Chapter 130: Teleport Trick! Human Trial Field!

Hearing the team name, the audience erupted into screams again.

Although the Madison Theater is not too big, because of the easy sell-out of tickets, the dense space of the small venue made the volume gather, and the domestic and foreign audiences were also very enthusiastic.

But Jie Jie's face was a bit nervous: "Wow, is the audience seat so close to the stage!?"

"The key is that these people don't wear masks, and they don't let us wear masks," Sheng Qiang Ge emphasized the point.

Because the competition rules strictly stipulate that players are not allowed to wear masks during the game, they just gave the policy of "if you get hit, you can participate in the game in isolation."

For example, during the play-in stage, FNC had all five people hit, and they directly placed five air e-sports chairs on the scene to play games remotely with the opponent.

However, the bearded host at the scene obviously didn't notice the changes in everyone's expressions and shouted out the opponent as the opening match of Group A.

"Next, let's welcome the old dynasty from the European LEC region! G~~2!"

Only two familiar faces walked onto the stage.

The S12 G2 went through a round of blood transfusion. After Perkz and Rekkles exited one after another, the only ones who can make old players recognize at a glance are the two veterans, mid laner Caps and jungler Jankos.

"The opening match of the S12 group stage is about to begin! Please have the players from both sides walk onto the competition stage!"

The European and American commentary desk at the scene took over the live broadcast screen.

What came into view was actually the two legendary veterans of G2, Perkz and another legendary veteran Rekkles sitting at the commentary desk!

These two people's teams did not enter the World Championship this year, and they are currently in a boring vacation time. They are naturally happy to be guest commentators for this opening match.

During the debugging stage, the bearded commentator excitedly brought up the topic.

"So how will the two G2 legends view this match??"

Facing the question of the old club and the defending champion, the two people's answers had a lot of personal style.

The steady Rekkles chose to be steady: "I think it's 50-50, although EDG is the number one seed, I heard that their mid laner this year is a rookie, you know, a rookie's first World Championship will generally not be too smooth... I believe in Caps!"

On the other side, Perkz laughed out loud: "That's right, today's winning point is in the mid lane!"

"I remember that there was a number one seed in the LPL that year, their mid laner was also entering the World Championship for the first time, originally an invincible existence in the region, but as soon as they arrived at the World Championship, they were defeated by LEC and LCS one after another, and were eliminated directly in the group stage!"

"What was the name of that team's mid laner... sorry, my memory has been bad recently, it's this, this!"

Perkz vividly made a "drawing a bow and shooting an arrow" action—then his whole upper body suddenly made an exaggerated "reverse" turn!

【Damn, memories from many years ago are attacking me.】

【! The battle of the victory is not the DGL we...】

【Damn, don't say it, it's really a bit like it, it's scary to think about it, maybe the champion has a curse, Imp won the championship and went to LGD, and then it was the top 16, and the second year he bought another MaRin who just won the championship, and as a result, he didn't even enter the World Championship!】

【Fart, it's not like it at all, okay, GodV debuted for a few years before entering the World Championship for the first time, Ye Bo is entering the World Championship in his first year of debut, is there any comparability?】

【I knew there would be fun to watch on the live broadcast, these European and American fun-loving people, don't they really think G2 can win? Set a small goal, EDG ends in 20 minutes!】

The bearded commentator was very satisfied when he heard the speeches of the two: "Good, then let's see everyone's pre-match prediction..."

The director presented the prediction results of the three commentators and the host as well as the three indoor analysts side by side to the audience.

A neat black and white team logo!

The bearded commentator saw this and asked very provocatively: "Didn't you two say that G2 has a chance, what's going on!"

Europe shrugged his shoulders with an innocent face.

Perkz lowered his head, looking left and right at the desktop: "This button is broken!?"

Short pre-match entertainment, the BP screen soon appeared in the picture.

"EDG is located on the blue side this match, coming up first to ban Maokai, G2 is banning Akali!"

"Eh? EDG's coach looks familiar!"

Perkz noticed Ming Kai standing behind the EDG player seat.

It's just that at this time, Ming Kai seemed to be just standing behind the mid laner's e-sports chair, tilting his head as if looking at the direction of the other party's keyboard.

The director obviously also noticed the wrongness here and cut a side close-up angle to the position of the EDG player seat.

Then it was clearly visible that in front of the mid laner's keyboard, there was a notebook with writing on it.

Looking closely, Ming Kai's lips fluctuated very little.

On the contrary, the teenager in the mid lane position, his mouth never stopped!

"What does this mean!" Perkz stared in surprise: "This looks like their mid laner is doing BP? Then Clearlove is up there for what!?"

"Uh, Perkz, our rules stipulate that every team must have a coach on the scene," the other bearded commentator kindly reminded.

"But, let someone who is playing in the World Championship for the first time do BP..." Rekkles' tone was quite unbelievable.

Even if foreign countries have heard some deeds of EDG, at most it is that this mid laner seems to be quite powerful, very good at doing scientific research, and have seen some operation highlights that have been moved over.

As for those "Easter eggs" that need to be known from "interviews" and "microphones," it is naturally unlikely to know too much.

Ming Kai was obviously just up there to occupy a position.

And with the progress of BP.

Ye Bo also found that G2's understanding of the patch is completely different from his own.

First of all, it is the understanding of the "mid lane position."

In the World Championship patch, the changes in the mid lane are relatively the smallest, just weakening the most mainstream heroes.

Among them, the first to bear the brunt are {Azir}, {Sylas}, {Ahri}, the top three in the summer season.

Azir weakened the damage of W sand soldiers and the CD of E skill, making the early combat power and survival difficulty test again.

Ahri weakened the charm control time of the most critical E skill.

And the weakening of Sylas, at first glance, seems to be the smallest, but it is just weakening some basic health, weakening the CD and damage of Q skill.

But you must know, originally there were quite a few people who would choose to main Q in the early stage to survive the laning—now it is equivalent to being forced to only main W.

But Sylas who mains W, if he wants to hit someone, he must hit E, which undoubtedly climbed a step for Sylas's operation test.

And these are just the small head.

The real biggest impact is: 【Stopwatch】.

Stopwatch increased from 600 gold to 750 gold, and the synthesis route of the finished equipment is directly expensive by nearly 400 gold!

And Zhonya's Hourglass happens to be one of Sylas's core equipment.

These all led to a sharp drop in Sylas's win rate in the passerby game!

In terms of G2's recent physical feeling in the ranking, they also feel that Sylas's strength is completely insufficient, and it can even be said that it is a bit like a "sewer" hero.

"EDG takes Sylas! And G2 grabs the Varus-Renata combination!"

"This G2 BP looks so comfortable, I think my vote was indeed broken!"

"For a patch sewer Sylas, how can you give the opponent such a comfortable Varus-Renata combination? And the hot Caitlyn in the play-in stage was also banned, this is wrong!"

Perkz expressed his insights wantonly on the stage.

But Ye Bo on the other side, when he saw the opponent grab the Varus-Renata combination almost without any hesitation, he understood the opponent's BP thinking.

G2's thinking is still the "framework" of the summer season—that is, catering to the durability patch, a multi-core lineup that favors mid-to-late game development.

Of course, this is also the status quo of most teams.

Even if there is an understanding of the new patch, it must be to try to modify it on the existing framework first.

This match of EDG can also be considered as experimenting with their brand-new understanding of this patch.

Every team will have its own interpretation of the patch, and a hundred flowers blooming understanding system will make the game more exciting.

However, the final result depends on the test of the competition field.

After all, the strength of the play-in stage is uneven. Except for the match between the two fourth seeds of the China and Korea regions, other matches can only be used as reference, and even have to be careful not to be led into the ditch.

And as the opening match of the "Group Stage."

Undoubtedly, this match will be a match that all teams attach great importance to.

The lineups of both sides are determined.

EDG: Aatrox, Graves, Sylas, Kalista, Ashe

G2: Ornn, Hecarim, Ryze, Aphelios, Renata

"EDG chose a somewhat rare lineup here... Although they chose the patch-strong top-jungle, they chose Sylas and Kalista, which were severely weakened, against the patch, and also brought out a support Ashe?"

"Anyway, I think G2's lineup is better, a very complete lineup!"

"And Caps' Ryze, I believe he will, as our old European senior, give the rookie from LPL a deep impression!"

The commentary desk at the scene entered the stage of joking again.

Although Perkz is not optimistic about the overall victory, he seems to have a lot of confidence in his old teammate Caps.

"Speaking of which, the thing I am most dissatisfied with personally is the selection of top 20 this year, actually only ranking Caps at 20th! But ranking this rookie at 12th! Too amateur!"

"Rekkles, do you think Caps has the possibility of solo kill this match? I guess three times!"

Rekkles didn't dare to continue when he heard this, and just brushed it off to avoid this topic.

EDG is the number one seed of LPL after all, and it was obvious that there was a strength gap between the two sides when voting before.

Perkz is here to make program effects today, but Rekkles has an idol burden!

Just two days before the start of the game, the official announced the top 20 player selection for this World Championship, which is also a routine program before the World Championship every year.

It's just that this selection is obviously quite controversial and was called outrageous by people!

Among them, the most controversial is that Samsung's dual carries Chovy and Ruler took the top two, and EDG, as the defending champion and number one seed, had five people ranked barely in the top fifteen.

Ye Bo, as a rookie, although he performed outstandingly, was only ranked 12th.

And perhaps because of the performance of the LCK summer finals, Faker, as the number two seed of LCK, was only ranked 19th, almost falling out of the list!

As for G2, as the number two seed of Europe, the whole team only had one Caps barely touching the end of the list, showing desolation.

As an old dynasty of Europe, even if they know that the team is not as good as it used to be, they naturally don't want to accept this fact.

Then the best way to prove yourself is to successfully qualify in this battle which is recognized as the death group!

"Oh~! Oh~! Oh~!"

The mother tongue exclamations were constantly ringing on the commentary desk at the scene.

"Jankos' Hecarim is fleeing in the jungle! Why can no one come to rescue! His jungle has been plundered and driven away by Jie Jie's Graves!"

"Caps has no chance to move in the mid lane! This Sylas's laning style is simply crazy! He exchanges health to death, is he not afraid of being caught!?"

"And the bottom lane, wasn't Kalista weakened? How come the bottom lane laning feels like it can't be played at all!"

After G2 got the perfect lineup in everyone's expected state, the collapse of the game completely exceeded imagination.

Of course, the reason is actually not simply on the lineup.

The biggest impact of the World Championship patch is the jungle and the bottom lane.

In the original summer season patch, the importance of the bottom lane can be said to be a visible key. In the durability patch, everyone thinks that the ADC has eaten the patch bonus, and the big core carry position has become the carry core.

But Ye Bo, through the ecological changes of the top lane in the bubble match, and the changes in the bottom lane heroes of the World Championship patch—insight into an intersection point.

Big core ADC heroes need at least 2 items to exert power, and some even need 3 items, which means there is no time for them until at least 20-25 minutes later.

But what about light fighters in the top lane?

The natural hero attributes are there, they can have considerable combat power starting from level 6, and the vast majority of heroes have team fight ability with just one piece of equipment!

For example, the Divine Sunderer of Camille, Weapon, Fiora; Aatrox's Eclipse or Goredrinker; Kennen's Rocketbelt; Renekton's...

So Ye Bo was thinking.

If light fighters in the top lane become mainstream, with stable dual output points in the top and mid lanes, and the jungler is also half a carry in many cases.

Does a team still need the bottom lane to choose a big core carry?

If the bottom lane doesn't need to bear the big core carry—what kind of positioning should the bottom lane be?

This match is Ye Bo's experiment.

Kalista lacks the protection of soft support, and the team fight space in the mid-to-late stage will be limited. The lack of hard support's strong opening laning kill ability will also become weaker. It can be said that there is no late stage at all.

But the Kalista + Ashe combination, which is rare and mismatched, the only effect is: "Ultimate Laning Priority!"

Yes.

Ye Bo's experiment is to see if changing the front-and-back focus of the lineup, choosing to exchange the late-stage ability of the bottom lane for the ultimate laning priority in the early stage, can form another set of systems.

And the laning priority in the bottom lane can not only guarantee the invasion and safety of the lower half area.

It is also a key node that can bring—Little Dragon!

It is the playoff patch, the little dragon that seems to have been "ignored" by everyone!

Relying on the advantage of the bottom lane's laning priority, EDG's Graves strongly invaded Hecarim to force the opponent to exchange the jungle, attacked the little dragon on time at 5 minutes, and continued to attack at the 5-minute refresh time.

If the opponent wants to take the team fight, then the side that chooses the extreme laning priority in the early stage and the strong fighting heroes in the early stage will undoubtedly occupy absolute initiative.

This is the reason why Sylas's strength will not be affected in Ye Bo's vision, and even will be improved!

Because when it comes to early combat ability, Sylas is absolutely second to none, and it has to be the "fighting Sylas" that is forced to main W in the current patch!

And if the opponent doesn't take the team fight, they will face the threat of the "Dragon Soul Team" at the beginning of 20 minutes.

At 20 minutes, the ADC with normal development generally does not have two items, and even if they do, they are far from the peak power period.

But this time point.

It is exactly the peak moment of combat power for most light fighters, and even more so for mid-game heroes like Renekton!

Replace combat power and adjust the power point.

The "Laning Priority Struggle" in the lower half area is the core key of this system!

And the lineup chosen by G2 in this opening match is exactly the existence that is perfectly restrained by this system.

It's just a pity that because the laning strength of G2's lines is really poor, especially the key bottom lane, it failed to fully see the effect of the system.

The effect shown in the game seems more like a gap in strength between the two sides.

G2's bottom lane used the World Championship rookie Flakked this year, facing Viper and Meiko who are specialized in laning, they couldn't resist the pressure at all.

The Varus-Renata combination can only be said to be average in laning, mainly strong in the mid-to-late stage fault tolerance and the team fight upper limit of dual big moves.

But Kalista and support Ashe, both are pure laning monsters!

In the case of combination disadvantage, the jungle being driven away, and the mid lane being stared at and unable to break free, they were almost naturally pierced through the line!

"This wave EDG might want to forcibly move on the bottom lane!"

"Must hold on! If this wave is dived, it is likely to directly push the first blood tower plus the second little dragon, and G2's rhythm will completely fall into the opponent's control!"

"Hecarim has come to the back of the bottom lane to squat, both mid laners are on the way, Sylas might steal Ryze's big move and arrive together!"

G2's bottom lane was consumed to the point of being precarious. This wave Hecarim would rather lose half the jungle to risk coming to squat.

Both mid laners moved almost at the same time!

"Ye seems to want to find Caps! Caps must be careful!"

Ryze saw Sylas's position according to the defensive eye at the entrance of the blue buff river.

But it is obvious that EDG's team heard the command at this time.

They knew Sylas would stop Ryze and had already started to act!

If Ryze chose to walk around from the outer wall of the Gromp because he was afraid of being interrupted, I am afraid that by the time he walked there, the corpses of the three people in his bottom lane would be cold!

Caps, as an extremely experienced old player, although his operation has declined significantly over the years, his combat experience is absolutely old-fashioned.

The range of 【Realm Warp】 is 3000 yards. Ryze, who is at the blue buff, can already fly to not far behind the first tower.

Ryze decisively pressed the magic circle under his feet and forcibly rushed to the battlefield!

At the same time, Ryze did not retreat, but instead walked towards Sylas—because retreating could not stay away from the Realm Warp magic circle, and might still be interrupted by Sylas's flash.

Ryze's EW control is as long as 615 yards, enough to control the opponent before Sylas approaches, and then turn around to take the door!

Caps naturally also knows that Sylas's second stage E has 800 yards, but if Sylas wants to use the most extreme distance second stage far E, even if Caps is old and dim-sighted, he can easily dodge it!

And if Sylas flashes E2 to forcibly stick to the face to interrupt, Caps doesn't believe the opponent is so crazy!

Because Sylas obviously has no reason to solo kill Ryze here, just a simple flash interruption is absolutely a huge loss, and there is no ability to stay behind!

Ryze can completely control the opponent and hit {Phase Rush} to accelerate, and turn around and rush hard to the tower.

Caps thought very beautifully.

But at this time, Ye Bo made a move that looked very abnormal.

I saw Sylas also cast the 【Realm Warp】 magic circle under his feet in place.

He wants to fly with Ryze!?

However, if the two arrive together, it is obvious that even if EDG has a health advantage, in the 4v4 under the tower and with Renata, the result is completely hard to say.

However, Sylas did not stop his steps and was still walking up.

【Abduct】 rushed forward, suddenly approaching the range of Ryze's shot!

Ryze raised his hand and threw 【Spell Flux】, preparing to open the magic book!

But just as Abduct instantly pulled the distance between the two sides to 500 yards, Sylas threw the chain forward, and at the moment the chain hit—flashed behind him!

"Reverse Interrupt E-Flash!"

The chain of abduction flew forward and hit Ryze, but Sylas's figure suddenly moved backward!

{Sylas's E2 hit cannot use flash, and if you flash before hitting, it may cause E2 to fail, or Sylas lands and is still pulled close}

Therefore, you must flash in the gap one second before E hits.

To be able to hit E2 and interrupt the displacement of E2!

And most importantly, when 【Realm Warp】 eats the enemy's {Hard Control}, it will immediately cancel the "guidance" casting.

The magic circle under Ryze's feet suddenly disappeared...

But Sylas, who turned back and flashed back, happened to step into his magic circle!

"What the~~~~ OMG!"

"Caps was interrupted! But Ye flew over! He came but he didn't come!"

"This is simply like a magic trick!"

"It's over!!!"

The G2 trio shivering under the tower saw the teleportation gate behind them, still looking forward to the teammate's rescue.

But what waited was only one Sylas!

3 dive 3, the G2 dual carries with poor state are extremely dangerous...

Not to mention that the strongest mid laner failed to arrive, but the opponent's mid laner arrived and became 4 dive 3!

Although Sylas had no ER, the three-layer passive accumulated upon landing, plus the damage of main W, was not affected too much.

Perfectly exchanged resistance, the G2 trio drank hatred under the tower!

The European and American commentary desk at the scene was howling.

And they, who are not familiar enough with EDG's games, have not yet discovered what the truly terrifying thing is—Sylas ate three heads!

When returning to the line again.

Caps originally thought that Sylas had no flash, no big move, and carried a large bounty, so he should be more steady.

But he still didn't understand the opponent too much.

Because in Ye Bo's damage calculation... Ryze has entered the execution line!

Due to the influence of the mythic patch, no Ryze currently will buy Rod of Ages as {Legendary Equipment}.

That would cause Ryze to need to wait: Mythic Equipment + Archangel + Rod of Ages three-piece set to exert power, and the formation period is ridiculously slow.

So, at this time point, Ryze's body has no big gap with ordinary mages.

Sylas pushed the line to the front of the tower, and used the "Tower Outside E" technique again to hit Ryze into the tower, landing without hatred, but successfully deceived Ryze's key EW control!

Then using the 20% skill haste from the equipment advantage, plus the CD difference of the extreme time of the E1 segment.

Sylas turned the E skill 2 seconds early, and sure enough, he entered the tower again!

Caps, who had no defense, was hit in the face, and it was a set of chain military boxing!

In the match against Scout, Sylas could still almost kill the full-health Zoe with naked equipment, let alone three heads at this moment!

"Caps~~~!"

"Solo kill under the tower! My God, what is Ye doing!"

Perkz, who was blowing Caps before the match, finally revealed his true colors and became the person who shouted the loudest in the audience.

【Have the rookie mid laners in the East evolved to this extent? I remember their local mid lane players in the first few years of the region performed very generally!?】

【Caps is the only remaining French king in Europe, how is he like a sandbag in front of Ye!】

【DoctorYe! DoctorYe! DoctorYe!】

【I heard that Ye is the LPL solo kill king, there is no LPL mid laner who hasn't been solo killed by him, now even Europe has become his colony—fortunately, our North American mid laner won't be solo killed by him, so it proves NA > EU!!!】

【? The only reason NA won't be solo killed is because no one in NA is in Group A in the group stage, and NA will never enter the top 8!】

【LPL is here to visit, can only say that the rabbit treasure head is too iron, I never expected that Sylas would dare to be released!】

When the game reached 15 minutes, the score had already reached 13-0, almost blooming in all three lanes.

The atmosphere of the whole venue has changed from the noise of the whole venue to distinct.

Many European audiences are holding their heads.

Although they also know that their own team has a lower win rate, no one expected to be beaten like this before the match, simply without any ability to fight back!

G2 was completely led by the nose, as if they couldn't find a node to fight back at all, just feeling that the whole body was bound.

The whole game almost became EDG's slaughterhouse!

Of course, for EDG, it is more like a "human trial field."

21 minutes and 58 seconds, EDG with Dragon Soul + Dragon buff, pushed the opponent's base in one wave.

The final score landed on the 17-2 kill ratio.

Drawing a bloody period for this opening match!

The moment the base crystal burst, the whole North American scene was in an uproar!

(End of this chapter) ===== CHAPTER 131 =====