Chapter 404: E-sports Spring Festival Gala
The impact of the changes on each team is obvious.
With the second round of the LPL region kicking off, the major teams have fluctuated to varying degrees.
Due to the cancellation of the 2019 LPL Spring Split, all teams are in the overall leaderboard.
The Thorn Birds team has the same record as IG in second place, but IG has a certain advantage in small points.
In third place is FPX, they have rushed all the way from the beginning of the spring game with a completely different understanding from other teams, even Li Luo feels a little unbelievable, after all, FPX is a team from the configuration point of view, although the ceiling is good, but the instability is too exaggerated.
However, FPX Spring has maintained their relatively strong team personality so far, which should not be underestimated.
EDG came in fourth.
EDG's version at the beginning of the spring tournament was sometimes smooth and sometimes difficult, giving fans the feeling that EDG's stability is still there, and the weak team can almost win 2-0.
But when they face a strong team, they always feel a breath of air, and once the team's rhythm enters the middle and late stages, it seems that it is difficult for someone to tear open the rhythm crack.
If the stalemate is too long, Lin Weixiang will be a little anxious, thus revealing flaws.
EDG has also tried to let Jin Gong play captain, vampire and other late-stage big core heroes, which is also the system that EDG was best at when Li Luo was still alive.
But the degree of use of LWX's tool man is much worse than Li Luolai's, such EDG is difficult to survive the middle term only with primary school brothers, and Xiaotian without Li Luo's command has also experienced a certain decline in performance, Ming Kai, a veteran, was forced to carry the banner of EDG, but was played by SFm for a while in the face of FPX.
As a result, EDG only finished fourth in the first half of the spring season, and although it is still a strong team, it is clearly not as dominant as last year.
It seems that after the German Cup, EDG was the first to show the team's style, which led to a deep study by other teams.
In terms of version, they are not so handy.
The emergence of this situation has led to Li Luo's popularity and status rising again in the entire LPL.
After all, when Li fell in EDG, EDG was not bullied by any team, and now that Li Luo is gone, only AD positions have changed on EDG's side, and the problem of EDG's position in this ranking is naturally blamed on the point of "Li Luo is not there".
In addition, the results of the thorn bird are still ranked in front of EDG, and the importance of Li Luo is naturally magnified again.
The fifth place is TOP, this new team has become more and more momentum after the emergence of LPL, especially the jungler xx in its team, which is very comprehensive in the jungler style, with Knight who is known as a genius left-hander and stable Adcarry Loken and 369 among the newcomers, the potential shown by TOP should not be underestimated.
And the sixth place is RNG, RNG ushered in its own three consecutive defeats a year ago, UZI's rest made RNG lose its backbone for a short time, but after the return of UZI, RNG's results eased a little.
The top six in the LPL Spring were the same before the 9.14 update, but they changed dramatically in the first few games after the update.
IG ushered in their second defeat in the league and also won 2-1 against RNG, and after the new version update, they were obviously not so handy, but IG still ranked first.
It's the thorn bird that really attracts the most attention.
The phenomenon of thorn birds not adapting to the water and soil has appeared.
Lee Luo's performance in Hanbok, Jinx's performance was seen by the coaches and even analysts of all teams.
Therefore, when faced with the Thorn Bird, these teams will almost always grab or directly press Jinx.
This certainly gives the Thorn Bird a ban, but the Thorn Bird's side is not as effective when it comes to other heroes.
For example, Wheel Mom.
When the Thorn Bird is able to choose a Wheel Mother, it is usually when Karma and Reze are robbed or pressed off.
There is no way for the wheel mother to develop in a single line, which also leads to problems in the system that the Thorn Bird originally honed has problems in a few games after the version update.
Their linkage and synergy are not as good as before, as long as Liu Qingsong does not get a wandering type of hero, then the point of the incense pot will be wildly targeted.
The current version of the new hero Silas is the mainstream hero in the mid laner position, but this hero has one who can restrain him, and that is Cassadine.
Therefore, the Thorn Birds can pick Cassadine for many games in a row, but after selecting Cassadine, they are far less fast than Silas in the early and middle stages of supporting the jungle.
Therefore, the incense pot has been very uncomfortable recently.
Thorn Bird has also tried to make adjustments, but the effect is not very ideal.
In three consecutive games, the Thorn Birds swallowed two defeats, losing to FPX, which is known for their four-pack two, and BLG, who is in the middle of the table.
The fact that they can lose to a team in the middle is already telling.
Even if the rest of the game is relatively easy, the Thorn Bird still needs to be very careful until they get enough wins.
FPX overtook the Thorn Bird, and the EDG team was a sudden outfit, and the new version seemed to fit them very well, Lin Weixiang was often able to stabilize in the early and middle stages when he got the heroes of the late big core, and the structure of EDG could also help him drag him to the development of the form.
LWX is very daring to fight in team battles, which also makes him have a very good performance in team battles after having equipment.
After coming and going, only the world where the thorn bird was injured was reached.
The rhetoric on the Internet is also changing every day.
Winning and blowing, losing and black, it is really understood by netizens.
During this period, his father Li Quan also made a lot of phone calls to Li Luo, and Li Quan was very worried that Li Luo would be depressed due to an unbalanced mentality after falling from the previous two world championship trophies.
Li Luo couldn't laugh or cry at this.
The Thorn Birds did lose two games, and the losses weren't particularly good-looking.
But this is just a normal regular season win or loss situation, and the teammates who lost the game will certainly be more disappointed, but Li Luo has taken a preventive shot before playing the game.
The change of version allowed Li Luo to establish what the next path of the thorn bird should be.
All the Thorn Birds have to do now is adapt to the big picture version as much as possible, and make the team a perfect fit before the playoffs.
They have Cassadine's unique skill of the Conte version of the T0-level hero Silas, plus the ban position that Li Luo himself will definitely eat, and the advantage of the Thorn Bird in the BP stage is infinitely huge.
The current thorn bird needs more training from BO5 than BO3.
Of course, this doesn't mean that Thornbird didn't do its best when facing FPX and BLG, it's just that Thornbird has reservations in tactics.
Now three weeks have passed quietly.
Li Luo felt that it was time for the team to have the final points battle of the regular season.
Among the next opponents, except for EDG, which is about to face, the remaining teams are very low in the league.
In other words, the strong team has been beaten by the Thorn Bird, and the remaining weaker team will be able to defeat even if the Thorn Bird hides its tactics.
How to gnaw the hard bone of EDG is the top priority of the recent exploration direction of the thorn bird.
On the eve of the game.
Meiko calls and asks Li Luo to go out for a get-together.
Li Luo happily agreed.
However, when Li Luo was in place, he found that there were not only Meiko on the scene, but also Ming Kai and Xiaotian.
"It's not good to run out to see your ex behind the back of your current one?"
Li Luo said jokingly.
"It's okay, it's okay, I don't know if I'm coming out to see you...... Ouch, no, Lao Li, why are you disgusting? ”
Meiko said and laughed first.
After greeting Ming Kai and Xiao Tian, the four of them found a place to sit down, and the place where Meiko entertained today was a bit like a casual restaurant, a few people casually ordered some food, plus a few glasses of sparkling water, and chatted in the corner of the store.
"Why did you suddenly remember that you got together today? You three are not going to sneak me out of the knife, are you? ”
Li Luo looked at the three of them and said.
"You think too much, Brother Luo, tomorrow we are already completely sure that we can abuse you."
Xiaotian said confidently.
"That's right, be careful tomorrow, or if you have a treat today, I can reveal a little bit of tactics to you."
"Not necessarily."
Li Luo waved his hand, with a little deep meaning in his eyes: "Do you think you will be stable tomorrow?" ”
Meiko stared at Li Luo's expression for a few seconds, and then spread his hands to Xiao Tian and Ming Kai: "Na, you see, what am I talking about, I know Lao Li's mentality too well, although he has not suffered much from the impact of public opinion before this, but I know that his mentality is absolutely fine, you look at his eyes, his eyes will not deceive." ”
"It's like you're going to meet, so tell me, last time you looked at Lin Weixiang for ten seconds, what did you see in Lin Weixiang's eyes?"
Xiaotian pursed his lips with a look of disbelief.
Meiko touched her chin and thought thoughtfully for a long time, then stretched out a finger and said, "Innocence." ”
"Hey, hey, it's okay, it's not right for you to talk about your teammates behind your back."
Of course, Li Luo could see that the two were joking with good intentions, but he still spoke.
After chatting for about an hour, they each went back to their bases.
Seeing the three of them leave, Li Luo's heart was still very warm.
Today, EDG and the three of them suddenly asked themselves out, and except for the beginning, everyone talked about things other than the game, and the meaning in the tone of the three of them, Li Luo probably understood the worries between the three of them.
Although we have a good relationship, once we are on the opposite side on the battlefield, then the most basic respect is to go all out.
But the three of them still came over to make sure that there was something wrong with his psychological state, and they were obviously more concerned.
"It's a little touching, but this game is ...... You really can't be soft. ”
Li Luo muttered to himself in a low voice.
The next day.
Weekend.
The crowded game scene flashed huge banners belonging to the two teams and cheering lights.
EDG's black and white colors have a bit of a solemn atmosphere, but the representative color of the thorn bird is very eye-catching.
There were nearly sixty percent of the Thorn Bird fans at the scene, and it was obvious that the two consecutive defeats of the Thorn Bird before this had hung up the hearts of the fans.
Most of the Thorn Bird fans who came to the scene looked quite serious.
Though...... Before the game, major commentators and e-sports media predicted that today's Thorn Bird is very likely to lose to EDG, after all, there is a slight gap between the two teams in terms of hard power, and in terms of state, one is going uphill and the other is going downhill.
By any measure, it will be a challenge for the Thorn Bird to win against EDG.
What's more, now is not the time for the Thorn Bird to play IG at the beginning of the season, at that time everyone is unfamiliar with the version, for the audience, it is possible for anyone to win between Thorn Bird and IG, and the strength of the two teams at that time cannot be said to be all the strength.
But now it's halfway through the spring season.
Even the cloud viewers who don't understand the game can probably know the style and specific strength of the two teams after experiencing some exposure to it.
As the lights flickered, Guan Zeyuan and Wang remembered to appear on the commentary seat.
"Hello viewers, you're tuning in to the 2019 League of Legends Pro League Spring Season! Hello everyone, I'm Zeyuan. ”
"Hello everyone, I remember."
Wang remembered and said: "Today, I will explain to you this wonderful showdown that can be called the E-sports Spring Festival Gala." ”
"Sparrow."
Guan Zeyuan nodded slightly: "I don't think it's an exaggeration to use the four words of the E-sports Spring Festival Gala to describe today's game, Thorn Bird and EDG, on the one hand, this year's all-Chinese class with Brother Luo as the core and the other four local players set up." ”
"On the other hand, Brother Luo's old club EDG, although EDG's form fluctuated at the beginning of the season, EDG's form has obviously been rising in a straight line recently."
"On the contrary, the thorn birds fluctuate a lot, so judging from the recent situation between the two sides in this game, I will be more optimistic about EDG."
Guan Zeyuan's direct words made the scene in an uproar.
", don't worry about it."
"God spoke, and I started to panic."
"MD is meat on the back of my hands, hey, this game is a torment for me as a fan of EDG and the Thorn Birds."
"EDG has been in good form lately and I hope the Thorn Birds can get back to some form."
"Don't, I hope EDG can be like a rainbow, win the championship for a second time, and maintain his invincible character in China."
"Brother Luo yyds, sit and watch Brother Luo beat his former concubine today."
"To be honest, the combination of Meiko and LWX is quite strong together, and I don't doubt Brother Luo's strength if the Thorn Bird is playing pure lane heroes this way, but if they still play the set of wandering, I feel that it is impossible to win in the next lane."
The players in the barrage forum were discussing, and with the prompt of the director, Guan Zeyuan perked up: "Okay, the results of the throwing points here have come out, the thorn birds have the right to choose the side, and they chose the blue side first!" The BP of both sides has officially begun! ”