Chapter 199: MSI see!

Just as the LPL Spring Split was in full swing, the LCK Spring Split also reignited the flames of war.

This year, 2023, was called the "Battleship" year for the two major divisions by netizens.

Not only did the LPL have numerous galaxy battleships.

LCK netizens were also echoing the very familiar: "The most hopeful year!"

And in the two opening matches of the opening day, there were already battleships taking off and falling.

The first day was the popular "GEN vs T1."

After Ruler left the team, GEN, which everyone thought would fall, seemed to have produced a magical chemical reaction after introducing Viper and keeping Lehends!

The Griffin five-man group that also fought out from internet cafe tournaments back then, four of them were in this GEN, almost without needing coordination, they found back the tacit understanding of the past, and the team fusion speed was super fast...

The jungle position again had the civil war king Peanut, known as "Mr. Korea"!

A 2-0 victory easily taken in the opening match.

Besides indicating that T1 seemed to have not been able to walk out of the haze of stopping in the top four last year, it also seemed to be indicating the re-domination of this LCK overlord team this year.

At the same time, HLE Hanwha also showed extraordinary strength.

Failing to grab Viper, they turned around and directly offered a historical-level contract to dig Canyon for Hanwha, paired with the top-mid expert duo of DRX last year—forming an "offensive" extremely fierce top-mid-jungle combination!

In Hanwha's first battle, facing the old strong team KT that had BDD and Cuzz, it was simply like playing "human-machine"!

The two games added up to 39 minutes.

Among them, one game was an outrageous 13 minutes leading by 10,000 economy, and 17 minutes 50 seconds pushing down the crystal!

Although there was an outrageous record of 1557 in the ancient times.

But you have to know, the version at that time and now are worlds apart, whether it is hero durability or game rhythm, they are very different and cannot be placed together for horizontal comparison.

Everyone thought that V5's two 40-minute games against WBG were already very exaggerated...

Didn't expect there were even higher masters!

Of course, KT's paper strength definitely couldn't compare with WBG.

But this still could show from the side that this Hanwha, after introducing Canyon, paired with Zeka and Kingen who originally emphasized "laning" and "early-game offense," also produced a wonderful chemical reaction.

I can only say, this year's LCK really counted as having enough effort, just the paper combat power was definitely not inferior to the LPL side.

"Can the streamer evaluate today's LCK?"

"This is not easy to evaluate, the season has just started, it's still early."

Ye Bo was interacting with the barrage while queuing for the live broadcast: "But if we talk about things that are relatively close, the competition pressure of MSI over there is really not small. Samsung, T1, and Hanwha, these three teams are really hard to say who will go..."

The barrage immediately began to play memes by catching the wind and grasping the shadows.

【Understood, the streamer is implying that the competition pressure on the LPL side is not big.】

【One thing to say, it's true. V5 3:0 WBG, WBG 3:2 BLG, BLG 2:1 EDG. On the LPL side, it feels like the only one with competition pressure is JDG, right?】

【What kind of comparison is this? Oh, I = human, Master Ye = human, Master Ye > RK, so I > RK?】

【Hey, no, why can everyone look down on my Brother Top Esports? Doesn't 2-0 the Thief Saint prove anything, I ask!】

【Really not familiar with the top sixteen~~】

【Still ten! Such a luxurious lineup, you group of haters, just wait for my Brother Top Esports to create a new history this year!】

【Report! It seems the opposite side is Fei Fei!】

Ye Bo had already gotten used to the wind direction in his live broadcast room, where any topic could inexplicably turn to other players.

Entering the match, he found that he was assigned to the top lane, so he asked the mid lane player to change positions.

Because now all servers had turned off the {Summoner ID} display, displaying in the chat box with various wild monster names like "Rift Scuttler" and "Shadow Wolf," causing the other party not to be able to see that it was Ye Bo's ID.

Ye Bo naturally wouldn't force it, running to type things like "woshiye" in the chat box...

Mainly because saying it was useless!

Because even he himself often saw people using various languages to type things like "I am Ye, give me mid" when asking for positions.

Every time Ye Bo saw this in the chat box, he was between laughter and tears.

You are Ye, who am I?

Moreover, this method was really 100% effective at the beginning.

It was just that later, more people were deceived, making the high-rank Korean server games have a bit of PTSD now; not a single person would believe it, and after more times, they were even too lazy to search if Ye Bo was live streaming.

However, unexpectedly.

The mid lane player just paused for a short while and actually typed "ok" quickly.

The barrage immediately had a reporter sending a telegram.

【This person is Xiaohu!】

【Xiaohu is sensible, knowing he can pick up points, he hurriedly lets go!】

【All wrong, it's because there are also people in his live broadcast room tipping him off, knowing the opposite mid laner is Fei Fei, he hurriedly runs!】

Ye Bo typed the abbreviation for thanks.

Afterwards, he didn't look at what hero the opposite side was, and chose the Long Wang.

The Long Wang was only a few days away from the reworked version going online, so during this period, Ye Bo often played this hero in ranked matches—not to grind proficiency, just simply playing.

Maybe people are like this, only knowing what's good after losing it!

The old Aatrox before was also like this, cold to the sky for years with no one asking, but suddenly became popular in the last version before the rework, and then it was mourning the playstyle...

Entering the loading interface.

Ye Bo then discovered that this match was truly an All-Star.

"So many acquaintances."

"But why do I always feel that in this kind of game, Brother Water seems to be there every time..."

The opposite top laner was TheShy, the jungler was Xiaotian, the mid laner was Faker, and the bot lane was JKL plus Meiko.

Except for the support Meiko who was an old teammate from EDG, the top, jungle, and bot three were all TES players.

It's just that the top laner TheShy was now a substitute whose job was snatched by Breathe, spending all day on the bench and cosplaying "Gragas and Barrel" with Qingtian, and it is said that there is no chance to appear for the time being.

And on Ye Bo's side, it was also an All-Star lineup!

The bot lane was JDG's Ruler, the top lane was TES's Xiaohu.

The jungler was his own substitute Beichuan.

Before entering the game, the TES crowd, who were less than ten meters apart, began to tease each other.

"TheShy! Beat Brother Hu! You'll be promoted to play tomorrow!" JackeyLove turned his head and shouted towards the water dispenser direction behind.

"You guys are at 15 points, this game I'll just mix and win~" Xiaohu's iconic duck voice laughed and said: "Our Ye Wen plus Ruler, this double C can't lose."

"What do you mean, it's fine to say I'm not as good as Ruler... You're implying Fei Fei is not as good as Master Ye!"

JackeyLove was worthy of being a streamer, he didn't need the audience to bring the rhythm, the streamer himself would bring it.

Xiaotian beside him was happy: "Don't be in a hurry, this game Fei Teacher and I will definitely go bot brainlessly, wait for me to C you, okay."

Xiaotian originally felt that the pressure in TES was very high.

After all, this team was simply like a powder keg, one carelessness, and it could explode at any time...

It was really strange.

Clearly, in terms of traffic, TES should be under the "All-God Class," but losing the same game, the rhythm was repeatedly bigger than not just a little bit.

Fortunately, after Xiaohu came, Xiaotian still felt quite comfortable.

Recently, there even vaguely appeared an open-minded Xiaotian personality...

"Ouch, Fei Teacher's hero, Ye Wen is too familiar with it," Xiaohu replied to Tian beside him.

"Why don't you still catch mid more, get familiar with it first."

Ye Bo was also interacting with Meiko on the public screen, near the mid lane river, flashing expressions and dog tags at each other.

But just at this moment————a big snowball rolled from afar!

"Holy shit! Sneak attack!"

Ye Bo's eyes and hands were fast, instantly clicking the Q skill to roll the star core forward, wanting to interrupt the rolling snowball while dodging.

But Faker clearly knew the Yeti very well, facing the incoming star core, he not only didn't dodge, but also actively adjusted his position, moving one step towards the direction the Long Wang was dodging—and then actively pushed the ball!

Once Nunu eats control, the snowball will also uncontrollably be pushed out immediately.

But this step of adjusting the direction and actively pushing out in advance made the Long Wang unable to adjust the dodging range again, and while the star core hit, he had already been knocked high by the snowball.

The Meiko Nautilus behind decisively flashed and hooked, and Ye Bo could only follow up and flash.

{Aurelion Sol}: bujiangwudeshiba!

When returning to the city, Ye Bo interacted on the public screen with Meiko who was clearly deceiving him in front.

{Nautilus}: jklzhishide0.0

{Draven}:??

Actually, it was Li Li Xianghe who directed it.

Li Li Xianghe couldn't understand the interaction on the public screen between the two sides, but he was very familiar with these few IDs.

Especially the ID of the mid lane on the opposite side.

And he, who designed it successfully at this time, didn't hold back his laughter in his own live broadcast room.

Professional players playing rank are more about maintaining hand feel and practicing heroes, and they don't value rank points as much as normal players.

So relatively speaking, it will be more "entertaining."

Speaking of which, mid lane Nunu, it really wasn't after he was beaten by EDG in the group stage last year that he played it.

Li Li Xianghe's old viewers all knew that he had always liked playing this hero in ranked, and it had even been banned by others in matches.

However, playing against the Long Wang... two super unpopular duels, he didn't have much experience either.

Minion wave clash.

Ye Bo entered the serious laning state.

In comparison, Ye Bo was clearly more familiar with Nunu.

That group stage match last year had already shown—the important reason why the mid lane Nunu playstyle is feasible is the playstyle of pushing a big snowball from the back starting from level one, and then clearing the minion wave into the tower with one ball.

This playstyle is almost unsolvable for the vast majority of heroes, neither possible to resist the ball with the body, nor easy to find an opportunity to interrupt remotely.

But, the old version of the Long Wang really can!

Ye Bo stood directly in front of the opponent's first tower, preparing to interrupt it with a long-range star core, not letting it get close to the minion wave.

Before the level one group, it was just because the jungle entrance was too narrow and the Long Wang had no room to dodge, so he was blocked by the snowball.

But the wide minion wave in the mid lane definitely wouldn't be hit so easily.

Once Nunu can't use the snowball to clear the wave quickly, its own short-handed characteristic means it will just be beaten for nothing in the mid lane laning!

However... Li Li Xianghe played a little trick!

"Where is the person?"

Ye Bo looked suspiciously at the empty space in front of the opponent's first tower, thinking that even if he turned around in place twice to save the ball, he should have come out.

Just at this moment————a big snowball was pushed out from the river on the left side!

Obviously, Li Li Xianghe guessed that the other party would intercept in front of the first tower.

So he specially took the reverse path, detoured from his own jungle to the river, and then started pushing the ball!

And because Ye Bo stood forward, although he still used the star core to interrupt at the first time, he was still hit by the snowball pushed out in advance by Nunu, who had a very fast movement speed and arrived at the river mouth!

And, there was one detail in this wave.

Under normal circumstances, if Nunu wants to use W to clear all ranged minions at level one, the damage of the longest-distance W is not enough.

It must be Nunu bringing the ball with his body, first getting close to "crush" over the minions, and then releasing the snowball to hit the two-stage W damage.

This technique is what Ye Bo used on the field.

Therefore, even if Nunu avoids the position and successfully sticks to the minion wave, as long as the Long Wang stuns the opponent, making it unable to "personally carry the ball" into the minion pile, it still won't be able to grab the minion wave at level one.

But Li Li Xianghe chose to push out in advance!

To be precise, it was pushing out in advance within the "land water area" range from the mid lane river, so that the snowball could eat the AP bonus of {Waterwalking}.

It just happened to make up for the missing wave-clearing damage, hitting the minion wave to death from a long distance!

Ye Bo praised in his heart.

He could feel that Li Li Xianghe's performance this year had not "regressed" as the outside world rumored at the moment.

Instead, he felt he was still improving...

However, obviously, this little design could be used at most once.

Honestly speaking, the current mid lane old Long Wang actually somewhat counters the mid lane Yeti, regardless of playstyle or characteristics.

After all, it is also an "extreme roaming" early-game hero, the Long Wang's wave-pushing and support efficiency is not slower than Nunu at all—at the same time, it can also counter the opponent's snowball energy storage!

The Yeti used this little design to get the initiative of the level one and level two minion waves.

But coming to level three, it immediately returned to its original state.

Ye Bo excluded one direction option by inserting an eye in the river, successfully bet on the direction of Nunu pushing the snowball, and used the long-range star core Q to interrupt Nunu's energy storage snowball, making it unable to reach the minion pile!

Not only that, the Long Wang also deliberately didn't push the wave quickly, causing Nunu to have to walk up and use flat A to push if it wanted to last hit.

And then it was infinitely pulled and consumed by the Long Wang's W!

"This pulling..." Li Li Xianghe muttered, and was translated by the translation lady in the live broadcast room.

Fortunately, at this time, Xiaotian's Lee Sin had murderous intent and signaled to the mid lane.

Li Li Xianghe immediately understood, and realized an opportunity.

He quickly marked the eye position on the map, indicating that the Long Wang had just inserted an eye there to detect the movement of the Yeti pushing the ball.

Once the position of the eye is known—it is equivalent to creating a visual blind spot!

Ye Bo saw Nunu retreat and push the snowball out again, just preparing to follow suit and interrupt... but alertly found that the direction of this Nunu snowball was wrong.

This snowball didn't seem to be aimed at the minion wave.

But towards his own direction!

But Ye Bo, who discovered the opponent's intention, didn't seem to be overly panicked, and even had the heart to interact with the audience in front of the screen.

"Sure enough, someone came, this wave is very critical, wow, pay attention to the streamer's operation!"

The Long Wang didn't seem to have any intention of dodging, just tilted his body forward and walked towards the wall of the lower river.

The Lee Sin chasing behind appeared as expected.

As long as this snowball hits, the Long Wang without flash would be focused by the two, and naturally would die without a doubt.

However, just as the snowball hit————the Long Wang, who walked to the edge of the river wall, suddenly stopped his footsteps and walked back in the opposite direction, tightly sticking to the "corner" of the wall!

This can be considered a method to counter the Nunu snowball.

The bigger the Nunu snowball, the bigger the collision volume judgment will be. At this time, once it passes through positions like "wall corners," it will be extremely easy to explode the snowball!

That snowball.

It looked like it just brushed past the Long Wang's tail and brushed past!

Fortunately, there was Lee Sin behind.

Xiaotian made a decisive decision, directly W touched the minion and flew out Q, aiming at the Long Wang who looked like he was stuck in the wall corner!

But the Long Wang just kept twisting his head and walking.

A strange thing happened: that Sonic Wave, clearly looking like it had truly hit the Long Wang's body.

But it continued to "pass" through!

"Ah?" Xiaotian in front of the camera was full of doubts.

But a Xin Zhao had already walked out from behind!

It was Beichuan, who received the command from the team's big brother, finished speed three on one side, and squatted directly behind.

And the Long Wang's subsequent actions seemed even stranger.

I saw the Long Wang, who was preparing to counter-attack, suddenly "bumped" into the wall when opening W, and the end of the E flight was accompanied by the rapidly rotating star track————and Nunu's health bar also seemed to have an unreasonable explosion drop in an instant!

Li Li Xianghe immediately sensed danger and approached the upper wall, preparing to flash over the wall.

However, a star core flew out half a step in advance towards the wall, stunning the Nunu who had just landed.

The Xin Zhao behind was extremely decisive, flashing W, a cold light arrived first, and the super long-distance E crossed the wall to chase forward!

Stabbing Nunu frantically, and finally killed it in front of the tower!

"Nice, Chuan!" Ye Bo shouted loudly in the training room without looking back.

"Strong, Master Ye! You can even twist this! Invincible, wow!" The emotional value-filled answer responded immediately from behind.

The barrage in the live broadcast room also instantly flooded with 666666 and??????.

【This substitute jungler is okay, the cooperation with Master Ye is also good, feels like there is a chance to play?】

【Brother Xun, don't test it anymore.】

【Little Xun really has a sense of crisis, this seems to be someone who wants to improve more.】

【No, what is Little Tian playing this wave, this can also Q empty, feels like tomorrow's TES really has it, paired with Fei Fei and still can't beat~~~】

【This can also blame the jungler, it can only be judged as a tadpole at a glance, Nunu can push empty this face-to-face snowball, and then turn around and run to sell teammates, this wave is not full responsibility?】

Ye Bo didn't have time to look at the barrage.

But he also explained to himself while clearing the wave.

"This wave can be considered a technique to deal with Nunu, which is to try to deceive the direction of the opponent's snowball as much as possible, while standing close to the corner, so that Nunu's snowball is not easy to hit."

"As for the one behind."

"Actually, it's the Long Wang's model, the second half is 'fake', it's virtual, which means that when we face non-directional skills, we can deliberately face the 'tail' to the enemy..."

This wave actually involves many details.

Ye Bo patiently explained to the audience in the live broadcast room, which is his live broadcast daily routine.

Reasonably speaking, the model characteristic mechanism of this Long Wang, compared to the unpopularity of this hero at the moment, is definitely a very cold knowledge.

Summarized simply————《Although the old Long Wang looks big because of the "Guardian Planets," his real model is not much bigger than Teemo》!

Because, the illusory tail below the waist is all "fake models."

As for why Nunu's health suddenly exploded.

That inexplicable instant burst is a linkage technique of one of the old Long Wang's skills.

The principle is that the Long Wang's planets also have damage on the way of being retracted and released.

And opening E will retract the guardian planets, and will recover quickly when landing, so by canceling E in advance by hitting the wall, you can open W at the moment of retracting and releasing the planets, which will superimpose W's acceleration, causing the blooming guardian planets to instantly increase their rotation speed by 2-3 times!

It is equivalent to Nunu being surrounded by five or six planets and smashed in the face at close range within that second or so, a considerable burst of damage!

Of course, because the E skill cannot be used in a combat state.

So you have to have the previous shadow twisting to dodge the Sonic Wave, wall corner blocking the snowball, to have the opportunity to use this operation...

Ye Bo explained endlessly for a long time, and the audience in the live broadcast room felt a bit dizzy.

It was also mainly because this hero was about to be reworked.

For this kind of hero about to be reworked, most people didn't care so much about these small operations.

Ye Bo didn't know whether these old version operations and techniques would be retained when the new Long Wang went online...

But he just simply liked to study.

Nunu, who was killed once and had his flash beaten out, officially entered the painful period of laning, and began to be infinitely tortured by the Long Wang.

The Long Wang who bought shoe movement speed made it even harder for Nunu to find an opportunity to push the ball first, Lee Sin was hard to cooperate with gank, not to mention his own jungle was also being frantically countered by Xin Zhao and the Long Wang.

TheShy in the top lane was also educated by the team's big brother Top Tiger.

The good news is that the opponent's bot lane advantage in this game was great.

JKL and Meiko's cooperation seemed quite tacit, both were players who liked to play the line, and the laning naturally played a not-small advantage.

Of course, it could also be because their own support was a passerby, and Ruler's cooperation couldn't exert full strength.

Although the Long Wang successfully flew to the bot lane several times, Nunu also launched several attacks on the bot lane regardless of his life, successfully helping the bot lane.

Draven, impressively became the big brother and hope of the red side!

Then?

Then there was no then.

Draven died strangely in two consecutive team fights, was killed instantly when opening the group, and the only advantage lane collapsed directly, leading to the game falling apart!

Li Li Xianghe's Nunu could also be called being beaten all over the field, being chased and run by the Long Wang all over the map, and the appearance of pushing the snowball and running away was very funny...

Finally, found an opportunity.

When the minion wave was pushed to their own high ground, Li Li Xianghe unreasonably scanned and stole into the jungle, squatting on the Long Wang who was pushing the line and released a wave of "Bush Atomic Bomb"!

This wave originally really had a chance to solo kill, this was after all one of Nunu's most characteristic operations, and the successful implementation instantly reversed the health of both sides.

The Long Wang instantly flashed to the blast cone behind, wanting to pull away.

But Nunu also immediately followed the flash to the blast cone, cooperating with Phase Rush and E skill deceleration—the two completely overlapped!

But...

Just at the moment the Long Wang's A was about to be released, his body suddenly "rolled" in place for an instant.

Clearly, the two were overlapping.

But only Nunu was bounced away by the cone, while the Long Wang was still in place!

Nunu, who was instantly pulled away, was then held by a Dragon Breath followed by a star core, and the rolling guardian planets smashed his face frantically.

Was solo killed again!

20 minutes.

Li Li Xianghe's Nunu ended the game with a record of 0-7-7.

The audience in each live broadcast room was teasing.

Each second-path cut was already being accelerated during the game, just waiting to eat this hot traffic.

"Alright brothers, off work, there's a match tomorrow!"

"That operation just now, actually, is the Long Wang's "Rolling E", which can use the E takeoff action to create the effect of {control offset}~"

"Everyone can also go see our jungler, he is a rank king who broadcasts live every day..."

Before going off the air, Ye Bo didn't forget to explain the principle of the mechanism just now.

At the same time, he also brought traffic to his own jungler who temporarily didn't have a chance to appear.

Beichuan behind was so moved that he was almost crying, obviously this was a splash of wealth, maybe the live broadcast income could be higher than the salary!

And on the other side.

Li Li Xianghe, who continued to open the ranked match, looked like he was thinking about something.

Compared to the audience.

He also noticed some things.

Some small details that seemed insignificant but made him a bit surprised.

For example, he noticed that the Long Wang's last hitting in this game actually had a terrifying 201 minions when pushing the house at 19 minutes!

This is definitely a terrifying last hitting even if it is placed in a normal game.

Not to mention that you have to know, the Long Wang of this version will not focus on last hitting, it is a hero type that wants to play brainless roaming, and many times it is normal for the 20-minute last hitting to not exceed one hundred!

Not to mention that this was still a Long Wang who was frantically ganking all over the field and constantly suppressing him in laning!

Suppressing people is normal, roaming is normal, and last hitting is also normal.

But these, if gathered together at the same time.

Then it is very abnormal!

Recalling the various details in the game just now, Li Li Xianghe felt a bit shocked in his heart...

"His playstyle, seems to have changed?"

"He has improved again..."

At this time, an information prompt came from the friend chat box.

It was {chinesekungfu}

{fight! msisee! }

Li Li Xianghe looked at the dialog box and was stunned for a short while.

Afterwards, he also typed in the dialog box: {msisee}.

Frankly speaking, this major reform of the international tournament, which is second only to the S-tournament, although the quota for MSI has increased to two this year, Li Li Xianghe could clearly feel that the competition pressure in the division this year is very high.

Especially after today's big failure in the opening match.

But thinking of the opponent he failed to complete the BO5 revenge opportunity against last year...

He seemed to have become more eager for that quota.

Went off the live broadcast.

Ye Bo ended the simple interaction and closed the client.

Packed up his things and returned to the room, preparing to start today's real training.

And lying on the bed, he took a look at the time.

Five minutes left until 12 o'clock.

Thinking that he couldn't stay in the pot for long, Ye Bo simply took out his phone and brushed short videos for five minutes to entertain himself.

As a result, just after opening the software.

An extremely hot cut was pushed over.

"Exploded! Ye brutally abused Faker in the Korean server and solo killed him three times 0-7! T1's S13 road is worrying, JKL directly shouted: Change the substitute!"

"Go, what kind of clickbait title is this..."

With the names of several traffic giants gathered.

This game cut that had just been issued for less than ten minutes already had nearly a thousand comments, and the heat was simply outrageous!

The comment section below was even more lively.

【Old Fei is really not working anymore, originally there was only one GEN, now there is another Hanwha, feels like this year don't talk about S-tournament top four, MSI is hard to enter~】

【No! Playing a ranked game made you guys so noisy!!】

【Playing ranked? I think the group stage didn't win either!】

【Hard to say, V5 this year is after all not EDG last year, but with Ye, I'm at ease, I can only say believe first!】

【Xiaohu might become the biggest winner tonight, if TES loses the match tomorrow, the excuse is already found ——— "Look, Fei Fei mid lane can't carry you guys either, it has nothing to do with me!"】

【Haji Tiger, you guy, did you surrender to the enemy before fighting?】

【Hey no, is it just me who feels that TES's lineup seems to have a big problem? Always feel it will explode a big one sooner or later.】

(End of this chapter) ===== CHAPTER 200 =====