"Why didn't YM choose Ezreal?" Mille almost fainted when he saw YM's BP on the blue side.
Remember was also shocked. "If they didn't take it, they could have banned it. There's no need to let it out for the opponent to take it!"
"EZ is now the strongest in the version. He's even stronger than Kesha!"
Mille was originally very excited to commentate the Sino-Korean war, but he didn't expect YM to give him such a big move.
"YM has chosen to release EZ in all the games in the past two days." Remember looked at the KZ team under the camera. They were still discussing fiercely. In the end, Khan locked the Little Yellow Hair and couldn't help but frown. "Are they trying to find a way to deal with Ezreal in the group stage?"
[In the past, EDG chose Lucian three times. Today, YM chose Little Yellow Hair three times!]
[Don't be embarrassed. Didn't they win the first two games?]
[Jack was quite fierce in the FNC game. Look at how bad he was in the TL game. If Brother Ran didn't steal the Dragon, do you think they could still win?]
[Why is it disrespecting the version?]
Jack pinched his fingers in the player's seat. He still didn't believe it. He used Verus in this game to try to pressure the Xuanming Elders in the laning stage.
However, the ideal was plump, but the reality was thin.
Jack and Liu Qingsong's laning suppression was not particularly strong. Their original skill points and playstyle did not pay attention to this.
This caused the Xuanming Elders to be slightly at a disadvantage, but it was completely acceptable.
In this game, KZ even played a disgusting trick. The top laner, Cheyenne, was equipped with [Glacier Buff]. At level one, he led his teammates to YM's jungle. When he didn't find any YM players in the first half, he ran to the second half.
He insisted on fighting YM.
Seeing that the minions had already gathered in the top lane, Khan didn't leave. He completely stared at Phyllostachys Pubescens.
Lin Ran and the others were at a loss of what to do.
If he gave up on the buff, Mongoose would be at a disadvantage in the early game. If he insisted on fighting with KZ, Cheyenne and the others would not be able to deal with him at all!
After all, this was not the late game. When Cheyenne's damage was not high, YM could still ignore him. Now, in a Level 1 party, everyone's damage output was about the same. Most of the damage came from normal attacks.
Cheyenne was incomparably strong. [Glacier Buff]'s normal attack and the deterrence provided by the passive corpse made YM retreat pathetically. Little Sleepy had no choice but to give up on his wild monsters and go to another wild area.
With that, Xiaosu's jungle was completely destroyed. Khan found an opportunity to leave the line and harass Phyllostachys Pubescens in the jungle.
"Cheyenne with Glacier Buff …" Red Mi, who was in the backstage lounge, was recording down the tactics used by KZ in this round on her laptop. At the same time, she was also studying her opponent's position in the jungle.
In this round, Little Peanut's nanqiang was extremely aggressive, and had the flavor of Dream S6.
Phyllostachys Pubescens struggled to hold on, but there was nothing he could do. The gap in strength between the top professional players wasn't that big to begin with. Giving up a buff for nothing at one level was enough to snowball the jungle.
The jungler was completely suppressed. Lin Yan wanted to wander off several times, but Little Peanut intercepted him halfway. He had no chance to support the flank at all.
After dragging it out for 20 minutes, YM fell behind 3K's economy.
The Rat King, who had always been in the thousands, finally showed his might. After pulling out the power of three forms of Magic Ripper, he first took three kills in the flaming dragon battle, and then took four kills in the crucial team battle in the first half of the river!
"This is Azreal!" Remember couldn't help but sigh. "Here's the question. Why does YM have to give it to their opponent?!"
He still couldn't figure it out. "There's something wrong with YM's understanding of the mid-season version!"
Under the camera, Jack put his hand to his forehead and pursed his lips tightly. He looked very unhappy.
He had played well in the early stages of this round. After all, Verus was an expert hero that he claimed could play directly without training, and his damage output in the team battle was very good.
But he just couldn't win.
In this version, EZ's damage output and life-saving ability were not something that Verus could compare to.
Jack stood at the front and risked being directly hit by Cheyenne's big move. His twitching movement was picturesque. Rat King hid in the back and lightly shot out a few white turbid liquids. His damage output in the front row was not lower than Jack's.
Jack could only look at his monitor helplessly. Even Lin Yan had fallen in the previous team battle. Now the five YM players were wiped out. They couldn't even replicate the Dragon that they had used against TL.
After taking the Dragon's buff, KZ didn't give YM any chance to turn the tables. He gathered the whole team and rushed to the high ground. After two minutes of entanglement, Khan found an opportunity and sent Xiao Tian and Liu Qingsong flying mercilessly with his R [Reckless Charge].
"Pray is safely dealing damage in the back. No one can threaten him!"
On the LCK commentary platform, Roaring Emperor Quan's voice was full of emotion. "YM, who has been on the throne for a long time, will pay the price for their BP today!"
At the 31st minute, the Crystal of YM's base shattered. Everyone could only regretfully swallow the defeat.
"Now YM and KZ both have four wins and are tied for first place in the first round of the round-robin competition!"
[Arrogant, so arrogant, right?]
[It's understandable that the red side released EZ, but I didn't expect the blue side to not take it.]
[It's fine if the players are arrogant, but the coach can be arrogant too?
I'm thinking, you didn't win the game on the field. How can this BP become a pile of sh * t?]
[It's not the players' fault?
Who would ban the little yellow hair from the blue side?
Jack can't take it out and gave the blame to Red Rice, right?]
This Sino-Korean war was the first confrontation between LPL and LCK on the international stage in nearly half a year. Naturally, it attracted a lot of attention from the audience.
This loss obviously didn't satisfy them.
After a hurried handshake, Lin Yan picked up his peripherals and followed his teammates back to the backstage.
As soon as he entered the lounge, he saw Rat King's MVP photo on the TV screen.
904's data, 11 DPS, 777 DPS, 44.3% DPS …
"This is the current version of Azriel's ability to dominate in a balanced game!"
After the game ended, the signal switched to the live broadcast of the host, LCSEU. The commentator Meidc saw Rat King's data and said passionately, "Pray is an invincible archer who combines DPS and self-protection ability. Pray's performance is perfect!"
Lin Yan, who understood what the European commentator was saying, frowned.
However, the atmosphere in the team was still good. For them, this was just a group game. Phyllostachys Pubescens was still communicating with Jin Gong about the details of Cheyenne's invasion of their jungle.
"I think you should've just changed the jungle from the beginning," Jin Gong suggested. "That way, even if KZ invaded forcefully, it would've been useless."
Liu Qingsong interrupted. "In fact, we just need to have a better view of the jungle. Give the defensive eye position a head start. Let's crouch in the bushes and leave two control players to kill Cheyenne and his corpse first. That way, the opponent can't win against us."
Red Mi closed the notebook, her face calm. She habitually turned the black pen in her hand and looked up at Jack, who did not participate in the team's discussion.
"Do you now understand why we need to practice EZ?" Jiang Chenglu quickly translated the head coach's words.
Jack rubbed his chin, his face flushed, but he nodded without saying a word.
He finally understood. Although releasing EZ did not stop the team from moving forward when they faced FNC and TL, it was actually very dangerous.
In one game, Lin Yan relied on himself to pull the team single-handedly and find opportunities to win. In the other game, Lin Yan's Zooey grabbed a Dragon and used TL's frequent mistakes to complete a comeback.
In these three group games, Azreal put a lot of pressure on YM in the middle. If it were not for the individual strength of the players, YM would've lost three games in a row.
This was a version hero. In a balanced situation, unless one's operating ability and team decision-making were better than the opponent's, they would suffer.
If he knew how to use EZ, he wouldn't have had to go through so much trouble to win these few matches with ease.
Especially in this game against KZ, it really made Jack realize the crisis.
If this continued, his hero pool would drag down the whole team.
YM was not strong enough to ignore the version.
On the contrary, a large part of YM's strength came from the adaptability of the players and the coaching staff.
But now, this useless Azriel had dragged down the entire team.
A sense of shame welled up in his heart. For Jack, who debuted as a genius, he obviously could not accept this reality.
He put the keyboard and mouse in front of the spare computer provided by Fist in the lounge, turned it on and logged into the European server account. There was still some time before the start of the next game to practice EZ.
Red Mi did not say much. What he wanted was Jack's attitude.
Releasing Azreal in three games in a row was far less than what Red Mi expected. Being able to win against FNC and TL was enough to prove YM's current team state.
Even if their BP was bad and they deliberately released a strong version hero, YM was still a world-class team.
YM, with four wins and one loss, was still in the first place of the group. As long as they maintained a good state in the second round, their ranking would not be low.
Especially in this game against KZ.
Red Mi was prepared for failure in advance. He did not expect to kill two birds with one stone. He not only made Jack realize the need to practice EZ, but also succeeded in losing the game.
He wanted to lose on purpose, but he was not coerced.
The purpose was simple.
To cheat the trump card.
Before this game, KZ had lost the contest with Lightning Wolf. If they lost to YM again, KZ, who had lost two games, would only have the possibility of being first in the theoretical group in front of YM, who had won all the games.
In that case, KZ would have to hide their tactics in the second round.
They might not deliberately go easy. After all, it was not the night of the Oscars. They still had professional ethics, but it was impossible to expect them to come up with something new.
Let nature take its course. It would be best if they could win, but if they lost, it would be useless.
Lie flat.
Red Rice didn't want their biggest competitor in this MSI to be so passive. He wanted KZ to show off more of their tactical reserves in the group stage.
But it was unrealistic to let the horse run and not eat grass at the same time.
Only then did the Red Rice team decide to release Izreal in the first round against Team KZ, allowing Team KZ to get a stronger lineup.
This gave KZ's coaching staff hope. If they could beat YM, they would once again become a strong contender for first place in this season's mid-season group.
As expected, KZ used the ice buff Cheyenne and his team's level one invasion trump card. This kind of early game attack against the jungle was obviously to stop YM's early game offense. By breaking Mongoose's rhythm, KZ would have won half the game.
Red Mi was very satisfied. After this game, he knew that KZ had to be focused in the second round of the round-robin and prepare for every game seriously.
KZ had already paid a certain price. This ice buff Cheyenne had sent them to first place in the group, but it had also sent the team to roast.
If the team did not perform well in the second round and lost the first place in the group, then the tactics they revealed would be worthless. It could even be called a loss.
KZ could only grit their teeth and continue forward, winning one game after another in the group stage.
Thinking of this, Red Mi and Gouba looked at each other. The two of them had a tacit understanding and smiled.
…
In the evening in Berlin, in a hotel double room, Lin Yan was drying his short and medium length black hair. At the same time, he opened a video call on his phone.
Su Cheng's face appeared on the screen. She had probably just finished showering. Her face was rosy, and her not completely dry hair was draped over her shoulders. She looked very attractive.
"Are you guys okay today?" She went straight to the point and asked about Lin Yan's game with a worried expression.
"We're fine," Lin Yan answered honestly. "We just lost a game in the group stage."
Perhaps it was because she had just finished showering, but Su Cheng's eyes were like water. Her gentle gaze swept across her boyfriend's face. After hearing his words, she still had some doubts.
"Really?
I don't believe you. "
Her strong desire for knowledge made her continue. "I saw that your face was stiff after the last game of the day. You didn't smile at all. You were obviously not in a good mood."
Lin Yan refuted his girlfriend. "Aiya, when the interview was so serious, did I have to smile?"
"Besides, the competition schedule and the mock competition are so close together. It's reasonable to be a little tired, right?
If that person is tired, not showing any expression is … "
"Okay, okay!" Su Cheng quickly interrupted him and moved the topic away from Lin Yan. "Is Jack okay?"
Today, in addition to scolding Red Rice BP, the domestic e-sports forums were talking about Jack not knowing how to play EZ. When the audience was agitated, it was inevitable that they would get angry.
Su Cheng was afraid that Jack, who liked to read the comments, would be affected.
"Very good. He's alive and kicking." Lin Yan put away the hairdryer. "Today, he had three McDonald's Big Macs for dinner, plus a large Coca-Cola and a serving of fries."
"Wow, so relaxed?" Su Cheng exclaimed.
Lin Yan was very optimistic. "You want Jack to break through with those comments?
Impossible. "
Jack, who was practicing Izreal alone in the lounge, felt his nose itch and couldn't help but sneeze.
Then, without caring about the controls, he received Hammer Stone's Q from the opposite side.
"F * ck!" Shiba Inu spat. "Which pig's nose is scolding me behind my back?"
In this round, it was Gera who was assisting him.
Daddy Nanny originally thought that Jack could easily dodge the hook. After all, Yellow Hair still had E [Arcane Transition] in his hands.
But he didn't expect Jack to receive the Q so easily!
"Damn it, God Li Zaigan?"
He quickly controlled Bull's Head to take two steps forward to block the opponent's skill explosion. At the same time, he didn't forget to ping a few question marks at Jack's feet.
But Daddy Nanny's WQ was thrown away by Hammer Stone's Misfortune Pendulum. Eddie Siverus's combination of skills directly killed Jack!
Daddy Nanny was furious. As long as he won this round, he would be the king of the European server tonight. He didn't expect someone to stab him in the back!
A series of yellow question marks appeared on Yellow Hair's body.
"What's going on?"
The tall and strong Rat King had just finished his dinner and squeezed into the training room with a sip of coke. He found his assistant, the Canyon Pianist, typing in the chat channel. He let go of the straw and quickly asked.
If it was Khan playing the piano, Rat King wouldn't even bother to look at him. After all, he was already used to it.
But Gera had always had a good temper and didn't often type to scold people in the ranking matches.
This was definitely a rare thing.
"JackeyLove, why is he playing an EZ that can eat hammers and stone hooks!"
Daddy Nanny finally found someone to talk to. He hurriedly complained to him. "He didn't hand in his E skill and Flash. Is this something a human can do?"
Rat King laughed without sympathy and almost spat out the coke. "Fan Xuan, isn't this a good thing?"
"If he doesn't know EZ, we'll definitely win the finals!"
Gera thought about it carefully. It seemed to be the case.
Two more sneezes came from the YM training room next door.
"F * ck you, who's cursing me behind my back?" Shiba Inu rubbed the tip of his nose with his paw, looking unhappy.
…
Entering the fourth day of the competition, YM had gradually adapted to the biological clock of getting up early to rush to the competition. Although there was no way to adjust to the peak state of seven or eight o 'clock in the evening, it was more than enough to deal with the competition.
Except for Lin Weixiang.
Ever since the seven o 'clock rule had been implemented during the competition, he always looked like he couldn't wake up. The dark circles under his eyes were so thick that Lin Yan thought he was cosplaying Gaara.
Lin Weixiang yawned all the way and was the last to leave the hotel lobby with his bag. He squeezed into the BMW, slammed the door, and rested his head on the comfortable leather seat to rest.
"What's wrong with him?"
Red Mi, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, asked curiously when she saw Da Mei's dispirited state through the rearview mirror.
"He stayed up late again last night." Liu Qingsong pushed Lin Weixiang with a look of disgust. "This person's biological clock is as messed up as his brain. The closer it is to the early morning, the more excited he gets."
Ever since they had arrived in Berlin, in order to adapt to the competition schedule, YM's competition training department's practice matches would only be held at nine o 'clock at the latest. The rest of the time was given to the members to freely rank. The bedtime was set at eleven o' clock at night.
However, that was when Lin Weixiang was excited. Naturally, he didn't plan to sleep. Since he didn't have to play, he simply stayed in the training room to play games.
Red Mi was glad that she didn't plan to let Lin Weixiang play this time. Otherwise, this person's mechanics during the competition would probably be ridiculous.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh.
YM was really a strange team. Lin Weixiang and Jack, the two Edisi players, both didn't know how to play Azriel. This was simply a fantasy in LCK!
Now, they could only hope that Jack would correct his training attitude. Otherwise, the difficulty of this MSI would probably not be low.
In the next match against EVS in the Vietnam division, the Red Rice team sent Azreal to the ban position. They looked like they knew that they were in the wrong and would change. This made many domestic viewers breathe a sigh of relief.
Lin Yan clenched his fists with a serious expression. Those who didn't know would think that Lin Yan was preparing for the MSI finals.
He still remembered how the Vietnamese mid laner had used Crocodile to dodge his Dagger Sis's big move, Flash Prediction.
There was also the GIF that Su Cheng had saved. She had taken a screenshot of his angry expression.
Lin Yan was petty and held grudges.
Today, he had to show off his strength and let the Vietnamese and Su Cheng see how good he was.
Anyway, he really wasn't familiar with EVS. GAM, who YM had gifted them a keyboard and mouse peripheral in last year's mid-season competition, didn't manage to break through this time.
Since he wasn't familiar with them, he couldn't brazenly kill them.
…
"Ran chose Crocodile to clamp down on the opponent's Erilya!"
The European commentator Meidc raised his voice. "This is the exact opposite of the choice of the first round's mid laner!"
"Is he going to do a forehand and backhand lesson?"
Froskurinn, nicknamed Kitty, smiled brightly. "Ran is here for revenge this time. He's probably still holding a grudge over the previous tower jump."
She wasn't usually in charge of commentating for LCSEU. Her main job was to watch the LPL English stream, which didn't have many viewers.
This time, because YM was participating in the competition, she was invited to the scene.
Kitty followed the principle of a guest following the host's wishes. She came to the commentary platform and began her work.
She slowly took off her black suit, revealing a black team uniform with a BMW logo. The slanted scarlet beast claw marks were extremely eye-catching, and the YM team logo on her chest towered.
"Now, I'm a hardcore fan of Ran!" Kitty turned around and showed the audience Lin Yan's ID printed on her back.
"That's right." Meidc also took off his clothes, revealing the EVS team uniform. "Now, I'm a supporter of the Vietnamese division …"
"I have to say, their team uniform is really hard to buy. It took me a lot of effort to find a link to it on the official website." Meidc laughed.
"In this game, Ran will definitely lead the team to crush EVS!" Kitty was quite fanatical.
…
"Crocodile E [Horizontal Charge] passed through the army line. His normal attack rose to red temperature!" Ze Yuan looked at the situation in the middle lane and suddenly sped up his speech. "His rage control is quite perfect!"
"Warzone realized that something was wrong and wanted to escape after using Blink. However, Brother Ran followed him with Blink and W [Grim Hunt] froze him!"
Warzone's reaction was already very fast. He immediately used W [Teleport Dance] to block the damage.
However, he couldn't block it. His Swordmaiden could only stand in place and be stunned for 1.5 seconds!
"Brother Ran's normal attack followed by a second E [Vertical Charge] and passed through the army again!"
Crocodile W's every attack provided him with 5 rage points. There was an additional 10 rage points reward for hitting the hero.
This caused Lin Yan to earn 25 rage points just by using Grim Hunt.
E gave him 2 rage points for passing through each soldier and 10 rage points for passing through the hero.
The three minions and Sword Girl provided him with 16 Rage points.
In addition to the previous normal attack, Lin Yan's rage points that were previously cleared rose to 46 rage points!
"Brother Ran followed up with a normal attack. His rage turned red again and he killed Swordmaiden with Tyrant's Frenzy!" Ze Yuan was extremely excited. "This Crocodile's proficiency is too high!"
"A set of skills, a red rage W + a red rage Q, the damage is directly maxed out!" Hallucination, who was always calm and collected, was also excited.
"The game has only been going on for three minutes and Brother Ran has completed a solo kill!"
Lin Yan, who was under the camera, was expressionless as he pretended to be an expert. He took a sip of ice water while the countdown to return to the city started.
Today, he must make his opponent pay the price!
The game had been going on for five and a half minutes. Lin Yan successfully grabbed a level 6 and crossed the tower.
"Crocodile closed the distance and used a normal attack on Swordmaiden to trick her out of range dance!"
"Red Fury W bites down on it, activating a big move to cancel it and at the same time connecting a normal attack!"
Level 6 Crocodile's equipment was already a lot ahead. As long as he could trick Swordmaiden out of range dance that could resist damage, the rest would be logical.
Arielia, who did not flash, was the next piece of meat on the chopping board.
Lin Yan finally used AQ to cripple Swordmaiden. The two E's smoothly connected and left the tower's range!
"Brother Ran, Shark is crazy!"
At the same time, a battle broke out in the bottom lane. Jack and Liu Qingsong used the combination of Verus and Boulogne to easily kill the top lane!
"Mid and bottom lane!" Ze Yuan shouted. "YM's performance today is extremely strong!"
The EVS players' faces were really ugly.
They had just won the first mid-season match from TL yesterday.
Now, they were like the national football team. "In theory, there was still a possibility of advancing."
However, they knew that the team could already book a flight back to Ho Chi Minh City.
Originally, EVS wanted to play beautifully in the second round of group matches and try to attract some fans for the team on the international stage.
Who would have thought that YM would not give them any face!
15 minutes later, the kill ratio between the two sides was 11: 0, and the economy difference was as high as 8K!
The game had lost its suspense early. Everyone in YM vented their anger from KZ on EVS!
Lin Yan scored four solo kills in this game. Crocodile's death roll lingered in Swordmaiden's mind like a nightmare.
"This is the right way to start Crocodile's fight with Swordmaiden!"
Kitty's voice trembled with excitement. "It's an unreasonable tower jump. Arielia can't resist at all. She can only be trampled on!"
At 18 minutes, YM summoned the Canyon Vanguard. Little Tian and Jin Gong successfully formed a team, exchanging two for five. After wiping out the opponents, they charged straight in from the high ground in the middle lane and flattened the EVS base in one wave!