Chapter 133: You don't want to get swept 0-3, do you?

"One-zero, congratulations G2!"

"Around 26 minutes, before the Baron buff disappeared, G2 Zhong Ren broke through SPY's two lane high grounds and made a comeback; after wiping out SPY on the high ground, they quickly destroyed SPY's base."

"Amid the audience's cheers, the players temporarily left the stage."

"The cut went to the commentator desk, where the two official casters congratulated G2 again, and then Sjokz looked toward Jankos sitting at the other end of the commentator desk:"

"\"Jankos, after watching this match live, how do you feel? \""

"Jankos glanced at the post-match data on the big screen and spread his hands:"

"\"I can only say it's unstoppable; this spider's stats are exaggerated. \""

"Upon hearing this, everyone else immediately looked at the big screen, which showed the total damage statistics panel; the damage bars of the two junglers far surpassed everyone else, and the Spider Queen's damage bar was longer than Nasus's by about a quarter."

"\"I won't even mention the KDA; as always, it's explosive. The most frightening part is that this assassin, who lacks much AOE and needs to go in to deal damage, actually dealt the highest damage on the team, with a damage share as high as 29%! \""

"\"Ohmygod... \""

"Although anyone who watched this match knows the spider's output is certainly not low, Sjokz truly didn't expect it to be this outrageous, and she couldn't help covering her mouth in astonishment."

"Subsequently, the MVP of this game was naturally announced without any suspense."

"\"Congratulations to player Firrrrrre for winning this game's MVP! \""

"\"Well deserved. \""

"\"Indeed. Then, moving on, you two active players, think of a plan for SPY; you probably don't want to see SPY lose 0-3 either, right? That would be too boring. \""

"\"Uh... \""

"H2K support VandeR thought, 'No, I really hope SPY gets swept 0-3!'"

"But he didn't dare say it."

"But Jankos just said it outright:"

"\"From our standpoint, we would indeed prefer G2 to cleanly take this Bo5, because then we wouldn't have to play the promotion series; moreover, objectively speaking, the chance of SPY being swept 0-3 is also quite high—on one hand, their strength is inherently inferior, and the gap is not small; on the other hand, from the fact that after G2 took Baron earlier, SPY's overeager chase showed that several of their players' mental states seem off... \""

"……"

"SPY's lounge."

"YamatoCannon stood at the door to welcome the returning players, lightly tapping each player's shoulder as they came in; after a long silence, YamatoCannon took a heavy breath, stood up, and looked over everyone:"

"\"I know everyone is under great pressure. \""

"\"The opponents are certainly strong. \""

"\"But we're all from the same region; do we really have an unbridgeable gulf between us? I don't think so. \""

"\"Think about how we've gotten this far despite everyone's doubts. Before the regular season ended, no one believed we could win that many games, and even at the semifinals, no one believed we could beat H2K to reach the finals. \""

"\"However, the ones here today are us, not H2K. \""

"\"——Never forget this, brothers. \""

"\"Cheer up! \""

"\"We have a chance! \""

"\"Believe in yourselves! \""

"YamatoCannon's encouragement worked; the originally dejected SPY Zhong Ren all lifted their heads, and fighting spirit reignited in their eyes."

"YamatoCannon secretly let out a sigh of relief and said with a smile:"

"\"The previous game was my fault for poor composition; I should have stuck to our best playstyle, so I will adjust our ban/pick strategy for the next game. \""

"SPY fought their way to the finals stage, relying actually on jungle-support synergy."

"And the initiator of SPY's jungle-support synergy is Mikyx, who joined SPY this season and brought a qualitative change to the team."

"Mikyx excels at applying pressure to the enemy mid lane, thereby influencing the mid lane matchup; when he can stably push the mid lane, he teams up with the jungler to control the lightning in the lower half of the map, and whenever a fight breaks out there, SPY can always exploit their faster support advantage to gain some edges, gradually expanding the team's advantage."

"If you talk about macro play, Mikyx doesn't understand it, and the whole SPY team isn't great at it either; Mikyx just goes by his gut feeling, which is his talent."

"But to let Mikyx do his thing, the bottom lane must first have a push advantage."

"Or alternatively, we could let the AD carry farm, first send Mikyx out to help the jungle establish an advantage, then have him funnel resources back to the bottom lane."

"YamatoCannon discussed with the team and decided to play it by ear in the second game: if a good bottom lane combo is available, take it as much as possible; if not, give Kobbe a pick that can be left to farm."

"……"

"\"Welcome back! This is the live broadcast of the European Summer Finals. After G2 took the first point, the players have returned to the stage, and the second game's ban/pick has begun. Let's see how SPY will adjust their ban/pick after picking the blue side—SPY chose to directly ban this champion, Crocodile Spider—what? \""

"\"You mean they're two champions? \""

"\"No! \""

"\"SPY made this mistake in the previous game, so they now realize that the key role in this combo is actually Elise Miss; therefore, in this game's ban/pick they chose to ban Elise as well. \""

"\"But that leaves them with only one ban slot left. \""

"\"That's right, but G2's ban/pick strategy doesn't seem to have changed much—Piltover's female sheriff, Caitlyn, has remained locked in the Small Black Room from the start of ban/pick; the second ban slot is still under consideration... Wow, it's still Jhin, just the order swapped, and in the previous game's ban/pick they banned Jhin as the third pick. With this adjustment, who is G2 intending to leave the third ban slot for? \""

"\"I've finally figured it out. \""

"\"What is it? \""

"\"Although the lineup G2 picks is always different from the meta, their version understanding is actually the same; they just limit the enemy bottom lane by blocking AD in ban/pick, whereas the mainstream understanding is to give the bottom lane more support and attention during fights. \""

"SPY team voice channel."

"YamatoCannon was quickly communicating with the players."

"Finally, as the ban time was about to end, SPY locked in their third ban pick."

"\"Wow! Lu Xi An! \""