You actually want me to...

TES: Rumble, Morgana, Senna

With Varus and Udyr both available, you either protect Ghost and release Udyr to cripple yourself, or you protect Canyon and throw Varus out, letting the bot lane bear the pressure from TES's bot lane duo.

Based on the DK playstyle in Season 10, the Ghost King should have been given Varus no matter what.

But this is DK in Season 11. Khan has only been with DK for half a year, so Kkoma has to consider how well Khan fits into the team. So the choice between these two heroes is simple.

One round of PICK:

DK: Udyr (first pick) + Tristana Lucian

TES: Varus, Olaf (first and second tier) + Weapons

Second round of bans: LeBlanc, Irelia, Leona, Alistar

In their fourth pick, TES drew Syndra.

In the current version, Syndra has actually been nerfed twice, and her damage is vastly different from that of Syndra in Season 10. Logically, the best choice at this point should be a traditional late-game carry like Orianna or Viktor.

But... the opposing team's lineup is too aggressive.

With Udyr, Tristana, and Lucian all being short-ranged champions who can dive in, his last two picks will inevitably be tanks or fighters with the ability to dive in. While Orianna is good at dealing damage, preventing her from getting into the fight is a real challenge for him.

Syndra would be a good fit, as for the damage?

He has teammates.

In their last two moves, DK pulled out Gragas and Sett.

The team consisted of Gragas in the top lane, Udyr in the jungle, Lucian in the mid lane, and Tristana and Sett in the bottom lane.

"Sure enough, this combination doesn't look like the kind of lineup DK would use at all." White Crescent almost burst out laughing while taking notes as she looked at the opposing DK's lineup on the screen.

LCK teams have a history of using unconventional lineups in the group stage to test other teams' playstyles. While LPL teams might have been fooled by this tactic at first, now White Crescent simply treats their actions as a joke.

"Then I'll definitely choose it, Coach."

“Let’s choose. Since he likes to play things he’s never played before, let’s do the opposite and play things we’ve already played.”

As a last resort, Roland locked down Raven.

It forms a combination of a 4-1 split push + poke system, with top lane Jax, jungle Olaf, mid lane Syndra, and bot lane Varus + Swain.

【666666】

[It's like a Renaissance; I can't even remember the last time I saw Banhuang play Mage.]

Varus + Raven, this combination seems familiar.

[It's been a while since I've seen this lineup...]

It's worth mentioning that during the coach handshake session, White Crescent and Koma maintained almost identical actions: they both carefully examined each other's appearance before putting on an official, business-like smile and shaking hands.

Athletes feel excited when they encounter strong opponents, and coaches naturally feel the same way.

Although Kouma believes that White Crescent's success is largely due to the excellent cards the club dealt him, success is success. As long as he has climbed to the top, he is a decent opponent for him.

Similarly, the white crescent moon thought the same thing.

If Faker was a god among players in the past, then Kkoma was a living legend in the coaching circle in his early years. It wasn't until after S7 that his reputation gradually faded.

For the two of them, wasn't this also a meeting of the old king and the new king?

"You seem to have had some interaction with him?" Looking at the smiling White Crescent Moon walking down from the stage, Lao Guo scratched his head. As a team leader, he was a little confused about what had just happened between the two dirty players.

"No, he's just jealous of me."

"That can't be right, you're clearly not as handsome as him."

"Who told you that? I meant he's jealous of the variety of cards I have." Of course, as White Crescent understands it, although he has a bunch of SSRs, Koma is probably more concerned about Roland's existence. Unlike others, most players and viewers tend to focus on TES's hero microphones and various unpopular heroes that don't appear in many matches, or it's just for entertainment purposes.

However, any experienced coach can immediately see the most fundamental problem with Roland: how long has it been since his signature strong initiation support and traditional support styles appeared in front of the world?

In traditional Chinese opera, the facial makeup is divided into four categories: Sheng (male lead), Mo (old man), Jing (painted face), Dan (female lead), and Chou (clown). Chou holds the highest position and is responsible for conveying the most nuances in terms of emotions, expressions, and reasoning. Therefore, the role of the Chou is extremely challenging. However, when a Chou performs a serious role, their expressiveness is often exceptionally strong.

And that's exactly what TES is doing right now.

"I never expected that after hiding it for so long, it would backfire because I tried too hard to hide it?" Reflecting on the various decisions he had made since MSI, White Crescent quickly figured out why his hand had been exposed.

"Huh? What are you talking about?"

"No, it's just... things seem to be getting interesting."

With a mysterious smile on her face, White Crescent returned backstage, found her seat, and plopped down in it. In her mind, she had already begun to think about some other backup plans.

on the stage.

As soon as both teams successfully entered the game, the five players on each side immediately formed a long line and filled all the jungle entrances along the two rivers.

The reason is simple: neither side had much hard crowd control in the early game.

In this kind of lineup where neither side has hard crowd control in the early game, the strategy is either to completely avoid fighting at level one and each defend their own territory, or to engage in a fierce fight at level one with no chance of survival. However, in this game, both teams chose a conservative approach, so the game can be considered a normal start for both sides.

"What a pity... I was hoping they would actually invade and fight us."

After glancing at Gragas's runes and then at Ale's item build, Roland blurted out without thinking, "Forget it, unless we're ahead in kills, we'll be at a disadvantage in a real fight, and besides..."

"And what?"

"And you need to remember, if a scaling top laner sacrifices Teleport to help you in the level 1 team fight, either he's your daddy, or you're his daddy. Do you understand what I mean?"

"???"

The Battle for Supremacy: Chapter Twenty-Two: Brother, You're So Right!

When they faced their former rivals again after half a year, the pressure from the DK five-man squad was overwhelming for TES in the early game, especially in the top lane. The bot lane's double ranged poke composition was definitely an advantage. From the moment Swain was picked, Haro's jungle route was fixed from top to bottom, the difference being with DK.

Following the normal approach to clearing the field.

Knowing that the enemy team is farming from top to bottom and mainly focuses on gaining an advantage in the bottom lane, what choice would a normal jungler make?

If they can win, they farm together from top to bottom; if they can't, they mirror the start, ganking the top lane while the bottom lane ganks the top. But Canyon is different. This time, Canyon opted for a quick level 3 run in the bottom jungle and then immediately circled around the vision to gank the bottom lane. Just when Roland and JKL were about to push the minion wave, Udyr suddenly appeared from the river bush, completely stunning the two bottom lane duo.

"Holy crap!? What's that jungler doing here?"

"Ah Shui, don't use your flashbang! If you do, you'll really go to jail next time!"

Just as JKL was subconsciously preparing to Flash away, a shout from Roland immediately stopped JKL from trying to Flash away. That's right, with the lane pushed to this position, even if he Flashed, one of them would probably die, and if he was unlucky, both of them might die.

Preserve your strength, and if you have a flashbang in the next wave, the opponent won't have a chance to attack.

Thinking of this, JKL was about to comfort his support player by saying what it means to lose money and then regain it, but he found that in the instant he was stunned, the support player who was yelling at him not to use Flash had "whoosh" and decisively Flashed away.

JKL: ? ? ?

Considering that Raven still had his E skill available, the attack from the DK trio decisively shifted its focus to JKL Varus, who had been left behind in the back.

DK_Ghost kills TES_JKL

First Blood!

A perfectly timed gank secured the first blood for Varus.

"Ah Ban!!!"

"Yes, dear~"

"Didn't you say not to use Flash? You've screwed me over again!"

JKL was furious. He had seen shameless people before, but he had never seen anyone play the support role so disgustingly. In other teams, the support would protect the AD carry and run away, but in their team, the support would sell the AD carry without batting an eye. Is that even fair?

"Yeah, I mean don't use Flash. Think about it, if you save Flash this time, the next time you'll have Flash and I won't. Then when someone comes, they'll definitely target me first and then you, right? I have scientific evidence for this."

"..."

DK's early lead caused an explosive surge of comments in the live streams of the tournament across China.

【666666】

[Those on the bottom lane are like birds in the same forest; when disaster strikes, I'll be the first to fly away. That's so true.]

I especially remember a famous quote from a former S10 FMVP: "For a mage/support, all you need to do is run faster than the AD carry."

In terms of results, that's true.

Of course, giving up a kill is obviously a huge loss for TES, but in a meta where junglers can quickly establish a four-man advantage, Canyon's gank on the bottom lane means that he has completely abandoned his own jungle rhythm and is just going for the kill.

Actually, it's easy to understand.

After all, this wasn't the finals; it was just a friendly match, so even if DK lost, it would be acceptable. The remaining four teams were naturally far superior in terms of strength. Koma's instructions to DK were quite simple.

Don't reveal your identity, get to know them better, and then try to use some tricks on the opponent to see if you can affect their mentality.

The highest good subdues the mind.

South Korea, a country where theft is central, shares many cultural similarities with us.

but...

Shortly after Canyon withdrew, a figure that DK had never considered suddenly appeared behind the DK bot lane duo.

My great axe has been itching for a long time!

A giant axe accurately struck the positions of the cannon and the strongman from a distance, successfully slowing them down!

DK underestimated Haro, or rather, after TES's jungler went from Karsa, a regular at this World Championship, to this relatively unknown jungler, they never really paid much attention to him.

However... while Karsa and Harvey both seem to be orthodox junglers, their underlying strategies are completely different.

Karsa rarely takes risks and does things that might lead to mistakes, while Haro is the opposite. During his three years as the carry of RW, if he had stuck to the same conservative approach as EDG back then, he would never have been able to carry the team to victory on his own.

You have the guts to let us bot lane suffer by letting the jungle take over, right?

What a coincidence, me too!

They cleared the top jungle and buffed the bottom jungle, then immediately ganked your bottom lane from behind.

Invading and stealing jungle camps?

No, I'm going to confront you head-on.

Slow down, pick up the axe at close range, flash to dodge Sett's E, and then raise the axe to aim at the landing point of Tristana's W.

DK pushed the bottom lane so aggressively that even with Tristana using her W skill, she couldn't escape Olaf's pursuit. Ghost was forced to use his Flash.

After Ghost successfully escaped, Genshin Impact belatedly planned to use Flash to run away as well.