Chapter 449: I Feel Like It's Not Easy to Win

VG's lineup is locked, WE still has one spot undecided.

Homme was thinking, needs to pick a top laner that can work with mid and jungle, and also needs to shore up the front line, Mang Seng's engage isn't that stable, better add some engage tools……

With that thought, Jiu Tong is the obvious choice.

"WE's last pick was Jiu Tong, shoring up the front line weakness, plus Orianna and Ashe's dual-core system, forming a lineup that's functionally quite complete!"

Both lineups are now locked.

VG, Blue Side

ban: Crocodile, Shen, Weiluosi; Kennen, Janna

Top Lane: Flandre, Galio

Jungle: Firrrrrre, Qing Gang Ying

Mid: Easyhoon, Syndra

Bot: Smlz, Ashe

Support: Caveman, Lulu

Coach: Loong

WE, Red Side

ban: Jesse, Spider, Kled; Wukong, Male Gun

Top Lane: 957, Jiu Tong

Jungle: Condi, Mang Seng

Mid: Xi Ye, Orianna

Bot: Mystic, Ashe

Support: Ben, Ka Er Ma

Coach: Homme

While players are swapping heroes, commentators seize the moment to analyze:

"Both lineups look quite solid, and basically no obvious weaknesses, with support points in early, mid, and late game."

"Yeah, but honestly if you cover up the team names, I'd think WE's lineup has a higher win rate, one reason being their strengths are prominent enough, Orianna and Ashe as these two cores are very strong late game; while VG only has Qing Gang Ying as a jungler that can be called a late-game hero, Ashe under Lulu's support, although her late-game output isn't weak either, but compared to Ashe she's still quite far behind, and Syndra this burst-type hero simply can't compare to Orianna.

"Overall, WE's lineup has mainstream heroes picked for every position, whether laning or teamfighting, from damage to functionality, everything is covered comprehensively, Coach Homme lives up to the title of champion coach, BP is still solid.

"While VG's lineup overall also looks fairly complete, the front line formed by Galio + Qing Gang Ying is also fairly solid, but when it comes to specific points, the probability of something going wrong is still high, frankly speaking, if this Qing Gang Ying wasn't played by Jiao Shen, I'd think this match hasn't even started and the jungle has already blown up.

"Still, we should give this ID some respect, right.

"That's true. But saying all that, Galio top lane is one thing, Qing Gang Ying jungle is indeed too much of a sword-wielding lone wolf.

"If VG crashes and burns in this match……

"I actually think crashing and burning is good, after all nobody can always win.

In the barrage, many people are spamming "got arrogant", "looking down on people" and such.

VG fans are getting a bit nervous from what the commentators said, so they want to go to other streamers' live rooms to find comfort, but even the usual VG boosters, Jiao Shen boosters, are all picking apart VG's lineup flaws, all worried VG will lose, basically nobody is optimistic about VG.

PDD's live stream room.

"Ya'er, feels like VG really got a bit arrogant huh.

"I'll speak frankly, if VG loses this match, I estimate they'll lose a lot of fans.

"Jiao Shen, Jiao Shen will definitely lose the most fans. Because this kind of… how to say it, Qing Gang Ying jungle just… indeed has a bit of looking down on people meaning, you get what I mean.

"Because looking down on opponents leading to losing matches is the most, most disliked thing.

"Right, brothers?

"I've played Qing Gang Ying jungle myself, after cutting it I played two more games, truly can't play it, speaking frankly, I can't even clear jungle properly, let alone gank……

The match enters the map loading phase, the camera sweeps over the venue.

Two VG bosses in disguise are whispering downstairs.

"Is our lineup not too good?"

Ding Jun quietly asks Lu Wenjun.

VG's League of Legends division affairs are handled by Lu Wenjun alone, Ding Jun mainly oversees the Dota part, doesn't often pay attention to the LoL division, games he hardly touches at all, let alone talk about ranked tiers, he belongs to the type who can't even recognize all mainstream heroes.

And Lu Wenjun, although he also can't be called a top player, his historical highest rank is Platinum, also thanks to Easyhoon bringing him up on a smurf, but after all his foundation is still there, and he often watches matches, occasionally even participates in the team's review meetings, accumulating some game understanding, at least he can understand the matches.

Lu Wenjun comfortingly pats Ding Jun's hand twice, smiling: "The lineup is quite good, just maybe someone thinks our jungler position carries relatively high risk, a bit unstable."

Ding Jun asks again: "So this BP is actually still not that good?"

Lu Wenjun shakes his head: "No, it's a very perfect BP, with no problems at all."

Ding Jun ponders: "You mean the higher the risk, the higher the return rate?"

Lu Wenjun shakes his head again: "No, in reality there's actually zero risk."

Ding Jun puzzled: "Why?"

Lu Wenjun gazes at Liang Yan's face on the big screen's camera feed, a proud smile spreading across his face, unhurriedly says:

"Because, he's the person I bought back for over ten million."

Ding Jun froze for a moment, recalling when Lu Wenjun placed that sky-high contract before him to sign, he and Lu Wenjun had an argument back then.

Although the final result was him being convinced by Lu Wenjun, but speaking honestly, that was because Ding Jun admired Lu Wenjun, willing to spend thirty million to accompany him on one adventure, not for any other reason.

So, Ding Jun has no confidence in whether VG can achieve great results this year.

At this very moment, Ding Jun gazes at Liang Yan wearing headphones on the big screen, silently thinking in his heart:

I hope you're really worth over ten million.

……

WE Rest Room.

Sky today also personally led the team into battle, at this moment holding a bag of potato chips in his hand, occasionally picking up a piece and sending it into his mouth to eat with a crunch crunch.

Homme had already returned, and was now speaking softly to Sky:

"Our lineup has no problems at all; whether we can win this game depends entirely on how everyone plays, as long as we don't collapse in the early game, we have a very good chance of winning if we drag it into the late game."

Sky is no ordinary boss; he is a former War3 professional player who has won a world championship, although he doesn't play League of Legends much, but the vision of a champion is evident here—even if he doesn't really understand this game, some similar things can still be analogized.

So Sky is not so easily fooled.

Of course, Sky had already prepared himself for being eliminated in the semifinals when WE confirmed they had lost the fight for fourth place against QG, so at this moment he also appeared not very tense.

"I feel it's not going to be easy to win."

Sky said,

"I haven't studied VG in detail, I can't comment on the small things, but I've watched a few of their matches, and I just have a feeling—their coordination across all lanes is like the five fingers on a palm, almost no mistakes. Their lineup looks like it's built for teamwork at a glance."

Sky threw another chip into his mouth, shook his head, and sighed:

"Trying to snatch even a point from VG is difficult."

Since the boss said that, Homme could only give an embarrassed laugh.