YM's one-for-two counter squat blew up IM's early game rhythm.
When Athena returned to the mid lane, she was already behind Lin Yan by 10 attacks and had lost half a level of experience. It was a huge loss.
"Brother Ran, come quick, here's a blue for you!"
Ning was farming his first blue buff when he saw Lin Yan using Ryze to farm Goddess' Tears. He quickly tried to please him.
He knew the importance of the tandem. If he wanted to perform well in a best-of-five, he had to rely on Lin Yan in the mid lane.
Su Xiaoluo was even more satisfied when he saw Ryze eating the blue buff on the screen.
"This jungler is smart." He made up his mind to buy Ning even if he had to spend more money.
IG was destined to have Chinese and Korean reinforcements in the next season. Excellent local junglers were hard to come by. From the counter squat just now, Su Xiaoluo felt that Ning was not worse than Xiao Tian. How could YM let such a person sit on the bench for half a year?
Su Xiaoluo mocked Guo Hao in his heart. This person had a bunch of good cards in his hands, but he did not know how to use them.
If he were here, he would definitely make some tactical arrangements around Ning. Would S6 have needed so much effort to beat Tiger Team and SKT?
Broiler's impression of Ning had changed. The jungler was willing to sacrifice his first buff to the mid lane. This was similar to a child's play style.
After going through the darkest moments of the spring and summer competitions, Broiler did not expect his teammates to be the C anymore. As long as the other lanes were balanced, he would win.
Broiler thought about his winning streak with Theshy in the Korean server a few days ago. He could not help but feel a fire in his heart.
He felt that he was about to point his sword at S7.
IM did not seek to take the initiative after the early game. Instead, they continued to develop, hoping to make a comeback in the later stages of the game.
However, they underestimated YM's ability to snowball. At seven minutes, Jin Gong saw that IM's jungler was eating the red buff that had just refreshed in the top half of the map. Lin Yan immediately rushed to the bottom lane tower with Ning.
Without any fancy operations, Lin Yan and EW started to imprison him for two seconds. With the output of Blind Monk, Jin, and Ella, IM's bottom lane was killed without any suspense.
Athena's reaction was a step too slow. She only rushed to the scene after her own team had been wiped out. She could only watch as the four YM players gathered a large wave of Artillerymen to take down the bottom lane's tower.
The familiar turret pushing rhythm appeared once again. IM simply could not block YM's tidal wave of attacks.
"14 minutes. IM's three outer towers have all fallen. Economy behind by 4.5K!"
Ze Yuan looked at the spectator view and could not help but shout, "YM's offensive suppression is as suffocating as ever!"
"The red buff in the upper half of the IM has been refreshed again. Spider wants to defend his red zone, but Blind Monk and Ella have arrived ahead of time!"
"Athena in the middle lane wants to support, but Ran's Ryze is waiting for her in the grass at F4!" He remembered seeing the ignorant Rock Sparrow enter the grass and see a bald man in front of her!
Lin Yan's cooldown was now reduced. He did not pursue interspersed normal attacks. He started with a clean QEQW, and Athena's HP plummeted!
Athena's reaction was fast. She used Purify to break the imprison and flashed to the second tower. Lin Yan used Sprint and flashed forward. Athena had been waiting for this moment. She threw Rock Spikes and Scatter Rocks at Lin Yan's feet!
"This positioning is too exquisite. The movement speed provided by Sprint helped him avoid the Rock Spikes!" Guan Zeyuan suddenly raised his voice.
"Ryze's normal attack is launched. The next set of skills is ready. Spell Surge combined with the damage output of Overload knocked Athena to low HP. He entered the tower and followed up with a normal attack. Athena was single-handedly killed!"
Rock Sparrow died, and Spider, who wanted to forcefully defend the red buff, was also kicked back by Ning Touch's Roundhouse Kick. In the end, he died in the hands of Xiao Ming!
At this point, YM had established a huge advantage. After taking down the Dragon in 20 minutes, they flattened IM in one wave.
The next two small games were similar. IM felt that they were only at a slight disadvantage in the early game, and then YM infinitely magnified it.
In less than 15 minutes, the three outer towers were all lost. Then, they could not see out and let the opponent swim in their own jungle.
They wanted to drag it out but found that they could not. YM used the Dragon at 20 minutes on time to force a team battle. If they accepted, they would have to fight. If they lost, they would die immediately. If they did not accept, they would release the Dragon and wait for a slow death.
That feeling of powerlessness was like a newbie who had just played the game and encountered a team with a winning rate. They had no ability to resist.
In fact, YM's strength was easy to understand. The German Cup version mentioned before did not have many changes compared to the global finals version. The strong heroes and the jungle were not used.
In the nearly two months between the training in Korea and the end of the global finals, YM had been playing Version 6.18. As the team that won the championship, they were undoubtedly the team that had the deepest understanding of the finals version.
IM did not enter the international competition at all. Their understanding of this version only stopped at the S6 video and the intensive training over the past few days. There was no way to compare it with YM's understanding of the version.
The whole best-of-five was a one-sided crushing game. Including the BP and the break between games, it only took 100 minutes. YM clocked out early before noon.
However, the audience still enjoyed watching, and the cheers did not stop throughout the game.
YM's offensive style was quite popular. It was smooth and did not drag out. There was never a situation where they did not dare to start a team battle when they had an advantage. The Dragon's buff did not push the high ground.
Once they gained an economic advantage of about 5K 20 minutes ago, YM's five players could ride on the opponent's face and attack.
After winning the game effortlessly and accepting the interview, YM and the others sat in the lounge and waited for the second team's match. The distance between the venue and the hotel was not close, so they waited for the second team to finish their game and leave together.
The venue staff delivered fast food. They each took one and sat in the lounge to fill their stomachs.
Jack's eyes lit up when he saw the braised pork in the lunchbox. It was as comfortable as when an AD player saw a tank with low health. He opened his chopsticks and started eating.
Lin Yan took the lunchbox and glanced at the lunchbox in Su Cheng's hand. He said, "You eat the shredded potatoes and scrambled eggs with tomato. I'll take the eggplant."
Su Cheng was not used to the taste of eggplant. When she heard Lin Yan's words, she quickly handed the lunchbox over.
Everyone had just started eating when the second best-of-five game began.
It was YMA versus Snakes.
Lin Yan put a piece of eggplant in his mouth and looked at the screen in the lounge with his team members.
The director was also good at making the show look good. He took advantage of the moment when the troops were deployed to cut the camera to YM's lounge. The group of people were all holding their lunchboxes and staring at the live broadcast of the game. The scene made the audience laugh.
[Jack, are you trying to kill me by eating?
This big mouthful of braised pork is like jelly. He just ate it in one gulp?]
[Look at how Lin Yan eats.
Big AD is like a reincarnated hungry ghost. Can't you learn from him?]
Some of the bootlickers' attention was focused on Su Cheng in her suit. It was as if they had never seen a woman in their lives.
[The female Bodhisattva's eating posture is so beautiful. Add her on WeChat. Sob sob sob …]
Snakes had not recovered from the best-of-ten game two months ago. Crystal was basically useless. They still had to let Ding Huang play AD.
In the first game, Knight used Jace to solo Snakes' mid tank. He single-handedly took down a tower in the middle lane in 11 minutes.
Logically speaking, in this version of the game, it should be easy to win the game with such a big advantage.
However, after taking down the first blood tower, YMA's attacking rhythm was suddenly interrupted. The five players seemed to be lost and did not know what to do next.
Knight was eager to open up the game. He used Serene Dream to speed up and wander around frequently. However, the results were minimal. Many times, he could not even force the opponent to flash.
On the other hand, Snakes' mid tank took the opportunity to develop and replenish his troops. Their economy quickly caught up.
Meanwhile, YMA's top laner was heavily targeted by SOFM. Saint Lance Bro's Gnar already had 4 kills in 15 minutes.
Saint Lance Bro's strong solo carry made YM unable to split up. They chose to forcefully gather at the Dragon's pit in the early 20 minutes to force a team fight.
If it was a normal lineup, forcing a team like this would not be a problem. However, YMA had five squishy players who could not force a team fight!
Even though Snakes had Saint Lance Bro and SOFM, two big brothers who were as fierce as tigers in the first 15 minutes but lost their way in the middle and late game, and their strategy for team fights was extremely stupid, they at least knew that their advantage was in soloing.
Saint Lance Bro did not even look at the five YMA players in the Dragon's pit. He soloed all the way to the bottom lane.
Caught between a rock and a hard place, YMA was forced to make a choice. They chose to rush Baron Nash.
However, SOFM Nanqiang slid down the Dragon's pit. QR and Retribution successfully took down the low-health Dragon.
In the Dragon's pit team fight, YMA traded 2 for 4. However, Saint Lance Gnar had already taken the bottom lane. After losing the Dragon, Gnar, who was too well-equipped, could not finish it off.
In the end, Saint Lance Bro managed to kill one of the two in a 1v2 under the tower. The rest of Snakes dismantled YMA's main Crystal and won the first round.
"Let's go for a walk or two. It looks like this match won't be over for a while." Lin Yan finished his meal and stretched before leaving the lounge with Su Cheng.
He hooked his girlfriend's soft hand and wandered aimlessly outside the stadium. He wanted to find a quiet place to be alone with Su Cheng.
"I have to attend the awards ceremony on Sunday night. Do you want to go straight back to Shanghai?"
"I want to stay and watch the ceremony. You'll probably win a lot of awards. I don't want to miss it." Su Cheng thought for a moment before replying. "I can take a flight back to Shanghai on Sunday night. I don't have classes on Monday morning anyway."
"That works too. However, I still have to walk the red carpet and do interviews. It'll take a long time. If you're bored, why don't you go find someone else to chat with?"
Lin Yan took out his phone and sent a WeChat friend to Su Cheng.
"Who is this?" Su Cheng looked at the person's WeChat profile picture with a pink rabbit. Her heart was on high alert.
"… Mid Tiger's girlfriend. She came to Wuhan with Xiao Hu. She wants to get to know you." Lin Yan replied.
"Xiao Hu's girlfriend wants to get to know me?"
Su Cheng was baffled. She thought that other than a few people in YM, no one in the esports circle knew about her relationship with Lin Yan.
"My relationship with Xiao Hu is okay. His girlfriend kept saying that she wanted to find a partner for me. I couldn't take it anymore, so I told her about us." Lin Yan shrugged.
"Then she said that she wanted to see what kind of demon my girlfriend was."
Xiao Hu was a good person. During this year's bubble competition, he had interacted with Li Yuanhao twice. He could be considered a player who had a good relationship with other teams.
"Huh?" Su Cheng's face was filled with disbelief.
She felt that Xiao Hu's girlfriend was crossing the line. She didn't take the initiative to ask, so why was she rushing to be the matchmaker?
However, she wouldn't say this in front of Lin Yan. She was worried that it would affect the relationship between Lin Yan and Xiao Hu.
"Okay." Su Cheng relaxed. She sent a friend request and stuffed her phone back into her pocket.
The two of them hung around outside the stadium for a while. When they returned, YMA had already tied the score at 2: 1.
Knight was ruthless. In the second round, Snake Lady soloed Victor. In the third round, he soloed Snake Lady with Victor.
In the fourth round, Left Hand's Bright Moon turned around confidently. Q's Crescent Strike accurately hit Snake Lady's body, emptying her health bar. He completed another solo-kill. She couldn't help but gasp.
"Another genius mid laner from YM!
This is too scary. Solo-Kills in four rounds. There are too many monsters in this team, aren't there? "
This sort of solo kill highlighted the individual's strength. It attracted countless fans. Left Hand's unique positioning of his peripherals had already made quite a few people remember the ID 'YMA Knight'.
He had gotten lost in the middle of the last round. He had tried to wander but couldn't open up the situation. Thus, he used his strong solo skills to gain an early advantage.
Against Tank, a mid laner who was weak in lane and preferred to wander and farm characters, Left Hand's lane suppression skills were on full display.
They successfully overtook Snakes and advanced into the semifinals. Tomorrow, the youngsters of Team Two would face Team One, who had just won the S6 championship.
In this internal battle of YM, Lin Yan didn't hold back at all.
In the first round, he used Sindra to solo-kill Ike. Go Home first used Killer Book. In 22 minutes, he was already god-like. In the end, Dragon tricked Team Two and finished the game.
In the second round, he used Dragon King as the flag of command to trap Left Hand's Snake Lady in the middle lane. He roamed around crazily, helping Jack establish a huge advantage.
At 19 minutes, Big Head Jack held eight heads in his hands. He already had Endless Hurricane in his hands. From his maximum attack range, he killed Left Hand, who was trying to stay under the tower to clear the troops, with three headshots.
Policewoman, who had developed so far ahead, took over the game in the middle. Under the protection of the other teammates, no one could get close to Big Head's son.
In the third round, Lin Yan brought out Ryze. In the early stages, both sides were developing steadily.
In the middle of the game, Lin Yan was ambushed by Left Hand in the jungle. However, he only lost a little more than half of his health after taking a set of damage from Jayz. He turned around and used Imprisonment to speed up his escape.
At first, Left Hand thought there was a bug. When he pressed the tab key and saw Lin Yan's cloth armor shoes + Frost Heart, he was dumbfounded.
Extremely unhappy, he tapped Lin Yan's equipment twice to vent his anger.
Ryze dropped this kind of equipment?
Do you want to play?
Do you want to play?
I think you're also a S6 MVP. I didn't expect you to drop cloth armor shoes + Frost Heart. Pure J-beta slacker!
Lin Yan, on the other hand, was extremely proud.
So what if he dropped cloth armor shoes + Frost Heart?
I have Jack. Do you have it?
He used his R + Golden Body's invincible escape mechanism to solo-lead crazily on the flank. YMA's players couldn't do anything to him. In the end, they were stolen from the bottom lane and could only abandon the Dragon to defend.
After losing the Dragon, they finally faced a slow death.
“3:0！
YM continues their undefeated record in the German Cup and advances to the finals tomorrow! "
"Unfortunately, YMA's German Cup journey ends here. The lads are still a little young. Against the world champions, they didn't manage to organize an effective counterattack in the entire best-of-five."
"But in the match against Snakes, you can still see their outstanding talent that can't be hidden. I hope they can go back and learn from their seniors. Strive to perform even better in next spring's secondary league!"
In the end, Ze Yuan still gave YMA's players some encouragement.
Left Hand sat dumbfounded in his chair.
Having just started playing professionally, this was the first time he had tasted powerlessness. This was not the same game as the ranked matches he was used to.
He knew that Lin Yan was very strong, but he had never played against him before. He didn't have a clear idea of what "strong" meant. Only when they actually fought on the field did he realize that he was completely crushed.
Lin Yan's style was unpredictable. In the previous game, he was extremely fierce against the lane. In the next game, he suddenly became a roaming main. In the next game, he became a steady lane player and solo-lead in the late game. He was unpredictable.
Left Hand began to doubt his life. His opponent was only one year older than him. Was the difference in strength so great?
Knight felt that when he played against Lin Yan, he was like being placed on a dissection table. He was naked and had nowhere to hide any of his secrets. His opponent could easily see through his next move and react accordingly.
"You don't know how to care for newcomers at all. You made him cry again," Xiao Tian said softly as he poked Lin Yan's waist.
"Really?" Lin Yan took the warm water that Su Cheng handed him and took a sip to moisten his throat.
"Why would I lie to you?
He ran back right after the game ended and hid in the locker room crying. "
Xiao Tian still hadn't played in the best-of-five. He saw with his own eyes that Knight was the first to return to the locker room.
Lin Yan was just about to knock on the door to enter when the narrow door to the locker room opened. Left Hand walked out with his head down.
The atmosphere was a little awkward.
"Um … Brother Ran, can you teach me how to play the mid laner?" Knight looked embarrassed.
His voice was slightly muffled, and Lin Ran had to ask him again before he understood what he meant.
"Don't you still have to play in the LSPL next year?" Lin Yan frowned.
"That's not a problem," Left Hand waved his hand. His eyes were red and swollen. He sniffed and said, "I've played in mock matches and the mid laner in the secondary league … They're all pretty bad. Plus, there are only three best-of-one matches a week. I have a lot of free time."
At this time, the coach of the second team walked over.
"Next year's Spring League will introduce a minimum age limit. Players who are not registered in the LPL can only play when they are 17 years old. Knight's birthday is May 2000. He's still half a year away from turning 17."
"He can't be your substitute. For the time being, he can train and learn in the LSPL."
Lin Yan saw that Left Hand was determined and didn't object.
He didn't expect to be able to take in a student in the German Cup.
On the same afternoon, EDG defeated RNG 3: 1 in the other semi-final of the German Cup. This also marked the end of Mata's journey as a professional player in the LPL.
On Sunday afternoon, the final between YM and EDG began.
This was the last best-of-five match in the LPL for Defter and Pawn as the Korean reinforcements. They played exceptionally hard. After all, everyone wanted to leave a good memory before they left.
The ideal was beautiful, but the reality was very cruel.
YM, led by Lin Yan, was destined to play three best-of-five matches in three days. Without any rest, they decided to take the prize money of the German Cup champion.
Although they had just won the S-League and received a large amount of prize money, who would complain about more money?
Scout was carried off after one match. His performance against Lin Yan was too poor. Although General Pawn used Vampire to lead EDG to win one match, there was nothing he could do.
YM was now in peak condition. No one could stop them.
With the explosion of EDG's base in the fourth match, golden rain once again fell on YM at the Wuhan Sports Center!
“3:1！
YM has won the first Demacia Cup in team history! "The commentator Doll said excitedly.
"LSPL champion, LPL champion, S-League champion, and Demacia Cup champion. YM has won four titles in a year and continues to make history!"
Mille's blood was boiling. He watched the YM players in the center of the stage in a circle and picked up the trophy amidst the cheers of the audience.
"Although they changed their starting jungler, there was no suspense. They still won the championship. It's hard to imagine how good YM will be next year. Their dominance is amazing!"
In the lounge, Su Cheng also applauded. This was the first championship trophy she had won in her role as the main analyst!
The main analyst on the side looked at the YM players celebrating in the center of the stage through the screen. His heart was filled with emotion.
He knew that in order to get a premium contract next year, he would definitely have to go to a team with a much worse performance. It was almost impossible to lead a group of talented, hardworking, and good players like YM.
Hanyi, on the other hand, was ambitious. She wanted to show her skills next year and lead another team to defeat YM head-on.
After the awards and interviews, the 2016 awards ceremony was about to begin. The LPL awards, including the MVP of the year, were about to be announced.