnar cannot compare with AD Kennen, so he can only be pulled away.
"You can't say that," Miller's point of view is much more conservative. "Nar is relatively mediocre. Although it is not as good as AD Kennen in laning and not as good as AP Kennen in team play, but if you think about it the other way around, is it still better? Not bad?”
Compared with AP Kennen in laning, and in team fights with AD Kennen, Queshi won the game.
To be honest, Gnar is better than Kennen in terms of team adaptability, and is not as extreme as the electric rat.
With that kind of equipment plan, he can easily defeat pure tank heroes and serve as the frontline of half of the team. In addition, he has the charm of gambling on the Tathagata Palm.
In short, it's snake oil.
So far in the quarterfinals, Gnar's BP rate is higher than Kennen's, and he is very popular with the team!
When in trouble, just choose Nar!
“Both sides’ second-round bans were very targeted, targeting the opponent’s unselected character positions for bans. VG banned both Ryze and Syndra, while G2 targeted Xing Ge and banned both Prince and Keg. ! ”
This makes it clear that there is no intention to leave the Counter position to Jankos.
I didn't choose a jungler first because I was afraid that VG would use the combination of Cuishen + Policewoman to restrain me like in the second game, so I chose to keep one hand.
But since VG had already chosen Mouse, Youngbuck knew that Gu Xing could not choose Cuishen again - there was no linkage between the two heroes.
Then there is no need to let Jankos make the final selection. It would obviously be more appropriate to leave the Counter position to Ah P.
"G2 got Pig Girl, which was also the hero chosen by Jankos in the last game." Wawa was silent for a moment. He really couldn't tell the lie that the opponent played well, so he chose to use a high-EQ expression, "Maybe he thinks it feels good, so let's talk about it." The accuracy of the big move on the board is still very good.”
Youngbuck really thinks so.
In the first set, I picked Cuishen and was crushed, and in the jungle matchup I was defeated by Cinsha twice. In the second set, I picked a pig girl, although there was no rhythm to speak of, but on the surface, it looked much better than the previous set!
At least I haven't been killed alone, so that counts as a success!
Moreover, the team is currently on the edge of a cliff. If they lose another game, they will say goodbye to the S7 season. Youngbuck does not dare to bet on Jankos's touch, so he simply continues to choose a pig girl to let him continue to mess around.
As long as your performance is not much worse than in the second set, you won't end up in the predicament of collapse in the jungle!
Jankos was really unhappy when he heard the coach's instructions.
But there is no reason to refute it.
Because he was beaten to pieces by Gu Xing, not to mention his teammates and coaching staff, Jankos was even doubting himself and thinking that he was not capable enough!
"The three major junglers have either been banned or robbed, and there are not many jungle options left for Brother Xing!" Miller looked at VG's hero selection box with anticipation, "It depends on what character Brother Xing will use in this game. ! ”
"You said..." Wawa said his guess enthusiastically, "could it be the jungler EZ?"
"This hero has been inexplicably relegated to the sidelines since the knockout rounds. So far, he has not been selected!" He couldn't figure out why EZ was abandoned by each team, but he thought he could still be selected.
Miller has a slightly deeper understanding than his partner, and believes that Xiao Huangmao's inability to play in the knockout round is related to the evolution of the ecological environment on the road.
You can’t use the top and jungle combination of Kennen + EZ, right?
That’s too weird!
In order to take care of the hero selection on the road, it is impossible for the jungler to take out the little yellow hair!
In fact, this is only one of the reasons.
Full-time commentators like Miller have limited information and cannot understand the truth at all.
Just as he thought, VG Que had no intention of selecting Ezreal.
However, Jack was quite naughty and deliberately showed off his EZ in front of the audience to deceive.
The fans in the stands were stunned by him. They even cheered a few times at first, wanting to watch Gu Xing play a game of EZ.
With a few seconds left in the countdown, Jack changed the little yellow hair into the excavator and locked it down.
There was a series of disappointed sighs.
Netizens in the live broadcast room can only express their emotions by tapping on the keyboard.
[Gan, Jack, you choose? If you are chosen, I think you are a good man! 】
[From EZ to Reksai, my appearance has dropped off a cliff]
【Bold! Dare you speak ill of me, the Queen of the Void Escape Beast? 】
[Am I the only one who thinks Rek'Sai looks better than EZ? The long body is so beautiful when twisted]
[Not choosing EZ means that Jankos's strength has been recognized by Brother Xing, otherwise he will definitely have to use Xiao Huangmao to make a mess against the jungler he marked as a loser]
Gu Xing thinks Jankos is quite strong.
If he was facing a race knight, he would choose an EZ to have a great time even if he was leading 2-0.
But the strength of the Lamb and G2 forced Gu Xing to be cautious in lineup selection and game content, for fear that the opponent would find a breathing space to reverse the situation in one fell swoop!
After excluding the three major junglers and EZ in the Incense Burner version, there were only a few heroes left to choose from, so Gu Xing picked and chose before deciding to use Reksai.
VG's fifth choice was Grasshopper for Kuro, who focused on a mixed lane.
"Let's see what mid laner Perkz is going to choose... Snake Girl? It seems pretty good," Miller joked with a smile, "Did P see Xiao Ju who was defeated by Brother Xing in the Dalong Pit team battle in the last game? It’s not fun to block, so I specially choose a hero who can bypass the front row and threaten the enemy’s back row output!”
The mages and Galio who can roam and support have been disabled, and the remaining ones are magic cores. Snake Girl is the best choice among them.
The lineups of both sides are confirmed.
Blue square VG: top laner Kennen, jungler Rek'Sai, mid laner Grasshopper, bottom lane Mouse + Feng Nu.
Red side G2: top laner Gnar, hunting wild boar girl, mid laner Snake Girl, bottom lane cannon + gems.
In the English commentary booth, the senior brother made a judgment after reading the lineup, "I feel that G2 will have a greater chance of winning this game."
"How do you say it?" Jatt pricked up his ears and was willing to hear the details.
"Smeb can't just play AD in this round. He has to use powerful magic equipment to focus on team battles, otherwise the whole team will be short of magic damage!" Peng Yiliang simply told the reason.
If Kennen doesn't use Spell Force, the entire team will have to rely on Grasshopper to make up for the spell damage.
This version of Malzahar is all about the ghost book + ice staff. The team fight is just silent and then R, and the damage is basically random.
"Once Kennen takes the AP flow, VG's single lane advantage in the top lane will be completely lost!" Senior Brother said more and more enthusiastically, "Not to mention the middle lane, Snake Girl has a clear advantage over Grasshopper in the laning phase; Lu Xiaopao + Gems are definitely stronger than Mouse + Feng Nu... After all, only Reksai in the early stage and the duo in the later stages of VG are ahead in strength!"
"The most important thing is that VG lacks a real tank front row. The whole team relies on Reksai to be at the front of the formation. I guess no matter how well-developed the excavator is, it will not be able to withstand the powerful output of G2's double C!" < br>
The hero mechanism of the Excavator determines that this hero's pure meat income is average, and he can only bet on the early and mid-term rhythm and neutral resources.
Hongmi took off her headphones and headed towards the center of the stage, shaking her head repeatedly. It was obvious that she knew there were some problems with her BP in this round, and her lineup was not as good as G2.
He is not good at BP. Most of the time, he can get a strong lineup, relying on the players' bottomless hero pool. The all-round play style of the three Ueno, Jungle and AD alone means that VG can easily take advantage of the lineup selection. To cheap.
But it’s not always possible to have a smooth start and an advantage, and something changed in this round.
It can only be said that Youngbuck, as the hero of the G2 League's four consecutive championships, has really good coaching skills, and BP also has two brushes, which can fully demonstrate the strength of the players.
"Yes, that's awesome," Hongmi said without hesitation when shaking hands with the opponent. "The BP did a great job in this round."
Youngbuck smiled proudly and said, "See you in the next game. Then I will go to the blue side and show you my skills."
The words are full of confidence, G2 will win this game with a direct loan.
Without a translator, it took Hongmi a while to understand what the other person was saying.
Then he couldn't help but laugh.
Don’t you have any idea in your mind?
For those who didn’t know, they thought it was G2 who had the upper hand!
Watching the coaches from both teams leave along the camera lens, Jatt took a deep breath, and when he spoke again, his voice became full of passion.
"G2 is now in a critical situation and is only one step away from elimination, but I think the players have worked hard all year and worked hard to get to this stage. No one in the team will only set the goal of the top eight!"
"Although in the seven-year journey of the S game, it has never happened that two people chased three, but we should understand that history is made for creation!" He said in an impassioned voice, "Come on G2, European LOL is up to you!"
Although there is still a Rabbitoh team that has not been eliminated, it is generally believed in European and American forums that MSF is giving points to SKT.
It’s considered a success if you don’t get beaten three to zero!
Before the game, some G2 fans clamored, "If MSF can play SKT's stuff, then if G2 finally wins the championship, the Rabbitohs can get 1/3 of the credit." They even received a lot of likes on the Internet.
It can be seen from this that the attitude of the EU audience seems to regard G2 as the last hope of the whole village!
Tens of thousands of spectators in the Guangzhou Stadium also cheered like a mountain and a tsunami, wanting to see VG win this BO5 game in one go!
Summoner's Rift is coming!
"VG's positioning when going out was very conservative," PapaSmithy looked at the situation in the mini-map, "I think it was because of the low strength of the first-level team that they did not dare to have a conflict with G2."
Rek'Sai is a pure Five in the first level group, so don't expect her to produce any output.
Looking back at G2, the formation has clear front and rear rows, and the first-level combat effectiveness of Snake Girl's cannon is also very good.
If it really comes to a chance, VG will definitely not have much chance of winning.
"G2 is very aware of the advantage they have, and boldly heads to the lower jungle area of VG as a group, hoping to cause trouble for the opponent!"
This was not the first game to be conservative. It was a matter of life and death, and G2's already strong gambling spirit became more and more inflated.
The five people pushed all the way in, vowing to squeeze VG out of the lower jungle area.
Gu Xing had no choice. If he really wanted to fight, the team would suffer heavy losses without any accident, so he had no choice but to order his teammates to withdraw first.
Wait until 1 minute and 25 seconds, and let Duan Deliang stand in the stone beetle camp and poke an eye into the red zone through the wall.
It turned out that G2 was still hanging there in the jungle and refused to leave, so we knew that the opponent wanted to steal the BUFF.
"I'm going to switch to the jungle area on the other side," Gu Xing decided. "Maibo, you don't have to come to help. Try to get the lane rights first."
Song Jinghao agreed dully.
He originally planned to play AD Kennen in this game and torture the opponent to death with a single belt.
But due to the limited lineup, Smeb had to temporarily switch to the spell-strong style.
It was indeed uncomfortable, but fortunately, Song Jinghao was not someone who would torture his teammates if he felt uncomfortable. After adjusting his mentality, he began to meticulously complete the work assigned by the commander.
To be fair, it's not difficult.
Even though AP Kennen's attack speed is not as good as the AD version in the laning, but with the Dolan Sword in the early stage, the laning suppression power is not bad.
The strength of Level 1 Gnar is completely different from him!
After forcing Wunder behind the G2 long-range soldiers, Song Jinghao did not forget to ask Gu Xing, "Push quickly or slowly?"
"...Push slowly," Gu Xing thought for a moment before replying, "Wait until the artillery train line comes over before you push into the tower."
Smeb indicated that he understood clearly, and took his time to recruit melee soldiers with residual health, use the method of replenishing tail knives to hoard the troop line, and control the handover position of the small soldiers here to wait for the artillery truck to arrive.
Gu Xing used Reksai to quickly clear the jungle and develop.
However, without the help of teammates, the level 1 excavator's efficiency in clearing the field is not very high, and it also loses a lot of health.
At this time, Deliang gave a message, "I think the pig girl on the other side is planning to clear out all our lower jungle areas... Xiao Gu, you said he won't come to the tower at level 3 to kill, right?"
Gu Xing cut the screen to see the bottom line of troops.
It's true.
Even the Imp equipment was no longer equipped. With Jankos in the lower half, and the first-level combat effectiveness of our duo was relatively strong, we drove Jack to the rear and also slowly replenished the tail blade.
Normally, a small cannon with level 1 E [Explosion Spark] cannot control the line.
But Gu Shengbin obviously saved skill points, and there was no splash damage when killing the minion!
The intention of hoarding lanes and entering the tower cannot be hidden at all. Gu Xing can be sure that Jankos will launch a tower-crossing offensive on VG's bottom lane after clearing out the wild monsters in the lower half of VG and raising them to level 3.
The combination of Mouse + Wind Girl is very weak and lacks the means to resist. If the lane is hoarded, the three players in the jungle will not have the ability to resist in the face of the enemy!
Gu Xing understood.
Jankos deliberately organized a dead end.
Taking advantage of the strong period of G2's first-level team, he invaded the lower jungle area of VG and drove himself to the upper jungle area. He then waited for opportunities to cross the tower and kill...
This is a series!
The most outrageous thing is that this is a conspiracy.
From a superficial point of view, the only conventional response strategy is to have the VG duo retreat one step ahead into the grass in front of the lower second tower.
But in this way, the two of them will lose a lot of troops. How will they fight against each other next?
Gu Xing flicked F6, frowning and thinking hard. He would switch screens from time to time to observe the situation faced by his teammates and think of ways to break the situation.
Suddenly he had an idea.
Got it!
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, just wait until the opponent's hands are cold..." Gu Xing signaled to his teammates to be calm.
The VG duo had no choice but to give up the idea of retreating to the autistic grass and continued to stay under the tower.
When the cannon pushed the third wave of soldiers into the tower, Pig Girl, who had just leveled up to level 3, emerged from the grass behind the side of VG's next tower. She was flanked by her own bot lane and stared at the enemy duo. !
However, just when G2 was about to attack, they saw a dazzling light on the next tower of VG!
The doll's eyes widened, "My dear, a teleport from Kuro in the middle!"
“He is a real team player!”
Miller frowned and was worried, "But the TP position he was looking for in a hurry didn't seem to be very good. Perkz stepped forward and wanted to interrupt..."
"Eh?" His eyes lit up, "VG seems to have been prepared and has a backup plan!"
The next chapter ends with BO5.
PS: A repeat of last year’s semi-finals
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