Chapter 686: The departure ceremony, unparalleled national hero!
Before this, there has never been a team as popular as EDG.
There has never been a team like EDG today, which gives the audience absolute confidence as long as they participate in the competition.
Wait for the cheering to subside.
Mr. Jin Yibo and Mr. Lin Song came on stage and presented EDG with a large plaque with a prize of 1.5 million yuan printed on it.
“We are yet to witness an exciting moment.”
Ren Dong's face was filled with smiles: "After watching this wonderful BO5 battle, we are going to select the MVP of this finals. Can you tell me the answer in your mind?"
"Ge neral!"
"General!"
"General!"
“…”
There was a unanimous shout from the audience.
Another MVP gold medal was handed to Xing Dao, bringing the atmosphere on the scene to its final climax of the day.
certainly.
The online carnival has just begun.
For LPL viewers, even if they support other teams, they are happy to see EDG's absolute dominance - few people would reject a legend who has emerged through hard power.
What's more, the world finals are about to begin.
As a prominent team in LPL, EDG should be as strong as possible.
"When General was in LSPL, I said he was definitely not an ordinary person."
ADC master Wei Xiao praised him during the live broadcast: "Any player who can dominate the LSPL will definitely be good in the LPL. Xiye is the one with the slowest growth rate, but now he is also one of the strongest mid laners in the LPL."
"General was appointed two years ago in a time of crisis and fought hard under unprecedented pressure. Since then, it has been smooth sailing."
"Who will be the other two teams participating in the S game?"
"RNG will definitely make it. Not only are they stronger than the other teams, they also have a layer of resurrection armor. It's hard to say for the last one. They all have a chance. It all depends on their performance."
As the region with the best performance, LPL has four places to participate in the World Finals.
The number one seed is the summer season champion.
The second seed is the team with the highest points throughout the year, excluding the summer champion.
Next, the two teams with the third highest annual points and the best performance in the summer season (if there is a overlap, the match will be postponed to the later stage) will compete first, and the winner will be qualified as the third seed.
The loser will have another match against the winner of the fourth and fifth place in the annual points, and the winner will qualify as the fourth seed.
RNG unsurprisingly secured the third spot to participate in the World Finals.
After a fierce battle, the last spot was won by JDG, a rising star in the summer season.
September 17th.
When the games are all over.
The LPL departure ceremony was held at the Jinling Youth Olympic Sports Center.
Members of the four teams, EDG, IG, RNG, and JDG, were standing on the four sides of the stage, wearing black hooded uniforms with dragon patterns printed on them. Different teams had different LOGOs. Both the style and workmanship were the best-looking uniforms ever.
On the big screen, there is a battle wallpaper in black and white tones.
Four big characters appeared on it.
——A peerless national hero!
"MD, so cool!"
"The face of the cards."
"Do you know what a national scholar is? A national scholar!"
"EDG theme, right?"
"To be honest, there is nothing wrong with EDG's theme. EDG won the fourth spot by itself."
"Sprint for the three consecutive championships!"
“Onions, onions!”
“…”
The barrage was filled with voices of cheering.
Before LPL, the qualifying places for other major regions have also been settled.
LCK's No. 1 seed KT, No. 2 seed AFs, No. 3 seed Gen.G (Samsung), and the newly promoted GRF, which finished second in the summer season, lost the qualification to enter the S series due to the loss in the bubble match and insufficient points throughout the year.
The number one seed in the European region is the ancient powerhouse FNC, the number two seed is VIT, and the number three seed is the familiar team G2.
The first in North America is the well-funded TL, the second is 100T, and the third is C9, which has performed well in previous world championships.
The No. 1 seed in the Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan LMS region is still the Flash Wolves, the No. 2 seed is MAD, the AHQ second team acquired and renamed by singer Shawn Yue, and the No. 3 is G-Rex from Hong Kong.
The team that advanced from the Vietnam region is PVB.
The rest are a series of wildcard teams from Turkey, Latin America, North and South America, CIS, Oceania, Brazil, etc. They will first compete in a round of qualifying matches with the last-ranked teams in each major region (except South Korea). To put it bluntly, this is to let the wildcard teams experience the strength of the mainstream regions.
Want to go further?
There is basically no possibility of this.
"Hey!"
“SKT didn’t make it this year!”
Zizi read the list several times, his excitement evident on his face.
"SKT's performance this year was particularly bad." The factory manager smiled and said, "They barely made it to the playoffs in the first half of the year because they moved their support player Wolf to the jungle position. The second half of the year was even worse, and they didn't even make it to the playoffs... They played well in the bubble match, but still lost to Samsung 2-3."
"I don't think Samsung will do well this year either," Xing Dao interrupted.
"What do you mean?" The factory manager was very curious.
Although Samsung is the third seed of LCK, it is the weakest one according to the ranking.
But in the process of advancing, Samsung not only defeated the declining SKT and counterattacked the LCK summer runner-up GRF, but also finally swept the LCK spring champion KZ with a record of 3-0.
Each battle was better than the previous one.
There is a feeling of constant transformation and improvement.
The factory manager believes that the Samsung team should never be underestimated, and even feels that Samsung is more difficult to deal with than AFs.
However, as the absolute core of the EDG team, Xing Dao also participated in the setting of the tactical system to a considerable extent, and often took on the responsibility of on-the-spot command, coupled with his previous performance in turning the tide many times.
When there is a conflict of ideas, the factory manager often chooses to believe Xing Dao.
"This year is S8..."
Xing Dao paused here, and seeing that the other teammates hadn't reacted yet, he deliberately sighed: "Don't you know that the Samsung S8 will explode?"
"Damn, you have some insights, Brother Jie!" Ah Shui's eyes lit up: "There was a preview last year, the Samsung S8 exploded!"
“Hahahahaha that’s amazing!”
"Samsung is killing itself ahead of time, right?"
“It would be really interesting if Samsung really exploded this year.”
Everyone burst into laughter.
Made a few jokes.
Back to the process of getting familiar with the new version.
After the playoffs, the national server was officially updated to version 8.18.
The healing percentage of Sword Demon's E attacking heroes has increased, and the extra attack power of the ultimate skill has increased, and the combat power in the mid-to-late stage has been improved to a certain extent.
Akali has been arrogant in the professional league for too long and finally got hit.
The base damage of the ultimate has been reduced by 20/30/40 points (per segment), and the total value has been reduced by 40/60/80.
As for the impact... basically none.
Because Akali's core output comes from her E [Falcon Dance] and passive [Dragon Ring], her ultimate is not particularly important. As long as the small skills and basic attacks are mixed well, the damage will reach the overflow standard. This weakening is more of a symbolic explanation to the players.
The one who was hurt the most was Kaisa.
In the later stage, the killing damage of [Plasma] is reduced by 5%.
Judging from the numbers, it seems that her level of nerf is similar to Akali's.
but.
Think about it carefully.
——How many times can Kai'Sa explode Plasma in a normal balanced teamfight?
This weakening cannot be described as a serious one.
It should be said that the knife cut the aorta!
Among the remaining heroes, Lucian's Q skill bonus has been slightly improved, but the impact is not significant.
Ryze's enhanced W reduces the binding time by 0.5 seconds, which is a relatively obvious move.
The damage of Sejuani's E is slightly reduced, and the slowdown of R is reduced from 3 seconds to 1 second, but Sejuani doesn't rely much on this group slowdown, so it is not too difficult to accept.
September 24th.
The draw ceremony for the 2018 League of Legends Global Finals has officially begun!
