In the hotel where the participants were, SKT coach and all-star tactician Kim Jung-hoon looked at the picture with a little joy on his face.

Whether it is EU or NA, the record over the years is relatively average, and there is even a saying of 'European and American rookie' among players that lasts for several seasons.

However, in the professional circle, no matter the players, coaches, or support staff, as long as they have enough game understanding, no one will despise these two birthplaces of LOL.

You can see the clues from the game.

No matter how easy it is, as long as they come together, LPL and LCK will use all their energy to deal with it.

From BP to fighting, meticulous and not leaving any chance to turn the tables, it is not the same psychological state as the Vietnamese team that faces wild cards, even if it is the strongest among them, and has hit the status of the mainstream competition again and again.

The reason is simple.

The EU and NA do have enough strength.

Uninformed viewers may wonder why European and North American teams are still valued at the World Finals, when their results are often not as good as those in the wild cards.

If you think about it from another angle, you can understand it.

TSM and EDG are in the quarterfinals every year, and the latter failed to even qualify for the group stage, is it really because of the dishes?

No.

If it is really a dish, it is impossible to have such a good record in the competition area, and the reason why it cannot break through is very simple - the tree is very popular.

The dual identity of the veteran powerhouse and the top seed will cause all opponents to target them with all their might, and through the regular season video, the hero pool, operation habits, and game trends of each player will be thoroughly studied.

It's useless for the weak team to study it, but it's different for the strong team.

Of course, the same disadvantage of both teams is that they do not break out, and if they can't crush it, they have to withstand the opponent's counterattack with all their strength again and again.

If you keep it for a long time, you will lose it.

Purely from the perspective of the S series confrontation, there is no problem in saying that the hard power is insufficient.

However, if it is not targeted like this, it is an exaggeration to win the championship, and the possibility of reaching the semifinals and finals is very high.

The same is true for the comparison between EU, NA and wild cards.

The European and American divisions are facing opponents who go all out, and the wild card and regular season record may not even be official.

From the data, it can be seen that LPL, LCK, LCS, LMS contestants and the statistical information basically correspond, and the star players are completely compatible.

What about wild cards?

Written to be good at offensive top ordering, using Galio big bugs throughout the whole process, letting the economy mix up with teammates, writing that it will only develop and play in the group, inexplicably showing off the operation of Sindra with one hand, writing that it is good at functional AD, and stealing towers all over the world with a small cannon in one hand......

It's quite functional.

It's okay not to prepare, but if you prepare according to the information, you will die even worse.

Therefore, if the difficulty of the mainstream division is 10, the difficulty of the wild card is only 6 or even 4, except for the occasional thigh jungler, with a fresh routine to show off, the ability of other players, to be fair, is the grade of the secondary league.

In the preseason, everyone is not familiar with the version and relies more on personal strength, so the two regions that Kim Jong-hoon pays the most attention to, one is LPL, and the other is EU.

With the current encounter, Kim Jong-hoon has discovered......

EU didn't play their cards in the group stage!

The players must be playing at an all-out level, even at a super level, but there is something hidden in the tactics!

In the current lineup, even Kim Jung-hoon has not thought of a way to crack it.

The lava monster is weak in confrontation, but with the Great Earthquake Tremor + DBUFF attack speed reduction in the Ice Heart range, the sub-push hero ignores the damage, and the play style of forcibly A tower cannot be implemented at all.

There's the 'Ultimate Escape Combo' and even a pull.

Merlin Gunner......

The 'Arcane Comet' consumption flow play method was developed, and Kim Jung-hoon considered continuing to choose the incense burner AD anti-routine.

Attack speed crit outfit, easier than armor piercing to knock down tank heroes, although the outbreak is insufficient, but the comprehensive team combat ability is much better, the current environment, there is no position at all to limit, block the output of conventional shooters.

However, the combat effectiveness in the early and middle stages is an issue that must be considered.

Everyone is an armor-piercing stream, and the line loses a thousand dollars, but it doesn't matter, it's a big deal to put a small dragon or an outer tower, and drag it until the Dream Twilight Blade is in hand, and it's very pleasant to fight.

Critical AD is not good.

The front row is not high, lacks a strong AOE, does not dare to take over the group without the three major pieces, calculates the impact of the poor economy, and if you want to fight back, you must hold on to 35 or even 40 minutes.

Forty minutes of pressure in a pre-season where the tempo has increased by at least a third?

Even if the LCK is the best at operation, I dare not say that it can be delayed.

At this point, the European division did it!

Froggen is too strong.

The team, Three Wolves and F6 are all mid-laners.

The jungler didn't dare to invade, so he could only brush the devil's claw frog and stone beetle, and then go up and down to squat and make up the line, pass by the punishment gun truck, eat the resources of his teammates, and give Froggen the best development environment.

Why?

Because Froggen can really make up for the missing damage of teammates!

The team battle output of the European and American French kings is completely unreasonable, and for them, AD really has little effect.

Hero disadvantage, equivalent to a single-point crash.

Froggen, who plays the game with four moving eyes, cares about crashing all the way?

In the league, the ADC has acted as the front row more than once, absorbing control, taking damage, and exchanging output space for Froggen!

is also a king-level player, Faker is better at confrontation, support, and team battle function processing, and simply comparing the output, he can only reach the level of Plzen, and even lag behind.

So, the LCK can't use a similar lineup.

"EU is going to fight for the championship." Madlife saw it.

The All-Star format is simple, with the top two teams facing each other for a place in the finals.

The reason why EU didn't use this tactic before was because it wanted to keep a hole hand, and if it could still get the first place and defeat NA with a hidden killer feature, it would have a good chance to play LPL or LCK by surprise.

It doesn't matter if it doesn't work out.

Use it in the semi-finals, get the match point directly, and have a high probability of qualifying, even if you lose, you will play with style, and explain the past to the fans.

Simply fight with one hand.

"It's good that we're first." Faker breathed a sigh of relief.

The second place in the group points will face the LPL division, even if you can win, everything will be exposed, and the final will face the EU with a win, and there is a high probability of overturning.

"LPL is cold." Huni smiled gloatingly: "BO3, come up and lose, I guess I'm going home." ”

"Almost." Madlife nodded.

LPL is known for fighting, with very few variables, and players with enough vision can predict the accuracy of the results after a period of time in the game.

Although the game is less than ten minutes, according to the performance of each point, EU has won eighty percent.

In the remaining two games, no matter which side wins, it will be a tired division that has run out of ammunition, and the possibility of counterattack is almost negligible when it comes to the LCK region where it doesn't take much effort to defeat NA.