Full-time: Starting from Ye Xiu vs. Faker

Chapter 423: LCK shows off its prowess for the first time, ready for LPL
LPL's crushing game did not involve destroying the crystal. On the contrary, this was actually expected by most viewers.

Although the fourth seed does seem to be a little lower than the third seed, the problem is that TL is a team that even Excellent Era can hardly beat.

A strong team in LSPL was able to defeat TL and advance to the finals. As the noble fourth seed of LPL, it should not be a problem for LGM to beat TL, right?

On the other hand, if Guohao really suffered a crushing defeat in front of his hometown folks, his future career might not be so easy.

An unknown Happy coach sneezed.

If we have to say what is worth watching in this game, it is probably the attitude of the LGM team.

It’s not that LGM slacked off because their opponents were too weak. On the contrary, they played a little too cruelly.

Especially at the end, they bullied the fountain and blocked TL's resurrection point. They even tried to kill Wunder in the fountain, which caused an uproar.

After all, fountain abuse is a controversial behavior no matter how you look at it.

However, ever since the first time Fanhua abused the fountain and completed DFM at MSI, there were clear voices at that time that believed that abusing the fountain during the game was extremely unethical and hoped that the official would regulate it.

But almost half a year has passed, and the authorities have not issued any regulations to restrict related behaviors.

Therefore, in all major regions, regardless of size, there have been occasional fountain abuses in the summer season due to numerous grudges.

This is especially frequent in Europe and the United States, where real swords and guns are highly valued.

But no matter what, it is still within the league.

On the contrary, the league has been calm all the time. Even if the teams have played their brains out in the game, there has never been any fountain abuse incident in LPL.

However, he has become the vanguard of fountain abuse in two consecutive world competitions.

LPL did it too!
It’s okay to bully the fountain, but the main problem is that the audience has no idea what the grudge between LGM and TL is.

One is LPL No. 4 and the other is LCS No. 3, they are completely unrelated.

Wunder, the biggest star in TL, was an unlucky guy who was beaten up by Zhao Yang and Sun Zheping in turn in the spring and was completely unable to fight back.

Having basically been beaten into a breakthrough in the MSI finals, it remains to be seen whether he is qualified to become the enemy of LPL.

Although some viewers thought of the fifth seed Excellent Era that went on the expedition to North America, judging from the apparent record, TL was not able to cause any trouble to Excellent Era.

As for the deeper issues, they certainly cannot be made public. Otherwise, if we really talk about them, it will not be good for both sides.

So the audience discussed it for a long time, and could only define it as LGM being too excited about entering the World Championship for the first time and starting to have fun.

However, even if we don't consider the consensus of LPL to give Jia Shi a vent, the impact of this crushing game from start to finish alone is still quite good.

Since the summer, all major competition areas have learned from their mistakes and have launched a large-scale reinforcement campaign.

After the reinforcement, it has not yet been brought out to the world to test its strength.

Although the situation in LCS is special and there is Excellent Era as a transit station, you know that no region is short of stubborn Wolf Warriors.

We can't really let the Union Jack people admit that they were almost defeated by the LSPL team, can we?

So the abnormal thing is that after Excellent Era was defeated by C9, its reputation in LCS not only did not decline, but actually increased.

Now they have evolved to a pretty scary level among LCS fans and content creators.

A widely circulated saying is that the reason why Jia Shi was able to inherit the name Jia Shi is because they were able to fight back and forth with Xingxin in internal training matches.

It was only because of LPL regulations that it was impossible for two teams to compete together in LPL that they traveled across the ocean to North America.

In other words, it was to forcibly raise Jia Shi's combat effectiveness to the level of the three great families.

In this case, even if Excellent Era gets runner-up in LCS, it would seem much more reasonable.

Unfortunately, these five young players from Jia Shi have not had any public record of playing against any LPL teams since the start of the LPL.

In the qualifying stage, they were actually second in the division, which is roughly the level of the LPL fifth to eighth place playoff team.

If you exaggerate a little, it seems to make some sense.

This self-hypnosis rumor, which was specially tailored for North American babies, started to spread little by little in the LCS after Excellent Era won the runner-up title.

Ironically, when this rumor reached the original owner, the people of Team Excellent Era,
It just so happened that the five of them were being beaten up by Xingxin.

Jia Shi's military training was definitely not limited to Abin alone. It just so happened that they were beaten into Muggles by their own team in a training match at that time.

Just when he was completely anesthetized, Baozi on the opposite side saw a message on his phone that was brought back from abroad by a busybody, and then he showed it happily to everyone in Jia Shi.

The five little ones only took one look at the not-so-glorious record just now, and then looked at the YouTuber's confident statement that they were "not inferior to their parent team Happy", and suddenly they had the urge to kill someone.

Just to tell you a joke, Excellent Era was the last team to learn that Excellent Era was no less powerful than Happy.

Then why don't you teach us how to fight back against those perverts in Happy?
But no matter how outrageous these remarks are, the results are encouraging for the LCS:
At least the gap between them and LPL, which was like a chasm in the eyes of fans, should be able to be bridged a little bit.

But unfortunately, LGM widened the gap again in just one game.

LPL is well-known overseas. Even in LCS, people know that LPL has a big three, and there is a generation gap in the level of those three teams compared to other teams.

If you know more about it, you will know that LGM is generally recognized as a team on the edge of the playoffs in the league, not even in the top four.
Being able to enter the World Championship is purely due to explosiveness.

The result is that this is the team that is treating the LCS's third seed like its son.

They were all the teams that got the last ticket in the division, but the gap was so big.

Now, those North American warhawks who are still insisting that there is no difference in level between LPL and LCS are probably in a dilemma.

As for LGM?

Well, the new sponsor fragment is increased by one, which is cause for celebration.

But unlike the seemingly upset but actually destined match in LPL, the match between Samsung and MAD actually showed a one-sided situation, which really made many people confused.

There is no real power division in LEC. Maybe G2 does have a big advantage over the other teams. After all, their lineup is really top-notch.

But apart from G2, there is no obvious difference in the strength shown by other teams in the region.

Under the premise of G2 winning both the spring and summer championships, the other three seeds basically had a back-and-forth battle.

Whoever can win the key match will be seeded higher.

In other words, MAD, the nominal fourth seed, has not much difference in combat effectiveness from the second seed FNC.

In addition, LEC is the runner-up region in the spring. In theory, MAD's combat power ranking should be slightly higher than that of LCK's third seed SSG.

As a result, when they really fought back, not only did they fail to suppress the opponent, but they were crushed to death instead.

Is this right? Is this wrong?

Especially when compared with the next door, the performance is even more obvious.

You know, although LCS and LCK are both MSI top four regions, LCS has always felt that it is stronger than LCK and is the "hard power third place."

As a result, the fourth seed played against the third seed. The champion LPL played against the third seed LCS like a father beating his child, but the runner-up played against the top four, which was completely the opposite. Many LEC fans watched this game and cried out in pain, and could only hypnotize themselves:
This is only the first game and MAD is still finding their form.

But those fans who have a deeper understanding of the game have already started to frown.

The gap between MAD and Samsung in this game was all-encompassing.

Both the players' individual strength and the game understanding of both sides seem to be on different levels.

Personal strength can be explained by the player's state, but this game understands...

Don't dare to think about it.

However, considering that this is only the first game and there are still many opportunities to come, it seems a bit too early to predict the outcome.

So it's just a little bit of worry.

As for Samsung...

"As expected, as long as we are serious, we will be one of the strongest regions!" The Samsung coach was very satisfied after the game.

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Although it is a little unreliable to claim to be the first division before the battle with LPL,

But they beat the fourth seed from the runner-up zone badly, and crushed them throughout the whole game, which has initially proved the value of LCK e-sports.

People from LEC will make up for their own team, but Samsung doesn't have that intention.

"Naughty." Chidi, who was not even a legendary mercenary yet, left this word and went online to the national server to start ranking.

To put it bluntly, the strength shown by MAD is only slightly better than some of the top games in the national server's Canyon of Heroes.

Chidi had previously been in a game with eight professions and two unique skills. With the presence of two unique skills players and two LSPL players, that game featured extremely high-quality offense and defense.

Chidi faced an LPL AD with the ID "Guns and Bullets Rain". It was later verified that he was the starting player of a strong team in the LPL that was qualified to play in the bubble game. The two sides fought back and forth.

From my personal experience, this game was more exciting than the one against MAD.

"Jae Hyuk, what did brother say before? Do you think the champion will fly to our base by himself?!" There was no camera, so An Bixin was too lazy to pretend and frowned and scolded.

"LEC is insignificant, only the LPL opponents need us to be extra careful!"

What Old Deng hates most is teammates who open champagne at halftime.

Ruler shuddered, and suddenly remembered the old baseball bat that An Bixin placed in the base. He immediately became silent, playing the ranked game honestly, and did not dare to say a word.

But after all, they won the game, so An Bixin was in a good mood. After the team members behaved themselves, they immediately returned to their gentle demeanor.

It was this look of moodiness that changed at the speed of light that was deeply engraved in the heart of Chizi, who was not even worthy of being called Chidi.

As for whether the ruler will inherit Anbixin's baseball bat in the future, it is hard to say.

An Bixin did not rush to start ranked training, but watched the replay of LGM's first game with his coach.

Then his brows furrowed again.

"It's very different from the state they showed in the bubble match." The manager watched it carefully, his face a little stiff, and finally he sighed.

"Their speed of progress is truly astonishing." An Bixin nodded helplessly.

In the bubble match, LGM is still a team that relies on courage and explosiveness to win.

If it weren't for their extremely high mental state at that time, it would have been impossible for them to defeat Xuanqi and Yizhan.

But just one month later, the game content performed by LGM actually showed a whole new ecology.

It is normal for players to improve their personal levels, and it is also normal for them to show a different mental state when entering the World Championships.

But when better tactical execution, clearer goals, and better discipline appear in this team, LCK can't help but be vigilant.

"Maybe it's because LGM is one of the LPL teams with relatively poor training and competition, so they can make such obvious progress?"

The coach guessed.

"I hope so." Chidi took a deep breath.

According to the competition system, they will play against LGM once in the qualifying stage, and the next time may have to wait until the quarterfinals.

Although this incident is unlikely to affect the advancement of the two teams, it will definitely have a significant impact on the morale of the two major competition areas.

After all, this is the first head-on confrontation between the two major regions since MSI.

In a sense, this is the biggest focus of this qualifying round.

If you want to gain the upper hand in the next championship battle, then you must win this game.

We need to work harder.

Coincidentally, the LPL on the other side also thinks so.

"It's a very impressive level." Yu Wenzhou commented sharply.

His fear of LCK during his previous preparations is now being proven to be correct bit by bit.

But he was not happy at all.

LCK...is very difficult.

"This kind of training and competition is not comparable to what they had in the spring."

Lu Liang, who has played against LCK, has to admit this.

Being in the same LCK region, the technical and tactical level shown by SKT in the spring is very different from that of Samsung today.

To exaggerate a bit, they are not on the same level.

In the spring, you couldn't even handle the conflicts within the team, how come things have evolved to this point in just a few months?

The tactical masters of the three major families looked at each other, and one by one they summarized the characteristics shown by the three major families in this battle.

Once they have summarized some results, they will become the core of LGM training in the next few days.

Now, the strategies of the three major families are very clear.

They will temporarily serve as LGM's external brain, analyzing their group stage opponents and helping them develop corresponding countermeasures.

This is not only an aid to LGM, but also a training and rehearsal for the other three teams for the World Championship.

That is, the LGM players who are celebrating may not know that their training volume may have to increase a little bit.

congratulations.

(End of this chapter)