"Six training matches a day?"

"Yes, six." The factory manager marked the calendar for the special registration of training matches.

Tomorrow

They are going to fly to the Great Cold Netherworld with the RNG team and the IG team, ready to participate in the training camp organized by the LPL official.

Training matches, naturally, will be played at that time.

But the reason why I made an appointment so early was to be able to make as many appointments as possible with strong teams.

There is such a sentence in "Confucius's Family Sayings: Six Books":

"Living with good people, such as entering the room of Lan Zhi, does not smell its fragrance for a long time; Living with the wicked, such as entering the abalone, does not smell its stench for a long time. ”

Playing with strong teams, you can maintain your feel.

And about too many weak teams, on the contrary, EDG will be affected by the training match and become close to the stinky mud and rotten shrimp.

"Six training matches, almost two hours to go."

Abu said: "There is plenty of time to train heroes. ”

The day before the World Championships, Mr. Bu, who was very busy, also took time to go to the club's conference room to listen to the EDG coaching staff and the training team have a discussion meeting on the last version of the world before the World Championship.

Training matches are not the same as games, they don't end until the opponent's crystal explodes.

generally speaking

If there is a big disadvantage on one side, the two sides will choose to quit the game after communicating on the public screen.

As a result, the duration of the training session is basically around 15 minutes.

Of course, the fast ones may end in 2 or 3 minutes, and the slow ones may not drag on to 40 minutes.

Of all the clubs in the LPL, EDG takes training matches the most seriously.

This is not something that started this season, or last season, but a good habit that the EDG club has formed since its inception.

Since there are many clubs in the LPL that are too loosely disciplined, many clubs with strength and pursuit prefer to make training matches with EDG.

The reason is simple, they don't want to stop in the middle of the game and wait for the opposing player to finish smoking before continuing.

In addition, the most important reason is that the single-line ability of EDG's three lines may not be the strongest in LPL, but the overall strength is the best.

When playing a training match with EDG, as long as you choose a hero who can withstand pressure on the road, the training match can often last for more than 15 minutes.

The results are excellent!

Therefore, many teams in the LCK region also like to make training matches with EDG.

Among them, SKT and AFs are two teams in particular.

It's just that, because of the defeat in the World Championship last season, SKT has not received as many endorsements as in the previous championship-winning seasons, and the value of Faker and Bang is too high, and the club has no money to sign Ueno players.

After all, SKT's divisions of every game except for the League of Legends division are losing money.

You can't spend the entire club's budget all at once for League of Legends, right?

And this directly led to the fact that SKT could not make it to the World Championship this season

"The 8.19 version has changed very little compared to the 8.18 version."

"That's lucky."

After Mr. Bu nodded, the person in charge of the training team also began to tell the main points of the version summarized by Jiang Zhun and the factory director and others:

"Last year's World Championship version had 23 changes."

"This year's Worlds version has changed less than last year's."

"However, due to the timing of the release, we actually have less time to adapt to the version."

The head of the training team first compared the number of changes and release times between the S8 and S7 World Championship versions.

"The two heroes of the Noshou Sword Ji have been strengthened again, and then the passive time of the prince has been reduced, and from these changes, it seems that the fist wants to make more warrior heroes appear on the road."

"For example, the amount of healing triggered by Jian Ji passively increases, which can increase her online blood exchange endurance."

"And the reduction of the prince's passive cooldown can also allow it to make a more aggressive blood exchange. Of course, this change is more inclined to us because in last year's Worlds version, the number of appearances of the prince was too small. ”

"So there's no need to practice, right?" Mala Xiangguo hates the crepe words of the Saixun team.

In the face of his question, the person in charge of the training team said: "It's not that you don't need to practice, it's just that you don't need to spend too much time training this hero." ”

"Because in the current version, whether it is the sword demon or the crab, these heroes are on the road, or in the choice of jungler heroes, the carnivorous junglers such as the spider mantis are much stronger than the prince."

"By the way, when it comes to the top list heroes, we have to mention the rare torturous changes in this version."

The person in charge began to elaborate.

Prior to the update, Landry's Torment increased spell power to 80 points, and the Worlds version was reduced to 75 points.

However, the damage of the passive [Torment] has been increased.

DoT damage against moving undamaged targets: 1% max health/sec 1.5% max health/sec

DoT damage against target with movement damage: 2% max HP/sec 2.5% max HP/sec

"Don't you just want to be a jungler and choose meat on the road?"

"Hey."

"This year's Worlds has finally put the top half into a competitive rhythm, and I feel like this change is actually good for our team."

Mr. Bu didn't know if it was a coach addiction, and he didn't participate in the team's internal meeting for a long time, so he interjected directly and said:

"I believe that as long as we can find a version quickly, it will be absolutely fine for the World Championship to reach the top four."

"Of course, it doesn't mean that reaching the semi-finals is a success."

"Our ultimate goal is to win the World Championship and defend EDG's title in the League of Legends project."

"The reason why I say that I can reach the top four is because of the hero changes in the top laner and jungler positions, which makes our already stronger Ueno more capable of carrying the game!"

"I'm going to leave for the Great Cold Netherworld tomorrow, I have read the schedule of the training match, and the teams in the four major regions have appointments."

"As long as it's good, it's fine."

"Also, even if there is a problem with the training match, don't worry that the training match is a training match and the field is on the field."

"Everyone is basically all year round this year, and after playing so many games, the mentality should be a good exercise."

"I won't say anything more, come on!"

Mr. Bu took the opportunity to pour another bowl of chicken soup, and then motioned to the members of the training team to continue.

"Riot's change trend to the top laner is actually to improve the status of the carry top laner and enhance the confrontation ability of the output top laner. Strike at the dominance of the meat tan type top laner from the side. ”

"In fact, from the beginning of the continental competition, the appearance of heroes such as Mondono represents that the ecology that has dominated the field since the rune revision of the season has been subverted."

"This change is actually a huge blow to some top-laner heroes who can only play Meattan."

"If you only choose heroes like Sain, Orn, and Big Bug Shen, then you must bear the threat of being killed by the other party in the counter position!"

Listening to the training team's analysis of the ecological environment of the order, the EDG players glanced at each other, and then they all smiled.

Among them there is rejoicing.

There is also sympathy for his old rival RNG team.

Yan Junze's Qinggang Shadow and other lightly armed warrior heroes played well.

But compared to the top top laners, his lightly armed fighters are a little under-loaded.

So don't think about it, in the World Championship version, if he doesn't train any newly enhanced top-laner output heroes like Kenji, then the RNG team will inevitably suffer.

Maybe you won't show much disadvantage against a weak team.

But once you face a competitive team, the number of surprises in the game will increase exponentially.

"Xiangguo, I won't say much else in the jungler position, you try to train the rock sparrow as soon as possible."

"There's nothing else to fight or how to fight."

The factory director looked at the spicy incense pot and was in a very happy state, and directly poured a basin of cold water on him.

Rock Sparrow Jungler.

This has been a new jungle hero selection since the mid-season Jungler Blade revision, and it has been three or four months since then.

But the spicy fragrant pot has never been practiced well.

This also leads to the fact that once Hae Sung-min chooses a warrior-type hero in the middle lane, then the magic output in the team often needs to be compensated for with unconventional AD in the lower lane.

Of course, Jiang Zhun also has several masters on the list.

But in the current version, it's clear that the light-armed fighters who have been enhanced or the heavily armored fighters like the Nohand Crab are stronger!

If you don't choose the version hero, you're stupid.

"Got it"

"I'm pretty fast at rock sparrows."

"It's just that it's a little hard to lift."

The spicy incense pot muttered a few words.

"Diligence makes up for it."

"If you can't practice well, you have to practice more."

"It's not that you have to practice to the point where you can show the MVP when you take it out in the game."

"You just need to be able to play the role of this hero."

The factory director was also a little helpless.

He also has a deep hero pool in the jungler when he plays.

But there are always a few heroes who don't play well.

He understands the distress of the spicy incense pot.

After all, the hero of the Rock Sparrow was originally designed to go in the middle lane, and before the revision of the Mage Jungle Knife, almost no one could have imagined that he could run rampant in the jungle.

Spicy Pot has basically not been in contact with this hero before.

Although he has been practicing for a few months, compared to the rock sparrow, heroes such as the troll king Pig Girl Kazik have also performed quite well in the recent versions.

And EDG because of the existence of Jiang Zhun, the other party will not leave the ban position to the spicy incense pot.

Therefore, the rock sparrow of the spicy fragrant pot is not very good, and this shortcoming has never been exposed to the public's field of vision.

Only a few teams that have played training matches with EDG know about his rock finch fever.

But those teams are now on long vacations.

"The selection of jungler heroes in the World Championship should show a trend of a hundred schools of thought contending and a hundred flowers blooming."

"Like the popular Qinggang Shadow Pig Girl Barrel Troll, these heroes should be able to be selected."

"The less popular ones like Zhao Xin, Scorpion, and Qianjue are also able to play."

"But their appearance should be accompanied by a system of standing in line."

"This is both a challenge and an opportunity for jungler teams, especially junglers with a more aggressive style of play."

In version 8.18, the control map-type jungler, the carnivorous jungler, and the meat-type jungler all have a relatively good win rate and appearance rate.

The only thing that is not common is the functional jungler.

In fact, in any tournament of Worlds, the appearance rate of functional junglers is not high.

This is actually intentional by Fist.

Because after the World Championship enters the main event, the general outbreak head is often involved in the jungler.

If the functional jungler is too strong in the version, then the match is likely to fall into a headless outbreak in the early stage.

This is extremely fatal for an esports event that needs to be spectator.

In the first two seasons, League of Legends had already been complained about as a bladder league.

This season, through a wide range of hero attribute adjustments, rune reforges, and frequent version updates, Riot managed to control the average length of the game to about half an hour.

He definitely doesn't want to have an average game time of more than 35 minutes at Worlds.

Therefore, some functional jungler genres such as the Blazing Incense Burner Bird Shield Emerald God in the mid-season of S7 have been weakened.

"There are so many heroes to choose from, but in fact, this face doesn't mean that you have to practice." The spicy pot muttered.

He's smart, though.

And did not let the director of the plant hear.

Because according to the next process, it should be the change of the unit in the middle.

Sure enough, the next second Saixun team began to introduce the world version of the mid laner.

"Amount, there is nothing to say about this aspect of the mid-list."

"It's about the same as in the summer."

"Which heroes are strong in the playoffs, and which are the ones in the world."

"Of course, you should pay attention to whether there are any mid-laner heroes who suddenly become popular when you usually play rank."

The training team quickly skipped the mid-laner position and gave a detailed account of the bottom lane.

Because the version that has been introduced since the S8 Summer Tournament is too much of a group of demons, the training team has been talking for a long time.

And Mr. Bu also took the opportunity to answer a phone call and never saw him again.

Ming Kai, who was familiar with him, knew that this guy couldn't stand still.

"On the opponent's side, our main focus is on KT, RNG and FNC teams."

"In addition to the North American region, there is one for each of the other three major regions.

Needless to say, RNG, EDG's old rival, has just been stepped on in the summer finals.

"KT on the single Semb, an old friend, everyone should be familiar with it."

"It's worth noting that they went to the World Championship with the substitute Kinggen."

"He only played once in the regular season."

"So for this player, there is no special information about the strength of the field."

"And the FNC team, everyone is no stranger"

Old friends again!

Listening to these familiar names, many members of EDG couldn't help but smile on their faces.

Because the teams that were listed as a threat to EDG by the training team were all defeated by their men this season.

RNG lost to EDG in the finals of the Spring/Summer Tournament.

And FNC was taken away by EDG 3-0 at MSI.

As for KT, it has also been sanctioned by EDG in the Asian confrontation.

(End of chapter)