Occupation? I won’t even hit a dog!

After checking the equipment and confirming that everything was correct, both sides entered the custom room created by OB and started the first round of the group stage.

South Korea is on the blue side.

The first round of bans were Karma, Kaisa, and Rakan.

Kaisa and Rakan are strong + targeted ID heroes in this version. Not only did they get the highest Ban/Pick rate in their respective positions in the summer season, they are also the most used heroes by Iboy and Meiko.

Karma is a little weird.

Xiye is the dean of the WE team this year. He cannot use a hero like Karma. The number of games and data he played with Karma last year were relatively average. The Korean team targeted Karma because they thought Xiye would tend to be more of a support in front of Ye Tian, ​​Mala Xiangguo, Iboy, and Meiko.

The Chinese team banned Akali, EZ, and Lulu.

among them.

Akali is a smoke bomb.

Deliberately ban it and pretend that it cannot be used.

The two ban positions of EZ and Lulu seem to conflict. After all, there is not much effect when these two heroes are matched together. If things go wrong, it will become Lulu and E+16. However, putting Lulu in the middle lane can bring a huge improvement to Varus, and Sheep Transformation can also threaten a series of operation heroes. It makes more sense to target Lulu than Varus.

Enter the selection phase.

After some discussion, the Korean team got the Darkin Aatrox, who is a must-ban and must-pick for the top lane position in the current version.

As a talented top laner of the new generation in the LCK region, Kiin is very fast in mastering new heroes. In this summer season, Kiin used Aatrox to achieve a gorgeous record of 8% win rate in 75 games, and he was leading by a large margin in every game, with records like 5-0, 6-0, and 7-1 everywhere.

The hero strength and player proficiency are impeccable, and it’s worth grabbing first.

"The first floor picks Aatrox, and the Chinese team will definitely pick Irelia."

"It doesn't matter."

Korean commentator CloudTemplar analyzed from the player level: "Although Irelia can restrain traditional mages, she has no particular advantage against Galio and the new version of Crow. Faker also has a trick of playing Poppy in the middle lane. Even if Xiye of the Chinese team uses Irelia, it is impossible for him to break through Faker's defense."

"Xiye's proficiency in Irelia is not high, and he only won one of the four games." The Roaring Emperor listed the data: "With Faker's strength, he will not be afraid of him."

The voice just fell.

The first two floors of the Chinese team were selected.

One of them is the new version of Irelia that everyone expected, and the other one is a bit strange.

"Vladimir?"

Wang Duoduo read out the name of the vampire: "Based on the hero's positioning and the team members' style, Vladimir should be the top lane hero used by Ye Tian. During this period, Ye Tian has used Vladimir many times in the top lane, and the overall performance is good."

"Vladimir is indeed very compatible with the Inspiration talent." Rita omitted the words 'Kleptomancy': "The second and third floors of the Korean team got Braum, the Heart of the Freljord, and Yasuo, the Swift Blade. The lineup is quite special."

Yasuo + Braum has a wind wall and an ice wall, which can block many flying props and greatly limit the vampire's room for maneuver.

——Vampire E [Blood Tide] is a ballistic skill and cannot penetrate the wind wall.

When the E skill is blocked, the damage of Vampire's RWQ is far from enough to threaten the back-row heroes. He doesn't even dare to use W to release Q on the face of the opponent's back row, and he can easily become a spectator on the battlefield.

This is the deterrent power of the Tongtian era in the World Championship.

Even though Ye Tian has become a mediocre player in the Rank for the past six months, and even a young player like Kiin who is ignorant of the immensity of the world dares to jump out and show his teeth, Korean coach Edgar, Faker, CoreJJ and others still have enough respect for Ye Tian. They would rather let Faker bear the disadvantageous position of Yasuo against Irelia, and suppress the upper limit of Vladimir in team battles.

The Chinese team got the Piltover Policewoman on the third floor.

After the Infinity Blade was reworked, a series of mid-lane heroes such as Crow, Yasuo, Malphite, Ryze, Karthus, and Taliyah have moved to the bottom lane. In the current version, the strength of the policewoman may not be in the top ten in the bottom lane. Even when compared with traditional AD, the policewoman is far inferior to Varus, Xayah, and Ashe.

Iboy chose the policewoman in order to replicate the system used in last year's World Finals.

[Top laner takes the big C, AD takes the policewoman, this is EDG]

[We are back, all of them are back]

[Wait for a health bar to disappear]

[Come on, Brother Tian, ​​kill the Koreans]

Barrages of comments started to appear.

The lineup tendency was determined in the first three floors, and the second round of Ban/Pick was carried out quickly.

The Korean team banned Soraka and Morgana.

The Chinese team banned Varus and Galio.

"The Chinese team chose Storm's Fury (Jandy) on the fourth floor, and the Korean team chose Kog'Maw, the Mouth of the Abyss, and Sejuani, the Wrath of the North on the fourth and fifth floors."

"The Chinese team's last pick is Crystal Vanguard (Scorpion)."

Wang Duoduo read the full name and made an analysis: "The two sides countered each other in the ban/select phase and had a wonderful game. From the perspective of the lineup, both the Chinese team and the Korean team have very high ceilings... In addition, the Chinese team replaced the Blade Dancer to the top lane, played by Ye Tian. This kind of split is extremely rare in League of Legends events."

"From a hero perspective, Blade Dancer is at a disadvantage against the Darkin Sword Demon." Rita pointed out: "But Ye Tian's personal ability is good enough, and Blade Dancer used by Ye Tian should give everyone a completely different experience."

...

"Irelia top lane?"

"Or should we fight the Sword Demon from behind?"

As a sparring partner for the Asian Games, The Shy was very clear about Ye Tian's accomplishments in Irelia. Seeing this familiar scene, he laughed happily: "I know Kiin. His Sword Demon is very confident. Yes, very confident."

"Confidence is confidence, strength is strength." Ning added: "When fighting Ye Tian, ​​the more confident you are, the faster you will explode."

"Huh?" The shy asked with surprise: "Don't you have a conflict with Ye Tian?"

"Conflict? Are you kidding? You can't even beat Ye Tian, ​​so what kind of conflict can there be between him and me?" Ning said, "Speaking of which, how does Ye Tian maintain his strength? He acts like a fool in Rank. He doesn't even have a training match, but he becomes so fierce once he gets serious."

"Maybe he's secretly playing training games with EDG." Rookie speculated: "Isn't EDG's Ray a god in one game and a ghost in another? Sometimes he's really strong, and sometimes he's really bad. When he's strong, he might be Ye Tianshang's account."

“Hiss——” Ning gasped: “NND, so sinister!”

The IG team members made reasonable speculations and thought they had found the reason.

The factory manager who was watching the fun backstage was still confused.

The outside world thought that Ye Tian would secretly use Ray's account to play training games, but all members of the EDG team knew that this was not the case at all!
How could this kid be so powerful?

...

In the center of the big screen, the match schedule was finalized after exchanges and adjustments.

Blue team: South Korea

Red team: China

Top lane: Aatrox vs Irelia

Jungle: Pig Girl vs Scorpion
Mid: Yasuo vs Vladimir

AD: Big Mouth vs. Policewoman
Support: Braum vs Janna
Ten heroes enter the Summoner's Rift. We can see that the keystone rune used by Irelia is Conqueror, which requires four seconds to warm up, while the keystone rune used by Aatrox is Arcane Comet, which requires a consumption flow. From an observer's perspective, Aatrox has an absolute advantage.

In terms of consumption, Arcane Comet is far greater than Conqueror.

In terms of endurance, Aatrox is far superior to Irelia.

In terms of blood exchange, the Sword Demon's passive [Death Sword Qi] has additional percentage damage and full recovery.

During the laning phase, the Sword Demon used the first and second Q to hit Irelia. When she got close to him, he used his passive to attack her and used the third Q to protect himself. He had the advantage no matter how you looked at it.

"Oh?"

"Is the first item I'm going to use a corruption potion?"

The Korean commentator CloudTemplar smiled with a hint of sneer: "The reason why Irelia can't fight with Aatrox in the top lane and can only go to the middle lane to bully the mage is because her basic attributes are not enough. Corruption Potion can certainly provide better endurance, but its attributes can't be compared with Doran's series. Choosing Corruption Potion to go out is doomed to failure!"

"Tian hasn't played any competition in over half a year, so there's a big gap in his understanding." The Roaring Emperor shook his head.

From the South Korean team's perspective, the weaker the Chinese team is, the happier the Roaring Emperor will be.

but.

Take a personal stand.

Seeing the original "World Championship Master" fall in just half a year, the roaring emperor who dedicated his entire youth to the e-sports industry could not help but feel sad. The happiest group is GSL.

Not only did he push the Korean team's support rate to nearly 40% in the APP voting, but he also made irresponsible remarks in the post and UZI's live broadcast room.

[Irelia uses a corruption potion against Blade Demon? Isn't this a gift?]

[They won't even buy the equipment, and they've given away the dog master's authority that could lead them to victory, just waiting to be beaten]

[Tian only has a win rate of over 50 when playing against Kiin in Rank. Is there any chance he will win in a match? ]

【I can only say good death】

【Come on, Korean team, beat EDG! 】

[I tell you, this is a good thing. When Tian is beaten by Kiin in the group stage, the Asian Games team will have to ask Dog Ye to go back.]

UZI looked at the barrage and felt annoyed.

Regardless of whether he was persuaded to quit or not, UZI did not dare to leak information during the Asian Games training camp. This led to all GSLs thinking that Ye Tian's strength had declined significantly, and they opened champagne when they saw the matchup list came out.

Actually.

In the first training match with IG, Ye Tian used Irelia and created an unsolvable positional advantage even though he was ambushed by The shy.

This time, except for the different starting equipment, the heroes, side selection, keystone runes are exactly the same as that training game.

Can Kiin really hold up?

In the game.

Since junglers are the type that need to develop, the Chinese and Korean teams have no plans to start a level 1 fight.

Mala Xiangguo and Xiaohuasheng both started from the upper half of the area and asked the top hero to come over to help.

Here.

The two sides had completely different subsequent ideas.

Mala Xiang Guo starts from the upper half, which is a strategy that guarantees a profit regardless of the weather. The Chinese team's Caitlyn + Janna in the bottom lane will definitely be able to suppress the Korean team's Kog's Mouth + Braum. When Mala Xiang Guo reaches the lower half, it will definitely rely on the help of the double lane to eat the Rift Scuttler and gain the upper hand in development.

What Xiaohuasheng was thinking about was to go down and see if there was a GANK opportunity, forcing out the summoner skills of Caitlyn or Janna, and reducing the laning pressure for Kog'Maw Braum.

As for hitting the road...

Peanut thinks Kiin has a sure win.

Mala Xiangguo thinks Ye Tian can pass the level.

I feel very relieved.

The time came to 1 minutes and 45 seconds.

After Ye Tian and Kiin helped the jungler, they met in the river.

Kiin locked onto Ye Tian, ​​and seeing that Ye Tian was equipped with a corruption potion, he approached him without hesitation, carrying a giant sword as big as a door panel.

The attributes of the Sword Demon are higher than those of the Irelia, so this is a victory.

Doran's Blade is stronger than Corruption Potion in a head-to-head match, so this is a double win.

With the previous two wins, this is the third win.

Must do it!
In terms of details, Kiin also did a very good job. He deliberately paused for a moment before the first attack, and only launched a normal attack after taking damage from the sword girl, making the most of the blood recovery effect of the passive [Death Sword Qi].

Q [Darkin Blade] The first part smashes down, adding another part of damage.

Irelia was carrying a corruption potion, and her attack power was not high to begin with. When the passive health recovery of the Sword Demon was triggered, Irelia's first normal attack was basically useless.

The more crucial point is that Irelia cannot run.

——After the Sword Demon has used the first stage of Q, he has the second stage of Q with the largest range in his hand. If Irelia turns around and runs out, she will inevitably suffer the extra damage from the knockback and the sword's edge position if she enters the range of the second stage of Q.

therefore.

Even if Irelia is no match for Aatrox, she still has to keep attacking until Aatrox uses up the second part of his Q before she can pull away.

Not only that.

The Sword Demon uses the AQAQ combo, triggering an Arcane Comet, dealing maximum damage.

Irelia can only attack twice, and the first one is almost ineffective. Even with the burning of the corruption potion, it doesn't hurt at all.

The gap between the two heroes' conditions widened on the spot.

【Kiin is strong】

[As expected of our talented newcomer from the Korean Nether Country]

[The top laner is about to change]

[This is the e-sports foundation of our country of Korea. Even if we lose Marin, Khan, and Smeb, we can still produce stronger masters]

[Give Tian a lesson, Kiin. We all support you.]

The Koreans were extremely excited to see that the Sword Demon had established such a huge advantage.

GSL even celebrated.

【This is all there is to Tongtiandai?】

[Using last year's results to grab this year's Asian Games quota, I don't know what they were thinking]

[Confidently picked Irelia, but she exploded before even starting laning, so funny]

[Xiaogou, tell those EDG authorities to kick Ye Tian out first and then hire you.]

[It’s fine if they play with privileges in LPL, but they also dare to play with privileges in the Asian Games, and invite people who haven’t played in the game for half a year to participate. This is embarrassing for the world.]

"Contestant Ye Tian is at a disadvantage in this confrontation."

Wang Duoduo's face was a bit solemn. "Compared with the Darkin Aoki, the appearance rate and win rate of Blade Dancer are much lower. There is a gap in the strength of the heroes themselves. Ye Tian was stopped and beaten by the Korean team's Aoki during the online process. The situation is a bit tricky."

"Let's see what contestant Ye Tian does next. I hope he can turn the situation around." Rita said this, but she was actually not optimistic.

Kiin even put on an arrogant smile.

Ye Tian?

Tongtiandai?
But that’s it!
As an active professional player, if I can win in Rank, I will definitely win better in the main competition!

Just thought of this.

When Kiin saw Irelia's actions, his expression suddenly froze.

It seems... there's something a little bit wrong!

——Aatrox and Irelia were exchanging blood in the river, so they naturally had no way to deal with the minion line. Without any hero interference, the three melee red and blue soldiers lost blood at a very consistent rate.

Irelia goes online first, and her Q [Blade Impact] flutters like a butterfly three times, recovering health equivalent to one normal attack, and also accumulates her passive [Ionian Fervor] to the point where she is only one layer away from being fully stacked!

The Sword Demon walked near the line of soldiers, and the Irelia, who was about to reach her peak state, pressed over.

Kiin couldn't let Irelia perform a close-range AQ, so he immediately used the three-stage Q [Darkin Blade], intending to force Irelia back, but Irelia only took half a step back, and when the knockback judgment of Aatrox's [Darkin Blade] disappeared, he killed her back with [Blade Impact]!
[Ionian Fervor] When stacked to four layers, attack speed increases by 20%, and basic attacks deal 16 points of additional magic damage!
Conqueror is triggered, attack power increases by 10 points, and 20% of the pre-tax value is converted into true damage!

With the dual blessings of passive and Conqueror, Irelia's ability to stand and fight far exceeds that of Aatrox, even without Doran's series equipment, and she has entered the pursuit mode.

But Kiin was able to single-handedly change the ASF team, which was in a mess, and won the spring runner-up. He also defeated the old generation of LCK players to obtain the qualification for the Asian Games. Naturally, he was no ordinary person. Not only did he use the A-walking operation to the greatest extent to form a one-on-one blood exchange with Ye Tian, ​​during which he used the [Death Sword Qi] for the second time, he also used the second wave of soldiers to block and the protection of the defense tower, and counterattacked after Ye Tian's last A.

Ye Tian only attacked once more throughout the whole process, and his condition was not at an advantage. From the situation, it seemed that the Sword Demon was not at a disadvantage.

but.

The expressions of both parties were completely different.

Ye Tian looked relaxed, as if everything was under his control.

Kiin was extremely nervous, and even had cold sweat dripping down his forehead... (End of this chapter)