Fierce shooter

For fans, the EDG team's debut was undoubtedly very satisfying.

Before this, many EDG fans had not yet come out of Jiangcheng in the S7 World Championship.

In the second half of the 2017 Summer Split, EDG changed its previous conservative play style and began to focus on early offense. At that time, many fans still felt that EDG would have great potential in the S7 World Championship.

There may be players who like the game between operators.

But most players prefer to attack.

Unfortunately……

Since the winter transfer period, EDG has released almost no news.

Today's German Cup allowed fans to see the new EDG.

Fans on Tieba and Weibo also started to interact with each other.

"Although beating Team RW doesn't mean anything, EDG's game rhythm makes me feel very comfortable."

"Indeed, I feel that Brother Luo is much more stable than iboy. Moreover, Brother Luo is the kind of player who won't give you a chance if you want him to, but if he gets a chance, he will not hesitate to take action."

"What you notice is the bottom lane, but what I notice is the top laner. To be honest, in the past, EDG only had to recruit top laners with only big trees, but the captain of Jin Gong moved me a little. As an experienced captain who has played thousands of games Judging from my own perspective, Jin Gong’s captain is quite proficient.”

"Xiaotian fought so fiercely, young people who dare to fight and fight hard... Although, I still want to see the factory play."

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"wow, I, Collier's Dirty Dancing Seven, removed the number 7 at the end, and now I am a substitute. This gives me a bad feeling. Brother Seven is not going to retire, is he?"

"Hush! Hush, brothers, please keep a low profile. Winning RW is nothing. We must stabilize our mentality and not be arrogant!"

"That's right, we can only determine whether we are a strong team after playing against IG and RNG. Just hold on steady and silently cheer for Brother Luo and other players!"

"Yes, I feel that IG's new adc is very good. Others have improved a lot after going through the competition. Except that they are still a little unstable, IG is definitely one of the best teams in this spring split."

"We can only play with IG, RNG didn't even participate..."

…

EDG fans are cautious as if they have lost something.

The German Cup schedule continues one after another.

The teams in the same half zone as EDG are WE and SN.

After WE defeated SN with a score of 2-1, they met the EDG team in the semi-finals.

However, from the beginning of EDG's formation to now, WE has defeated EDG only a handful of times.

When the two teams collided, an unexpected scene occurred.

In the eyes of fans, WE's biggest advantage is its stability.

Their ability in each position does not seem to be top-notch, but there are rarely fluctuations in strength in each position.

Only Xiye's fluctuations were relatively large, but most of the time Xiye was above the level.

But when facing the EDG team, WE's jungler Kandi sleepwalked for two consecutive games as if he had too many guides.

Moreover, in terms of version compatibility, there is a huge gap between WE and the current ADC, which can only play functional versions.

When they met SN, they relied on the personal strength of the brother-in-law and used the reverse version of the hero to penetrate SN's bottom lane.

But now they encountered EDG.

What I encountered was Li Luo, the 2017 Finals Finals MVP, and Meiko, one of the top three domestic supports!

It would be a fantasy for WE to try to achieve a suppressive effect by using a hero matchup such as the policewoman's mouth.

The only hero they can get in this version of the bottom lane is Ezreal.

As soon as EZ banned, WE immediately misfired in the bottom lane.

The jungler was also very confused. Even though the mid laner Xiye used Kassadin to great effect, he still couldn't win the game on his own.

As for the most stable point 957...

In terms of stability, Jin Gong is no worse than 957.

When both sides are inseparable, the only ones competing against each other are their teammates.

Even my teammates can't compare...

Then lose.

Another 2-0.

EDG successfully advanced to the semifinals.

On the way backstage from the battle booth.

"It's so weird for them to be junglers."

Xiaotian yawned.

These two games today made him sleepy.

Although Xiaotian didn't show it publicly before the beating, he did a lot of homework secretly.

After all, Kandi was known as the Son of the Dragon last summer.

WE also likes to engage in team battles, and the two sides inevitably engage in firefights near map resources.

Once there is competition for resources, there may be a situation where the little dragon or the big dragon is robbed.

Therefore, Xiaotian's first shot was very cautious.

But after the fight, Xiaotian found something was wrong.

mdIs this the Son of the Dragon?

The only LPL team that EDG had not played in training games during the offseason was Team WE.

Because my brother-in-law had just returned from South Korea not long ago, WE had just assembled the starting five. Maybe the appointments with other teams were full, but the two sides never made an appointment.

Therefore, all the information EDG has about the WE team comes from WE last summer.

Different versions have different reference values.

However, when the fight actually started, everyone in EDG unexpectedly discovered that WE was still the same WE.

They don't seem to have adapted to the current meta so far, and their playstyle is still the same as last year.

This plays into EDG's hands.

They don't even need to think too much about tactics, they can just use the normal version system to win easily.

Two games have knocked out Xiaotian's self-confidence.

At this time, Xiaotian can't wait to welcome the IG team in the main game.

After the winner's group semi-final between EDG and WE team ended, on the other side of the winner's group, IG and Snake also started a duel.

This game seems to be a doubtless one in everyone's eyes.

One is a world champion.

One is Snake, who didn't even make it to the bubble competition last year, had a miserable regular season record, and had extremely unstable team results.

Snake hasn't changed much in this year's lineup.

Gangzi returned to the adc position.

Support is still a butterfly.

The holy gun brother in the top lane.

Jungle Sao Fen.

The mid laner introduced the second Korean brother.

That is, the mid laner of NJ White Shield in the S4 season, who was kicked into a ball by OMG's jungle elixir.

The first impression the Korean second brother gave to the audience when he came to China was that he was very good.

After all, his historical performance is not very good.

I was also tortured by the old OMG.

But after he came to the Snake team, he unexpectedly had a good chemical reaction with the team.

This is not the most important thing.

The most important thing is that Sao Fen, who has always been a smart knife, is so excited.

In the backstage lounge.

Only teams will understand which team and player will benefit the most under the current version.

In the first match between IG and Team Snake, Saofen got the flying skills of Prince's various rhythms.

In contrast, the IG team, which should be on the offensive side in the early stage, was suppressed by Sao Fen's rhythm.

Li Luo glanced at Xiaotian, who was sitting next to him with a serious expression, and said, "Don't try to learn someone's playing style. Some playing styles cannot be learned. The most important thing is to find someone who is suitable for you and who belongs to you." style of play.”

Xiaotian was slightly startled when he heard this, and then nodded silently.

This version of EDG has been discussed unanimously by everyone.

The person who has benefited the most from the jungle position is the jungler of the Snake team, Sao Fen.

If the Snake team's other configurations except for the top laner were not relatively poor, then Snake would take off completely at the beginning of this year.

"The jungler Sao Fen's vision ability is so terrifying. The talent of Zombie Guard feels like it was tailor-made for him. His vision score completely blew away King Ning, who is not very good at vision."

Mingkai looked at the situation on the court and shook his head slightly: "I feel that if IG doesn't make adjustments, it will be sent to the loser group."

"Don't panic, our Qi Jiang has experience in beating Sao Fen."

Abu's words caused bursts of laughter in the lounge, and Mingkai looked at Abu with a black streak in his head.

He knew that his title as "Qi-chan" was well established.

Somehow, Mingkai suddenly had an impulse.

That is to change your player ID to Collier's Dirty Dancing 8.

If you have the ability, would you call me Bachi again?

The first game between Snake and IG ended with IG being crushed.

But IG quickly regained the ground and rolled back in the second game.

However, in the third game, Saofen showed off one of his unique heroes.

poodle.

The appearance of the poodle disrupted the IG team's BP strategy.

Without Li Luo, the IG team's adaptability is obviously much inferior. Although Mafa is a good coach, a considerable part of all the abilities he has shown before are based on the suggestions given by Li Luo. .

This allows the IG team to often come up with some reverse versions of heroes that fit the lineup when BP is blocked.

Now they have lost this ability.

At the scene, as the third game progressed, IG fans sank to the bottom.

"No, Brother Crystal still feels a little fierce after resting for a while..."

"Is it Brother Crystal who is strong or Jackeylove's suppression power is not enough? It feels like the fights in the bottom lane are evenly matched, and Baolan doesn't take the initiative to find opportunities..."

"This version of Rookie's suppression power has been reduced. Why doesn't he use the assassin hero?"

Many IG fans cannot accept the fact that they have to stand on the edge of a cliff to fight Snake, and they feel a little uncomfortable.

In the current version, most of the mages in the middle lane, except Zoe, are late-stage big cores.

These big-core Rookies are relatively good at them and can be used, so there is no problem of shortcomings in the hero pool.

However, the shrewdness of the fist is precisely reflected in this aspect.

When the winning teams in history began to decline, many fans didn't know where Riot was targeting.

All they would say is that the team was targeted by Riot.

Fans of other teams can’t stand it and think they are making excuses, so they will jump out and say that it has nothing to do with the version, it’s just that the players have changed. If you don’t believe it, look at something in the version, and the heroes mastered by the players are obviously not very good. It is obviously weakened. There are so many heroes that can be obtained. It is the players' own problem that they dare not take them.

Then some fans of the championship-winning team will have a sense of enlightenment when they listen to other people's analysis without understanding it themselves.

So that's it.

Then... I believed it and started to join in the discussion of analyzing the decline of players' strength.

As everyone knows, we must look at the problem as a whole.

Rookie's big core mage hero can be obtained, but it is almost impossible for such a big core mage to defeat the opponent in the early stage of the laning.

And even if this kind of hero has a laning suppression effect, what can it do before it develops? Can you give your teammates enough help and feedback?

Therefore, when the big core mage is popular in the version, it will be a huge weakening for players like Rookie who need to link up with the jungler to set the rhythm.

Rookie actually has a way to crack it.

All great nuclear mages are afraid of assassins.

He can use the assassin hero to suppress or even kill the mage alone.

But the question comes again. With the assassin in the middle, do we need to play a big core on the sideline?

You can't play the big core in this version of the bottom lane, so you can only play it in the top lane.

OK, if you go on the road and play big core, then your going on the road will become our early breakthrough.

LPL is best at military training.

This creates a closed loop.

IG's first game against Snake was The shy.

As a result, the first half of the jungle fell in Sao Fen's vision battle. After that, a series of chain reactions caused The shy to be violently targeted.

Brother Shengqiang is not a soft persimmon, he can do C with the economy.

So in the second game, IG decisively replaced The shy and played duke.

But in the third set, Snake's lineup began to change again.

This continuously changing style of play makes it difficult for the IG team that is limited by the version to make adjustments in time.

In the end, IG unfortunately lost and fell into the loser group.

IG lost to Snake, which is undoubtedly the most exciting news during the German Cup.

Little did they know that what would make IG fans even more uncomfortable was yet to come.

Snake can use this tactic against IG because IG's top laner is one of the cores of the team and needs to stand out.

But this tactic is not very effective when used against EDG.

Especially... when the EDG team replaced Mingkai.

Ming Kai's appearance made countless piggies cheer wildly.

Before the upper bracket finals with Snake started, more than half of the fans at the scene belonged to the EDG team.

One can imagine the scale of the two LPL extremely large fan groups of Li Luo and Ming Kai coming together.

In the first game, Snake spent a ban position focusing on Jin Gong's captain.

They tried to deal with EDG the same way they dealt with IG.

Then... Jin Gong took out a vampire.

Unlike other vampires.

Other people's vampires need to eat a lot of money and receive a lot of care in the early and middle stages.

After all, only developed vampires are effective.

But Jin Gong is not.

Are you targeting me?

OKOK, let you target.

Anyway, if my teammates can suppress you, that's it.

When your teammates are so disadvantaged that you have to distract yourself to help, I will develop properly.

Then I'll screw all your heads off.

Facing the traditional development-style mage brought out by the Korean second brother, the younger brother decisively took out the Enchantress to punish him.

In the bottom lane, Brother Jingshu, who was outplayed by Li Luo in the summer game and suffered from Shinephobia, is also in a state of being suppressed.

"Why don't they dare to get Draven for labor? Ouch."

When Brother Crystal was killed again, he looked at his 1/5 Verus and said a little irritably: "This factory director is directly looking at the labor and management, and the labor and management are bored! If I get Draven, I will educate him he!"

The corner of Butterfly's mouth that assisted him twitched.

He suddenly began to miss the days when the posture was there.

If the posture is there...

Just then Butterfly's thoughts were interrupted by Brother Holy Gun.

"It's okay, it doesn't matter if we lose today, your mouth will live on your computer forever."

"Oh, don't you believe it..."

…

Snake in the first game started to fall apart when he lasted until 28 minutes.

Saofen did cause a lot of trouble for EDG in terms of vision.

But Mingkai and Meiko's vision network control is not covered.

The two have been linked together since 2015, and no pairing in the entire LPL can match them in terms of Nosuke's affinity.

Although Mingkai, who had not played a game for a long time, had some flaws in his form, these flaws were covered up by his use of a simple and unpretentious hero like Pig Girl.

EDG performed very well overall in the first game.

However, at the beginning of the second game, there was a little incident in the Snake battle box.

"Yang Fan, do you want me to get you Draven first?"

Brother Shengqiang had a joking look on his face.

Brother Crystal covered his mouth and looked at the screen.

"Heh...hehe."

His sudden relieved smile made Snake and the others laugh.

Dare you take it?

Dare to der!

Of course, objectively speaking, Brother Crystal is not particularly worried about being beaten up by Li Luo.

What he was really worried about was being beaten by Li Luo and Meiko.

You must know that their lack of ban positions is destined to release all the auxiliary heroes who can restrain Draven.

As long as he dares to choose Draven, then EDG will definitely choose Niutou to teach him how to behave.

Brother Crystal has no choice but to still use regular heroes to fight this game.

Unfortunately, the final outcome was not very ideal.

2 to 0.

EDG advanced to the finals neatly.

By coincidence, the team that Snake, who fell into the lower bracket, will face in the lower bracket finals... is IG, the team that climbed up from the lower bracket by defeating the WE team.

The two teams in the upper bracket semi-finals met again.

Farce, again.

Two BO3s.

Two to 1.

The winning team in the end was all Snake.

It’s not just IG fans who are numb.

Even the EDG people watching the game from behind were a little numb.

Especially Li Luo.

In his impression, in the German Cup before the rebirth, IG was indeed defeated by Snake twice in a row.

There are indeed differences in version understanding between the two teams.

But IG, which has already won the championship, should theoretically produce a butterfly effect.

From the perspective of a professional player, Li Luo can understand the reason for IG's defeat through review.

But from the perspective of his former teammates, Li Luo couldn't accept this fact.

The same goes for organizers.

The schedule they arranged was to witness the showdown between EDG with Li Luo and the IG team without Li Luo.

But in the end, this event really started high and ended low.

EDG and Snake have just played in the upper bracket finals, and now they will meet again in the finals.

Naturally, this level of attention cannot be compared with the duel between EDG and IG.

But what can the organizers do? IG clearly told them that the former IG has temporarily returned. You can't predict any of our games in this German Cup.

The finals started in a BO5 situation between EDG and Snake.

However, the result never changed at all.

From the upper bracket finals to the finals, EDG defeated Snake 5-0.

On the one hand, it is because there is indeed a gap in the hard power of the teams.

On the other hand, the main reason is that Zhu Kai, the former coach of the Snake team, is in EDG.

Zhu Kai really understands Snake, whom he has coached for many years.

As for those guys like Snake, Zhu Kai knows everything about them.

After the playing styles of Snake and the others were thoroughly analyzed by a team like EDG, all situations would naturally be in EDG's hands.

The German Cup competition has come to an end.

There is another German Cup championship trophy on the wall of EDG base.

For the audience, the second half of the German Cup was really not satisfying.

But most viewers don't care.

Because in less than ten days, the 2018 LPL Spring Split is about to begin.

LPL is the real battlefield for the top domestic teams!

A total of fourteen teams will be divided into two groups AB, and will compete in the regular season in a BO3 format!

Moreover, the regular season schedule this time is also quite compact, which is enough for the audience to enjoy.

The 2018 League of Legends Professional League has also officially entered the era of alliances and home and away games.

This year's game will not only be held in Shanghai, but also the home teams in the capital, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Chongqing, and Chengdu will face challenges from other away teams!

As the start date of the Spring Split is approaching, the groupings of the two groups AB have been announced one after another through draws.

Inside the EDG base.

"We are in Group A... The teams in the same group include Snake, BLG, WE, FPX, OMG, VG... This... I'm afraid we will be ridiculed by the teams in Group B."

Meiko was speechless after reading it.

It’s not that he thinks the other teams in Group A are weak.

But compared to the teams in Group B, the overall confrontation of Group A is indeed not very strong.

Let’s look at Group B again. The S7 world champion IG team and the top four teams of the S7 world championship RNG team. With these two strong teams sitting in the same group, there are also two major e-commerce companies, RW, JD.com and Suning, and Happy Family. LGD, and the former TOP of the DAN team.

"Actually, the grouping is just a formality. According to the schedule, all teams in the two groups must compete, so we just need to do our best."

Zhu Kai said with a smile after reading the grouping.

Recently, the EDG team's rhythm on the Internet has been relatively healthy.

EDG fans are very stable. The late schedule of the German Cup is not a good thing for the audience, but the advantages for the EDG team far outweigh the disadvantages.

Fans will not praise them mindlessly just because they won the German Cup. After all, throughout the entire German Cup, EDG had only three opponents, RW, WE and Snake.

These three teams are not top-notch in the eyes of the public, so fans have not exaggerated EDG.

If no one brags about it, there will be very few people who will use this excuse to get into trouble.

It is enough for the players to keep their mentality and train calmly.

The time soon came to January 15th.

The opening game of the LPL Spring Split was held at the RNG home court in the capital.

The two sides in the opening battle are the IG team and the RNG team that are regulars in the opening match.

According to the schedule, teams in Group AB will compete against teams in the same group in the first half of the schedule. After playing a round with teams in the same group, they will compete against each other in the second group.

IG and RNG are in the same group, and the two teams have great gimmicks. It is perfect to put the confrontation between these two teams in the opening battle.

Everyone in EDG watched this game at the base.

In Li Luo's impression before his rebirth, although RNG did not play Uzi, IG still lost the BO3 in the end.

Li Luo doesn't remember the other scores clearly, but this opening game caused an uproar at the time.

In the first game, the players RNG played were the A monster and the newly introduced player Kasa in the jungle position this year.

However, the effect is not very good.

RNG relied on Rookie's ultimate move to steal the baron but was discovered by IG. With Rookie's world-destroying clockwork magic ball, the RNG team was quickly annihilated.

Immediately afterwards, they adjusted their substitutions and replaced the jungler's Xiangguo and Y4.

After making changes, they won the second game with Xiangguo's carry ability.

But in the third game, history changed.

The IG team has obviously made many adjustments during the offseason of the German Cup.

Although their command in the third game was still chaotic, it was obviously much better than the previous two games.

With decisive and ruthless play, the IG team completed the reversal in the third game and won the opening game with a score of 2-1!

"I feel like IG has found some of the rhythm of the version. The fine-tuned fists of the previous version were not targeted at them, and they really figured it out."

Abramovich said thoughtfully in the base, and clapped his hands after him: "The first opponent we face in the spring split is FPX. Everyone, prepare yourself. Tomorrow we will do our best in the cleanest way possible." Get them!"

ps: There is a few hundred words difference, and today is Children’s Day, and I have already ordered 10,000 orders. Logically speaking, I should add more updates today, but when it comes to the plot of the Spring Split, there are many things that need attention, so I have to go to a lot of version information to check and code words. There will inevitably be less time, so Brother Mengrong and Xiaosi will take it slow. Extra updates will appear at the right time. Regarding the upcoming spring game, the pace will not be too slow. Xiaosi will only choose a few games to change the version or compare the key points. I will write about the game. Readers, please rest assured that I will not drag out the word count. If you have any suggestions, I hope you can speak freely~