In the players' seat on the stage, Kkoma quickly emphasized the tactical ideas with his team members before leaving the stage.
After all, the score of this game was won by the hero Qian Jue. If the jungle position is not designed for the Everhunt twins, he will be comforted and developed to the later stage.
So with KT's dual-shooter lineup, it would be difficult for IG to deal with him, which would lead to an embarrassing situation in team battles.
"Try to end the game before 25 minutes, and make decisive decisions when fighting or retreating. Even if you lose the team battle, you are not afraid."
The midfield rhythm of IG's lineup is particularly important, especially when Galio cannot take advantage of line-dependent heroes like Crow.
If Li Nian wants to invade, he must let himself push the line in the middle, and then help him deal with Qian Jue in the jungle.
However, if a big mistake is made and Qian Jue loses the rhythm, as long as the opponent delays the game to 25 minutes, the output of IG's lineup will not be enough to deal with the opponent's front row.
Li Nian agreed softly, took a sip of ice water and turned his attention away from the barrage, waiting for the game to load.
At this moment, the audience in the stands shouted loudly to support the team, and the combined sounds slapped the walls of the venue and lingered in the convention and exhibition center.
Summoner's Rift also crashed onto the three big screens in the center of the Busan Hall amid the sound of waves.
"Players from both sides quickly purchased equipment and came to each other's jungle areas to take positions!"
Li Nian's talent choice for this game is still Cong Ren, so that when facing the flexible Qian Jue, he can quickly control and prevent being kited.
The lineup strength of both sides is not bad. KT has the crow's E skill, and IG's Galio and Luo's control combo thief can control the opponent in an instant.
IG doesn’t want to fight.
However, in order to ensure that KT's Kindred would avoid IG's double-river crab start and thus not get the first mark, Leona directly entered the lower half of IG's area with a scan.
Li Nian couldn't help it.
I had no choice but to swap jungle areas with KT, hoping that Kindred's first mark would be on the River Crab in the upper half.
In this case, half of the design of the KT1 level group is useless.
Quickly clear out the blue BUFF in the upper half of KT, and wait for him to use the exploding cones to return to the upper river.
Just when he returned to his blue buff camp and prepared to start the battle, Kindred's first mark was also accompanied by a river crab spawning in 2 minutes in the river above the mini map.
Li Nian relaxed.
It can only be said that KT made a huge mistake by changing to the jungle this time. Not only did they not choose to compete for the chance of river crabs, they actually put themselves on the road and fell into a state of resistance.
Quickly brush the blue BUFF-River Crab. Seeing that there is no chance for the middle and upper players, Li Nian controlled Xin Zhao to return to the wild area to clear out the Demon Swamp Frog and Three Wolves.
Then continue walking across the river towards the upper half of KT again, preparing to eat up Kindred's F6 camp.
As for the gargoyle camp.
Judging from the situation of the troops on the upper road, he has no chance to eat.
Because the upper and lower lanes of both sides are mirror images, Xia Luo's lane strength is higher than that of Kai'Sa and the female tank, and due to KT's active invasion.
This caused IG's duo to go online early and grab level 2.
In other words, Qian Jue can also eat Li Nian's beak camp, but the gargoyles can only give up.
The first wave of jungle games between the two junglers did not make any money.
When Li Nian returned to the city, he was also observing the situation on the three lines.
Urgot on the top lane is pushed to the lane. After all, Xin Zhao's position is almost transparent. In order to avoid the drama of the last game, Semb honestly let Thain send the lane under his tower.
Xin Zhao and Thane can't get ahead of Urgot themselves.
In the middle, when Crow's Q skill has not yet reached level 2, his ability to push the lane is still slightly inferior to that of Galio, and he is also in a state of being pushed.
However, Ucal also took this opportunity to have a view of the Sharpbill camp and successfully captured Xin Zhao's move to clear out the Sharpbill camp.
And based on the refresh situation of wild monsters, it means that Score has completely locked Xin Zhao's position in the early stage, and when he refreshes the second mark, he can use design to compete for the first mark for himself.
Both sides developed safely until 4 minutes.
Since Kindred has not obtained the first mark yet, the passive will only be refreshed on the River Crab.
After Ucal received his jungle reminder, he thought for a moment and said, "I'll try my best to push the troops into Galio's defense tower, but it's a little difficult!"
He is the last piece of the puzzle for KT. Since entering the top league of LCK, he has hardly encountered a mid laner who can play.
Even Faker has begun to expose various problems due to his age. Both his laning pressure and the pressure to support roaming are not as good as before.
And BDD also unfortunately stopped in the first round of the counterfeit competition due to KT's own reasons within the team.
But
In this quarter-finals, he didn't have even half an advantage against Rookie, and his opponent could even kill him by playing Galio.
It's simply too outrageous.
Not only that.
Smeb also has similar thoughts.
In the last game, his Urgot was a hard opponent of Sword Demon, but from the beginning to the end of the game, Smeb had no way to take advantage of Theshy.
At one point, he started to wonder if there was something wrong with the hero's food chain.
This game is even more so.
Why can you play a hero like Thain, who focuses on team battles, and still be able to kill in the lane?
After listening to his teammate's words, Score could only sigh softly. Although he really wanted to help him in the middle, he needed a hero like Crow, who was particularly level-hungry, to help.
Really can not.
Although he plays the wild core Kindred, if this hero does not have brothers in the front row to support him, then his role in team battles will only be a tool.
When the second mark was refreshed, Score's eyes lit up!
The mark is on his face!
But just when he was happily preparing to eat the river crab, Xin Zhao actually emerged from the shadow above the wall near the first tower of Ajin KT.
Score frowned fiercely.
Logically speaking, Xin Zhao should still be farming in the lower half, and it is impossible to appear in that position.
But when he opened the Tab and saw the number of Xin Zhao's brushes, he immediately understood.
This guy didn't clear out the gargoyles at all, but gave a large field of vision to catch him!
"Use punishment to take it down and leave. Galio can support you!"
Ucal quickly communicated with his teammates, and then wanted to use his W skill to try to stop Xin Zhao from advancing.
Score also understands.
Not being greedy, I quickly equipped the E skill on the river crab that just appeared. AQA continued to output, and when it reached the killing line, I pressed the punishment without hesitation.
But
The river crabs were indeed taken down.
But green light appeared on Xin Zhao's body.
The two people in the commentary box immediately shouted in unison, "Brother Nian grabbed this river crab, Qian Jue just handed over the E skill, and Xin Zhao is about to attack!"
At the same time, the IG duo who pushed their troops into the KT defense tower also came from below and surrounded Qian Jue.
Score suddenly felt bad, but because he retreated too late, he could not escape the pursuit of the IG trio, and directly gave first blood to Xia.
The IG fans in the stands were excited and cheered, echoing in the convention and exhibition center.
"Only 4 and a half minutes into the game, IG got first blood!" I remember clenching my fists hard on the commentary table. "Qian Jue knew that he was going to die this time, so he still had flash, but he lost his rhythm in the early game. !”
Originally, Li Nian didn't want to look around to see Qian Jue. After all, whether the mark was refreshed at the top or bottom was random and there was no pattern.
But unexpectedly, the mark happened to be refreshed in the lower half of the area, and Qian Jue happened to be right next to it.
Isn't this just coincidence?
In the event live broadcast room, barrages flashed across the screen one after another.
"I'll go, brother Nian's consciousness is really going to become a god!"
"Qian Jue, the core of KT's lineup, dies once, and then Xin Zhao can start doing unlimited things."
"The most important thing is that Xia got the kill. For IG's lineup, it's really a Tianhu start!"
Watching the barrage, I faced countless questions from the audience.
Li Nian also went through it in his head.
Why was he not discovered by the opponent when he went around from the jungle area in the lower half of KT to the grass in the middle.
The principle is very simple. When faced with being replaced in the jungle at the beginning, the top laner will often place his accessory wards in the blue zone and exchange points with the Demon Swamp Camp. This is a regular ward position in the professional arena, and it can clearly see the opponent's jungler. trend.
Li Nian was also detected by Urgot.
After all, due to the special structure of the wild area, there are not many eye positions in the camp where two wild monsters can be seen at the same time.
This is one of them.
And the same scans that the female tanks in the lower half carry when they go out, that is to say, in the true sense, the bottom duo only has a ward on Kai'Sa.
The previous mid laner Crow also left a field of vision in the Sharpbeak camp, and with Galio pushing the lane, Crow was unable to leave a field of vision in the jungle.
Then only Qian Jue's ward position is left.
However, in the previous wave of KT invasion, KT took the lead and left an eye position in the grass behind the red buff camp. Only Kindred could insert this eye.
As soon as Li Nian and Jack Baolan combined their efforts, they planned to make a big circle in the dark environment to give Score a surprise.
Score didn't expect Li Nian to be ruthless, even attacking wild monsters, just to bet that he would appear in the lower river, and then cooperate with his teammates to double-team him to death.
After killing Qian Jue, Li Nian ate all the wild monsters in the lower half of Qian Jue, and then returned to his own wild area and began to gradually attack the upper half.
"Brother Nian controlled the Twin River Crabs in the second wave, and now Thane will send his troops into Urgot's defense tower again!"
I remember laughing and saying, “I feel like with Brother Nian’s style of play, this time I’m going to have to cooperate with Brother Shy to play Urgot!”
Not only remember clearly.
Score also knew in his heart that after he finished killing the wild monsters in the first half of the area, he squatted in the grass on the side of the previous tower, waiting for IG's next move.
But!
Before the battle broke out on the top lane, I heard Ucal in the middle lane let out a heart-wrenching cry, accompanied by a kill message!
turn out to be!
Not only did Xin Zhao not take action on the top lane, but he squatted in the grass above the red buff camp, waiting for the crow to move to the upper half to support after pushing the lane.
He didn't think much about it at all.
After all, his middle line of troops was pushed in, and it was absolutely impossible for Galio to lose the line to support him.
But just the opposite.
Rookie himself is a player who supports the jungle. He decisively used W to dodge through the wall and cooperated with Xin Zhao to directly kill the crow in seconds.
He didn't even use his ultimate move and was lying in a pool of blood.
"The head was taken by Brother Nian, and KT once again fell into a disadvantage at the start. Now it has given away two heads."
I remember shaking my head, "Xin Zhao took the initiative to attack the two heads, KT is the one to blame!"
"After killing the crow, go straight to the middle and help Galio push the troop line into the defense tower. In this case, the crow will have to teleport to deal with this wave of troop line."
At this time, the time was only 6 minutes and 32 seconds. Li Nian had already reached level 6 and a half by eating 4 jungle areas. On the other hand, Qian Jue's level had just reached level 5 due to the failure of counter-crouching on the road and a wave of deaths.
As for Thain.
Li Nian's game itself is just to let Theshy control Smeb's Urgot. As for the rest, we have to wait until the team battle.
"Can you come to the bottom lane?" Li Nian cut the screen and looked at the bottom lane, "Rookie and I will come directly to book it."
"Yes, yes, yes! Kill Kaisha first. This thing is not purified!" Baolan quickly gave feedback.
With the lane control in the bottom lane and the jungler Qian Jue, Mata couldn't roam at all.
Although Leona can restrain Rakan, after all, Mata's opponent is also the owner of last year's Rakan champion skin.
After handling the details, not only did Mata fail to gain an advantage, it was even said that he even lifted Kai'Sa once or twice, which made Deft extremely uncomfortable.
The troop line was pushed into the defense tower.
Seeing that his midfielder was already rushing towards the bottom lane, while Jack killed a big car and upgraded to 6, at the second point R decisively rushed towards the KT duo who were preparing to retreat to the defense tower.
next moment!
Galio R made a grand appearance. Li Nian's W skill directly hit Kai'Sa, and he used the super long-range E skill to stab Kai'Sa.
Kai'Sa, who was knocked up by Charm +, could not escape. She was knocked up again the moment Galio landed, and was decapitated by Jack again.
same.
Leona, who was not displaced, was a fool and was melted to the ground by the four people.
Soon, the game came to 15 minutes.
The head ratio of both sides is 1:15.
KT's early rhythm was rotten. Now no one in any position can stand up. IG pushed the snowball directly!
IG showed top-level operation and rhythm control capabilities in this set.
"This is the strength of the defending champion!" Zeyuan continued to praise IG and even raised his arms in the commentary booth to cheer for his team.
"This is the powerful IG, the team that exploded in the World Championship in 2017. After a year of accumulation, they have exerted all their strength!"
Last year IG was a dark horse.
Except for losing one game in the bubble match, they entered the group stage with a complete victory record, and the subsequent three BO5s were all clean sheets.
Today, they have reached this point, and it seems that they will start to re-enact the script of 2017.
I remember that Zeyuan and I were both LPL fans, but now in front of the powerful IG, their thoughts began to show naturally.
KT's double C couldn't get up.
In order not to expose more of their tactics, they decided to increase their speed and start a head-on battle with IG.
The two sides fought for 22 minutes, and in the end KT's base crystal was still bulldozed by a wave of IG.
