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Chapter 374 Is this moment just like that moment? Swiss reel, second round!
T1 base.

The advantage of hosting the event locally is that the base is only a 20-minute drive from the competition venue, so teams don't have to rush to the venue early like other teams.

Just before the first match was about to begin, the T1 players, who had just finished a training match, were still gathered around the table discussing.

"I still think using it in the group stage is a bit..." Coach Benji seemed to hesitate.

“But Sang-hyeok is right. We haven’t used it in actual matches. The second team’s scrims can only be used as a reference,” Keria chimed in, blindly supporting the mid laner’s idea. “They are not V5 after all.”

“Little K is right,” Aunt Yoshi said, supporting her.

Oner shrugged nonchalantly, while Zeus remained silent in the corner.

Lee Sang-hyeok, who was sitting in the center of the crowd with his eyes closed, was actually struggling with his own thoughts.

They originally thought that with the arrival of this version, their top lane advantage would be amplified, and they should already have an advantage against V5.

However, DK's crushing defeat served as a wake-up call for T1.

Despite some outsiders looking down on DK, T1 actually sees DK as somewhat similar to themselves.

The top laners are all aggressive top laners, the junglers are all mindless players who follow the mid laner's rhythm, the mid laners are all veterans whose skills have declined and who have started to use their brains, and the bot lane is also a duo with strong laning ability.

Of course, each position of DK can only be considered a "low-end version" at best, and some positions are not even low-end versions.
But V5 won that match too easily!

Especially when everyone carefully observed the replay, they were able to discover many subtle operational details that they couldn't see while watching the game live, proving that V5 had indeed done a lot of research on the World Championship version.

Although the T1 team remains confident, they still feel a bit nervous.

“I understand your concerns, male,” Lee Sang-hyeok said, opening his eyes to look at the chicken.

"But this tactic is something we extracted from them, and it may not achieve the effect we imagine if we actually face them."

"If we are left to the quarterfinals or even later, we cannot accept any unexpected results."

Upon hearing this, the silly chicken's face immediately showed a surprised expression.

Because he had been thinking with the premise of "his side has a great advantage" in mind.

He felt it was a waste to put their "secret weapon" in a group stage format where it was impossible to "kill the opponent" in a best-of-one format.

But Benji didn't expect that his old brother's concern was that he would not be able to beat the opponent when he could kill them directly in the later stages!

As a teammate who has fought side by side since ancient times, and as the closest mid-jungle player in the team, Bengi can definitely be said to be the one who understands Lee Sang-hyeok the most among all his teammates.

But over all these years, he has never once felt this lack of confidence from the other person?
Could it be that person?

Did this really put that much pressure on Sang-hyeok?

"Alright, everyone take a break. Today is our last game, we can go back tonight." Benji didn't insist anymore and changed the subject.

"Who played whom in the first match?"

As soon as I opened the live stream, the first game, WBG vs G2, had started.

Just didn't expect it.

The moves made by both sides right from the start surprised everyone!

"What is G2 thinking?!" Guan Zeyuan exclaimed from the commentary booth.

Wang Duoduo immediately chimed in, "I've seen this move before! Isn't this the same move V5 used on the Summer Finals stage?"

“And it’s almost a one-to-one copy,” Rita replied, her eyes wide.

At the start of the game, G2's top, bottom, and support players went straight to the top lane.

And all viewers who watched the LPL Summer Finals will definitely find this scene incredibly familiar—because it's almost exactly the same opening tactic used by V5 back then!
Back in the third game of the Summer Finals, V5's Sion, Fiddlesticks, and Tristana trio ambushed players at the start.

This directly caused TheShy's Jayce to experience the legendary "Black Five Minutes"!
Clearly, G2 wants to replicate this tactic.

They also made a small optimization: instead of standing directly in the first bush, they placed a ward in the second bush and then waited in front of their own turret to avoid being noticed by the opponent's attempt to help place the ward.

There is just one small problem.

G2 seems to have forgotten that WBG is an LPL team.

This means that during the World Championship preparation period a few days ago, WBG was often able to play scrims with the developers of this tactic—V5's various "targeting" strategies against the top lane also caused them a lot of trouble!
V5 used it as a practice target.

But WBG has also benefited greatly from this!
"Where is Liu Qingsong going to place a ward? Why is he placing one in the bush in front of the enemy's bottom lane second tower?!"

"Wait a minute, if that's the case, it seems WBG knows that the opponent's bot lane isn't actually in the bottom half of the map. Could that mean they're able to figure something out?"

Clearly, WBG has realized something.

Without the trials and tribulations of scrimmages, WBG might have simply followed the normal logic, guessing whether the opponent's bot lane was hiding under the tower or in the other jungle.

But they have indeed experienced this scene many times before!
After confirming that no one was in the bottom jungle, WBG completely locked onto G2's plan and then directly used blind vision to send the mid, jungle, and support to the back bushes to wait.

A very strange scene unfolded on the road.

One minute into the game: There are a total of 7 players on both sides!

There were only two top laners in each other's field of vision!
"WBG had no vision throughout the entire game but blindly guessed that the opponent was going to attack the top lane, while G2 absolutely did not know that there were people behind the opponent!"

"They look so 'skilled'!"

"G2 is going to break!"

Just when G2 thought their plan was flawless, with Yone and Xayah using all their abilities to force a kill, three people suddenly appeared from behind WBG!
Old Black successfully exposed his fangs by selling his buttocks, and together with the three people in the bushes, they managed to keep all the opponents in place.

G2 gave away three kills right at the start of the game!

The most crucial thing is that the bottom lane is completely destroyed!
According to V5's offensive strategy, after killing or severely damaging the opponent's top laner, their own top laner would then teleport to the bottom lane, allowing the bottom lane duo to farm the top lane.

However, the bottom lane duo died at this point, and there was no Teleport to return to their lane.

No matter which path you take next, it will all be a disastrous start!

This is actually why this "starting design" hasn't been used much since V5.

Because this design is clearly not a formula that can be blindly applied in any game.

As long as the opponent is prepared—or rather, as long as the top laner refuses to farm minions during the first wave of minions before the bottom lane shows up—this strategy can be broken!
After all, if the enemy top laner doesn't die and can't defend the tower, due to the difference in the top and bottom {tower plating protection} mechanisms, it would be a pure loss for your own top laner to teleport to the bottom.

Not to mention the tower dive defense strategy in the jungle.
"G2 is really going to pull something big," Ye Bo said with a smile.

"Looks like WBG didn't get beaten up for nothing~" Xun joked through the screen: "This match should be a piece of cake, Xiaohu's gotta get his revenge!"

Even the usually cautious Flandre was about to make a judgment.

However, when he saw BDS Adam sitting next to him who had come to "chase his idol," he considered that the other party was a player from the same region, so he wisely kept quiet.

As the game progressed, everyone believed that LPL should also get off to a winning start today.

Ye Bo also saw G2's top laner BB paying "homage" to him in the mid-game.

"What is BB doing?!"

G2's top laner BB also picked Yone in this game. Before a dragon fight, he gave up his position, allowing Wei's Vi to lock down the dragon.

He was clearly inspired by yesterday's match and wanted to try a similar "bait" tactic.

The maneuver failed! As soon as the lock-on mark appeared on Yone, he immediately turned and used his E on the turret, followed by his R—but the instant he used R, Vi's ultimate had already locked onto him!
Yone R did forcefully intervene, which can be considered as "control cancellation", but he remained stationary.

The problem is that Vi also used the latter half of her ultimate's control effect to achieve "control cancellation".

This is not only equivalent to Yone's "Teamfight Empty Ultimate".

At the same time, he also took the initiative to bring Vi into his own teammates' group, helping the opposing Vi to complete a "passive Forbidden Wall"!
[Haha, it's one thing for Zeus to learn, but BB, that noob, wants to learn too? Do you think you can even learn that?!]

[I saw some fancams posted by contestants on Twitter before, and BB said that Master Ye's moves weren't difficult, but I didn't expect him to pull off such a huge mistake!]

WBG is acting strangely. They were evenly matched with NRG in the first game, but then they completely crushed G2 in the second. I bet they have a mastermind behind them!

[Heh, so everything's V5's doing, huh? Can't it be someone on my WBG team who counters G2? Just ask G2 if that guy in the top lane looks like Aatrox! Ask him if he's afraid of being captured again!]

[Hehe, no one said who the expert was, how come they managed to bait out some people's ultimate moves with just a basic attack~~~]

"OHHHHH!" Adam, sitting on the ground, was extremely excited, and for a moment he was thought to be a WBG fan.

"BB Bro, you're not doing well! You made a mistake trying to replicate Dr. Ye's performance!"

Ye Bo found it a bit strange to hear that he had been given the nickname "Doctor YE" circulating on the internet.

"It's not really a mistake, because with his maneuver, he couldn't have completed that move."

Ye Bo continued to explain the science to the other party.

That is actually a seemingly simple operation, but with considerable difficulty and details.

The principle is very simple — Vi's R spell range is 800 yards. Assuming the opponent does not use displacement, the time from locking onto the target to rushing onto the opponent is about 1 second.

Yone's R also has a 1-second cast time.

The key point is that although Yone's E has a short dash, it also has a total of 0.6 seconds of {stepping motion + casting delay} — so if you calculate it by the dash distance, using the E skill for "dash" is actually a waste of time!

"Oh!! I get it!" Adam's eyes widened upon hearing this: "So the key is that you used your E skill 'Extreme Wall Kick' to get past the wall first, using the wall's extra displacement distance to make up for the time difference, which is why you were able to complete the task at the last second!"

"BB only used his E skill as a regular movement skill, so he not only didn't gain time, but actually lost time. Therefore, he wouldn't have had time to use his ultimate skill to dash out!"

Ye Bo nodded encouragingly: "That's right, exactly!"

Adam was thrilled to receive Ye Bo's praise from the translator.

It's worth noting that even Zeus only noticed the details of that Q-Flash-W combo, but not the details of this particular move!
In other words, it's not just BB who made the mistake; if Zeus were to play this move, he might also make a mistake!

It may seem like a casual, insignificant maneuver, but it contains countless details and a mastery of both friendly and enemy heroes.
When Adam looked at Ye Bo again, his eyes seemed to sparkle, and his face was full of admiration, just like a little fan chasing after a star.

He truly lives up to his idol reputation!!

And right after this exchange, it seemed that WBG was about to kill the game.

At 28 minutes, WBG secured the Earth Dragon Soul.

And it's a full 10,000 units ahead in economic terms!!

Guan Zeyuan, the commentator, looked calm and composed, and even joked, "It feels like as long as Xiaohu doesn't get engaged, and Orianna and Yone can't pull three or four people, WBG is invincible in a head-on fight!"

"It looks like Little Tiger is finally going to get his revenge on this day!"

But almost five seconds after he finished speaking...

Xiaohu's Tsar suddenly appeared alone in a strange position in the mid lane.

G2's Rakan seemed to sense a mysterious call from fate, seizing the opportunity to bravely advance with the clockwork ball, and unleashing an RW attack towards the two carries!

Gala successfully used Flash from a distance, but Xiaohu failed to use either Flash or his ultimate. He was then caught off guard by Orianna's ultimate, followed by Yone and Riel's entry and was instantly killed!

"Hey, what's going on?!"

"How did WBG get wiped out!?"

"Wait a minute! It looks like we're going to lose Baron too! Something's not right!!!"

At 33 minutes, G2 took down the Elder Dragon in one fell swoop.

Then a wave of people rushed straight up WBG's high ground!
If it hadn't actually happened, who would believe that just 5 minutes ago, 28 minutes ago, WBG had a 1 gold advantage!

Finally, at the gate of the high ground, Xiaohu's attempt to move failed and he was caught again, leading to WBG's complete collapse.

The base was wiped out in one fell swoop!
Xun, who was outside frantically opening champagne for WBG, was stunned. He pointed to himself and said, "This...this isn't my fault, is it?"

The barrage of comments had already exploded.

[Damn! They just said WBG has a mastermind behind them! Who is this mastermind?! Brothers, let's blow this mastermind up!]

[Guan! Ze! Yuan! You *********]

No wonder YE ranked G2 ahead of T1 yesterday! I knew G2 was the best!

[Haha, yesterday I heard LPL people bragging that the Seoul venue would turn into a library today? Turns out it's LPL that's turning into a library!]

[Where did this library come from? The whole scene sounds like a disco to me. We LPL fans are all laughing!]

[I've time-traveled!! What year is this? Let me see this match—the enemy team has Rakan and Orianna, we're 10,000 gold behind, the battle is in the mid lane, our mid laner is Xiaohu, and the enemy team's name is a combination of letters and numbers. Holy crap! I've actually traveled back to 2017!]

[Account Closure: Don't worry, T1 will be released soon. I'm already studying the opponents for rounds 1-2!]

No one expected it to end like this.

Interestingly, today is still October 20th.

On the day of the sixth anniversary of RNG's legendary battle, October 10.20th, even at the same time and in the same location.

Xiaohu has lost to G2 again!

All I can say is that this moment feels just like that moment back then; it's truly amazing how fate works!
Fortunately, WBG's "upset" was just an isolated case, and the results of most of the second round matches in the Swiss system did not exceed expectations.

GEN, the only team with any suspense, successfully defeated HLE in their internal battle, sending Hanwha into a 1-1 group.

DK, on ​​the other hand, was defeated by LNG, whose lineup was quite good, and fell into a 0-2 round.

While LPL suffered a major upset, LCK also suffered heavy losses!

The time came to 9pm.

Unlike yesterday, when the audience was almost gone by the time the final match was over, today at 9 o'clock, not only were there still plenty of people, but everyone's emotions were extremely high and the atmosphere was even more heated.

It was as if the previous matches were just warm-up games.

Because everyone knows that the real show is about to begin!
"Now, let's welcome the two teams to compete in today's final match!"

"V5, the super team composed of last year's world champions and runners-up, will face off against the legendary team T1, who are returning for revenge—and the core members of both sides will meet again in the group stage round after a year!"

"This moment, just like that moment."

"Will Faker lead T1 to avenge their loss and stop V5's path to gold, or will YE, after changing teams, once again defeat Faker in the same position for the second time!"

"let us wait and see!"

(End of this chapter)