Dark has been looking forward to this day for a long, long time, after all, the last time he used the dark value to consume was back to last year's MSI.

And after a whole year, Dark finally accumulated 100 million dark values again, and he naturally needs to spend a good wave to enhance his personal strength again.

So, after entering the [Dark System] with ease, Dark quickly began his own plan to become stronger.

The first is the increase in the strength of the Signature Hero.

Although the strength of each of Dark's signature heroes is already almost invincible, in line with the concept that there is no strongest, only stronger, Dark still improves the attribute points of about ten of his signature heroes.

Most of these heroes, such as spiders, scorpions, and Cain, who have not played much recently, but are strong heroes in the current version, in order to give themselves the opportunity to take them out at any time, so this part of the attribute is improved, and Dark directly consumes nearly 50 million dark values.

As for the remaining 50 million Darkness points, Dark uses them all for "skill extraction".

After all, for Dark, hero strength is only the basis of personal strength, and the increase of various skills is the upper limit of his personal strength!

So, after a long period of skill extraction, Dark finally gained a few new match skills again.

[Winning Attitude]: In a BO5 match, every time the host's team wins a small game, the momentum of the whole team will increase by 10% in the next game. It can be accumulated, but the kick will be reset to zero after losing a match, and the kicker will be reset to zero after a BO5 match.

This skill is basically better than nothing for the G2 team, after all, they will be better mentally after winning a small game in a BO5 match.

However, this skill also has the benefit of increasing the probability that G2 teams will play 3-0 in BO5, reducing the likelihood that they will be chased back by their opponents after winning one or two games.

[Momentum Like a Rainbow]: In a single World Championship, every time the host's team wins an opponent, the win rate of the next game will increase by 5%, which can be accumulated, but the increase in win rate will be reset to zero after losing the game.

When Dark drew this skill, he wondered why he didn't start this skill draw earlier, after all, if he had this skill before the MSI started, then the increase in the win rate he could get now would have reached 10%.

According to the process of the S8 World Championship, when the G2 team enters the S9 World Championship again, according to the data of the three opponents in the group stage, the quarterfinals and the semifinals, then when the G2 team reaches the finals, the G2 team can get a full 25% increase in the winning rate in the face of their finals opponents!

But for Dark, in fact, the above two skills are not particularly effective for his strength improvement in each game.

Therefore, in this skill extraction, Dark's favorite skill is the skill of [gank master].

[Gank Master]: Every time the host successfully completes a gank, the success rate will increase by 10% when the next time the same opponent is gammed! Gank failure amplification is reset to zero.

Dark likes this skill very much, because it's basically a copy of the [Weak Mark]!

Although the skill of [Weak Mark] is very powerful, the trigger conditions are very harsh, and it must be done by Dark to complete a single kill, and even an assist from a teammate will fail to trigger, resulting in the past two years, Dark has rarely played the effect of [Weak Mark] on the field.

But now, with the advent of the [gank] skill, it has helped Dark perfectly solve this concern, as long as the gank succeeds, the gank success rate can be increased, which basically means that Dark has one more tactical way to play that can catch a certain way!

After all, when Dark successfully completes 10 ganks against an opponent, his gank success rate will be 100% from the 11th gank onwards!

"Yes, yes, this 100 million points of dark value is really cool and worthwhile."

"I heard that Theshy of your IG team is very powerful, and this year is even more powerful than last year?"

"I'm sorry, this time I have a [gank master], you just wait for me to die and catch the road!"

"LPL fans still want our G2 team to die? I think it's your IG team that is waiting for death! ”

Finally completed this dark value consumption, looking at the balance of more than 10 million dark value returned because of the extraction, Dark was satisfied, and at the same time smiled with determination.

Because if before this draw, the IG team in the S9 season may still have a chance to win a small game against the G2 team like last year's finals.

So after completing this draw, Dark has absolute confidence to complete the clean sheet against the IG team!

While letting the IG team not win a game, it also once again made the entire LPL region feel the purest despair that belongs to them!

……

On May 15th, after staying at a hotel in Beitai City, because there is no need to travel jet lag from Vietnam to Wanwan, all members of the G2 team immediately started preparing for the upper bracket final on May 19th that night.

On May 16th, MSI took a day off and gave TL and OG teams who had already won the first round of the lower bracket, as well as GRF and SKT teams who lost the second round of the upper bracket yesterday, a time to prepare for the second round of the lower bracket.

And on May 17th, the second round of the lower bracket was officially launched between the TL team and the GRF team.

For the GRF team, although they were previously kept clean sheets by the G2 team, when facing the North American Lobi TL team, the GRF team still did not take them seriously, and did not think that Doublelift, the player in the top 16 every year, could pose any threat to them.

But this time, Team GRF was once again very wrong.

It may be because the TL team fell into the lower bracket at the beginning, coupled with the 3-0 victory over the JDG team that gave them confidence, and there was longer preparation time than the GRF team, which led to the TL team in today's BO5 battle, which directly played a game that was different from the weak state of the North American team in the past.

3 to 1!

After four rounds of fighting, when the GRF team finally won a game, the TL team still showed no mercy and directly defeated the GRF team with a score of 3-1, advancing to the third round of the lower bracket, and also directly eliminated the legendary world No. 1 GRF team!

On May 18th, the second match of the second round of the lower bracket was finally officially played between the SKT team and the OG team.

To be honest, the reorganized SKT team didn't have the same dominance as it once did in this MSI, otherwise it wouldn't have been a difficult victory over the FW team, and then it was successfully defeated by the IG team, and directly played a humiliating 1557 game speedrun.

But it also has to be admitted that the "slow heat characteristics" of the SKT team have been unparalleled under the double-elimination format of this MSI.

If it was the format of previous years, maybe after BO5 lost to the IG team, the SKT team would have been eliminated, but in the case of the double-elimination system with one more "slow heat" opportunity for the SKT team, all the members of the SKT team once again showed the world their terrifying ability to learn and grow!

3 to 1!

As a result, although the OG team won the next game, in the next three games, all the members of the SKT team seemed to have finally woken up, and directly defeated the LEC runner-up OG team with a stormy offensive rhythm, and successfully advanced to the third round of the lower bracket!

And when the SKT team wins again, the most nervous and worried is not the next opponent of the SKT team, the OG team, but the fans in the LPL region!

Because in their opinion, what they are most worried about may be about to happen!

"It's over, the SKT team seems to have finally found the feeling of the game, they seem to be really getting braver!"

"The best way to beat SKT is to knock them out before they find their form, if this was last year's MSI, SKT would probably have stopped in the semi-finals, but how did it become a double-elimination format this year?"

"That's it, if Team SKT beats Team TL again to advance to the lower bracket finals, then their form may be getting better and better......"

"Once the SKT team returns to the finals from the lower bracket finals, will our IG team really be able to resist the SKT team at that time?"

"I hope that the TL team or the G2 team can give some strength and finish the SKT team early, so that our IG team can win this MSI championship safely!"

In the face of Faker, the big demon who released the bold statement of "we will fight back in the finals" in the post-game interview, a sense of fear arose from the bottom of the hearts of LPL fans, making them shudder.

But despite this, LPL fans still don't think about it, thinking that even if the SKT team really kills back to the finals, the IG team can complete the double kill of the SKT team again!

As for tomorrow's upper bracket final opponents, G2?

Although G2 is also strong, Team IG will definitely beat Team G2 just as well as Team SKT!

In this way, the IG team will successfully represent the LPL region and complete the streak of two "LPL Region Nightmares"!

And just in the anticipation of all LPL fans, on May 19, the day of the 2019 MSI Upper Bracket Finals, has finally arrived.

……

Team G2 vs Team IG!

The S8 World Championship Finals are back in action!

Whoever wins today's BO5 first will be the first to advance to the 2019 MSI Grand Finals!

Whether the G2 team continues to complete the undefeated record against the LPL region, or the IG team avenges the LPL region, all the suspense is today!

Although the upper bracket finals of the G2 team and the IG team will not officially start until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, as early as the morning of the same day, the pre-match warm-up and netizens discussion about this game have already been in full swing.

At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, Riot officially released the promotional video for the ninth match day of this year's MSI, that is, the pre-match words of the G2 team and the IG team!

"Last year's S8 Worlds, I was still a little young at the age of 17, and I couldn't beat the G2 team and lift the final championship trophy, but this year, at the age of 18, I will definitely not leave any regrets in this MSI, I will definitely defeat the G2 team and become the last MSI champion!"

The first to leave the country was Jackeylove, the bottom laner of the IG team, with an extremely resolute expression and fierce eyes, which showed that he was full of desire for victory in today's game.

"As I said, as long as I am still playing professionally one day, it is impossible for any team in the LPL region to win the championship, and it is impossible for it to reach the finals, so Ah Shui is sorry, although I used to be a teammate in the Asian Games, but on the stage of the professional league, I can only make your career full of regrets!"

The next to leave the country was the jungler Dark of the G2 team, facing the camera, his eyes were smiling, it seemed that Jackeylove was a harmless and worrying brother to him!

"Last year, my Sword Demon overthrew the G2 team in the river, and this year, I will also play a wonderful performance again to help the IG team win this BO5 victory!"

Immediately afterwards, Theshy, the top laner of the IG team, was in the driver's seat.

"Every year people say that they want to win our G2 team, but every year no team can do this, this time, your IG team will not be an exception, and you will also become another corpse under our G2 dynasty again!"

In the end, Caps, the mid-laner of the G2 team, was arrogant, and his eyes were full of self-sacrificing eyes in the face of the IG team's challenging remarks.

When this pre-game promotional video was released, both LPL fans and LEC fans were instantly excited because of it.

Because of the content in this promotional video, the smell of gunpowder between the two teams is too strong, and even when the two teams finally stand together for a group photo, fans have to worry about whether they will fight directly at the shooting site of the promotional video!

Of course, the strength of e-sports speaks, and it is definitely impossible to fight, and it is only necessary to see who wins and loses between the two teams, but they play on the field in today's upper bracket final BO5!

So, in the anticipation of all the audience, the time finally slowly came to five o'clock in the afternoon.

And as the live stream of the Huaxia Basketball Stadium in Beitai City, Wanwan Province cut into the official live broadcast rooms of each competition area, the battle between the G2 team and the IG team in the upper bracket finals immediately burst into flames!

"Good!"

"Welcome to the audience and friends in front of the screen to watch our 2019 MSI Mid-Season Championship Upper Bracket Finals on time!"

"Hello everyone, I'm today's commentator, Guan Zeyuan!"

"Hello everyone, I'm today's commentator, Miller!"

"Hello everyone, I'm today's commentator, Rita!"

The next moment, when the three commentators appeared on the LPL official commentary table together, all LPL fans' eyes lit up and their hearts were happy.

Because in today's commentary lineup, there is finally no doll that "never loses"!

And this means that the win rate of the IG team today has increased by at least 10%!

Thank you for the work that makes me happy 556, a dream cloud, book friends 2023xxx73da, I'm handsome, and the monthly pass support of a small mistake!

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