"YM has priority in picking sides. Those on the blue side will ban Dusk first!"
Red Rice had to deal with Dusk and Luo. Otherwise, RW, who was on the red side, would take out the strong bottom lane duo in the first and second picks.
Dusk and Luo. Red Rice chose to ban Ni Yuxia.
Against RW, support was not their main target in the BP.
Hanyi did not say anything and directly banned Zooey.
Doinb did not know how to use this hero. This was RW's obvious loophole. Previously, when they faced Top, they had banned Zooey for five rounds.
Zooey was fast in lane pushing and strong in lane fights. She was also very strong in mid-game team fights and early poke. Her restraining effect on RW was very obvious.
As long as Twilight Starspirit was still in a strong position in the version, RW would have to buy a ban for this hero.
"YM gave the second ban to Verus …" Rita hissed. "Today, they're going to restrict Asura in the BP!"
Hanyi frowned. YM's two bans had undoubtedly disrupted his early arrangements.
Should they all target the ADC?
He stood at the back and thought hard. When there were only ten seconds left, he said, "Ban Rock Sparrow again and release all the junglers."
After Olaf was strengthened, the mainstream junglers in the game were now Troll and himself. Princes, Zach, and Pig appeared occasionally.
Princes, who had been strong for more than half a year, was very good at gank in the early game. In the mid and late game, he also had the ability to open up a team and use Fall of Heaven and Earth to destroy the opponent's formation.
He could be said to be an all-around jungler. He was very popular in the professional scene. He satisfied all the tactical ideas of the team. No matter in the early, mid, or late game, Princes could always play a role.
In Version 8.3, Fist finally realized that he could not let Princes dominate the game. With one slash, he took away four points of Jiawen the Fourth's base armor. This made his early jungling and fighting ability drop a level. He was no longer strong.
All of this was within Red Rice's plan. He continued to ban Policewoman as usual.
"All three bans are given to Asura!" Rita was very surprised. Her mouth was slightly open. "Isn't this too much?"
The audience was also in an uproar.
[Is this necessary?
Can Asura defeat Jack?]
[This is quite ridiculous. Release all the other heroes and give all the ban slots to Edisi?]
[3banADC, Asura is being targeted, GG ~]
[This is Ouze's treatment!]
Asura's expression did not change. He fiddled with his fingers, feeling a little flustered.
Sometimes, being targeted by the other party's BP was not because the players were too strong.
It was because he was too weak.
They only knew a few heroes, and if they banned all of them, they would retire on the spot. How could the other side not target them?
Asura boasted that he didn't have any Hero Coins, so he wasn't that weak. However, if he were to face off against top LPL players like Jack and Ouze, he would definitely be at a disadvantage.
Now that YM wanted to block the hero he was good at, Asura couldn't help but feel guilty.
"Now there are only Ezreal and Kesha outside. How about one for each side?" Hanyi also knew that Jack EZ was a little green. "The other side will probably take Kesha. Asura, you can get EZ. Are you confident?"
The fat on Asura's face trembled, and his expression turned serious.
"Of course."
Hanyi nodded with satisfaction when he heard this and sent Qing Gang Ying to the ban position.
Both Ah-Guang and Doinb didn't know this hero, but it happened that YM was very proficient in it. He decided to block it to avoid any more trouble.
"Blue side YM's first choice, get Kesha!"
Rita breathed a sigh of relief. Before the game, she thought that YM would target Kofu and Doinb on the BP, but she didn't expect the Red Rice to be completely different from what she thought.
Until now, the homework she had done on YM before the game had finally come in handy.
Kesha, who had just entered the arena in the last version, would definitely become the key winning point of the entire playoffs.
In the last two weeks of the regular season, Kesha was not favored by the professional players in version 8.5. Her appearance rate was mediocre, and the effect was not outstanding.
However, in version 8.6 of the playoffs, Kesha ushered in an epic upgrade.
Her attack range increased by 25 points, and her passive plasma damage and E [Extreme Overload] increased movement speed had a huge increase.
This was one of the reasons why Ouze's performance in this playoffs was so eye-catching. Kesha was too versatile, and it matched Ouze's style very well. She could use the two skills of ER to adjust the output position in team battles, and there was also a percentage of damage. Her full attack speed and slash output was not low.
Now, Kesha could be said to be a strong hero that must be snatched for the ban position. In Rita's expectation, the blue side would definitely take this advantage.
"RW got Troll and Cheyenne!"
After seeing the red side's choice of heroes, Ze Yuan thought for two seconds and came up with an explanation. "Cheyenne can swing for RW, and Troll is also the current jungle's top brother. While restraining Olaf, he can also absorb the opponent's front row's double resistance in team battles …"
Hanyi felt that as long as she got Troll, YM would not be able to deal with the front row tank that they got.
Now, with the rise of Kesha, the damage output of the ADCs in this version was becoming more and more top-notch. For example, Policewoman and Verus were still guaranteed to deal damage in team battles even in the later stages of the game.
This made Boulogne, Tam, and other defensive supports and tank mid laners more and more popular.
Because there was no shortage of damage output, the team could place a heavy bet on the ADCs. The other positions could be supplemented with control and tank, providing room for their own archers to deal damage.
It sounded a little similar to the S7 World Championship, but because Censer was destroyed, it was difficult for the ADCs' key accessory, soft support, to appear. Archers could only rely on themselves to deal damage.
Now, the ADCs' damage was not as exaggerated as it was in the S7 World Championship, and because there was a tank in the mid laner with average suppressive power but extremely strong lane pushing ability, it provided room for late game magic cores like Vampire, Tsar, and Clockwork to develop.
Red Rice saw it clearly. In this version of the playoffs, the damage output was more towards the two ADCs, and the ADCs' damage output was stronger than the mid laners'.
"Xiao Tian, you can use Blind Monk," he said to his own jungler. "There's no need to get Olaf."
Choosing Olaf in front of the Trolls was the same as choosing the Spider Queen in front of Olaf. It was stupid.
Anyway, now that Blind Monk's skills had been strengthened, even without the green jungler and the Eye Stone, Blind Monk's mobility and vision control were not as good as before, but he could still appear in the game.
Red Rice gave Liu Qingsong a chance to take Roh, adding another ability to the team.
"YM will take Kesha and Roh in the bottom lane …" Rita frowned. "Won't that be too weak in lane?"
"Hmm …" Ze Yuan thought about the question raised by his partner. "Actually, it's okay. The main thing is that the three strong ADCs, Dusk, Policewoman, and Verus, have been banned. The remaining archers who are strong in lane suppression are almost unable to appear in the game."
Sure enough, RW gave Asura the last position in the first round of the first round, EZ.
In the second round, Hanyi banned Vampire and Raven, the two core ADCs, from Lin Yan and Jin Gong, who were too strong in the mid and late game.
He knew how ridiculous YM's strategy was when they got the multi-core lineup: they were not afraid of death, they were crazy about the opponent's face. After they absorbed the damage and crowd control, one of them would stand out to reap the victory.
"YM banned Doinb's Airplane and Clockwork. They seem to think that RW's Cheyenne is for Ah Guang to use …"
RW's fourth pick revealed an unexpected character.
Lulu!
"Another swinging hero!" Ze Yuan raised his voice. "RW still hasn't confirmed their lane situation!"
Doinb saw Lulu and smiled very happily, as if he had found a treasure.
The YM players were also very happy.
"Now Tear can't use Lulu to disgust people."
As soon as Lin Yan finished speaking, it was YM's turn to choose from the fourth and fifth floor. Liu Qingsong directly showed Karma, which made the other four teammates speechless.
Red Mi paced behind the players' seats, looking equally relaxed.
"YM's last two picks, let's see which heroes to use in the top and mid laner …" Before Rita finished speaking, Liu Qingsong's Karma icon in the hero selection box was locked!
"Ryze and … Lucian!"
Ze Yuan's surprised voice blurted out. "Mid laner Lucian?
He's here again! "
The audience liked to see heroes like Lucian. They were fierce in lane, elegant in control, short in range, weak in defense, and could be said to be licking blood on the tip of the blade in a team battle.
They fulfilled all their requirements.
The YM fans in the stadium were very excited. They kept hitting the support sticks in their hands, cheering for their beloved players!
On the other side of the stage, Hanyi was still discussing with the players how to deal with YM's two choices.
Ah Guang didn't want to use Cheyenne to fight Ryze. Although he could push the lane in the early game, Cheyenne wasn't the type to help. Ah Guang controlled the lane, but there wasn't much he could do.
The only remaining hero that could counter Ryze was Lamia, but Ah Guang didn't know how to do that.
In short, Ah Guang didn't want to choose a hero that could play well. He was afraid that he would give Ryze a perfectly developed father. Ah Guang didn't have the confidence to choose a hero that couldn't play well.
After all, a hero like Lamia was basically useless in a team battle if she didn't develop well.
Ah Guang was stuck here.
Doinb was also struggling with what he should choose to face Lin Yan's Lu Xian.
"Do you know Little Cannon?
Little Cannon is invincible against Lu Xian. "
Hanyi remembered last summer's playoffs. Lin Yan used Tristana to hang his junior's Lu Xian on a tree. Scout couldn't fight back at all.
Doinb shook his head subconsciously. "I don't know."
Little Cannon wasn't difficult to play, but it was a solo lane. The weird killing lane and the constant attack lane were the key to restricting the mid laner from using this hero.
"Then you take Lulu." Hanyi was helpless. "Ah Guang, you still want to take Cheyenne?"
During this period of time, Ah Guang had also thought it through. He could only be the front line tank to face Jin Gong.
He didn't have the confidence to play well.
Moreover, Ah Guang couldn't play Lulu himself. After all, who would have time to think about this Lulu?
"Prophet, you take Karma." Hanyi gritted her teeth. "You guys try to get an advantage in the bottom lane."
"Huh?" Prophet was confused.
EZ + Karma against YM's Kesha + Law in the bottom lane. It wasn't a big problem to control the lane, but that was it!
It was normal for this combination to suppress, but how were they going to kill the lane?
"My Lulu will make an arm guard first, then cloth armor shoes and Holy Grail." Doinb was still nagging in the team voice chat. "Yan Jun, you should pay attention to my minions before you make a move. Otherwise, if the minions are too weak, I won't be able to support you immediately if you fight in the jungle."
Flawless nodded blankly, indicating that he understood.
"I believe in you." Hanyi patted Prophet's shoulder on the other side.
His gaze was firm, as if he wanted to bestow upon Prophet endless power.
Prophet panicked.
No, bro. You're not the one playing the game, are you?
You make it sound so easy!
But Hanyi couldn't do anything.
The top laner, Ah Guang, had to take Jin Gong and could only take Cheyenne. The mid laner, Doinb, had to take Lin Yan's Lu Xian and play Lulu.
Ah Guang couldn't carry the heavy burden …
In the end, the task of carrying the game could only be pushed to the duo in the bottom lane.
"Are you for real?" Lin Yan saw RW's last move, Karma. Ke Jie popped his head out.
Never in his wildest dreams did he expect the opposing team to choose such a lineup. "Four to one EZ?"
Red Rice glanced at the lineups of both sides and immediately laughed.
Blue YM: Top laner Ryze, Jungler Blind Monk, Mid laner Lucian, Bottom laner Kesha + Lo.
Red RW: Top laner Cheyenne, Jungler Troll, Mid laner Lulu, Bottom laner EZ + Karma.
YM's lineup was a standard triple-core. There were damage dealers in the top, middle, and bottom lane. In a team battle, the most outstanding damage was an explosion. As long as Lo could control one of them, the instantaneous burst of damage could reduce the opponent's team member.
RW's lineup, on the other hand, was ridiculously outstanding.
The entire BP game was exactly as Red Rice had predicted before the game.
The players in RW's team seemed to be quite strong, but the problem was that they lacked a boss who could stand up at any time.
Originally, they had one. Doinb was a mid laner in the regular season and his performance was commendable.
But against Lin Yan, the boss in the team also failed.
Red Rice picked Lucian first, betting that he wouldn't play Small Cannon!
If Doinb played a carry hero, he would be beaten by Lucian in lane. If he played a slacker hero, the team lacked a core boss!
Red Rice's BP strategy for a best-of-five was to restrict Asura's best heroes in the ban position, then restrict Doinb in the selection of players, leading him to play a slacker hero.
This way, RW's lineup would be cut into pieces, and it wouldn't have much combat power at all.
"RW's lineup … will there be no damage output after the mid-game?" Even Rita could see it.
Zeyuan frowned. Standing on the commentary platform, he couldn't directly criticize RW's BP as a retard, so he could only find a way to smooth things over. "It's actually fine. After all, RW and YM don't specialize in slow tempo. It's very likely that the winner will be decided in the mid-game."
But the audience didn't care about that.
[They can play a four to one EZ. That's really heaven-defying.]
[RW's classic is at his wit's end. He's using all his tricks to play TOP. Sister Li, please take a look.]
[I just remembered. Didn't RW's S6 coach coach in YM?]
[Even the champion coaches have differences, right?]
Red Rice took off her headphones and went to the center of the stage to shake Hanyi's hand.
Jack saw his coach and translator leave the player area. Taking advantage of the fact that the game hadn't finished loading, he went to chat with his teammates.
"Shall we go to Hangzhou tomorrow?" He wanted to find someone to go with him.
Jin Gong's eyes lit up. "West Lake?
I heard there's Leifeng Pagoda … "
"No, we're not going to West Lake," Jack rejected.
"Then what's so good about it?" Jin Gong continued to ask.
"Heh." Liu Qingsong's tone was rather annoying. "Isn't Hangzhou a food desert?"
"How about we go to Faxi Temple?" Shiba Inu finally suggested the place he wanted to go to.
"Faxi what?" Lin Yan felt that the name was a little dangerous.
"Faxi Temple!" Jack explained to him word by word. "I heard that it's very effective to pray for marriage."
"I don't need to pray." Lin Yan smiled proudly. "I have a rich woman."
"Oh, spicy is amazing. I want a rich woman too …" Shiba Inu was silent for a long time. "I don't want to work hard anymore. Does Sister Su have any girlfriends?"
"I don't think so."
Lin Yan remembered that his girlfriend had mentioned a girl who was bald in physics at Peking University. That kind of person probably wouldn't hit it off with an esports player. Maybe he could talk to her about radio frequency quadrupole acceleration technology.
"The game is about to begin. Players, please get ready."
The female referee behind them said crisply. She felt that it was her duty to pull this group of people back to the topic that was getting further and further away.
"Go, go, go, go, 3: 0. Crush them!" Jin Gong took the lead and shouted.
Many of the audience in the front row below the stage heard Jin Gong's roar, and for a moment, they all burst into laughter.
Lin Yan used his S6 champion's skin in this game. Because of the excellent feel, the Black Dragon's skin had gradually replaced Project Source and became the favorite of Lu Xian's players.
After buying Doran's Sword and Health Potion, Lin Yan controlled Lucian to rush out of the spring like a ninja.
As usual, Runes were Assault and Enlightenment's Boots of Wonder and Biscuit Delivery.
The summoner's skills were Flash and Ignite.
Lulu's main element was Alley and her secondary element was Enlightenment, but her skill was Weaken.
Version 8.16 of the playoffs changed the two summoner skills, Ignite and Heal. The former's Ignite damage was increased from 70-410 to 80-505 based on the level. It was definitely a big improvement.
The reason given by Fist was very simple. After the enhancement, Teleport had completely dominated the mid lane ecosystem. It was necessary to increase the risk of Teleport.
The latter's Heal simply increased the cooldown by 30 seconds.
The two midlaners in this match chose different Summoner skills due to the difference in their strengths and weaknesses.
"Come and fight with them." Lin Yan's signal marked the red buff in RW's upper half. "Don't be afraid, we're very strong at level one."
YM had the double archers of Lucian and Kesha, plus Ryze and Blind Monk. They definitely didn't lack damage output at level one.
"YM is very strong, but RW's lineup at level one isn't weak either …" Rita thought that the two teams would collide at first, but she didn't expect the two teams to completely miss each other.
"Ah Guang will take the lead and lead his teammates to YM's red zone!"
Both teams gathered in the opponent's jungle, but they couldn't see the enemy.
Lin Yan reacted quickly and kept marking his own red buff.
At the same time, Doinb's signal was also lit up.
"Looks like it's the beginning of the jungle's buff …" Ze Yuan's voice stopped abruptly.
Then, he suddenly raised his voice. "Ah Guang Li Zaigan?"
In the Summoner's Canyon, Mouse controlled Cheyenne and squatted alone in the bushes next to YM's red buff camp. The midlaner and the duo at the bottom lane had already returned to their own blue buff camp.
"He's going to steal the jungle …" Rita, who realized what was going to happen, lowered her voice. "Will it work?"
"He's going to use the red buff first, then find F6 and use his skill damage to attract the Beaked Birds' aggro. Then, he'll camp at the edge of the two camps, kill himself, and use his corpse to kill the monsters," Ze Yuan explained to the audience who didn't understand.
The audience couldn't help but hold their breaths.
If he allowed Cheyenne to steal the Buff, he would be in control of the top lane once he went online again.
Then, the midlaner's Troll might openly go to the upper half of the map to kill Xiao Tian!
The monsters respawned in one minute and thirty seconds, and the first wave of troops from the top lane and bottom lane took one minute and thirty-seven seconds.
In other words, Cheyenne's whereabouts would be difficult to be exposed in the seven seconds after the monsters respawned and before the top lane troops took over.
Ah Guang was taking advantage of this time difference.
Seven seconds was enough for him to be killed by two groups of monsters. By the time YM reacted, his corpse would have already stolen the monsters.
Mouse licked his lips. The more he thought about it, the happier he became. He almost licked his lips and smiled.
He saw that Lin Yan had come online and the red buff had already appeared. According to the original plan, Ah Guang planted himself in the bushes opposite the red buff to prevent Kesha and Luo from snatching it. Then, he clicked on the Crimson Mark Treant and went to attract the Beaked Birds' aggro.
Q slightly accumulated power and successfully attracted the Beaked Birds to attack him.
Ah Guang controlled Cheyenne to stand in the middle of the two camps, allowing the Beaked Birds to reduce his HP.
He looked at his HP slowly decreasing and couldn't help but curl his lips into a happy smile.
He could imagine Jin Gong's reaction when he saw the red buff below him.
Below the stage, a clamor gradually rose!
When Cheyenne's HP fell below 100, a barefoot monk with a red cloth over his eyes jumped out from the bushes beside the Beaked Birds' camp.
YM's duo Kesha and Luo followed behind him!
The audience's noise wasn't for Ah Guang. They were cheering for YM's wise decision from God's point of view!
"Ah Guang still wants to steal the monsters, but he doesn't know that YM's three players have already rushed back!"
"Blind Monk touched his eyes and used his normal attack to kill Cheyenne!"
Ah Guang was stunned.
What was going on?
Weren't you guys using the red buff in the upper half of my home zone?
Why did you come down?
Phyllostachys Pubescens was also very surprised.
He originally only wanted to find an opponent to fight and try to gain a little advantage.
He didn't bet on RW's position at the beginning, so of course he had to come down and return to his own zone to continue fighting.
He didn't expect that just as he entered the bushes of the Beaked Birds' camp, Mongoose would find an unexpected surprise.
400 pieces that could move!
Little Mosquito decisively decided to wait for Cheyenne's HP to drop to zero before attacking to avoid alerting the enemy.
He didn't expect to be caught!
"Cheyenne's corpse is attacking the big bird. Ah Guang hasn't given up yet!"
Mouse knew that Xiao Tian still had Punishment, so he couldn't steal the red buff from Blind Monk. He could only change his target and target the Beaked Birds' camp.
Rita's voice became louder. "But YM doesn't want him to eat the monsters, so Luo chose W [Grand Entrance] to lift Cheyenne!"
Dusk's Akashic Rainstorm combined with a normal attack to take Cheyenne's corpse!
"Ah Guang, Li Zaigan?!" Ze Yuan couldn't help but shout.
Even though it was the same sentence, the emotions contained in it were completely different from 20 seconds ago!
Mouse's cheeks were red with embarrassment. He wanted to find a hole to hide in.
What did it mean to go for wool and come home shorn?
He even gave the enemy's jungler a bloody head!
Ah Guang felt like a sandbag.
[Hahaha, you like to steal monsters, right?]
[Good gift, Ah Guang!]
[Steal monsters?
Give him a head!]
[This bowl, this bowl is Ah Guang's gratitude!]
The audience didn't expect the first blood burst to be so dramatic and immediately became excited.