Chapter 107

"EDG takes the lead in this key semi-final!" Jide shouted loudly: "One to zero, temporarily taking the lead!"

"JDG was broken by the blue side in the first game, it feels like their game rhythm has clearly been studied," Miller worriedly analyzed for the opponent: "But it can only be said that EDG is better prepared!"

Ye Bo took off his headphones and glanced at the post-game data interface.

Viper, sitting next to him, reached out and patted his shoulder, his tone very close and gentle: "Fierce, fierce, I almost messed up that wave, luckily I had you!"

That critical Rift Herald fight.

It looked like Yasuo just handed over a wind wall, but in reality, it was indeed because of this that the opponent almost found a gap.

If it weren't for Sylas's magical counter-engage, the best result would have been having to burn several Flashes to dodge, and even after the Monkey King successfully entered, he might not have been able to hand over Flash!

A skill mistake can be infinitely seized and magnified on the field.

"It's okay~ playing Yasuo will indeed have this kind of subconscious reaction."

"Actually, it was precisely because of that that I successfully baited the opponent, giving me the opportunity to perform that operation, and in one wave, I smoked their base!"

Ye Bo was not just comforting, he was indeed very excited.

Because just that flash of inspiration not only allowed Ye Bo to directly master the level 5 proficiency of 【Monkey King】.

"Chain Lash Golden Staff Flower" even triggered the 【Extreme Operation】 high-value 2.5w ladder experience reward!

That wave was not just about operation difficulty, but more importantly, it was extreme and critical enough for the situation and timing.

And this instantly made Ye Bo's Sylas proficiency reach the forefront of the hero guide!

Of course, his hard training during this period was mostly poured into Sylas, and he had already practiced it to level six himself.

So he didn't complete an upgrade, just jumped to the middle stage.

Ye Bo has been practicing Yasuo recently, but time is limited, and it's impossible to put all his energy into this kind of choice that can only adapt to the lineup, so the training progress is not too fast, but he has some small insights.

So he knew that Viper's wave was indeed a normal small mistake, it was just that the timing was critical.

However, to Viper, this was a high-EQ comforting word, and his mood was even more comfortable.

The slowing down of the little dragon rhythm in this version, and the weakening of the ability of the bottom lane regular combo to exchange advantages after playing laning suppression, so this kind of alien bottom lane like Yasuo that can exert power in advance is actually quite suitable for the strong attack rhythm currently used by EDG.

And from Viper's recent hero choices, it can actually be seen that he has gradually accepted, or even actively carried out a certain degree of "yielding" and BP sacrifice.

Meaning giving up the carry position!

You know, even during Scout's peak period, Viper had almost never served as a sacrifice position.

After all, whether it's performance or strength, Viper would never be weaker than the opponent by half, even if the opponent occupied more resources, so naturally there was no reason for so-called sacrifice.

But now it's different.

From the beginning when everyone only thought this newcomer had a good personality, to later discovering his outstanding operation, and then to being "conquered" by the strength shown by the opponent step by step, everything is changing quietly.

And everyone feels relaxed and happy about this status quo.

Mingkai and Coach Coach Maokai walked into the room, both with sunny and bright smiles: "Well played, Master Ye! Well played, brothers!"

"Continue this performance, it feels like we can get off work in two hours!"

Meiko couldn't help but tease: "Opening champagne again, right, Factory Manager, I remember you said that last time, and we immediately stepped on the arrow..."

Mingkai pretended not to hear the second half, and walked directly to the back of the mid-laner: "That's different, little Ye Bo playing Yagao feels like it's easy, just wait for the mid-laner to carry!"

"Indeed, indeed, wait for the mid-laner to carry~" Barrier shook his head and joked: "Factory Manager, I can finally understand you back then... uh, I'll go get you an orange."

Barrier, who was subjected to the death stare, quickly changed the subject, got up, crossed the sofa, and took an orange.

Then he came back and handed it to Ye Bo very naturally.

"Let's talk about the BP for the next game."

Coach Coach Maokai held the notebook seriously: "We are on the blue side in the next game, it's our turn to set the questions, they shouldn't be able to come up with a special lineup, but I think they will definitely change their way of playing!"

"This game is only the semi-finals, in an ideal state, we try not to expose too many tactics, if we can win, we try to go all the way with one set."

Obviously, JDG's disastrous defeat on the blue side in the first game was largely due to losing in the BP game.

There was nothing wrong with the lineup they chose, it was simply because too much information was exposed, and they didn't expect the opponent to be able to pull out this kind of thing, which was a big one.

So after EDG won the first game, there was no reason to rush to expose more tactical reserves.

But JDG and Redmi are not fools, they came to the red side in the second game, even if they didn't pull out a new lineup, at least the system and style of play would definitely change.

How can you fall in the same place twice?

Ye Bo broke a slice of orange and put it in his mouth: "If it can be the same as our review prediction, at least the first two games are controllable, and looking at the opponent's performance in the last game, it feels like ten out of eight..."

He said halfway and suddenly his expression twisted slightly.

Pretending nothing happened, he handed the orange in his hand to the Factory Manager behind him, and continued to speak.

"Because the ban position on the red side is not enough, they actually can't make too many choices."

From Ye Bo's personal experience, Yagao's laning strength doesn't feel top-notch, and his laning style is not a very fierce type.

However, what he didn't know was.

His name was appearing at a high frequency in JDG's backstage at this time, and the BP for the second game had already changed because of him.

The official live broadcast room was still analyzing the first game.

"I didn't expect Sylas to be so abnormally compatible with Yasuo, EDG made improvements to this lineup, and Player Ye's Sylas proficiency is too amazing!" Jide said so.

"And it feels like looking at it this way, wanting to choose a lineup with completely useless ultimates is simply unrealistic!"

"Perhaps after these few games, the priority of Sylas in the eyes of all teams should be raised."

Miller continued: "But to be honest, it still depends on the individual player, Sylas is also a hero that only became popular at the end of the regular season, the effect presented by each user is very different, it can only be said that the upper limit of hero development is indeed very high."

Partner Wawa seemed to be still unfinished: "Ah yes yes yes, besides the Cyclone that the chain drove forward in this game, there was also the miracle Flash-strike of Sylas stealing Zoe before, really handsome..."

The director gave the output panel of the first game in the live broadcast room.

And the amazing contrast between the mid and top of both sides immediately attracted everyone's attention.

In the damage bar chart, the damage of the mid and top on both sides is particularly eye-catching!

Orianna and Jayce.

One is 6934, one is 3469!

The two of them added together is exactly half of Sylas's!

Once the chart came out, the live broadcast room suddenly exploded.

【Yagao out! Dice out!】

【It has nothing to do with Yagao, Yagao went to bed very early yesterday】

【MD, how much firepower has this broken meme blocked for Yagao? Next game, why don't Master Ye play a Zoe, and send you home to sleep with a hypnotic bubble!】

【Yagao and 369 are both just riding the situation, their laning is rotten, they show their true colors without the jungle daddy! Thinking of someone saying wait for him to fight Ye? I want to laugh!】

【Isn't this game the jungler bringing down the mid and top? Dying wherever he goes, did he catch anyone!】

【Hey, I said it, TES was definitely losing on purpose, otherwise after the semi-finals, if they enter the finals and get beaten 0-6 again, how scary!】

【Those who were chased 2-3, go to RNG's table! Don't worry, my JDG can come again for a 2-3 chase!】

Many people in the semi-finals think that EDG had good luck, drawing BLG, which is clearly the weakest among the top few.

But in this game, EDG's violent crushing performance undoubtedly made everyone re-examine this team that began to transform in the summer season!

The director immediately gave the MVP of this game.

No suspense.

Ye Bo's new makeup photo taken before the playoffs was presented, standing sideways with hands in pockets, looking relaxed and comfortable.

The barrage was filled with "That year I put my hands in my pockets".

"90% participation rate! This Sylas is truly terrifying!" Jide exclaimed.

"This also shows that Player Ye's importance to the team's rhythm is truly clear at a glance, almost driving the rhythm of the entire team! He also continued his excellent state to the semi-finals!"

"Yagao fell behind in the mid-lane laning, now he must carefully consider the hero selection for the next game..."

Until the second game started, the JDG members who sat back in the player seats still had heavy faces.

Although they also lost the first two games against TES.

But for the entire summer season, they felt this powerless for the first time, which was a big blow to everyone.

"The mentality must be stable," Redmi noticed the low mood of his team members and turned his head to cheer for his teammates: "Think about how we walked through this year, spring season, summer season!"

"The last game was just a special situation, we fell for the BP, this game play normally, just follow our tactical layout, the winning percentage will definitely not be low!"

In the emergency review after the game, Redmi had already thought of a countermeasure.

Before long, both sides re-entered the drafting room.

The BP panel was pulled up!

"Here we come, brothers, come and cheer for Brother Bai!" Ye Ye Chujun from the second live broadcast room went online again.

"Master Ye killed it in the last game, Brother Bai should also come and kill one this game, Master Ye can't perform alone!"

"EDG directly sent Poppy to the ban position! This feels like they want to take the Monkey King, maybe they still want to continue playing the Yasuo system?"

Ye Ye Chujun guessed looking at the first ban position of the opponent.

"But using a lineup continuously is a taboo in the arena, the opponent will definitely be prepared."

First round ban position—

EDG: Poppy, Galio, Sivir

JDG: Seeing Seeing Akali, Sylas, Monkey King

"EDG also banned Sivir and Galio, this is almost a clear sign that they still want to play the Yasuo system!"

"But JDG finally actually banned the Monkey King themselves... then Kalista is released, this thing is a natural advantage in the bottom lane when selected!"

The first two picks on the red side are almost default BP, one is a specialty among specialties, and the other is something that people just played with a hot hand, both are very reasonable.

But the sudden change in the last pick to self-ban the Monkey King was a bit meaningful.

But this is exactly Redmi's BP game.

Red side BP has to make trade-offs, Redmi knows that his own bottom lane laning strength is not as good as the opponent's, and investing resources is difficult to achieve results, and releasing Kalista will not directly collapse naturally.

So he chose to use the disadvantage of the bottom lane to exchange for the confrontation in the mid and jungle.

And banning the Monkey King can also weaken the Yasuo system, which is killing two birds with one stone.

This is indeed a bit beyond EDG's expectations.

EDG's original plan was for the opponent's three ban positions to be fixed, first pick Monkey King, then pick Yasuo + hard support with knock-up.

But BP is about on-the-spot response.

"Then let's take Kalista, let's make a normal lineup."

The reason why Kalista is a natural ban on the red side is that as long as the player's personal strength is not a problem, the laning can be said to have a natural advantage.

Not banning it usually means that both sides are not prepared to play in the lower half of the map.

"EDG took Kalista, JDG backhanded and got the Orianna-Renata combo again," Ye Ye Chujun said with a chuckle: "Are they not afraid that Master Ye will pull out a Yasuo? Maybe Brother Shengqiang Brother can also do it!"

"But Master Ye doesn't seem to have played Yasuo."

The Yasuo in the last game has already proven that it is somewhat of a counter to the Orianna-Renata combo in team fights.

Of course, it's not that it can't be played at all, the last game was more because the lineup had to be a hard engage, and hard engage would happen to be easily dealt with by Yasuo.

EDG has already snatched Kalista, no matter where Yasuo appears, it is a result that JDG can accept—anyway, they are not prepared to choose a hard engage lineup in this game.

Redmi most hopes to see mid-lane Yasuo.

In this way, it just happens to coincide with their tactical purpose in this game.

"EDG chose Amumu and Vi, Vi can also be considered as grabbing instead of banning another specialty of Kanavi!"

"Amumu support, then the laning pressure in the bottom lane is still very high, Kalista with Amumu and Vi, EDG is still a fierce hard engage system, not prepared to expose more tactics!"

The third pick on the red side got Gnar, entering the second round of BP.

EDG: Viego, Zhao Xin

JDG: LeBlanc, Renekton

Since the blue side has already produced the jungler Vi, JDG's fourth pick is revealed, directly showing the core of this BP.

"Holy crap! Kindred!"

"Kanavi's hero pool, can this thing even be produced in this version?"

"EDG should not have expected it, I remember Kindred is indeed beating Vi, and very restraining the hard engage system, JDG came prepared!"

Kanavi has a deep hero pool, so as long as he picks later, he is likely to choose a hero that counters the opponent's jungle.

One of the reasons for banning the Monkey King is also because the countering Poppy was already banned in the first round.

Kindred's Q skill's high-frequency displacement will make Vi's Q skill difficult to hit, and the ultimate 【Lamb's Respite】's group invincibility is even more of a perfect counter to the hard engage system!

Except for the jungle-carry version of S10, this hero has always been a very cold choice.

The entire LPL has only one or two "specialty players" who will occasionally choose to use it.

Kanavi is not a specialty player, but he has considerable insights into this hero who is a jungle-carry himself, and the number of games used is actually not small.

And the jungle created a positional counter, which means the mid-laner must choose a hero with strong early combat power to protect the jungle invasion or small-scale combat to a certain extent.

But, there are few heroes left with strong early combat power outside at this moment.

If Ye Bo had chosen LeBlanc in the first round, JDG would have directly backhanded and pulled out Lissandra to counter, anyway, the opponent is unlikely to guess Kindred's position.

This is the thickness of the player's "hero pool", which can bring infinite variables to the BP game!

In this game, JDG is determined to fight mid and jungle!

Redmi's deep meaning was only revealed at this moment, using the price of the bottom lane, plus the red side's counter position and the jungle's hero pool advantage, to snatch the positional counter of the mid and jungle.

Through the first exchange, his evaluation of Ye Bo rose by a level.

He now deeply believes that no matter what, he must suppress this mid-lane!

And if the laning is difficult to break directly, then like the opponent in the last game, use the disadvantage of your jungle to force the mid-lane to come and fight!

JDG's BP ability is highlighted.

However.

At this time, Ye Bo is quickly reading the prompt box in front of him.

"Let's take Jayce, so we have lane priority on both top and bottom, and the jungle should also have defense." Coach Coach Maokai first chose Jayce for Brother Shengqiang Brother.

"What does Master Ye want to take? The opponent has a counter position, you might have to take a hero like Azir to turtle, but Barrier, you have to be more careful in the early jungle..."

"Ye Bo?"

Coach Coach Maokai called twice before Ye Bo reacted.

"Still take the one we originally prepared to take!" Ye Bo answered affirmatively.

"I feel that thing is very suitable for the lineup of this game, quite restraining the opponent's Kindred, and not afraid of being caught, we can solve the lineup!"

In fact, EDG prepared a rare hero for the mid-lane in this game.

Gragas!

Gragas has been strengthened several times this year, Ye Bo had previously included it in the practice list, and mid-lane Gragas has also appeared in LCK and LPL.

Although it is definitely a cold choice, the hero strength is not low at all.

Originally, this was just a choice to match Yasuo—the original plan was for Yagao to choose a pure farming hero like Azir or Taliyah, and EDG to choose mid-lane Gragas to roam and strengthen the attack on the bottom lane.

Of course.

Choosing Gragas in this game has another very important reason.

【Ding! Triggered "Fate Duel" condition (369)!】

【Obtained "Gragas" temporary proficiency bonus】

【Can select: "Gragas" to complete the challenge】

Ye Bo sighed at how "timely" this fate duel appeared.

But combined with the several heroes currently on the field, he suddenly felt it was extremely appropriate!

【Fate Duel】 rewards are quite generous, which can be known from the experience of Scout and Uzi in the regular season before, so unless the lineup is extremely incompatible, Ye Bo has no reason to let it go.

"My side! This might be mid-lane Gragas!" Ye Ye Chujun realized something before he finished speaking.

"What does Master Ye mean, want to teach my Brother Bai how to pull!"

Redmi's eyes shook slightly.

Jayce mid? Gragas mid?

In Redmi's intelligence impression.

No matter which of these two flexes is mid, it is a choice that Ye Bo has never selected in front of the public.

"What do I take?" Yagao asked: "Taliyah can fight Gragas, but if Jayce is mid, it's not easy to fight."

Redmi knew very little about Gragas and thought for a while.

"It should be mid-lane Gragas, Jayce mid doesn't matter, it's easy to catch, take it."

"However, Taliyah's early damage is very low, so it's not easy for us to catch mid, we have to change to jungle invasion..."

"OK, then I'll bring life." Yagao changed his rune choice for safety.

JDG's original idea was to take a choice like Lissandra that is good for coordinating with the jungler, and cooperate with the jungle's advantage to block the mid-lane, but now it seems Taliyah is the best solution.

Hero lock exchange.

Both lineups determined.

【Top: Jayce vs Gnar】

【Jungle: Vi vs Kindred】

【Mid: Gragas vs Taliyah】

【ADC: Kalista vs Aphelios】

【Support: Amumu vs Renata Glasc】

(End of chapter)