Chapter 488: Intercontinental Competition, Thorn Bird Leads the Team!
With the gradual development of League of Legends events, the number of events alone can still make the audience more and more satisfied.
However, compared to the large number of events, most viewers are relatively more willing to pay attention to the quality of the events.
This is especially true for events that are consistent with the outside world.
In the course of the LPL event, the fans of the major clubs tore back and forth, and there is already a trend of developing the e-sports circle into a fan circle, and the largest number of fans is Li Luo's fan group, among which there are some bedbug-like characters leading the war around.
This also led to Li Luoming not doing anything at home, but the pot came directly from the sky, and the number of fans is still growing day by day, and the number of black fans is gradually increasing.
And the reason why Li Luo was sprayed is relatively simple, either by using the line of teammates to divide the relationship within the Thorn Bird team, or by making remarks that "there is no tactical focus" and there is no such thing as Li Luo today.
Those brainless fans' remarks will give Li Luo a hat of "not being able to manage his own fans".
Although Li Luo does not care much about these remarks, it does not mean that Li Luo is unaware of the potential threat that these remarks may bring.
But Li Luo can't do anything about this, so he can only occasionally mention a few words about the positive performance of other players during the live chat, so that the black fans who pay attention to this part are self-defeating.
As for other things like restricting fans, Li Luo also said, but whether it has an effect, Li Luo is pessimistic.
In these days, there is a lack of everything, that is, there is no shortage of skewers.
High-level skewers can often lead the people they want to black into the abyss in the most simple way.
In addition, the tight schedule does not allow Li Luo to be distracted from thinking about some messy things.
Before he fell off the altar, even if there were more black fans, compared with the group of true love fans that Li Luo had accumulated for more than two years, it was an egg hitting a stone.
It's been about a month since the start of the summer season.
So far, the Thorn Birds have not lost once in the big game, except for two losses in the small game, and this situation has somewhat of the dominance of last year's EDG period.
It's just that the dominance brought by the thorn bird has a relatively greater repercussion.
After all, the EDG team has rarely lost in the LPL league since the S4 period.
They have ruled the LPL for too long, so even if EDG's winning rate is more exaggerated after Li Luo goes to EDG, it can't bring more shock to the public.
But the team Li Luo is in now is an all-Chinese class that has only been formed for half a year!
The last all-Chinese team that dominated the LPL region had to be the EDG team that dates back to the S4 period.
As for the former dark forces OMG, although they are the most optimistic all-Chinese class of the first generation, and they are also the first all-Chinese class to defeat the Korean team 3-0 in the World Championship, it is undeniable that they are still a little far from dominating the LPL after failing to get the No. 1 seed in the S tournament in China.
Thorn Bird has gone from not being favored at the beginning of its formation to now successfully conquering a large number of audiences with its strength, and only the players, coaches and even management of Thorn Bird know the hardships along the way. 【
And the summer game has been able to maintain a complete victory so far, and Li Luo is also quite fortunate about this.
Although Li Luo didn't know Abu's thoughts, occasionally a sentence would come to Li Luo's mind.
Luck is part of strength.
In addition to the hard bones of the IG team, the strongest team that Thorn Bird has encountered during this period of time is FPX.
FPX benefited from the release and studied a tactical system with doinb at its core, winning five in a row at the start of the summer season.
The Thorn Bird narrowly lost to FPX.
Xi Ye's performance in the LPL can only be said to be above average, and it is definitely not a top mid laner, so when facing doinb, it is difficult for Xi Ye to suppress doinb in the laning period like a left hand, a junior brother, and Rookie.
If you can't suppress doinb at night, doinb can swim, and as soon as doinb swims, FPX's tactics can be perfectly executed.
Under this kind of execution, Li Luo was under the top pressure as if he was in a different world, resulting in a poor development in the early stage.
If it weren't for the fact that the hope player was too young, his playing style was too aggressive after he had the advantage, and he was caught by Li Luo with a wave of opportunities to cooperate with the incense pot in seconds, this BO3 would have really been lost.
To put it bluntly, it is not smooth sailing for the Thorn Birds to maintain a complete victory in the summer tournament so far, and there are problems that need to be solved under the glamorous light.
At this time, the luck of belonging to the Thorn Bird team was revealed.
With the exception of IG and FPX, the Thorn Birds faced relatively low-ranked teams in the early stages of the summer.
It's the kind of opponent who is unlikely to lose even if he rehearses the lineup on this kind of team, with the state of the Thorn Birds all online.
These opponents gave the Thorn Bird a lot of time to develop, and the lack of practice in the version lineup caused by MSI events was gradually eliminated.
At this time, the summer season is not yet halfway through, but the thorn birds are developing relatively well. Even the teams they will face in the second half are relatively strong, such as IG, which has not lost a single game since losing the first game in the summer game, and EDG, which has begun to become ferocious in the summer season, or TOP, which still maintains a dark horse posture like the spring game, and JD.com, which ranks in the forefront with solid tactics and team stability...
These opponents are equal in terms of strength, and their styles are also different.
But the thorn birds did not panic at all, they were on standby.
It's just that now Li Luo needs to face another problem.
Continental races.
The official promotional video for LPL has already been filmed.
In this Asian competition, the Thorn Birds team will lead the team.
This is the slogan of the LPL division.
And this slogan is destined to make the thorn bird the focus of all players.
He is in the middle of the storm.
For the version and tactics of the continental competition, Li Luo has a relatively large confidence.
But as for whether he can win this continental competition, Li Luo has no confidence in his heart.
Although the Asian competition is a team from four regions participating together, in fact, the audience knows that two regions are just coming to accompany them, and the real final showdown has to be the South Korean LCK region and China's LPL region.
It has been a long time since the LPL region won the throne of the "world's No. 1 division".
And last year's LPL division performed very well in the continental competition, when Li Luo's EDG, IG, which was as steady as an old dog, and RNG, which was in the best condition, it was relatively easy for the three teams to play the LCK region that was in a downturn.
But this year...
Li Luo slowly exhaled and rubbed his temples.
The four participating teams in this year's LPL are Thorn Bird, JD.com, FPX, and TOP.
This is the top four teams in the spring.
The top four teams in the current summer regular season rankings are the Thorn Birds, FPX, IG, and EDG.
JD.com and TOP are slightly behind.
But the strength is still online in general.
Li Luo also undeniably believes that when doing tactical rehearsals in advance, even when they face JD.com and the top team, they have no absolute chance of winning.
But when it comes to the continental races
In a world type of event like this, the mentality determines everything.
That's not to say that the strength of the team itself isn't important. In fact, there will not be a big gap in the level of the major teams, and in the case of a small gap, many objective factors will affect the overall direction of the game.
Is JD.com's mentality good?
Good.
But the problem is that their mentality is a bit too good.
Is FPX in a good mindset?
In all fairness, with doinb, theoretically this team should be Li Luo's most reassuring one, but when I think of the fact that there is a sof in FPX, Li Luo has reservations about whether FPX is reliable.
TOP...
As a young domestic dark horse team, what Li Luo can imagine is that if this team plays smoothly in the first round of the continental competition, then they are likely to go to the end.
But if they are designed by the LCK side in the first round and lose miserably, with their self-adjustment ability, most of the playoffs will be worse.
The four teams that went out of the LPL are all young teams!
Before the expedition, this problem was exposed.
Normally, if there is an old powerhouse in one team, that team can easily become the backbone of the other three teams.
But now in their four teams, can the thorn bird become the backbone? FPX's coach War Horse and TOP's coach White Crescent may be easier to communicate, can Redmi, as a top Korean coach, integrate with the three domestic coaches on their side?
Many problems can't even be thought about, and Li Luo's head has already begun to grow.
And when it comes to opponents, it feels even harder.
The four teams participating in the LCK region are SKT, Griffin, KZ, and DG.
SKT had a slight slump at the start of the summer season, but is now quickly recovering from form.
Griffin is nicknamed the little top in the mouths of many LPL audiences, but between them and the top, many viewers naturally have a scale in their hearts.
Since the loss of Khan, the whole team of KZ has been reborn...... Of course, the rebirth here only exists in the S9 intercontinental tournament in Li Luo's memory, if Li Luo remembers correctly, KZ won both battles at that time, and the abandoned jungler who was abandoned by SKT naturally became the person in charge of this front.
This is not the first time he has become the head of the front.
After learning a lot about the experience of failure, Kko also made full preparations for this continental competition.
He didn't ask the coaches of the teams to share their tactics.
Because of this, the coaches of the teams, who were originally slightly repulsed, have eased their emotions a lot, and they have begun to cooperate more and more with Kko's scheduling in training.
Kko didn't study the Thorn Bird team at all this time.
He put all his attention on the remaining three teams in the LPL.
This is the format of the continental competition, where a team can't have more than two reliable teams, no matter how sharp their spears are, it won't help!
Moreover, they may not be invincible to the thorn birds. This time, the LCK is ready to revive the glory of the LCK!
The level of preparation that the LCK has done so far has not been enough.
First of all, the network environment provided by the organizer of the event for the LPL competition area is highly volatile.
In this country where the average pin value of LOL is not even 10, this situation is a bit outrageous.
However, what is even more exaggerated is that because of the chain reaction caused by network fluctuations, the accounts of players who have been disconnected in the rank have been banned one after another. In terms of the attitude of lifting the ban, South Korea has always "accumulated", but the number of bans is increasing, and some players have been banned twice on the first day alone.
Doinb, who was also angry in such a situation, scolded in the training room, and even said his native language.
Li Luo's mentality is okay.
After all, you should be mentally prepared before you come.
That's Korea.
Fortunately, Principal Wang arranged a new training place for the players through his money ability that night, so that the players could be stable for a short time.
But that stability didn't last long.
The LPL has a tighter schedule than the LCK, which is destined to make
The four LPL teams postponed the training time for this event.
By the time they arrived in Seoul, it was less than a week before the start of the tournament.
Pressed for time!