Occupation? I won’t even hit a dog!

After winning the Asian Games gold medal, Ye Tian defaulted to banning Irelia and Akali in the game. As long as the opponent did not have a brain storm, there was no way he would release these two heroes.

Aatrox's laning strength is not as high as Irelia's, and her mechanism is not as unsolvable as Akali's, but due to the example of "the God descending to earth" and her status as a must-ban, other teams will definitely use various means to snatch Aatrox away from her.

The blue side grabs the third one and can deal with one more.

The other EDG players cannot be banned, so Ye Tian’s hidden trick can only be used as a disposable item. At most, he can unseal the Sword Demon when he switches to the blue side.

But the Sword Demon does not have the ability to penetrate tank heroes. Taking the Sword Demon means that EDG can only fight in teams and cannot bring Ye Tian’s personal abilities to the fullest.

As for Pike... Like Aatrox, he is unable to penetrate tank heroes. His inability to gain extra health also makes Pike unable to compete with most top laners. His R [Welling of Hatred] also has many flaws in the killing blow, and its non-targeted mechanisms can be avoided by moving around, making it too easy for heavy warriors, tanks, and experienced top players to counter.

In a situation where he cannot swing, Pike is just an option that can be used for fun, and cannot be used as a main hero.

"The bottom lane situation is already set, and it's unlikely that a must-ban will be issued."

Abu stroked his stubble and thought: "The mid laner and jungler can do something. It's much easier to ban these two heroes than to ban each one individually."

Say so.

It is still very difficult to design a must-ban combination.

Scout's personal abilities are relatively balanced and he can use everything, but nothing is top-notch - he is not as good as Faker in team battle heroes like Tsar and Clockwork, not as good as Rookie who has been the dean for many years in life-threatening heroes like LeBron, and not as good as the gradually rising Doinb in special heroes like warrior and roaming. His position in EDG is equivalent to an important puzzle piece, rather than a pillar that can carry the entire team forward.

Karsa, like Zzali, is the type of jungler who only seeks to attack from behind. This type of jungler succeeds and fails because of his stability. Opponents will be on guard, but will not give him top priority.

"There's no particularly good combination for mid and jungle."

"The version used in S8 is too basic."

Maokai counted the heroes: "Zoe was nerfed to the point where she couldn't play, the stopwatch time was delayed so that Crow and Clockwork couldn't play, and we can't give Scout a Tsar to hang in the middle lane to farm, right? That wouldn't just be holding Ye Tian back, it would be directly pulling Ye Tian's balls."

"Indeed..." Abu rubbed his head: "By the way, Ye Tian, ​​what is the trick you are hiding?"

"Weapon." Ye Tian said the hero's name, and added: "The Scythe of the Essence-stealing Weapon."

"Extracting weapons? Are they very powerful?" Iboy didn't quite understand.

"Of course it's powerful. The three major items can kill the six divine equipment." Ye Tian thought of something interesting.

In the 8.11 version of the Infinity Blade rework, the designers considered that the new version of Infinity Blade that doubles the critical strike rate combined with the Essence Reaver that increases the critical strike attribute would give Sivir and Draven, who do not need attack speed equipment, an explosive enhancement, so they reworked the Essence Reaver as well.

The new version of the Essence Reaver's original 75 attack power remains unchanged, the cooldown reduction is increased from 10% to 20%, the critical hit rate and critical hit mana recovery are removed, and 300 mana and normal attacks (non-critical hits) restore 1% of mana are added.

In addition, there is a passive skill that is simply incredible.

——After casting the ultimate skill, the next normal attack within ten seconds will gain a six-second [Essence] effect, increasing the attack speed by 50% and returning 20% ​​of the CD time of non-ultimate skills when the normal attack hits.

Does it look familiar?
That's right.

This is the passive of the Blue Dragon Sword in Season 9: Awakening Dragon.

Except for the name of the special effect, nothing else has changed!
For AD heroes, the value of the new version of Essence Reaver is pitifully low. Even for a hero like Sivir who uses his ultimate first, one more round of skills is not as good as Stormbreaker's stable critical hits.

For the top laner, the Storm Sword in the new version of the Essence Reaver's synthesis formula is a fatal flaw. Not only is it difficult to save up 1300 gold coins, but it also has no tankiness or special effect bonuses. The first time you go home and take out the Storm Sword, you will definitely be beaten by opponents of equal strength.

Therefore, the Scythe of Essence was once thrown into the trash can. Even though its special effects were the same as the Blue Dragon Sword in Season 9, no high-ranking players tried it.

Don't forget that the border is still issued after settlement at this time. In the later stage of the season, whether you are a king or a master, points are very precious, and no one dares to take the risk of purchasing this equipment which has great flaws in theory.

In Ye Tian’s eyes, it was different.

The Blue Dragon Sword in Season 9 seems to have 250 more health points than the Duocui, and there is also a burning gem in the synthesis route that can add a little blood, but you must know that the Blue Dragon Sword not only requires the same synthesis of the Storm Sword, but also costs as much as 3400 gold coins.

In addition, the 300 mana of the Essence Reaver and the mana recovery from normal attacks are very high benefits for the Weapon Master. Considering the actual combat effect of E - Counter Storm, it can even be simply and roughly understood that mana is health and attack power.

The difference in combat effectiveness caused by one minute faster installation speed has not been taken into account here.

On the whole, except for the fact that it has one less burning gem during the synthesis period than the Azure Dragon Sword, the Essence Reaver in the late S8 is stronger than the Azure Dragon Sword in the S9 season in all aspects. The Azure Dragon Sword in the S9 season allowed the Master Yi to occupy a place in the environment full of Counter heroes such as Aatrox, Ornn, Urgot, Vampire, Kennen, etc., and obtained a certain Ban/Pick rate. The significance of the Essence Reaver can be imagined.

and.

The Scythe of Essence Reaver is an equipment that is icing on the cake rather than a life-saving device. It can make the strong stronger, but also make the weak weaker.

Ye Tian can use it.

Other top laners cannot learn it.

"I don't believe that the three major items can kill the six divine equipment." The factory manager expressed deep doubt.

"Three pieces of equipment are enough to kill others with six pieces of equipment, but two and a half pieces are enough to kill an old man like you." Ye Tian started a practice mode and pulled the factory director in to perform.

The factory manager thought that with two and a half pieces of the six legendary equipment, he would win no matter how he played, so he confidently took out a slow QA Riven, but was defeated by Ye Tian's Extraction Reaver + Tri-Force + Cloth Armor Boots + Warden's Hammer without any chance of fighting back. Even when Ray, who was watching the fun on the side, was brought into the field, he was still unable to fight Ye Tian head-on. Only then did he understand how much benefit the Extraction Reaver brought to the Master Yi.

but.

The same sentence as before.

In the environment of S8, if the other EDG players cannot get a must-ban position, Ye Tian will be restricted to death by three bans and one grab. Even if he grabs first on the blue side, he can only get the Darkin Aatrox who is difficult to penetrate the opponent's top laner.

"According to Ye Tian's style, we can use Nightmare + Galio."

"But Nightmare + Galio doesn't have to be banned."

Abu shared some of his experiences: "This year's version has been focusing on confrontation and avoidance. For example, Syndra can be used against Leblanc in the mid lane, and Irelia can be used against Akali in the top lane. However, as long as one side does not want to confront, they can just use Sion, Ornn, Galio, Lissandra and other characters to mix in the line and join the team. Ye Tian's ability in laning is limited, and ADs like Kaisa who gank the side also limit the split push in the mid-to-late game... Anyway, I can't think of a good solution."

These words are not to say that EDG does not have the strength to compete for the championship.

If he really didn't have the ability to compete for the championship, Edward Zhu wouldn't have spent 30 million to invite Ye Tian out.

However, compared to last year's system that made the LCK teams unable to cope with, and Ye Tian's invincible performance from laning to split pushing to team battles, EDG is obviously greatly restricted this year. On the road to the championship, it is likely to clash with KT, IG, and RNG. If they fight hand-to-hand, their chances of winning are estimated to be only 50%.

Even if the Extraction Weapon is used in the right lineup, it can only take down a small field, which is not stable enough.

“So this year IG’s rating is the same as RNG’s.”

Maokai added: "They have The shy in the top lane, Rookie in the middle lane, Ning in the jungle, and the support Baolan is also pretty good. If JackeyLove hadn't always wanted to find UZI to prove himself, they wouldn't have lost. In terms of overall strength, I think IG is a little stronger."

"JackeyLove is too greedy, it would be better if he just played honestly like me." Iboy has a problem with Ashui, an AD genius who forced himself to be famous, and he would belittle him from time to time in private: "Brother Tian asked me to use Tristana, so I used Tristana. He asked me to use Policewoman, so I used Policewoman. As long as I can win the game, it's fine. Today, Policewoman was banned. I laughed to death."

"It's really unique that Miss Police can be banned. Besides pushing towers, what else can Miss Police do now?" Meiko also found it very interesting. S8 has no shortage of meat tanks.

For example, KT's Galio, Urgot, and Alistar are a solid wall.

In order to break through this wall, there must be sufficient output capacity.

The policewoman herself has experienced many nerfs. After the Infinity Edge was changed to convert true damage, the benefits of [Headshot] were further reduced. In terms of tank ability, the policewoman at this period is not even as good as Lucian who focuses on early attack, and her value has fallen to the bottom.

"what?"

"and many more!"

Ye Tian caught the key words: "Xiao Zhao, Tian Ye, you two really reminded me, since Caitlyn can be banned by KT, we should strengthen Caitlyn's ability to push towers. Haoxuan (Karsa) has been playing in the middle and bottom lanes in the summer season. We will continue to implement this style of play and dilute the presence of the top lane."

"How to strengthen it? Give the policewoman a Soraka?" Iboy didn't understand.

"You need to open your eyes. What is Soraka? Think beyond the support." Ye Tian looked around the whole audience and saw that everyone had confusion in their eyes. He did not keep them in suspense and said, "Tian Ye, try the big head."

"Big head?" Meiko blinked and brainstormed.

Policewoman with a bigger head?
It seems, probably, as if... there is really something going on!
The biggest advantage of the policewoman is that she uses the 650-yard initial range to consume and hit the tower. In the system where EDG's top laner can provide sufficient output in team battles, there is a POKE flow of Storm Cut + Cannon and a positional flow of using a clamp to fight the dragon in the mid-term.

Although it is not a winning factor, it will make the opponent very uncomfortable.

The flaw is that Iboy's laning ability has not reached the ceiling level. Using Caitlyn may not necessarily give him a particularly big advantage against Deft and JackeyLove, and he may even be counter-suppressed when facing UZI.

KT team banned Miss Fortune in the first round of the group stage because they felt that she was disgusting, similar to driving away a toad from your feet. If they encounter more serious problems, they can just not drive away the toad.

When combined with the powerful Galio who has a strong ability to push the line, the Toad can be transformed into the terrifying Poison Dart Frog!

To know.

If Galio is placed in the top lane with the highest hard attributes, he can make a group of advancing heroes confused and shoot tank heroes black and blue by pushing the line and consuming energy. He can also take the support position to bully AD and support, the two most fragile unlucky children. You can know how good the effect is without testing.

In addition, on the first day of the group stage, one of the core factors that enabled the European optimistic family G2 to upset AFS was that Hjarnan took out the AD Galio with a % win rate, which fully demonstrated the suppressive power. EDG used Iboy's already proficient policewoman + auxiliary Galio, coupled with the protection of the radar-type jungler Karsa, it is no exaggeration to say that they are the cancer of the game!

"MD, this is amazing!"

Abu cursed: "I'll create an account for Tian Ye that no one knows, and practice AD ​​Galio on the Korean server. Anyway, with Hjarnan in front, it won't be noticed if I play AD Galio. AD and support have a lot of things in common, and I can use it in the game after a little adaptation."

"Yes, just change it to Hjarnan's ID." Ye Tian added another sentence.

"grass!"

“Yin!”

"I'm afraid no one would believe Hjarnan if he said it wasn't him."

There was a burst of laughter in the EDG training room.

Do a good job of negotiation.

Start practicing as planned.

At 14 pm on the 4th, Ye Tian, ​​Abu, Maokai, Factory Manager, Ray and several team analysts watched the second round of the group stage together.

On this day, all remaining matches of Group B will be played to compete for the first and second place teams in the group to advance.

Group B includes RNG, one of the strongest teams in this S game, and Gen.G, which is ranked in the second tier. The other two teams are MAD, the second seed of LMS, which is regarded as a runner-up, and TL, the number one seed of North America.

Almost everyone thought that RNG would sweep the other three teams and qualify with a perfect record of 6-0.

Unexpectedly, in the first game, North American TL gave RNG a warning. Big brother Doublelift learned EDG's Caitlyn + Morgana system to fight against Xayah and Rakan combination. With Morgana's precise Q skill, he got the first blood from Ming, allowing Doublelift to strongly suppress UZI and achieve the effect of breaking the first tower.

Then, with the frequent support of top laner Shen and jungler Nightmare, Doublelift led the rhythm of the whole game and swept RNG with 30.1K damage. The output of one person was higher than that of the two C positions UZI and Xiaohu combined.

See this situation.

Some HZ and GSL players angrily put the blame on EDG, thinking that without EDG's fancy moves like Morgana, a mere North American TL with Doublelift, who always makes it to the top 16, definitely would not have the ability to bring down RNG.

What’s even more exaggerated is that in the next game, RNG was killed again by MAD’s top lane Viktor, and the record dropped to 3-2.

This time.

Don't talk about first place in the group.

Even qualifying has become a questionable matter.

[Just saying that EDG played this kind of thing to deliberately disgust RNG? Someone criticized me before, saying that Morgana, the policewoman, and Viktor, the top laner, were all aimed at RNG's four-protect-one system? ]

[Surely, they want to be the new generation of Wang Jingwei of e-sports instead of being a good Guodian]

[Has EDG backstabbed other teams enough? Didn’t EDG’s blitzkrieg against Poland happen because they thought the prize money was too little and it wasn’t worth going, and they were afraid that other teams would steal the spot, so they deliberately delayed the game and lost the spot? ]

[EDG is not strong enough this year. Even if they invited Tian to join them, they were not sure they could win the championship. That’s why they resorted to this method.]

[It will be interesting to get rid of RNG and let KT reap the fruits in the end]

[If UZI is eliminated in this way, I will never watch LPL again. Disgusting]

[I originally thought that I supported the LPL region, but now I know that I only support UZI and RNG]

A series of public opinions emerged in the forum.

Since Ye Tian was not involved, the area of ​​hatred attracted was not large. Piglet and Starch argued with reason, but they were far inferior to the waves of HZ+GSL+water army. They could only hope that the home team would help the fans to avenge themselves.

After one game after another, North American TL got a total score of 4-2, breaking the top curse of Doublelift.

MAD's total score is 3-3, on the verge of advancement.

If RNG loses to Gen.G in the last game, they can only compete with MAD for the second place in the group through a tiebreaker. If they lose the tiebreaker, they won’t even get a spot in the knockout round!
RNG, which was on the verge of despair, burst out with a certain degree of courage, and used a violent team-fighting method to quickly push Gen.G, thus securing its qualification for the next round. Although its offense was frustrated in the extra game against TL and it was once in a stalemate, it fought a magical team battle in the 38th minute that even the commentators didn't know how to win, and successfully returned to the top of the group.

but.

Losing to TL and MAD, two small teams that gave away points, made many teams see RNG's potential weakness! (End of this chapter)