Chapter 254: Linglong Tower Five-Zero Hongguang

"Two-zero! V5 has reached match point!!"

The Haier Brothers on the stage were red-faced, excitedly raising their little fists together.

"This game is still a Linglong Tower! GEN couldn't even stop a single attack! This is our number one seed!"

"I think no one could have imagined before the match that the battle of the top two number one seeds from the two major regions would end up like this. GEN was almost pressed by V5 the whole time and couldn't fight back!!"

{Linglong Tower! You're the one called the number one seed? }

{Linglong Tower refers to no dragons, no towers—then if there are no dragons, no towers, no kills, no heralds, and then they haven't won the BO5: shouldn't this be called Five-Zero Hongguang? }

{V5 and Ye are harboring evil intentions and are guilty of heinous crimes!! They gave T1 a record in the first place, and then gave GEN a Five-Zero Hongguang! They are really going to destroy the LCK! }

{How on earth did they win against T1 and JDG? Why does it feel like they have no power to fight back? }

{Ho ho, it feels like these five people are really about to cry... }

The five members of GEN stood up with pale faces, gray-faced, and dull eyes, even wanting to avoid the illumination of the live broadcast camera.

The pressure was really just too great.

T1 went home, GEN was the last hope of the entire region, and this game was even given high hopes by the coach.

But as the number one seed, they had ushered in a more painful failure after the miserable defeat in the first game!

When preparing to walk into the backstage passage, the five members of GEN clearly hesitated at the door, wanting to see who would walk in first to face the death stare...

However, Score didn't come to the backstage door in advance this game.

He was pacing back and forth in the backstage, involuntarily scratching his scalp, making it look like he had a bird's nest on his head.

Except for the anger that had nowhere to vent, Score was more of an inner "panic" at this moment!

Is it really impossible to win!?

Having led GEN to three LCK league championships, he believed that the strength of his players would not be weaker than the opponent's.

But it just felt wrong as soon as they started fighting!

The door was pushed open.

Score just wanted to open his mouth to spray, but the reaction speed of a former professional player instantly noticed that there was a live broadcast camera following them in.

Clearly, this was the official event wanting to capture the state of mind of the losing side at this moment, and he hurriedly changed his face to go up.

The Roaring Emperor, who was full of sorrow, nodded and praised when he saw this scene on the live broadcast.

"The coach is comforting the players. Score, as the former old captain of KT, actually has a lot of experience in this kind of moment..."

"Now GEN is really standing on the edge of the cliff, and it must be said that the blow to the mentality of the two games is not small. It is really necessary for the old brother's experience to support the belief for the teammates!"

"As long as the game is not over, there is still hope! Believe in them!"

Just as the Roaring Emperor was doing his best to pour out some group chicken soup, the broadcast camera had already switched to the expressions of the others on the field.

Just as he said.

Even across the screen, everyone could clearly feel the suffocating feeling in the GEN backstage.

Doran lowered his head and picked his fingers without saying a word, suspected of wanting to learn how to be invisible.

Viper was holding a bottle of mineral water, but didn't open it for a long time, his eyes straight as if he had fallen into deep thought.

Lehends was used as a comfort tool by the coach because he was the first to enter the door, but his facial expression was clearly extremely stiff.

Peanut could be considered the most stable emotion—maybe for him, even if it was the worst ending, it wouldn't be anything compared to the "rich and incomparable shameful record" of his professional career~

And when the lens was given to Chovy.

Chovy, who was also in a daze in place, only seemed to have no light in his eyes... then he suddenly couldn't help but cover his throat, as if he was a bit "physiologically" retching!

People do indeed want to vomit when they are under great pressure.

{Turtle turtle! Chovy was beaten to vomit by Master Ye! }

{The Dao heart is broken, this atmosphere is too suffocating just thinking about it. The hope of the whole village, the number one seed, was beaten as a human machine after being zeroed out. I don't dare to think about the public opinion pressure after returning home! }

{Hehe, GEN really needs someone to say at this time: "Order food first?"}

{Jeon Yong-jun is still counting on Score to save GEN's morale? I think the reason GEN performed like this is because there is this bullying dog as a coach! He will pressure the players and make the players' operations deform! The BP lineup is also all dog shit! }

{It's true, have you forgotten all the nicknames Score had when he was in service? KR-Clearlove! Counting on him to bring out what kind of good team? }

{Shibal! Don't insult my Mingkai!!! Is Score worthy of comparing with Mingkai? The best result in his life in foreign wars was getting two quarterfinals, Mingkai has won five whole ones! And has Score ever entered MSI in his life? Do you understand how many MSI championships Mingkai has! }

In addition to various emotional venting, the stream comments' ridicule of Chovy's physiological reaction clearly didn't approve of the Roaring Emperor's flattery of the coach.

Score's black nickname in the Korean network was "Korean Factory Manager."

Ridiculing his normal state of being good at internal wars and stable diarrhea in foreign wars and key battles!

The local Korean audience at this time simply didn't look at any of them pleasingly, and the coach naturally couldn't be spared.

And the backstage of the broadcast naturally couldn't give out the original sound to avoid tactical exposure.

However, soon, it could be seen from the cut segments that Score seemed to have become enthusiastic again and was making command arrangements, looking like he had new ideas.

There were also lip-reading experts on the stream comments who deciphered it.

They found that they were all difficult-to-understand words like "hero restraint," "they can do it, we can do it," "hard strength," etc...

After giving one side, the director gave the picture of the next door.

Although they were only separated by tens of meters, it was like a scene presentation in two worlds!

When the V5 crowd came back, Beichuan, who was guarding the backstage, rushed up excitedly to give all his teammates a hug, looking even more excited than the people on the field, giving full emotional value.

"Too fierce, brothers! Too fierce, Master Ye! I saw Chovy almost crying when he came off the stage!"

"Beating Samsung to three match points! We are really amazing!!!"

Xun raised his eyebrows proudly and said: "Sigh, no way, Chovy actually dared to choose this kind of anti-version hero, he is simply not Master Ye's opponent!"

Ye Bo patted his leg and teased: "Xun, this line is going to be edited into the post-match footage, you know."

"So what! This is all my heartfelt words, Master Ye! Absolutely one million percent sincere! I'll say it!"

"Broken, Brother Xun, I seem to know why you are the starter and I am the substitute again, I learned it again."

The V5 backstage was filled with a happy atmosphere.

Xun hugged Beichuan's shoulder carelessly, comforting him for not being able to play: "It's okay, Brother Chuan, there is definitely one-third of your credit for winning, okay, we are one!"

Although they got three match points, clearly no one would underestimate GEN because of this, and there was no reason to replace the hot-state Xun to increase variables.

But this didn't affect Beichuan's heartfelt sense of honor at this moment.

On one hand, they were usually six people training together, Beichuan would squat behind Xun every time to "point out the country," truly learning and progressing from each other—the two people's playing styles actually had a bit of "fusion" meaning long ago.

On the other hand, Beichuan really felt very satisfied.

Half a year ago, many people couldn't remember his ID, and he was still struggling in a marginal team that no one even had an impression of.

If it weren't for luckily joining V5, he didn't know how long he would have to struggle to get ahead, and he didn't even know if he would have the opportunity to come to this MSI arena before his professional career ended completely!

Being a substitute for a strong team is definitely not a shameful thing.

Many key positions in championship teams in history have substitutes.

Such as Easyhoon behind Lee Sang-hyeok in S5, Blank behind Bengi in S6, Duke behind TheShy in S8, Xinyi behind Tian in S9, Junjia behind Barrier in S11...

And among them, except for Xinyi who had the least presence, the others even had championship skins. These are the best motivational examples!

If you have to say it, even Ye Bo started from a substitute and fought his way up step by step!

Beichuan cherished his luck incomparably, being able to grow and progress with such a group of teammates every day, just learning things by training together every day made him feel that he benefited a lot.

Li Xuanjun, who was delicate in mind, looked at Beichuan, who was a bit emotional, and smiled: "Chuan, actually your progress has already surpassed me by seven years, you are the one who is far ahead!"

"My first overseas visa was handled for the finals in S6, but the first time I went abroad was already S11. This is still my first MSI visa, your first visa has already caught up with me, this speed is almost catching up with Master Ye~"

"Sigh, speaking of which, our professional players' passports are like a book full of regrets, always having to handle various visas in advance, and then it may become a beautiful memory, but it is more likely to become a distant place that cannot be reached one by one, even if it is often only one step away..."

"Holy shit! Brother Qiang, where did you steal the copy from? When did you become so cultured!"

"Damn!!! Get lost, I just got some emotion!"

Li Xuanjun's emotion was interrupted by Xun, who laughed and scolded him with a punch.

But speaking of which, it is really like this. Visas cannot be handled just because you want to. Because accidents had happened in the ancient times, from very early on, you had to apply for visas in advance when you reached the "possible to go" stage such as the top four and semifinals.

But that means that every time a large part of people will become "white applications" because they couldn't go in the end.

The reason Li Xuanjun was so emotional was because he personally experienced this kind of thing in S6, fought a hellish trial of "BO10" in one day, but fell at the last small step of the tenth game, and all his previous efforts were wasted...

"Alright, we haven't won yet." The steady Deft smiled and pulled the topic back to the field.

"Brother Hyukkyu is right, everyone don't relax, don't underestimate our opponents!" Ye Bo also nodded and added.

The big victory in the two games clearly made the backstage atmosphere very relaxed, but this reminder from the two people in the team also quickly pulled everyone back to the right track.

The Roaring Emperor was right about one thing.

Having a steady presence in the team to stabilize the military heart, whether it is maintaining the state without causing trouble when dominant, or adjusting the mentality when disadvantaged, can have a significant impact.

"It's okay, Brother Hyukkyu, Brother Dongbin's BP, I and Master Ye have studied it, they can't play any tricks~~~" Beryl confidently shook his hands.

But when both teams returned to the stage and prepared to enter the BP session.

Beryl's words were a bit "slap in the face."

GEN actually took the initiative to choose the red side in the match point game!

If it were just this point, it would be fine.

After all, the more global BP goes to the back, the less advantage the blue side theoretically has—because enough heroes are burned, and in the end, there are actually no super-value things to grab first.

But the third game clearly couldn't be called very late, and the blue side still had some advantages, that's for sure.

And Score's choice was also very simple.

The counter-pick position of the red side can allow the mid-laner to eat the counter-pick strongly, which can protect the mid-lane that was most miserable in the previous game to the greatest extent, and there are some other small thoughts!

First round of bans:

V5: Zeri, Lulu, Maokai

GEN: Akali, Kindred, Lucian

In the first round of bans, the last ban position of both sides is generally a key game-of-wits point.

Just like V5 banning Maokai, it was seeing the opponent ban Kindred in the second round. In this way, the only strong junglers left were Wukong, Sejuani, and Kha'Zix—and Wukong's jungle is good against Sejuani and Kha'Zix. If the opponent bans Wukong in the third round, V5 can also choose one of the latter two!

"V5 grabs Wukong first, GEN should be better off taking Sejuani... Huh!?"

"I'm going, are they directly taking Draven!" Miller widened his eyes and exclaimed in surprise: "Viper's championship Draven! GEN is going to draw their sword in this game!?"

Wawa was making jokes improperly: "Grabbing Draven in the first round? I thought only Top Esports would grab like this~"

"GEN didn't choose mid-top heroes in the second round, directly grabbed the support Braum, and revealed the bottom lane combination."

However, although grabbing Draven in the first round has a familiar odor.

But no matter what, Score, who can bring out the GEN version of the internal war king, is definitely much stronger than White Moon Crescent.

He first decided to change sides to the red side -> then banned Lucian -> and then chose Draven first.

The purpose of the three combined is only one: {Lock in the advantage of the bottom lane}!

To be fair, in these few games, except for the first game where the Caitlyn-Neeko combo was too cheap to deal with, the bot lane laning phase was actually an advantage.

In Score's view, based on V5's playing style in the first two games, the best choice for the third game is Draven, the hero with the strongest "strong attack" attribute in the bottom lane—but if it were the blue side, it would be impossible to grab Draven first!

The reason lies in the well-known common sense that Draven fears Braum the most.

Not only can auto-attacks be blocked, making it hard to output, but picking up axes is also very easy to be Q'd. The most important thing is that the core axe will be directly "swallowed" by the shield!

And banning Braum on the blue side would definitely be noticed -> leading to the red side banning Draven.

Banning Braum on the red side -> the blue side could grab it directly.

So it's very clear.

If GEN wants to grab Draven + Braum, they can only come to the red side!

And after the strong heroes in the bottom lane are burned out, Lucian and Nami, who are the only ones that can compete with Draven, are banned. It can be said that the advantage of the bottom lane is basically 100% determined!

"Did they change the system?" Ye Bo reacted quickly: "Must choose the bottom lane combination first, otherwise there will be no heroes left."

"Anyway, this laning can't be fought, Senna-Tahm Kench, this can also give Master Ye a variation, not necessarily fighting the early game." Beryl also immediately spoke up.

The blue side supplemented the bottom lane combination, and the red side chose Sejuani.

Enter the second round of bans—

GEN: LeBlanc, Taliyah

V5: Kennen, Gwen

"GEN supplemented Rumble in the fourth round? This version is very rare, and Doran doesn't seem to play it much either?"

"But if the counter-pick position is not left for the top lane, wouldn't it be better to take Gnar first!?"

The commentary desk saw the shallow layer.

But V5 saw the deep layer.

Rumble is scheduled to undergo a {mid-scale rework} in the next version, but Rumble in this version is almost unused, and the MSI appearance rate is close to 0.

And just as the commentary desk said.

If the top lane has to be chosen first, it's clear that a versatile hero like Gnar would be more suitable.

There must be a reason for the anti-version move—combined with the ban position and hero understanding, the reason for the anti-version selection is not difficult to deduce.

GEN perhaps hopes that their top lane can supplement an AP + AOE hero to avoid the lineup being too rotten, and they don't want it to be so "extreme."

Then the mid-laner is likely an AD + hero lacking AOE!

"Jayce, K'Sante, Renekton, Lucian are all gone, the AD mid-laners should only have Tristana, Yasuo, Yone..."

Ye Bo thought about the possibilities, then decisively made a decision: "No need to fight hard, change the formation, we'll take a mid-speed lineup in this game!"

V5 supplemented Azir + Gnar in the fourth and fifth rounds.

And GEN's fifth round paused for three seconds, and finally revealed the cannon-form Poppy!

Both lineups determined.

{Blue side: V5 vs Red side: GEN}

{Top: Gnar vs Rumble}

{Jungle: Wukong vs Sejuani}

{Mid: Azir vs Tristana}

{ADC: Senna vs Draven}

{Support: Tahm Kench vs Braum}

"How come both sides in this game seem to have exchanged team names?"

"V5 took a mid-to-late-game defensive lineup that favors development rhythm, while GEN actually took a strong attack lineup with quite a bit of offensive pressure!"

"This feels like they are playing with things the other side is good at!"

The commentary desk felt a bit trance-like when seeing the lineups.

Both coaches were also a bit surprised.

Score didn't expect V5 to play out of the routine at all, and after discovering that there were no strong attack system heroes, they directly chose to change the formation without hard-choosing a fighting lineup.

Beryl was a bit unhappy, finding a supplement for his words on the field just now: "It feels like I haven't seen them play this system?"

After Viper went to GEN, he basically didn't play Draven much.

Besides the factor of the big-core ADC version, the more important reason is clearly GEN's team reason.

Not to mention it's paired with this kind of strong attack system with considerable offensive pressure!

Beryl inevitably had a question in his heart.

Is this the "secret weapon" that GEN hid until the match point game?

Or...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 255 =====