It can be said that among the current top LOL competitions in the world, in addition to the S competition, it is the most valuable mid-season competition in the MSI.
Although it is not as popular as the previous IG Bird's Nest winning the S7 finals, as the only world-class competition in the first half of 18 years, this MSI also attracted a lot of attention.
The LPL fans who were excited just now watching IG win the S7 championship are still looking forward to IG continuing to defeat all the world games and regaining all the honors lost in the previous years!
Not to mention LCK, its dominance for several consecutive years was that IG was strongly beaten by IG in S7. This result directly made many LCK fans unable to accept this from last year to this year.
Reality, when I think about it, I still feel resentful and frustrated.
I was already feeling so worried that I was waiting to expect MSI to take revenge happily.
Therefore, everyone is full of enthusiasm and expectation for the fans of this MSI, LPL and LCK.
In addition, the return of a large number of domestic veteran players caused by IG after winning the S7 championship and the large amount of publicity with sufficient official funds, so to some extent, the pre-match popularity of MSI this time is not even much worse than that of S7.
Everyone is looking forward to whether IG continues to continue the undefeated myth or whether KZ can avenge her previous shame.
On the eve of MSI's start, LCK also made a special program and invited a bunch of famous LCK commentators and a serious analysis. If KZ meets IG, what will the winner and defeat between the two sides be?
During the live broadcast of the program, a group of LCK guests also expressed their opinions.
"Although IG is still dominant in LPL, and its record of not losing looks terrifying, from another perspective, can it be considered that the overall confrontation intensity of LPL is too low?
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"Indeed, if you look at it like this, although KZ on LCK lost two games, it also proves that the intensity of the confrontation in the LCK region is very high. The champion KZ who has emerged in this environment is more valuable."
"And Khan's condition was very impressive all year round. I feel that he has surpassed himself in S7. Although Lancer still looks perfect, Khan now feels that he can compete with Lancer."
"In addition, in terms of jungler comparison, Peanut is in good condition, and his performance in the four finals was quite impressive. In the LPL spring final that just ended, we did see IG's Ning,
In fact, there is something suppressed by RNG's Karsa. In this way, Peanut may be the most critical point for KZ to defeat IG."
"And the current KZ tactics are quite diverse, and you can take out any hero."
"There is another important point, I don't know if you have noticed it. That is, compared to the frequent tricks in the S7 period, IG this year has not yet taken out new tricks that make people shine. This is some
To some extent, can it be used as a signal that IG tactical thinking is exhausted?"
"Yes, IG operations last year were invincible, and the tactical routines seemed endless, impeccable from beginning to end, which once made everyone feel desperate."
"But this year's IG tactical style has undergone tremendous changes. Instead, they no longer focus on routines and operations, but prefer laning suppression and team battles to win, which undoubtedly makes their victory formula no longer perfect and stable
, This is undoubtedly good news.”
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On the live broadcast program, a group of Korean commentators and guests discussed seriously, and even listed a bunch of strange data from unknown places to prove that KZ God of War IG has a high chance.
This series of pre-match publicity trends has also greatly increased the confidence of many LCK fans.
For a moment, both real Koreans and pseudo-Koreans began to discuss this matter online, and promoted the hype for KZ in public and secretly.
In such a public opinion environment, even in major domestic forums, all kinds of strange and unheavenly remarks began to appear.
[It can actually make a team not lose in one game, LPL is just a rooster pecking at each other]
[IG wins all the championship and cannot hide the overall decline of LPL, KZ loses two games and shows the style of LCK's king]
【The overall intensity of the LPL competition area is really not good】
【…】
As always, the classic pre-match laning session has begun again online.
However, compared with LPL fans who were always overwhelmed by "What kind of champion" in previous years, this time, they were finally able to respond with a straightforward sentence.
‘I’m not losing in one game and stepping on your Korean father’s new S7 championship, who is strongly winning the championship, what about you KZ’s quarterfinals?’
I can only say that this kind of confidence feels so comfortable that I feel comfortable all over.
Therefore, on major domestic LOL forums, a few Korean forces that had just rekindled were quickly extinguished when they emerged, which was simply awesome.
At the same time, while netizens were having fun killing the Internet, MSI, which was expected by everyone for a long time, finally started fighting.
May 3, starting from Berlin, Germany.
It ends on May 20th in Paris, France.
And the final result was not beyond the expectations of "most people".
IG defeated KZ three to zero and successfully won the championship.
Yes, that's right!
It's so simple.
KZ, who was originally inferior to RNG in terms of hard power, encountered the same style as the team, but in all aspects, the configuration was even more impossible to play when he created an IG of the same level as his.
At least RNG has caused some trouble to IG.
However, after KZ's three games, facing IG, who was in full shape, he was almost crushed and beaten from beginning to end.
The three-way laning laning cannot be beaten, and the jungler rhythm is crushed, and every game is played, which naturally collapses.
Even the LCK commentators from God's perspective did not know how to win.
In this way, in the desperate eyes of a group of Korean fans, the KZ team, which they had high hopes for, once again became the background board for IG's many people to show off, and became the perfect stepping stone for IG's first MSI champion.
On April 28, IG defeated RNG and won the team's first LPL Spring Championship.
On May 20, IG defeated KZ and won the team's first MSI midseason championship.
In just one month, IG team won two championships, plus the LPL summer championship and S7 finals that it won in 2017, plus the Winter Demacia Cup finals.
Before we knew it, when people looked at the collection of honors of this IG, they suddenly discovered it.
Apart from the Intercontinental Championship, this IG team is only a little short of achieving the team honor Grand Slam!
For a moment, in the entire Chinese LOL circle, the popularity and popularity of the IG team once reached its peak.
As the world's number one team, the glory and status represented by IG itself have caused more and more capital and markets to pour in, more and more fans and media to pay attention, and the e-sports market has begun to grow bigger and bigger.
Naturally, the benefits and benefits of IG's entire club, from bosses to grassroots employees, especially those of the team, have increased.
On the surface, it looks like a thriving scene. Hello, I, Hello, everyone.
However, in such a bright environment no matter how you look at it.
As IG now has the highest popularity, highest honor, and the largest number of fans. It is undoubtedly the number one-time star player in LPL.
Zhao Yun himself has rarely felt anxious recently and his mood is really not very beautiful.
Two questions.
The first thing is that after winning Msi back home, in an ordinary Rank bureau, he was sleepy and in poor condition because he didn't sleep well. He played like a sleepwallowing game, and then he accidentally did the last one.
Lost this game.
At that time, when Zhao Yun saw the extremely unfamiliar "failure" on his settlement interface, he was shocked and shocked.
He Zhao Yun...the Rank ranking actually lost!
On the night of Children's Day, I had just returned from a fun trip with my teammates in the daytime. At night, I yawned all over the place before going to bed and lost!
Since traveling through time in June last year, Rank has been a habit of winning streaks in a row. He has long forgotten what it feels like to lose the ranking. At this time, he has tasted the taste of failure for a long time!
The ranking winning streak of nearly a year was suddenly cut off.
And he was also a kalma who was playing with stealing money. The value of the things he stole in the whole game was not even one-tenth of what he usually was!
To be honest, Zhao Yun was really scared at that moment.
Not to mention sleepy, I was scared to the point of peeing.
‘Damn! What’s going on?’
‘My talent has failed? Good days are coming to an end?’
Unpredictable, Zhao Yun was so panicked that he couldn't help but shivered on the spot.
In panic, he could not sleep.
I hurriedly started another game and nervously chose the Barbarian King to test whether my luck was really gone.
Then, the test results finally gave him a sigh of relief.
In the first level battle, A five-killer hit four critically.
Then in the subsequent team battles and battles, luck always stood on his side.
Everything is exactly the same as before.
After the game, Zhao Yun's heart fell asleep.
But even so, when I opened the record to check, the extremely eye-catching red "failure" in the green victory made him always surrounded by uneasiness.
‘No! There will be a demon when something happens suddenly!’
‘I haven’t lost for a year. No matter how big the disadvantage was before, I could win. Today, I was obviously a balance of power but suddenly lost to me. This is very abnormal!’
‘There must be a special reason here, and it must be found out!’
'There are ones and twos. Now it's just a game in Rank. If you fail to have a luck in the future, and you lose this biggest reliance, what can I use to gain a foothold in the professional arena where experts gather? Wouldn't it be a direct G
?'
‘No, no! You must find out the problem!’
‘…’
With this idea, Zhao Yun started another game with great anxiety.
In this second game, he played another game of stealing money with great concentration.
Then, everything was normal throughout the process, just like most of the time, with a 6,000-yuan lead in the match and easily won the game.
"I didn't find anything wrong, come again!"
Frowning, Zhao Yun resolutely started the third game.
Then in this game, after playing the game, Kennan, the game process was not much different from usual. Although it started with the disadvantages, it successfully turned around and won the game with the perfect performance of the burglary and the cooperation of his teammates.
"Luck is still there, no problem, come again!"
Unable to find the problem, Zhao Yun chose to continue the game.
In the fourth game, win.
In the fifth game, win.
In the sixth game, win.
...
In this way, Zhao Yun, who was full of thinking about finding the problem, just stayed up all night in the training room, just in an abnormal manner.
At 10 o'clock the next morning, when A Shui was the first to enter the training room, Zhao Yun was still sitting in a chair and concentrating on playing Rank.
Like all the Internet-addicted teenagers who just finished all night, their mental states were obviously depressed.
Suddenly, this scene made A Shui's eyes widen and exclaimed in surprise.
"Damn it! Brother Yunzi, dumb it! The sun is coming out from the west! Are you fucking all night?"
A Shui's tone was full of excitement.
Four consecutive jokes were fully reflected in his inner shock.
Because since he came to IG, he had never seen Zhao Yun survive a night, and he would go back to bed at most one o'clock every day.
In the past year, even if there is a big deal, Zhao Yun still has an ultimate self-discipline in sleeping.
Therefore, in the entire IG club, Zhao Yun is recognized as the number one "Healthy Brother".
But now, what did he see?
Zhao Yun played all night in the training room?
A Shui widened her eyes and forgot to drink the bottle of milk in her hand on the spot.
As for A Shui's exaggerated reaction, Zhao Yun, who just finished the game, was very impatient because he had not found the reason, but he still replied lightly on the surface.
"Aren't you just having a night out, fuss?"
Then, without caring about A Shui's gaze, Zhao Yun endured the sleepiness while yawning and started another game.
There is no way. Although he is a little tired, he really can't sleep if he doesn't understand this.
After all, I am 18 years old, so it doesn’t matter if I endure it occasionally. I have to figure out the matter clearly no matter what I say today.
With this idea, he entered the game again.
We began to try and explore again and again.
Another two hours passed in this trial.
Finally, when he felt his eyelids start to fight wildly, his attention begins to be unable to concentrate, and his hands are a little out of control, he finally gets a different gain.
He lost again in this game!
Yes, that's right! Lost again!
On his green winning streak, there was another bright red ‘failure’!
And this time, because of deliberate comparison and thinking, he keenly discovered the reason that might lead to his loss of the game.
That's it!
In this game, he is not in a good mood to win or lose than in the previous games!
In short, when both physical and mental states are not good, he can no longer take into account winning games and finding reasons.
In this game, he was full of thinking about finding out why his luck failed as soon as possible, so he played the whole game very casually and did not do what he should have done. He even made a few waves of very low-level things.
The mistake caused one of his side to lose the team battle.
Finally, with the opponent's jungler killed, Zhao Yun had always been invincible to grab the big dragon's unique skill, but for the first time he failed and directly lost the game.
After summary and comparison, Zhao Yun also came up with a conjecture that sounds very fantasy but seems to be the most likely at present.
That's it.
When he does not pay enough attention to the game in his mentality and does not have awe of victory or defeat, his talent will disappear.
In the most vivid words, it is.
If you show bad people, you are not worthy of winning.