Fierce shooter

Seoul, Korea.

Inside the headquarters of GEN Esports Club.

"You finally won, Zaihe. This is considered revenge for you. I remember that you didn't seem to win much when you lined up next to him."

In the illegal three-row group, in addition to GEN's bottom lane duo of Chidi and coreJJ, there is also top laner cuvee.

At this time, Cuvee also showed a smile after seeing the Korean word "Victory" popping up on the screen and said.

"I'm sure I'd be happy if you took that last sentence back."

Emperor Chi responded expressionlessly.

Since the failure in the S7 World Championship, Chi Di's temperament has become more and more indifferent. He has gradually become an emotionless output machine in the team. When faced with any bot lane duo in China, he dares to fight and attack hard. .

And the way he played was like venting his resentment.

Chi Di knew very well how to win this round. During the laning phase, the four of them jumped the tower, and were almost manipulated by Li Luo. If it weren't for Li Luo's jungler, Blind Boy would be the best sixth man. His feet pushed him out of the attack range of the defense tower, and Li Luo might be able to fight back.

Although it is difficult for an adc to carry the team on his own in things like rank, there are people on Li Luo's side who want to win. If Li Luo gets fatter, the outcome is hard to say.

It was with this combination of inside and outside that he gained the upper hand in the laning phase. Chi Di secretly calculated that in the past year or so, he and Li Luo had encountered each other in rank no less than thirty or forty times. This seemed to be For the first time, he took one step ahead of Li Luo and destroyed his defense tower.

Thinking about it, I'm a little bit cautious.

"We're about to make the playoffs, cheer up."

coreJJ patted Chi Di on the shoulder: "Strive to win the finals. If possible, we can also be assigned to Group A to truly complete our revenge on the field."

Unexpectedly, after coreJJ's words fell into Chidi's ears, Chichidi jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on. He shook off coreJJ's hand and said, "Ah Yigu, I'm annoyed."

coreJJ looked at the back of Emperor Chi as he left, feeling a little helpless.

"He has a knot in his mind."

Leader An appeared behind coreJJ at some point and said.

"I know that he longs for revenge, but in fact he is afraid of Shine deep down. This is a very contradictory psychology. He is escaping."

coreJJ, as Chi Di's old partner, sighed: "I think our state is really good, and I have an intuition that EDG will not go smoothly in this world championship. MAD in Group A is in very good shape. La Siu, we had a training match with them recently and they were so weak."

"Europe's No. 2 VIT is very strong, but it doesn't feel as strong as us. I want to give it a try and ask if there is a possibility for us to make EDG like last year...Eh? Brother Chanrong?"

CoreJJ, who was talking incessantly, turned around and found that Leader An was already walking away.

Leader An stretched out his hand as he walked and said, "Don't take us with you if you're bragging. It's good to have dreams, but your dream is too unrealistic. My thoughts are the same as Zaihe's. I don't want to fall behind in the group stage." In Group A, if we fall into other groups, we may even qualify first in the group, but if we are in Group A, we will most likely only be second.”

"Do you want to start a civil war when the eighth team advances to the fourth round? I don't want to."

Leader An felt very handsome when he said these words.

He felt that he had a very long-term vision.

As a Korean, although he failed in last year's World Championship, Leader An believed that it was a small probability event.

The training environment of the Korean League of Legends is still far better than that of China. They do not have so many sponsor advertisements and do not take up a lot of training time for the players.

At most, they only occasionally participate in activities such as variety shows, which is also for the players to relax and consider.

Although the LPL has been developing rapidly in the past year or so, leader An firmly believes that it is easy to get hurt if the pace is too big.

This year, their Korean team will use the results of "three Korean teams in the top four" to help LCK regain the title of the first division!

There is a reason why Head An is so confident.

Although this year's summer split ended with a first-round loss to AFS, GEN completed an incredible string of three in the bubble game.

They first defeated SKT, and then successively won the dark horse Griffin of the summer split and the champion KZ of the spring split.

KZ, which fell into decline after MSI, actually failed to even enter the World Championship. They were kicked away from the playoffs like a dog. As a result, they failed to defend the goal in the bubble competition.

Even Guan Zeyuan, a well-known commentator of the LPL and their loyal fan, posted a Weibo post in excitement, praising GEN's resilience and saying that a team like GEN that has gone through great hardships to enter the World Championship will surely be able to make great progress. , hitting a record in team history.

The whole world is looking up to them. What they couldn't do last year, they can definitely do it this year!

Thinking of this, Leader An held his head high and was confident.

…

at the same time.

Busan, inside EDG’s temporary training base.

All EDG members are members of the disaster-stricken group.

However, the local area of ​​Li Luo was the worst hit.

After losing a rank again, even Abu couldn't stand it anymore. He walked to Li Luo and couldn't help but said: "How about... take a rest. If you continue like this, you won't have any training effect."

"It's actually not bad."

Li Luo shook his head slightly: "Put aside winning or losing, if you don't think about it, this training environment is actually quite good."

"ha?"

Abu was sluggish.

At the end of the day, he had seen what the monsters and ghosts on Li Luo's side were like.

These people's acting skills are extremely bad, and they use all kinds of deliberately annoying actions in an endless stream.

But Li Luo was like a wooden man. He didn't get angry when he was robbed of his popularity. He didn't get angry when his support flashed his head maliciously. He always fought with a calm attitude.

Is that human being?

Isn't this a saint?

Li Luo glanced at Abu who was in a daze, took advantage of the queue to move his wrist, then turned to the chair and said: "Coach, you have to think from another angle, for example, the person who grabbed the red, although he grabbed the red, But I lost my own horse, so it will make me feel much better if I think about it this way.”

Abu:o((⊙﹏⊙))o

For the first time, he felt that someone could express the "bad mouth" thing gracefully.

"There is also the wave of four-to-one in the bottom lane. I thought about it carefully. If I encounter the same situation next time, I might be able to survive for two more seconds. I only dodged three of the four directional skills. If our blind monk's kick hadn't messed up my Taoist mind, I could have avoided the fourth one."

"What is this? This is experience. The next time we encounter a similar situation, even if my teammates try to use flash in place to control the other nine people on the field, I will be the one who is exempt from control."

As soon as Li Luo's remarks continued, not only Abu was dumbfounded, but Xiaotian who was listening next to him was also dumbfounded.

Xiao Tiansi thought that his brain circuit was already convoluted enough.

But compared with Li Luo, he looks like a child.

Is this such an unforgettable experience after experiencing so much blood and fire? !

"Fine."

Abu has nothing to say.

Xiaotian opened his mouth next to him: "Brother Luo, I'm a little confused now and I need your guidance."

"Speaking."

Seeing Xiaotian's appearance, Li Luo felt funny in his heart and pretended to be serious.

"As a jungler, I also know the principle of helping the strong but not the weak, but the problem now is that I will encounter teammates who are disadvantaged in three lanes. How should I help?"

Xiaotian asked a very distressing question.

"The question is simple."

Li Luo still had a serious look on his face. He stood up and went to the refrigerator in the training room to get a can of Bingkuoluo and said at the same time: "Help me with the tickets."

Xiao Tian:……

Popular teams never lack training opponents.

The problem of poor ranking environment is gradually improving as all major teams have settled in South Korea.

The same goes for Li Luo.

When there are two or three heavyweight professional players on your side in a game, even if someone gives them away openly, they still have a chance to win the game.

Moreover, the number of five Chinese people queuing aside gradually increased.

Li Luo must be glad that at this time, he has not seen anyone opening the market in the top games of the Korean server. There may be, at least he has not encountered it often.

The competition arrived as scheduled, and so did the play-in rounds.

Many teams among the top 32 will compete in the playoffs to determine whether they can advance to the top 16.

Everyone in EDG only watched the live broadcast of two or three qualifying games and stopped watching. It was enough for Abramovich to keep an eye on the few two or three teams that might enter Group A.

EDG will listen to Abramovich's summary of the major teams' use of the version in the finals at most in the evening.

There is still some great wisdom.

The enhanced Nuo Hand in the World Championship version quickly made his debut in the qualifying rounds.

It's just that this appearance came and went even faster.

When the opponent took out Urgot, another mainstream hero of S8, Nuo Shou was severely beaten during the laning phase.

Urgot's E skill has a very high priority, and the characteristics of his W skill make it too easy to stack up the Conqueror. When a Norseman can't beat another warrior hero in a face-to-face confrontation, then this Norse's Arms will be the best in the field. One can only imagine how it will play out in the competition.

After that game, all the teams have learned a lot. It is impossible to choose a player. It is impossible in this life. This thing is too embarrassing when playing in a group. In front of the live broadcast of the whole world, this thing is very embarrassing. It is easy for people to play with it.

And this hero looked like an idiot when being played with. When he thought that as a dignified professional player, he would be ridiculed by a group of bronze and silver players, almost all the top laners subconsciously said "no" to Nuo Shou.

The play-in schedule is progressing very quickly.

When the final four qualifying spots were finalized, it was a natural thing for the audience that these four teams would qualify.

G2, GEN, C9 and GRX.

When assigning groups, G2 could not be assigned to Group A because there was already a European team VIT in Group A, so GEN came to Group A.

When they learned the news, everyone in GEN had complicated expressions.

Although... they know that their team can only appear in Group A or Group D.

But compared to EDG, they are actually more willing to face the IG team in Group D.

However, they had no say in the matter of drawing lots. Although Emperor Chi was a bit emo, the ambitious leader An and coreJJ were secretly competing with each other.

Even the mid laner Crown Brother sat up slightly and showed his fighting spirit.

Who did he face last year?

It's Rookie!

Rookie's laning pressure is so strong that it will be very difficult for him to resist the pressure.

In the eyes of Crown Brother, the younger brother is like a weakened version of Rookie.

Whether it is laning ability or career gaming experience, the junior is weaker than Rookie. Brother Crown is confident that he can... hold him back!

The top laner Cuvee has less pressure. He has also studied Jin Gong and knows that Jin Gong is a player who is difficult to break through, but he also understands that Jin Gong will not put too much pressure on him.

After all, Jin Gong's line offensiveness is not strong enough, this is a fact.

As for the substitute jungler Haru, he is in a state of confusion.

He had a chance at the World Championship last year and lost.

Leader An's form has declined this year, and he has gradually become the team's starting jungler, and he has started more times than last year.

He was much younger, and the passion in his bones made him want to go and touch Li Luo, who had crushed them to pieces last year.

…

"It's GEN."

In the EDG base, Li Luo was no exception after learning the news.

Now the four groups have been completely finalized.

Group A: EDG, VIT (European No. 2), MAD (Southeast Asian No. 2) GEN (South Korea No. 3)

Group B: KT (No. 1 in South Korea), TL (No. 1 in North America), RNG (No. 2 in LPL), GRX (No. 3 in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong team.)

Group C: FW (Southeast Asia No. 1), AFS (South Korea No. 2), 100 (North America No. 2), G2 (Europe No. 3)

Group D: FNC (European No. 1), IG (LPL No. 3), PVB (Vietnam), C9 (North American No. 3)

Overall, due to the addition of GEN, the situation in Group A suddenly became anxious and smelled of gunpowder.

GRX, the last member of Group B, is a purely unlucky team. They may be the team that has suffered the most misfortune in the group so far.

Although they haven't played yet, the pressure placed on them by the other players in the group is too great, and it's almost overwhelming.

Group C has a lot of suspense with the addition of G2. Although this group does not have a team from the LPL division, in the eyes of the audience, the situation in this group should be quite anxious.

In Group D, the suspense has increased rapidly with the addition of C9.

As the resident water ghost in the S game, it is not certain who C9 will drag into the water. After all, they are the leader with the best record in North America.

The end of the qualifying rounds also means that the group stage is about to begin.

…

October 1st.

It's a good day.

Busan, Convention and Exhibition Center.

This is not the first time for everyone from EDG to come to this venue.

But after coming here for the second time, they still had only two words for their impressions of this venue.

mean.

The venue for the group stage in Busan is not large.

At least it is much smaller than the S7 group stage held in China last year.

But everyone is here to play a game, so they don’t care about this. As long as the Koreans don’t pull out the network cable, everything will be fine.

When everyone in EDG arrived at the backstage lounge and began to prepare for today's game, in the main stadium, the audience also began to enter the venue one after another with support for their favorite teams.

The venue was not big, but it was packed with seats. After about half an hour, the official promotional video of S8 was officially played.

This means that the countdown to the real World Championship has begun.

One team after another, one player after another appeared in front of the screen.

They spoke different languages ​​​​from around the world, telling their dreams in their careers and their expectations for this World Finals.

In the approximately five-minute promotional video, many major players appeared.

The penultimate shot is of everyone at IG returning the World Championship trophy they won last year and placing it in the center of the venue.

Audiences take this scene for granted.

But what surprised many viewers was that the man did not show up.

As the melody of the S8 theme song RISE reached its climax, Li Luo's back slowly appeared on the big screen.

One wonderful shot after another appeared on the screen.

Seeing this ID, many Koreans had complicated expressions in their eyes.

This promotional video was obviously shot by Riot headquarters itself.

If it were a Korean, they wouldn't shoot it like this.

Especially at the end, when Li Luo slowly turned around and looked at the trophy, he said the words at the end of the S8 World Championship promotional video, which left a deep impression on countless people.

"The teammates I played with gave the trophy back, but for me, it was just a temporary deposit."

"I'll get it back in a month!"