Dean, stop being C, your teammates are not worthy!

Chapter 287 - Extreme matchup, ROX’s weakness!

"Police Dragon King? How can ROX learn our tricks!"

Jack sat on the couch, eating potato chips while giving his opinion.

On the big screen, what is being played is the last game of the quarterfinals, ROX vs. EDG.

Today's winner will be their opponent in the semifinals.

"Dragon King Blind Monk paired with policewoman Jess on the wing, ROX's lineup is very ferocious."

"I can play some. Flandre Rambo's proficiency is pretty good, but I can't use it as a top laner. It depends on Mingkai's choice."

Rookie still trusts EDG's midfielder combination of Ryzga Olaf.

Scout is playing today, and his laning ability is better than Kuro.

"Olav's jungler... is all following our A group."

Xiao Ming pouted, the founder of Olaf jungle is H2K’s jungler Jankos.

It's a bit inappropriate to say that he is the founder, because IG's most famous player in the World Championship last year was the midfielder combination of Kalmag and Olaf.

It's just that the first person to use Olaf as a jungler in this year's World Championship was Jankos.

"EDG..."

Yuan Shen was filled with emotion.

I don’t know where the world line has turned, but it can still circle back.

Is the showdown between Xiaohuahua and Mingkai inevitable...

"Peaunt is quite polite. Is he a fan of Ming Kai? This is the first time I know that."

She Keke raised his eyebrows, while Yuan Shen on the side spread his hands helplessly.

“Things like beating up idols are what young people like to do the most!”

Just looking at the lineups of both sides, Yuan Shen didn't think EDG had much of a disadvantage, but when the game started and saw EDG's performance, he understood...

He is still young.

ROX's midfielder and top midfielder were targeting Flandre's Rambo almost throughout the game.

At seven minutes, the blind monk took advantage of Rambo's teleportation gap and directly chose to jump over the tower.

Jace got first blood, and Rambo lost two waves of blood.

With such a huge advantage, Smeb would not let it go easily.

In this World Championship, Smeb truly reached his peak and maximized his personal abilities!

EDG's response was for the midfielder to go to the bottom lane for a gank. Although they got two kills, Flandre's disadvantage could no longer be stopped.

Faced with the crazy attacks of the blind monk and the Dragon King, although Flandre found a chance to replace the blind monk, the first-blood tower on the road was already broken after just ten minutes.

"Why is EDG's rhythm always in the lower half? This wave is going to explode!!"

Jack was so angry that he almost died.

At the 11th minute, Mingkai took the lead in attacking with the bottom duo. However, due to Jess's early arrival and Zyra's ultimate attack, EDG's lineup was pierced and they lost two defensive towers in a row.

In seventeen minutes, ROX led EDG by a full 7,000 gold.

"Jess Policewoman's quick push system... IG's first lineup was modified by ROX. The strong early roaming of Dragon King and Blind Sin helped Jace gain an economic advantage, and the quick push to the top of the road liberated Jace, and then Inspire the female police officers to push down the tower..."

Miller swallowed, his mouth felt dry.

ROX showed its trump card and demonstrated amazing execution and teamwork capabilities.

In the group stage, they faced RNG with the Ice Lady Gun system, and now they have come up with the Dragon King Jess Policewoman Quick Push system.

Although these tactics all have the shadow of IG, ROX has obviously studied these tactics and grasped the essence.

"No need to fight..."

Yuan Shen shook his head. ROX, who had an advantage in the round, was very aggressive, and EDG's outer towers were broken one after another.

The Dragon King's high mobility combined with Jayce's super explosive power will mean that anyone leading the lane on the wing will be doomed.

After catching Rambo and killing Ryze, who came to support with his ultimate move, ROX directly took down the Baron.

The perfectly developed Dragon King, combined with Zyra's seed and the policewoman's clamp, made everyone in EDG very uncomfortable. In less than twenty-seven minutes, the EDG crystal was flattened.

"The rhythm is crushing..."

"Indeed, there's nothing to say. ROX doesn't care whether you're counter-crouching or not, it's all about relying on your personal strength to fight hard."

"Smeb has made progress again..."

Everyone in IG looked at each other.

To be honest, they didn't expect EDG to be able to kill ROX, but they were still a little surprised to be crushed like this.

ROX's strength is stronger than they imagined.

Even if they played a training match against EDG, they would never be able to win so easily.

"There's still a chance, it's okay, it's just one game."

Rookie comforted.

However, EDG quickly slapped him in the face.

In the second game, EDG banned Jayce, Olaf, and Spider. When ROX continued to choose the Dragon King female police blind monk Zyra lineup, EDG backhandedly got the combination of Jhinga Karma.

Of the ten heroes, six remain unchanged.

It's just that the top laner turned into a big tree to beat Kennen, and the jungler turned into a blind monk to beat people and horses.

The bottom lane has been changed from EZ Karma to Jhinja Karma.

As expected, EDG lost again.

Not long after the start, Dragon King successfully stunned the team during a group push in the bottom lane, helping Peaunt get first blood.

Although Centaur's subsequent gank in the bottom lane successfully killed Jyra, Kennen in the top lane was killed twice by ROX's top and jungle, causing EDG to still be in a very disadvantageous state in the early stage.

In a counterattack in the jungle area, EDG's rash pursuit gave ROX a great opportunity. The flash of the tree entered the field perfectly to start the team fight, and ROX successfully exchanged one for five.

"The ban position is too restricted, and the jungler position is too disadvantageous."

Rookie couldn't help shaking his head. EDG couldn't handle ROX's Dragon King and the policewoman system at all.

In the two games, almost all of them were suppressed in the early stage, and then the Dragon King and the policewoman pushed the tower frantically to snowball.

Often in less than 20 minutes, ROX was able to push down all six defense towers and use the vision advantage to force EDG to fight for the dragon.

"I hope Mingkai doesn't play Lee Sin..."

Yuan Shen sighed. EDG was behind 0-2, and he didn't expect anything anymore.

Originally, in history, when EDG played against ROX, an accident occurred. A Guang went home to attend the funeral, and Koro1 was ordered to take charge.

But in S1, he was no longer the Tong Wudi who dominated Tallahassee a year ago.

And his opponent was Sb in his peak period.

Coupled with the targeting of Peanut and Kuro, Koro1 played 5-20-18 in four games and became the biggest breakthrough for EDG.

Although EDG's top laner has been replaced by Flandre, there is not much change.

EDG's play is still the same old way of keeping the top laner.

Even Flandre had no way to face the peak ROX top and jungle.

"I hope we don't lose 3-0, at least win a game... or change sides and grab the Dragon King and the policewoman. I really can't do anything?"

Jack was furious watching EDG's game.

What a waste of operation!

All the defense towers were lost, and the small dragon and the big dragon were all lost.

Facing the waves of charges from Dragon King and Policewoman Zyra, the highland tower was useless.

"Forget it, I am already satisfied to enter the quarterfinals. You can't expect them to beat ROX, but you might as well expect Benboerba to kill Tang Seng and his disciples."

Su Xiaoluo didn't think it was a big deal.

Although ROX's strength exceeded their expectations, it was still under control.

With IG's strength, there would be no problem facing ROX.

In the third game, as Jack expected, EDG took the initiative to choose the red side. After banning Spider, Panther, and Jayce, they got a lineup of Rumble, Olaf, Dragon King, Policewoman, and Karma.

EDG really fought hard in the early stage.

Just when everyone thought EDG could finally win back a game, in a dragon team battle at 11 minutes, Mingkai's Olaf was out of touch and was killed instantly. ROX exchanged one for five, completely ruining the good situation.

"It's over, another quarterfinal."

Watching EDG's tears fall on the scene, Mingkai's face was dazed and desperate, Yuan Shen felt only emotion in his heart.

3-0.

History has changed.

But EDG seems to be even worse.

In this world competition, EDG became the first team to leave the world competition among the three LPL teams.

"So our opponent in the semifinals is ROX."

"Wanghu and Jinghao, I'm looking forward to the match with them."

"Can we still play top jungle swing?"

Facing Su Xiaoluo's question, Yuan Shen shook his head.

Top jungle swing will have a miraculous effect when facing a weaker team, but it is difficult to face a team like ROX.

TheShy may not be able to defeat Smeb in his prime, but he won't collapse too badly.

But if he is asked to play jungle against Peaunt, it is basically a life-or-death situation.

In the S6 world competition version, the rhythm of the mid and jungle in the early stage is too important.

Once the mid and jungle situation collapses in the early stage, it will be like today's EDG, a complete loss.

Throughout S6, the version changes have always been traceable.

In the S6 preseason, the emphasis was on the linkage between the jungler and the support, quickly forming a situation of more people against fewer people to burst out kills, and thus snowball.

At MSI, with the revision of a series of equipment, the mid-lane mage was strengthened, and the traditional mage rose. Until now, Clockwork, Tsar, Viktor, and even Anivia, Ryze, and Kassadin, traditional late-stage core mages, have become the mainstream of the arena.

The S6 World Championship is also known as the last glorious version of traditional mages.

Since S7, the form of the middle lane has changed.

And the current version of the World Championship is different from that of MSI.

In addition to the three magical tools, or single-lane heroes such as Ekko and Fiora, the most common heroes in the top lane are team battle heroes such as Kennen and Rambo.

The tool attributes of the bottom lane have not changed, but in the middle and late stages, ADC is still the core output point, and even when the support chooses heroes such as Zyra and Brand, it can also provide explosive output.

If the three lanes want line rights, they have to give up their late-stage capabilities.

Jayce, Lucian, Syndra, Dragon King, Caitlyn...

These heroes will appear more and more on the field.

"The jungle position is very important. We must suppress Peaunt's rhythm and not let him get so comfortable."

Fumanduo pinched his eyebrows.

Once the jungle is passive, there will be a situation like ROX slaughtering EDG.

Mingkai was born at the wrong time in S6.

He was too unsuitable for the version.

…

The semifinals will be held in Madison Square Garden in New York in five days.

No one mourned EDG's departure, because the next two games were between China and South Korea.

South Korea's No. 1 seed ROX vs. LPL's No. 1 seed IG.

South Korea's No. 2 seed SKT vs. LPL's No. 3 seed RNG.

Both half-zones were all China-South Korea duels.

At this time, IG's official blog posted a message.

" @RNG Club, Los Angeles to decide the winner!"

Principal Wang also @RNG's boss Bai Xing on his personal account.

Half an hour later, RNG's official blog also posted IG's team logo, and the text was also very simple, with only four words -

"See you in Los Angeles!"

These four simple words are worth everything!

The finals were held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Meeting in Los Angeles meant that both parties had made an agreement to advance to the finals together and go to Los Angeles.

The rest of the people saw the official posts of IG and RNG and forwarded them one after another.

Among them, Xiaoyu, a new host of LPL, posted a group photo with everyone from IG: "Come on! See you in Los Angeles!"

And soon, the four words # See you in Los Angeles # became a hot search at a terrifying speed.

However, at this time, a photo topped the hot search list.

Yuan Shen sat next to Principal Wang, who put a hand on Yuan Shen's shoulder. Both of them had bright smiles on their faces. Next to them, all the members of IG were in the list.

One photo, two hot figures.

One is Yuan Shen, the world's number one player who is now very popular on the Internet, and the other is Principal Wang, a super traffic star.

It's hard not to be popular.

As for this photo, everyone was very excited at first.

But soon some different voices appeared.

This pomp is obviously a celebration banquet.

But IG hasn't played in the semi-finals yet. Isn't it a bit too proud to hold a celebration banquet so early?

You know, arrogant soldiers will be defeated!

Sometimes it's like this. Professional players are actually public figures. During the game, everything is so sensitive.

Even if you need to eat, you can't expose it in public, otherwise people will say that you don't train seriously and have the wrong attitude towards the game.

They don't understand the cause and effect at all. For these haters, it's enough to spray.

IG has quite a few black fans, but there are more fans.

But it is not ruled out that those CS who are independent and output against the wind to attract attention and traffic are interfering.

What is the truth?

Only they know whether IG trains hard or not.

Similar things have happened to other teams before. We can only say that what we see on the Internet is not necessarily the truth.

And now IG's reputation is at its peak, so this kind of speech was immediately sprayed back and drowned in the wave of public opinion, and did not stir up any waves.

If you win the game, your fart will smell good.

What's more, it is a team that has the opportunity to win two consecutive championships, create unprecedented feats, and establish a LOL dynasty.

EDG was beaten back home, and many IG fans stole the meme.

"Do you want to ruin Chinese e-sports? You dare to criticize IG?" has become the hottest topic in forums and post bars.

And because of this photo, some outsiders saw that Yuan Shen and IG are so popular now, and marketing accounts immediately started to take action!

In fact, there is no need for marketing accounts, some self-media have already prepared.

Yuan Shen's performance in this world game is really perfect.

Unlike his tepid and steady performance in LPL, Yuan Shen is just showing off his skills in this world game!

A peak visual feast of operation and consciousness!

Almost every game has a famous scene.

All kinds of jaw-dropping and exciting extreme operations.

They were all edited together, with passionate BGM, reactions from commentators from various countries, and excited commentary, for ten minutes!

There are many highlights of Yuan Shen's operations, but only two are edited for the world game.

One is the top lane overlord in S5, and the other is the god of the jungle in S6.

The editing of the two operation highlights adds up to more than an hour!

This does not include his performance in the domestic league, the Olympics, MSI, and the All-Stars.

Yuan Shen is popular again.

The audience fans who had no idea before, or who only watched one game, including those outsiders, were stunned!

Although outsiders can't understand the operation, they can see the health bar. Moreover, they are outsiders, but they are all young people, so the emotions are resonant. When they see others say that Yuan Shen is awesome, they just follow the trend!

The birth of an operation collection instantly pushed Yuan Shen, who was already at the cusp of the storm, again!

Yuan Shen, who has set off a storm in the outside world, is now in the hotel, studying hard.

…

"Peaunt's play is close to perfect, and his operation is also very sharp, but he still has a fatal weakness."

Yuan Shen looked up at Kakao beside him with a complicated look.

"Why are you looking at me?"

Since TSM was eliminated, TSM has entered the off-season.

As a former teammate of IG, Kakao also accepted the invitation of Rookie and Yuan Shen and came to New York with IG to relax.

The family debt has been paid off, his mother was taken to the United States for treatment, and her physical condition has improved. His younger brother and sister are also continuing their studies in South Korea.

All of this was earned by him in TSM.

Of course, in the final analysis, it was because he won the championship in the S5 World Championship that he was favored by the TSM boss.

Kakao is still very grateful to his old teammate.

"He, like you, really doesn't like to make wards."

Rookie looked at Kakao with a very complicated look.

Kakao had this problem before Yuan Shen came to IG.

In the S5 version, junglers need to make wards to help the support make wards.

Especially heroes like Lee Sin, who need fake wards of wards to move at any time.

After S6, wards were removed and replaced with salary stacking layers. The jungle knife also added a green jungle knife-tracker's dagger as a substitute for wards in the jungle position.

"Peaunt is the player who used Lee Sin the most in this world championship. In a total of nine games, Lee Sin was used five times. It stands to reason that the average inspection data should be ranked at the top of the same position, but the data shows that his number of wards is only ranked seventh."

Yuan Shen clicked his fingers and called up Peaunt's data panel.

"Perhaps this is a common problem among jungle core players. They are unwilling to invest too much economy in vision, and are more inclined to maximize the economy and convert it into equipment, relying on equipment advantages to snowball."

Kakao did not argue, and he knew his own problems.

It's just that when he was partnered with Yuan Shen, he had corrected this problem.

This is a compromise to the version, and also a trust in Yuan Shen.

Only when he doesn't trust his teammates will he squeeze all resources into combat power and carry the team himself.

"The data shows that in the three games with EDG, he bought a total of 10 true eyes in 91 minutes, four of which were bought in the last wave of team battles. Two true eyes were placed on his body..."

After Yuan Shen finished speaking, everyone in IG was speechless.

And the data shows that among the eight junglers in the quarterfinals, the number of true eyes purchased by Peanut is the second to last, only one higher than the jungler of ANX.

On the other hand, Mingkai bought 21 true eyes in 91 minutes in the quarterfinals...

"0.12 true eyes per minute, that is, one true eye every eight minutes. You know how outrageous this data is for a jungler."

"Not many eyes, after all, scanning blind men is outrageous..."

Jack added, and the other IG players laughed.

Kakao even leaned over to touch Jack's head.

He missed him after not seeing him for a year.

TheShy looked at the interaction between Kakao and Jack in surprise, thinking.

"We can take advantage of this loophole. In the current version, the mid and jungle are king, and Peaunt is obviously the biggest core of ROX. When he plays smoothly, ROX follows. When he is against the wind, ROX's rhythm is like a valley without lubricant, very awkward."

"Jungle core play? Isn't it the jungle core play that gives the jungler economic power? It's the play that lets the jungler set the rhythm."

Kakao raised his eyebrows.

Last year, they played the top single core, but basically gave resources to Yuan Shen, and everyone had to serve the top single.

This is the choice of the version.

The support Shen, the nurse, Tam, the mid-lane Lulu Karma, all are decisions made based on the version.

In essence, there is no difference from the four-protect-one play that LPL is best at.

But now ROX's play is obviously different from the gem swordsman and jungle core system used by IG at MSI.

How to make Peaunt better drive the team rhythm is the first problem that ROX needs to solve.

"Invasion."

Yuan Shen and Rookie almost said the way to deal with ROX at the same time.

This is the result of EDG's three games of being crushed.

"It is necessary to invade and interrupt his early rhythm. Yuan Shen is best at early invasion. In this case, the line must be prioritized to ensure the line right."

Fu Manduo touched his chin and thought.

He is very familiar with ROX coach Nofe.

Nofe and ROX's manager are lovers, and they got married in May this year. The team members also attended his wedding.

His coaching style is more inclined to tolerance and guidance.

ROX is a big family, and a big family represents warmth, trust, encouragement and help.

They gained team tacit understanding through mutual trust, and exchanged team tacit understanding for today's results.

Encouragement and help have further enhanced the strength of the already disciplined players.

With Nofe's personality, it is not surprising that he can lead such a team.

When everyone has no problems, these factors are favorable factors. But when everyone encounters problems, these factors will become factors that hinder the team's progress.

In other words, if the relationship between the players is too good, some flaws will be too lazy to talk about.

If you are too lazy to talk about it for a long time, the probability of potential problems in the team will increase. The probability of problems in the team increases, and it will be unlucky in key events.

Family can help you get out of the difficult period, but if you want to develop for a longer time, you must overcome emotional factors. The best way to overcome emotional factors is to find a new environment and start again.

Nofe didn't realize this problem. He believed too much in love and trust, and this problem would become ROX's fatal weakness.

Thinking of this, Fu Manduo couldn't help but look at Yuan Shen.

Originally, his personality was like this. If he had been the coach of IG, they would have encountered such problems.

Rookie is also a good guy, and TheShy is even less willing to communicate.

Fortunately, there is Yuan Shen...

Yuan Shen never compromises when he sees a problem, but forces his teammates to change it. Both Jack and Xiao Ming have been scolded.

Only Yuan Shen can do such a thing.

Whether in terms of feelings or identity, he is more suitable for this job.

"ROX cannot have failed to notice Peaunt's vision problem, but they have not said it, so Peaunt does not need to change it. They will not change it before encountering real setbacks."

"How can a stubborn person change..."

"Just teach him a lesson."

Yuan Shen smiled, and Xiao Ming beside him shuddered.

"Brother Yuan, don't be like this, I'm afraid, you're like the bad guy..."

"Go to hell, I heard ROX doesn't have much sponsorship, and it's still an Internet cafe team? How pitiful..."

"It should be different after this world game..."

...

"I heard Smeb is very worried that I will go to the top lane to beat him this time. I promise here that I won't play top lane, because TheShy is enough."

Standing in front of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, Yuan Shen put his hands in his pockets, facing the camera with 45%, his eyes firm.

Just Smeb and Peaunt looked at each other, and saw strong suspicion in each other's eyes.

"Brother Jinghao, do you believe it?"

"I don't believe it, the heart of playing tactics is dirty, don't be fooled by him."

"I know!"

Peaunt nodded heavily, and leaned behind Yuan Shen according to the photographer's signal. He was only 1.72 meters tall and stood next to Yuan Shen, who was 1.85 meters tall. He looked petite and cute.

"I am a fan of ClearLove, but I am very disappointed with his performance in the quarterfinals. Until now, LPL has not had a local jungler who has proven himself in the world game. I hope Yuanshen can give me a different experience."

Peaunt has a cold expression and a cold temperament, but standing next to Yuan Shen, it seems very...

unmatched.

He is directly weaker in momentum.

There is no way, the photographer can only slowly zoom out the lens, and let the 46-meter-tall Statue of Liberty, wearing ancient Greek-style clothing and a radiant crown, occupy most of the screen.

In this way, even if Peaunt looks at Yuan Shen, it doesn't look so obvious.

The two of them just looked at each other, and the photographer was very satisfied.

"They look... like father and son."

Jack complained in a low voice, and Faker next to him almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

Although he didn't understand the specific meaning, he still understood the father and son.

After shooting the promotional part of the Statue of Liberty, they still had to rush to Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wall Street, the Empire State Building and other seven or eight attractions.

It was a bit rushed to shoot all these scenic spots in one day, and there was no time for the players to relax and stroll around.

Fortunately, the promotional video only needed one day to shoot, and they still had two days to rest, adjust their status, simulate games, and study opponents.

As for the last day, few teams would go out for dinner or arrange training matches.

The players just played a few training modes to warm up their hands.

At this time, there was basically nothing to emphasize.

If someone got a headache or felt unwell after going out, they would regret it.

"Close the doors and windows when you go to bed at night. If you can't sleep, listen to some music that helps you sleep. Don't be too nervous about attending the opening ceremony tomorrow, because it's not us who will play anyway."

Su Xiaoluo pushed the doors one by one to check the rest of the team members. When he saw a pack of tissues next to the pillow, holding a mobile phone and covering the quilt, with his shorts pulled down to his ankles, the two of them couldn't help but look at each other in surprise.

"Oh... you shouldn't play, go to bed early, I'm leaving first."

Looking at Su Xiaoluo's back as he fled, Zizi picked up the tissue and threw it at him.

"A mosquito bit me on my thigh, what are you thinking about!!"

...

On October 22, at Madison Square Garden in New York, the semi-finals of the 2016 League of Legends World Championship officially began!!!