Double kill

The results of the draw for the knockout round of the Champions Cup were announced five days after the group rankings were all determined. The official Weibo of the EOH Professional League released a schedule. , the time is March 3.

Before the start of this game, the latest data of the EPL standings: SP ranked first with 59 points, and WSND temporarily ranked second with 57 points. Showdown between teams.

It is described in the circle as the Champions Cup final staged ahead of time, but unfortunately, the winner may not be able to make it to the end, but the loser will definitely be out, so they stop at the quarterfinals and lose the first championship of this year's three major competitions.

SP is under a lot of pressure, and WSND is also under a lot of pressure. They have just been beaten twice by Scorpion. The fans are wailing, and all kinds of rhythms are brought up. Judging from the reactions on Weibo and e-sports forums, they lost two games That's all, those who don't know think that WSND has completely collapsed this season.

In contrast, SP's public opinion treatment is much better, after all, the winning streak is not broken.

But SP is only superficially peaceful. In fact, Cheng Sunian's state is ups and downs. It is not easy to win every game. Everyone is tense in their hearts. They don't know when the turbulent wind and rain will come. Can SP persist until the end and win the cup as they wish?

On the day of the game, the whole team arrived at the competition venue early and entered the backstage lounge.

Cheng Sunian sat quietly on the sofa and didn't tell his teammates anything.The words that need to be warned have already been said at the base. After most of the season, SP has abused food and fought tough battles. In fact, in the competitive arena, the psychological quality depends entirely on oneself, and others cannot comfort it.

Similarly, Feng Can did not comfort him.They sat together, Feng Can squeezed his hand and pinched his fingers back and forth, probably thinking that a few massages like this would make his operation feel better.

Cheng Sunian let Feng Can pinch, and smiled at Feng Can from time to time, feeling relaxed.

Finally, after a series of backstage preparations were completed, it was time for the players to go on stage.

Today’s commentary is two male commentators, they are very good at talking. As soon as the live broadcast camera captured the contestants’ seat, they started to play melodramatically and rhythmically. body.

I don’t know what Jin Zhixiu himself thinks. Netizens don’t care about my thoughts at all. Now he seems to be the most stalking "commercial" player in the entire EPL this season. He is affectionate, sympathetic, and malicious. All kinds of nicknames and jokes about him emerge in endlessly.

Before the game, Li Xiuming used this to tease Feng Can, saying that our Kaihuang is no longer the number one traffic in the e-sports circle. Congratulations to Brother Jin for being on the throne.

Feng Can didn't take it seriously, it's not a good thing to be the one who likes this kind of traffic.

The first round begins and enters the ban&pick link.

WSND is on the blue side, and SP is on the red side.

Perhaps due to the sufficient preparations made in advance, WSND did not hesitate to ban heroes, and banned three in seconds: priest, maid, and elephant, two assistants and one top laner, paying enough respect to Cheng Sunian.

——Nowadays, many teams don’t ban priests at all. Only when they meet Cheng Su Nian, priests will secure a ban position. Maids can also be banned or not according to the situation, and can make way for other heroes.

According to this ban method, there are more powerful mages released, such as Garan, Sinnoh Maharaja, Ghost Poet, and T0-level jungler Anos.

SP also gave Zuo Zhengyi a lot of face, banning Garan with one hand, and in the choice between Sinnoh Maharaja and Ghost Poet, SP chose the latter.

Because this version is not suitable for Maharaja as a support, Cheng Sunian can't play it, and Gao Xinsi is not good at this hero, so it is better to get him a ghost poet, which is stronger and easier to produce effects.

So SP second-hand banned the Sinnoh Maharaja and released Anos.

The knockout round was still a BO3, and the lineups of both sides were determined very quickly in the first game. Surprisingly, WSND actually chose Red-crowned Crane in the middle lane. This is a functional mage who is more supportive.

And the AD hero for Jin Zhixiu is the Red Flame King, with an auxiliary White Shark who has average protection ability but strong offensiveness. The overall lineup is fragile, but fierce, with long legs and high mobility.

"WSND is very bold to choose this kind of lineup in the knockout stage." The commentator said, "I'm more surprised that Zuo Shen actually plays a functional mage. He hasn't played it before, right?"

"Yes, he has always been the output core of the father's team. Lu Jiasuo rarely takes it, let alone the red-crowned crane who can't do much damage."

"So this puts output pressure on the bottom lane?"

"It seems that Brother Jin is really under a lot of pressure. Although the Scarlet Flame King has a strong ability to protect himself as long as he shows off compared to other ADs, he doesn't need protection. He has a shark to support him..."

This is not the usual style of WSND, nor did SP expect it.

SP's bot lane combination is Margaret + Deer Girl, which is a fairly standard combination. This version doesn't have a particularly strong ADC, so we can't choose one with an absolute advantage, so we have to choose the most suitable one.

The countdown to the game began. The two sides came out from the high ground, divided into three groups, and walked towards the defense tower.

Cheng Sunian often plays Mary recently. For a professional player, if he is not good at a certain hero, it doesn't mean that he really can't play it. In fact, if this hero gets a passerby game, he can still carry it.

But to play professional games, the requirements for "goodness" are higher, you must be very, very proficient, and have more talent to play this hero than most players, so you can be called good at it, and the more heroes you are good at-this is the so-called "hero pool "Shen, he has more advantages in the BP link and has a greater chance of winning.

Cheng Sunian is a player with a deep hero pool. There are dozens of support heroes. Without him, he would not know how to play. He has also played support with mages, assassins, and fighters, and they have all played very well.

Someone once joked that if you give the little river turtle to Nian God, Nian God can also play the demeanor of the first support in the overseas server.

Looking at the entire professional league, no one can match this ability. He is a veritable "sea of ​​heroes".

But his current situation has a certain sense of the end of the hero. This time he chose Margaret, and the coach asked nervously: "Is Mary okay?"

Cheng Sunian said "yes".

When he was on the field, he habitually restrained his personal emotions, kept his mental state calm, and did not express any extra emotions.

When Feng Can retreated to the line, he helped to lay the knife, and at the same time, he paid attention to the map view, recorded buff time, memorized skills, and commanded his teammates——

These are things he has practiced every day, for many years since his first day playing professionally, as naturally as eating and sleeping.Even if the state declines, the basic ability is still there.

The early stage was pretty smooth, WSND played fiercely from the beginning, Feng Can was only level 3, and the opposite jungler, Anos, began to come to the bottom lane to gank, cooperate with Red Flame King and White Shark, very fierce, but they appeared in a wave With a mistake in coordination, Jin Zhixiu jumped back and gave Feng Can a blood.

This was a low-level mistake among mistakes, which directly ruined WSND's early advantage. From here, Feng Can started to beat Jin Zhixiu.

But SP was not happy for too long, and WSND began to counterattack before the economic advantage was lifted.

The red-crowned crane is an auxiliary mage, and its damage is not high, but his ultimate move is called "spread wings". After casting the spell, it turns into the form of a crane, flies into the air, and applies silence debuff to the enemy heroes within the specified range when it lands. , It can be called a weapon for team fighting.

The chance for WSND to reverse the situation lies in a wave of small team battles.

When Gao Xinsi and Li Xiuming were dragged down by the opponent's top laner on the top lane, they forcibly formed a team in SP's lower jungle area. The four players except the top laner chased the three of SP to fight.

At this time, the SP economy is slightly ahead, but it is easy to lose if it is three-on-four.

In fact, there is no choice at all, and safe retreat also requires conditions.

Just as Cheng Sunian reminded them to spread out their positions - in order to prevent the red-crowned crane from jumping down with a big move and silent three times, it would be cold - the other party blocked their way of retreating.

Feng Can's reaction was extremely fast, and he was also very good at playing Deer Girl. The antler dart was fast and ruthless, cutting off half of the white shark's blood bar in front of him.

But the opponent's offensive is very fierce. In the current version, Anos cuts the back row just like cutting vegetables. He cuts a child with one knife.

Cheng Sunian's Mary put a shield on him, and placed a taboo technique with an interception effect between him and Anos, blocking the offensive of Anos and White Shark, and they turned to attack Zhao Zhou.

Feng Can took the opportunity to hide away, but Jin Zhixiu and Zuo Zhengyi came around from the other direction. Cheng Sunian was going to give Jin Zhixiu the second taboo spell, but before he could cast the spell, the red-crowned crane flew towards his face come down—

Cheng Sunian saw it, and dodged a certain distance ahead of time, but Zuo Zhengyi seemed to have anticipated his reaction, abruptly dodged in mid-air, moved the flight path a little, and overlapped his landing point with his position after the flash— — Hit!

The loud sound of the red-crowned crane's wings flapping to the ground came from the sound system at the scene. With the exclamation of the audience, the commentator almost slapped the table: "What kind of operation is this!"

"A master's trick!"

"This must be selected as this week's, no, this month's top 10 famous scenes."

"I think it's possible for TOP10 this season, right?"

The two commentators became excited, but there was no room for SP to recover from the situation on the field. Cheng Sunian was silenced by the red-crowned crane, Feng Can, who was left in blood, lost his protection, and fell to the ground at the speed of light. Cheng Sunian was set on fire, and Zhao Zhou had no escape. Taking the white shark away before dying, SP played a wave of three for one.

The most disturbing thing is that Gao Xinsi and Li Xiuming, who were on the road, caught one of them, and even let the WSND's top single blood run away.

SP lost blood, the economy was overtaken in an instant, and the next round was not smooth, and it was never able to get back the situation, losing 0:1.

This is the Champions League knockout round.

There is only one chance to advance, and losing a game is equivalent to hanging one leg off the cliff.

But in this case, you shouldn't even think about the consequences of losing. The more you think about it, the more pressure you will have.

During the ban&pick in the second round, Feng Can quietly turned his head to look at Cheng Sunian.Cheng Sunian had no expression on his face, but his complexion was a little paler than usual, and he looked uncomfortable.

Feng Can's heart tightened, and he immediately turned his eyes back to the computer screen, forcing himself not to think about anything, to finish the game in the best condition, and to try his best before talking.

In the second game, change to SP and ban the hero first on the blue side.

Judging from the performance of the last game, it is obvious that even if Zuo Zhengyi uses an auxiliary mage, he is the real core of WSND and the key to victory.

In contrast, Jin Zhixiu did not play well, which may be partly due to the influence of his own mentality, and the game state is not very good.

SP deliberated in the BP link, and first banned Garan, Ghost Poet, and Sinnoh Maharaja.

It was the same routine as when they played KI years ago, but WSND didn't hesitate at all. If they didn't play priests, they would never release priests to Cheng Sunian. The two bans were priests and maids, and they chose elephants.

SP gets Anos and Lukasso.

WSND hesitated for a few seconds, and still chose the mid laner Red-crowned Crane, but the ADC in the bottom lane was changed to Deer Girl.

SP's bottom lane chose Red Flame King and Margaret.

Feng Can got his natal hero, and as soon as he got started, he had three points of confidence.

But unfortunately, SP was one city behind. Maybe this round was too eager to win, and he was eager to gain an advantage. Instead, he followed the path of the previous round of WSND-wrong start and gave the opponent a blood.

Every mistake in the match point game is fatal.

Cheng Su Nian's voice sank, Feng Can could hear that he was trying his best to control himself and keep his tone calm, but Feng Can was too familiar with his normal tone of voice, every subtle ups and downs that others could not detect, Feng Can could understand catch.

It is difficult to fight against the wind.

SP fought hard and reached No. 30 minutes, and the economic gap narrowed a little bit.

With their lineup, Lukasso's strong control to start the team and Margaret's taboo technique to cut the battlefield, as long as they catch a wave of opportunities and win the team battle, it is not impossible to come back.

But WSND is always cautious and doesn't give SP a chance.The stalemate between the two sides lasted to No. 40 minutes. Most of the SP three-way defense tower was pulled out, and the high ground on the road was broken.

The outer towers of the upper and lower lanes of WSND fell, and the second tower of the middle lane was bulldozed.

At this time, the gap between the equipment of the two sides was already small.

When the big dragon was spawned, WSND chose to fight the dragon, and SP waited for the opportunity to keep up. Just near the dragon pit, Lukasso opened WSND's auxiliary white shark first.

Playing Lukasso, Gao Xinxin is a professional.His chain precisely controlled the white shark, Zhao Zhou followed, took the opportunity to go around behind the white shark, and cut the ADC Deer Girl.

Cheng Su Nian threw a taboo technique to separate Deer Girl, White Shark and the rest of WSND, creating space for Feng Can to enter the field, but WSND reacted very quickly, using offense as defense, and the jungler circled behind, flashing a face Qie Fengcan——

"Chan Shen didn't dodge! But the shield is on, and Mary is shielding him!"

"The white shark is down! The deer girl is half-blooded! Lukasuo is also down! Anos was scratched twice by the dart, and his blood was left in an instant! But he cut it down with a desperate knife, and the deer girl is more crippled than him!"

"The deer girl can run, but the deer girl is still running, this move, Brother Jin is still 6!"

At this moment, Li Xiuming and Zhao Zhou blocked back and forth, captured the bloody Deer Girl, and then encountered the enemy Shangdan Elephant who was supporting the Deer Girl, and Zhao Zhou also fell.

Li Xiuming gave up on soloing with the elephant, and turned to help Cheng Sunian and Feng Can.

"3V3." As soon as the commentator spoke, his voice suddenly rose, "——The elephant opened up and pushed the three of SP together!"

"It's cool to fly SP with red-crowned cranes in this position!"

"—fly, fly, fly!"

"Mary still has skills, her taboo technique has two stages—"

Throwing the second taboo technique can create an air wall out of thin air, blocking all enemy heroes, and the red-crowned crane cannot land.

If this wave lasts, WSND will have no skills, and SP's ADC is still alive, winning the team battle is easy, and he can also collect a big dragon and push it from the middle, maybe there will be a wave.

But this moment is the closest moment for SP to come back against the wind.

While the elephant was pushing people away, the red-crowned crane took off.

Cheng Sunian didn't know if the other party's cooperation was too extreme, or his own reaction was slow for half a second and he couldn't keep up.

That moment was infinitely elongated, his eyes turned white, and it was the first time that he felt the brightness of the computer monitor was so dazzling, and when he typed the keyboard, it was already too late.

A red prompt of "Silent status, unable to release skills" pops up on the screen.

Then, the eyes dimmed and the screen turned gray.

——The SP group is destroyed.

"WSND leads the troops from the top road, and goes to the high ground!"

"There are still ten seconds before the resurrection of the person with the fastest SP, it's too late, it's too late!"

"The last time SP personally ended the WSND's [-]-game winning streak and kicked them off the throne, but today, the daddy team picked up wherever they fell, and they even scored [-]-[-] with SP! Stepping on the bones of SP to advance Final Four!"

"—Congratulations WSND!"

"..."

Cheng Su Nian couldn't hear the cries of his own fans amidst the cheers and noise at the scene.

He leaned back, his straight shoulder blades loosened as if they had let go of their strength, and then propped them up again.He was the first to stand up under the gaze of his teammates, and said calmly: "It's okay, let's go back to the base."