Fierce shooter

With the gradual development of League of Legends events, the number of events alone can still make the audience more and more satisfied.

However, compared to the large number of events, most viewers are relatively more willing to pay attention to the quality of the events.

Especially... events that are unanimously open to the outside world.

During the LPL competition, fans of major clubs were tearing apart, and there was already a trend of developing the e-sports circle into a fan circle. The largest fan group is Li Luo's fan group, and there are many among them. Some bug-like characters are causing war everywhere.

This also resulted in Li Luo doing nothing at home, but the blame came directly from the sky. While the number of fans was still growing, the number of anti-fans was also gradually increasing.

The reasons why Li Luo was criticized were relatively simple. Either he was using his teammates to steal troops to divide the relationships within the Thorn Birds team, or he was making "no tactical emphasis" comments like Li Luo is today.

The remarks of those idiotic fans will label Li Luo as "not able to manage his own fans."

Although Li Luo doesn't care much about these remarks, it doesn't mean that Li Luo is unaware of the potential threats these remarks may bring.

But Li Luo had nothing to do about it. He could only occasionally mention a few words about the positive performance of other players during the live chat, so that the anti-fans who paid attention to this part would be self-defeated.

As for restraining fans, Li Luo also talked about it, but Li Luo was pessimistic about whether it would be effective.

These days, everything is lacking except skewers.

Advanced skewers can often lead the people they want to blackmail into the abyss in the simplest way.

In addition, the tight schedule does not allow Li Luo to think about messy things.

Before he fell from the altar, no matter how many negative fans he had, they were nothing compared to the group of true fans that Li Luo had spent more than two years accumulating.

About a month has passed since the start of the summer split.

So far, the Thorn Birds have not lost a single big game except for two losses in small games. This situation is somewhat similar to the dominance they had during EDG last year.

It's just that the impact of dominance brought by the Thorn Bird is relatively greater.

After all, the EDG team has rarely lost in the LPL league since the S4 period.

They have dominated the LPL for too long, so even if EDG's winning rate is more exaggerated after Li Luo goes to EDG, it will not be able to bring more shock to the public.

But the team Li Luo is on now is an all-Chinese team that has only been established for half a year!

The last all-Chinese team that dominated the LPL division was the EDG team dating back to the S4 era.

As for the former dark force OMG, although it was the most promising all-China team in the first generation and was also the first all-China team to defeat the Korean team 3-0 in the World Championship, it is undeniable that there is no one in China. They can get the No. 1 seed in the S competition, but they are still a little far away from dominating the LPL.

The Thorn Birds were not optimistic when it was first formed, but now they have successfully conquered a large number of audiences with their strength. Only the players, coaches and even the management of the Thorn Birds understand the hardships along the way. 【

Li Luo is also quite lucky to have maintained a complete victory in the summer split so far.

Although Li Luo didn't know what Abu was thinking, occasionally a sentence would come to Li Luo's mind.

Luck is part of strength.

Apart from the strong backbone of the IG team, the strongest team the Thorn Birds have encountered during this period is FPX.

FPX benefited from the version and developed a tactical system with doinb as the core, winning five consecutive victories at the beginning of the summer split.

The Thorn Birds almost lost to FPX.

Xiye's performance in LPL can only be said to be above average, and he is definitely not a top mid laner. Therefore, when facing doinb, it is difficult for Xiye to be like left-hand, junior, Rookie and others who will doinb in the lane. Suppress it for a long time.

If Xiye can't suppress doinb, doinb can swim. Once doinb swims, FPX's tactics can be perfectly executed.

Under this kind of execution, Li Luo endured top-level pressure as if from another world, resulting in his early development not being good.

If Hope's player was not too young and played too aggressively after gaining an advantage, and was caught by Li Luo in a wave of opportunities to cooperate with Xiangguo, he might have lost this BO3.

To put it bluntly, the Thorn Birds' unbeatable success in the summer split so far has not been smooth sailing. Underneath the glory, there are also problems that need to be solved.

At this time, the luck of the Thorn Birds team showed up.

Except for IG and FPX, the Thorn Birds faced relatively low-ranked teams at the beginning of the summer split.

It's that kind of... even if you practice the lineup on this kind of team, with all the Thorn Birds online, it's unlikely to lose to an opponent.

These opponents gave the Thorn Birds a lot of time to develop, and the problem of insufficient practice of the version lineup caused by MSI events was gradually eliminated.

At this time, the summer schedule is not even halfway through, but the Thorn Birds have developed to a relatively outstanding level.

Even the teams they will face in the second half are relatively strong, such as IG, which has not lost a game since losing the first game in the summer split, and EDG, which has become more aggressive in the summer split, or TOP, which still maintains its status as a dark horse like the Spring Split, JD.com, which relies on solid tactics and team stability to steadily rank at the forefront...

These opponents are equally matched in terms of strength and have different styles.

But the thorn birds didn't panic at all, they were waiting in full formation.

But now Li Luo needs to face another problem.

Intercontinental competition.

The official promotional video of LPL has been filmed.

In this Asian competition, the Thorn Birds team will lead the team.

This is the slogan of the LPL division.

And this slogan is destined to make the Thorn Birds the focus of all players.

He, Li Luo, was in the center of the storm again.

Li Luo has relatively high confidence in the version and tactics of the intercontinental competition.

But Li Luo didn't feel confident about whether he could win this intercontinental competition.

Although the Asian Competition involves teams from four divisions participating together, in fact the audience knows very well that two divisions are just here to run with them. The real final showdown will be the Korean LCK division and the Chinese LPL division. .

It has been a long time since the LPL Division has aspired to be the "No. 1 Division in the World".

And the LPL division performed very well in the intercontinental competition last year. At that time, Li Luo's EDG, IG, which was as stable as an old dog and continued to exert force, and RNG, which was in the best condition, the three teams competed against the LCK division, which was in a downturn. Easy.

But this year...

Li Luo breathed out slowly and rubbed his temples.

The four participating teams in this year’s LPL are Thorn Birds, JD.com, FPX, and TOP.

These are the top four teams in the spring split.

In the current summer regular season rankings, the top four teams are Thorn Birds, FPX, IG, and EDG.

JD.com and TOP are slightly behind.

But the overall strength is still online.

Li Luo could not deny that when they were conducting tactical rehearsals in advance, even when they faced JD.com and the top teams, they had no absolute chance of winning.

But when it comes to the intercontinental competition...

In a world-type event like this, mentality determines everything.

This is not to say that the strength of the team itself is not important.

But there is actually not a big gap in the level of the major teams. When the gap is small, many objective factors will affect the overall direction of the game.

Is Jingdong’s mentality good?

good.

But the problem is that their mentality is a bit too good.

Is FPX’s mentality good?

To be fair, with doinb here, theoretically this team should be the one Li Luo feels most at ease with, but when he thinks about FPX having sofm in it, Li Luo has reservations about whether FPX is reliable.

TOP…

As a young domestic dark horse team, what Li Luo can imagine is that if this team does well in the first round of the intercontinental competition, then they are likely to go all the way.

But if they were set up by the LCK in the first round and suffered a disastrous defeat, with their self-adjustment ability, it would probably be worse in the knockout rounds.

The four teams participating in the LPL are all young teams!

This problem had already been exposed before the expedition.

Normally, if there is a strong veteran team in a team, this team can easily become the backbone of the other three teams.

But among the four teams now, can Thorn Bird become the backbone? FPX coach Zhan Ma and TOP coach Bai Yueya may be able to communicate better. As a top Korean coach, can Hongmi integrate with their three domestic coaches?

Li Luo's head started to grow even before he could even think about the many problems.

When it comes to opponents, it feels even more difficult.

The four teams participating in the LCK division are SKT, Griffin, KZ, and DWG.

SKT was slightly sluggish at the beginning of the summer split, but now it has quickly adjusted its state.

Griffin is nicknamed "Little Top" by many LPL viewers, but many viewers naturally have doubts about who is stronger or weaker between them and the top.

Since KZ lost Khan, the entire team has been completely transformed... Of course, the transformation here only existed in Li Luo's memory during the S9 intercontinental competition. If Li Luo remembers correctly, KZ won two games at that time and was abandoned by SKT. The abandoned jungler Cuzz also performed well.

Finally, there is the DWG, which is nicknamed the big turtle.

The five members of DWG at this time happened to be the champion team of the S10 World Championship before Li Luo was reborn.

This team may still be a little immature now, but its edge has gradually emerged.

Four teams like this...

Variables, all variables.

Soon, the day of departure came.

Under the official arrangement of the LPL, the four teams, as well as the coaching team and accompanying staff, took a flight together to Seoul, South Korea.

That's right, this time the LPL will face the LCK and the teams between the LMS and VCS away from home in South Korea.

Players from each team greeted each other one after another before boarding the plane.

For Li Luo, there are almost no familiar players in these three teams.

If I have to say it, hope counts as one.

Fortunately, doinb is familiar with him, and RW was one of the participating teams in the S8 Intercontinental Championship last year. Under doinb's inhuman enthusiasm, the players quickly became close to each other. Let’s chat.

at the same time.

The LCK division is also well prepared.

Fans have long made comments about this intercontinental competition on Korean forums.

In contrast, when domestic trolls face players from their home team who are not performing well, the most they can do is use the keyboard to do some craft work.

But there are many extreme trolls in South Korea.

Some said they would take a knife and go to the grass near the club to imitate Tyrone's crouch, while others said they would drive a self-destructing truck directly into the base.

In contrast to these extremes, some hopeful Korean fans believe that this year is the most promising year for South Korea.

This intercontinental competition will be the beginning of their transformation from bad to good!

The four teams, which Korean fans have high hopes for, started training at the same place a few days ago.

The class gap in South Korea is very stark.

When the chairman of the e-sports association gave the death order, the coaches of the four Korean teams began to unite.

Kkoma naturally became the person in charge on this front.

This is not the first time he has been a front leader.

After having the experience of failure, Kkoma has summarized a lot and is fully prepared for this intercontinental competition.

He didn't ask the coaches of each team to share tactics.

It is precisely because of this that the coaches of each team, who were originally a little repulsive, have softened a lot, and have begun to cooperate more and more with Kkoma's arrangements in training.

Kkoma didn’t study the Thorn Birds team at all this time.

He put all his attention on the remaining three teams in the LPL.

This is the format of the intercontinental competition. In the competition between divisions, if a team cannot have more than two reliable teams, it will be useless no matter how sharp their spears are!

Furthermore, they may not be unable to defeat the Thorn Birds.

This time, the LCK is ready to restore the glory of the LCK!

…

The level of preparation LCK has made so far is far from enough.

First of all, the network environment of the accommodation provided by the event organizer for the LPL competition area fluctuated severely.

It is a bit outrageous that this situation would occur in a country where the average pin value of playing LOL is less than 10.

However, what is even more exaggerated is that due to the chain reaction caused by network fluctuations, the accounts of players who dropped out of rank have been banned one after another.

In terms of its attitude towards lifting bans, South Korea remains as "progressive" as ever, but the number of bans is increasing. On the first day alone, a player was banned twice.

Doinb was so angry at this situation that he cursed loudly in the training room, even speaking his native language.

Li Luo's mentality was quite good.

After all, you should be mentally prepared before coming.

That's Korea.

Fortunately, Principal Wang used cash abilities to arrange a new training place for the players that night, so that the players could be temporarily stable.

But this stability will not last long.

The LPL schedule is tighter than the LCK, which is destined to delay the training time for the four LPL teams for this event.

When everyone arrived in Seoul, there was less than a week before the start of the game.

Time is running out!