On the eve of the playoffs.

Ming Kai and Li Mu had a brief interview.

"It's hard to say if you can make it to the World Championship this time."

Ming Kai leaned back in his chair, opened the Rio on the table and took a sip.

Li Mu just looked at Ming Kai, the degree of the RIO is very low, unless it is the kind of person who does not drink alcohol, he will not feel anything in the whole two bottles.

In the past, Ming Kai would definitely not touch wine.

"I've been in a terrible state lately, and I've been slumping a lot."

After Ming Kai took a big sip, he was silent for a long time, and suddenly spoke.

Li Mu still didn't speak, mainly because he didn't know what to say.

The decline in Ming Kai's form has been evident since the Asian Games.

And it's a very obvious kind.

This situation is mainly manifested in the fact that Mingkai's sense of presence is getting lower and lower.

In the past, he was ridiculed for a long time for typing 4396.

But now, lower damage than 4396 has become the norm for him.

Because at this stage, it is difficult for him to achieve attainments in those heroes who mainly fight damage and can operate.

Now what Ming Kai can do is similar to Pig Girl, Meat Prince, Zack, etc.

In addition to the prince, the other two almost don't need gank in the early stage, that is, to ensure their own development, and then find a rhythm and play a group.

This is still relatively easy for Ming Kai, who mainly plays games with his brain.

"It's true that the overall pace of your team is slowing down right now."

Li Mu pondered for a long time before speaking.

Ming Kai fights like this, in the eyes of the vast majority of viewers, they will think that his strength is still there.

The individual ability of EDG's other lines is there, and after the introduction of zoom, the overall strength of the team has risen to a new level.

In this year's summer season, they finished in the top four in the regular season total.

It stands to reason that this is already quite good, and if you count the results of the Spring Split, as long as they can beat Team IG in the playoffs, then they can get a direct ticket to this year's Worlds.

But IG is second in regular season points, behind Sac.

The third place is RNG.

EDG's situation is not optimistic at all, and they still have an RW in the back of their ass!

Ming Kai is not worried about RNG, or even IG, after all, they are all old opponents, and they have fought so many times in the past few years, even if the players in the team have long been wrong, but from a psychological point of view, he will not panic in the face of these two teams.

But RW......

"It's more difficult for you to play RW, because your rhythm is not good now, you can only brush in the early stage, and the gank error tolerance rate will be relatively low."

Li Mu thought for a while and continued: "I can see the problems of your team, and the coach of RW can do the same, they should target you on bp without accident, and then give Xiaofu a fierce jungler in the early stage to suppress your rhythm, and cooperate with doinb to travel support." ”

"You're going to have a hard time handling it."

"I know."

Ming Kai smiled bitterly: "So, this year's World Championship places feel much more difficult than in previous years." ”

As soon as these words passed, there was a long silence in the corner of the restaurant.

……

As the playoffs progressed, the Worlds spots became clearer.

SAC is the spring champion, and there are only two ways in the regular season rankings that they may not lock up the No. 1 seed.

That's IG winning the championship, or they didn't make it to the semi-finals and IG won at least the runner-up finish.

But these two conditions are too difficult for them.

When Sac reached the finals, LPL officially announced that Sac became the first team to represent LPL in the S8 World Finals.

The finals will be held in South Korea, and the urine of Koreans will be taught in the S2 season.

But with Sac, there is still some confidence in everyone's hearts.

The other team that made it to the finals was not IG, but RNG.

They met early in the semi-finals, with RNG winning a hard-fought 3-2 win over IG.

However, in Sac's opinion, the version of the game at this time period is no longer the version that RNG understands and is very good at.

In other words, the lineups that this version of RNG is good at are not so compatible.

In Li Mu's view, a large part of the reason why IG lost was because Duke played three games.

The first RNG won.

In the second game, Duke didn't go off right away, and IG won against RNG.

According to the convention in the professional arena, first, it is somewhat devastating for a player to be replaced as soon as he loses.

Second, if the player wins the match after losing, he will most likely not be replaced in the third game, which will discourage him.

Because of this, IG failed to recover the last two games after falling behind 1-2.

RNG wins in the discipline of the team, and IG's individual ability is more prominent.

From the perspective of attributes, the strength of the two teams is indeed in the middle of the match.

So now, the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds for the Worlds have been decided.

The No. 3 seed will compete in a bubble match.

There's a reason why Mingkai was worried about meeting RW.

RW's side is under pressure and is as steady as an old dog in the face of zoom.

Then for the jungler, all the heroes that Ming Kai is good at were banned.

Ming Kai is not without a unique skill, he even practiced a hand of Kai Yin to deal with the opponent's fast pace in the early stage.

RW did lose a game because of this Kaiyin, but in the second game, the heroes selected by all RW members were all ranged attributes, which led to Ming Kai being unable to evolve into a red Kaiyin after choosing the hero Kaiyin.

He could only evolve Lan Kai, he couldn't afford to wait for those moments.

However, it turns out that Ming Kai will not play Lan Kaiyin.

EDG lost badly.

In the first round of the bubble match, they met RW again, and they finally lost to RW after no new tactics in a short period of time.

RW advanced to the next round and competed with IG for a spot in the third World.

"Sac, RNG, IG, tsk, this is the first time in three years that IG has returned to the stage of the World Championship, it's not easy."

"Theshy's thighs are really thick, and to be honest, if it weren't for IG's overall tactics being a little more immature, we might have overturned in the summer finals."

Inside the base of the SAC.

Everyone has already started to prepare for S8.

"One thing to say, although I don't like the country of South Korea very much, every time the World Championship is held in South Korea, our LPL team will play better."

Xiangguo said with a smile.

"Definitely, the low latency over there in South Korea, the latency is lower than when we were the lowest, the master has a trick, the details are very important, otherwise how could there be so many monsters in Hanbok, let them come to China to see if there is a difference between a single-digit PIN and a pin of more than forty?"

Uzi is playing rank training.

He and Shi Senming are in a double row, and since they have learned from the past, they have to prepare in advance this time.

During this time, Sac's rank is relatively large, and it also occupies a lot of weight in training, and the reason is because everyone's scores have fallen to almost one before.

If they don't go back quickly, I'm afraid that when the World Championship comes, they will encounter a large number of snipers.