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Chapter 467 Zhou Shen at the critical moment, you can always trust him!
Because LGD won the coin toss before the match, they gained the right to choose sides in one more game in this BO5 series.

In the deciding game, the luck of winning the coin toss comes into play.

LGD has the right to choose sides in the fifth game.

Although Zhou Dian felt that there might be something wrong with the pre-match coin toss.

The reason is simple: RNG also defeated SKT in this round yesterday, gaining the right to choose one more side.

Of course, it's just two best-of-five matches, the sample size is too small to tell us much.

However, as the host country, it's not a big deal to gain a small advantage.

Regarding the final decisive game, LGD's draft strategy doesn't need to change much; it should still focus on picking strong early-game laning heroes and gaining lane priority during the laning phase.

Having control over the online system allows them to suppress Master An's abilities.

Master Ahn is the soul of this Samsung team.

Now that we've won the fourth game, we should strike while the iron is hot and make the same player selections for the final game.

Of course, Samsung's coaching staff isn't stupid; they'll definitely have some strategies in the draft phase. LGD will need to pick a few more backup heroes.

In fact, by this point in the game, both sides had almost exhausted all the resources they had prepared before the match.

For example, Wei Shen's Dragon King in the fourth game was Zhou Dian's impromptu suggestion.

Therefore, heroes temporarily added to the pool of candidates must not be heroes that excel in laning, and they must also be easy to operate.

This minimizes the drawbacks caused by being "unskilled".

After discussing for a while, the LGD team finally decided to choose the red side for the fifth game.

However, this time it is somewhat different from the previous times when the red side was actively chosen.

In the past, LGD would choose the red side mainly to secure the counter position on the fifth floor, essentially serving the weekly top-of-the-table clash.

However, this time, facing the cunning coaching staff of Samsung, Dgc decided to use a counter pick to trick them into banning him.

Who says that the red team's fifth-floor counter pick has to choose a hero that counters the opponent?
As long as it works, that's fine!

Of course, the key to this is that LGD's top laner is Zhou Dian.

If you replace LGD's top laner with Letme or Mouse, you won't be able to get any bans.

The opponent might even be hoping you get a counter pick in the top lane.

Of course, these two rarely get to enjoy the counter-role role in their respective team's matches. Their tactical positions within the team are what they are, so they can forget about getting a counter-role role.

The atmosphere in Samsung's lounge was slightly tense at this moment.

The main reason is that there were some disagreements between the players and the coaches.

Although South Korea has a strict hierarchy system between elders and juniors, they are discussing the next round of the game together, so it's not that they can't tolerate disagreements.

Moreover, the player who mainly disagreed with the coaching staff at this time was Master An.

As a veteran in the Korean League of Legends esports scene, Ambition has a long history and his status within the team is no less than that of the coach.

Samsung's head coach felt that the fifth game should completely revert to Samsung's most traditional pure strategy.

In the fourth game, Samsung's draft and strategy were somewhat experimental, but they ultimately lost.

However, Sect Leader An had a different opinion on this.

He felt that LGD's entire strategy in the fourth game had already cracked Samsung's pure macro-management and found a way to counter Samsung's macro-management.

His decision to choose the blind man to speed up the game was actually not a problem.

The problem is that Zhou Dian's Fiora is too ruthless.

Samsung's sudden change in strategy backfired against Fiora, but it doesn't mean their strategy was ineffective.

If we follow the same strategy and drafting approach as in the previous two or three games, and face LGD's lineup in the fourth game, we will likely lose again.

An Zhangmen felt that if he continued to choose a jungler who focused on farming and controlling the map, he would only become more and more unable to play against LGD's early-game three-lane priority.

So the blind man's pick was not wrong; in the fourth game, they completely lost to Fiora's individual efforts.

After thinking it over for a while, the Samsung coach quickly reviewed the fourth game and finally agreed with Ambition's assessment.

He waved his hand and said, "Ban Fiora and continue with our previous strategy!"

"Come on, everyone! Get over this hurdle, and the final battle of this World Championship is just around the corner!" Samsung's head coach said passionately.

At the same time, in LGD's rest room not far away, Dgc was also giving a final cheer.

He didn't say much about the game itself.

Dgc knows that in such a crucial decisive game, it depends more on the players' performance on the day, and the head coach can't do much more.

You could say that Dgc's performance as head coach seems a bit lacking, as he lacks "hard skills".

However, he does have unique insights into the "soft skills" of athletes, such as emotional management.

Following notification from Riot Games staff, both teams' coaches and players emerged from the lounge and headed towards the player tunnel.

"Alright, everyone, welcome back! The familiar music is playing again!"

After the advertisement featuring Mercedes-Benz, the biggest sponsor of this World Championship, the live broadcast camera switched back to the scene.

As soon as the camera returned to the scene, the instrumental piece "Silver Scrapes" began to play.

Every League of Legends player and every viewer of League of Legends professional matches is extremely familiar with this song.

LPL viewers are more accustomed to calling this song the "Battle Song"!
Whenever the battle anthem plays, all the viewers know that the decisive game of the BO5 is about to begin.

This is a piece of music that is deeply marked by the determination to win.

As the battle song began, the cheers from the audience rose to a fever pitch.

"The decisive fifth game of the BO5 is about to begin!"

Changmao continued, "I believe everyone is already very familiar with this music. If possible, I hope everyone can join us, raise your glow sticks, raise anything you can use to cheer for LGD, and follow the rhythm of this music to cheer for LGD together, okay!"

Before he finished speaking, the cheers from the audience grew even louder.

Zhou Dian and his teammates had only walked a few steps out of the dressing room and were still far from the stage in front of them, but they could already clearly feel the excitement and vibration coming from the front.

Playing at home means you can do whatever you want.

There's a saying in the football world: the fans are the twelfth man on the field.

In the context of League of Legends competitions, the fans who support their respective teams are like the sixth man in Summoner's Rift.

"So, before the final battle begins, we hope the entire audience can join us in shouting—"

"LGD, keep it up!"

"Let's turn the camera to the commentary booth!"

The pre-match commentary for the fifth game was the shortest one the commentary session took throughout the entire BO5 series today.

Perhaps they also understood that the audience's hearts were already set on the upcoming decisive game, and who would have the mind to listen to the commentators' nonsense.

Without further ado, the commentators encouraged the audience to cheer them on and then concluded their task for the day.

Everything was left to the two players on the field.

Of course, no matter how big the problem is, the sponsors are the biggest.

No matter how eager the audience is, Mercedes-Benz, as the biggest sponsor of this World Championship, will still have to run its advertisements.

After a promotional video for the S7 World Championship that featured numerous advertisements for Mercedes-Benz, the live broadcast camera focused on the commentary booth.

"Okay, thank you to the commentators, thank you to all the audience members here, and thank you to everyone who is here hoping for this victory." "This decisive battle comes from Samsung, and from LGD!"

"In any case, the first four games of today's BO5 have already brought us tense and exciting matches from both teams."

"For the last round... I don't really know what to say anymore." The doll shook its head.

“Actually, how should I put it,” Miller continued, “after a fifth game, with the score tied at 2-2, and a decisive fifth game, I think the outcome was actually quite predictable.”

After experiencing a match like the one in the fourth set, Miller is actually quite optimistic and confident now.

Moreover, looking back at so many years of professional League of Legends competitions...

In a best-of-five (BO5) knockout stage, if it goes to a decisive game, the team that wins the fourth game is often able to win the fifth game in one go.

Of course, this isn't always the case, but it's the situation most of the time.

Ultimately, it comes down to a matter of self-confidence and momentum.

Having strong skills doesn't guarantee victory; the results of a match are determined by the performance, not by what you see.

Moreover, LGD has won for almost the entire year, and Miller has great confidence in LGD in the fifth game.

Miller continued, "When two strong forces clash, one will surely perish. I hope LGD can show a do-or-die spirit right now and use their last bit of strength!"

"Yes, with their last ounce of strength, the blue team Samsung faces the red team LGD in a do-or-die battle!" Wawa shouted.

The director moved the camera away from the commentators' booth, and the draft phase of the final game of the BO5 series appeared on the big screen.

"In the final game, LGD had the right to choose sides, but they still chose the red side, which they have always trusted the most!"

“Yes!” Miller nodded. “LGD, decisive game, red side—with these words together, we can look forward to Zhou Shen’s performance in the counter position this game!”

"You can always trust Zhou Shen in crucial moments!"

"I believe that in this game, Zhou Shen will definitely give us a performance no less impressive than the Fiora performance in the last game!"

As soon as the doll finished speaking, Samsung banned Fiora on the blue side.

"Uh"

"Well, in one game, he directly made Fiora, who is almost never banned in this version, a ban."

"It was banned in the first round of bans. Do you think Samsung would think that Zhou Shen wouldn't take this counter pick at a time like this?" Wawa said excitedly.

"Well, you never know, right? LGD has had several instances in the past where they picked their top laner first on the red side."

Miller spoke relatively calmly, but anyone could hear a hint of smugness in his words.

why?
Because he realized that Samsung was scared!

Samsung is indeed scared.

But what they fear is not LGD, not Zhou Dian, and not Fiora.

It was Zhou Dian's Fiora!
Although Fiora is a champion with a very high skill ceiling, Samsung has never seen anyone play Fiora to this extent in a competitive match.

After much deliberation, the Samsung team concluded that if Zhou Dian's performance with Fiora in the previous game wasn't accidental, he could replicate the same plays and skillful use of W skill that seemed like it was scripted.

So, regardless of whether Fiora is picked first or second, Samsung cannot handle this point.

Is it by chance?

Sect Leader An disagreed.

It's hard to say for sure about the other Samsung players, but they wouldn't dare gamble on such a possibility in the decisive game of the World Championship semifinals.

Therefore, the best solution is to just ban it.

However, there are many heroes that need to be banned.

In this version, if you use your precious first ban slot to ban Fiora, other heroes will inevitably be released.

Even if Samsung is on the blue team, there's still no way they can all grab them.

First round of BP.

Samsung banned Fiora, Rakan, and Jarvan IV.

LGD banned Kalista, Janna, and Sejuani.

"LGD is still using the same three picks as always. The red side basically bans these three picks in the first three picks."

Miller continued, "Samsung still chose to dismantle Xayah and Rakan."

"I really didn't expect the ban on Prince. It should be to curb LGD's aggressive initiation."

Miller is right, Samsung did have that in mind.

After playing several games as the Prince, with both wins and losses, Eimy was quite adept at the game and his skills were on fire.

Furthermore, Samsung discovered that the champion Jarvan IV seems particularly suitable for LGD.

To be more specific, it seems to be particularly suitable for the LPL.

When LPL team junglers play this champion, there's only one word to describe it—aggress!

What is the jungle?
I do not know.

Just use EQ followed by R and you're good to go!

What frustrates Samsung the most is that the Prince is not a reckless hero who goes in recklessly and never returns.

The EQ combo followed by the ultimate is a mindless way to initiate, but conversely, using the ultimate followed by the EQ combo can effectively cover teammates' retreat when the situation is unfavorable.

This is actually a hero who can both attack and defend.

At this moment, in the LGD team's voice chat...

“The prince really did ban it!” Zhou Dian turned to Eimy and said.

"No problem, Master An should be grabbing the barrel soon, I'll just kick him with Lee Sin!" Eimy said confidently.

As someone who considered himself a master of blindfolded combat, he felt that Master An's performance as a blindfolded player in the previous game was only average.

No matter how good your jungle strategy is, in an evenly matched game, the hero Lee Sin still relies on skill.

Master An is an older player, and his blind man skills are just so-so.

If he had played the Lee Sin from the previous game, he definitely wouldn't have had his ultimate blocked by Zhou Dian's Fiora.

Yeah, that's what Eimy thinks anyway.

Dgc had just finished instructing Wei Shen to ban Sejuani and was strolling towards Zhou Dian's back.

Upon hearing Eimy's words, Dgc nodded and said, "No problem!"

They had discussed the possibility of not getting the Prince in the final game before the match.

Moreover, although Eimy used to lose every time he picked Blind Man, he actually played Blind Man quite well.

It's the hero Eimy plays the most, so it requires skill.

At times like this, just trust the players and that's it!

Upon hearing the coach's statement, Eimy immediately smiled and said, "Let Master An see my blind boy."

Before she could finish speaking, Eimy abruptly stopped, as if her words were stuck in her throat.

At the same time, a commotion arose from the audience.

The reason is simple: Samsung revealed Lee Sin on the first floor of the blue team's map and locked him in.

(End of this chapter)