I didn't choose randomly

Chapter 419 Mid-Season Cup 【Ask for Monthly Pass】

After winning the Spring Championship, Yun Ge gave the IG players a few days off, but due to the impact of the epidemic, the players still had to stay in the base and couldn't go out for a walk.

But Yunge did not arrange training tasks for them. Although this year's MSI has been confirmed to be suspended, the LPL and LCK officials decided to jointly hold an online mid-season Champions Cup.

Participation by the top four of the Spring Split is similar to the previous Asian Tournament, except that Wanwan's team is missing, but normally, they are also here to play soy sauce, and Wanwan's highlight is participation.

In addition to SKT and Samsung, the participating teams of the LCK this time have two new faces. One is the dark horse DWG in the spring split. The players of this team are basically new faces of the LCK.

Although the performance of the DWG team in the playoffs was not very good, the talents of their middle and upper laners can be seen with the naked eye, and because WDG's game style is biased towards fighting, it is incompatible with the style of the entire competition area, and it is even called the LCK small IG .

If there is a chance, this mid-season Champions Cup will feature Li Kui beating Li Gui. Is the LCK small IG as good as IG?

Another LCK team was renamed from the former KZ team. The star player in their team is the former GRF mid laner Chovy, and Mr. Dai who has returned to the LCK for many years in one episode.

Looking at the lineup of the top four in the LCK, except for the new faces of DWG, the others are basically old acquaintances, which also reflects the lack of acceptance in the LCK division to a certain extent.

Compared with the LPL competition area where newcomers are constantly emerging, the LCK is already turning into a nursing home, and every player can be called a living fossil of e-sports.

As for the LPL side, the oldest player is probably Rookie. He debuted in S4, and now he is considered a veteran LPL active professional player, and there are not many older players than him.

But with the increase of age, Rookie's state does not seem to be affected by the hero too much, especially this season, Rookie's performance has surpassed all LPL mid laners.

Rookie's performance made all the young players in the LPL very ashamed. I don't know when the word "old and strong" can be used on Rookie.

The LPL finals ended in early May, and the Mid-Season Champions Cup kicked off at the end of May. For the better part of a month, the IG players lived very leisurely.

It wasn't until one week before the start of the competition that Yun Ge arranged training tasks for the players. Although the players were relaxed, Yun Ge was dragged into a small group by Coach Hongmi and others to discuss tactics.

There are only four people in the group, besides Yun Ge and Coach Hongmi, the other two are FPX's War Horse Coach and TES' Xiao Zhuge White Crescent.

"Welcome the champion coach of the Spring Split!"

"Welcome the champion coach of the Spring Split!"

"+1"

Since Yun Ge was the last person to enter the group, as soon as he entered, he saw the other three middle-aged people teasing him again, although Yun Ge could hear a hint of envy from their tone.

But seeing that they were all defeated under his command, Yun Ge didn't bother with them, and sent an emoticon of Ah Shui filling a cup as an emergency.

Seeing this, coach Hongmi couldn't help expressing envy in the group, "IG's player configuration is really strong, the core of the three roads, no matter what tactics they play, they can quickly adapt."

Although Yun Ge doesn't know how Coach Hongmi can chat in Chinese fluently, but thinking about it, he has been in LPL for four or five years, so there must be no problem with Chinese communication.

Hearing that coach Hongmi said that the IG players are strong, a smile flashed across Yunge's mouth, and he also opened his mouth to tease and counterattack, "How about exchanging Xiao Leyan for Kanavi?"

"Should I change it? This is the champion jungler of the Spring Championship!"

Hearing Coach Yunge's words, Coach Hongmi was dumbfounded. He had never seen such a brazen person who could say such words.

If Coach Redmi really exchanged Kanavi for Xiao Leyan, he would be sprayed to death by netizens tomorrow. Although it seemed that the champion jungler was exchanged for the runner-up jungler, the performance of the two players in the finals was obvious to all.

But before Coach Hongmi had time to speak, Xiao Zhuge on the side started booing. He really likes to make things happen.

"Change, if it were me, I would definitely change it. I won the championship in the first year of my debut. Xiao Leyan has a bright future."

Coach Hongmi rolled his eyes in the group.Then Xiao Zhuge chose to climb up the pole, and actually wanted to hit the IG player's idea.

"By the way, how much is Ah Shui's transfer fee? We plan to have a strong AD player for the summer split. I think Ah Shui is pretty good."

"I bought it as a partner with the left hand. I have already thought of a name. Let's call it the Sailors. How about it? What's the price?"

This time it was Yun Ge's turn to roll his eyes, and he replied directly, "Don't ask, you can't afford it, Principal Wang is bleeding a lot this year, IG needs grades, so don't worry about it."

"Damn, is there any reason? Isn't this season not even eligible to drink soup?"

White Crescent heard that IG was winning the spring championship and still had to score. The expression on his face was a little more depressed. He felt that the current TES could not beat IG no matter what.

Coach Hongmi's face is also a little dignified. Although this is a competition in the competition area, the schedule has changed a bit. In previous years, the competition area played as a whole, and everyone won and lost.

But this year they did fight in groups, that is, they fought on their own, but because of the friendship formed in previous years, the four coaches in the LPL division still chose to discuss tactics together.

Of course, I will definitely have reservations, and I will not expose all my hole cards. At most, I will discuss how to deal with the LCK team and the strong heroes of the version.

"Why don't we discuss the lineup for the mid-season version first?"

Seeing that the other three coaches were making jokes, the honest man who has been diving, Warhorse, chose to end the farce and bring the topic back to the normal track.

"Actually, this version has not changed much from the spring split. I think we can pay attention to the hero EZ. Not only has there been a wave of small enhancements, but the ADCs in the LCK are all EZ masters."

Coach Redmi took the lead in expressing his own understanding of the current version. As long as JDG's tactics are not involved, he feels that discussing tactics with other coaches is nothing worth keeping.

"Yes, the performance of this version of EZ plus cat is very strong, the winning rate in the ranking is very high, and the ability to control the game in the later stage is very strong."

Coach Zhanma immediately chose to go along with Coach Hongmi. He also felt that EZ's choice might become a key hero in this mid-season game, and even named the auxiliary cat.

However, Yun Ge quickly poured cold water on the other three coaches. Although Ah Shui's EZ played well and was regarded as one of his natal heroes, EZ's priority in IG was too low.

Seeing that the other coaches had come up with their work, Yun Ge didn't hide it, and directly pointed out the problem of the combination of EZ and cat.

"This bot lane combo has good life-saving and output capabilities in team battles, but the laning is too weak, and it's easy to be targeted. Once you choose a hard support and strong control to directly jump the tower, EZ plus cat has no power to fight back at all. .”

"However, if you want to compete with the LCK team for development, you can still choose this combination. Anyway, their bot lane matchup strength is not high."

After listening to Yun Ge's words, the other three coaches immediately felt sore in their hearts, because these three teams had more or less problems with their bot lane.

"That's because you have Ah Shui. If you give Ah Shui to me, I can dismiss heroes like EZ."

Hearing that Yun Ge was filling cups in the group again, White Crescent finally couldn't help complaining that he was really envious of Ah Shui now, and he had a faint feeling in his heart that Ah Shui might be the last piece of the IG championship puzzle.

The bottom duo of TES and JDG lacks Kerry's ability, and FPX's AD player LWX is indeed not weak, but his state fluctuates too much.

Hearing Yun Ge's laning ability again, they once again envied the IG team's luxurious lineup. With Ah Shui sitting in the bottom lane, it's no wonder that IG didn't value the hero EZ at all.

It's just that the other three coaches chose to be careful at this time. Judging from Coach Yunge's tone, it should be that they don't pay much attention to the combination of EZ and cat. If they really encounter IG later, maybe they can try to target from this point.

However, the three of Redmi quickly realized that not only did IG not pay attention to EZ, but Aphelios with a strong version was also a dish in front of IG.

By the end of the spring split, Aphelios, who had been banned before, had been removed from IG's Ban position by coach Yunge, because IG proved through the game that they could indeed deal with Aphelios' lineup well.

Thinking of this, they became even more unhappy. Although the game had not yet started, the three coaches seemed to feel that the championship trophy had gone away from them.

In the ensuing exchange, the four coaches all felt that they had gained a lot, and they also made an appointment for the training match. In the week before the start of the match, their four teams were basically fighting against each other.

JDG has the heaviest task in the training match, because they are responsible for simulating the lineup and operation rhythm of LCK. This kind of thing can only be done by JDG, because both IG and TES are reckless people who like to fight, and FPX's tactical system comes from Doinb. , it is difficult for other teams to imitate.

After a few days of training, the other three coaches' evaluation of the IG players' strength has not changed, but Coach Yunge's BP is really bad.

In the previous games, Yunge's BP has been complained by netizens many times, but in the training match, IG's lineup is even more so.

Although Yun Ge said that he is not optimistic about EZ plus cats, but in order to cooperate with other teams' training, IG has also selected it several times, and the results are very good.

Ah Shui's EZ is difficult to target in the early stage of development, and there is basically no pressure to output in the later team battles. A hero with flexible output like EZ is really suitable for Ah Shui, and Baolan's cat is also very strong.

In a sense, choosing cats for Baolan is a kind of strengthening of IG, and Baolan, who plays soft assistants, is still very trustworthy.

Seeing Ah Shui EZ's strong performance, and thinking of Coach Yunge's disdain for EZ, the teeth of the other three coaches finally became sore.

For the audience who didn't watch the game, this half month was very difficult, but for the IG players, the time passed in a blink of an eye.

This is why online games are better. It saves the time of running around. Without going out, IG players don't even feel the tension before the game.

Although he rested for half a month, in this week's training match, the IG players' feeling did not fluctuate too much, because the IG players are not idle every day.

Even though Yunge didn't arrange training tasks for them, during this period of time, the IG players would still rank about ten games a day, but they didn't work as hard as usual.

After a week of training games, Yunge feels that IG's current state is no different from that of the Spring Split, and they are fully ready for the upcoming games.

At the end of May, the Mid-Season Champions Cup will be held as scheduled. Eight teams from LPL and LCK will be divided into two groups.

As the top seeds, IG and SKT were of course assigned to different groups. The opponents of IG's group were DRX, Samsung and JDG who had just lost to IG in the finals.

After seeing this grouping, Coach Hongmi's face turned dark, and he felt faintly in his heart that he might have to live in the shadow of IG this year.

In another group, SKT's opponents are TES, FPX, and DWG. Since the group stage only played one round, the Bo1 game's error tolerance rate is very low, and no one knows whether it will overturn.

Especially the Bo1 of the LPL team often has problems. In the group stage of the World Championship, the teams in the LPL division are very uncomfortable with the Bo1 game, and they often advance second.

On the contrary, the LCK, which is good at operation, is very stable in BO1 games, even more stable than the European division, which mainly plays Bo1. LCK teams are abusive in the group stage of the World Championship.

But no matter what, the result of the game will not be known until the end of the game. After waiting for more than half a month, the audience is a little impatient.

In particular, many people are very interested in the grievances between IG and SKT. Now everyone can see that IG has launched an impact on LOL's triple crown. Once IG successfully wins the world championship this year, it means that IG will Overtake SKT to become the most legendary team.

Compared with SKT's Triple Crown, the gold content of consecutive defending is obviously higher, so no matter what, SKT will do its best to prevent IG from winning this year's world championship.

Although the current Mid-Season Cup has nothing to do with the world, as long as it can hit IG's arrogance, it is a good thing for SKT. Unfortunately, after losing to IG in the World Finals, SKT, which returned to the LCK division, was not affected. He won the spring championship cleanly.

Therefore, the confrontation between IG and SKT will not be seen in the group stage. The audience can only look forward to the next knockout match, where IG and SK will have another fierce confrontation.

But the premise is that the two teams can successfully break through the group stage. Each group has four teams and plays three rounds. That is, even if they win two games, as long as they lose one game, they still have the possibility of being eliminated.

If there are three 2-1 teams, there will be a play-off, and if they make a mistake, they will be out. This may be the charm of Bo1, and it is easy to get upset.

(End of this chapter)