Chapter 249-Post-match interview, aftershocks of debut

Despite being behind in economy and having an extremely fat ADC on the opposing team, IM team did not give up the game.

In terms of playing style and tactical system, the IM team can be said to be a replica of the past EDG, but there is only one characteristic that has always remained.

That is... tenacity.

Historically, in the S6 qualifiers against WE, IM team's four lanes exploded in the early stage, the top lane was infinitely targeted, and they were economically behind. With two high grounds broken and only the last one left, facing WE's double dragon BUFF on the high ground, they finally held on with their resilience, defending the double dragon twice in a row and making a comeback.

Unfortunately, after IM became BLG, this feature was lost.

The team's resilience was once praised by foreign media.

"As long as the base doesn't explode, this team will never give up hope of winning."

"The world's biggest dark horse team creates miracles through perseverance."

At the moment, IG's huge lead did not make IM team give up the game. Although Jinjiao, who was targeted infinitely, cursed a lot, he never gave up any opportunity to catch up.

The other members of IM also tried their best to give him resources and set up defensive positions.

For IM, being weaker than others and being at a disadvantage is natural.

Because their playing style is imitated, and the players are all discarded players who are unwanted by others, and no one is optimistic about them.

Then you can only rely on perseverance and hard work to win.

The IM team was in a situation of collapse in the early stages, but it was finally stabilized after Sivir made the blue-sucking knife.

If you want to drag the game into the late stage, your lineup must include heroes with very strong wave-clearing abilities.

Tsar and Sivir are typical examples.

This Shurima grandparents and grandchildren combination is the core key C position of countless late-stage comebacks.

Even if it is taken out alone, it is an absolute guarantee in the later stage.

If Sivir makes a blue-absorbing knife, a QWA combo can clear a wave of soldiers.

Although Card's ability to clear lanes is not as good as Tsar's, it is not bad either. The deterrent power of holding a yellow card under the tower is also very strong. Moreover, he has a lane switching support ability that is even better than Tsar, plus the lane clearing ability of Graves.

A wave of soldiers disappeared in an instant before they even entered the tower.

The tankiness and control of the top lane Maokai and Braum also prevented IG from crossing the tower at will.

After gaining an advantage in the game, any team will face a problem.

How to end the game?
Especially against a team that is very resilient and can drag out a late-game lineup.

"It's so stinky and hard. It's like we're facing five defense towers. It's a bit difficult!" Jack said jokingly.

But it is undeniable that IM's way of handling the matter is indeed a bit rogue.

Choose a lineup with strong line-clearing capabilities and strong teamfighting in the late game. If they can't beat you in the early game, just drag the game to the late game until you have six pieces of equipment. Even if you are 10,000 behind in economy, both sides are at the same starting line.

With IM's lineup, even if IG got the Baron buff, they could probably only take down all the outer towers, and it would be difficult to get to the high ground.

In history, WE won two consecutive double dragons but failed to capture IM's high ground. This shows the defensive strength of IM and the resilience of its players.

"Let's find an opportunity to take the big dragon. Chenglu will go solo, and Xiaoming should pay attention to protecting the eyes." Yuan Shen commanded.

In IG's lineup, there is only Kled in the front row, and the rest are all squishy. If they attack the dragon directly, it will easily give the opponent an opportunity.

Therefore, it is safer to kill a member of IM first, or force him back home with low health, and then take the dragon.

If there is no opportunity, TheShy must go solo and delay the frontal attack as much as possible.

Rookie set his sights on Card who was pushing the side lane.

The fact that he took out Kled was beyond everyone's expectation.

Ever since he watched Yuan Shen’s live broadcast that time, he became keenly aware of the potential of the hero Kled in the mid lane.

As mentioned before, there are only a few players who can master a new hero in such a short time and bring it to the professional arena.

Although Rookie’s speed in practicing heroes is not as fast as Yuan Shen’s, it is definitely not slow.

In just a few days, Rookie mastered Kled.

Of course, Yuan Shen also helped a lot, teaching him some laning details and hero understanding of Kled.

The learning speed is completely different when there is someone teaching and when there is no one teaching.

In this game, Rookie was able to gain the upper hand against the tower-like Athena, taking control of the roaming lane, and his support was faster than that of the Card every time, proving that his attainments against Kled were qualified.

And now, he once again set his sights on the Card that he had not been able to kill alone before.

Card is the most difficult opponent when IG wants to kill the Baron.

With Card's ultimate, the difficulty of ambushing enemies in blind vision is greatly increased, and Card's Q skill Poke ability is also extremely difficult in terrain like the dragon pit.

Kill him and the dragon is secure.

The mid laners from both teams were splitting the lane at the side of the top lane. After Kled pushed the line, Card cleared the line under the tower, never leaving the defensive tower and not giving Card any chance at all.

But this time it was different. After clearing the line, Kled squatted at the red side's stone man, started scanning, made sure he was not detected by the enemy's vision, and watched the card who was clearing the line under the tower through the wall.

The moment the Card threw out the red card to clear the line, Rookie's Kled flashed over the wall and hooked the Card.

Q flash!
AAEA, stack up the Black Cleaver special effect, launch the fourth normal attack with a percentage of health, and then follow up with Tiamat.

As Kled's ignite was applied, Card flashed to create distance and avoid the damage of the second Q.

When the second part [Duel] is triggered, the person hit by the first part E will be forcibly locked. Even if the opponent escapes to the ends of the earth, Kled will force the opponent to duel.

Kelei rushed forward and slashed wildly with his knife.

Card's W skill has finally cooled down. Athena's ID is not wrong. She is worthy of being a goddess. The first card is a yellow card.

Yellow card drawn in seconds, lost in seconds.

As long as Kled is stunned, Card will have a chance to escape.

However, at this moment, Rookie reacted extremely quickly and released his ultimate move!

charge! !
Kled's ultimate will form a small circle around him. Once inside the small circle, his mount Skaarl will crash into the first enemy hero hit.

This collision effect is also forced to be locked, and it is useless even if displacement is applied.

Use the collision effect to offset the yellow card control of the card.

Kled swung his sword and then used Q to hook the Card to death.

Yuan Shen saw this operation with full attention to details and was about to give some praise, but someone in the team voice chat got there first.

"Brother Yi Jin's performance was invincible, amazing, he deserves the title of No. 66666 mid laner in LPL, !!"

Yuan Shen was still wondering who was blowing the trumpet, but when he listened again, wasn't it his own voice?
When did I become such a person?

Yuan Shen, ah Yuan Shen, where is your former pride?

Where is your pride?
How can you be such a shameless licker...

"Big dragon, big dragon, GOGOGO!"

Jack shouted excitedly, completely unaware of the little drama in Yuan Shen's mind.

When his teammates went to rush Nash Baron, TheShy was sharing the pressure in the bottom lane.

The thing that IG's lineup has the most is damage. Even without him, they can still kill the dragon.

On the contrary, if Angel continues to carry the team alone, IM team must allocate manpower to contain him.

because……

"Can this hero destroy towers so quickly?"

Jinjiao was surprised to see that half of the health of the bottom lane highland tower suddenly disappeared after Angel attacked for only three seconds.

Judgement Angel Kayle, this hero has a very simple mechanism and is no stranger to professional players.

But if you say you are familiar with him, you are not very familiar with him. After all, this is a hero that is often on the bench in the arena, and professional players basically only focus on studying the popular versions.

In fact, the old version of Angel's passive [Holy Flame] is a powerful weapon for destroying towers and tanks.

[Holy Flame]: When Kayle attacks an enemy hero, it will lose armor and 3% magic resistance for 5 seconds. This effect can be stacked up to 5 times.

This effect can also work on defensive towers. With [Holy Flame], even without magic penetration and physical penetration equipment, tank heroes will be completely unable to stand in front of Kayle.

"Nash, Sheep Knife, Ice Staff, Attack Speed ​​Boots..."

Opening the Tab panel, Jinjiao saw the angel's equipment.

TheShy's Mercy was relatively invisible in this game, and was developing throughout the whole process. The record so far is 0/0/0.

He didn't get any kill money, but his development was not bad at all, because he didn't participate in fights and focused on last-hitting and jungle clearing. Now he has the most last-hit in the game, leading the second place by nearly thirty kills, and the opposing Treant is even more than fifty kills behind.

"This monster..." Jinjiao said with a headache.

The most troublesome thing about IG is the individual strength of its five members.

Although TheShy has been in the industry for less than a year, under the coaching of the old monster Yuan Shen, there is absolutely no problem for him to be among the top three top laners in LPL.

Moreover, coupled with his unique playing style and inhuman aggressiveness, some people even feel that laning against him is more troublesome than laning against MaRin.

When playing against MaRin, he can still withstand pressure in the laning phase, and he won't kill us all.

But when you play against TheShy, you will be forced to suffer all the time. Who can stand that?

Regarding TheShy, we can only suppress his lead but cannot suppress his development.

It will even give other IG members a lot of room to perform.

It’s not targeting TheShy. Whether the top laner can withstand the pressure is one thing. Even if he can, he cannot suppress his terrifying development ability.

Not to mention, IG's mid-jungle strength is also unique in the world...

Just like now.

"The other side has a dragon!" AmazingJ reminded,
"I'll try to grab the dragon, support, help me open up the vision!!" Ben4 said.

"I'll guard the tower."

Jinjiao said.

With similar understanding of the game, the IM players reached a consensus instantly.

Maokai can no longer defend against such a well-developed Angel. When Card dies, the best candidate is Sivir, who has a strong ability to clear lanes.

Sivir has a big move and two skills. She can just clear the line under the tower and leave. What can happen?

However, when he saw Sivir alone behind the tower, and the enemy top, jungle and support were all near the dragon pit on the minimap, TheShy instantly showed his fangs.

The soldiers entered the tower, and the moment Sivir attacked the soldiers, Angel suddenly jumped up.

Holy Blessings -

The blood recovery and the acceleration buff lasting three seconds were applied to the angel himself.

The sword of Righteous Wrath was swung out, and the burning holy flame shot at Sivir's body, triggering the slowing effect of the ice staff and the special effects of the sheep knife.

I just finished pushing the line, and my War Fervor and Sheep Knife are both at full levels.

Holy Flame, Righteous Fury, Sheep Knife, War Fervor, Ice Staff - each of Kayle's normal attacks comes with many buffs.

For heroes with attack special effects, the damage is simply incomprehensible.

In the accelerated state, Kyle went to extreme A and fanned out three times in one second.

At the first moment, Jinjiao subconsciously activated the magic shield, but Kayle's damage all came from normal attacks, which could not be blocked at all. The holy flame was surging, and in just one second, half of Sivir's health suddenly disappeared.

Jinjiao just reacted and used his flash and ultimate skills to heal!
Using flash doesn't kill... This principle doesn't seem to apply to TheShy.

After all, he was a foreigner, so it was understandable that he didn't know the local rules. But Jinjiao suffered a heavy loss.

Sivir is too difficult to kill with her ultimate and dual skills.

Originally, TheShy just wanted to force a skill, but Jinjiao made a mistake. Jinjiao subconsciously gave up the magic shield, which made him change his mind.

Zheng!
Angel flashed over the tower and followed up.

At the same time, Jinjiao hurriedly called for help from his teammates, and a red whirlwind appeared on the highland tower.

The TP from Maokai did not shake TheShy's determination.

Although Sivir has healing and ultimate speed-up, he doesn't run fast because of the effect of the ice staff, and the angel also has a three-second acceleration from [Divine Blessing].

Just as the acceleration effect on herself disappeared and at the last second before Sivir's magic shield disappeared, Angel used her Q skill [Reckoning].

A ball of holy flame attacked Sivir.

The full level Q has a huge slow of 55%.

The angel successfully closed the distance, swung the sword of justice in his hand, and killed Sivir with three holy flames.

The tree TPed to the ground, flashed EW, and tied the angel within the attack range of the highland tower.

Revenge vortex!

Arcane Smash!

The tree's WR skills were all used up, and with the continuous output of lasers from the highland tower, Angel's health dropped rapidly.

But TheShy was not in a hurry and was not in a hurry to use his ultimate. Instead, he used W to hit himself again, accelerated his blood recovery, walked out of the defensive tower, and pretended to leave.

Of course the tree didn't give up. He turned on the Glory of Justice and threw a Q as soon as he came up to continue the fight.

But the angel soon pulled away from him again.

Angel used her ultimate move and A to counterattack, and the tree's health dropped rapidly at a rate visible to the naked eye.

On the contrary, the angel who had perfectly pulled the distance did not change his health at all, and maintained about 20% of his health.

Of course AJ didn't come here for free, but to keep people.

destiny!

The resurrected card activated his ultimate move, and the landing point was determined to be near the angel.

The angel did not retreat but advanced, actively approaching the point where the card landed.

As soon as Card landed, he used the yellow card. If the Angel had been hit by the damage from the following WQA combo, she would have died for sure. TheShy pressed QR at maximum speed, which caused a huge slowdown effect on Card, making it impossible for him to kite the Angel, and gave himself an invincible effect.

Divine protection!

During the two seconds of invincibility, Card held on to Q and did not waste any damage.

The angel recovered from the stunned state of the yellow card and shifted the output target to the card. The damage was horrific. In just one second, three holy flames burned away half of the card's blood.

The invincible state disappeared, and Card turned around to use QA, but was hit by Angel's W, and his health recovery was accelerated, so he moved and twisted his body to avoid it.

Two more holy flames were fired, and the card was killed.

Double Kill! !
When Card died, the tree's skill had just finished cooling down, and another W was tied up, and the Q skill was smashed, killing Angel in the jungle.

"Axi!"

TheShy closed his eyes and raised his head.

The blood volume is too low.

If there are a little more, we can wait until the dangerous game is triggered, and it is not impossible to kill the big tree.

“I was shown off again.”

Although he took the angel's head, it was at the cost of two heads. AJ looked very unhappy.

Sometimes, life is like a bow that you can't resist, so you can only enjoy it.

He couldn't count how many times he had faced off against TheShy, and was beaten badly every time.

He won quite a few training matches, but they basically had nothing to do with him.

After being shown off so many times, you get used to it.

AJ found joy in adversity and sought pleasure in the life. He often watched videos of Yuan Shen and TheShy's games and learned some details about how to handle top lane. Over the past year, his ability to withstand pressure has actually grown a lot and he has become the mainstay of the IM team.

But there are some things that you can’t learn just by watching videos.

This is what the angels did.

High frequency of micro-manipulation, the timing and order of skill release, and the judgment of damage...

Unlike details that can be imitated, such as combos and routines, the handling methods of the above details will change with the situation and rely purely on temporary decisions.

No one can find fault with TheShy's handling of details, and it is undoubtedly the best solution.

"It was a mistake..."

Yuan Shen complained silently.

If he were to do the operation, he would be able to kill three people and still not die.

In that case, IM's highland tower will have a chance to be destroyed.

But being able to achieve this level is already very good.

“66666——!”

"The damage done to the angel is outrageous."

"Three against one and two replaced, do you know how to play?"

Angel's operation, I wonder if it's enough to have hands? "

"The one in front of you, you are talking nonsense. Can you show off your talents to Garen? Can you understand the details?"

Heroes like Angel, Garen, Stoneman, and Werewolf are completely fool-proof, but some people can use them to reach the strongest king, such as AmazingJ, who is the famous No. 1 Garen in the national server. But some people can only fight with elementary school students in the bronze rank.

Where is the difference?

It's about the details.

On the field, after IG took down the Baron, they returned to the city for reorganization and directly broke through the two high grounds of IM.

The speed at which Angel destroyed the tower was really terrifying. When Sivir tried to stop Angel, the following scene perfectly illustrated what it meant to be a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

Angel used W to speed up her own health recovery and chased Sivir, no more, no less, five basic attacks, triggering the sheep knife special effect twice, and killed Sivir.

As if he had casually killed an ant, the angel turned around and continued to demolish the tower.

The crystal main fort exploded and IG won the first game.

In the next second game, IG, which rotated to the red side, still used a lineup with strong mid, bottom and jungle in the early and mid-game, while the top laner ensured a strong lineup in the late game.

In the early game, IG completely let the top lane go and engaged in crazy fights and trouble in the lower half of the zone. Even if there was no opportunity for a fight, they would force it to happen. The strong aggressiveness they displayed surprised many professional team players and coaches who were watching the game.

The IM team, with its rigid and inflexible playing style, failed to find a way to deal with the situation. The rhythm was the same as in the first game, with the mid, bottom and jungle teams collapsing. Also, because TheShy started to exert his strength after his equipment was completed, the game could not be dragged to the late stage and was quickly ended by IG.

Two to zero.

"Let us congratulate IG for winning today's match against IM!"

"IM was the first strong team they met in the summer season, and IG's main lineup was also gathered for the first time. IG used this BO3 crushing victory to strongly announce their return!! It can be seen that every player of IG is in very good shape." Miller made a post-match summary.

Wawa interrupted at the right time and said: "Hey, Miller, have you noticed that IG's playing style has changed a lot today?"

"Of course." Miller nodded.

"IG's play today was too aggressive. In the past, IG's proactive attacks were basically to seize the opponent's mistakes or breakthroughs, which were reasonable attacks, but today they made a lot of unreasonable and risky attacks."

"IG also made a lot of mistakes today."

Don't blame the commentator for over-interpretation.

After winning the championship last year and reorganizing its personnel this year, IG has maintained its momentum throughout the spring and won the MSI championship again. Now, IG is the team with the greatest hope of achieving the unprecedented miracle of winning two consecutive championships in the entire League of Legends.

It's not just the LPL commentators, all major regions around the world are paying attention to IG's every move, and they can't wait to use a magnifying glass to study every detail.

Version 6.15 brought major changes, impacting the systems of many teams.

The first to be affected is undoubtedly IG.

Riot Games has been targeting the world champion for a long time, and everyone understands this unspoken rule.

The entire IG team's play style has changed so significantly. Obviously, this is their understanding of version 6.15 and their new play style.

"This style of play has strong offensive power. Once a breakthrough is made, the first blood tower will be easily destroyed. It should not be underestimated."

Some teams think so.

"There were too many mistakes. This is not a mature style of play at all. IG has gone astray. This is not a concern."

There are also some teams that think this way.

Tieba, Hupu, Zhihu, and major gaming media all have their own opinions on IG's playing style, some agree, while others sneer at it.

Yuan Shen doesn’t know about these things yet, and even if he does, he won’t care.

People are all like this. Their first reaction to new things is to question and reject them.

What Yuan Shen cares more about now is...what to say in the interview later?
Yes, the interview for this game was finally given to Yuan Shen.

Since he participated in the Olympic training camp, he has not appeared in front of the audience or accepted interviews for a long time.

Before today's game, many fans and viewers sent private messages to the LPL official Weibo, saying that they must interview Yuan Shen, otherwise they would unfollow him...

What to do?

Yuan Shen has too many fans now, and even the official can’t afford to offend them. Even if they have other plans, they can only accept the audience’s requests.

Of course, Yuan Shen is the traffic king, and the LPL official is also looking forward to the upcoming interview.

"It's time for the post-match interview we've been looking forward to the most. After two months, we returned to the LPL arena and defeated the third-placed IM team. I wonder how Yuan Shen feels now?"

Yuan Shen took the microphone and looked at the host.

It was not Ren Dong, the old acquaintance who was in charge of the post-match interview, but a woman wearing a black OL suit and outstanding appearance. Although her clothes were a little different from what Yuan Shen remembered, he still recognized her appearance.

It turned out to be Yu Shuang, the gold medal female host of LPL in later generations.

The time when Yu Shuang really became famous was the S7 World Finals next year.

Her unique Chinese cheongsam, graceful and appropriate conversation, and bilingual hosting with a standard accent have left a deep impression on audiences and even commentators in major competition areas around the world.

But in fact, she joined LPL as early as the summer of 2016, but she was not well-known and had not found her own position in terms of clothing style.
"That... contestant Yuan Shen?"

Seeing that Yuan Shen didn't reply for a long time and glanced at her from time to time, Yu Shuang couldn't help but feel a little confused and excited.

Regardless of gender, being noticed by good-looking people of the opposite sex is undoubtedly a happy thing.

Yu Shuang, who had just broken up with her ex-boyfriend and had not yet started dating Guan Zeyuan, couldn't help but start to have wild thoughts.

Could it be that... my second spring is coming?

If Yuan Shen knew what she was thinking, he would definitely say no loudly. Please don't think too much, it's impossible for us!
Not to mention the five-year age difference between the two, just before his rebirth, Yuan Shen was one of the viewers who often posted "Auntie Yuzhen" in the barrage.

The reason why he kept looking at Yu Shuang was just because he found it interesting.

Not as a spectator, but as a professional player, I have witnessed the changes in LPL with my own eyes. There are more and more familiar faces in my memory. This feeling is very novel.

(End of this chapter)