The day before POG's live broadcast, no one from the FJ team got Gu Yueshuang's friend status. For some reason, they took the initiative to contact POG to arrange a training match.
Gu Yang would naturally not miss this good opportunity to have a training match with a powerful team.
After a few people discussed it, they felt that it was not cost-effective to use the regular lineup to play a training match with the FJ team. What is the difference between this and the five-person team in the Korean server?
——These are all probabilistic events. After all, players above Master can only play solo or duo.
With such good luck, POG decided to use the lineup they had discussed for a long time - Xayah and Rakan in the mid and jungle.
Gu Yueshuang and Qin Ye had actually been trying it out in custom mode for several days, and would occasionally use their alts to duo-queue on the Korean server. They thought this tactic was feasible, but hadn't used it in training matches or official competitions yet.
They plan to test the waters with this lineup today.
When POG first locked onto Xayah and Rakan, Team FJ thought they were going to use this comp in the bottom lane, and even joked, "Are they really that cautious? Are they really going with the most conservative comp? Aren't they afraid to play against us?"
Chi Nan: "Let's be serious. They even dare to confront me."
AD Wang Huaining, who was sitting next to him, smiled and said, "This isn't unusual, is it? I feel like anyone would dare to be mean to you."
Support Gan Xu also leaned in and asked, "Could it be that he didn't win the verbal duel and specifically arranged a training match to take advantage of the opportunity to beat up that Frost?"
Chi Nan flicked the mouse: "No, don't talk nonsense."
Xia Yan knocked on the table: "Be serious, they shut out GGB."
His tone was calm, but effective. The group, who had just been laughing and joking, instantly quieted down, focusing on their monitors and starting to discuss whether or not to engage in a level one raid. "Level one invasion?"
Xia Yan was just about to say that he would make a decision after the lineup was finalized, when he saw that the other party had finally locked on Pike.
Currently POG's heroes are Xayah, Rakan, Vladimir, Pike, and Ryze.
Gan Xu couldn't help but ask, "Did they make a mistake in the draft? They didn't pick a jungler. Should we quit and start over?"
The manager quickly responded: "The other party said it was not a BP mistake."
Top laner Shi Wei looked at the draft and wondered, "This isn't right..."
Even if they play routines, there is almost no combination like them, and the lineup is too fragile, and they can't even find a suitable jungler hero.
Chi Nan speculated: "This should be a swing between Vladimir and Ryze in the middle and top? Pike in the jungle?"
Gan Xu asked, "Has anyone studied their mid-lane hero pool?"
Chi Nan's face was solemn: "I've only seen him play Vladimir and Ryze in RANK, never in a competition."
As for Parker, let alone him.
The FJ team members were not sure whether POG was using them to practice the lineup or looked down on them and made random BPs.
Chi Nan thought for a moment and said, "Let's lock Kassadin. No matter how he swings, at least I can restrain the vampire."
But Kassadin is a very late-game hero. Generally, players who play Kassadin will stay in the late game and wait for the enemy base to explode when Kassadin reaches level 16.
BP is over and everyone starts exchanging heroes.
Then the players of FJ team watched helplessly as Xayah and Rakan, who were supposed to go to the bottom lane, were swapped to the mid and jungle players.
The bottom lane is Vampire and Pike.
Several people looked at each other in confusion: "Are they kidding us?"
Chi Nan: "Mid-lane Xia? I've never seen that before..."
Shi Wei speculated: "Could it be that their players changed computers, and the mid, jungle, and bottom lanes switched positions?"
Wang Huaining couldn't help cursing: "What the hell is this lineup..."
Then they watched as Frost changed his summoner spell to Smite.
FJ Team: “?”
Xia as jungler? Who should I play?
Or is it FrostID's jungler Xayah? Aren't you a mid laner?!
They confirmed with POG again and again, and POG said there was no problem with the lineup.
As soon as the game started, the FJ team members started posting question marks crazily on the public screen, including upright, backward, and all kinds of fancy question marks.
Chi Nan directly teased on the public screen: "If you lose, remember to ask the mid laner to give me a friend slot."
Frost responded with a little penguin greeting expression and ignored them.
Gan Xu asked cautiously, "Is this still a level one fight?"
Xia Yan: "Don't fight. We'll adapt to the situation."
Shi Wei asked: "Do you need help opening the BUFF?"
Xia Yan said in a steady voice, "No need, let's go online and see who they are."
At the same time, POG base.
Gu Yueshuang and Qin Ye first went to the wild area to get the first red BUFF, and asked Zhou Yao to help them kill monsters twice.
They calculated that if no one helped, they might miss one or two soldiers when they went online. To maximize their economic benefits, they let Qin Ye pull the aggro, Gu Yueshuang punish and take the red buff, and then the two of them went online together in the middle lane.
This style of play is similar to the idea of Dragon Lady and Iron Man. The jungler sacrifices his own economic development to protect the development of the mid laner throughout the whole process. In this way, the mid and jungler can both reach level 6 before the opponent's mid and jungler, and clear the opponent's jungle resources in advance, leaving the opponent with no jungle to eat.
As long as they ensure a significant economic lead, fighting will be much easier.
At first, Gu Yueshuang and Qin Ye discussed the idea of four players protecting one and supporting the mid laner, but everyone felt that this was not safe. The mid laner was under too much pressure, and once the mid laner collapsed, the game would be over.
Gu Yang suggested that we could try dual-core development, and that’s how it turned out.
Logically speaking, it would be better for Gu Yueshuang to take the vampire and Lin Yanqiu to take Xia, and both of them should be able to handle it more easily.
However, their test results showed that once the two people switched lanes, they became extremely bad, and the game started out as a disaster with a 20-knife deficit.
Gu Yang stroked his chin. "That doesn't make sense. Normally, you should switch lanes in the mid-game. Why not at the beginning?"
Gu Yueshuang: "The pace of the mid lane and side lanes is different. It's much easier to practice new heroes in the mid lane than to adapt to the rhythm in the bottom lane."
Lin Yanqiu: "Me too."
——The two of them almost had "Middle/bottom is such a crap lane, let me go back to my bottom/middle lane" written on their faces.
Gu Yang and Fang Butao were puzzled, but they could only attribute this to the difference between genius and ordinary people.
These players seem to be more sensitive to details.
Once, Gu Yang accidentally broke Gu Yueshuang's mouse. He didn't dare tell her and directly bought a new mouse of the same model.
She didn't say anything when she first touched the mouse, but when she started playing the game, she obviously found something wrong and asked Gu Yang if he had replaced her mouse.
Gu Yang was speechless, and still couldn't figure out where she found something wrong.
Compared to the FJ team which was in a state of confusion, POG was extremely active.
The midfielder and jungler cleared the minion line before Chi Nan, and then ate the river crab first, occupying the river vision.
The two men were in a hurry to eat each other's six birds, but Xia Yan came very quickly.
Gu Yueshuang was very self-aware and knew that her punishment would definitely not be able to compete with the professional jungler Xia Yan, so the two of them quickly switched their focus to attacking him.
At this moment, both sides are only level three and have no ultimate skills.
Xia Yan didn't want to fight, he just wanted to drive them away and eat the wild animals himself, but he didn't expect them to fight back so decisively, so he quickly called Chi Nan for help.
Chi Nan didn't expect them to fight so decisively. He arrived and joined the battlefield only after clearing the last soldier on the line, barely saving Xia Yan's life - but Xia Yan also gave up his flash.
A group of POG bandits, in line with the humanitarian spirit of "give flash but don't kill", the jungler and support immediately turned their fire to Chi Nan.
Chi Nan: "Hey, you two are at low health and still want to fight me? This is too..."
You are overestimating your own abilities.
However, before he could finish his words, his screen went gray.
Everyone has just reached level 3, so the three small skills are only at level 1 and have a long CD time.
Chi Nan thought that all their skills were used up, so he fought recklessly. However, he didn't know that the two control skills, the hook and the grand appearance, had not even been used yet, and he was stunned on the spot.
Chi Nan was at a loss for half a second, and immediately shifted the blame: "Why didn't you tell me that he still has the hook?"
Xia Yan was speechless: "You came too late, he has finished the CD."
Chi Nan didn't believe it and asked Wang Huaining, "How long is the CD of the first level of the hook?"
Wang Huaining: "12 seconds."
Gan Xu added: "However, the CD for the grand debut is 18 seconds, so it must have been too late to use it."
Xia Yan: "It's getting better too."
——The implication is that Chi Nan came too late.
But fortunately, they just forced Qin Ye to flash, which was a blessing in disguise.
But then they found that things were becoming less optimistic.
At first they thought Qin Ye followed Gu Yueshuang to clear the jungle, but it turned out that Qin Ye didn't bring any punishment but still had the heart of a jungler - he called the support to go to the top lane and cross the tower to attack three people on one.
The top lane, which was originally evenly matched, was instantly put at a disadvantage because of this wave.
Later they reported a MISS, thinking that the opponent was coming to GANK again, but it turned out that POG was just returning to the city to replenish his equipment.
The FJ team seemed to be stunned and could not make the right decisions.
In less than fifteen minutes, the FJ team was suppressed on all three fronts, and they kept running into POG players in the jungle.
The five players of the FJ team typed five GGs and quit the game.
The coach pushed the tactical blackboard over to help them review the game: "You still lack the ability to respond on the spot. Their lineup is actually not as strong as we thought."
Chi Nan went to wash his face, came back to calm down, and reflected: "I underestimated the enemy in the early stage, and then I was disrupted."
Their team has someone to manage discipline, but lacks someone to liven up the atmosphere when everyone is down.
POG was very excited and was still discussing which jungle clearing route would be the most comprehensive and efficient. They were preparing to try it during the next round of jungle clearing, but they saw the opponent retreat.
The five people looked at each other. The training match hasn't even ended yet, why did they quit?
Xu Qing covered his mouth, nervously trying not to laugh out loud, and asked, "Will we break their mentality?"
Zhou Yao suggested: "Go ask them if they still want our mid-lane friend slot?"
Xu Qing couldn't stop laughing while typing: "Why are you so mean and mean?"
Lin Yanqiu held Xu Qing down and said, "Don't ask anymore. It's not good."
Xu Qing thought about it and deleted the words in the dialog box. He said happily: "This routine seems to really work!"
"You played well." Gu Yang came out with a notebook. "Let's review the game. There are a few points you could have done better."
In order to ensure that the lineup is not leaked during training matches, generally ten players will withdraw early so that no record will be left in the account.
But the disadvantage of this is that you can’t watch the video replay to review the game, and you can only rely on the players’ impressions and the coaching staff’s notes.
After a few people had a happy discussion, they asked Xu Qing to ask the FJ team whether they would still play the training match.
The response was to continue in an hour.
The FJ team is currently probably studying how to deal with this tactic in training mode or custom mode.
Whether it is a training match or a competition, you need to concentrate fully, which is a bit stressful.
Gu Yang was afraid that they would lose their concentration soon, so he sent everyone out for some fresh air: "Go out for a walk, it's up to you whether you bring Brother Hei with you or not."
As soon as they walked into the yard, Shuke, probably smelling something, started barking, "Woof woof!"
Xu Qing jokingly said, "Brother Hei has become a spirit, right? He guessed we were going out before we even reached the door?"
Zhou Yao quickly hid as far away from Shuke as possible, obviously still frightened by him. "Don't let me pull the leash for a while. Every time it sees me, it runs away. It's the dog walking me, not me walking the dog."
Lin Yanqiu went to help Shuke untie the rope, and the dog pushed the door open and came out holding the leash in its mouth.
Xu Qing: "Wow? You can even open the door by yourself? Who do you want to take you for a walk?"
Shuke circled around and came in front of Zhou Yao.
Zhou Yao: “…”
The other four members of POG laughed loudly, gloating. Xu Qing even added fuel to the fire: "Others are chosen by God, but you are chosen by dogs."
Zhou Yao wordlessly took the leash and half-knelt down, trying to communicate with the dog: "Let me make a deal. Can you run slower for a while?"
"Woof!"
Shuke shouted with full energy, then pulled Zhou Yao and ran all the way.
Lin Yanqiu was worried that Zhou Yao might strain a muscle, so he shouted from a distance, "Shuke, slow down!"
"Woof!" Shuke seemed to understand, slowed down and walked with Zhou Yao. From his expression, he seemed to still dislike Zhou Yao's poor athletic ability.
Gu Yueshuang shook her head and sighed: "Brother Hei's IQ is higher than many netizens."
Xu Qing: "I noticed that you really love map cannons."
Gu Yueshuang smiled nonchalantly and asked, "Is your mental endurance high enough? If you think it is, go check out my Weibo comments section, or search my name on the e-sports forum."
Xu Qing was skeptical and didn't dare to take out his cell phone.
Lin Yanqiu understood immediately and asked, "Are you setting your own pace again?"
"I'm not that free." Gu Yueshuang shrugged. "I was just looking for problems while reviewing the game, and then I found a place to record them."
However, netizens always like to criticize her from strange perspectives. In recent days, the trend has turned to scolding her for taking the traffic route and riding on the traffic bandwagon of the FJ team.
The final analysis shows that Yang Chi was right at the beginning, Frost is just a real vase, and the only thing he can do is hype it up.
What she cares about is the breadth and depth of the hero pool. She wants to listen to the voices from the outside world - if there is a hero that is not played well, she will practice it, dozens or even hundreds of games, until her proficiency reaches the competition standard.
But now she was wondering if she had come to the wrong forum.
It made her a little depressed.
Lin Yanqiu thought she was upset by what was said on the forum and comforted her, "It's okay, we all went through the rookie stage, and with so much attention, it's inevitable that we'll be criticized."
Qin Ye suddenly said: "There is no famous scene."
He speaks little, but always to the point.
Gu Yueshuang suddenly understood the crux of the problem.
Apart from the Zoe pentakill, she now has no famous scenes to brag about.
The operations that she can perform can also be performed by other mid laners, so everyone's impression of her is still - a new mid laner who looks good and always tries to copy the seniors.
Even Zoe, who turned the tide with a pentakill, had the help of her teammates to create a clean slate and her lucky drop of blood.
When compared with other people's pentakills, it always seems a little lacking.
She has to rely on her own strength to fight a team battle that turns the tide, and then everyone will put aside their stereotypes about her.
Xu Qing didn't understand what they were talking about, so he muttered to himself and tried to force his way into the conversation, "What are you talking about? You're not trying to create a famous scene, are you? I'm telling you, this isn't a good idea. It can easily throw you off balance on the field, and you'll end up ignoring basic issues because of your obsession with trivial matters, leading to idiotic plays... Seriously, don't disbelieve me, not only new players, but even veteran players are prone to making this mistake..."
Only Qin Ye and Gu Yueshuang are newcomers here.
Although Qin Ye registered at an early age, he has not played in many games, so he is still a newcomer in the LPL arena.
They were in similar situations, so they could understand each other very well.
Gu Yueshuang sighed: "Maybe it's the trouble of being good-looking."
Xu Qing: “……?”
There is connotation.
Lin Yanqiu: "Take it one step at a time, take it slow, and walk more steadily and firmly."
Gu Yueshuang's train of thought had already jumped to the other side: "I think I may need to win a championship and a Finals MVP before things will get better."
Qin Ye bumped fists with her: "Let's encourage each other."
The more Xu Qing listened, the more she felt something was wrong. "No, I was still trying to persuade you to take it one step at a time, and you two jumped right into the finals and the Finals MVP? Why not get a playoff spot first?!"
Lin Yanqiu was a little unhappy when he saw that Nakano and the other had their own little secret, but he pursed his lips and said nothing.
Gu Yueshuang didn't realize that something was wrong with him, so she said to him, "We need to discuss how to use Xia and Vampire. After the training match is over tonight, we can try to open a custom one."
Lin Yanqiu's tone was a little sour: "You don't want to duo queue with the jungler?"
Gu Yueshuang was completely oblivious and continued to add fuel to the fire: "I've practiced duo queues with him enough. I've practiced regular heroes and combos. If I continue duo queueing with him, I'm going to throw up."
Xu Qing figured out something was wrong and asked, "Brother Shuang, why do these words sound so much like the words of a scumbag looking for a backup?"
Gu Yueshuang: “???”
She looked up at Lin Yanqiu in shock: "Resemble? No way?"
Lin Yanqiu nodded solemnly, but still felt it was not enough, and said firmly: "It's similar, it's too bad."
Qin Ye also didn't realize the subtle atmosphere between the two Cs and joked, "I only see the newcomers laughing, but not the old ones crying. You're actually looking for a backup right in front of me."
“???”
Gu Yueshuang was inexplicably labeled a scumbag and felt extremely wronged.
It happened that Shuke came back with Zhou Yao, and shouted happily twice, as if to say, "I brought the person back to you safely."
Xu Qing: "Look, even dogs are more loyal than you."
Gu Yueshuang: “???”
Zhou Yao: “???”
Zhou Yao was confused, and his tone was a little uncertain: "When I was not around just now, were you hit on by a beautiful young lady?"
Xu Qing burst out laughing, thinking to himself if all the top laners were idiots.
Zhou Yao saw him laughing so loudly, and then looked at the others who didn't laugh, and Gu Yueshuang even had an expression of doubt on her face.
Zhou Yao quickly imagined a scenario: "There's more than one girl? You only chatted up Brother Shuang? That's impossible? Are you such a scumbag? You can't add everyone as your friend, right? Share a girl with me quickly."
Gu Yueshuang: "...what are you thinking about."
Xu Qing laughed even more exaggeratedly, holding onto the electric pole on the side of the road and laughing until he hiccuped.
Zhou Yao said disdainfully, "Really? You even hid the young lady's contact information. That's too much."
Gu Yueshuang was speechless: "I really didn't."
Zhou Yao turned to the two men in Xiaye and said, "You guys are not lying. Is he hooking up with someone?"
The two men said almost in unison: "Yes."
It's about hooking up with someone, but it doesn't say whether it's a man or a woman.
Shuke tilted his head: "Woof?"
Gu Yueshuang took the dog leash and said, "Brother Hei, let's go! Ignore these psychopaths!"
When Shuke heard the key words, he didn't bother to think about what had happened before, and immediately started running wildly. It was obvious that he was in high spirits.
All the grudges and hatreds are your human business. I am just a little dog!
Zhou Yao urged Lin Yanqiu, "What do the girls look like? Are they pretty?"
Lin Yanqiu couldn't explain why something didn't exist.
He didn't know what was wrong with him, and pointed at himself and said, "I'm like this."
Zhou Yao: “???”
POG has been playing training matches with the FJ team these days. Except for the first game, both sides dare not show off any special lineups, for fear that the opponent will study them thoroughly and then they will not be able to use them in the official competition.
For them at this stage, the purpose of training matches is to maintain their touch and game rhythm.
I don’t know if it’s because the FJ team didn’t play seriously or their mentality really collapsed, but the training matches between the two sides have always been evenly matched, with strength being evenly matched, and POG even has a slightly better winning rate.
But judging from the performance on the field, whether in terms of player level or team tacit understanding, FJ team should be ahead of POG team.
Gu Yang couldn't figure out what was going on. They were going to play against the FJ team in a week, so to be on the safe side, both teams changed their training teams at the same time.
The match between POG and FJ hasn't even started yet, but major forums have already started warming up.
POG has currently won three games in a row, which is a pretty good result for a new team.
FJ has won six games in a row so far and is in hot form this season. Many people even think that they have already booked a spot in the finals this season, and will either be the champion or the runner-up.
There is a lot of pressure on both sides.
GGB is also under great pressure.
Among the teams POG has defeated so far, only GGB can be called a strong team.
If FJ wins, then GGB will be dragged out to be beaten to death.
If FJ loses, it means that POG's players are indeed strong.
The war is about to break out.
Gu Yueshuang looked at everyone's heated discussion and felt a little helpless: "We still have a team to play in the middle! We are boasting about our three-game winning streak now. What if they target us later and we have lost consecutive games?"
Xu Qing: "Tsk, how dare you say that about them? Aren't you looking forward to winning the championship?"
Lin Yanqiu: "He's looking forward to winning the Finals MVP."
Zhou Yao: "I don't aim too high, so where's the girls' contact information? What do those girls look like?"
Gu Yueshuang pointed at the innocent-looking AD on her right: "He looks like this."
He pointed to the silent jungler on the other side and said, "There's another one that looks like this."
Zhou Yao: “…?”
Are you guys teaming up to bully me?
The author has something to say: I’m coming, I’m coming!
Happy Double Festival to everyone! (A tearful blessing at the last minute of the Double Festival)
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