Chapter 160: Seeing the Essence Through Versions

In the office of the training camp, everyone reviewed today's final together.

Zhu Kai summed it up in two sentences: "The difference in status, all four lanes of T1 were crushed."

"Gen.G's support is so crucial."

Xia Sen nodded. Delight had seen it at MSI. He was invincible in the hard support version.

It’s a pity that Xiao Ming left, otherwise he would have been able to talk today.

"They are actually a bit similar to JD. They both first take advantage in the mid and jungle, and then free up the bottom lane, but they prioritize the mid laner more than JD."

Maokai pointed out on the side.

369 and Knight will be here tomorrow, so we can practice a little bit then.

Return to the dormitory at night.

"It seems like we have been practicing hard, but the results are just average."

Xia Sen knew what bin meant. He was a little annoyed that the version had not been confirmed.

"It's okay. It's always good to keep the feel. Besides, no matter what the number is, aren't we all experienced?"

"That's true, but I'm not sure. Compared to almost two months of training, I would rather have a week left after the summer finals to start the Asian Games right away, right?"

Xia Sen didn't say anything. In fact, he also felt that a week was enough time for the team to get used to each other. Everyone was a top player, and they understood a lot of things without having to say anything.

Thinking of this, Xia Sen expressed his concerns.

"Why do I feel like our coach seems to talk too much nonsense? I always don't understand what he is saying."

Bin waved his hand in the dark night: "It doesn't matter. Zhu Kai is like this. Some words can be listened to, and some words can be filtered out."

"That's it"

However, after spending nearly half a month together, Xia Sen discovered that Zhu Kai was a very interesting person.

Be humorous when speaking and be serious when reviewing. The contrast is huge.

Although he is almost forty years old, there is no generation gap between him and everyone else. He knows all of Jack's jokes anyway.

He often calls me brother on the left and calls me great on the right.

During several meals, Jack told Xia Sen that he would punch him a few times one day.

In response, Xia Sen said he would also give him a couple of punches.

The reason is that Xia Sen feels that he often has no sense of boundaries.

Just talk, why do you always get close to my face?
Want to give back so much?

Do you understand the feeling of the rough breath coming out of the nostrils of a nearly 17-year-old man hitting a -year-old child in the face?
On the 25th, Xia Sen and others squeezed out time to interview Asian Games athletes.

This studio is quite grand, and most people have only seen this kind of scene on TV.

So it all seems a bit cramped.

"First, please ask all the athletes to introduce themselves."

"Hello everyone, I am Zhu Kai, the head coach of the Hangzhou Asian Games e-sports League of Legends project."

"I'm the top laner Chen Zebin."

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The audience watching the live broadcast had been waiting for too long and got up early in the morning to guard the live broadcast room.

But, looking around, why are there Xue Zhiqian and Peng Yuyan?

I rubbed my eyes. Oh, I got up too early and saw it wrong. It was Elk and Xia Sen.
"We will be going to the Asian Games soon. How do you feel now?"

Xia Sen felt a little overwhelmed after listening to the guys in front of him finish their polite speeches.

Especially Zhu Kai, who said a lot, but what he meant was actually just two words: honored.

"I am grateful to the Asian Games Center for giving me this opportunity. We will show our best strength to meet the upcoming competitions."

However, the group stage only started on the 25th. However, because WE had won all the games in the Asian Games, the LPL team did not have to play in the group stage and started directly from the quarter-finals, which officially started on September 9th.

"Then we want to know how you are preparing and what your goals are?"

"I'm very well prepared, but I can't reveal too much. My goal is definitely the gold medal."

8 month 26 number.

After HLE and DK competed for the fourth seed, DK won.

The four LCK teams’ places in the World Championship have been confirmed.

No. 1 seed Gen.g, No. : T, No. KT, No. DK.

Now, people on Tieba couldn't sit still anymore and started making comparisons.

[I will send the two teams and tell you what the winning rate is. ]

【Number one, Gen.G and BLG. 】

"100%, even the No. 1 seed has a gap."

"Reasonable analysis, 20%?"

"Why is it only 20%?"

"The two games belong to others."

"Gen.G depends on the meta. If the World Championship is a hard support meta, there is still a chance."

"Yes, it's not that we ignore the hard support, but his game style will give him away. If the soft support is positioned further back, he is less likely to give away."

【T1 and JDG】

"They are similar in strength, but considering Knight has always been filial to Faker, I can't say for sure."

"Look at Ruerl."

[KT and LNG]

"LNG, trust Gala."

“Indeed, LNG is actually the second seed.”

"Playing against KT should be stress-free. Scout has a high win rate against BDD." [DK and WBG]

"It's even harder to say about this one. You thought WBG couldn't make it to the playoffs, but they did. You thought they would be eliminated in the first round, but they went through two rounds. You thought they would lose in the bubble match, but they lost two games in a row."

"It's really amazing. From the upper limit, I feel like there is no pressure to play against T1."

"Turtle, look at it this way, our LPL win rate is very high this year."

"But we have never played the Swiss round before. I don't know if there are any accidents."

It has been confirmed that this year's World Championship will adopt a Swiss round format in the group stage.

There are eight games in the first round (BO1 is avoided in the same division), sixteen teams, the winning eight teams are in one and a half divisions, and the losing one.

Then move up step by step.

After five rounds of competition, eight teams will advance and eight will be eliminated.

"Let's not talk about this for now. Let's win the Asian Games first. The Swiss round in the next door event is nothing new. This competition system has little impact on the truly strong players, but it makes the weak players lose some luck."

"There has been no official news about the Asian Games training camp. There are all kinds of rumors online, but you can't believe them."

"Indeed, it's impossible that Bighand is in such a bad state."

"LCK is much more transparent, Ruler and Kanavi both accepted interviews."

"Indeed, I didn't say anything in yesterday's interview, I just expressed my determination!"

At the same time, someone posted videos related to the Asian Games on Bilibili.

It points out that since the LCK did not participate in the Asian Games, they had to start from the group stage.

This will result in a high probability that LPL and LCK will meet before the finals.

"That's good, otherwise we'll have to wait two more days."

"Then if we meet Taipei in the final, they can still get a silver medal."

"6. Clear angle. What if we lose to LCK in advance?"

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After another week of training, on September 9th, the official announcement came that the version was confirmed to be 13.12.

In terms of time, this was the version of the LPL regular season three months ago.

The head of the e-sports association said: All teams participating in the League of Legends project have been notified to rearrange their tactics, and relevant server versions have also been provided.

But the problem is, it's hard to find someone to train with.

LPL and LCK are both okay, there are many teams and the players are not too different in strength. As for other regions, you can basically only watch the previous games and practice with the void.

As soon as the news of this version came out, netizens couldn't sit still.

"The ancient version is coming too?"

"I almost forgot."

Some netizens who are more familiar with the event came forward and mentioned:
"The version with the least bugs, no wonder it was chosen."

"I feel like I have a big impression of BLG, mainly because they still have to prepare for the World Championship. If they play with an old version like this, how will they compete in the World Championship?"

"What the hell is this? It doesn't please either side. It's just disgusting."

"Ancient version + BO3 finals, no gold content, just for fun."

Anyway, everyone is pessimistic and is no longer optimistic about this Asian Games.

Judging from the nature of the game, it is completely incomparable to the World Championship.

At the training base, everyone was silent.

For the three BLG players, this version is very familiar to them, as it happened to be the version in which they won 16 consecutive games at the end of the regular season.

Netizens also said, why not let the entire BLG team go? This version is invincible.

But for Jiejie and Meiko, this version is also their best version.
Wei was the only jungler at the time. Jiejie used her 4 times in the entire summer season, but the effect was mediocre. He couldn't use her himself, but he didn't want the opponent to use her either. So throughout the summer season, EDG banned Wei 34 times in total.

This is completely a flaw in the hero pool.

Xun's Wei is better than Jiejie's, but judging from the data, there is still some gap compared to Kanavi, which may become a foreshadowing.

As for supports, there was only one soft support in that version, and that was Milio. Other situations were basically dominated by hard supports.

But meiko's Minotaur and Titan Zhukai were a bit unbearable at that time.

It's somewhat like the boxing in the river back then.

These two situations were the issues that Zhu Kai considered most when reviewing the version during the day.

Although it was the playoffs, the performances of jiejie and meiko obviously improved and they both played very well.

But that was a different version after all. Who can be sure that nothing will go wrong if we go back to that version now?

As for the other three roads, Zhu Kai was completely at ease.

13.12, the electric knife is not weak.

In terms of hero selection, Zhu Kai specifically looked up the data for each lane at the time.

The jungler and support have already said it, for the top lane, Crocodile and Quesanti should be given priority.

The mid lane is Leblanc and Neeko, whose BP reached 97.3% and 95.2% respectively.

Although BLG doesn't like to use Neeko, Zhu Kai knows that it's not that he doesn't know how to use it, but it's easier for BLG's mid laner to win the game, so Zhu Kai has never worried about the mid lane point since the personnel were confirmed.

In the bottom lane, Kaisa was also T0 at the time because of her electric knife. It is worth mentioning that Tristana also had a high BP rate.

And in some teams, like OMG, they can swing Kai'Sa and Tristana in the middle and bottom.

My brother and Xia Sen can definitely do it, so it seems like the shortcomings are immediately exposed?
Xia Sen's words woke Zhu Kai up.

"We played 13.12 in the game, but we can't just look at the 13.12 version data. Through the subsequent games, we actually underestimated some heroes at the time. In the future, we have to look more in this direction, right, coach?"

Looking at Xia Sen's clear eyes, Zhu Kai nodded heavily.

"You're right! There's still half a month left before the competition."

(End of this chapter)