The Worlds can only bring one substitute, I really forgot about that, damn it.

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I don't know if it's because of the parallel world, but this year's Riot changed the rules of world competitions such as MSI and S Tournaments, and the substitutes that can be brought in have been changed from one to three.

Therefore, when going to MSI, the water cooler trio of the TL Spring Tournament can go with them.

In addition, jensen can play, so both fans and the media are full of expectations for this TL team with a dual form.

Before the game, that is, at the end of April, on the eve of the start of the play-in tournament, ESPN also gave the current MSI team rankings on its official Twitter.

Without counting the wild card teams, the MSI teams are ranked from highest to lowest IG, G2, SKT, TL, FW.

For this ranking, there is not much controversy on the Internet, at least in addition to G2 and SKT, the rankings of the other three teams are not disputed, as for Europe's Galaxy Battleship G2, and South Korea's Triple Crown Dynasty SKT who is the second and third, this is what the fans of the two teams themselves want to tear.

Soon, the time came on May 1st, and the MSI play-in tournament officially began, and the eight wild card teams gathered at the GG Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City on the Vietnamese side, divided into two groups for a round-robin battle, when the two teams that finished first in the group will advance to the knockout stage respectively, facing TL and FW.

The team that qualified from Group A is DBL, Vietnam's home turf Buffaloes, and they will also face TL in the knockout stage.

Playing DBL naturally has nothing to say, after finally changing to jensen, xmithie and corejj this set of starting configurations, TL sent the big buffalo away with three to zero pleasure very easily, without any pressure.

And the lightning wolf that night was different, as the swan song of the last year of LMS, on MSI, the lightning wolf actually lost a lot when facing the wild card team VEG, and finally successfully advanced to 3 to 1, almost not making Taiwanese netizens vomit blood.

In the end, after a long BO5 battle on the second day, Vietnam's home Buffalo also defeated VEG with a score of 3:2 and became the last team in the MSI main competition.

"The strength of the big buffalo is okay, it has the style of IG, it's too reckless!"

"It's a pity that it was still sanctioned by TL, I have to say that this year's TL is really strong, and it is very close to the level of G2 and SKT."

"The performance of Xmithie, Jensen and CoreJJ is also very good, even if you replace the red leaves and winter dates, the combat power is still like this!"

"Nonsense, this is originally the starting lineup of people this year, and the red leaves and winter dates are all out of the SSR with two shots, which is a surprise."

"Then when you say that when you say the main game, will TL play xmithie, jensen and corejj, or will you play red leaves, winter dates and olleh?"

"One thing to say, the midfield of the jujube combination looks obviously stronger, but on Jensen's set, it can be accompanied by a top auxiliary corejj, he is a grade stronger than Olleh, and he can directly pull the level of the double road to the top of the world, it is difficult to choose."

"Indeed...... If I were a TL coach, I probably wouldn't know what to do. ”

Although it was a big buffalo, it was the first game after jensen's return to the game, and it was still BO5, so the attention of the North American audience was still very high.

And the result of the game is also very satisfying to all LCS viewers - abuse is abuse, but this abuse is cruel enough! You see that it is also a cruelty, the lightning wolf beat a worse VEG and lost a handful, winning the stumble, and then looking at TL's side, beating the stronger buffalo and killing the indiscriminately, you can see how hot TL's current state is.

As a result, TL fans who originally thought that "it's enough to have a jujube combination" and "jensen, team safety, don't return" will start to struggle again - jensen's state after his return is also so good, xmithie itself is a top jungler in the LCS, and there is a championship support corejj...... This set of player configuration seems to be very top-notch, huh?

Doesn't it seem worse than the winning lineup of the spring final?

It's a pity, why is League of Legends 5v5 instead of 8v8, so wouldn't it be all on!

In fact, what the LCS audience is struggling with is also what Coach Cain is thinking about right now.

It's not easy to choose, it's really not good to choose, choose the set of red leaves, I feel that Jensen's set is not weak, but choose Jensen's set, the Nakano linkage of the jujube combination is very fierce.

So, after thinking about it for a long time, Coach Cain finally made a decision - in the group stage, first play the first round of the winter date, and then play the second round of the Jensen set, and then choose a better lineup as the starter according to the situation, and choose whether to switch the second lineup to play depending on the situation in the semifinals.

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On May 10th, at the National Convention Center in Hanoi, Vietnam, the group stage of MSI finally officially began.

On the first day of the main event, each team had two matches, and the first game of TL was played after the G2 and SKT openers against the Lightning Wolves in the LMS region.

Compared with the quality bureau of G2 and SKT, TL and FW, these two teams feel a little unexciting just by hearing the name, so when the second game started, the activity of the live broadcast room on the extranet began to decline significantly.

However, the enthusiasm of the LPL audience has not decreased but increased, and the MSI broadcast rooms such as Shark Channel and Tiger Channel are full of brushes of "TL come on" and "Red Date Combination is the first in the world", if nothing else, in addition to their own mountain team, all LPL viewers pay the most attention to and support TL - one Chinese and two Chinese foreign aids, three of the five people are descendants of Yan and Huang, is there a problem with TL as their own team?

Of course not!

What's more, it's still his wife's team! That's even more supportive!

As a result, under the expectant gaze of the audience in the three regions of LPL, LMS and LCS, the two sides quickly entered the ban/pick link.

Among them, the lightning wolf is on the blue side, and the three-handed bans are gems, Kenan and Akali - obviously bans who haven't done any homework, and if they change to TSM coaches, they will definitely shout that they want to ban the spiders and rock sparrows of the red leaves, and without these two AP junglers, the overall combat effectiveness of TL will drop by one-third.

Then, after a few intrigues on ban/pick, the lightning wolf chose the top laner vampire, the jungler nightmare, the mid laner yellow chicken, and the lower lane Kaisha + Galio - a lineup full of late and open group ability, with a strong ability to seize opportunities, the only drawback is that the early stage is relatively weak, and the game has to be dragged back by all means.

On the TL side, because the red side has a relationship with the fifth-floor Conte position, in the case of determining the top laner Silas, the jungler spider, and the bottom lane Lucian + Bron, the last hand of the middle lane choice, hesitated for a long time but was not decided.

"Will you take this Silas?" Cain asked, the bottom lane duo and the jungler have been completely decided, and the top laner Silas for Impact is a swing hero, and it is no problem to swing to the middle lane to fight the yellow chicken, mainly depending on Tang Xiaotang's personal wishes.

"I ...... You can take it, but I think there are other options that I can consider. Tang Xiaotang looked at the lineup opposite for a while, and involuntarily wrinkled his little eyebrows.

She doesn't like the lineup on the other side, it's not that she finds it difficult to play, but she simply hates this kind of play that completely drags out the late stage - choose a late hero, use the early stage as an excuse to have no line rights, except for brushing, don't do anything, justifiably mix and mix, and finally Gou has a natural advantage in the late stage, and if she can't do it, she will play GG...... What's the difference between this and a coward? Isn't this just pure fear of doing things in the early stage?

Come to fight, come to the early fight like a man, the showdown in the fish pond competition area was disliked, and I chose a late lineup to play a dozens of minutes of mending knife battles, I'm afraid that the audience won't sleep well enough?

So, after being silent for a few seconds, Tang Xiaotang suddenly said, "I think I can take it...... Katerina, Silas give the impact a good time. ”

Cain was stunned for a moment, and said with some surprise: "Katarina, what do you really want to choose?" ”

"Aang."

"This ......" Cain suddenly fell into deep thought.

About Tang Xiaotang's hero pool, Cain naturally knows a lot about it, and probably knows that this girl can play everything, among which there is Katerina among the mid-lane heroes who can be prioritized in the game - but he didn't pay attention to it at the time, after all, Carter's hero is very different from the rank and the game, and it is too difficult for Carter in the game to play the effect of the passerby game.

But now, in the opposite lineup, the auxiliary Galio is considered a stable control, while Clockwork and Nightmare are certainly controlled, but they are not stable control, giving Carter a lot of room to play and operate. And the early combat effectiveness of the opposite lineup is too weak, and the rhythm is completely in the hands of TL, and it is completely feasible to take out Caterina to help roll the snowball in the early stage bigger and bigger.

"Yes, then Carter." Time waits for no one, and cain finally chose to believe Tang Xiaotang, so TL's fifth hand was finally determined, and even the division of the entire lineup was determined - the top laner Silas, the jungler Spider, the mid laner Carter, and the bottom lane Lucian + Bron.

"What, I really chose, it's Carter! Winter Jujube chose Caterina to go to the middle, wow, so confident! ”

The commentary on the LPL side is wawa and Miller, seeing that the last hand locked the ominous blade, wawa directly wowed, dispelling the sleepiness accumulated by many viewers when watching ban/pick, "It's very interesting This choice, this TL is telling FW, we just want to penetrate you in the early stage!" The smell of gunpowder is already rising! ”

"It's true that the lineup that TL took is very much in the early rhythm, especially Carter, I haven't seen it in a professional game for a long time, and when I was selected, it felt much rarer than Yasuo or something, and the audience was excited."

Miller listened to the excited shouting from the scene, and nodded and smiled, "I'm still very optimistic about the strength of this little player Dong Zao, she was a famous operator with a radical style when she was in the LCS, and now Carter can be selected for her debut at the World Championships, I have to say that it is a big surprise, let's wait and see." ”