As the fist discharged the last grouping, even if it was late at night, the entire LOL circle suddenly became lively.

Countless Chinese players were discussing lively, and the commentators of each competition area expressed their views on the grouping late at night, and even retired players came out to discuss.

"Wow, the champions and runners-up of S7 last year are about to collide in the group stage this time? This Group B is simply a group of death! ”

"Anyway, Group A is also a group of death, electric wolf FW, big brother's TL, mata's KT, this A group is honestly more outrageous than Group B"

"If you don't have a wild card team, it's all a group of death? What logic? ”

"That is, there are still people who say that IG's group D is difficult? An FNC, a Hong Kong team, and a 100T, can't beat it and swim back directly."

"+1, although IG is the second seed, I think it's better to play Europe and the United States without pressure!"

"Front, you're starting to swell? If ig is the first in the group, there is a high probability that he will meet Skt in the quarterfinals, right? ”

After all, when it comes to the difficulty of qualifying, for other teams, it is still the AB two groups that are more desperate.

If this grouping is seen by the audience of S10, they will definitely exclaim that Group A is simply amazing.

....

A few days later, the entire RNG team departed for the airport.

Unlike in previous lives, this year, due to the delay of the Asian Games and the cancellation of the Asian Confrontation, the play-in tournament that S8 would have had was also cancelled, and the group stage schedule will be directly carried out.

The group stage will be held in Busan, South Korea's second-largest city, known for its beaches, mountains, and temples.

After a series of links such as security checks, the flight officially opened for boarding.

As the influence of League of Legends is increasing, and there are fewer and fewer cases of visa cards in the past, three neat teams walked down the waiting hall in turn and got on the shuttle bus.

As the No. 1 seed in the LPL, Rng's position was at the front, and Li Luo sat by the window, looking sideways at the busy staff outside the window.

Different from the mighty Asian Games, this time the S competition was very low-key, just bringing the necessary staff of the team, and everyone else stayed in the base to provide remote support.

went to South Korea to play, and after S7 ended the Korean team, S8 went to play in someone's hometown, don't think about it, there must be pressure from the audience.

This time, it is not like a domestic competition, there are Chinese people everywhere, and you can hear Chinese cheering everywhere.

South Korea's distorted esports environment will inevitably do something extreme.

The plane took off smoothly, and when it entered the stratosphere, the enthusiastic flight attendants began to distribute meals.

When he took the meal, Li Luo bowed slightly and looked back, except for a few people in Rng who were full of energy, a few people in ig and rw were obviously tired.

Seeing Li Luo looking over, Doinb, who couldn't sit still in the back, waved his hand again and again, signaling that he was here.

After some fumbling, under the guidance of the flight attendant, doinb and Ah Shui and the staff of Rng switched positions and sat behind Li Luo.

"Hey, hey, puppy, I'm coming, Assi, I'm going to miss you," Doinb said with a familiar smile.

"Brother dog, long time no see" Ah Shui was a little shy, and replied shyly.

Looking at the heavy dark circles under the eyes of the two, as well as Doinb's obviously red and swollen wrists.

"You've been doing multiplayer sports lately? It's going to be a game, this state."

Li Luo asked curiously.

"How can it be, it's going to be a world competition, how dare you mess around"

Ah Shui hurriedly said: "After we got the qualification for the S competition, we rested for three days and started training again, and we were pushed by the coach every day, and we couldn't rest if we wanted to."

"What's the matter, you're doing a secret weapon," the incense pot's curious voice came from behind.

"No way, the recent version has changed too much, we have to adapt, we haven't played the world version, if we don't practice now, it will be too difficult to go out of the group stage directly"

Ah Shui shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly.

"It shouldn't be a big problem for you."

Li Luo said suddenly, his eyes looking at theshy, who was sitting by the porthole and looking at the blue sky.

"After all, this is another version where the top order is king~"

Marin of S5, theshy of S8.

As the first generation of legendary top laner Marin, the beginning of his legendary career began with the reform of the Korean professional league's format, and after the reshuffle of the incomparably powerful Samsung Blue and Samsung White teams, SKT also ushered in a restructuring.

The exodus of heroes from all walks of life in South Korea has given SKT a lot of resources and opportunities, and SKT people have decisively seized this "historical opportunity" to build the prototype of the peak dynasty.

But Ma Datou's strength is traceable, and it is inseparable from the deformed version of the S5 - the heavy warrior.

What version is S5, it is the version that can change lines randomly on the upper and lower roads, SKT this team, can always pass various routines, and let their top orders gain a crushing advantage after changing back to the right lane, which is the credit of the team commander.

Change to another professional level of the top order, the effect is not much worse, should play control, play control, hit damage, hit damage, anyway, the opposite single has been abolished, and you can win without going wrong.

To put it bluntly, the SKT team has been winning, the exposure rate is high, and Ma Run is very scientific and does not make mistakes, so it gives people a strong illusion that Ma Run is strong.

If you have to talk about the position of the top single, and judge the strongest top single of S5, it must be smeb.

S5's SKT's overall strength has broken through the sky, but the three finals are not at all inferior to Ma Rui regardless of the online team battle SMEB, that centaur beat Huni Raven, Raven hammered Huni Raven, and the ID of the person who killed Huni Raven alone is, SMEB.

In that era, the person who shared the world equally with Ma Datou was SMEB.

But when it comes to S8, theshy's outrageous degree is jaw-dropping, no matter how many times it is reviewed, and I don't know how to evaluate it.

Theshy, from the perspective of future generations, can there be a top laner in the entire S8 Finals who can compete with him?

S5 played better than Ma Rui SMEB chose a crow and was pressed 50 knives by Shy teacher Sein, not to mention other opponents, who were directly crushed to the ground and hammered, and the entire S8 unit was TS outstanding.

With Rng leading the way, everyone, including teams from other regions, discovered that the World Edition was a "top laner" version.

Strengthened Nock, Kenhime, Jace, Akali... Riot does some bells and whistles every year to balance heroes, and then it turns out that every year the World Championship is just 20 heroes, and it's not balanced at all.

S8 is even more excessive.,Ergate、Sword Demon、Akali、Bull Head、Female Knife, etc. are as high as 100 or so bp rate,The real sense of non-ban is the choice。

And then these heroes have high strength, where is the strong point?

Dry! Just do it!

This year, other strong heroes, including Zhao Xin, Lisandro, etc., are also in the dry frame system, resulting in S8's game being heavily bloody, and many heroes who have to wait for equipment often can't wait for the formation of the wheels of war outside.

Map resources and vision mastery.

This year's map resources are the most ever, the wild area has a lot of money, the river crab returns to the blue and gives the money back to the vision, and the person who holds the line power can even go to the river to eat fruit supplies, not to mention the canyon pioneer of 20 minutes of money and the big and small dragon that everyone is red at.

If you're going to fight, first of all, you have to have a vision arrangement, so in the field of view, skirmishes often break out.

Many weak combinations can only avoid the war and broaden their horizons, and they will lose the first hand in competing for resources, and will be snowballed bigger and bigger. It's easy to fill the vision, but it's hard to grab the vision.

So no matter how much you choose the C position that needs to be developed this year, your jungler must be a hero who is strong enough in the early stage to be eligible to compete.

At the same time, a large number of equipment suitable for the heroes of the top warrior has also been strengthened to a certain extent.

Even more lethal are some minor changes that the average player won't notice.

Changes to jungle experience = top laner to 3 times lead the jungler, and the development safety of top laner is improved.

The development safety of the upper order has been improved + 8.18 Victor's natal first-level synthesis price has been reduced + some small enhancements to Victor before = Victor has a single tumor.

The base damage of the Canyon Pioneer is increased, and the residual health is fixed with the damage of a half-blood tower. The good role of a canyon pioneer in the early stage is far greater than that of a small dragon, and then the pattern of going down the road is not so important.

In previous versions, T0 Shooter AP Kai'Sa Passive Growth Damage Weakened = Greatly reduced AP Kai'Sa's ability to participate in battles in the mid-game and Dominance in the late game = Kai'Sa suddenly became Sewer AD.

As a result, a bunch of superstitious Kai'Sa's teams suffered a big loss in the World Championship.

Stopwatch = one that makes the early group heroes brainless.

Hentai = one that makes late shooter heroes develop.

Not only that, but in previous versions, Riot also secretly weakened the data strength of the ADC and Fatan.

At the time, the major professional teams thought it was just an ordinary nerf, but now that they look back, it's all a big hole dug by Riot designers, and it's all about preparing for the arrival of the single-order version.

This time, the version of S8 being the king of the single is completely a situation deliberately created by Fist.

Anyway, you also have a champion on the laner, right, if you say it, no one will believe that we are targeting your team.

Several versions of the changes are synthesized before there is no game, players can't notice anything, but as soon as they play the game, they will find that the dull games in previous years, this time, even the European and American fishing competition has changed the previous style, and there are back and forth.

Top laner, mid laner, and jungler will be the three most important and eye-catching positions in the entire S8.

And for the bottom lane, taking out the "regular" AD may be the lowest contribution to the team in history.

RW and IG must have also practiced the system with "top order" as the core, even if there is not enough time, IG will definitely perceive how awesome theshy is under this system.

"Now this version of IG... How strong is this version of theshy? ”

This is a question that only Li Luo will be curious about before IG kills South Korea's No. 1 seed before the World Championship starts.

But obviously, Ah Shui will not reveal the results of the recent training match.

When it comes to the World Championship, even if it is in the group stage, everyone is in a different group and will not meet, but when it comes to the quarterfinals and semifinals, as the results get better and better, they will always meet and become competitors.

With the word doinb, everyone was not embarrassed, and other people who were shy at the beginning also sat down and tried not to violate the principles to exchange their views on the version.

The plane from the capital to Busan takes only two and a half hours to arrive, and time is fleeting before the fun is finished.

Busan, it's here!

As soon as they got off the airport, they were greeted by staff sent by Riot Company, and everyone got on the officially rented bus and rushed to the hotel that had been prepared.

The development of League of Legends is getting better and better, coupled with the participation of penguins, Riot has become a predator in the game industry by S8, and has a lot of money.

For example, in the past, S5 and S6 rented other people's villas to renovate the hotel, and directly arranged the highest-grade five-star hotel in Busan.

Thinking about S3 and S4, when everyone came to participate in the competition, they had to find a hotel by themselves and contact the training venue by themselves, compared to some ancient players and old staff members.

And on the day when the LPL team first arrived at the hotel...

Riot's official alliance with ESPN has released a leaderboard that everyone will be familiar with.

S8 Participating Team Combat Power Rankings

S5 Player Leaderboard

This is the old operation of Riot every year, and every time it comes to the Worlds, these two lists will come as promised, and they will never be absent.

The leaderboard, which is famous for "poisoned milk", is updated every time, but any team or player who is at the top will be cursed by the fist.

For example, last year's S7 list.

The first-ranked SKT finals didn't make it, and the second-ranked Dragon Ball simply upset in the quarterfinals and was kept clean by Samsung, and the fourth-place WE result also fell to Samsung.

It's time for the player list.

1st Brother Li, 2nd Rat King, 3rd Grella, 4th Khan....

Riot has proved with its own record that our list only plays real, and does not engage in bells and whistles, but whenever you are on the list, you have to pull my crotch.

I'm afraid, but at this point in the release of the list, all team fans still can't wait to know how many players of the team they support are ranked.

The first thing to click on is the combat power ranking of the participating teams.

top1: royal never give up (No. 1 seed in LPL Division)

top2: SK telecom T1 (No. 1 seed in the Lck division)

top3: KT Rolster (second seed in the LCK division)

was officially ranked in the first place, and it was Rng, and it beat the two Korean teams and stood firm in the first sequence.

In the second player list, Riot carried through the determination to be the first in Rng.

S8 season global top 20.

--top1:zi

--top2:skt.faker

--top3:xg

--top4:Rng.xiaohu

--top5:b

--top6:

--top7:

--top9:

--top10:

In the top 10, the LPL has six spots, the LCK has four spots, and the RNG has five spots...

This outrageous list instantly brought Rng to the forefront, and once it was released, it directly caused an uproar in the global lol circle.

Maybe the strength of the Rng team is really strong, but this... Isn't that a bit too exaggerated?

The first place is Uzi, and it is understandable that the reckless spicy fragrant pot that was not favored by espn in the past has actually come to the third.

As a foreign media, the most unseen player is the nerve knife player represented by the incense pot, this time, for the first time, the Nakano combination of RNG occupies 34 seats.

Anti-pressure back pot two bars frantically swiped the screen, dozens of posts in a second angrily sprayed fist company carelessly lost mother.

Zhihu's hot list is flying, and the number one is: "What do you think of the ESPN list, the first five RNG starters were all selected into the top 10?" ”

Station B Douyin short videos are all over the place, and countless marketing accounts that don't know each other have jumped out to point at the list.

And the influence of this network is gradually extending to reality.

Hanging up the VPN and swiping the message on his mobile phone, Li Luo can clearly feel that the influence of e-sports is getting bigger and bigger.