Fierce shooter

The semi-finals of the LPL Summer Split, located in the Magic City venue, the Thorn Birds and FPX kicked off.

Fans gathered at the scene. Of course, compared to the relatively unfamiliar FPX, the Thorn Birds team with its star power and strong strength is undoubtedly more popular. At least two-thirds of the fans at the scene came to support the Thorn Birds team. Cheer up the birds.

Paired with the bright flags and support sticks that are unique to the Thorn Birds team, it feels a bit like football fans at home in Brazil.

It was in this atmosphere that the game kicked off.

In the FPX backstage lounge, coach Zhanma and the players on the team looked solemn and ready.

They failed to get second place in the regular season and were placed in the same half zone as the Thorn Birds. This is a point that the FPX team has been regretting recently.

If they are allowed to face the EDG team in the other half of the zone, I am not bragging. FPX is really confident that they can defeat EDG through a fierce battle.

But the thorn bird...

War Horse took a look at his own adc.

Hope was once the substitute AD of the EDG team.

And there was a time when Hope even played in the starting lineup, when Li Luo was participating in the Asian Games.

First of all, Zhan Ma feels that Hope is a player with very good prospects. His daring style and good mentality and professional attitude trained by the EDG team are enough to allow Hope to continue to improve step by step.

Secondly, War Horse does feel that Hope needs to go through some high-pressure training and improve his own game understanding by frequently facing stronger ADCs.

But the problem is that the high pressure a person can endure is not endless.

They had just played against RNG before. Facing the excellent Uzi, Hope was beaten out of line in three of the five games.

Although FPX won in the end, War Horse could see that for the highly competitive Hope, this victory brought a lot of psychological pressure to him. Even War Horse responded to the club immediately , and asked the club to find a psychological counselor to provide guidance to Hope, but only Hope himself knows how his mentality has been adjusted.

In addition, the most difficult thing for War Horse is that the hero pool chosen by Hope in the summer split is highly overlapping with Li Luo.

Relying on FPX's overall tactical system, Hope mostly plays late-stage cores.

But in this version, there is only one Kai'Sa that can be called a late-stage core, and Xayah can only be counted as two-thirds.

These two heroes, but they must go to the Thorn Birds to take action.

In other words, the best result is to ban each one and grab one. However, the embarrassing thing is that if Li Luo is not allowed to take such a late-stage core, Hope will be at risk of being threaded in the early stage. Let alone Li Luo to take the late-stage core. During the laning phase, the team developed smoothly but could not beat them. In the later stages, there was also a huge gap in the handling of team battles between the two adcs.

Therefore, War Horse clearly knows that the key to today's BP lies in the upper, middle and jungle areas.

Whether sofm and doinb can gain an advantage when facing off against Xiye and mlxg is the key to whether they can win the game today.

There are a lot of demons in the bubbling match. If possible, no one in the FPX team would be willing to enter the bubbling match.

Although FPX ranked in the top four in the spring split and had good points, the ranking points in the summer split were much higher than in the spring split.

Even if EDG's ranking in the spring split is not ideal, it is still in the top six. The point difference between the two can't erase the huge advantage in ranking points in the summer split.

Once EDG enters the finals, their points will be second all year.

But... how easy is it to break through the Thorn Birds from the top, middle and jungle?

The war horse smiled bitterly.

"The bottom lane is the absolute core", this seems to be the main impression the public has on the Thorn Birds team.

But this core is not that core.

The word "core" has two concepts. One is that like RNG, Uzi is regarded as the absolute core of tactics. Both the lineup and the tactical support in the game are mainly centered around Uzi.

The other is like the EDG team. No one will say that the core of EDG is Ming Kai, but no one will say that Kai is not the core of EDG.

It sounds contradictory. To put it in layman's terms, EDG has no internal flavor without Mingkai. Even though everyone knows that Mingkai's condition continues to decline with age, but Mingkai's words are not seen in the game. It's almost meaningless.

Li Luo seemed to have both.

He can be the core of the Thorn Birds' tactics, bringing out carry-type heroes so that the whole team can surround him, thereby dominating the game in the later stages and carrying the whole team.

But Li Luo can also let other people in the team be the core. He is willing to be a green leaf, but he can perform at the same carry level by virtue of his identity as a green leaf.

Isn't this horse a hexagonal warrior? !

Just thinking about this war horse gives me a headache.

Facing the Thorn Birds, they could only play in the middle field.

But since the return of the Intercontinental Tournament until now, the Thorn Birds have only played in the middle and jungle!

Li Luo has already flourished in the bottom lane. Heroes like Lucian, Kalista, and Varus, who are not considered to be core players in the late game, but are easier to gain an advantage in the laning phase, have all been used by Li Luo, and the results have been very good. explode.

Li Luo, a hero like Ezreal who hangs out in the bottom lane, can also get it.

In comparison, Hope's hero pool looks a bit pitiful.

Facts have proved that no matter how depressed the mood is, there is no way to solve the current problem.

The war is approaching, and the only thing FPX can do is to face the difficulties.

…

With the placement of Commentator Doll, Miller, and Umbrella King, the semi-finals of the LPL Summer Split have also begun.

In the first game, FPX was somewhat tentative.

In a sense, they got off to a good start by getting the right to choose the side first.

The BP advantage of the blue side is obvious both in the current 9.15 version and in the subsequent World Championship version.

In the commentary box.

As a former professional player, Umbrella King nodded slightly when he saw the first three BPs from both sides coming out one after another and said: "From the perspective of the first three ban positions alone, the FPX team actually has a certain advantage."

"The Thorn Birds in front of the red side gave the FPX team two heroes who performed well in the BO5 against RNG, a Titan and a Panson. I believe we don't need to go into details about Panson, although we Pantheon has not been reworked in the LPL playoff version, but this hero has long been a unique skill of FPX."

After the Umbrella King finished speaking, Miller nodded slightly: "Yes, and the BP idea of ​​the FPX team is also very clear. Press down both Cat and Karma, give Kai'Sa the third hand, and then grab another Xia... Oh? The Thorn Birds team banned Xia themselves!"

On the battle table, War Horse's face darkened.

Although he had anticipated this situation a long time ago, considering Li Luo's strength, Zhan Ma felt lucky.

It’s not like the Thorn Birds can’t handle heroes like Xia, they are the type that can be banned or not.

As a result, the Thorn Birds were really banned. Is this a plan to dismiss them 3-0?

Without Xia, FPX can only retreat and consider other adcs.

Youdao is to take Ezreal when faced with difficulties.

The fpx on the first floor locked Ezreal directly.

Once Ezreal comes out, it means that the rest of FPX's positions must also be adjusted.

957 is not very capable of using late-stage core heroes.

Therefore, when the Thorn Birds selected Kenan first on the first and second floors, FPX's BP situation became increasingly difficult.

"The Thorn Birds are a bit bad. The configuration of FPX does not support 957 playing a captain. He... finally chose a vampire, but to be honest, vampires have no advantage in fighting Kennen, and the development cycle of vampires is very long. Cooperation The jungle skills are also very poor.”

The Umbrella King shook his head repeatedly.

He could see that the FPX team had been completely controlled by the Thorn Birds from the BP side.

The Thorn Birds perfectly understood the weaknesses of the FPX team's system, and FPX's BP advantage on the blue side disappeared.

Kenan decided to lock down the Bullhead on the second floor and add Kalista on the third floor.

When these three heroes appeared, FPX lost all lane rights in the top and bottom lanes.

doinb had to settle on Ryze from another hero on the second and third floors to supplement his roaming support ability and his late carry ability.

If doinb's relatively benign stress index in the team is 5, then the pressure index that doinb has endured has reached 8.

He needs to develop this skill well, as he can't bind spirits in the early stage.

However, the heroes that the Thorn Birds team supplemented for the mid lane position made doinb a little cracked.

Lissandra.

Lissandra is not an advantage when fighting Ryze. Lissandra is the kind of player who plays one set. She has great control ability but not enough damage.

Ryze is more balanced, balancing bursts and sustained output.

But the problem is that the jungler of the Thorn Birds has locked up a prince, which is very painful for doinb.

Even if he comes up with mercury shoes, if the prince and Lissandra make up their mind to come and get him, they will do it right away.

In addition, the Thorn Birds also eliminated Braum and Morgana in the second round of BP, which put an end to FPX's idea of ​​choosing a protective auxiliary to stay in the bottom lane.

In the end, when the war horse had no choice but to choose the blind monk for sofm in order to speed up, and at the same time added a hand of Thresh to the bottom lane support, FPX's somewhat deformed lineup also emerged.

This FPX hopes that sofm will cooperate with Thresh to open up the situation in the bottom lane.

But the final result was not satisfactory. FPX's last two tactical intentions were so obvious that the Thorn Birds had been prepared for it long ago.

You can catch whatever you want.

Anyway, I have Hex Flash on the Bullhead, and the time your SofM can only target the bottom lane is before Kalista reaches level 6.

Once Kalista reaches level 6, it will be too difficult to attack the bottom lane.

Liu Qingsong sold himself twice in the bottom lane.

But one time, Li Luo cooperated with Liu Qingsong to kill one.

Generally speaking, spending the early stage with a loss of one kill is a completely acceptable situation for the Thorn Birds bottom duo. You must know that the Lee Sin came five times.

But three of them were seen by the field of vision.

While the Thorn Birds bottom lane was being wildly targeted by the jungler, doinb was also being wildly targeted.

8 minutes, doinb's Ryze 0/3.

When he was killed again, doinb was a little helpless.

He even wanted to leave work directly.

Are you playing with snake skin?

doinb could even predict that when he went back to live broadcast after today's game, he would be caught by barrages and sprayed crazily.

But does he really have any good ideas?

not at all.

The tactical decision of this game is that doinb must push the line.

Pushing the line will give you an opportunity.

Of course, it might not be so easy to die if you don't push the line and hang on, but there is no point in choosing Ryze as a hero.

In this game, the Thorn Birds played 28 minutes.

In the end, the two sides ended up with a terrifying financial difference of 12,000 yuan.

In the second round, Thorn Bird, who came to the blue side, directly asked FPX to do the questions asked by FPX.

Kai’Sa, Xayah, and Thorn Bird ban one, do you, FPX, want to ban the other?

"It's a mess, it's a complete mess."

Ten minutes into the second game, Hope's W skill was interrupted by Liu Qingsong's Thresh when he got the small cannon. Li Luo controlled Ezreal to press forward and kill his head with a Q skill.

In this fpx, doinb chose Galio.

Together with the jungle prince, FPX's original intention is to put pressure on the bottom lane through a forced four-pack and two, and then use the tower-pushing advantage of the hero's E skill, the small cannon, to quickly accumulate tap money for the small cannon.

It's a bit like the speed push stream of the past, except that this version is really not suitable for a female police officer.

But can your small cannon be killed in line?

Or was he killed by Ezreal?

"Liu Qingsong's ability to seize opportunities is really good."

Miller also sighed in his heart.

"Brother Luo's positioning is also exaggerated. You can see that when his E went up, he twisted around and avoided the female tank's E flash. This is a kind of prediction. The female tank's E space can only restrict Thresh. There is no way to limit Ezreal."

The doll also shook his head.

Take care of it, take care of it all.

FPX showed the flexibility of its lineup system when playing against RNG.

But this variability has disappeared when facing the thorn bird.

It feels like FPX's lineup system is one-off.

Even with Wawa's explanation, he still felt a little confused.

However, professional players see it clearly.

Inside the EDG base.

"It's hard to get this number one seed this year."

Abu shook his head repeatedly in his mind.

The construction of tactics depends on the players' own hero pool.

Abu is aware of the weakness of the Thorn Birds team, which is that Xiye has a problem with the hero pool during the version change.

But except for Xiye, everyone else in Thorn Bird is a sea of ​​heroes.

This is very troublesome.

In the second game, FPX lasted 26 minutes.

As the saying goes, one can make great progress, then it will fade, and three times it will be exhausted.

FPX, which had realized that their tactics were completely restrained, did a complete mess in the third game.

Although Coach Zhanma's professional ability is online, he is definitely not particularly outstanding among domestic coaches.

As the backbone of a team, everything is in chaos now, let alone the rest of the team?

FPX's third game was quite tenacious and lasted a full 29 minutes before it ended.

But the economic gap between the two sides in this game was even greater than in the first game, expanding to 15,000 yuan!

"It's too stable, the Thorn Birds is too stable, they didn't give FPX a chance at all, 3-0! Let us congratulate the Thorn Birds team for successfully advancing to the summer finals, and also congratulate the Thorn Birds team for becoming the first team to enter this year's global finals team!"

With Wawa’s congratulations, the semi-finals of the LPL Summer Split came to an end.

3 to 0.

Just like the spring playoffs.

The Thorn Birds, who have been waiting for work since the playoffs, are still in great shape!