After the bubble match, the teams that have already won the World Championship quota have entered into high-intensity pre-competition training.

For nearly a month from the Summer Tournament to the Bubble Tournament, the LPL region used version 11.15, and over time, the version has undergone continuous changes, and by the time the LPL's four World Championship seeding spots have been finalized, League of Legends has ushered in version 11.18.

Update 11.18 is the last and most important release before Worlds.

In order to give teams in each region enough time to adapt to the Worlds version, in version 11.19 of the Worlds, the League of Legends designers team will no longer make major adjustments to the heroes and equipment, and will only make some retouches for the details in version 11.18.

Therefore, getting to grips with version 11.18 as soon as possible has become the most important goal for all major teams in the training process.

Between 11.15 and 11.18, there are exactly three versions, so the ecology of the canyon has changed dramatically.

Some heroes fall directly from the altar, while some heroes and lineups have become T0-level existences.

When it comes to the heroes who have fallen off the altar, the first to bear the brunt is the top laner with a very high pick rate in the playoffs, Desert Butcher Reekton.

The crocodile has undergone what may be enough to be called the most serious weakening since the birth of the hero, and I have to say that the designer is really ruthless, directly slashing at the crocodile's artery.

In Update 11.18, the Stun duration of the Crocodile Wrath was reduced from 1.5 seconds to 1 second.

This 0.5 seconds directly killed the crocodile player.

Players who are familiar with crocodiles should know that when crocodiles use W skills, they will have an obvious stiff movement, and while pressing W to control enemy heroes, they are actually equivalent to being controlled for a short period of time.

From the data level, the impact of this change on crocodiles is clearer.

The crocodile's W skill stiffness time is about 0.75S, and the current version can only provide 1S control time, and in the case of the opponent's certain toughness equipment, the crocodile can control the enemy hero for a long time, and it is not even as long as its own stiffness.

Good guy, it's true that accusing you is equal to accusing myself.

This fatal knife directly cut the crocodile to pieces, and even successfully dragged some other heroes who were suitable for fighting with the crocodile into the wild.

Wild heroes such as the Leopard Girl, Spider, and Rock Sparrow have undoubtedly been weakened in disguise.

This is very bad news for RA.

Because the crocodile and the leopard girl are precisely the signature heroes of RA Ueno.

As a result, Cube has one less hero choice to stabilize in the Worlds version, and Leyan has been directly deposed of an arm.

Correspondingly, after freeing Ueno's lever, the other teams have more room to limit the hero pool of other RA players.

Whether RA's Ueno can expand his hero pool as much as possible in less than a month has become the top priority in the training process.

In addition to the Gators, playoff regulars such as Jace, Kenan, and Steelball have also been nerfed.

The Ruined King was also brutally hacked, not only was he completely expelled from the ecological chain of the upper order, but even the wild area may no longer be able to occupy a place.

Along with the Ruined King, Lucian the Holy Lancer was banished.

Lucian has undergone a major skill tweak in Update 11.17, severely weakening his laning ability in the solo lane, and the addition of passive skills and W-skills now requires teammates to be effective.

So, after this change, Lucian returned to the bottom lane, greatly reducing the likelihood of his appearance in the upper and middle lanes.

However, perhaps to the designer's surprise, it was Lucian's skill adjustment that caused him to have amazing chemistry when he paired it with some soft support heroes in the lower lane.

The Luciana Mei duo became a classic duo that dominated the bottom lane ecosystem for two seasons.

In the position of the jungler, the Rundown King withdrew from the first echelon, and the blind monk Zhao Xin, although slightly weakened, is still the popular choice for the World Championship version.

In addition, the prince who has experienced a wave of greatly strengthened has risen strongly and successfully occupied a place in the wild area.

There have not been many changes in the mid-laner position, Sindra and Enchantress are still the representatives of the passing, and the team-oriented tool man mid-laner is still the mainstream choice.

Therefore, the cards and the support stream like Galio can still form a rivalry with the opposite stream led by the Enchantress Sindra.

In addition, Silas's enhancement makes it the best choice for the backhand to restrain the ultimate support flow, so this hero will inevitably have a lot of opportunities to appear in the Worlds.

On the bottom lane, in addition to the Luna combo, there are also two heroes who have risen strongly in the Worlds version.

Female guns and cats.

The World Championship is still the main version of the middle and upper field, and the enhancement of the female gun's ultimate move makes the hero already play a great role in the early and middle team battles, and the priority of the female gun has been raised several steps at once, becoming the version darling of the AD position.

Not to mention the cat, according to the legendary support player Beryl in the future, this hero should be deleted directly.

Because of the cat's strong endurance, as well as the role that the ultimate can play in the team battle, especially in the defensive counterattack, the improvement of the team's fault tolerance rate is too great.

In the version that focuses on Nakano, as long as the cat hangs on the strong hero who is leading in development, it will directly make it an unsolvable existence in team battles.

Of course, even putting aside these two heroes, the ecology of the lower road is the one that has changed the most in addition to the upper unit.

The first is the nerfing of the two functional ADs, Varus and Ash, which have made them significantly lower priority in the lower lane, and replaced by the aforementioned female gun, as well as the Dramatist Ember who was enhanced in Update 11.16.

Similarly, in the output AD, Ephelius has been further weakened, while Kai'Sa and Jinx have been strengthened, improving their chances of appearing on the World Stage.

In addition, Draven was enhanced in Update 11.18, where the designers added a slash effect to his ultimate that stacks damage based on the bounty.

So, some of Draven's buddies might make the AD, who has obvious strengths and weaknesses, make his debut at Worlds.

In the auxiliary position, due to the huge increase in the priority of the female gun, Bron, who has a counter effect on it, will also sit in the first echelon, and the hard auxiliary Leona, which is most suitable for matching the female gun, will also become the popular auxiliary position choice of the version.

In addition, Amumu, whose skill mechanism has been overhauled, can store two Q skills after rework, which makes this crybaby able to play an extremely exaggerated control effect in the early stage.

Amumu no longer worries that no one will choose it.

To sum up, after several major changes to the version, the Worlds version and the playoff versions of the major leagues are already two completely different versions.

Therefore, whether the seeded teams in each major region can continue to show their dominance in the World Championship, or whether there will be teams that have eaten the dividends of the version to rise strongly, has become a topic of debate among esports-related groups who follow this event.

In addition to the changes to the World Championship version, what has also attracted much attention is the draw ceremony for the World Finals on September 22.