Li Luo's idea sounds a bit fanciful, but it is a kind of assumption made by Li Luo after the S8 World Championship and following the general situation of the mainstream version of the S9 season in his mind.

Based on this assumption, there are thorn birds, and there are now thorn bird players.

The so-called hexagonal team, in layman's terms, is a team without shortcomings.

Judging from this proposition alone, it seems unrealistic.

After all, since the development of e-sports, there is no such thing as a perfect five.

Any team has its own mainstream style of play, but it also has relatively weak points.

The world champions of the S1 and F2 seasons, the FNC and TPA, are too old to be put aside for the time being.

The SKT team, which won the World Championship at the beginning of the S3 season, was the strongest team that year, but the shelf life of the five of them was extremely short, and they were quickly found out by Riot in their way of targeting, and with the change of version, the extent of SKT's punishment in S4 season is well known.

S4's white team claims to be the most dominant in the previous World Championships, and it has the saying that "the stars never disperse, and they will always win the championship", but there are no ifs in everything, and this statement is also the conclusion reached by onlookers based on the performance of S4 Samsung White in the World Championship.

S5 and S6's SKT had a long period of dominance, winning the championship two years in a row with only one person abandoned, but SKT at that time was not smooth sailing in all the tournaments along the way, but they adjusted very quickly, it can be said that SKT at that time was very close to the hexagonal team, but they still had the possibility of being torn apart when facing Rox with a completely different style of play from them.

The peak of the IG of S7 is only in the World Championship, and the instability of the playing style is doomed to IG having no way to become a hexagonal team.

S8's EDG is very invincible, but throughout the year, aside from the LPL teams, the strength of the teams in the outer regions has also been uneven, especially the three teams in the LCK region can almost be said to have achieved the worst results in the previous S competitions in the LCK division.

What Li Luo is doing now is to rely on his understanding of the game before his rebirth and the experience of his career in the past two years or so after his rebirth, to perfectly integrate all the things he can think of and apply them to the team of Thorn Birds.

There are no five people who are the strongest, only the five people who are the right.

There are enough veterans of the Thorn Birds, and their strength may not be the top alone, but the adaptability of the veterans is much stronger than that of the vast majority of potential rookie players.

Previously, whether Li Luo was in IG or EDG, he would show different playing styles, such as focusing on functionality when he was in IG, and the ability to dominate the game when he was focusing on Carry in EDG, correspondingly, Li Luo's other styles were not presented in these two teams.

The thorn bird will make Li Luo unscrupulous.

It can also give Li Luo more room to play.

In the midst of the doubts on the Internet, Li Luo and the Thorn Bird began to exert their strength in the second half of the spring game after the twists and turns in the first half of the spring game.

The 2-0 win over EDG seemed to be an opportunity for the Thorn Bird's gold to shine officially.

In the next match, the Thorn Bird won five in a row.

And every game is a 2-0 score to solve the opponent neatly.

Even if the Thorn Bird has passed the stronger team all over the place, as long as the audience who often watches the game can keenly feel that there seems to be something different in this Thorn Bird.

With the final battle between the Thorn Birds and Suning coming to an end at the end of March, the final standings have also been finalized.

In the case of some losses in the early and middle stages, the Thorn Birds, who performed perfectly in the points grabbing battle, ranked third in the LPL regular season.

The first and second places are the IG team and the rookie dark horse TOP, respectively.

Behind the Thorn Bird are EDG and FPX, and the total wins of the two teams are the same, but the goal difference on the EDG side is higher.

In the second half of the regular season, EDG finally stabilized, and it can be regarded as singing all the way.

The RNG team is in sixth place behind the two teams.

The RNG of the main spring game is indeed a bit embarrassing.

In fact, RNG had a small winning streak in the second half of the spring season.

However, RNG fans were not very satisfied with AJ's performance, and under the fans' request for a crack in the wall, Baba Suck chose to make a comeback and replaced AJ as the starting team of the RNG team.

And then...... RNG knelt twice in a row.

Fans also find it a little inexplicable.

AJ's performance at that time was really poor, not to mention the war criminal.

And some of the highlights of the posture line period and even the team battle are indeed better than AJ's, but the results are unstable.

It's weird.

After that, JD.com and Xiaolong SDG will be finalized, and all eight teams that will enter the playoffs will be finalized.

According to the rules of the schedule, it will be divided into two halves of AB.

The next level of the Thorn Birds, who finished in third place, was the rookie Dark Horse T, who went black in the regular season.

The winner of these two teams will take on the Thorn Bird.

And if the Thorn Bird can beat this round and beat the top in the next round, they can meet the promotion produced in Group A in the finals.

This means that the Thorn Birds will go through three BO5 rounds in the playoffs.

……

"Wow, it's them again."

When the rankings and schedules came out, in the RNG base, Uzi smiled helplessly.

Once upon a time, he was not afraid of any team's bottom lane duo in the domestic league.

Of course, Uzi is not afraid now, but he clearly knows that it is really difficult for him and Xiao Ming's combination to win Li Luo, and at most he can only not lose.

In the past two years, every time he has been on the line with Li Luo, Uzi has been more frustrated.

He is different from Li Luo.

He and Xiao Ming have been working together since the first time they played Li Luo, which means that the run-in progress between the two has been steadily improving every year.

But what about Li Luo?

From the second half of S7 debut to the beginning of S9 now, it has been less than two years since the full hit, and Li Luo has changed three auxiliaries.

But Li Luo's run-in with each auxiliary is incredible, and in addition to Meiko among these three auxiliaries, Baolan and Liu Qingsong were not famous in LPL before they met Li Luo, and they belong to the kind that allows the audience to be ranked after Ming and Meiko, commonly known as public assistance.

But they all started to take off after partnering with Li Luo.

This is enough to illustrate Li Luo's personal ability.

And the thorn bird is not iron-headed at all, and will never sacrifice Li Luo's line when encountering RNG, so that Li Luo can take the initiative to be suppressed by Uzi with a relatively weak hero.

And sadly, the other roads seem to be unstable.

Uzi looked up at the sky, and his mental activity was extremely complicated.

Who can cme?

Uzi roared in his heart.

At this moment, Xiaohu's unique male duck voice sounded: "It's okay brother, I'll come to fight the thorn bird, I'm very confident in the night, hehehe." ”

Xiaohu was full of confidence when he said this.

This season is really good, there is a feeling of last year's spring game in WE, and the state is also quite good.

But...... So what?

Beat others, Xiaohu didn't dare to say.

He was very energetic at night.

The name of Xiaohu power bank is not just given by fans.

"Brothers, I have black technology, I'll talk to you, when I fight the thorn bird, I will kill Flandor with one hand, and Victor will suck it!"

The gesture also said with a serious face on the side.

The current version has always adhered to the trend of being able to play warriors in the middle lane and mage mages in the upper lane.

RNG is actually more optimistic about their playoff situation.

Another reason for choosing to make the posture stable and start is that the former posture is a genius mid-laner debut.

His mage heroes are all very well played, and they are too appropriate for the current version.

And the version of the S9 season is not very elegant, whether the middle or the middle field double AP will be a little deformed, because this version of the magic resistance is not very op.

It doesn't matter if the AP is a little more, if the AOE is explosive enough, any weird lineup is acceptable.

Both of them made such assurances, and Uzi was also a little relieved.

Self-confidence is the pinnacle.

At least before facing the Thorn Bird, his teammates were in good spirits and in good spirits!

After a short break, the LPL playoffs schedule kicked off.

The showdown between RNG and SDG was soon staged.

Before the start of this game, there was a big difference between the opinions on the Internet and the opinions of insiders.

This is actually relatively rare in the esports circle.

RNG fanatics aside, at least 50 percent of the audience in a neutral position believe that the SDG has a chance to beat RNG, which is known as a five-five open situation.

SDG's style of play is very aggressive, coupled with the steady playing style of ADC player GALA, there are often excellent performances in team battles, and it is not too much to call them little dark horses.

RNG's recent instability will also make these viewers doubt whether RNG can win.

However, commentators in the circle and even some retired professional players agreed that this would be a big win for RNG.

It's the day of the game.

The Thorn Bird people still attach great importance to this game, and they directly chose to watch the game on the spot.

It has to be mentioned that it took a lot of effort for everyone to squeeze into their seats.

Li Luo sat on the chair, rubbing his cheeks with one hand, and the other hand was pinched by Liu Qingsong.

"It's too hard, it's too hard, Brother Luo."

Liu Qingsong couldn't maintain his indifferent personality, and he often kept smiling in front of Li Luo.

Along the way, Li Luo has been asked by fans to take photos and autographs, his face is stiff with a smile, and the hand that signs is also a little sore, Liu Qingsong volunteered to say that he once asked how to massage his hands when he was tired before playing professionally, and called himself a master, and this time Li Luo also happened to experience it.

"Isn't it fragrant to eat fried chicken and drink some small cola in the base? You must come to the scene to see it, my buddies are all implicated. ”

The incense pot tidied up his hair.

He's actually the worst.

As a popular jungler in China, there are many people who ask him to take photos and sign autographs.

The incense pot was so thin that he felt as if his ribs were about to be misplaced and deformed in the crowd.

"That's it, it's all because Li Zhe gave the ticket to the front, and I'll post a Weibo to complain about him when I go back."

Li Luo smiled very brightly and said.

……

The competition soon kicked off.

The atmosphere in the arena is indeed very good, but the overall number of fans of the RNG team is overwhelming.

The first line-up of both sides is quite regular, and it is also the same old style in the most recent version.

Similar lineups are actually competing for the comparison of the strength of the two sides in all aspects.

Li Luo only watched it for ten minutes, and a script appeared in his mind, and after Li Luo pondered for two seconds, he looked at the incense pot on his side, lowered his voice and said, "What do you say, make a bet." ”

"Oh? How so? Take me one? ”

Brother Shenggun, who was sitting next to the incense pot, vaguely heard Li Luo's words, and immediately became interested.

"I predict that this BO5 will end 3 to 1, the situation is RNG side hook x hook, if I guess correctly, everyone involved will ask for a bungalow hot pot, if I guess wrong, I will please."

Li Luo hesitated when he said this condition.

He thinks the pros are too boring.

Oh no, it should be that the professional players of their own team are bored, and even if they bet, they can only come up with the condition of making an appointment.

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There is no shortage of professional players in other teams who have fun with flowers, and the more famous one is Mr. Kang.

"So sure? I still don't believe it, I'm with a hand, I don't think RNG3 to 0 is in suspense. ”

The incense pot said immediately.

"I'm the same."

Brother Saint Gun chimed in.

"There's nothing to say, I'll talk to Brother Luo."

Liu Qingsong regained his indifferent face and spoke.

Xiye and Xiaodongbei were watching the play and did not participate in the prediction.

The 2v2 battle of predictions was soon underway.

In the first game, RNG quickly took the initiative in the situation with his rich experience, and finally kicked Gala back with a dashing roundhouse kick from the Casa Blind Monk, and Gala was directly seconded without releasing any skills.

Tiger's Sindra is in pretty good shape, and the timing and position control of the ball are perfect.

It only took 27 minutes for RNG to win the first game steadily.

After watching the state of the RNG people in the first game, the incense pot suddenly put his mind at ease.

Not surprisingly, in the second game, the SDG played substandard, and it seemed that they were hit mentally, and this one they lost faster, and they were won by RNG in less than 25 minutes.

The Holy Spear Brother and the incense pot are ready to celebrate in advance.

But the result of the third game was a big surprise for both men.

"Ouch, I'll kill him as a monkey, labor and management know that this group will definitely be waved, how can it not be a wave if you have a posture! I'm so stupid! ”

The incense pot beat his chest angrily.

The third pure is played by RNG itself.

In addition, the SDG side seems to know that their hope of winning is slim, but they put down their burdens and play the best of the three.

But just when the fans of the SDG team rekindled their hopes at the scene and even before the live broadcast, the fourth RNG once again made them desperate.

The RNG that Lang lost was obviously much more rigorous, got rid of a lot of problems, and won the duel steadily.

3 to 1.

The script is exactly the same as what Li Luo proposed.

Brother Saint Spear and Xiangguo made bitter faces.

However, they already knew the result when RNG lost the third hand.

Pros don't see things from the same perspective as gamers.

Players will trust their own eyes and judgment.

Professional players are more inclined to know a team and have their own professional experience.

BO3 and BO5 are two very different games in the professional arena.

This is a constant fact of League of Legends events.

Some teams BO3 were abused by blood, but BO5 they were able to abuse it back.

Ordinary players don't understand, but professional players and commentators in the circle know it.

On this stage, in the face of the dense crowd of fans and spectators under the stage, several times more than in the regular season, the psychological pressure on the players is completely different.

are all eighteen or nineteen years old, expect how many eighteen or nineteen-year-old Internet addict teenagers can have the ability to face the mentality of countless fans without making any waves?

After the game, what is more interesting is that Xiaohu began to talk sassy again in the post-game interview, and he directly said that he would wash his neck at night and prepare to be his power bank.

When everyone in the thorn bird looked at Xi Ye with a smile on their faces, Xi Ye just spread his hands innocently.

The night before the Thorn Bird and RNG races.

In the RNG base, a roar from Xiaohu came out: ", it's not a person, it's really not a person!" ”

Just now, the official released the squad for the two sides of tomorrow's game.

The thorn birds, who were firmly in the starting line-up, were replaced in this game......