My buddy is actually a Cao Cao type top laner?

Chapter 472 The Legendary Endurance King - Captain Dragonfly

After defeating DK, DK quickly began searching for the mole within their ranks.

Nothing.

That's how the World Championship works.

Losing a race means you have to adjust, and if you adjust too slowly, you'll be eliminated. The good news is that if they're eliminated, they don't need to study swimming routes, and they might not even need to buy plane tickets. Of course, the bad news is that they'll get a truck warning.

after all
Fighting on home soil, huh?
While DK was investigating the internal traitor, V5 didn't immediately go back to ranked games; instead, they all started watching the Swiss round matches in other groups.

Especially BLG vs. KT.

In another China-Korea showdown in the first round, BLG continued their high-profile performance and successfully withstood the pressure from KT.

Ok.

Although they won by turning the tide against all odds, they still won.

As for the rest?
WBG and JDG were matched against mostly weak opponents in the first round, so they skipped them.

It is worth mentioning that.

LPL's fifth seed, G2, also won in the first round. In the first round of the Swiss system, all five LPL teams won, which greatly boosted the morale of the region.

【win!!!】

[Oh no, this result feels like witnessing history. Is it going to be another case of winning everything at the beginning, then losing everything, and then randomly picking a savior?]

Whether or not the savior will be saved is another matter, but if they win all their matches, there will definitely be an internal battle in the second round.

[JDG, BLG, WBG: Internal battle? As long as they don't play V5, everything is negotiable.]

KT, however, is unaware of this at the moment.

Starting from the second round of the Swiss rounds, their nightmare will truly begin: the man who almost influenced the entire trajectory of the S-series.

Captain Dragonfly, he's here!

Many people may not remember the S13 matches, but they will definitely remember Captain Dragonfly from S13, because he always adhered to three principles:
First, never act impulsively.

Second, we absolutely will not allow KT to be drawn against teams from regions outside of LCK and LPL.

Third, the absolute fairness and impartiality of the referee.
The theme of the S13 World Championship was "Gold is Forged Through Trials and Tribulations." While other teams were tested in the furnace to determine who was gold and who was impurity, KT's draw was directly outside the furnace.

While watching the second round of the draw.

Several commentators were even joking with each other:

Wang Duoduo: "This guy drawing lots looks pretty nervous. Let's believe in his luck."

957: "The rules are that the winners will be grouped together and the losers will be grouped together, but hopefully there won't be too many internal battles."

The result was just finished speaking.

Group 1: V5 vs. JDG
"what?"

Group 2: GENG vs. T1
"Huh?" X2
Group 3: DK vs. KT
"Huh?" X3
Other teams didn't encounter any internal matches. WBG, as usual, was matched with European and American teams, while KT was a bit confused.

BDD had said in an interview the day before that he hoped to face a weaker team, but on the first day, he was matched against BLG.

The next day, things went as planned.

I encountered a Death Knight.

LCK's fourth seed is a bit weaker than LCK's third seed, no doubt about it, bro~
[Hilarious! You were all so happy when we got drawn in the internal conflict scenario, now that you've drawn even more, it's our turn to laugh.]

[This episode showcases the most e-sports spirit in Little Kimchi.]

[Your application to join the Party is ready. Captain Dragonfly, you need to leave the competition area immediately. We will take good care of you. ( )]

[Captain Dragonfly: I can't create a draw that satisfies everyone, but I can make everyone unhappy.]

"Are we playing against JDG?"

As Luo Ji looked at the second round of the draw, the excitement on his face visibly faded.

"Why are we fighting them again? It's so boring."

The same applies to Ruler.

Redmi only has one set of strategies, and no matter how they change, they always rely on the current meta to dominate the mid-to-late game.

Because it was an internal battle and a Swiss-system match, he could even guess that the opposing team wouldn't want to reveal anything, estimating that they would just use the same old tactics to stall for thirty or forty minutes and then hand the game away.

If you want to break through someone's shell, you have to expose something; if you don't want to expose something, you have to drag out the game time.

Nothing.

In the second round, based on the civil war, V5 directly selected a captain for Luo Ji.

Just a quick mention of this.

The Captain was chosen because he received some buffs in the World Championship patch, according to the designers' patch notes:

Gangplank seems to have been quiet for a while. In high-level games, some fighter players are trying to push him out of the lane. We need to give him some attention.

—In patch 13.16, the passive Fire Blade damage has been reverted, and Q is now triggered in melee combat. At max level, Q damage is increased by 50 points.

What's the key point?
The Q callback is triggered by melee attacks.

Previously, Captain Q's immortality was calculated based on ranged immortality; after this change, Captain Q's immortality is calculated based on melee immortality.

Wow, that's a qualitative leap!
however.

The imagined scene of the captain bombarding JDG did not occur. Instead, because the game was deliberately dragged out, Weiwei and Jwei did not have enough experience in major competitions, which exposed the weakness of young players who tend to be impatient in the mid-to-late game.

Instead, JDG took the lead.

The points standings are now one win and one loss.

"It's good. Losing a round exposed the team's problems, and we were able to identify and rectify them in time. It just means we'll have to play one more day in the Swiss round."

In the lounge.

Nofe's words also carried a hint of relief.

If it's against a macro-oriented team like GENG, this weakness might not be so obvious.
Because they were unfamiliar with GENG and needed to test each other, JDG was too familiar with V5, so familiar that Redmi's slightest test immediately exposed their weaknesses.

"normal."

Luo Ji patted his own jungler and support on the shoulder and said:
"International competitions and league matches are two completely different battlefields. What matters here is the speed of evolution rather than the team's foundation. Foundation can only help you reach the top eight at most, but only evolution can allow you to touch the threshold of the championship."

The most classic example is EDG.

They haven't improved in the World Championships year after year, always ending up in the quarterfinals, and even once in the round of 16. The coach of that round of 16 year was none other than Nofe, the coach of this team now.

It made my family laugh.

The year EDG won the championship, everyone witnessed their continuous evolution. Meiko, in particular, went from never having touched Nami once in a season to being able to play Nami effectively at the World Championship in less than a week.

This is transformation.

Fortunately, internal conflicts are something that LPL viewers love equally, so the criticism they receive isn't too severe.

until
The draw took place on the third day of the Swiss round.

After a night of online bullying, Captain Dragonfly's eyes were now as determined as if he were about to join the Party.

of course.

It's already a miracle that he survived to take office, because according to the script of Korean dramas, if a tool like him dared to draw such a lot, he should most likely have been killed by a truck as soon as he stepped out the door.

All I can say is, he's a legendary king of endurance!!!
"Holy crap, this guy's still here?"

"Not only are they there, they're also stunned. If I had drawn two internal battles from my own region in the last round, I would have already claimed to be unwell and unable to participate in this round of the draw."

Two days ago.

In the LPL, JDG and BLG both won their matches, while V5 and WBG lost, which was unexpected by Da Huo.

The result was on the third day.

JDG and BLG will face off directly, but only one LPL team will advance.

Here in the losers' bracket.

With Captain Dragonfly's latest draw, WBG was once again assigned to one of his European and American friends, which made Danny grin from ear to ear.

However.
Danny wasn't the only one whose expression changed drastically; KT was also affected.

When the KT team saw that their opponent in the third round was V5, following BLG and DK, their hearts sank.

—A moment of deathly silence!
(End of this chapter)