Chapter 238: The Past Duel That Cannot Be Lost! Blade Confrontation!

"Opening red breaks blue!" The three people on the LPL commentary desk were full of spring breeze: "Congratulations to V5 for getting the first opening victory of MSI!"

Jide was impassioned: "Although they haven't stepped on the field for a month, the competitive state of the entire V5 team is incomparably reassuring, the state is hot and not affected at all! The performance is exactly the same as them in the Spring Split!"

Guan Zeyuan nodded solemnly: "Especially the mid-lane Nautilus, according to the information I know, the mid-Korean region didn't pay too much attention to this hero before... this means that the players practiced it in just the past few days!"

"It can only be said that fortunately, it is global BP now, otherwise I believe this mid-lane Nautilus would definitely become the focus of subsequent BP!"

"This is only the first match of MSI, but Master Ye can already be said to have personally hit a ban position for the team's subsequent matches!"

Rita sighed slightly exaggeratedly: "To be honest, Master Ye's Nautilus is completely not the same style as others... it seems to be completely different from everyone else!"

The live barrage, which was already excited, was in a heated atmosphere at this time.

【Saying this, which hero of his is the same style as others?】

【Pure passerby, this mid laner can play a pig-nose hero like Nautilus like this, if he plays LeBlanc, Akali, etc., wouldn't he fly up?】

【Ye: Because I'm not allowed to play Akali, I'm forced to play all heroes as Akali】

【Reprinted from Big B-ge's live broadcast room original words: "Ma! Ya! Just say the streamer is right! Look, look, look, even Ye plays!"】

【Quickly stop returning, the relationship between that Nautilus and this Nautilus is probably like the relationship between me and Master Ye—we are all humans!】

【It really is, one is Deep Sea LeBlanc! One is Deep Sea LeBlanc?】

Compared to the excited barrage, the LPL commentary desk still gave the screen to Jin Kesi, who should have been the "protagonist" of this match.

"Excluding secondary leagues like Demacia Cup and NEST, the only two Penta kills in Deft's ten-year career were all harvested during his time in EDG!" Guan Zeyuan synchronized the director's news.

"Respectively, the S5 Spring Split against LGD using Sivir, and the S6 Spring Split against LGD using Jin Kesi, but he has gained nothing since then..."

"After seven years, and still in the spring, Deft finally harvested the third Penta kill of his career after returning to LPL, and it was Jin Kesi!"

Deft's two years in LPL happened to get two Penta kills, but he couldn't get another one in the six years after returning to LCK.

Now in the third year of returning to LPL, he happened to get the third Penta kill; one has to sigh at the wonder of fate.

And compared to the excited and agitated LPL commentators and audiences.

The LCK commentary desk next door watched T1's base collapse into pieces, and their hearts seemed to be bleeding.

"Congratulations to V5," despite all the helplessness, the Roaring Emperor could only speak out to celebrate first.

"It's a pity for this match, actually it feels like T1's lineup rhythm had completely stabilized, if it weren't for that Penta kill in the team fight, it would have been completely possible to drag it to the late-game decisive battle."

Bang evaluated objectively, and deliberately added a sentence to "show" objectivity: "But it has to be admitted that Min-hyeong's performance in this match was completely compared down by Deft, and the experience gap between the two in team fights is quite not small."

Wolf next to him also took the conversation and said: "It feels like Min-seok's performance in this match was also not very good, being suppressed by Beryl quite obviously..."

But clearly, all three were deliberately avoiding one problem.

Mid laner!

These two people on the commentary desk are both iron-blooded Faker fans, although they couldn't stand behind the opponent like their old teammate Bengi, they would also subconsciously avoid the mid-lane problem.

But the truly objective audience can clearly see.

The obvious gap shown by both sides in this match is the mid laner!

Regardless of the team's rhythm assistance, the advantage roaming end, or the disadvantageous team fight end, Nautilus's role is significantly greater than K'Sante's.

The LCK live broadcast room is arguing endlessly.

【Don't be too biased on the commentary desk! What does this match have to do with our Min-hyeong? Clearly, the mid laner is opening wildly! ADC is picking up heads everywhere, who can fight if they change?】

【Worthy of being the number two seed that was crushed by our invincible GEN.】

【The first game was just the opponent's luck, T1 hasn't warmed up yet, wait for Fakernim to teach this Ye how to be a person in the next game!】

【Although I hate V5, this Nautilus is really a bit handsome... Alas, it's normal for the number two seed to be unable to beat the number one seed~~】

【Don't, who said that the number two seed will be beaten like this? Believe it or not, JDG in the bottom half couldn't be beaten like this by GEN? T1 is purely a shameful team now!】

【Bastard!! Anyone who doesn't support T1 is a traitor!!!】

Although T1 is only the number two seed, it has a unique specialness in the LCK region, and can even be said to be a team with "faith" in the eyes of many people.

Even if V5 came aggressively, it is said that they set multiple season records in the LPL, there is still a considerable part of people who don't think T1 will lose at all.

And even if this match ended in such a speed-run collapse, everyone attributed the reason to Jin Kesi "getting lucky" and picking up a Penta kill, leading to the equipment gap being pulled to the point of no play.

Even the T1 crowd themselves think so.

In all fairness, although there was indeed a very obvious disadvantage before, the one that really made the game enter the point of almost completely finding no opportunities was that team fight.

And if you don't look at it from the perspective of "result theory."

That team fight T1 could even be said to have found a quite good opportunity; if there were no Nautilus, they could really kill Jin Kesi, and the result would definitely be completely different!

"We are still on the blue side this game," Bengi is comforting the team members.

"With global BP, you can already forget about the previous game, we don't have any disadvantage."

Although it has been implemented for half a year, global BP is undoubtedly still a brand-new thing for everyone, and every team has its own interpretation.

And this understanding is clearly correct.

The biggest difference between global BP and traditional competition systems—actually, no matter how strong the things in the previous game were, you don't need to spend any brains to think about how to break the game in the next game.

If it were a traditional competition system, the matchup of 【Nautilus vs K'Sante】 in the previous game played such an effect, and there would inevitably be a competition for this position in the second game.

Either squeeze out the ban position to release other things, or snatch Nautilus yourself.

But Faker's proficiency in Nautilus is clearly not as high as the opponent's—but the opponent's mid laner's proficiency in K'Sante is higher than theirs!

Snatching Nautilus is very likely to play the kind of performance that the European and American teams had a few days ago.

It can be said that if this were a traditional competition system... just this one point would have already hit T1's half-life!

It would directly become an unsolvable BP dead hole!

However, with global BP, no matter how strong you are, it's just one game, and the next game is a brand-new and completely different BP environment.

"I feel that their jungler's strength is not as good as mine, nor as good as last year's."

Oner said this as if he still had some feelings.

He half-leaned on the e-sports chair with his fists clenched, eager to fight: "Actually, if you jump out of the version, the fighting system of me and Xianghe-ge mid-jungle is still okay, as long as it's not a disadvantageous confrontation like the previous game, we won't be at a disadvantage."

"Compared to last year, their rhythm point is still in the mid-jungle, for example, if the ban position doesn't change... Alas! Anyway, I mean, is it possible that we don't need to follow the version hard?"

Oner originally wanted to give a "long-winded" analysis, but the protein powder storage in his brain was in an emergency.

After stalling for a long time, he simply gave up and directly started with "Alas" and threw the result.

Bengi looked at Oner, who usually didn't like to think, and actually came up with such a long paragraph, clearly a bit surprised.

Although it was messy, if you analyze it carefully, it seems there is really some truth to it!

The version trend of MSI is the double core of heavy AD and jungle.

Mid-lane heroes are basically various types of functional heroes.

Current BP data shows that the top five mid-lane heroes by pick rate are: Ahri, Annie, Lissandra, K'Sante, Nautilus.

Among them, except for Ahri, which means "absolute lane rights," the rest are also functional kings with "combat ability"!

In the first game, T1 banned Annie, which Faker is not very good at, while V5 banned Ahri, which Faker is very good at.

And coming to the second game, with the reduction of options, the lineup construction seems to be able to be more varied—anyway, it is also very difficult for them to construct a perfect "version lineup."

Faker nodded slightly after hearing it: "I have no opinion."

Gumayusi shouted even louder: "I have no opinion either! Give our bot lane a strong laning combination, our bot lane laning can really have an advantage!"

As long as he thought of Deft getting a Penta kill on his head in the previous game, Gumayusi gritted his teeth, extremely unhappy!

He hates Deft!

On one hand, as an iron-blooded wolf of this club T1, he looks down on all Korean AD players who have never entered T1, even if they were blocked in the quarterfinals by DRX last year, he still doesn't accept it.

Gumayusi is the kind of person who would rather die in T1 even if he sits on the bench!

Just like he has always firmly believed that the best ADC is always his predecessor Bang!

And Deft, as the "opponent" defined by Faker in last year's promotional video, he substituted himself into the perspective of his big brother Faker, and it is understandable to have a slightly "enemy" psychology.

On the other hand, the most important thing is... bastard, why is he the person my support can't forget in his heart!

This is a battle of dignity between "ex and current"!

He must not lose miserably twice in a row!

"Actually, should we consider picking a laning hero for the top lane?" Keria, who was small and thin, hugged his legs and swayed on the e-sports chair, not noticing the change in his AD's mentality.

"It feels like our top lane laning should also be able to have an advantage, last year... last year Woo-je also played it."

What outsiders don't know is.

In fact, Keria is the core of T1's BP, and many key BPs are formulated by him, which is very similar to Beryl in the DRX period.

It's just that Keria's personality is very different from Beryl's. Just like his appearance, he is small and thin, and his speech is soft, far less strong and persistent than Beryl.

"If you want to play a strong mid-jungle plus a strong bot lane combination, the top lane BP must sacrifice a bit... This, let's see when we get on the BP stage!" Bengi didn't deny it either.

Zeus on the far side didn't express any opinion throughout the whole process.

Actually, from the fact that teammates would subconsciously mention "last year" from time to time, it's not hard to see—last year's S12 had no small blow to their whole team.

Miserable defeat to EDG in the group stage, narrowly defeated by DRX in the semifinals.

And Zeus happened to be considered by many to be the "culprit"!

Especially coming to this year's S13.

Zeus was still continuously beaten and sick by Doran in the Spring regular season and Spring finals, and the result of T1 as the number two seed definitely couldn't be separated from him.

This made Zeus have a somewhat "guilty" psychology inexplicably.

Even if teammates never blamed him, and knew very well that his performance was incomparably excellent most of the time.

And now, he just wants to fully refine his technology, and also fully accepts all the arrangements of the team.

He only has one obsession in his heart, and he also wants to have the ability and opportunity to be like Ye, who defeated him last year, to turn the tide and save the team.

The short break between matches ended.

The players from both sides returned to the stage.

The audience seeing the appearance of both sides immediately erupted with cheers and shouts again.

And T1 fans also seemed to have adjusted their state during the break, starting to shout and cheer with all their might.

Among them, there were even quite a few Chinese screams: "Faker, come on! Kill Ye! Must win! Must not lose!"

Domestic audiences next to them seeing this scene couldn't help but secretly take a video with their mobile phones, and put it on the domestic anti-pressure bar as soon as they turned around.

After filming, they hurriedly joined the group shouting "Master Ye, come on!!" around them.

The shouting PK of tens of thousands of people resounded through the sky, lasting until the sound of BP starting was covered.

"BP has started! T1 still chose the blue side, and still sent Akali to the ban position first!"

Jide cleared his throat and joked: "It feels predictable that unless Akali has a huge nerf later, it's really impossible to see this hero appear in V5's matches again~"

Rita was full of regret: "It's a pity, I don't know when I can see the championship skin appear in the hands of the owner again, the Tengshe skin is simply too good-looking..."

Akali's two championship skins have incomparably gratifying sales.

Besides fans, relying on the design beauty that kills both men and women, and having invincible special effects that make effect-party people pay, it is simply full-firepower coverage!

Guan Zeyuan pulled the topic back: "The changes in the first round of bans for both sides are not big, and neither chose to release anything too strange, which actually might mean that both sides have new ideas this time!"

First round of bans—

T1: Akali, Vi, Poppy

V5: Ahri, Jayce, Galio

It looks like T1's ban position only changed the last hand.

Except for Akali, there was also Vi, a choice that Oner had an ultimate "underworld scene," and finally changed Annie to Poppy.

And V5 only changed the last ban position Xayah to Galio.

"T1 first-picks Wukong! Although he experienced a nerf, this is still the first choice among non-'pure jungle-carry' heroes in the current version!"

"V5 here doesn't have Vi..."

It looks like they just changed a ban position for each other—but in fact, the tactical intentions of both sides have changed hugely, and the points of the game are also completely different from the previous game!

The ten heroes banned by default have already caused huge changes in the BP environment of the two teams.

Just like the first game.

Why did no one ban or select Wukong, who is "must-ban-must-pick" in the hands of other teams, at that time?

Because T1 had to snatch K'Sante in the first pick, V5 had to counter-pick and snatch Nautilus + Jin Kesi.

And T1 directly snatched Kindred as a ban, which not only slightly restrained Wukong in terms of ultimate moves, but V5 also had a better counter-pick option, Kha'Zix, so naturally there was no need to select him.

But coming to the second game.

Without Kindred, and the best mutual-pick Vi and Poppy were both banned by themselves.

Wukong naturally promoted to the T0 of the jungle!

"V5 first snatches Sion, then selects Lee Sin, no problem... for V5, Lee Sin exists as a flex pick!"

The same logic.

Without K'Sante and Gragas, Sion promoted to the T0 with no natural enemies in the top lane.

As for Lee Sin, just as the commentator said, not only can he be a secondary option to counter Wukong in the jungle, but he can also be a flex pick for the mid lane.

"T1 directly selects Xayah and Rakan, the Phoenix Legend! Xayah can also be considered Gumayusi's signature!"

"Let's see what V5 is going to pick first on the third floor..."

It looks like T1's second and third floor picks for the bot lane have no problem.

But in V5's view, it is a bit abnormal.

"They actually didn't pick a big carry... then it looks like they want to play early-stage offense." Ye Bo analyzed.

"Hmm, they don't follow the version," Beryl agreed, saying the backup option: "Then we won't pick Zeri, otherwise it will be too passive, give Kalista to Deft-ge."

V5's change in the first round of bans was originally intended to deliberately release Zeri to T1.

Gumayusi's performance with the big carry in the first game was actually not good, and there were clearly not small problems in terms of team fight positioning—this point can actually be seen from the fact that Nautilus could easily find him several times!

And more importantly, if T1 takes Zeri, V5 can backhand and take Sion + Wukong, the T0 of both positions, so this swap will definitely be profitable.

But it looks like T1's thinking has clearly transformed this game, not following the version trend.

But.

V5, also not prepared to follow the version trend blindly.

Second round of bans for both sides—

V5: Kennen, Gwen

T1: Leona,

"V5 picks Nidalee in the fourth slot, Xun's Nidalee! V5 is going for an early-game aggressive invasion; it's like a flashback to the Spring Split!"

"So it's still mid-lane Lee Sin then."

"Wait, LeBlanc? Faker's LeBlanc!!"

Since there were few top-lane heroes left, they had no choice but to pick Ornn in the end.

V5's final pick was Thresh, who can barely counter Rakan.

Both team compositions are confirmed.

《Blue Side: T1 vs Red Side: V5》

【Top: Ornn vs Sion】

【Jungle: Wukong vs Nidalee】

【Mid: LeBlanc vs Lee Sin】

【ADC: Xayah vs Kalista】

【Support: Rakan vs Thresh】

"T1's draft is so proactive this game, and some of it doesn't really fit the version—or rather, both teams' compositions don't quite fit the version!"

"But there is no doubt that the mid-jungle duel between both sides will be the key point, especially in the mid lane! With heroes like LeBlanc and Lee Sin, this will absolutely be a clash of sharp blades!"

"Last year at Worlds, the duel between Faker and Master Ye featured LeBlanc, only today their positions are swapped—though LeBlanc is also Faker's signature, this is a rematch of the past!"

"Looking at Master Ye's expression, I really feel he is quite confident today!"

The director cut to a close-up shot, letting the world focus on this.

Ye Bo was fiddling with his fingers while talking to his teammates, his face full of a confident smile, showing no signs of nervousness or worry despite the counter-pick.

But whether for T1's fans or for T1 themselves, this is a critical game that cannot be lost!

However, it is worth mentioning.

The Lee Sin from the Spring Finals racked up plenty of "wool" with numerous iconic moments, and combined with Ye Bo's extra practice during this period, he has recently leveled up to seven.

After reaching level seven.

Ye Bo realized that his previous understanding of this hero was still too superficial.

(End of chapter)