Chapter 663: Breaking the pattern of one superpower and many strong countries?
"Welcome back the champion!"
In front of the EDG club building located on Lingshi Road, there are inflatable arches and two rows of flower baskets, and a red carpet is laid all the way to the gate.
EDG staff, led by boss Ed Zhu, and players who did not participate in the Asian Games greeted them at the intersection.
The LPL playoffs will begin on September 5th.
The time is very tight.
Therefore, the championship team did not announce the information of returning to China, and even declined the proposal of the bosses of several other teams to hold a ceremony.
but.
The leader in charge of the e-sports department of the Shanghai Sports Bureau even made a special trip over here.
He expressed his congratulations and encouraged the team members, and finally awarded the Asian Games Certificate of Honor made with gold stamping technology.
Placed together with the gold medal, they complement each other.
"Is this gold medal made of pure gold? How much is it worth?"
"Can I have a bite?"
Jiejie looked at the four gold medals placed in the crystal cover and asked curiously.
"What are you biting?" Abu said angrily, "Gold medals are not made of pure gold. They are mainly made of silver, and the gold only weighs a dozen grams. But this is an honor, and it cannot be measured by its value."
"That's right!" Jiejie nodded repeatedly: "Can I touch it?"
"Take it out and touch it. Just don't bite it or break it." Xing Dao responded with a smile.
Without waiting for Jiejie to take action.
Ah Shui, who was standing by, rushed to the shelf first, opened the crystal cover, and carefully took out the gold medal .
I touched it to my heart's content before passing it to Jiejie.
Jiejie was much more childish than Ah Shui who was an S series champion. Not only did he look at the book over and over again, he also hung it around his neck and took several selfies to post on his Moments .
Cryin, who is a rather shy person, looked at it for a long time.
I couldn't help it.
I also took a set of photos.
After all, this kind of opportunity is not something you can get just by wanting it.
If you weren't in the same club as the championship-winning big brother, it wouldn't be easy to get a glimpse of him.
More than ten minutes passed.
Cryin put the gold medal back in its place.
Start daily training.
During the Asian Games, the national server version was updated to 8.16.
Popular heroes have generally been nerfed.
The passive healing effect of Sword Demon's E attacking non-hero units has been reduced by more than half, from 33% to 15%. The endurance has been reduced a lot. The player has to focus on resisting pressure in the lane, and it is no longer so easy to implement the strategy of focusing on team battles after the equipment is completed.
The E skill no longer directly gains two charge caps when first learned, allowing the Sword Demon to take higher risks in the early stages of the game.
The damage of Zoe's passive and W has been greatly reduced, with the profit coefficients reduced by 0.125 and 0.15 respectively. The most important thing is that the basic damage of the passive [Fireworks] in the 7-10 level stage has dropped from 48/53/67/73 to 34/40/46/52. Calculated proportionally, the damage is nearly 30% lower.
The situation where you dare to confront any powerful hero without restraint will no longer exist.
The duration of the Troll's attack damage steal has been reduced, which is not a big deal.
Luo's health and armor were slightly reduced, but it's not a big problem.
The fine-tuning of Tryndamere, Monkey King, Quinn, and Amumu is to balance the Rank and has basically nothing to do with the professional league.
Tank heroes have generally improved their resistance to attacks, the damage values and benefit bonuses of all talents have been reduced, and the treatment cooldown time has been reduced by 30 seconds, from 270 to 240.
influential.
But it's not obvious.
After getting familiar with it for a while, you can ensure that you don’t let go of heroes with low health.
“The 8.16 revision is pretty good.”
Abu read it carefully and thought about it: "This change should be good for our team. What do you think?"
"Absolutely!" the factory manager was sure.
The main nerf to the Sword Demon is his ability to withstand pressure.
Can Xing Dao withstand pressure when playing as Sword Demon?
joke!
Xing Dao was in a good mood because he didn't shove the door-sized sword in his hand into his opponent's mouth.
Zoe really took it down a level.
But for the EDG team, which focuses on the top lane, the weakening of the mid-lane hero is a very unimportant thing.
Xiye has no problem taking Galio, Leblanc, Ryze, Lulu, etc.
Zoe doesn't use it often at all.
As for the reduction in the cooldown of healing spells, it undoubtedly makes AD much safer, and actions targeting the bottom lane become less easy.
The most affected is the champion fragment RW.
The other teams basically didn't care.
From the perspective of the EDG team, the designer finally did a good job.
The only thing that is frustrating is that according to the information leaked by the designer, Nunu, who can cooperate with Ryze to use the "airdrop atomic bomb" operation, will be reworked, and we may not be able to play interesting combinations when fighting against Cinderella in the future.
We had a brief discussion.
Played Rank for a long time.
EDG then arranged training matches with other clubs and returned to the original mode.
In contrast to the contestants' dullness.
Outside, the atmosphere was extremely lively.
Tencent officially launched the celebration of its Asian Games victory on time in the early morning of August 31.
All heroes can be used free for a limited time, one million permanent skins are given away, and the hero skins used by the national team from the qualifiers to the finals are sold at half price. These benefits have greatly increased the popularity of the League of Legends national server.
The industry, major mainstream media, and even newspapers published the news that the League of Legends event won the gold medal.
Even players in Europe and the United States started discussing the Asian Games.
In particular, the operating mechanism of Akali's Flying Thundergod was so amazing that it attracted a large number of players to imitate it.
For a moment, the Summoner 's Rift was filled with Akali flying around.
Because the proficiency level is generally not high.
Most of them are causing trouble.
After a few days.
The big brothers in the European and American servers have respectively achieved a win rate of 33.1% and 27.6% for Akali.
After much thought, the designers felt that they could not find any reason to weaken the hero, so they had to let Akali's mechanism, which could be considered a bug in the game, continue to exist...
September 5th.
The first game of the LPL playoffs officially begins.
During the regular season, the top four teams in the Eastern Conference are IG, RNG, JDG, and SNG.
IG, the fourth place in the spring season, once again surpassed RNG after The shy returned to the team .
The cash capabilities of the two major e-commerce companies also played a big role and achieved quite good results.
The top four in the West are EDG, RW, TOP, and FPX.
The rules of the game are the same as before.
——Starting from the fourth place, the matches will be alternated. The fourth place will be assumed to be one game behind the third place at the start. The winner will also have to give up the right to choose sides first when playing against the team above.
The first match was between TOP and SNG.
The first two games.
Little Lion SNG performed very well.
The first victory was won by using a charging system with Vladimir on top, Shen on jungle, Irelia in the middle, and Bounty Hunter on bottom.
In the second game, Bounty Hunter was banned by TOP team.
SNG got Kennen in the bottom lane again and won another game, bringing the score to 2-1.
It can be described as having great momentum.
See here.
The commentators and the audience felt that the SNG team was going to complete a comeback from the fourth in the East to the third in the West.
In the first two games, SNG performed very well in all aspects, and it would not be difficult to win another game using the same method.
result……
With match point in hand, SNG inexplicably backed down.
Not only did they set up a standard team battle system, but they also gave Langxing, who would definitely be ranked in the top five in the entire LPL, an Ornn to resist pressure. As a result, they lost two games in a row and gave away the top six position they had secured.
September 6th.
The game between FPX and JDG begins.
FPX's top laner is the Western Eight Jinchuriki Gimgoon, jungler Alex, mid laner Lao Si, and bottom lane LWX and Liu Qingsong.
Gimgoon of the West Eight can use offensive heroes as the dean, and can also use pressure-resistant heroes as the mainstay, highlighting the ability to move wherever needed.
The old state of performance...
Speaking objectively, it is indeed remarkable.
After all, the talent and experience are there, and even at the end of his e-sports career, his attitude is much more serious than when he was young.
The two newcomers, LWX and Liu Qingsong, are also very tough guys.
But the JDG composed of Zoom, Clid, Toothpaste, LokeN, and Green Hair performed better, and lifted FPX with a record of wins, losses, and wins plus their own wins.
It’s not that FPX is weak.
But JDG is stronger.
The fourth place in the East and West failed to complete the comeback.
Logically speaking, the possibility of a third comeback is even lower.
The two teams, RNG and RW, have defeated strong LCK teams in the Intercontinental Championship and are considered to be one of the "one super and many strong" teams in the LPL region, and are not on the same level as the "outsiders" below.
September 7th.
RNG simply practiced the lineup and easily defeated TOP with a total score of 3-1, and even played a 16-minute quick push, which further strengthened everyone's recognition.
But what I never expected was.
It was September 8th.
JDG won a 3-0 victory against RW... a massacre!
That's right.
It's a massacre.
JDG showed its strength across the board.
Clid, the Korean jungler who debuted in LPL, completely overwhelmed Xiaofu from the early rhythm to the role in team fights.
Zoom defeated A Guang online.
The double Cs Doinb and Iboy did not fall behind, and even established some advantages.
But when the jungler and top laner were at a complete disadvantage, the RW team had neither a rhythm point nor a mid-term big brother who could withstand the pressure.
Even though the gap in kills and economy was not obvious, it could not withstand the attack launched by JDG in the mid-term.
It's like this in every game.
Without exception.
"You guessed it all wrong!"
Zhihuan sighed in the commentary booth: "Today we predicted many results, such as RW 3-1, 3-2, JDG 3-2, 3-1, but no one predicted the score of 3-0."
"It's mainly because of JDG's 3-0." Hao Kai couldn't believe it even after seeing it with his own eyes: "Previously, people always said that LPL was a structure of one super team and many strong teams, with a huge gap. EDG was the only team in the league, and fully-formed IG, RNG, and RW were in the same league...but JDG showed such strength."
"The emergence of new strong teams is actually a good thing." Rita looks at it from the perspective of the entire region.
"That's right." Zhihuan nodded: "In this way, the list of our LPL region semi-finals is officially released. RNG, second in the East, will face EDG, first in the West, and JDG, third in the East will face IG, first in the East."
"From this list, the debate about which side is stronger in the East and West has finally come to a conclusion."
Among the top four, there are three Eastern Conference teams and one Western Conference team.
The contrast is obvious.
“The Eastern Conference teams did perform better.”
Haokai said this and then changed the subject: "However, the playoffs are only halfway through, and there is still the more important second half... I wonder if the three Eastern Conference teams that made it to the semi-finals can threaten EDG's position."
"Tomorrow at 16:30, the semi-final between RNG and EDG will begin."
“Don’t miss it!”
