Chapter 352 The nerve knife is unsheathed!
This time, Chang Xian's prediction will be much more cautious.

In the spring season, in his prediction before the playoffs, he placed Fanhua in the B+ position based on the players' overall strength and their compatibility with the version at the time.

In fact, this position is really not low. After all, it is lower than Xingxin and Blue Rain, which were ranked third in the league at that time. It’s just that the letter B+ does not sound high.

To be honest, in Chang Xian's opinion, even if Fanhua won the championship, his prediction could not be completely wrong.

If Fanhua did not change its formation and did not move Sun Zheping to the top lane as the god of war, then Fanhua's combat effectiveness would basically not be able to pass the level of Xingxin, which was highly compatible with the version at that time.

Who could have guessed that Fanhua also had a hidden trick like swinging the upper and lower arms?

But even if Chang Xian had a thousand reasons to prove the legitimacy of his prediction, it would be useless because Fanhua had already won the championship.

Moreover, the first championship was the Spring Championship and the MSI double championship, and the story along the way was as legendary as a novel.

While the fans are cheering, what they like most, of course, is to appreciate all those who have badmouthed them in the past and see them get hit with a boomerang.

Chang Xian naturally had no way to escape.

If the title of "Poisonous Milk" had not been occupied by Wei Chen from LPL and Huang Ge from StarCraft, it would probably have fallen on him.

Even so, the B+ he gave to Fanhua has become a classic in the circle.

After such a disaster, he became too cautious when looking ahead to the summer season.

The video released before the start of the playoffs not only cancelled the team rating segment, but even the judgment of team strength was only made by talking about those teams that had little chance of boomeranging.

As for the three major families mentioned above, they fully adhered to the principle of "only introducing facts, not making value judgments", and not a single word was made to judge them.

No one can be offended by being the main one.

But after the first round of the playoffs, Chang Xian couldn't sit still:
It seems that this value judgment can indeed be made?

The result of this first round is highly consistent with my initial idea!
Before the first round, Chang Xian still ranked Xingxin third based on the version adaptability and objective strength, as well as the teams' performance in the regular season.

Apart from the fact that Tang Rou does not have such unstoppable suppression power in this version, the main problem is the jungler.

In a version that relies heavily on junglers, if Xingxin's jungler is not in good shape, then the overall strength will be greatly reduced.

Baozi's current strength seems to be that of a first-line goalkeeper, half a level lower than Mo Fan and Li Hua, far weaker than Huang Shaotian, and probably about the same as Guo Hao.

It is good at bullying weak teams, but it is easy to be overwhelmed when facing strong teams.

Therefore, Chang Xian felt that the third place he ranked for Xingxin was quite reasonable.

It’s just because of the lessons learned from the spring season that he won’t make this prediction public.

But after the first round, Chang Xian felt that his predictions were gradually coming true.

In the first round, although Xingxin swept LGM 3-0, considering the huge gap in strength between the two teams on paper, it would have been news if they had not achieved such a result.

But in this 3-0 score, Baozi was almost defeated by Guohao?

Even though there may be some influence of state and mentality, it is enough to prove that Chang Xian's judgment on Baozi's strength is relatively accurate, even slightly overestimated.

Baozi just can’t beat the junglers of the other two of the Big Three.

And then, another series in the first round further proved that Chang Xian had no major problems in understanding the version.

Yizhan and Xuanqi, the two oldest teams, have always been considered to be the second tier of the alliance with extremely similar strength.

Every time they played against each other in the spring season, whether it was BO3 or BO5, the outcome was decided only in the final round.

But in the summer season, the balance began to tilt little by little.

In the dialogue between the two teams, Xuanqi began to gain the upper hand little by little, and even played a 2:0 game in the regular season of the summer season.
But in the regular season, LGM beat Fanhua 2:0, so it’s not surprising.

But when Yizhan was defeated by Xuanqi 3-1 in the first round of the playoffs, ending his playoff journey and preparing for the bubble game in advance, the situation was a little different.

To be honest, it is quite counter-intuitive that Xuanqi is stronger than Yizhan.

In the spring season, Xuanqi was able to fight Yizhan on equal terms, mainly because they had a good coach, Zhang Yiwei, who gave them a tactical advantage.

But in S1, when many tactics and awareness are still in the process of exploration and development, tactical advantages are the easiest to catch up with.

During the off-season, Lou Guanning, who is not short of money, spent a lot of money to equip Yizhan with an extraordinary training team. There may still be no famous coach like Zhang Yiwei, but there is no difference in level.

In terms of the team's strength on paper, Yizhan is actually half a level higher than Xuanqi.

After nearly a year of growth, Lou Guanning's strength has reached the same level as Song Xiao.

In the middle lane, Xuanqi's Gai Caijie has good talent and a promising future, but he is just a newcomer after all, and his style is steady and his suppression power is limited.

Zheng Xuan and Xu Jingxi in the bottom lane were able to firmly suppress the mysterious Wang Ze and Zhang Jiaxing.

Only in the jungle position does Xuanqi, with Li Hua, have a clear advantage.

And it was this one point that allowed Xuanqi to bring the whole game of chess to life.

Throughout the whole process, Xuanqi relied on Li Hua's extraordinary performance to suppress Yizhan in terms of rhythm.

Although Yi Zhan managed to win back a game with the help of all the explosive power, it was still unable to change their fate.

For Yizhan, being eliminated in the first round of the playoffs again is naturally a pity.

But for Chang Xian, this once again proves the huge influence that the jungler has in this version.

In order to prove this point, Chang Xian even checked the game videos from other regions.

When he saw that KT and SKT, who were equally powerful in the neighboring LCK region, relied on the overwhelming performance of KT's new jungler Peanut to defeat SKT, he became more certain of his guess.

You know, there is no difference in grade between peanut and bengi. If you have to say, bengi even has a slight advantage in experience.

But because of the adaptation of style, the reverse version of SKT, even with the strongest double C in LCK, was beaten to a standstill by KT.

At this point, all the data and cases that can be found so far have pointed to one thing:

This version is indeed very unfriendly to Xingxin.

Therefore, Chang Xian felt that the opportunity to prove that he was not a swindler seemed to have come again.

In order to prevent the same unexpected situation as that of Fanhua from happening again this time, he specially checked the ranking records of everyone in Xingxin and made sure that no one among them was practicing the jungle position.

As for head coach Mingkai, his age limit means that if he is substituted in at high-end games, his performance may not be as good as Baozi, who at least has good operation and reaction skills.

All in all, everything made Chang Xian feel from the bottom of his heart that his judgment this time was absolutely correct.

Unless Xingxin can temporarily find an extremely powerful jungler from the youth training camp to take Baozi's place, they are destined to suffer a great loss in this version.

So he decided to post the video. However, the reason for making such a decision was not entirely because Chang Xian wanted to take advantage of the popularity.

He also wanted to use public opinion to wake up Xingxin, especially Baozi, and urge them to make adjustments as soon as possible.

Don’t forget, Chang Xian’s home team is Xingxin.

Xingxin's performance was in line with his relatively pessimistic expectations. What he felt was not the joy of having his prediction come true, but the worry about the uncertain future of the home team.

He didn't know whether Mingkai and Ye Xiu had already noticed the problems within the team and started to solve them.

I don’t know if they will have enough time to complete their transformation like the flowers in the spring season.

But as a fan of Xingxin, he felt that he needed to sound a wake-up call for them.

So he posted the prediction video online, and as expected, it received almost unanimous approval.

In the spring season, Fanhua’s fans were at least able to say a few words and believe in Zhang Jiale.

But this time, most of Xingxin’s fans couldn’t even say a tough word.

Chang Xian can be considered one of their fan leaders, a big fan of Xingxin.

Even he felt that there was something wrong with Xingxin's current state, so it was definitely impossible that they had accepted bribes from their rivals.

Moreover, his fans have all seen the data and examples he cited in the video to prove the correctness of his views.

The first round against LGM was full of difficulties and dangers, which really destroyed the confidence of Xingxin fans, which was already little.

In addition, in the next game they will face Fanhua, their nemesis in the spring season. They fought for five games in the finals and defeated the most peak and most suitable version of Xingxin, and were crowned the terrifying existence of the champion.

How to fight this?
If we say that Blue Rain in the spring season is already studying the opponents of MSi,

So the Xingxin fans in the summer season are already researching the opponents for the team in the bubble match.

There's nothing we can do. With Baozi's current condition and strength, fans really think that he can break Ye Xiu and Tang Rou's legs.

But if fans are forced to blame Baozi, it seems there is nothing to blame.

They all saw Baozi's efforts and changes, but it seemed that he did not have such top-notch talent.

Just like that, Chang Xian, who had originally prepared himself to be criticized, found that his own comment section was unexpectedly harmonious, and there were not even many people who sent private messages to criticize him.

But this time, he couldn't be happy.

If Baozi really can't stand up as he predicted, then in this year's World Championship, unless the official makes major changes to the version before the World Championship, the probability of Xingxin winning the championship will be really slim.

According to the practice of the Spring Split and MSi, there will be no major version changes between the playoffs and the World Championship.

For Ye Xiu, who is already in his thirties, his window to win the championship becomes narrower every year.

In the spring season, they have missed the most precious opportunity.

If Ye Xiu loses again in the summer season and the S season, his condition may decline further next year...

Can they really wait until the day when Ye Xiu ascends the throne again?

This time, Chang Xian sincerely hoped that his prediction was not so accurate and that he would be stabbed to death by the boomerang.

"Baozi, Baozi, although this request is indeed a bit harsh, I really hope to see the day when you achieve nirvana."

"As long as you can lead Happy to transformation, I will come to you online and give you my face to slap!"

……

"Even their own big fans are not optimistic about them? Why are they so similar to us in the spring season?"

Watching Chang Xian’s prediction video, Zhang Jiale made sharp comments.

"In terms of misery, they are more miserable. At least our fans were able to hold their ground for a while." Sun Zheping added.

"Brother Le, do you think they have a chance to create a miracle like we did in the spring season?" Xiye came up to join in the fun.

"Of course there is. After all, they defeated LGM 3:0. We were defeated by LGM 2:0 in the first round." Zhang Jiale glanced at Xiye without any mercy.

As expected, Xiye was hit in a sore spot and stopped talking.

Because the tragedy of losing to LGM due to laxity and pride happened not long ago, he was not so arrogant as to think that Happy, which had given them tremendous pressure in the spring season, could be easily defeated.

Xiye took Mo Fan to the duo training, leaving his old partner Fanhuaxuejing and coach Lu Liang in the living room.

"All kidding aside, do you think Xingxin has a chance to complete the same transformation you did in the spring season?" Lu Liang asked.

"Yes!" Without hesitation, Fanhua Xuejing and others answered in unison.

"Are you so sure?" Lu Liang was a little surprised.

"Old Lu, our situation in the spring season can't be considered a true rebirth." Zhang Jiale said with a smile.

"From the very beginning, Dasun chose to sacrifice himself because of the needs of the team as a whole and to take care of my slightly flawed mentality at the time."

"Instead of being what he does best, the sharpest arrow of the team, he became the auxiliary around everyone."

"But the part of his strength that he sacrificed was only sealed, but not completely lost."

"When the right opportunity came and he unlocked this sealed strength, our strength naturally surged and we became the most competitive team."

Sun Zheping on the side did not comment, but if you look closely, you can still see that his face turned slightly red when he praised Zhang Jiale's straight ball.

"You mean, there are also players in the Xingxin team who sacrifice themselves like this?" Lu Liang understood.

Zhang Jiale asked back, "When you were studying the videos of the Happy players, did you only watch the videos of their official matches? You didn't even watch the early official matches?"

Lu Liang nodded: "In the first year of the league, the overall strength of the players and teams has improved rapidly. Watching videos that are too old can easily affect my judgment."

"So..." Zhang Jiale leaned back on the sofa, looking relaxed, but actually there was fire burning in his eyes.

"So you don't know that the young man named Baozi had a nickname when the league was not yet established and everyone was still leveling up on the national server."

"The most nervy swordsman in the country!"

"And now, this sword that has been sharpened for a whole year is about to be unsheathed again!"

　I went out for the whole day today and didn't get back to the hotel until after nine o'clock in the evening. Sorry, sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)