Chapter 128: "Nightmare Level" Group Opponents! The classic "Summer Microphone"!
Chapter 128: "Nightmare Level" Group Opponents! The classic "Summer Microphone"!
On the eve of the much-anticipated draw ceremony.
Most of the players participating in the World Championship have returned to their base to start preparing for the competition.
However, since the world championship version has not yet been released, everyone's training during this period is still just maintaining the old version, and research and development cannot be started in advance.
This is also a major feature of every World Championship.
Many viewers may think that there is at least a month between the playoffs and the World Championship. Even if there are heroes in that version that they don’t know how to play, they should be able to practice them and understand the version thoroughly by doing more practice during this period.
But that's not the case.
In fact, the version for the World Championship will not be officially finalized and released until September 9.
The first World Championship will start on September 9th.
This means that all teams actually only have about a week to get started with the new version.
This is why, every year when the World Championship comes, there always seem to be a lot of new understandings and playing methods, or the so-called "dark horses".
It is because those teams are able to continuously evolve in the world championship version, develop step by step, and finally master the version that they can be ahead of others.
As the most important competition, the S-League never tests just the players' strength on paper, but also the overall strength of the team.
Fortunately, during this agonizing period of waiting, LPL viewers also got something new.
"Summer Mic", which EDG's official Weibo has been urged to update for a long time, is officially online!
“Brothers, everyone please help repost the new video on the official Weibo. Master Ye, just repost it on Bilibili~” Mingkai leaned half of his head into the training room and yelled.
"Okay, after we finish this fight, Brother Saint Spear, you're going to kill me again."
Before Ye Bo finished speaking, Yongen on the screen used the second stage of his E skill to cancel out the control of the Sword Demon's Hellfire Chain and pulled it back. At the same time, he changed his position and made a sideways three-stage Jade Cut forward, cutting the Sword Demon in half.
Saint Spear helplessly clicked to exit the game: "Master Ye is really strong in laning, luckily you are not playing top lane."
"It's mainly because Yongen is easier to beat Sword Demon, but next time if you see Yongen trying to counter the control, you can try this."
Since there was no training match scheduled for today, Ye Bo suggested practicing laning with Saint Spear Brother.
The jungle area is mainly about fighting wild monsters. There are two people in the bottom lane who can take care of each other. Generally, it is difficult to fight even if one side does not want to.
Only the top lane and mid lane are the positions that are most similar and emphasize laning the most.
"Oh." Saint Spear Brother started a new custom game and showed a look of sudden enlightenment.
"But it's okay, it seems that not many people play Yongen top lane."
During the bubble match stage in each major region, the Sword Demon, a hero that was originally tepid, suddenly returned to the public eye as if overnight, and even showed quite impressive team battle strength.
Simply put, a good Sword Demon can almost achieve the team battle effect of "AD version of Kennen".
But it’s not the kind of AD Kennen who uses {End of Wisdom} and lacks intelligence.
It refers to the creation of AOE in team battles. For a lightly armed warrior Sword Demon with {Eclipse}, once the three-knife Q takes effect, it is easy to deal quite explosive AOE damage!
The reason for such changes is what was mentioned earlier - as time accumulates to the end of the version, everyone's understanding of the version will continue to iterate and evolve to a deeper level.
In the summer season, the top laner is either a tool for initiating team fights, or a hero like Gnarkainen who is the key to mid-term team fights.
By the bubble match, the top laners in major regions began to become the mainstream of a series of lightly armed output warriors such as Aatrox, Crocodile, Shen, Yi, Gangplank, and Fiora!
The only tank heroes left are Ornn, Gragas and Sejuani.
The reason for this is that the major teams finally discovered it.
In the durability version, the cost-effectiveness of tankiness in all positions has been greatly reduced. On the contrary, the multi-core 3C lineup is more likely to win in the mid-term.
So why didn't EDG, which was invincible in the playoffs, encounter this problem?
The reason is obvious at a glance.
It is because EDG's double C is stable enough, and even the mid-lane can often achieve a terrifying output share of nearly 40%!
That's why the problem of insufficient damage has never been exposed.
Of course, EDG will not allow itself to fall behind the version.
Therefore, during this period when the world championship version has not yet been determined, Saint Spear has also been practicing these heroes that he had used less frequently before. At the same time, everyone is also practicing new systems and lineups according to the changing environment.
“Wow, more than 20 minutes of microphone! Did they use up all our year’s stock to edit it?” Jiejie exclaimed after forwarding the Weibo and clicking on it.
"There is no year, it's the summer season." Meiko, who had already started watching the beginning on the other side, said.
Ye Bo also opened Bilibili on his own.
He doesn't like using Weibo very much, so he has never created an account.
Although EDG was somewhat inconvenient during promotion, as they could only tag an unlit ID every time they @ed people, no one actually came to find Ye Bo and insisted that he create a Weibo account.
Search for EDG’s official account on Bilibili.
What you can see at a glance is a freshly uploaded video.
"Let's Go! 丨EDG "E Yan Nan Jin" S12 Summer Season Collection"
Within just a few minutes of being online, the number of views has exceeded 10,000!
As soon as Ye Bo clicked into the video, he was struck by the opening sound of his own voice.
"say!"
It was Ye Bo testing the microphone loudly.
"Way, wai, wai, can you hear me?" Meiko responded gently.
"The top laner is speaking!" Ye Bo yelled again.
"Wow, wow, wow?" A faint voice was heard.
"Brother Saint's voice seems a little soft, is he too far from the microphone?"
"I already have it in my mouth"
[The team tyrant is confirmed! 】
[Chatter! Top laner is talking nonsense! (cold and arrogant face)]
[Internal video footage of the suspected Balance Network intrusion team's brain channel is exposed.]
The beginning of the video does not start from the first game of the summer season.
Instead, it started right from Ye Bo’s first LPL game in his life, against LNG.
EDG had two key figures knocked away by Poppy who flashed under the wall, but Yongen in front of the dragon pit still resolutely moved forward with his sword.
"Sell me to protect Yongen! He can't die for a thousand dollars."
"Don't worry, don't worry. Pull them into the dragon pit first and hold Poppy back! Brother Saint Spear, save your skills for me!"
"I should be able to do it!"
The back-flip of "Human Wind Change Direction" and the Feng Chen Jue Nian Zhan penetrated the barrier of space and tore a hole in the encirclement, sweeping away four people.
Cooperating with Wanlei Tianlao, EDG created a miracle team fight!
Several months later, when the audience saw this operation again, they could still instantly recall the shock they felt when they first witnessed it.
[This is a newcomer making his debut! ] (Like)
The scene changed, and it was Taliyah's roaming mid laner connecting the three lines of the overall situation. Everyone was talking and laughing, praising each other in the voice chat, and the atmosphere was full of joy.
Then we come to Zoe’s extremely “bizarre” first-level design of “Wanli E” which is absolutely stunning when you first see it.
"I feel like I'm really going to be fooled. I really interrupted you!"
"Awesome, Bo!"
"I told you it's no problem~ No one knows how to get tanned better than me!"
Then in the next game, Sofm and Theshy turned around and launched a surprise attack.
An unexpected Ice Bird in the top lane put pressure on the top lane and gave the same opening package.
But at this moment, there was still a voice full of security.
"It's okay, Brother Saint Spear, leave this battle to us!"
"No time to explain, brothers. I have an idea. Wait, this and this. Pay attention to my position!"
"OK!"
The swing sea flash Akshan in "Volley Delay" used his body as bait to catch the key three people!
Because this microphone is made by EDG, there are still a lot of internal materials.
For example, there is a video recording of the base at that time.
Everyone was discussing the issue of "Command Authority".
Mingkai’s bowl-cut hair appeared on the big screen. The barrage of comments, which was originally all 66666, instantly evolved into 1 by +777777.
"Xiao Yebo, I think you can be brave enough to give more orders in the future. If you have ideas, use them boldly. I really feel that this is what you are meant to do!"
"I agree. Ye Bo is a better commander than me. Sometimes I focus too much on the laning phase and can't make adjustments."
"I think it's ok. In fact, for our team, we can reduce the number of support roaming a little bit."
"Okay, I will try my best!"
This is when the audience also realized it.
It turns out that EDG's transition of command had already begun after the end of those four games.
That is to say, it only took the newcomer four games to convince his four teammates.
Since then, EDG's situation has completely turned around.
On to a summer that's back to top form!
Extending the duration of Yinxia's Falcon Dance, forcibly created space for the mid and jungle to counterattack.
The desperate Bloodthirsty Star Spirit resolved the fatal crisis in the bottom lane.
Phantom Langhui's ghostly return slash overturned the situation in the top lane where he was being surpassed!
As the video was watched, some viewers began to notice: Why does one person appear so frequently?
It cannot even be simply said that he is great, it can be said that he is present in most of the famous scenes, and he is even one of the main characters!
This is definitely not the case of EDG's video editing staff being biased.
In fact, the staff discovered halfway through editing that the proportion of the mid laner seemed to be too large?
It seems like it doesn't stand out enough from others.
However, when the staff tried hard to find the materials, they found that it was difficult to avoid the figure of the mid-lane in the wonderful highlight shots.
The ultimate carry in the bottom lane, the ultimate carry of the skateboard shoes, the top laner's Shen who saw through the vision and killed bin, the ultimate key wave of the jungler's vision, and the spiritual roaming of the support Amumu.
They are all related in some way!
How to get around it? There is really no way around it!
Of course, EDG also suffered a brief defeat during this period.
In the internal video, Ye Bo, as the person in charge, never avoided problems and even took the initiative to take responsibility for the key issues.
"Sorry everyone, this game is my fault. I am still a little obsessed with laning. I feel like I can't play laning like this when playing Fanzi Ma."
"Oh my oh my sorry, I'm sick, this position is so good, I just couldn't help but want to push it."
"It's okay, it's okay. This wave is my fault for commanding."
Every time everyone gave encouragement and tolerance in voice.
After all, everyone knows that such a small mistake in an ever-changing situation is actually nothing, and it is absolutely insignificant.
But Ye Bo always takes these problems seriously, and will quickly change them and constantly improve himself. Perhaps it is precisely this kind of change that has allowed Ye Bo to grow step by step to where he is now.
In the last game of the regular season, he faced Scout, his former teammate from BLG.
The scene where Akshansha used the E to kill a single person against the wall, and Ye Bo's words that were not broadcast at the time, once again triggered a "Blast Classic" carnival.
"I really want to go back, but he won't let me, so I can only kill him"
"Nice, brothers~~"
"We're in the playoffs!"
The 20-minute video is extremely entertaining thanks to the continuous highlights of the wonderful operations.
Even Ye Bo himself was enjoying the show, and it was almost over after a while.
And finally, of course, this is the question that everyone in the Summer Championship finals is most curious about and concerned about.
"Deceiving Vision" and "Mystery of Fruit"
"Because Scarecrow's E will fear wild monsters when used for the first time, if it doesn't fear them."
"This, this is a detail of the Explosion Fruit."
When the images of these two voice clips were released.
The reactions of all the audience were actually similar to those of the EDG members when they first heard this around them.
The barrage of comments suddenly exploded into a dense ball.
【? ? ? ? ? ? ? 】
【Ah? Ah!? Ah???】
[No, buddy, there were all kinds of guesses online before. Some people guessed that Master Ye was calculating Ze Li's route and time of going out in his mind, and even brought up some game theory. And you told me it was fruit, cigarettes!? ]
[Master Ye's nickname is Iron Pestle, right? He can think about everything so carefully! ]
[It’s a shame to let him play League of Legends for free. I suggest charging him by the minute.]
[To be honest, these things don’t seem difficult, but it’s obvious that they require a lot of time and effort. Does he have no spare time? ]
[What you love is your life! There are not many players like this]
In fact, there have been quite a few speculations about that wave of operations on the Internet before, with all kinds of guesses.
Since there were absolutely no signs, although some people must have noticed small details of the fruit, they generally didn't think much about them.
People are more likely to think about things like "prediction", "guessing", or even just "gambling".
When the answer was revealed, except for a small number of netizens who won the bet, the vast majority of people were shocked.
The barrage of comments started to automatically mention Ye Bo’s nickname “Doctor YE” among foreign netizens.
Soon the video came to the final segment.
The scene of EDG holding up the Silver Dragon Cup appeared again, and this scene became the most perfect {to be continued} ending freeze frame of this video.
After watching the video, Ye Bo subconsciously scrolled down to the comment section.
After watching the video for more than 20 minutes, the number of comments on Bilibili alone has exceeded 5K, and the number of online viewers has exceeded 10000+.
The comment section is very lively, with people saying all kinds of things.
[Go to the World Championship! Everyone raise your hands and lend your energy to EDG! ]
[YE is really the new crown prince of EDG, right? He even has to hold the trophy first! ]
[Ah? Just because of this performance in the summer season, he was only allowed to win the trophy first? No one else dared to start eating at the celebration banquet! ]
[MMP, the two brothers just wanted to give the new brother a wonderful moment, but they still gave him this suspicion. Is there no friend in reality?]
[You can tell from the documentary that they have a good relationship, but C is also a real C. Especially in the finals, I thought it was Saint Spear and Jie Jie who were dreaming of last year's peak, but it turned out that there was a pair of big hands behind them! ]
[It’s hard to imagine that a pure newcomer joins the championship team, and in the end it turns out that this newcomer leads four world champions! The male protagonist of this cool story is not as happy as him! ]
Looking at the flattery in the comment section, Ye Bo felt quite happy at first.
However, after watching the back part, I found that there were many people with malicious intentions who wanted to praise or demote some and sow discord among teammates, so I couldn't help but look towards the next door with some worry.
As a result, he saw that the Saint Spear Brother next to him seemed to be writing furiously on the phone film.
[Master Ye is a god! But I think Saint Spear is also good, better than the jungler! ]
"Hey these people, what do you mean I've turned into the shape of the factory manager!"
Jiejie finished his words angrily, looked around to make sure Mingkai was not there, then continued to shout: "Who are you scolding! Who are you scolding!"
"Wait, why is there a comment saying that Flandre is better than Jungler? EDG-Flandre!"
"Damn, I forgot to switch numbers."
On September 9, the draw day for the S12 Global Finals arrived.
Mingkai arranged everything in advance: "The camera is on, everyone please be careful, the authorities will use the video to edit it later."
This is a routine program for teams participating in the World Championships over the years.
Every year when looking at the grouping situation, there are always a few funny people who show their true colors and can create explosive program effects even without any intentional tricks.
At nine o'clock in the evening, the Riot game logo appeared on the broadcast screen.
The draw took place at Riot's headquarters in Los Angeles, California, a very hot place.
"Welcome! Summoners from all over the world!"
"After a year of fierce competition, the global finals teams from the five major regions and the wildcard camp have all been announced. Let's get to know them!"
One by one, team logos, some familiar and some unfamiliar, appeared.
Whenever the narrator mentions a team, the live broadcast will show the corresponding summer season highlights.
"Next up! From the LPL region, the number one seed EDG!"
In the picture, the Shanghai stadium was filled with cheers, and Ye Bo and his teammates held up the Silver Dragon Cup under the golden rain!
Subsequently, TES, JDG, and RNG teams appeared one after another.
The competition rules of S12 have not changed, and it still uses the original "seed pool" matching grouping system.
Although the lockdown abroad is relatively less strict, there are still many traffic restrictions, so the first round of draw ceremony this year did not invite well-known players to draw lots like in previous years, and was only conducted by simple staff.
"We are in Group A!"
Seeing that the number one pool pick representing him was drawn, Ye Bo was still very excited even though there was no result at all.
Soon, the four teams in Pool 1 took the first place in the four groups respectively.
Next, we will wait for challengers from other regions!
Ye Bo sat up straight unconsciously, full of anticipation for his first group stage opponent in the global finals!
The staff on the screen came to the second glass basin, stirred it for a while, and drew another colored ball from pool number two.
It was slowly unfolded with great suspense, and the edge of the easter egg seemed to be a "red" team logo.
This color almost instantly reminded everyone on EDG of a team from Pool 2!
"What the hell! No way!?"
"Just come up here!?"
"JDG? Oh that's fine."
The same-division avoidance principle takes effect at this time.
There will not be two teams from the same region in the group stage. JDG, which was originally supposed to go to Group A, was forced to move down one place due to the presence of EDG and go to Group B where South Korea's No. 1 seed GEN.G is located.
"Is it our turn this time?"
Ye Bo just had the same association as his teammates, but he was not as nervous as them.
On the contrary, when he saw that the team logo was not what he had imagined, he felt a little disappointed.
And when the staff member once again drew a ball from pool No. 2 and unfolded it, a strange and mysterious smile suddenly appeared on his face.
The ribbon unfurls.
Ye Bodu dragged the small chair forward a step.
It still has a red edge, but this time, there is a pair of gold-rimmed wings and three dazzling golden stars on the outside.
“Fuck!” Mingkai, who reacted very quickly, seemed to have an instinctive reaction and was the first to hold his head with both hands: “Stop it!?”
EDG's training room also fell silent in an instant.
Because the team represented by this logo is the only team to win three championships in the global finals so far - T1!
Since T1 was defeated by GEN.G in the summer finals and failed to win the summer championship, it was classified into Pool .
But everyone knows that this is definitely the bloodiest shark in Pool No. 2!
No one dares to underestimate this team, especially T1 in the world championship.
Just one point is enough to prove it - to this day, as long as T1 enters the World Championship, it will qualify as the first in the group, and the worst result is the semi-finals.
In particular, this team can be regarded as EDG's "nightmare-level" opponent. Many dark scenes in the team's history were caused by this team.
When the draw was finalized, the EDG players and the audience in the live broadcast room were temporarily not interested in paying attention to the subsequent draws.
【Spicy balls! All balls are spicy! 】
[Haha, the old captive has been caught. Will EDG win all the games in the summer season and make it to the quarterfinals again? Salute to the predecessors! ]
[This is so messed up. Didn’t RNG just get beaten by T1 in the MSI? It seems like they really can’t win.]
[RNG? RNG is not in this pool now! They went to sit at the same table with the wildcards. Things are different now! ]
[Xianxing said that if the small flying bird still beat the big flying bird, it would be a mistake, but now we have the medium flying bird! Don't worry, don't worry! ]
[Wait a minute, according to this evolutionary path, if Medium Fly wins Big Fly, will it evolve into Super Big Fly? ]
The T1 club on the other side was naturally also watching this crucial draw ceremony.
When they drew EDG, all four little ones showed joy on their faces.
The reason is simple, because they know their team's history of "restraint" against this team, and they are indeed quite confident in themselves.
On the contrary, T1 often suffers defeat when playing against European and American teams, which have always been regarded as weaker, and is even more unpredictable.
The only one who didn't look very happy was Lee Sang Hyuk.
Looking at the black and white team logo on the screen, he couldn't help but think of the person who had interacted with him before and even said to him "See you at the World Championship".
Didn’t expect it to come true so soon?
honestly.
If it were the former EDG, Lee Sang-hyeok really wouldn't have so many thoughts—after all, they had rarely lost.
But if the current EDG
The final grouping is out————
Group A: EDG, T1, G2
Group B: GEN.G, JDG, 100T
Group C: RGE, TES, GAM
Group D: C9, CFO, DK
On the other side, inside the EDG base.
Ye Bo not only did not look depressed, but was full of energy and his eyes became more and more passionate.
Who says we can't be optimistic?
Before the fight, who would be optimistic and say it's not good?
The determination of the grouping situation is bound to cause a stir on major social media platforms!
(End of this chapter)