League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 152 Hmm, now we have a reason to win.

"How so?" Chen Dongqing looked at the audience through the passage and asked with a smile, "We won the coin toss, so isn't our plan half complete?"

"Indeed!" Doinb's face lit up with pride when the topic of coin toss came up. "I told you to let me try! I've always been lucky!"

"That's awesome!" Chen Dongqing agreed, then turned around and said, "From now on, I'll call you Coin Bro."

As they were talking, Chen Dongqing, who had turned around, glanced at Xiangguo again and said, "Are you a little nervous? Your hands are shaking."

"Of course I'm nervous!" This time, Xiangguo didn't deny it. He glanced at the SKT players standing not far away and whispered, "I don't know what the organizers were thinking, putting both teams on stage together..."

Linko chuckled, "They don't understand Chinese anyway, why are you speaking so softly?"

"..." Xiangguo paused for a second, then his voice visibly grew louder, "I was too nervous and didn't think to come over."

"So nervous?" Chen Dongqing chuckled. "Won't your hands still be shaking when the competition starts?"

"Of course not!" Xiangguo scoffed. "The enemy jungler is the worst on SKT, what am I afraid of? I'll take him down in a minute! I'll win today's FMVP!"

"Heh, dream on." Chen Dongqing didn't give him any face at all. "The FMVP must be mine."

At this moment, Ren Dong had already begun calling for his team to come on stage.

"First, let's welcome the 2016 LCK Spring Split champions... SK Telecom T1!"

"Top laner Duke, jungler Blank, mid laner Faaaaker, AD carry Bang, support Wolf, and head coach Kkoma!"

Amidst cheers, the SKT players, full of vigor, were the first to step onto the stage!

The cheers from the audience instantly reached a peak. Although this was Shanghai, they were able to turn this place into their home ground with their two championship titles in team history!

"Next up, please welcome our host team, the 2016 LPL Spring Split champion! QiaoGu!"

"They're on stage! Good luck!" Linko couldn't go any further, so he stayed put and watched his teammates go on stage.

"Let's go!" Chen Dongqing took a deep breath, immediately struck a confident pose, and became the first person in the group to walk onto the stage!

At that moment, cheers exploded again! The total volume of these cheers was even greater than that for SKT just now.

"Top lane! iiiiilex!"

Ren Dong drew out his tone to give the audience enough time to react.

Sure enough, cheers immediately rose and became deafening!

Having weathered the storms of spring, Chen Dongqing, with his unique playing style, has become QG's undisputed king of popularity, with a fan base that rivals Uzi's.

Of course, these fans are all fickle; most of them will leave once QG loses the match.

All Chen Dongqing needs to do next is to win the MSI championship and turn these fans into die-hard fans!

Ren Dong waited until the clamor subsided somewhat before continuing his introduction:

"Jungler mlxg! Mid laner Doinb! ADUzi! Support Crisp!"

Countless viewers cheered for QG's arrival with wave after wave of applause!

"Alright! Let's invite both competitors to take their seats! The match is about to begin!"

The live stream then switched to the commentary booth, where the Haier Brothers and Guan Zeyuan were again providing commentary.

The three of them represent the best commentary lineup in the LPL right now.

"I have to say, the audience here is really enthusiastic! I could hear the thunderous cheers even from the commentary booth!" Wawa, the main commentator, immediately took charge of the event.

"After all, everyone expects these two teams to be in the finals," Miller nodded with a smile. "I've been looking forward to this best-of-five series from the very beginning!"

Miller, a ten-year LPL fan, still has a pure affection for his own region.

After winning the S5 MSI last year, the fans of their own region became extremely arrogant, and even claimed the title of the number one region. But everyone saw the result later.

The darkest year has arrived. LPL's best result was reaching the quarterfinals, but they were still defeated 4-0.

They quickly fell from the so-called "first division" to the third division.

It's no exaggeration to say that LPL single-handedly lowered the prestige of MSI.

Right now, the entire LPL desperately needs a championship to boost morale.

Now, everyone's hopes are pinned on QG!

QG is now like Ultraman Tiga, carrying the light of countless children, about to engage in the final battle with the evil god Gatanothor.

At this point, the director also showed a data comparison chart of Tiga and Gatanothor.

"I have to say, QG really stands out in terms of win rate!" Wawa couldn't help but laugh. "Twelve wins and one loss, a win rate of 92%! On the other hand, SKT's win rate of nine wins and four losses, or 69%, seems a bit dismal."

Miller nodded and said, "At the same time, we can see that the economic share of the two players is at two extremes. On one hand, QG's top laner's average economic share is as high as the AD carry's, reaching a terrifying 23%! He ranks first among top laners! And he is far ahead! But as a trade-off, Doinb's economic share is at the other extreme, barely exceeding 20%, ranking last among mid laners."

"The mid laner giving up resources to the top laner, this kind of structure might only appear in QG." Wawa couldn't help but laugh. "And we can see that SKT's resource distribution is much more normal. The two carries have high resources, while the top laner only has a little over 20%, which is normal data."

"But the funniest statistic has to be this one!" Guan Zeyuan pointed to the bottom of the table and laughed, "To be honest, I was shocked when I saw this statistic. I didn't expect that in this version, QG's average game time is only 26 minutes and 33 seconds!"

This data is indeed terrifying. As their opponent in the finals, SKT's average game time was a whopping 35 minutes and 22 seconds.

Almost ten minutes off!

"That's determined by the team styles of both sides."

Miller chuckled and said, "QG's style is to chase you down and beat you down as soon as they get even a slight advantage. They often have Baron Nashor at exactly 20 minutes, so the short timeframe is understandable."

"On the other hand, SKT is simpler. They advocate defense and counter-attack, so the game tends to drag on into the late game, which makes the long duration understandable."

"So in other words, today's match is another classic clash between offense and defense?" Wawa laughed. "Today, we'll see if QG's extreme offense can break through SKT's shield!"

At this moment, the draft phase begins, and Wawa immediately announces loudly, "Alright, the draft has started! Let's see both sides choose their heroes!"

"And here's some good news: QG won the coin toss before the match, so they got the blue side in the first game, which is great news for us!"

"We can see that QG has already made their move! They banned Ryze as their first pick! And SKT on the red side quickly banned Nautilus!"

In the second round, both sides made their bans extremely quickly, with QG banning Poppy and SKT banning Fiora.

"As a last resort, should we ban Maokai?" banbazi asked in voice chat. "My idea is to ban either Maokai or Ekko. What do you think?"

"I don't think either of them needs to be banned!" Chen Dongqing said confidently. "I can use Fizz and Irelia to deal with Maokai, and I can use Jayce and Riven to deal with Ekko. They're easy to handle."

"Well..." the coach thought for a moment, "then let's ban Zilean. We don't know how to deal with that."

Chen Dongqing nodded, moved the mouse to press and hold the Time Machine, and then SKT immediately banned Rumble.

"There's nothing wrong with banning Rumble," Miller analyzed. "Rumble mid lane has become a signature move for Doinb, and his tempo control is significantly stronger when he gets Rumble, so it's necessary to limit him."

"But that means Fizz will be outside!" Guan Daxiao raised an eyebrow. "Does SKT still want to challenge Tree's Fizz?"

When it came to the champion selection phase, Banbazi didn't hesitate and locked in Alistar, the top support champion, to deal with any situation. Just as Chen Dongqing said, no matter which mediocre top laner SKT picks, they can find a solution!

Immediately afterwards, SKT started to make a surprise move. They decisively took down Maokai on the first floor. Just as the QG players had an idea and thought of Fizz, this hero was selected by SKT on the second floor!

"This! Is that mid-lane Fizz!?" Miller asked, somewhat surprised. "Is this how SKT deals with Fizz? Actually, there's nothing wrong with it!"

Faker is certainly skilled at playing the champion Fizz; in fact, he even demonstrated it in front of the QG team during a scrim before MSI.

Seeing this, the QG members were somewhat disappointed.

But that makes sense.

If SKT still dares to let Fizz out and pick Maokai at this point, then Banbazi will have to suspect that kkoma, that sly fox, is up to some dirty trick again.

"QG will pick Lissandra first on the second floor, no problem. Next, we'll see what QG picks to counter Maokai. Will they pick Kennen?" At this moment, Wawa was still joking, saying, "In this finals, Maokai won't pull out a champion like Irelia again, will he?"

"That shouldn't be the case!" Miller immediately refused. "The result of the last match proved that Tree's proficiency with Irelia isn't that high. He was probably only using her in the last game of the group stage, just playing around. He's unlikely to use her again in the finals, right?"

The words had barely left his mouth…

The Irelia character immediately lit up on the third floor of QG's map.

The three commentators tensed instantly, and the doll stammered, "No way?"

"Don't mess with that, Tree Bro!" Miller was starting to panic. "We really can't pull out Irelia now, can we? We can play however we want back in the LPL!"

However, QG obviously couldn't hear the commentators' remarks and immediately locked onto Irelia.

At this moment, the number of bullet comments surged.

【send!】

Is there anything wrong with picking Irelia against Maokai? Why did I send it?

[Did the guy in front not watch the group stage? Tree Bro's Irelia was feeding like crazy last game!]

[Don't panic, this is just a smokescreen to fool SKT. Actually, Maokai's Irelia is incredibly strong!]

I guess so too.

The live chat was buzzing with discussion, with many people recalling the final group stage match.

The image of Chen Dongqing successfully developing the i7 processor still sends chills down the spines of many fans.

Is this Irelia a good pick?

Was that a smoke grenade you threw in the previous round?

Yes, it must be!

At this point, fans have no choice but to trust the players.

Meanwhile, on the other side, SKT was also discussing this choice.

"This Irelia..." Kkoma said with some surprise, "They actually dared to pick her!"

"It doesn't matter." Duke remained calm. "His Irelia can't beat my Maokai. You guys should just find an opportunity to gank him; he'll die as soon as you try!"

"Yeah." Faker nodded. "I know what I'm doing."

Immediately afterwards, SKT also made a quick move, locking down Lucian and Braum on the third and fourth floors.

At this point, the hero selections for both sides are pretty much finalized. The next step is to address the weaknesses in their team compositions.

For example, QG needs a jungler who is relatively strong in the early game to ensure an advantage in the top half of the map. And because they mainly play the top half of the map, they need to pick an AD carry who can farm in the bottom half of the map.

Therefore, after taking everything into consideration, they picked Lee Sin as their jungler and Sivir as their fourth and fifth picks, while SKT picked Kindred as their last pick, thus finalizing the team compositions for both sides.

Blue side QG: Top lane Irelia, Jungle Lee Sin, Mid lane Lissandra, Bot lane Sivir and Alistar.

Red side SKT: Top lane Maokai, Jungle Kindred, Mid lane Fizz, Bot lane Lucian and Braum.

"So, this game depends on Chen Dongqing, right?" Banbazi gave a final word of advice. "We absolutely have to pick up the pace and bring SKT into our rhythm!"

"We just need to play it safe in the bottom lane. We can give up the tower if necessary. Split pushing in the mid-game is also our advantage."

"OK, OK." Seeing that he was about to be left to his own devices again, Uz didn't seem to have any emotional reaction.

Don't ask, it's just a habit.

The coach nodded, said "Good luck" at the end, and then went to the center of the stage to shake hands.

Kkoma, a two-time champion coach, while banbazi is just an unknown coach from a top-four team.

But when Banbazi shook hands with Kkoma, he gave him a deep look, his eyes showing no fear.

He believes he won this round of draft picks.

Miller glanced at both teams' lineups, thought for a moment, and then said, "Theoretically speaking, QG's draft is quite good, after all, they have an absolute advantage in the top, mid, and jungle, which suits their playstyle perfectly!"

"That's right!" Remember nodded in agreement. "Then the next question is, can QG achieve the rhythm they want with this lineup?"

But can they really gain an advantage?

At this point, the three commentators exchanged glances, all feeling a little uncertain...

The camera began to move, quickly rising from in front of the contestants to the center of the venue, taking in the entire stage!

At this moment, the lineups of both sides are displayed on the ground screen, one on the left and one on the right, and below the lineups, there is a red and blue progress bar that is fighting back and forth.

Once the finals begin, a voting system will be activated in all MSI tournament live streams worldwide, allowing viewers to cast their votes for their favorite teams.

This ongoing progress bar is connected in real time to the number of votes worldwide, intuitively showing the level of support for both teams from viewers around the world!

At this point, we can see that SKT is in an absolute lead, with their red color accounting for 70% of the entire progress bar!

Most people around the world believe that QG is no match for SKT when they get serious!

But this had no effect on the players on the field.

The game had finished loading, and Chen Dongqing took a deep breath as usual before buying a Doran's Blade and quickly leaving the fountain.

Just then, Chen Dongqing suddenly heard a "ding" sound, and a system message came in.

[Honor Missions Now Open]

[Task 1: Win the 2016 MSI Championship]

[Reward: 8000 points]

[Task 2: Get FMVP]

[Reward: 1 Honor Point]

[Honor Points: Once an attribute point reaches its maximum value of 95, one Honor Point can be used to further improve it.]

Honor points... a new feature.

Chen Dongqing licked his lips.

Hmm, now we have a reason to win.

"Alright, let the match begin!" Wawa shouted excitedly, looking at the screen. "We can see that both sides' heroes have left the fountain, and judging from this opening setup, neither side intends to swap lanes!"

"But that's understandable," Colonel Guan laughed. "After all, last time they played Irelia, it was a normal laning phase, but they won."

But just as the three commentators were speaking, SKT suddenly made some moves.

SKT's support Blank only placed a ward in the top half of the jungle before quickly heading down to meet up with his three teammates in the top and bottom lanes and then heading straight for QG's bottom jungle!

Instead of rushing forward, the four SKT players stayed close to the river wall to avoid being spotted. They waited until 1 minute and 20 seconds before making their move and rushing into the jungle!

"Hey! This is a bit problematic!" Wawa immediately shouted from the commentary booth, "SKT is trying to invade at level one! And they have Braum, their level one fighting power is very strong!"

Actually, SKT didn't have vision of QG's jungle this time. They were basically guessing Xiangguo's jungle route, but they guessed correctly.

However, it's not unreasonable, since QG's lineup is clearly designed to farm the top half of the map, and the jungler will most likely start from the bottom half and farm upwards.

Moreover, the timing they chose was extremely critical.

Although Liu Qingsong placed a ward at the entrance to the jungle, allowing SKT to be spotted as soon as they moved out, the jungle monsters are about to spawn. If Xiangguo abandons the jungle monsters at this time, the start of the game will be somewhat delayed!

"This red ball isn't easy to place!" Xiangguo frowned slightly. "Can we take this hit?"

Uzi shook his head repeatedly upon seeing the opponent's lineup. "How can we engage in this? We can't. Go trade jungle camps with them."

"Fine." Xiangguo was a little unwilling, but he had no choice but to retreat and hand over the red buff.

While giving in, Xiangguo, still somewhat unwilling, cursed in the voice chat: "Damn it, I'll fuck you to death later!"

He quickly ran towards the enemy's red buff, intending to trade jungle camps with them.

But just then, Chen Dongqing suddenly spoke up again: "The big tree on the other side isn't online yet, be careful."

Maokai is very strong in jungle combat at level 1 with Maokai's spawn; a level 1 Lee Sin might easily fall into his trap if he's not careful.

"What do you mean?" Xiangguo was even more annoyed. "You're not letting me farm the jungle anymore?"

"It's okay, don't rush." ​​Chen Dongqing reassured him while dealing with the first three minions, "Take your time, I have a big advantage in the top lane."

"Is this a huge advantage?" Xiangguo, who had started with his own blue buff, switched screens to take a look at the top lane, where the minion waves had just begun to meet.

Where does this advantage come from?

"Don't rush." ​​Chen Dongqing said calmly, "The opponent doesn't go online at level one, so he's already lost the top lane. You can come and tower dive at level three."

"walk slowly."

After a night of training, Chen Dongqing now has an absolute understanding of the Maokai vs. Irelia laning matchup.

In this laning phase, Maokai only has a slight advantage at level one, and he needs to learn Q at level one to fight. If handled properly, Maokai can use his level one advantage to reach level two first, extending his power spike.

If you miss this advantage period, the next advantage period will have to wait until the time when you get Cloth Armor Boots and Sunfire Cape.

Duke's choice to level up his Maokai to defend the jungle at level 1 in this game is tantamount to giving up his level 1 advantage.

Chen Dongqing will definitely make a fuss about it.

He ignored the melee minions fighting on both sides and instead went directly past the minion wave to attack the ranged minions three times.

This is a little trick that experienced Irelia players often use: attack the ranged minions until they are low to low health, then pretend to retreat, so that you can quickly close the gap by using your Q on the low-health minions.

Normally, Chen Dongqing wouldn't have had the chance to farm ranged creeps during a laning phase, but since the Treant Protector wasn't online this time, Chen Dongqing naturally had to make a move.

Just as both sides' melee minions were about to be low on health, the figure of the Tree appeared from its own jungle and walked towards Chen Dongqing.

Chen Dongqing observed the blue stripes on the big tree; they were still completely blue.

This shows that although the tree helped defend the top jungle area, it did not use its E skill to drop tree spawns.

Duke was probably a bit greedy. He didn't completely give up his level 1 advantage. Although he guarded the jungle, he didn't rush to learn skills. Instead, he stayed in the jungle to make sure Lee Sin didn't come before he transferred his skill points to the lane and leveled up his Q skill.

On Duke's side, he noticed that one of his ranged units had been reduced to low health by attacks, but after thinking it over, he still chose to push forward.

A level 1 tree is much stronger than Irelia, so he has nothing to fear.

Seeing this, Chen Dongqing felt relieved.

He was afraid that the big tree would back down, otherwise he would be in a difficult situation!

Seeing that the tree had already walked into the melee minions, Chen Dongqing did not hesitate and charged in with a Q!

Irelia killed the first ranged minion with her Q, then swung her blade and slashed at the tree.

This strike didn't do much damage; it merely tickled the tree.

On the other side, Duke was more experienced in handling level 1 this time. He didn't get pulled away by Irelia's Q skill, but instead took advantage of the moment when Irelia swung her hand during her auto-attack to unleash a Q!

This Q was executed perfectly, not only repelling the Irelia, but also clearing out three melee minions with the aftershocks.

But Chen Dongqing remained calm.

After being knocked back, he used Q on a minion to dash back and landed another slash on the tree!

Meanwhile, Duke also landed a basic attack on Irelia, and thanks to the healing from her passive [Lifesteal Technique], he managed to restore her health!

On the contrary, it was Irelia who took the Q and auto-attack, and her health dropped significantly.

This is why the big tree has been able to hold its position in the top unit for so many years.

The number is just too high!

Q skill damage, base attack damage, and base health are all overpowered, something that Irelia, who has been nerfed countless times, can't compare to.

But Chen Dongqing remained calm, Q'd the minion next to him again, and traded a basic attack with the tree!

At this moment, his War Fever is at level six!

Duke knew he couldn't fight War Fever head-on, so after finishing QA, he began a retreating strategy while fighting.

But at this moment, the foreshadowing that Chen Dongqing had laid earlier came into play.

He had previously attacked three ranged minions, waiting for this moment.

Chen Dongqing used his Q ability to teleport to the ranged minion, blocking the tree's retreat, and then delivered another slash!

Eight layers of war fever!

At this moment, the tree had already moved to the same position as the girl, but Chen Dongqing remained unmoved and delivered another strike!

When she's at her most enthusiastic, Irelia isn't just giving you a little scratch, she's scraping your bones!

Every strike deals massive damage!

Despite the damage, the tree continued forward, passing Irelia and reaching the tower. This time, green light emanated from the tree's hands. Duke saw that Irelia was about to launch another basic attack, so he decisively turned around and unleashed his Undying basic attack on Irelia!

The damage from level 1 Undying is still higher than the damage from level 1 Fervor, so theoretically speaking, this exchange of attacks isn't a loss...

But it's just theory.

After exchanging a basic attack with the tree, Chen Dongqing pressed Q again. This time, the Irelia Q'd directly onto the tree and then chased after it, landing two more basic attacks!

In this wave, the Fervor of Battle talent went absolutely berserk. The Tree had only been online for a short time when it was brought down to less than half health by Chen Dongqing's carefully planned surprise attack!

"Another classic level one, half health upon first meeting!" The doll's voice rose slightly as he shouted, "This scene seems a little different from before!"

Previously, when the two faced off, neither had gained such a significant advantage!

Of course they're different!

Are 82 proficiency and 95 proficiency the same?

Chen Dongqing remained calm. Seeing that the tree had retreated back to the tower, he quickly turned around and began to deal with the minion wave.

At the same time, he kept the coach's opening words firmly in mind and said in the voice chat: "Come tower dive, hurry up, come directly at two levels."

Isn't the point to speed things up? Two levels and you can tower dive, is that enough?

"Huh?" Xiangguo had just finished clearing the blue buff when he was startled to hear his top laner asking him to tower dive.

Isn't this too early?

He switched the camera to the top lane and saw Maokai drinking a health potion under the tower.

Turtle...

Sorry, I'm a few minutes late today.

Here's my 1000-word summary, brothers, see you tomorrow!

(End of this chapter)