When Lin Yan reached out to shake his hand, he saw Ouze's dazed expression. It was as if he had completely lost his mind.
As the summer reinforcement plan, Ouze was under a lot of pressure. He didn't know why the team had become like this.
RNG was the undefeated champion during the spring season. He thought he could easily win the championship after joining, but this new team used two BO3's to tell him that everything wasn't going as he expected.
Lin Yan didn't have the time to care about him. He was about to leave the stage when the official staff took over his keyboard with a smile and told him that he had a post-match interview to attend.
Lin Yan's heart sank. Beside him was still the female host with heavy makeup. Her questions were awkward and boring. She even liked to lean on him.
Lin Yan was helpless. He had to maintain his basic courtesy on the surface. He smiled and answered her questions.
The 5 minute post-match interview was even more difficult than the entire BO3's to Lin Yan.
The post-match interview was much more normal. The reporters had some understanding of the game. They could at least see the details of the players' maneuvers and decisions.
Lin Ran explained what had happened at the second tower in the middle lane in the second round. He admitted that he had been lucky and had coincidentally dodged the crowd control skills of RNG and Ye Futian. It had not been intentional.
He was afraid that if he didn't explain it clearly, the media editors would start to slander him. He didn't think it was appropriate to praise or criticize him.
He just wanted to play the match well.
They would be facing WE 2.0 next Sunday. The last time YM faced them was in the opening match of the summer season.
After a summer, WE 2.0's formation became more and more perfect. Their ability to pull in team fights was much stronger. In everyone's eyes, WE 2.0 had obvious improvements compared to the spring season.
However, the improvement of the five members of YM was even more exaggerated. The four prodigies, together with Jin Gong, who could seamlessly switch between the two lanes, they were able to unleash the most satisfying offensive storm in the LPL.
They relied on their strong laning and jungling to gain a 2.5K economic advantage over WE 2.0 in 10 minutes.
This WE team was extremely resilient. Starting from the mid-game, they kept swapping resources to avoid YM's strong period. They tried to drag it out until the late game for Mystic to take over the game.
Their arrangement of the Dragon's pit vision was also quite outstanding. In the first round, when YM forcefully fought the Dragon, Mr. Kang arrived in time. Blind Monk touched his eyes and Q punished him by snatching the Baron Nash from Xiao Tian's hands.
After that, WE relied on stealing Dragon and switching lanes to stall for a long time. YM didn't have a chance to launch a team.
The match went on for 35 minutes. YM even lost a team battle in the later stages of the match and was pushed back by WE.
Fortunately, Lin Yan's Card Master managed to sneak in while WE was busy with the Primordial Dragon.
The situation in the second round was even more intense. Lin Yan stood up once again, and Sindra's Heavenly Fairy Scatter Blossoms stunned the three of them to open up the situation. Together with Jin Gong's captain, they dealt astonishing AOE damage.
YM continued their winning streak.
The next challenger was Team VG, who was strong in the top, middle, and jungle.
Only VG's strength was passable. Brother Dragon's Bobby solo-killed Jin Gong's Kenji in the top laner, causing some trouble for YM.
However, Xiao Ming's Bard's big move froze VG's two carries in the crucial Fire Dragon team battle. Lin Yan's Little Temptress easily entered the field and dealt explosive damage. JKL's Ember turned into a head harvester. He fired four shots and harvested three heads, ending the match.
The remaining two teams, OMG and LGD, were at the bottom of Group B. They were practically EXP babies.
After careful consideration, YM's coaching team listened to the player's opinion and reported to the Alliance for Ning to be switched to the jungler position. He would be the starter for these two matches to prepare for the upcoming competition.
YM's coaching team was already studying their opponents for the S Tournament. There were only six people in the team, so Ning would definitely be brought in as a substitute.
Since that was the case, there was no harm in preparing two sets of tactics for Ning. After all, Xiao Tian's playstyle this season was a little monotonous. He had not fully matured yet.
LGD was actively changing their lineup this season. Like IG, catching moles was their main job this season. However, IG caught moles in the bottom lane, while LGD found moles in the middle lane.
The two junglers, who had perfectly inherited their family's optimistic spirit, were finally removed. They were replaced by the jungler 1truder and the savior GODV.
However, LGD's management team was worthy of the title of 'Ghost Genius'. They had a treasure in their hands.
Previously, Wild King's specialty was to gank the jungler. He had once relied on his irregular jungling and shopping gank to beat the Vietnamese jungler SOFM, who was good at calculating the jungler's route and the spawn time of the jungler's camp.
As the saying goes, a fool can beat an expert. This sentence was vividly displayed by Wild King.
Now, 1truder was even better. He was crowned by the audience as Noh Sei. He was the extreme representative of the reckless jungler. Even MLXG had to bow down in front of him.
MLXG's reckless jungler was to rely on strong junglers to invade the jungler's jungle and find the opponent's position under the protection of the jungler's lane.
However, Noh Sei was worthy of being called Noh Sei. His jungler's thinking was the best in the world.
He looked down on the despicable way of relying on teammates. He played alone.
He was the type of person who would mindlessly invade a nanqiang. He tortured GODV, who was an old jungler in the middle lane.
If you didn't help him, Noh Sei would let you have a look. However, if you helped him in the jungler, you would often lose minions.
However, it was still effective. GODV, MARIN, IMP, and PYL were four people in S6. Any jungler would be able to make it to the edge of the playoffs.
However, the hole in front of them was too big. LGD still had to fight to avoid relegation.
In this BO3, Ning Cheng used a game of Blind Monk and a game of Zach to beat Wild Saint to a pulp.
After this BO3, YM secured the first place in the LPL. EDG in Group A had only lost once. However, because of the win and loss, even if YM lost the last game, EDG would still be in second place.
In August, YM's last opponent was OMG.
In the early stages of the season, OMG's coaching team realized that the aging No Condition could no longer lead the team forward. They decisively replaced the rookie, icon.
This was an excellent choice. In his rookie season, icon was ranked third in the LPL, only behind Lin Yan and Broiler.
His playstyle was too aggressive. Many times, he suppressed the enemy junglers and was targeted by them. In addition, OMG's overall condition was not good. They were still the bottom team in Group B.
In the two games, YM used 41 points to push OMG to death. Jin Gong's Gnar's last boomerang destroyed OMG's base.
The sky was full of light, accompanied by restless music and lights. Lin Yan took off his headphones. Hanyi and Hao rushed over from the backstage to celebrate the birth of a new record.
"Congratulations again to YM for their record 16 consecutive wins!"
Ze Yuan said loudly on the commentary platform. "32 wins and 2 losses in small games. Their regular season journey is perfect!"
"That's right." Su Xiaoyan was very calm. "They can prepare for the playoffs. Meanwhile, OMG and LGD will fight to avoid relegation."
"There's something very interesting." Ze Yuan was very excited. "The winner of OMG and SAT will face the runner-up of LSPL, YMA, which is YM's second team on the stage."
"That's not a small fate." Su Xiaoyan tilted her head and smiled.