Naturally, SKT's staffing moves have attracted media attention from all regions.

But when the news was transmitted to China, a series of forums such as Tieba and Hupu were all negative about SKT's behavior.

The IDs of Kanavi and A are a bit too new to them.

In the eyes of the public, these are nothing more than two newcomers.

"Are you really sick and rushed to the doctor? Or is SKT completely swinged? ”

"One thing to say, although my brother Han Zi's performance in the finals of the world type event was relatively sloppy, you don't think that a newcomer is better than my brother Hanzi, right? Wouldn't it, wouldn't it? ”

"Laughing to death, clid is a blind monk after all, the spider prince or something is also said to be in the past, you got a newcomer here, does this help the team?"

"Don't ask, ask is SKT drawing cards, it is recommended to wait and see, after all, my brother Luo was also drawn out of IG card drawing."

"Gacha? It's EDG's card drawn! ”

……

Li Luo didn't pay attention to what netizens said about this matter, he only believed his own evaluation.

First of all, these two players are definitely not weak.

But Li Luo is also an old man in the professional circle in his past and present lives, and he has seen and experienced more than most players, so Li Luo's views on players are also different from many people.

First of all, performance is an important indicator of a player's strength, but it is not the only indicator.

Secondly, not all players who win the S championship are the strongest players in the position, because the strength of a player depends on many factors, such as the team's tactical focus, such as his position in the team.

If the individual ability is strong, and the teammates are not suitable for the chemical reaction, not only can you not get good results, but there may be contradictions within the team.

As a result, it is very rare for all five positions to be recognized as the number one in the world to win the title, and most of the champions simply meet the "no shortcomings" benchmark.

There is no doubt that the personal abilities of both Brother Pian and Little Mouse are definitely not shortcomings.

How well they can play depends on how they will run in with the team.

Of course, in Li Luo's impression, A also has the same attributes as Khan.

Both of them are a bit similar to the kind of problem that the league is invincible and the higher the tournament goes, the more it pulls up.

However, combined with the actual situation at that time, Li Luo also had some different views.

Again, the lineup.

The problem with the current SKT team setup is that they rely too heavily on the early cadence of CLID.

Bang and Wolf's bottom lane duo are of the more traditional kind.

Khan's performance in the league can be used to beat the LCK region all the way, but in the tournament he is easily targeted in the fast-paced mode of other regions, and as the ADC position has become less and less visible in the league, Bang has more functional heroes to choose from.

Such a hero can't give SKT a backdrop in the later stage, and if you choose a late-stage core, it will be more and more difficult for Bang, who is not a line-type player, to deal with it in the current situation.

Therefore, if Li Luo is kkoma, he will consider developing the position of kanavi and A in the team's tactical system, so that the lower lane will completely become a tool man who does not need to bear any pressure in the early stage, and both of these people can c.

It's just that in Li Luo's impression, the S9 World Championship is not a version of the wild core.

……

Thornbird's struggle against the BLG team was just a small episode.

Although the fans are a little unsettling about the feeling of being a little excited but going to win the game in the end, as long as they don't lose, the fans are always happy.

And with the end of the continental competition about two weeks later, the thorn bird has also reached a higher level of exploration for the version.

Especially when facing RNG on July 16, Thornbird even took out the Jungle Death Song to assist Pike's alternative system, and directly killed the game with these two heroes.

The incense pot was still very happy that day, although he had been Pike at the k-head, but he played close to 40,000 output in a game, and he was quite rare in the position of jungler.

However, while being happy, the incense pot also had some doubts.

Although the tactics of the Thorn Bird are changeable, because the incense pot itself is a rhythmic jungler, the Thorn Bird has hardly tried the play style of the wild core.

Even when the incense pot gets a hero like Dream Demon who needs to be farmed and developed, the role it plays in the team is more functional.

The hero incense pot like Death Song likes to play in the rank, but it has not been taken out on the playing field.

This thing is a full-blown core hero.

With a temperament like Xiangguo, if he is given a platform that needs him c and his teammates to assist, he will certainly be very willing.

Could it be that he planned to make it a little more cool for him to kill his old club when he abandoned him?

Or is it ...... What is the special meaning of this day?

The incense pot does not understand.

Li Luo also saw the confusion of the incense pot, but he smiled and said nothing.

July 16, this day is indeed very special for the incense pot before it is reborn.

What Li Luo didn't know was that it was his "unintentional" move that made many teams that had a chance to enter the playoffs a little more headache for the Thorn Bird's tactical reserves.

They watched Uzi's wheel, and after eating a big move of Death Song, she plummeted by two-thirds of her blood.

The damage was exaggerated.

Other teams also began to come up with Death Song as a jungler one after another, and the effect was relatively good.

But when FPX first came up with Olaf to deal with Dead Song, the path to Dead Song Jungler seemed to be blocked.

In the face of a reckless hero like Olaf, the existence of Death Song is naturally more embarrassing, after all, if this thing bumps into Olaf in the wild area in the early stage, it will definitely be handed over and flash once it is slowed down by the axe.

……

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, the LPL is approaching the playoffs.

This timing is delicate, as the playoffs for each major region are approaching, which also means that the general direction of the Worlds version will be finalized.

That's what countless teams care about.

And this general direction can basically be finalized when the announcement of version 9.16 comes out.

When the news came out, most League of Legends players didn't pay much attention to it.

After all, for the vast majority of players, every version update does not affect their ability to play matchmaking, or to thrive in the Silver segment.

Of course, I won't read the official version announcement of League of Legends.,Only when wegame clicks on the rune with one click, players will know.,The hero they wanted to play was strengthened or weakened.。

But the version is always the most sensitive for professional players.

The Thorn Bird team had a small meeting at the time of the update.

In the same way, many teams in the LPL have chosen to meet tonight.

There is no other reason, that is, the impact of the version on the major teams is too great.

Especially for those teams who are qualified to challenge for the Worlds, this version update is really a cloud on their hearts.

"This ...... It's a little uncomfortable.,The hero was redone before the World Championship version.,And judging from the condition of this hero, it's definitely a bit of a supermodel.,Shouldn't it be the same as S5's Iron Man to directly fix the ban, right? ”

Xiangguo said with a frown.

The first change in Update 9.16 was the rework of Panson.

After the rework, Panson has no passive shield on the surface, weakening his ability to resist towers.

But the E skill can also block the damage of the tower, which is too buggy.

And the passive has also been changed to the attribute of stacking layers to improve the effect and damage of skills, especially strengthening W, and supplementing the follow-up after stunting the enemy, which means that once Pan Sen does the black cut out, it is not too simple to directly fill the number of layers of the black cut.

This means that Pan Sen is no longer a pure lane hero with some chicken ribs, and it has also become one of the heroes who can play late, because it has Tandu, and it seems that it can no longer produce those extreme armor-piercing equipment.

"Yes, it's not just Panson who has redone it, but other heroes have also been troublesome."

Xi Ye also nodded slightly and said: "The Tsar has been cut, the pig sister has been cut, and even Yin Zereel has been cut, among these heroes, the Tsar is a little better, and I didn't play much originally, but the weakening of the two consecutive versions of the pig girl still has an impact on us, and there is Yin Zereil......"

"There are also planes, 5 points of basic attack power weakened, and the growth attribute has also been cut by 0.5, this weakening is already very large, if the World Championship version has not been strengthened before, it basically means that the World Championship will not be seen."

Li Luo's addition made the atmosphere in the venue a little more solemn.

Yin Zereel is the hero who has taken the most out of the Thorn Birds Summer Tournament.

Because this hero is so comprehensive, it will be embarrassing for other teams to want to be BP when facing the Thorn Bird, and they usually choose to target the hero they can't handle at all, and then release Yin Zereel to get it for the Thorn Bird, in an attempt to weaken Li Luo's carry ability.

After all, no matter how strong Li Luo is, it is impossible to hit all his skills like opening a lock.

And choosing Yin Zereal and then pressing the exclusive hero Karma that matches it will greatly weaken Yin Zeriel's suppressive power on the lane period.

The Thorn Bird didn't care about this, and Li Luolao had already put the team's Uenakano in the first place in formulating the follow-up tactics.

The Worlds version is undoubtedly a key version of the core of the midfield.

Now that the results of the version have come out, it has confirmed Li Luo's memory.

ADC, which was further weakened.

In this update, the CD of the level 1 E skill has been increased from 19 seconds to 25 seconds.

This is no longer an ordinary knife, this knife almost slashed at Yin Zeriel's major artery.

I don't know how much the fault tolerance rate in the early and middle stages has decreased.

World Race Yin Zeriel is no longer a darling, so who can become a darling?

Wheel Mom has also been greatly weakened in this version, and it can be said that the two major systems of the Thorn Bird have been directly cut down.

Li Luo thought about it carefully, and it seemed that there were only two mainstream AD heroes left in this World Championship.

Kai'Sa and Kasumi.

So once these two things are pressed by the opponent, he has to choose from the remaining several replacement ADs, plus this version of the feature that anything can appear in the bottom lane, the ADC position can be said to be a bit of a cut and scrapped.

In recent matches, most of the teams facing the Thorn Bird have opted to drop the AD in the first three bans and focus on killing Karma and the cat.

Now that the cats are also cut, they just need to ban Karma.

In the World Championship, Pan Sen was a fixed ban on the red side, which was very impressive.

In other words, if the opponent is on the blue side and does not need to bear this fixed ban, a Karma, a Kaisha, and then a Kasumi can block the Thorn Bird's bottom lane from the perspective of the version.

This, in fact, is terrifying.

If that's the case, it doesn't really need to be taken seriously by the Thorn Birds or even other LPL teams.

After all, everyone is on the same starting line, and they all have about two months to face this World Championship, theoretically two months to familiarize the team with the general direction of the World Championship version, there is no problem, with a month and a half to get familiar with the version, half a month to practice the version of the strong hero, for professional players is completely enough.

But the real problem is that LCK is playing version 9.16 in the playoffs.

But the LPL uses 9.15.

9.16 and 9.15, don't look at it as just a small version of the gap.

However, the gap between the two is as big as a chasm.

The two or three minor versions after 9.16 have been changed until the Worlds, and according to past experience, they will basically focus on hero enhancements, so that more heroes have the opportunity to appear in Worlds.

Even if there is a hero weakened, there will be no slashing to death.

The playoffs of the LPL are a full version behind the playoffs of the LCK.

This means that if the LPL has the ability to impact the World Championship wants to qualify for the World Championship, it must practice according to the 9.15 version, but in this way, there will be a great sense of separation between the 9.16 version and the 9.15 version, because these two versions are completely different emphases.

If you prepare the tactical system of the World Championship version in advance, it is very likely that you will be eliminated early in the competition of the major teams in the LPL playoffs.

This is reminiscent of a sentence once said by the factory director.

I'm already working on the opponents of MSI.

The results were obvious, and after researching it, I decided not to go.

You can't have it both ways.

If you really wait until you get a place in the Worlds and then prepare for the Worlds version, the time will be too tight.

"It has to be double-threaded."

Li Luo sighed.

After being reborn and after experiencing this scene, Li Luo understood why the IG in the World Championship before the rebirth was still the IG that relied on his personal ability, and the RNG was still the RNG who was too slow to comprehend the version.

In this case, IGs that are not good at operations and RNG that are relatively good at operations but have poor adaptability to versions have a serious sense of separation from the version.

On the contrary, FPX, a whimsical hero whose tactical system and hero casting have always been different from the mainstream of the version, successfully topped the crown.

In addition to the personal factors of the players, the sense of fragmentation of this version is also one of the key reasons.

Is this fair in theory?

It's not fair.

But where is the absolute fairness?

The thorn bird has to face it.

LPL, too, must be faced.

The surging sense of oppression hung over the LPL division.

Most of the teams are gearing up for the World Championships.

The LCK division next door is no exception.

Especially SKT.

In the second half of the summer season, KKOMA boldly used two young players who had just been introduced to the team.

And the surprise that these two youngsters brought to him is undoubtedly huge.

This makes KKOMA's ambition for this World Championship infinitely inflated!