Chapter 96: Evil Genius (I)
April 3, 2 p.m.
After a very entertaining All-Star Game, the knockout rounds continued. The two sides of the game in this game are Team Phoenix and Team EG.
Team EG eliminated Team NB in this morning's game and successfully advanced.
Before the start of the competition, it was still a routine martial arts performance.
The representative of the Phoenix team is still Fang Tian Painted Halberd Brother, while the representative of the EG team is a warrior with a long sword. At the beginning of the duel, Brother Halberd and Brother Jian fought back and forth, and finally the two sides stopped together and appeared on the stage.
Subsequently, the two teams of this competition entered.
The two sides took a stand in the center of the stage, then shook hands with each other and entered the battle room to prepare for the match.
The narrator of this game is the veteran of the commentary class - the cold god and the god of wine.
On the commentary seat, Leng Shen wore a black-framed glasses that covered the contours of his face, showed a bright smile, and said, "Hello everyone, audience friends."
Welcome to the fourth round of the Asian Invitational Playoffs, featuring Team EG and Team Phoenix. β
"I think we're all familiar with these two teams."
"Speaking of which, they have one more thing in common. That is: they all came from the first round of the lower bracket, fought all the way up, and finally reached the current position. I took a look at the schedule and they're now in the last four of this tournament. β
"Whoever can win this BO3 will enter the lower bracket final tomorrow."
"Beside me is our special guest, Bacchus."
"Come, Bacchus, let's say hello to everyone first."
Next to Leng Shen, Bacchus smiled at the camera, then waved to the audience behind him, and said generously: "Hello everyone, I'm 09. β
"The explanation is not good, please forgive me."
On the other side, Leng Shen began to tease and said: "Bacchus is an old man in the professional circle, and he has been a guest commentator for many years. It's a bit inappropriate to be so modest. β
The god of wine waved his hand again and again, saying that he still had a lot of deficiencies and needed to continue to learn.
Two people, you and I, back and forth, witty words, made the audience laugh from time to time.
Then, Leng Shen returned to the topic in time for the game, and then said: "Let's get back to the point." The two teams in this game are very strong. It's all from the first round of the loser's group, and the gods block and kill the gods and Buddhas, and the momentum is very strong. I don't know what Dionysus thinks? β
"Indeed." Bacchus immediately responded, he pondered for a moment, and then said: "EG is an old powerhouse and a TI champion, so its strength should not be underestimated. β
"As for Phoenix...... All I can say is that they were a pleasant surprise. β
"A team that has just completed a two-month turnover can run in so well. And it played in a disciplined manner, like an old team. It's incredible. β
Speaking of the Phoenix team, Leng Shen had a wicked smile on his face, looked at his partner, and said with a smile:
"If I'm not mistaken, Vigoss, a newcomer to the Phoenix team, seems to have played support in which team before, right?"
Knowingly asked, there is something in the words.
As soon as these words came out, it immediately caused laughter from the audience.
As a long-time viewer of the Dota 2 project, everyone knows the answer to this question. Leng Shen deliberately proposed it to let the other party give an answer in person.
"Hah, hehe......"
Bacchus touched his nose, laughed dryly, looked at his partner, and gave a clear meaning in his eyes:
You're so bad.
But as a narrator, he plays his part well.
"I have the impression that Vigoss used to be ...... Forehead ......" Dionysus wanted to speak and stopped, as if he was deliberately making the show effect.
After humming and chirping for a long time, he smiled bitterly twice, and finally gave an answer.
"Okay, Vigoss used to be on our team, what's wrong?" His voice suddenly became louder, and he was building up for himself.
"Not really."
Leng Shen was already waiting here, and then asked, "I mean, Bacchus has a good eye for people and can recruit such a good player into his team." β
"But then, why did Vigoss leave the team?"
Two questions in a row are to do things.
The two of them are old friends, so Leng Shen deliberately added a mocking tone when he spoke.
"Hahaha......"
On the Bacchus side, he suddenly burst out laughing, full of embarrassment.
I thought, "I regret it." Who knew he was so awesome at hitting the mid-laner?
If I had known that, I would have signed a 10,000-year contract with Vigoss.
After some mental struggle, he had no choice but to laugh at himself: "Hey, I regret not being at the beginning." Now my heart, wow cool wow cool! β
"Wow~" The scene was laughing again.
While the two commentators were chatting, the players from both teams were ready, and the game entered the BP session.
In the first round of BO3, Phoenix is on the Radiant side and EG is on the Dire side.
BP starts, and Team EG conducts BAN first-in-class selection.
First-hand BAN people, they gave poison dogs. This is a soy sauce bit hero, usually as a backhand to save people.
On Phoenix's side, the first-hand ban was given to the Dark Seer. This is usually a 3-slot hero, and it has a very strong ability to mix lanes.
The second hand of the EG team was banned, and it was given to Rubick, who was still a soy sauce hero.
"On the EG team's side, BAN's are all soy sauce." Leng Shen realized that something was wrong, and immediately reminded: "They didn't ban the mid-lane heroes like other teams, but banned two soy sauce heroes one after another. β
"Maybe that's their confidence." Bacchus recovered from his heartache and began to enter the normal channel, and continued: "As a strong team, they have their own pride. β
"Moreover, in their team, there is already a world-class mid-laner player - Sumail, and the individual ability of this player is obvious to all."
"So, on the middle line, they have confidence."
Now it was the turn of Team Phoenix to ban second-hand, and they hesitated for a moment.
"BAN dropped the big fishman and didn't let them match the puppy." Lin Feng proposed.
RTZ, the No. 1 player of the EG team, is one of the heroes who is good at the puppy. And the big fishman is a great partner for the puppy.
If two heroes are on one side, the threat is too great.
"Okay." Liuliu replied.
Immediately, the Phoenix team banned the big fishmen.
"Phoenix is also very targeted, that is, it doesn't give the big fishman a combination of dogs." Leng Shen said.
"They definitely have pre-match preparations." Bacchus replied.
Subsequently, there is the selection process.
The EG team came up with a hero who surprised everyone at the first hand - the Underlord.
This is a line-oriented hero, and at the same time, it is also a-stirring stick in team fights, and it is very useful to fight melee heroes.
"Underlord No. 3? What do they want to do? Liuliu couldn't help frowning.
"It's just the first hand, and I can't see it yet. Let's choose people normally first, and we'll see later. Lin Feng replied.
In the BP link, it is usually him and Liuliu who are in charge, and if necessary, they will ask for the opinions of other teammates.
Immediately, they chose a witch doctor, a soy sauce.
In the second hand of selection, the EG team took out the fire cat, which is a relatively strong version of the hero.
On the Phoenix team's side, the butcher is taken out in the second hand, which is Liuliu's best hero.
"Team EG pointed out the 2/3 position with the first two hands, while Phoenix took the soy sauce with two hands. The two sides have different ideas. Leng Shen was surprised and explained.
Then entering the BAN human link, the Phoenix team chose to ban Juggernaut and Earth Cat in 3/4 hands.
On the EG team's side, it was BAN who lost the Timberjack and TK.
In the next selection, Team EG chose Leshrac and Luna. The Phoenix team took out Ant and Xiaoqiang.
The last hand of the BAN people, Team EG gave the pat bear, and the Phoenix side gave it to the corpse king.
"There is only one last hand left to choose, and the EG team is still one hand away from soy sauce. Phoenix, on the other hand, is still missing a mid-laner hero. Leng Shen analyzed.
"Now, there are a lot of options in the mid-laner position."
As he spoke, Team EG brought out their last hero, the Spirit of Vengeance.
Immediately after, Team Phoenix gave their own answer - Carl!
"Carl! Phoenix picks out Carl! Leng Shen was suddenly a little excited.
With the excitement of the commentary, the audience also fell into excitement. In this year's Asia Invitational Tournament, Lin Feng's Carl has completely conquered all the audience.
Therefore, as soon as Carl came out, the audience immediately responded with enthusiastic cheers.
"Team EG really dared to let it go, they even allowed Team Phoenix to choose Vigoss's unique hero, Karl.
You must know that Carl's performance in every game of Vigoss is very impressive. The speed of the cold god's commentary was much faster.
"The EG team released Carl, I don't know if it will be a foreshadowing."
On the other hand, Bacchus had a different opinion, and he thought for a moment before saying, "Team EG must have figured out how to deal with it. Moreover, they are fire cats in the middle lane, and they are not afraid of Karl in the lane. β
"The point is that Sumail is also a very good player. Team EG is confident and they feel they can contain Vigoss. β
As he spoke, the game had entered the loading screen.
Phoenix: Ant, Carl, Strong, Butcher, Witch Doctor
Dire (EG): Luna, Fire Cat, Underlord, Leshrac, Vengeful Spirit
At the beginning, Lin Feng controlled Carl and chose a regular loadout: a pendant and two branches.
There are also two eating trees raised by teammates.
After eating the Triangle Bounty Talisman, he returns to the mid lane to jam the pawn. Immediately, the two armies converged in the middle of the river.
Seeing that the other party opened the fire shield and came up, Lin Feng retreated two steps to the back slightly, and then wanted to interfere with the other party's mending knife. However, Sumail's basic skills are very solid, and the opening game is two positive complements.
Then, the second wave arrived.
Sumail added a melee soldier and a ranged creep, and was upgraded to level 2 ahead of schedule.
It was Lin Feng's Carl who only got 2 mending knives at this time. In the first encounter, he fell into a disadvantage. But Lin Feng's heart was very calm, and it was not a big deal to temporarily make up for the knife and fall behind.
As long as the follow-up goes well, he can still make up for it.
Suddenly, however, something changed.
Sumail's fire cat turned on the fire shield again and pressed directly towards Lin Feng.
Lin Feng felt that something was wrong at the first time, and hurriedly retreated, wanting to avoid the edge for a while. But it was too late, and after eating the other party's [Yanyang Suo], he was locked in place.
Now he is only level 1, and he has no ability to save himself at all.
Of course, it was not easy for the fire cat at this time to kill him alone. However, the other party obviously has a helper.
At the moment when he was locked, Lin Feng saw a figure emerge from the right side of a tower in his houseβLeshrac. Immediately, he was stunned by the opponent's Leshrac [tearing the earth] and was taken away by a set of combos.
First BloodοΌ
Lin Feng just handed over a blood.
"EG is a chicken thief this wave, taking advantage of the fire cat to reach level 2 first, and cooperating with Leshrac to swim around, he actually killed Carl." Leng Shen frowned.
The team she supported had a bad start, and she was obviously not happy.
"I've said a long time ago that Sumail is a very powerful fighter who will try to kill him whenever he gets the chance. But what I didn't expect was that the opponent Leshrac chose to swim at the beginning. Bacchus patiently analyzed.
"It's a surprise."
At this time, on the major live broadcast platforms, water friends also began to worry.
"It's over, it's over, it's 2 mending knives at the beginning, and I also sent a blood, I can't fight."
"Hmph, I said a long time ago, don't blow Vigoss too much. His previous opponents were too weak to be convincing at all. β
"What is this Phoenix team fighting? Leshrac missed, didn't you report the order? I'm still playing professionally, so let's go home. β
"EG is still strong, the Phoenix team is not easy to play now."
"In front of the real top mid-laner, Vigoss doesn't seem to be enough to see, what is this playing."
"It's just the beginning, what are you yelling about? With this virtue, just go and recognize your foreign father. β
"Shepherd dog, climb for you!"
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"Mine, mine." Chubby immediately began to pick up the pot.
At the beginning of the round, they had already decided to split their ways.
Meng Tao's ants and chubby's witch doctors, just take the dominant path and develop obscenely. Xiaoqiang with a pillow and the butcher of Liuliu walked on the road together to suppress the other brother.
However, at the beginning of the game, the EG team did not play according to common sense.
They let Luna, Leshrac, and Vengeful Spirit go down the road together, and go straight to Gangsan. In this way, the bottom lane of the Phoenix team immediately became a disadvantage, and the ants and witch doctors had no way to line up with the three brothers opposite.
Let the underlord of Brother Universe go on the road to fight two and deal with Xiaoqiang and the butcher of the Phoenix team.
It was at this time that the other party Rashrac freed his hand and chose to go to the middle lane.
And Chubby was busy with the lane, so he didn't notice this change at all, and didn't give a warning to the middle lane in time, which directly led to his own middle lane being completely defenseless.
"It's okay, it's okay, you can still fight." Lin Feng hurriedly comforted his teammates.
People are already dead, and now they are dividing the pot, which is a bit out of place.
The most important thing at the moment is to find a way to bring the situation back.
"Good on the road." Liuliu's voice came, very calm, and said, "When we control the line, I'll go and walk." β
While speaking, Liuliu's butcher had already moved away from the troop line, came to his own triangle, saw the timing of the troop line, and decisively pulled out a wave of wild monsters and took his own troop line.
There are two waves of fields in the triangle, and a wave of troops can be steadily eliminated.
By this time, Dire's lane had been pushed in front of the Radiant Tower. In the later games, as long as the pillow controls the line, the line will always be maintained in front of the Radiant Upper Lane Tower.
In this way, in the case of 1Vigoss1, the pillow Xiaoqiang will be very comfortable.
Next, after the butcher of Six-Six eliminated a wave of soldiers, he went around to the main Dire jungle area alone, and then outflanked the back of Brother Universe's ass. Subsequently, Xiao Qiang, who cooperated with the pillow, successfully killed him.
In the middle lane, after Lin Feng is resurrected, TP comes down and continues to align with the line.
However, his disadvantage at the beginning was too great, and his opponent was the world's top player, and it was too difficult to catch it up. There was no way, so he had to try to make up as many knives as possible on the premise of ensuring his own life.
The game time came to 4 minutes.
The big screen at the scene showed that Lin Feng's Carl only had 12 positive supplements, while Sumail's Fire Cat had as many as 25 positive supplements.
More than doubled the lead.
The disadvantages of the mid-lane line period can be seen.
Lin Feng mended the knife normally, and just wanted to make up for the opponent's long-range soldiers, he found that the fire cat opened the fire shield again and pressed it up. He decisively cut into the blow, blew the other party up, and then stepped back.
As soon as he retreated to the bottom of the tower, he found that the other party, Leshrac, had come again.
"Want to kill me again?" Lin Feng muttered in his heart.
His Carl, now that his level has reached level 4, it is not easy to kill him after having a blower.
The game continued.
On the road, Xiaoqiang of the pillow has already stood on the line, and now there are 23 positive supplements. Looking at the three roads, the Phoenix team turned out to be Xiaoqiang's fattest.
The good development of the pillow finally freed the butcher of Liuliu.
In 4 minutes and 30 seconds, Liuliu came to the middle lane.
"Brother Feng, I'm going to move him, I'll hook it first." His words were brief and clear.
After Lin Feng heard this, he got out of the way, and first consumed a wave with the other party's fire cat, deliberately seducing the other party over.
Sure enough, Sumail saw this as an opportunity, turned on the fire shield, and came up.
"The butcher took the bait and hooked the fire cat to the high slope." Leng Shen explained.
"Carl blows the wind, eliminates the fire shield on the fire cat, gives it a quick cooling, and equalizes A."
"The fire cat is still at level 6, and the amount of blood has bottomed out."
"Vigoss is still chasing, can you make a last shot?"
"Beautiful!"
"The fire cat is dead, and Vigoss has got the head."
With the death of the fire cat, the audience erupted in warm applause. The middle lane game was suppressed for too long, and at this time the audience's emotions finally had a reason to release.
βNice.β Lin Feng looked at his teammates and gave encouragement in time.
This wave of wandering on June 6 is very important. His mid-lane lane is already very difficult to play, and the opposite fire cat is too fat. A kill at this time not only allowed him to get his head, but also gave him a chance to make up the line safely.
It finally gave him a respite.
"Beautiful, this wave of killings is good." The barrage god immediately applauded.
"Your name is Su Jumping, and you are the one who killed."
"Liuliu's hook is too accurate, and the cooperation between the two people is also very good, this wave is too relieving."
"You have teammates, don't I have any?"
"You can shake people, and so can I."
"I've said a long time ago that Vigoss won't be brought down so easily. No, here's your chance. You can always trust Vigoss. β
"Didn't anyone notice that the pillows were flying up on the road?"
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