Chapter 190: A Group Qualification Day

The camera pointed at Firrrrrre's face and filmed for over ten seconds, yet Firrrrrre acted as if he couldn't see the camera almost shoved in his face, staying calm and composed; occasionally he would say a few words to the beautiful female coach, and a faint smile would appear on his face.

In the LPL livestream room, the bullet comments were hotly discussed, but since the domestic time was close to 4 a. m., fewer people watched the livestream than during the day, and the bullet comment density was far lower than daytime; fast typists could even chat with the earlier bullet comments.

【I discovered that Jiao Shen is quite handsome.】

【So what, are you going to sell your ass?】

I don't want to sell, and nobody wants to buy anyway; you can tell at a glance these two have chemistry.

【You figured it out again?】

【That's right, you see this girl, when she looks at Jiao Shen her brows and eyes are full of feeling.】

【Awesome, she didn't even move her eyebrows and you already saw her brows and eyes full of feeling.】

【You're still young, you don't understand.】

【The two guys up front, go open a room and chat alone.】

【Jiao Shen looks so calm; could it be that G2's CF jungler also has a secret trick?】

【What secret trick? They came just to lose!】

【Why?】

【Your village just got internet?】

【No, I'm on Aspiration Star.】

【Director, don't switch, what's there to see in the ban/pick? I want to see the beautiful woman!】

The camera switched back from the G2 restroom, and both sides' ban/pick had already begun.

It was already midnight, and with the long-haired host's hypnotic commentary, the viewers in the livestream room exclaimed they couldn't stand it, and many fled to the second channel or other streamers broadcasting the match.

However, the time is indeed too early; the big streamers haven't gotten up yet, and the few streamers available to choose from are scarce.

And on Huya, former professional coach turned LPL analytical commentator Joker actually got up in the middle of the night to start a stream; with sleepy eyes, he rubbed his eyes, put on his glasses, and waved at the camera to greet:

「Hey everyone, it's the middle of the night, but there are still quite a few people.

「Why start streaming so early, hehe, I just want to see how G2 plays after changing their lineup, I'm curious. Watching myself is watching, streaming while watching is also watching, right.

「Thanks for the gifts, brothers, but you don't need to send gifts; I don't lack them, just send more bullet comments to chat.

「Ban/pick has started, come take a look at the ban/pick, see whether G2 is really as rumored—changing lineup to intentionally lose the game to screw RNG, or if it's truly a helpless move.

「In this game, G2 as the blue side, their first two picks/bans don't look random; it can be said to be a very standard blue-side ban/pick for a group stage. However, ROX seems to look down on people—they banned Leopard Woman and Dragon King, yet both are still available, so when G2 counters by banning one and snatching one, aren't you losing big? But if G2 truly wants to lose the game, this pick should be to ban nothing, then each side gets one T0 hero.

「Giving all bans to ROX is impossible; that would be too fake. So… oh, they banned Dragon King and then snatched Leopard Woman for themselves—this ban/pick is fine, completely fine, normal, even could be called an excellent ban/pick strategy.

「However, there's a problem with this newly arrived jungler... how do you read this ID? It's too obscure to pronounce, so let's just call him CF. The question is whether CF can play Leopard Woman, because everyone knows Leopard Woman is strong but very picky; if the player isn't good, she's useless, so in that case it'd be better to pick something else, like Rek'Sai Spider, which is genuinely solid.

「Xiao Huasheng is still taking Blind Monk, and also locking Fan Mother—uh, that's not bad either. At this life-or-death moment, ROX's two picks are relatively stable; meanwhile, Blind Monk vs Leopard Woman is a fairly suitable matchup, though it also depends on the player. The key point for Blind Monk against Leopard Woman is that you must not let her get rolling, especially in the first wave; you have to interfere with her, regardless of whether you can catch anything—even stealing two red buff minions, F4 little birds, etc., will do. In short, you can't let her farm comfortably; otherwise, once Leopard Woman cleanly finishes her first clear, from the second wave onward you can't deal with her—she'll suppress your level and you'll remain constantly passive.

Amidst the chatter, both sides have arrived at the final pick.

Joker glanced at the bullet comments, then continued:

「G2's final pick is a bit hesitant; actually there's not much to think about—Rumble and Kennen definitely can't be chosen, otherwise top, mid, and jungle would all be AP. Although the enemy currently looks lacking in front line, you have to be careful if the enemy's last pick is Bo Bi, giving you a tank to eat; G2's Jinx already lacks teamfight damage, and he can't deal damage to the front line, so Bo Bi just needs to stack magic resist, which is practically a wall.

「Alright, Bo Bi taken by themselves, then the enemy will have Kennen and Rumble... wow! Troll?! That's an unexpected pick!

「And don't even get me started—ROX's lineup really has a lot of imaginative space!

「Impressive, this Troll pick can be said to be a punch hitting G2's weak point—your two carries have no displacement, and the Troll's pillar slow is a lasting effect, the grasshopper's shield can't be blocked, even more deadly is that the pillar also brings knock-up and forced displacement; just have a long-range champ knock off the grasshopper's shield to lock the Troll's pillar, the grasshopper's ultimate gets eaten, and then the Troll's ultimate can also suck Bo Bi's dual resistances—your tank equals my tank, I lane-pressure you, in teamfights I'm both tanky and damaging, superior in every aspect.

「Impressive, truly impressive, this ban/pick can only be said to be worthy of ROX; the reason they could win the LCK championship is exactly this.

The lineups for this match are as follows:

G2, red side

bans: Jayce, Spider, Dragon King

top lane: Expect, Bo Bi

jungle: CyanideFI, Leopard Woman

mid lane: Perkz, Malzahar

ADC: Zven, Jinx

support: Mithy, Nami

ROX, blue side

bans: Ryze, Syndra, Caitlyn

top lane: Smeb, Troll

jungle: Peanut, Blind Monk (Mang Seng)

mid lane: Kuro, Viktor

ADC: PraY, Ezreal

support: GorillA, Karma

Combat begins.

As Joker said, Peanut himself is a top-tier Leopard Woman user, so naturally he knows how to deal with Leopard Woman.

Moreover, CyanideFI himself is not skilled at the Wild Core playstyle; his Leopard Woman isn't strong.

What's worse, in this game ROX has lane advantage on both top and bottom.

Although CyanideFI had carefully designed his opening jungle route, it all came to nothing because of the enemy bot lane's invading ward at the start; the opening movements were clearly visible thanks to a single trinket ward.

When CyanideFI finished clearing the upper half and moved to the lower half, waiting for him was Blind Monk together with Karma's joint invasion.