At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, all JD.com staff landed at Seoul Airport, and many international students came to pick up the airport when they took pictures in the airport hall.

Everyone stayed at the door for a while to meet the fans' demand for group photos, and then boarded the bus to the hotel under the reception of the Hanquan staff.

The play-in and group stage venues are both in Seoul.

After coming to the hotel to check in the formalities, the team members went back to the room to sort out their luggage, and then came to the training room as soon as possible.

The training room is still a temporary renovation of the hotel's conference room, with a baffle to isolate a dedicated area for each team.

When Li Feifei came to the training area, he found out...... The European and American teams came to Korea earlier than they did.

I can understand it.

In Europe, there are often teams that can improve by leaps and bounds during the World Championship, and a large part of the reason is that they are out of the original rotten environment and can have high-intensity training matches with strong teams from China and South Korea.

The players on the European side are not bad in the first place, but they lack a good training environment, and as soon as the training intensity comes up, their original strength is stimulated at once, and the performance is that their strength has improved by leaps and bounds.

Thanks to this outstanding performance throughout the year, Li Feifei has accumulated a certain amount of popularity in the League of Legends e-sports circles around the world.

Many players from the wild card teams have specially approached him for group photos.

"Yo yo yo, our Lao Li has become a big star!" Lin Weixiang is very envious, compared with Li Feifei, he is a little transparent that no one cares about.

Who doesn't have a heart to make a name for themselves in a career?

"What you said made it look like Lao Li had only become a big star now." Liu Qingsong rolled his eyes, "You only have envy." ”

"Can you stop barking?" Lin Weixiang rolled his eyes angrily.

Li Feifei only returned to the training room at this time, and there were not many BBs in Redmi, "Let's all sit down quickly and have a short meeting, and the update of version 8.19 has come out." ”

Riot had already announced that 8.19 would be the Worlds version.

Redmi still distributed the update materials prepared in advance to the players, and then analyzed and explained, "The update range of version 8.19 is not large, and the heroes of Sword Demon, Blade Dancer, and Akali have not been stabbed, that is to say...... This time, the Worlds still revolves around these heroes. ”

"But here's what to look at...... Noshou and Kenji have been strengthened slightly, and on the wild side, Spider, Prince, and Mantis have also been strengthened to varying degrees, and it is obvious that the fists are still encouraging the team to attack. ”

Li Feifei glanced down.

The Spider's W and E skill CDs have been greatly reduced, the Prince's passive [War Rhythm] cooldown has become 6 seconds for all levels, and the Mantis's Q skill AD bonus and W's damage increase are all huge enhancements, which can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of these heroes in the wild area in the early stage.

The main heroes belong to the early rhythm jungler, although the mantis is not a rhythm jungler, but the gameplay of this hero is to focus on the jungle attack.

"At the same time, it is also necessary to combine the changes of the previous versions, and the strength of the heroes of Akali, Blade Dancer, and Sword Demon is very OP." The information prepared by Redmi is very detailed, and it is not just the 8.19 update.

Instead, all the changes to several key heroes from 8.17 to 8.19 were put on it.

This way you can see the scene.

After experiencing several versions of the weakening, the fist has called back the damage coefficient of the Q skill to the creep, don't underestimate this change, whether the Q of the knife sister can directly Q kill the ranged soldier is a big gap.

Being able to Q death means constantly Q and breaking passively, just almost a little damage to Q to Q death long-range soldiers, that's broken Q, and once the knife sister fights against Q, there is basically no chance of winning.

The same goes for Sword Demon.

In the past, Sword Magic E would directly get two layers of charges, that is, it could be used twice immediately, but after the 8.18 version was modified, now Sword Magic E can only get one layer of charge, but as compensation......

The ability to recover from hero damage provided by the E skill has been improved a lot.

However, the Sword Demon's ultimate CD was slashed by 20 seconds, and the level 1 CD was increased from 140 seconds to 160 seconds, which is also a huge nerf.

Overall.

The current strength of the sword demon has fallen from T0, and it is barely a T1 existence, and the team combat ability is still excellent, but the line depends on the player's personal ability, and there are many heroes who can deal with the sword demon.

This means that this hero is no longer a non-ban obligatory existence.

As for Akali??

It can be said that it is the only T0 of the current version, because Riot has not made any nerf changes to Akali so far, and the designer did tweet that he would make a series of nerfs for Akali, but so far it seems that it is a pie, and no substantive changes have appeared.

It's just that in version 8.18, I cut Akali's ultimate for 20 points of base damage, and it doesn't hurt at all.

Anyone who has played Akali knows that this hero is not short of damage at all, even if you give him another 20 points of base damage for his ultimate, it still won't affect Akali's set of second crispy.

The core W Kasumi Array can still shield the defense tower, which is the most outrageous (Akali's W is weakened until S9).

Although Akali's combat effectiveness in the early stage is average, the Q skill can regenerate health when it is close to full energy, and the talent of [Swift Pace] can be matched...... Akali is very strong in the line, as long as you let Akali cross to level 6, full blood is Akali's killing line.

"By the way, there's a change on the lower side of the road that needs to be noted, Lucian has been slightly strengthened." Redmi reminded, "This hero may change the ecology of the lower road." ”

Don't look at the league in the league, the lower road core was once the mainstream, but in the back, everyone still feels that there can't be no regular shooter, after all, the shooter's tower pushing attribute is difficult to be replaced by a mage.

Bomberman is an outlier, but the error tolerance rate of this hero is too low, and the selection of Bomberman means that the overall lineup is biased towards the Poke attribute, and when the face-rushing heroes such as Akali and Knife Sister are so strong, the Poke system is easy to be washed away by others with a single mistake.

Therefore......

The mainstream shooters on the lower road are still Kai'Sa and Xia, one can be matched with the face punching system, and the other is invincible.

But......

Kai'Sa and Kasumi both have a range of only 525 yards, which is a short-handed existence among shooters, and the current growth curve of these two heroes basically has to be a two-piece set to exert their strength.

Kai'Sa needs Arashiri + Sheep Knife to evolve Q, and then needs to fill up Nash's Tooth to evolve W and E, and the price of these three pieces of equipment adds up to nearly 10,000.

The same goes for Kasumi.

Blue Absorbing Knife + Endless is the core, and the follow-up artillery can evolve into a complete body.

Both of these shooters have a long development cycle, and Lucian, who focuses on the line, can form substantial combat effectiveness with his teammates and fight everywhere with his teammates.

If you use Kai'Sa or Kasumi to line up with Lucian, it's easy for people to push you flat before you even develop.

Of course.

The specific strength of the hero still needs to be tested through actual combat competitions, and purely from the surface of the data, it can only be guessed as an approximation.

"In the past two days, you are still focusing on individual rank, and after two days, I will help you contact the training match, and then you will have to play the training match every day, and you will be ready." Redmi vaccinated the players in advance.

Thanks to JD.com's excellent performance in MSI and intercontinental competitions, it is still the No. 1 seed team in the LPL.

Under so many halos, many teams are willing to find Jingdong to make an appointment for training matches.

The reason why Redmi deliberately waited for two days was mainly to wait for the draw results of the group stage to come out, in case the object of the training match was his group stage opponent, wouldn't that be tantamount to revealing his tactical reserves in advance?

He doesn't do this kind of loss-making business.

Li Feifei and others also used the super account provided by Hanquan to conduct high-intensity personal training in Hanbok, because of the influx of a large number of professional players, which made the original Hanbok with high gold content now have more gold content.

It's not that Li Feifei dislikes the top of the canyon.

But purely from a training point of view, the hanbok does beat the top of the canyon.

After all......

Hanbok doesn't have so many anchors who want to touch porcelain professional players to create traffic gimmicks, and there are not so many bizarre and unique brothers.

On the one hand, players should maintain their own state, and on the other hand, they should accumulate experience in lane matching, so that some operations become the instinct of the body.

Can......

What kind of big-headed mastery brother, barbarian king master, and alchemy mastery brother have you accumulated...... It's almost impossible for these heroes to get a chance to play in a match, so what's the use of gaining laning experience with these heroes?

Isn't that a pure waste of your time?

Ah, that's a coincidence.

The most indispensable thing in the national uniform is this kind of unique brother, which is very head-catching.

On the evening of September 20th.

All the staff of JD.com gathered together to watch the lottery ceremony!

The LCK side also attaches great importance to it, and the lottery guests are also invited to some once well-known players, and the lottery guests in the group stage are LGD teams who have played in the CJ team and came to play in the LPL team in the S5 season.

The lottery rules are still the same.

The No. 1 seed team will be placed in a card pool, and due to the poor performance of the North American region in the World Championships over the past year or so, the No. 1 seed in the North American region will not be able to enter the No. 1 seed card pool and will have to fall to the No. 2 seed pool.

The total four teams in the No. 1 seed pool are JD.com, KT, Fnatic and Lightning Wolves.

The second seed has a total of eight teams, namely SKT, MAD, 100T, liquid, IG, VIT, PVB, RNG.

Because LPL won the S7 Global Finals Championship and S8's MSI Championship in the past year, it ...... With the best overall score, the third seed in the LPL, that is, RNG, can skip the play-in tournament and directly enter the main stage.

Instead, the third seed in the LCK, Griffin, the third seed in the North American region, C9, and the third seed G2 in the European region, all need to start from the play-in tournament.

There is also a principle of team avoidance in the same region in the group stage, that is, JD is unlikely to meet RNG and IG in the group stage, in this case...... In fact, the range of opponents that JD may face has been narrowed down a lot all of a sudden.

"It's best to avoid SKT in the group stage, right? As soon as these monsters arrived at the Worlds, it was as if they had changed people. "Lin Weixiang is still a little cowardly.

As long as SKT's mid lane is still called Lee Sang-hyuk, then their dominance at Worlds will not be questioned.

"Who knows, it doesn't matter." Li Feifei smiled and waved his hand, "There is no big difference between us, anyway, if we want to win the championship, we are all our opponents, it doesn't matter who we meet." ”

Li Feifei's attitude has always been clear.

As long as the goal is to win the championship, then you have to beat everyone!!

To have any illusions, to think about who will help you to defeat a strong enemy, and to pin your hopes on others, is in itself a mentality that only weak people can have!

"You're Lao Li...... You haven't lost. Lin Weixiang pouted.

He envied and admired Li Feifei's mentality, but he also knew that you can't learn this mentality at all.

Li Feifei's confidence lies in the fact that he has hardly lost since his debut, and his personal super strength is the foundation.

He?

How can an ADC player who is almost unemployed have the mentality of Li Feifei?

Between words.

In the live broadcast screen, the very handsome Flame has come to the glass tank of the booth, put his hand into it, symbolically plucked the ball, and then pulled a ball out of it and unscrewed it!!

The first team to be drawn was ...... Team JD, followed by Team Lightning Wolf, KT and Fnatic, corresponding to four groups A, B, C, and D respectively!!

The draw continues.

In the No. 2 seed pool, teams other than RNG and IG are likely to be opponents of JD.com's group stage.

And under Flame's various draws, the final lottery results are also presented!!

The three teams in Group A are: JD.com, PVB, and VIT.

The three teams in Group B are: Lightning Wolves, RNG, and SKT.

The three teams in Group C are: KT, MAD, and Liquid.

The three teams in Group D are: Fnatic, 100T, and IG.

In fact, judging from this grouping, JD.com's last opponent is also easy to determine, PVB is the team in Vietnam, and 100T is the team in North America, so ...... JD.com's opponent is either C9 from North America or Griffin from the LCK region.

According to the principle of avoidance in the same division, the last team in Group A can only be from one of these two clubs.

"Hell, this grouping is ...... I feel that the strength of each group is quite average, right? There doesn't seem to be any group of deaths. Li Feifei took a closer look at the grouping.

Draw such a conclusion.

The only high probability that can be related to the group of death is Group D or Group B, but it depends on the subsequent draw.

Anyway, for JD.com......

This lottery is a lottery!

After all, PVB is basically equivalent to the Wild Card Division, and VIT is a team in the European Division, and the overall strength is also very average.

Even if it is a Griffin or a C9 team, it will not affect JD's status in Group A at all!

(End of chapter)