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Now that the direction has been determined, the only thing left is to work hard.

But in fact, the determination of the direction was not so smooth. At the critical moment at the end of the season, Sun Chunyu didn't have much say. Du Yucheng personally came to talk to Zuo Zhengyi. Like complaining.

He is worried.Zuo Zhengyi dared to take risks, but the management had to be more cautious.

This prudence prevented Scorpion from immediately agreeing to Zuo Zhengyi's proposal, and only added this style of play to his daily training as one of his plans.

Zuo Zhengyi spoke on the night of the 13th, and the next game will be on the 15th.

In the penultimate game of the EPL, Scorpion played against MX Tengyun.

The game was still a disaster.Not only because of the recent weakness of the Scorpions, but also because by the end of the season, every team is desperately scoring points, and even the teams at the bottom of the ranking will explode in order not to be relegated-every year at this time, there will be many weak teams. Team upset.

What's more, the current Scorpion is no longer called a strong team.

However, although the game was a disaster, they barely won. Scorpion scored two points, which is enough to stabilize the ranking.

But on April 4, when they played against the TT team, they didn't have such good luck. Scorpion was beaten 20:2 again and only got one point.

This match was not only a failure for Scorpion, but also a failure for Zuo Zhengyi.

When playing MX Tengyun, because the practice time was too short, Scorpion did not take out the newly practiced law core lineup.

But when it came to TT, Scorpion finally gave Zuo Zhengyi a chance to fight freely.

The hero Zuo Zhengyi got was a fortuneteller, a very special mage with two fighting stances, one in men's clothes and the other in women's clothes.Skills have different effects under different postures. The former is more output-oriented, while the latter is more control-oriented. It can be switched during battle, but switching consumes energy, which is accumulated by "divination".

"Divination" is the fortune-teller's Q skill - launch a special divination attack on the enemy, and if you hit it, you can tell his fortune for him, add a little energy bar for each calculation, and switch to the combat stance when it is full.

After switching, the energy bar is emptied and starts accumulating again.

This fancy skill mechanism caused headaches for many players.

At first glance, the fortune teller can be used as both a damage output master and a group control mage, and it has displacement, which is perfect.

But this is not the case. This hero often faces an embarrassing situation in actual combat: when he needs to play output, he cannot cut output, and when he needs to play control, he cannot cut control.

If it is not cut, his output strength is not as good as that of a real archmage, and his control effect is not as good as that of a real control mage, which is very tasteless.

And his main weakness is that the Q skill is hard to hit, so the energy bar is too late to be full, and it is almost useless.

Every time the official weakens him, it also cuts the Q skill.

But these can actually be overcome with difficulty. The root cause of Fortune Teller's loss of status is that he eats money and develops slowly. Not only is his output linked to equipment, but even the control time of skills is linked to equipment, which is extremely dependent on the value of ability power.

This forces the fortune-teller to produce spell equipment, and it is difficult to produce defensive equipment, so he is a big crispy skin.

Assassins are best at killing crispy skin. Playing a fortune teller in the assassin version is simply against the sky.

So when Xiezi chose a fortuneteller in the BP, the commentator dropped his jaw in shock, question marks filled the barrage in the live broadcast room, and there was a lot of cursing on the forum and Weibo. Everyone felt that Xiezi was beaten stupid and didn't want to play anymore.

As everyone expected, Scorpion lost the first game.

Zuo Zhengyi's fortune teller has not developed at all. The early weakness caused by the hero's weakness is a problem, and his Q skill's hit rate is not high enough.

In order to support the fortune teller, Ji Jue specially played a jungler who matched him, Gould.

Gould is relatively strong in the early stage, and can play a certain role without eating gold, and has a skill to save his teammates-drawing teammates to his side and sharing half of the damage for them.The disadvantage is that Gould will be quite weak if he does not have an advantage at the beginning. As an assassin, his ability to cut the back row is relatively weak.So at this stage, his playing frequency is very low, and he is considered an unpopular assassin.

The idea of ​​Scorpion is to rely on Gould to gain an advantage in the early stage and create opportunities for fortune-teller to develop ahead of time-playing a mage in the late stage does not necessarily have to be delayed until the late stage.

Taking a step back, even if he cannot develop ahead of time, Gould's ability to pull teammates can increase the fault tolerance rate for the fortune teller's survival, delaying the time as much as possible, allowing him to develop smoothly.

But the plan is simple, but the execution is difficult.

After losing 0:1 in the first game, Scorpion was shaken. The boss and the team manager were both sitting in the audience. Sun Chunyu sat next to them, feeling unprecedented pressure.

The accusations in the audience and on the Internet were also daunting. Sun Chunyu gritted his teeth, bit the bullet, and decided to trust their middle and wild one more time. The second game still chose the fortune teller and Gould.

He has never been so stubborn in his life, his hands were shaking during the BP, but fortunately he won this round, although the victory was not smooth, if Song Xianfeng failed to kill the opponent's mid laner in the last wave of teamfights, they would not have won.

But somehow it won.

1:1 equalizer.

In the third round of BP, Zuo Zhengyi still wanted to play the fortune teller.

Now he is not as sharp-edged as he was when he first came to Scorpion. He does not quarrel with his teammates or lose his temper with the coach. He just calmly said: "It's okay to play this."

Sun Chunyu believed him more than he believed in himself, betting on him like a gamble, and continued to copy the BP of the previous two rounds.

But unfortunately, Scorpion lost.

After losing 1:2 to the TT team, Scorpion's EPL ranking dropped to fifth.

Even the nightmarish fifth was not eligible to compete for tickets to the World Championship.

The Scorpion team fell into a low ebb, and those accusing voices on the Internet finally passed the management and coaches, and most of them fell on Zuo Zhengyi.

I don't know how the news got out, and I don't know how it got distorted. Some people said that everything was Zuo Zhengyi's idea. There was an uproar in the circle.

Ji Jue was very afraid of Zuo Zhengyi's collapse. When replaying the TT game, he kept saying that he did not do well and could improve. It was not Zuo Zhengyi's fault.

But Zuo Zhengyi was calmer and more persistent than he thought.

Zuo Zhengyi said: "It's normal to be uncertain about winning or losing. I'm mentally prepared."

The reason is that it is true to say that there is no one style of play that can guarantee a [-]% winning rate.

But under such high pressure, Zuo Zhengyi can still maintain this mentality, which makes Scorpion's internal management, down to the players and logistics, sigh and admire, and is willing to give him more trust.

Ji Jue felt that he was trying to hold on, but he couldn't let go of his disguise and wanted to stand with him.

Ji Jue served Zuo Zhengyi as a sparring partner, turning himself into a moving stake and letting him practice the fortune-teller's Q skill hit.

They opened a custom room, and Ji Jue moved fancyly in various environments, frequently changed heroes, and even imitated the positioning habits of different players, creating various variables and "making things difficult" for Zuo Zhengyi.

Zuo Zhengyi faced him like this, constantly releasing his Q skills.

Once, twice, three times... hundreds of times.

Boring, depressing, exhausting, but also must concentrate on thinking, to practice muscle memory, but also to practice thinking.

This is helping Zuo Zhengyi improve, and it is also helping Ji Jue improve.They trained together, ate and slept together, and they seemed to be more closely connected than when they lived together as children. They became two trees that leaned on each other, growing in the storm.

So far, there are four games left in the game.

But practicing as a fortuneteller doesn't mean that Zuo Zhengyi can only play as a fortuneteller. This is a back road chosen to prevent being killed by a ban. If he can get a better mage, he will naturally choose a better one.

In the penultimate game, on April 4, Scorpion played against UM.

In this game, the Scorpions won a rare big victory, scoring three points 2:0.In this game, Ji Jue's Gould played an intuitive effect for the first time, starting against the wild 1v2, killing one and maiming the other.Zuo Zhengyi's fortune teller provided timely support and took the second head.

Seeing that their blood volume was not good, they did not want to be outdone, and expanded the scale of the team battle, but Scorpion played a wave of one for four by virtue of its excellent handling of details. The fortune teller took three heads and took off directly.

Such a fantastic advanced development is Zuo Zhengyi's ideal state.

The cooperation between him and Ji Jue also reached an unprecedented level of tacit understanding, and the two of them became more and more handy as they fought.But this victory did not win public opinion support for Scorpion. The spectators felt that they were risking their lives. Part of the reason for their victory was a good start.

But no matter right or wrong, Zuo Zhengyi has no time to care about whatever others say.

He is so tired that he can fall asleep as soon as he touches the pillow every day. He hangs his breath because of the tickets to the World Championships, and refuses to relax.

Zuo Zhengyi lacked exercise before, and his physical fitness was average.In this regard, Ji Jue is much better than him. He said that when he was in a bad mood a few years ago, he relied on exercise to adjust his mood. He also practiced boxing for a while and even ran a marathon.

After hearing this, Zuo Zhengyi blurted out, "No wonder you fight so hard."

Ji Jue choked for a moment: "I thought your first reaction would be to praise me 'No wonder I'm so good on the bed', why can't brother grasp the point?"

"Well, it's also good on the bed." Zuo Zhengyi said speechlessly.

But no matter whether Ji Jue is strong in bed or not, he has no chance to show his strength now.

They went to bed late and got up early, watched video replays while eating, and often practiced until they unconsciously fell asleep on the computer desk when they lowered their heads.

Zuo Zhengyi fell asleep like this a few times, and then was picked up by Ji Jue, and when he was about to send him back to his room to sleep, he opened his eyes, woke up again, and said that he would practice for a while.

The last three games were played in such tension and fatigue.

The top CQ has a stable winning streak and announced the championship in advance with a high score difference.

The Scorpion team knew it well when they lost points in the first few times, and they missed the league championship.

Since he accepted this result early, Zuo Zhengyi didn't feel pain, but regret is unavoidable-for another year, he couldn't touch the EPL championship trophy.

Because of the regrets in his heart, he had more expectations for the World Championships.

It can even be said that he pinned all his hopes on the World Championships and couldn't wait to conquer that bigger battlefield.

But even with such a desperate effort, the Scorpion only got the fourth place of the year in the end.

No.2 is SP, directly entering the World Championship.

Scorpion is going to compete for tickets with No.3 Lion, earning himself the qualification to play abroad.

In the recent period, Zuo Zhengyi's fortune-teller has won and lost, and the overall trend is becoming stronger, and the cooperation with Ji Jue is also tending to be stable, and there are almost no misoperations.

But the opponents in the last few games were not considered first-class teams, and they were no match for Lion.

Although Lion is ranked third, it is actually only one point away from the No.2 SP.They are more dangerous to scorpions than SP.

Because Lion's double-assassin lineup has become more and more perfect, and its performance is even better than CQ. If they lose, they lose too many points in the early stage, and even if they win consecutively in the later stage, they will not be able to catch up with the ranking.

It is said on the Internet that since Lion bought Record back from the Australian competition area, he has worked hard for more than half a year, and now he has finally developed his "ultimate form".

scorpion?It's really a third-rate team, don't embarrass China.

Some people also found out the jokes about Record and Zuo Zhengyi "Ji Shengyu, He Shengliang", but changed their identities, saying that the person who should be bitter now is Zuo Zhengyi.

Although Scorpion was scolded, Zuo Zhengyi had many fans.They had a big fight with Lion fans, and the pre-match public opinion was unprecedentedly enthusiastic. The e-sports circle was full of storms, and there were lucky draws and long Weibo scolding everywhere. The people who were not fans of the two parties held melon seeds , wait and watch the fun.

But the excitement is the excitement. Most people are indeed optimistic about Lion's victory and also hope that Lion will win.

In this unpopular sound, Zuo Zhengyi and Ji Jue, as always, practiced their Q boringly in the custom room from morning training to early morning.

Positioning, anticipation, reaction speed—whatever a world-shattering swordsmanship, one must start from the basic moves.

On the last night before the start of the competition, after work was finally over, Zuo Zhengyi couldn't calm down, so he took apart the keyboard and washed it.

Washing the keyboard is his old habit, this time he pulled Ji Jue and the two of them washed it together.

Ji Jue asked: "What is this for?"

Zuo Zhengyi said with a sense of ceremony: "Wash the sword."