Chapter 334: How lonely it is to be invincible
MSI's first two wins were both expected and reasonable for Top.
It is also a welcome achievement for fans.
Both TSM and Dragon Ball teams were considered relatively strong opponents before the game, and this year's TSM is really not weak at all in terms of the strength of the lineup on paper, and the Dragon Ball team is an upgraded version of the Tiger team.
You must know that in both games, Top won very easily, and even the routine of winning the game was similar.
After playing an advantage on the road, getting a blood or forcing out the opponent's TP, Li Hansheng used the TP difference to swim a wave to roll the team's snowball, and then rolled all the way like this, and he would not give the opponent a chance to resist at all.
Whether it's a side push or a frontal team fight, the top is proficient in everything, which leads to a perfect way to deal with no matter what type of opponent you face.
So much so that after returning to the hotel, Homme originally wanted to pull the team members to have a good review, but he watched the video by himself for a long time, but he didn't find much of a problem.
It's all trivial, the kind that can be basically ignored.
"Hehe, the coach is dumbfounded, right?" JackeyLove is called a JackeyLove, and he is usually the one who is trained the most after the game, who let this kid protrude a head on the iron and be easy to die??
"I guess Redmi couldn't have dreamed of it, and one day I wouldn't need to BB you?" Li Hansheng smiled and teased, "Yes, Yu Wenbo seems to have really grown up." ”
Yu Wenbo, this kid, has absolutely no problem with his ability, his biggest problem is that he is a lazy dog, many times once he loses his goal or does not have such a strong sense of urgency, it will cause him to burn out.
The number of ranks has decreased, and the number of low-level mistakes on the field has increased.
But this time MSI, he held his breath and wanted to prove himself well at the World Championship and prove it to domestic fans that he was no worse than Gu Shengbin, the predecessor, and he kept holding back this energy in his heart, so he naturally would not have any slack behavior.
"Tut, Brother Hansheng, you just say that Yu Wenbo is not a dog, right? Looking at his sassy appearance, it's really exactly the same as the Shiba Inu laughing emoji posted by fans. Shi Senming leaned over and teased.
"Hey!" Yu Wenbo was immediately dissatisfied, Li Hansheng said that he would forget it, why did Shi Senming say about him, "Shi Senming, have you kid been itchy lately!" ”
"What? Not convinced? Then let's touch it! Don't think that I'll be afraid of you if you have a big head, Dad, I specialize in educating my big son!! ”
“CNM! Come, whoever will be the son later! ”
Seeing that these two boys were about to make trouble again, Li Hansheng immediately slipped away to make room for them, and then stood aside and watched the play happily.
This is youth!
MSI's overall schedule is relatively tight, after all...... The rest period between spring and summer is not very long in itself.
In order not to delay the team's subsequent summer performance, Riot had to suppress the overall playing time.
The next day.
Top will welcome two other opponents, the Vietnamese team GAM from Southeast Asia and the European giants G2 team!!
There is basically no pressure to play GAM, and the core of this team is the jungler Levi, who is nicknamed "Captain" by fans, and is famous for his stature and appearance similar to the commander in "Attack on Titan".
His style of play is very similar to the sofm who has come to the LPL region and shined, it is the kind of pure wild area bandit play, and he likes to play wild area offense and anti-field.
I'm very good at dealing with such a player.
Use the player's hero pool to select a set of advantageous lineups with line rights in all three lanes, and then select strong heroes in the wild area for Gao Tianliang, which is clearly a posture of 'please enter the urn'.
But Levi's game style is like this.,Knowing that he will hit a head bag.,He still chooses to invade the head iron!
The result......
was caught by the top side in the wild area in turn, because the online heroes have the right to the line, when Gao Tianliang met levi in his own wild area, he didn't need to fight the opponent alone, he just needed to keep the other party, delay the time and wait for the support of his teammates.
GAM actually wants to go to the jungle to help, and sometimes even prefers to go to the jungle to support the line with a certain loss online.
But here comes the problem again.
The conflict between the two sides broke out in the wild area of Top's house, as Levi was on the invading side.
The top can go closer to the support itself, and the support must arrive earlier than the other party.
As a result, Levi's invasion not only failed to develop himself, but instead made a mess of his rhythm and even dragged down his teammates.
And GAM is a team that uses the wild area as the starting point of attack, and once the wild area is out of rhythm, their whole team will be confused.
Top defeated the opponent very easily.
At the end of the game, Levi's stats were an embarrassing 0-7-3, with seven deaths instead of one kill.
When the absolute core of the team plays with such statistics, it is impossible to win.
Just like if Li Hansheng is beaten into such data, it is a reason that it is almost impossible for Top to win.
After playing GAM, Top waited on the scene for a while and soon ushered in a showdown with the G2 team!
For Li Hansheng, it is a reunion of old friends, and he also wants to know how G2 will be different from before after the world line has been changed.
However.
It turned out to be a little disappointing for him.
This G2 team, like TSM, has not been able to create much threat to Top, is it really that Top's current squad strength is a little too strong?
So much so that it can easily crush other strong teams??
Li Hansheng felt that he was not so crushing, it was nothing more than the three young people who should have been the breakthrough of the team, because they were more excited to play the world championship for the first time, and they also gritted their teeth and held back their strength to prove that they were worthy of the identity of the top main player.
They were all impeccable, as evidenced by the fact that Redmi's post-match review rarely pointed out the mistakes they made on the field.
The overall strength of the top itself is strong, and now the mistakes are still under control, there are almost no mistakes, and it is reasonable to win the game all the way!
It was the exaggerated performance in the first two days of the game that once again made Top the object of heated discussion among European and American players.
[I've never seen such a dominant team, are they really going to completely dominate the game of League of Legends?] 】
[Brother, even the Dragon Ball team from the LCK can't stop the top from moving forward, who else can you count on?] 】
[Maybe we can expect SKT led by faker?? 】
[Please, what are you kidding internationally, skt didn't even qualify for this year's MSI, and you expect a team that can't even beat Dragon Ball to beat Top?] 】
【riot! Let's do something! What about targeting the champion team? 】
Is it possible? Because S7 is going to be held in China, in order to cater to the audience in the LPL region, riot did not deliberately target Top, they hope that Top will win the championship in their homeland? Or even become the first team to win back-to-back World Championships? Forcibly create gods! 】
There are all kinds of rhetoric, and some even use conspiracy theories to explain them.
Otherwise......
It's hard to make sense that if Riot has been targeting Top on the version, why can Top maintain such a strong performance?
As we all know, generation after generation of gods, the strongest weapon is the patch!
Version changes have a big impact on the professional arena, and they also have a big impact on players!
Is there really a player who can ignore the version change and maintain their strong performance??
The designers of Riot are also quite innocent.
Version changes are also based on the general environment!
The obvious supermodel position of the S6 World Championship is actually the jungler, the carnivorous jungler is rampant in the wild area, but the top of the S6, the jungler Condi is a typical herbivorous jungler.
It is no exaggeration to say that the top of S6 can be said to be the reverse version of the championship!
So how do you limit it?
They must first weaken the jungle based on the general environment of the version, and the heroes who played a strong performance by Li Hansheng have also been stabbed one after another, such as AP Kenan and Jace.
It's not like Li Hansheng alone to forcibly weaken all the top heroes one by one, right??
On the day of the third matchday, Top welcomed the last opponent of the first round, the lightning wolf FW from the LMS bend division.
It's just as easy to handle!
Against the lightning wolves, as long as they can resist the pressure given by their midfield in the early stage, the opponent will basically lose half.
MMD on the top lane couldn't withstand the pressure at all in the face of Lee Han-sung, and betty on the bottom lane also behaved average in the face of JackeyLove.
The gap between the two sides is reflected in the overall strength, and defeat is a natural thing.
Five wins in a row!!
After the first round of the group stage, Top dominated the standings, maintaining a winning record on MSI, and their strong performance made the audience in each major region believe that they are the only contenders for the MSI championship this year!!
There was only one game on the last day, so the top staff also had a half-day off.
After applying with Riot's people, Riot specially arranged two Brazilian brothers to serve as guides and take the team members to the beach to experience the daily life of South American people.
Sand, sun, beauty!
The foreigners are really bold and enthusiastic in this regard, the men don't wear any shirts, just a pair of fat and loose beach pants, while the women are mostly normal bikinis and can be seen to be very economical in fabric.
When someone with a hot body walks in front of him, a few of the little brothers in the team will even blush.
After enjoying a half-day vacation.
The top team is once again preparing for the game!
The second round of the group stage is about to officially kick off!
They'll need to face off against five other opponents for another fierce match!
MSI will be linked to this year's S Tournament slot, although there is no expansion, there will not be a fourth spot.
However, it will affect whether the third seed in the region can directly enter the main draw.
Historically, C9, WE, and Fnatic have all had to start at Worlds with the Play-In because of their poor performance in MSI in their respective regions, the No. 3 seed needed to start at Worlds.
Even if you don't think about it, the MSI championship is an official honor, although the gold content is not as good as the S competition, but at least it is much stronger than the league championship.
After all, the basic ticket to this event has to be the league championship, and you have to beat the spring champions from each league to finally win the championship, and the gold content will not be much worse.
It's not even an exaggeration......
The gold content is almost the same level as the S competition, and the most embarrassing point of MSI is that his forcing is not high enough!
If Riot is willing to design an exclusive set of champion skins for MSI's champions, then MSI's gold content and sense of identity in the player base may truly be on an equal footing with the S competition.
And not belong to that lukewarm state.
Other divisions are not very clear, anyway, on the side of the LPL division, the gold content of the MSI championship is generally not very recognized.
When it comes to the second round of confrontation.
Top can clearly feel the pressure from their opponents, and perhaps other teams are gradually finding their own game form.
And Yu Wenbo, Shi Senming, and Gao Tianliang also passed the initial state of excitement, and their performance on the court began to decline, and the number of mistakes increased linearly.
But......
Overall, Top still maintains a record of winning all games, but the process of winning the game will be much bummer.
You can see it from the length of time it takes to finish the game.
In the first round, the average length of the top game was between 24-25 minutes, and in the second round, this time was increased by a full 4 minutes, and the average length of each game was extended to almost 30 minutes!
Although this stat is still the best of all the teams.
But for Top itself, it's an obvious regression.
However, after two rounds.
The situation in the standings is also clear!
Top undoubtedly took first place with 10 wins, and Team LZ followed with a 7-3 record to become second, losing two rounds to Top and losing one game to FW in the second round, winning all other matches!
Third place went to the G2 team with a 6-4 record.
The team in fourth place went to TSM with a 5-5 result.
As for the FW team?
Their results were only slightly better than the GAM in the wildcard division, which also made everyone see the decline of the LMS division.
They don't have a large number of gamers, and it has been a long time since they have been filled with new blood.
MSI's rules are not cumbersome.
The top team that is the first place team will be eligible to choose their semi-final opponents.
You can choose any opponent from the 2nd to 4th place as your opponent in the knockout round.
The choice of the top is naturally Dragon Ball Sentai!
In an interview, Li Hansheng also expressed a very clear meaning, "The selection of the Dragon Ball team has little to do with whether they belong to the LCK or not, the main thing is that I want to see the European and American battles staged in the semifinals, is it G2 defending the glory of Europe, or TSM defending the glory of North America?" ”
"Of course, in terms of personal feelings, I support TSM more, after all, Puff is in the TSM team, but who can say for sure the final result? I'm sure you're looking forward to it too, right? ”
All I can say is......
Li Hansheng understands Europe and the United States.
Due to the strength of the LPL and LCK regions, the strength is too strong.
Audiences in Europe and the United States have little expectation of winning the championship.
But there's one thing you have to do!
That's to beat the rival division!
A guideline for both parties!
No one can lose to North America (Europe)!
(End of chapter)