Among the 8 cards Xie Mingzhe announced, 4 character cards were new cards that they had never seen before, which made Liu Ran and Zhou Xiaoqi feel very uneasy. However, after taking a closer look at the skill descriptions, they found that there was no strange setting like "Qin Keqing persuaded plants to hang themselves". Zhou Xiaoqi was slightly relieved and quickly read through all the skills. She said, "Song Jiang, Lu Junyi, these two taunt cards should be dealt with first, right?"
Taunt cards will force the player to absorb hatred. Lu Junyi's design is quite special. The soldiers he summons will take the initiative to bear all the damage for the teammates who follow them. This means that as long as the soldiers don't die, the teammates can't die at all.
There are generally two ways to solve this situation. One is to kill the Taunt Card first, break the protection of the Taunt Card, and then kill other cards; the other is to use strong single control skills such as Silence and Freeze to control the Taunt Card, and then use these short few seconds to kill its teammates.
Liu Ran thought for a moment and said, "Lu Junyi is too hard to kill. How about we put a character-killing card in the hidden deck?"
Zhou Xiaoqi also thought it made sense. Lu Junyi could summon five soldiers at a time to protect five teammates respectively. He himself was not affected by damaging skills. If you want to kill him, you must kill his soldiers first. In this way, they must waste a lot of time and firepower to defeat the five soldiers separately, which is laborious and thankless.
The skill of the instant death card does not belong to "damage", but a forced judgment. According to official regulations, unless there is "invincibility" protection, no card can escape the instant death of the instant death card. It can be said that the instant death card is the most domineering type of functional card.
The card Lu Junyi can not only summon soldiers to protect teammates, but also give friendly troops within the range the shield of "Qilin Armor". With him around, it is difficult to kill other cards. Therefore, Liu Ran's idea of using the instant death card to kill Lu Junyi directly is also reasonable.
Since Liu Ran's mental quality was much better than Zhou Xiaoqi's, Liu Ran was the commander of the doubles match. Zhou Xiaoqi naturally listened to him and nodded in agreement. "Just bring the Piranha Plant. I'll do the operation and kill Lu Junyi first."
Liu Ran looked at the eight cards thoughtfully: "Lian Cheng is on the visible card, is Qiao Sheng on the hidden card? This ghost couple has a strong linkage skill."
Zhou Xiaoqi said, "I don't think so. If we bring Qiao Sheng and Lian Cheng, many of us have seen Yu Ke use them in the training match. There's no need to hide one of them in the hidden cards, right? It could be something else."
Since there was no way to guess it anyway, Liu Ran simply said, "Kill Lu Junyi first and then Black Impermanence. The rest can be dealt with randomly."
Zhou Xiaoqi nodded: "Well, come on!"
The 30-second countdown passed quickly, and the two quickly discussed a strategy and replaced the hidden card with a Piranha Plant.
Among the cards announced by Zhou Xiaoqi and Liu Ran, four are water plants - the linked pair of "Green Algae" and "Red Algae". The former has a range of water poison stacking, and the latter has a range of array treatment; "Kelp" has a large range of strangling, group attack + displacement control, and "Sea Iris" has a group attack + illusion range control.
The other four are succulent plant cards, including "Cactus", "Money Tree" and "Rainbow Jade", three single attack cards with different skill mechanisms, and "Lithops", a group chaos control card.
Wu Yue asked, "What do you think of Liu Ran and Zhou Xiaoqi's decks, Mr. Yang?"
Su Yang commented: "The two newcomers have also put a lot of effort into the deck matching. The succulents controlled by Liu Ran focus on single-target output; the water plants controlled by Zhou Xiaoqi focus on ranged group attacks and ranged control. Among the eight cards released, three have control, including illusion, displacement, and confusion. The combination of various controls will make it difficult for the opponent to release skills in a coherent manner, which is also the characteristic of Fenghua."
Wu Yue said: "Relatively speaking, Azhe has very few control cards, but a lot of protection cards."
Su Yang nodded: "Yes, Xie Mingzhe has three treatment cards and three taunt cards."
One side is control + output, the other side is protection + output. The output firepower is stronger, and the protection ability is stronger. It is still unclear who will win in the end. The card decks of both sides seem to be evenly matched.
Liu Chen said: "The countdown is over, the competition is about to begin, please pay attention to the opening battle of this doubles competition!"
On the big screen, both sides' cards are loaded into the competition venue.
The environment of the Misty Forest is very complex. This map captures a part of it. The presence of a large number of obstacles deep in the jungle will block the players' vision, and the thick fog that rises every minute will also reduce visibility, making it very suitable for long-range card kiting.
The restrictions on summoning cards in the two-player mode are the same as those in the single-player mode - if there are no cards on the field, you must summon new cards within 5 seconds. If you have your own cards, you can keep other cards in the bottom of the box and wait for the right time to summon them.
But usually no one will only bring out one or two cards. Once the opponent has far more cards than you, it is very likely that they will be taken away in one wave, giving the opponent two cards for free. Therefore, the usual start of a two-player match is that each player summons 2-3 cards, and the number of cards on the field is controlled at 5-6 by both sides to avoid a collapse in one wave, and then summon other cards depending on the situation.
Xie Mingzhe and Yu Ke also had a normal start. Yu Ke summoned "Gongsun Jiuniang" and "Liancheng" as output cards, while Xie Mingzhe summoned "Song Jiang", "Lu Junyi" and "Li Shishi" as auxiliary cards to protect the joker from being killed instantly.
Xie Mingzhe's operation speed was extremely fast. Almost at the moment he saw the opponent's plant card in the jungle, he immediately activated Lu Junyi's second skill - Qilin Armor. All teammates within a range of 30 meters collectively wore golden armor and were immune to control for 3 seconds.
The reason why he used the control-free skill to protect his teammates at the beginning was because he had a bad feeling - the opponent had just replaced a hidden card, and he speculated that the opponent might use a character-killing card to kill Lu Junyi instantly. If he was killed instantly without even being able to use his skills, then his death would be in vain.
Sure enough, just as Xie Mingzhe released the Qilin Armor, the girl Zhou Xiaoqi opposite him suddenly summoned the Piranha Plant. The colorful Piranha Plant opened its mouth as big as a basin and swallowed Lu Junyi into its stomach in one gulp!
The audience screamed, and commentator Wu Yue couldn't help but shout out: "Use the instant death card to kill Lu Junyi in one second!"
How big is the hatred that they fight so fiercely at the beginning?
Tang Muzhou, who was watching the game in the backstage, couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly when he saw this. In fact, when he saw Azhe's deck, he also wanted to kill Lu Junyi directly, because Lu Junyi's taunt card was too troublesome. The setting of five soldiers protecting teammates separately would lead to the dispersion of firepower. If he couldn't kill him in a short time, the situation would only drag into an increasingly unfavorable situation.
Therefore, it was right to replace the hidden card with a death card and kill Lu Junyi in one second. Tang Muzhou was also very relieved that Liu Ran could think of this.
The instant death card is a very domineering and powerful killing card. In order to ensure the fairness of the league, the basic attributes of the instant death card are pitifully low. After using the skill, it becomes a useless card. It will die if touched casually, which is equivalent to a one-for-one exchange.
For Liu Ran and Zhou Xiaoqi, it is not a loss at all to directly replace the "Lu Junyi" on the opposite side with the "Piranha Plant".
At this time, the cards of both sides became 9:9. The opponent had lost the extremely difficult-to-kill Lu Junyi, and the situation seemed to be advantageous for Fenghua.
But Xie Mingzhe activated Lu Junyi's second skill. At this time, all the teammates present were wearing control-free shields, so Fenghua's control cards were temporarily ineffective, so he could only use attack cards to release a wave of skills first.
Liu Ran quickly summoned three succulent plant cards. The sharp thorns on the cactus shot out in straight lines, and the other succulents followed closely to attack, aiming at Liancheng!
Obviously, after Fenghua killed the taunt card in seconds, the second person he wanted to kill was Liancheng.
Because Liu Ran predicted that Lian Cheng's CP Qiao Sheng was also in the hidden card, the linkage card would not work if one was killed. Even if Qiao Sheng was not in the hidden card, Lian Cheng had the strongest continuous output ability in Xie Mingzhe's deck, and killing the strongest output card first was enough to put Yu Ke on the defensive.
At the same time, taking advantage of the 3-second immunity to control, Yu Ke also activated Gongsun Jiuniang's will-o'-the-wisp as quickly as possible, and let Lian Cheng take the firepower to kill the red algae on the opposite side!
Red Algae is the only healing card in Fenghua's current deck. It can activate a range healing array, stacking healing buffs on teammates every second. Once the stack is high, the healing amount is quite terrifying. A critical hit can directly fill up the health of a low-health card.
If you want to harvest in the later stage, this healing card must be solved.
What does it mean that Gongsun Jiuniang's 9 will-o'-the-wisp fires all throw themselves at the same card?
The red algae had thick skin and tough flesh, and its health bar was wiped off by 1/3 in a flash.
Lian Cheng was also attacking at close range. Lian Cheng's ghost form had a very high attack speed, and his combos kept stacking up. Red Algae was almost beaten to the point of being unable to take care of himself. Moreover, at this time, Xie Mingzhe summoned Hua Rong, who rushed directly in front of Red Algae and stabbed at him with the silver spear in his hand continuously - the explosion of these three cards instantly beat Red Algae into a bloody skin!
Zhou Xiaoqi's scalp tingled, and she decisively used her ultimate move to save her life and gave herself a sip of milk.
But immediately afterwards, Yu Ke's Black and White Impermanence appeared - it was obvious that this was a rhythm of using other single cards to cripple the opponent, and then releasing Black Impermanence to collect the kills. Once Black Impermanence collected a large number of kills, the output from the later explosion marks would be extremely terrifying!
We must not let this happen.
Zhou Xiaoqi stared intently at the control-free shield on the opposing card.
Damn the control immunity! The last legacy left by Lu Junyi before his death, the teammates are collectively immune to control. If they are not controlled, the attack will not be interrupted. Yu Ke and Xie Mingzhe's joint burst is so powerful that even the thick-skinned red algae can hardly stop it...
At the same time, Liu Ran was also attacking crazily, focusing his firepower on Lian Cheng.
Cactus, Money Tree, and Rainbow Jade, these three succulent plant cards, rely on assassination, stacked poison, and long-range attacks for output respectively. All skills are focused on Liancheng, and Liancheng is indeed losing blood quickly!
However, Nirvana has Song Jiang, who will take the initiative to help teammates with low health to bear the damage once, and can also use the "Shucai" skill to transfer his own health to teammates. With him, it is impossible to kill Xiao Ke's joker in one wave.
Liu Ran fought for a long time and finally defeated all the jokers, but Song Jiang filled her hand again.
Su Yang praised: "Song Jiang's single-target healing ability is still very strong. He himself is an earth-type card with very high health. He directly transfers his health to his teammates in proportion. If he gives 20% of his health to Liancheng, it will be more than 50%."
A card with 180,000 health points, self-harming to add health to a card with 80,000 health points, it's really "a mouthful of milk"!
It seems like Fenghua's efforts were in vain after all this time?
Liu Ran and Zhou Xiaoqi are certainly not stupid. They know that Xie Mingzhe's Song Jiang is good at individual treatment, and Li Shishi also has group treatment, so their previous wave of attacks was just a test - the real outbreak is still to come!
Just wait for the moment when your control-free shield disappears!
Lu Junyi's shield can protect for a while, but it cannot protect him from control forever. The moment the shield disappears, Zhou Xiaoqi directly summons the Kelp Card. A large range of kelp threads fly over and bind all of Yu Ke's joker cards. Then, the flowers of the iris bloom, and enemy targets within 30 meters fall into an illusion that lasts for 3 seconds!
This wave of continuous control is the real rhythm of Fenghua.
Zhou Xiaoqi followed closely and summoned the green algae, coordinating with Liu Ran's attack route, and began to quickly lay water poison...
Zhou Xiaoqi's group attack was superimposed with poison, while Liu Ran's single attack exploded. The two found the rhythm just right, and with the help of illusion control, they finally killed Liancheng!
——Liancheng was destroyed.
This news made Nirvana's fans worried. Many people in the live broadcast room said worriedly: "Liancheng is a ghost card that relies on normal attacks to output. Her instant burst ability is not strong, but her sustained output ability is super strong. Once she dies, Xiao Ke's output will be greatly reduced!" "Gongsun Jiuniang's skills are cooling down. Once Liancheng dies, it will be difficult to clear the field with Hua Rong and Hei Wuchang alone, even if there are auxiliary cards to protect them, right?"
Liancheng’s death was indeed a huge loss.
Fortunately, after being summoned by Yu Ke, Hei Wuchang had been staying far away, so he was not affected by the control. In addition, with Bai Wuchang's close protection, his health is still very healthy.
Hua Rong was not targeted and was only affected by some group attack skills. His health was above 80%.
3 seconds of hallucination, followed by 3 seconds of confusion!
Xie Mingzhe timed it perfectly. The moment the hallucination ended, he summoned Li Shishi in an instant - to conquer the country and the city!
Li Shishi performed a graceful dance in the middle of the field. All enemies within the range were so fascinated by her dancing that they were unable to use any skills.
Even the battle-hardened Su Yang couldn't help but exclaim, "Great counter-attack! The timing was so precise!"
Li Shishi's counter-control not only interrupted Fenghua's pursuit rhythm, but also bought Nirvana time to adjust.
Song Jiang immediately sold his blood to give Hua Rong a sip. At the same time, Yu Ke released the Black Impermanence, teleported around, and killed the healing red algae who had just been crippled and ran away to slowly recover his blood!
The card count on both sides became 8:8 again.
The battle became more intense, and the fans became more nervous. Although Nirvana was able to recover thanks to Li Shishi's counter-control, it seemed that his output was still not enough!
Currently, the only losing cards on the field are Hua Rong and Hei Wuchang!
Gongsun Jiuniang's will-o'-the-wisp burst is indeed powerful, but after the skill goes into cooldown, it can't produce any output at all; Lu Junyi was killed instantly by the instant death card, Lian Cheng was killed by concentrated fire, Bai Wuchang was just a support, Song Jiang and Li Shishi were both healers, and then what?
No matter how much you treat, if the output is not enough, how can you defeat the opponent?
Fans are all very worried, but Xie Mingzhe is not in a hurry. Up to now, he still has no plans to summon the hidden card.
Because the situation is still under his control.
Until Hei Wuchang and Hua Rong quickly destroyed the three fragile cards on the opponent's side, and Fenghua finally summoned the key tactical card of this game.
——Lithops, group chaos!
Lithops, also known as "butt flower", is a succulent plant that grows in the desert. Its shape is very similar to a human butt and its colors vary. When it begins to grow and spread rapidly on the ground, it will not only confuse the opponent group, but also reduce the opponent's collective defense by 50%. It can be said to be the rhythm point of the team's attack!
Sure enough, as soon as Lithops appeared, another hidden card of Fenghua also came out.
--moss.
The cards made by Tang Muzhou are mainly vines, flowers, and trees. He only started making succulents in the past two years, and he has never made mosses before. This green moss is the first time it has appeared in the league.
Giving the newly made cards to the newcomer Liu Ran to test the waters shows that the senior is very confident in the newcomer's level.
Moss is a group attack card that spreads across the ground like a furry green carpet at an extremely fast speed and spreads in a designated direction, slowing down the area and adding a layer of poison.
Initially the speed is reduced by 50%, increasing by 10% every second, up to a maximum of 80%.
A card that has been slowed down by 80% moves as slowly as a snail, almost like it is stuck on moss and cannot move at all.
The basic attack of moss is very high, and it will add a layer of wood-type "poison" to the cards stuck on it every second. After stacking to more than five layers, the amount of health lost can only be described as "bloody".
This card, combined with Lithops's group confusion and defense reduction, can almost instantly defeat the opponent!
Even if Xie Mingzhe used Li Shishi's ultimate skill to increase the health of the group in seconds, it was just a drop in the bucket. Being stuck by the moss would make him unable to move, and the amount of blood he lost would increase. In other words, if he did not bring any "control-releasing" cards, he would be stuck in a deadlock when encountering the moss card.
Bai Xu, who was watching the game from the backstage, couldn't help but complain quietly: "My brother's cards are getting more and more perverted..."
Tang Muzhou had sharp ears and said with a smile, "Thank you for the compliment."
Bai Xu: “…”
The design of this card is indeed very domineering. It generates a large-scale "moss carpet" to slow down the opponent and stack poison every second. If you don't deal with this card as soon as possible, you can only watch yourself being poisoned to death.
But he believed that with Azhe's intelligence, he would never be destroyed so easily on the moss carpet.