The semi-finals of the LPL Summer Tournament, located in the stadium of the magic capital, kicked off with the thorn bird and FPX.

Of course, compared to the relatively unfamiliar FPX, the Thorn Bird team, which has a star effect and takes into account its strong strength, is undoubtedly more popular, and at least nearly two-thirds of the fans on the scene are here to cheer for the Thorn Birds.

Paired with a bright flag and a cheering stick that belongs to the Bramble Birds, it feels a bit like a football fan at home in Brazil.

It was in this atmosphere that the competition kicked off.

In the FPX backstage lounge, Coach War Horse and a group of players in the team looked solemn and waited for the battle.

Failing to finish second in the regular season and being in the same half as the Thorn Birds is something that the FPX team has been regretting lately.

If they are allowed to face the EDG team in the other half, it is not bragging, FPX is really confident that they can pull EDG down through a fierce battle.

But the thorn bird ......

War Horse took a look at its own ADC.

hope was a substitute ad for the EDG team.

And there was a time when Hope also played as a starter, that is, during Li Luo's participation in the Asian Games.

First of all, War Horse feels that hope is a player with a very good prospect, his daring style and good mentality and professional attitude that he was trained in the EDG team are enough to make hope's strength continue to climb step by step.

Secondly, War Horse does feel that HOPE needs to go through some high-pressure training to improve his own game understanding by frequently facing stronger ADCs.

But the problem is that the high pressure that one person can withstand is not endless.

They had just played against RNG before, and against the in-form uzi, hope was killed in three of the five games.

Although FPX won in the end, War Horse could see that for Hope, who was more competitive, this victory brought him a lot of psychological pressure, even if War Horse reacted to the club at the first time, so that the club found a psychological counselor to guide hope, but only hope himself knew how to adjust his mentality.

In addition, the most difficult thing for War Horse is the hero pool that Hope chose in the summer game, which is highly overlapping with Li Luo.

Relying on the overall tactical system of FPX, most of the games played by hope are late-stage big cores.

But this version can be called the late big core only one Kaisha, and Kasumi can only be regarded as two-thirds.

These two heroes, but they have to go to the Thorn Bird to target.

That is to say, the best result is to ban one by one, but the embarrassment is that if you don't let Li Luo take this kind of late-stage big core, there is a risk of being threaded in the early stage, and if you let Li Luo take the late-stage big core, not to mention the stable development of the line period, there is also a huge gap in the team battle treatment of the ADC between the two sides in the later stage.

Therefore, War Horse clearly knows that the key to today's BP is in the upper middle field.

Whether Sofm and Doinb can gain the upper hand against Midnight and MLXG will be the key to whether they can win the match today.

In the bubble race, the demons are all around, and if they can, no one in the FPX team wants to enter the bubble game.

Although FPX is ranked in the top four in the spring and has good points, the ranking points in the summer are much higher than those in the spring.

EDG's Spring Championship ranking is still in the top six, if not ideal, and there is no way to erase the huge advantage of the summer ranking points by the two places.

Once EDG make it to the finals, they will be the second best player for the year.

But...... How easy is it to break through the thorn bird from Uenakano?

War Horse smiled bitterly in his heart.

"The bottom lane is the absolute core", this seems to be the main impression that the public has of the Thorn Birds.

But this nucleus is not the other.

The word "core" has two concepts, one is that like RNG, uzi is regarded as the absolute tactical core, and both the lineup and the tactical strategy in the game are based on uzi.

The other is like the EDG team, no one will say that the core of EDG is Ming Kai, but no one will say that Kai is not the core of EDG.

It sounds like a contradiction, in layman's terms, EDG has no flavor without Ming Kai, even if everyone knows that Ming Kai's state continues to decline with age, but it is almost meaningless to not see Ming Kai in the game.

Li Luo, on the other hand, seems to have both.

He can be the tactical core of the Thorn Bird, bringing out carry type heroes and surrounding the whole team to dominate the game in the late game.

But Li Luo can also let the rest of the team be the core, and he is willing to be a green leaf, but he can play the same carry level performance with the identity of a green leaf.

Isn't this a hexagonal warrior?!

The thought of this war horse gives me a headache.

They can only hit the midfield in the face of the thorn bird.

But since the continental tournament came back until now, the thorn bird has played Uenakano!

Li Luo has already bloomed in the lower lane, and heroes like Lucian, Callista, and Varus, who are not considered to be big cores in the late stage, but are easier to play in the laning period, have all been brought out, and the effects are also very explosive.

Li Luo, a hero like Yin Zeruiel who is mixed in the bottom lane, can also take it.

In contrast, HOPE's hero pool is a bit pitiful.

Facts have proved that no matter how depressed the mood is, there is no way to solve the current problem.

With the war looming, the only thing FPX can do is rise to the occasion.

……

With the placement of the commentary doll, Miller, and Umbrella Emperor, this semi-final game of the LPL Summer Tournament is also unveiled.

The first game FPX had some tentative meaning in it.

Throwing points and getting the right to choose the right to choose the edge is also a good start in a sense.

Blue's BP advantage is evident both in the current 9.15 and in the subsequent Worlds versions.

On the commentary seat.

As a former professional player, the umbrella emperor also bowed slightly when he saw the top three bps of the two sides coming out one after another: "From the first three ban positions alone, the FPX team actually has a certain advantage. ”

"The thorn bird in the front of the red side is given to the FPX team side in the play of RNG that BO5 play a more eye-catching hero, a Titan, a Panson, I believe we don't need to go into too much detail about this point, although our LPL playoffs version of Panson has not been redone, but this hero has long been FPX's unique job."

The Umbrella Emperor's voice fell, and Miller on the side nodded slightly: "Yes, and the bp idea on the FPX team's side is also very clear, the cat and Karma are all pressed, and the third hand is given to Kaisha, and then grab a xia...... Oh? The Thorn Bird team has banned Kasumi themselves! ”

On the battle seat, the face of the war horse turned dark.

Although he had expected this situation for a long time, considering Li Luo's strength, there was a certain fluke in the heart of the war horse.

It's not that you can't cope with a hero like Xia, you can't deal with it, you belong to the kind that can be banned or not.

As a result, the thorn birds are really banned, this is the rhythm of 3-0 to let them out of class?

Without Kasumi, FPX would have to settle for other ADCs.

There is a way to take Yin Zeriel when you are indecided.

The FPX on the first floor directly locked Yin Zeriel like this.

As soon as Yin Zeriel came out, it meant that the rest of FPX's position had to be adjusted.

957 is not very capable of using late-stage bigcore heroes.

Therefore, when the first and second floors of the Thorn Bird selected Kenan first, FPX's bp situation became more and more difficult.

"Thorn Bird is a bit bad, this configuration of FPX does not support 957 to play a captain, he ...... In the end, I chose a vampire, but I can be honest that vampires are not an advantage against Kenan, and vampires have a long development cycle, and the means of cooperating with the jungler are also very poor. ”

The Umbrella Emperor shook his head repeatedly.

He could see that the FPX team from the bp side had been completely controlled by the Thorn Bird.

Thorn Bird has a perfect insight into the FPX team's weaknesses in the system, allowing FPX's bp advantage on the blue side to disappear.

Kennan finalized the second floor to lock the bull's head, and the third floor to replenish Calista.

When these three heroes appear, FPX's lane rights in both the top and bottom lanes are lost.

Doinb had to finalize Ryze in another hero on the second and third floors to supplement the roaming support ability and the carry ability in the later stage.

If the more benign stress index of doinb in the team is 5, then the stress index of doinb has come to 8.

He has developed well, and he can't bind the spirit properly at the beginning.

However, the heroes that the Thorn Bird team added to the mid-laner position made Doinb a little cracked as well.

Lisandro.

Lisandro's fight against Ruiz is not an advantage, Lisandro is the kind of player who fights a set, and has a lot of control, but not enough damage.

Ruiz is more balanced, with both explosive and continuous output.

But the problem is that the thorn bird has locked a prince in the jungle here, which is very painful for Doinb.

Even if he comes out of the mercury shoes, if the prince and Lisandro make up their minds to come and get him, they will be able to get one by one.

In addition, the Thorn Bird also pressed Bronn and Morgana in the second round, cutting off FPX's idea of choosing a protection type to help stay in the bottom lane.

In the end, when War Horse had no choice but to speed up, he chose a blind monk for sofm, and at the same time added a hammer stone to the lower lane assistance, FPX's somewhat deformed lineup was also revealed.

This FPX is pinning its hopes on sofm and hammerstone to open up the situation in the bottom lane.

But the end result was not satisfactory, and the tactical intent of FPX's last two hands was so obvious that the Thorn Bird had been prepared for a long time.

You catch, you catch.

Anyway, I have Hexflash in my bull head, and the time you can sofm can do things for the bottom lane is only before Calista reaches level 6.

When Calista reaches level 6, it will be too difficult to use the knife against the lower lane.

Liu Qingsong sold himself twice on the lower road.

But once Li Luo cooperated with Liu Qingsong to kill one.

In general, spending the early stage with the loss of a head is a situation that the Thorn Bird Bottom Lane Duo is completely acceptable, knowing that the Blind Monk has come 5 times.

It's just that three of them were seen by the field of vision.

At the same time that the thorn bird was being targeted by the jungler in the lower lane, Doinb was also being targeted madly.

8 mins, Doinb's Ruiz 0/3.

When he died again, Doinb was a little powerless.

He even wanted to get off work directly.

Is this a snakeskin?

Doinb can even foresee that when he goes back to the live broadcast after the game today, he will be grabbed by the barrage and sprayed wildly.

But does he really have any good ideas?

Not really.

This put the tactical decision of the doinb must push the line.

Pushing the line will give you a chance.

If you don't push the line, it may not be so easy to die, but it doesn't make sense for the hero Ruiz to choose out.

In this game, the Thorn Birds played 28 minutes.

In the end, the two sides ended up with a terrifying economic difference of 12,000.

And the second thorn bird that came to the blue side directly let FPX do the problem by himself.

Kai'Sa and Kasumi, thorn bird ban one, do you FPX want to ban the other?

"It's messed up, it's completely messed up."

In the first ten minutes of the second game, hope's W skill was interrupted by Liu Qingsong's hammer stone when he got the small cannon, and Li Luo controlled Yin Zeriel to press forward and shoot a Q skill to take away his head.

This FPX was chosen by Doinb to Galio.

Coupled with the prince of the jungler, FPX's original intention was to give pressure to the lower lane by forcibly packing two, and then use the tower pushing advantage of the hero E skill explosion spark of the small cannon to quickly accumulate the economy of the tower skin for the small cannon.

It's a bit like a booster stream in the past, but this version is really not suitable for policewomen to appear.

But you can be killed by the line in the small cannon alignment?

Or was he killed by Yin Zeriel?

"Liu Qingsong's ability to seize opportunities is really good."

Miller also sighed lightly.

"Brother Luo's position is also an exaggeration, you see that when he E went up, he twisted and moved, avoiding the E flash of the female tan, this is a kind of prediction, the female Tan E can only restrict the hammer stone, and there is no way to restrict Yin Zereil."

The doll shook her head as well.

Take it all, take it all.

FPX has shown the flexibility of its lineup system when playing RNG.

But this variability is now absent when it comes to thorn birds.

It feels like FPX and their lineup system is all disposable.

Even the doll's explanation is a little doubtful.

However, the pros are really watching.

Inside the EDG base.

"It's hard to get the No. 1 seed this year."

Abu also shook his head again and again.

The tactics are built depending on the player's own hero pool.

The weakness of the Thorn Bird Clan's side, Abu, is clear, that is, in the process of changing versions, there is a problem with the hero pool.

But except for the night, the rest of the Thorn Bird is a sea of heroes.

That's a hassle.

In the second game, FPX held out for 26 minutes.

As the saying goes, one blow, then decline, three and exhaustion.

FPX, who had realized that their tactics had been completely restrained, did a shambled down in the third game of bp.

Although the business ability of the War Horse coach is online, it is definitely not particularly outstanding among the domestic coaches.

As the backbone of the first team, it's all messed up at this moment, let alone the rest of the team?

FPX's third game was stubborn, holding out until a full 29 minutes.

But in this game, the economic difference between the two sides is even bigger than the first one, and it has expanded to 15,000 yuan!

"It's too stable, the thorn birds are too stable, they don't give FPX a chance at all, 3-0! Let's congratulate the Thorn Birds for making it to the Summer Finals, and for being the first team to reach this year's World Finals! ”

Under the congratulations of the doll, the semi-finals of the LPL Summer Tournament came to an end.

3 to 0.

Just like the spring playoffs.

The Thorn Birds, who have rested since the beginning of the playoffs and are still in good shape, are still in good shape!