Chapter 336 Mingkai Becomes Ankai, LPL Takes the Lead in the Intercontinental Championship Finals!

After the semi-finals, when the four LPL teams returned to their hotels, it was already late.

But the teams still communicated and trained with each other until very late before dispersing.

In this intercontinental competition, the LPL was really united.

After the training match, 957 sent a message to Zhou Dian, saying that he wanted to do some temporary laning training.

957's idea was that according to WE's current established tactics, he would most likely use Prince in tomorrow's game.

When facing the strong teams in LCK, there is a hero that must be considered in the top position.

That is Jayce.

Most of the top laners in LCK have a good Jayce.

Among the top laners of the several LPL teams this time, Zhou Dian is almost the only one who plays Jayce well.

Zhou Dian was naturally happy to help 957's request.

After practicing several games of Prince vs. Jayce with 957, the two discussed many key points that need to be paid attention to in this laning group.

At the end, Zhou Dian suddenly said: "I'll switch to Jax, and we'll practice again."

"What do you mean?" 957 was a little confused.

"Jax has just been strengthened in this version. I feel that with Huni's B's temper, he is likely to be picked tomorrow. It doesn't hurt to practice. What if we happen to play against SKT tomorrow and they happen to pick it?"

So, the two began to practice Prince playing Jax again, and it didn't end until nearly three in the morning.

The time came to July 9, Sunday.

The final of the first Asian Challenge will start today.

The two sides are LPL and LCK.

Half an hour before the official start of the Intercontinental Finals, the organizers announced the teams that would play in the first game of the finals.

The LPL sent EDG.

The LCK sent SSG.

As soon as the matchup list came out, LPL viewers on major online platforms said it was not good.

For LPL, this is the worst match order in the first game.

In the final "Tian Ji Horse Racing", most netizens believe that the "low-quality horse" EDG would be best to meet SKT or KT.

KT team ranks first in the regular season of the current LCK Summer Split.

Many people also believe that KT is the strongest team among the four teams in the LCK that will compete in the Intercontinental Championship.

It would be great if EDG could exchange one of the two top horses in the LCK.

Meeting Samsung (SSG) is the worst match.

Among the four LCK teams, Samsung is neither the strongest nor the weakest.

Meeting the weakest MVP team, EDG has a great chance of winning a point for the LPL.

But they met Samsung, which is not weak and is in a hot state in the LCK league.

The junglers on both sides, Factory Manager and Ambition, are both map control junglers.

Moreover, the playing styles of the two teams are also very similar, both of which are operations, development and teamfighting.

But playing the "turtle" set, Samsung is obviously more skilled than EDG.

Therefore, most of the audience think that EDG cannot beat Samsung.

EDG has a high probability of losing this point, and it cannot play the role of "low-quality horse" for "high-quality horse".

It's a big loss!

If EDG loses, it will be a pure loss.

Under this premise, such a matchup is naturally the most disadvantageous to LPL.

So, netizens started to scold: What is this joint coaching team doing? Why did they put EDG in the first game! They are arranging troops and arrays at random.

Four o'clock in the afternoon.

Gaoxiong Exhibition Hall.

Most of the audience have entered the venue, and the final of the first Asian confrontation game is about to begin.

The lights on the stage flashed, and the host came out.

Today's opening host is still Ren Dong and the female host Anna Li from Taiwan.

Anna Li came up today and gave an English opening speech, which made the audience a little confused.

Then she called on the audience to give some applause to the LMS region that had been eliminated.

It was a bit of a show-stealer!

After thanking the sponsors, the big screen began to play pre-match interviews from the two major regions, LPL and LCK.

In the video, the first person to appear was SKT's three-time coach, Kk0ma, who was also the "talker" of the LCK joint coaching team.

He said that he watched the semi-finals between LPL and LMS yesterday and said that the game was quite exciting.

Then came the three-time mid laner, Faker.

Faker felt that the LPL's style of play was very fierce, which was a point that could be exploited.

He also said that this kind of competition system where you don't know who the opponent is in advance is very interesting.

On the LPL side, the player being interviewed was RNG jungler Mlxg.

Mlxg said, "The teams coming to LCK this time are all very strong, and we in LPL are also facing them with a learning mentality."

Mlxg's Mandarin is not very standard, and the word "learning" sounds like "bloodbath".

After Mlxg was WE head coach Hongmi. In the interview, he mentioned that he felt the weakness of LPL teams came from poor communication and the frequent team changes of players.

Then Hongmi said that there was a restraint relationship between the teams, so if the order of appearance was arranged well, there would be more chances to win.

As soon as this was said, some viewers started to spray in the barrage of the LPL official event live broadcast room.

[Redmi is just this? What does it mean to send EDG in the first game! ]

[This lineup was completely defeated by KkOma, and they sent SSG to catch them! ]

[This is uncomfortable, it feels like the finals have been lost! ]

[It has not been played yet and it has been lost? Can Korean Zha stop disgusting people! ]

[.]

After playing the pre-match interview video, the two hosts invited the two opponents of the first game of today's finals.

"Okay, welcome to the audience who came to the scene, and the audience who watched this intercontinental finals through the online live broadcast. This is the second offline viewing site in Shanghai, Shanghai."

LPL has set up a second site in both the capital and Shanghai for audiences who support LPL to watch the finals live.

"Good afternoon, everyone, I am the commentator Wawa."

"I am the commentator Miller."

"Hello everyone, I am PDD."

PDD was invited to be a guest again today, but he will only be responsible for the first two games of the finals today, and will be replaced by the former AD player of WE, Smile.

"Today's first final will be between our LPL's EDG and LCK's Samsung."

"The matchup between the two teams is still quite interesting, especially the junglers of both sides, Factory Manager and An Zhangmen, are also veterans who have fought for many years." Miller said.

"What does Teacher Piao think of this game?"

"I think it's the finals now, there's nothing to say, just do it! Factory Manager, raise An Zhangmen's pigs for me." PDD is always simple and rough.

"Okay, both players are in place, and the BP of the first game of the final is about to begin."

"Samsung on the blue side, EDG on the red side!"

In this game, EDG replaced Audi, who had been playing in the past few days, with Mouse in the top position.

It seems that they want to return to the most familiar style of play.

Before the BP started, the live broadcast camera also stayed on the two veterans, Factory Manager and An Zhangmen, for a long time.

In the first round of BP, when EDG banned two ADs, Samsung on the blue side grabbed Ashe on the first floor.

EDG directly took down the excavator.

The camera cuts to the factory manager, who has a blank expression on his face.

With Kled and Taliyah being locked down, EDG, contrary to their usual practice, chose a lineup with a very strong impact.

Samsung was the same as always, with a single Clockwork in the middle, a very stable and conservative lineup, playing steadily.

At the beginning of the game, An Zhangmen, the jungler Gragas on the blue side, chose to start with the red buff, and the bottom lane helped to start the jungle.

And the factory manager's excavator started in the upper half, and the Taliyah who started FUT helped to use the Q skill.

So EDG's bottom lane was able to go online first and seize the line.

The game time was 2 minutes and 20 seconds. After hitting F6 and the red buff, the excavator waded through the upper river and placed a ward at the blue buff of Samsung.

Then he turned back to hit the river crab.

There was a ward placed by Samsung's top laner Cuvee before going online in the middle of the river, and all the actions of the excavator were seen by Samsung.

After hitting the river crab, the factory manager did not leave, and the excavator came behind the blue buff of Samsung again.

At this time, Samsung's ward in the river had expired.

Master An saw the action of the excavator, and did not attack the blue buff, but stood there, and placed a ward on the side of the blue buff.

The excavator leaned towards the middle lane, and found that there was no chance, so he turned back and went straight to Samsung's blue buff.

In order to counter the jungle, the repeated tug-of-war consumed a lot of time, which was completely unlike the conservative style of the factory manager.

The excavator appeared in the field of vision of the barrel again, and Master An was not panicked at all. This was in his own jungle area. The barrel continued to attack the blue buff.

Then, the excavator dug a tunnel through the wall and drilled to the side of the blue buff.

This behavior undoubtedly expressed: You blue buff, I Mingkai will counter it today!

The factory manager's wave was very detailed. The excavator drilled over and was hit by the barrel EQ, but he did not take action. The hatred of the blue buff was still on the barrel, and he kept attacking the barrel.

The barrel couldn't stand it anymore, and directly cast a punishment to recover blood, but there were still more than ten points of blood left after punishing the blue buff.

Zweila followed with a punishment, and the excavator happily accepted the blue buff.

At this time, Samsung's mid and top arrived first, and Clockwork used his E skill through the wall to give Gragas a shield.

Samsung's top single Crocodile who came from behind was lifted up by the excavator.

EDG's mid and top also arrived at this time.

Scout's Taliyah flashed over the wall to attack Gragas.

Mouse's Kled flashed E to Gragas.

Gragas quickly used flash, but Gragas had been marked by Kled's duel (E).

Kled used a second stage E to follow the flashed Gragas, and took the first blood with a basic attack.

The situation was three against two, and Samsung's mid and top didn't dare to fight anymore and could only retreat to the line.

Zweila's forced counter-jungle attack directly broke the Samsung jungler An Zhangmen's side.

Not only did he lose the blue buff, but he also gave away the first blood!

The red buff on Gragas was taken by Kled, and Crocodile was going to be very uncomfortable in the line.

On the big screen at the scene, after killing the barrel, the remaining people on both sides dispersed, and the lower left corner also showed the real-time camera of the factory manager.

The factory manager was expressionless and talked to his teammates.

In the official live broadcast room of the event, the barrage directly took off.

[Awesome, Qijiang! The world is focused on you! ]

[Fuck, is this still the Qijiang I remember? So brave? ]

[How dare you! You think you can call Qijiang? Call me Factory Manager! ]

[Today I am not Mingkai, today I am Darkkai! ]

[Everyone, brush up 777! ]

[77777777]

The game time reached 5 minutes, and Factory Manager's excavator took down two river crabs and reached level 5.

Then he ran to Samsung's F6 to harass Gragas.

He came a little slower, and Gragas punished and took down the big bird, reaching level 4.

In just five minutes, Factory Manager was already one level ahead of An Zhangmen.

At 6 minutes and 40 seconds, the second red buff of Samsung was about to refresh, and the excavator came to the vicinity of the red buff of Samsung again.

Although he was hit by the Gragas in the grass first, and more than one-third of his health was knocked off.

But after Gragas had no skills, Factory Manager's excavator blocked the real eye he had just placed in front of Gragas.

Seeing the excavator's posture, the barrage in the live broadcast room of the event was boiling again.

[I keep going into the opponent's Gragas jungle]

[Master An: "The opponent's excavator keeps going into my jungle!"]

[Master An: "Don't you have any wild monsters to farm?"]

[Seven, the old fairy, has unlimited mana! ]

[.]

There was no other way, Master An could only call his own bottom lane to save the red buff.

The next few minutes of the plot were that the Taliyah in the middle lane kept pushing the line, and after pushing, he and the excavator went into the Gragas jungle.

Master An had a hard time playing!

And the Samsung team relied heavily on Master An's early map control and vision capabilities.

At 9 minutes and 50 seconds, after Crocodile and Kled exchanged blood, the EDG soldiers in the top lane had not entered the tower yet, and the excavator directly crossed the tower, and Kled used his ultimate to kill the Samsung's top single Crocodile.

At 12 minutes and 15 seconds, the excavator took the Rift Herald.

The rhythm of the game after that was firmly in the hands of EDG.

EDG had two ultimates, Taliyah and Kled, and they used them whenever they got the chance.

The factory manager's excavator did not shrink at all, and he pushed forward whenever he saw anyone.

At 21 minutes and 10 seconds, the factory manager took the lead in the charge, directly passed the Samsung's middle tower, flashed to push up the tower guarding Ashe, and Kled Taliyah instantly arrived at the battlefield.

He chased all the way to the middle high ground of Samsung and killed Ruler's Ashe.

The head ratio on the field reached 5-0.

But it must be said that in terms of the ability of "turtling", Samsung is the best in the world.

In terms of economy, it has been biting EDG and has not been pulled too far apart.

At 26 minutes, Samsung even found an opportunity, and four people gathered to push back EDG's middle tower.

But at this time, meiko stood up.

Luo, who only had one-third of his health, R flashed W to three, and killed another Samsung player, and the head ratio reached 6-0.

It can be said that if the team name and ID are covered, no audience watching this game will think that the red side is EDG.

Everyone in the team seized the opportunity to start a team fight, and they would talk about it first, so there was no need to think so much.

At 28 minutes, Taliyah and Kled, again without waiting for the line of soldiers, forcibly crossed the tower to kill the Crocodile who was clearing the line in the bottom lane, and the head ratio reached 7-0.

Looking at this situation, Samsung may even be shut out by EDG.

In the middle lane, the remaining four players of Samsung were unwilling to give up. An Zhangmen's Gragas E flashed and hit Skateboard Shoes, and then threw out his ultimate.

However, this game was also the most glorious game in Zet's short EDG career.

His Skateboard Shoes instantly flashed Mercury and pulled away, dodging Gragas' ultimate.

It's just that Samsung is a team that can be too turtle!

EDG has been fighting and fighting as never before, but it was still survived by Samsung.

At 44 minutes, Samsung played a team fight of 2 for 3. At this time, it seemed that EDG's lineup could not win.

The surviving people of Samsung began to make vision for the big dragon.

However, just when the director replayed the previous team fight.

Scout's Taliyah soloed the Ancient Dragon.

EDG's five players bathed in the golden dragon blood.

Samsung heard the sound of the Ancient Dragon being killed and quickly attacked the Baron to stop the loss.

EDG's side, Kled started a big charge.

"We have the Ancient Dragon buff, you still dare to attack the Baron? What are you pretending to be, brother!" PDD's voice rang out.

"Kill the Ruler, kill the Ruler, kill the Ruler!" Miller's shouting could not stop.

With Skateboard Shoes' quad kill at the end, EDG played a one-for-five exchange, and Samsung was wiped out.

"Congratulations EDG!"

When the crystal of the Samsung base exploded, the three commentators said in unison.

The first game of the Intercontinental Finals ended.

LPL 1-0 LCK!