When it comes to dealing with the vines, Xie Mingzhe does not have a clear card like Daiyu and Lu Zhishen.
But the inspiration for creating Zhou Yu and Lu Xun came from his experience in a wood-based dungeon. In that dungeon, there were countless vines on the ground that connected the monsters together and would occasionally tie up the players, which was extremely annoying. Using fire attacks to burn them all to death was very quick and easy.
So when he saw Tang Muzhou take out so many vine cards, he quickly switched to Zhou Yu and Lu Xun.
Of course, this deck's defense is a bit weak, with only Wu Yong as a strong control card. Once the opponent counter-controls it, it will be easy to die. Fortunately, Yan Qing and Lin Chong are very flexible and can move away if the situation is not right. Xiao Ke's Nie Xiaoqian, Qiao Sheng, and Lian Cheng also have displacement skills. When the time comes, all the cards will be dispersed and will not be crushed by the opponent's wave.
The game begins.
The scorched earth map loaded, revealing a desolate planet surface. The pitted ground was littered with ashes from the burning fire. The land was a burnt yellow, and the sky was dyed red by the fire. Just looking at the map made one feel a wave of heat blowing towards one's face.
Apart from the bumps and potholes on the ground, the scene design of this map is actually very simple and the view is very open.
The key lies in the "burning" state after the map is loaded. The countdown starts from the first second, reducing the player's mental strength every second. Therefore, at the moment the map is loaded, both sides quickly summon all the cards, and a 10v10 open duel is formed in an instant!
It is rare to see such a spectacular scene in a doubles match.
10 vines directly confronted 4 ghosts and 6 people. The air seemed to be filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.
Tang Muzhou reacted very quickly. The moment he summoned all the vine cards, he decisively activated Ivy's skill, allowing the vines to link up all friendly forces in range. He had thought of this a long time ago, because the cards that Ah Zhe and Xiao Ke brought had a lot of outputs, and the firepower of 7 output cards was too terrifying. If they focused their fire on his vines, his vines might be killed instantly.
By evenly distributing the damage, you can ensure that no vine card will be killed instantly.
However, he regretted it the moment he connected them.
Because he discovered that the two people Xie Mingzhe summoned to the rear of the formation were the familiar Zhou Yu and Lu Xun!
Xie Mingzhe calculated that his senior brother would react faster than himself.
Of course, quick reaction is a good thing, but sometimes, he can take advantage of the opponent's quick reaction and act after the opponent has acted - Tang Muzhou did not bring the invincible protection card Banyan Tree in this game, so in order to prevent the vines from being killed instantly, it is most reasonable to open the ivy's chain to spread the damage. With his reaction speed, he will definitely link up his teammates the moment the card is summoned.
——I’ve been waiting for this moment!
Xie Mingzhe decisively started the Zhou Yu and Lu Xun combo.
Chain iron chain, burning Red Cliff, burning the camp!
Zhou Yu's fire would originally only be transmitted along the iron rope, and he couldn't connect all the vine cards in a short period of time. As a result, the green vine connection that Ivy used to protect his teammates turned out to be Zhou Yu's accomplice - the vine that became the fuse actually transmitted the fire all the way through, and his teammates were so depressed by being tricked.
Lu Xun's skill, Fire Camp, will cause additional fire critical damage to the connected target. For a moment, the fire was raging. After Zhou Yu and Lu Xun's fire critical attack, Tang and Xu's vine cards almost instantly lost 60% of their health!
The audience stared in disbelief.
The live broadcast room was about to go crazy: "Fuck, Azhe is awesome!" "Azhe 6666, this is a counter-exploitation of the senior brother's fast pace, directly letting his ivy serve as a fuse for Zhou Yu!" "Just now I was thinking, what will Azhe do if the senior brother plays the vine card? Zhou Yu, I almost forgot about this card!" "Azhe's tactical skills are still very strong, this fire attack is really powerful!"
Professional players also agree with this.
Thinking of using fire attack to deal with the vines, it can be seen that Xie Mingzhe's thinking is very flexible. The hidden card he finally replaced was obviously the fire attack duo of Zhou Yu and Lu Xun that had not appeared for a long time.
but……
Pei Jingshan said calmly: "With just Zhou Yu and Lu Xun's output, we can't wipe out the opponent. What happens next is still difficult."
Ye Zhu tilted his head and calculated the data, saying, "Although Ivy was an accomplice once, if the damage is evenly distributed, Yu Ke and Xie Mingzhe's single attack cards will still find it difficult to kill the vine card, and the output will be shared by 10 cards."
Pei Jingshan looked at Xiao Zhu with admiration. Even though this guy was a hater of Xie Mingzhe, he had participated in competitions for so many years and his tactical awareness was still very good. He immediately discovered the key.
This sudden fire attack was indeed powerful, but the subsequent damage became a big problem.
Even if Yan Qing deals 80,000 HP in one burst and it is shared by 10 cards, each card will only receive 8,000 damage.
Xie Mingzhe knew this, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Let's fight and cripple them all first!"
Yu Ke understood and immediately controlled Gongsun Jiuniang, and all nine ghost fires hit the output card with the weakest defense, "Climbing Rose".
With the same output data, when playing against Ivy with a defense of 150,000 and Rose with a defense of 50,000, of course the damage caused to the latter is higher, and the damage distributed to each card is more. Xiao Ke is used to playing assassins, and his vision for picking fragile cards at critical moments is still very sharp.
After 9 will-o'-the-wisp attacks, the health of all cards dropped to around 30-45%.
He sent out all the jokers and continued to keep an eye on the climbing rose. As long as the jokers used a set of skills, the rose would be crippled if not dead. Later, he would find an opportunity to let Liancheng perform a few normal attack combos and take down every one of them!
The vines evenly distribute the damage, and Gongsun Jiuniang's ultimate skill evenly distributes 8,000 damage. The squishy cards themselves don't have much health, and they will definitely die if they are hit a few more times, but the auxiliary cards have hundreds of thousands of health, so this little damage evenly distributed is really itchy.
So the target of concentrated fire is very important.
Xie Mingzhe saw Xiao Ke focusing on climbing roses and immediately followed suit.
He originally wanted to control Yan Qing, Lin Chong and Hua Rong to go over and kill Climbing Rose directly. However, just as he was about to move, he found that he couldn't move at all.
Dense ivy had silently spread rapidly along the ground at some point, and three ivy vines climbed in three directions, just tying all three character output cards in place!
Audience: “…”
Tang Muzhou didn't even look at Xiao Ke's joker card, he just stared at his junior brother's cards and tied them up. Isn't this true love?
Su Yang said excitedly: "Tang Muzhou's vine binding play, I have been looking forward to this day for a long time!"
Audience: “…………”
Liu Chen helplessly rubbed his forehead, ignoring the senior's random words, and said, "Tang Muzhou used vines to control the field, probably to prevent Xie Mingzhe's output cards from dealing damage. Climbing Rose only has 10% of its health left. If Xie Mingzhe makes a move, Climbing Rose will definitely die."
Wu Yue said: "Have you noticed? The hidden cards Tang Muzhou brought in this round are also vine cards, Pearl Chlorophytum and Thousand-leaf Chlorophytum!"
The audience also noticed the two cards at this time.
The pearl spider plant was particularly beautiful, just like a bunch of emerald green pearls strung together. However, at this moment, the pearls were also spreading at an extremely fast speed, and the split branches just happened to crawl towards Xie Mingzhe's character card. At the moment when the ivy binding control ended, the small pearls suddenly exploded on the spot - the target affected by the pearl explosion was stunned on the spot for 2 seconds.
This is a long-planned wave of chain control!
Following that, Tang Muzhou released the Iron Clematis and designated three character cards of Xie Mingzhe to transmit damage in a chain. At the same time, Xu Changfeng finally made his move. The green vines of "Asparagus" and "Million Hearts" strangled and killed people in a large area, causing group attack damage. The thorns of "Climbing Rose" surrounded Yan Qing, and "Ling Xiao" also attached to Yan Qing's body to suck blood...
In the blink of an eye, Yan Qing was killed!
At the same time, Yu Ke asked Lian Cheng to attack desperately, and finally killed the dying Fujino Rose!
Less than a minute into the game, the two sides were fighting so fiercely that the spectators were really enjoying it.
Unfortunately, Xie Mingzhe's character was tied to the spot by his senior brother and could not move. At the moment when the dizziness control after the explosion of the pearl spider plant ended, Tang Muzhou followed closely and opened the control of the thousand-leaf spider plant -
It's vine binding again, and the bound target's defense is reduced and health is lost by 5% per second!
If Xie Mingzhe was tied up again, he would probably want to throw his helmet and beat people.
In the last round, I pulled out my senior brother’s sacred tree, and in this round, I got my retribution, being tied up by my senior brother all the way and unable to move at all.
Xie Mingzhe's fans all felt sorry for him, while other fans were just gloating over the misfortune.
However……
Xie Mingzhe had long expected that Tang Muzhou would do this.
It's fine if the senior brother doesn't tie you up, but once he does, he will control you continuously, and it's possible that you will be tied up by him until the end of the game.
Xie Mingzhe certainly would not sit and wait for death. Seeing that the dizziness control was about to end, he immediately used Wu Yong's control skills - ingenious strategy, and knocked out a large area of people in a sleeping state!
The perfect counter-control made all of Tang Muzhou's vines fall asleep.
The vine that was climbing over to tie up Lin Chong and Hua Rong fell asleep halfway through. Xie Mingzhe took the opportunity to activate Lin Chong's "Exile to Cangzhou" skill and teleported over. Together with Xiao Ke's Qiao Sheng, Lian Cheng and Nie Xiaoqian, they directly took away Xu Changfeng's output card "Asparagus"!
Lin Chong's "Three Shots" skill was refreshed, and he was about to kill the next one, but he was tied up by the green vine that woke up first.
Green Vine is a card with medium defense. It has a passive skill "Probability of Immunity to Control Skills". The other vines were just affected by the knockout drug, but it was fine, so Lin Chong only had time to collect one card before the Green Vine quickly controlled Lin Chong, preventing him from continuing to harvest.
Xie Mingzhe really wanted to swear: You’re never going to stop tying me up, are you?
Every step I take, I am tied up. Senior brother's vine-binding method is more annoying than Liushuang City's water-drop bouncing music.
Lin Chong's rhythm was interrupted, and Xiao Ke could only continue to kill other cards. But the next moment, Lu Teng activated his second skill, releasing poison that paralyzed Lian Cheng on the spot...
Before Yu Ke could react to what was happening, Xu Changfeng let "Ling Xiao" attach itself to Lian Cheng's body to suck his blood. At the same time, Tang Muzhou used the second skill of the Pearl Chlorophytum, and several emerald green pearls exploded at the same time under Lian Cheng's feet, causing huge wood-type single target damage and directly killing Lian Cheng!
This turn of events caught Yu Ke off guard, and the audience was also a little confused.
I thought Tang Muzhou was targeting Xie Mingzhe in this round, but after tying up Lin Chong, he suddenly changed hands and instantly killed Xiao Ke's joker Liancheng?
Isn't this shift in target too sudden?
Su Yang praised: "The design of the pearl spider plant is very flexible. When the small pearls hit the opponent's card, they explode and cause dizziness. It can control a group or a single player. The group control time is 2 seconds, and the single control time is 4 seconds. And when several small pearls explode at the same location at the same time, they will cause wood-type critical damage to the target at that location. The damage amount is equal to the number of pearls that exploded."
Liu Chen said: "Just now, Tang Shen seemed to be using the pearl spider plant to control the three character cards on the opposite side. In fact, he had already secretly controlled another pearl vine to approach Xiao Ke's ghost card. While the green vine was controlling Lian Cheng, the pearls piled up nearby quickly gathered and exploded! According to a rough estimate, there were at least 6 pearls that exploded, causing great damage and killing Lian Cheng instantly!"
The two commentators' analysis made the audience more clearly aware of what had just happened, and they all praised Tang Muzhou's awareness.
The Pearl Chlorophytum is indeed a very difficult card. Which direction should the vines climb, and whether to attack in groups or individually, all this requires a strong combination of awareness and operation. Tang Muzhou just gathered six small pearls in an instant and cooperated with his teammates to play the sudden death joker card. Such operation also won warm applause from the audience.
Once Lian Cheng died, Yu Ke and Xie Mingzhe were faced with the dilemma of having difficulty in outputting enough damage to instantly kill the opponent's vine card.
Ivy played a huge role in chain-distributing damage. Even if a card only had 10% health left, there wouldn't be much left after the output to it was distributed. Without explosive combo cards like Liancheng and Yanqing, it would take at least 1 minute to wait for Gongsun Jiuniang's skill CD!
Xie Mingzhe realized something was wrong and immediately called Xiao Ke to retreat.
But when Xiao Ke's Nie Xiaoqian was about to retreat, she was tied up by the awakened Chlorophytum comosum again!
…
One minute later, Xie Mingzhe's card skill cooldown ended, and the opponent's vine cards were all at low health. His and Xiao Ke's cards were also almost destroyed. Xie Mingzhe once again released Zhou Yu and Lu Xun's fire attack combo!
But this time Tang Muzhou was well prepared and suddenly unlocked the ivy vine connection before Zhou Yu opened fire.
The fire burned so fiercely that it killed three disabled cards, but it failed to pass on.
At the same time, Tang Muzhou's Thousand-Leaf Chlorophytum binds and reduces defense over a large area; the large-scale explosion of the Pearl Chlorophytum, combined with Xu Changfeng's vine strangling, kills all of Xie Mingzhe and Yu Ke's output cards!
In the end, the opponent had 3 cards left, but Xie Mingzhe only had Hua Rong left.
The situation was already difficult to reverse. Xie Mingzhe struggled for half a minute relying on Hua Rong's bloodsucking, but was finally killed by Tang Muzhou's Pearl Chlorophytum.
——Tang Muzhou and Xu Changfeng, won 2:1!
The result of the game appeared on the big screen. Yu Ke lowered his head in disappointment, his eyes reddened. Xie Mingzhe took off his helmet, patted his teammate on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I've already prepared myself mentally, just accept the reality."
Yu Ke had no choice but to nod and said "hmm" in a casual manner.
They were prepared, but it was normal to feel upset when they saw the score with their own eyes - this was the limit for their doubles competition this year.
On the swivel chair opposite, although he won the game, there was no smile on Tang Muzhou's face.
It was not a pleasant feeling to personally end the doubles match between Xie Mingzhe and Yu Ke.
However, as a professional player, he showed his best lineup and tactics in the game - that was his respect for Xie Mingzhe.
Only strong opponents were worthy of his treatment. He used the map used in the finals at home and changed three lineups in three games without any repeating cards. Having done this and being so well prepared, he thought Azhe would understand.
Tang Muzhou took off his helmet, rubbed his temples gently, and walked quickly to the other side of the stage.
Xie Mingzhe just took off his helmet and looked up at his senior brother. The two looked at each other. There was no complaint in Ah Zhe's eyes, only calmness and open-mindedness. He stood up with a smile, stretched out his arms, and said to Tang Muzhou: "Congratulations, I am convinced of my defeat."
Tang Muzhou hugged the other person tightly.
This is the kind of person he likes, the kind who wins beautifully, loses calmly, and always faces all setbacks with a positive attitude.
He prevented Xie Mingzhe from going further in the doubles competition, but he knew that Xie Mingzhe would definitely keep going.
Leading the Nirvana team, we move forward courageously.
Tang Muzhou smiled slightly, gently rubbed Azhe's hair which was a little wet from sweat, and whispered in his ear: "There is still the biggest team competition. I hope to see you in the finals."
Xie Mingzhe's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Thank you for your good words. I will work hard."
No need to say too much nonsense - see you in the final, which is the greatest encouragement to each other.
The author has something to say:
The result should be expected by everyone, so just accept it rationally. It is really unrealistic for Xiao Ke and A Zhe to beat Tang Xu with their level. Just have fun in the second round of Pu Ba Shu :)