Full-time: Starting from Ye Xiu vs. Faker

Chapter 429: Long-awaited Second Team Building

"Good sign, why is it a good sign?"

The number one seed in the group is the North American Bangchui, the number four seed is the European Laobi, and the only competitive ones are SKT and Fanhua. SKT and Fanhua have had high-intensity training matches against each other and know each other very well, so it is of course a good draw.

Of course, the LPL, which is now full of confidence, would not say things like "I hope XX can produce XX's things and clear some obstacles for XX", which are not only infighting but also discouraging.

After all, the LPL is now shouting the loudest, hoping that the official will draw a good lot in the quarterfinals. It would be best if the four LPL teams were drawn into four groups in the quarterfinals to challenge whether they can achieve the epic achievement of sweeping the top four.

Except for Fanhua, the groupings of the other three teams are different.

In comparison, the grouping of Blue Rain and Happy is pretty standard.

In the same group with Blue Rain is LEC's second seed FNC, a strong European team.

The top players right now are rekkles in the bottom lane and Ryu in the middle lane.

Yes, Yue Lun, the unlucky guy who was optimized away by KT.

Because of the version, Yue Lun in this world has not experienced the humiliation of the young Faker in the double Jie battle, at least not yet.

But similar to the trajectory of another world, he started his journey in the LEC region early on.

In fact, with his strength, he is also an absolute hot commodity in LCK.

But when he left, there was a slight cognitive bias on both the European and American regions and the LCK.

On the LCK side, SKT was defeated in the semifinals, and many players and regional executives were unhappy about this. They must work hard and achieve rebirth in the coming period of time.

This led to the major changes in LCK in the following period.

But there are also some players, especially those who were optimized out in the big change but think they are very strong, whose attitude is completely the opposite.

They don't feel a sense of belonging to the LCK.

If we are not welcome here, there will be other places for us to live. If LCK doesn't like us, there will be other places for us to live.

Coincidentally, the LEC and LCS regions, whose world rankings were not inferior to or even slightly higher than the LCK at that time, were unexpectedly interested in the LCK players.

And this is all thanks to IMPACT, the pioneer of LCK's overseas expansion.

He played well in C9 and showed the advantages of Korean mercenaries to the fullest.

Good English, no major communication barriers, hardworking, disciplined, excellent personal abilities, solid basic skills, etc.

In the end, he won the championship with C9, won the FMVP, and reached the semi-finals in MSI, with outstanding results.

His performance has successfully paved a way for those LCK players who are actively or passively interested in overseas leagues.

When the strong teams in Europe and the United States see those players in their own regions who are not even diligent in training, and then look at the kings of curling who come out of the monster rooms in East Asia, they will naturally be tempted.

Of course, it would be best if LPL players could join, but the changes in the LPL summer transfer period were not too big, and because the gap between the substitutes and the main players of most teams was relatively large before, those optimized players were basically used to fill the bench of each team.

Therefore, LPL players are basically unable to leave China.

Then I can only settle for the next best thing and buy the LCK one.

It just so happened that LEC and LCS were not short of money at this stage and the prices they offered were quite generous, so LCK was able to attract several good players to go to Europe and the United States.

The LCK officials are also happy to see these players go overseas to export influence to the LCK region.

Among this group of players, the most famous one is Ryu.

Having not experienced that double disaster battle, his mentality is much better than that in the parallel universe.

He firmly believed that the narrow defeat in the spring finals was not entirely his fault.

After all, if I hadn't lost my mind and suddenly chose Zed, it would still be unknown whether it was SKT or KT that went to MSI.

Because of his hero selection, he doesn't feel that his strength is inferior to Faker at all.

I thought I could get revenge in the summer, but when summer came, Faker got a new group of teammates, and he was badly optimized.

With a lot of resentment in his heart, Ryu said countless harsh words like "You will regret this" and gave up invitations from several LCK teams of the same playoff level and went to LEC.

It’s not because FNC gave too much, although we do attach great importance to this aspect, but mainly because we want to make trouble for LCK.

After he joined, FNC, which was originally able to compete with G2 in the finals in the spring, became even more powerful and won first place in the regular season in the summer season.

They originally thought that winning the summer championship and taking revenge on G2 was a foregone conclusion, but the playoffs did not go as they wished.

The first encounter was in the final match, G2 vs. FNC. The game was evenly matched, but in the fifth game, the bottom lane became ill.

There is no need to say much about Rekkles, his strength is still very strong.

But who told FNC’s support, whose ID is called “Hailesong”... No, where is hyllissang?
When this guy gets sick, the entire FNC team can't stop him.

So the victory was decided.

When FNC finally crawled out of the loser group and faced G2 again, the scenario was somewhat similar to the LPL finals. G2, who was well-rested, suppressed the exhausted FNC in terms of tactics and state.

Ryu tried desperately to make a breakthrough against CAPS, but if CAPS was so easy to deal with, he would not be a LEC legend.

Ryu is not peak Faker or peak Ye Xiu. He doesn’t have the ability to step on CAPS to save FNC.

So FNC copied the script of Happy next door, winning runner-up in both spring and summer and qualifying as the second seed.

However, Ryu still refused to accept the result. He thought that G2 was able to win more because they had enough time to prepare.

So after persuading the coach to have some military training and some fun, he was determined to get his chance back in the knockout stage.

But after adding G2, his number of enemy teams in the S game seems to be a little bit too much...

There is no doubt that FNC is a strong team, with the typical European style of a team, but with a more stable mid-lane, which makes them not as unstable as MAD showed in the qualifying round.

This is an opponent that Blue Rain needs to study carefully.

Then there is Vietnam's last hope, GAM. They have some strength, especially their jungler Levi, who is considered a good player even among junglers around the world. Like EVI from LJL, they are both examples of one person in one region.

However, as VCS is the last among the six major regions, its overall strength is really limited.

If they can draw Happy, they might be able to pray for their other self to possess them. In this way, if Happy uses JackeyLove to practice, they might be able to replicate a wave of Vietnamese prisoners of war.

But the problem is that they drew Blue Rain, a team that is also known for its strong jungler but whose overall strength is far stronger than theirs.

All I can say is that it's somewhat unfortunate.

As for the fourth-seeded SSG, Yu Wenzhou has been studying day and night with coach Fang Shijing. The last opponent they treated with such care was Happy, a recognized championship contender.

It can only be said that SSG's performance in this qualifying round has indeed initially demonstrated their worth.

In general, except for GAM, which is a little bit worse, the other three teams in Group A are quite competitive.
So in the upcoming group matches, will they continue to hold back their strength or show their trump cards and fight hard? It will be very exciting to see.

The situation on Xingxin's side is clearer. The third and fourth seeds are OG from LEC and DFM from LJL respectively.

DFM is not to be mentioned, it is an absolute miracle that they can enter the finals. OG is in a similar situation to MAD, a level lower than G2 and half a level lower than FNC.

Neither of these two teams should be able to pose a stable threat to Xingxin.

The most eye-catching one is the number one seed pool in this group, KT.

For this team that defeated SKT and SSG to reach the top of LCK, it can be said that the entire LPL attaches great importance to them.

Xingxin's combat effectiveness is also second to none in LPL. It can be predicted that the encounter between the two of them will definitely be a heavyweight match of Mars hitting the Earth.

However, the victory or defeat should not affect the promotion situation too much.

Compared to these three groups that can at least eliminate one or two teams, Group D, where LGM is located, is somewhat chaotic.

LGM, Excellent Era, G2, FW.

Except for G2 which is slightly stronger on paper, the other three all-Chinese teams, although from three different regions, seem to be not much different in strength when you really calculate it?
Not to mention Jia Shi and LGM, the training matches during this period were basically a back-and-forth between the two teams with their own advantages.

As FW is the last hope of the LMS region of China's Wanwan Province, its hard power should not be underestimated.

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How should I put it? To use Ye Xiu's words after the draw:
"I wouldn't be surprised if any two of these four teams advance."

All in all, some are happy and some are sad.

LGM, who drew the worst, said nothing and went back to practice more immediately.

As hard-working as they are, Jia Shi's five little players are also playing hard. If possible, these ten brothers who have become familiar with each other during this period hope to overturn the MSI runner-up G2 and Taiwan Electric Wolves, and then advance to the quarterfinals together.

However, it is very difficult to achieve this and no time can be wasted.

After learning the results of the draw, Xingxin and Blue Rain did not hesitate and immediately entered into a rhythm of targeted training.

Xingxin has even started to arrange training matches with Fanhua. They believe that Fanhua's configuration is one of the most similar to KT in the LPL.

Only Fanhua did not start training immediately.

They were eager to start training, but on the way, someone asked a question:
"Should we go check out SKT's status first?"

After everyone did the math, they realized that this was the truth.

They recognize the potential and strength of several SKT players, but how much of this strength can be brought into play depends on how much they can recover.

Judging from the state of SKT in the last game, it was somewhat disastrous.

Apart from Deft's superb performance, the other players were in pretty average condition, with Faker even hitting his head against the wall and sending himself to the hospital.

SKT has no public game records since then, and no one knows what their current status is.

It is a good idea to go and check it out. At least, you will have a better idea of ​​the strength of the opponent you are about to face.

then--

"Fanhua, I hope we can spare some time to shoot some joint materials."

KkOma conveyed this news from the uniform team to the SKT players.

"Flowers? When?" Deft's eyes suddenly lit up again.

Although Fanhua Xiatian's performance declined slightly, they did not lose badly overall. They just lacked the strategy to do so. They did not feel like they had fallen like SKT.

Zhang Jiale's personal performance was impeccable, so Deft naturally would not despise his identity as a fan of Fanhua.

"Tonight. By the way, He Kui is a fan of Fanhua, right?"

KkOma was given the head coaching position after the summer season ended. He has not coached even a single game so far, and naturally has not participated in anything SKT has experienced before.

However, he had done countless preparations for the position of head coach, so it was natural that he could not be unaware of these not-so-secret things.

"Well, if it weren't for He Kui, we might not have been able to arrange so many high-quality training matches." Li Xianghe nodded slightly.

During that period, SKT always had training matches with Fanhua. Although they were like toys in front of Fanhua at that time, the gap in hard power was too big, which led to them not being able to win a single training match.

But the improvement and progress achieved are also real.

"In that case, the competition won't officially start for a few days, so just relax a little tonight."

KkOma is not the kind of coach who makes a living by high-intensity training. During the qualifying period, all SKT players have been very conscientious in high-intensity training. It is time for them to take a break.

"It's also a good opportunity to observe what the King of Spring is like now."

……

So that night, since the chance encounter at the Los Angeles airport that day, Fanhua and SKT’s second team building began.

Compared with the last pure encounter situation, this time when there were clearly cameras filming, both sides were not as relaxed as last time.

At least Deft won't come up to me with shining eyes and say "I'm your fan" like he did last time.

Both parties followed a relatively official process: they met, communicated with the help of an interpreter, exchanged uniforms, and took photos.

It is worth mentioning that the exchange of team uniforms is not entirely based on position.

As the core and leader of the two teams, Zhang Jiale exchanged team uniforms with Lee Sang-hyuk under Deft's meaningful look.

During the exchange process, both sides were observing each other's status without leaving a trace.

Then they all sighed in their hearts about each other's perversion.

"He is completely different from the state before winning the MSI. Is this the transformation that a champion brings?" Lee Sang-hyuk thought.

Zhang Jiale's condition has improved significantly compared to the MSI period.

What’s even more frightening is that they didn’t even make it to the finals in the summer.

LPL is indeed full of hidden talents.

"How come this kid is becoming more and more like that guy?" Zhang Jiale cursed inwardly.

After watching the video, Yu Wenzhou and others said that Li Xianghe’s current state is like a younger version of Ye Xiu.

At that time, Zhang Jiale didn't believe it. He thought it was not that exaggerated. It was too much for a monster like Ye Xiu to appear.

But today, he really saw some of his old enemy's shadow in Li Xianghe's expression and state.

"It's not easy to deal with..." Both sides sighed at the same time.

So that night, without taking a break, the two kings of volume immediately threw themselves into the wave of training matches and extra training...

(End of this chapter)