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Chapter 528 LPL needs Zhou Shen and Uzi in international matches!
Xx's words struck Guo Hao like a thunderbolt.

Guo Hao suddenly realized something.

That was his previous opinion of 369, that he thought 369 was a very good and excellent top laner, based on certain premises.

Considering 369's relatively low salary and the fact that he has only been playing in the top league for a little over half a year.

Even though 369 still has many problems on the field.

But considering the two days mentioned above, let's look at his overall performance in the LPL.

All things considered, 369 is undoubtedly a very good and cost-effective top laner.

For many teams, pursuing the cost-effectiveness of a player is probably not a problem.

However, for a team determined to achieve results, cost-effectiveness can often be a hindrance.

Considering 369's salary and resume, 369 is a very good top laner.

However, once he stepped away from these things and discussed the team and players at a higher level, Guo Hao understood 369's biggest weakness.

That means if we set aside everything else and only discuss the players' abilities, 369 isn't strong enough!

At this moment, Guo Hao thought of his loss to IG in the Spring Split semifinals.

This reminds me of TES's last LPL regular season BO3 match before the start of this Intercontinental Cup, which was also a loss against IG.

I was reminded of the recent BO1 loss to DWG from the LCK region in the Intercontinental Cup group stage.

In these three matches, TES probably lost because of the same thing.

What if our team's top laner was Zhou Shen in these three matches?

Will the outcome be different?

Guo Hao still didn't have a very definite answer to this question.

But he knew that his thoughts had already become biased!
Meanwhile, in the hotel room where 369 was located.

369 was lying in bed, with the blanket covering his head.

No matter how much White Crescent tried to comfort and persuade him, 369 refused to return to the training room.

There was nothing they could do, so the white crescent moon simply left.

Before leaving, White Crescent said one last thing: "69, don't worry about today's match or what happened just now. Just forget about it. Play well in tomorrow's match. I believe in you!"

To White Crescent's surprise, 369 immediately said, "I'm not playing in tomorrow's match. Didn't Xiongxiong say I screwed him over? If I don't play, then no one will screw him over!"

"Ah!" This time, White Crescent was truly surprised.

You're a professional player, how dare you refuse to play in a match!

What is this?

But then, whether White Crescent spoke kindly or used his coaching authority to order 369 around, with both soft and hard tactics, 369 was simply a matter of two words.

Do not hit!

Anyway, he's absolutely not going to play any more of TES's matches in this Intercontinental Cup!

The white crescent moon could only leave helplessly.

Finally, he said, "You're so rebellious! I'm really disappointed in you!"

This time, he was truly disappointed in the protégé he had personally promoted.

The next day, July 6, 19, at 7 PM.

The semifinals of the 19 Asian Games were held between the LPL region and the LMS/VCS joint region.

VCS stands for Vietnam region.

The winning region will advance to the finals to face the LCK region.

Two hours before the match, each team announced their starting lineup for today's game.

There are no changes for any of the teams compared to the group stage.

Apart from TES.

LPL viewers were surprised to find that TES's starting top laner today was actually Moyu, the former substitute top laner, instead of 369.
Since 369 was promoted to the TES first team at the beginning of this year, Moyu has become a substitute top laner.

After all, Moyu is indeed a very mediocre top laner.

Whether in terms of current combat effectiveness or future potential, he is inferior to 369.
During the Spring Split, 369 often had problems on the field, while Moyu was able to play occasionally.

However, as 369 gradually grew, in the LPL Summer Split this year, before the start of the Rift Rivals, Moyu didn't play a single game in the six regular season matches.

The last time Moyu played a match was during the semifinals of the Spring Split playoffs.

After being crushed by TheShy in two consecutive games, 369 was so frustrated that he refused to play. Moyu stepped in and played two games, even winning one of them.

Now, Moyu will be playing for TES again, and in the crucial semifinals of the Asian Games.

Could it be that 369 played terribly and was in poor form in yesterday's TES vs. DWG match, so the coaching staff chose to bench 369 and let moyu play instead?

Many LPL viewers think so.

However, some viewers who are familiar with TES believe that the reason why 369 was on the bench and Moyu started today is definitely not because of 369's form.

Speaking of form, it's been ages since Moyu last played a match.

Moreover, they have never played in training matches.

No matter how bad 369's form is, the coaching staff is unlikely to bring on another substitute who hasn't played in a game or practice match for a long time.

Unless 369's hand suddenly breaks, the objective reality is that he can't play games anymore.

But is this possible?

That's obviously impossible.

If such an unexpected situation were to occur, the information would be insufficient.

Therefore, for viewers who are familiar with TES, there is only one possible reason why moyu suddenly started as the top laner for TES today.

Just like in the Spring Split playoffs semifinals, 369's mentality exploded again, and he refused to play.

However, what these viewers didn't expect was that the reason for 369's mental breakdown this time was completely different from that in the Spring Split.

That time, 369's mentality was so bad that it drove his opponent crazy.

This time, it was his teammates who caused the explosion.

Perhaps we shouldn't even use the words "reason" and "make".

Because whether it was the previous Spring Split or this Intercontinental Cup.

These two incidents that caused 369 to lose his composure would probably not have caused any mental problems for most other players.

Or you might have a mental breakdown at the moment, but you can quickly adjust.

To put it bluntly, as a professional esports player, you've encountered all sorts of strange and wonderful things.

Being crushed by skilled opponents and having arguments with teammates over the game are as common as eating and drinking.

Is this even a big deal?
This is the semifinal match of the Rift Rivals between the LPL region and the LMS/VCS joint region.

In the first match, LPL fielded the JDG team.

Then, JDG, the first team to play, easily defeated Flash Wolves.

The Flash Wolves of today are no longer the Flash Wolves of their peak who once defeated SKT more than once in the World Championship.

With mid laner Maple and jungler Karsa heading to the LPL for a chance to make money in Season 8.

The departure of their two key players means that Flash Wolves' strength will never be what it once was.

It's not surprising that JDG easily defeated them.

In the second match, LPL side eliminated TES and faced off against LMS region's MAD.

After Moyu came on, TES's playstyle changed slightly.

Xx, the jungler, stopped paying much attention to the top lane, or rather, stopped focusing on the top lane. Moyu picked Neeko, a champion that's currently quite strong in lane, and played top lane alone.

Xx and Knight's mid-jungle duo completely overwhelmed their opponents.

They won the game in just 26 minutes.

TES's top and bottom lanes were both somewhat "laid off" in this game.

After easily winning the match, the TES team packed up their peripherals and returned to the backstage lounge.

On the way back to the rest room, Xx thought to himself: "When 69 plays in the game, he always picks those few so-called carry top lane heroes that he has to protect. When he encounters a really strong team, even if they feed him, he still can't carry. When he encounters a weaker team, does that mean he can't win if they don't feed him?"

"If we hadn't focused on farming the top lane, we would have won easily today's match!"

Of course, Xx only thought this to himself and would never say it aloud.

Even though I'm not in the lounge right now, and not in front of 369.

Yesterday, I criticized 369 with the phrase "If I help you, you won't support me; if I don't help you, you'll explode!" You could say that I got carried away in the argument.

It would be unfair to complain about 369 to others when there's nothing wrong with it.

However, Xx would prefer to play more mid-jungle duos.

Unfortunately, 369 always seems to pick champions like Jayce, Gangplank, and Jax in matches—so-called carry-type top laners.

Head coach White Crescent has consistently supported 369's choice of these heroes.

These heroes are a must-have!
As for Knight, the whole team naturally understands that Knight's current strength is much stronger than 369's.

If you're stronger, you don't need the jungler to help you out; you can still play well.

This is the idea of ​​a white crescent moon.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with the idea of ​​a white crescent moon.

In many team sports, it is very common for stronger players to make sacrifices and provide more support to weaker players.

This often allows the entire team to exert greater fighting power.

The same applies to League of Legends. Unless it's a particularly unbalanced version, a team's strength often depends on its weakest link.

Therefore, it is an effective way to improve the strength of a team by having the strong make sacrifices and the team resources be used to make up for the weaknesses of the weak.

This is also why teams with purely supportive top laners don't have a high enough ceiling.

Top lane is already short, and now the top laner has to sacrifice themselves to raise the level of the two carries.

In this way, even if the two Cs have a long board, it will be difficult to cover the increasingly shorter boards of the top laner.

In TES's case, the two carries make some sacrifices, and team resources are tilted more towards the top laner, such as the jungler and support.

The concept itself is certainly not the problem.

What White Crescent didn't expect was that, regardless of whether 369's support was high or low, he kept turning himself into a weak point. What kind of situation is this!
In the third match of the Intercontinental Cup semifinals, FPX also defeated the DBL team from the Vietnamese region relatively easily.

As a result, the LPL region easily defeated the LMS/VCS joint region with a score of 3-0, advancing to the finals of this year's Asian Games.

Without rest, LPL will face LCK in the finals the next day.

The final of the third Asian Games kicked off at 4 p.m. on the 7th.

The LPL region aims to achieve a three-peat in the Rift Rivals.

The LCK region, on the other hand, wants to win the Intercontinental Cup, the first tournament in its region.

In the first game of the finals, IG was easily defeated by DRX.

IG continued their poor form after MSI. In the match against DRX, IG was at a disadvantage in all aspects and was pushed down in less than 30 minutes.

In the second game, TES faced off against T1.

TES's top laner today is still moyu.

LPL teams remain at a disadvantage across the board.

Although TES held on for 35 minutes throughout the game, they were at a disadvantage the whole time, and it was all in vain to drag out the time.

Then, in the third game, FPX, currently ranked first in the LPL regular season, took to the field.

FPX truly deserves to be called the team with the best form in the LPL right now, and the team with the best record in the summer split regular season.

They immediately put their opponent, GRF, at a disadvantage across the board.

Over the past year, Griffin, a team that was touted by netizens as having an abundance of exceptional talent, was easily defeated by FPX.

At this point, the LPL side is really watching JDG's performance in the fourth game.

If JDG can defeat their opponent DWG, they can bring back a fifth game for the LPL.

In the fifth game, LPL will send out FPX. No matter which team LCK sends out, LPL's chances of winning are not small.

Therefore, all the expectations of the LPL region for a three-peat in the LPL Intercontinental Cup rested on JDG.

However, JDG couldn't hold on.

JDG's jungler, Flawless, was outplayed by DWG's jungler, Canyon!
Canyon's Karthus jungle deals five times the damage of Flawless's Jarvan IV jungle.

In other positions, JDG also couldn't gain any advantage against DWG.

JDG was easily defeated in just 27 minutes.

In the three games they lost, LPL teams were completely dominated in all three.

LCK defeated LPL 3-1 to win its first-ever Intercontinental Cup championship.

This also dashed the dreams of LPL viewers for a three-peat in the Intercontinental Cup.

At the moment of losing the Intercontinental Cup finals, LPL viewers naturally displayed their "traditional virtue"—directly criticizing.

At this point, nobody cared why, even though it was the finals, TES still hadn't fielded 369 and instead fielded Moyu, who wasn't very skilled.

Of course, TES's loss to TI wasn't just because their top laner hadn't played before; they hadn't played in any of their other positions either.

At this moment, LPL viewers' firepower first fell on JDG, who were highly anticipated before the start of the fourth game of the finals.

JDG team owner Blue Lotus also lost his temper and made a stupid move in a fit of anger.

He actually posted a Weibo post to criticize those who were attacking JDG.

Moreover, not only did he criticize her, but he also made an incredibly stupid comment about her being a "low-class horse".

Naturally, JDG was criticized even more fiercely by netizens.

"Inferior Horse Team" has become a representative label for JDG.

It's actually quite normal for many LPL viewers to criticize JDG first; it just goes to show how human nature works.

Although the match wasn't lost by JDG alone.

But JDG had a chance to turn the tide if they had won the fourth game and fought for a fifth game for FPX.

After all, in last year's Intercontinental Cup finals, they were also down 1-2, and RW, the fourth team to play, fought hard to win the fifth game for RNG.

RNG lived up to expectations, winning the fifth game and securing the championship for LPL at last year's Rift Rivals.

So at this time, RNG fans and Uzi fans, who had been relatively quiet all year, jumped out.

Many GSL members commented that LPL's first defeat at the Intercontinental Cup was not because Uzi didn't go.

If Uzi had gone, LPL wouldn't be in this situation.

Of course, Uzi's fans are also quite "smart," knowing that praising Uzi at this time would easily backfire and draw criticism.

Then let's bring Zhou Shen along too.

After all, Zhou Shen was a force to be reckoned with in the first Rift Rivals in 17, leading the LPL region to win the inaugural Rift Rivals championship.

Therefore, at this moment, on Chinese internet platforms, in addition to discussions about the loss in this intercontinental tournament, another opinion is spreading.

LPL needs Zhou Shen and Uzi in international competitions!
(End of this chapter)