As long as the wages are in place, all champions will be crushed to pieces

Chapter 122 The grouping situation of the World Championship
Mafa works with the team members to clarify the priorities of the current version.

"Then the blue side has such an advantage." Li Feifan suddenly realized, "Calista occupies a fixed ban position, so naturally there is one less ban position, and the blue side can also grab the strongest soft support."

"That's right!" Mafa nodded.

Incense burner monsters also have strengths and weaknesses. The strongest one is definitely Feng Nu, which can provide a shield. The shield can also increase the ADC's attack power, and can also increase the movement speed of teammates. The most terrifying thing is Feng Nu's huge power. The move can take into account both protection and blood recovery!

The group's blood recovery is equivalent to the group's buffing effect of [Blazing Incense Burner] on teammates.

The second is Lulu. Lulu can also provide shields. Although it cannot add panel attack power to the ADC, Pixar can help output and create additional magic damage, and Lulu can also increase the movement speed and attack speed of teammates. The only disadvantage is The point is... Lulu's buffs are all single-target, and her protective ability is not as strong as Feng Nu's.

In addition to these two heroes, other heroes who can set up shields are also fine, but compared with these two top-level incense burner monsters, they are far behind.

"Feng Nu, Lulu, Karma, Luo... these four heroes need to be paid attention to. Luo can be paired with Xia, and Luo also has a strong ability to start a group, which can add an extra group starting point." Mafa added He said, "And if Karma can hit the target, maybe we can produce a double incense burner monster by then?"

"No." Li Feifan shook his head, "You said... if Karma swings to the middle lane, can there be some other heroes in the bottom lane? For example, a Japanese girl or something to coordinate with the jungler to deal with the opponent's soft support ?”

"Our incense burner monster is Karma in the middle. Karma can eat troops and develop in the middle. The incense burner monster on the opposite side is an auxiliary. We can catch him without thinking. In this way, we can make the incense burner first and lead the opponent in the overall rhythm. ??”

Mafa and Tabe couldn't help but widen their eyes after hearing Li Feifan's words, as if it was still the same.

"Tabe and I have been studying it carefully in the past few days. Besides... our understanding of the game may not be correct. Each team has its own understanding of the World Championship version. We still have to wait until the World Championship starts to determine it." Mafa emphasized.

This is just IG’s own understanding of the World Championship version based on its own division and version updates.

No one can be sure that they have the answer to the version before the game officially starts.

It can also be seen from Riot's repeated sideways jumps in response to the changes to [Blazing Incense Burner]. They seem to think that although this item is very powerful, it is not as powerful as a supermodel?

Otherwise, why would this value be adjusted back in 7.17 after some nerfs were made in 7.18? ?
You don’t really believe in conspiracy theories. This year’s World Championship will be held in the LPL region. The LPL region has the largest number of League of Legends players in the world. The attention this time around the World Championship is also unprecedented!

In addition, LPL will officially launch alliances next year. Tengjing and Riot Games definitely hope to detonate this wave of domestic traffic, let major capitals get involved, and thoroughly commercialize LPL.

What is the easiest way to generate traffic?

That would definitely allow the teams in the LPL division to win the championship.

From S3 to S6, Koreans have won the championship for four consecutive years. Riot Games has long been fed up with this situation. If any project is monopolized by a certain division for a long time, it will only make the audience tired.

The LPL division is generally recognized as having a strong bottom lane, so... it is very reasonable to deliberately leave a super model equipment like the Censer Monster to the LPL for use.

of course……

This is just a conspiracy theory.

A more reliable statement is that Riot Games’ attention is all on the LCK division, and it’s not popular in the LCK to play soft assistants to create incense burner monsters. People are learning the Dragon Ball model, using tool men in the bottom lane to fight around the top jungle. .

Riot Games is definitely eyeing South Korea, the championship region, to weaken it.

You are a stinky fourth division in the LPL, do you deserve to have people target you? ?
Before the game officially starts, who can be sure that the playing style and tactics of the LPL division are correct? ?
It took some time for the team members to digest it, but Baolan became the easiest one.

"Gan, I envy Brother Lan." Prince Ning curled his lips, "As long as you live, you don't have to do anything."

"Then how about I do the jungle and you come to assist?" Bao Lan rolled her eyes, "I'll tell you later that I won't join a team with you, hehe, hehe, we don't have to join a team in the future!"

"Isn't this good?" Li Feifan suddenly said, "From now on, King Ning, Brother Sha and Lao Song will start a group with you. If you think about it this way, don't you feel much more comfortable? This is not a relief. "

"Huh?" Bao Lan was stunned for a moment, then his eyes became sharp, "What do you mean!"

"Hahahaha!" Li Feifan and Prince Ning looked at each other and smiled, but did not say anything further.

On September 9th, teams from the North American and European divisions, as well as teams from the wild card division, have come to China one after another to adapt to the environment in advance and conduct preparation training.

In fact, Europe and the United States also know this.

They won't get any improvement at all by playing scrims against each other.

In fact, any viewer who pays attention to professional competitions will have a doubt, and that is why when occasionally watching the North American and European divisions, especially the European division leagues, they feel that they are novices pecking each other, even in the group stage of the World Championship. In one round, the European competition will be outrageous.

But the European team has the highest probability of succeeding in a counterattack in the second round of the group stage, which is a huge improvement.

What's the reason?

Very simple.

There is no shortage of talented players in Europe, but what they lack is a rigorous and high-intensity training environment.

The training intensity in the European competition is very low, and the North American competition is even more ridiculously low. Why are many well-known Korean players assimilated immediately after arriving in the North American competition within one season? ?

You only play one rank game a week as training, and the rest of the time you're either working out or having parties. In such an environment, even if your talent is as good as Faker's, you won't be able to show it to your best advantage.

and……

The environment will assimilate people. E-sports players themselves are too young and have little self-control. In such an environment, it is natural for them to be quickly assimilated and degraded.

During the World Championship, they can schedule training matches with the LPL and LCK, the two most popular divisions, to greatly improve their strength. In addition, the European coaching staff is particularly strong, which can always help the team to figure it out quickly. Version.

The first ones to figure out the version every year are actually the European regions...

On the contrary, LCK's ability to adapt to the version is even weaker than that of LPL. However, LCK relies on its operating system to guarantee a lower limit even if it is an inverse version, leaving enough time for itself to slowly adapt to the version, so LCK can always have the last laugh.

Mafa has been waiting too!
He is waiting for the finals and group stage, and plans to watch the European Division's understanding of the version. If the European Division also pays attention to the Incense Burner Monster... then it will prove that IG's understanding of the version is correct in the general direction, and then IG will coach All the team has to do is develop various tactics around the incense burner.

At the same time, I will study some unpopular heroes to see if they can be combined with the incense burner to achieve a black technology effect!
As players from various major competition areas came to China, the top of the canyon, which was specially designed to provide training for foreign players during the World Championships, began to become lively.

In order to gain traffic, major anchors began to target professional players one after another, and all the IDs of those professional players were captured.

but……

The most important thing now is the grouping situation!
May 9st!
The much-anticipated group draw ceremony for the 2017 League of Legends Global Finals group stage will officially begin live broadcast! !

All major live broadcast platforms will broadcast it in real time.

The lottery ceremony is divided into two parts, the first draw grouping of the qualifying rounds. In order to further expand the influence of this year’s World Championship, Riot directly expanded the scale of the entire wild card division, mainly last year’s two wild card rounds during the group stage. The performance greatly stimulated the fist!
ANX directly entered the quarterfinals as a wild card!
Although INTZ, which has the Brazilian Saint Monk, failed in the group stage, it also had the feat of defeating EDG, the No. [-] seed team in the five major regions.

This year Riot Games has modified the competition system. Before the start of the group stage, there will be a play-in tournament. The participating teams in the play-in tournament are teams from the wild card divisions around the world.

At the same time, in order to make the qualifying competition more intense and exciting.

In addition to the third seed in the LCK, the third seeds in the three major regions of LPL, North America, and Europe will start from the playoffs and compete with other wild card regions for four tickets to the main group stage!
"Hurry up, hurry up!!"

All IG members were waiting in the training room immediately, watching the grouping together.

Today’s officially invited lottery guests are IM team’s top laner AmazingJ and OMG’s ADC player Sima Laothi.

The two of them have to draw the grouping status of the qualifying rounds first.

There are a total of 12 teams, divided into 4 groups, and then they will play the group stage first, and then the first place in the group will play the second place in another group. The winner will qualify for the main draw!
The final division situation is out, because the three top league teams EDG, C9, and Fnatic will not meet in the play-in group. In fact... the results of the play-in game were already known the moment they came out of the group.

EDG, C9, and Fnatic are all well-known and strong teams. Are they going to kill a group of unknown wild card teams? ?
For the other nine teams in the wild card division, their only hope is to avoid the group where these three teams are located. Because there are only three teams, one group is destined to not have a top league team, and that is what they are competing for. The group with the most promising qualifications for the main draw, if it takes first place in this group, will not encounter these three teams in the subsequent knockout rounds, thus getting a ticket for the main draw.

[Ouch, Riot is always thinking about your team in the B wild card division. Who wants to watch this? 】

[I want to see Xiao IG’s grouping! ! 】

【Main match!Main race!Main race! !Can't you just stop dawdling! ! 】Fortunately, the officials also knew that the qualifying rounds could not attract spectators, so they quickly came to the official draw of the group stage.

All teams are divided into three seed pools.

The No. 2 seed pool is the No. [-] seeds in each major competition area, namely Longzhu, G[-], IG and Flash Wolves.

Flash Wolves is the No. [-] seed in the LMS division, and TSM is the No. [-] seed in the North American division. Why can the Flash Wolves enter the No. [-] seed pool?

Mainly because North America's performance in the past few years has been too poor. Riot Games is divided based on the overall results of the World Championships in the past two years. North America has the worst performance. Therefore, even though TSM is the No. [-] seed in North America, it cannot enter the group stage. The No. [-] seed pool must be assigned to the No. [-] seed pool.

The second seed pool is those teams that directly advance to the main draw, namely SKT, Samsung, RNG, AHQ, GAM, MSF, TSM, and IMT, a total of eight teams.

The teams in the third seed pool are the four teams that advanced from the play-in rounds. Since the play-in rounds have not yet started, the group stage draw ceremony this time is only a temporary division into the first and second seed pools.

At the same time, teams in the same division will be avoided in the group stage and will not appear in the same group.

The lottery guests are still AmazingJ and Sima Laothief.

Under the attention of everyone, the expressionless old thief Sima came to the stage, took out a gashapon from the glass jar, then unscrewed it, and opened the small piece of paper with the team's logo printed on it, and presented it to the audience. before! !

"The team assigned to Group A is...the IG team!" The people responsible for the commentary of the group stage draw ceremony were Guan Zeyuan and Wang Yiji.

"Actually, we don't see much in the draw of the No. [-] seed team. It mainly depends on the No. [-] seed." Wang remembers talking about it, "The two Korean teams in the No. [-] seed pool are quite strong, so we should try to avoid them."

quickly!

The second team to be drawn was the Dragon Ball team from South Korea. They were placed in Group B.

The third one is the G2 team in the European division. They are placed in Group C.

Then the last one is the Flash Wolves team in the LMS division. They are assigned to Group D!
Next is the final draw ceremony for the teams in the second seed pool! !
"No SKT! No SKT! No Samsung! No Samsung!!" Su Xiaoluo clasped his hands together like a dancing master and started to mutter.

Although IG showed strong strength, its results in training matches with the Korean team were not ideal.

After all, the teams in the Korean Division in the past few years have been really strong.

For two consecutive years, the finals of the World Championship have turned into a civil war for them. Teams in any division will be flustered when facing the Korean team, and they will be inferior to others in terms of momentum.

"You asked me to say this, let me say it! Just beat SKT, SKT is awesome, they are the ones doing it! If you have the guts to come to the group stage and have a try with us!" Li Feifan had a different idea, "As long as our The goal is to be the champion, so these people are the ones we must defeat! What’s the difference between meeting them early or meeting them late?”

"Or do you expect others to eliminate these strong teams and let us pick up the slack? If they can defeat SKT, it means that they themselves are also very strong. I think... there is nothing to be afraid of. Come all! Let’s have a try in the group stage !”

"That's right!" Prince Ning also refused to admit defeat, "If you are afraid of a hammer, you will fight with them!!"

IG's group of people... not many serious people have played against SKT at all, because they have never been to the World Championship.

The only one with experience in fighting is Song Yijin.

Skillful.

In S4, Song Yijin directly defeated faker in a solo, and he didn't feel any fear of faker.

This also leads to the fact that the entire IG team is not afraid of the name SKT.

I don’t know if the light is on.

With a smile on AmazingJ's face, the first piece of paper he opened was the SKT team logo, which was based on red. On both sides of the team logo were outstretched wings, indicating the club's take-off!

"SKT is divided into Group A, and they will meet IG in the group stage!" Guan Zeyuan exclaimed, "Huh? This... Group A has a tendency to be a group of death."

According to the rules of the competition system.

Every year one group becomes the veritable 'Group of Death'.

The criteria for judging the death group are simple.

If a group has no wild card teams and all four teams are from the top leagues, it has the potential to become a group of death.

Now?

Group A already has IG and SKT, two teams from the LPL and LCK divisions.

"What the hell?" Ning Wang and others also stared wide-eyed, "Lao Li, have you ever opened your mouth? Did you really beat SKT??"

The IG players were also completely dumbfounded. It wasn't that they felt scared, they just felt it was outrageous.

The draw ceremony continues. The second seed IMT from North America is divided into Group B and Longzhu. South Korea's Samsung team is divided into Group C and G2. The second seed Rabbit Team from Europe is placed in Group B. Team D of Flash Wolves.

What matters is the second round draw.

"TSM should be the strongest among the remaining teams. RNG will not be able to meet it according to the avoidance principle of the group stage in the same division. I think it is better to meet AHQ and GAM... Although AHQ is not as strong as before, it is still coming out of the regular league. ." Guan Zeyuan told the general situation.

Group A can only draw three teams: TSM, AHQ and GAM.

Among them, TSM should be the strongest, followed by AHQ, and finally the Vietnamese team GAM in the Southeast Asia Division.

It was old thief Sima's turn to draw lots.

Still without a trace of a smile on his face, he pulled out the gashapon and unscrewed it.

The edge of the note is still red, and among these teams, the only one with a red team logo is the AHQ team, the red Pegasus.

"Ah...AHQ was placed in Group A, which is okay, at least it's not TSM." Guan Zeyuan breathed a sigh of relief.

But Wang Ji remembered saying, "It's a bit bad... Group A only has teams from the LPL, LCK and LMS divisions, so that means C9 and Fnatic in the qualifying rounds may be assigned to Group A. If so, If these two teams are assigned to Group A, then Group A will be the group of death, right?"

The crowd reacted.

Yup!

C9 and Fnatic are tough guys!
Especially C9.

Known as the Glory of North America, North America has been a fig leaf for the past few years, and its foreign war results have always been the best in North America.

Fnatic's lineup is also very strong, with Ou Cheng in the bottom lane and Caps in the middle, who is called Europe's best mid laner by fans.

Neither team is good at it.

The final grouping situation is out.

Group A: IG, SKT, AHQ.

Group B; Longzhu, IMT, GAM.

Group C: G2, Samsung, RNG.

Group D: Flash Wolves, Rabbitohs, TSM.

Judging from this group situation, the two groups that are most likely to become the death group are A and C. The details will depend on the final results of the qualifying rounds.

　Enter the World Championship now!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)