archer ferocity

Chapter 218 Spring Crown! MSI here we come! 【7k】

Jin Gong on the field is a very calm person in most situations.

The more critical the game, the more so.

On weekdays, he is relatively lively when training in the base or playing games that have great advantages and are relatively easy.

Facing this final, Jin Gong was more serious than ever.

Judging from the lineups of both sides in this game, the tactical purpose of the EDG team is to focus on the single belt on the road.

Not just this game.

If there are coaches of other teams who study the three bp in the finals, they will find that the tactics implemented by EDG in the finals are completely different from the tactics they implemented in the regular season and playoffs.

So far in the Spring Split, EDG will either allow Jin Gong to choose a pure tool player, which is the system that the EDG team was best at.

A series of tank heroes such as Dashu and Da Chongzi directly arranged for Jin Gongyi, allowing him to resist pressure in the early stage and take on the role of the front row of the team in the later stage.

Either Jin Gong will choose heroes like captains and vampires who can take on late-stage big cores. The adaptability of the spring game version will make the choice of bot lane more functional. Therefore, when Jin Gong chooses late-stage big core heroes, Li Luo’s choice There will be a lot of space for hero selection, and this is also the system that EDG used the most in the Spring Split.

However, EDG rarely plays in the single belt system.

But in this spring finals, EDG undoubtedly taught RNG, and even all the teams a lesson.

Whether it is the first sword girl or this one Camille, EDG has fully grasped the 41-point push and the team rhythm.

The advantage of such a lineup is that if you have an advantage, you can use multiple containment to contain your opponent to death with excellent operational capabilities.

But the disadvantages are also obvious.

That is, once the game is delayed to the later stage, the output core will be relatively single, and the fault tolerance rate of team battles will be low.

Such is the case with this game.

Although there were several twists and turns in the end, it was completely worth it for Li Luo to be able to win the game in the shortest possible time.

"Let us congratulate the EDG team for defeating RNG 3-0 and winning the 2018 LPL Spring Championship! At the same time, they will also represent the LPL division in this MSI Mid-Season Invitational Tournament. Congratulations to them!"

Miller's tone was impassioned.

And Guan Zeyuan, who was beside him, also said slowly: "After a year, EDG regained their LPL trophy. It is really not easy! Their record in the spring split this time is magnificent. Nine consecutive victories, no loss in a small game in the playoffs, although they have lost in a small game in the regular season, but from the overall big game, it is no exaggeration for them to win the Spring Split!"

"Indeed, at the beginning of the season, we were not very optimistic about this EDG team after personnel changes, but this spring, whether it is the jungler Xiaotian or the top laner Jin Gong, they have proved themselves!"

The baby said with emotion: "So the audience at the scene, please give them another round of applause, please?!"

As a field control commentator, Doll's field control ability is really good.

As his voice fell, the scene cheered thunderously.

Seeing everyone in EDG walk up to the trophy and hold it high, the players in the Post Bar forum were also excited.

"I said that Jin Gong's performance in these three matches has blown up Letme. Do you have any objections?"

"I'm sure not, what the hell Jin Gong's three hits are completely world-class top laner performance, especially the wave of retention just now... MD showed me dumbfounded."

"Although Luo Ge's three games are also very good, but one thing to say, I think the FMVP of this finals should be Jin Gong. Who is in favor and who is against?"

"Waah actually only mentioned Xiaotian and Jin Gong. Brother Luo isn't a rookie anymore? It hasn't been a year since he made his debut until now, and I'm a rookie too!"

"Brother Luo is a newcomer in a certain sense, but he has traveled the path he has traveled in less than a year of professional career, so far no other Chinese player has completed it."

"Now standing in front of you is the champion of the 2017 LPL Summer Split, the champion of the 2018 LPL Spring Split, the champion of the 2017 Global Finals, the FMVP of the 2017 LPL Summer Split, and the FMVP of the 2017 Global Finals... Looking at it this way, if EDG wins the championship at MSI... Isn't Brother Luo a big man champion?"

"It shouldn't be counted. Brother Luo has never played in the intercontinental competition, and there will be events in the Asian Games soon..."

"I feel sorry for my factory. I didn't even get a chance to play in the finals. Is EDG going to hide the factory?"

"Stop bragging about the factory director. Can't you see how strong Xiaotian is now? The factory director can play, but Xiaotian can, but the factory director of Xiaotianhui can't play. The characters of the older generation are destined to be eliminated."

"Xiangguo was blown up twice, and Casa was also blown up. I said that Xiaotian is now the No. [-] jungler in the LPL division, no one has any objections?"

Some viewers who came to the post bar to blow water and watch the show began to feel uncomfortable after seeing these remarks.

But some viewers are quite sensitive.

It's only been less than 2 minutes since the cup was held.

The comments brewing in the post bar have begun to go wrong.

It's hard to say exactly what's wrong.

Especially fans of other teams.

After all, EDG is going to represent LPL in the MSI Mid-Season Invitational.

Fans of many teams are actually very open to it.

But they will support their favorite team during the civil war in the LPL division.

However, if their favorite team fails to make it to Worlds, then they will support the team representing the LPL in Worlds.

This is a very normal thing.

Therefore, when EDG won the championship, many fans of RNG and even fans of other teams came to the forum to eat melons with a feeling of relief.

However, some people's remarks made them feel very uncomfortable. Most of the congratulations to the EDG team dissipated, and some even developed disgust.

……

competition arena.

When all members of EDG poured into the stage and held up the Silver Dragon Cup, which symbolizes the LPL championship, the warm atmosphere of the scene was also at its peak.

With the interview of the host Ren Dong, the hustle and bustle of the scene subsided a little.

"First of all, congratulations again to EDG for winning the LPL championship trophy again after a year. I would like to interview Meiko. How do you feel right now? Do you have the feeling that you are used to winning the championship?"

Ren Dong's joke made Meiko a little embarrassed, but fortunately, Meiko is also a veteran, and can quickly adjust his emotions when facing an interview.

After making some adjustments, Meiko said calmly: "It still feels different, especially this is the first championship that Li Luo and I won. I am very happy to be able to win the championship with Brother Luo."

"Oooh."

There were bursts of well-intentioned laughter and sighs at the scene.

Ren Dong also showed a narrow smile, and handed the microphone to Li Luo: "I want to interview Brother Luo's mood here, and by the way, I also want to know who made the last wave of decisions."

"Of course I am in a good mood. After taking this step, I am one step closer to my grand slam."

Li Luo said naturally: "In addition, the last wave of decisions...Actually, according to my original idea, I wanted to use Galio and I to attract RNG's attention and give Xiaotianxia a chance to fight against Longkeng. But the handling of the incense pot was very good, and it broke our layout."

"However, Jin Gong's adjustment is very good, his thinking is very clear, so the last wave of decisions is actually made by Jin Gong."

"So that's how it is..."

Ren Dong understood instantly, and then continued to ask: "What does Brother Luo think is the magic weapon for defeating RNG 3-0 this time? Can you share it with everyone?"

After pondering for a while, Li Luo said: "There is no doubt about it. Our overall performance is better than RNG's, so our team is bigger than RNG's team, so it is only natural that we can win."

Ren Dong nodded, feeling a little emotional in his heart.

In his impression, every time Li Luo was interviewed with similar questions, Li Luo's answers were similar.

The word "team" has always been around.

Debut like this.

Now that more than half a year has passed, Li Luo's original intention is still the same.

Immediately after Ren Dong handed the microphone to Xiaotian, Xiaotian won the championship for the first time, and he looked obviously nervous. When faced with Ren Dong's question "Are you satisfied with your performance?", Xiaotian organized his language Afterwards, he said: "I am quite satisfied. My teammates have helped me a lot, so I can have a better environment to perform."

Then it was Jin Gong who interviewed.

At this time, Jin Gong's mood has calmed down. When Ren Dong mentioned what he thought about the last wave, Jin Gong smiled at the camera and said: "At that time... I didn't think much about it, I just thought, No matter what, you have to keep them here, and use all the skills that can be used, so it's done..."

The barrage was already flooded with tears.

"Cry for me!"

"What is a team top laner?!"

"To be honest, before today, I always thought that team-type top laner = use bastard heroes to mix, but today I realized that team-type top laner refers not to the attributes of the hero, but to the player's style. Who can say the last one? Po Jingong didn’t operate? It’s just gorgeous, okay?!”

"Look at what you said, it seems that my Gongzi brother can't carry, I forgot the first three swords and one uzi!"

Soon, Ren Dong interviewed Ming Kai again.

When the factory director faced the camera, he was as old as he was already proficient.

After seeing him "smile evilly", he said: "We have really been studying the opponents of MSI for a long time, and I will prove myself again at MSI!"

"66666!"

"Sure enough, the factory is still a factory!"

"Facts, the LCK spring champion is KZ, and KZ's jungler is Peanut."

"Changzi, your fans have come to look for you again, Changzi."

"Isn't this MSI just an advanced version of ROX playing an advanced version of EDG? And brother Luo hasn't played against the two old masters Xuanming yet..."

"The All-Star game is over, you forgot?"

"If you say that, then I have to tell you about the gold content of Uzi's soloking in the 2016 All-Star Game."

……

With the end of the interview, the awards ceremony also began.

A team cash reward of 150 million plus an official commemorative card with his own ID specially customized for each player.

When he got the badge, Meiko whispered to Li Luo while fiddling with it: "How do you think the organizer knows who will win the championship? Wouldn't it be embarrassing if it was printed wrong?"

Li Luo pondered for two seconds: "Is there a possibility that they printed two sets."

"What about the other set?"

"You have to ask the organizer about it."

Li Luo was a little helpless, with Tian Ye's IQ, he would ask such a question.

Li Luo felt that he had to re-evaluate the IQ of his "concubine".

After that, it was the departure ceremony of MSI.

This time the official is lazy.

In the past, they gave each player a piece of clothing, and let the players wear it before taking a group photo.

But this time they actually framed a piece of Conquest with a dragon pattern on it, and then asked the contestants to hold up the framed frame to take pictures.

The whole highlights a scribble.

On the way back to the backstage, Xiaotian took the initiative to carry the trophy for the champion of the spring competition, looking very happy.

Jin Gong was browsing the phone comfortably beside him.

"Because of the relatively tight schedule, we can only give you three days off this time, so please bear with us."

Zhu Kai said with a smile as he walked.

"It doesn't matter whether there is a holiday or not. Even if there is, you will be making up for the live broadcast time at the base. Alas, professional players, it's difficult, and there is nowhere to spend money."

Meiko said helplessly.

"That's right, and everyone in our base is single... oh, except us Qijiang."

Xiaotian also said with a smile on his face.

"Let's go out to celebrate today. There is no need to make up for the live broadcast time during the holidays. If we can't finish it, Li Zhe can go to the live broadcast platform to deal with it. Even if the live broadcast platform is angry, he will take it out on him. It has nothing to do with us."

Abramovich's words made all the players shine.

at the same time.

Li Zhe, who was arranging the evening celebration banquet, suddenly sneezed.

"Fever cold?"

Li Zhe rubbed his nose and muttered in his heart: "Who is still arranging me?"

……

Not surprisingly, the news that EDG won the spring championship quickly began to ferment from the Internet.

The players of EDG have also read these remarks while they were bored.

Especially Xiao Tian.

When he saw how many people in the post bar forum boasted that he was the world's number one jungler, he was a little flustered.

Xiao Tian didn't belong to the kind of professional player with a big heart.

This kind of extremely high praise seems to be a kind of recognition for him.

But Xiaotian, who is the person involved, doesn't think so.

If it was King Ning, he would take it for granted.

But people are different.

This will only increase Xiaotian's psychological pressure.

"Isn't this group of people exaggerating too much? Isn't this causing a war?"

Meiko also saw a lot of remarks about herself.

What happened to Xiao Ming, the number one domestic support and so on.

Fortunately, this is not the first time that meiko has encountered this situation. He has seen similar remarks as early as after the 2015 MSI.

It's just that the e-sports circle at that time wasn't such a mess.

Rao has had a similar experience before, and when seeing these remarks, Meiko is still secretly stunned.

"There are people who step on each other everywhere. The wise appreciate it, and the fools appreciate it. In fact, there are not many people who understand the principle of comparison, but after all, there are still quite a few people who like to compare."

Li Luo patted Xiaotian on the shoulder after noticing that Xiaotian's expression was wrong and said, "Don't put too much pressure on yourself, what happens is our entire team's responsibility."

"Yeah, look at our Qijiang, who was once boasted as the world's number one jungler. He also said that he wanted to prove himself on the field, but now he has memorized 4396. Qichan, come and comfort me."

Meiko's voice attracted Ming Kai's attention.

Ming Kai rubbed Naoren.

Everyone has been teammates for about three years. They are teammates with each other, but they are more like brothers.

The better the relationship, the more outrageous the jokes they make with each other.

He has gradually gotten used to this feeling.

But Ming Kai has nothing to do with the comments on the Internet.

As a bystander, the consoling words I can think of are "Don't pay attention to those people, how they like to brag, it has nothing to do with you, just calm down."

However, only those who have experienced these things will understand that this so-called comfort is no different from farting.

Calm down, anyone will say it.

But how many people can really do it?

It's impossible for Xiaotian to control the fans' mouths and tell them not to brag about him. He is not the world's number one jungler. He can't stand up and say such things.

Ming Kai knew very well that on the surface, the Internet is overwhelmingly promoting EDG.

But this kind of flattery is like a boat swaying in huge waves, which may capsize at any time.

When will it turn over?
Of course when you lose.

Ming Kai also knows that if he can figure out this problem, Xiaotian must also be able to figure it out.

This is where the seriousness of the problem lies.

As the saying goes, prosperity must decline.

The EDG team's journey in the spring split was really smooth.

Will they be able to win the final championship undefeated at MSI this time?

No one can guarantee.

But as long as they have this kind of pressure and ideas from public opinion, they will definitely have problems on the field, this is [-]%!

Ming Kai has experienced the dark S5 season, of course he knows this truth.

Before the start of the S5 World Championship, domestic players were blowing up what LPL was like.

However, the harder they blow, the harder they blow after S5's defeat.

This is the impact of the overall environment.

Inadvertently, Ming Kai glanced at Li Luo.

He actually wanted to know how Li Luo, as a rookie, was able to maintain such a steady state of mind.

In Ming Kai's impression, Li Luo never seemed to be affected by the pressure of public opinion, that feeling... as if he didn't care about public opinion.

But as a young man, how is this possible?
What Ming Kai didn't know was that Li Luo had experienced too much.

S5LPL players will be inflated by the praise of the audience.

Three years have now passed.

Facing the praise of the audience again, the players of the EDG team will not be inflated, but their hearts are still heavy.

This change in mentality is derived from lessons learned.

Although Li Luo before his rebirth did not experience it personally, he has seen countless similar cases.

Every time before playing a game, Li Luo will adjust his mentality, this adjustment is similar to "hypnosis" in psychology.

This can make Li Luo not be influenced by outside public opinion to the greatest extent.

In terms of public opinion, in the EDG team, Li Luo was under the greatest pressure.

As the first domestically produced world champion adc player, Li Luo's honor brought him countless compliments.

What is the number one ADC in China.

The first ADC in China since ancient times.

Facing these titles with time bombs, Li Luo's pressure was terrifying.

But Li Luo, who has experienced so much, knows one thing.

As long as his own mentality is not affected, even if there are twists and turns in the process, he will not be destroyed.

Instead of being destroyed, and with self-confidence, he can keep moving forward.

public opinion?

Does public opinion affect his making money or does it affect his playing games?
Or... he played professionally for the sake of fans and public opinion?

neither.

The reason why he became a professional player was because of his own dream.

Only when you truly understand and believe that you are playing professionally for yourself, will you not be affected by the influence of public opinion.

From joining EDG to now, Li Luo and Abramovich have discussed many ways to play.

And these styles of play caused Li Luo to die without knowing how many brain cells.

Unlike in IG, Li Luo's biggest breakthrough in EDG was... integration.

Integrate into the version created by the designer, cater to the designer's version and move forward, avoid the important and ignore the minor in the process of progress, and confuse the designer as much as possible.

Under such confusion, there is a high probability that the designer will choose to advance the version according to the original thinking.

This is exactly what Li Luo wanted.

As long as the big version in his impression has no yaw, then the tactics of the EDG team can be continuous like a torrential river.

But if there are changes in the big version that are contrary to his rebirth, then Li Luo can only rely on the tactical preparation attribute in his talent.

Although this is his advantage, there are many players who have this advantage.

In the spring game, Riot put the main target on IG.

The aggressiveness shown by IG in S7 also made the fist fight in terms of vision.

Li Luo couldn't remember the details of the version very clearly.

But this general direction is undoubtedly correct.

The same is true when the fist is fighting against SSG before rebirth, cutting the proportion of adc in the team and the field of vision respectively.

Because SSG's defensive ward is too good, Zombie Guard will turn SSG's defensive ward into a landmine that may blow itself up.

So SSG is useless.

However, IG's vision ability is weak, but its intrusion is very strong. Therefore, the change of zombie guard will greatly magnify IG's weak vision ability, and SSG has become a victim instead.

Li Luo, who transferred to EDG, seems to have been under attack.

But he didn't cut his aorta with a knife.

In the spring competition, Li Luo showed a relatively strong performance desire with functional adc.

In order to reduce the proportion brought by functional ADCs, Riot released Kai'Sa, and strengthened late-stage ADCs such as the policewoman, Xayah, and Verus.

Then EDG began to quickly switch versions, catering to the fist with a wave of 41-point push play.

IG was seriously unsuitable in the version changes in the playoffs, which led to its elimination.

From S8 to the present, Li Luo has been swimming on the edge of the rules like a fish.

This is also Li Luo's law of survival.

It's also the perfect textbook survival rule for any team.

But the key to the mid-season version is there.

The mid-season patch was nothing short of a huge turnaround for the season as a whole.

The tactics and even the performance of this MSI will be related to the version changes made by Riot during the summer split and even the subsequent World Championship.

It was the IG team that was beaten in the spring split.

But the next MSI champion will be the second to be beaten.

This is also the reason why very few teams can perform well in the World Championship after winning the MSI championship.

In many cases, it is not because the strength of the team has fluctuated.

Most of the time it's because the team doesn't fit the Riot meta.

It's brutal.

But it's also true.

……

The MSI version is finalized at 8.8.

Compared with the LPL finals, it spanned two small versions.

The updated content of the 8.7 version has been implemented on the national server, and the players have naturally known it for a long time.

For Li Luo, the most influential change was the weakening of the sheep knife.

The change from 3000 yuan to 3300 yuan will make adc less suitable for making a sheep knife as the first piece of equipment.

This is almost equivalent to Varus' nerf.

In addition, the shield of the relic passively gives less money.

This means that the priority of hard support will be reduced.

Soft assistants may regain the lead over hard assistants and become beneficiaries of the version.

But that's not enough.

When the updated content of version 8.8 came out, all members of EDG were a little serious.

The first is the weakening of Varus.

Although EDG did not get Verus many times in the spring split, this hero is considered popular in all divisions.

Afterwards, Kai'Sa also ushered in her first weakening.

Another relatively large change in version 8.8 is the extension of Galio's ultimate move time.

This is equivalent to a castration of the tactical system for EDG, which prefers to use Galio as a support in the spring split.

Yao Ji's rework callback can be regarded as announcing the failure of S7 Yao Ji's rework.

Tam, Rock Sparrow, also ushered in varying degrees of weakening.

"The money of the melee minions has increased, the money of the long-range minions has decreased, and the gunners have increased... If you miss a gunner, you will lose money."

Xiaotian couldn't help complaining after noticing that the little soldier had also been changed.

Abu looked at all this with some seriousness.

Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary players, the changes to the minion economy will not even get their attention.

At most, it's just complaining or teasing about the money of cannon carts and super soldiers.

But for professional teams, the impact of changes to cannons and super soldiers is huge.

The change to the gold of the cannon troop means that the players may be very exhausted in the battle when facing the cannon troop competition during the laning phase.

And the chain reaction brought about by this fierce confrontation is the increase of confrontation in the early stage.

The bottom lane is most affected.

However, Li Luo's Kai'Sa, who performed extremely well, was weakened in the early stage of laning ability.

This will make it relatively difficult for the EDG team to do bp in MSI.

While the EDG players were discussing with each other, Zhu Kai walked in and said: "The list of all MSI teams has come out. Although everyone already knows about it, this year's competition system will be different from previous years. MSI is different."

Zhu Kai's words caught the eyes of all the team members.

"The events will be held in Berlin, Germany and Paris, France."

"The event is divided into two types: the play-in match and the group stage. We will talk about it after the teams in the play-in match are finished. In the group stage, the teams from each major region we will face are TL from North America."

"The FNC of Europe."

"The KZ of Korea."

"And this time the opponent we need to pay attention to the most is undoubtedly KZ."

(End of this chapter)