Chapter 72

"But the output might not be enough."

However, Ning had his own ideas about which jungle hero to choose. Although picking an AP in the top lane can make up for the strength of the lineup, Pantheon is a double-edged sword after all.

The damage in the early game is indeed sufficient, but what about the mid-to-late game? The opponent has already suffered in this game and will definitely not make the same mistakes as in the previous game. Moreover, they also took Corki, which is extremely perverted in this version. Once it enters the mid-to-late game, Pantheon will become extremely weak.

"Should..."

Tabe still wanted to say something, but the next second, Ning locked in Graves on his own.

"I think this is good. With three items in the mid-to-late game, I can shove the gun barrel into the opponent's mouth."

Everyone:... "Then let's go with Graves."

Although Su Xing was displeased, it was already picked, so could he tell the opponent that they wanted to restart?

Forget it, no need.

After a pause, Su Xing calmed down and said: "But in this case, the support in the bot lane needs to be changed. Pick one of Nautilus/Leona/Alistar."

Originally, according to Tabe's lineup concept, the top lane should pick an AP to make up for the lineup strength and increase the team fight fault tolerance rate, and then the mid-jungle should choose heroes with strong early-to-mid-game combat power to drive the bot lane's rhythm to expand the advantage.

But now Ning has chosen a jungle core type hero that needs development, which means they are unlikely to rely on mid-jungle synergy to drive the rhythm.

"Okay."

Bao Lan nodded. Ning Wang has this personality, and he can't do anything about it.

"OK, then it's decided."

A moment later, the lineups for both sides were determined.

During this period, there was a small episode. The opponent seemed to be a bit hesitant about the choice of the bot lane, and after thinking about it, they actually chose Draven.

Su Xing's side is top Kennen, jungle Graves, mid Pantheon, and bot Xayah + Nautilus.

And the opponent is top Renekton, jungle Brand, mid Corki, and bot Draven + Leona.

"Draven is even taken out. Is this not wanting their faces anymore?"

"TES can't hide it anymore, right? JackeyLove's Draven is even taken out. Do you want to ruin Uzi's reputation?"

"It's fine, JackeyLove didn't pick Draven first, so he already gave enough face."

"Be optimistic, I heard that Mao Kai is now coaching TES. Not picking Draven first is already a big improvement."

"Uzi: You were bullied by the mid laner, what does it have to do with me?"

"Tell you a cold fact, back in S8, Uzi would swap lanes when he saw JackeyLove's Draven, let alone now."

"What's there to panic about? Won't the streamer easily crush Xiao Nai You?"

"My evaluation is that if it doesn't work, just disband. Losing to Samsung, losing to G2, and now having to lose to a group of old men. With this state, how can they go to the Saudi Petroleum Cup?"

"Is the Saudi Petroleum Cup set? Didn't they say WBG and LGD are going?"

"It's divided by projects. For LOL, BLG and TES are going, and for Korea, T1 and Samsung are going. This time it's really an MSI resurrection match."

"Why is the barrage spamming Saudi Petroleum Cup?"

Su Xing glanced at the dense barrage and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Isn't it straight to the World Championship after the Summer Split?"

"Oh, it's a new addition this year."

Uzi explained: "Saudi Arabia reached an agreement with Riot to hold a series of matches for about half a month during the Summer Split, inviting two teams from each region."

"That's fine." Su Xing was a bit surprised and said: "They are super rich over there. If you win a championship, the prize money is probably on the same level as the skin share of the champion players."

"That's not it."

Uzi shook his head and said: "The prize money for other projects is indeed very high, often in the tens of millions, but for LOL, I heard that the prize money for third-party events cannot be higher than Riot's official events. I guess it's about one million US dollars?"

"That's not a small amount either. The prize money is secondary. Maybe it can increase the team's popularity because of this competition."

Su Xing also felt that playing this kind of competition was okay, at least not a loss.

"Seriously, if it were me, I definitely wouldn't want to go."

However, at this time, Ning said: "Going abroad to play a series of matches in the middle of the Summer Split, not to mention whether it will affect the World Championship quota, what if you win a championship and then get targeted by Riot and heavily nerfed on the heroes you play? What should you do then?"

"Every year's MSI champion will be slashed by the designers. Now it's good, MSI gets a slash, and then the Petroleum Cup champion gets another slash. No matter which team you let come, they won't be able to hold up."

Everyone:... Not to mention, what Ning said makes a lot of sense.

Back in S10, TES was targeted and nerfed inhumanely by Riot officials because they won an MSC championship.

In order to nerf the poke systems that TES was good at, such as jungle Trundle and bot lane EZ + Yuumi, they even went so far as to create an extremely deformed jungle core version.

This is why TES, which was highly anticipated that year, was almost sent home by FNC. Besides the unstable state between several players, another reason was that Riot didn't control the intensity well when nerfing.

"Professional players, if they don't play games, should they play landlord?"

Su Xing was silent for a moment and said: "Having games to play is better than having no games to play."

"That's true."

Uzi nodded and then changed the subject and asked: "Is your Pantheon really under no pressure this game? How come I feel like you should be very uncomfortable in the laning phase if you take Electrocute?"

"It's okay, I can make countless mistakes, but he only needs to make one mistake and he's gone."

Su Xing smiled slightly and said: "This thing is a more violent hero than Corki."

Everyone:... They had just seen how violent this version of Corki was, and now Su Xing says Pantheon is more violent than Corki? Not long after, both sides entered the Canyon, walked out of the fountain to the jungle to stand and wait for the minion wave to appear.

After the minion wave appeared, the viewers in the stream found a very interesting phenomenon: in the mid lane, Su Xing's Pantheon was actually able to not fall behind when facing the long-range hero Corki.

Not only was his CS not suppressed, but his health was also controlled very well. The only regrettable thing is that Su Xing's style in this game seems to have converged a lot, and there is no such aggressiveness as in the previous game.

A little over three minutes, the bot lane exploded. Without the interference of the jungler, Draven, with the support Leona, successfully took the first blood.

"My bad."

Bao Lan was a bit embarrassed. "It's fine."

Uzi said calmly: "It's normal not to be able to beat active players. We can be steady if we can be steady, and if we can't be steady, there's no way."

Six minutes, the opposing jungler Brand arrived in the bot lane and cooperated with the duo to complete a tower dive again.

"Bad news, we were tower-dived by the opponent."

Uzi smiled and said: "Good news, the kill is not Draven's."

"No way, I really tried my best."

Bao Lan was a bit speechless. It's one thing not to be able to beat them in laning, but why do they still have to come for a jungle tower dive? "I'm level six."

Su Xing thought for a moment and said: "I'll help the top lane once first to attract the opponent's jungler's attention to the upper half of the map. In this way, you won't have so much pressure."

(End of chapter)