LOL: The No. 1 Succubus in the eSports Circle

Chapter 134 I chose Galio not because I have multiple teams, but to - win!

The game BP starts, SN on the blue side bans and picks first, and SDG on the red side bans and picks later.

As soon as they came on, SN banned the Ice Girl.

"Frost Witch Lissandra" received a minor rework in version 8.23 ​​after the World Championship. The old passive [Ice Bloodline] was removed and replaced by the new passive [Ice Vein Servant].

Passive Effect: When an enemy dies near Lissandra they are transformed into an Ice Slave. The Ice Slave seeks out living enemies and slows them down when they get close. After a few seconds the Ice Slave breaks from the cold, dealing area magic damage.

Duration: Ice Slaves continue to chase enemies for 4 seconds before exploding.

Base Damage: 120-520 (levels 1-18)
Benefit: 0.3 ability power
Slowdown: 25%
In addition to the new passive [Ice Vein Drive], the four skills of the Ice Girl Q, W, E, and R have also been changed to varying degrees. The mana consumption of Q is reduced, the basic damage and spell bonus of W are reduced, the ice claw speed of E is fine-tuned, and the spell bonus of R is reduced.

In short, the damage and laning ability of the Ice Girl in 1v1 are reduced, while the upper limit of the Ice Girl in team battles is enhanced.

Once the Ice Girl's new passive [Ice Vein Drive] can be triggered in a team battle, it will be most basic to make the enemy afraid to act rashly, so separating the battlefield is the most basic. If there is no escape in the narrow terrain, the massive AOE damage will greatly increase the Ice Girl's chances of winning the team battle.

Cui Ze didn’t practice the hero Ice Girl much, and his proficiency level is only “intermediate”.

But SDG's mid laner Twila was already very proficient in using the Ice Girl during his time in the LDL, and he even used the Ice Girl to beat OG in a game during the summer finals.

So it must be banned!
Tong Xi: "SN has indeed chosen to ban the Ice Maiden. It is true that no matter whether it was the previous player Maple or the current player Cui Ze, they don't like to play the Ice Maiden. On the contrary, Twila is more proficient in playing the Ice Maiden."

Wang Duoduo: "SDG also responded by banning Akali, a player that Choi Taek had a 100% win rate on the Korean server."

It didn't take long for the top three teams on both sides to be determined.

The three-ban of SN on the blue side: Ice Girl, Minotaur, and Lulu.

The red side SDG three bans: Akali, Cassiopeia, and Lucian.

Tong Xi: "SN's first three bans were mainly aimed at SDG's four-protect-one strategy. So should they give Sima Laozei a chance to snatch the policewoman and directly crush GALA, SDG's strongest point?"

Wang Duoduo: "But if SN bans like this, Nidalee will also be released. In the last game, Xiaopeng's Nidalee played very well. At 6 minutes, he killed Hacker in the jungle alone."

Tong Xi looked at the big screen and saw the handsome face who was smiling and communicating with his teammates, showing confidence all the time. She also smiled:
"Xiaopeng's Nidalee is indeed very impressive, but since SN has released it, it means they believe that with Cui Ze on the field, Xiaopeng's Nidalee is not an unmanageable problem."

[Tsk, tsk, tsk, isn't this tendency a bit too obvious? ]

[What's the difference between this bias and the random shouting and yelling of the xxn in the audience? ]

[Let’s be honest, isn’t what they said the truth? It’s not like Xiaopeng hasn’t played Nidalee before in the summer finals, and he was almost beaten to a pulp (sweating)]

[A hero like Nidalee cannot be played without lane control in the mid lane. The commentator doesn't think that SDG's mid laner can get lane control, right? Before you criticize, why not take a look at how he was matched up by Cui Ze in the LDL Summer Finals? ]

[If they had really watched the LDL games, they wouldn't be questioning like that. Who among those who have watched LDL doesn't know that Twila is Choi Il-ah? ]

SN locked down "Justice Colossus Galio" on the first floor.

Wang Duoduo was confused: "Eh? The first pick of Galio is not what we expected! Is SN going to give up Cui Ze's ability to suppress the laning in the middle lane and choose to play roaming support to help open up the situation in the bottom lane?"

Tong Xi paused for a moment and said, "Although Cui Ze has been known for his carry ability since his awakening, he was also very good at playing the functional mid laner before that. Of course, it is not ruled out that Galio was chosen for Snake."

"Oh~ Support position!" Wang Duoduo nodded and said, "It is true that Galio can also swing between the mid and support positions, so the pressure is on SDG. Let's see how they will respond to SN's first pick Galio!"

Faced with the situation where SN picked Galio as the first pick, SDG was also confused.

What's going on? Cui Ze is not going to be C anymore?
"I feel like this Galio is a support, should we grab a Knife Girl or a Leblanc?"

"Irelia, can swing mid and top, LeBlanc"

Everyone was silent, because although Twila had a high win rate with LeBron James, with a 15% win rate out of 60 picks, that was all from the past when he was in the LD team.

In the entire S8 season, Twila never played Leblanc once. Isn't it too much to ask him to play Leblanc?

"Knife Girl + Gragas!"

On the other side, SN’s internal voice chat was very lively.

Hacker: "What do you say, brothers? Did I really choose?"

Snake: "Choose! We're just going to rush into their faces this round!"

"OKOK! Lies don't hurt, the truth is the sharpest knife!"

The hacker yelled out a very childish line, and immediately locked onto "Steel Shadow Camille".

Immediately afterwards, Cui Ze also locked onto "Phantom Ling·Luo" in seconds.

Camille + Galio + Luo, WE and RNG called them experts!

In the 8.24 version used in this German Cup, Galio also underwent a certain degree of adjustment.

Q's base damage is increased, mana consumption is reduced, and E's casting speed is increased, which is more conducive to instant fighting ability. E's ability to clear soldiers is weakened, R removes group damage reduction, reduces the time of knocking up in the center area, and its ability to help the team is reduced.

The above changes were also the important reason why it was difficult for Maple to put laning pressure on Rookie using Ryze when SN played against IG at noon.

In the current version, Galio only needs to upgrade Q to level 3, choose 2 adaptive forces as runes, and equip only one Doran's Ring + one Dark Seal, then he can use QA to kill ranged soldiers instantly.

If the angle is released properly, you can even hit three melee soldiers when starting with Q.

In this case, if Galio insists on clearing the minion line despite the damage, the AP mage really has no way to deal with it. After all, Galio still has the passive magic shield provided by W, which can offset some of the AP damage.

SN's choice of the top three mid, jungle and support immediately gave SDG a headache.

Because they didn't expect that Cui Ze would choose Galio, a functional mid laner.
"Oh my god, what should I do?"

"Don't be affected by the opponent, choose a lineup that we are good at." "Okay, then let's choose Tam."

With SDG locking down Tam on the third floor, the first three moves of both sides were officially determined.

The second round of BP begins.

The last two bans of SN on the blue side were Aatrox and Xayah, while those of SDG on the red side were Urgot and Vladimir.

Wolf Walker played Urgot very well, and Changhong found it difficult to gain an advantage in the laning phase. If the hero Vampire was paired with Galio and Camille, his ability to charge into team battles would be too terrifying.

After the second round of bans, GALA directly locked his signature hero - "Kassadin, Daughter of the Void" on the fourth floor!
Tong Xi: "Here we go, GALA's signature Kaisa! He has used this hero 5 times this year, with an impressive win rate of 80% with wins and loss! 」

"Oh?" Wang Duoduo immediately said, "Tongxi, do you still remember which game we lost the only game?"

Tong Xi smiled and said, "I have a very deep impression of this. It happened in the third game of the LDL Summer Finals this year. When they were trailing 100-100, Cui Ze locked Akali in desperation, breaking the % win rate of GALA player Kai'Sa, and at the same time created his own % win rate Akali!"

Wang Duoduo exclaimed: "It seems that the two players who were once hailed as the strongest double C in LDL will bring us another exciting duel in today's Demacia Cup!"

As the conversation progressed, SN's fourth and fifth picks were also locked in.

Wang Duoduo: "Crocodile! This hero was chosen to gain an advantage in the upper half of the map! It seems that SN really wants to go head-to-head with SDG in this game, and they plan to defeat you in the early and mid-game!"

Tong Xi: "Yes, and Sheshe also locked Sivir for Sima Laozei on the fifth floor. After this hero reaches a certain level, he can clear a wave of soldiers by throwing Q and W. He can hold his ground in the laning phase, and his ultimate is very useful in teamfights."

After seeing SN's complete lineup, SDG fell into a state of hesitation in their fifth choice.

The point of hesitation is whether Irelia should go to the middle lane or the top lane.

If going to the top lane, what hero should be chosen for Twila to limit Galio's roaming?

If he plays mid lane, what hero should be chosen for Changhong so that he can maintain stable development when facing the top, mid and jungle combination of Crocodile + Galio + Shen?

Difficult, all difficult.

However difficult it may be, we must always have a strategy to deal with it.

After hesitating for a while, Mark finally locked on "Mechanical Pioneer Victor" under the instruction of his coach.

After a round of hero exchanges, the lineups of both sides were officially determined.

Blue side SN:

Top lane: XiaoAL - Renekton
Jungler: H4cker——Shanshan·Camille

Mid Lane: Veronica – Galio, the Colossus of Justice
Bottom lane: SMLZ - Goddess of War Sivir
Support: SwordArt——Phantom Wing·Luo
Red Party SDG:

Top lane: Changhong - Blade Dance Irelia

Jungler: Xiaopeng - Gragas

Mid: Twila - Mechanical Pioneer Victor
Bottom lane: GALA - Kai'Sa, Daughter of the Void

Support: Mark——River King Tam

The audience at the scene and in the live broadcast room who were familiar with Cui Ze were all surprised by this Galio pick.

Because when he was in the OG team, this kind of functional mid laner basically did not appear in Cui Ze's hero selection.

Either, it is heroes like Syndra and Leblanc who are used for extreme laning; or, it is late-game core mages like Ark and Ryze; or, it is assassins like Akali and Talon.

Functional heroes like Galio have already set the tone for the game once they are chosen, which is to stabilize the laning phase before level 6, and use skill mechanisms to roam and support after level 6, helping the jungler and side lanes gain an advantage.

Alas, the No. 1 mid laner and talented teenager in LDL, when he came to LPL, he put aside his pride and served the team.

He really made me cry!
In the final countdown, in order to save time, the head coach Comet, who did not speak Chinese, asked Easyhoon, who was fluent in Chinese, to give instructions:

"Everyone must communicate more in the game, but don't talk too much and don't fight for command. Just let Choi Taek and SwordArt make the decisions like we did in our practice match, OK?"

"OK!"

"Okay, okay, I got it!"

"Brothers, go go go!"

Cui Ze looked up and glanced around the venue, and saw many spectators holding cheering boards and light signs to cheer for him.

Three months later, he finally stepped onto the court again.

Although it is not the LPL stage, and although the first opponent he faces is still his old friend SDG, it is of great significance to him personally.

The Demacia Cup competition is actually no different from the LPL.

Here we have veteran strong teams like IG, RNG and EDG, as well as new forces like TOP, JDG and SDG. Every opponent should not be underestimated and every game is a challenge.

Today, we routinely locked in Galio, not because we deliberately became a team player after entering the LPL, but in order to win more victories in the future and try more styles as soon as possible.

An excellent mid laner, a player who aims to win the championship, must not ignore other types of heroes because of his preference for a certain type of hero.

Assassins and warriors must strive for excellence, core players and lane bullies must maintain their feel for a long time, and the functional mid laner must also be able to perform when the team needs it.

I chose Galio not because I have multiple teams, but for the sake of - winning!

Thanks to Jameszcjj for the 1700 points reward

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