You actually want me to...

"Ahem, I think at most I just handed over a lighter."

"That's enough, brothers, let's get him! Give him the damn thing!!!"

White Crescent relentlessly scheduled scrims for TES across 11 regions. They eliminated ranked games for the players, reduced unnecessary meetings, and even used scrims to practice new champions—all for one goal: to adapt to the current meta as quickly as possible.

Strong teams have their own style, and weak teams have their own tricks.

LCK's perfect operation, NA and EU's understanding of the version (European and American players will try all kinds of different playstyles, and the trial and error and freshness are unparalleled in the world), LPL's team fight characteristics, and various unheard-of mistakes and team fight initiation methods from other regions.

The last one, in particular, was a real eye-opener for Roland.

Holy crap, this can actually be driven!

Holy crap, that works too?

Holy crap, teammates can just sell themselves out like that???

Deeply moved by the hard work and guidance from various regions, TES and its team decided to respond to the teams from each region with Confucian principles: "When friends come from afar, they must first be tested with hardship, toil, hunger, and deprivation, and their actions must be disrupted, so as to strengthen their resolve and increase their abilities."

While TES was being thoroughly tested by teams from various regions.

The LPL playoffs have started simultaneously.

Fusion: Chapter Ninety-Three: He laughed so hard his mouth was crooked.

In the playoffs, all teams compete on two things: performance on the day and pre-game preparation.

In Season 10, due to the overpowered elemental dragon mechanic, the importance of lane control was amplified to an extreme degree, extending to the players' hero pools.

Another aspect is team fights. Due to the bounty system, even teams that are at a disadvantage in the early game can catch up in development by having their carry get bounties through one or two amazing team fights in the mid-game. Because of this, the importance of the hero pool has been raised even higher.

Therefore, in the S10 playoffs, each team's hero pool is just a starting point.

It's worth mentioning that because of Roland's mess, Karsa actually got to practice Lillia jungle in this scrim. At that time in the Chinese server, the top-tier jungle carries were still Nidalee and Graves, and the LPL's mindset hadn't changed because these two were too flexible in the early game jungle.

However, at this time, in the foreign regions, the only Tier 0 jungler was Lillia.

Simply put, this guy is too strong in team fights.

Why specifically mention junglers? Because Season 10 was a jungle-centric meta. You can choose not to play jungle carries, but you can't completely ignore this meta. In the first round of the playoffs, FPX lost to V5, and WE lost to LGD; essentially, the problem lay with their junglers.

FPX is a meta team; they have a very high skill ceiling when the meta is right, but when the meta is wrong, they can't master it no matter how much they practice. As a result, FPX was not competitive at all that year. As for WE's Beishang, it goes without saying that he was matched up against Peanut, who plays this style.

So in the first round, both teams were eliminated and entered the bubble stage.

In the second round, V5's Weiwei ran into SN's jungle veteran Sofm and had to give up. On the other side, Ning also couldn't beat Peanut and fell into the gauntlet. However, due to the points system, V5 was truly eliminated. The other three teams, on the other hand, all had enough points to enter the gauntlet and all have a bright future.

So, after going around in circles, TES's opponent turned back to the season's dark horse, SN.

Looking at their opponents who were about to start the match, TES, who had finally caught their breath after training matches in various regions, frowned collectively.

This timing is a bit awkward.

It's not that TES's raw strength is inferior to SN's, but rather that because they absorbed too much from other regions in a short period of time, the current TES team is a bit disorganized and hasn't been able to fully sort things out yet.

"Are you already preparing for our match?"

"Yes, it's a bit hard to believe, but you've been going through almost half a month of those hellish days." White Crescent couldn't help but sigh as she shrugged.

In the past two weeks, apart from the initial training match actions of TES causing a huge uproar in the global LOL community, TES has remained largely silent.

Yes, even the official Weibo account hasn't updated any data since. The entire club seems to have vanished, making them extremely out of place in the fiercely competitive LPL playoffs. If the PR team hadn't remembered their official Weibo account the day before the match, the team's fans probably would have called the police.

"What about tomorrow?"

"Let's play according to the current meta. It'll be a good opportunity to test Karsa's limits. If he can't even get past Sofm, then he can forget about competing with Kanavi in ​​the jungle carry role." Although they are still in the process of resource integration, White Crescent thinks that if they are only facing SN, it shouldn't be a big problem.

Although SN was the biggest dark horse in the LPL region in its previous life, its transformation did not begin in the LPL playoffs. Instead, it was after entering the World Championship that it started to perform better and better. To be honest, SN is still far behind TES and JDG at present.

"Sigh, what a pity. I was thinking that since the natural disaster had subsided a bit, I wanted to see if there were any young girls out and about around the club. Now, I'm too busy again."

"If you're really interested, I do know where to find them."

"Hmm? You've seen him before? What does he look like? Is he young or good-looking?"

"Let me put it this way: The girl next door is growing up, she's strong enough to uproot mountains and her spirit is unparalleled, you know what I mean?"

"Never mind, I didn't ask." With a sigh, Roland also gave up the idea. Thinking that there was finally a match tomorrow, the group discussed it and decided to get some rest early, since the recent training matches had been arranged a bit too much.

The next day.

When the TES team returned to the venue after a long absence, their hearts were filled with emotion and hope.

They're back! They're finally back!

It wasn't easy for these guys. If the match hadn't finally arrived, they would have been overwhelmed with scrimmages. On the other side, the fans of the TES team, who had finally seen the entire roster on the field, were also in tears.

[So you're still alive? I almost thought you were all buried.]

[Only one update in half a month, and it was posted last night after 9 pm. What's wrong? If the competition wasn't about to start, you guys were planning to just abandon your accounts, right?]

[This is outrageous. An entire team of players hasn't played a single ranked game on their accounts in the past two weeks. They've been driven to despair by several well-known observers. Did they go on vacation for two weeks?]

Is it possible that they've actually been playing practice matches all along?

[Absolutely impossible. Although practice matches aren't as intense as official matches, playing from morning till night for half a month straight—do you think all the players are made of iron?]

I'm angry right now, extremely angry.

However, they were all quite restrained. After ten years of fighting, the audience has learned one thing: opening champagne at the halfway point always leads to a miserable end. The final outcome depends on how TES performs in today's match.

And so, the competition began.

As mentioned earlier, Caitlyn has been buffed in the current version, but in the original S10 playoffs, she was only allowed to play three times, with a win rate of two wins and one loss. She was banned the rest of the time.

First round of bans:

TES: Twisted Fate, Ashe, Zoe

SN: Syndra, Renekton, Nidalee

The first round of bans remained largely unchanged. TES allowed Caitlyn and it depended on whether TES banned her or not. SN, on the other hand, banned Nidalee and allowed Graves. If TES banned Caitlyn, SN would ban Graves and Graves.

So, a round of PICK:

TES: Female Police Officer, Strongman, Lillia

SN: Jhin, Graves, Morgana

Second round of bans: Galio, Camille, Ornn, and Senna were all banned.

Because of Roland's terrifying pool of mage and support champions, SN couldn't immediately predict what their bot lane support would build to synergize with Caitlyn for pressure. After some thought, they decided to ban Senna, who primarily deals auto-attack damage.

Then, they locked up Tetsuo.

Since Sett can be played in the mid lane in this version, SN is a little worried that Sett is just a decoy. Although Mordekaiser is not easy to counter Sett, he has a high skill ceiling. If all else fails, they can play him as a utility champion.

However... this kind of BP already made Roland laugh out loud.

The final two moves: Xerath + Shen

The moment I saw these two combinations, I couldn't hold back anymore.

Top lane: Shen; Jungle: Lillia; Mid lane: Sett; Bot lane: Caitlyn + Xerath.

This team, which was supposed to be playing a dual-carry or mid-jungle strategy, suddenly turned into a bottom-jungle-support team?

SN definitely has lane priority in the top half of the jungle.

and then?

Graves and Mordekaiser, are they really going to dive a tower that only has one kidney left? The thought is too much; Chashao doesn't even dare to imagine it. As for the bot lane... he's already thinking that if they can hold out for even a few minutes, they'll be considered successful.

In the last round, Cha Siu was lost.

Since Jhin and Graves are both late-game carries, the mid-lane picks either need to be an AP carry who can set the pace in the early game, but not a carry, otherwise the team's three carries (bot, jungle, and carry) will be completely ineffective in the early game. Or they can go all in and pick a late-game carry, gambling that they won't die too early.

If it were any other coach, they might have chosen the former, but Chashao is known for his stubbornness.

Take it, take it hard.

I'll place a yellow chicken in the middle lane first, and then come back to collect the crops in thirty minutes. Anyway, I'll either collect crops or order crops, I'll search for them.

SN: Top lane Mordekaiser, Jungle Graves, Mid lane Azir, Bot lane Jhin + Morgana

The torment begins.

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P.S.: Take this triple attack, you bastard!

PY: "Fairy, Chasing Your Husband is a Death Ground!"

Synopsis: When Su Ningshuang saw him again, he already had several female confidantes who were no less beautiful than herself.

For some reason, she felt an overwhelming sadness welling up inside her.

He used to be so devoted to her, but she abandoned him, showing no mercy.

She believed he wouldn't understand her, like a mayfly and an eagle, they were from different worlds.

But......

"Oh, that woman, I know her, we're just ordinary friends."

Duan Yu's casual remark pierced Su Ning Shuang's heart.

Fusion: Chapter Ninety-Four: Have you ever thought about that set of patterns etched into your DNA?

At the start of the game, Lillia swaggered into the enemy's lower jungle, placed a ward on their blue buff, and then left.

Don't ask, the answer is that I have powerful backers.

Female police officer + Xerath, sorry, within range there's truth everywhere, you come out and try to auto-attack me?

Looking at the muscular strongman next to that silly robe, the SN members all said they dared not try, fearing they would die if they tried. They still had to respect the level one strongman, even though they had Morgana, who was the best against JKL.

This time, Roland received unprecedented high-level treatment.

You think the bot lane is carried by Caitlyn?