Alliance: Let you buy the top order, you buy an old man?

Chapter 209 The Challenged!
"Law dodges R in the middle and fires four W! Jace's one shot followed up the damage, and AHQ was instantly defeated!"

"SKT suddenly made a quick lane change and destroyed AHQ in the middle of the team. In 17 minutes, they even had a chance to take the Rift Herald out of the game!"

Listening to Wawa and Miller's ups and downs on the stage, the LPL players in the lounge let out sighs.

"AHQ is too weak. It can't last for even 10 minutes?" Jack questioned in his soul: "Isn't this really acting?"

Don’t blame them for doubting the quality of competition in the LMS division, they really don’t deserve it!
"I think they are nothing!" Xiangguo shouted: "Wolf's Luodu has disappeared for half a minute, and they still dare to press the tower together without having a full view of the side? Have they not died enough?"

"In this way, JT must ensure that KT holds on for more than 25 minutes, so that we can win with a time advantage." Abu, holding his laptop, entered the data of the new round into the software and finally came to a conclusion.

Hearing this, everyone fell silent.

Although the previous two games between EDG and RNG ended very quickly, in fact, the LCK was not slow at all!
And after realizing that if they want to compete for first place, they must win in terms of duration, SKT obviously came into the game in a targeted manner. Whether it was getting Jess for Huni, or Little Peanut's Lee Sin or Luo Luo, they all played fast breaks. A good hand.

In the end, SKT ended the game at 18 minutes.

In addition, the LCK generally ends the game faster than the LPL on the first day, so KT, who appeared in the finale, even had 25 minutes of fault tolerance!
Under normal circumstances, if two teams with a small level gap meet, ending the game within 25 minutes is actually a lot of pressure. Even the Crocodile lineup is not so stressful!
But after two days of intercontinental competition, everyone discovered that a strong team can really play such a short game against a weak team.

Especially when the opponent is an LMS team
This kind of game between teams that are several levels apart is several times simpler than the best situation that the audience imagined before the game!
The LPL and LCK now seem to be in an arms race, targeting LMS teams to end the game at a crazy speed!

This kind of behavior does not treat the LMS team as human beings at all, and it makes the faces of the audience hurt.

Although they lost to OMG the day before, KT still entered the stage with a firm and confident pace. If they lost once yesterday, they were careless and lost Jingzhou. Do you want to do the same thing again?
KT wants to vent all his anger on today's opponent!

In the LCK, KT is a well-known fighting team. Their advantage is that Mata has his own understanding of roaming and can play both jungle and assist. When facing other teams that only use jungle to drive the rhythm of the game. , has a great advantage.

"You need to study the skills in this area." Nofe sat next to Meikou, looking directly at the huge projection screen in the training room, and his words reached Meikou's ears.

"Although in the current version, as long as the assistant can play lane, it is enough, but there is no guarantee when there will be a version change, and the assistant will focus on roaming!"

nofe doesn't like to have his overall layout disrupted by a small version change, so he has been urging every team member to work hard towards areas that they are not good at.

Only in this way can we be calm and fearless when changes come.

The LCK team members who were backstage and had not yet left the venue gathered around and laughed loudly as they watched the lineup selected by JT!
It's normal for your blue side to grab the crocodile in the first move. This hero's tactical status is not low, but what will you choose in the second and third moves?
"What is this, Tristana? Is there still a place for this hero in the bottom lane?"

"Vi is even more outrageous. This hero has not appeared on the field for more than a year, right? It seems that the people in the LMS division are already training their lineup for tomorrow's knockout round!"

Defeating RNG yesterday and defeating AHQ today, SKT also tied EDG's second consecutive victory, and the degree of crushing in the game was not inferior to that of the opponent.

They have regained their self-confidence that was completely shattered at MSI, and Huni is already gearing up and waiting for revenge in the knockout rounds!

Little Peanut did not sit in SKT's lineup, but went to AFS mid laner Kuro to sit with him.

AFS had just been beaten by EDG for a 15-minute speedrun. Xiaohuahua, acting like an old teammate, came over to comfort the opponent and recall the glorious history of last year.

Seeing the opponent's lineup, he turned his head slightly and said: "What do you think JT's choice means? They are heroes that don't appear often. Brother Jinghao (smeb) took the prince, and they chose a small cannon with displacement. AD can understand it, but what does it mean to fight wild Wei?"

Little Peanut opened his right hand and raised it in front of his face: "I can at least use five heroes to easily defeat Wei in the jungle!"

"Perhaps he wants to use the 'lock' function of Wei's ultimate move to achieve the same teamfight effect as Titan?" Kuro guessed.

"Then I think I might as well choose the Titans!" Little Peanut curled his lips, "It's secondary that the bottom lane can't beat the lane, but the jungle has lost its competitiveness, and the third lane will be very uncomfortable!"

As a representative of the carnivorous jungler, Little Peanut finds it difficult to agree with JT's selection of such a hero who is extremely weak in the jungle.

Soon, the two sides entered the second round of BP.

After both sides have blocked the mid lane position in the first round, Lucian, Galio, Enchantress, and Syndra are all locked in the ban position. KT has given General Pawn a mid lane aircraft, which is the only remaining one in the current version. T1 hero.

At this time, JT began to ban junglers in the second round, and strong players like Spider and Mantis were banned.

A proud smile appeared on Little Peanut's face: "Sure enough! They also know that if they don't protect the jungle, Wei will directly rot during the duel in the jungle!"

"But this is not very useful. Even if there is no rhythm hero, Dongbin brother (jungle score) can still use the wild core hero, and he can still play very comfortably!"

Little Peanut’s prediction was correct. KT grabbed a jungler Qianjue from the old captain Score in the fourth hand.

Although JT's lineup has not yet been revealed in its entirety, it is expected that what can be paired with Wei will be a face-rushing system; and Kindred's ultimate move [Sheep Spirit Breathing] has an absolute counterattack effect on a wave of Allin's lineup. !

The choice turned to JT. On the fourth floor, they got Thresh, and then on the fifth floor, they locked the skateboard shoes - Kalista!
SKT coach kkoma, who was so cool just a second ago, jumped up from his chair and stood up!
"The skateboard shoes hit the mark?" KKoma frowned: "No, no, no! The skateboard shoes must be on the bottom lane, the little cannon hit the mark!"

There was an uproar in the LCK lounge!
Li Mufan quickly searched and compared the skill sets of small cannons and aircraft in his mind, and slowly analyzed it: "The online explosive ability of small cannons is much higher than that of early aircraft. Coupled with Wei's lock, good guy, JT We need to operate on the upper half of the area!"

"Oh, I forgot, their bottom lane is still the Shadow Island combination of Kalista + Thresh!"

Li Mufan showed an interesting smile on his face: "I thought that when JT faced KT, they would try their best to use the iron barrel formation and wait for the team fight in the later stage. I didn't expect that they would do the opposite and choose Use a strong third-line lineup to fight hard in the early stage!"

When a weak team beats a strong team, the general idea is to narrow the operational gap between the players on both sides and transfer the factors that affect the game situation to the attributes of the hero; and to achieve this goal, the best choice is to play a team lineup in the later stage.

If the user ID wasn't marked above each hero, Li Mufan would have thought that the lineup on the left was chosen by KT.

"Aren't they giving it away?!" Jack said anxiously: "If I choose this lineup, I won't believe it if I don't fight with KT in the early stage. When I was fighting for operations in the early stage, I know how big the gap is between JT and KT!"

"It's really not easy to fight!"

"Really?" Jack sighed and put his hand on Li Mufan's shoulder: "Looks like we have to beat Team Wanwan again tomorrow!"

"What I'm saying is that KT is not easy to play!" Li Mufan chuckled: "There is no doubt about the operation of KT's few people, but this lineup, top laner Prince, jungler Qian Jue, and mid laner, why should they compete with JT Are the three eldest brothers in the upper, middle and wild areas going to collide?"

"Isn't it, brother? Do you think highly of JT?" Jack's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Not optimistic." Li Mufan shook his head and continued;

"I don't think JT can beat KT, but I don't think KT can beat JT in 25 minutes, unless JT is acting purely!"

The game has begun. KT has already lost one game on the first day, so it has started quite steadily. They are determined to rely on their personal strength to take the lead in the lane, and rely on a three-way snowball to win!

The strength gap between JT and KT does exist. In less than 3 minutes, the bottom lane was destroyed by deft's Hanbing and mata's forced exchange of blood. However, they were unwilling to suffer a loss when they saw the troops pushing towards the defense tower. Family, insist on being a soldier!
He did not return to the city with remaining health, but was taught a lesson by the old captain who rushed over. Mata took the lead and rushed in to resist the tower. Kindred repeatedly jumped on the edge of the tower to create a large amount of damage. In the end, the old captain scored and deft alone. A head.

The good news is that JT also replaced mata, and Kalista got a consolation prize.

But no matter what, Kalista and Thresh were disconnected and killed in the early stage. It can be said that they are really good!

The top lane and jungle area also showed varying degrees of pressure. Only fofo in the middle lane relied on his own personal strength and the hero advantage of small cannons against aircraft to not fall behind.

Things are looking great for KT!
Everyone in the lounge looked anxious, except for a few people who still had a wait-and-see attitude.

"Don't worry, it's not the time yet!" Li Mufan soothed Jack's emotions, tapping the seat handle with his fingers, watching the game with a relaxed expression.

"Forget it! The worst thing is to have one more torture game!" Jack gritted his teeth and lay down on the chair to calm down and concentrate on enjoying the game.After being defeated by OMG yesterday, KT played very methodically today; the main score brush is used for vision and counter-jungling, while deft's [Eagle Strike in the Sky] from time to time can help teammates see JT's jungle performance trend.

General Pawn got the plane that defeated him yesterday, and the online details were also perfect. He was able to keep up with a small cannon whose early burst was much higher than his own.

As soon as the director turned the camera to the road, there was a sound of gasping in the lounge.

smeb was able to use the prince to suppress JT's crocodile on the road!
Go A, pull, and use W [Golden Divine Shield] to make the crocodile look like a fool. When the crocodile becomes angry and rushes forward with E skill, use diagonal EQ to directly interrupt it!

After a complete set of operations, the prince is still almost at full health, but a quarter of the crocodile's health has been lost!

Operation crushing.

Li Mufan silently rehearsed in his mind how he would gain an advantage if he faced off against the prince Smeb.

Relying on the advantage of playing online, KT already held a 7 gold lead at [-] minutes. KT seemed to have every advantage!
But at this time, something unexpected happened!

In the vacuum period of deft E skill, JT jungler Wei stuck to the wall on the top lane and entered the lane grass.

Wei's gank didn't require much operation. After smeb handed over EQ and crocodile again for blood exchange, Wei charged out from the grass to stun the prince, and then AE hit three rings in one second!
It is worth noting that Wei's three rings can also remove the armor of enemy targets, which is similar to the armor-breaking effect of Prince's Q skill!
At this moment, Crocodile activated his ultimate move, jumped forward with a swish sound, and used a set of red rage skills to directly beat the prince, who had not yet made a meat suit, to a serious disability!
Smeb knew that the crocodile still held the second piece of E in his hand, so he simply flashed it and didn't bother to hand it over. He stood there and waited to die.

JT's rhythm came very quickly, and Crocodile and Wei returned to the city together. When KT thought that both of them were in the spring, Crocodile decisively teleported to the bottom lane to bypass the back!
Also coming with him is the cannon of mid laner fofo!
The small cannon inserted into the lower route from the river, and the big move pushed Deft towards his own defense tower. Thresh immediately used the skill to kill him instantly.

When the game has been set up, which of these high-scoring kings in the rank can't operate?

KT maintained their advantage in the bottom lane for seven or eight minutes, but it was regained in an instant!

"This?" Jack stumbled and opened his mouth, extremely surprised.

"It's not over yet." Li Mufan crossed his hands and watched the game at leisure.

Score quickly came to the bottom lane to help deft stabilize the situation and hit the double call of Kalista; but immediately JT jungler Wei came to the middle lane, locked the head with the ultimate move and cooperated with fofo to forcefully jump over the tower to kill General Pawn!

Taking one less lane in the bottom lane in exchange for kills in the middle lane, JT is obviously more profitable!

KT also realized the problem. The opposite lineup was a bit fierce in small-scale team battles!
The key is that he doesn't let you have any room to operate, and he controls every one of them hard!

If you play some kind of enchantress or blind monk in the middle and jungle, it will be very powerful for a strong team, and it will be dazzling for two people to operate.

But for JT, what they pursue is stability!
Wei + Xiaopao can solve their needs: Wei's big move and Q have up to 2.5 seconds of control, W's passive armor breaking can increase damage to the team's physical heroes; at the same time, Xiaopao's own W skill [Rocket Jump] can Allowing him to easily keep up with Wei's long-distance teamfighting, the Q skill increases the attack speed and the E skill [Explosive Spark] allows Xiaopao to explode instantly even though he is an ADC hero!
After the fight, everyone in KT finally showed solemn expressions on their faces.

They found that it was not difficult to break through their opponents, but it was also difficult for them to prevent their opponents' attacks!
Jack finally understood the meaning of JT's lineup - risking his life!
Wei's gank seemed a bit forceful, but KT's people just had no means to deal with it; unless they all retreated under the tower, this was unrealistic.

Because if LCK wants to top the group, KT not only has to win, but they also have to win before 25 minutes!
Score sped up his own jungle and gank rhythm, so he gave up on counter-jungling, but he still couldn't keep up with the opponent's attack frequency.

Because after the lower tower fell, JT simply sent Thresh out to roam.

Thresh and Wei added another level of control chain, which was disgusting.

In the second 10 minutes, KT still had not made absolute progress, and the economics on the field were even.

Although for KT, who has the prince as the front row and the core of the aircraft in the later stage, having a flat economy is an advantage, but they are in a hurry!

The crocodile has gained a lot of head economy, and the defense tower economy has been accounted for, and the equipment is leading. It is far from the time when the crocodile's combat effectiveness declines; the same is true for the small cannon, and even the current combat effectiveness of the small cannon is higher than that without explosive packs. Aircraft in state!
On the contrary, skateboard shoes have become the sacrificed road. After all, JT has no energy to support the three roads. One road will always be regarded as the victim.

Seeing that KT seemed to want to use the baron to force the opponent and gain an advantage quickly, JT immediately responded - letting the mid laner and the small cannon go to the side!
There is no need to describe the speed of the small cannon when pushing down towers. [Explosive Spark] can be used on defense towers, and the Q skill can greatly increase the attack speed. The combination of these two can give him a side advantage that other heroes cannot match!

"The cannon didn't teleport!"

Even Miller and Wawa on the commentary desk were anxious. If you let a non-teleported position go to the curb, isn't this giving away the dragon?

KT pretended to want to fish at first, but the cannon pushed down the first tower and then appeared in front of the second tower. It had no intention of rushing forward. KT immediately started to allin the dragon!

"The reaction is a bit slow!" Miller frowned: "If I had really defeated the dragon right away, I would have already lost half of my health!"

"But now I'm back to fight, and all the cannons have hit the second tower."

The people in front of JT also started to squeeze towards the river. Only then did KT realize that Wei's location had not been found.

Without the vision of the opponent's jungler, fighting the dragon is very risky!

Deft fired two E skills in succession but failed to find Wei. Score suddenly felt nervous in his heart.

"How about we go out and start a group tour?!" He said tentatively.

"How is that possible!" Mata immediately retorted: "You've already reached this level of health! Don't worry about punishing Wei. I'll push him away as soon as I see Wei!"

The dragon's blood volume dropped rapidly. At this time, the small cannon had also taken away KT's second tower and began to move towards the high ground.

"Attention! It's coming!" Mata shouted urgently!
At this time, there was a crisp sound!
Diagonally, a long and thin hook shot out like lightning, hitting the baron in the dragon pit, and then Thresh's figure flew up directly!

Oops!

Everyone in KT was panicking!
It turns out that Wei has been standing behind their army all along!

Just now, KT always thought that Wei would choose a direction to cut into the dragon pit alone, and didn't even think about JT's front!

As soon as Wei entered the dragon pit, his ultimate move immediately targeted Qian Jue, who was standing in the middle, and rushed forward with an unstoppable momentum!

Bang!
Punishment falls!

"Got it! JT grabbed the baron!" Miller danced happily, as if it was the LPL team that grabbed the baron!
Everyone in the LCK lounge looked ashen.

Although JT lost the lives of both Nosuke and Dalong, he still made too much money compared to Dalong!

The Baron buff lasted for three and a half minutes, and the small cannon also captured KT's bottom lane tower in the recent advance. The suspense about whether JT could hold on for 25 minutes has been lost.

In the final 34 minutes of the fierce battle, KT finally won the game thanks to a perfect cut of the four-piece aircraft with explosive packs.

Everyone in KT just stood up, but the expressions on their faces were even uglier than JT's who lost the game!

At this point, the group stages of the Intercontinental Tournament have all ended.

"In the end, by virtue of the average time advantage of winning small rounds, our LPL won the first place in the group!" I was extremely happy. Although your LCK points are the same as ours, your ranking is below us!

And you have to play one more round of BO5!

Although I don’t have any second thoughts about the fact that LCK can completely defeat LMS in the BO5, it is undoubtedly a carnival for all LPL supporters at this moment!

Because at this moment, LPL will play the role of the challenged in the finals!
(End of this chapter)