The opening match between SKT and IG made this MSI full of drama.
There was such a huge gap in the first opening game, so will the collision between the new team and the old club also have the same effect?
This game between IG and SKT was scheduled for the first game on the first day of the group stage, which shows that the organizers attach great importance to these two teams.
The opening game is important, but the same final showdown is equally important!
To measure the strength and weakness of two teams, the most intuitive way is to look at the matchup.
Judging from the experience of the competition, G2 will definitely crush JTA. There is no suspense about this.
It is also difficult to compare the two teams because JTA has so little data.
As a new team, a team that has never been to the World Championship, their player information is almost zero!
The only player who can take action is Zhuang Tian.
This man has won the S-game FMVP trophy for two consecutive years.
"Judging from the matchup of the top lane, G2's chances of winning can be said to be very small."
"Not just G2, but any team, just looking at the top lane matchup, it would be difficult to beat JTA."
"That's true. To be honest, Wunder is not a bad player. I'm really looking forward to what kind of sparks this direct conversation between him and Zhuang Tian will create."
The onlookers are looking forward to it. As the protagonist, Wunder has already begun to tremble.
Since he joined G2, he has been under unprecedented pressure.
This pressure does not come from the outside world, but from himself.
When your senior is the top person in the league and the leader in the industry, and you take over his position, but you can't achieve the same results as him, you will feel very sad about this.
From the beginning, Wunder often fell into isolation.
Negative comments from some fans often wake him up late at night.
He felt that his performance was not particularly bad, but after being talked about by fans, even he himself felt that his performance was a piece of cake!
Then, he became more and more unconfident.
It wasn't until senior veterans Ah P and Yang Kousi personally gave him some psychological counseling that he finally thought about it.
"Why are you competing with yourself? He is a human being? Strictly speaking, he is not even a human being!"
"Which professional player has three days in the training room and seven days in the night game? You can win FMVP just by doing this, why are you competing with him? You can't get along with this pure girl!"
"If you're going to blame yourself for this, I'll have to use last year's championship trophy as a urinal! Does it have anything to do with me?"
Upon hearing Ah P and Yang Kousi's realization, Wunder instantly felt relieved.
Ah P still maintains his attributes as an e-sports comedian.
When he appeared in the same arena as Zhuang Tian again, he also showed off his muscles to the camera in the direction of Zhuang Tian.
Zhuang Tian responded to him very simply and raised his middle finger.
A big battle started with the silent provocation between the two!
"OK! Audience friends! What is about to begin is the final contest on the first day of the group stage!"
"The S8 champion team G2 will face the new team JTA led by the S8 finals FMVP! Who will win in this game? Let's wait and see!"
This time, JTA is on the blue side and G2 is on the red side.
As their old club, G2 may not know much about what kind of team JTA is, but they know one thing very well. This is Zhuang Tian’s team!
Against a team like this, it must be the wisest choice not to give him the Counter position!
JTA's first ban choice was to ban Lissandra.
Although Ah P has missed the mark, caps' first hand Lissandra is also good. She has strong laning ability and good support ability, so it is right to ban her first hand.
As for G2, they banned Quinn almost without thinking.
"Quinn. It's still Quinn. This year's G2 is like last year's EDG. Whenever they encounter Zhuang Tian, they will definitely ban Quinn."
"Yes. It is a sign after all. But do you think it is really necessary to ban this version of Quinn?"
"Don't say it, don't say it! It's so necessary! After adding plating to this version, Quinn's appearance rate has become higher! Now there are many players playing Quinn in the pub game. As long as the opponent is not a combination of Ueno and Jungle, Quinn is really comfortable playing in the top lane."
I don’t know if other people’s Quinn is comfortable in the top lane, but Zhuang Tian’s Quinn in the top lane will definitely make his opponent very uncomfortable!
G2 knows this very well, so they are unwilling to let Wunder go to jail. They also want to use this battle to bring out Wunder's confidence!
JTA took down the enchantress with his second hand.
To be honest, even fans in the LMS region can't quite understand this ban.
There is a hero like Enchantress in fofo's hero pool, and he plays pretty well. His appearance rate was quite high during the spring split. Banning her in this move felt like cutting off an arm.
As for G2, their second move was to attack the top lane and ban Sword Demon.
In the last move, JTA got Qinggangying.
After G2 thought for a moment, they banned Sword Girl.
Three pulls on the order, this is the absolute respect given to Zhuang Tian by his old club.
After the three-hand ban selection was over, it was JTA's turn to grab it.
"What does JTA want?"
"The upper unit has almost been banned. Do you want to get Jace first?"
"Eh? What you said really reminded me! There is also Jace! Jace can really be taken! Jace is a T0 presence in the early stage in any version. The laning strength is definitely full."
"Yes! There is another very important piece of information. Player Wunder also likes to use Jayce very much recently. His recent ranking record has always included Jayce as a hero. It is obvious that he has practiced a lot."
“Then it’s even more important to take it!”
If it had been another team, it might have been Jace.
But Zhuang Tian's value lies in that his hero pool and laning strength allow him to ignore his opponent for one round!
"Syndra? JTA chose to lock Syndra first?"
"Hmm, to be honest, Syndra's priority doesn't seem to be that high, right?"
The commentators couldn’t understand it, and neither did the fans, including their opponent G2!
"What the hell is this Syndra? Is this JTA mid laner good at Syndra?"
"I don't know. Anyway, I think it's better to let him grab Syndra than go to JAY and grab the Sword Master."
"Holy shit! You got it right! Report to the JTA coaching staff tomorrow!"
"Indeed, you are better at BP than that JTA coach!"
Is it so uncomfortable to hold Syndra in the first hand?
Actually it's not bad.
Syndra is the same as Jace to a certain extent.
He is also a lane dominant hero, has strong early combat power, can push lanes, and has lane rights, which is enough.
In this version that focuses on teamfights in the early and mid-term, it makes sense to pick a hero with strong laning in the early and mid-term.
Besides, looking at G2's current overall staffing, the biggest threat is actually not the bottom lane, but the mid laner's caps.
Fofo's laning pressure is actually quite high, so it makes sense for him to get a more active hero.
Of course, after JTA got Syndra, G2 naturally acquired Jayce, and also locked Lee Sin to complete the top and jungle combination.
"Good choice! G2's S8 championship trophy is really not for nothing. Jace and Lee Sin made such a solid choice this time."
In the commentary box, Guan Zeyuan did not hesitate to praise the G2 coaching staff for their BP.
Every jungler has his own Lee Sin.
But not every jungler’s Lee Sin has a champion skin!
Yang Koosi is one of the few!
As a loyal player of Blind Sin, he knows how to play this hero very well.
Especially after working with Zhuang Tian for a season, he also knows how to use this hero to target Zhuang Tian.
It is no exaggeration to say that the BP design of G2 for this game was all arranged for Zhuang Tian!
They want to win so much!
"What about JTA? How should JTA's second and third officers deal with it?"
After hesitation, JTA chose to show the bottom lane combination of Braum and Lucian first.
This version of the bottom lane can be said to be the most overlooked bottom lane in so many years.
Even traditional AD can disappear in the bottom lane!
The bottom lane, the lane that used to place the most emphasis on development, has truly allowed a hundred flowers to bloom!
In order to express their gratitude to the designer, all AD players sent their best wishes to the designer.
"Designer, Auntie Touqi must tell me, and I will send you eight hundred miles away!"
"Designers, be careful when walking at night. Pay attention to passing vehicles from time to time, or check to see if a flower pot will fall on your head."
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The designer has indeed seen the scene of a hundred flowers blooming in the bottom lane, but this is not called balance, it is called inhumanity!
The bottom lane of this version is indeed the weakest among all versions.
The importance of Canyon Pioneer increases, the importance of Xiaolong increases, and the lane rights of the bottom lane become very important.
Do you want to develop late-stage heroes? Suck the blood of teammates in the early stage?
impossible.
My teammates can't hold me back!
The version is too fast!
Either you get a hero with strong early laning ability to seize the lane rights, or you get dual supports like SKT to provide another kind of help to the team.
Want to draw blood from the bottom lane?
This era has passed
So is JTA’s bot lane combination good?
In fact, it's not too bad.
The classic combination of Lucian and Braum is not weak in combat effectiveness, and the explosion in the early and mid-term cannot be ignored in small-scale team battles.
But is it necessary to be bright on this hand?
It seems there isn't either.
"Young! Compared with the coaching staff of G2, JTA's coaching staff is still a little younger. There is no need to take the lane combination on the second and third floors! There is no need for Lucian and Braum to take it now! If you don't take it, G2 won't necessarily take it either To be honest, it’s better to get Akali first, or a top lane hero who can beat Jayce. After all, there are really not many top lane heroes now.”
"Indeed. Let's not talk about Akali. Even if we lock down a Gnar now, I think JTA's coaching staff has something good."
It can be seen from this conversation that the outside world still has a very poor subjective impression of the JTA team.
Except for Zhuang Tian, everyone else is a salty fish!
Including the coaching staff, everyone is a salty fish!
No matter what kind of BP they did, no matter what wonderful operations they showed, in their eyes, they were all Muggles!
Even if they lift their buttocks at this time, they will feel that they are deflating their pants pockets, and even the possibility of farting is omitted.
This is called colored glasses!
If you don’t have good results, you will be looked at with colored glasses. E-sports is a small society to begin with.
All I can say is that the JTA coach is wronged!
He really died unjustly!
Does BP's success have anything to do with him?
Almost half of this BP's opinions were given by Zhuang Tian!
It’s Zhuang Tian’s intention not to take Gnar first, and not to place the top order!
According to Zhuang Tian’s words
"They can ban it as they please! I still have at least a hundred heroes who can beat him Jace! Don't worry!"
Having said all this, how can JTA’s coach still be so discerning?
The third floor of G2 finally locked the small cannon.
Ah P's cannon attendance rate is also quite high. In addition, they already have early heroes like Jace and Blind Sin in their lineup. It makes sense that they have a small cannon in the late game.
After the second round of bans, the LPL commentators started to talk nonsense again!
"Not banning Ryze? Is this really not banning Ryze? Caps' Ryze is very proficient! Ah P once said that his Ryze is incomparable to Caps' Ryze!"
"Locked! G2 really locked Ryze! Wow, JTA's BP was completely restricted by G2."
Seeing that G2's BP was completely consistent with their own ideas, Guan Zeyuan and Maitreya in the commentary box were so confident that they became more confident in their speech.
In fact, I can understand
This kind of prophet-like feeling would make anyone feel inflated and ecstatic.
Who doesn't love being able to follow your words?
Moreover, it is indeed a bit unreasonable for JTA to exclude Ryze in his move. Anyone who studies G2 games should know that Ryze is the hero with the highest appearance rate in the EU Spring Split.
The fact that this can be released shows that they have not done enough research on G2.
"Is this JTA really that bad?"
"Don't tell me it's really that bad! When did the LMS region stand up? Their understanding of the game has always been sewer level..."
"Even if JTA is at the sewer level, does my young master's game understanding also be at the sewer level? Don't forget... who was doing the drafting when G2 won the championship last year?"
There are still fans who are more sensible.
It only takes them a moment to think about it.
JTA may not understand G2, but Zhuang Tian, who transferred from G2 to JTA, doesn’t understand G2 either?
"Interesting. A group of LPL fans are questioning the former G2 players' understanding of G2? Do you really know G2 better than my young master?"
"Hahaha, it's like they were the ones who played in G2 last year!"
The words are very heart-wrenching, but there are still tough-talking fans who refute their views.
"Huh? Don't tell me that I might actually know G2 better than this guy! After all, this young master has only been training in G2 for a short time."
"That's right! I definitely can't beat him in a party competition. But when it comes to my understanding of G2 and my views on BP, I might really be better than him!"
"Don't ask why. Just ask. This is barrage! The barrage king per capita!"
"666666!!"
Only LPL fans are so optimistic.
On the other hand, EU fans, when they saw JTA released Ryze for G2 to get, and G2 actually got it, they started to murmur in their hearts.
"Say, why do I feel weird?" "I feel it too! It's like a trap!"
"Wang Defa! Me too!"
(End of chapter)
