199: The semi-finals are open!(1/3)
Gu Xing returned to the hotel room and compared the charts carefully.
Unexpectedly, he actually found a loophole.
Little Peanut doesn’t like to have her eyes done very much.
As the player who uses Lee Sin the most in the jungle position, it stands to reason that the average number of wards should be among the top in the same position.
As a result, among all 16 teams, Peanut ranked in the middle of the pack.
In the segmented real eye data, Little Peanut ranks second to last, only a little higher than the ANX jungler who pays the least attention to vision.
With 0.12 real eyes deployed per minute, Peanut’s data is more than 50% lower than that of the first-tier jungler!
On average, Peanut will insert a real eye on the map every 8 minutes.
For a jungler, this data is quite outrageous.
In terms of points average, he also ranked third from the bottom.
In this version where vision is king, Peanut’s move is equivalent to handing over the pressure of map control to his teammates!
Gu Xing thought for a moment and realized that Little Peanut's approach was similar to Bang's reason for not buying real eyes.
It's all about maximizing the economy and converting it into equipment, so if you don't buy real eyes, the efficiency of eye arrangement will also be much lower.
Peanut is the real core of the Tigers, and the entire team revolves around him in transition from offense to defense.
How to make Little Peanut play more comfortable is the primary problem ROX solves.
If the jungler doesn't buy real eyes, the price he pays is bound to be even heavier than that of the ADC.
Because the bottom lane is integrated, if the shooter lacks eye position, the support can immediately make up for it.
Jungling is different.
In the early and mid-term, if you don’t carry a real eye, you will likely lose vision in the jungle!
Gu Xing plans to make good use of it.
Coupled with the flaws in the management of ROX's top and jungle team that Redmi had previously summarized, it instantly gave them the confidence to face the Tigers.
What's more, he also has a trump card in his hand.
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"Virtue, stand forward, tilt your body at a 45° angle to the camera, and look toward the photographer!" The director with a beard waved his hand.
Gu Xing complied with the request, folding his arms and facing the camera sideways, with a firm look and a serious expression.
The little peanut next to him was also pretending to be cold, but he was two sizes smaller than Gu Xing and looked weaker.
Then the director insisted on making the two of them look at each other face to face, while he pushed the camera from the side.
Peanut turned around. He was only about 1.7 meters tall now. If he wanted to look directly at Gu Xing, he had to look up.
Raising his head to meet Gu Xing's gaze, the two of them remained motionless.
The two of them could only stand there and stare at each other until the director called to stop.
Within two seconds, the corners of Little Peanut's mouth kept twitching, and the coldness that he had pretended to be was instantly broken.
The director reluctantly said that he would have to start over and shoot it again.
Seeing this scene, Smeb laughed mercilessly in the corner outside the camera.
"Wang Hao, can you look more fierce?" He tried to guide his jungler, "Look what Virtue does!"
Little Peanut scratched his hair in embarrassment, "Sorry, Brother Xing, it took up a lot of your time."
"It's okay," Gu Xing didn't care. He picked up tons of Coke and poured it into his mouth. "I've been very busy these days. I just came out to adjust and relax."
In the past two days, due to the pressure of the upcoming semi-finals, the entire VG team was tense and huddled in the hotel to train hard.
Now I have to shoot various promotional videos for Riot Games, and there are rehearsals and interviews before the game. I go outside every afternoon, breathe fresh air and receive sunshine, which actually calms my mind.
The director asked everyone in the venue to rest for a quarter of an hour, and then he ran to do some ideological work for Little Peanut.
Gu Xing sat down next to Mr. Hou and took out his mobile phone to surf.
After several days of fermentation, the pre-game discussion on the semi-finals on Tieba, Weibo and other online media has reached an unprecedented height.
After several years of vigorous development, League of Legends' player base reached a new high in 2016.
Moreover, the soil of the event is becoming more and more fertile, and more and more people are transferring from pure game players to event spectators!
Riot also hung a banner on the home page of the client, hoping to be the leader of traffic, build momentum for the semifinals, and attract more players to watch the game.
Furthermore, the five major leagues have all ended, leaving global audiences with no other way to entertain themselves.
Various factors have combined to influence the situation, and now the forum is full of posts related to the semi-finals.
[SKT vs. H2K, ROX vs. VG, any random mention of players is just a gimmick]
[Really, Faker versus Yue Lun in the first half, the first match after the double calamity battle, can Jankos break through the defenses of Xiao Hei and Stupid Chicken?
In the lower half, Pantro vs. Easyhoon, the S5LCK spring showdown replays, I wonder if Mr. Hou is still teaching forehand and backhand, Xiao Gu vs. Xiao Peanut, the peak showdown of carnivorous invasion of the jungle, Imp vs. Pray in the bottom lane, who is the winner?
Rat King?]
[I think VG will open at 37, and the promotion situation is not very optimistic...]
[It counts as a success if you can reach the semi-finals. VG is the only one left in the LPL, so you can’t count on them]
[I think so, the finals may be another LCK civil war]
Gu Xing browsed through several posts and found that public opinion generally believed that VG was very strong, but was not optimistic about them.
That's quite reasonable.
As the No. 1 seed in the Korean League, ROX is the clear favorite to win the championship.
Although VG has proven its strength by sweeping Samsung, in the eyes of the audience, it is not yet good enough to win the trophy.
However, this is completely different from the views of the members of the VG team.
Head coach Hongmi believes that if the team reaches the semi-finals, the probability of winning the championship is not low!
He believes that VG has found the answer to the version.
What's particularly important is that VG's style of play is exactly in line with the version trend!
First of all...the World Championship is now underway, and everyone with a discerning eye knows that there must be strong players in the jungle.
Most of the three powerful characters are versions of the Earthbinder. The junglers are basically fighting alone, and they are all carnivorous heroes like the blind monk and Olaf, which places great emphasis on confrontation in the jungle.
If the jungle matchup is unbalanced, it is easy to have an extreme matchup between the director and the little peanut in the quarterfinals.
On this stage where the jungler is destined to shine, Gu Xing's presence is particularly important.
He is the sharpest spear in VG's offense, and is also the brains of the team, shouldering some responsibilities.
Secondly, the mid laners, except Dragon King, are all brush-type traditional mages, who mainly focus on the mid-to-late game.
It’s simply Lee Ji-hoon’s paradise!
He wishes he could stay online forever. Is the title of the defensive tower in the middle a waste of time?
The third point of the World Championship version is that the bottom lane must have laning strength.
The main focus of the duo is consumption. The purpose is to be the first to destroy the enemy's bottom lane first-blood tower, get additional economic snowballs, and start the rhythm of demolishing towers.
Xiao Duan is good at laning but not at roaming.
Koo Sungbin's laning level after rehabilitation is definitely world-class.
When the two team up, just in terms of laning, they are worthy of any bottom lane combination!
On the road, Zhu Xiaolong is usually mainly responsible for resisting pressure.
His level is not as strong as Smeb's, but he is better because he is stable and will not hold the team back most of the time. He can give the team a lot of help in team battles.
Overall, the emphasis in the World Championship is on the offensive in the second half.
The mechanical change of the first tower in the bottom lane being undefended in the early stage makes it very easy to push down the first-health tower. In addition, the benefits from the dragon allow the team that mainly attacks the bottom half to gain massive benefits.
The teleportation guidance time has been increased to 4.5 seconds, which also reduces the radiation ability of the top player on the map.
Such a change fits VG’s style of play just right!
The club originally brought Imp in order to focus on the lower half and develop the core of the team.
Gu Xing adapted to most of the summer split.
Not to mention that he also learned Clearlove’s secret technique from the virtual game, which is even more powerful!
Gu Xing of the other teams didn’t dare to say that among the four teams in the semi-finals, no jungler knew how to support the bottom lane better than him!
You can say that.
At present, the version of the World Championship is perfectly integrated with VG’s style of play!
The players don't even need to make many changes, they just let nature take its course.
Gu Xing aimlessly scrolled through the pages on his phone.
To be continued...