LOL: Alliance Intelligence King

After winning the MSI this year, Koro1 acted arrogantly and caused trouble for EDG's management, wanting both a higher salary and to become a core player.

EDG's management had spoken with him privately several times, but the results were unsatisfactory. In order to curb Koro1's arrogance, they brought in a new top laner to rotate with him and suppress Koro1's arrogance.

"Big Tree" wants to usurp the throne. Unlike other team coaches who are led by the nose by the players, Abu will actually call the boss to complain if a player has a problem.

"I don't care. In the quarterfinals, they played against a weak European team like FNC. It was like giving away points. IG lost so miserably."

"You're just spouting nonsense. Hurry up and sit down and get ready for training." Mingkai patted Koro1's thigh, a hint of a smile appearing in his deadpan eyes.

IG's performance this year was indeed quite good, it's just a pity that the coach named Corn ended up being the scapegoat.

Abu ignored Koro1 and looked down to confirm the training match information with Zuo Wu.

"In the next training match, Snake took the initiative to choose the red side."

"Red side?"

Mingkai looked at Abu with some surprise, "They lost both games on the blue side, yet the red side managed to win? Is Aokiji out of his mind?"

Abu habitually spreads his hands like a little bear.

This year's World Championship uses a version that favors heavy armor tactics, with many overpowered heroes in the top lane. The blue side, which picks heroes first, will have a more significant advantage than the red side.

Putting aside the versions.

When a weaker team plays against a stronger team, the blue side has a higher chance of winning.

Simply put...

The blue team is the attacking side, and can easily deploy a complete tactical lineup centered around the hero they choose first; while the red team is the defending side, and must counter the blue team's moves.

In the LPL team ecosystem, Abu, as the head coach, has a professional ability that far surpasses that of other coaches, regardless of whether they are on the red or blue team.

It's just a matter of winning in 29 minutes versus 30 minutes anyway.

Unexpectedly, Snake dared to choose the red side even after losing two games in a row on the blue side.

"Go?"

"Go!"

As both sides confirmed their top laners were ready, the screens on ten computers flashed, revealing the draft picks.

"Is he still quite trustworthy?" Koro1 turned to look at Abu.

The essence of training matches is to practice three things: heroes, lineups, and tactics.

In LPL internal scrims, the ban/pick phase often adopts a "random" banning method, allowing popular OP heroes to be banned in order to achieve a "three-pronged" training effect.

Unless the coaching staff of both sides negotiate and determine that the training match must be conducted in accordance with the formal competition procedure, everything will be done by default.

"No need, just disable it normally."

Abu shook his head and didn't explain much to Koro1. After Zuowu communicated with him, they played the three games at the normal pace.

Although he didn't know what had happened to Snake.

However, making such a request in a training match dominated by EDG is very likely because Snake is currently undergoing trials. Abu wouldn't dwell too much on such unspoken rules.

Abu chose to ban Captain, Rumble, and Mordekaiser, adopting a similar banning strategy as the previous two games.

Lock down Snake's mid, top, and jungle.

On the other side, Chen Rui's ban picks were in a direction that neither Aokiji nor Zuo Wu could understand.

Aside from banning Deft's Kalista, all the other bans were given to jungle champions like Rek'Sai and Skarner, targeting Clearlove's champion pool.

After the ban phase ended, Zzr from the Snake team visibly relaxed.

The pressure of facing his idol Clearlove in the two training matches was almost unbearable. Now that his signature Nidalee has been banned, if he has to lane against Clearlove's two signature champions, his jungle is really in trouble.

Zzr glanced at Chen Rui out of the corner of his eye and his impression of him improved a bit.

EDG locked Lulu up on the first floor.

Zhu Kai smiled and loudly discussed with Aokiji, "EDG is serious; they're planning to increase our strength."

Chen Rui looked at Zhu Kai with surprise, not expecting that he had indeed done a lot of homework.

Both Pawn and Meiko have considerable proficiency with Lulu. As a flex pick for EDG, Lulu appeared frequently at this year's World Championship.

Chen Rui pretended not to hear Zhu Kai's words and walked straight between Saint Gun and Zzr, asking, "How about taking the Crocodile? I'll give you a chance to solo kill Koro1."

"Sure, I have no objection. It's a pity EDG banned Mordekaiser, otherwise I would have really taught Koro1 a lesson."

Saint Gunner clenched his knuckles, looking eager to try, seemingly still resentful about being solo-killed by Koro1 in the last match.

"There's nothing we can do, this champion is just too strong at Worlds."

Chen Rui shook his head.

Mordekaiser boasts an 80% win rate in the World Championship group stage, making him almost a must-ban or must-pick, and he can reliably secure lane advantages in both mid and top.

Furthermore, by utilizing the W Iron Fragment and Soul mechanics, it can perfectly counter Yasuo, a top-tier mid-laner, making him completely unable to enjoy himself.

pity.....

IG's top and mid laners aren't very familiar with Mordekaiser.

"Okay! I remember you're very skilled with Renekton. EDG will most likely pick the three top-tier champions. You have a natural minion wave advantage in the early game, so try to create an opening before the third wave of minions to check for an offensive ward in the enemy jungle. You can discuss the rest with Zzr."

After a moment's consideration, Chen Rui added, "I'll give Zzr a strong jungle hero so he can coordinate with you in the first 10 minutes to maximize the advantage in the top half of the map."

"After playing Nakano for half a year, you should understand what I mean, right?"

Chen Rui spoke meticulously, explaining every detail clearly and simply. As a player who debuted with the reputation of a genius top laner, Flandre had a high shrewdness and understood immediately.

"I have no objection."

Chen Rui lowered his head and made a note in his notebook, then turned his gaze to Ella and switched to Korean to communicate with her.

"How's your Tauren head technique?"

"Yes, Coach. My Alistar has a high win rate in the Spring and Summer Splits, so I can pick him."

Ella's respectful reply and humble attitude surprised Chen Rui.

"Zzr, lock up the bull's head."

"A very standard top and support pick." Abu thought for a moment and realized that Snake still needed to break through from the top lane. "Koro1, be careful in the top lane this game. Don't be as aggressive as you were last game."

Koro1 snapped his fingers: "Hey, the biggest flaw in people is that they never learn from their mistakes. Trying to dive my tower now?"

"It doesn't look like it."

Mingkai shook his head: "They didn't ban your champion in the top lane. If they wanted to target you, their second pick should have been a strong jungler, but they banned Rek'Sai."

"Besides, Snake wouldn't be so stubborn as to put in so much effort against a lump of meat. Could they be planning to invade my jungle?"

After saying that, he looked at Abu.

"Let's see what they choose next."

Based on the previous two scrimmages, Abu basically guessed that Snake's jungler was not Beast, as neither his style nor his habits were similar.

only......

Why Snake didn't choose a top-jungle duo to mindlessly dominate the early game? Abu still doesn't understand. Neither Zuowu nor Qingzhi would have made that choice during the Summer Split.

Abu's expression turned serious, and he became more vigilant.

Despite the strong performance and skill of EDG's Korean and Chinese carries, their core strategy still relies on ensuring that Clearlove (Mingkai) plays comfortably.

"Okay, either way is fine with me."