On the afternoon of October 12, several buses were parked outside the five-star hotel owned by Riot Games. Professional players in neat team uniforms boarded the buses under the leadership of their respective teams.
This bus will drive them to realize their professional dreams. From tonight on, how far they can go on this land depends entirely on the team and themselves.
Today's opening match of the group stage pits SKT against FNC. Both teams are veteran teams in their respective divisions, and there is no doubt about their competitiveness and excitement.
At the very beginning of the BP, SKT made many unexpected moves.
For example, SKT, as a traditional operating team, once again gave Teddy, who didn't understand the French core play in the summer competition, a Mercy AD, and then asked Faker to play the mid laner.
And they are very particular about the design of the first-level group. The combination of SKT’s small cannon and Titan blind monk’s first-level group is very strong.
A wave of 4V4 first-level teams allowed the cannon to get first blood and destroy the excavator's flash, which allowed Faker to accumulate advantages in the early stage.
Then the whole game turned into a personal show of SKT-Faker. He was so amazing with his small cannon that he was able to end the game in 30 minutes.
During this period, FNC seemed to have room to fight back every time, but every time they failed to seize this opportunity, they were forced to be managed by SKT until they died.
In other words, every decision made by SKT and every wave of team battles were slightly ahead of FNC. The advantages accumulated little by little until FNC finally lost the game.
This extraordinary calmness and stability amazed everyone at IG. King Ning and Xiangguo called out that disgusting SKT is back again.
RNG also performed very well in the second game against CG. Lang Xing, whom Yu Hui had replaced before, had been perfectly integrated into RNG and was invulnerable against Huni.
Xiaohu also played the role of team lubricant perfectly, giving UZI a very calm space to develop. He won the game in the last wave and gave LPL a very good start.
In the third round of the match between FPX and JT, as soon as the front foot was played and the back foot was played, it became a trending topic on Weibo and was nailed to the wall by the LPL audience.
There was no other reason, they played too poorly~ It was not because JT played better, but because FPX played worse than JT that JT won.
As the champion of the Summer Split and the No. 1 seed in the World Championship, the LPL audience simply cannot accept the psychological gap caused by FPX's upset.
Yu Hui also saw this game very clearly. FPX was purely a BP swing that shook him in.
First, I selected Galio, who can effectively kill Akali in a single line, and then felt that he lacked the ability to enter the team and make up for it with Sion.
In the end, because Thain might be forced to eat by Gnar, he took out another Iron Man. The whole BP came down with an idea of wanting to eat shit~
The final FPX lineup is Tetsuo, Spider, Sion, and Kaisha Galio
Against JT's Gnar, Prince, Akali, Xayah, and Titan.
I don’t even know how to win when I pick this thing.
Everyone in IG watching the live game in the lounge after War Horse BP locked up burst into laughter. Compared with last year's Wind BP, the effect of this War Horse BP program was even better.
In fact, the biggest weakness of FPX's lineup is that there is no damage in the later stage, but it is not completely unplayable.
But FPX not only has poor coaching standards, but also the performance of the players in specific games is weirder than the last.
Doinb couldn't push the line, LX died suddenly in a team battle, Crisp was tied up and couldn't roam, and Xiaotian and Jin Gong couldn't recruit Rui teammates because of their heroes.
In the end, even though FPX had three fire dragons in hand, JT found an opportunity and sent them back to the spring. The three fire dragons burned him to death and achieved nirvana.
However, FPX is not really bad. The badness is more in BP. The players made a lot of mistakes, but the overall performance is still stable.
Regardless of disadvantages or advantages, their operating system is still there
, the operating capital is still there, and this Waterloo may not be as serious as outsiders imagine.
Well... the premise is that the war horse should be a human being~
The last showdown between IG and DG was the finale of the first day. After the last Asian competition, the two teams finally met on the field again.
"Okay, welcome back everyone. The live broadcast now is the final match of the first day of the 2019 group stage. Invictus Gaming from the LPL versus the DG team from the LCK. Hello everyone, I am Zeyuan."
"Hi everyone, I'm CAT!"
"I'm the commentator, remember! Today's last game between IG and DG is what I'm most looking forward to~"
"Actually, I'm also looking forward to it. You may not know it, but DG is the first team in the LCK to complete the triple jump of the secondary league, the first league, and the world championship in the same year!" Guan Zeyuan explained:
"DG's playing style is almost exactly the same as that of the previous world champion team IG. I am very much looking forward to the collision between the two."
"Okay! Let's take a look at the appearance of the two teams first!"
After a brief introduction by the host, the two teams took the stage one after another.
The cheers when the two teams came on stage were completely different. In addition to the fact that Magic City is IG's home court, DG, a team that is relatively new in the LCK, naturally has few fans.
It is worth mentioning that both DG and IG play with full quota, that is, a lineup of five @ starters and two substitutes. The difference is that IG's substitute positions are top laner and jungler.
On DG's side are support and jungle.
From Yu Hui's point of view, DG's two substitutes are of little use~ It's better to bring two substitute AD~ DG's current AD is the nuclear king~
To be honest, it's not just IG. Almost all teams are aware of the current weakness of DG. An AD who is not the best but only the best makes them basically come to the world competition this year to accompany them.
After a brief introduction, it officially entered the BP stage. The blue side's DG banned Jess, Xayah and Yuumi.
These three are all heroes with very popular selection rates in the World Championship so far. There is no explanation.
The bans on IG are very intriguing. They have banned most of them, EZ and Pan Sen.
EZ is the ultimate badass AD that is a must-have for ADCs. Its good output is also very explosive. The most important thing is that it is friendly to the living space.
Pan Sen's purpose is to prevent DG's mid-field linkage, and the main purpose is to prevent DG's bottom lane core. It can be said that every ban position is to poke DG's heart.
The current DG, to put it bluntly, as long as they can't do anything in the middle and jungle, they will lose, and there is no hope for the bottom lane.
And DG thinks the same way. During the qualifying period, they were completely in the top lane and supported the father style. No one in the middle and jungle cared about it and they desperately fed Nuguri so that he could take over the game.
Therefore, IG will focus on blocking the middle and jungle. As for the top lane... IG has the strongest top laner recognized in the world. Whoever is afraid of DG's top lane will not be afraid of IG~
The first ban ended and the official selection process began. DG locked the barrel with the swing ability of the midfielder.
IG, on the other hand, has given Ah Shui a higher priority, helping him grab Kai'Sa first and help him sway Galio.
There was almost no thought on the part of DG, and they directly selected the combination of Yasuoga Vampire in 23rd selection, which exposed the core of their tactics.
DG's first three choices are very typical top, middle and jungle combinations, while IG locked the prince for Xiang Guo. S7's do-anything combination reappeared yesterday.
