I'm the strongest mid laner

Chapter 367 Against the enemy WE
"Which team do you like, Brother Lang?" JackeyLove looked at Chen Lang beside him and asked.

Today's game is the two teams in Group A, VG and IM.

There are a total of 8 teams in the playoffs, of which Group A is VG, IM, WE and CP.

Group B is IG, snake, EDG and RNG.

Among them, VG, IM and IGsnake are the opponents in the first round of the playoffs.

It is worth mentioning that this year PDD's YM lost to IM in the LSPL final, and thus failed to win the LSPL Spring Championship, and failed to win the opponent in the relegation match. In the end, they were only a short distance away from the LPL.

It's a pity that he still failed to make it to the LPL stage, and practiced again in LSPL in the summer split.

And IM is the name changed after being marked with LPL. The club was formerly EDE, which is the second team of EDG.

Because of Riot's regulations, a club cannot have two teams in the league, so EDE was sold.

Among them, the IM mid laner is the mid laner Athena who briefly replaced pawn in the EDG Spring Split.

At the beginning, he helped EDG reach the final of the German Cup, and then was beaten by Chen Lang in three games. It was the first time that EDG failed to win the German Cup.

The loss of the game is certainly not all because of Athena's problems.

After all, how many mid laners can meet Chen Lang without being suppressed?
Athena also played for a while in the spring split, until Pawn returned after her health recovered, and Athena was put back into the LSPL's second team to play mid laner again.

IM was able to enter the LPL playoffs in the first season, which also shows that their team's potential and strength are not bad.

There are no star players in the team, and the most well-known ones are amazingJ and Athena, two people who once played in EDG.

However, the circumstances of the two are very similar, and they both fell from the LPL league to the secondary league in the end.

amazingJ's performance in S5 was impressive, and he became famous because he was "the crocodile beats the promise, and the promise beats the crocodile" by marin.
"Let's IM." Chen Lang thought for a while and replied.

"Why?" JackeyLove was a little surprised.

In terms of strength on paper, VG is much stronger than IM.

Regardless of the resumes, abilities, or aspects of the players, VG has more advantages than IM.

"I think IM is more like a team." Chen Lang replied: "Their decision-making and operations are very consistent, and the team coordination is better."

In many cases, this game is not necessarily greater than 1 if it is not 1+2. The OMG of the S5 Spring Split is a good illustration of this point.

This is a team game with limited resources, so someone on the team has to sacrifice.

Some people are willing to be green leaves to set off the red flowers. If no one wants to sacrifice themselves, then there will be insufficient resources, and there will inevitably be many conflicts within the team.

Another point is that in order to prevent the S5 "Oscar" scene in this playoffs, the teams that meet in the first round of the playoffs will automatically win a game according to their ranking in the regular season.

IM's points in the regular season are higher than VG's, so IM is equal to a 1-0 lead at the beginning.

If VG wants to win the game, it needs to win three hands, while IM only needs to win two hands.

For BO5, leading by one game has a huge advantage.

For the IM team, Chen Lang has watched many of their games. There are no big-name players in the team, and the players are all working hard to win. It is easier to succeed in this environment.

But VG is different. Ever since Mata and Death announced their break, the atmosphere of the team has become more subtle.

The ADCs playing right now are not as strong as Death Sentence, but he can still play as a starter.

Perhaps in the view of the management, the role of AD is to hang up and play output, and they put all their hopes on the pair of Han Yuan Nakano, dandy and easyhoon!

One is the SSW champion jungler, and the other is the S5 runner-up substitute mid laner. The strength of these two players is relatively much stronger than the average player.

And as a position that requires communication and tacit understanding, both of them are Koreans, so the communication is smoother than that of Chinese and Korean players, and it is easier to cooperate.

It's just a pity that VG's record is not particularly outstanding.

Last summer, VG also entered the playoffs, although it was a round trip.

VG's current situation is also inseparable from their management.

The strength of the players is one thing, and the management of the club is another matter, which can definitely affect the player's state and performance on the spot.

At present, the best management of the LPL club is the management of EDG.

There is also a system of clear rewards and punishments for caring players.

Therefore, the team atmosphere of EDG has always been good.

Although the club has "a lot of notoriety", in fact, for EDG players, they still receive a lot of protection and encouragement.

JackeyLove leaned back on the gaming chair with his head in his hands, and then stretched.

"I didn't expect the lineup of VG to play so hard."

Xiao Tian nodded and said, "Yeah, I think they should be a very strong team, but it's a bit strange."

This point, when they were opponents, Xiaotian had a clear feeling.

Obviously dandy plays very aggressively, and sometimes VG can get an advantage, but something goes wrong for no reason, and then the advantage is gone.

"Actually, they just don't fit together." Chen Lang said, "It looks like a good lineup, but the players' styles of play are different, so they can't effectively complement each other."

"easyhoon is a more stable player, and dandy is a jungler who prefers rhythm and offense. He likes to invade the jungle and play the early rhythm, but this is exactly the rhythm that easyhoon is not good at."

"And VG's support is not mata, so he can't form an effective cooperation with him, so Dandy is often isolated in the wild, and his style of play will actually drag down the team."

"It seems to be like this." JackeyLove recalled the previous game, and it was true.

They saw dandy invading the bottom lane wild area. At that time, JackeyLove thought that the opponent was coming to cover him, so he and lqs hurriedly retreated.

As a result, there was no one behind Dandy, which frightened him in vain.

Then he called Xiaotian to catch dandy in the wild area. Dandy encountered a gank in the wild area, and the VG duo had to go to support them. As a result, Shimonosuke was all killed, and the VG rhythm exploded.

Chen Lang said with a smile: "So, most of the time, players have to adapt to the rhythm of their teammates and the team."

"Either change yourself to integrate into the team, or let the team adapt to you!"

"It makes sense." Xiao Tian agreed with Chen Lang's words very much.

The former is the practice of ordinary players, follow the team to do things, as long as they do what they are supposed to do.

The latter is the style of play of strong players, because they are strong enough and have the ability to end the game, and can lead the team to victory, so they can let the team play around themselves.

Such as sofm.

Snake is the first team to develop a game around the jungle, which also shows SS's recognition of sofm.

Another example is UZI, no matter which team he goes to, he will let the team guarantee four and one. On the one hand, his strong strength can give the team the bottom line, and if he is given enough resources, he can win the game.

On the other hand, it may also be related to his personality. If you play around him, you will be happy, but if you don't play around him, you will get angry, which will hurt the team.

But after joining RNG, his personality has improved a lot, and he is no longer as irritable as before.

The looper and mata in the team are no worse than him in terms of honor or strength, and he can no longer be as willful as before.

Sometimes, it may not be a good thing to have such an old player in the team.

Of course, there are exceptions.

Such as IG.

The team's style of play is very strange, people can not understand.

Obviously rookie has the ability to compete alone, but IG just doesn't play around him, but needs rookie to match the rhythm of the team
IG's game depends on the performance of Rookie and Gemini. If Rookie's kill is slower than Gemini's delivery, then IG's game will be lost.

On the contrary, you can win.

Therefore, the audience ridiculed the IG club one after another, and also felt that Principal Wang is really a good boss, so that the two players are not expelled, and they are raised, which is really benevolent!
KID is an old problem, not a technical problem, the mentality problem is too serious.

In fact, kid wanted to win the game very much. He switched to a jungler for the team in the summer split, and his desire to survive was much stronger than his posture.

Compared with kids who will admit mistakes, posture is often the person who leads the teammates and the rhythm of the team. The dish is not aware of it and is stubborn. This makes many IG fans very dissatisfied. They are looking for top orders and forcing the posture. Walk.

As Chen Lang said, IM directly banned the card, and then snatched the ice girl.

The ban card is to prevent VG from playing support, and the same is true for the Ice Girl, and the Ice Girl of easyhoon plays very well, which can be regarded as a substitute for ban.

Athena's personal strength is not bad, and the current version of the Tsar is not a particularly good choice.

All IM does is to trap easyhoon in lane and prevent him from playing too much with dandy.

easyhoon chose Karma, but the effect is still different.

In the end, IM won the first game after a fierce battle.

"VG is difficult."

After the first round, Chen Lang shook his head.

"What's wrong?" JackeyLove and the others looked at Chen Lang with puzzled expressions.

It's only the first game, how come it looks like VG will definitely be eliminated?
Chen Lang said lightly: "Momentum is very important. IM's victory in the first round is a chance for their team's morale to increase, while VG will fall into a trough."

"Isn't it going to be with you?" lqs asked doubtfully, "They're all old players, and they're not newcomers, so the state adjustment shouldn't be that bad, right?"

JackeyLove and others nodded in agreement.

Chen Lang smiled, instead of answering lqs' question directly, he asked in a different way.

"We lost the game, you should feel sad in your heart, right?"

The crowd nodded.

Chen Lang continued to ask: "Then what if the opponent is RNG or EDG?"

JackeyLove responded quickly: "They are not weak, and it is normal to win or lose."

"Yes." Chen Lang nodded: "Because our strengths are not much different, no matter we win or lose, everyone can accept it. This is also the construction of psychological expectations."

"But what if the opponent you lose to is OMG or LGD?"

"That's difficult." JackeyLove hesitated and replied with a wry smile.

RNG and EDG are teams with the ability to compete for the championship, while OMG and LGD are teams at the tail end of the crane, which cannot be compared at all!
OMG focuses on cultivating newcomers, and basically doesn't value performance anymore.

Of course, LGD has nothing to do. The lineup they wanted to go for the championship has achieved this record, but the double kings are really "king bombs"!
OMG is starting to train the rookie mid laner icon and AD player smlz, and their eyes are on the next season!
"Similarly, compared to VG's lineup and players, IM is a sub-league team. Although it has entered the playoffs, its background is still not as good as that of LPL teams, let alone VG [Galaxy]. Battleship]'s lineup!"

"VG players and IM players have completely different mentality when fighting."

"For IM, making it to the playoffs and winning any game is a blood profit, but VG definitely doesn't want to lose. Once they lose the game, the players' inner pressure will be very high, and there is no solution to this problem. of."

In the game, when the player's mentality has problems and cannot be adjusted, it is basically difficult to win the game.

To put it simply, VG has burdens, so every time a game is lost, the pressure in the players' hearts will increase day by day, while IM is a "civilian" lineup, they don't have any pressure, they have momentum, so they can work harder!
When the players have an indomitable momentum and are fearless, their combat effectiveness will be greatly improved.

Chen Lang and the others entered the LPL league just like IM. When the team wins in a row, the players will become more and more confident and their operations will be better.

And when the team falls into a losing streak, the atmosphere in the team will deteriorate, and the players will become self-doubting, hesitant, and even dare not operate, only dare to play conservatively.

The first thing they think of is not how to win the game, but how to not take the blame.

If you don't do something, you won't do anything wrong. The more you do, the more mistakes you will make.
Sure enough, as Chen Lang said, although VG managed to win a round, they were defeated by IM one after another. In the end, IM3-1
In the next few rounds, IM always implemented this idea, and did not give VG a synergy effect. AmazingJ's fighter level in the top lane is poor, but he plays tank tank very well.

He has a very keen sense of smell in team fights and is always able to drive a good team.

IM finally defeated VG 3-1 and advanced to the second round of the playoffs!

Unfortunately, VG's journey to the playoffs stopped here.

After the match, easyhoon and dandy left the arena very sadly.

Before leaving the stage, easyhoon looked back at the IM people on the stage receiving cheers and the bright lights again, feeling extremely lonely in his heart.

I left SKT because I wanted to prove myself.

However, this year's journey ends here.

Not even being able to break into the World Championships was really hard for him to accept but had to accept this cruel reality.

He and Marin are in a similar situation. Both of them wanted to start another journey in their careers in LPL. Who ever thought that it would end at the beginning.

One failed to enter the playoffs, and the other made a round trip. For them, this year was a very bad year.

"IM is very resilient!" JackeyLove sat up from the chair stretching after watching the game.

"Hmm." lqs nodded.

VG once gained a very large advantage, but IM resisted tenaciously, and finally completed the comeback after being broken in two lanes.

"amazingJ's cut-in timing is really strong!" Xiaotian said.

In the team battle that decided the outcome, amazingJ's Bobby double-teamed everyone in VG and drove to the C position, which was the main contributor to IM's ability to win the team battle!
"We have to be vigilant about IM's vision." JackeyLove and Xiaotian were discussing the layout of IM's vision.

The important reason why amazingJ was able to successfully go around the back was that the previously arranged field of view was very tricky, and VG couldn't get rid of it, which caused this situation.

Lqs and Xiaotian, the pair of Nosuke, are the main characters in controlling the field of vision, so they are more careful about the field of vision control of IM.

Seeing their serious faces, Chen Lang smiled and said, "Don't worry, whether IM can pass WE is still a question."

Now 2.0WE can be described as very powerful!
Actually speaking, compared with IM, they can be regarded as a "brand new" team.

It's just that they have experienced in the LPL for a year, while IM is a team that has just been promoted from the LSPL.

"Yes." JackeyLove said with a smile.

WE's potential and strength are relatively stronger than IM, at least from the current state and record, WE is better than IM.

There were no miracles in Group B. IG was swept by snake.

Kid, who was directly beaten by the Vietnamese bandits in the wild, ran around with his head in his arms. Ueno joined forces, and Holy Gun and sofm smashed the twin stars of Gesture and kid.

Last year, rookie tried his best to lead IG into the playoffs, so that Principal Wang didn't have to fulfill his "promise" to eat shit.

Today, rookie can no longer continue to lead the team to create miracles.

The disintegration of IG is inevitable in the eyes of the public.

Except for the mid laner, the performance of the other four positions is not satisfactory.

On August 8, the match between WE and IM was held as scheduled.

The two sides fought fiercely for five rounds, and IM's tenacity exceeded everyone's expectations.

Before the game, it was generally optimistic that WE could win the game, but the two sides played extremely anxiously.

Even in the fifth game, WE has a huge advantage in the early stage. They are a high-explosive lineup and play very strong in the early and mid-term, while IM is a late-stage lineup.

In the end, relying on the huge advantages created in the early stage, WE relied on the increase of the buff of the ancient dragon, wiped out IM in a wave, and won the game!
WE entered the regional finals and will face CP on August 8th!

(End of this chapter)