The lpl summer split is in full swing.
After Meixia defeated rng, the team's schedule did not become easier, but faced "strong enemies" one after another.
They faced challenges from omg, vg, im and gt one after another. These opponents were all well-known teams at the top of the rankings.
Of course, the so-called devilish schedule of edg is only for the e-sports media and coach Abramovich.
The former marketing account will only pull data to look at the standings, thinking that the top five teams must be evenly matched, and even the media who recognize the weak situation of the LPL, one super team, and many will deliberately put it in order to promote the popularity of the LPL event. The game is written to be full of suspense.
For example, the news before OMG was written, [Dark forces are making a comeback, LPL solo kill king I faces solo kill queen Mika, who is the first LPL mid lane matchup! 】
Playing vg is [easyhoon half-flesh vampire vs. mika assassin vampire, who is better! 】
In IM, there will be another [Lingshi Road decisive battle, Athena, who was once a substitute for edg, can she defeat mika and complete the bottom and top! 】
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In short, the media writes from an eye-catching perspective.
Coach Abramovich is limited by his conservative personality and habitually prepares for his opponents before games.
As for Mika, her answer to Luo Xin's interview was somewhat off-putting. In fact, she was more concerned about rng, but she really didn't study it carefully when facing these subsequent teams.
She only regards herself as the king who accepts the challenge!
The process and results of the competition proved her confidence!
In the game against rng, Mixia showed off her killer vampires. Coupled with the already proven unstoppable Czar and Vampire, her mid lane mage hero bowl was basically completed.
Even if it is now recognized that Mika's mage hero is not as good as the assassin, all the coaches of the team have to admit that the three ban positions cannot handle Mika's mage three-axe!
In the match against omg, she was a vampire and a bewitcher. She defeated omg led by i with her forehand and backhand, and beat the autistic smlz to the end of the game.
And on June 25, in the match against vg, she took out the new hero Taliyah in addition to the mage's three axes, and defeated easyhoon's signature vampire and tsar in a head-to-head manner.
At the beginning of July, in the game against IM, Meixia pulled the ancient-style beauty amazingj's signature Galen to the point where everyone fainted. With Athena, she showed with a superb record why it was she, Meixia, who was firmly in the starting lineup at the beginning of the year, while the opponent was Abramovich was assigned to the second team of edg.
After that, they played against the bottom team gt, and they won extremely easily. The game ended 2-0, and the total time was less than an hour.
These teams that were considered to have the potential to overthrow Mika were all defeated without exception.
The LPL schedule is now halfway through, and EDG leads Group A with a 9-0 record.
This means that edg has continued its unbeatable winning record from the Spring Split to the MSI and then to the Summer Split, and continues to break through the winning streak created by itself!
lpl25 consecutive wins!
If you include the playoffs and MSI games, it is an unprecedented 39 consecutive victories!
Not only that, edg also set a record of 20 unbeaten games in small rounds!
Personal aspects.
Meixia herself is also far ahead of other players in the division in various statistics, proving to everyone with perfect results——
Even if it is the least skilled mage version, the EDG she leads is still the strongest team in LPL, and regardless of player strength, tactics or coordination, it is ahead of all LPL teams!
After the invincible strength of edg was continuously verified, and the hero pool issue of America Summer was solved, coach Abramovich finally no longer regarded domestic teams as opponents and began to look forward to other competition regions.
And it is this study of possible opponents in the World Championship that puts the whole team into a more nervous state than when they were preparing to face rng...
Unlike the continued dominance of the LPL in the LPL division, the situation of the LCK in the summer split next door has changed drastically.
The lck spring champions, SKT, who represented the Korean division in the MSI, seemed to have been really shaken by Mika. Their regular season record after returning to China was shocking, ranking last with 4 wins and 6 losses!
mvp, rox and kt are the top three.
So as the Summer Split is halfway through and the World Championship is looming, online discussions about the value of the Mid-Season Cup and the World Championship are gradually rising.
On one side is the audience that supports edg.
"Anyone who understands the game can understand the dominance of edg today! Their tactical style and personal strength have changed. They are no longer the edg of last year!"
"39 consecutive wins and MSI championship, this can prove the strength of edg. They have come out of the shadow of Waterloo in last year's World Championship!"
"Mika-chan is the most beautiful player, edg is the first team, and lpl is the first division! Mika said it."
"Mika never said she was the most beautiful, right?"
"I asked my wife mika-chan lpl before going to bed last night who was the prettiest, and she admitted it herself."
"Don't go crazy here."
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There are also many people who hold the opposite view.
"MSI is really worthless."
"Reasonable discussion, can edg's two msi championships be combined into one world championship trophy?"
"No, I don't really think that MSI has much value, do you? Edg won the MSI championship last year, and the experience of going home to the top eight of the World Championship is still fresh in my mind!"
"EDG beat SKT, which was ranked third from the bottom in the LCK Summer Split, so they think they are the best team in the world?"
"I don't understand why a civil war fantasy god like Edg is worthy of belief. Just because they replaced Sakura Girl, the fear in their bones will disappear? Impossible!"
"EDG fans really don't know where the world is. They started to praise the world's number one team before the summer split ended..."
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The tension and increasing pressure from edg, from coaches to players, stem from various tit-for-tat discussions on Tieba and even Weibo.
Obviously MSI is an honor earned by their hard work.
lpl's complete victory is also proof of strength.
But it seems that in the eyes of many people, these actual results are insignificant. Only the World Championship is the only chance to prove that they are not the illusion of civil war. Once they lose the game on the world stage...
The situation that they received after being defeated in the quarter-finals last year and received all kinds of criticism is lingering in their minds, as clear as if it was yesterday.
The factory director began to insist on playing more games in ranked games every day. Abu often talked about lck in meetings, and meiko and deft occasionally made some small mistakes in operation.
Fortunately, these changes are insignificant for the time being and cannot affect the outcome of the game.
The worst thing is that Mixia sensed the subtle changes in the mentality of her teammates, and she also tried to reverse it. However, the factory director and the others had developed an almost instinctive fear of the World Championship due to their two consecutive experiences of hatred in S4 and S5.
Just like many mid laners in lpl now are afraid of her because they were killed by explosions.
This state of cringing insecurity cannot be easily changed with words.
Only by actually going to the World Championships and using brute force to help edg get rid of the curse of the top eight can his teammates regain their confidence!
In this way, the LPL competition came to the sixth week, and edg faced the WE team, which had a deep grudge with them.
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