741: A Sudden Change in the Version Understanding!

"Come on," Gu Xing happened to meet the IG players when he stepped down, and he bumped fists with them as a way of cheering them up, "Let's try to win this game."

Ning Wang was full of confidence, "Gu Xing, wait and see, I have to teach Tazan a lesson!"

The next game will be between IG and Griffin.

It is a battle between the Chinese and Korean divisions, and the two teams had a feud in the summer season before, so this matchup is full of highlights.

Gao Zhenning tried his best to beat Tazan and let the other party see how powerful he is.

TheShy also had a blank expression and a cold look, and it seemed that he was particularly serious about the next BO1.

In addition to the disputes between the two sides before the game, this matchup will also directly affect the qualification for promotion.

Currently in Group D, FNC is far ahead. Earlier today, this European giant defeated Flash Wolves and topped the group with an impressive 3 wins and 0 losses.

As long as there is no accident in the second round, FNC will at least get a place in the quarterfinals.

The remaining places will have to be chosen from Griffin, IG and Flash Wolves.

If IG can win this game, Griffin, who is 0-3, will basically be out of the game in advance, and the Extreme Team, who is 2 wins and 1 loss, will be able to take the initiative to qualify for the group stage!

For such an important game, TheShy will naturally do his best!

But Griffin also thinks so.

With 0 wins and 2 losses, they are already standing on the edge of a cliff, with no way out.

Today GRF must fight for victory with all their strength!

When Gu Xing returned to the backstage lounge, he saw the two sides start a great battle.

Showmaker took out his signature Syndra, wanting to use his most proud hero to lead the team to win the first victory in the world championship.

Unfortunately, his opponent was called Rookie.

"Wow, is it really that exaggerated?" Chaowei watched Leblanc dodge Syndra's three Q skills in a row under Rouji's exquisite control, and couldn't help but be convinced, "Isn't it too cruel?"

"You are really the strongest mid laner today," Houye said with admiration, "This LeBlanc is simply the best!"

In the current version, LeBlanc is not easy to play against Syndra in the laning phase, not to mention Showmaker's unique skill ball girl.

But Song Yijin's skills are too top-notch.

This year is undoubtedly the peak of Rookie's personal competitive level. He is not at a disadvantage against Showmaker in the laning phase, and can even counter-suppress Syndra after making [Lost Chapter]!

With Song Yijin in control of the mid lane, Ning Wang immediately began to bully others, operating Zhao Xin to frequently invade the upper half of GRF, making it difficult for Tarzan to move in the upper half of the map, forcing the opponent to go to the lower jungle to exchange wild monster resources.

As long as Tarzan takes root below the canyon, Ning Wang will immediately attack the enemy's top lane Sword.

TheShy brought out Jayce in this game, putting great pressure on the enemy in the laning phase. Sword was not Jiang Chenglu's opponent in the first place, and was taken care of by Ning Wang twice, and the situation in the top lane collapsed instantly!

"Isn't this a sure win?" Jack put on his backpack and prepared to leave the venue with his teammates and board the bus to return to the hotel. Seeing that IG had cleared the top lane, he immediately felt relieved, "Conquer!"

"That's not necessarily the case," Gu Xing raised an objection, "Viper is developing well."

After being forced to the bottom half of the area, Tazan was not idle, and he has been doing his best to help Viper develop.

The results are quite obvious.

The Xiangsong duo has been in IG for a long time, and their discipline is not particularly strong. Even though they should be cautious and timid according to the half-area principle, the enthusiasm in their hearts to fight encourages them to frequently look for GRF's bottom lane combination to exchange blood.

As a result, Tazan was given an opportunity.

Although they only caught Xiangsong once, they came to guard from time to time afterwards, which forced the IG duo to miss many last hits, and even the next tower was pushed down by Viper!

For Griffin, the fat Viper is their last hope!

The whole team began to push forward around Viper's Xia.

The good news is that one of the advantages of the shooter position compared to the mid-top single line is that the ability to destroy towers is particularly strong, which can make certain contributions to the team.

In contrast, TheShy's lead can only be limited to his own line and cannot radiate to teammates.

This is also the problem faced by the top laner.

The position and division of labor determine that they belong to the pure orphan lane.

In the usual games, the top laner can try to use a single push to pull space for the team and put pressure on the opponent.

But this year's World Championship, this trick is not very useful.

It's just because SSG's real eye sea tactics were completely abolished. Without sufficient vision guarantee, it is difficult for the single-lane system to advance deeply, and it will be targeted and arrested by the opponent if you are not careful!

TheShy had no way to give back his advantage to the team, so he had to suppress Sword in the sideline, trying to crush the opponent by fighting alone.

Sword calmed down, played a steady hand, and hid under the tower to connect and eat.

I'm not in a hurry!

Anyway, Viper's Xia is attacking the city head-on under the protection of the other Griffin players. Even if I don't do anything, my teammates can help me grow!

"My goodness, won't the Griffin group really slow down the rhythm?"

On the bus, Duan Deliang, who was watching the live broadcast of the game, was dumbfounded, "The economy is almost tied!"

Viper is indeed capable, and is very skilled in using Xia. He always uses his skills to lay feathers before destroying the tower. In this way, once IG dares to come to defend and clear the line, they will be constrained and face the threat of hooks everywhere!

Thanks to his meticulous handling, GRF successively destroyed the top and middle towers of the Extreme Team, and forced the situation back to balance!

"TheShy, you should do something!" Jack shouted loudly.

Smeb sighed, his face full of regret, "There is no way, the top lane is like this, it is difficult to radiate the whole situation, and when Jayce's strong period is over, IG may really lose."

"I think we should lower the priority of the top lane Knife Girl and Jayce. These two heroes are typical heroes who win the line but not the game. They can't snowball even with a big advantage in the early stage..."

But as he spoke, he could hardly hold back the corners of his mouth.

Song Jinghao came from LCK, and the concept there is completely different from LPL.

After the Hanguo League won the world championship in the early years, the audience fan base was quickly divided.

Everyone will say they are Samsung fans and SKT fans, but few KR viewers will say they are LCK fans.

In short, the concept of the region is deliberately downplayed.

After all, from S3 to S6 before the World Championship, only the 2015 Mid-Season Championship was won by LPL. The LCK audience who always won was completely uninterested in the sense of honor of the region and had long been divided into small groups.

Until the emergence of the VG Dynasty, one LCK team after another fell in front of Gu Xing and others, the audience of the Hanguo region reunited and wanted to encircle VG as a region and take back everything that originally belonged to them.

Of course, Song Jinghao was not an eyewitness to the second half of the plot. He came to LPL at that time. Although he also visited the forum, his impression of KR viewers remained in the past.

Therefore, Smeb's concept is also to participate in the World Championship as a club.

In this case, IG is naturally one of the strong competitors!

Song Jinghao can't wait for the Ji team to die quickly.

As long as IG is eliminated in the group stage, he will be the king of top lane in the next schedule!

Although Wunder, Bwipo and others are also strong, they are still slightly inferior to Song Jinghao in terms of experience!

Gu Xing noticed that the emotions shown on Smeb's face did not match what he said, and he immediately laughed, "You are really..."

"What's wrong?" Song Jinghao didn't think there was anything wrong with him, "I just want to make sure that the last championship of LPL is won by me, and it would be best if those teams would all pack up and leave as soon as the World Championship arrives. What's the problem?"

Gu Xing has a bit of a regional complex.

In last year's World Championship, he used his EZ jungle to deceive the foreign regional team and sent Guodian to the quarterfinals. Although this was not Gu Xing's original intention in developing this routine, the result was like this.

He still hopes that the other two brother teams participating in S8 can stand up.

As for whether it will create obstacles for VG to win the championship...

Gu Xing believes that as long as he is in the team, he will not lose!

However, although he sincerely hopes that the LPL team can get better and better, the fact that cannot be concealed is that the dragon slayer will eventually become the dragon.

Now the internal division of LPL is also serious. As the strength of the division grows day by day, both fans and players feel a bit like they are on the old path of LCK.

It's just that on the surface, the number of fans of VG, where Gu Xing is, is the only one, and they can rely on strong strength and unquestionable honors to firmly suppress other teams.

"Wait, what is this Jayce doing?" Duan Deliang took a breath, "Why did TheShy run to the front?"

After pushing the bottom lane soldiers, the second battalion commander of Piltover moved to the middle lane. With the high speed provided by the form switch, he quickly arrived at the bushes in the middle lane and fired a reinforced cannon at Viper in the distance!

The shock wave angle was extremely tricky and accurately hit the opponent's shooter.

One shot is half of the blood!

TheShy's personal development has not fallen behind, and he has put together two sets of equipment in 16 minutes. You should know that in this version, Jayce, who does not have the magic cut, has a very early combat power formation period. Two armor-piercing equipments encounter a fragile ADC whose basic armor has been severely reduced, Xia can't bear it at all!

After firing a cannon, Jiang Chenglu did not want to fight, and returned to his own bottom lane to continue to play with Sword.

The current version of the shooter has long stopped the first three pieces of recovery equipment. Viper lacks the ability to suck blood, so he has to go back to the city for supplies.

This back and forth will delay Viper for at least 40 seconds, and GRF's advancement rhythm will slow down instantly!

And IG is not a vegetarian. They seized the opportunity when Griffin's core was absolutely not there, and the four people pushed the line back to the enemy jungle to set up eyes.

After everything was done, when Viper returned to the middle lane, it would take a lot of time to reorganize the offensive!

"TheShy's roaming was quite clever this time!" Gu Xing's eyes lit up, "It can be considered as solving the urgent problem for the front!"

"Oh no, they didn't really learn anything from us, did they?" Jack's expression tightened.

"My buddy reminded you last night that you shouldn't practice operations with IG, but Redmi didn't listen..."

Gu Xing waved his hand, "Logically speaking, operations can't be achieved overnight. How much change can those training games bring to IG in one night?"

"I feel that just now it was at most a flash of inspiration. IG may have learned a few tricks, but most of the time, the concept of line switching operations has not been adjusted."

As he said, IG’s subsequent line transfer operations are still in a mess.

But it's enough to deal with GRF.

Griffin, as a first-year member of the team, also does not have a team brain, and the operation is a mess!

After TheShy tasted the benefits, he kept repeating the previous gameplay. He no longer stayed in the bottom lane to put pressure on Sword. Now he only needs to push off the side lanes and move closer to the middle lane, relying on the high damage provided by the enhanced cannon to assist his teammates in clearing Line or reduce the health of key enemy heroes.

Gu Xing was speechless.

The canyon is just like the battlefield. It is most taboo to use the same move to disgust the opponent over and over again. It is easy for the opponent to think of a response strategy in advance and set up an ambush.

It can only be said that the reckless IG can't change its mind. It is estimated that it will not choose to change tactics unless it hits the south wall.

But it happens to be very useful.

Griffin was harassed by Jess, and was at a loss for a moment. His scalp was numbed by TheShy, and he was repeatedly bombarded by Jess until his health was reduced. He didn't even think of an effective countermeasure!

"What is this?" Duan Deliang was dumbfounded, "Did Wolong meet Fengxia?"

GRF was extremely anxious and eager to open up the situation, but after the initiative was handed over to IG, everyone in the team was overjoyed and began to play "operations" leisurely!

They don't know what they are running. It seems that every time they change lanes, there will be a certain loss of troops in each lane.

But it's okay.

Griffin on the other side didn't realize he was panicking to death.

Before the game, they also believed that the Extreme Team would definitely not be able to operate. Coach Cvmax also specifically emphasized this point to give Griffin a boost.

But now it seems that Team Ji understands operations!

No, bro, are you really good at it? !

As soon as they saw IG starting to change the line, the five people felt a little bit in their hearts, thinking that the other party was holding back bad intentions and wanted to cause trouble.

He put pressure on himself and felt that it was difficult to cope with the unknown team's offensive of switching operations.

GRF, which started at 0/2, had a lot of pressure to advance. In this game, they came to fight with the idea that nothing could be lost. It was inevitable to be anxious when they saw that their own team could not win for a long time.

Adding to the pressure, these first-year freshmen all had ugly operations that were deformed due to excessive psychological pressure!

Finally, the chicken feet were exposed, and Prince Ning, who had a keen sense of smell, caught the opportunity.

Gao Zhenning's Xin Zhao came out from the shadow on the side, flashed E and assisted Lehends to throw R [Crescent Guard] in one go, catching Viper off guard!

Kasumi failed to react and flew backwards, breaking away from Griffin's formation!

Song Yijin's Enchantress decisively seizes the opportunity, WR double-steps into the field, and quickly inflicts damage on Viper!

When Viper lands, he activates R again. He has been burned by IG and is reduced to residual health!

TheShy came over with a cannon, stood up and emptied Xia's health bar!

The absolute core of Griffin died suddenly, and the remaining team members were leaderless and scattered one after another!

Only Syndra stayed where she was, draining all her magic power and pouring all her skills into the enemy hero's body!

"Showmaker wants to die standing up!"

The commentator of this scene remembers howling, which echoed in the bus where VG was riding, "He did not give up the last glimmer of hope!"

"But it had no effect. IG swarmed up without mercy and used many skills to kill Syndra. After killing Griffin's double C in seconds, they planned to take over the dragon!"

Gao Zhenning clenched his fists and let out an inspiring roar.

If you like to criticize me, I am a very ordinary jungler with no characteristics, right?

Die to me!

"This is the real deal!" Gu Xing put away his phone with confidence, "It seems that all three of our LPL teams will have no problem qualifying!"

However, after three days of truce, the evolution of the version in the second round of the group stage was a bit unexpected for everyone in VG.

A team has developed a new path for ships.

royal.

On the fourth match day, RNG's Group A took the lead, and each team in the group had to complete all games in one day.

RNG took a different approach, directly abandoning the top lane heroes who won the lane but not the team, and started to choose Sion Ornn, or give Letme a team-fighting hero like Sword Demon or Urgot.

As for Uzi, Kai'Sa and Xayah take turns playing, providing late-stage damage to the team's backbone.

Everyone understands it, the classics guarantee one.

It is worth mentioning that, like wild core, four guarantees and one protection can be divided into a narrow understanding and a broad understanding.

The former means that certain lineups can be played, just like using Leopard Girl, Male Spear and Kindred to default to wild core.

The latter is a matter of philosophy and not limited to a specific lineup.

To judge whether it is a four-guaranteed one or a wild core, it mainly depends on the team's resource focus.

The best understood example is VG.

Unless Gu Xing chooses a purely herbivorous jungler like Zach Zhumei, it will basically be a wild core play. The team must build an offensive around him, and the resources it has must be given away.

The same principle can be applied to the royal family.

No matter what kind of hero Uzi plays, as long as the pair of midfielders and midfielders like Xiangguo Xiaohu frequently come to nourish him, and then give up troops and monsters in the mid-term, and then let Letme protect him in a group, it falls into the broad category of four guarantees and one.

After the renaissance of RNG gameplay, the style of play has become more stable.

Although they are often crushed by the opponent's fierce offensive in the early stage, the advantage is that the lower limit is very high. Facing a team that is not strong in snowballing and ending the game, even if it falls into a disadvantage in the early stage, it can often regain the situation through operation and teamfighting ability.

At least it's quite useful in the intensity of the group stage.

RNG relied on this old-fashioned four-protect-one-life strategy with a very high lower limit to defeat the Vietnamese team, and fought for 44 minutes in the battle with C9, and finally won the victory with Letme's god-level teamfight!

Even if they still lost to KT, it did not affect Royal Club's advancement to the quarterfinals with a record of 4 wins and 2 losses in the group!

Following RNG, on the second day of the second round of the group stage, another team that adopted a similar understanding stood out.

Liquid.

Big Brother is obviously a very trustworthy core player in the team, and there is no problem in building a team style around him.

They are also trying to abandon the strength of the top lane, give up the resources that should be in the early stage, and take the initiative to wait for the mid-to-late stage to engage in the battle.

Although the technical and tactical level of the top laner Impact Da Mu has declined, that is compared to himself. In terms of absolute strength, it is no problem to play against the top laners of most world championship teams.

This leads to Liquid not giving up all resources even if the early stage is not smooth, leaving room for maneuver so that Big Brother can drag the development unscrupulously and wait for the arrival of his strong period!

The effect is also significant.

They can't beat G2, but there is no suspense about bullying the other two teams in Group B.

In the end, Liquid won the extra game with 3 wins and 3 losses, successfully broke through the group stage, and followed the 6/0 Western Division big brother G2 to the quarterfinals!

Gu Xing was still a little confused after watching the two days of games.

In the interval between the first and second rounds of the group stage, VG did not practice with RNG and the North American Division. It mainly played training games with IG, KT, FNC and G2. Its own energy was really limited and it had no time to take care of other teams.

I didn't expect that everyone in the outside world would play so wildly!

However, although Royal Club proposed a new version of the understanding, VG's competition and training department is at least experienced and did not follow RNG's gameplay path. It still believes in its own views and goes its own way to improve the combat intensity of the upper half.

Longzhu was a little led astray.

This is not unrelated to their coaching team.

After KZ sent Kim Jeong-soo to KTV, they found Acorn, a retired professional player, to be their coach.

A was one of the top ten players in Samsung back then. Although he was one of the worst players, his reputation was impressive.

This is a typical blue-collar top laner. He was famous for his ability to withstand pressure in LGD back then. Even the princess couldn't play the carry role as well.

It's easy to imagine how much Acorn loves blue-collar top laners!

Originally, the team still focused on the top half of the map because of Khan's offensive attributes and the trend of the version.

Now Acorn sees that both Royal Club and Liquid use a conservative strategy in the top half of the map, letting the bottom lane take on the offensive responsibility, and he immediately has other ideas.

I don't have much coaching experience, but it's okay to copy, right?

These two teams can win, so there's no reason for KZ to lose!

As a result, he copied and got into trouble.

Longzhu lost to VG first, then to VIT, and the consecutive losses were only one step away from elimination!

As a last resort, the veteran Pray stepped up again, activated the Face Fruit skill, usurped power from Acorn, and largely delegated the BP power to the players, allowing Khan to play the hero he is best at.

Khan was overjoyed. In the last game of the group stage against 100 Thieves, he completed the gorgeous transformation from Ornn to Jayce!

The Korean cannon is in place!

The elderly Ssumday is not Khan's opponent at all, and was defeated by a single point!

Relying on Khan's wonderful performance, KZ narrowly entered the quarterfinals!

In contrast, VG's group stage journey was much smoother.

Thanks to Longzhu's BP failure and losing two games in a row, VG locked the top spot in the group two rounds in advance.

Hongmi waved his hand and simply let the substitute Kuro play to feel the enthusiastic cheers from the audience.

Although they have not competed on the same stage for half a year, Li Ruixing has cooperated with the other players of VG for more than a year and a half, and the tacit understanding is still there.

In the group stage, the laning strength of the mid-lane players except BDD was generally not high, and Kuro could handle it completely.

Li Ruixing even won the MVP of the game against 100 thieves, and faced his old rival RYU Yuelun!

After six mediocre wins, VG advanced to the quarterfinals!

The last day of the schedule is here, and the D group, which was hailed as the "death group" before the game, is in full swing again.

Griffin had 0/3 in the first round, and there was no way to retreat. Even though the hope of advancing was extremely slim, they still had to rush forward to fight for a chance of survival!

They knew that they might continue to lose according to the original play style, so they simply changed and copied RNG's ideas.

Sword in the top lane is not strong personally, why do you play Jayce and Irelia for him?

Wouldn't it be better to choose Sion and Ornn!

Letme Unit 2 made a grand appearance!

I can only say that Griffin is at least quite in line with Royal's new understanding. The tactical focus was moved down, and the effect was immediate. They defeated Flash Wolves right away and avenged the defeat in the first round!

But IG immediately nailed the lid of their coffin.

After several rounds of training matches with VG, the members of the Extreme Team with higher comprehension have been slowly mastering some operational ideas of the current specific version.

In terms of discipline and overall operational level, it is not realistic for them to compete with VG, but the same thing is said.

It is enough to fight against Griffin.

TheShy continued to shake people to increase the strength of Sword, and then went to the middle lane to relieve the pressure on his teammates during the transition period. This trick has been tried and tested!

Griffin's newly learned mid-to-late game double C bottom-line method was quickly defeated by IG's unreasonable and reckless confrontation!

The root cause was that they couldn't help it. Seeing that IG players were always wandering in front of them, they were unhappy and had to go up to wrestle with the members of the Ji team.

As a result, the lineup that should not have fought with the opponent in the early and mid-term was lured by IG to frequent conflicts, and ended up with a miserable defeat before even the late stage!

This is also reasonable.

A group of pure newbies, if they really are as lychee as the old hands, it would be unusual.

Griffin, who lost the fourth game, announced in advance that it would miss the knockout stage and became the second team in the LCK region that failed to enter the quarterfinals since S3-the last one was MVP Ozone.

The bad news made the GRF members absent-minded, and they suffered a thin veil in the game against FNC!

The local battle with a record of 1 win and 5 losses made it to the top 16, which is undoubtedly a great shame for the audience in Han country!

When the Griffin team left the field, boos broke out in the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center, and the dissatisfaction with them had reached the extreme!

Showmaker lowered his head to pack up his peripherals. He looked like a primary school student with red eyes. He could not accept the tragic fate of being eliminated in his first world championship.

Coach Cvmax hugged the players one by one, and encouraged them with a warm smile that they could come again next year and would definitely do better than this world championship.

Next year?

Showmaker was confused.

After countless version changes, whether he and his teammates can enter the world championship again is questionable!

Who knows if this is the only chance in this life...

Gu Xing was waiting for the quarterfinals draw ceremony in the backstage. He didn't even care about the battle for the top spot in Group D between IG and FNC. He happily browsed the anti-bar, quickly found the reposted post on the Korean website and quickly clicked in to see the school beauty.

As expected, the KR audience group broke the defense.

[Griffin is simply the shame of the Great Cold Netherland! Can you not go back to Seoul? We Seoul can't afford to lose this person! Say you are a local of Busan]

[What happened to C8 Busan? We will apply for the World Expo in the future!]

[Last time, 1mp was expelled from the country. I suggest that we expel Sword from the country as well!]

[Griffin, get out of the country! Don't you want to lose face!]

[Let's take a look at the interesting data. Sword was suppressed by 398 knives in 6 games, with an average of 60+ last-hit difference in each game. Is this really a top laner from our region?]

[That's right. When we mention LCK top laners, we can think of Marin, Looper, Smeb... They are all top-notch laning men who can dominate the top lane. Where did Sword get this precious thing from?]

[I heard that the CN forum affectionately gave Sword a nickname, calling him the "Sword Emperor". I think we can steal it and use it!]

[Tazan is also pure and amazing. I didn't see any footage of this guy during the entire group stage. It's like Harry Potter wearing an invisibility cloak! 】

[Alas, Viper tried his best, but he couldn't lead these raw teammates.]

Gu Xing was looking at the Korean forum, and suddenly heard Jack beside him shouting, "Fuck, Old Song!"

"You are too awesome!!"

When he looked up, he found that Broiler's Syndra was killing people in the battlefield!

The players with FNC as the prefix fell one after another, and they couldn't bear the high damage of the ball girl at all!

Rookie got a quad kill, led the team to win the key game, and got the chance to compete for the top spot in Group D in the extra game!

Tonight, Song Yijin was in great shape. In the second game, facing the young Caps, he took out Ahri and roamed around freely. He was completely defeated. He won the second MVP and led IG to successfully counterattack and won the top spot in the group!

So far, the eight qualifying places in the four groups have been settled, and they are just waiting for the draw ceremony to start again!

Writing this game between IG and GRF, there are some reasons for the change in the team's understanding of the version.

The evolution process will be explained in the next game.

PS: Top Esports' bottom lane laning seems to be really interesting. They didn't play like this during the Asian Games training camp, did they?

But the opponent's level is pretty average. Let's see how they perform against JD.com's bottom lane in the knockout round.