Chapter 260-Preview of the World Championship, the final battle begins!

The director's camera was focused on the top lane. This game was a bit weird, as the two shooter heroes didn't officially meet until 20 minutes later.

Lucian is four levels higher than Ashe.

If the audience came in to watch the game halfway through, they would definitely think that the bottom lane was doomed to fail.

At this time, TheShy's Lucian did not retreat after pushing the line of troops to the high ground, but instead went forward to attack the tower.

How could my brother-in-law agree to that?
Frost used [Ten Thousand Arrows] to slow down Lucian, then he stepped forward and attacked him twice in an attempt to force the black gunman away.

However, after taking two basic attacks from Frost, Lucian still did not retreat. Instead, he took two steps into the tower and continued to attack the tower.

This inhuman behavior made the brother-in-law directly activate the Q skill [Shooter's Focus], triggering a rain of icy arrows.

At this time, Lucian began to flee outside the tower. The brother-in-law did not give up the opportunity to beat the downed dog and continued to chase him.

Ashe's passive deceleration allows her to kite her opponent perfectly.

However, what the brother-in-law did not notice was that while he was attacking Lucian, the hatred of a group of soldiers under the tower also turned to him.

He also didn't notice that the damage done by Ashe, who was four levels behind, was barely enough to hurt Lucian.

When Ashe's health dropped to a certain level, Lucian suddenly jumped up.

Blade of the Ruined King, triggered actively.

The moment he sucked a mouthful of blood, Lucian fired a Fierce Bomb in his counterattack.

When Ruined King attacked, Brother-in-law reacted quickly and began to retreat, using the range advantage and deceleration characteristics of Ice to perfectly block Lucian's shooting range, forcing him to only attack with his passive.

In order to counterattack Ashe in this wave, Lucian can only use E to come up and attack him under the tower.

Give up your only displacement and attack someone by going over the tower?
Only a fool would do this!!

"Asi!?" The brother-in-law was shocked. Is there really such a fool?

Lucian triggers the Ruined King, and the moment he counterattacks and wakes up, he immediately uses the E skill, chases into the tower, and then follows up with a normal attack.

The brother-in-law reacted very quickly. When Lucian launched a normal attack, he immediately used his ultimate skill, Magic Crystal Arrow, to pin Lucian who was crossing the tower under the tower.

But at this moment, an incredible scene appeared.

Lucian, who had just used his E skill, used another E skill and avoided Ashe's ultimate move by a hair's breadth.

Seamless Double E?

Without time to think, the brother-in-law quickly flashed to create distance, and Lucian flashed immediately after, fired two Holy Light Silver Bullets, followed by a penetrating Holy Light and two Holy Light Silver Bullets, and then followed by Holy Light Baptism.

At the same time, another E skill is used, and he easily escapes from the attack range of the defense tower.

Holy light was shooting out from outside the tower, and even though Han Bing recovered some blood through healing, it was of no use, and he was directly killed by the hard damage.

From crossing the tower to leaving the tower, from the first E skill to the third E skill, it took no more than two seconds from beginning to end, and Lucian only suffered a little damage from the defensive tower.

"Siba!!"

In the LGD base, Imp's KFC family bucket of chicken wings fell to the ground, with a look of surprise on his face.

When TheShy killed Maokai twice alone, he demonstrated Lucian's operations and combos, which are basically mastered by the top ADCs in the league. In Imp's opinion, there is nothing to brag about.

It’s not that he looks down on TheShy, on the contrary, Imp values ​​this player more than anyone else.

There was no way, his Tristana was killed instantly by TheShy's Riven.

Moreover, what really allowed TheShy to beat 957 was not only Lucian's hero advantage against Maokai, but also TheShy's understanding of the upper unit, his control of the minion line, damage calculation, the timing of the kill, and his rich Solo experience. These things cannot be learned at all.

But this wave of killing is different from the higher tower, this operation is really eye-catching.

The principle of the seamless double E technique is very simple, and he uses it frequently.

The prerequisite for this skill is that Lucian's cooldown must be as high as 35%.

(Black Cut 20%, Rune 10%, Blue Buff 10%, Total 40%)
At the full level, E has a basic cooldown of 14 seconds and a 35% cooldown, which can reduce the cooldown time of the E skill to 9 seconds.

Lucian's [Holy Silver Bullet (Passive)] will reduce the cooldown of the E skill by two seconds per shot when it is aimed at a hero. Triggering the passive skill once will reduce the cooldown of the E skill by four seconds.

In other words, as long as the passive skill is triggered twice, the E skill will be cooled down.

Seamless Double E is a technique based on this theory.
The combo order can be WAEAEA or QAEAEA.

The key to performing a seamless double E is to release the first skill and then connect it with a basic attack. Before the bullet hits the enemy hero, use the first E skill immediately. During the displacement of the E skill, the two bullets from the previous basic attack will reduce the CD. After the displacement, follow up with a basic attack. Four attacks will reduce the CD by 8 seconds.

At this time, the E skill will cool down immediately, and then releasing the second E skill will be a seamless double E.

Combo techniques are like magic. After the principles are revealed, you will think they are nothing special, but there are only a few people who can actually apply them in actual combat.

TheShy was too confident in this tower dive. Not only was his operation very delicate, but his damage calculation was also extremely accurate. On the third E, he did not choose to chase and damage the opponent, but directly maintained the [Holy Lance Baptism] state. His action of pulling away from the tower was full of confidence.

This solo kill and a series of operations gave people a pleasing feeling, a calm confidence and strength.

Judging from the limited space, TheShy's proficiency in Lucian is astonishingly high.

But the problem is...Lucian is not a traditional top laner.

Many people, including Imp, really didn't expect TheShy to be able to do this, and the brother-in-law was also caught off guard.

The black man with two guns slaughtered the white royal woman with bows and arrows. It was simply the rebellion against the heavens!

After the core player of the enemy lineup, Frost, died, IG immediately forced a team fight.

Crocodile, Spider, and Thresh flashed to start a team fight. The little mage, who had been developing for more than 20 minutes, showed his prowess for the first time. He killed Xiye's Syndra instantly with a flash QR. Various meteorites fell from the sky, making WE dare not to defend the tower under it.

WE huddled together to defend the middle lane, and while they were defeated step by step, Lucian also destroyed the crystal barracks in the top lane and cleared the level alone.

Lucian moved to the middle lane again and cooperated with his teammates to take down the highland tower in the bottom lane.

The decline is irreversible and defeat is inevitable.

One minute later, IG, which had taken the Baron Buff, changed its aggressive momentum and very steadily broke through the bottom lane high ground first, then assembled three lanes of super soldiers + Baron Buff, and flattened the main base in one wave, and the game ended.

As soon as the second game ended, #IG Artistic Lineup# immediately became one of the top ten hot searches on Weibo and Tieba, and countless people were discussing it.

"Cover your ID, I thought this was a bronze game."

"IG can win no matter how they play. They have overwhelming strength."

"It's really eye-opening to see this kind of lineup in professional competitions."

Netizens were discussing the issue and each had their own opinion.

It has to be said that once the BO5 elimination stage of the playoffs comes, in the face of a life-and-death game that determines whether or not they can advance, all the major teams will pull out their best weapons.

There are so many highlights in these two games, whether it is the climbing combination in the first game that is likely to become a new star in the arena, or the artistic lineup of IG that broke the EU flow in the second game.

The rock climbing combination is easy to explain, as everyone can understand the combo of these two heroes.

But the artistic lineup in the second game showed an understanding of the game that was so advanced and profound that many people were confused and just thought IG was playing around.

There are also a few people who understood IG's thinking behind the division of lanes and found it very novel.

In addition, there are those who pretend to know everything but follow the crowd. When you win a game, these people are the ones who brag the most, and when you lose a game, they are often the ones who criticize the most.

"Is this lineup IG's new understanding of the meta, or is it, as some people say, that IG is just crushing with hard power and can win by playing randomly?"

This problem also faced Homme.

The halftime break was ten minutes, which was too short and not enough for Homme to come up with a countermeasure.

During the BanPick stage in professional competitions, one thing often happens.

After the BanPick phase ended, when our coach stepped down to shake hands with the opposing coach, he suddenly realized that this BP was going to be bad and regretted it deeply.

Is it because the coach’s level is not good enough and he can’t think of the opponent’s traps?
No.

The time was too short and too rushed.

After the enemy team selects their hero, the professional team only has sixty seconds to choose their hero.

During these sixty seconds, you must not only consider the tactical significance of the opponent locking on this hero, but also predict what the opponent will choose next, as well as the integrity of your own lineup, the hero's power period, the hero restraint relationship, etc. Once any of these links goes wrong, the BP will be full of unexpected things.

For example, because the opponent player often uses Spider in Rank, we predict that the opponent will choose Spider next and prepare a targeted routine.

But what if the opponent doesn’t choose it?
How many alternative plans are there?
If I have to make an analogy, BP is like playing the Teamfight Tactics mode.

You never know what cards the dealer will give you in the next round, nor do you know what cards the opponent will get. You can only take one step at a time and make decisions in a limited time. Whether you can win after choosing the lineup depends on whether the chess pieces on the field can perform well.

The linkage of heroes' skills and cooperation during their strong periods are called bonds.

For example, Pantheon Taliyah, Gem Swordmaster, Spider Crocodile...

"Come on, I believe you are the strongest." Homme encouraged, but after two consecutive games of being crushed, the effect of chicken soup was obviously not as good as in the previous game.

The young men of WE walked towards the battlefield with depressed looks.

In the third game, the first problem WE showed was the BP problem.

Taliyah, Taliyah, Ryze, Jhin, Alistar... Roughly speaking, there are five heroes that absolutely cannot be given to IG.

There are only three bannable positions, which is totally insufficient.

On the contrary, IG just continued with the previous BP and banned Tam, Morgana, and Olaf.

If the hardware is not good enough, no matter how skilled Homme is, it will be beyond his reach.

In this game, the BP was at a disadvantage from the start.

Ming got the Minotaur and Jack got Jhin. The two main heroes directly opened a breakthrough in the laning phase and completed a kill.

Afterwards, with the help of his own midfielder, he gained a great advantage.

In just over ten minutes, they took down another blood tower.

With economic advantage, vision advantage, and dragon buff advantage, the snowball kept rolling. After 20 minutes when the dragon refreshed, TheShy's Jayce joined the team in the top lane. There was another big boss with terrifying damage that could not be solved.

In version 6.17, Jayce's E skill mana cost was changed to 40 points at all levels, which was another top laner enhancement. The Baron forced a team fight, and the game ended in minutes.

"Let us congratulate IG for defeating WE with a score of 3-0 and advancing to the Summer Finals!!"

PDD and Ze Yuan exclaimed in unison.

The smile seemed forced. He wished he could hear congratulations to WE. He had heard from his friends in the club how hard the five young men on the field worked.

But which strong team’s players would not work hard?

In professional competitions, only success, failure and honor matter.

You will never be awarded a trophy just because you work so hard or have so many fans.

"IG's performance today was really unexpected," Guan Zeyuan commented, "They seem to have gotten out of the slump during the regular season, and have successfully transformed themselves during the preparation period, completing their rebirth and finding a new style of play that belongs to them."

"Yes." PDD nodded. "I believe that no matter who watches today's game, they will take back their previous bad comments about IG... Especially RNG and EDG. No matter who wins tomorrow's semifinals, they will face the mountain of IG."

The return of IG's dominance has made all LPL teams feel helpless.

With a team like this around, when will it be someone else's turn to win the LPL league championship?

The LPL region is the most complete e-sports market in the world, with the largest audience and the broadest and richest commercial soil.

Riot Games attaches great importance to this, and Riot designers are naturally also watching this game.

The designers felt a little disappointed at this moment.

The IG team that dominated last year's World Championship, dominated this year's MSI, and gave them a lot of headaches, seems to be back again? ?

Yuan Shen is still the same Yuan Shen. Although he has brought his talents to the jungle position, his dominance remains the same as before.

And the top laner TheShy also entered their field of vision.

Change the version again?
For example, nerf Taliyah, Kindred, and Vampire again?
"No, we have already announced that 6.18 is the World Championship version."

It would be really ugly if you were to slap yourself in the face just to target a professional team.

"That's it." Finally, it was Tryndamere, the CEO of Riot, who spoke.

"We have helped to this extent and have done enough. If other teams still cannot beat IG and win the championship, they can only blame their lack of strength. We are the designers of the game. We can control it, but we cannot interfere."

"The world championship should belong to the strongest team in the world this year."

The next day.

The RNGvsEDG semi-final opens.

RNG's outstanding performance in the spring season has accumulated a lot of popularity for the team, and Uzi's growth in the summer season has made this team another galaxy battleship.

Especially after Xiang Guo and Uzi returned from the Olympics, they led RNG to a series of consecutive victories.

During the period when IG was in a slump, many RNG fans boldly stated on Tieba, Weibo, forums, etc. that RNG was aiming for the S6 world championship.

The fans who praised the team may not have thought that once RNG fails, all of these will become fodder for the haters.

Of course, the same is true for IG. After defeating WE 3-0 and showing amazing dominance, fans have begun to boldly imagine winning two consecutive championships.

Judging from the player configuration alone, this year's generation is indeed the strongest in RNG's history.

The S4 world champion top support, Xiaohu and Xiangguo, who are regarded as the new generation of domestic mid-jungle twin stars, and the "world's No. ADC" - Uzi.

In Yuan Shen's opinion, even if the future RNG is composed of only Chinese players, if we only discuss the player configuration and the upper limit of strength, it may not be as good as the current RNG.

The former is easy to understand, as the two Korean players in the top and supporting roles have the highest honors.

As for the latter... In terms of strength ceiling, the current RNG really has three lanes, top, middle and bottom, including the jungler. Each lane has the potential to take over the game and stand up to carry the entire game.

Even in the entire S6, top laner Looper was one of the best performing top laners, not inferior to top Korean top laners such as Duke and CuVee.

Xiang Guo’s jungle style has always been a double-edged sword, but after this Olympics, he has also undergone new transformation and growth, and has become more mature to some extent.

The mid laner Xiaohu is still famous for his expertise as an assassin, and he is not the Tiger Emperor who was commented by foreign media that he plays any hero like a support.

Not to mention the bottom lane, the Uzi+Mata duo, on the day when RNG officially announced the spring season, many people thought this might be the world's No. 1 bottom lane this year.

The upper limit of the strength of a multi-core system is higher than that of a single-core system... This is common sense.

However, no one expected that RNG in the spring season would still be playing four protecting one, and in the end they didn't even make it to the top four.

However, RNG has changed a lot in the summer season, and Uzi has also gotten used to not getting any resources in the games he plays for.

After returning to China, Looer and Xiaohu have more opportunities to become the core C position of the team.

An RNG like this might get good results in the World Championship.

As long as Mata, the brain of the team, does not perform poorly in the S6 World Championship...

Yuan Shen is not sure whether Mata will still be loyal to his country.

However, when playing in the LPL region, Mata's strength is still online.

In the semi-finals, RNG also showed amazing strength. Except for one game in the middle where they were dragged to more than 50 minutes by EDG and turned the tables by EDG's late-game lineup of Maokai + Azar + Sivir, the other three games ended cleanly.

RNG leads EDG 3-1 and advances to the finals.

"Here it comes, just like spring, IG will beat others in the finals again"

"It was the same in last year's summer season. Our opponents in the finals changed from LGD to EDG and then to RNG. Only IG was never absent!"

"Champion top support vs. champion mid and jungle, what a life!"

"RNG is in such a strong state. I have no idea who will win."

"Damn, dammit, I can't wait any longer. When does the finals start?"

For the audience and fans, this kind of strong confrontation is the most anticipated.

The players of RNG and IG teams are equally matched and can be called All-Stars.

Moreover, after defeating WE, IG has already secured LPL's first direct ticket to the S game. With 300 points for the Spring Season champion and 300 points for the guaranteed runner-up in the Summer Season, IG has only two choices.

One is to win the championship and advance directly as the LPL No. 600 seed, and the other is to get points and rank first in the annual points and advance directly as the LPL No. seed.

As for RNG, unless they win the summer championship, they will have to play in the bubble match even if they get runner-up.

Because the team with the second highest points throughout the year is EDG.

EDG, which beat WE in the third place match, is now extremely anticipated.

Because they have 200 points for being the runner-up in the spring season, plus 200 points for being the third place in the summer season, a total of 400 points.

If RNG is the runner-up, they will only have 360 ​​points, which is not enough to compare with them.

In other words, IG won the championship and EDG directly advanced as the second seed.

RNG still has to compete with WE, Snake Team, and NB for the third seed.

(Top 300 points in Spring Season: 200, 100, 80, 60, 60, 40, 40,
Summer season top eight points: promotion, 300, 200, 90, 70, 70, 50, 50)

Of course, with advancement already secured, IG fans are only looking forward to an exciting finals match, preferably a full five games.

During the days when there were no competitions, netizens could only entertain themselves, posting and discussing various topics. There were constant rhythms, verbal battles, and flags, leaving behind a lot of material.

There is a full ten-day preparation period between the semi-finals and the finals.
Compared to the preparation period between the quarterfinals, semifinals and semifinals in the playoffs, this period is relatively long.

This is also a matter of course.

The finals have a completely different meaning. It is the moment when a new champion of a regional league is crowned.

Including the LCS North American region with the strongest capital, the competition venues of major leagues will not be very large in the stage before the finals. For example, in the LPL, the playoffs are simply held in the same venue as the regular season without any changes.

But in the finals, it was different.

The venue for this year's summer finals was chosen to be the Baoneng International Sports Center in Guangzhou.

The total construction area of ​​the venue is 12 square meters. There are 60 spectator seats and luxurious VIP boxes in the venue. It is large in scale and is one of the few basketball stadiums built according to NBA standards and one of the best venues in the country.

The 2010th Asian Games was held here in .

In addition to preparing for the competition, the contestants also have to take two days to cooperate with the official recording of the finals promotional video MV, pre-match trash talk, and advertising activities for sponsors.

Well-known companies and big brands such as KFC, Mercedes-Benz, Huawei, and JD.com have invested capital in this emerging industry in the e-sports circle.

KFC has made a significant investment, and is said to be launching a spokesperson for the event at the finals...

To be more precise, it is not a spokesperson, but an artificial intelligence that is the spokesperson.

KFC Colonel KI, what is coming has finally come.

More and more familiar things appeared, and they appeared earlier because of him. Yuan Shen was very interested.

There are more interesting stories during the preparation period.

In the LCK Summer Finals, Rox Tiger defeated KT with a score of 3 to 2 to win the league championship and become the number one seed in the LCK region this year.

In the last life-and-death game, Smeb changed his fate. He used his ultimate to kill the Baron with two blood, and led the team to complete a rare comeback in this version. He won the first league championship in his life. All the members of Rox Tiger were in tears, and Smeb was reborn.

SKT, with the highest points throughout the year, became the second seed of LCK.

In the European region, G2 advanced as the number one seed, and H2K was the number two seed.

In the North American division, CLG has been in a slump since MSI. The summer championship was won by TSM, which has the jungle king Kakao, and the second seed was won by the North American art team C9.

In the LMS region, FW team still won the championship without any suspense.

The finals of each major region have been played and the first and second tier seeds have been confirmed.

Only the LPL region has not yet determined who is the current league champion.

This can't help but make the world's attention turn to this great country in the Far East...

(End of this chapter)