League of Legends: Arrow of Champions

Chapter 757 [778] The group stage ended
As a grand ceremony shared by all League of Legends players around the world, the global finals every year carry too many eyes, pursuits, hopes and interests. Naturally, many stories and grievances will happen.

But in the final analysis, it is just a process of revenge and being revenged.

The anti-Korean Qixia TPA in previous years did not continue the surprises it had brought to everyone this year, and was crushed when facing Crane.

The TL team, which has been criticized for being "expert in civil wars and amateurs in foreign wars", finally relied on the top eight civil wars last year and stepped into the top four with the body of the Yulong team. This year they once again participated in the World Championship as the No. For myself, it is a pity that the first round of the group stage was overturned one after another, losing first to Vietnam and then to the CIS.

The Fish and Dragons qualified first in the group last year, and lost to the seeded team in the same division in the quarter-finals. They were also TL who had eliminated them countless times in domestic and foreign competitions. The old lineup made a comeback in the new season, and they were the first to lock in No. [-] Seeds out.

Crane created an unprecedented three-peat miracle in the history of League of Legends last year. After falling into a slump in the spring split this year, the state of the summer split gradually improved. The undefeated record locks the No. 6 seed to qualify, and it is also the only one among the six teams that has not lost in the entire group stage. Everyone thinks that they are very likely to perform miracles again, leaving a bigger one, which is almost impossible to have later. The miracle of four consecutive championships.

As one of the old strong teams in the European Division, M16 has rejuvenated its amazing vitality after a large-scale change of blood last year. Won the first division championship in team history, and went to the World Championship as the No. [-] seed in the EU division.

As a result, the first round of the group stage ushered in a two-game losing streak. They were determined to take revenge in the second round, revenge against STR, failed, revenge against SKY, and were abused.

And SKY, even if it was the peak glory of Chen Muyu's era, their results in the World Championships, that is, two consecutive championships, they lost to STR and Crane, who lost to them at MSI in the same year. After Chen Muyu retired, SKY followed Relegation, for a full six years, finally returned to the stage of the top league when the door to return to the LPL was about to close.

This team, which has almost changed from players to coaches once or even several times, returned as a rookie in everyone's eyes, but it brought everyone an unimaginable surprise in the first season. With four championships, MSI defeated STR and returned to the top of the world.

However, just when people thought SKY was going to return to the top, they failed unexpectedly in the LPL playoffs and didn't even enter the playoffs. Fortunately, they entered the bubbling match by virtue of the points advantage of the spring championship. Returned to the World Finals as the third seed.

This is SKY's third trip to the global finals. In the previous two times, they both reached the final round of life and death in the global finals that year.

And this year, it seems unlikely that this young team will go that far.

With a record of 4-1 and a qualifying spot already secured, the last group match between SKY and STR is still crucial. It is related to the qualifying ranking in the group match and whether M16 can retain the possibility of final promotion.

However, the final result cannot be said to disappoint everyone, but it definitely disappoints most people.

Because of what Mu Wanli said in the interview, many people are looking forward to the match between SKY and STR. However, SKY did not come up with any unexpected lineup in the selection. On the contrary, STR's side, Unexpectedly, a mid laner card that hadn't appeared in the global finals for a long time was selected.

Cards flew down twice in the early stage, causing SKY to fall into a great disadvantage in the early stage. However, after entering the mid-stage, SKY wiped out the STR group in the most critical wave of small dragon groups, and regained the situation. With Lin Xuan's Xia equipment It's getting better and better, the balance of victory is constantly tilting towards SKY
——It’s hard to say how big this range is, but with Xia in Liushen costume, especially in the hands of her brother-in-law, most people think that SKY is very likely to win this game when they see this, and the players of M16 are in the background. Keep cheering for SKY.

However, the end of the game even made people feel a little inexplicable. At 42 minutes, SKY assembled and pushed STR to the bottom lane, and An Chengye's card went up to the lane with a single belt. When SKY attacked the high ground but was blocked due to lack of soldiers, the crocodile and EZ were decisive. Believing in An Chengye, Lin Xuan directly sent SKY to go on the road. Lin Xuan finally killed the opponent Nosuke, and just returned home, and before he walked down the spring, the crystal of the base was pushed away.

After this game, regardless of the result of STR's M16 match, they will qualify first in the group, and SKY will qualify as second in the group.

This result is not too bad, after all, it has qualified, but both the players and the audience are somewhat disappointed and disappointed by this.

Of course, there are many happy people. STR, as the first generation champion dynasty, has a lot of popularity even in LPL. In this game, SKY failed in revenge, but in fact it was STR's revenge success. After all, compared to MSI , The weight of today's competition is actually not that heavy.

When shaking hands after the game, the five STR members were all beaming with joy. They beat SKY twice in the group stage. For them, it was not as simple as being the first in the group. Be more confident.

NO.16D group qualifying battle, Crane won all six games, the group first qualified, so far the three LCK teams have all advanced to the quarterfinals, two groups are first, and the only group second is the No. 4 seed VCR. In the group stage, the Yulong team suffered a double kill and ranked second with a 2-[-] record.

However, compared with the No. 16 seed in other divisions, VCR's performance is actually very good. The No. [-] seed in the European Division M[-] was eliminated in the group stage, the No. [-] seed in the LMS Division was eliminated in the TPA group stage, and the No. [-] seed in the NA Division was eliminated in the ATM group stage.

The No. [-] seed TL in the LPL Division was eliminated in the group stage.

The qualifying battle of Group A was arranged on the last day of the group stage, but the adjustments these days did not seem to have any effect. NO.17 Group A qualifying battle, the TL team defeated the Vietnam champion XM in the first game, and completed revenge, but unfortunately later They were avenged by the TJ team, and they were double-killed by ANX in the CIS division in the life-and-death battle, completely declaring that their journey to the global finals this year came to an end.

For the LPL, this is undoubtedly a heavy blow, because compared to the pressure of SKY and Yulong, almost everyone thought that TL's promotion should be taken for granted before the game, but the two teams were deeply trapped in the death group. The team successfully broke through. They thought they would be the strongest team with the easiest qualification, but they were upset and eliminated.

The whole LPL was shocked by TL's upset exit, regret, anger, disappointment... At the time, SKY's atmosphere was not much better than TL's - good is definitely better, but it's not much better, it's far from nothing The Ichthyosaur team next door is so aggressive.

The problem for SKY is not so big, because most people have not thought about this result. The group is only second. Because the opponent is too strong, if they are in other groups, they may not be able to qualify.

But this problem is definitely not small, because the problem is Lin Xuan who is the least likely to have problems and has almost never had problems.

After losing to STR in the last game, Lin Xuan's mood became a little bit wrong. Zhang San and Ren Fan discovered this problem during the replay that night, but it was the same as at the end of the summer regular season not long ago. Although people noticed it, they couldn't accurately find the real key to the problem. In other words, they knew that there seemed to be something wrong with Lin Xuan's mentality, but they couldn't tell what the problem was.

This problem was exposed at the end of the regular season in the summer split, but it was soon invisible because the team recovered. This time it was exposed again because of the two losses to STR.

Zhang San and Ren Fan discussed in the middle of the night, their faces were covered with oil, and they failed to accurately grasp the key to the problem. Until the next day, Jiang Yingxue pointed out Lin Xuan's greatest psychological advantage and the greatest psychological advantage. disadvantages.

"Why do you think we can win as long as we don't make mistakes?"

As long as you lose the game, you will be able to find the mistakes from the effect to the cause, but in terms of the decision at the time, the choice at the time and the angle at the time may not necessarily be wrong, and more importantly, not making mistakes, refers to playing your best. The level it should have.

Ever since Chen Muyu pointed out that neither she nor Xiyan had the aura of Lin Xuan, Jiang Yingxue has been looking for the gap, which may be one of the factors that caused her to fall into a certain kind of mind unknowingly.

In fact, she discovered this a long time ago. From Lin Xuan's point of view, it seems that as long as he and his teammates play at their proper level, they can win, and victory is a matter of course.

However, in fact, many times, even if you do the best you can, losing games is more of a normal result, especially for the LPL team in the World Championship.

She doesn't know where Lin Xuan's mentality comes from, but as the core and soul of the entire SKY, this mentality has more advantages than disadvantages. She never thinks there is anything wrong with it, and she has never told anyone about it.

Of course, this does not mean that there are no disadvantages. For example, now, when everyone in the entire team is playing at the level they should be, the team still loses, and it is after losing to the former defeated player. Anything is much bigger.

Jiang Yingxue's words awakened the person in the dream, and Zhang San and Ren Fan's two still greasy faces showed a sense of comprehension at the same time. For a while, thoughts flooded in. Now that the problem has been found, it is not so difficult to solve it. , what's more, this is a "turn" in itself, just turn around, and it doesn't even count as a blow.

The so-called fan of the authorities, Lin Xuan himself did not realize the mentality of "being a wise person with the protagonist's BUFF" mentality in himself. After being pointed out by Jiang Yingxue, he reflected on it and found that it seemed to be true.

Jiang Yingxue is not a person who only digs holes but ignores burying them and is irresponsible. Looking at Lin Xuan, she continued: "Do your best to obey the fate. The so-called obeying the fate means that human beings cannot control all the development of the situation. Human thinking is not absolute. The professional arena is changing rapidly, and every subtle difference in decision-making may lead to completely different results. Who can count all the possibilities? Even game designers, how often do they make mistakes?"

"LPL has developed rapidly over the years, but LCK's hematopoietic ability and management mechanism are still superior to LPL." An Chengye is also recognized as the No.1 mid laner in the history of League of Legends. He has supported STR for so many years by himself. Awareness, operation, understanding, decision-making, one-on-one, you may not be better than him, not to mention that he is a mid-range unit, and he is naturally better than ADC in his ability to control the rhythm of the overall situation. Is it strange to lose to him? "

The group of people in the meeting were dumbfounded.

Not because of her words, but because she actually said so many words in one breath.

"It's okay to lose, just fight back."

After Jiang Yingxue said the last sentence, she looked away. She never spoke again in this meeting, and naturally she didn't see Mu Wanli who was sitting across from her. These days, she had been shining brightly, even if she lost the game, she didn't lose her eyes because of it. , when she was talking, she kept looking at her, and after she finished speaking, her look gradually dimmed.

(End of this chapter)