Chapter 564: Strike the target from behind!
Although winning the first game was expected, getting off to a good start in the summer season is enough to make EDG happy.
After all, the starting mid laner was replaced by Xiye from Zzitai, which was the first training session for the new lineup.
If they lose to a team of the level of FPX, it means that there are big problems.
This year's schedule is very tight.
There is only more than half a month left until the Intercontinental Championship, and there is no time to adjust slowly.
The most important thing is, in order to defeat FPX, EDG must fly to Chengdu without stopping, to the Dongjiao Memory Performing Arts Center, the venue for the highest-level e-sports events in Chengdu, to prepare for the battle with the dark force OMG.
Whether you win this game will directly affect your mentality for the next game.
Waiting for Xiye to be interviewed.
All EDG members boarded the bus and headed to Hongqiao International Airport.
We boarded the Airbus A330 aircraft which took off at 17:25 and landed at the T2 platform of Shuangliu International Airport at 20:30.
After more than an hour's drive, we arrived near the competition venue.
Stay in an e-sports hotel.
After having dinner where I specifically stated that I didn’t want chili or seafood, I started the free ranking mode.
Compared with previous versions where strong heroes could be found quickly after the update, version 8.11 is much more complicated. It has been implemented for nearly half a month, and professional players are still in the exploratory stage.
Critical strike AD has been comprehensively weakened, and special effect AD has naturally risen.
Mage and warrior heroes who are not strong enough in the single lane also began to seek living space in the bottom lane.
Because the pace of the Korean server is relatively slow, the most popular bottom lane hero is Explorer EZ, who has a 21.9% ban rate and a 40.4% pick rate in segments above , and his win rate has reached a stable value of 52.2%.
Next is Varus, the top special effects AD, and Vampire, who becomes stronger as time goes by.
The most popular hero in the national server is Kaisa, because Kaisa can obtain full benefits from Stormbreaker's three attributes: attack power, attack speed, and guaranteed burst, and the degree of fit is extremely high.
The subsequent dual-cultivation gameplay of Sheep Knife, Nash, Hat, and Hourglass provides both continuous output and burst damage.
It also takes into account the fault tolerance that other shooter heroes cannot achieve.
The situation in Europe and the United States is more chaotic.
The bottom lane not only has special characters like Karthus, Syndra, and Anivia, but also has some weird characters like Galio, Brand, Morgana, and even Mundo and Garen.
Of course, there is a common hero across all servers.
——Happy wind man, Yasuo.
"His mother's kiss is really disgusting now!"
After playing for a while, A Shui couldn't help but complain: "It's okay that the opponent has a mess, but there are also messes on my side that are competing with me for position. It turns out that these people who play mid lane always pick support and jungle as their secondary picks, but now they directly change to AD."
Since the launch of the S6 season qualifying mode.
You no longer need to go to the Xth floor to play ranked games. If you don’t give it to me, I’ll give it away.
It was changed to select a primary position and a secondary position.
If neither of these two can be matched into the game, the fill-in mechanism will be activated and the position where there is no choice but a lack of players will be assigned.
There is a two-game protection period after each replacement.
To be honest, it's not that comfortable.
But compared to the situation where you have to wait in line for more than ten or twenty minutes, or even more than half an hour when there are fewer people, the pre-selection mode can actually be said to be an optimization.
With A Shui's strength and historical achievements, before the 8.11 version update, even if he was not assigned to the AD position, he could often communicate with his teammates and get his position back.
After the 8.11 version update...
The mid laner can take a mage to the bottom lane.
The top laner can take a melee to the bottom lane.
Jungler... The popular heroes such as Troll, Sejuani, Kindred, Nightmare, and Gragas are indeed not suitable for the bottom lane.
But it's also very comfortable to have Graves and Xin Zhao to mix the lines.
Since everyone is scrambling for the AD position, if the jungler follows suit it can’t be said to be ignoring the overall situation, but rather it is a trend of the times.
"There is a hero combination that you would like to try." Xing Dao suddenly remembered.
"What combination?" Ah Shui was curious.
"Use Bounty Hunter + Syndra." Xing Dao said the name and gave some basic knowledge: "Syndra uses W to grab the minions and throw them forward, while Bounty Hunter uses Q to hit the target from behind."
"Syndra's W... Bounty Hunter's Q... Damn! It should be very powerful!" Ah Shui's eyes lit up: "But I'm not good at using Syndra... Bounty Hunter is okay."
"It must be you who used Bounty Hunter." Meiko laughed. "I don't know Syndra either, but if I play it as a support, I can just capture a soldier and put some control on him. It shouldn't be difficult. I'll practice it with a trumpet later."
"Okay, let's go practice in the canyon!" A Shui is smarter.
The play style of Bounty Hunter + Syndra does not require a particularly rigorous environment.
What's more, the current Korean server is not rigorous at all.
Practicing in the Canyon of Heroes is not much different from practicing in the Korean server, and it can also prevent you from being discovered and imitated by professional players from other regions.
Just discussed it.
A Shui opened the forum out of habit and took a look.
Found a new topic: "Hey, Liu Zhihao (Zizi) and Wushuang started to curse each other?"
"What's going on?" asked the factory manager.
"Liu Zhihao was assigned to the middle lane, and Wu Zizhuang was filling in to assist and asked for position, but Liu Zhihao didn't give it to him... Then Liu Zhihao was caught by the opponent and the score was 0-7. Wu Zizhuang started to taunt him, and the two of them started to curse at each other." After reading the post, A Shui summarized the process.
"It's a small matter, just a little deduction of money." Xing Dao didn't care at all.
The biggest taboo for professional players is to fire map cannons or AOE a certain group. Such behavior of provoking conflict can easily be banned by the official.
The most that can be imposed is a fine for conflicts and verbal abuse during the game.
Or it was a fine imposed by the club.
It doesn't matter.
"But this person, Wushuang, is a bit too much."
Ah Shui added: "He said that Liu Zhihao joined EDG during the spring transfer period, so what? He still can't play. He is like a urinal that is thrown away after use. No other club wants him."
"Hey, you need to talk about such a small thing?" Xing Dao was very surprised.
The tryouts for professional players themselves mean that the suitable ones stay and the unsuitable ones leave.
There is competition.
But it mainly depends on personal ability.
Even if Uzi has the strength to be at the top of the second tier, EDG will not choose Zzitai.
The performance gap between the two sides is not big, so EDG will keep the player with higher compatibility and more comprehensive hero pool.
They can still hold a grudge despite such a real gap, and half a year later, when EDG introduced Xiye and Cryin, they brought up the old matter again... They are too narrow-minded.
"Yeah, not like a man!"
Ah Shui was very dissatisfied: "Besides, it's not like Liu Zhihao didn't have the opportunity to go out and play as a starter. He was just tired of playing and wanted to retire. Why did he piss in a jar? Aren't you scolding me too?"
"Don't get involved. Just handle it calmly and it will be over." The factory director showed the momentum of the old captain: "It's just a small matter. It's not worth making a fuss about it."
"If you want to help Liu Zhihao vent his anger, then fight him well."
"If they win the championship this year and let Liu Zhihao get a skin... Wushuang will be so pissed off."
