Chapter 603: Audi? Alto!
Reworking a hero doesn’t necessarily mean a huge improvement.
Even though Irelia dominated the game for a while with her ultimate's group disarming ability, Aatrox's win rate skyrocketed after the Intercontinental Series, and she became the new darling of the professional league.
The previous werewolves and gravediggers cannot be ignored either.
After these two heroes were reworked, one of them is still a rare underdog even in Rank.
A character that has undergone several optimizations in terms of mechanism, but is still a useless piece. It has a series of extremely domineering skills such as the Clear Sky Hammer, Blue Silver Entanglement, and Revive My Love, but it is difficult to be accepted by the mainstream because it lacks an invincible golden body.
so.
Whether a reworked hero is strong often requires a lot of exploration and development...except Akali!
The new version of Akali’s hero introduction video has just been released.
The exact value has not yet been announced.
It immediately caused an uproar.
You don't need to be a professional player or a king-level player to watch it.
Even pure entertainment players in the gold and silver divisions know that the new version of Akali has three abnormal skills that will definitely be censored and used less and less every day.
The first is the Q soldier’s blood recovery mechanism when the energy is close to full.
The last one who could use minions to frequently recover health was Shen's W. Combined with the passive shield, it was extremely unstoppable when consumed, and both Crocodile and Noxus were suppressed to the level of younger brothers. So much so that at that stage, many players were forced to use Riven, who was weakened to the point of being in the sewer, to force a fight, simply because Riven could use a burst that could kill Shen.
The second one can be cast without a target. The second part has a killing effect, and the first part has a group stun effect.
As an assassin, he has two random displacement options and a group stun effect, which has caused countless people to ask the designer if there is something wrong with his brain.
If these two can only guarantee strength, it cannot be said that there is no solution.
Then let’s look at the third one.
——The effect of the new version of Akali's W skill [Shadow Shroud] is: to make Akali in it enter a stealth state, unable to be revealed by any factors, and cannot be selected as a target by skills or attacks...including defense towers.
In simple terms, Akali will not be hit even if she stands under the opposite tower with W activated!
What is a monster?
This is called a monster!
In the three days since Akali's rework, her appearance rate has risen from 0.77% to 5.21%.
Although the win rate is only 42%, which is slightly higher than the new version of Sword Demon, no player thinks that Akali is a weak hero, and they all firmly stated that they have not practiced well enough.
Don't believe it?
Check out the new Akali's 99.99% win rate against bots...
Oh, that's not right!
Wrong record found.
Go and see the Akali with a 77.77% win rate played by EDG top laner Jiege in the Korean server’s King’s League!
"Jacko's Akali is really powerful. Faker didn't get angry at all when he played in the middle lane."
"Faker is old now, and he is not the most focused on laning. Go and watch the game where Jay killed ShowMaker, it was really cool."
"Brother Jie can now fight two lanes by himself."
"They can attack both lanes. The top laner has an attribute advantage when switching to the middle lane. Akali can't easily defeat tanks and warriors. If she comes to the middle lane to defeat squishy enemies, she can just use her W."
"It's a pity that the game against RNG was not updated to 8.15, otherwise it would be a no-brainer."
"The civil war doesn't matter. Let's see what happens in the Asian Games. The 8.15 version has been confirmed for the Asian Games. We'll beat the Koreans to death then!"
“…”
Amidst various discussions, July 15th arrived.
This is the first battle between different groups.
EDG is stationed in Zhengda Plaza to meet the challenge of RNG team.
EDG and RNG, as the two most popular teams in the entire LPL region, won the Asian Challenge Championship with their first and last wins respectively, making this BO3 extremely popular.
Not only was the venue packed .
The live broadcast rooms of major platforms have achieved ratings that are no less than world-class events.
In the first game, RNG was on the blue side, and the lineup was top lane Kennen, jungle Gragas, mid lane Taliyah, and bottom lane Noxus + Shen.
The idea is to rely on the support of Taliyah and Shen to protect the top lane Kennen.
When it comes to team battles, let Gragas and Kennen use full AOE to create opportunities for Noxus to harvest.
It is a very novel and alternative approach.
EDG is more traditional, using the combination of Gangplank on top, Sejuani in the jungle, Galio in the mid lane, and Verustam in the bottom lane.
The bottom lane is all about stability.
The range of Galio's ultimate in the mid lane is almost twice as far as Taliyah, which is enough to make up for Xiye's shortcomings in roaming and achieve the effect of starting late but being the first to arrive.
Xing Dao’s purpose in this game is to steal money.
He stole five money bags and sold various items, and in eleven and a half minutes he figured out the classic outfit of Radiance + Stormbreaker.
He casually threw a triple barrel and blasted Kennen in the face.
At this time, the RNG team discovered that the squishy heroes were not only afraid of Shen, Irelia, and Yasuo, but they also couldn't hold their own against Gangplank.
As for Taliyah and Shen...
You can't just use your ultimate as soon as Kennen is touched!
19 minutes and 10 seconds.
Relying on the explosive damage of the two big pieces of Gangplank equipment, EDG destroyed RNG's second tower in the top lane and headed straight for the high ground.
Then they fought a two-for-three team battle and took out the super soldiers.
22 minutes and 47 seconds, broke the second road.
At 25 minutes and 33 seconds, when the fight was going on around the barracks in the top lane, Zzai Zhang came in with Xiye and instantly killed Letme's Kennen. RNG, having lost its key output point, had no power to resist and was flattened in one wave.
In the second game, RNG played another unique skill.
We have a Graves + Braum in the mid and jungle, and let the Graves take up resources from two positions.
In theory, there aren't really any major flaws.
As early as the S6 season, Xing Dao used the top lane Graves to carry the game, and in S7-S8, some players occasionally chose him in Rank.
The well-equipped male gunner is indeed strong and tough, and also has sufficient continuous output.
only……
The user of RNG's male gun is Mala Xiangguo.
It’s not that Mala Xiang Guo is not strong enough, but his character is relatively impulsive. As the team’s main C, his stability is slightly insufficient. After the Infinity Update, the male gun can only go for armor-piercing, lacking a large part of the burst, and he becomes increasingly weak as time goes by.
EDG was slightly passive in the early and mid-game.
After 30 minutes, when everyone has taken out the three major items, the team battle becomes very easy to handle.
It was easy to turn the tables from a small disadvantage to a big advantage.
They defeated RNG with a 2-0 record , defending the honor of being the strongest team at home and in the region.
The game is over.
EDG fans happily started celebrating, sweeping away the embarrassment of losing to RW in the previous round of the regular season.
July 17th.
EDG once again defeated VG, which had failed to buy a dog in the Year of the Dog and was almost in a slump, with a record of 2-0.
In the two games that lasted less than 50 minutes in total, Xing Dao killed VG's top laner Aodi 27 times, directly turning 'Audi' into Alto.
The handshake session was over, and Aodi, who debuted as a newcomer, was still sitting in front of the computer, controlling the mouse and keyboard with both hands, as if he wanted to have another game with EDG...
certainly.
This is just a small episode.
Even after getting three super ghost achievements, Audi's value didn't drop much... to be more precise, there wasn't much room for it to drop.
July 18th.
Tencent officially announced a breaking news - the Asian Games roster!
