Halfway through the regular season of the summer season, SKY has played nine games, and the current score is 4-5, temporarily ranking ninth among the sixteen teams in the LPL, and there are only eight spots in the playoffs, which means that if SKY can't adjust his condition and catch up bravely, he will probably miss the playoffs directly.

This made many fans very anxious, especially in the game on the 28th, after SKY1:2 lost to MPEG, many fans who had been suppressed before finally couldn't help it, and came to SKY Weibo and Ren Fan, Zhang San and others who registered on Weibo to question and question.

The next day, SKY's official blog released a photo of Lin Xuan playing a training match, although it was successfully stolen from the screen with a mosaic, this incident finally made the majority of fans let go of their original hanging hearts a little.

The opponent of the next game is 419, the time is on August 3, which is Lin Xuan's birthday, and after SKY officially announced the starting list on this day, it attracted a lot of attention.

Lin Xuan finally returned to the LPL arena after being absent from the summer tournament for more than a month, which naturally attracted attention, but after winning the championship in the spring game, especially after the MSI championship, SKY's popularity soared, and it seemed that there was a momentum to restore the glory of the Chen Muyu era.

As the core character of Lin Xuan, the fan base is no longer the scale that even a streamer can't fight for at the beginning, especially after the intercontinental tournament came into battle with an injury and helped LPL defeat LCK again, in the minds of most LPL players, he has replaced Like and Wang Hao and become the new generation of LPL flag bearers.

There are also many people paying attention to his birthday, and the club will naturally not ignore it, and they have been preparing for this matter several days in advance, but after discussing it with Lin Xuan, respecting his opinion, they still decided to simplify the originally scheduled process as much as possible, and the time has been shortened from the original hour to half an hour.

Lin Xuan didn't take this matter to heart.

Jiang Qianyu was very concerned, and planned to celebrate his birthday early, but unfortunately he was ready to buy a ticket to come back, but his father-in-law didn't allow it, so he had to let her wait for the school to confirm before returning to China.

Xiao Nizi was unhappy about this boss and was about to secretly run back to China, but Lin Xuan easily persuaded her, saying that her birthday was not a wedding, and she would come back later if she came back later, just send a gift first, she really didn't want to go, and it was not too late to make up for it when she met.

Xiao Nizi couldn't come again, so Lin Xuan naturally didn't care about this birthday, and after he returned to the team for training, his state was very unsatisfactory, so he didn't have the heart to pay attention to his birthday.

Intercontinental Lin Xuan played, and SKY immediately returned to peak state as a whole, so after coming back, SKY was not in good shape, although Zhang San and Ren Fan were worried, they did not panic, and they all felt that as long as Lin Xuan returned to the team, it would be fine.

However, when Lin Xuan really returned to the team for training, he found that things were not so optimistic, and the state of the team did not recover quickly because of Lin Xuan's arrival, but even Lin Xuan's state was not very good.

In the recent training match, except for Jiang Yingxue, who was as stable as ever, everyone's state was up and down, including Lin Xuan, and there were many mistakes that should not have happened, which was almost impossible for him before.

This caused the whole SKY to fall into anxiety.

Lin Xuan was also a little dazed and helpless about this, he couldn't find the problem, just forget it, deep down, he didn't even feel that there was anything wrong with his state, and his personal RANK seemed to confirm this, less than a week after he officially returned to the team for training, the Hanbok account had already returned to the top ten of the king, and it was still climbing.

But in the training match, even when he reviewed after the game, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with his operation or decision-making, but looking at the decision-making of his teammates, there seemed to be no problem, but he lost the team battle that he would definitely win in the past.

SKY entered August in this state, and it has been a week since Lin Xuan returned to the team for training, but the results of the training match are still miserable, so that the team that played the training match with them wondered if it was really Lin Xuan playing the training match.

Of course, Zhang San and Ren Fan will not be bored enough to sing this kind of "empty city plan", but they have finally found the problem.

In the final analysis, the root cause lies in the tactical bias.

During the period of Lin Xuan's recuperation, the tactical system inevitably shifted to the upper and middle lanes, and this kind of middle-to-upper core tactics had actually been practiced and used for a long time, but when Lin Xuan was there, even if he took the middle lane or the upper lane as the tactical core, he was still in this system.

And as long as he is there, even if this game is not up to him, in fact, among the five players, he is still the core, but it is not reflected in the game screen.

This is clear to everyone, because it was Lin Xuan's arrival that condensed the originally scattered SKY together.

Therefore, when Lin Xuan is gone, SKY's state will plummet all of a sudden, and when he comes back, he will be able to return to his peak in a very short time.

It's like the difference between a large army and a commander.

However, after all, this world is not without anyone, the sky is about to fall, and such a long run-in is not without effect, at the beginning of Lin Xuan's absence, the entire team fell into chaos, but everyone is no longer the situation where they refused to communicate with each other or did not know how to communicate, after a long time, Liu Handong, Mu Bangli and Xue Yunqi have adapted to the new lower path, and in the new team system, they have gradually run in and cultivated a new positioning in the middle of the field.

This tacit understanding, in a sense, can be regarded as a kind of balance without Lin Xuan.

And this balance has just been established, Lin Xuan's re-entry of the team immediately broke it again, after all, people are not machines, it is impossible to immediately return to the original equilibrium state of SKY, especially when several parties are still unaware.

In the ever-changing fierce team battle, in many cases, the decisions and operations of the team members are subconscious behaviors, and the difference in anyone's thoughts will lead to different endings...... Even if it seems right at the time, it can lead to unpredictable consequences later.

And these deviations, in fact, largely depend on your own positioning, what you need to do is harvest, consumption, protection, change of skills, or containment and pull......

Tactics are always just pre-game planning, and when it comes to the field, there are too many variables.

In the past, whether it was the early lineup or the single-belt system, the main C on the road or the main C in the middle, everyone always had the last reliance in their hearts, so they dared to fight when they should fight, dared to die when they should die, and had the confidence to drag it out when they should be delayed...... Because they all believe that no matter how inferior the situation is, no matter how impossible the team battle, they all believe that they can play miracles.

Later, I lost a lot, I knew when I could win, I knew when I would lose, what my teammates should do, what I should do, what my teammates can do, what I can do...... There was no other hope.

Zhang San and Ren Fan deliberately found some game clips in similar situations and made a before and after comparison.

was also brought to the front of the tower alone, MSI Mu Bangli chose to consume in front of the tower, and in yesterday's training match, he chose to retreat; It was also an online match, he stopped in front of the opponent's tower in the continental competition, and in the training match the day before yesterday, he risked rushing to the tower and was counter-killed.

was also opened on the side before the team battle, MSI Xue Yunqi fought back decisively, and he fled in the training match yesterday; was also caught online, and he chose to escape in the continental competition, and in yesterday's training match, he tried to replace the opponent's mid-laner and was killed.

It is also a disadvantage in the early stage, MSI Liu Handong 0-7 flashed to open the group, and in the first two days of the training match, there was also a chance to open the group, he turned this indomitable determination into a tragedy after breaking off for his teammates, and it was also a wild advantage, he was against the wild tower in the continental competition, and he also turned against the wild tower in the training match yesterday, and gave away two heads on the opposite side in vain.

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"With you before, everyone wouldn't panic when they encountered any situation, but this time after you returned to the team, we lost the first few training games, which is a run-in problem, but everyone began to subconsciously want to rely on themselves, but the more they fight, the more chaotic they become, thinking about C when they can C, and thinking about C when they can't C, which is a good thing and not a good thing."

"You have to rebuild everyone's confidence and belief, there is no game that we can't overturn, and there is no group that we can't win!"

This conversation took place on the evening of the 31st, and in the small meeting after lunch the next day, Zhang San said the imposing sentence again in front of everyone:

There is no game that we can't overturn, and there is no group that we can't win!

The solutions proposed by the two to the current problem are also very simple and crude: fight more, win more, fight more, win more, and it will be good naturally.

So in the first game of the afternoon training match, they were overturned by the Fish Dragon team because they failed to advance in time to expand their advantage in the advantage game, and lost two waves of key team battles in a row in the second game, and lost again miserably.

Zhang San and Ren Fan, who found that something was not quite right, readjusted their training plan, and the opponents on the second day were all teams such as N18, JPG, and MV, which were ranked lower among the sixteen teams in the LPL, so that the winning rate of the training match really increased.

In addition, in the review, the two also pointed out several "two options" involving mentality, emphasizing that "you have to believe in your teammates, you can also trust your teammates, and win the game, why risk giving the other side a chance?" "If you can fight, you don't have to coerce, as long as your teammates can do things and harvest, you can die as you deserve, you have to have a spirit of sacrifice, right?" and so on, slowly re-instilling the fact that Lin Xuan had the world's top bottom road after returning to the team.

I don't know if it was the method of the two that played a role, or if Lin Xuan's imprint on SKY was too deep, and after a short period of rustiness, the state of the entire team quickly picked up, and in terms of the state of the training match, it was not much worse than the intercontinental competition.

However, whether it was Zhang San or Ren Fan, they all vaguely felt that there seemed to be something wrong, and they always felt that Lin Xuan's state seemed to have some problems, but where was the problem, and they couldn't say why, the two discussed it several times, but there was no result, so they had to put it aside for the time being.