Chapter 289: The Strange LZ Team
Inside EDG training room.
In addition to daily battles and rankings, the team members also began to watch videos of strong teams from other regions.
Because there is a full twenty-day gap from the end of the LPL Summer Season to the start of the S7 Finals, plus two days of competition for the fourth seed and a week-long qualifying round, it is almost a full month.
The competition venue is still in China.
The time reserved for EDG to prepare is very sufficient.
The focus is on the number one seeds in several major regions and all the teams in LCK.
"SKT's summer season statistics are average."
Abu introduced it in the daily routine meeting: "Their total economy in the first ten minutes was 14918, ranking sixth in the LCK region, which is in the middle."
"Average economic difference per game -18.18."
"The number of towers pushed was 0.13, ranking fifth, and the number of towers lost was 0.11, ranking eighth."
"The style of play is steady, not aggressive."
"And the stats after 20 minutes or even the entire game, except for the economic difference and tower pushing, are all lower than those in the first 10 minutes... Don't laugh, you should think about what this means."
SKT team's playoff record is LCK runner-up.
It doesn't match the performance in any aspect.
The reason is that we can always win the key group.
Because Marin in the top lane, Faker in the mid lane, and Bang in the AD position are all players who perform better in team battles than in online confrontations.
When choosing a lineup, SKT also prefers cooperation and late-stage linkage.
“As long as we don’t win quickly, it will be easy to fall into their rhythm,” the factory manager expressed his opinion.
"Yes." Abu nodded. "We won the game very quickly and didn't have enough experience in late-game operations. So when we meet SKT, we must create a big enough economic advantage. It would be best if we can lead by more than five digits before joining the team..."
"Then it's Liz."
"I've taken a closer look these past few days. Compared to SKT, LZ should be less threatening to us because they are a standard fighting team, and Khan's best Jayce can be easily tricked by Lucian."
Speaking of this.
Abu looked at Xing Dao with approval .
Continuing the analysis: "If you encounter them, you must ensure vision and support in the top lane. There is no need to establish a big advantage in the middle and bottom lanes. Stability is the first priority."
"As long as the offensive top laner explodes, he's basically done for."
"SSG mainly relies on Ambition this season. He should be the easiest one for us to deal with."
Next.
Abu introduced some key information and pointed out the aspects that need to be remembered.
Have team members watch the video on their own and look for things that were not discovered.
It took more than half a month to prepare, and then I started to study the EU region’s number one seed G2 and the NA region’s number one seed TSM.
As for LMS No. 1 seed FW and GAM from Vietnam...there is no need to worry about them for now.
There is no weak team in the World Championship.
right.
But that's not entirely true.
The origin of this statement is that many No. 1 seeds perform mediocrely, while the unfavored No. 2 and No. 3 seeds perform unexpectedly.
For example, TSM, which was eliminated in the first round of the knockout stage, and C9, which has the title of "Light of North America".
For example...the factory manager who used to be in the top eight every year.
In fact, does it mean that the number one seed is weaker than the number two and three?
Of course not.
Because the team that obtains the number one seed will definitely be the focus of strong teams in other regions.
Especially after being studied by LCK's perfect logistics system for more than a month, I know exactly what color the underwear is and whether there is a map on it.
In recent years, the title of "European and American noobs" has basically been earned by the LCK.
The reason why Flash Wolves FW, while being the best in the region, was able to achieve the "anti-Korean hero" achievement was that there was a gap between them and the teams below. In order to qualify from the LMS region, they did not need to show their true strength .
The same applies to Vietnam GAM.
Wasting time studying their data will only lead to being misled.
It’s not too late to prepare based on your performance in the World Finals.
September 23rd.
The teams participating in the 2017 League of Legends Global Finals qualifiers began their competition at the Wuhan Sports Center.
The Play-In Rounds do not count as part of the official opening.
The process is very simple and crude.
There was neither an introduction nor a stage appearance.
Both parties entered their respective seats and, after some debugging, directly started the Ban/Pick game.
The stronger clubs in the five major divisions basically don't pay attention.
After all, this time Roit has expanded the number of places, so that in addition to the original Vietnam and island countries, there are qualifiers from Turkey, Southern Latin America, Northern Latin America, Brazil, Oceania and other regions.
Strength...
All I can say is that there are many kings.
But some of these "Kings" are in Southeast Asia, Oceania, South America, and even more outrageous, there are Iranian servers that most players would never think of...
To make a conversion, it is probably the level of a Diamond 5 goalkeeper in the Canyon of Heroes in the future.
Totally not worth wasting your time watching.
It would be better to play a training match with other teams.
As the number one seed of the LPL region, EDG is destined not to meet LZ, G2, and TSM in the group stage, so they can learn from each other and test their bottom line at the same time.
LZ needs no mention.
Even with a way to deal with it, it can still be said to be one of EDG's biggest opponents.
G2 and TSM should not be underestimated either.
Even though there is a certain gap in strength between these two teams, especially TSM and EDG, the European and American regions are famous for all kinds of creative ideas, and any black technology they come up with may have a good effect.
What is quite unexpected is.
EDG has won and lost against G2 and TSM.
One is 60:40, the other is 70:30.
This is certainly due to EDG's concealment of their weaknesses, but it also illustrates the strength of G2 and TSM.
But after playing with LZ for two days, we created a record of ten consecutive wins.
Not a single loss...
"What's going on? Are they acting? How can a jungler be so outrageous?" Abu was a little confused.
The factory manager seems to have regained his vitality this year.
They even made up for their previous shortcomings, dared to fight and took the initiative to start team fights many times, and were no longer the spokesperson for "EDG will never be wiped out."
In fact, data from all aspects have shown a significant decline.
EDG lost its previous dominance in the summer season, and it seems that Xing Dao's mindless choice of Fiora and A Shui's sudden death after receiving Q were to blame.
The root cause is actually the factory manager’s ability to take advantage of old customers has declined.
From raising pigs in the wild, to working hard to stabilize it.
But in these ten training matches, the factory manager dreamed of returning to S5, and pressed Cuzz, who was known as a talented jungler, to the ground, and it seemed that he had returned to the era when he was one of the "three pillars of the Korean server" playing Rank.
“I don’t understand.”
As the person involved, the factory manager couldn't help but shake his head: "Anyway, when playing against him, it seems that no matter how hard you try, he will jump into it even if it's a trap."
"That's weird..." Abu was even more confused: "This isn't the way to act."
Pretending to be unable to win in the top lane, deliberately not roaming in the middle lane, hiding a special hero in the bottom lane are all common disguise methods in training matches.
It is unnecessary to deliberately act in the jungle position.
Because many times, the battle between junglers is a test of courage and belief.
If you pretend to be an idiot, you may become a real idiot in actual combat.
"It doesn't matter. If we meet in the knockout round, I'll just destroy his jungle area!" Xing Dao didn't care.
"Yes, beat him to death!" Scout waved his fist.
"No problem at all, it's just a fight!" iBoy was also full of confidence.
Compared with SKT in terms of operations, EDG does not have enough confidence.
The way to deal with it is to snowball in the early and middle stages and use the economy to suppress.
But fighting with LZ...
As the bloodiest, most chaotic, and most disorderly LPL region, who is afraid of fighting? !
