Alliance: If you block my contract, I will just start!

"No, he must be sick!"

That night, Rita, who was sleeping in bed, suddenly sat up.

Although so much time has passed, she still cannot understand Shen Lang's weird behavior.

I'm so fucking excited by your flirting, and then you turn around and tell me to buy your champion skin?

Fuck the champion skin!

Rita originally thought that Shen Lang's champion skin was pretty cool, but now she just wants that champion skin to get lost as far away from her.

"I will never use his champion skin in my life. No, I will never play Yasuo in my life!"

Rita said bitterly.

That’s right, under Shen Lang’s coercion, she also bought Yasuo’s champion skin on the spot.

Then Shen Lang said "I love you" and kicked her out of the team.

Damn Shen Lang!

Damn champion skin!

Rita was not the only one who suffered from Shen Lang's torture. That night, Shen Lang ranked until 12 o'clock in the evening. This had never happened before since he obtained the system.

So, there is no one who doesn’t work hard, it’s just that they don’t have enough money.

As long as the company is willing to pay enough, overtime is not a problem at all.

That night, netizens finally saw what a hard-working Shen Lang really is, and they all suggested that Riot Games should make two more championship skins for Shen Lang so that Shen Lang could train hard with the help of promoting the skins.

……

After the spring season ends, EDG’s next task is to prepare for MSI.

Compared to the World Championship, the MSI schedule is relatively simpler. Only the spring season champions from each major region advance, while EDG from the LPL, SKT from the LCK, and G2 from the LEC can directly advance to the group stage without having to play in the qualifying round. The competition intensity is actually not very high.

TL from LCS and FW from LMS can directly enter the elimination stage of the qualifying round.

The eight teams from wildcard teams such as Japan and Vietnam will need to start from the qualifying group stage.

The official schedule has always been like this. The gap in strength between the wildcard teams and the teams in the main division is too big. If teams like EDG were to start from the group stage of the qualifying round, the game would basically be unwatchable, and no audience would watch the game of bullying. Instead, many viewers would look forward to the game between weak teams.

According to official rules, there will be six teams in the group stage. Excluding the three teams that advance directly, there are only three places left. Among these three places, the gap in strength between Flash Wolves and TL and the wildcard teams is also very large, so there should be no problem in advancing.

In other words, there is actually only one spot reserved for the wild card.

As for the remaining spot, there is actually not much suspense. There are also gaps between the wildcards. In comparison, the strength of the Vietnam region is also quite different from that of other wildcard regions. So if nothing unexpected happens, the final group stage spot should be won by PVB from the Vietnam region.

This MSI was held in two locations, Vietnam and Taiwan.

The qualifying and group stages were held in Vietnam, and the semi-finals and finals were held in Taiwan. The authorities probably want to expand the influence of League of Legends. After all, many professional players in the Vietnamese region came from Internet cafes, and it may not be impossible for it to become a major region like LPL in the future.

……

The MSI group stage begins on May 5th, which is nearly three weeks away, giving the qualifying teams enough time to prepare.

In addition to hard training, EDG focused on studying and analyzing SKT during this time.

In fact, the same is true for SKT.

Both teams regard each other as the strongest opponent in this MSI.

Of course, except Shen Lang.

He just worked a little harder on the day the champion skin was released, but soon started to play badly afterwards.

Rank? Training match?

I'm so unfamiliar!

Is it that the female anchor's ball skills are not good enough? Or is it that her dancing is not good enough?

This made SKT's analyst team very annoyed.

The core of EDG is Shen Lang. If you want to study EDG, you must study Shen Lang.

But the problem is, Shen Lang doesn’t usually play ranked games, so where can they go to do research?

The training matches are also confidential and they cannot access them. The only information they can find is the game videos of EDG's spring season.

There was no other way, as the information was too scarce. They could only watch EDG's playoff demos over and over again. There were only a few games, and they were almost sick of watching them, but they still didn't figure out anything.

In comparison, the EDG analyst team is much busier.

SKT players also work very hard, especially Faker, who basically spends his free time playing Rank.

The two teams regarded each other as opponents, but their core mid-lane players showed two completely opposite attitudes before the game.

Neither EDG nor SKT seem to take G2 seriously, not to mention TL, which is still struggling in the play-in round.

But actually?

According to the timeline in Shen Lang's memory, the teams in the S9MSILCK and LPL regions were working in vain.

If there was no butterfly effect, the IG team should have advanced from the LPL region.

Then in the MSI knockout stage, IG was eliminated by TL in the first round, and SKT was eliminated by G2.

The two teams regarded each other as the biggest obstacle to winning the MSI championship. Even netizens in the two regions discussed each other the most. As a result, G2 played against TL in the final.

Shen Lang did not remind his own analyst team.

EDG is not IG.

As long as he doesn't take it lightly when facing TL or even G2.

The main reason is that if he said at this time that SKT would be eliminated by G2, no one would believe it.

Before the match, no one would have thought that the European and American region was so strong, and the reputation of "European and American losers" was mentioned from time to time.

Although FPX won the championship in the end of S9, this year can definitely be said to be the year of the rise of the European and American regions. G2, reinforced by Caps, is very strong and is definitely not worse than SKT after the reorganization.

However, only Shen Lang knows this now. For the vast majority of LPL netizens, SKT's deterrent power is still very strong. Although EDG performed so well in the spring season, there are still many netizens who believe that they will not be SKT's opponents in MSI.

Just like the most discussed topic in the forum now.

If EDG faces SKT in the MSI finals, what is their chance of winning?

Just look at the comments under this topic and you will know that optimistic netizens say it is 50-50, while pessimistic netizens even give an 80-20 prediction, and they think EDG has only a 20% chance of winning.

As for the reason.

"From the performance in the spring season, the key to EDG's victory is Weiwu in the middle lane. The side lanes and even the jungle often rely on Weiwu's roaming to gain an advantage. Take the semi-finals and finals for example. Without Weiwu's roaming, Jiejie would not have been able to choose a disadvantaged hero in the game and control two river crabs at the beginning."

"This game strategy relies heavily on Weiwu Ge's advantage in the laning phase. There are very few mid laners in the LPL who can withstand Weiwu Ge's laning pressure, so EDG was able to play so smoothly in the spring season."

"But the problem is that SKT has a mid laner who is as strong as Weiwu or even stronger than Weiwu. As long as Faker keeps Weiwu in the middle lane, the other players of SKT can play freely in the lane and win the game easily."

This is the analysis with the most likes in the comments below, and it also indirectly confirms the inner thoughts of the majority of netizens.

Shen Lang was not sure whether he could suppress Faker. After all, he had never fought against the big devil since he entered the professional arena.

But it is somewhat biased to directly say that other EDG players are not as good as other SKT players.

iboy and others do perform poorly on the field sometimes, but are the other SKT players any good?

Faker's condition in S9 was not bad, but his performance in world competitions was not outstanding. Isn't that the problem of other players?

After seeing the discussion among netizens in the forum, Shen Lang immediately updated his Weibo:

"SKT is nothing to be proud of!"

As soon as this Weibo post was published, Kwon Jong-hyuk's internet trolls came to smell the scent.

Both RNG and Kwon Jong-hyuk are in a difficult situation now.

The former had poor results last season, and its performance in the spring season was not good either. Even the players on the team began to have conflicts with the club, which can be said to be facing internal and external troubles.

As for the latter, the team's poor performance is directly related to the manager. The key is that he has a history of letting Shen Lang go. Now the higher Shen Lang's performance and value are, the closer Quan Zhonghe is to unemployment.

So whenever he got the chance, he would throw dirty water on Shen Lang like crazy.

"Just because you won the world championship, you dare to look down on SKT?"

"When Faker won the championship, you didn't even know where you were!"

"Mocking your opponent before the game is a lack of manners!"

……

Looking at the comments under his Weibo, Shen Lang did not feel annoyed, and even felt like laughing.

If you don't lure out the black guys before the game, you won't be able to attack them after you win the game.

Just like fishing, you have to bait the bait before casting the rod.