novelhk Chapter 29 What are you using to study me? My ranked game replays?
Chapter 29 What are you using to study me? My ranked game replays?
Soon it will enter the ban phase.
As the blue side, WE has the priority to ban/pick in the first round.
Redmi didn't hesitate to ban Ivern.
TSM's Ivern composition is truly masterful. This hero's ultimate can grant vision, plant bushes to clear the map, and provide a very safe output environment for teammates.
If the opposing team gets it, WE will face immense pressure in their jungle.
Ning is still a newcomer with insufficient experience and cannot support WE in playing the jungle. If Bengi or Peanut had been replaced as the jungler, Redmi would have really picked Graves for their team and let the enemy jungle rot.
TSM banned Vayne, who had performed brilliantly in the previous game.
And when WE banned Graves as their second pick.
TSM began to hesitate.
Since they had previously defeated WE by a large margin, they didn't focus too much on studying their opponent in this match, but instead concentrated all their energy on their previous opponent, G2.
But just after WE defeated GAM.
TSM was genuinely frightened by Chen Wang's performance.
What does it mean when someone picks Vayne in the top lane and goes on a killing spree?
What does it mean when GAM can't even get any kills in the top lane?
Is this still the LPL? Shouldn't the top lane be Maokai, Nautilus, and Shen? Why is Vayne here?
So the TSM coaching team quickly brushed up on the information about this new WE player, wanting to see what other top laners he played besides Vayne that needed to be banned.
But it would have been better not to investigate. Once the investigation began, things immediately went wrong.
The guy on the other side, Butterfly, hasn't played a single game for WE since he registered as a professional player a year ago.
They haven't played a single game!
When the analyst saw this data, he was completely stunned.
How can someone be a substitute who immediately plays in an international competition?
Are WE crazy? They didn't even test their substitutes before putting them in the game? And they still got a crushing defeat on their way home. They really dare to do that.
Well, there's no other way. We can only try to find out what he plays most often during his livestreams and gather some information on the spot.
The analyst opened a live stream replay on a certain platform and randomly clicked on a few to watch.
Vayne, Lucian, and Soraka.
"Fuck, this is a complete disaster, I can't figure it out."
The coach didn't understand what the analyst meant at first, but after watching the live stream recording, he just chuckled.
"I'll ban Dick!"
As time ticked by, TSM was still hesitating. Xiye looked puzzled and asked, "What's wrong with the other side? They're going to run out of time if they don't ban heroes soon."
"I was guessing they were thinking of ways to target me, and they banned Vayne right from the start."
Chen Wang chuckled, "But how are they going to analyze me? Analyze my ranked game replays from the Spring Split?"
TSM hesitated for a long time, but finally gritted their teeth and banned Lucian.
Chinese commentary stream.
This commentary will be provided by Guan Zeyuan and Ji De.
I remember being a bit surprised when I saw this Lucian pick: "Is this to prevent Xiye from playing Lucian? But Xiye hasn't been playing this champion much lately, or is it to avoid making the bot lane too difficult in the early game?"
"Hey~" Guan Zeyuan chuckled, "I have a different idea about this."
"What are you thinking?" Ji asked curiously.
"Do you think it's possible that this move was actually aimed at the top laner?"
I remember: "Huh??"
Guan Zeyuan waved his hand: "Hey, you don't understand, do you? I often watch Butterfly's streams. In ranked games, he plays Vayne and Lucian the most, focusing on the strategy of 'I won't eat you, and you won't eat me either.'"
"For a while, Lucian was constantly banned in ranked games in the Rift, and that's how he made it happen. It seems that TSM did study WE quite well."
"With this research method, are they going to ban Soraka next?"
Guan Zeyuan's mention of it only made things worse, as it caused the live stream chat to erupt in laughter again.
[I knew Guan Zeyuan had watched a lot of Chen Cu's live streams, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to reply to Weibo posts so quickly back then.]
[A master of internet surfing]
[Not only that, Soraka knows all about it, she's a long-time fan.]
[They're actually using the live stream recordings for analysis?]
I see that a certain platform is temporarily shutting down its replay function, otherwise information will be leaked.
TSM's two strategies are simple: avoid strong top, mid, and jungle champions, and then use the jungle advantage to invade your bottom side of the map.
After watching the first game against GAM, everyone knows that WE's bot lane is in poor form. At this point, if we don't take advantage of your crippled leg and kick it hard, are we supposed to let you off the hook?
The problem is that there are too many heroes to ban, and too many heroes that can create an advantage, so TSM can play however they want.
WE banned Galio as their third pick, and TSM banned LeBlanc as their third pick.
The first pick was pretty straightforward; they picked Lee Sin without much suspense.
TSM also very predictably picked Lulu and Kha'Zix.
They were all T0 heroes, so there's not much to say. But WE's subsequent hero selections left Guan Zeyuan and Jide somewhat bewildered.
"Karma Skateboard Shoes?! That's not good, hey, it's locked too!"
Guan Zeyuan wished he were on the WE players' bench right now: "What kind of synergy can Kalista and Karma have? With this pick, everyone knows that you're giving Karma to Xiye."
"You can't force a pairing like that, right? Skate shoes are definitely paired with hard supports. You're just being obvious."
These picks left not only the commentators and fans bewildered, but even TSM's coach was baffled.
what.
Isn't it obvious that Karma is going mid?
Is this version of Kalista viable in the bot lane without a hard support?
You have to understand that TSM's bot lane is Lulu! If you pick something like Nautilus or Tahm Kench, the bot lane will most likely get beaten first.
But little did they know.
These skateboard shoes aren't for the bot lane.
"Remember to build me the Incense Burner as my first item," Chen Wang instructed Ben. "When we're in team fights, just solder the RE to the wall, and we'll win easily."
If Ning weren't such an idiot who couldn't play Ivern, he would have welded Ivern and Karma together with two Ardent Censers.
Although the Ardent Censer was only developed by A-Boy before the S7 World Championship, it was actually buffed by Riot Games during the S7 Spring Split playoffs and hasn't been touched since.
The only thing people don't know is that this item's regeneration can counter Scythe of Vyse and Hurricane.
After all, one hit can restore dozens of health points; who would have thought there would be such a synergy?
"Okay, okay," Ben replied.
Anyway, since the skateboard shoes on the road have already escaped, and the coach trusts them so much, what else can I say? If I dare to say anything, I'm afraid I'll be put under a lot of pressure from Redmi's senior.
TSM didn't think too much and directly locked down Kennen on the third floor.
Since you dare to let me pass, I dare to pick me, otherwise I'll definitely get banned in the second round.
Next, the two sides took turns eliminating Fizz, Malzahar, Zyra, and Nami.
TSM picked Ashe as their fourth pick.
Now that things have come to this, TSM's lineup is pretty much set, except for Lulu who can also split push in two lanes. It's a split-push system, just as Redmi had anticipated.
"In that case, let's pick. The enemy team's lineup is set. We'll focus on the top lane this game."
WE picked Caitlyn and Taliyah as their fourth and fifth picks.
It stunned the entire audience.