Chapter 248

"After the fierce battles of the past few days, our number one seed Gen. G has successfully advanced to the winners' bracket! And today's winner will also step into the winners' bracket final, just one step away from the trophy!"

"This focal battle will decide which team will be the first to step to the pinnacle of MSI!"

The eternal 'Roarer' on the LCK commentary desk finished the warm-up work and began to introduce today's guest commentary partner beside him: "I am very happy to be able to commentate with two famous top champion players today..."

"They are the 2020 World Champion, three-time LCK League Champion, the soul of the DK team, ShowMaker Xu Xiu————and the 2021 World Championship winner, World Championship FMVP winner, Scout Li Brother Ruican!"

The live broadcast screen showed two faces that were extremely familiar to viewers in all regions.

Scout was dressed in a suit, looking a bit cautious and uncomfortable, smiling and greeting the camera.

While Xu Xiu was very generous, making a scissor sign at the camera, grinning very naturally.

【Sibal! Why look for a traitor who ran to the LPL to be a commentator? Is there no one left in my LCK!】

【There's no way, those who can come as guests now are all those who are on early vacation after the spring season + have no hope of competing for the Asian Games spot; this is already the most prestigious one among them~~】

【Pure passerby, how is he a traitor? Who says you can't serve your motherland while abroad? Maybe the junior is just enduring humiliation!】

【Indeed, besides, DK was trash themselves that year in S11, who can you blame?】

【I heard Scout recently got into a lawsuit in CN, wouldn't he be taking advantage of receiving the notice to run back to the country and not planning to leave?】

【Support Scout! He is always better than this guy Xu Xiu who loves to steal the limelight! I think Xu Xiu is the mole planted by the LPL here!】

The LCK live broadcast room was suddenly extremely lively, of course, this is what the LCK official wanted to see.

After all, these two today... really have quite a lot of "bonds" and "controversies" with each other!

The two players themselves didn't have any direct conflict, the only intersection was the S11 World Championship final, where EDG snatched the championship trophy from DK's hands.

Logically speaking, just because Scout snatched this championship, he would definitely be hated by many people on the Korean internet and even scolded as a "traitor"!

But the reality is not, or rather, not entirely.

Just because DK that year first eliminated T1 in the semifinals, and then lost to EDG in the final.

————So for so many years, the Korean internet has been spreading a statement that LPL viewers are extremely familiar with: 【DK, owes T1 a championship】!

T1 definitely had a "restraint" on that EDG that year, and they did indeed step on EDG to qualify as the number one seed in the group stage.

At first glance, it really is the case!

So after EDG won against DK that year, Scout and Viper were not only not scolded miserably... instead, they were applauded by a crowd of Faker and T1 fans, both openly and secretly!

Plus, ever since that "Glory" bible quote, Xu Xiu has almost been held up by the LCK as the next successor to Faker, which has caused great dissatisfaction among T1 fans.

For this group of people, EDG winning the championship that year was ten times or a hundred times better than DK stepping on T1 + winning consecutive championships!

"Let's take a look at the data comparison of the players on both sides!"

While waiting for the stage to be ready, the Roarer skillfully performed the pre-match warm-up.

"First is the data of the bot lane AD. You can see that Viper still has a clear lead. Deft only leads slightly in damage conversion rate and KDA. Among them, I have to say, KDA has a lot to do with that accidental pentakill!"

"Next is the support data. The highlights of both sides are different. Beryl has a huge lead in vision score and gank efficiency, while Lehends is the best in laning kill rate!"

"Then there are the top and jungle. Overall, the top and jungle of both sides are still very close."

"And then there is the mid... Ah, sure enough."

The Roarer himself had already elongated his tail tone before seeing the mid lane chart appear.

But even though he was mentally prepared, seeing the terrifying radar chart coefficient with his own eyes, he still couldn't help but sigh.

The more detailed chart classification produced by MSI official, all eight competition items, all eight sides are almost full!

A true octagon warrior!

Compared to last year's World Championship, it is slightly similar, still only the {CS per minute} column is narrowly won by Chovy.

The Roarer passed the topic to the two guests beside him: "Both of you are top-tier mid laners, and you must be very familiar with the two who are competing today, so please take the mid lane as an entry point and make a win rate prediction for this BO5?"

"Then let Xiu go first?"

Xu Xiu didn't refuse when pointed at by the other party, holding his chin in a thoughtful posture: "I think it's 50-50, it mainly depends on how both sides maintain their state."

"As for player Ye, he is really a very scary opponent, always having things that surprise everyone, and this year he seems to have become even stronger. I think anyone who meets him will be under more pressure."

"However, player Chovy's laning style is extremely stable. As long as he can respond in his best state, I believe he definitely still has the power to fight!"

Xu Xiu is worthy of being known for his high emotional intelligence interviews.

This statement can only be said to be watertight, and even has a hint of "nonsense culture."

But in fact, if you think about it deeply.

The guest sitting on the commentary desk didn't "favor" his own region, just saying 50-50, in a sense, had already made a "true prediction"...

No way.

The memory left by last year's World Championship for Xu Xiu was too painful, and it even made him make the life realization that "failure always runs through life" after the match.

Four people fought while sick, and it was that one person standing alone on the stage facing their five people, using a terrifying Azir performance show to crush them————it was even that match that directly scattered DK and drove away his old comrade Canyon for many years!

Seeing that ID at the moment, Xu Xiu really couldn't say words against his will, 50-50 was already the highest prediction he could make.

The Roarer could understand the other party's thoughts, didn't ask further, and turned his head to look at the other side.

"What about Brother Ruican? There are several of your old teammates on both sides, how do you view this duel?"

Gen. G has Viper, plus the top, mid, and bot three people on V5's side.

It happens to be Scout's teammates across three generations during his EDG period.

And Scout was expressionless, pulled the headset by his ear, opened his mouth and said: "Hmm, 70-30, I favor Gen. G."

He also added an explanation: "The competitive pressure of our LCK league this year is so great, but Gen. G can qualify as the number one seed with a full league win, which clearly proves their strength. Moreover, last year's things should not be used to judge this year, every year the state of professional players is vastly different."

"I personally think that in this MSI, Gen. G can win the championship."

Even the Roarer didn't expect the other party to be able to say such a prediction————after all, theoretically, the other party should still represent the LPL region players.

Didn't help his own region speak, and actually praised the LCK region so much?

Sensible!

This remark obviously poked the preferences of LCK viewers, the live broadcast room barrage exploded instantly, one by one brushing similar barrages like 【Apology!】, 【Loyalty!】, 【Come back if you miss home!】.

The Roarer continued to extend the topic and chatted happily: "Just now Brother Ruican said something really good, the competitive pressure in LCK this year is indeed very great, I don't know how the competitive feeling is over there in LPL?"

Scout was asked about a sad thing, his face stiffened.

But soon recovered naturally, continued to pretend to be calm and replied: "Fortunately, LPL is actually just the top two teams fighting, and actually I personally have always wanted to play matches in LCK..."

A clanging sound came and interrupted his words.

"The match here has already started! The first game is V5 winning the blue side by flipping a coin before the match, let's cheer for Gen. G together!"

Scout could only awkwardly shut up and look at the screen.

Very obviously, he accepted this commentary invitation and ran back to the country to show his face, a large part of the reason was wanting to "job hunt."

This year he hit a wall repeatedly, joining LNG was purely a forced act of having nowhere to go, and the salary was only close to the amount of begging for food!

And just seeing the few IDs in the team, Scout already felt that there was no hope this year, and even before summer, he had already started looking forward to next year.

He really wanted to go home!

The Roarer didn't notice the change in the mood of the person beside him at all: "The first game bans are relatively conventional, the first game BP doesn't have much room for maneuvering, both sides are using the latest version understanding..."

First round bans———

V5: Aphelios, Zeri, Lulu

Gen. G: Akali, Annie, Lee Sin

The previously explosive Neeko and Titan, after several days of analysis by all teams, reached a converging cracking idea.

The so-called antidote must be within eight steps!

In the process of searching for the road to crack Neeko, everyone suddenly discovered that the simultaneously explosive Titan is the best problem-solving idea!

The problem with Neeko mid is the lack of damage in the early stage, and the extreme need for lane priority to exert her "special advantages."

And the strong mid lane heroes in this version are either functional heroes like Annie, Lissandra, and Ahri that can push the lane but are also easily found opportunities, and 2v2 is not necessarily a stable win, and the late 5v5 team fight is not necessarily stronger than Neeko.

Or it is K'Sante, Galio, etc., who are not afraid of 2v2 and team fights, but heroes who cannot push the lane.

The special ability of transformation has minimal effect in frontal team fights, basically only in early attacks can it find defensive loopholes. And mid lane Titan, it just happens that what is strong is {lane priority} + {tankiness}!

Neeko pushing the lane can at most do 50-50 with Titan, but the early damage to Titan is far from dangerous, and she is not afraid at all in 2v2 confrontations.

So the red side only needs to look at the situation in the last ban, decide whether to ban both or release both, and then it can crack this new BP problem.

"V5 takes Neeko, and Gen. G also immediately counter-picks K'Sante + Titan! Double grab directly!"

"The gap between the red and blue sides in the first game is not big, there are enough strong heroes, both sides can get the lineup they need and like."

Gen. G's coaching staff is still the old captain "Han Factory" Score from last year's World Championship, and the Mafa duo's foundation.

Therefore, having experienced the failure of last year's World Championship, they can see from the BP focus of the first game how much they value the mid lane!

Clearly grabbing Titan + K'Sante, except for a certain degree of swinging.

The most important thing is wanting to limit the mid laner!

If the last hand of BP changes, Gen. G will still grab one of Lee Sin + Titan, K'Sante, anyway, it is to double-seal your hero pool!

This can also be considered the shortcoming of "weird heroes" in global BP, which is easily "burned" by this method.

"V5 directly grabs Caitlyn and Renekton, this is directly defining the lineup! They still choose to play the early stage!"

The Roarer said it didn't seem to be optimistic: "Perhaps it was the confidence given to them by the previous BO5... But to be honest, this is actually very inconsistent with the version trend!"

The Roarer's words are not false.

But V5 also considers more.

The personnel changes of this Gen. G are not big, and being able to have this year's league performance is more because of the individual state fluctuations of the players, and a certain degree of growth.

The difference between Viper and Ruler is actually just one slightly more biased toward laning, one slightly more biased toward balance, but in essence, there is no big difference.

So except for Xun, whether it is Ye Bo or Beryl or even Sheng Qiang Ge, they are all very familiar with the playstyle and power points of this Gen. G.

What they are best at is the "Turtle Formation"!

If V5 honestly plays the version trend's "double hard-carry" development lineup, not to mention whether they can win————the point is, they shouldn't go to the other side's "comfort zone" to fight.

"Gen. G, in order to avoid the AD being restricted in the second round, grabbed Jin Kesi first!"

"Entering the second round, both sides have room to swing..."

Second round bans———

Gen. G: Karma, Wukong

V5: Tahm Kench, Braum

Although there is not much room for pulling in the first game of global BP, and the hero reserve is wide enough, no matter how to block, both sides can build the lineup system they want.

Gen. G's ban is to protect the laning strength of their own bot lane, avoid the other side being able to choose a combination that is too strong in laning, and at the same time limit the jungler.

And V5 also has some deep meaning————wanting to force the other side to drive Titan to the bot lane!

Because Jin Kesi has already been selected, and all three protective supports have been banned, Gen. G is actually very difficult to choose a sufficiently excellent protective soft support, so Titan will likely only be put in the bot lane.

The combination of Titan + Jin Kesi is also destined to not be too strong in laning attributes.

This way, the Caitlyn fast-push system of the V5 side can have more room to play.

"Gen. G chooses Vi to cooperate with the double lock! This can also quickly help Jin Kesi start in team fights, the lineup construction is very reasonable!"

"Then on the V5 side, Sylas!?"

The Roarer turned his head and asked in confusion: "Two, in my shallow opinion, Sylas against Titan and K'Sante should both be a disadvantage, right?"

Scout nodded without hesitation.

Xu Xiu hesitated slightly, continuing to show the art of language: "This... is still relative, not absolute."

————This sentence translated into Chinese is: "Look at the person."

And he actually really wanted to complain.

Have you all forgotten how many times this person has chosen the so-called "counter-position," and that "octagon" data chart just now!?

However, Xu Xiu continued to add: "But the intention of this Sylas is very obvious, he can steal both locks, this can also maximize the breakthrough of Gen. G's defense line to cut Jin Kesi, it is a somewhat sacrificial selection, this depends very much on Gen. G's team fight performance."

The Roarer gave face and showed a sudden realization.

"However, one more point worth mentioning is, V5 actually used Neeko in the support position? This is a bit unexpected..."

V5's last pick chose Nidalee, completely strengthening the offensive attributes.

And when it was Gen. G's counter-pick turn, they found that there were no good protective supports to choose from.

The coaching staff, whose BP ability is not top-notch, finally just followed the rules and chose the top lane Ornn that best fits the lineup.

The lineups of both sides are determined.

《Blue Side: V5 vs Red Side: Gen. G》

【Top: Renekton vs Ornn】

【Jungle: Nidalee vs Vi】

【Mid: Sylas vs K'Sante】

【ADC: Caitlyn vs Jin Kesi】

【Support: Neeko vs Titan】

The game is loaded, and the commentary desks on both sides still want to analyze the lineup as usual...

But they have already found that V5 has some changes!

"That is?"

"Ah?????"

"It's like this again..."

The three people on the LCK commentary desk showed extremely shocked expressions.

V5's level 1 team lineup in this game is not strong, Caitlyn, Renekton, Nidalee level 1 team have no big use.

In contrast, Gen. G, Jin Kesi and Titan are both level 1 team experts!

If you want to fight a frontal team fight, Gen. G's winning percentage is definitely more than a little bit bigger.

Of course, Gen. G is not a team good at level 1 design, their characteristic is stability————so they just followed the original plan, carried out the most conservative standing defense, as long as they were not invaded by the other side, they were satisfied.

The most standard one-word long snake formation standing, if they see the other side has the idea of invasion, they only need to retreat immediately and then gather troops to defend.

In their view, with this lineup gap, why would the other side dare to come?

But V5's brain holes have always been difficult to predict...

It was at this moment.

Just when everyone in Gen. G had just taken their positions, and were waiting strictly for the enemy situation to appear.

In front of the red side's top first tower.

A slowly moving 【Beartrap】 was walking out eerily.

That beartrap followed the wall, slowly walked into the enemy defensive tower, and continued to walk toward the back until it turned into the depths of the jungle.

And Ornn, who was not too far away and was standing guard in the triangular grass to guard against it.

Completely unaware!

Neeko transforming into a 【Jungle Beartrap】 is actually very "stupid"————because she cannot be invisible, anyone who sees a Nidalee W trap that inexplicably appears will think of something.

But compared to Shaco's box, Caitlyn's trap, and Jhin's E, the beartrap has the most unique "specialty" among all {trap-type} skills.

Only Nidalee's beartrap is a {neutral unit}.

Therefore, there is no red dot signal warning on the mini-map at this time, and it is even more impossible for anyone to be distracted at the critical moment of standing guard at level 1, moving their screen to hang under their own defensive tower above!

It can be called "sneaking in without anyone knowing"!

Fortunately, the target is not the top laner.

The standing position of the triangular grass is safe enough, and the main force is difficult to approach secretly.

And it is also impossible to directly peek at whether there is anyone standing in the grass.

And I only saw that beartrap slowly move into the jungle and then return to its original shape, bypassing the jungle at normal movement speed to come to the F6 grass, seeing Vi standing guard at the F6 river entrance...

(End of chapter)