Chapter 110: Black Coal Turtle will bloom again! [Novice Reward]'s

Ye Bo looked at the "Victory" word on the monitor and shook his head with a short sigh.

It just started and it's over!

After the equipment advantage of the AP Beer Man increased after the AP scaling buff, he could almost break all laws with one force.

Killing doesn't need any geometric barrels, brewing Q, just slam and directly explode, you can play out the thrill of instant kill different from assassins!

It's a pity that because the opponent had Kindred in this game, Ye Bo generally had to hold R for counter-play in teamfights, resulting in no opportunity to play too many kill operations.

Viper, who was having fun killing in this game beside him, asked with concern without knowing why: "Master Ye, why are you not happy even after winning?"

"Sigh, didn't play enough!" Barrier said with a grin, very understanding: "Such a fat Beer Man only killed a few waves, I feel if the opponent insisted for another ten minutes, Gragas could have killed at least ten more!"

Winning two games in a row, even Meiko became excited: "Amazing, that wave of blasting Renata away was really key! If Master Ye hadn't reacted in that wave, it's really hard to say..."

Shengqiang Ge also nodded repeatedly, and even teased Barrier: "In that jungle wave at the beginning, Zhao Lijie was almost beaten out of his pants by Kanavi! Can only say fortunately our Master Ye is fierce enough, if that wave was replaced by Li Rookie, he couldn't save you!"

Shengqiang Ge almost blurted out the name, fortunately he held his mouth, and casually said a familiar ID.

Barrier answered the joke very naturally: "Hey, then you don't say, Qiang Ge, I feel if that wave was replaced by TS to cooperate with Master Ye, he could kill them all!"

"Hmph, next time I will definitely hold back!" Ye Bo made an angry look: "Hey, but this game, I found some problems of ours..."

After joking around, everyone quickly looked serious and reviewed carefully together.

This game looked like it didn't take long, and it could be considered smooth.

But in fact, there were several waves that could be said to be quite dangerous!

It is clear that EDG currently has many problems, but perhaps because the players' hard power is enough, perhaps because the opponent's ability is insufficient, or perhaps because there are miracle operations to reverse it.

Making these problems not erupt into real crises.

But, you can't ignore these problems just because of this.

Ye Bo didn't want to wait until he really lost the game to start reflecting on these problems found during victory.

Discovering them earlier means perfecting them earlier!

At the moment the crystal burst, the official live broadcast room was swept by a full screen of barrage.

"Congratulations to EDG for leading two to zero!" Jide's expression was spirited: "EDG completely crushed JDG with extremely fierce offensives! Only one step away from the final Grand Final stage!"

"I think few people would have thought before this game officially started that JDG, who had won against the opponent by a large margin in the early Summer Split, would be forced into a desperate situation so quickly in the semi-finals!"

Miller was full of emotion: "Ye is really key... Although EDG's level-one teamfight design was successful in this game, it was actually immediately found by the opponent's jungler, and there was even a trend of the early jungle area cracking, but it was hard-forced by Player Ye's handling and operation to find an opportunity, successfully saving the disadvantage for the team!"

"And in this game, Viper also stood up, which can be said to have completely played out the strategic significance of snatching Kalista!"

Wawa was just about to answer, when he received a hint from the director in his headset, and his eyebrows immediately picked up.

"Then after the spring runner-up TES fell into the loser's bracket, according to the current global championship points situation of major teams, EDG only needs to win one more small game to advance to the finals, and they will become the first team in the LPL region to lock in a world championship spot in advance!"

"This next game is even more important for them to fight with all their strength!"

Under the normal double-elimination system, the world championship spot will not produce results so quickly.

But 2022 is a special year.

Historically, the spring champions of the five major regions, even if their performance in the summer split fluctuates slightly, will not miss the world championship.

The most famous precedent for this is the KZ team in the LCK in the S8 season, and the team members Khan, Cuzz, Peanut, BDD, etc., are all very familiar Grade A war criminals...

Normal patch changes are mostly seasonal changes at the end of the year. Even if there are changes in the middle, they are only medium-sized changes and will not have a fundamental impact.

But S12 is the first time in history that a subversive change no less than a map-level update was carried out in the middle of the season!

It's the damn durability.

This led to the spring and summer fields of S12 being close to two games, whether it is common heroes or tactical trends, they have changed completely.

Take RNG as an example.

The absolute dominant king of the spring championship, the champion who defeated T1 in MSI.

As a result, coming to the summer split, not only did they barely scrape into the playoffs, but now they have fallen to the point of waiting to play the bubble match early!

World championship points have always paid more attention to the summer split. The spring championship only has a meager 90 points, which is about the same as the third place in the summer split.

This means that as long as they lose one more game in the bubble match, RNG may miss this S12.

The swap between top laner Bin and Breathe is one reason, but more importantly, the durability patch directly abolished one arm of hard support king Ming, and indirectly affected the champion pool of the spirit ball hero {capturing} Xiaohu.

Also affected were the spring regular season first place V5, WBG, LNG, and the original EDG.

And JDG's spring ranking was close to EDG.

Although they were on a roll in the summer regular season, the regular season ranking is only a ticket to the playoffs and a resurrection armor, and there are no world championship points.

So it is equivalent to EDG inexplicably losing several points competitors. As long as they kill into the finals and guarantee the runner-up, the accumulated points can at least get the second seed!

After the review, the EDG team members also learned this news from the coaching staff who walked in.

Except for Ye Bo, the others were not too excited.

Ye Bo was visibly excited!

Thinking of the task released by the system after the "novice tutorial stage," when he first saw it, he only felt the span was simply outrageous.

At this moment, he was even a little trance-like.

Unknowingly, the stage in his dreams and expectations, the incredible steps, were actually only one step away from him!

Of course.

Just guaranteeing entry into the world championship is still quite different from Ye Bo's goal.

After all, the task description at the time was: 【Win the Summer Split championship, kill into the World Championship as the first seed】.

Ye Bo packed up his mood, still focusing on the present, and successfully took the victory of this game.

Handily claim the rewards for this game.

It is also three options, the category is similar to the time with Scout and Uzi.

Special training to retain the on-site proficiency of the two opposing heroes, special training to master the {understanding level} knowledge of Gragas at level seven.

It's just that the name of the last special training is slightly strange.

"... What is 【Shield of Goryeo】?"

Although Ye Bo was very curious about this nickname he had never heard of, according to the literal meaning, he could probably guess that it might be helpful in some aspects.

There is nothing to hesitate about, he can't use Gnar and top-lane skills.

The level seven understanding of the latest used Gragas is the most practical. He quite likes this hero and it fits EDG's Yasuo system very well.

When a steady stream of knowledge emerged from his mind, Ye Bo had already instantly imagined and associated several magical operation scenes that could be realized, and at this moment, he only felt his hands itching...

JDG's next-door room.

Redmi's face was solemn.

Yaogao squinted his eyes, slumped half of his body on the back of the chair, his elbows against the armrest of the gaming chair, leaning to one side, the smell of smoke emanating from his body was clearly that he had recharged immediately after the game ended.

369 supported his chin with a decadent face, and even the acne pits seemed to be full of bitterness.

The person beside him was also unhappy.

In the first two games, in all three lanes, not a single lane could win in terms of laning. He, the jungler, simply didn't know how to play!

Redmi noticed that the players' mental state was not good, coughed lightly, and started psychological adjustment.

"Everyone don't be anxious, EDG did play well in these two games, but in fact, they also exposed a lot of information to us!"

Yaogao, who had recovered some spirit, could still be optimistic and bitter, teasing himself: "For example, I can't win the laning against the opponent?"

Redmi, upon hearing this, not only didn't comfort him, but actually nodded directly.

"Yes, our laning strength is not strong, it can even be said to be the bottom of the four-strong teams."

"There is no need to avoid this point at all, and we have never relied on laning to win the game, you know."

Among the four, BLG's Scout and Bin are both good at laning, and TES's Knight is even recognized as the "national first mid laner," plus JKL who also emphasizes laning.

And EDG's Ye Bo and Viper don't need to say more.

Looking at JDG, the three-C of Hope + Yagao + 369, not a single person left an impression on the public with "laning."

So Redmi saying this is really no problem.

It's just that he immediately changed the subject, his tone appearing incomparably firm: "But do we have no chance of winning? Wrong!"

"Recognizing your own flaws early is actually beneficial, it's better than discovering them after going to the world championship."

"Not to mention we still have a few cards in our hands, and we haven't used our full strength."

Redmi's voice seemed full of confidence.

After comforting them, he also started to tell his thoughts on the next game.

"This EDG after changing the mid laner clearly knows where their strong points are. We cannot have a head-on confrontation with them too early, we must leverage our advantage lanes."

"Then what are our advantage lanes?"

"Top and jungle!"

Redmi cheered the players up: "Kanavi's decision-making and handling in the previous game were already very successful, this is exactly the area we are best at."

"As long as we can stabilize the rhythm in the early stage and slow down the game, that is our comfort zone!"

Whether it was in the previous game under a huge disadvantage, facing three strong-engages but still not appearing to die, or the last wave finding the opportunity to reverse the situation, all of this is proving this point.

Compared to even-strength teamfights and mid-term operations, JDG considers itself not inferior to any team in the LPL!

They were able to get the resurrection armor and the first place in points in the regular season, relying on this level of operation and teamfighting!

"We have already let two and chased three once, in the next game, blue side, we will..."

"Welcome back to the live broadcast of the 2022 LPL Summer Split Winner's Bracket Semi-Finals!"

Wawa saw EDG leading two to zero, and his voice became much louder immediately with the opportunity to get off work early: "EDG currently holds three match points, victory can be said to be close at hand, as long as they can grasp it, hold their breath, they may kill this game!"

Miller tacitly sang the red face: "But we can't underestimate JDG. Although they seem stumbling in the playoffs compared to their regular season selves, it's possible they are also hiding moves! After all, until the last game, JDG was still using the tactics we are most familiar with."

"BP has started!"

"JDG is on the blue side in the third game, still banning Ye's Seeing Akali first, while EDG bans Monkey!"

Coming to the third game, both sides basically have a count of what each other has prepared in this BO5.

Unless someone is prepared to take out something brand new, most ban spots can be seen at a glance.

Therefore, in the first ban, with the red side already banning Monkey, JDG still banned Poppy themselves. This clearly looks like they want to pick a hero that has some scruples about this.

But there are many heroes that disgust Poppy, just this point can't see the clues.

First round of ban spots—

JDG: Seeing Akali, Poppy, Zoe

EDG: Monkey, Kalista, Galio

"The ban spots of both sides didn't change much. JDG should be planning to show their hand and grab Sylas first, no problem!"

Yaogao has no loopholes in his hero pool, and Sylas is naturally something he can play.

And Zoe laning clearly counters Sylas, including the game Ye Bo played.

In that game, Ye Bo first ganked the top lane at level three, plus the magical four-wall kill completed with the support at level six, plus the set meal of two consecutive tower dives, only then did he roll out a snowball that was hard to turn over for Zoe.

Besides Zoe, among the current popular heroes, there is no existence that counters Sylas too much.

TES base.

As the TES players who will likely face these two potential opponents, they are also studying the BP of both sides.

"Knight, what else is good to play against Sylas?" JKL looked at Knight, who is also very good at Sylas.

"Uh, I don't know, I feel like my Sylas can play against anything." Knight rolled his tongue.

Crescent Moon benefited a lot from these two games: "If we have to fight JDG again, Knight, you can't pick heroes like Taliyah and Azir anymore, you have to dry Yaogao!"

"I finally understand, only by drying Yaogao can we dry Kanavi. Directly drying the jungle is too difficult, our previous train of thought had big problems."

Previously, the semi-finals between TES and JDG still implemented their old tactics.

The first game was the Kalista system taking off with a level-three four-package-two.

The second game was Knight's Ahri laning pressure on Yaogao's Taliyah rhythm, which was also playing the bot lane rhythm, and finally was dragged to a bladder game of 51 minutes by the mid-jungle, but also let JKL's Zeri deal 9w2 damage, a historical record.

But starting from the third game, Crescent Moon mistakenly thought he could win by relying on the bot lane, and began to execute tactics unswervingly.

Continuously picked a Galio for Knight, and two Taliyahs.

The result was that Knight started to go invisible, and JKL was caught into a little pig by the opponent's mid-jungle.

Until he was let two and chased three!

But at this time, EDG's successful experience gave them inspiration... Actually, the way to defeat JDG seems very simple!

Let your own superior bot lane lane by themselves.

Letting the mid lane play out a positional advantage to curb the most core jungle rhythm is the key. JDG's situation will be like an idling engine, appearing problems by itself!

Of course, Yaogao is at least a first-line mid laner, and his style is extremely steady and old-fashioned, it is very difficult for ordinary people to make a breakthrough against him.

But TES clearly thinks.

Since Ye Bo can, then Knight should also be able to!

"Holy sh*t, directly picking LeBlanc!?" JKL exclaimed looking at the live broadcast screen.

The red side picks the Lucian-Nami combination in the first two floors, because this combination is hard for Sylas to steal skills, and it is also a strong-attack combination in the early stage that can be picked brainlessly.

Clearly, EDG is prepared to carry the strong attack to the end in this BO5, not exposing more things.

The blue side picks the Sivir + Lulu ultimate defensive combination in the second and third floors, used to resist the bot lane laning pressure.

And coming to the third-floor BP game point, in the situation where the jungler and top laner need to be picked first, Ye Bo took the initiative to propose assuming the BP sacrifice position of picking first.

But LeBlanc is not good to play against Sylas, at most it's five-five.

The reason is simple, LeBlanc's body is too fragile, and the core output skill W needs to step on the face, so it will definitely be easy to be hit by Sylas's EW.

Exchanging skills between the two sides will definitely be a big loss for LeBlanc.

But Ye Bo is very confident in himself. After two games of laning against Yaogao, he has probably figured out the opponent's laning hard strength.

"LeBlanc!" Jide was excited and shouted: "Finally here! Ye's second signature LeBlanc!"

"But saying it's the second signature, in fact, Ye's LeBlanc BP rate is not high, also because the strength of LeBlanc in this version is limited, and the impact of durability on him is not small."

Miller also started to recall: "But don't forget, the 'famous scene on the field' that Ye first played was LeBlanc!"

Wawa followed up quickly: "Yes, yes! This has an 'urban legend', that game of '1 vs 9' LeBlanc, I still remember it vividly..."

Chujun in the second live broadcast room shouted, and started the reminiscing session again.

"It's coming! Black Coal Turtle will bloom again!"

"I always want to see Master Ye play this, but I just can't see it!"

"Turtle, you don't know, back then this LeBlanc shattered many people's esports dreams in the youth training camp! Thinking back when I met Master Ye in the youth training camp, I knew at a glance that this guy must be an ultimate fierce man in the future!"

Chujun didn't talk about 369, focusing on blowing Ye Bo.

Highlighting an unjust colossus.

"This mid-lane matchup is good to watch. Picking LeBlanc means it's impossible to play games peacefully with you, not to mention this is Master Ye's LeBlanc!"

"This is a true urban legend!"

In the second round of bans, both sides targeted each other's top-jungle hero pools.

JDG: Xin Zhao, Ornn

EDG: Gnar, Vi

EDG picks Gragas as the first choice for the swing, leaving the counter position to the jungler.

And coming to the blue side.

JDG took out a choice beyond everyone's expectations.

"Bel'Veth!?"

"JDG also made a move. Kanavi is one of the few players in the LPL who has used this hero. They have a big preparation for this game!"

"Sejuani with Bel'Veth, this combination seems to have a lot of saying..."

The game progressed to the third game, everyone basically figured out the bottom line of each other.

If you hide moves again, you really have to hide them until the world championship—and it might not be this year's world championship.

And this choice indeed exceeded EDG's expectations.

They knew Kanavi could play this hero, but the opponent was famous for his hero pool, and he only played it two or three times in the entire summer split, so it really didn't attract much attention.

But thinking about it, you know that something picked at this moment on the edge of the desperate cliff of 0-2 must not be simple!

"What should I pick against this thing..." Barrier scratched his head.

Maokai was also a bit troubled: "If it really doesn't work, continue with Viego, it should be okay to cooperate with LeBlanc, maybe 1v1 is not very good to fight."

Ye Bo also frowned and muttered.

"They banned Xin Zhao but didn't ban Viego, it feels like they deliberately released Viego."

The opponent's composition looked extremely solid, and there were heroes with relatively unknown information mastery.

But EDG, as the red side, seemed unable to make too many responses at this time.

But at this time, Ye Bo suddenly thought of something.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, let me think..."

What Ye Bo remembered were the two task rewards he received when he first completed the "Reach the Top of the Ladder" task.

【Hero Skill Crash Course Card】: (Crash course on the "skills" of a hero's level five basic proficiency)

As a reward for what was basically a "novice task," the use of this thing was clear at a glance, it wasn't very big.

So Ye Bo had always left it in the corner.

After all, it didn't take much time for him to practice a level five hero, and the so-called "crash course" effect seemed to be just auxiliary training for his understanding level, and the effect was really weak.

But now... Ye Bo seemed to have found a use for this 【Novice Task Reward】!

After quickly selecting the target, the knowledge of Bel'Veth's level five understanding surged into Ye Bo's consciousness.

And Ye Bo quickly deliberated in his mind, colliding and thinking about each jungler hero avatar, combined with the composition.

"Pick Trundle!"

In the last few seconds of the BP selection, Meiko on the fifth floor didn't hesitate at all upon hearing the sound, and quickly found Trundle's hero avatar in the search box.

The lineups were determined.

【Blue Side: JDG | Red Side: EDG】

【Top: Sejuani vs Gragas】

【Jungle: Bel'Veth vs Trundle】

【Mid: Sylas vs LeBlanc】

【ADC: Sivir vs Lucian】

【Support: Lulu vs Nami】

Redmi was a bit confused when he saw this pick, which was also not popular.

Trundle jungle is basically only played in matches, and it is quite rare in passerby games regardless of the position.

And as for what relationship it has with the new hero Bel'Veth, no one knows.

Redmi didn't take it to heart too much.

Instead, he clenched his palms tightly when he saw the opponent's LeBlanc pick, his palms even slightly damp.

The biggest variable in this game is the mid lane, which is also a point they cannot avoid in BP.

If you just want to simply stabilize the laning, the simplest way is to pick a hero like Azir or Taliyah for Yaogao, which has also been verified in the previous game, and this can be done.

But the price of this is that the early combat power of the mid lane is too weak, which will lead to the jungle being extremely uncomfortable to play, and this is also something JDG cannot accept.

Plus the ban spots are tight, the best way to handle Sylas is to grab him blue.

As for whether it can achieve results, no one knows.

If the feasibility of Sylas picking first can be verified, then JDG will have a back-hand when they come to the red side in the next game, perhaps they will really have a chance to break the BP dilemma and fight for a way to survive again!

But if not...

Ye Bo simply loosened his wrists and calmed down to welcome his key matchup in this semi-final.

And Maokai specifically cautioned before taking off his headset and walking out.

"Everyone come on! They should also be prepared to take out things, we must try our best to strive, take them down this game!"

"Everyone try to control mistakes, pay attention to listening to Ye Bo's command more..."

Amidst the cheers of the masses, Summoner's Rift descended again!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 111 =====