What is a wandering mid laner?

At the post-match press conference, more than 20 contestants from the four teams lined up, answering questions quickly.

They want to hurry back to the hotel training room and prepare for tomorrow's game.

But there are a lot of hot spots today, Suantou Wangba has already answered four or five interview questions about 'winning the game in 14 minutes'.

As the post-match interview drew to a close, South Korean reporters looked at their phones to ask questions.

The translator picked up the microphone and started to work, "What do you guys in the LPL think of the remarks made by the Korean coaching staff during the interview today?"

"What?" White Crescent didn't respond.

He is thinking about the game with his colleagues today, how can he have time to surf the Internet and watch other people's interviews?

Jack handed over the phone directly.

He is good at surfing and saw this video in the background.

Lin Ran turned his head to look at Xiaotian's cell phone.

This highly topical and controversial interview was naturally translated by someone, and the Chinese subtitles have been coded and displayed.

Kkoma in the camera said, "Tomorrow's final should be between us and the LPL division..."

At the time of the interview, the semifinals hadn't started yet, but the LCK coaching staff had identified LPL as their imaginary opponent.

"In my opinion, there is no suspense in this final," Samsung coach Edgar said. "I think it will be 3:1, and the LCK will win."

The reporter in the video continued, "But the YM team in the LPL division..."

"I know... I know that YM is very strong. Our four teams are not very sure of winning against YM in this version," Edgar, who was wearing a black suit, said, "But this is an intercontinental competition."

"The rules limit YM to only one game in the first four rounds," kkoma said with a happy expression, looking in a good mood. "The LCK only needs to win the other three rounds, so we think the final score is 3:1."

"It's very simple, isn't it?" KT coach Lee shrugged his shoulders with a smile, "Just like in the group stage, the other LPL teams didn't even beat us in a single game, so it's nothing to worry about."

"If we lose the intercontinental final, then we will swim back to Korea," coach KT joked at the end, "fans, please rest assured to watch the game, LCK will never let you down."

The moving video ends here.

Brother Feng thought for a moment and responded: "I think the coaching team in the LCK division is too confident. No one is sure of winning before the finals."

Nothing selling point, quite satisfactory.

South Korean journalists set their sights on Lin Ran.

Lin Ran saw that none of the players or the coach wanted to speak again, so he took the microphone.

"I want to know if Coach KT's words mean anything?" He laughed. "I kind of want to see him swim back to Korea."

Many reporters in the audience were laughing.

"Since he has set an example, I will also set a flag. If I lose the final, I will go back to Shanghai and run 10 laps around the base."

Lin Ran cleared his throat and continued, "LCK has won the runner-up in the world competition for a whole year..."

"I think this intercontinental tournament is no exception," he said confidently. "This will be the second runner-up in the LCK division this year. They will gradually adapt to this frustration."

"It's okay to be the second child in a thousand years," he finally said, "Let the LCK taste what we had in the first two years."

The reporters in the audience were frantically taking notes. This kind of tit-for-tat interview is the selling point. Otherwise, why would those editors be headlines?

The half-hour post-match interview was over, and everyone rushed back to their residences by bus.

After going to the hotel cafeteria to fill their stomachs, the players and coaching staff of the four teams gathered in the training room to hold a pre-fight meeting.

"Just like what the LCK coaches said, if you want to win the final tomorrow, the core point is YM," White Crescent boasted at this time, "We are in a very good state now, and the winning rate against the LCK team is very high."

The coaches and players in the audience nodded.

This is a fact that even the opponents admit, and naturally no one denies it.

So far, there is only one undefeated team in the LPL division, YM, and they have played every game neatly, showing their dominance.

"So assuming YM wins one of the first four games," White Crescent subconsciously pressed the pen spring, "then the other three teams must at least guarantee to win the next game."

"The bottom line is to drag YM to the fifth game, so that LPL has a chance to win..." Han Yi said, "If our other teams can win one more game in the first four games, that would be great. "

"So, our goal now is to win the MVP team, the worst team in the LCK, without YM playing."

"Next, the joint coaching staff will come on stage one by one to bring us analysis and summaries. Everyone listen carefully and memorize them carefully. They may come in handy tomorrow!" White Crescent finally said.

Chapter 287: Unite as one, the night dissipates!

The first one to take the stage was HooN. He was the head coach of the WE team last year. After the arrival of Redmi, he became an assistant coach and actually worked as an analyst.

HooN turned on the projector and presented the information he wanted to display on the screen.

"We should pay attention to the support Max of the MVP team. He is a very thoughtful player, and he likes to roam to support teammates in other lanes."

When HooN said something, Jun-il, the team translator beside him, translated a sentence. As a Korean, Jun-il spoke with a sense of joy in the Northeast accent.

"He used a total of 50 different auxiliary heroes in 16 games in the Spring Split," he looked up at the dozens of players in the audience. "Everyone can look at the big screen, this is his hero usage."

Lin Ran felt his scalp go numb looking at the long strip of data.

The version of the spring split is very fixed, and the support positions are basically the output heroes of the S6 global finals plus some front row players who can produce the magic weapon [Redemption].

In this case, the world's top support Wolf only used 7 heroes in the Spring Split, and the Prophet even used only 5 heroes to finish the Spring Split.

This Max used a full 16 auxiliary heroes, which can only be described as terrifying.

"His hero pool includes not only regular supports like Thresh Tam Lulu, but also weird heroes like Sion, Fireman, and Vel'Koz..."

"He's even used Syndra and Spider as support."

The contestants whispered to each other, and the rustling sound resounded from the audience.

This Max's hero pool highlights an outrageous one.

The players all know that this wide hero pool gives the team more possibilities for tactics.

HooN gave an example on stage:

"For example, the MVP is on the red side, and first steals Syndra, and the blue side wants to use the murlocs for counterpoint restraint, but they give Syndra to the support to play, and finally play development for the mid laner Kassadin ——Heroes like the little murloc can’t do anything against Kassadin, and the advantages and disadvantages of BP will be reversed in an instant.”

HooN switched the screen, and another picture appeared on the screen, "This is the hero usage win rate of MVP mid laner Ian in the Spring Split."

"He used Syndra in 12 games, and his winning rate was as high as 83%. His own Syndra proficiency is naturally very high. On the other hand, it is also because the support hero pool is covering for him-opponents find that they can use Syndra After switching to the support position, he seldom chooses the role of restraining Syndra in the middle lane, but mainly uses clockwork, Victor and other jack-of-all-trades heroes, which makes Ian very comfortable in the lane.”

"The supporting hero pool that can swing makes it difficult for us to face the MVP BP. We have to block Syndra, a hero who can swing, and give our own heroes the lane power," HooN analyzed with reason, "and then Target in style of play."

"Their double Cs—mid laner lan and bottom laner Maha's output ability is average." HooN projected another picture on the screen, which recorded the output histogram of the MVP double Cs, ranking mid-range in the Korean league.

It is indeed a big problem.

The auxiliary hero pool can win a comfortable hero selection for their own double C. In this case, they can only deal mid-level damage in the league, which can already explain a lot of things.

"Most of MVP's strategies are also based on supports," HooN continued, "They like to let supports cooperate with the mid laner and jungler to roam, get kills or capture the vanguard of the canyon, and widen the economic gap in the early stage."

"A bit like YM?" Xiao Ming said suddenly.

HooN nodded after hearing Jun-il's translation, "It's the castrated version of YM."

In this way, everyone understands.

Now YM's main tactics are also relying on the three-person linkage between Liu Qingsong Xiaotian and Lin Ran. From the bottom lane four-pack two to the canyon vanguard tactics, the three of them are indispensable.

Although the ideas of YM and MVP seem to be similar, the individual strength of the players determines the gap between the two teams.

Since their debut, Lin Ran and Jack's output ability has been among the best in the same position in the league, and they can often deal explosive damage when they have a matchup advantage.

This is an ability that MVP double C does not have.

"So our general idea is: ban Syndra, take the hero in the middle lane; limit the MVP's support roaming during the laning phase of the bottom lane, and then use personal strength to suppress the opponent's double C." HooN continued. .

"After the observation of the Spring Split and our training camp these days," he glanced at the players in the audience before saying, "RNG is more suitable for dealing with MVP."

"Your botlane laning style is fierce, and you can firmly bind the opponent's support," HooN looked at Uzi, "As long as the team battle is smoothly dragged on, the weakness of MVP's double C output ability will be exposed. "

Uzi nodded vigorously.

Laning is a unique skill that he is proud of, and he is confident that he can match Xiao Ming to suppress the MVP's bottom lane combination.

"Regarding the first-level arrangement of the MVP team, they have some points worth noting..." HooN and Jun Il got up and left the table, "I will let the analysts of RNG talk about this issue."

Due to the tight schedule, the analysts of the LPL joint coaching staff can only split up the entire research task on the MVP team, and analyze a part of each person in a division of labor.

RNG analyst Gou Ba is a thin and crooked man. He has been cooperating with Brother Feng before, and his level is quite good. (Tip: he won the best analyst of 2017 in the real world)

Gouba once scored 2 points in the US server during the S2300 period, ranking among the top ten in the US server. The high rank is a real outlier among analysts.

Most of the analysts are professionals in mathematics like Su Cheng, that is, diamond ranks, and have a certain understanding of games and competitions.

After all, high rank is not a necessary ability for analysts, and it will not improve their data analysis ability much.

But in terms of tactical analysis ability, analysts with higher ranks still have an advantage after all.

"I looked through the videos in the past two days, and found that they have two common tactics at the first level when they don't have the line right in the middle..." He turned on the projector, "The first is the situation where the jungler has no advantage .”

"Their support will look at the bottom of the river, and the jungler will choose the misplaced top half to start."

"Once the vision of the lower river channel sees that the opponent's jungler is invading, the MVP's jungler will choose to switch to the opponent's upper half of the jungle. This allows him to ensure the development of the jungler even if he does not have line rights in the early stage of the middle lane."

Gou Ba's voice paused, and continued, "The solution to this tactic is to change the jungle with him at the second level, then help the middle lane push the lane, and then forcefully go to the bottom lane for four packs and two."

He coughed lightly, opened the teacup and took a sip of strong tea. He looked a little dark circled, probably because he hadn't had a good rest these days.

"The second style of play is that the jungler has an advantage in matchups, and the support has control skills as a hard support..."

"They will invade the lower half of the area in groups at the first level, and use the auxiliary control to try to force out the opponent's skills or seize the buff." Gou Ba looked at the YM crowd in the audience, "This is similar to YM's thinking, forcing the opponent to switch junglers The jungle starts, so that their jungler can control the bottom half and release the support, and then the jungle support will work together to help the mid laner."

Lin Ran nodded.

Even though MVP is no threat to them, and the LPL joint coaching staff will try their best to make YM avoid MVP, but he is still listening carefully.

YM is now very malleable, and in Lin Ran's view, there are more than just four packs and two packs in the early game.

After all, Gouba is a well-known and excellent analyst in the industry. There are not many opportunities to hear him talk about tactics. It is good to learn something after all.

"The solution to this tactic is that the support should move first. Due to the change of the field, you go online first in the bottom lane. Naturally, you should push the line first and grab the second."

"Auxiliary promotion to the second level will directly drill into the wild area, insert a ward at the opposite buff, and use this ward to judge the specific position of the opponent's jungler, and then you can choose to continue to press the line or release the line to defend the tower..."

Uzi keeps these ideas firmly in mind. As long as they catch a chance of MVP's initial tactics, it will bring a huge early advantage to RNG, and it is very likely to affect the direction of the game.

"Time is limited, and this is the only work I can do," Gou Ba rubbed his brows, "Next, YM analyst Orange will talk about her research on the idea of ​​MVP switching lines."

Su Cheng walked quickly to the stage with her long legs, and she opened the slideshow in the USB drive.

"If MVP has a disadvantage in the early stage, they will choose to switch lanes in time to stop the loss..." There was a video of MVP playing against LZ in her slideshow.

"In the early stage of this round, the MVP jungler Tanglang was targeted by LZ blind monk quite badly, and the top laner Rambo was also suppressed by Khan Jess very uncomfortable. In the case of no head burst in the early stage, MVP fell behind by 7 gold in 500 minutes. "

Su Cheng continued to play the video, "We can notice that at 7 minutes and 17 seconds, MVP chose to go back to the city from the bottom lane, and then switched to the top lane, while Rambo was going to go back to the city and go to the bottom lane."

"They had an unexpected lane change with Rambo. LZ obviously didn't react. Khan was forced by the MVP bot lane and couldn't even make up for it..."

"Then LZ's jungler and support were forced to go to the top lane to protect Jess, but during this time, Rambo, who had already switched to the bottom lane, and Mantis in the jungle were developing rapidly."

"Khan returned to the city after Jesta, and also wanted to change lanes to face Rambo," Su Cheng circled the screen with a pen in the air, "but the MVP support made an eye here before and saw Khan The movement back to the city."

"Then they chose to switch the lane back again and let the duo continue to pin Jayce."

Su Cheng continued to play the video, "Khan found out that he had been tricked, and returned to the city in the lower tower to go on the road."

"And the combination of Shu Wang and Gerila can only run from the top road to the bottom road on foot," Su Cheng said in a clear and sassy voice, "But this time, Jess hasn't developed for a long time, and the MVP's Rambo Mantis, the upper-field duo, not only completed a make-up lead, but also led the opponent by one level in experience."

"At this time, the game has been going on for 10 minutes," Su Cheng finished playing the intercepted video of the game, and the final picture was frozen at 10 minutes and 07 seconds, "In less than 3 minutes, the MVP went from being 500 behind economically to overtaking 300, making a profit. I took the economic difference of 800 gold coins, and just changed the line twice."

"Hiss..." Uzi gasped, "It's kind of evil."

Su Cheng nodded, "The more important thing is that they delayed the strong period when Jess just came out with the jagged dagger, and the blind monk didn't find a suitable Gank opportunity."

A group of professional players were whispering in the audience, discussing MVP's unconventional lane change tactics this time.

"It's not wrong to lose." Baolan was a little convinced, and he recalled the painful memory of being hit by the MVP's assistant Thain yesterday.

Lin Ran was thoughtful. He felt that this line-changing tactic could also be used by YM, and planned to go back and practice after the intercontinental competition.

"This is also the reason why the MVP double C's personal strength is average, but they can win the third place in the LCK Spring Split," Su Cheng said while rewinding the video, "Their operational ability is not inferior to the top LCK teams. .”

"Let's take a look at how to break this line-changing idea. Pay attention to the timing," Su Cheng played the video from the beginning, "The time for the MVP to go back to the city is 7 minutes and 17 seconds. At this time..."

Uzi's eyes lit up, "The artillery line."

"Yes, the fifth artillery line will reach the center of the bottom lane at this moment, and exchange fire with the enemy." Su Cheng's reaction to Uzi is not surprising, professional ADCs are much more sensitive to pawn lines than other position, not to mention Uzi who can take time to make up the knife in the team.