Chapter 9: S5 First Match
On Friday, March 6, the 2015 LPL Spring Tournament entered its seventh week.
According to the rules, 16 teams, each team must play 30 games, the total is 60 rounds, because you have to exclude yourself, so it is a 1v15 process.
FD has now played 12 games with 18 games left for a total of 36 innings. With their current points, if they can't catch up, let alone be invincible in the spring like last year and the year before, even if they make the playoffs.
What's more, this year's Riot restructured and re-took out the original All-Star Game and set up a new championship game. This is the MSI Mid-Season Invitational Tournament, which is known as the three major competitions along with the All-Star and S Game.
The honor weight of this tournament is not as high as that of the S match in terms of the fan status of League of Legends players around the world, but the gold content is not much different, ranking second only to the S match.
Because of the entry criteria, only the champion teams of all spring playoffs in all major regions of the world can be invited by Riot to participate.
And now, with the popularity of League of Legends around the world, as well as Yun Luoyang's small proposals to Mr. Ren, Penguin and Fist are no longer as stingy as in the previous life. This time, not only has the competition system been reformed, but the prize money for the champion has also increased significantly.
It turned out that MSI's prize pool was only $200,000 when S5 was used, and Guodian worked hard to defeat SVT1 and got a pitiful amount of money.
Now Riot has announced that the base prize money for the champion is 1 million. And all the skin income during the tournament will be used for the prize pool of this event, and all will be distributed to the champion.
Although the MSI competition time is very small, only a short 3 days. But the problem is that League of Legends is too hot these days.
Last year alone, Penguin's skin revenue reached more than $1 billion, with an average of more than $300,000 per day.
3 days is enough to double the prize pool of MSI this time, attracting countless League of Legends teams around the world to gear up and want a piece of the pie.
Yun Luoyang is not coveting the prize money of this event, but now he has won almost all the championships he should win, and now he lacks an MSI to get the achievement of a Grand Slam.
Therefore, he had to give up his vacation and come back this time to win the spring championship and go to MSI.
March 6th, the first game from 1 to 3 p.m., 3M team VS Kings team.
The second match is Royale VS DGL, and the time is from 3 to 5 o'clock.
The FD match is at 5 o'clock.
Their opponent is Team CDG, which stood out in last year's LSPL Summer Tournament and is one of the sixteen teams in the LPL this year.
The strength of this team is not very strong, the ranking is the same as FD, and there are no famous players in the team, the only one who is known to the audience in later generations is the top single R Emperor, that is, the one who guides the way through the immortals.
CDG is Guodian's second team, and they are undoubtedly lucky this year compared to their change of name to MI team next year (the correct name is ADG, and it will be changed to EDE in the second half of the year, and AJ is in EP at this time). Because originally there were only 12 teams in the S5LPL, it was impossible for them to come up.
But now the capital has entered too exaggerated, a large number of bosses have entered the LPL and spent money, and e-commerce has also begun to pay attention, and various injections of funds have made the LPL begin to expand wildly. And this year, the league began to gradually develop towards the home of sports events, making the LPL bigger and bigger.
Last year's 12 teams, namely Royalty, IGA, Guodian, WEA, OMA, DGL, FDG, YGA, PEA, 3M, and King, will add four new teams, bringing the total number to 16 teams.
Since according to the rules, two teams will leave the LPL last summer, so if YGA and PEA leave, new teams will replace them.
In this case, as the fourth-ranked team in the LSPL finals last year, CDG seemed very lucky, and the Snakes, VGA, and TG teams, plus the 2014 TGA Summer National Champion EPA, and the runner-up OMB, rose up together to form the LPL Sixteen Heavenly Kings.
The sixteen teams are Guodian, Snake, OMA, VGA, IGA, DGL, King, WEA, 3M, Royal, EPA, TG, FD, DR****G, OMB (both FD, DRG, and EDG's second team ADG, OMG's second team OMD, and note that EP and PE are two different teams.) )
It can be said that the big era of LPL is also quietly kicking off.
CDG's opponent is not strong, and it is at the bottom of today's LPL. FD should have won easily, but this time they were still fully armed, although they did not send the S4 championship lineup, but they replaced the crayfish and arranged the big demon king Yun Luoyang up, making CDG like a big enemy.
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the game officially began.
Yun Luoyang sat in the jungler position that originally belonged to the crayfish, with the rookie Zhongshan Xiaodu on the left, and the leg brother Ke Yuchang on the right. After the start of the game, Yun Luoyang has also begun to make BP adjustments to the content of the Hirano Forest.
"The coach of CDG is now a head two big, FD came to the ultimate swing, and directly put the jungler for you, how can you ban it now."
"Yes, although Chubby has played in the S2 Finals and the S3 Spring Tournament, times are changing, and the version is improving. There is no point in studying the previous playing routines, but in the current version of the jungler heroes, it is very difficult to choose if you don't know what Chubby is good at. ”
"In the end, after thinking about it again, I still banned Nunu, who is currently a first-class ability to clear the wild and control the little dragon. No way, with the revision of Xiaolong, the competition for Xiaolong in the early stage is becoming more and more fierce, and Nunu's rise is unstoppable. ”
"FD's side is banning Ruiz, and now this version of Ruiz is still very powerful, and CDG's mid-laner bame is very good at this hero, it seems that FD has done a lot of homework."
"The CDG has identified a second ban, Spider Queen Elise. This hero is Crayfish's favorite hero, but I don't know if Chubby will take it. However, when he went to the second team FDG to take the little brother in the S3 Spring Tournament, he used it a few times, and he caryy several handfuls, and he may take them out. ”
The two commentators analyzed CDG's BP tactics and believed that Yun Luoyang might indeed pull out the spider.
At first, Yun Luoyang really wanted to take the spider.
The original version of S5 Spider was not particularly strong, and it was not until the Worlds version that it became a T1 jungler, and it was not mandatory to ban in the S5 Worlds.
However, this hero's snowball ability and slashing ability are very strong, and the error tolerance rate is also good, which is very suitable for Yun Luoyang. Because of his ability to predict in one second, even if the opposite side walks out of the flower, it is impossible to avoid his cocoon.
It's just that now that the opponent has been banned, there is no way to do it.
The BP on both sides ended quickly, FD was aimed at the middle and upper two lanes of CDG, and CDG was aimed at Ueno, in addition to banning the current version of the more popular Nunu, but also banning Yun Luoyang's spider and Leg's Nar.
With the S4 World Finals, everyone began to play this hero, and Nar gradually became a T1 top laner, which is also mandatory in the current version of the game.
The current LPL, Nal is more powerful, in addition to the leg brother, it is Guodian's top single buckle meat, and playing Nar is also a must, not to be underestimated.
The two sides soon began to select people.
Yun Luoyang finally won the blind monk, the new version of the blind monk is not popular, and it is currently at the T2 level, but the combat ability in the wild area is not bad, and Yun Luoyang is also handy.
The lineups on both sides are determined, FD top single crocodile, jungler blind monk, mid single enchantress, AD skate shoes, and auxiliary hammer stone.
The skateboarding hero came out on November 20, 2014, and ranked 122nd in the league.
At the moment, Calista is one of the best ADCs, performing well throughout S5, and even in the World Finals, the BP rate reached 72%, second only to Captain 100%, Iron Man 98%, Spider 97%, Lulu 94%, Noshou 81%, and Lexy 73%.
Although it belongs to the new hero, the national server was not launched until December, so many people have not yet understood it. But FD has been ahead of everyone and has developed several routines, such as skateboarding shoes + Annie, skateboarding shoes + hammerstone, etc.
In particular, the routine of skateboarding shoes + Annie assistance was quite popular in the early days of S5, relying on the extremely short ultimate move of CD (90 seconds without reducing CD1 level), and the group was very powerful.
On the CDG side, it is the upper single horse, the wild poodle, the mid laner fox, the AD Lucian, and the auxiliary wind girl.
Both sides got off to a normal start.
S5 developed a routine at the beginning, and both sides would kill a group of wild monsters to upgrade to level 2, and then press B to go home to replenish blood and then TP to go up.
FD is on the red side, Brother Leg chooses to kill a group of three wolves, and Centaur kills group F4.
Yun Luoyang beat the toad with the help of his teammates and promoted to level 2.
At the beginning of S5, the toad position was still a big ghost, but it was soon changed to a toad by Fist. Due to the toad's high experience, coupled with its high attack and fast attack speed, the red jungler at that time was all toad starters with the help of his teammates.
Yun Luoyang is not afraid of the poodle stealing his red, because at that time, the poodle would be very hurt to brush the buff alone, after all, the punishment does not return blood, and the duo must help.
After beating the toad, and then brushing the red buff, at this time it is already level three, and there is no place to catch it.
CDG played very hard online, and almost didn't get out of the tower.
Yun Luoyang thought about it for a while, his own family went on the road to press the line, and Brother Leg had already beaten two-thirds of the blood of the people and horses under the tower and rubbed it, under normal circumstances, the poodle was very likely to catch the road.
But the poodle is also likely to be afraid that he is squatting, and the threat of the poodle before level 6 is not too big, and the crocodile erupts high, which is too dangerous to catch.
A sensible jungler will definitely not choose to go up, if he doesn't guess wrong, the poodle will definitely be dealing with the wild monsters in the upper half of the wild area after fighting Blue.
Thinking of this, Yun Luoyang quietly crossed the river and came to the upper half of the CDG's wild area.
After more than 10 seconds, he saw that the toad pit was empty.
Then come to the Three Wolves Pit.
A half-blooded poodle that is fighting three wolves!
Hehe.
Yun Luoyang smiled, and immediately touched it with his ornament eye, and did not make Q or shoot the floor, it was a general attack.
The poodle was obviously startled by the sudden appearance of the blind monk, his skills were all used to fight the three wolves just now, and now he has no skills at all.
In desperation, he could only choose to go to the wall, intending to lean against the wall and flash into his second tower in the middle lane.
At this time, Yun Luoyang slapped the floor, then pressed E to slow down, and chased A twice.
Poodle flashes.
Almost at the same time, Yun Luoyang pressed Q.
Sky Sonic Wave!
The Blind Monk's E slap on the floor deals damage to enemies and adds a 4 second vision exposure.
In the early days, this was a real vision, and even stealth could be seen.
Therefore, even if the poodle flashed over the wall, Yun Luoyang could know his location, and then predict Q one second in advance.
I saw that the poodle seemed to flash and hit his Q, and was hit by this celestial sound wave.
The second Q passed, and a flat A was taken away.
One blood in hand.
first blood!