Chapter 346 Return, the Summer Season Continues

After the award ceremony, the players and staff of several LPL teams returned to the hotel from the competition site.

After everyone returned to the hotel and put away their personal belongings.

That night, the four LPL teams participating in the Intercontinental Championship held a celebration party together.

It was just a simple celebration.

After all, everyone had to catch a plane back to Shanghai the next day.

In addition, there was a segment to thank the fans who came from the mainland to support LPL on the spot.

At noon the next day.

The four LPL teams took a bus to the airport together and prepared to return to Shanghai.

Zhou Dian was bored on the bus and also browsed the posts in major social software for a while.

It has been a night and a morning since LPL won the Asian Challenge last night.

However, the heat on this aspect has not diminished at all.

Related topics are still at the top of the hot search list.

Netizens are still enthusiastically discussing the LPL 3-0 LCK game last night.

PYL, who was sitting next to Zhou Dian, suddenly burst into laughter.

Zhou Dian tilted his head to look, and PYL immediately handed him his phone.

He took the phone and saw a joke on the screen.

Before the Intercontinental Finals, the head coach of the KT team said in an interview:

"In this kind of game, if LCK can't win the championship, I will swim back to South Korea!"

So this joke is a joke about LCK's performance in the finals yesterday.

The general content is-

After the Korean team won the men's 1500-meter freestyle final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the reporter interviewed the winning Korean players:

"Congratulations on winning the championship. I heard that you started practicing swimming in the summer of 2017. Is that true?"

Korean players: "Yes, I have been practicing swimming for more than three years."

Reporter: "Wow! Incredible, you can achieve such an achievement in three years of practice. What did you do more than three years ago?"

Korean players: "Coach in KT!"

Thinking of KT's unkind BP last night, and then being flattened by LGD in less than 30 minutes, Zhou Dian couldn't help laughing out loud.

"With the level of KT's head coach, the career of LOL coach is not suitable for him. He really needs to change his career as soon as possible!"

In addition to this, all kinds of jokes are emerging one after another.

In short, LPL fans are celebrating the festival.

In recent years, LPL has lost too badly to Korean teams.

In the past two months, LGD first won the MSI.

Now it is the Intercontinental Finals 3-0 LCK.

For LPL fans, there is only one word-cool!

When LGD returned to the team base in Shanghai, it was already dark.

It is now the evening of July 10th.

In less than three days, on the afternoon of July 13th, the fifth week of the LPL Summer Season regular season will continue.

LGD only has one game in the fifth week of the regular season.

It is on Sunday this week, that is, the 16th, and the opponent is EDG.

There are still 6 days before the game, so there is still a long time.

The group just came back from Taiwan Province and was exhausted from the journey.

DGC gave the players a day off.

After returning to the base and putting down his luggage, Zhou Dian went directly to the training room.

For him, there is nothing to do now, so he can only play solo!

Log in to his Korean server account and start queuing.

The current game versions of the Chinese and Korean servers are both 7.13, which have been updated for almost half a month.

In the just-concluded Intercontinental Championship, version 7.12 was used.

Last week, the LPL regular season still used version 7.12.

In these days, the entire LGD team has been preparing for the Intercontinental Championship, and they played a lot of 7.12.

So LGD has not practiced enough for some of the new content launched in version 7.13.

It is always right to practice more for training!

In version 7.13.

In the top position, AD Kennen has been weakened, and AP Kennen has been strengthened.

Two of the three mythical gods, Maokai and Poppy, have also been strengthened a little.

And Gnar and Troll have also been strengthened.

Troll's Q skill can now bite the defensive tower again.

Whether in the Chinese server or the Korean server, Gnar has been ranked last in the top position win rate for a long time.

After the 7.13 version of Gnar was strengthened.

In the public game, so far, Gnar's win rate has been greatly improved.

These days, Zhou Dian is going to practice the newly strengthened Troll.

The mechanism and operation of this hero are not complicated, and it is more about awareness.

Moreover, the Troll was originally used to target the three popular mythical gods at that time.

Although it has been strengthened now, it is estimated that no team will use it in the short term.

It can be used as a killer move, and it can be used when people don't expect it, and it will have unexpected effects.

On the morning of the 12th.

Zhou Dian was still the first one to get up and came to the training room first.

Then PYL.

Then the other LGD members also arrived one after another.

Today is the third day since returning from Taiwan Province.

The short one-day vacation is over.

Although there are still five days before the game against EDG on Sunday, the players should also concentrate.

Because the LPL game version has been changed to version 7.13.

The LGD coaching staff has arranged a training match today, and the players need to adapt to the new version as soon as possible.

The opponent for today's training match is RNG.

The LPL regular season is now in the period of cross-group confrontation.

So generally speaking, teams in the same group will be invited to play training matches.

LGD tried some new routines in the training match, but the results were not ideal. If problems are found, they will be improved. The schedule of the summer regular season is not even halfway through, and there is still a lot of time for adjustment.

July 13, Thursday afternoon.

Because of the intercontinental competition, the LPL summer regular season, which has been suspended for twelve days, has resumed.

First is the JDG team in Group B, against the IM team in Group A.

The JDG team's recent state seems to have improved. Before the regular season was suspended, they defeated the Snake team with a clean 2-0.

In today's game, JD finally defeated IM with a score of 2-1.

JD's mid laner Doinb played quite a carry in the two games he won.

Then there was the match between OMG in Group B and DAN in Group A.

DAN performed very well in the first five rounds of the regular season.

At the end of the group match, both DAN and WE had a record of four wins and one loss, but DAN beat WE with a small point advantage and became the first in Group A at that time.

Most people thought that they saw a dark horse coming out of nowhere.

As a result, after the start of the different group match, DAN lost to LGD and RNG 0-2 in succession.

So many people began to question the quality of this dark horse.

Of course, whether it was losing to LGD, the new MSI champion, who is in good shape and has remained unbeaten since the start of the summer season.

Or losing to RNG, whose form has recovered.

These two teams are strong teams in LPL, and losing to them is excusable.

Therefore, today's game against OMG became a battle for DAN to justify its "dark horse" name.

As a result, OMG came back from a one-two deficit and defeated DAN 2-1.

After watching three games, it feels like no position of DAN can match the strength of OMG.

After losing to OMG, DAN suffered three consecutive defeats in the confrontation between different groups.

Now it is not only DAN itself that is questioned by the audience.

The strength of Group A is also questioned by the audience.

Your DAN team is domineering in Group A, with a series of 2-0s, ranking first in the group.

How come after leaving Group A, facing the team of Group B, it directly lost three games in a row?

Is the overall level of Group A not good?

The first game on Friday was EDG vs. NB.

After NB lost to OMG earlier, it replaced the starting bottom lane combination with Death Announcement and Doomsday.

After Death Announcement came on the court, it also carried continuously, and NB also won two BO3 games in a row, including a 2-1 victory over WE.

After a dozen days of rest, in today's game against EDG, NB replaced Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong in the bottom lane.

As a result, NB was beaten by EDG in two games.

Of course, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the main problem is not in the bottom lane. The two games NB lost because of the overall strength gap.

But when these two people came on the court, NB lost, and when they left the court, NB won. There are more and more doubts about Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong.

Then, there is a focus game, RNG vs. IG.

The focus is on Uzi, who missed the entire summer regular season before the Intercontinental Championship due to a hand injury.

He will return to the LPL arena in this game.

In the first game, Uzi played mediocrely and IG won the first game.

In addition, in the Intercontinental Championship, Uzi's performance in RNG's two group matches was also very average.

Many people began to question Uzi's state after his comeback this time.

But then, Uzi carried two games in a row.

RNG let IG win two games, proving that Uzi is still the same Uzi.

It's just that IG's choice in the third and final game was criticized by many people.

After the BO3 score was tied at 1-1.

IG chose to replace S with the newcomer TheShy in the third game.

As a result, IG lost the third game.

TheShy also became the worst performer among the five players on the field in the crucial third game.

There were also ridicules in major forums.

What kind of genius boy?

Is it useful to brag so loudly?

Whether it is a mule or a horse, we have to play the game to know.

Boasting when winning and criticizing when losing is the eternal theme of e-sports.

Those who scold TheShy for not being worthy of his reputation may have praised TheShy wildly in the last round of IG's game against Suning, when TheShy came on as a substitute and played C for two games in a row, leading IG to a comeback from 1 to 2.

Zhou Dian understood this truth early on, so he never cared about other people's comments.

Play the game well, that's enough.

A good mentality is the key factor that determines whether you can play your full strength in the game.

Some players have strength, and they are very good in the usual rankings and training games.

But once they get on the court, they get nervous and tremble, and their strength cannot be exerted.

It's useless!

In the following Saturday's game, DAN lost to SNG in Group B again with a score of 1-2, and suffered four consecutive defeats in the competition between different groups.

So after two days, the argument that Group A was too weak as a whole became popular again!

It is Sunday, July 16.

The last match day of the fifth week of the LPL Summer Regular Season.

There are two matches today, LGD's match is the second one, which was originally scheduled to start at 6 pm.

When the LGD team arrived at the match site at Zhengda Plaza.

The Snake team is still playing the second game against NB.

Today NB really changed the bottom lane combination of Death Announcement and Doomsday.

These two people played mediocre in this BO3, but NB still won the Snake team after a 1-2 comeback.

I can only say that Snake's current state is really bad.

After losing to NB, Snake has lost seven games in a row.

Since the summer season, the Snake team has not won a BO3.

Not only in the summer season, but since this year's spring season, the Snake team has been like this.

From a regular in the playoffs, it has become impossible to enter the playoffs.

In the summer season, Snake has fallen even further and it is difficult to win.

It seems that the BO10 in the S6 bubble match has knocked out all the spirit of the Snake team!

Each of the three rounds between Snake and NB took nearly fifty minutes. When it was LGD's turn to take the stage, it was almost seven o'clock.