The semi-finals of G2 and SKT represent more than just places to Paris.
It also represents the handover between two generations of legendary players.
Although as early as the S7 season, SKT, led by Faker, was EDG led by Ye Tian, scored a 9-0 win of one and three games, along with LZ and SSG.
But because Ye Tian is in the LPL fantasy god EDG, Huni was exposed before entering the World Championship, and Faker held down his junior Scout alone, the general view from the outside world is that SKT lost, but Faker did not lose.
In the S8 season, SKT did not enter the World Championship.
Even though Faker is in poor condition, there are two aspects that can be expected to be seen from the trough, the World Championship and the inability to perform in the competition area.
This year.
Faker won two LCK championships in the SKT Galaxy battleship, and qualified as the top spot in the group. The team is absolutely not bad.
As a result, Ye Tian brought European and American chickens to a 3-0.
In addition, the last game, Kiana used by Faker, did nothing after the laning period, and finally even used a big move to push Mercury Yasuo ineffective operation, which reminds people of the words that have been circulated for several seasons.
——Faker is old.
On the hot search list.
The first one is #Tian Ge Enters the Final#
The second place is #G2 promotion#
The third one is the #LPL meets again#
The fourth one is #Hat King stealing MVP#
Following closely behind is the topic #Faker Handshake#, which attracted a lot of comments.
[There are differences between the two single-player roads. Khan is better than Tian Ge. Faker plays worse than Caps. SKT can't win at all]
[Faker doesn't even have 30% of the level left. I think it's a little tiger if I cover my ID]
【Now, meeting Faker in the middle lane is really equivalent to meeting UZI in the bottom lane】
【Grass, a road that has never been imagined】
[In the past, Brother Tian needed to switch to the middle lane to help his teammates relieve the pressure, but now one Caps has blown Faker, which is really embarrassing]
[Losing to Brother Tian is better than losing to others, and it is the most decent exit for Faker]
certainly.
These are just the tip of the iceberg.
Players gathering places such as Tieba, Zhihu, Hupu, and Zhangmeng have already analyzed the strength comparison between G2 and FPX.
Caps is the strongest Dharma King in Europe. After defeating Faker head-on, it is no problem to say that he is the world's first traditional Dharma King. It is only compared to the regular mid-lane hero, and no player can compare with Caps.
but.
Doinb belongs to an alternative system.
In terms of hard power in laning or team fighting, Doinb can only be said to be the first echelon and cannot reach the ceiling level.
The key reason why Doinb scored the highest average damage, highest output proportion, highest average kill, highest average assist, and highest team-stakes rate in the knockout stage is the FPX team's four-pack two-player style.
Moreover, Doinb likes to drag his opponents to areas he is good at and defeats his opponents with rich experience. The Titans, Rambo, Sain, Crocodile and even Stone people he uses have high attributes of top lane heroes. In the current environment, it is still unknown which one is stronger than Caps or Doinb.
In the jungler position, the general perception is that Xiaotian is better than Jankos.
But there is a problem here.
That is, GimGoon's strength is definitely not as strong as Ye Tian. The upper half of FPX is easily lost. Jankos will easily gain the upper hand if he eats more wild monsters.
"It's hard to say the bottom lane."
"It's really hard to say."
The AD ancestor smiled and looked at the questions raised by the barrage. His face, who had always been paralyzed, showed a look of embarrassment on his face: "LWX is in really good shape this year. If there are three or five heroes in the bottom lane that can be used, I am optimistic about LWX, but the bottom lanes of this year's World Championship are Xia and Kasha. It's not easy to choose anything else. Just consider these two heroes. Ah P is not necessarily worse than LWX."
"Go to the A monster?"
"The A monster should not be as good as LWX, but you have to consider that if you go A monster on G2, you have to play games around Brother Tian. Whether Jin Gong can withstand it is a big problem - IG guarantee Theshy can create a dark three minutes, and Brother Baotian in G2... If you don't do it, you will have a dark BO3."
【Dark BO3? 】
【Three to zero, right? Got it】
【To be honest, FPX can win one game as if it is successful】
[G2 plays on the road, FPX plays on the bottom lane, so you won’t be able to win. It’s better to catch two people in the bottom lane than to catch one person in the top lane]
[Group Tian can change the line, Caps goes to the top to play with Jin Gong, Brother Tian changes to the middle to the middle, Monkey still wants to jump in front of Brother Tian? 】
[FPX wants to win and see junglers and support. Liu Qingsong has the strongest ability to walk around. Xiaotian is the best in junglers. If the two of them go to the middle to help, Brother Tian may not be able to withstand]
[Which is talking in my sleep, dare to catch Brother Tian? Forgot how those teams died before? 】
[I think FPX has a chance, the theme song is Nirvana]
【Only FPX can be reborn? Brother Tian walked out of the LPL area and wasn’t he nirvana when he went to G2 to play? 】
The barrage was discussed.
In Madrid, the Spanish capital, G2 members have packed up and boarded the train to Paris.
From Madrid to Paris, France, the plane is the fastest and most affordable way to transport.
Not only is the train twice as slow, but the price of temporary ticket booking is also much higher.
But...
G2 is a German club.
Taking a plane to Paris feels completely different from taking a train to Paris!
Starting from Atocha Station, cross the vast plateau of the Castile-La Mancha region, cross the majestic Pyrenees, appreciate the pastoral and coastal style of southern France along the Mediterranean Sea, and then turn north to the heart of France.
As we approached the city of Paris, wheat fields and villages on the plains were replaced by satellite cities. The spire of the Eiffel Tower slowly rose from the skyline, and people couldn't help but raise an ambition of "I'm here, I see, I conquer."
Accor Paris combines accommodation and game viewing functions, and does not require back and forth, and the whole process is solved in one stop.
As the only remaining team in Europe, the official provides the highest-spec skyline view room for G2. When you walk to the window, you can see the iconic tower and the sparkling Seine River.
Ye Tian put his luggage, took a simple shower, and sorted out the photos he took along the way in a nine-cage grid and posted them on his Weibo.
【Tian Ge Chong Chong Chong Chong Chong Chong Chong Chong Chong】
【Waiting for a triumphant victory in three consecutive championships】
[FPX almost failed to qualify from the welfare group, and it is definitely no problem for Brother Tian to win them]
[That little girl is so sarcastic all day long, and this time she educates him]
【Sarcastic? when? 】
[At that time, I was overturned and ran to Weibo to hang myself. Only Brother Tian is generous and doesn't know him well, otherwise it would be fined and banned]
[It's not just about hanging on Weibo, but during the live broadcast, Brother Yin and Yang Tian robbed his ID several times. I thought that he didn't enter the LPL at that time. Isn't it okay for Brother Tian to use his name as an ID? 】
[There is only one day in the world, let Gao Tianliang go back to farm]
[Hahahaha, it's really good. Let's say something like trash - what kind of profession is this? Go back to farm]
"Hey, this trash talk is really good."
"It can be compared with Mingkai's pig farming."
When I saw the comment, I posted the screenshot in the group: "Brother Tian, do you want to follow this?"
"Don't make trouble. Mingkai is fighting Rank and criticizing Wei Shen, not trash talk about the game." Ye Tian refused: "If I say this, I might be killed by the depression sword technique alone."
"Depression knife technique?" A P was very interested: "What is that? Is it good to give me some science?"
The depressive knife technique appeared in 2016.
At that time, the major competition areas were still very closed and there was not much communication between them. Even if this meme is familiar with the LPL region, A P, who is in Europe, does not know the specific content.
"Uh..."
"This is not easy to say."
Ye Tian felt that family scandals should not be made public.
"What's wrong with saying? Brother Tian, don't say it, I'll say it!" The monster of A is prominent and likes to make trouble: "A girl said before that Mingkai would kill anyone else. She has depression, and it's not illegal to stab someone; then FPX's Xiaotian also has depression."
"Oh--" A P suddenly realized: "It's okay, Tian, don't worry, if the FPX jungler dares to rush over with a knife, I will push Wunder to block it."
Wunder: "??????"
"Anyway, you don't need to play games, you're using the waste!" Ah P not only had to use Wunder to block the knife, but also to kill his heart.
However.
Next second.
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Wuder took a photo of the bright muscles: "Think about it carefully, who was the two of us pushing whom."
"Hahahahahahahaha."
"Hahahahaha."
"Perkz, you really can't push Wunder."
"There is no way, AD's body is too weak, and the top laners are all numerical monsters."
The G2 players were laughing and laughing.
The other side.
The atmosphere inside the FPX team is extremely serious.
During the World Championship, Xiaotian's performance was very impressive.
Especially since most junglers use bad Kiana, they have given FPX a great advantage in the Ban/Pick stage.
But the core style of FPX team is actually the linkage between China and the auxiliary.
Since you want to play the middle and auxiliary linkage, you can't avoid the topic of center laning. If the mid laner is pressed under the tower and cannot move, the so-called linkage will naturally be impossible to talk about.
I want Doinb to move.
Rookie, who has already slipped from Allah to a chicken, cannot do it.
Faker couldn't do it in his late years.
The traditional Dharma King Caps is likely to be unable to do it.
Ye Tian, who has never lost a single World Championship, is not that easy to say...
"Normal laning is not too difficult for us to deal with."
"The difficulty lies in what to do if the upper and middle lines of G2 are replaced."
FPX coaches have more or less some things: "Doinb, you have to consider two things. One is to use top lane heroes and Tian to go against the lane, and the other is to use traditional mid lane and Caps to go against the lane."
"It's up to junglers and support." Doinb didn't make too exaggerated expressions at this time, but instead put on a serious attitude: "I can't beat Tian 1v1, but we are both stronger in the junglers and support, and we don't have to think about killing Tian or anything. As long as I can move, we can do things together."
It sounds complicated.
To sum up, it's actually just one sentence.
——Jiefang Middle Road, feedback the bottom road, and use first to drive the molding and then molding.
"No problem!"
Xiaotian patted his chest and promised: "As long as I start the game smoothly, I can win at any time in the mid-term."
"In fact, there is no mid-stage, and after the early stage, it will be late stage." War Horses are just a matter of fact: "Tian's personal ability is too strong. He can lead the team into a fast attack team in EDG and G2. Moreover, G2's fast attack ability is actually better than EDG. The average time per game is not as low as that is because there is no female policeman, and there is a hero with a point tower."
"The team with Tian as the core, the trajectory of winning the game is one or two waves of decisive teams after Tian takes shape. These or two waves of decisive teams usually occur in fifteen to twenty minutes."
After talking about the cliché data.
The war horse paused for a few seconds, waiting for the team members to digest the information, and continued to speak: "I won't say much about the early stages. Everyone knows how to do it. The core lies in the decisive team."
"First of all, we cannot give Tian a chance to go around or take advantage of the terrain. We must put the decisive team on the front, preferably with our defense tower back to eliminate suddenness, so that we can limit Tian's most luxurious point of equipment. If we win, it is easy to chase, and if we lose, it is easy to retain more vitality."
"Then in terms of equipment, try not to let Tian take the head and tower. If it is normal to line up, it doesn't matter if the top lane is given. If G2 changes the line, the middle lane plating will never be given to Tian unless there is more stuff to exchange."
"In addition to these two points, I have another idea, which is to eat dragons to develop."
The war horse threw out the third one.
"Let the dragon eat to develop?"
"If it is a dragon with combat attribute, it will be a loss."
Liu Qingsong doesn't quite understand.
After the attributes of the dragon are fully improved, even a single fire dragon may allow heroes with high returns to break through the damage critical point, and the earth dragon is perfectly in line with the speed push rhythm of Ye Tian’s team.
Releasing the dragon is something that other teams have not considered.
"We can see a data."
"The probability of Tian participating in the Little Dragon team battle is very low, and he is entirely based on his own development."
The war horse gave a detailed explanation: "Consider two trips and returning to the city. The time required to kill a little dragon is enough for a single-line hero to obtain three or four hundred gold coins, and two are seven or eight hundred. The improvement brought by the little dragon in the twenty-minute front-end battle is far less than that."
"My idea is to give up the first two or even the first three little dragons, and use this time to gain the economy to lay the groundwork for the decisive team. As long as it is not a double fire dragon, the dragon that gives up other attributes has both pros and cons at most, and it will not have more disadvantages than advantages - because it is almost impossible for us to reach the real late stage of more than thirty minutes or more than forty minutes."
"What the coach said makes sense!" Doinb was the first to stand up for approval.
The teams that fought with Ye Tian have never understood the true value of Xiaolong. They always use the eyes of other teams to measure, so they value Xiaolong very seriously.
Think about it again.
A game that decides the winning or losing in twenty minutes. Apart from the Double Fire Dragon, is the other attributes of the little dragon of other attributes very meaningful?
Even if it is a double earth dragon, it is just that in a team without a female police officer’s tower demolition system!
"Yes, yes!"
"It's true."
"We pretended to go and get the little dragon, tricked them into the dragon pit, and then turned to develop."
The others of FPX reacted one after another.
The concept is actually a thin film. If you poke this film, everything will come naturally.
FPX went from not knowing how to win, to having a clear tactical arrangement, and its momentum was completely different from before. Everyone was as excited as they were injected with chicken blood, waiting for the day when the finals came.
outside world.
The warm-up for the finals is in full swing.
In addition to the rooms reserved for G2 and FPX, Accor Hotel has booked all the others. The tickets were sold out by scalpers to more than 20 times the original price, and the supply was in short supply.
Major media are full of publicity for the G2 club.
What?
G2 club has poor history and reputation?
joke!
What do journalists do best?
Of course it is a distortion... no, it is to dig out the truth!
G2's previous various behaviors of hitting cars were beautified into catfish thrown into sardine boxes, and the rise of the entire European competition area was due to the catfish effect brought by G2.
The French newspapers are the best at making trouble.
This newspaper copied all the journey maps of Ye Tian’s post and put them on the front page headlines. The caption is full of imagination - "G2, Tian approaches the Accor Hotel Arena" (the end of this chapter)