Chapter 659

LPL live room.

The M17 duo's giggling and laughing pre-match interview remarks thoroughly angered LPL netizens, also making netizens hate EDG even more, because M17 actually fucking ran into VG.

Then, the barrage army continued to charge wildly at EDG.

The commentators also looked listless, even Wawa's opening line was shouted weakly.

"Interesting, M17's pre-match interview…… Alright, welcome back. Second game, ah, let's not talk about the previous game's topic for now, trash talk and such are just for fun, to decide the outcome we really need to fight it out on stage with real swords and spears, so let's temporarily forget our loss in the first game and look at this next match. Exactly, at the crucial moment, our strongest VG has finally come out!"

"But to be honest, I was really thrilled by that, forcing out our ace, I just feel a bit unwilling." Miller sighed, and unable to hold back, he instantly extinguished the little atmosphere Wawa had just stirred up.

Wawa looked at her old partner, feeling helpless, but could only follow Miller's topic and continue:

"Well, VG's opponent in this match is precisely the LMS fourth seed, M17. Objectively speaking, this team's strength compared to VG is indeed quite far behind."

"Actually, it's just that our top horse got knocked down by a low horse, nothing to hide about it, the fact is that EDG losing the first game was really undeserved, making us very passive, so in the second game we could only let VG play; the other side isn't stupid either, they definitely wouldn't let Flash Wolves or JT come up to get beaten, they sent the weakest low horse M17 to be cannon fodder..."

Guan Zeyuan also sounded a bit angry, his speech inevitably carrying some personal emotion. His prediction for the previous game was an 8-2 split, but EDG came out and gave him a slap, which amounted to confirming his reputation as a poison milk commentator.

As a professional commentator, Guan Zeyuan hates being called a poison milk commentator, but EDG's self-sacrifice has truly made it impossible for him to clear his name even if he jumped into the Yellow River.

Guan Zeyuan set the rhythm, and the barrage began to scroll:

【666666666】

【If you don't understand, ask: what horse is EDG?】

【EDG has no horse】

【Low horse EDG, fall out!】

【hahahahaha】

【Good at civil war, bad at foreign war, trash EDG】

【EDG: We'll first throw a game to give VG some intensity】

【Fans are unmoved, the factory director is also gone, EDG, goodbye.】

【Dear, join the VC family and start enjoying right away; joining now you can get the Tieba Weibo horizontal walk discount, and in the future there's also a Bird's Nest big gift pack worth looking forward to~】

【Brothers, listen to me, don't rush the pipe dog, he's right.】

VG player seats.

Zhu Xiaolong put on his headphones, opened his notebook, adjusted the headset and microphone volume according to the referee's instructions, and as soon as he entered the team channel he asked:

"How should we say, brothers, should we be aggressive this round or steady?"

"Let's be aggressive." Liang Yan spoke without hesitation.

Zhu Xiaolong froze, not expecting Liang Yan to be so decisive; he involuntarily turned to glance at Liang Yan's profile, suspecting that this big thigh might be a little angry, but seeing nothing on Liang Yan's face, he felt a bit doubtful.

Others didn't think as much as Zhu Xiaolong did; when Liang Yan said they should play aggressively, Xiao Duan was the first to yell excitedly, and Easyhoon also smiled and said he agreed.

Fu Lan Duo twisted twice in her chair, getting excited: "Then can you give me a crocodile for this round? I guarantee a massacre."

Liang Yan: "What you said?"

Fu Lan Duo: "That's what I said!"

Liang Yan: "What does the coach think?"

Zhu Xiaolong: "I'll follow your lead!"

Liang Yan: "Alright, if the enemy picks crocodile, I'll take it first."

Fu Lan Duo: "I'll take it myself!"

Xiao Duan interjected: "Can crocodile be played again now?"

Fu Lan Duo: "You can play it, it's super strong!"

The Intercontinental Tournament uses version 7.12; compared to 7.11, the changes in version 7.12 can be described as drastic.

First, the price of Doran's Shield rose from 400 to 450 gold; although its cost-effectiveness remains high, for some pressure-resistant heroes, going out with one less potion has a huge impact—sometimes the loss of over a hundred health points puts them into the enemy's execute range, making them afraid to hold tower. Thus, tank-type champions have almost completely disappeared in the current version, and the top lane is now the domain of warrior-type champions. Since this version gave them some buffs, even Green Steel Shadow has returned to play.

And the crocodile leapt to become an absolute T0-tier champion in the current version; the previous version reverted the changes from 7.10 and 7.9 that caused its stun to be equivalent to stunning itself, fixing that bug, and the 7.12 top lane environment shift made it thrive even more, with double bonuses boosting its standing in this version to skyrocket like a rocket.

Corresponding to the crocodile is the wine barrel; the Doran's Shield price increase plus the Doran's Ring's change—killing minions now only gives mana restore as a unique effect—has almost killed the King's Ring build; buying Doran's Shield also means one less potion, greatly reducing its pressure resistance; the double negative factors stacked, causing the wine barrel to vanish from the top lane, only able to go to the jungle to bully monsters just to get by.

However, unfortunately, the first ban in M17 was the crocodile.

After entering BP, blue side VG first put the hot-shot marksman champion Piltover Sheriff, who is strong before level six but weak in the mid-game and unsuitable for quickly ending fights, onto the ban slot.

M17 immediately followed up by banning the crocodile, without any hesitation.

"This...?"

Zhu Xiaolong froze for a moment, not understanding why the enemy would ban the crocodile right off the bat.

Although the crocodile is strong in this version, if we were to rank the priority of strong heroes across the five positions, the top laners are still a bit lacking; the current version's highest BP priority remains those supermodel monsters that have persisted for several seasons, such as Zac, Galio, and an emerging marksman, the Sheriff; in this Intercontinental Tournament alone, the ban rates for these three have reached a terrifying over 90%.

Banning the crocodile as the first pick is somewhat puzzling.

"Because we banned the Sheriff, they still have two ban slots to deal with the remaining two supermodel monsters." Liang Yan explained.

Zhu Xiaolong made an uncertain sound, "Then we shouldn't have banned the Sheriff first..."

Liang Yan said, "It doesn't matter; anyway we have to ban in the first round, it doesn't affect anything."

"Oh oh..."

Zhu Xiaolong turned to Fu Lan Duo: "Since the crocodile is gone, what should Qiang Ge play?"

Fu Lan Duo: "Let me think."

Liang Yan said: "Isn't there still Orchid Wave?"