You said you would teach top lane, but are you going to get materials for the world competition?

At two o'clock in the afternoon on August 22, the first playoff game of the LPL Summer Split begins.

IG versus OMG.

The winner of this game will face WE the next day.

It was still far away from the start time of the training match scheduled by Dgc, and Zhou Dian was going to watch the game for a while.

Zhou Dian mainly came to see TheShy's performance.

Because in today's BO5, IG started TheShy in the top lane position.

Before the game, Zhou Dian could think that IG would have no problem winning this BO5.

After all, IG was in extremely strong form after entering the second round of the same group confrontation.

In the last five regular season games, IG had a record of four wins and one loss.

The four games won were all 2-0.

The only game they lost was a 1-2 loss to EDG, the first team in Group A.

If it weren't for the huge gap in record between IG and WE in the early stage.

They almost overtook WE and reached second place in Group A in the final stage of the regular season.

Regarding today's first playoff BO5 game, Zhou Dian is indeed optimistic that IG can win today.

I didn't expect IG to win so easily. They actually defeated OMG in straight sets, 3-0.

Moreover, the three rounds were all draw rounds, and each round was shorter than the last.

OMG, no game can last for thirty minutes.

But TheShy's performance in these three games was very average, and I felt that his state was very strange.

It may still be somewhat restricted by the fact that this tank top laner is the mainstream version.

In these three games, TheShy's performance was somewhat isolated from his teammates.

Facing OMG top laner Xiyang, they didn't even have an advantage.

Especially in the third game, IG flattened OMG's base crystal in just 22 minutes.

But in this crushing game, TheShy's top laner Prince's record was actually 0-5.

The performance is indeed unsatisfactory!

IG can easily defeat OMG, mainly because of the middle and lower lanes to kill the enemy.

In particular, IG's ADC West continued the state of failure last week.

Three small cannons, three in a row, won the MVP in the first and third games.

It can be seen that Xihuang was very high today. The little cannon in the first round had already jumped into the spring and killed people.

IG fans were very excited to watch this game, and Xihuang’s performance also made IG fans say:

"I don't know who Jack Dirty Dancing is, I just want Xihuang!"

After watching the IG game, Zhou Dian thought that if TheShy is still in this state tomorrow, there seems to be no chance of playing against WE.

Even though WE's recent state is very poor.

Xihuang will not be able to perform like today if it encounters WE's bottom lane.

Then WE will target Rookie in the middle, and the game will be easy to play.

Speaking of the mid lane, throughout the second half of the summer regular season, the aircraft mid laner suddenly emerged, and then became more and more powerful.

Anyway, the hero Airplane is already the focus of competition in the middle of the game.

The Korean LCK playoffs have reached the finals, judging from the LCK games and the LPL's own recent games.

The carry ability of the aircraft in the later stage is too strong, and the damage is really exaggerated.

If you release planes to your opponent, you must be prepared to end the game in the mid-term.

LGD head coach Dgc actually already has some ideas on how to masturbate.

He plans to try it out in a training session.

The BO5 match between IG and OMG ended before 4pm.

Therefore, another game in the first round of the playoffs, the BO5 between NB and Snake, started at 4 o'clock in advance.

At this time, there is still a long time before the training match time agreed by Dgc.

However, Zhou Dian has no interest in watching the next BO5.

Although NB is not very strong, the Snakes are even worse this year.

The Snakes made it to the playoffs thanks to their peers in Group A.

So this BO5, like the previous IG game, also has no suspense.

So, Zhou Dian started a Korean server ranking game.

After lining up, he directly selected the Sword Lady who had just been strengthened a little bit, and prepared to cut.

And today's second LPL playoff game did not exceed Zhou Dian's expectations.

NB, like IG, defeated its opponent with a score of three to zero.

Although each game lasted more than thirty minutes, it didn't seem to have as explosive a show effect as IG.

But the rhythm of the game has always been firmly in NB's hands, and the Snakes had few chances throughout the game.

The first day of the playoffs ended like this.

Three games to zero in two consecutive games.

After the two BO5 games in the first round of the LPL summer playoffs, it was still dark outside.

The audience who went to watch the game also felt that the game was really not enjoyable to watch.

The strength gap between the bottom three of the two groups AB in the regular season and the top three is indeed too big.

The two teams ranked fourth, and both teams were defeated by the third team three to zero.

The time comes to August 23, which is the second day of the LPL summer playoffs.

The second round of the playoffs begins.

Due to the tight schedule, there are also two consecutive playoff games today.

First there is the BO5 between WE and IG, and then there is the BO5 between RNG and NB.

In the first game, although IG's regular season ranking is lower than WE.

However, there are actually more viewers who are optimistic about IG.

After all, IG's regular season record is only one win less than WE.

In terms of recent status, IG is obviously stronger than WE.

Of course, these things are uncertain.

Maybe in the short five days from the end of the regular season to the second round of the playoffs, WE has adjusted its poor status for nearly a month!

Facts have proved that WE has really improved its previous poor status in just a few days.

Although it has not been adjusted to the best, it is obviously much stronger than before.

However, in the end, IG still narrowly defeated WE with a score of 3-2 and advanced to the semi-finals of the playoffs.

In this BO5, TheShy, who played quite average and even a little bad yesterday, was at full power today.

WE's top laner 957 is not his opponent at all.

TheShy had highlights in almost every game in this BO5, which can be regarded as the performance that his title of genius top laner should have.

In fact, IG was able to have a strong performance in the final stage of the regular season.

A big part of the reason is that the IG coaching staff finally determined a stable starting lineup.

TheShy and Duke are no longer allowed to rotate in the top lane.

Instead, the S6 champion top laner was directly put on the bench, allowing TheShy to secure the position of IG's starting top laner.

This decision can be regarded as a direct help for IG to reach the semifinals of the summer season playoffs.

As for WE, who lost to IG, they no longer have the opportunity to advance directly to the S7 World Finals.

They can go home and prepare for the bubble game.

With the points of the runner-up in the spring season, WE can be sure of a place in the bubble game.

After the BO5 between IG and WE ended, it was followed by 6 pm.

The BO5 elimination match between RNG and NB started.

The winner will enter the semifinals of the playoffs and get the last place in the semifinals of the summer season.

Since Uzi returned from injury and came back from the intercontinental game, the momentum of the RNG team has been quite strong.

In addition, the version is favorable.

Now RNG has even surpassed EDG, the first team in Group A, and has become the second favorite to win the summer season after LGD.

However, compared to winning the summer season.

RNG fans are more eager to see RNG appear in the S7 World Finals held in their home country this year.

After all, LGD's undefeated record in the regular season is too eye-catching.

It's very difficult to snatch the summer championship from LGD!

Moreover, let's not talk about LGD, the first in the regular season.

Let's talk about EDG, the opponent that RNG will face in the semi-finals after winning today.

EDG's final record in the regular season is first in Group A and second in LPL.

In fact, EDG's trend in the entire summer regular season is somewhat similar to RNG.

EDG's performance at the beginning of the summer season was not good.

The first few games of the Intercontinental Championship were not good.

But since defeating Samsung in the Intercontinental Championship finals, EDG seems to have opened up.

After returning from the battle, EDG won all the subsequent confrontations with different groups, except for the one in which they lost to LGD 1:2.

And they basically won every BO3 with a score of 2-0.

So EDG quickly took the first place in Group A, and gradually opened up the record with the second WE.

So, let alone finally defeating LGD.

Even RNG fans don’t have enough confidence in the next round of opponents EDG.

Compared with the summer season champion, there can only be one.

The LPL region has three places to advance to the S7 World Finals.

Striving to enter the S7 World Finals held in the local area seems to be a more realistic goal.

Of course, the LPL summer season championship should also be strived for.

After all, in addition to the championship honor itself, the summer season champion can also directly advance to the S7 World Finals as the No. 1 seed.

RNG’s opponent in the six-to-four elimination match today is the NB team, which is the third in Group B.

Although NB ranked third in Group B after the regular season.

But they are far behind LGD and RNG, the first and second teams in Group B.

There is one thing worth mentioning about the NB team.

That is, during the summer season, the number of players in their first team is the highest among the twelve participating teams in the LPL summer season.

They have at least one substitute player in each position, and some positions even have more than one.

The most outrageous thing is that each of their substitute players has played in the regular season.

During this year's LPL summer season, a total of 11 players in the NB team played at least one regular season game.

In addition to Swift, who has a stable position in the jungle position and played in more than 90% of NB's games in the regular season of the summer season.

The substitutes in other positions have played at least ten games, and even more than twenty games.

I don't know how much their coach likes to rotate personnel and indulge in the permutations and combinations between players.

At the beginning of the regular season of this year's summer season, the performance of the NB team was not good, and it was also a state of winning less and losing more.

At that time, their main bottom laners, Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong, made many mistakes in the game, and often a good situation was ruined because of their mistakes.

Especially Lin Weixiang in the AD position, who often mysteriously gave away heads.

After a wave of three consecutive losses, NB head coach finally couldn't stand it anymore and replaced Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong.

He replaced them with the bottom lane combination of Death Announcement and Natural Disaster Doomsday, two well-known trolls in the national server.

Unexpectedly, the effect of this change was surprisingly good.

After replacing Death Announcement and Natural Disaster Doomsday, NB played a wave of five games and four wins, and quickly came to the third place in Group B.

The only game lost was lost to the EDG team, which was in a very hot state at the time.

It's a pity for Death Announcement. He didn't live up to his expectations. After playing a few good games, he quickly fell behind.

And he fell behind to the end, and he couldn't be saved.

Just like two years ago, when he just returned from North America and performed the same during his time in the VG team.

So the head coach replaced the bottom lane combination of Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong, and has been using it until now, without any changes.

After sitting on the bench for a while, Lin Weixiang has improved his habit of giving opportunities during the game.

After returning to the main force, NB's performance was pretty good, and it stabilized its third place in Group B in the regular season and entered the playoffs.

NB's opponent in the first round of the playoffs was the fourth team in Group A, the Snake team.

However, although the Snake team entered the playoffs, it only won a pitiful five BO3 games in the entire regular season. It was able to enter the playoffs entirely because of its peers in Group A.

No one thought that the Snake team had the possibility of defeating NB.

When everyone was optimistic about NB, NB lived up to expectations.

In the first round of the playoffs played yesterday, the team swept the Snake team with a score of 3-0 and advanced to the top six of the playoffs.

In today's six-to-four match between RNG and NB, although most people are definitely more optimistic about RNG's advancement.

But considering NB's pretty good regular season record, it is carrying the momentum of sweeping the Snake team yesterday.

Most people also believe that in this BO5, NB can completely win one or two small games from RNG.

There were even a few people who thought that NB might upset RNG and advance to the semifinals of the playoffs.

However, the result of the game told these people that this BO5 was not an upset.

RNG swept NB with a score of 3-0.

In the first two games of the BO5, the two sides were still back and forth.

But RNG won the first two games steadily with better details.

After falling behind 0-2, the mentality of NB players was also unstable.

The third game quickly collapsed. In just 24 minutes, the base was flattened by RNG, swallowing the bitter fruit of a 0-3 defeat.

When Zhou Dian saw that NB fell behind 0-2, he stopped watching the game, closed the live broadcast page, and started his own Korean server solo queue.

With RNG eliminating NB 3-0, the top four of the LPL Summer Playoffs were all decided.

They are LGD, EDG, RNG, and IG.

The semifinals of the playoffs will start two days after the end of the six-to-four games.

The two semifinals were scheduled to be played on the same day.

Because the Intercontinental Championship takes more than ten days, the schedule of this LPL Summer Season is extremely tight.

Before the finals are decided, there are two games a day, and the interval between games is also very short.

This is undoubtedly a test of the tactical reserves and adaptability of each team in the playoffs.

Rich tactics naturally require players to have a deeper hero pool to support.

The tight schedule is also a big test for the players' energy and physical strength.

At this time, as the first in the group of Group AB, EDG and LGD, who started directly from the semifinals of the playoffs, can really play a role in the few days of rest.

LGD team base.

After IG defeated WE 3-2, Dgc led the coaching staff to study IG.

In contrast, the EDG coaching staff has long been studying how to play RNG in the semifinals.

And RNG also lived up to EDG's "expectations" and easily made it to the semifinals.