10/0。

The Thorn Birds delivered a near-perfect answer in MSI's group stage.

Such an answer is undoubtedly very satisfactory to fans and even domestic media.

SKT failed to win even one of their two games in the group stage, much to the disappointment of fans in the LCK region.

Clid, in particular, was sprayed into the sky.

A series of criticisms such as "a blind monk and a ban, retired on the spot", "hero bowl" and "spoon-shaped jungler" were all on clid's face.

I can't refute it.

He admits that as a veteran jungler, the hero pool is indeed a little shallow.

Until then, CLID had always adhered to the principle of "enough is enough".

Because he never thought that his opponent might spend a lot of bans against himself who was not the core of the team.

But when facing the Thorn Bird, the Thorn Bird focused on him, and instead ignored many heroes who were regarded as thorns in the side of other teams.

This is the confidence that only a team with strong strength can have.

It's also a problem that the SKT team has to solve.

And it's not just that.

Faker's performance in this MSI was not as good as it could have been.

Although the numbers on the surface are okay, there are two mid-laner players who can pose a more immediate threat to Faker.

One is G2's mid-laner CAPS.

And the other one is the night.

Don't forget, there are a total of four mid-laners in the top four.

In other words, faker can only rank third, and this third is not stable.

Like the mid-laner Jian Huang of the TL team, he himself is not quite the same as other mid-laners, and Jian Huang is also a person with a deep hero pool to the point of horror.

In contrast, the worst clid problem that was sprayed is not so big, after all, clid can be steadily suppressed when facing the junglers of other teams, that is, it can't beat the incense pot of the thorn bird.

In addition, Khan was targeted by the Thorn Bird too badly, and when they wanted to target Brother Saint Gun in turn, Brother Saint Gun used his greasy style of play to tell SKT that it was impossible to target him, you can press him, but don't think about him as a breakthrough.

Bottom lane duo ......

I can't beat it.

How do you play this Xiba'er?

Just when KKOMA was struggling with it, the grouping of the knockout rounds also came.

According to the rules, the first player in the group has the privilege of choosing an opponent.

That is, the Thorn Birds will decide for themselves who their next opponent will be.

Interestingly, before the grouping, the G2 team also had a very "friendly" interaction with the Thorn Bird on Twitter.

In this interaction, G2 did not forget to step on SKT, and Ah P directly said that as long as the Thorn Birds did not choose them, then they would kill SKT in the knockout round.

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And when the G2 team's remarks were transmitted to South Korea, it naturally made Korean netizens angry.

But they had no way to refute it before the two teams met again, after all, judging from the data of the group stage, the two sides only drew 1-1.

Esports, results speak.

Judging from the results so far, they really don't seem to be 100% sure that they can crush G2.

Domestic netizens expressed the hope that the Thorn Birds could directly choose SKT and send the Korean team home first.

However, in the end, domestic netizens were disappointed.

The Thorn Bird made an unexpected, but reasonable, choice.

tl。

The Thorn Bird chose this North American light.

When Li Luo, as the captain, stood on the stage and said his choice, Wolf, the representative of the SKT team who walked up with him, was obviously relieved.

Wolf didn't know why, he was a little timid when he faced Li Luo, who was experienced in a hundred battles and had a lot of experience in the competition.

It's a bad feeling.

Wolf knew he shouldn't be, and he tried to adjust himself to try to forget about it.

However, his adjustment proved to be futile.

This timidity seemed to have been hidden in the depths of his soul, and a seed that had taken root and sprouted in the wolf king's mind was implanted.

It wasn't just Wolf who was relieved.

At the same time, there is kkoma.

After some hard research, KKOMA has gradually figured out how to deal with thorn birds.

But...... He needs time.

League of Legends tactics require training and practice before they can be put to use.

KKOMA had to admit that now they don't want to run into thorn birds right away.

In fact, according to KKOMA's idea, their favorite script is that the Thorn Bird chooses the most jumping G2 first, so that the TL team is their best whetstone.

However, it backfired.

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Soon, the knockout round kicked off.

On the eve of the knockout round, the official invited players from four teams to make a simple promotional video.

The content of the promotional video is also quite concise, a bit like a trash talk session.

The knockout tournament was held in Taipei, so this filming session was also held in Taipei, and Li Luo participated briefly on behalf of the team, and then unexpectedly found the Korean mouth...... It's really hard.

Li Luo thought that the SKT team, which lost to them twice in the group stage and was frustrated by G2, should converge.

However, Faker still said in the middle of the session that they will get revenge on the Thorn Birds in the final, and that attitude seems to be very confident.

Such self-confidence will not give Li Luo rectification.

In Li Luo's impression, faker has always been like this.

Whether he is at his peak or at his lows, he is like the leader of the team, full of confidence every time he faces the media.

And even if he was slapped in the face after that, few people criticized him.

After all, as long as there are enough glorious moments, this little slap in the face can easily be covered up.

But Li Luo couldn't figure out whether Faker had thought of a way to deal with them or just to show the team's confidence in front of the media.

Li Luo is not in a hurry, time will tell.

They have a lot more tactics in reserve.

The soldiers will block, and the water will cover the earth.

The match between the Thorn Bird and TL soon began.

When the Thorn Bird group walked onto the stage and was about to start the pre-match BP, after glancing at the bottom of the stage, Xiangguo suddenly became happy: "When did Team TL have so many fans?" I almost thought it was the home of the United States. ”

Li Luo also raised his eyelids.

Team TL's logo is quite eye-catching.

As far as the eye can see, at least two-thirds of the flags belong to the TL team.

Previously, when the players from both sides took the stage one after another, only Li Luo's cheers were very high on the side of the Thorn Bird team.

The rest of the Thorn Bird, including the old jungler of the incense pot, received very little applause and cheers.

In contrast, the atmosphere in the arena was very lively when every player on the TL team came to the stage and waved.

"There is only one way for me to deal with this situation, and that is to fight hard and use my strength to silence them."

Liu Qingsong put on an indifferent face.

He's not the kind of player who likes to cheer.

What he likes is to tear the wounds of his rival fans.

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Zhu Kai didn't say a lot this time.

TL hasn't made a personnel change for a long time.

They were in this configuration last year, and this year it is still the same, as early as the end of the group stage, Li Luo has already put forward some precautions when playing the TL team.

On the surface, the real core of this team is the ADC elder brother.

But in reality, TL is actually a very balanced team.

Impact in the top laner, xmithie in the jungler, and Jian Huang in the middle laner.

The core trident has a wealth of combat experience.

And the TL team tactics are relatively simple, and this season I like to use a pure late-stage big core lineup, except for the top laner IMPACT, which occasionally turns into a sharp knife, everyone else is very stable.

Therefore, the BP of the Thorn Bird will not use targeted tactics and routines like when colliding with strong teams in South Korea or Europe.

To play TL, you can play purely with hard power.

The first match between the two sides soon kicked off.

The lineup selected by the Thorn Bird team is Kenan in the top laner, the blind monk in the jungler, and the trickery enchantress in the middle laner, with the very straightforward female policeman and titan of the push tower system.

Liu Qingsong chose the Titan as the core support with the female police when the hammer stone was banned, which is actually not a particularly outstanding choice, but this TL team banned too many auxiliaries, in order to increase the team's overall ability to open a group, Liu Qingsong can only retreat to the second.

In contrast, the TL team premeditated the push down on Silas and snatched the bull's head themselves.

However, although this choice is good, it is inevitable that the TL team will go to jail on the road, and the senior brother is also a pure ADC enthusiast, so after hesitating for a long time, the hero who the senior brother finally chose to deal with the female police is Xiwei, who has a strong ability to push the line.

Midlaner Jian Huang chose Ruiz, and jungler Xmithie chose Excavator.

The decision to hit the road became a variable for the entire team, and finally settled on Akali.

However, this first game showed the gap in the ability of the two sides to play on the line from the start.

Although IMPACT has won the championship of the S3 World Finals, and has been very stable since coming to North America.

But his age is there after all.

Although Impact's line thinking is very old-fashioned, he is facing a young Saint Spear Brother.

As a player who played three years earlier than Li Luo, but is one year younger than Li Luo, Brother Saint Gun is at the level of his age.

For the LPL event alone, the Holy Gun Brother can be traced back to January 15 at the earliest.

In comparison, Saint Gun is much younger than Impact.

Youth, is capital.

With Kenan's hand strength, Saint Gun easily gained the advantage in the lane period.

The idea of the incense pot is very clear, although Emperor Jian has rich experience, he can't stand the completely unreasonable attack of these two people.

It's not that the excavator hasn't come over and squatted, but whether it's a blind monk or a demon queen, these two heroes are too flexible.

When the thorn bird Nakano double-lane was suppressed, the suppressive power of Li Luo in the lower lane was also revealed, and even in less than four minutes of the game, Li Luo had dropped the first layer of Tapi in the lower lane with the cooperation of Titan.

Although the elder brother's wheel mother played well, the assistance dragged him down.

The two actions of the assistant who wanted to take the lead Li Luo were seen through, and it was okay to be seen through, but Li Luo could also make a countermeasure because of this, and the two clips with the Titan's first hand directly hit the flash of the bull's head, and then pressed the bull's head home.

Although TL's jungler excavator helped the upper road impact kill the Saint Spear Brother once, it was not a cure for the symptoms.

Saint Lancer can still maintain the suppression of the lane until Akali reaches level 6.

But the pressure on the TL team's sideline was too great from the other roads.

The game lasts 6 minutes and 30 seconds.

The enchantress of the night wandered on the road in a wave of spirituality, and after the two locks connected to Akali, Akali died on the spot.

In less than 100 minutes, the incense pot cooperated with Kenan to complete a wave of crossing the tower, and Akali had very little room to operate when he was kicked by the blind monk on the wall.

By the time the game reached 15 minutes, the economic gap between the two sides had widened to nearly 5,000 yuan.

It wasn't long before TL really broke down its psychological defenses.

15 minutes and 30 seconds.

This scene seemed familiar to the audience.

Only this time, the hero used by Li Luo changed from Varus to a policewoman.

Impact manipulates Akali to find a wave of opportunities to catch the policewoman alone.

When the impact circled around and approached Li Luo from the river in the lower half of the wild area, Li Luo directly controlled the policewoman to move closer to the grass in the river in the upper half of the wild area after a brief period of surprise.

The large army of the Thorn Bird was fighting the Canyon Vanguard at this time.

And Liu Qingsong is already moving closer to the direction he is in, obviously, this wave of Li Luo's first thought is to join the large army, so maybe there is no need to flash.

But soon, Liu Qingsong's field of vision appeared in the TL team's wheel mother and bull head.

Mother Wheel is turning on her ultimate, and she pounces in the direction of Li Luo along the position of the red f6.

If Li Luo continued to move closer to the river, he would obviously be caught by them.

To put it bluntly, Li Luo's position at this time can be described as very embarrassing.

And IMPACT's first move is undoubtedly very decisive.

The moment he saw the policewoman, he decisively hung Hayabusa Dance on Li Luo's policewoman with a wave of extremely skillful re-combos.

Just re-receiving the technology gun made the policewoman's blood drop by about a third.

And this scene also made a ghost scream at the scene.

However, the moment Lee landed in front of Akali as he pressed forward, he released a clip in front of him.

When Akali handed over a piece of E-Hero and retreated, Li Luo began to stand still and wander around the clip.

In this position, as long as Akali dares to hand over the second section of E, she will definitely eat the clip.

And Li Luo is manipulating the policewoman on the "corner" at the edge of the river wall.

impact is waiting.

Liu Qingsong has tried to restrict, but he can limit one, but he can't limit two.

Seeing that his teammates Wheel Mother and Niu Tou were roughly in place, and his E skills were about to disappear, Impact directly handed over the second section of E and pulled it towards the policewoman without saying a word.

However, at this time, Li Luo instead approached Akali towards Akali.

At the moment when Akali was hit by the clip, Li Luo handed over the healing acceleration, and at the same time walked past Akali's side, and after adjusting the position, Li Luo's backhand EQ second company withdrew in the direction of his own tower.

At this time, Li Luo ate the Q skill released in mid-air when Akali came back from the second stage of E, and his blood volume was already less than half, even if he handed over the healing technique, he did not pull the blood line to a very healthy level.

This bloodline......

Impact has a deep eye.

With his knowledge of Akali, he can take away the policewoman's HP as long as Raq has a level advantage.

The policewoman is still her prey.

Therefore, at the moment when the policewoman handed over the EQ and retreated, Akali, who had recovered her ability to act from the clamp bondage, suddenly handed over her second stage ultimate, and rushed in the direction of the policewoman's retreat!

Stop!

A golden glow.

impact's complexion changed slightly.

Li Luo's release timing of this flash is very ingenious.

At the same time, it is also very fast.

Because at this time, the policewoman's Q skill had just been discharged, but the policewoman's whole person had already flashed out.

The disemboweled-out policewoman's Q skill passed through Akali's body.

None of this is the worst of all.

What's really terrible is that Impact found that after releasing this R, R's landing position entered the attack range of the first tower in the middle lane of the Thorn Bird!

And the moment Li Luo flashed out, his backhand threw another clip on the way he retreated.

Impact, who subconsciously retreated, heard a soft sound of Kacha in his ears, and his face had turned pale.

Counter-killing.

See also counter-killing.

It is precisely because of this wave that Li Luo has an extra nickname.

Akali Killer.

An AD that has shown off the assassin a few times?

And the assassins who were shown were all Akali?

In the early days, Li Luo's push tower rhythm itself was very smooth.

It's a pity that Li Luo has never had a head.

"Impact is intimate, I'll send you a pillow when you're sleepy."

The incense pot said happily.

The TL double road pounced, and the Canyon Pioneer was easily caught by the Thorn Bird.

When this canyon pioneer helped the Thorn Bird tear down the Middle One Tower, the Thorn Bird's progress was out of control.

In the first game, 27 minutes, the Thorn Bird easily won.

In the next two games, the TL team also made a lot of adjustments.

Jian Huang even took out a single lux in his hand, trying to stir up some variables in the overall situation.

It's a pity that under the absolute strength gap, all this is doomed to be in vain.

3 to 0.

The TL team was easily taken down by the Thorn Birds.

And Li Luo, who defeated TL, was also a little embarrassed.

At this moment, thinking of the IG before rebirth, Li Luo is still quite emotional.

When thinking about the group stage, the standout point of the IG team is their excellent team battle performance in the middle and late stages.

And in the lane match, IG's many mistakes did give the opponent a lot of opportunities.

As a result, the IG team, which ended in the group stage at 9/1, learned from the pain, and took advantage of the off-season in the middle to make adjustments, which greatly improved some of the problems that the team would encounter in the early matching.

In the knockout match against Team TL at the time, IG's early performances proved it.

At the beginning of almost every game, they steadily pressed TL a head, and King Ning took a blood to help the team with rhythm.

But in the middle and late stages, IG seems to have changed a team, and the first two are all big advantages in the front and are overturned in the middle and late stages.

Improved lanes, but teamfights are no longer possible.

The reason why the TL team was chosen as the first opponent of the Thorn Birds in the knockout round is also the reason why Li Luo is also curious, the TL team that was 3-0 by G2 in the final can win IG 3-1, what kind of quality they are.

And now after the test, Li Luo also has a certain evaluation of TL's strength.

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Just when the Thorn Bird made it to the finals without any remark.

SKT, which was pinned on by countless LCK netizens, fell to G2 after five games of fierce battles.

For a time, the whole network shook.