"Congratulations to YM for their seventh victory!"
It was rare that Kris didn't have a relapse in this match. He looked much more normal. "Looks like we'll have to wait until the last match of the group stage!"
Even though FNC had lost the match, they didn't seem to be angry. Happy Little Hat was still discussing Yasso's flawless and cool maneuvers with Ou Cheng.
Caps was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling.
It had to be said that the European and American teams were much better than the East Asian teams in this aspect. The public opinion environment was much more relaxed.
The live Berlin audience was still reminiscing about the last match. The 55 kills had really filled them up.
However, it was truly satisfying. When the professional players gave up on their tactics and started showing off their maneuvers, just from the looks of it, it wasn't any worse than a strict and orderly maneuver.
The only one who wasn't satisfied was Lin Yan in the player's seat.
He looked at his score of 11618 and felt extremely frustrated.
Even though he had killed a lot, his KDA had dropped!
Lin Yan's battle loss ratio in the MSI group stage was around 8, which meant that the average number of kills + assists was 8 times the number of deaths.
However, in this chaotic battle against FNC, 6 deaths was enough to lower his battle loss ratio by several levels!
Lin Yan sighed. Jack, who was sitting to his left, was still happily drinking his iced cola.
Shiba Inu loved this kind of chaotic battle. The messier it was, the better it felt.
It could only be said that the joys and sorrows of humans were not connected.
However, as soon as he got off the stage, he video-called Su Cheng to ask for credit.
"Was I strong today, hmm?"
Even though the KDA of the Master of Shadow Stream wasn't high in the last match, Lin Yan had managed to solo kill Caps and Rekkles. His performance wasn't bad either.
Su Cheng didn't have any classes today. Since she had nothing to do, she stayed at home and watched the entire day's matches. Naturally, she also witnessed Lin Yan's outstanding performance.
When she heard her boyfriend's words, she knew that he was looking for praise from her.
"It's so-so. Too many people died in this round." Su Cheng didn't mean what she said.
Lin Yan looked at her with disdain. "Eh … Teacher Su, you're not being honest."
"Since when?"
"Your ears are red." Lin Yan hit the nail on the head.
"Really?"
Su Cheng subconsciously touched her ears. Why didn't she know that she had such a wonderful body reaction when she was lying?
"Of course it's fake." Lin Yan sat on a chair in the lounge and stuffed the mouse and keyboard into his backpack with the YM logo. "Hurry up and compliment me."
"Use Suzhou dialect," he added.
"Aiya …" Su Cheng subconsciously wanted to refuse. "Don't mess around."
"Hurry up, hurry up." Lin Yan was relentless. "I didn't even scold you when you cut my dark history video."
"Then put on your headphones."
Su Cheng couldn't argue with him and could only agree. Her cheeks were slightly flushed and her eyes darted around, trying to see if there was anyone else around Lin Yan.
She was about to speak when Winston suddenly handed over an YM uniform. "Brother Ran, why don't you sign your name on this uniform? Caps wants to come over later to exchange uniforms."
"Okay."
Lin Yan took the marker pen and started to write on the back of the uniform. His left hand even took out the headphones from the side pocket of his backpack.
Winston and Su Cheng had met twice before. After greeting her through the phone screen, he turned and left in a hurry to look for the cameraman.
Su Cheng wanted to finish her sentence before her boyfriend's attention shifted to her, but she had just opened her mouth when Jack, who had finished his interview, ran into the lounge. He sat down and hugged Lin Yan.
"Brother Ran, what are you doing?"
As soon as he said that, he saw Su Cheng's blushing face on the phone screen.
"Oh, oh, oh …" Jack crowed like a rooster. Even though he was a third wheel, he realized that something wasn't quite right.
"You guys talk, I'll go eat." Shiba Inu lifted his butt and went to the table to look for the hamburger he had ordered.
"Now there's no one else." Lin Yan was full of anticipation.
Su Cheng was interrupted twice in a row, and now she was regretting it. "I won't say it, I won't say it!
There won't be another chance like this. I've already wasted my chance! "
Lin Yan still wanted to insist, but Su Cheng threatened to turn off the video call and successfully made him give up on the idea.
"Wait for me to deal with you when I get back." Lin Yan was very unhappy that he didn't achieve his goal.
Su Cheng saw that Lin Yan was wearing his headphones and that they were thousands of miles apart. She instantly became bolder.
"Come on." She deliberately pinched her throat and said in a soft voice in Suzhou dialect, "Let's see who will deal with who."
Lin Yan's ears were burning. The soft voice seemed to melt into his body through the headphones and flowed through his blood to his limbs and bones, making him feel itchy and numb all over, as if there were ants crawling all over.
His heart was pierced by this sentence, and he immediately pretended to be silent.
"Huh?"
Su Cheng saw that Lin Yan was motionless on the screen and thought that the picture was frozen. "Is the Internet bad?"
"No, no, no." Lin Yan coughed, picked up a paper cup and poured ice water into his mouth, trying to prevent the redness from spreading to his cheeks. "I was thinking about something just now."
"Oh … How are your preparations for tomorrow's match against KZ?" Su Cheng found a topic to talk about.
"Of course there won't be a problem." Lin Yan finally came back to his senses. "Tomorrow, KZ will be disgusted to death."
He was full of confidence.
…
"Welcome back to the live broadcast of the last day of the 2018 mid-season championship group stage. Hello, everyone, I'm Doll!"
"Hello, everyone, I'm Mille!"
Naturally, the commentator for this heavyweight finale was Doll Miller, who could not escape.
"The results of the five group stage matches that took place earlier today have been determined." The director showed the points of the group stage at this time. Doll sped up his speech. "Lightning Wolves and FNC are in third and fourth place, while TL and EVS have been announced to be eliminated …"
"Big brother is still miserable. He didn't advance this year." Mille joked with his old acquaintance.
"Unfortunately, we can only see big brother again on the stage of the S8 global finals." Doll was good at being a comedian. "Can he enter the international competition?"
"Are you kidding me?"
Mille cooperated with him quite well, and they arranged Doublelift clearly. "Big brother may not advance to the top eight, but he can definitely go to the international competition!"
Doll was very happy, but after all, he had been professionally trained. No matter how funny it was, he would not laugh.
"Back to the topic, this final match between YM and KZ will determine who will advance as the first in the group and obtain the right to choose the opponent in the semifinals!"
There was no extra time to prepare. With a crisp sound, the BP screen suddenly appeared in front of the audience!
[Go YM!]
[Go go go, KZ, go die!]
[@ YM-Homme, can you ban Little Blondie? Autumn Pear Cream]
The bullet screen was still cheering for YM, who was far away in Berlin. The audience desperately needed this victory. Otherwise, if YM entered the knockout stage with a record of double kills by KZ, their hearts would probably be half cold.
"KZ has the priority to choose sides in this game. He chose the blue side for himself. He came up and suppressed the swinging Qing Gang Yin first!"
YM's next ban choice made the fans breathe a sigh of relief!
"Izreal!" Mille's tense back muscles suddenly relaxed. "Beautiful ban!"
The domestic audience sighed that YM's coaching team was no longer stubborn, and their confidence in this final match was doubled!
KZ's head coach, Hirai, thought for a moment and decided to ban Law.
"YM backhandedly suppressed the King of Troll," Mille analyzed. "It looks like they might choose Crow!"
KZ obviously did not want to choose Swein on the blue side, and they did not want to give this OP hero to YM. They simply sent him to the last ban of the first round.
"YM chose to ban Ryze," Doll said immediately. "KZ picked the version's strong hero, Kesha, in the first round!"
Red Mi already had a response. He deliberately gave Voidlady to the Rat King.
"Policewoman and Morgana!" Doll began to shout again. "YM's bottom lane is going for an early speed push!"
Mille agreed with his partner. "Kesha's early laning ability is several levels weaker than Policewoman's. No matter what support she uses, Pray will not be comfortable in this game!"
Hiari paced behind the players' seats. If Red Mi deliberately allowed Kesha to choose Policewoman and Morgana, then he deliberately did so knowing that YM would pick Policewoman.
He was not stupid. He naturally prepared well before the game.
At present, every step of YM's BP was in his plan.
"Nanqiang and Sparrow. KZ picked the midlaner first!" Doll rubbed his chin. "This combination's ability to push and support is very strong …"
"Vampire!"
When Mille saw YM's last pick in the first round, he frowned slightly. "This should be a pick for top laner Jin Gong, right?"
"After all, KZ picked Sparrow first. It's not a good choice to send Vampire to the midlaner."
Hiari had the same thought as well. If Lin Ran sent Vladimir against BDD's Rock Sparrow, he would basically be imprisoned under the tower in the middle lane. He would not have the chance to retaliate at all, and would be pushed to his death by Talia.
He took advantage of the time before KZ's turn in the second round of BP to come up with a countermeasure on his laptop.
"Lulu, the soft support with both defense and offense, was first banned by YM. KZ blocked Mantis, who has extremely strong offensive attributes …" Doll repeated the BP scene to the audience without any explanation or analysis.
Nevertheless, Mille was used to it. He casually added the analysis that his partner had missed. "Mantis can mainly ambush and solo kill in the jungle. This greatly restricts Sparrow's wandering ability!"
Especially after level 6, Mantis could use its ultimate skill to respawn passively. It could even instakill Sparrow with a set of skills.
Talia's level one ultimate skill only had a casting range of 3,000 yards. It could not reach both sides from the midlaner. In other words, Sparrow would have to pass through the jungle if it wanted to move between the top and bottom lanes. Mantis could seize the opportunity to intercept it halfway.
"For the last ban, YM has banned Glacial Thain, which was used by Khan in their first encounter. KZ has chosen to block Lucian!"
The last ban was added by Hiari's flexibility. He was afraid that Lin Yan would use such a hero with extremely strong laning abilities to suppress BDD's wandering ability.
"If there's a chance, I'll get you Jayce. You suppress Vampire as much as possible!" He patted Khan's shoulder.
Khan also felt that he had a big stage in this round. Jayce was his famous hero. He relied on Second Battalion Commander Piltworf's heavy artillery to destroy SKT in the summer tournament last year.
If he got Jayce, Khan was confident that he could flatten Jin Gong's tower in less than 10 minutes!
However, Khan was destined to be disappointed in this round.
He was not the only one in both teams who was proficient in Jayce!
The handsome Jayce's avatar appeared in Jack's hero selection window. It was immediately locked!
"Jayce!"
Mille blurted out. "With this, YM has basically confirmed their laning situation. Top laner Vampire will be paired with mid laner Jayce!"
Everyone in KZ thought hard for a long time. Khan was still shaking his heat pack and discussing with his coach about the hero selection.
Aoun was obviously not suitable. Uncle Goat could not stop Vampire's development. The remaining captain was also a character that could be countered by Vladimir …
"Jayce. Coach nim, do you think it's okay?"
Khan had spent a long time as a professional player in China. His thinking was slightly affected. He had a lot of say in BP and was considered one of the few unique Korean players.
Hiari thought for a while and felt that it was indeed a good choice.
"KZ's last two picks are Lady Wind and Jayce …" Mille hissed softly. "From what I remember, Jayce is not good at fighting Vampire, right?"
"Especially with Vampire's Phase Rush. It's very easy to pull Jayce in the laning phase!"
"Huh?!"
When Doll heard his partner's words, his first reaction was confusion. "Why do I feel like Jayce is good at fighting Vampire?"
"When Vampire hasn't made cooldown reduction equipment in the laning phase, the cooldown of E [Counter Storm] and Q [Jump Slash] are much shorter than the cooldown of Blood Pool." Doll had his own understanding. "Once Jayce's skills are off cooldown, he'll jump up and switch HP. Vampire can't win!"
[I didn't think of jumping up directly. He's going to fight with the minions, right?]
[That's about it. Vampire has Phase Rush. Can't he pull Jayce casually?
Also, the Weapon Master hasn't recovered yet. After two rounds of HP, Vampire will have to return to the city when he has half of his HP left.]
[I can't think of any other way to win except for Jayce's one round of one-on-one and one side lane!]
The bullet screen had long disliked Doll. They felt that he, who could not even play 100 ranked matches in a year, did not deserve to be a commentator. If you don't even understand the relationship between heroes and counters, don't embarrass yourself on stage, okay?
But Doll's point of view this time was quite right.
In Khan's view, Jayce was indeed a counter to Vampire.
But the reason was not quite the same as what Doll said.
The method he mentioned was the method Jayce used to fight Vampire in the Ward Match. He just needed to mindlessly jump his face in the laning phase. Anyway, Vampire in that phase would not be affected by the cooldown of Blood Pool. It was very easy to kill him.
If the phase was slightly higher, Vampire would be able to pull Jayce easily. He could use the movement speed provided by Phase Rush to maintain his distance and attack freely. Jayce would not be able to hold on after two waves of damage.
This was also the opinion of Mille and many of the bullet screen.
But Khan was already standing in the atmosphere.
The key to Vampire's early success in pulling Jayce was undoubtedly his talent [Phase Rush]. What Jayce needed to do was to make it difficult for Vladimir to easily deal three damage and gain the acceleration effect.
In the laning phase, Jayce's biggest taboo was to be blocked by Vampire's attack range. After a free normal attack, he would jump over in anger out of humiliation and switch HP.
Because of this, Vladimir would be able to deal three damage with Q + E. Together with the free normal attack from before, he would be able to successfully trigger Phase Rush and switch HP with Jayce. Jayce would undoubtedly be at a disadvantage. He would not even be able to force out the Blood Pool if his control was worse.
For a top professional player like Khan, the response was very simple:
Jayce could either jump up with E Flower Shaking Hand when Vampire's normal attack hit him, or use Counter Storm to switch HP when Vampire's normal attack was stuck.
These two responses could make Vampire unable to deal any damage to Jayce. Obviously, only the two small skills of Q and E could not trigger Phase Rush.
If it was a mid-range unit, it would be fine. Vladimir could bring Ignite, and if that did not work, he could use Summoner skills to break out of Phase Rush.
But Vampire would definitely bring Teleport. Vampire's face would be hit by Jayce's precise timing, and he would not be able to trigger Phase Rush with normal control.
At this time, Vampire only had one way, which was to hand over the Blood Pool and use the damage to break out of Counter Storm's stun.
But Vladimir, who had healthy HP, would lose a lot of HP for nothing if he handed over the Blood Pool. The 28 seconds after the Blood Pool recovered would be his vacuum period, and Jayce could toy with him as much as he wanted.
In short, Vampire's attack on Jayce was based on the details.
Khan was obviously a professional player with this kind of control ability.
But the Haier brothers on the commentary platform obviously did not understand the details. They each had their own opinions and did not dwell on the issue anymore.
"YM's last choice should be Xiao Tian in the jungler position." Doll was looking forward to it. "Now that Troll is not here, are they going to choose Olaf?"
Mille was a little hesitant. "Olaf fighting the nanqiang … is very easy to pull. There are too many walls in the jungle, and the nanqiang can use Slide Step to avoid pursuit. This way, Olaf will be more cumbersome."
In the player's seats, Phyllostachys Pubescens was still discussing the choice of jungler hero with Coach Red Rice.
"Blind Monk. If KZ wants to play the mid jungler, then we'll fight them!" Little Sleeper cracked his knuckles.
He was still angry. When the two teams met in the first round, the scene of him being chased around by Khan's Level 1 Glacial Thain was still vivid in his mind.
He was here for revenge in this round.
"Blind Monk!"
Seeing this choice, Doll's eyes lit up. "This is going to be a head-on clash. YM and KZ will focus on the mid jungler this round!"
The two teams' lineups were confirmed.
The blue team's KZ: Top Weapon Master, Jungler Nanqiang, Mid Rock Sparrow, Bottom Kesha + Zephyr.
The red team's YM: Top Vampire, Jungler Blind Monk, Mid Jess, Bottom Policewoman + Morgana.
"Other than the early clash between the mid jungler and mid jungler, YM's lineup is more focused on the early and mid jungler. Whether or not they can control the Canyon Vanguard that spawns at the 10 minute mark will be the key to their victory."
Mille was still analyzing the lineup seriously. "KZ is more focused on defense in the early game and stabilizes the bottom lane. After the mid jungler establishes an advantage, they will let Khan carry the side lane."
…
"Remember the strategy we talked about before the game. Don't forget it."
Hiari and Red Rice, who were standing on both sides of the stage, emphasized this sentence. Only when they heard the other team members' agreement, they were satisfied and took off their headphones to shake hands with each other.
The camera was aimed at the two coaches in the middle of the stage. Then, the scene changed to include the entire LCSEU studio!
When the live audience saw that the camera was aimed at them, they waved the support sticks and player support banners in their hands excitedly!
Although many Korean international students came to the scene to cheer for KZ, YM's cheers successfully overwhelmed their opponents.
Other than the China international students, who had more people, the Berlin local audience supported YM. After all, they were familiar faces and had a strong reputation, it was hard not to attract passersby's fans.
Amidst the deafening cheers, the Summoner's Canyon descended!
As usual, Lin Yan used Phase Dash in this round, while the Summoner's skill was Teleportation instead of Ignite.
The rune that did not have any damage was paired with Teleportation. At first glance, Jess looked harmless.
On the other hand, BDD's Rock Sparrow's main attribute was Witchcraft Alley, while the secondary attribute was Bone Plating and Chrysalis of the Resolute Faction.
The Summoner's skill was Flash Heal. Although the cooldown period of Heal was increased by 30 seconds in Version 8.6, Rock Sparrow really had no other skills to bring.
"YM is huddling together to invade. Liu Qingsong is bringing Scan directly!"
In the Summoner's Canyon, Morgana turned on the Oracle Lens, tapped on the Q [Dark Imprisonment], and led the charge toward the KZ jungle.
"KZ doesn't have enough level one crowd control ability, and the PK damage isn't high either. They're probably avoiding the fight … Rat King, who's standing in the bushes by the river, has already seen Morgana's figure!"
Pray immediately ran back. Liu Qingsong still wanted to draw the prize, but Kesha twisted away with a small movement!
"YM is going straight in, entering the bottom half of KZ!"
When Little Peanut saw that a Thief had entered his own jungle, he was instantly anxious.
"Don't give up the position to them so easily. Otherwise, it'll be too difficult for the bottom lane!"
In this round, the Xuanming Elders sent Kesha and Lady Wind against Policewoman and Morgana.
Under normal circumstances, Jack and Liu Qingsong would definitely have the top lane, and they would continuously push the top lane to push towers.
If Little Peanut's bottom half of the jungle was invaded, he could only go to the top half of the jungle to start the fight. Furthermore, before the first round of wild monsters were all killed, it would be very difficult for Little Peanut to take care of the duo bottom lane.
Once they were surrounded by four packs of two, it would be over.
"KZ doesn't want YM to invade the jungle so easily. They're crouching in the bushes beside their red buff camp, waiting for them to take the bait!"
Liu Qingsong and his teammates seemed to have intentionally or unintentionally stepped into the trap that KZ had set for them!
"Both sides' level one squads have started fighting!"
Mille shouted. "Morgana's skill still needs a while to turn, so they're simply fighting hand-to-hand!"
Although Grera had used her Q Hurricane Howl to blow Jack and Jin Gong up, Lin Yan and Phyllostachys Pubescens' Blind Monk Jayce were really amazing in the level one squads, and both sides were actually evenly matched.
"Jin Gong with only a sliver of HP left, use Blink, and use the Phase Rush he got earlier to speed up his escape!"
Liu Qingsong's Dark Prison finally turned, and the skill was shot at Khan, who was at the front!
"Give me your Blink!" Ripping Wounds said fiercely.
Khan had already used Windstorm Counterattack before, and he knew that he absolutely couldn't take this control, or he would definitely die here.
"Khan has also used Blink to escape. Both sides' top laners have used their escape skills, while KZ has given up on defending his red buff and let Little Peanut solo blue!"
"Will this Blink cause a chain reaction …" Mille said worriedly.
The players standing in front of YM and KZ all laughed. Even the coaches in the waiting room relaxed.
They felt that their players had perfectly executed their strategy.