At half past seven in the evening on October 30, 2021, there was only half an hour before the official start of the BO5 match between RA and DK.

In order to watch this semi-final, the audience in the LPL division squatted in front of the screen early, and the popularity of the official live broadcast room has exceeded 10 million.

Although the gap between the hard power of the two teams almost made this BO5 lose suspense before the game, the strong dialogue between the two sides in the mid-laner position still attracted widespread attention from the global audience.

While waiting for the game to start, netizens also started a heated discussion in the comment area:

"I didn't expect RA to be able to get here, but it seems to be the end of it."

"RA can win T1 because T1's Nakano can't actually put enough pressure on JOJO, but now JOJO is facing the strongest midfield combination in the world, and it will definitely not have a sound in every hand like the last BO5, to be honest, if JOJO doesn't have a voice, I really don't know how RA can win."

"It's really impossible to win the whole BO5, I just hope to win one or two games, this kind of intensity of the mid-laner duel, it's really a pity to watch one less game."

"I don't know if Jeff Bow dares to take LeBlanc today, to be honest, I'm really entangled in my heart now, I want to see Jeff take it out, but I'm also worried that DK will break his undefeated golden body with a 100% win rate of the Enchantress."

"I don't think he cares too much about these data-level things, the Enchantress must be the focus of the two sides in today's BP session, and I'm also curious, Showmaker and JOJO, who is the world's No. 1 Enchantress."

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As the promotional video of the semi-finals completely ignited the audience's enthusiasm for watching the game, the live broadcast camera switched to the entry of the players.

After the players of both sides are ready, the first small game of this BO5 is about to begin.

Responsible for the live commentary of this game are Guan Zeyuan, Remember and Xiao Umbrella.

Before the start of the BP session, the three commentators also conducted a brief pre-match analysis, each expressing their own opinions.

"Before I took the stage today, I looked at the poll on the Internet to predict the outcome of this game, and the voting results are really not optimistic." Colonel Guan said helplessly: "RA's vote rate is less than 10%, even if the vote rate is low, the key seems to be that luck is not on RA's side, and the coin toss on both sides was also lost today." ”

The BO5 of this World Championship is a coin toss to decide who of the two teams will get the first game of the first game, and the priority of the edge selection has a great impact on the game situation on some occasions.

"I just got the news that DK took the initiative to choose the blue side when they got the right to choose the side, which means that they are ready to grab some versions of the OP heroes first."

"That's for sure." Guan Zeyuan stretched out his fingers and counted them one by one: "Enchantress, blind monk, card ......"

"DK is 100% going to grab one of these three heroes on the first floor." Colonel Guan said with a determined face: "After all, they are the side with the advantage in the situation, they don't care about the two counter positions on the red side, and they don't need to help the lower road to grab Luciana Mei, they definitely want Nakano to get the hero he is handy." ”

Xiao Umbrella nodded and said: "You've said three, RA also has to bear the cat's wrench, then one of these three heroes will be released to DK 100%." ”

"Indeed, with a jungler like Canyon, who is extremely good at wild cores, RA estimates that the cat will not be released in the entire BO5, so it will lose a first-round lever by default." Remember to approve of the analysis of the umbrella.

Guan Zeyuan sighed and said, "Hey, why can't LPL practice this cat?" ”

Guan Zeyuan's words directly poked at the pain point of the LPL team, LPL not only doesn't like to play the hero of cats, but also doesn't know how to deal with the system of holding cats, so not only RA has to bear this trigger, but the situation of other teams is basically the same.

Every time there is a World Championship, the LPL region often exposes the characteristics of a shallow pool of heroes and a lack of flexibility in the tactical style. Not being able to play the version of OP heroes has also become one of the reasons why some teams seem to be strong on paper, but they have suffered a tragic Waterloo at the World Championship.

"RA's BP today is really difficult to do, and when I play with T1, BP is already difficult to do, and it can only be said that it is even more difficult to fight DK."

After a brief discussion by the three commentators on the stage, the players on both sides were ready, and the BP session officially began.

DK took out Sindra and Nami in the first two hands, while RA pulled out the cards and cats.

"The first two pulls of both sides are actually relatively consistent with our pre-match analysis, so here comes the key point." Guan Zeyuan said with an expectant face: "Is RA here to release the demon queen or the blind monk?" ”

As soon as Guan Zeyuan's voice fell, he remembered that he suddenly spoke: "DK directly knocked out Bobby in the third hand!" ”

Bobby is the hero choice of many teams in this World Championship to restrain the Enchantress, and speaking of which, this routine is still brought up by RA.

Of course, it was naturally Fang Jie's idea to use this hero to target the Enchantress at that time, and Fang Jie's understanding of this game was also stolen by relying on his memories before he crossed over.

"Then his intention is obvious, I just want to take the enchantress, it depends on whether you can pull it or not." Colonel Guan directly pierced DK's motives.

With the commentary and the audience watching intently, RA finally settled on the third lever.

"Blind Monk!" Colonel Guan said: "RA still chose to get rid of the blind monk in Canyon!" ”

And when the first round of BP has just ended, DK immediately locks the Enchantress down for Showmaker on the first floor.

"It's still here! Showmaker's Enchantress! ”

Subsequently, RA locked down the Ember Nutan's bottom lane combination with the first two hands.

"This is restricting the Ghost Emperor's hero pool in disguise," Colonel Guan explained, "Since Ember is your most effective AD choice, then I'll just give it to you first." ”

And when RA pulled out the bottom lane duo, DK immediately locked Giggs and Lowe with a backhand.

Ryan Giggs is an extremely popular bottom lane hero in the summer and playoffs, and although he has been nerfed in the Worlds version, he still has a good chance of playing.

Especially for a team like DK that only needs to stabilize the bottom lane and can C in the upper midfield, the hero of Giggs is obviously very suitable for this team's style of play.

Subsequently, RA locked an ice girl for Fang Jie on the third floor.

This choice is also expected by the commentary and the audience, Ice Girl is undoubtedly the best choice for Counter Enchantress, so when Showmaker takes out the hero of Enchantress, RA will inevitably target Ice Girl with the first three hand locks.

The two sides then entered the second round of Ban/Pick.

In the second round of the wrestler, RA chose to pull off Kiana and Male Knife, two jungler heroes with a certain Carry ability.

Coupled with the previous blind monk, RA has three junglers in five wrenches, and has clearly given enough respect to the Canyon player.

Here, DK chose to get rid of Kenan and the Prince.

DK's lineup has already appeared in two hands of AP, and there is no way to continue to dig Kenan on the road, since he can't choose, it must be better to send it directly to the trigger.

As for the prince, he can be regarded as a hero who has been relatively hot recently, and it is reasonable that DK chose to press it down.

In the second round of selection, RA first locked the men's gun for Cube, while DK's side locked the Ueno combination of Qinggang Shadow and Troll successively.

In the end, RA locked Zhao Xin for Le Yan on the fifth floor.

It stands to reason that DK took out the hero of the troll to Canyon, which is somewhat of a burying of his talent, but at this time, the expression of Colonel Guan and Remember is not optimistic.

Colonel Guan and remember to be in charge of the event commentary in the LCK region all year round, so they have a deeper understanding of Canyon than others.

Canyon's trolls are a bit ruthless.

When he gets this hero, he will almost certainly be able to Gank rhythm in the early stage.

There is still a big gap between people and people, although when RA played against T1, T1's jungler Oner also took out the hero of the troll in the tiebreaker and eventually lost the game.

But the strength of Canyon and Oner is obviously not at the same level.

Even a hero with extremely simple controls can pose a deadly threat to the enemy in the hands of a genius jungler like Canyon.

In the first small game of the semi-finals, the final lineup selected by the two sides is as follows:

Top Order: [Qinggang Shadow VS Male Gun]

Jungler: [Troll VS Zhao Xin]

Mid Single: [LeBlanc VS Lisandro]

Shooter: [Ryan Giggs VS Ash]

Support: [Lo VS Leona]

Both sides of the match are about to enter the Summoner's Rift.

(End of chapter)