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Chapter 500, the second round is gone too?
Ultimately, no one expected that the South Korean team, which started strong and had a promising start, would once again be crushed by the Chinese team and lose the game within 25 minutes, just like before.

The first game of the League of Legends finals at the Asian Games has ended.

"Let's congratulate the Chinese team for their remarkable comeback after a poor start, turning the tide with an excellent performance and taking the first point in the Asian Games final!"

On the commentary desk, watching the Chinese team maintain their usual explosive performance in the first game, commentator Wang Duoduo breathed a sigh of relief.

He realized that his worries were unnecessary. As long as Lin Ruo was there, he could always trust the Chinese team, that was beyond doubt.

Although at the beginning of the match, due to issues with the draft, he was initially not optimistic about this game.

In terms of lineup composition, Wang Duoduo genuinely felt that the Korean team had made a better selection, by a significant margin, almost equivalent to gaining an extra 5% win rate immediately after the draft phase.

They can use clever positioning to establish lane control advantage in both the mid and top lanes, while also flexing Gragas to support and picking Taliyah jungle to suppress Sejuani, making it easier to roam in the early game.

It can be said that the South Korean team has almost perfected the draft phase.

But the truth is that the actual performance in the game speaks for itself, and the real result was that, apart from Score's brilliant roaming at the beginning, the Korean team did nothing for the rest of the game.

Lin Ruo led the team to a better rhythm and a more dominant performance.

In particular, the South Korean team's mid and jungle players gave away kills due to overconfidence and excessive aggression within 8 minutes, which led to the sudden change in the situation.

As a result, the South Korean team, which had been confident, was dealt a heavy blow. They were completely stunned when the match ended, and left the players' bench in a depressed and dazed state.

They lost terribly.

If you don't believe me, just look at the cheers and laughter from the Chinese team and the non-stop shouts from the crowd. That's enough to show how much they were essentially giving others a good laugh in this game.

I followed the match from the beginning on a Korean website and learned through text updates that the Korean team had a very good start, coupled with their advantage in the draft phase.

Many South Korean fans went from despair before the match to hope, believing that their team had the strength to compete with the Chinese team.

But in the end, it turned out they were overthinking it.

Today's Korean team can't be said to have been bad from the start; rather, they actually performed quite well in the draft and the opening, which drew in the audience before they went on to win.

This isn't torturing the contestants, it's purely torturing the audience.

Through text-based live updates, the Korean online community, amidst its outrage at the players' poor performance, quickly shifted the blame to them.

If in the past the team would be criticized from head to toe, then this time Kkoma is the only survivor.

This is finally someone that Korean fans don't want to criticize since the start of the Asian Games.

Because the business plan was indeed flawless.

[Even with Coach Kkoma's god-like draft picks, the team still got crushed in the early game. This Korean team is truly beyond saving.]

If Coach Kkoma's draft picks were given to the Chinese team, Lin Ruo playing Taliyah would most likely be dancing on Score's Sejuani's head at level one.

[Sigh, even with such a good draft, Xiba still managed such a terrible performance. If the draft advantage disappears in the second game, won't they be crushed in 15 minutes?]

It's okay, we've all experienced 15-minute crashes before, you'll get used to it.

[Hmph, just thinking about Score clearing minions in front of Sejuani makes me laugh. He's a jungler, after all. Even if he didn't know how much minion damage is early game, surely he knows how squishy a mage jungler like Taliyah is? Surely he knows whether Sejuani has any damage at all?]

[I really don't know what reason Score has to look down on Lin Ruo. He's treating the other side like a pig, but the problem is, this pig is capable of causing damage.]

[This year's funniest moment, bar none. Score was so desperate for minions that he ate them right in front of the enemy jungler. Even Lin Ruo has never shown such disdain for LCK teams, but Score dares to look down on Chinese teams like this.]

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During the brief 15-minute break, Score inadvertently became the focus of criticism on Korean online forums once again.

Just like the public opinion situation at the end of the group stage, Score is still the biggest victim without exception.

The reason remains the same.

Lin Ruo's performance was so outstanding that Score, who was positioned opposite her, easily became the background character.

Furthermore, Score's operational mistakes were so basic that netizens naturally tended to criticize him based on the most obvious errors.

Although Score had a very good performance in the first wave, it didn't change the fact that he played terribly afterwards.

Score, who was in the lounge, didn't dare to look at any of this, but the content on the big TV screen still made him blush, because it was reporting that Lin Ruo had won the MVP in the first game.

Once upon a time, after successfully ganking the bottom lane in the first wave, Score also thought that he would get the MVP of the first game. He felt that his rhythm was unusually good today.

Even after the Fiora in the mid lane died, Score, upon learning that he could farm two waves of minions, naively thought, "Could this be the fate of God, making him the most carry of this game?"
They even managed to feed two waves of minions to the enemy mid lane.

Score later realized, well, that the pig on the other side was the chosen one.

hateful.

This made Score increasingly angry. Why did he have to be so foolish as to use all his skills to clear minions outside the tower? How much did he underestimate the enemy Sejuani?

At first, Score thought Sejuani had left and that he was just trying to control the lane, which is why he was standing outside the tower. But after Sejuani returned, Score realized that if he didn't farm the minion wave, it would eventually end up under the tower, so he started farming it openly.

However, they clearly ate too quickly, showing a complete disregard for the pig girl in front of them.

Ahem, while Sejuani is indeed not human, the player controlling her on screen is human.

No, she wasn't even human. Thinking of how Lin Ruo had manipulated him so many times, Score felt from the bottom of his heart that Lin Ruo couldn't be considered a person either.

Of course, whether Lin Ruo is human or not is unknown, but that doesn't change the fact that Kkoma doesn't consider Score to be a person at this moment.

In the brief 15-minute recap, Kkoma's first criticism was about the mid-lane team fight: "Go Dongbin, were you in such a hurry to farm that wave of minions? Why didn't you let the minions go into the tower first? Just because you had to go back to base after farming, does that mean you can just clear the wave without any regard for your health?"

Koma really doesn't understand this move, because the consequences are just too great.

This not only resulted in giving away kills and allowing Lin Ruo's economy to take off, but it also led to the loss of the dragon and the positioning of the Rift Herald. Although Faker's Fiora being caught out earlier was the initial incident, Kkoma doesn't think it can be considered a significant mistake.

Because the game is all about finding opportunities, and Faker, playing Fiora, did indeed find an opportunity in lane, not only severely damaging Irelia but also dodging her ultimate ability.

It's fair to say that if Sejuani hadn't arrived in time, Irelia would have inevitably been solo killed.

But who could have imagined that Lin Ruo's little pig girl would arrive so coincidentally?

Kkoma, who sighed, would never believe that this was a trap set by the Chinese team. In fact, it was purely Xiaohu's mistake with Irelia. After all, he even missed his ultimate, which made Faker want to kill him.

But this very basic mistake actually gave the Chinese team an opportunity.

Is this what they mean by "time determines fate"?

No, in Kkoma's opinion, Lin Ruo was just too abnormal. He could almost sense what was about to happen with incredible sensitivity, so he appeared in the mid lane immediately.

It seems they saw the intense laning phase and had already planned to frequently gank the mid lane.

The Korean team had no choice but to accept defeat, and Kkoma didn't believe he could make such a good draft in the second game.

What can we do? We can only take it one step at a time. Even if we lose the game 3-0, it's a result we have to accept.

Kkoma's biggest fear was the team's mentality, which could lead to an even worse performance in the second game. So after scolding them for 10 minutes, he had to spend 5 minutes helping the players adjust their mentality.

Meanwhile, in the Chinese team's rest room next door, teammates and coaching staff were also adjusting their mindset.

Abu was particularly flustered when he came down from the player's bench after the game, because the draft picks were indeed outmatched by the opposing champion coach.

At first, things were fine, but after Fiora and Ryze switched lanes, Abu realized the seriousness of the problem. Fortunately, his teammates really stepped up.

Upon seeing Lin Ruo, the hero of the tournament, Abu almost knelt down in gratitude. This is the Asian Games, after all; if they lost, his draft picks would be criticized as those of a traitor.

"Your performance just now was truly amazing. You released the Rift Herald and then went to the bottom lane. Were you trying to go for a global strategy? And the mid laner appeared at just the right time."

"Alright, alright, let's get to the draft for the next game. Let's cut the pleasantries." Lin Ruo, who was listening, urged him on. He admitted that this was the episode where Abu talked the most.

Of course, for others, Abu's words are probably considered few.

After all, within the EDG club, Abu would hold meetings from time to time, either lecturing individuals individually or giving lessons to the entire team.

However, Lin Ruo had never been exposed to these things before. After all, the so-called meetings were for addressing issues with performance, but sorry.

Lin Ruo knew that his performance had never been problematic, so Abu never gave him a chance to hold a meeting, nor did Lin Ruo have the opportunity to enjoy Abu's rambling lectures.

Therefore, this was the time when Abu talked the most and most frequently.

As for his amazing performance in the game, Lin Ruo could only say, isn't that normal? It would be abnormal if he didn't perform amazingly.

And the fact that he appeared in the mid lane in time to arrest the Great Demon King Faker. Isn't the reason why he appeared so punctually obvious?
From the very first wave of the laning phase, Lin Ruo noticed that Xiao Hu's Irelia skill was somewhat underwhelming, especially against Faker's Fiora with her natural dominance.

So when a real difference exists in the laning phase, isn't the mid lane the most likely place for a fight to break out, and isn't Xiaohu very likely to get solo killed?
Even if Xiaohu manages to survive, Fiora will suffocate him and constantly look for opportunities to solo kill him, because the opponent thinks he's bad.

Therefore, Lin Ruo knew without even thinking that if he went to the mid lane more often, he would definitely be able to get things done.

That's the truth; they inadvertently seized the opportunity when Faker was playing against Xiaohu.

"How about we shut down Fiora in the second game? This champion is really terrifying." Xiaohu, who was sitting down, was still shaken. He had almost been solo killed in a previous game.

If Lin Ruo hadn't arrived in time, Xiao Hu was certain he would have become the weak point for the Korean team in the first game. He could only be thankful that it didn't happen.

Of course, the difference in online performance is definitely related to draft mistakes, but netizens don't criticize people based on the draft. If you really lose, they will only look at who fed and who got solo killed.

Do we even need to say who the biggest victims of cyberbullying will be then?
"It's okay, there won't be such an obvious counter in the draft next game." Abu comforted him at the right time, summarized the mistakes in the draft, and the brief in-game review was over.

The next period was a break. After 15 minutes, both teams, along with their head coaches, returned to the players' bench.

This time, the South Korean team was clearly more flustered, and even Kkoma's brows were furrowed more.

He was really worried. They lost the first game despite having a great draft, and no matter what the result was in the second game, would these players still have the mindset to continue the game?
There might be pressure at other times, but today is the Asian Games final representing the national team. The online public opinion was already negative before the competition, so the pressure was obviously a hundred times greater than before.

Also, the South Korean team hasn't beaten the Chinese team in the league for a long time.

The real source of the greatest pressure comes from the long-term shadow of failure.

The result was obvious; Kkoma was absolutely right. Under the pressure of various factors, his performance in the second game was not much better.

When the draft doesn't have a clear advantage, it's understandable that there will be plenty of mistakes.

With both mentality and skill inferior to the opponent, Kkoma has tried his best to select an aggressive team composition for the team, namely the Camille and Galio initiation system.

Although Jarvan IV wasn't chosen for the jungle position to create a better synergy, there is still another alternative: Vi, who can dive into the enemy team.

But who could have known that even so, they didn't gain any advantage in team fights?

"It's you again. How come Lin Ruo doesn't make any mistakes?" Kkoma, sitting on the sidelines watching the constantly changing situation of the game, was about to explode with frustration.

He didn't expect Lin Ruo to dare to pick Lee Sin in the jungle position, and this hero, which is extremely demanding on individual ability, naturally became the biggest variable in team fights between the two sides.

From the very beginning of the game, Lin Ruo adhered to a very avant-garde concept.

It's fine to let Kiin's Camille be comfortable, but it's not fine to let Faker's Galio be comfortable in the mid lane.

Therefore, for most of the early game, Lin Ruo was helping Xiao Hu's Malzahar to relentlessly pressure Galio in lane.

Subsequently, by roaming with Malzahar, they established control of most of the jungle tempo in the early game, making it very difficult for Score Vi, who was originally in a good position to make plays.

(End of this chapter)