You've only been playing for half a year, and you've already reached the finals?

Chapter 52: Urgent need for a replacement!

Another night passed, August 27th.

After the draft, it is the LPL finals day.

JDG vs. TES, meet again in the finals of the Spring Championship!
Because LPL has fully switched to online competitions this year, today's finals will not be held in a large venue, but at the old venue, Hongqiao Tiandi Performing Arts Center. Tickets will not be sold to the public, and it will be conducted purely in the form of a live broadcast on the Internet.

But it’s not that there are no audiences.

Ming Jing and a group of friends walked in with their heads down and sat down in a corner of the audience.

This area will not be captured by the camera later, and there are quite a few people sitting there.

The contestants from both teams stepped onto the stage at the call of the host Zhu Zhen.

Among them was Loken, who had just been abused by Ming Jing two days ago.

Judging from his expression, he seemed to have recovered from the defeat.

Of course, it's normal. It's just a ranked game. It's a bit unreasonable to lose your mind because of the win or loss of a ranked game.

"Well, Mingjing," Huang Xiang asked, tilting his head, "Who do you think will win?"

"Is that even a question?" Yang Cuiheng laughed. "He definitely supports Top Esports. Haven't you seen him studying Top Esports videos daily? He doesn't even watch JDG's games. He just beat Loken the other day."

Ming Jing spread his hands and said with a smile, "If you force me to say, I do favor Topsports."

Mingjing has been watching a lot of LPL games lately, primarily to learn about playstyles and rhythms, but beyond that, he's also gained a deeper understanding of some of the top LPL teams.

From his own perspective, he does prefer Top Esports' style.

He personally felt that JDG's double Cs, Toothpaste and Loken, were really lacking.

If it is a low-intensity game, such as the LPL regular season, JDG may be able to win the game by relying on its strength in the upper half. After all, JDG's strengths are long enough to solve the problem.

But if it comes to high-level competitions, such as the current finals, the shortcomings of the double Cs will definitely have a fatal impact on JDG.

"JDG really doesn't have the potential to be champions." Peng Lixun also boldly commented, "Their style of play relies too much on the jungler's performance, making it difficult to beat strong teams."

Ming Jing nodded after hearing this.

Kanavi is currently the strongest jungler in LPL, without a doubt. Peng Lixun naturally has done some research on him.

JDG's style of play, in the final analysis, is to avoid laning in three lanes, not pursuing the victory or defeat in the laning phase, only grabbing the lane rights, and then helping Kanavi to invade the jungle. Everything is centered around the jungler, a standard jungle core team style of play.

Needless to say, when facing a weak team, Kanavi, with the support of his teammates' line rights, beat the opponent's jungler with a heavy punch, making him lose his mind. He easily crushed the economy, and then controlled the dragon and snowballed to win the game.

But when facing a strong team, regardless of whether you can win the battle in the jungle, the first thing to consider is whether a teammate can get the line control.

According to Peng Lixun's understanding, even if JDG cannot get the line control, Kanavi will definitely take the risk to invade.

But in this case, there is often no return.

Every time JDG loses a game, it's either because the bottom lane collapses or because the jungler is too impatient and gives away a kill. There are only these two reasons.

Huang Xiang narrowed his eyes slightly and felt strange when he saw Ming Jing and Peng Lixun both supported Top Esports.

You know, JDG won the spring season. From Huang Xiang's perspective, he felt that the two teams were on par with each other and it was hard to tell which one was better.

Is it true that he has no understanding of the game at all?

Huang Xiang was a little unconvinced, but he still chose to continue watching.

But it turned out that Ming Jing and Peng Lixun's understanding was indeed correct.

Kanavi lost in just the first game.

There is no need to say much about the laning ability of Left Hand and 369. They are not inferior to Toothpaste and Zoom on JDG's side. JDG's mid and top players find it difficult to control the line!

Karsa was also very shrewd. He anticipated Kanavi's invasion in advance, so he asked his teammates to make sufficient preparations and lure him into the trap.

This resulted in Kanavi being surrounded by TES players as soon as he entered the jungle area, and he never came back!
Although JDG's tactical execution was top-notch and the middle and bottom lanes came to support immediately, it was still too late and Kanavi gave away the first blood.

This is what Mingjing and Peng Lixun said. When encountering a strong team and the lanes cannot support the jungle as they wish, Kanavi will turn from the No. 1 jungle core in LPL into the King of Haste and start to give up directly.

When JDG couldn't gain an advantage in the early stages, the result was obvious.

In the 32-minute team fight for the big dragon, TES was already 8,000 ahead. JackeyLove took the lead, and Jhin was the first to chase and target someone. Although he was immediately hit by Qiyana and was left with little health, fortunately, TES's support was Tam, who swallowed Jhin in one gulp and stopped JackeyLove's sudden death in time.

This time, it was JDG that was in an awkward situation. After all, they had just seen the hope of killing Jhin, and everyone rushed forward at once.

Without hesitation, Kennen flashed into the field with his ultimate skill, and with the help of Karsa's charge, Loken's Ashe became the first to die!

In the end, a one-for-four exchange was achieved. Although JackeyLove was still killed, he used himself as bait and successfully replaced four opponents, helping the team win the first game!

"Look," Peng Lixun said bluntly, "JD loses ground against strong teams. They're just good at bullying weaker teams."

Huang Xiang couldn't help but nod when he saw this, "It's true."

Someone suddenly said, "The main problem is that Loken's B is not good enough. He can't even beat Jingshen, and he still won the championship? I think Jingshen should be sent to Jingdong to play AD!"

Huang Xiang immediately added the punchline: "Indeed!"

Ming Jing smiled and shook his head, but didn't say anything.

At this time, Huang Xiang continued to ask: "If that's the case, then JD.com has already sent it?"

"That's not necessarily true." Ming Jing said with a smile: "Let's see how Top Esports plays. This team is a bit..."

No need to say much, everyone present understood.

Only those who have watched many Top Esports games can understand how unstable this team is.

They can beat any team, and they can also lose to any team. If JD wants to win, it only takes JackeyLove to make a few plays.

As expected, JackeyLove started to perform in the second game.

At the end of the game, JackeyLove's dismal record of 4-4-6, and the fact that he failed to use his stopwatch and flash despite dying three times, allowed JDG to tie the score!

In the next few rounds, both sides had similar intentions, fighting back and forth all the way to the fifth round.

However, in the decisive battle of the fifth game, JDG's hidden time bomb finally exploded.

In just four minutes, Loken made a positioning error and was hit by a hook from the Prophet Titan, and was killed directly.

Seeing this wave of kills, the experienced Karsa immediately had an idea. He immediately took the left hand in the middle lane to the bottom lane to attack two of the four, and he also succeeded!

"It's over!" Fu Minghang was suddenly shocked: "Why did Loken suddenly start delivering? Isn't it already sent?"

In such a high-level confrontation, the two consecutive deaths of AD undoubtedly dealt a huge blow to the team!

All of JDG's decisions had to be temporarily paused to clean up the mess in the bottom lane.

But the price is that you can lose both the dragon and the vanguard.

Watching TES easily control the dragon and the vanguard, Peng Lixun said with a cheerful smile, "Loken is like this. He didn't explode until the fifth game today, so his condition is actually very good."

"This is just the jungler meta." Ming Jing shook his head and said bluntly, "It's too easy to get into the bottom lane."

This is the bottom lane environment in the jungle core version. Instead of choosing a Draven or a Caitlyn to kidnap the jungler to come to the bottom lane, it is better to choose a Jhin or a Ziggs and let the jungler play freely.

If it were a normal version, this JDG team would definitely not be able to reach such a height.

"It's okay. Next year, it definitely won't be a jungle-focused version." Huang Xiang said with a smile, "I'll wait for you to take EDG to success next year!"

Huang Xiang had no doubt about Ming Jing's ability. If he were asked to name someone who would definitely win the championship in the future, he would only name Ming Jing.

Fortunately, they are all young players of the EDG team, and maybe they can find someone to rely on in the future!
I was thinking happily that the game in front of me had already come to an end.

In the next game, TES attacked Loken fiercely and was invincible.

Kanavi looked at the increasingly difficult situation and started to go crazy. Kindred didn't even use his ultimate in the Dragon Soul group, and was killed instantly by Syndra with his left hand!

Since the jungle has done it, there is nothing more to say. TES won the team battle, took the Earth Dragon Soul and the Big Dragon, and then pushed forward to end the game!

Three to two, the new king ascends the throne!

The five members of TES held up the trophy in the center of the stage, and the director immediately cut into the pre-prepared cheers of the audience. The cheers resounded throughout the venue, and combined with the empty auditorium, it was truly devastating.

Seeing this scene, Ming Jing shook his head and stood up.

Sometimes, he really feels that if he were allowed to play, he could do better.

But there is no point in saying this. After all, Ming Jing is only 16 years old and has no qualifications to play at all.

He planned to gain some more ranking points to consolidate his number one position.

At the same time, in the JDG team's backstage lounge at Hongqiao Tiandi Performing Arts Center.

The JDG players who missed the championship returned in despair. No one said a word and the lounge was surprisingly quiet.

Instead, team owner Blue Lotus was still counseling the players in the lounge: "It's just a BO5 loss, it doesn't matter. The upcoming World Championship is the main focus! Let's go eat first and adjust our form!"

Of course the boss is in a very good mood.

For JDG, winning the Spring Championship and Xia Ya is already a very good result. After all, when building the lineup at the beginning of the year, the club did not spend too much time and effort, and just thought that it would be enough to maintain an upper-middle position, so they bought Loken at a low price, focusing on cost-effectiveness.

However, they did not expect that the jungle core version would come so suddenly. Their entire team took off from Wuhu with the help of the version and directly reached the top of the LPL!

Low cost and large traffic, this is undoubtedly a profitable business for Blue Lotus!
But the boss's advice did not make the contestants laugh out loud. Instead, they received a few weak responses. Everyone stood up with dejected heads, ready to leave.

The perspectives of the players and the bosses are obviously different.

They were just one step away from completing the epic achievement of winning the spring and summer double crown, but they lost so miserably in the final round that it was hard for the youngsters to accept.

In particular, they all know where the problem lies, but are powerless to change it.

Coach Hongmi's face was also terrifyingly serious at this moment.

He has always believed that failure is not a bad thing. As long as one can discover problems and grow from failure, then failure is valuable.

And through this failure, Redmi has also understood a fact.

If the bottom lane is not changed, JDG will have no chance of winning the championship.

They urgently need a replacement.

But... at this juncture at the end of the season, is there any better free AD than Loken?

Not to mention the end of the season, it is difficult to find an AD during the transfer period, and excellent ADs are often not for sale by each team.

Uzi? Or last year's ADimp?

It's hard to evaluate them all, as they each have their own shortcomings and are all too old.

At this time, several young people came into view.

"Oh my, this is so funny, how can you be so bad?"

A few people who were discussing something with laughter immediately shut up the moment they saw the JDG players, as if the content of the discussion was related to them.

Hongmi looked at the group of young people in front of him, especially Mingjing, who was leading them, and had a bold idea in his mind.

(End of this chapter)