LPL’s legendary female devil

Chapter 386 IG's Fire-Forged Iron Lineup (Two-in-One)

The next day.

The debuff unique to girls has finally passed, and An Yi feels refreshed.

After playing two Rank games to warm up her hands, An Yi, who had put on makeup, followed her teammates to the competition venue.

At this time, the LPL players and coaches had already gathered in the lounge. An Yi greeted them immediately when she saw them: "Good morning."

The factory manager and others responded enthusiastically, but the coaches were all holding their BP boards in deep thought.

An Yi walked over with the soy milk and saw that Abu and the other three team coaches had dark circles under their eyes.

Startled, she asked, "Coach Abu, did you guys not sleep well last night?"

Hearing this, Abu gave him a doting yet helpless look: "I stayed up all night because of your tactics."

The girl tilted her head innocently, and Coach Heart showed the evidence of the crime to Aki.

After yesterday's game, the LCK and LMS teams immediately started playing Xayah and Rakan in the mid and jungle, and even used them in training games.

This sends a very clear signal that they have initially mastered the tactics of this game.

An Yi thought that this style of play would definitely be copied once it was released, but he didn't expect it to be cracked so quickly in just one night.

But if you look at it from another angle, it makes much more sense.

I saw that the teams that used Xayah and Rakan in the training matches were basically those who had previously practiced with Blademaster Gryphon or Graves and Braum.

It cannot be said that there is no difference between these sets of playing styles. It can only be said that they are exactly the same. The only difference is that the hero is changed.

Not to mention one night, if you have some proficiency in the heroes, you can just play a couple of ranked games to get familiar with the rhythm and then you can play.

After all, you can get started with this thing just by farming the jungle and last hitting, and it doesn't require any technical skills.

This is also the biggest headache for LPL coaches.

Because several of their teams are centered on the bottom lane, and have never used tactics like the Gem Swordmaster as a prelude.

Now that Xayah and Rakan mid and jungle have been brought out by IG, this has become a tactic that can be used by some teams from other regions, but cannot be used in the LPL due to insufficient tactical reserves.

An Yi was speechless: Is our LPL's tactics so simple, without any expansion at all?

Abu didn’t know what An Yi was thinking at the moment, he just saw Kkoma and Mafa leisurely standing aside.

The two watched the training situation of the domestic and foreign regions on the BP board with great interest, and even drank a few sips of soy milk when they saw something exciting.

Niu Niu was puzzled: "Coach Kkoma, Coach Mafa, why don't you worry about tactical issues at all?"

Kkoma was puzzled: "Why should I worry? We still have An Yi."

Besides, what does the coach have to do with tactical formulation? Mature players should be able to solve the problem themselves.

Seeing the attitudes of these two people, the others understood that these two people really came here to order takeout.

But the game is about to begin and there is no time for them to adjust. Now we can only hope that the LCK side cannot adapt to the new tactics overnight.

But they ultimately underestimated LCK's ability to adapt to tactics!
The first game was between EDG and KT. KT on the red side picked Xayah and Rakan in two consecutive games.

At this time, Xayah and Rakan can switch between mid, jungle and bottom support. EDG is unsure, so they dare not counter rashly and can only play it safe and choose EZ.

But without any pressure, KT chose a double shooter and double support system of Xayah and Rakan in the mid and jungle + Kassadin.

There were two shooters, one AD damage and one AP damage, plus Ornn who was protecting the lane. They easily defeated EDG in the late stage of development.

Yesterday, they were 4-0, but today they suffered their first defeat in the first game. This was a heavy blow to the LPL, and many comments were posted:

"When it comes to disappointing people, EDG never disappoints."

"Isn't this the mid and jungle Kasumi and Rakan developed by Honko? LCK copied it, right?"

"It has always been imitated but never surpassed. This is the first time I see LCK copying LPL's tactics."

"EDG was careless. If they had known about it, they shouldn't have let Xayah and Rakan go."

At this time, everyone only saw EDG's failure.

Only Aki saw the team that defeated EDG, and his name was .KT!

But this is not the KT that has been tempered for 23 years. Today's KT is the strongest form of the Galaxy Battleship.

It's outrageous that Smeb, Score, Ucal, Deft, and Mata can get together.

As the team that almost defeated IG in S8, although it is only the third seed at this time, it is still a little-known fact.
In the original history of the Asian competition, KT's winning rate was 100%, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is the hidden number one seed.

So EDG’s loss was not unfair at all. Even if KT didn’t have the so-called Xayah and Rakan mid and jungle, it would still be difficult for EDG to win.

But the fans didn't understand, and by accident they put the blame on An Yi, thinking that her tactics were too shameless.

In the second game, RNG learned from their mistakes and removed Luo, but their opponent AFS learned from it and brought out the mid-jungle combination of Xayah + Braum.

As long as there is Xayah, the pushing machine, it doesn’t matter whether the support is Rakan or not.

Fortunately, RNG's hard power was strong enough to withstand the pressure and complete the counterattack, but Xia, who developed beyond the timeline, still caused them a lot of trouble.

Then the pressure was put on IG in the third game.

Since FW stole points from KZ, at this time, if IG as the No. 1 seed loses to LMS's No. 1 seed FW.

Then, if M17 defeats RW and MAD defeats KT at the same time, there is a theoretical possibility that LMS will overtake LPL and become the first in the group stage.

Although RW is the strongest fourth seed and KT is the strongest third seed, it is basically impossible for them to lose at the same time.

But if WBG can make it out of the Swiss round, what else is impossible?
Therefore, in order to not have to depend on others, the best way for LPL is to let IG defeat FW head-on, eliminate all suspense and secure first place.

So before the game, Abu looked at his disappointing son Mingkai with a sigh, and then put his hand on the shoulder of his goddaughter An Yi.

He said earnestly: "If we win this game, we will have a celebration party in advance. If we can't win, we still have RW to prepare for the game. Don't feel stressed."

After hearing this, An Yi smiled and said, "We will give everyone a place in the finals!"

This one sentence showed IG's determination, and after hearing it, Abu became more and more greedy.

Why isn't this player from our team?
With the farewell of teammates, IG walked into the stage channel.

Yu Shuang: "Next, let's welcome the No. 1 seed from LPL, IG!!!"

The cheers from outside the stadium reached the sky, sweeping away LPL’s brief defeat.

Because all LPL fans have a common understanding: IG is here! No surprises!
While watching IG take their seats in the competition booth, the FW players on the other side all looked unhappy.

They really want to say: How old are you!

Since S7 last year, Flash Wolves have been colliding with IG in the World Championship, MSI, Asian Games, and now they are colliding with IG in the Intercontinental Championship!

If the An Yi'er of LCK is KZ, then FW is the K of LMS. Both of them are the unlucky guys with a 0- win rate against IG.

It can be said that these two teams contributed at least half of IG's reputation as a phantom god in foreign wars.

To this end, Betty forced a smile and said: "Look who's here, oh, our old friend Miss An Yi!"

Snake: "I've seen this so many times that I almost thought we were an LPL team."

Seeing that the team's morale was not very high, Zhan Ma took the initiative to cheer them up: "Think about it from another perspective, running into IG may not be a bad thing."

"If we can beat the strongest IG, doesn't that mean we are the strongest team? What do you think, Brother Huang?"

Maple was very pleased. It was rare that Zhanma didn't ask "Brother Huang, what should we play?" this time.

As the pillar of the team, he agreed: "As long as we beat IG, we will have a chance to advance to the finals, so we must give it a try."

Top laner Hanabi and jungler Moojin both nodded in approval.

There is no absolute winner or loser in the game, and IG has lost small games before.

For the former glory of the LMS region, they must go all out in this battle!

The camera transmitted the fighting spirit of the FW members to the commentary booth.

Wawa: "Players from both teams have already appeared on the field. Next, our LPL No. 1 seed IG will play against LMS No. 1 seed FW!"

"If IG can win the game, the LPL region will lock in the top spot in the group stage in advance and advance directly to the finals. Otherwise, LMS has a theoretical chance to overtake."

Miller: "Well, you can see that the Flash Wolves players have fierce expressions. It may not be easy for IG to win this point. We have to be careful."

Ai Loli: "Especially Xayah and Rakan mid and jungle. LMS was practicing hard last night. I think this will be a key point for both sides to compete."

How will the two parties choose?
The BP phase officially begins!
FW on the blue side, IG on the red side!

Still, both sides believe that they have chosen the side that they are best at.

FW first took out Vampire, Crow, and Shen, targeting the swing heroes.

IG removed the three giants of the Intercontinental Championship: Taliyah, Nightmare, and Zoe.

Neither side touched Xayah and Rakan, and the game entered the first round. FW immediately locked onto Xayah, causing the LMS fans at the scene to scream.

Wawa worriedly said, "Xia is picked first. FW has plenty of tactics in reserve. It's possible that Xayah and Rakan will be picked mid and jungle."

"But we can't rule out the possibility of moving on instead of moving. It depends on what the IG coach thinks."

Kkoma didn't even bother to think about it and asked, "An Yi, what do you think?"

An Yi said: "We can wait and see. We will lock in Luo and take the Graves. The strong jungler has a way to counter Xia's jungler."

When the two heroes locked onto each other, Miller praised: "This is great. If you grab Rakan and the opponent doesn't have Xayah and Rakan, if your Xayah goes to the jungle, I will fight you with Graves to develop and invade."

"Aki has used the same strategy he used to deal with the Sword Combination on Kasumi."

Originally, Zhanma thought that stealing Xia would create a problem for the opponent, but he didn't expect IG to deal with it so easily.

At this time, Maple was still asking: "Coach, is Xia still playing jungle?"

Betty worriedly said, "I always feel that it is not a good strategy to fight IG with IG's ideas. Otherwise, I will use Xia to go down."

Zhanma had obeyed the players so many times, but this time he decided to make his own decision. He said, "First take Braum to keep the possibility of Xia as a jungler, and then take Mundo."

So FW made a quick choice.

The hero Mundo has now become the T0 tank of this version and can definitely be chosen first.

But after seeing it, The shy was also happy: "Zhao! He picked it out. Fight for me!"

An Yi suggested: "Then you can use Rambo to roast him. If the opponent's Xia is a jungler, it is equivalent to FW having no jungler, and you two will be 1v1 solo in the top lane."

1v1Solo in the top lane, without anyone disturbing you!

The shy couldn't refuse at all, and hurriedly said: "Come on! Let's roast him!"

Then he gave up on the Sword Demon and locked onto Rambo.

As soon as this hero appeared, the audience shouted: Behead him!
Some people can't C the enemy even when Rambo is at 6-0, while some people can kill the enemy even when Rambo explodes at level .

The latter is undoubtedly The shy. He has been the Rambo King since his debut and is absolutely professional in the field of roasting people.

The same goes for grilled shawarma. (Yes)
Even Miller praised: "The shy 90% win rate of Rambo! In the current version, only this man can play this kind of hero!"

When this choice came out, Hanabi suddenly felt that the Mundo in his hand was not so attractive anymore.

Entering the second round of moving people, IG moved away two junglers, Troll and Gragas, who had rhythm in the early stage and were not very afraid of Graves.

FW removed the two heroes Kaisa and Aatrox.

After all, with Rumble AP in the top lane, Aatrox still has a mid laner to go with.

Entering the first round of selection, Kkoma asked An Yi: "ADC or AP?"

An Yi said: "Let's send out the support first, and Rakan can be given to the mid lane." His teammates immediately understood that An Yi wanted the team to play Graves, Rakan, mid and jungle, which meant replacing Xayah with Rakan in the mid and jungle.

Ning said: "That's fine, I can just play Graves by myself, and there's no need for ADC to switch lanes."

kkoma thought about it, if their Graves and Luo are in the mid and jungle, they can counter it if the opponent's Xayah swings to the jungler.

In addition, even if the opponent does not waver, their tactics are very mature and they will have no problem beating ordinary junglers.

So Kkoma agreed: "Okay, then what kind of support do you want, An Yi?"

An Yi thought about it, and finally said a name that surprised everyone: "Female tank."

Currently, the ranking support is too strong, and this kind of forced support is not popular.

However, An Yi said: "I have a good choice for the bottom lane to cooperate with this hero."

Knowing that An Yi had his own little trick, Kkoma agreed.

When Leona was locked on, Miller responded: "I didn't understand it before, but I understand it this time. Luo and Graves or Leona and Graves are the mid and jungle."

"FW stole Xayah, so IG replaced it with Graves. The effect is the same."

Wawa: "An Yi's playstyle is really comfortable. He can choose all heroes that can be farmed, and he never deviates from the essence."

But after seeing this, the warhorse became overwhelmed.

Because he grabbed Xia just to prevent IG from playing a rogue development strategy.

As a result, IG just changed the heroes to play.

Knowing that letting Graves thrive would result in the same outcome, Zhanma said, "Why don't we just play Xia as a jungler? At least there will be a late-game carry point to fight against Graves."

"And IG moved their jungler in the second round. Now they can't find any jungler that can compete with Graves."

Being forced to do something, Betty could only nod and say, "Okay, I'll play Xia as the jungler. Can Moojin help me play Braum?"

Moojin: "OK smecta!"

Maple: "Then I have to add a core in the bottom lane. How about Eye of the Void? You support and get a Tam to protect me."

Sheshe thought it was okay, as he could play it safe in the bottom lane.

FW's lineup is locked, a standard lineup with the mid and jungle raising the AD, and the bottom lane mage developing.

Then the counter position of the red side is given to An Yi.

At this time, she needs to choose a magic core that can fight against the opponent, and it is best to be able to target the opponent's Xia.

An Yi had already thought of a candidate before asking her teammates to choose the female tank first, and then she also revealed her own hero.

Iron Wraith—Mordekaiser!
Wawa: "An Yi chose Tie Nan, this hero is so classic!"

Miller: "And it's a combination of a tough guy and a Japanese girl. It's a Renaissance!"

Barrage:

"Sister Benzi is playing with something that looks new but is actually very old."

"The shy is still a Rambo, a combination of fire and iron."

"LGD will be scared to death if they take out all these things together."

"Hahaha, I was in PYL's live broadcast room, and this guy was commentating on the game and immediately closed the webpage after seeing Iron Man. He must have PTSD."

"Wait a minute why don't you move Tienan."

Fans can play with memes as they please, but is An Yi just a simple Renaissance?

Of course not, the Iron Man she brought out in the bottom lane has a new way of playing.

As the strongest bottom lane in the S5 period, Iron Man focused on dealing damage and even contributed to the famous scene of killing LGD imp with one hammer.

But after that, Iron Man's Q was severely nerfed and no longer as glorious as before.

But after his damage ability was reduced, Iron Man revealed an extremely abnormal function, which is controlling the jungle!

Whether it is the W skill's ability to quickly kill and recover most wild monsters, or the ultimate skill's effect of enslaving the dragon, they are all very unique mechanisms.

This also gave rise to the Iron Man who controls the jungle, develops the environment, and assists in the black magic.

These are not random names, they are all very suitable for the heroes.

The gameplay can be simply summarized as killing the Frog and River Crab in the bottom lane through punishment to gain additional development, and then use the level and ultimate advantage to control the dragon and give back to the team.

Although this style of play involves sucking the jungler's blood, you don't have to worry if you have a jungle core and a mid support.

Because this kind of Graves needs to take the middle lane, it is difficult for him to go too far to eat wild monsters like Toad, and he rarely wastes time to control small dragons other than the Fire Dragon.

In this case, An Yi's eating of the Frog and the little dragon that slows down the pace is completely a positive way to supplement the team.

As for how Iron Man targets Xia.
Just like his voice: just click and go!

At this time, Iron Man's ultimate skill is still locking onto the target and continuously burning its health.

An Yi: Don't you like to protect the super developed Xia in FW? My Iron Man's ultimate skill with the mask will burn nearly a tube of your blood!

As long as Xia dares to join the battle, she will definitely be hit by Iron Man's ultimate move.

For every team that wants to play four protecting one, Mordekaiser will bring down his ruthless divine punishment!

Since the primary task was to control the jungle and develop, An Yi immediately changed the summoner skill to flash + punishment, and configured his own runes.

Main system: Guardian + Bone Plating + Pupa + Resurrection, secondary system: Swiftness + Scorch.

The runes that Baolan carries are the main ones: Aftershock + Bone Plating + Second Wind + Resurrection, the secondary ones are: Hextech Flash + Minion Dematerializer, and the summoner skills are: Flash + Ignite.

The lineups of both sides are as follows:

FW (blue side) vs. IG (red side)

Top lane: Hanabi (Zaan Maniac) vs. The shy (Iron Enemy)
Jungler: Moojin (Heart of the Freljord) vs. Ning (Outlaw)
Mid Lane: Maple (Eye of the Void) vs. Rookie (Phantom Feather)
Bottom lane: Betty (Niyu) vs. Anyi (Iron Wraith)
Support: Swordart (River King) vs. Baolan (Dawn Goddess)
Amid the cheers from the audience, heroes from both teams emerged from the fountain.

An Yi also quickly bought the jungle amulet + reusable potion + jewelry eye.

The sharp-eyed commentator immediately noticed this detail.

Wawa: "Iron Man has punishment and also buys jungle equipment, what kind of operation is this!"

Miller: "Graves is also a punishment. This shouldn't be the kind of jungle core raising Iron Man. It feels like IG has hidden tactics!"

Similarly, FW also noticed IG's situation.

Betty was even more troubled: "What does this punishment for IG's bottom lane mean?"

The teammates shook their heads repeatedly, saying that they had never seen it.

But just when they were wondering, IG had already taken action.

An Yi quickly made a plan and said, "Shy, you cover Rookie and watch the other jungle area."

As he spoke, An Yi drew a route for Rookie, which was a route that went directly through the wall from the grass on the opposite river to the opposite blue zone.

And Rookie said: "OK, leave it to me."

Then The shy relied on his strong laning position and pushed towards the opponent's jungle at level 1.

Hanabi, who was defending the entrance to his own blue zone, immediately threw away his kitchen knife and retreated to avoid being hit by the harpoon.

While The shy pushed the opponent's Mundo back to the jungle, Rookie used the vision to control Luo to pass through the wall and walk into the opposite triangle grass.

Then he used Rambo's vision to determine Mundo's position. He easily went around the refresh point of the Frog and unnoticedly placed his vision at the opposite cross passage entrance and started to return to the city.

This operation was so clever that FW didn't even notice it.

Hanabi was puzzled: What's the point of this Rambo coming here and doing nothing?
Little did they know that a bombshell had been planted in FW's jungle area.

An Yi mentioned before that if you want to limit the development of jungler Xia, fighting at level 1 is not a wise choice.

After all, there is a Braum on the opposite side, so stealing the Buff is the best strategy.

But the worst thing about stealing a Buff is that you run into the opponent who is about to attack you, and end up losing more than you gain.

But now with this eye the situation is different.

Seeing that the blue buff was about to refresh, the opponent did not appear in the blue buff channel.

Ning roughly determined that the opponent started with red buff, so he used the E skill to quickly draw his gun, went down the dragon pit and headed straight for the opponent's blue buff.

At this time, Luo also came out from behind to cut off Mundo's retreat and double-team Hanabi.

Hanabi, who was lifted by Luo's W, reacted quickly, turned around and rushed over to The shy and threw a kitchen knife.

The shy was slowed down and couldn't keep up, so he could only launch two consecutive harpoon attacks, and then watched Mundo being knocked to the ground and drink medicine to retreat.

Although Mundo was not left behind, he was able to help Ning get the blue buff.

Hanabi said to Betty helplessly: "You might lose your blue buff."

Maple, who was about to help with the red buff, asked, "Do you want to switch to the other side's blue buff?"

Betty shook her head: "It's too slow to go over and change the field now. We will lose soldiers."

"Let him switch if he wants. If Graves eats my blue, his speed will be slow. The four of us will fight the red buff. After that, I will push the lane first and then eat his blue. It's the same."

There is nothing wrong with this sentence itself, but Betty always feels like she is missing something?
But now he has no time to think about those things, because the Buff is about to refresh and their jungle position has been determined.

So FW's bottom, mid, jungle and support players attacked their own red buff together to help Xayah quickly open the jungle.

On the other side, The shy and Rookie helped Ning open the opposite blue buff.

So the question is, what is An Yi doing at this time?

Answer: She is opening her own blue buff!

Originally, the bottom lane punishment on Iron Man should have started with three wolves, but the situation was different when the jungler went to the jungle.

Because after exchanging jungle areas, if you don't eat your own blue, it will be eaten by Xia after a while, so you might as well eat it yourself.

So An Yi learned a W, during which he and his teammates would burn the surrounding targets, and then absorb the health of the surrounding target units. It is the core skill of Iron Man in clearing the jungle.

When the blue buff is refreshed, An Yi sets W to Diana and starts to output, while An Yi uses W shield and guardian rune shield to resist damage.

Then she killed the blue buff with another punishment to restore the lost health, and then she swaggered back to the line.

At this time, Maple, who helped the jungler return to the bottom lane, was very confident.

Because when they exchange jungle areas, they don't have to worry about Graves suddenly stopping to spawn and coming over to do something.

In other words, this An Yi has no one to help, so they are...
Maple's thoughts were suddenly interrupted and his smile gradually disappeared.

Just at this time, a level 2 Iron Man with blue buff came to the bottom lane.

An Yi: I heard someone missed me?

Seeing IG's opening move, Ai Loli, a veteran jungler, exclaimed: "Anyi's handling of the blue buff is simply genius!"

"Because after the two sides exchanged jungle areas, the blue buff was very difficult to defend, but An Yi ate it in advance, so there was no need to defend it at all, which meant that Xia lost a buff when she came up!"

At this time, Betty finally remembered what she had missed, it was Tienan's punishment!

Looking at the situation in the lower lane, he angrily said, "Fuck! There's a stealer!"

(End of this chapter)