The Su family booked two business suites. After Lin Yan helped them settle down, they went out for dinner.
It was already eight o 'clock when they returned to the hotel. Su Cheng's parents went back to their room to rest.
Su Cheng and Lin Yan walked downstairs hand in hand.
"Do you think you can win the summer tournament?" Su Cheng turned her head and asked Lin Ran, "Do you think you can win the summer tournament?"
"… To be honest, I don't have much confidence." Lin Yan hesitated before he replied.
"Why?" Su Cheng turned around. Her eyes were especially bright in the night.
"My teammates and I are too young. This kind of BO5 is different from the regular season. The team's foundation and player's experience have a huge impact on the direction of the game."
Lin Yan spoke the truth.
Su Cheng nodded. She studied mathematics every day during the day and crammed in esports knowledge before she went to bed. She had some understanding of these things.
"But there are three spots in S6. You just have to beat WE, right?" Su Cheng was very confident, "I don't think they can beat you."
"Why?" Lin Yan thought it was funny. He gently squeezed Su Cheng's hand and asked.
Su Cheng glanced at him. She knew that Lin Yan was teasing her. She wanted to prove herself.
"Look at WE's lineup and playstyle." Su Cheng opened the memo on her phone and played the role of a data analyst. She spoke with the data, "WE's average match time is 38 minutes. They're second to last in LPL. After them is NB's 40 minutes …"
"That's a rookie team. We removed their sample." Su Cheng continued, "WE's 38 minutes per match in exchange for 14.3 kills per match. They're ranked sixth in the League. Based on the number of kills per minute, they're the last in the League."
"However, their control over both the Big and Small Dragons is ranked in the top three in the Alliance, which shows their powerful ability to control resources."
"Combining these data, we can naturally infer that WE's playstyle is more focused on switching resources and dragging it out until the later stages of the game to win through team battles."
"Well, go on." Lin Yan's interest was piqued. He crossed his arms and looked at Su Cheng.
"Then why is WE so obsessed with using the creeps to avoid the war and drag things out in the later stages?"
Su Cheng answered her own question. "Because they are too weak in the early stages. If I can beat you in the early stages, why would I drag it out with you in the late stages?"
"38.2% 1 tower rate and 41.8% 1 health rate. WE's numbers are the lowest among the top 6 in the summer tournament. It's enough to prove that there's a problem with their early game rhythm."
"As for your YM," Su Cheng pulled out another set of data from the memo, "the average time per game is 28.6 minutes, first in the League, and the average number of kills per game is 19.5, first in the League..."
"That doesn't mean anything."
Lin Yan felt that Su Cheng was like a graduate who came to do her thesis and he was playing the role of a college professor. He was excited just thinking about it and pointed out Su Cheng's problem.
"We have 32 wins and 2 losses. These numbers related to the results of the tournament are of course the best in the entire Alliance."
"Hey, don't interrupt me." Su Cheng puffed up her chest and said fiercely, "I'm the data analyst now. Listen to me carefully."
"... Okay." Lin Yan laughed and let Su Cheng do as she pleased.
"You said that these numbers related to the results of the tournament are related to the results of the tournament, but what about the individual numbers in the early stages?
You have 67% 1 health rate, 64% 1 tower rate, and 65% control over the Small Dragon. These numbers show that you are very aggressive in the early stages, which is completely different from WE. "
"WE is different from RNG and EDG. They basically have no rhythm in the early stages and are used to setting up their vision. They drag it out until the late stages to give the economy to Mystic so that he can take over the game."
"This season, Mystic's damage ratio is 33.1%. If we exclude Broiler who has only been an ADC for three games, he is the number one ADC position. He is higher than Deft, Uzi, and JKL."
Su Cheng spoke clearly and logically. It seemed like she had prepared for this. Lin Yan saw that there was a compilation of LPL data in her memo.
"So what you have to do is very simple. Take the early stage lineup and play the early stage rhythm you are familiar with. Don't drag it out. You used too many late stage heroes against WE at the end of the season and almost lost."
"Don't control neutral resources other than Water Dragon and Earth Dragon. Use this time to put pressure on the jungle and the lane. Try to take down the second tower in the middle lane before the Small Dragon respawns."
"This way, they will be under a lot of pressure to set up the Small Dragon's vision. As long as you can take down the Small Dragon, I don't need to say much about the rest, right?
As long as Mystic doesn't develop, you will win for sure. "
Su Cheng closed her phone and spread her hands. "Oh, just like how you deal with RNG, you have to ban Chiwil. Mystic used Chiwil in 19 games in the summer. He is practically Chiwil's Jinchuriki. The mid stage of the hero respawns too quickly. You won't be able to push it."
She looked at Lin Yan with a proud expression. "How is it?
Do you think what I said makes sense? "
"These numbers are more macro. If you don't use them in a specific game, they will be less convincing." Lin Yan smiled. "But your ability to make countermeasures based on the numbers is not bad. The way you talk about the game is reasonable and effective."
"Is that so?" Su Cheng looked up and asked for praise.
Lin Yan patted her head and held Su Cheng's hand as they walked back to the hotel's front door. "But the numbers you mentioned before are updated in real time by our team's analysts. His data is more comprehensive."
"In the first fifteen minutes, they'll record every eye position of the support and jungler and feed it to us. The jungler's path and gank strategy have been studied dozens of times. Otherwise, what do you think these people do for more than ten hours a day?"
He pondered for two seconds before adding, "Of course, some team's analysts are only responsible for studying which takeout is better."
"Oh." Su Cheng was still a little unhappy.
She thought that she could help Lin Yan more or less by working so hard.
"But you are right about one thing. If we compete with WE, our chances of winning are very low. They are indeed easier to deal with than RNG and EDG." Lin Yan smiled. "We have been studying them since the end of the regular season."
"I'm more worried about the team's mentality now …"
"Don't worry, WE's mentality is even worse." Su Cheng's voice was cheerful. "Do you think they won't feel pressured by the ticket to S6?"
"But they have played in the playoffs a few times," Lin Yan said.
"But they have never won. What's the point?"
Su Cheng was dismissive. She began to use the college entrance exam that had just ended as an example. "Let me put it this way. WE is like the repeaters who failed last year's college entrance exam. You guys are like the freshmen with excellent results."
"Won't the repeaters be nervous in the exam room?"
Su Cheng's voice was resolute. "No, as long as they encounter one or two questions with uncertain answers, they will be more afraid than you guys because they can't afford to fail again."
"As long as they are forced to the edge of the cliff, they will collapse faster than anyone else!"
Lin Yan did not pass the college entrance exam, but Su Cheng's words made sense. He planned to tell this example to his teammates when he returned to the base.