Chapter 242: Faker 2nd! SKT's experience ancestral training? Secret weapon!

The already hot atmosphere in the Copper Box Arena was instantly ignited, and the cheers set off a huge wave that swept the whole audience.

Countless live audience members couldn't believe their eyes until the crystal exploded, looking at the big screen above full of disbelief.

The local London-accented commentators acted as their mouthpieces: "Unbelievable! What was that magical operation at the end!?"

"The magical Mr. from the East is putting on a crazy performance show!!"

"LPL's legendary rising star Ye, he completely crushed the league world's GOAT player in this matchup! The performance was too good!"

Compared to the local commentators, the LPL commentary desk was even more excited.

"What a genius idea! Directly killing all of T1's opportunities, taking it!" Jide shouted exceptionally excitedly on the commentary desk, his voice even a bit hoarse.

"Two to zero!" Even Rita, who had average game understanding, kept blinking her eyes, feeling the most direct shock: "Master Ye is too amazing!"

Guan Zeyuan pulled his tie and shouted loudly: "This game is really too wonderful! The confrontation between the two sides was full of games from the start, one wave after another constantly reversing, mutual operations, but in the end, it was still V5 that cut down this battle of the kings!"

"Deserving of being our LPL's number one seed! And deserving of being last year's World Championship FMVP! Master Ye's Lee Sin is simply divine!"

【WDNMD, you might not believe it when I say it, a mid-lane player is going to sit in the historical records of the Lee Sin hero!】

【Master Ye is the God among Gods!!!】

【Where is the battle of the kings?】

【Although T1 at MSI really doesn't deserve to be called the battle of the kings, being able to thin-slice T1 is cool! I wouldn't get tired of it even if it came a hundred times!】

【Where is the director? Save it! Really didn't see that last wave clearly!】

Usually, when the base explodes, it's the "urination point" moment for the live audience and the live stream, and a large group of people who have been holding it for a long time will leave immediately.

But at this time, almost no one in the audience left their seats.

Because the replay rules of the director follow not affecting the live stream progress, the last wave didn't have time to be replayed.

Everyone just saw the T1 five people flying in the air suddenly blooming with blood!

LeBlanc died instantly, and the other four people were all residual health—and then the team fight ended in a crushing manner!

And soon, the director was clearly the most efficient time, and just after the post-game summary of the commentary desk started, the screen was cut into the highlight replay of this game.

From the first wave of jungle games and mutual design, T1's bot lane counter-ambush and Thresh throwing a scare lantern to get the first blood, to the three-person flying car in the top lane, the extreme pulling operations of the two mid laners, and then to Lee Sin's secondary lightning solo kill.

Coming to the last two highlight replays.

Everyone couldn't help but lean their upper bodies forward!

The second-stage rising dragon transmitted by the blast cone can still be said to be a clever use of "unpopular mechanisms," after all, seeing a teammate who was clearly harmless fly over, normal people's reactions wouldn't think of dodging.

But the last roundhouse kick that crossed time and space has absolutely nothing to do with unpopular mechanisms!

Everyone knows that Lee Sin's R can knock back opponents.

Everyone also knows that LeBlanc's passive clone will flash back after exceeding the distance.

It's just like: "This is attack, this is defense, this is Ashina Genichiro."

"He really understands LeBlanc too well!" Jide kept clicking his tongue and sighing.

"It can only be said that true technology often only needs the simplest mechanism! This is called the perfect use of hero understanding!"

Guan Zeyuan suddenly recalled something: "This move suddenly reminded me of the duel between the two sides in last year's World Championship, Master Ye's LeBlanc's Distortion change, also used LeBlanc's clone mechanism to show off Faker's Akali, completing a solo kill..."

"Looking at it this way, the duel between the two sides really has some origins!"

"Faker and Master Ye fought again after half a year, the scene from back then changed in a way, and the scene was reproduced!"

As soon as this was said, the memories in everyone's minds were instantly awakened, clearly leaving a deep impression on everyone.

After all, that operation, even if placed in the many highlights of Ye Bo's World Championship, could be ranked in the forefront.

Many people couldn't help but open their phones to go to video software to savor that wave, the audience was full of excited and happy scenes, frantically discussing—except for LCK supporters and T1 fans.

Human joys and sorrows are not connected.

They only feel that sitting here now is a kind of torture!!

If it were really that kind of being pushed all the way, being abused without any power to fight back, it might be a little better now.

At least they could "mentally rot."

Not having hope is not the most uncomfortable, the most uncomfortable is always giving a little bit of hope, and then being broken again and again!

This game is just like this, every wave T1 feels like there is a little opportunity, and even several times it makes people feel huge hope, and the result is bringing greater despair!

It's simply flipping people over and over, and finally roasting them until both sides are scorched!

And on the high platform in the back.

Three people who didn't have any problems were communicating very excitedly at this time, but the content of the communication was clearly different from others.

"Sooooooo crazy!" KC brother's expression was very exaggerated, holding his head.

The rigorous Sanhuan brother analyzed: "Looking at it this way, this extended knockup mechanism should be because Lee Sin's ultimate code applied {Knockup Code} + {Continuous State Code}, but I think, even that guy Coronach himself definitely didn't expect it could be used like this."

CT brother's angle was strange, joking: "Could it be that Ye is actually a programming genius? That's why he could discover these... then our firewall must be strengthened!"

"Yo, just talking about it, that guy Coronach actually tweeted!"

He showed his phone screen to his two good friends.

Above is a tweet posted 1 minute ago, with excitement revealed between the lines.

【RiotCoronach: "Oh! My! God! I swear, Ye is my favorite player right now, Faker 2nd!"】

This Coronach is one of the oldest designers at Riot Games—among them, heroes like Lee Sin, LeBlanc, Katarina, Malphite, etc., came from his hands.

And he is also the "biological father" of Akali, and CT brother who took over the rework is more like a stepfather.

The first Akali also came from his hands!

Riot designers, outside of work, are actually ordinary players one by one.

But whether it is seeing the hero they designed shine on the stage from a designer's perspective, or seeing this kind of visually shocking performance from a player's perspective, it is enough to be excited about it.

However, the comment section below was not so harmonious, clearly there were many "broken-defenders" who came out because they had nowhere to vent.

【Xiba! Unfollowed!!! The designer is also such a wall-grass! But it's just one game!】

【Hehe, don't you understand yet, Riot's interior has long been hollowed out by CN people! Look at the championship skins, is that the same quality as the ones made for our LCK?】

【I think, isn't the high quality of skins because Riot's technical level has come up? You can also have one if you win the championship this year, so why don't you win it, don't you like it?】

【Anyway, even if Ye wins, he won't get my recognition! Faker is the mountain that can't be crossed! It can only be said that he already did all this ten years ago!!】

【Ancient champion, noisy!】

【T1 hasn't lost yet, what are you rushing for! Last year's World Championship DRX could let two chase three JDG, T1 can definitely do it too! Believe first, then believe, and believe again!】

Compared to the fans who believe in their own home team.

At this time, T1's player background morale was clearly a bit low.

This kind of ups and downs like a roller coaster, what is it torturing, only the audience fans?

It's the players themselves!

At this time, even Li Xianghe was silent, shaking his sore wrists, as if thinking about something.

And Oner, who had been countered in the jungle for the whole game, didn't dare to speak anymore.

Gumayusi was anxious, his heart was 100% unconvinced!

He considered that his early laning was played very well, and before that wave of the real biggest turning point, the second-stage rising dragon team fight, Xayah's equipment was even leading Kalista by nearly half an item!

That wave he and Keria also played the starting coordination of a near-perfect team fight...

Xayah, because her own attack range is extremely short, even 25 yards shorter than Vayne, is a hero who needs an advantage.

It just so happened that after that wave was finished, all his advantages vanished!

Seeing the players immersed, even his old partner seemed to have been hit.

The one with the best mentality in the background was actually Bengi.

Perhaps it was also because he had just returned from the 38th parallel and the military camp, for him, there was nothing worse than that...

"First of all, it's still that sentence, global BP, every game is a brand new BO1."

Bengi first repeated this point, first trying to let everyone forget the experience of the second game.

"Secondly, the reason why we lost the previous game is still my fault, the BP lineup had some problems... We should still strictly follow the version!"

The benefit of Bengi serving as a coach as an old senior of the team is that he can casually take the blame for the players, anyway, even if the results are poor, he won't be actively beheaded.

My brother is the boss, it's just cool!

And the decision of the previous game, he actually didn't agree with it very much.

Bengi serving as head coach has his own set of logic—simply put, he is using the experience ancestral training of "SKT" back then, aspiring to build T1 completely into SKT!

And SKT back then could dominate the field for two years, among which there was an extremely important ability, which they did the best.

Follow the version to death!

SKT's history of domination back then, Riot definitely couldn't have not taken action to carry out targeted weakening, and it did directly lead to the S7 SKT changing from a two-time championship dynasty to being crushed 3-0 in the finals. But in those two years of S5-S6, SKT was always able to walk at the forefront of the version, mastering all the strong heroes of the version, using every opportunity of the patch.

This year, T1 is indeed doing the same.

This is also why Zeus started playing tanks after coming to MSI, Oner kept playing jungle cores, Li Xianghe kept playing functional heroes, Gumayusi kept playing big-core AD, and Keria kept playing soft supports...

T1 naturally knows that their own Zeus has strong laning, Li Xianghe is best at big-core mid, Oner is more suitable for the playstyle of assisting mid, Gumayusi prefers playing functional AD, and it is also convenient to liberate Keria.

But the current version's environmental trend is just like that!

Speaking of which.

Whether to cater to the version or to cater to the players has always been a controversial topic that has never stopped on the field.

"Listen to me, let's return to the version in the next game, the blue side in the third game still has some advantages!" Bengi stated his thoughts.

"Take down the third game, the fourth game basically has no strong heroes, even if we go to the red side in the fourth game, it doesn't matter!"

The aftereffect of the game that just ended is not small, T1's entire team, although not to the point of mentality collapse, naturally had no opinion at this time.

The short halftime ended.

Both sides returned to the stage, and the LCK commentary desk clearly just recovered.

"T1 is currently 0-2 behind, but now stands on the edge of the cliff, a little carelessness will fall into the loser's bracket..."

The three words "loser's bracket" seem particularly heavy.

Many people only suddenly remembered at this time how cruel the scene of the draw in the upper half of the winner-loser bracket of this MSI was.

No matter who goes to the loser's bracket in the end, what they face will be strong enemies, and there will be no fault tolerance for any step!

Not to mention T1 is still two consecutive losses on the blue side today!

These two games actually have been enough to prove that in terms of understanding of the current version and competitive state, V5 is the better side.

It was still the Roaring Emperor with the most commentary experience who adjusted the fastest, his tone became passionate again—after all, the game hasn't ended yet, so he can't pour negative thoughts into the supporters of his own region.

"We must believe that T1 can definitely stabilize and rebound!" The Roaring Emperor clenched his fists to cheer.

"The outcome is still unknown, even if this game is a defeat, it actually doesn't mean the end of this MSI series, let's cheer for T1 together!"

"The BP here has already started, both sides are banning very quickly..."

First round of bans—

T1: Akali, Annie, Vi

V5: Ahri, Viego, Elise

T1 is returning to the thinking of the first game.

But V5's ban position clearly changed.

However, Bengi didn't care at all, seeing this ban position full of surprises.

"Zeri is out!"

"There are no ADCs outside, we will grab Zeri!"

Not grabbing Zeri in the previous game was because they wanted to play an early-game lineup, plus the first grab needed to take the Monkey.

This game clearly didn't have this concern.

AD has always been the position with the fewest optional items, often with only a dozen or so heroes appearing in each version, and the strong ones are just those two or three!

Coming to the third game and still being able to release Zeri, an unquestionable version T1, there is simply no reason to hesitate at all.

"V5 releases Zeri to the opponent, and they take Jayce plus... Xin Zhao!" Jide pondered the deep meaning of everyone on the field.

"Seems like no problem?"

Guan Zeyuan nodded and added: "Jayce can perform mid-top swing, as for Xin Zhao, although the version is not strong, it is indeed no problem in the case of few jungle selections!"

"Because Lulu has been disabled by default, T1 grabs the Yuumi paired with Zeri, and then takes Faker's Galio!"

With Yuumi and Galio out, the lineup structure of T1 this game is basically formed.

But Ye Bo found that the opponent made a mistake...

Perhaps because they were worried that Zeri had no soft support to match, and Ye Bo would also play Galio, so T1 didn't take the jungler first.

But clearly, the one with fewer options in the third game is not just the AD position.

"V5 picks Poppy in the third round? If there is already Xin Zhao, then this should be Poppy support or top!"

Entering the second round of bans—

V5: Kennen, Gwen

T1: Taliyah, Sylas

"Both sides are banning against the top laner and mid laner... Draven!"

"In the case of very few ADC options left, V5 picks Draven!" Guan Zeyuan exclaimed, but was a bit worried.

"But in this case, will V5's lineup be a bit too early-game? Even more early-game than the previous game! This is a bit against the version!"

The blue side has always been the "question setter."

The previous game was because the blue side T1 took the lead in showing their cards, and V5 chose the same early-game strong lineup to confront, which was reasonable, equivalent to both sides choosing to clash head-on.

But the "question" set by the blue side this game is clearly to play a mid-to-late game big-core system.

V5 still chose a somewhat "anti-version" early-game lineup, which seems a bit strange.

However, the one with the bigger headache at this time is T1.

Bengi finally discovered that there were no particularly good jungle choices outside.

Monkey, Kha'Zix, Kindred, Nidalee, Gragas were all burned.

Vi, Viego, Elise were banned.

Xin Zhao and Poppy were on the opponent's side, and Lee Sin was also used by the mid lane in the previous game...

A full 11 jungle heroes disappeared!

There are not no jungle heroes outside now—but only Maokai and Sejuani are left, which can still confront Xin Zhao in the jungle.

"Xuanjun, why not use that one." Bengi hesitated for a long time, still firmly said: "This game, we must take it down!"

"Youqi, just follow what I just said, pick normally."

The fault tolerance rate of going to the loser's bracket is really too low.

Rather than saving the "hidden" things for that time, it's better to fight with all your might here.

Oner nodded and found an extremely rare avatar in the current version in the search box.

"Nocturne!?" Jide widened his eyes: "This seems to be the first appearance of MSI! Is it T1's secret weapon?"

"Galio and Nocturne's double-flying support mid-jungle, this really looks like they want to protect the bot lane with all their might!"

"Hey? Karma!?"

"Already have Yuumi and Galio, Zeus's Karma top? Does Zeus know how to play this... but T1's extreme four-protect-one!"

Nocturne, actually, has always been in Oner's pool.

In last year's S12 World Championship, only he and Barrier played it—Barrier's game was specifically to coordinate with Ye Bo's Fiddlesticks, temporarily added training.

And T1's Galio-Nocturne system was originally a trick they prepared to play against GEN. G.

But still that sentence.

Hide, hide, hide, hide to the end, who knows if what is hidden is a routine or a plane ticket!

Ye Bo and Beryl were also a bit surprised at the first moment, after all, this hero is indeed a bit out of version, and it is difficult to predict.

Originally, their idea was to force the T1 jungle position to be forced to choose a functional type, so it would become a double-functional mid-jungle—then as long as they fully break through the bot lane's big core, the game would basically be announced over!

However, seeing the appearance of Karma, it seems that it didn't deviate from their idea...

Ye Bo continued to pick the hero he envisioned.

And the appearance of this hero also caused an amazing commotion in the whole audience and above the audience stands, and it seems that no one went to pay attention to whether it was against the version or not.

"Neeko!!!"

"The first new version Neeko on the field! Then this must be Master Ye's Neeko! V5 also has a secret weapon!"

Both sides' lineups are determined.

"Blue Side: T1 vs Red Side: V5"

【Top: Karma vs Jayce】

【Jungle: Nocturne vs Xin Zhao】

【Mid: Galio vs Neeko】

【Shooter: Zeri vs Draven】

【Support: Yuumi vs Poppy】

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 243 =====