Chapter 88-Heavy-armored Warriors, drawing ceremony!
The departure ceremony ended quickly.

Wearing the official blue and white porcelain jerseys, all IG members were very happy and took photos together.

All three teams have been confirmed, which also means that the summer season in major regions around the world has come to an end.

In the next month or even two months, there will be only one theme for League of Legends, and that is the World Championship!

With the update of the national server version on September 9, the world championship version came, and the heavy-armored warriors emerged, causing a bloody storm on the Rank ladder of Ionia.

It was only when the 5.18 version was officially scheduled that people could see what kind of big game Riot was planning!
The rework of Noxus and Malphite has been completed, and other warrior heroes have also been reworked to varying degrees.

Such as Garen's villain mechanism, Scorpion's crystal passive...

At the same time, a large number of new equipment suitable for top warrior heroes have made their debut!

Stark's Gauntlets of Defiance, Dead Man's Plate, Free Switch between Giant Hydra and Greedy Hydra, New Version of Black Cleaver...

Every piece of equipment perfectly fits the positioning of the heavy-armored warrior. Not only that, in the previous few versions, Riot has also gradually weakened the data strength of many mid-lane and ADC heroes.

Some less sensitive teams previously thought it was just a normal update, but now it seems that it is clearly paving the way for a version where the top lane is king!
It takes one second for Jie to return to the original position after using his ultimate skill.

The judgment range of Leblanc's chain is shortened, the flying speed of the W skill is slowed down, and the damage of the Q skill is greatly reduced.

Ryze, who has been popular for a season, has also been severely weakened, and many people think that this hero is useless.

Although Lucian's skill damage has been increased, his range has been shortened.

The Q skill of Annie was weakened, the damage of W was weakened, the QE of Skateboard Shoes was cut, the additional damage of W to the contractor was also weakened, and the mana consumption of Jinx's Q skill was increased...

These changes are released gradually, not all at once.

However, looking at the changes in several versions, the entire game ecosystem can be said to have undergone earth-shaking changes! !

However, compared to the LPL in history which was caught off guard by version updates and unable to adapt all at once, the current LPL has become very calm.

On Riot's ranking list, Yuan Shen has been listed as the world's number one top laner.

Under the influence of IG's top lane core tactics that have been implemented for a year, other LPL teams have already had a full understanding of this version.

Top lane will be the most eye-catching position in the entire S5!

The door to the World Championship was opened, and all the powerful teams came in one after another.

The teams from each region participating in the World Championship have been determined and the draw ceremony is about to take place.

After the draw ceremony, the three LPL teams will board the plane to Paris.

In the early morning of September 9, all IG members were squatting in front of their computer screens.

The person in charge of the draw was OMG's mid laner, Uzi, who traveled across the ocean to Los Angeles, USA.

The first to be announced is the number one seed in each group.

Group A, the No. 1 seed of the North American LCS region, the strongest wing of hope, CLG team.

Group B, the No. 1 seed of the European LCS region, the S world champion, and the e-sports giant FNC team.

Group C, the No. 3 seed of the Korean LCK region, the S1 world champion, SKT T team.

Group D, the No. 1 seed of the Chinese LPL region, IG team.

When each team appears, they have a glorious past record, including North America's Wings of Hope CLG, and there are also videos of winning the season championship.

But IG is in an awkward situation. Their most glorious record was when PDD was there, they won the SWL championship, and then there was the video of their summer championship.

As the draw progressed, the other nine teams slowly emerged and arrived at their respective groups.

The second team in Group A, the second seed of the LMS region, Flash Wolves FW.

The third team, KOO Tigers, the third seed of LCK.

Everyone in IG looked at each other in bewilderment.

Group A is now a group of death!

Two strong teams from the five major regions, plus a tiger team, no matter whether it is LGD or EDG, they will have to be skinned. When the last team of Group A appeared, everyone in IG breathed a sigh of relief.

Brazilian wildcard zone, PNG team.

In this case, the situation of Group A is very clear.

South Korea's second seed KOO Tigers and CLG, which has veteran star Doublelift who has been playing since the 2012 season, are relatively strong, but FW and the Brazilian champions also have the possibility of an upset.

The FNC team in Group B is also a strong opponent.

In the summer season, FNC set an undefeated record in the regular season. Young player Huni was known as the No. 1 top laner in Europe and killed many opponents in the laning phase. The talented mid laner Febiven and the core player of the team Yellowstar also performed very well during the MSI.

The second draw was LGD.

Everyone in IG breathed a sigh of relief.

For LGD, the situation is already clear.

Among the remaining teams, there are basically no major opponents.

Unless KT is pulled over...

In that case, Group B will be a group of death no less terrible than Group A.

The third draw is the No. 1 seed of the LMS region, AHQ team.

With the star player Simon, AHQ itself is also a veteran and strong team in LMS.

The fourth draw is the third seed of the North American LCS region, the C9 team known as the artistic team!

The team lost three games in a row in the playoffs and came back from 2-0 down to 3-0 twice before entering the World Championship, which made this team one of the weaker teams in the group stage.

"This... is definitely a good sign!"

"LGD was drawn into the only group without a Korean team. Isn't this going to take off?"

"What a shame. It would be better if we could switch with EDG."

"Yes, EDG is AHQ's biological father..."

The barrage in the live broadcast room exploded instantly.

And with Group A and Group B all selected, the remaining groups are already very obvious.

Following the principle of avoiding group matches in the same region, EDG is unlikely to go to Group D and can only face SKT in Group C in advance, while KT will face IG in Group D.

The final result of the lottery is:
Group A, CLG, KOO, FW, PNG
Group B: FNC, LGD, AHQ, C9
Group C: SKT, EDG, H2K, BKT
Group D: IG, KT, TSM, OG
As soon as the grouping results were announced, the entire LPL community instantly became as lively as a boiling pot.

Commentators and players from all major competition areas expressed their views on the groupings.

Among these four groups, the situation in Group C is the most complicated. EDG and SKT will face off again, and Yue Lun and Faker will have a fateful duel. Among these three teams, SKT has a greater chance of qualifying, EDG and H2K also have chances, and the remaining BKT is just a runner-up, and it can almost be announced in advance that it will stop in the round of .

In comparison, the situation in Group B is also pretty good. Without the involvement of the Korean team, the strength of FNC and LGD is obviously higher than that of the other two teams.

Group A and Group D are absolute groups of death.

FW, KOO, and CLG are all at the top of their regions and have impressive strength.

Group D is even more outrageous. As the champion of LPL, IG has extremely strong competitiveness.

Moreover, Yuan Shen was rated as the world's No. 1 top laner by Riot, the new light of the top lane.

KT is the runner-up team of LCK, and the top laner Ssumday is the absolute core, perfectly fitting the current version of the World Championship.

The TSM team, known as the North American cult, has Bjergsen as its core player, but their performance in the summer season was not very good.

OG team is considered to be the second best team after FNC in the entire European LCS region.

XPeke, Sister-in-law, Amzing and others are all regular participants in the World Championships. When they left FNC to establish OG at the beginning of the year, no one would have thought that they could get to this point today.

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