You actually want me to...

His W-into-Big-Pull combo terrified countless active top laners, causing them to flee in terror. It even brought tears to the eyes of the three legendary top laners: Nautilus, Maokai, and Poppy.

Just as T1's jungler and support were cautiously probing for vision, behind Varus, in a place that T1 all considered absolutely safe, a figure that had been lying in wait for a long time had quietly crept up to his vicinity.

Just as Varus was about to unleash his full moon and prepare to crush Wu Tao.

A whisper accompanied by heavy breathing quietly sounded in his ear: "Sir, you don't want Leona to be bullied in the canyon, do you?"

"Leona? No..."

"Well then, it's time for me, Niu Niu, to start my sprint!"

"!!!"

Settled: Chapter Twenty-Five: Total War

This cow is playing like a ghost.

Wow, if it weren't for the God's-eye view, being in the enemy AD's shoes would be a nightmare.

[An absolute teamfight initiator and flanking support, one of a kind in the world (laughs)]

No, there are quite a few ranked games like this. It's all because of these bastards that every support in low-elo games wants to flank and initiate team fights.

Roland used his W to knock the enemy AD into the front line, then used his Q to block the Twisted Fate's position. After delivering the crucial crowd control, Roland immediately entered his "bell-ringing" mode. His mission was complete.

The teammates ahead are relentlessly killing T1's bot laner, jungler, and support, while T1's top laner, Kennen, hasn't even finished halfway around the map after teleporting down.

Team battles are like sex.

Either you arrive first, or she arrives first. Both sides arriving together requires cooperation and luck, and one side may need to be a little more patient. It's something that can't be forced, but once it happens, it will leave an extremely deep impression on both sides. In this round, TES arrived first.

Initiate team fights, divide the battlefield, and then eliminate the enemy one by one.

Under TES's "perfect operation", T1's main force collapsed like a house of cards. Even Dafei remained relatively silent until his death, but deep in his eyes, he revealed endless confusion and fatigue.

T1's weakness has been exposed.

Or rather, the weaknesses of traditional LCK teams have been exposed.

"Can they only understand the tactics and rhythm that they can comprehend? In other words... LCK teams have lost the ability to respond to miracle team fights?"

If we're talking about who's the most excited right now, it's undoubtedly the teams from other regions who also made it to the quarterfinals of the World Championship. While we may not be as good at macro play as the LPL and LCK regions, we're very familiar with miraculous team fights or team fights with a tempo that's hard for ordinary people to understand!

C9's Perkz immediately drew a quirky picture to praise TES, and based on his years of experience crushing CJB teams, he felt that everyone's analysis was correct.

LCK teams have indeed declined.

Teams like DK, which play an aggressive style in the operational region, are a rare extreme and the only team that is not of reference value.

The rest of the match was quite simple.

Kill, capture dragon, manage resources, switch lanes, and finally advance on multiple fronts.

Once equipped, Gwen becomes an unstoppable split-push point for the opposing T1 team. If you send too many people, the enemy will be forced to engage by Earthshaker's ultimate under the tower. If you send too few people, Gwen is basically capable of taking on two opponents and getting a double kill.

No solution!

With the consistent performance of the two POKE players, T1 ultimately prevailed over TES, finishing second with a 5-2 record and handing TES the top spot in the group.

"Let's congratulate TES!"

Congratulations to TES and RNG for advancing to first place in their group!

The moment the match ended, the live stream chat exploded with excitement. The two number one seed teams not only boosted the morale of the region but also meant that the worst-case scenario this year was a guaranteed top-four finish. Of course, for most LPL viewers, avoiding internal clashes was definitely the best option, especially since the teams that advanced from the LPL group stage this year all seemed to have untapped potential.

"So...we still have to wait here for the draw?"

"Pretty much, just hope we don't get drawn against EDG. It's not that I'm not afraid, but facing them will force us to show a lot of our skills." White Crescent scratched his head with a headache. According to his expectations, EDG should have been the first team to advance from the group stage. RNG and FPX were originally the second seeds in his mind, but now it's been reversed. FPX didn't even make it out of the group stage.

This means that almost all the work he had done before was in vain.

"All I can say is, I hope the organizers will act like human beings."

"That's certainly true."

Currently, the top seeds for the four groups are: DK, TES, FNC, and RNG.

The second seeds are: EDG, T1, HLE, and GENG.

With three LPL teams and four LCK teams, when C9 was assigned to Group A, Perkz was destined to be the swan song of the group stage. Now, only FNC, a team that transcends the two regions, stands there trembling. He has to consider whether this World Championship is his only chance in his life. The S7 champion GNEG is here, the S8 champion IG is here with a part of its players, the S9 champion FPX was crushed by them in the group stage, and the S10 champion TES is also in front of them.

If FNC wins the championship this year, they will be considered legends.

Thinking of this, the FNC members couldn't help but breathe more rapidly, and then... they frantically prayed that they would be matched with HLE.

There's no way around it; you have to pick the soft ones.

The second seed, T1, and EDG are clearly not easy opponents. Even though they once had a glorious 4-0 record against EDG, that was several years ago. They don't think the current EDG is so easy to beat.

You asked him why he knew so much?

After so many years of World Championships, FNC isn't stupid; they won't keep being fooled.

They kept winning scrims against EDG, TES, and RNG, and all three advanced. They kept losing scrims against FPX, and now where are the FPX players?

Therefore, the conclusion is:

Teams that get crushed in scrims are all formidable opponents; if you encounter a team that crushes you, there's no doubt that it's CJB!

HLE can easily crush them, and GENG and T1 can also go toe-to-toe with them. EDG has never lost a scrim. Okay, then the direction is confirmed.

HLE got a very good draw, GENG got a medium draw, and the other two got very bad draws. That's it.

Please, no more civil war!

[With three LCK teams in the second seed pool, the probability of getting an LCK match is extremely low; it's definitely not going to happen.]

If EDG had put in more effort in the group stage and hadn't looked down on others trying out different lineups, they wouldn't be facing a potential internal battle now.

[Sigh, I'm just afraid he'll trigger the "civil war god buff" again; it really gives me the creeps.]

But... no matter what, we still have to face the consequences.

As the draw ceremony began, one quarterfinal match after another was revealed.

Upper half:

RNG vs. EDG, the epic battle between the pigs and dogs is about to begin again.

FNC vs. T1: So-so, barely acceptable.

Lower half:

TES vs. HLE, Guoyi Middle School vs. Douyi Middle School.

DK vs. GENG: Extreme offense against extreme defense.

Total Civil War!

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PS: Doctor Strange 2 is available on a certain online platform. Yes, it's the one that can't be released in China due to special reasons. Although the plot is still as chaotic as Marvel's, the special effects are truly top-notch. Isn't this much better than Jurassic Park 3, which I spent 40 yuan to see in the cinema?

Settled: Chapter Twenty-Six: You Appear with a Smile

The quarterfinals draw has sparked a great deal of discussion around the world. At this point, since their own teams have already been eliminated, the other major regions can only pin their hopes on FNC.

Furthermore, since FNC was facing T1, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend, LPL's international support suddenly surged during this period, leaving many LPL viewers feeling flattered.

LCK, on ​​the other hand, was even more confused.

Even though all four of my teams made it to the quarterfinals, instead of admiring me, you all act as if we're going against the whole world, passively enjoying the same treatment as Xiao Zhan.

Of course, since the quarterfinals are different from the group stage, they are played one game a day, with a maximum of BO5, so teams like TES had several days of buffer time.

The players breathed a sigh of relief, as did the commentators.

During the group stage, LPL had a rotating commentator team, but the guest commentators didn't. If a team tanked and dragged the game into the late game, the commentators would stand for five or six games in a row until they were completely exhausted. Of course, the guest commentators had it even worse because they couldn't be replaced at will.

For example, there was a certain unlucky guy in S12 who did commentary from 1:00 PM to 1:00 AM, from the second to the third day of the week. He was a true 007 work model, working across workdays and elevating the position of commentator to a level that was completely beyond his reach. He was truly amazing.

LPL viewers, on the other hand, were somewhat taken aback.

Earlier than they expected, the internal battle began in the semifinals, not in the quarterfinals, but in the semifinals, and it was the pig-dog war they were most familiar with.

Oh no, some bad memories are coming back.

It was around this time that Roland, who had been detached from the matter, began to study HLE's information again.

This team, how should I put it, is rather abstract.

The top laner needs to pick heroes for him; they need to help him ban heroes; the jungler needs to help him but he won't carry, and if they don't help him, he'll definitely fail; he's very focused on a certain hero, but he can't win in lane and is useless in team fights.

The mid laner of this team is named Chovy, known as the man in Douyi. He is a mid laner whose playstyle is almost identical to that of the Earthbound Spirit. But the most frustrating thing is that how far this team can go depends heavily on the performance of this Earthbound Spirit.

Well... you can imagine Knight carrying the whole team on his back as the dean.

Look at his four teammates:

Morgan, the top laner, is someone who should never be allowed to return to the LCK. However, with the current version update, it has been changed to someone who should never be allowed to return to the LPL. He is the man handpicked by Zz1tai as the number one top laner in the LCK, the Renekton "one-trick pony".

Did you think he was the swan song of HLE's top lane? No, after he left, HLE got an even worse one, which is really hard to watch.

In his previous life, jungler Willer faced off against T1's jungler Oner, who had no rhythm in the early game. Willer achieved a perfect score of 0/12/1 in three games. In Riot's official jungler rankings, Willer had the lowest support rate (Wei and jiejie were second and third from the bottom respectively). So it's hard to judge whether this ranking is right or wrong.

The bot lane duo of Deft and Vsta is pretty unremarkable, except for his tendency to flash emotes when ahead, which is exactly what TES likes. So they spent the night selecting their emote collection, planning to show it off to the opponents in the quarterfinals. As for Deft, you can always trust him at 20-25 minutes, because no matter how big of an advantage HLE has, he can always pull off a big play at that point.

Judging from the team's style, they are teams that focus on the mid and bot lanes, with the mid laner dominating the early game.

The method to limit him is also very simple. In order for the team to win the game, Chovy mostly used roaming and support-type mid laners in the World Championship, such as Sylas, Nocturne, Akali, Galio, etc., but he also played very aggressively on the offensive end.

The normal solution for this type of team is to restrict their draft picks and focus on the top half of the map.

However, considering that their team's mid laner was Knight9, a golden left hand who was equally focused on laning and whose earthbound ability was even better, Roland and White Crescent suddenly weren't so panicked.

In short.

Whether looking at raw strength or theoretical strength, TES has virtually no chance of losing to HLE.

But... what if?