Full-time: Starting from Ye Xiu vs. Faker

Chapter 485 Adjustment of Thinking
"The key point is in the middle," said Zhang Jiale.

"Sang Hyuk's clockwork is a bit cruel... It feels like he's a bit more cruel than in the previous training match." Xiye grinned.

"They must have held back before."

By the way, when Xiye was practicing his Clockwork, he also watched a lot of videos of Faker, the recognized Clockwork King of LCK. This ensured that after it was brought out, it had a miraculous effect on KT.

But the result is still a little bit worse than the dominance shown by Faker himself after getting the Clockwork.

In the first game, both teams played in a tentative manner. Without any hidden tactics and with conventional BP, SKT was able to suppress Fanhua for the first time in history.

The core point of this suppressive force is the middle lane.

This kid Li Xianghe is very ruthless.

In the previous round of 16 and quarter-finals, he also played like one of the world's top mid laners, making everyone rank him on the list of the most threatening mid laners.

But he has never performed such extreme and oppressive operations as he did today.

The god-like reaction of the seventeen-year-old, the top-notch operation obtained through hard training day and night, and the calm mentality trained by the ups and downs of a whole year were completely released today.

Facing the opponent who has the most special meaning to Lee Sang-hyeok so far, Lee Sang-hyeok reached a new high in his competitive career.

And it is obvious to the naked eye that he will maintain this good form in every game in the next one or two rounds of the series.

What’s even more terrifying is that there is a suddenly rising master beside him.

Actually, not many people have paid attention to Bengi.
A jungler who is relatively old, with average personal data, and whose highlights are almost all achieved by playing in the mid lane. He sounds like a mid laner with a pendant.

But it was not until Fanhua had a real all-out fight with them that he realized: Maybe Bengi is indeed a pendant, but it is definitely the god-level pendant that best suits Faker and can match his 1+1>2.

In the first game, less than ten minutes into the game, Fanhua's mid and jungle were suppressed by SKT's mid and jungle by a full thirty hits.

You know, Xiye and Mofan were in great shape today. Around ten minutes in, Xiye even gave Faker a Cinnabar, fully proving his quality.

But they were still suppressed on the economic end. Lee Sin didn't get any of the first two blue buffs, and the rhythm was terrible from the beginning of the game.

SKT's mid and jungle players gave full play to their abilities, and their terrifying combat power was evident.

Bengi, a relatively young guy, seems to have an exceptionally mature mentality, and works diligently for the overall interests of the team. He is a model of eating grass and milking milk.

Fanhua felt doubly as frustrated as KT did in the last BO5 when facing the selfless Mo Fan in this game.

With such a pair of extremely strong mid and jungle players who have equally terrifying mobility and awareness, Fanhua is facing an iron bucket formation that is almost flawless.

Even Khan, the impulsive and irritable guy whom they analyzed before the game, played the Troll cautiously in this game and didn't let Zhao Yang find any breakthrough.

A few dozen knife differences were exchanged for an advantage in one or two team battles, and then further snowballed into important resources and a larger economic gap...

In the first game, they were defeated by Fanhua using a lineup and playing style that Fanhua was quite familiar with.

Zhang Jiale let out a long sigh somewhat helplessly.

In the first game, what SKT showed was already very clear: if Fanhua didn't come up with something new, they would still maintain the game thinking and understanding from the top eight to the top four.

Then SKT will be the absolute top-suppressing version of Fanhua.

If this goes on, there's no chance of winning.

"My, my." Xiye was a little dejected. Until the training match with SKT in the quarterfinals, he was evenly matched with Lee Sang-hyuk in the mid lane.

Until today, I suddenly realized that except for online one-on-one duels, I could still compete with him, but there was a certain gap in other aspects. I must have felt a little disappointed psychologically.

"Don't say that. Didn't you also kill him once in a single move?" Zhao Yang patted his shoulder. "In my opinion, the opponent still won because of the system. This system centered around the midfielder is too complete."

“To be honest, this system is not particularly suitable for this version, but they are very strong when using it, just like it was strong when we used it in the last BO5.” Lu Liang interrupted the discussion.

"Perhaps this is the answer they gave after two rounds of hiding their strength, which made them dare to show their swords for the championship."

He seemed to be just praising SKT's strength, but there seemed to be something else hidden in his words.

It only took some people a moment to grasp the implication.

"Starting from the next game, play around me." A small but powerful voice sounded. The real soul of this team would naturally not retreat at this time.

"Since the system inspired by theirs doesn't work, let's use our own system." Zhang Jiale's eyes were sharp.

In just a few minutes, he figured out some things.

Some of their ideas when playing against KT were originally inspired by the training games with SKT. It is normal that they would fail when facing SKT.

The time of this game is enough to prove that SKT has a deeper attainment in the defensive counterattack style of play.

At the same time, they also have Lee Sang-hyuk, a super mid laner who can potentially compete with Ye Xiu for the world's number one mid laner.

These are their two most significant advantages.

But can’t Fanhua find similar advantages?
Does it count as being more in line with the style of the version?

Does a stronger bot lane count?
Anyway, KT is out, and the next time they meet an offensive team, they will have to meet Happy in the finals.

Then why are you still thinking about the eight-to-four strategy?

Perhaps pure offense would indeed be difficult to sustain in the face of defensive counterattacks. If KT had eliminated Fanhua before, they would most likely not be able to break through the iron wall of their defeated opponent at this time.

But Fanhua, both ideas have been used in the S game, and the teams that have found them effective have a certain understanding of SKT's ideas.

They have the qualifications to fight SKT to the end through offense.

"I support Brother Le's opinion." Zhao Yang was the first to express his support.

"There's nothing much to say, Brother Le, just watch how I serve you like a dog!" Xiye was eager to redeem himself for his crime and patted his chest to show his loyalty.

Mo Fan didn't say anything. It wasn't that he had any objections, but he was already thinking about how to beat that kid named Jin Hekui into autism as quickly as possible.

Seeing his companions' morale recovering at the speed of light, Sun Zheping sighed and patted his old friend on the shoulder.

"Don't work yourself to death." He knew very well that in the next two, three or four games, Zhang Jiale would be under a lot of pressure, both on and off the court.

"Don't worry." Zhang Jiale grinned.

"I haven't joined them yet, I dare not fall here!"

(End of this chapter)