LOL: What does it mean to torture players?

Chapter 262 A sad day for LPL?
The factory manager agreed: "This Kiin's Gangplank is really something. His ultimate blocked Uzi's movement and prevented him from dealing damage. Once the powder barrel exploded, RNG was finished."

The two sides fought until forty minutes and finally RNG lost to AFS.

In this way, LPL still has one point, LCK has two points, and LMS has no points at all.

Soon, the RNG members came back and the atmosphere became a bit awkward.

Everyone in RNG looked at Letme, and coach Heart was also communicating with Letme.

Letme looked quite nervous. After all, so many people were staring at him, including people from other teams.

Heart asked, "What are you fighting for in the top lane? The captain on the opposite side is so fat, can't you prevent him from triggering the Kleptomancy? It's fine if you can't win in the laning phase, but in the teamfight..."

So Letme suddenly said: "You guys played too chaotically, and it made me very confused too. You didn't listen to what I said at all, and you didn't give me any feedback. I didn't know what to do, and my hands kept shaking. After playing for a long time, they kept shaking for no reason, and I felt numb..."

Letme suddenly exploded and completely confused everyone.

UZI kept shaking his head, looking helpless, and seemed very disappointed with Letme.

Heart looked at the other coaches: "Now we can only rely on you."

The next game is LPL vs. LMS, IG vs. M17.

IG coach Coach Jin began to arrange tactics for everyone in IG.

Maybe because they were scared by RNG’s loss, IG was quite serious this time.

Although Su Mo had never heard of this M17 before.

He took out his phone and took a look at the public opinion online. Sure enough, netizens were now complaining crazily:
"RNG is such a bummer, losing to the opponent's mid-level horse."

"If our mid-level knight can't beat the opponent's mid-level knight, won't that be a problem?"

"When did RNG become a mid-level horse? They are a low-level horse!"

"I don't care about your things. I just know that RNG lost a point to LPL."

A moment later, the game between IG and M17 was about to begin, and the IG players left the lounge.

Doinb stood up to cheer for IG: "IG! Come on! Come on Theshy! Come on Jackeylove!"

This game was very stable and IG won it easily.

In this way, LPL at least got the second point, tied with LCK.

But soon, LCK turned the game around and won a game against LMS, bringing the points to three points.

Therefore, this last game is more crucial, RW vs. KT.

The four LPL coaches got together and communicated with the RW players.

Maybe it was because Doinb cheered for everyone in front, and the players from IG, RNG, and EDG all gathered around him.

UZI said: "RW is awesome, RW will win!"

Rookie also shouted: "RW is the best in the world, RW easily beat KT!"

The factory manager also said: "Doinb, we will cheer for you, you must win, RW!"

Su Mo laughed. This was just flattery. As expected, Doinb was going to be hit back. He was flattering other teams before, and now everyone was flattering him. KT would not be easy to deal with.

The other members of RW had already started sweating, while Doinb had an awkward but polite smile on his face.

I guess he also expected that everyone would suddenly become so united and face the outside world together.

Soon the tactics were arranged and RW came on the scene!

The audience was very excited, and the cheers could be heard over here.

On the screen, the players of RW and KT appeared on the stage, faced each other in the middle of the stage, shook hands, and then entered the BP.

In this game, Doinb's Galio and Taliyah were both banned, preventing him from playing support.

At the same time, A Guang got Rambo on the road.

The factory manager muttered, "Can you play Guang's Rambo?"

Su Mo shook his head. "I don't think it's going to work. The opponent directly brought out the Jarvan IV. The Jarvan IV cooperated with Sejuani to catch Rambo. Rambo killed everyone he caught. It was difficult to fight in the top lane. Either he gave up some last hits to save his life, or he would keep dying."

At this moment, RW took out the male knife!

The whole lounge exploded!

Rookie asked curiously: "Can Doinb play the male knife?"

Theshy commented: "The male knife hero has a low error tolerance rate and is not suitable for this version."

Jackeylove muttered, "If I remember correctly, Brother Mozi played a male sword once before?"

Everyone remembered and looked at Su Mo together, as if they wanted to hear Su Mo's comments.

Su Mo said, "This male knife is not easy to play. The opponent's bottom lane is Ezreal and Tam. The male knife has no angle to cut in, unless we can blow up KT in the early stage, but I think it is unlikely."

Everyone nodded after hearing this. Su Mo was quite authoritative in this regard. After all, he was the one who brought the new version of the male knife into the LPL. Maybe Doinb learned it by watching his games.

When the game started, as expected, A Guang adopted the method of avoiding battle, giving up some finishing blows to ensure that he would not be caught and killed.

In this way, he, the Rambo, was suppressed and killed by the Prince.

At the same time, Doinb's swordsmanship failed to create a rhythm, and KT defended tightly.

Fifteen minutes in, RW still didn't have a single kill.

Su Mo commented: "It feels like we've gone too far. This lineup doesn't have a late game. If we don't have an advantage now, it's definitely gone."

At this moment, A Guang's Rambo came up with an idea. He TPed around and cooperated with the male knife to gank the bottom lane, helping the team get a double kill.

The atmosphere in the lounge suddenly became a little awkward. After all, Su Mo had just said that KT won this game and RW couldn't beat them, and RW got the advantage.

Su Mo did not explain anything. Soon, the two sides started to fight head-on. What Su Mo said came true. Doinb's male knife did not have room to play in team fights. At the same time, the opponent's lineup was too tanky, and RW could not win now.

KT failed to win a team fight and took down the Baron, and the game entered garbage time.

A moment later, the game ended, KT won the game, and LCK's points reached four points!
Meiko exclaimed: "If I read correctly... LCK won all the games today? We have two wins and two losses?"

Abu responded, "Yes, but it doesn't matter, we'll see later."

All the RW players are back, and even Doinb, who is usually very unrestrained, can't be that unrestrained anymore.

A Guang's face looked even uglier.

Abu had to go up to comfort him: "Thank you for your hard work, everyone has worked hard."

"In the four games today, all our teams and players performed very well. This group stage is just for ranking. At most, we can play one more round later. If we can beat LMS, we can enter the finals."

No one was optimistic after hearing this. After all, this was not something to be happy about.

Don’t we still have to play against LCK in the finals?
Abu said, "Let's pack up and go back now. Let's have dinner first, and then we'll go back together to review the situation and work out countermeasures."

The LPL team packed up and left the lounge.

As a result, I met some acquaintances outside. I saw several members of the FW team and three other teams from the LMS region walking out of the lounge next to them, talking and laughing.

Su Mo was moved by their optimism.

Because they lost all four games today, normally, it would be very painful to have such a result, but you couldn't feel his or their pain at all.

Then something even more outrageous happened. After the LMS people noticed the LPL side, someone suddenly spoke up:
"Hey, isn't this LPL? I lost the game today, so sad."

Su Mo didn't see who said it, as he was mixed in the crowd. The key point was other people's reactions. They were all covering their mouths and laughing, as if they were watching a joke.

However, the LPL players ignored them, left the competition venue and went to find a place to eat.

On the way, Meiko complained: "Don't they know that their region didn't win a single game? And they're still criticizing us LPL?"

Su Mo comforted him, "If you get ahead of yourself, you will really be fooled and think they are talking nonsense."

Zizi agreed, "That's right. Why are you arguing with them? Aren't you lowering your own vision?"

Meiko was angry: "I just don't like their mean faces!"

Suddenly, Meiko grabbed Su Mo's arm and said, "Brother Mozi, we have to play against the LCK team in the next game. We may have a chance to even the score. You must play!"

There was both command and pleading in Meiko's eyes, and it seemed that he wanted to win too much.

Su Mo nodded: "Okay, no problem."

Zizhi suddenly came over and said, "Brother Tianye, you can trust me. I can win if I go."

Meiko complained: "We've already experienced your alchemy, so let's just forget it."

"Ahahaha..." Everyone laughed after hearing this. Alchemist's attitude in today's game was indeed a bit outrageous. It was useless in team fights. Fortunately, the opponent was not strong, otherwise it was really possible to fail.

The most important thing is that when choosing a hero, Zzitai boasted about how powerful and useful his alchemy was. The contrast was too great and it seemed very funny.

But he didn't feel embarrassed, and he was so thick-skinned that he even said, "Give me another chance, and I will prove to you how terrible my alchemy is!"

Su Mo teased, "We have already experienced this kind of terror. In fact, you should let your opponent feel your terror, not your teammates."

“Hahahaha…” The EDG players couldn’t hold it in any longer and burst into laughter.

In the evening, after dinner, the players from the four teams reviewed the game together and studied the LCK’s style of play.

Su Mo was slacking off and chatting in the Mozi Interactive Entertainment Studio group.

Luo Xin: "Oh, Brother Mozi, LPL doesn't seem to be in good shape today, what should we do?"

Su Mo: "It's okay, it's just a group match."

Rita: "Are you guys training now?"

Su Mo: "Reviewing, holding meetings, criticizing meetings."

Su Mo took a photo and sent it over. Everyone from RW and RNG looked very serious, and it was obvious that they were criticized.

Luo Xin: "Brother Mozi, what are you doing in the back? Aren't you going to a meeting?"

Su Mo: "I'm just slacking off. I didn't go online today."

Luo Xin: "Wow, you still dare to slack off!"

Su Mo took another look at the comments online, and sure enough, LPL was badly criticized.

"I've said it before, LPL hasn't risen at all, it's just EDG that's risen."

"Without EDG, LPL is just a mess."

"It's over. The true level of LPL has been exposed. It turns out they are all rotten fish and shrimp."

"There's no hope now. With this kind of competition system, it's useless for EDG to just be strong." In the end, the review didn't end until two in the morning.

The next day, the group stage continued.

The first game is between EDG and SKT!

At 2:30 in the afternoon, the four LPL teams took the elevator downstairs, gathered in the lobby for a while, and then prepared to go to the scene.

However, at the same time they came down, the LCK side also came down!

First up was AFS, top laner Kiin. Su Mo saw AFS’s star, Kiin, at a glance!

Kiin is currently very popular in LCK, and many people regard him as the future super top laner.

Although Smeb is still in KT and KT has a good record, he is after all an "old generation" and is on the decline. He cannot be compared with young people like Kiin.

Then came KT and KZ, and Su Mo met Smeb and Deft.

At this moment, Deft suddenly looked over and made eye contact with Meiko.

Deft greeted his teammates, then left the queue, came over to say hello to Meiko, and the two of them hugged each other directly!

The factory manager was not surprised, but others were somewhat surprised.

Su Mo glanced at Iboy and found that Iboy was playing with his mobile phone, but the screen was not unlocked.

So Su Mo patted Iboy on the shoulder and whispered, "If you want to live a decent life, you must have some green on you."

Iboy sighed softly, as if relieved.

After a warm moment between Deft and Meiko, the two separated. The eight teams from LCK and LPL walked out of the hotel together and got into their cars.

After arriving at the competition venue, the eight teams got off the buses, gathered together, and walked into the venue together. They were quite synchronized, and it seemed like they had a tacit understanding.

EDG, as the big brother, keeps pace with KZ.

Su Mo suddenly saw two familiar figures appear in front of him, Rita and Luo Xin. They took out their mobile phones and secretly took pictures in the front row.

Su Mo suddenly had an idea. This scene could be put at the beginning of the video. All the videos of this intercontinental competition could use this beginning. With some special effects, the scene should be quite shocking.

Not to mention the LPL side, everyone in the LCK has their hands in their pockets, looking very cool and arrogant. If you don’t know better, you would think they are on a fashion show.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we add some dynamic music?

The two teams walked through the passage and then went their separate ways to their respective lounges.

After entering the lounge, the LPL players put down their bags and the four coaches gathered together to discuss. After some discussion, it was almost time, so Abu walked up to the EDG players and said:

"We EDG have never failed in our opening match. The situation in the LPL region is not good right now. As the big brother, we should take the lead. The first match is between us and SKT. We can only succeed, not fail, and we must win big!"

Su Mo felt that Abu really regarded himself as the big brother. It was not just shouting slogans, but it seemed to have become a responsibility.

Su Mo suddenly remembered that sentence: "It is our duty to defend the honor of the LPL region!"

Abu stretched out his hand, and everyone in EDG stretched out their hands. Abu shouted:
"EDG must win!"

"EDG must win!"

At the competition site, the audience was eagerly waiting before the game even started, holding all kinds of cheering signs in their hands. Because it was a home game, EDG had the most fans.

Guan Zeyuan said at the commentary booth: "Hello audience friends, welcome to the 2018 League of Legends Asia Challenge. Today is the second day of the group stage. Currently, LPL has two wins and two losses, LCK has four wins and no losses, and LMS has no points."

Remember to answer, "Today's first game is between EDG from the LPL region and SKT from the LCK region. It's very crucial. If SKT wins, then LPL's hope will be very slim and it can only rank second. If EDG can win, then LPL still has a chance to compete for the first place."

Rita said: "I have confidence in EDG, not only because SKT is in a better state now, but more because EDG itself is strong enough."

The host Luo Xin came on stage and, after a brief opening statement, welcomed the contestants from both sides.

Su Mo led EDG back to the court. The director gave a close-up. When the audience saw Su Mo, they were immediately excited:
"Brother Mozi! Brother Mozi! Brother Mozi!"

"The savior has arrived!"

"EDG, charge!"

"No matter what other teams are, we EDG will win!"

On the other side, SKT's starting five also appeared on the field, and many people cheered for SKT.

The two players stood face to face in the middle of the stage, with Su Mo facing top laner Thal.

Su Mo had no impression of this person.

In fact, Su Mo has no impression of the 2018 SKT players, after all, their performance was not good.

The two sides shook hands and turned to walk towards their respective seats.

Su Mo came to his position, put on his headphones, and entered the BP stage of the game when everything was ready.

In this game, EDG is on the red side and SKT is on the blue side.

BAN position situation:
EDG: Galio, Anivia, Xia

SKT: Male Knife, Pike, Irelia

I remember starting to analyze: "In this game, SKT's bans were all used to target Mozi. It seems that these three heroes are in three different positions, mid, support, and top, but they are indeed used to target Mozi. This is amazing."

Rita continued: "Then EDG targeted the middle and bottom lanes. Faker and Bang are both old SKT players, and the new SKT players don't seem to be very strong."

At this time, in the LPL zone lounge, Jackeylove joked: "Doinb, did you learn your male knife from Mozi? Why didn't the opponent ban your male knife yesterday and let you play it?"

Doinb smiled awkwardly: "No, if I learned it from Mozi, I would have won yesterday. I didn't learn it from him, so I didn't win yesterday."

Enter the hero selection phase.

SKT on the blue side locked down the Prince on the first floor.

Rita analyzed: "This could be the top laner Prince. In the current version, Prince's jungle ability has been weakened, and his ability in the line has been enhanced. Of course, it is possible that the opponent is playing a swing."

EDG got Vampire and Lucian on the first and second floors.

Guan Zeyuan commented: "Vladimir is also a strong mid laner in this version. In addition, many mid laners have been banned, so he is indeed an option. What I am more curious about is that EDG did not choose Kaisa, even though Kaisa was clearly on the outside."

SKT got Gragas and Yasuo on the second and third floors.

The whole audience was in an uproar and SKT fans were excited.

I remember the commentator said, "Here it comes, Faker's Yasuo, and it's a Gragas-Yasuo combination. This mid-jungle combination is quite strong. Although Vladimir has a blood pool to evade control skills, Gragas has two knock-up skills, so it's not that easy to dodge."

It was EDG's turn again. EDG got Morgana on the third floor and entered the second round of BP.

EDG also banned EZ and Kaisa.

SKT banned Nightmare and Kindred.

EDG locked down Sejuani on the fourth floor.

Rita analyzed: "The counter position on the fifth floor is indeed given to the top lane. I am looking forward to it. What hero will Mozi use to fight in the top lane?"

It was SKT's turn again. SKT locked on Alistar and Malphite on the fourth and fifth floors.

As soon as the iron man was taken out, the whole audience was in an uproar again:
"Fuck, what's going on? Is Tienan here?"

"SKT has used their ultimate move! SKT will definitely win this game!"

"Sure enough, no matter how bad SKT is in the league, they are the absolute champions in international competitions!"

"EDG must be trembling in fear, hahaha."

At this time, on the EDG side, Abu did not expect the opponent to use the hero Iron Man, and muttered:

"With this version of Iron Man, is he still strong enough to play in the competition? Is this true?"

Su Mo tried to analyze: "It's easy for them to kill one of them with this lineup. If Iron Man uses his ultimate, it will be six against four. It will be difficult to fight then."

Abu nodded. "That's right. Besides, they are strong in the dragon fight. The cooperation between the mid and jungle and the bottom lane makes it easy to get the dragon. Iron Man controls the dragon and pushes the tower. It's hard to defend."

"Xiao Mo, what are you going to play? You are very important in this game. I didn't consider Iron Man before. Now only you can counter it."

Su Mo glanced at the hero list and suddenly saw a hero.

"Aatrox, the Darkborn Sword Demon."

Su Mo made a choice.

So EDG got the Sword Demon on the fifth floor!

Rita became excited: "Aatrox! He was just reworked before the Intercontinental Championship. This is the first time that Aatrox has appeared in a professional competition after the rework. Brother Mozi is here again! He is here to teach!"

"The current Sword Demon has changed from mainly attacking with basic attacks to mainly using skills to deal damage, and his ultimate skill also has a resurrection effect. The control difficulty is higher than before, but the upper limit is also higher!"

Both sides began to adjust their lines, and soon, the lineup was determined:
Red side EDG: Top Aatrox, Jungle Sejuani, Mid Vampire, ADC Lucian, Support Morgana

SKT on the blue side: top laner Prince, jungler Gragas, mid laner Yasuo, ADC Iron Man, support Alistar

Seeing this lineup, Guan Zeyuan began to analyze: "The lineups of both sides in this game are very melee, with a lot of melee heroes, especially SKT's lineup, which has five melee heroes! It's all about melee ability. On EDG's side, Vampire is better, but Lucian is relatively fragile, so we need to be careful."

Entering the game screen, the factory manager began to set the pace: "Be careful in the bottom lane in this game, we have never played against this combination before."

Iboy muttered: "Is Iron Man so strong in this version? Is he just bringing it out to scare people?"

Meiko responded: "I think they should be used to cooperate with the mid and jungle to control the little dragon. Iron Man is very powerful in team fights with the little dragon soul. I don't know about the others."

Su Mo's Sword Demon was standing guard at the triangle grass in the top lane. Soon, the minions came out and the first wave of wild monsters refreshed.

Su Mo chose to return to the line and fight normally.

The prince from the opposite side appeared and kept walking back and forth, as if trying to trick Su Mo into using his skills, but Su Mo was very steady and didn't make a move, just watching the prince move.

The soldier was at low health, Su Mo pretended to go up and attack the soldier, and suddenly moved sideways, just enough to avoid the Prince's dragon's attack.

Rita exclaimed: "How cool! Brother Mozi moved sideways, and the prince's mind was seen through by him. He wanted to last hit and consume the enemy at the same time. The Sword Demon used the first part of his Q skill, raised his greatsword and chopped down, taking down three melee soldiers."

"After the Sword Demon's revision, the Q skill has three parts, Q1, Q2, Q3. Each part has different movements and ranges. At the same time, the edge damage of each part is higher, and it can also cause a short knockback. If all three parts can hit the sword tip, the basic damage is very high!"

The Sword Demon has just been reworked, and many people don’t even know his skills, so I need to introduce them to him.

Many audiences like Rita now. In the past, it was because of her appearance, but now it also depends on her professional ability.

In the middle lane, Scout's Vampire was laning against Faker's Yasuo. Yasuo started to put pressure on him at level 1, using Steel Flash to consume the enemy's energy. Scout's playing style was very stable, focusing on development, but if Yasuo insisted on coming up to fight, he would not be at a disadvantage.

In the bottom lane, Iboy and Meiko used their long arms to suppress the SKT duo in the early game.

However, Iron Man can rely on his skills to make last hits from a distance, so the effect of this suppression is very limited.

(End of this chapter)