Chapter 56
There are not many teams with home stadiums in DPL, because the construction, maintenance and management of the stadiums all cost a lot of money. Most of them are teams with strong performance, because popularity and traffic can bring in funds.
Last year's top four teams, SEA, XY, TRG and GG, all have their own home stadiums, except that SEA's opening match against XY was at the league's main stadium, the second round against TRG was at SEA's home stadium, and this round against GG was at GG's home stadium.
Also in Shanghai, but still some distance away from the SEA base, they arrived at the venue early to continue reviewing and studying tactics.
After debugging the equipment, the SEA team returned to the lounge and waited for the host to read out their IDs before going on stage.
"I say, how come half of the fans at GG's home stadium are ours?"
Lu Yang peeked in the corridor and said, "If we lose, we will be scolded to death."
"Even if the crowd was full of GG fans, we would still be criticized online if we lost."
Jiang Yiwen said: "It has no impact."
Lu Yang: “…That’s right.”
Su Zheye laughed: "Haven't we been scolded enough?"
Lu Yang nodded: "Indeed, it seems that there is no player in DPL who has not been scolded. Even the captain can be said to be 'one person taking on three team battles with zero damage'. Then when I look at the damage panel, it is the highest in the field. I am really laughing to death."
Su Zheye twirled his long hair with his fingertips and said, "It's like this, haters don't need factual evidence to insult people."
"It's okay, just keep calm."
Yan Shu said, "BO3, the first game will be an experiment. If it doesn't work out, we can catch up in the next two games."
"Um."
Gu Yuan participated in their pre-match discussion, which was rare. "Now that DPL is popular, there are all kinds of fans. Many of those who curse are just trying to stir up trouble in order to mess with the players' mentality. As a result, many players have a psychological burden when playing the game. They dare not develop new strategies for fear of being scolded. They are too conservative. This is why DPL has been unable to beat DCK."
"Well said."
Lu Yang clapped his hands: "Although I didn't quite understand it, what the captain said is right."
Gu Yuan: “…”
Su Zheye understood it, or rather, he and Gu Yuan often talked about this point in their recent conversations about the competition.
From the body to the spirit and thinking, it is really comfortable to have someone who is compatible with you in all aspects.
Su Zheye smiled.
As the host read out the contestant IDs one by one, the five members of SEA walked onto the stage.
The audience seats were still cheering enthusiastically, and half of the banners were supporting SEA and its players.
Commentator A said: "SEA currently ranks first in the standings with a record of 2:0 in all six games, followed closely by GG, which also won all the games but had two games with a record of 2:1."
Commentator B said: "Yes, so one of these two teams will definitely be out of the undefeated group today. However, both SEA and GG are in hot form recently, so it's hard to say who will win this game."
"That's right."
Commentator A continued: "In the first game, SEA was on the blue side. They first banned Command, the hacker who had performed extremely well in the past few games."
Commentator B continued: "GG responded immediately by banning Quantum Killer. Both teams are good at jungle core play, and it turns out that the BP will target jungle heroes."
"I suddenly discovered something."
Lu Yang said: "Since the opponent didn't know what Brother Su was going to play, they left the mid-lane hero unbanned, which increased the pressure on our other positions."
Yan Shu said, "But at the same time, the mid-lane hero does not need to be released in advance. You can get the hero you want to play first."
Lu Yang suddenly realized: "Indeed!"
"The opponent didn't target the mid and support, and Command took the gunner, so he didn't know how to gank in the early stage."
Yan Shusheng said, "That's still the original plan, take the Moon Girl in the third hand."
Su Zheye: "Okay."
Commentator A: "It seems that Hearing will play Moon Lady this time. Together with XiaoY's Nightingale Archer, it is a very strong bottom lane combination in the early stage."
Commentator B said: "Yes, when the Moon Goddess was first released, she was positioned as a mid-lane player, but because her control skills were too strong, her basic damage was constantly weakened, and now she can only play as a support."
Commentator A: "The two ban positions after GG were given to Dye's Pharmacist and Night's Higanbana Fairy. Night is the first person to put Higanbana Fairy on a fixed ban position."
Commentator B: "SEA's counter should be given to the top lane. Let's see what Night will play this time - huh? Butterfly Princess?"
Commentator A consoled: “It should just be revealed for a moment. Didn’t XiaoY reveal the Snow Girl before? SEA has already released a support…——Ah? Is it locked?”
When the commentator expressed shock, the audience also exclaimed.
The hero Butterfly Princess is a pure support, because her Q skill is to possess a friendly hero and increase its adaptive damage.
The W skill throws out a butterfly to cause small damage and 1s of control. The E skill restores health to the possessed hero and increases the movement speed. The R skill ultimate move restores health to all friendly heroes within a 500-yard cone range, slows down enemy heroes and reduces damage, which lasts for 5s.
——The health bar is extremely thin, the damage is almost zero, and the operation is relatively simple. As long as you can use skills and choose the big daddy, it is enough.
In short, this hero absolutely cannot go mid.
Commentator A came to his senses and said, "I see, I see. Night is playing Moon Lady and Hearing is playing Butterfly Princess."
Commentator B: "...Indeed, I was really shocked when he locked her just now, but it makes sense when you think about it. Because Ruins's Purple Spirit King Spider also needs stable control to output, and XiaoY's Nightingale Archer has enough damage in the mid-to-late game, with both AD/AP damage. Night doesn't need to make up for the output, and can completely choose Moon Girl to cooperate with Ruins to gain an early advantage."
Commentator A: "That's right. GG finally locked on the swordsman. Both teams' mid and support are more functional, while the jungler and AD deal damage. The two jungle core teams still continued their style. Let's wait and see this exciting game...——Ah? Night and hearing didn't switch??"
Commentator B's eyes widened. "Did you forget? This kind of mistake... unless it's due to lag or a bug, the league doesn't allow re-pick."
When entering the game loading interface, the whole audience was in an uproar.
【??? Butterfly mid laner???】
[I'm stupid. I can even forget this. Can I BP again? ]
[No, you can see that there is nothing wrong with the expressions of Night and Hearing in the player's camera. Moreover, Night has specially changed his summoner skills. He used to have TP and Flash, but now he has Ignite and Weakness.]
[Fuck, what kind of new strategy is this? Although the damage of the opponent's Mermaid Elf is not that high, one set is enough to kill the squishy Butterfly in one second. Is Night planning to duo with the tower? ]
The commentators were obviously confused as well, and Commentator A even asked the guide for confirmation.
"I just asked the director, and Night and Hearing had no intention of changing heroes during the BP phase, so this was not a BP mistake."
Commentator A said: "That can only mean that Night is going to play tricks on us again."
Commentator B took a deep breath and said, "I don't know how SEA fans feel right now, but... to be honest, I'm quite looking forward to it. I want to see how Night uses Butterfly to play mid lane."
"Um……"
Commentator A was silent for a few seconds: "I don't think Night wants you to see how he plays mid lane with Butterfly."
The director understood the situation well. He opened the scoreboard and then zoomed in.
Then everyone saw that the equipment column in SEA Night's row was - auxiliary equipment worth 400 gold coins, and a needle eye worth 75 gold coins.
"I..."
Commentator B stopped talking temporarily, being extremely professional and not saying the curse word, but his tone was still full of surprise: "Am I seeing correctly? Hearing's first piece of equipment is a mage ring, but Night bought a support item?!"
“You’re not mistaken.”
Commentator A said word by word: "Night possessed Ruins, and the two of them directly invaded the opponent's jungle at level 1, while hearing left XiaoY and went to the middle lane."
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