Chapter 210: Hexagonal Mid Laner! Then I didn't come to the LPL in vain!

"Congratulations to V5 for taking the first game!" Miller shouted excitedly.

"In the first game, they quickly expanded their advantage with the pushing rhythm of their bot lane duo, and quickly ended the game with powerful development and laning ability in the mid lane!"

Wawa on the side said loudly: "To be honest, V5's stuff is too seasoned, especially the Ye player this season, who has started using various mage big cores more, looking like he has a sense of bottoming out, and the game has actually never been out of their control!"

Duke shook his head and said with some emotion: "I have to say, in this game, JDG's jungler was restrained, and the strong combo picked by the bot lane duo was restricted by the strange Caitlyn support."

"To be honest, when I was playing professionally, the thing I feared most was this kind of team that has new things at every turn..."

In all leagues, the Spring split is the most special period.

Except for last year's S12, it is the only time that a "subversive" change has been made in the middle of the year.

For all other seasons, the biggest "subversive" changes every year are at the beginning of the year, which is in the Spring split.

So under normal circumstances, the Spring split is the stage for all teams to explore the brand new Rift—familiarizing themselves with strange things, everyone naturally habitually uses their most familiar old playstyle.

TES, JDG, and even WBG, who changed everyone, are like this; the overall team playstyle and system have not changed much from last year.

But it is clear.

Up to now, V5 has already had several different system playstyles, always trying new things.

The biggest change is Ye Bo.

From last year, 90% of the time was prioritizing "early game heroes" to bet on the rhythm, as if every game had a sense of urgency of "success or failure."

To this year, he started picking Ryze, Aurelion Sol, and other big core choices more frequently.

It seems he has exchanged the sense of urgency for the opponent, while his side has transformed into a sense of mastery and relaxation, and the appearance of "crisis moments" has also decreased accordingly.

Of course.

The main thing is... even if he picked this kind of magic core hero, he could still mostly gain an advantage in laning!

This is the "What am I learning" stuff.

The live stream is playing the post-match highlights.

The early jungle design, jungle clash, and strange laning understanding, to the passionate clash in the top lane in the mid-game.

And finally, those several shocking Starfall and Skies Descend smashes, whether it is the visual effect or the actual combat screen, are memorable, as if it is the oppression overflowing from the screen!

【This is the dragon! The oppression is really big, do those noobs who played it a few days ago deserve to be called Aurelion Sol?】

【The new Aurelion Sol looks really handsome, it's a pity that the ultimate name is not domineering enough, I suggest changing it to—《Heavenly Motion~Ten Thousand Phenomena》!】

【Looking at it this way, is the king coming out so early this year?】

【Then I have to say there is a person, for many consecutive years wherever he is, which team is the LPL king No. 1 seed, and finally won the World Championship... That's right! It's my Flandre!】

【Don't say it, use the elimination method, EDG was also losing crazily in the Summer split last year, then Master Ye came and kicked someone away, and immediately started an invincible winning streak! This is really a human problem!】

【Designer: "Working hard to balance the version every day, didn't expect that in the end, because of one person, all the work was in vain..."】

In the back, the JDG members sitting together had different expressions.

In general, they are not convinced.

369 felt that he should be lying down and losing.

That Sion went to steal the buff at level 1, led in equipment to the lane, and just because he arrived late, the minion wave was pushed, and the ward placed at level 1 didn't play a role, so it was normal that he couldn't press the opponent later.

Kanavi thought his handling had no problems, and that Sylas played so smoothly in the early game, so it was normal to chase and beat him after entering the strong period.

Ruler was annoyed to the extreme!

He thought more and more angrily, and finally couldn't help but open his mouth: "Ya-i-xi, I said it, come bot, come bot!"

"What's the use of going to the top lane to catch Sion? Can you win if you catch him until he collapses?"

Ruler deliberately spoke Korean, and not many people present could understand.

And clearly he couldn't be saying this to the coach.

Kanavi didn't look at him, just bent over and leaned forward, picking up the water bottle on the table to pour himself water.

Ruler thought the other party was sensible, his expression eased slightly, his upper body leaned forward slightly, and he pushed his water cup forward by 0.5cm with the back of his hand.

However... Kanavi just finished pouring water for himself.

Then he put the water bottle back!

"?"

Ruler almost couldn't help but blurt out the classic quote he learned from Flandre: "Ya, do you think the water will run into brother's hand by itself?"

And I saw Kanavi unhurriedly taking a sip of water first.

Then the words he said next made Ruler almost explode in an instant after being slightly stunned!

He just said three words lightly.

Even, it was in Chinese.

"Go and collapse."

". Xi-ba-er, our bot lane already killed in lane! How can it collapse if you come to the bot lane to fight early!"

"Nonsense, every time I switch the screen to the bot lane, your health is pressed very miserably, if I go and get counter-ganked, it will explode directly, and Aurelion Sol always has lane priority to fly."

"And people have always been entering my jungle, the bot lane has always been calling me to go, how can I go?"

The two held their own words.

This is the limitation of the perspective of players in each position on other positions.

Everyone can only look at problems from the perspective of their own position in the end.

In Ruler's ADC thinking, since I picked Kalista + Renata, you should always come to surround the bot lane and hard-find a fight!

Even if 3v3 doesn't have a certain winning grasp, you have to come, so that my picking this combo has meaning.

But in Kanavi's jungle carry thinking.

You guys haven't been able to maintain good health in laning, and you still call me to the bot lane—isn't that wanting to use my jungler's life to exchange for an operation opportunity for you?

Dream on!

In JDG for so many years, I, Kanavi, only have the time when the lane gives me an advantage!

How can I use the jungler's life to exchange for an advantage for the lane!

Missing was caught in the middle of the two who were fighting each other, listening to the mid-Korean bombardment, feeling his head was a bit big.

One is the jungler brother who has been together for more than a year, and the other is the AD brother who has to communicate closely later.

Both have to be taken care of...

Homme on the other side also had this mentality; these two Korean players were both players he valued very much, so he didn't speak at the first time.

But seeing that the state was wrong, he sighed and opened his mouth with a gentle tone.

"Okay, no need."

"Everyone be a little patient, our team hasn't played a few games, it's very normal that the playstyle hasn't been gelling well, we will definitely find the playstyle most suitable for us slowly."

"The most important thing now is the next game..."

Homme's BP ability is unquestionable; purely speaking of business ability, he is definitely in the top three among coaches serving in the LPL.

But in his ten-year coaching career, he only had the experience of following his master Edgar as an assistant coach for SSW when he first debuted, with no actual power, and the result was good.

After that, all the teams led by him alone were mostly very good in the domestic league, but once they reached the World Championship, they started to make trouble!

Even at every turn, they would explode a big one, and so far they haven't broken through the semifinals once!

A not-small reason for this is his personality problem.

To put it bluntly—"People are too gentle, they can't suppress the players at all!"

This point is not even as good as White Crescent.

White Crescent at least had the "Am I too gentle to you?" and "Watch the recording!" famous scenes of throwing cola bottles, at least he could train players, and someone would be afraid when he got angry.

But in Homme's career, the most serious conflict with players was just in the back after the S12 group stage failure:

"If you think I, the coach, am an SB, then you can not listen."

Not being able to suppress players is a big or small matter.

The disadvantage is that there may be team members who don't practice heroes because of "preference," just like 369 at the moment because he "doesn't like" to play the version T0 mid-0 Jax, so he doesn't play.

There may also be team members with poor "discipline" who don't change despite repeated teaching, maybe because someone doesn't want to change their playstyle and wants the team to integrate, and facing huge adversity, it is difficult to quickly adjust the state of the team members, directly exploding a big one...

However, if the team's results are excellent, and there are no big contradictions between the players, then the impact is not big.

Ruler and Kanavi indeed don't have any big essential contradictions; anyway, they are all here to work, and they might not be together next year, so just treat it as a normal colleague relationship.

At most, Ruler came here and couldn't bully, feeling a bit uncomfortable.

But Kanavi also has something to say.

I was bullied because I could only eat Tarzan's leftovers and leftover kimchi roots every day at lunch when I was at Griffin, and then I ran to China!

You dared to bully me when I was in the LCK, and you still want to bully me when I came to the LPL?

Then I didn't come to the LPL in vain!

So Kanavi indeed had a bit of a deliberate attitude, not really having a grudge with Ruler, just wanting the other party to recognize reality early and know that the sky here is different!

Homme started to arrange the tactics for the next game.

The two also considered their emotions calmed down, and the four listened and discussed together.

Seems like one person is missing!?

It turned out that just now when the bot-jungle dual cores were arguing.

That other key person involved who lost lane priority in the mid lane, which led to the jungle being unable to push according to the plan—had long ago silently and skillfully slid his chair back half a step.

Silently gnawing on his fingernails, pretending nothing happened.

Before long, the break ended.

Both sides' players appeared again.

"Welcome back to the 2023 Spring split live scene! Now we are about to conduct the second small game of V5 vs JDG..."

Wawa, who had just finished reading the advertisement, was about to conduct the pre-match analysis for this game, but suddenly heard the director's voice in the ear return.

His eyes lit up fiercely.

"There is a latest news that needs to be synchronized with everyone; JDG actively chose the red side in the priority selection right of the second game!"

Miller also followed: "This choice is indeed rare..."

"But there is another data that may be counter-intuitive to share with everyone; actually, in the LPL regional data so far, the BP win rate of the red side is even slightly higher, leading the blue side by 52.3%!"

As early as the first match of the global BP format, there were many discussions about the imbalance between red and blue sides.

But unlike what many people expected.

In the Spring split data so far, the win rate of the red side is actually higher!

The data for each region is different; for example, the win rate of the blue side in the LCK is surprisingly high, even approaching 60%.

This may indeed prove that there is a difference between red and blue sides—but it is definitely not a gap that leans towards one side.

And Homme also has his own understanding.

In his view, the biggest advantage of the "Global BP" format is that the red side no longer has "fixed ban slots."

The so-called disadvantage of the red side is actually that there are heroes in the version that are almost impossible to handle, and must be banned if not picked—and these heroes are generally defaulted as the red side's fixed ban slots.

Just like last year's S championship.

From the initial Kalista, to the later Caitlyn, to the later Aatrox, all were things that naturally occupied an advantage when picked by the blue side!

But under global BP, after picking a few strong heroes in the previous game, there might be room for operation after controlling the quantity.

And the red side also has its biggest advantage.

Counter!

In the first game, V5 used the double swing of mid-jungle + bot lane four people, plus the brand new Hail of Blades double ranged combo, which caused the red side's counter effect not to hit half a point.

But this doesn't mean it can be done in this game.

In Homme's view, the most important thing to play against this V5 team is the choice of counter position—he wants to use this to forcibly restrict the opponent's mid laner, so as to ensure his tactics proceed according to plan!

Of course, this can also be considered Homme's attempt.

Ye Bo and BeryL were also somewhat unexpected when they heard this notification in the back.

But ever since the match against TES, they actually had similar understandings.

The default ban board emerged.

The 10 hero portraits used in the previous game had turned gray.

"V5 starts by banning Wukong + Aphelios, while JDG bans Akali + Azir."

"The thinking of both sides' first two bans should be similar to the previous game, still targeting the opponent's specialty bans..."

"Also because of the disappearance of Varus and Caitlyn, the priority of Aphelios has become higher than Zeri!"

From the second game, the brain-burning degree of global BP began to appear.

Zeri, after the small rework in the S13 preseason, is one of the two major version "big core" ADs alongside Aphelios—if it weren't for global BP, it is estimated that 80% of the games would be these two!

Then why did V5 ban Zeri in the previous game, but changed to ban Aphelios in this game?

Because, the Varus, Caitlyn, and Kalista that have the greatest laning pressure on Aphelios have all been defaulted to be banned.

And what Zeri leads Aphelios in is the range advantage in the laning end!

However, V5's third ban was also slow to fall.

In the camera, you can see Ye Bo and BeryL constantly communicating.

Both of them keenly noticed the abnormality.

The biggest change in JDG's BP in this game is that the second ban didn't go to ban K'Sante, but continued to ban mid lane heroes.

This exists as a new variable.

In the previous game, the reason V5's third ban didn't go to ban Jax because K'Sante was banned was because there was still "poke-style Varus," an ADC who wasn't afraid of Jax at all, to grab, and many choices in the top lane to deal with Jax.

But in this game, Varus, Jayce, and Sion have all been defaulted to be banned.

At this time, if Jax is released again, the blue side will fall into the dilemma of choosing between K'Sante and Jax, picking Jax first will be countered later, and picking K'Sante first will be countered by Jax.

"Then Jax, anyway, if we beat Wei, little Xun still has that!" BeryL shook his head and brain.

Ye Bo also nodded: "Mm, then ban Jax, and see what their third ban is, there aren't many things left outside in this game."

V5 sent Jax to the ban list.

First round bans—

V5: Wukong, Aphelios, Jax

JDG: Akali, Azir, Poppy

The last ban appeared, and the caster desk hadn't realized anything yet.

But the two sides of the battle had already seen the opponent's intention.

"Want to give us a multiple-choice question..."

Clearly, Homme was deliberately maintaining the "quantity" of heroes worth picking.

Among all positions outside, what are the remaining version OP heroes worth first-picking?

K'Sante in the top lane, Vi in the jungle, Zeri in the ADC.

Exactly three!

Not only that.

Jax to counter K'Sante, Poppy and Wukong to counter Vi, Aphelios to counter Zeri have all been taken off the field!

That is to say, no matter what the blue side picks first, JDG will definitely take the remaining two without hesitation, filling the double OP positions that the red side has as a late hand.

And there is no need to worry that the opponent will get a counter choice in the second or third floor of the double OP positions!

This shows the gap between Homme and White Crescent.

The same situation.

In the second game of V5 vs TES, White Crescent could only think of the formulaic rush to the blue side, and didn't consider the red side's late-hand counter factor at all, leading to the fact that the things he first-picked didn't achieve any effect.

Fortunately, this problem is not difficult for V5 to solve.

Because besides BP ability, they also have things that TES players themselves don't have.

"V5 first-picked K'Sante! JDG really took Vi + Zeri in return!"

"Must mention, the K'Sante in this version has been hugely nerfed! Don't know if it can still swing now..."

Looking at the changes alone, this version of K'Sante looks like he was cut to the main artery.

The things weakened are all abilities with extreme value.

Q3's {knock-up duration} from 1s → 0.65s, Q3's {stun duration} from 1.25s → 1s, W's {minimum stun duration} also from 0.75s → 0.5s.

The loss of double resistance in R is even directly from 65% → 85%!

Not only are the key control abilities of QW cut, but he also becomes more fragile after opening the ultimate.

It's just that this thing's mechanism is rogue; even if it took such a knife, compared to other heroes, the functional type is still very strong, just like changing from 110 points to 99 points.

"V5 picked Lulu in return, plus Lucian!?"

"If you want to pick Lucian to play the lane, isn't Lucian-Nami better? This combo looks a bit strange..."

The caster's game understanding is really a bit poor, Zoom is also half a bucket of water, didn't see the deep meaning in it.

But Homme, after a short delay, had a look of shock in his eyes.

Because at the same time.

The V5 on the opposite side immediately gave him a multiple-choice question.

He realized that the person responsible for BP on the other side indeed has a very deep understanding, and many things are exactly the same as what he, a professional coach, thinks.

Just like the interpretation of the bot lane.

In fact, from the second game of global BP, the position most affected should be the bot lane—because the keyword for the bot lane is "Combo Choice"!

The simplest example.

For example, because of the disappearance of Renata, it will lead to the selection of Draven, Aphelios, and Kalista being restricted, and it is easy to make restrictions through BP.

And for example, Zeri!

Zeri's best partner is undoubtedly Lulu, followed by Yuumi and the Rakan that Missing uses extremely well.

And the opponent directly grabbed the best Lulu, basically telling you that if you don't pick a support, don't think about picking a good combo, and prepare to continue to resist pressure and lose the lane like the previous game.

But at the same time, the mid-jungle hero that JDG's composition best matches with Vi is clearly Ahri, which is equal to letting you choose between mid and bot!

"Pick Rakan."

In Homme's view, there are still quite a few choices in the mid lane; anyway, the opponent's mid lane hasn't come out yet, and having a fifth-floor counter position is thought to be enough.

Entering the second round of bans—

JDG: Zhao Xin, Sejuani

V5: Ahri, Taliyah

Because it was uncertain where K'Sante was going, 369 picked Gnar first, leaving the counter position for the mid laner.

But V5 clearly had plans early on. 【210-19

"V5 locks in Kainan and Kindred!?"

"Kindred? Hiss, it seems Xun really can play this!"

Kindred is a hero so unpopular in the current version that it couldn't be more unpopular.

More accurately, ever since the jungle-carry version of S10, this thing has been in a corner almost completely ignored, used only by a few "specialist" players.

And although Xun had always been a minor figure on the competitive stage before this year, the commentators have an impression that he is one of those so-called specialists.

This is another difference between V5 and TES.

The "hero pool" of this V5 lineup—is characterized by everyone having an eerily deep one!

"In that case, it means the mid-laner is K'Sante!"

"Master Ye's K'Sante!!"

"Although K'Sante has indeed been weakened quite a bit in this version, we saw him play it during the previous annual ceremony's solo tournament, and it was precisely with this hero that he defeated Uzi to win the Solo King trophy!"

Hongmi realized that things were somewhat exceeding his expectations.

Kindred clearly counters Vi's strong lockdown ability to some extent.

And this mid-lane K'Sante is actually somewhat unexpected as well.

He certainly knew Ye Bo could play K'Sante, but that was in a previous version.

After the massive nerfs in 13.3, what was originally seen as a choice that relied solely on raw stats to force its way into the mid lane should not be that strong anymore.

Can he still "force his way" into the mid lane now?

Hongmi really doesn't have much understanding of mid-lane K'Sante, mainly because no one in any region really uses him to play mid; he's not even enough for the top lane.

And even if he is played, it's to counter melee heroes like Sylas or Galio.

He didn't think too much about it.

JDG, according to plan, locked in LeBlanc as a substitute for Ahri, continuing to implement the main theme of their mid-jungle for this match.

Zuoshou said nothing, not expressing any opinion throughout the process.

Anyway, he highlights never taking responsibility and never taking the blame; it was the coach who told me to pick it anyway!

Both sides' lineups are confirmed.

《Blue Side: V5 vs Red Side: JDG》

【Top: Kennen vs Gnar】

【Jungle: Kindred vs Vi】

【Mid: K'Sante vs LeBlanc】

【ADC: Lucian vs Jinx】

【Support: Lulu vs Rakan】

"It seems JDG choosing the red side specifically really has an effect; the lineup looks quite good!" Wawa said casually.

"The blue side lineup looks very solid too," Miller followed up to balance things out: "Let's see if this match can provide some ideas for other teams; after all, everyone is still in the exploration phase."

"But I personally am looking forward to this mid-lane K'Sante!"

"I can only say Master Ye's boundaries are still expanding! From last year's strong-tempo early-game heroes to this year's mid-to-late-game main carries, now he can even dabble in this kind of 'utility' hero! If he can really produce results, he truly is a hexagonal mid-laner!"

"Unfortunately, I feel like there's not much to say about playing against LeBlanc, right?" Zoom also expressed his opinion on the mid-lane matchup.

However, unlike the others.

When Ye Bo saw the opponent pick LeBlanc in the counter-pick slot, his expression seemed somewhat strange.

Buddy, who taught you to pick LeBlanc to play against K'Sante?

There is another understanding.

It is something different from Ye Bo and everyone on the commentary desk, and even everyone else present.

And who said K'Sante is a "utility" hero?

In Ye Bo's view.

The K'Sante under his understanding of this version—is a true "Assassin" hero!

(End of chapter)