The members of the LPL team returned home on the third day of the All-Star Game.

In just over half a month, the German Cup will start.

The German Cup has been extended since 14 years, and the prize pool has expanded to 1.2 million.

The winning team will receive a prize of 500,000 yuan.

Compared with the LPL league, this bonus is not much, and some large clubs are not very interested, so that in the previous German Cup, many teams will send their second teams to participate, and the main players continue to rest and actively prepare for the LPL.

But this year's situation is a little different.

The LPL has achieved a landmark first title, and Riot has made changes to the rune talent for the first time in two years.

This revolutionary change has left all the coaches of the teams a little uncertain.

So this German Cup is more than just a cup competition.

It is also a training ground for many warbands.

It is perfect for the players to test each other's strength on this training ground.

It is precisely because of this that the official attaches great importance to this German Cup.

Judging from the rosters of each team at the end of the winter transfer period, there are many teams with strong competition in 2018.

Moreover, the major commentators have also discussed the strength ratings of each team in the live broadcast or program.

It's just that even the commentators can't 100% judge the strength of the major clubs this year.

In normal times, the IG team that won the World Finals in 17 years is bound to be rated as the only team in the league, after all, the overall dominance of the IG team in the summer of 17 is obvious to everyone.

But IG has made personnel adjustments, and they have lost not only an excellent ADC player, but also the commander of the entire team.

The degree of criticality of the command can be imagined.

Before Jackeylove's strength was recognized, the situation of IG was confusing.

In contrast, EDG is also very different.

Although Li Luo has joined, the problems accumulated by EDG over the years are not something that Li Luo can solve alone, and not many of the newly introduced Ueno players will look good.

Even if someone has popularized Jin Gong's ability and takes his wonderful operation as an example, he is still not favored by the public.

Esports, results speak.

It is a fact that Jin Gong did not play well in the GT team and even fell all the way from the relegation round to the second division.

And RNG's mid-laner Xiaohu is also from the GT team, but his achievements are real.

In addition, although the WE and RNG teams without personnel changes do not seem to have any reinforcements on the surface, they are teams that have been running in for a long time, and there is a high probability that they will be much stronger than the teams that have been rotated in terms of team cooperation.

With the release of the starting lists of the major teams, countless viewers are silently looking forward to it.

December 26th.

The German Cup qualifiers kicked off.

The 28 teams come from all over the country, including the minor leagues, and more than half of these teams will need to play in the qualifiers.

Only by breaking through in the qualifiers can it be possible to play against the strong teams of the LPL.

EDG did not pay attention to the opponents in the qualifiers, and after returning from Li Luo to devote themselves to training, they were in full swing to prepare for the German Cup.

A more easy-going person like Li Luo can easily blend into the atmosphere of the team.

For Li Luo, EDG does have something better than the IG club, especially after Zhu Kai joined, the players' training arrangements were well organized, and there were almost no late arrivals or bad swings.

Under the training mode of the EDG team, the strength of the players will steadily improve, which is an inevitable situation.

The overall look is very normal.

Of course, there are downsides to this.

That is, the overall atmosphere of the EDG team is a little heavier than that of IG.

Although the essence of a professional athlete is no different from going to work.

But the feeling of going to work at IG will be lighter, more like a few friends playing games in an Internet café.

EDG, on the other hand, really has the feeling of going to work in a studio.

I'm afraid that a person like King Ning who is out of activity can't stand this kind of atmosphere.

Li Luo felt okay.

From joining EDG to the present, Li Luo has not mentioned the issue of command, but every time he discusses the content of the game with Ming Kai, Li Luo's own understanding beyond Ming Kai makes Ming Kai subtly give up command.

In addition, Ming Kai was a very sullen person in private, and Li Luo quickly became familiar with Ming Kai with his own way of communication.

At least "Seven Sauces", "Why Don't You Amplify" and "Little Bear Stall" have become common tools for Li Luo to ridicule Ming Kai on weekdays.

And for such ridicule, Ming Kai is powerless to refute.

He is a very obsessed person, and he is very stubborn.

Ming Kai has always believed that there is a dead reason.

That's ...... You are a world champion, you are bullish and you have the final say, my honor is not as high as yours, I admit it.

When the line between Li Luo and Ming Kai is connected, the connection with other people is naturally very simple.

The first thing EDG needs to connect is Xiaotian and Meiko.

After joining the team, Xiao Tian was reticent at first, and only communicated with Jin Gong and Li Luo.

But with Li Luo's proposal and Zhu Kai's arrangement, when Xiaotian and Meiko lined up for a while and branded a new number as the king of Hanbok, the relationship between the two quickly warmed up.

In particular, Xiao Tian's hard training and the EDG team's model are very compatible, and they are very appetizing.

EDG's players have been exposed to it for a long time, and their first impression of the players who are willing to train hard is quite good.

This is the case with Ming Kai.

Xiao Tian's hard work made him pay attention to Xiao Tian, and found the shining point of Xiao Tian, under the subtle guidance of Li Luo, Ming Kai has led Xiao Tian to the direction of the sixth child.

Li Luo likes this feeling of watching his teammates grow up little by little.

It's just that at present, they still lack actual combat.

In a blink of an eye, the time has passed New Year's Day.

Li Luo, who was busy, had to make a phone call to greet his family, and then continued to devote himself to intense training.

……

January 3rd.

Afternoon.

In the training room, except for Li Luohui's decision-making, the EDG team is very quiet, and occasionally players will report the opponent's summoner skills and share the information they know with their teammates.

"Lao Li, this wave of ......"

Meiko glanced at the five who were in a stalemate with their own lineup not far away.

Today is a training match between them and Team IG.

The current situation is a bit anxious.

The first two of the three training matches were unfortunately defeated, but this did not discourage the EDG crowd.

Especially in the spectators of the game, Ming Kai and the veteran junior brother and meiko who were in the field.

It's normal to lose a training match, and there's a difference between losing and losing.

In some training matches, ten minutes into the game, you are already dead before the end of the laning period.

In some training matches, they were pressed and beaten by the opposite side throughout the whole process, even if they were lucky enough to fight one or two waves of counterattacks, they could clearly understand the huge gap in strength between the two sides after the fight.

There are also training matches, in the early stage, it is clear that the two sides are evenly matched, and even have a small advantage, but they lose the game because of a certain wave of decision-making mistakes.

Different losses have different levels of damage to the players' self-confidence.

EDG has been playing training matches with the IG team more frequently for a long time.

At first, EDG struggled to hold out for more than thirty-five minutes in the hands of the IG team.

King Ning still restrained himself every time he faced Ming Kai, but once he was in the position of Xiaotian, IG would forcibly tear his mouth after getting a strong hero with Nakano.

Even though Jin Gong was able to withstand the pressure of The Shy and play with an advantage in the bottom lane, IG's aggressive play will speed up the pace of the game a lot.

Nakano's weakness is an advanced problem that EDG has discovered after countless training matches.

This problem is only exposed when facing IG, and it is not so obvious when facing other teams.

For half a month, Abu has continued to make tactical adjustments to the situation of the team and communicated with Li Luomingkai.

In today's two games, EDG lost because the lineup characteristics they chose were similar to those of the IG team, and they mainly played against the midfield in the early stage.

And it turns out that although EDG still has a disadvantage when it gets a strong midfield combination, this disadvantage has improved much compared to EDG half a month ago.

Under this kind of collision, the economic gap between the two sides in the early stage has not been widened, so what will drag on to the later stage of the competition is the ability of the two sides to fight in a team.

IG and EDG have a high level of clarity in all training matches.

Kill Li Luo.

Hearing the doubts in Meiko's voice, Li Luo pondered for two seconds and said: "Let's fight, I'll go up and sell this wave, give them a chance, as long as I don't die, their formation will definitely be messed up." ”

The hero chosen by Li Luo in this game is Ezreal.

Ezreal, who has strengthened again in the preseason, is already a son of Riot, without a doubt.

In this version, Ezreal's pre-mid-middle transition is the smoothest, and due to the changes to Tears of the Goddess, Ezreal's development cycle is not so long.

The other heroes on EDG's side are Orn in the top laner, Jungler in the jungler, Tsar in the middle laner, and Bull Head in the auxiliary Meiko.

In contrast, the hero choices on the IG team's side are Nal in the top laner, Blind Monk in the jungler, Zoe in the mid laner, and Varus in the double lane Jackeylove with Lo in the sapphire blue.

If it is really delayed to the late stage, EDG's lineup is undoubtedly more advantageous.

But most of the neutral resources in this game are controlled by IG, and now that 35 minutes have passed in the game, IG is ready to look for opportunities in the Ancient Dragon.

With Rookie's poke, they don't seem to be in a hurry.

But EDG has to take on this wave of teamfights.

"It's too risky, I can try to go in and drive."

Xiao Tian said as he wandered around with the centaurs.

"Listen to me."

Li Luo has his own considerations.

Although they have two major means of opening the group, Orn and Centaur, the IG's formation is too flexible, and they also know how threatening the two opening points of Aoun and Centaur are, so they deliberately disperse to avoid being forced by EDG first.

The battle line is too long, the bull's hand is short, and even if there is a flash, it may not be able to open to the key point.

But it's not the same if someone sells it.

"Like to kill me."

Li Luo recalled King Ning's temperament, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Then give you this opportunity." ”

The first three seconds of the Ancient Dragon's refresh.

Rookie's Zoe initiates consumption again.

But this time, when faced with Zoe who jumped up, Li Luo took the initiative to attack.

He controlled his Ezreal, predicted Zoe's landing position, and then turned over the E skill [Arcane Jump] to avoid Zoe's flying star while jumping to the side, and the Q skill hit the fall of Zoe's ultimate.

At this time, Ezreal's damage was extremely high, and after QW hit Zoe, Zoe's HP plummeted rapidly, and he was directly cut by half.

IG's training room.

"I'll shoot him, I'll shoot him!!"

King Ning roared, and after his unmistakable Tianyin wave hit Li Luo's Ezreal, the second stage Q skill was directly handed over.

King Ning didn't plan to give Li Luo a chance to react, kick the past seconds and flash with R!

When King Ning launched the first move, the rest of IG pressed up.

But to King Ning's astonishment, he ...... Didn't kick Ezreal!

The Raptors have indeed kicked their tail out.

Ezreal's HP has also dropped significantly.

But with the white and gold rays that bloomed from Ezreal's body, Ezreal was pulled out of the battlefield in an instant!

The instant convergence of the IG formation allowed Meiko to seize the opportunity.

On the wall, Meiko's bull head decisively flashed into the field, and four people flew in a row!

"it!"

King Ning in the IG base burst into a foul mouth: "Is this still a human?" ”

No matter how fast you react, you can't look like you're barely moving, right?!

He watched Orn's ultimates attack from far and near, with the entry of the centaurs' ultimates and the Tsar's spurt, and in an instant, the EDG five played a perfect group!

"Wave after wave!"

Xiao Tian, who was sweating on his forehead, was excited, and his posture was like winning the championship.

Seeing IG playing GG on the public screen, the players of EDG smiled for the first time in a long time.

Finally, for the first time, they managed to win an IG without Bao Li Luo playing four guarantees and one game.

Finally!

At the same time, Zhu Kai glanced at his mobile phone, clapped his hands and said: "Yes, this training match is very good, the efforts during this time have not been in vain, I will tell you, just believe in yourself, don't have too much baggage when you play the training match, and don't have it when you play the game, as a coach, I believe in you 100%, but if you don't even believe in yourself, then won't I become a joke?" ”

Zhu Kai sang with a white face on the side.

And Abu, who used to play the role of blackface, couldn't find the fault that he could focus on criticizing in this training match when he saw the smiling faces of the five young men.

In the past, the last wave of Tuan Abu must be said.

Previously, the overall style of the EDG team was inseparable from Abu, the coach.

Abu is not a very aggressive coach in the first place, and his coaching style is also to hope that the players can win steadily.

But since the arrival of Li Luo, the style of the EDG team has also changed recently.

Many of the key regiments commanded by Li Luo would not have been picked up 100% in the past.

However, now EDG dares to take it.

Not only dare to take it, but they can also take it and win.

This has led Abu to reflect on his past self lately.

He gradually realized that no team's road to winning the championship was smooth and smooth.

There are risks and opportunities.

But if you want to seize the opportunity, the first thing you need is courage.

Recalling what Li Luo said when he first came to the base, Abu's coaching style has also quietly changed due to the influence of the team as a whole.

After Zhu Kai praised the players, he picked up the small book in his hand and glanced at it, and said with a smile: "Tomorrow is the first game of our German Cup, we will face the RW team, if we lose, we will fall into the loser's group, if we win, we will enter the semi-finals." ”

"Lads, don't forget, since the establishment of EDG, we have only lost the German Cup championship in Changsha this year."

"Until then, we ...... Five crowns! ”

ps: Something happened at home in the afternoon, delayed for a while, will not delay the evening addition, before zero o'clock, strive to be longer~

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