Chapter 238: Go to MSI! 《V言V语》!
Chapter 238: Go to MSI! 《V言V语》!
There is a gap of three versions between version 13.5 used in the playoffs and version 13.8 used in MSI.
Overall, it can be said that there has been another earth-shaking change.
The teams from various regions preparing to go to London for the battle immediately began intensive preparations after the 4 version update was released on April 19th at the same time as the champion skin.
"It seems that the environment has indeed changed a lot in this version."
Ye Bo and his teammates finished their training and had a review discussion.
"Fortunately, this new hero cannot appear on the stage, which means that the changes to the bottom lane will not be too big."
The new hero [Mingzhu] was banned by default because he missed the playoffs and failed to appear.
This will definitely reduce the burden on all teams going to MSI!
Anyone who knows this hero knows that his appearance will subvert the ecology of the bottom lane and may even overturn the entire lineup!
The core reason lies in its incredible ultimate skill, which can apply the mercury effect to all friendly units within a large range nearby.
The three-in-one effect of instantly {group purification of all controls} + {group 65% toughness} + {group life recovery} is like helping all teammates become clean and innocent, and difficult to be controlled!
This skill is so powerful that it can easily destroy certain heroes in a 1v1 situation—imagine, Amumu uses R to flash into the crowd and freeze five people, and then Mingzhu uses his ultimate to instantly kill all the enemies!
For example, V5 once used the "Full Control Array" system for Zerg in the bottom lane, and they would immediately catch him when they encountered this hero!
In addition, Mingzhu's Q skill can interrupt displacement just like Thresh's E, W can increase {range}, and E combined with passive can create {increased damage + shield}.
He can be called the new king of soft support!
It can be expected that this hero has the potential to reverse the hard support environment that has dominated the spring season.
"So who gave this thing this nickname?" Saint Spear couldn't help but smile when he thought of the nickname of this hero he had seen recently.
When Beryl heard this, she subconsciously blurted out a ridiculously standard phrase: "Cheese Snow Leopard!"
Xun immediately followed up with a sentence in perfect tacit understanding: "Snow Leopard, shut up!"
Ye Bo was almost unable to hold back because of these two people.
However, Deft, who seldom surfs, was full of questions and had no idea what these people were talking about.
Everyone laid down their gaming chairs and continued to talk about their training experience.
"This version really feels like Xunzi's version," Ye Bo tilted his head slightly and said, "Come on, Xunzi, play well in MSI, maybe you'll have a chance to compete for a spot in the Asian Games."
"Yeah!" Xun nodded solemnly: "Brother Chuan and I practiced together all night yesterday, so I said I was right!"
In the three versions 13.6-13.8, the jungle position has undergone the biggest ecological changes.
Almost all the jungle heroes that were strong in the spring season were nerfed, including Wei, Monkey King, Sejuani, Maokai, Lee Sin, and Ruined King.
At the same time, the "jungle core heroes" including Nidalee, Mantis, Kindred, Lillia, and Talon were strengthened!
The advantages of V5's double jungler are highlighted.
Although the two are in a competitive relationship, they have known each other for many years and have a close personal relationship. They often practice and communicate with each other, which can be regarded as a process of learning from each other.
The jungle position is the most divided compared to the other four positions.
Just like those who play mid lane will most likely be able to play top lane well - most supports or ADs will most likely be able to play another position in the bottom lane well.
These four positions are all interconnected.
Only the jungler has no laning time at all, and both the ideas and content are completely different from the other four positions.
Although Ye Bo and Beryl, the two brains, can often provide some help in overall situation, vision, operation, and tactical command, it is obviously still difficult to say how in-depth their research on this position is.
Coincidentally, Xun and Beichuan have very similar playing styles, both prefer offensive play based on their personal skills.
Saint Spear agreed, but then thought: "But come to think of it, this seems to be Kanavi's version! JDG's version should be pretty good too."
"Does this version feel good for our region?"
"It's hard to draw a conclusion for now, but at least the middle lane is more uncomfortable." Beryl did not particularly agree.
The jungler reaped the benefits of the version, but the mid laner was accurately stabbed.
Sylas was weakened by some values, and Dragon King was weakened twice, Quesanti was weakened again, and even Akshan was hit.
However, Ye Bo did not think that this was "targeted" at him.
Because Akali was not nerfed!
And these heroes are indeed the strong heroes of this version. Except for Akshan who has some direction, the others can only be said to be normal version balance.
But for Ye Bo, this version has an unexpected "challenge".
Or rather, a “surprise”.
Nicole!
CT, who was in charge of the Neeko update project, was full of inspiration and completed the work two versions ahead of schedule, successfully launching it one version before MSI!
And since Neeko's update is only a "small to medium-sized update" - strictly speaking, only the passive skills have been changed, QWER is almost the same, with only some numerical adjustments.
So the designer made it clear in the announcement.
The new version of Neeko can appear in this MSI!
There are precedents for this kind of move - for example, in the previous version of the S11 finals, Lucian's passive skills and values were redone, which did not affect Lucian's appearance on the finals stage as an "updated hero" at all.
The reason is that the designers believe that this level of update does not change the "core gameplay" of the hero, unlike the completely subversive changes like Udyr and Dragon King.
But they didn't expect that Lucian would be developed into the "Luna" system by players a week before the S11 finals, and eventually shine in the S11 finals!
And this time, no one knows whether Neeko will do it again.
But about this.
However, there is a voice on the Internet at home and abroad: "The designer must have seen the interview with YE!"
When Ye Bo picked Neeko in the semi-final against BLG, he mentioned in the post-match interview that he "hopes to see Neeko before MSI".
End of the training match review.
Ye Bo yawned and went to the video website to browse around leisurely.
The push on the homepage of Station B is: "V words and V language - a wonderful review of the microphone of Big V Tianlong Spring Competition!"
A closer look reveals that the video has only been out for two days and the number of views has already exceeded one million!
V5, which just won the Silver Dragon Cup, is currently the talk of the town. Its popularity in the LPL region has surpassed several popular teams, especially now on the eve of MSI, when its reputation is the best!
As soon as Ye Bo clicked on the video, he saw colorful comments filling the interface.
Most of them were celebrating V5's winning of the Spring Championship, while others were shouting "MSI Go!"
As his own voice from the game was heard in the video, Ye Bo was able to recall the approximate time immediately without any need for post-editing or annotation.
The first thing to start is the early clips of V5's spring season.
Beryl was not fluent in Chinese at that time and still spoke haltingly in the voicemail.
"Xun'er, inside, the next wave will go inside!"
"Ok??"
"Xun, Genshin Impact probably wants you to follow him to the upper half to wait for the opponent~"
"Gun Pot! Can you do that to me! That's right, me, me, me, me, me, me, me!"
"What??"
"Brother Saint Spear, Brother Genshin should want you to TP to the ward behind! We can bypass this wave! I'm here too!"
[I guess, Master Ye is the translator!? I thought it was all translated by Yangtuo]
[Alpaca wants to translate it. The original comment is not in Korean! ]
[Don’t even mention alpacas. I can’t understand what “nei ge nei ge” means even though I speak pure native Chinese! ]
[Luckily, Beryl's Chinese has improved now. Otherwise, with this problem, she will be going to Europe and America soon. It will be like Da Zhangwei going to the botanical garden for a tour! ] [You don't understand. In fact, only these two brains that can match their brain waves can complete the communication! ]
[It is suspected that the Balance Sect is connected to the World Tree Void Terminal. The leader of our sect and the Great Compassion Tree King are exchanging forbidden knowledge. Precious video materials are leaked.]
After seeing the review of these clips, the audience of the barrage suddenly realized.
It turns out that in the initial stage of the V5 team's running-in, the real "lubricant" was actually the mid lane!
The reason why Ye Bo could understand it was very simple - because most of the time, the two of them had the same thoughts.
Ye Bo didn't even need to put himself in the other party's perspective. He just felt that he would make the same decision. Combined with some signals from the other party on the map, he could naturally complete the "translation" easily.
The microphone video is long but not dragged out, and the comments are full of energy.
The real-time communication behind each exciting team battle allowed the audience to deeply understand the players’ moods and thoughts at the time, which was also a different and novel experience for the audience.
In the voice chat, each contestant also showed his or her own special side.
For example, every time Xun made a brilliant move, he would immediately shout in the voice chat to claim credit: "Brothers, do you think I'll take credit for it?"
Because the atmosphere within the team is harmonious and comfortable enough, Xun, an inexperienced player, can still fully unleash his true nature within the team.
The post-production editing genius even specially edited and spliced together the team's responses from each clip.
However, there is a real "operation freak" in the V5 team.
The final video effect is: you can clearly see the whole process of people's excitement and excitement at the beginning, and then their perfunctory response.
Deft didn't show any emotion the whole time, but he was always the first and fastest to respond every time, as if the robot customer service keyword {auto-reply} was triggered: "Awesome, awesome."
The program is very effective!
The screen was filled with laughter.
However, the most effective part was the clip of Akali getting a pentakill in the semi-finals.
In the chaotic voice environment, Xun's shout of "Don't K!!!!" cheered up the audience.
Besides.
In fact, it can be seen from the voice chat that although the V5 team is extremely harmonious, there is definitely only one real core of the team!
Scattered fragments can be found almost everywhere:
"Master Ye has a line on the road."
"Master Ye, the wild monster is alive, eat eat eat."
"Master Ye! Take the cat and run!"
"Brother Gun, hurry up and R! Master Ye is going to die!!!"
Among them, Xun's cry was the most heartfelt, causing the commentators to laugh at him [filial piety comes first among all virtues].
Ye Bole happily shared the video in the V5 group chat.
After reading it, the little xunzi was obviously very proud and made a "cross-waist" expression.
4 month 28 day.
The V5 members boarded a flight to London.
The official air tickets were economy class, but fortunately, He Youjun's club was generous enough to upgrade the seats for several people at its own expense.
The 12-hour flight was shorter than last year's flight to Iceland, but it was still a very painful journey.
In fact, MSI does not officially start until May 5nd, and the qualifying stage lasts until May 2th - the overall process is highly consistent with the S game.
As the number one seed, V5 will go directly to the "Win/Loss Group Stage" stage, and the first game will not be held until May 5, so there is actually plenty of time.
The reason why we have to set off so early.
In addition to shooting a pre-match promotional video later, it is also for everyone to adjust to the time difference in advance and stay in the best condition.
And thanks to the LPL region being the championship region of the previous year.
The second seed JDG will also advance directly to the group stage!
In contrast, LCK's second seed T1 can only go to the play-in round to compete with the second seed of the European and American regions, as well as the wild card and the teams from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Southeast Asia for the opportunity to enter the group stage.
of course.
The result is definitely no suspense.
Riot went to great lengths to set up a double-elimination Swiss round, with the play-in tournament lasting a full week, in order to give the wildcard regions more opportunities and also to increase the value.
But the facts prove that the four major regions are still one level higher.
There were no upsets and all the wild card teams were wiped out!
T1, G2, and GG entered the quarterfinals.
And next is the "fate-determining" group stage draw.
It is still the "seed pool" mechanism.
The number one seeds include V5, GEN.G, Europe’s number one G2, and North American champion C9.
It is worth mentioning that.
I don’t know if it’s because this year’s system was restructured for the first time or out of experimental considerations, but the “area isolation” mechanism was not adopted.
Although Ah P, the guest responsible for drawing lots today, seemed to be laughing as he walked onto the stage, everyone looked at him and felt that he was "making fun of himself in misery".
This person is definitely doomed to be unlucky.
After leaving G11 in S2 two years ago, G2 took off immediately the following year and re-entered the World Championship in S12.
After leaving C12 in S9 last year, C9 immediately took off this year and entered MSI as the No. team in North America.
Now he can only study at home, paying tribute to a certain champion mid laner.
A P first took out the V5 from pool one and placed it at the top of the upper half.
Then continue to draw from pool No. 1. First, place the four pools No. 1 into two upper and lower partitions.
"Please do something!"
Saint Spear rubbed his palms a little nervously.
"Oh, don't be so nervous, Gun brother~" Xun looked very comfortable: "There is no pressure at all in this pool, I will be nervous in the second pool~"
"And you said that three of us are participating in MSI for the first time. This kind of lottery should have a mechanism to protect novices. Don't you agree, Genshin Brother?"
V5's top, mid and jungle players are all participating in MSI for the first time.
The two players in the bottom lane are quite experienced.
But Beryl was muttering at this time: "That's easy to say. Generally, the system will mess with people if it identifies a 'rich account'. My new account has been messed up for seven consecutive times."
Ye Bo stared closely at the other No. 1 seed opponent in his half of the draw.
Ah P continued to fiddle with the No. 1 pool, took out a colored ball, and immediately revealed a strange smile after uncovering it.
He turned the colored banner in his hand towards the camera.
It’s GEN.G!
(End of this chapter)