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Chapter 357 The Winner of the Summer Split Regular Season MVP

In this routine of training and rest, three days passed quickly.

The date is October 10th, Thursday.

The ninth week of the LPL Summer Split regular season has begun.

The entire summer season regular season lasts for ten weeks, and today is the second to last week of the regular season.

The first match was LGD vs. Suning SNG.

The competition officially began at 5 p.m.

Suning is currently ranked fifth in Group B, and the gap in performance between them and NB, who is fourth in Group B, is not large.

With two weeks left in the regular season, Suning still has a chance to surpass NB, make it into the top four of their group, and advance to the playoffs.

Therefore, even though they are facing LGD, who have not lost a BO3 match so far in the summer split, the entire Suning team is prepared to go all out.

In the first game of the BO3, Dgc made a rather silly mistake right from the start.

In the first game, Suning had the right to choose sides and chose the blue side.

LGD is on the red side.

In the first round of ban/pick, Dgc did not ban Skateboard Shoes.

Suning, of course, didn't hesitate to snatch the skateboard shoes from the first floor of the blue area.

And the skateboard shoes ultimately carried the game, with Suning taking the first win and temporarily leading LGD 1-0.

As it turns out, skateboarding shoes are a hero that shouldn't be left out.

In the two most recent versions, Skateboard Shoes has had an absurdly high win rate in all regions of the world.

It's gotten to the point where it's so easy for anyone to win.

This also means that the red team has to use a ban slot for Kalista.

Previously, teams would occasionally choose the red side when given priority in selecting sides, but that has completely stopped now.

Because of the recent strong performance of skateboard shoes, the red team will naturally suffer a slight disadvantage in the draft phase.

Even LGD, who used to be the team that most actively chose the red side, will no longer actively choose the red side now.

DGC originally came up with a strategy to deal with skateboarding shoes, and decided to test it out on Suning.

After all, there is still a significant gap in overall strength between Suning and LGD.

It didn't work at all, and now Dgc is convinced of its own folly.

From now on, no matter who the opponent is, as long as they are on the red side, just ban Kalista.

In the second game, LGD was on the blue side and chose the Excavator on the first floor.

"Huh? The big tree has already been banned, but this big bug is still out there. Isn't LGD going to first pick it?"

In the commentary booth, Guan Zeyuan looked slightly surprised when he saw LGD pick the excavator on the first floor.

Today's commentary team is Guan Zeyuan and Rita.

Guan Zeyuan continued, "Last game they picked Kalista, this game they didn't pick Cho'Gath. LGD's draft picks today seem a bit strange?"

"As expected, Suning won't stand on ceremony with you and directly selected the big bug."

"Could it be that LGD has a hero coming to fight Cho'Gath?" Rita said.

“Then I reckon Zhou Shen will pick Urgot!” Guan Zeyuan said immediately.

"Zhou Shen has been playing a lot of Urgot games on the Korean server lately. Urgot was just reworked in patch 7.15. Will Zhou Shen use him today?"

After LGD picked Tristana on the second floor of the blue side, they immediately locked in Urgot on the third floor of the blue side.

Cheers erupted from the audience.

Audiences also want to see something new.

In recent matches, the top lane has been dominated by Maokai and Cho'Gath.

Suddenly seeing a newly reworked hero being used in a match, regardless of its effectiveness, is sure to elicit cheers.

Zhou Dian's willingness to come up with new ideas is also a key factor in attracting fans.

In the official live broadcast room, the chat was full of praise for Guan Zeyuan's understanding.

You could have guessed that Zhou Shen would choose the crab in this game!

After the start of the second game, Zhou Dian proved with a solo kill that his Urgot pick for top lane was truly impressive.

The purpose of the competition is not to train heroes.

In team fights, Urgot's ultimate is also a strong counter to Cho'Gath.

The big bug has a great advantage in the mid-to-late game: it has an extremely high health pool.

Often, after a round of concentrated fire, the giant worm can still survive with 20-30% of its health remaining.

Then, after a short while, the giant bug's health was restored by the Berserker's Greaves, but your team's key abilities were still on cooldown.

Urgot's ultimate ability is to instantly kill enemies with less than 25% health, which is a bit unreasonable.

Thanks to Urgot's strong performance, LGD won a game.

The MVP of the second game was awarded to Zhou Dian's Urgot.

Since Zhou Dian joined the LPL, he has won at least one MVP award in every match.

However, as the focus of the game shifts more and more towards the bottom lane, last week, which was the eighth week of the LPL regular season, was the first week that Zhou Dian did not get the MVP.

Today, Zhou Dian won the MVP award for a single game again after nearly two weeks.

The third game followed.

LGD played steadily and, with their overall strength far superior to Suning's, their bot lane's Twitch and Janna made a strong push in the mid-game, easily securing the victory.

Recently, the frequency of soft support champions appearing in various major regions has been increasing.

This phenomenon is caused by only one piece of equipment – ​​a blazing incense burner!
In the best-of-three series against Suning, LGD ultimately came back from a 1-0 deficit to defeat Suning 2-1.

After this match, LGD continues to lead Group B with a perfect record so far in the regular season.

Behind them, RNG is ranked second in Group B.

After the Intercontinental Cup, RNG went on a winning streak, not only catching up to second place in Group B.

Moreover, they have already pulled away from the teams behind them. Their second-place position in Group B is now quite secure.

Of course, catching up with LGD is definitely impossible.

Following this resounding victory, not only RNG fans, but also most LPL viewers believe that:

Given the current trend of bot lanes increasingly carrying games across all regions globally, Uzi has entered the version that best suits him!

It feels like RNG can really compete with LGD now!

At this moment, in the official commentary booth.

Guan Zeyuan is currently doing a post-match summary of the BO3 regular season game between LGD and Suning.

"First of all, congratulations to LGD for winning this BO3 match. So far, they still lead the LPL Summer Split regular season rankings with a perfect record!"

"On the other hand, LGD's top laner Zhou Shen won the MVP in the second game today, bringing his total number of MVPs in the Summer Split to 10, second only to EDG's mid laner Scout's 12 MVPs."

"In the current regular season MVP rankings, Scout is ranked first in the 'Strongest Player' score, and Zhou Shen is ranked second."

The strongest combat power score was jointly designed by a well-known data team and Tencent.

It is a comprehensive algorithm developed for the LPL professional league, which uses pure data to evaluate a player's performance over a long period of competition.

It compares data from multiple dimensions and ultimately uses a specific algorithm to determine the contestant's total score.

By the end of the tenth week of the regular season, the player with the highest score in the strongest battle will naturally be the MVP of this year's LPL Summer Split regular season.

The LPL officially established the Regular Season MVP award in the Spring Split of 2017.

So far, there is only one LPL regular season MVP.

The first LPL regular season MVP was, of course, the one who burst onto the scene this spring with LGD, dominating the weekly championships of the entire LPL.

This "Strongest Combat Power" score is a comprehensive evaluation encompassing four aspects:

The first one is DVP.
DVP is an abbreviation for "Data Most Valuable Player," which is mainly used to evaluate a player's contribution to the team in a single match.

The second is PSR.
PSR is an abbreviation for "Pro Player Performance Rating," which is mainly used to evaluate a player's performance among all players in the same position.

The third is the win rate.

The fourth is the number of MVP awards.

Each of these four aspects has a certain weight, and they are then incorporated into the total score.

This "Strongest Combat Power" score is updated in real time after the end of each week's regular season.

Guan Zeyuan continued:

"Currently, the score difference between Scout and Zhou Shen, who are ranked first and second, is very small, while Xiaohu, the mid laner of RNG, who is ranked third, is almost 8 points behind Scout, who is ranked first, in the 'strongest combat power' score."

"There are less than two weeks left in the LPL season, and the MVP of this summer's regular season should be either Scout or Zhou Shen."

To put it simply, this "strongest combat power" score is actually a comprehensive evaluation based on four data points.

However, the number of MVPs has the greatest weight among them.

Zhou Dian's current "Strongest Player" score in the Summer Split regular season is ranked behind Scout's.

The main difference is that Scout now has two more MVPs at the weekly championship.

Zhou Dian has indeed been playing tanky champions a lot lately, and his MVP winning frequency is much lower than during the Spring Split.

"Although Zhou Shen currently has two fewer MVPs than Scout!" Guan Zeyuan continued.

"But as long as the gap in the number of MVPs doesn't widen, LGD will be able to achieve a perfect record in the regular season again."

"I believe Zhou Shen can overtake Scout and win the LPL Summer Split Regular Season MVP again, thanks to his team's perfect record in the regular season!"

"Right now, the biggest obstacle on LGD's path to a perfect regular season in the Summer Split is naturally RNG, who are also in top form and on a winning streak after the Rift Rivals!"

"This Saturday, LGD will face off against RNG. If LGD wins, they will very likely achieve a perfect record in the regular season!"

After a pause, Guan Zeyuan continued, "If LGD can win all their regular season games in the Summer Split, I feel that the regular season MVP will almost certainly be Zhou Shen's!"

As Guan Zeyuan finished speaking, LGD fans flooded the live stream with comments.

The comments were remarkably consistent:
"Guan Zeyuan, shut up!"

Everyone knows that Guan Zeyuan has a very sharp tongue.

LGD fans are also worried that Guan Zeyuan might ruin Zhou Dian's great chance to win the LPL regular season MVP again.

Guan Zeyuan was unaware that at that moment, many people in the live stream chat were telling him to "shut up."

Guan Zeyuan continued, "Zhou Shen has the highest damage per minute, damage percentage, and damage conversion rate among top laners."

"And in terms of the number of hits in twenty minutes and the amount of damage taken from deaths, they are far ahead of other top laners."

"Actually, a few weeks ago, Zhou Shen was ahead of everyone else in most of these metrics among all players, including mid laners and AD players."

"Especially in terms of win rate and MVP count, he was firmly ranked first among the strongest fighters at that time."

"However, with the version changes, Zhou Shen has been playing tank heroes most of the time in the past few weeks. Now, apart from his personal win rate still being the highest in the LPL, most of his other statistics have been surpassed by Scout."

"There's nothing we can do about it. In this selection system, the mid laner position has a natural advantage, followed by AD carry and jungler, and lastly top laner and support."

"We've gone off on a tangent. Let's take a short break, everyone. We'll bring you the NB vs. JDG match shortly."

Zhou Dian did pay attention to the regular season MVP award, but he didn't take it too seriously.

This thing is useful, but not very useful.

In team competitions, the ultimate goal is to win the championship.

Without a championship, you are nothing.

Zhou Dian has been playing a lot of tank heroes lately, partly to enrich the team's tactics and partly because these heroes are easier to win with.

After all, it's still the regular season, there's no need to go all out and pull out all the stops.

Who has nothing better to do than pad their stats in the regular season?

Pointless!

When it comes to the real head-to-head elimination rounds, everyone will see the performance.

Back at the base, the LGD players immediately threw themselves into training.

Two days later, LGD will face off against RNG.

(End of this chapter)