After Xie Mingzhe returned to his apartment, he immediately calmed down and sorted out his thoughts. A large amount of knowledge flooded into his mind, making it difficult for him to digest it for a while, and he needed to sort it out carefully - of course, he had to thank Tang Muzhou for his practical guidance. What he gained in one night surpassed Xie Mingzhe's knowledge of the game in the past half month.
Especially in the match with Zhen Man just now, he saw the whole situation from a bird's eye view, and then he realized that he had fallen into Zhen Man's trap since the card selection stage. There was no healing card in Zhen Man's seven cards, all of which were loss cards, and they were just staring at his Sun Shangxiang. What caused his Sun Shangxiang and Da Qiao to die instantly was the skill of the Golden Python - Mass Fear.
Zhen Man summoned the golden python at the same time as using the blind snake's "blind crowd control". The python's group fear made all of Xie Mingzhe's subsequent skills ineffective. His Lu Meng and Xiao Qiao's crowd control skills were not released at all. So Zhen Man controlled the four snake cards to quickly stack poison, instantly killing Sun Shangxiang and Da Qiao, who had low defense.
To deal with Zhen Man's poisonous attack, he should have dispersed all the characters to avoid being surrounded by the snakes, but he was confused at the time and didn't know how to deal with it. If he meets Zhen Man again in the future, he will be calmer.
Tang Muzhou also pointed out a key point: "In the open card mode of low-level games, the system will summon 7 cards at the beginning, resulting in a 7v7 direct battle. This is out of consideration for novices. But in high-end competitions, you have to summon cards yourself - summoning cards and releasing skills are two closely connected operations. If you react slowly, the cards you summon will not be able to release skills at all and you will be killed instantly by the opponent."
This was very obvious in the match with Zhen Man, who almost guessed all of his next moves. Neither his Lu Meng nor Xiao Qiao used any skills. This was all due to a lot of actual combat experience and the awareness of a top player.
He should also slow down and lay a solid foundation.
The previous 30-game winning streak made him so excited that he almost forgot that he was just a newcomer who had just started playing the game for about 20 days. His steps were already big enough, and the key now was to take every step firmly.
The first step is of course to continue to enrich the card pool.
Regarding the shortcomings of the card pool, Xie Mingzhe also summarized some ideas based on today's battle.
First, single attack cards. Sun Shangxiang relies too much on the endgame to harvest, and once Zhou Yu and Lu Xun fail to achieve an endgame, Sun Shangxiang's single attack ability is obviously insufficient. His deck does not have the ability to drag out the rhythm and slowly consume others, so he can only be defeated one by one by the opponent. Therefore, a few more single attack cards with super strong attack must be made to make up for the lack of damage.
The second is single control. Lu Meng's blindness and Xiao Qiao's silence are both large-scale group controls. Experts with strong awareness can easily adjust their positions to avoid large-scale group controls. In addition, the duration of group control is usually very short. It is difficult to achieve the goal of focusing fire and killing the opponent's key cards in such a short time. Therefore, cards that lock single control are also necessary in the arena.
Next is the control release, which removes the negative status of teammates at a critical moment, which is equivalent to giving the whole team another chance to survive. This kind of purification card is indispensable, otherwise, if the opponent uses a group control combo, he can only stand there and wait for death!
The last type is protection cards. Sun Ce's range taunt can indeed protect teammates, but when he played the game today, he saw the earth element's stone wall counterattack and the wood element's group invincibility shield. These protection skills are also very good. If you make a few protection cards as backup, you can also replace Sun Ce when facing different decks.
Xie Mingzhe wrote down all his organized ideas in his memo.
He developed the habit of writing down notes when he was in middle school. He once made a mistake in remembering the exam venue and suffered a great loss. From then on, whenever he encountered important things, he would write them down in the notes on his mobile phone.
There are currently three event reminders in his memo. First, the great Fang Yu from Liushuang City wants to customize a deathrattle burst card from him, and he hasn't figured out what to do yet; second, whether Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum can be linked according to the characteristics of the Four Gentlemen, they can discuss it in detail when Brother Chen starts making cards; third, improve his own deck and make some single attack, single control, control release and protection cards.
After Xie Mingzhe finished writing down his notes, he took off his helmet and left the line.
Tonight he was highly focused on playing seven games against a master, and he no longer had the energy to make new cards. He planned to give his brain a good rest and wait until tomorrow morning when his mind was clearest to work on it.
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The next morning, Xie Mingzhe got up at seven o'clock.
Good quality sleep makes him energetic and his mind clear.
Single attack card, he wants to make a batch of gold series.
Among the five card series, the gold series is definitely the strongest in terms of instant single attack burst. As both Big Joe and Little Joe are gold healing cards, he only needs to make three more gold cards to build a gold deck.
According to the game settings, all cards with "metal weapons" will automatically be classified as gold. Didn't the generals in ancient times use all kinds of powerful cold weapons? Especially in the Three Kingdoms period, there were countless generals who used weapons.
All the cards he made before were from the Wu Kingdom, but this time Xie Mingzhe has set his sights on the Shu Kingdom.
When talking about the powerful weapons in the hands of Shu generals, he quickly thought of Guan Yu's "Green Dragon Crescent Blade" and Zhang Fei's "Zhangba Snake Spear".
It is said that the Green Dragon Crescent Blade weighs more than 80 kilograms, and Guan Yu can easily pick it up to kill his opponents.
Guan Yu was a great general and was very famous during the Three Kingdoms period. There are many stories about him, such as "Killing Hua Xiong with a cup of wine", "Passing five checkpoints and killing six generals", "Attending a meeting alone", etc. Many people in later generations regarded him as a symbol of "loyalty and righteousness" and built many Guan Gong temples for him.
Guan Yu's single-killing ability is extremely strong, and his ability to pass through five passes and kill six generals is the best proof of this.
Xie Mingzhe wanted to make Guan Yu a single-attack card that specializes in attacking tanks. This was inspired by encountering a high-defense earth card today.
Earth-related cards often have health points over 100,000, and defense cards and healing cards even have super high health points over 180,000. Sun Shangxiang's arrows can't be shot at all, but Guan Yu's 80-jin sword should be able to split a stone in half with one stroke, right?
Xie Mingzhe became more and more excited as he thought about it, and quickly conceived the character of Guan Yu.
Whether in TV dramas or various sculptures of later generations, Guan Yu is mostly depicted wearing a square hat and a green battle robe. He is tall and sturdy, with eyes as deep as a falcon under thick eyebrows, and a long beard on his chin that falls all the way to his chest. He likes to stroke his beard, with a look of arrogance in his eyes, holding a Qinglong Yanyue Sword in his hand, and chopping off the opponent's head with one blow, which is really majestic.
In order to make it easier for Guan Yu to wield a sword and kill people, a war horse was designed for him - the Red Hare.
The Red Hare originally belonged to Lu Bu, and its fur was as red as charcoal. After Lu Bu was killed, Cao Cao gave this famous horse to Guan Yu in order to win over Guan Yu. From then on, the Red Hare always accompanied Guan Yu on the battlefield.
First make Guan Yu, then make a joint deck of Liu, Guan, and Zhang's Peach Garden Oath of Brotherhood. Wouldn't it be more unified if all three brothers were riding horses?
Xie Mingzhe thought, since Wu’s strategy was “fire attack in one wave”, then Shu’s strategy should be “cavalry instant kill”!