Chapter 488 Senior Brother: You Are the Weakest AD

After the second day of the group.

Top leads the way with four wins, FNC is second with three wins and one loss, KZ is tied for third with FW with two wins and two losses, EVS is hard-pressed to win, and is beaten by an average of more than 15 kills per game.

The group schedule is nearly halfway through.

Very few viewers predicted success.

This has also become a strong proof of the decline of the LCK and the rise of the European Division.

Just think about it.

After losing to the LPL in the intercontinental competition last year, the Korean media could still use it as they were tired from traveling, were out of shape, and had no gold content in BO1.

In addition, if it were not for the banana incident, the intercontinental competition would not have such a high level of discussion.

Because in Riot’s positioning, intercontinental competitions are held to fill the gap of the summer league’s lack of an international stage.

Not only is it unable to benchmark with MSI.

It is even an activity used for team building and increasing traffic in the middle of the schedule. Similar to the Platform Cup, some big anchors are invited to add gimmicks.

This can be seen from the fact that there is no prize money in the intercontinental competition, and the attitude of Riot Games can be seen.

If it weren’t for the Korean media’s hype.

The intercontinental competition is indeed more entertainment than competitive.

The problem is that the LCK has not won the international championship for two consecutive years, so when the first intercontinental tournament was held, the Korean media hyped the concept of the division based on the intensity of competition——

[The S Championship is only the strongest team in the version, not the strongest division. 】

Maybe there are too many shouts in the first division.

The Korean media really thinks that the overall competitive intensity of the LCK is greater than that of the LPL. The four teams selected from them can win the intercontinental championship 3:1...

If only I knew it wouldn't work.

Korean media will not do extensive marketing.

Therefore, after experiencing a series of failures, LCK is indeed a little discouraged. SKT fell into internal rotation chaos, and the boastful KZ never won a BO5 (foreign war).

On the other hand, look at the European Division.

Last year, they lost to NA in the Intercontinental Championship. After the change this year, they look like a king.

Just by looking at their performance, we know that TL is the weakest team in this MSI (leaving aside EVS). In the game they lost to Flash Wolves, Senior Brother played a female policewoman with a 0-0-1 record in 40 minutes. He didn’t even play a single game in the whole process. Good wave.

The most exaggerated thing is.

Flash Wolves have never been known for their tacit understanding in teamfights. Their teamfights are also chaotic, with control often overlapping. But compared to TL, it is indeed a little better.

If you are a North American viewer.

Seeing that the team was at a disadvantage in the early stage, placed towers in the mid-term, and finally managed to get a four-piece set of female police officers, but still failed to deal with the environment, would you be in a good mood?

It took 40 minutes of brewing and it was a big mess.

The audience was still expecting the policewoman to show off her power and lead her teammates to a comeback, but TL said: Damn, it took so long just to lose later.

Are you surprised or surprised?

Setting up a Xuanwu array on high ground is not scary.

The scary thing is that I have led the team to play Xuanwu for four consecutive years and have not seen any progress. We are also going through the dark ages, but LPL still has an unbeaten record at MSI worth bragging about.

What about North America?

All they have is the No. 1 seed group and they can't make it out of the group... To win in Europe is to celebrate the New Year. It's good now, NA is still led by its senior brother, but EU has a new face like Caps.

then.

While the standings are out.

The European casters all celebrate the New Year and proudly declare that they will carry the fans' expectations and launch an attack on the S championship. Emmm, let's put it this way, Caps' current status is not based on performance.

But the European Division needs a leader.

This position used to be Ah P. The problem was that G2 had too many external battles in those two years, and the content they produced was far less gorgeous than FNC...

The next day.

Cvmax spent the night reviewing dishes and was about to get up for breakfast. When he walked to the front desk, he discovered that there was a newspaper delivered with the dining car.

Half an hour later.

Qin Hao walked to the dining car and just got a glass of milk. He looked at the sofa area strangely - a group of people were sitting and reading newspapers.

"What is this?" Qin Hao asked curiously.

"Probably a local tabloid."

Guo Hao raised his head and said in an envious tone: "But the side page reported on this MSI, and there was a photo of Caps printed next to it."

The place is not important.

The important thing is to get in the newspaper.

A long time ago, Guo Hao had envied the LCK, because as long as it achieved results, even the Chosun Ilbo would free up some space to report on it, let alone local newspapers.

In other words, as a professional in e-sports, he hopes to be accepted by mainstream newspapers. It is best to be like the national football team. Whatever happens, it is worthy of being reported. But this is obviously impossible.

Cvmax put away the newspaper and handed it to Qin Hao: "There is also an interview attached."

The newspaper was robbed and the horse was deducted. I was speechless. He suspected that Jin Dahu did it on purpose and just didn't want him to finish it.

"Xiao Li, please sit over and translate."

The sofa area here is already full, and Qin Hao is sitting alone on the other side. Taking the newspaper at this time, Qin Hao glanced at Caps' photo for the first time.

no way.

It's really eye-catching.

In the photo, Caps is wearing headphones and is very focused, highlighting the intensity of the game.

Later, after being relayed by the team's translator, Qin Hao roughly knew what the report wanted to say. It's nothing more than great progress and the rise of the competition area.

It’s the interview part that follows.

Caps talked about the difference between Faker and Penicillin——

"Personally I think Penicillin is more difficult to deal with."

"Unless you are better at laning details than him, you won't be able to take advantage."

"No no no..."

"I beat him in training matches, but it doesn't matter. Because in training matches, Penicillin is not afraid of any kind of substitution, and you don't know where he will fight you.

I remember one training match, his level 1 night line cooperated with the jungle invasion and directly defeated our jungler. But on the field, he won't take such big risks.

Do you understand what I mean?

A mid-level attack like this, combined with a jungle invasion, would be a loss no matter how you count it, unless you can get the upper hand.

In addition, if you give him a hero with a matchup advantage, his play style will make you feel suffocated. With each wave of residual soldiers, you have to face a choice. Was he being attacked, or was he giving up the last hit and responding directly..."

Speaking of which.

Caps complained: "I just believed in the feeling of the training match, so I was killed alone. When I changed to the training match, he had to press first. I can get close without using a belt."

"Faker's words..."

"He can't put so much pressure on me. It's not that he's not strong, but he's not that focused.

Except for Penicillin, no one can do so many things at the same time - staring at the health line of each minion, and then thinking about their position and how to take action. "

"besides."

"When I was single-killed by Faker, I was confident of fighting back, but when I was single-killed by Penicillin, you couldn't see that he was particularly wasteful. It was like...like...a sure win."

The translator finished reading aloud.

Cvmax was the first to respond: "Hey, that's all true. I thought he couldn't recognize himself."

Saying that, Cvmax glanced at the buckle horse.

Dun Ma rolled his eyes and probably guessed what Jin Dahu was thinking. He said angrily: "I am Top's coach now."

Cvmax responded in Korean: "You still miss SKT's top coach?"

There is no way to refute this point. He can't sever ties with SKT.

Guo Hao didn't know what the two said. When Caps commented on the details of Penicillin's laning, he bluntly said that no one could maintain such concentration.

His first reaction was that Caps was really objective. His second reaction was to remember his boss's instructions and wonder if he could buy a hot search.

As for Qin Hao.

He felt that this was the result of the simulated space. His ability to develop such a laning style is all due to hard work. At the beginning, he couldn't adjust his position according to his opponent's thoughts while looking at the line.

As Caps said.

This requires an extremely high level of concentration. Because it is impossible to only care about yourself during the game. It is impossible not to remember the information reported by your teammates.

~~~

The external network has not become popular yet.

The newspaper content was first posted to Weibo.

Beijing time, 2 p.m.

The corresponding entry ranked fifth in the hot search, and then quickly moved into the top three - #Caps sharp comment on the second crown (explosion) #Top four wins, KZ two wins (new)#

Just look at the title.

The audience thought Caps couldn't afford to lose.

After all, in the LPL, people assume that the second-time champion refers to Penicillin, but when they click on it, they see: Oh my goodness, it turns out that Caps is from the Qingchui faction.

This made Qingfen, who was about to come in and scold him, very excited.

After all, the last critical review was based on the Shakespeare incident and extended to the team leadership competition. Many European and American commentators objectively described Faker's team leadership ability as inferior to Penicillin.

[Nothing wrong, old man. I won the FMVP by stepping on Faker. 】

[Caps is so brave, he is not afraid of offending the LCK. 】

[I have a criterion, that is, what the US military in South Korea can do, others can do the same. offend? Will it trigger a public opinion or political crisis if the American Overlord says Faker is not good? 】

[It’s a bit funny, why does a barbecue stall influence the US military? 】

There’s anything you can say in the comments section.

But most of them have a better impression of Caps who has never been masked.

However, after the entry reached the third place, some of the people who came to hear the news started jumping up and down, saying that people who go up the mountain should not laugh at the gods who come down the mountain.

【laugh at? Telling the truth makes you laugh. 】

[Caps commented on the two-time champion, Tan Za said not to discredit Faker. 】

[Oh, before LPL was not good, people said e-sports was the original sin. Now SKT is not good, and we need to respect and understand. No, Tanza is so empathetic, can you empathize with others?

Is there something wrong with what Caps said? Who did he stab in the next line? They took the lead and were killed alone, but you didn't even break the defense. 】

[Before the intercontinental competition, the gold content was full; after the LPL was won, it was called no gold content. I just want to ask who the so-called gold content depends on. 】

[Tan Za looks more and more like GSL. 】

[Normal fans are pretending to be dead, only Tanza will find weird angles to do it.

Last year, they said that the little peanuts were beaten as if they were bought, and the blame was passed on to Ueno. Hey, why is Little Peanut Here Top so fierce? What’s the reason? 】

The onlookers, GSL, saw the stalls being defeated by the fungus and snickered while watching the excitement.

It's true that they also hate mold, but that doesn't mean they have to join forces.

And as more and more people express their emotions.

When Hupu and Kangba took a look, oh, a first-line mid laner stood up and made critical comments. This is really a huge amount of traffic!

No need to think about it.

After the Weibo entry exploded, other forums posted their homepages one after another, guiding netizens to leave.

Now.

Tanza is a bit stuck.

They have a strong filter in their hearts. Seeing the hero's twilight years, they think that those who go up the mountain should give more respect to the devil. The problem is that not everyone can think this way.

Including the topic spread to South Korea.

Some SKT fans also admitted defeat and dared not refute.

Or, they 1illin avoided the line and won unfairly, and they were quite indignant.

But when the words "Forgive my selfishness, I want to hold my fate in my hands" in 2017, along with the night of the Bird's Nest, became the golden sentence for Riot to promote the event, no one thought so.

A person who dares to make a promise to his teammates on the highest stage.

Gave a strong shock to the Korean audience.

They are also high-spirited.

They feel that the weight of this sentence is cooler than rolling into the field. Under the surface of humility, there is a bit of rebelliousness.

It seems that playing around the middle lane, 100% of the championship. There is no need to discuss other things.

And the facts prove it.

Penicillin can really carry the economy, and he lived up to the team's inclination.

So...

Compared to Weibo, Caps's few truthful words did not cause a big response in the Korean forum. SKT fans are not concerned about who is the strongest in the laning phase now. They just want to put pressure on the management and don't want Faker to be pitted by three CS teammates.

In their hearts.

Faker is no longer old enough to discuss laning. Although no one is willing to admit that he is old, as early as S6, he was not the big devil who could fight two in the middle lane.

~~~

When the green fans are extremely comfortable.

Top and his team came to the backstage of the venue.

Compared with yesterday.

Today we will play against TL and KZ.

Because the group stage is six out of four, and the double round-robin BO1, the subsequent side selection will be changed after the first round of 5 games.

Just chatting.

No one expected that TL would set off a big firecracker after winning EVS. At that time, when the big brother was interviewed by English Stream, he said that smlz was the worst AD in this MSI.

Maybe he was under a lot of pressure these two days and was angry, or maybe he just thought so.

Anyway.

When TL1-4 could only pray for a chance to play a tiebreaker, Master Brother made a sharp comment on the bottom lane of other teams during the interview.

He said that Rekkles always picked heroes like Twisted Fate that did not participate in the laning phase, and said that he had played 4 games and had basically never suffered any losses in the bottom lane. Then he said openly and secretly that netizens did not understand the game and would only scold him for not having a carry when he lost.

With such grievances.

He openly stated that he did a lot for the team, while some ADs did very little.

Host: "Who do you think did the least."

Master Brother: "Do you still need to ask? Of course it's smlz.

In their team, the support relied on the mid lane every two or three minutes, and had no intention of laning properly. In the mid-game, he developed in the middle lane, and still ate the safety line. Even so, his output was not as high as the jungler."

Master Brother hated it!

He was criticized 1-4, but the problem was that he felt he did nothing wrong. Just like this time, he felt that he did more than smlz, but Top is currently undefeated, so he can only beat experience babies like EVS.

To put it bluntly.

What does it have to do with him as an AD to put resources at a disadvantage? If AD doesn't take advantage of the situation, how can he get equipment and carry?

As soon as the voice fell.

The barrage exploded.

At this moment, the North American audience felt that it was really shameful that Big Brother could become the representative of the region. He was crazy about debuting, and he said that everyone here was trash. Anyway, he was young and energetic, so it could be forgiven.

But 5 years have passed.

He is still pretending.

The most important thing is that Big Brother still told the media in S7 that he had adjusted well and asked the audience to believe that he would not be eliminated. As a result, he cried in the elimination game and returned to the commentary seat at the speed of light.

Year after year.

How much trust will be lost?

Why was the transfer period so undignified? Isn't it because TSM dislikes Big Brother's badness, but knows that Big Brother has a strong self-esteem, so they want to form a fait accompli and tell Big Brother: You are not needed.

Of course.

The management did not expect that Big Brother would post a video throwing away the TSM uniform…

In the FNC lounge, Rekkles could not hold back when he heard Big Brother was playing tricks on him: “What is he thinking? I chose Twisted Fate because I want to play it, what does it have to do with being afraid?”

“Pfft, probably he got revenge on his old club and was happy.”

Halisang said humorously: “He posted three tweets in a row in those days, bragging about who was in TSM’s carry. The show was good at that time, and the audience supported him. He would not believe it, would he? He really thought that TSM could not go to the World Championship without him.”

“Haha.”

Caps was amused by his teammates, and he and Bwipo laughed louder and louder: “Is this the legendary Pu Xin?”

“It’s okay to blame the teammates for being bad, but how dare he say that Smlz has low output. With his position, he didn’t do any output. He pulled back when he was attacked, for fear of being hit by skills.”

In the end.

Caps stopped, but Bwipo was still laughing: “I… my stomach hurts a little.” Bwipo covered his stomach and laughed until tears came out.

"The third game is TL vs. Top. They won't give him the carry position, will they?" Hailisang said softly.

"Only him?"

"As long as he has the advantage in the laning phase, he has the courage to act pretentiously - he doesn't think that losing is his fault."

At the same time.

Seeing that the senior brother was talking nonsense to Top, Brother Mai's face turned black.

He could humiliate the bottom lane for its poor positioning and problematic position selection during the review, but that didn't mean he would allow the senior brother to say so.

Finally.

Amid the indignation of the team members, Cvmax said with a gloomy face: "If you don't let him kill you, go back to the hotel and practice more."

Qin Hao: "I definitely have a line."

Xiaohuasheng: "I'll stay in the bottom lane."

GimGoon: "I'll stay as a tank."

When he was hit by the AOE, Lao Zei was a little confused.

But seeing that everyone was on his side, his heart suddenly warmed up, but he was not good at speaking, and he could only utter a response that was not a response: "No one dares to say that the mid lane is bad, they all stepped on me..."