Compared with last year's turmoil when the three Samsung brothers came to China.
During this year's transfer period, one big news after another is no less impressive.
Although they experienced an avalanche of defeats in the S5 World Championship, teams that had high hopes fell into disgrace one after another, and the reputation of the LPL competition area fell from a fight between gods to a rivalry between rookies, the boss behind the club still spent a lot of money. Funds, hope to achieve something in the new season.
While maintaining the original framework, LGD invited FMVP top laner Marin to join.
IG bought Rain, a high-scoring passerby in Korean server, to make up for AD's shortcomings.
EDG signed IEM10 Cologne champion mid laner Athena.
QG poached double runner-up UZI from OMG.
Once again slipping to the edge of relegation, the RNG team, which had successfully avoided relegation, found that the original players were no longer useful, so they conducted a full-body replacement and introduced S4 champion top laner Looper, S4 champion support Mata, and UZI, who had been officially ranked No. 2 by Riot Games. The X with AD was ruthless and beautiful, and he discovered the wild saint Intruder with a fierce play style.
OMG, which has transformed from Galaxy Battleship to Silver Box Battleship, after Umbrella King retired and UZI left, found the powerful domestic AD Sima Laothief to support the scene.
VG, which has always been known for being stupid and rich, held it back for nearly a month, and waited until the last three days of the transfer period before releasing news that was enough to shake up the industry - buying the 'natal player' Easyhoon as the Year of the Monkey is approaching!
December 24th.
The winter transfer period is over.
The official announced the rosters of each team and the new competition system.
The 2016 LPL canceled the scoring system for wins, draws, and losses, and changed small games from BO2 to BO3.
The 12 teams will be divided into two groups, A and B. Teams in the same group will compete in a double-cycle confrontation, and teams in different groups will compete in a single-cycle confrontation.
The reason for changing the format is simple.
The official explanation was straightforward: I don’t know why the LPL division had its worst record since S3 even though it invited all members of Samsung Blue and White and was ranked number one in the world on paper. They might as well try a different competition system. Anyway, it has been reduced to this point, and it is difficult to have any room for decline.
Grouping aspect.
The members of Group A are LGD, QG, VG, OMG, WE, HYG
The members of Group B are EDG, IG, Snake, M3, RNG, and EPA
The highlights on one side are Imp+Aya Hirano, Brother Crystal+Ella, UZI+Doomsday, Mystic+Zero, Double Star Romance+Rhythm.
The other aspect to watch is the battle between midfielder and jungler between Pawn+Director, Easyhoon+Dandy, Rookie+Kakao, Xiaohu+Yesheng, and No State+Fishball.
Previously.
The fully staffed LGD team has moved to the new base.
Compared with the extremely cool buildings of other clubs, LGD just rented a duplex villa without even a brand outside. It stands out that they spend their money wisely.
Fortunately, the internal facilities are quite good.
open the door.
The first thing that caught the eye was the giant LGD team flag hanging.
The hall was transformed into an integrated functional area for conferences and training. On the east side, there is a 75-inch TV and a small blackboard that serve as monitors. On the west side, there are solid wood tables and gaming chairs delivered by sponsors.
In the far corner stands a luxurious water dispenser that provides cold, hot, ice and water purification functions, giving Lin Bei an epic upgrade.
The upper two floors are dormitories and canteen.
Lying at the top of the stairs was a toy tiger cat named Mango, worth tens of thousands.
"Mango, here I come!"
"Meow~"
Lin Bei had become quite familiar with Mango during this period. He said hello and walked up with his suitcase.
Climb to the middle of the stairs.
Lin Bei suddenly felt a little puzzled: "Hey, why is there a wreath on the railing? Someone is about to be buried?"
"This is called a garland..." White Crescent Moon was speechless for a while: "Forget it, forget it, it really doesn't look good when you say that. I'll take it down later."
"Like a wreath." Marin said a non-standard Chinese sentence.
"Wreath." Fat Mouse Imp repeated.
"Hahahahahaha——"
"Ha ha ha ha--"
"God damn wreath."
"You two should learn some Yangjian words."
The other LGD players started laughing.
Although Marin is still more than two months away from turning 25 years old and is truly in his twilight years in e-sports, he has burst out with great enthusiasm stimulated by the FMVP in the S5 season and his annual salary of 1.4 billion won. He has just arrived. LGD found a Chinese teacher at his own expense.
Imp feels that the failure in the group stage is closely related to the language barrier. Following Marin, he has mastered some vocabulary used in daily communication. Compared with the previous communication using only signals and English words, Imp has been greatly improved.
During this period of time, LGD had an unprecedentedly harmonious atmosphere within the team.
Everyone is working hard to reach the top of the world.
Dormitory allocation.
Normally, the AD assists are together, and the mid laner and jungler are together.
However, considering that Marin may not be able to adapt to being away from home, and taking Imp to learn Chinese, Bai Yueya temporarily arranged Imp and Marin into the same room.
Wei Shen and Mala Xiang Guo share a room.
Eimy and Funny share a room.
Lin Bei's roommate is assistant Hirano Aya, who is also the captain and conductor of LGD.
Put away the clothes.
Make your bed.
Everyone came to the cafeteria on the third floor to have lunch.
The cooking lady at LGD Club is very good at cooking. On the table are six meat dishes: spicy chicken, braised fish, sweet and sour shrimps, hot kidneys, bacon with bamboo shoots, and shredded eel with oil, as well as a plate of scrambled eggs with fungus and a plate of cold shredded tripe. .
"Take a break after eating."
"We will play five training games against EDG at 2 p.m."
White Crescent Moon made arrangements while eating: "We are not in the same group as EDG. We only have one match on February 18th in the regular season. You don't need to hold back against them. Just bring out what you are best at."
"Understood." Wei Shen geared up.
The dispute between LGD and EDG can be traced back to the summer of 2014.
At that time, the still young LGD team achieved fourth place in the regular season, but was swept out by EDG three to zero in the playoffs and missed the S4 finals.
At the National E-Sports Open of the same year, LGD was beaten to disgrace by EDG.
In the 2015 spring finals, LGD still lost to the EDG team.
Although they defeated EDG 3-0 in the summer semi-finals, judging from the overall record, LGD is clearly at a disadvantage.
In the new season, LGD’s first goal is the world championship.
The second goal is to revenge EDG.
However.
What White Crescent and the entire LGD team didn’t expect was this.
With the newly promoted FMVP top laner, S4 champion AD, and LPL's top mid laner Wei Shen, LGD and EDG lost four out of the five training games they played.
Except for Mala Xiangguo using the prince to seize the summoner's skill CD and work hard to start a team + Marin's Rambo Fire Battalion melted EDG's double C and made a five-digit economic comeback from behind, LGD had almost no power to fight back. The two junglers took turns. Playing control variables doesn't help either.
What's even more outrageous is that in the next two days, LGD also lost the training matches scheduled with IG and Snake.
If the loss is due to Marin's lack of tacit understanding when he first joined the team, or his lack of experience in Mala Xiangguo and Eimy shortly after their debut, it is not a big deal - it is normal for newcomers to need training and for new teams to get used to each other. Players can become invincible as a team. No one has dared to have the same dream since the sinking of OMG Galaxy Battleship.
but.
Marin is worthy of the honor of FMVP top laner. Even in the laning, which is considered a shortcoming, he did not make any mistakes, and his team play is close to the upper limit.
Eimy is very obedient. Although she is at a disadvantage in the jungle, it doesn't hurt.
Not to mention the spicy hotpot.
When he was on the King team, Mala Xiangguo showed outstanding strength. Except for the top teams in the LPL, Mala Xiangguo's strength can be used as the core of the team.
The bottom lane combination of Imp and Hirano Aya is the same as before, capable of being aggressive and stable, with excellent output and control.
The biggest problem is in the middle.
Wei Shen, who was still at the 'Wutian' level a few months ago, started to sleepwalk inexplicably.
Not to mention playing against the old rival 'Buddha' Pawn, even facing Rookie, the partner who was given a gift by buying Kakao from IG, and Snake, the U god who was turned into a metabolic product, he was at a disadvantage.
"Why is this so……"
Bai Yueya sat in the office, very distressed.
It is true that Wei Shen has a bad mentality.
Expansion is also real.
There's no character flaw, just a child's mentality.
——Wei Shen, who was born in July 1997, has just turned 18, so naturally he has not matured much.
But when it comes to training attitude, Wei Shen is absolutely fine.
Because Wei Shen is very competitive and believes that he is no inferior to any opponent. If he performs poorly, he will take the initiative to practice more until he is satisfied, and even pull his teammates to practice together.
The reason why I played Tiandao before the World Championship was because I couldn’t schedule a training match on my rest day, so I could relax after playing Rank.
After all, before automatic spot filling was introduced, it took more than ten minutes for a high-segment queue to start. It was not uncommon to wait in line for half an hour. No player could sit and wait.
The main reason why Wei Shen was criticized was that LGD's elimination in the top 16 + reverse Q was too eye-catching.
to be honest.
Losing the game, even breathing was wrong.
If LGD can win to the end, Wei Shen will not only not be criticized for playing Heavenly Sword, but will also be praised as "genius".
but.
No matter how serious Wei Shen's training attitude is, it can't change the fact that he didn't play well.
More importantly, judging from historical records, Wei Shen is a talented player, but not a competition player, and it almost never happens that he becomes popular on the spot.
I can't beat other mid laners in training matches, and I'm afraid there won't be much improvement in the official matches.
"Be prepared."
Manager Lao Yang said something difficult to say for Bai Yueya: "This month, arrange more substitute players to play in training games. If the performance in the spring game is not good, try to rotate it; last spring Wei Shen's performance was mediocre, and by summer I just got my form back, and it may still be the same this year.”
"Okay!" Bai Yueya was relieved: "Then I will make an appointment with the lower ranked team first, and let Funny, Eimy, and Lin Bei come together, so that Wei Shen won't have to think too much."
"That's it." Lao Yang decided: "Anyway, there's still more than a month left, let's try the permutation and combination!"
