Mingkai, if you're this cowardly, you should just go home and raise pigs.

In patch 7.12, Zac was nerfed, significantly reducing his early jungle clear speed, so he no longer needs to be banned!

Because of Zhou Hanyang's deep champion pool, Mingkai's Spider must be banned. Otherwise, if Zhou Hanyang pushes the lane slowly in the top lane, Spider will come to the top lane to help with a tower dive, making it impossible for the top lane to play.

In the previous match between EDG and IG, Duke was completely outmaneuvered by EDG's top and jungle using this strategy.

If they were playing against other teams, EDG might not pick Spider.

The problem is that WE plays Spider quite well, and if they don't ban Spider, EDG will definitely pick it themselves to prevent them from getting it!

After both sides finished banning champions, EDG, on the blue side, immediately picked Galio.

"Oh? Galio's here!" Wawa exclaimed in surprise, then chuckled softly, "How should WE choose?"

"Ashe and Kalista are gone, and WE themselves don't play Varus!" Miller raised an eyebrow: "In this patch, the OP champions are Caitlyn and Kog'Maw! Are WE going to try and take Kog'Maw?"

"EDG's first three bans were very targeted. They banned Thresh and Tahm Kench directly, and also banned Caitlyn, who has a dash ability."

"If WE picks Kog'Maw, who lacks mobility, they'll be left without a support to protect them!" Rita exclaimed with admiration, "What will WE choose?"

As soon as Rita finished speaking, the red team WE chose Kog'Maw and Braum.

Kog'Maw and Braum are a good combination for both offense and defense; Braum can protect Kog'Maw, who has no mobility skills.

The range of Kog'Maw's attacks is also long enough, making it a pretty good combination.

In addition, WE also has a strategy to prevent WE from picking Varus and Braum.

Varus and Braum make a pretty disgusting combination, with formidable fighting power.

Seeing that WE had picked Kog'Maw and Braum, EDG, on the blue side, immediately picked Jarvan IV and Rakan on their second and third floors!

"Wow! I knew it, this is EDG's Galio! In many teams' understanding, Galio is just a front-line initiator and tank!" Miller immediately raised his voice:

"But in EDG's understanding of the game, Galio is actually a tempo-setting and finishing character. Whenever they get Galio, they will definitely pair him with an additional initiator!"

"I'm sure everyone has already played this champion in ranked games! This is Rakan's first appearance in the LPL, let's see how this champion performs on the field!" Wawa immediately laughed.

“Prince, Rakan, Galio…” Rita gasped slightly: “EDG’s three engages are too solid! Then the top lane needs to pick a damage dealer!”

WE clearly didn't expect EDG to actually pull out these three heroes.

Speaking solely of the prince, his pairing with Galio isn't particularly strong.

To reiterate, the prince is a rather clueless jungler.

He seems to be full of team fight initiation skills, but in reality, only his ultimate skill is a proper team fight initiation.

When ganking, the EQ combo provides pretty good mobility.

However, in team fights, let alone initiating with just EQ, even EQR is unlikely to hit the key carry!

Compared to initiating team fights!

The prince's main role is actually reflected in his mobility during ganks.

And the division of the battlefield in team battles.

That's right!

The prince is not a hero who can initiate team fights.

Many professional players and players use Jarvan IV as an initiator.

It wasn't until Season 11 that EDG's JieJie showed professional players around the world how to play Jarvan IV.

JieJie single-handedly helped the Trap Prince, whose win rate was less than 15% in the S11 group stage, buy a house in the ban list!

EDG has Rakan and Galio to initiate team fights, and Galio can also clean up kills, while Jarvan IV enters the fray to divide the battlefield.

This gives the top and bottom C units almost perfect output space!

Faced with EDG's explosive teamfight-oriented composition, WE only had two options!

One strategy is to play a counter-attacking game. Their support already has Braum, so they can build Cassiopeia in the mid lane.

It can counter Galio, and its ultimate ability can also be used to counter him in the late game.

However, if WE picks Cassiopeia in the mid lane, then WE's pace will have to slow down, and they will have to play a more strategic game against EDG.

However, this strategy has a very important problem...

That means EDG's Galio will definitely go mid.

If Galio goes top, Cassiopeia won't be able to go top lane.

Cassiopeia, a champion who lacks both crowd control and mobility and must push the lane, becomes Jarvan IV's ATM when she goes to the top lane.

After all, Cassiopeia and Kennen are different. Kennen's main strength is pushing lanes and harassing, while Cassiopeia's lane pushing is far inferior to Kennen's. Her strength lies mainly in her harassment ability.

If you can't push the lane, you can't avoid the jungler's ganks!

If Zhou Hanyang were as clueless as a young TheShy, it would be fine; we could just deal with him directly.

Although Zhou Hanyang has never played Galio, he has even played Sion. Who dares to say that he won't suddenly play a game of Galio?

If EDG picks a Taliyah to counter Cassiopeia in the mid lane, WE might as well just restart the game!

In the end, WE still didn't dare to gamble and chose Lee Sin on the third floor of the red team!

They plan to take the top and mid counter-pick, then use lane priority to help Lee Sin invade, and let Jarvan IV dominate the jungle in the early game!

In the second round of bans, WE banned Varus and Rumble!

To prevent Zet from getting Varus, we need to withstand the pressure in the early laning phase.

Rumble, on the other hand, simply felt that EDG's team fight lineup was already too explosive.

If Rumble uses his ultimate to split the battlefield, then the pressure on Jarvan IV will be completely drawn to Rumble, causing him to mindlessly engage!

EDG banned Kled and Jayce!

The WE team was extremely surprised to see EDG's two bans.

If Zhou Hanyang wants to pick a strong top laner, he's not afraid of either of them at all.

Banning these two heroes clearly indicates an intention to create weak top laners.

WE finally got LeBlanc on the fourth floor!

Picking LeBlanc allows you to counter Galio without fear of EDG's flexible counter-pick!

After WE finished picking their champions, EDG picked two champions on the fourth and fifth floors that surprised everyone!

Nar!

And—Kasumi!!!

Everyone was shocked by EDG's two choices!

Everyone at WE was completely baffled.

Gnar and Xayah are both teamfight champions who are extremely weak in the laning phase.

There are already three teamfight heroes, why add another teamfight hero?

What an incredible draft pick!

With this lineup chosen, it means that EDG will have no lane priority in the top and bottom lanes in the early game.

If LeBlanc goes AD early game, Galio will probably have a tough time too!

However, EDG's lineup has one unique... and also an absolute advantage.

That means as long as the game drags on for more than 30 minutes, and as long as we're not behind by 10,000, we absolutely cannot lose!

Four out of the five heroes have lethal crowd control abilities, plus Xayah, who has explosive AOE damage in late-game team fights and extremely strong self-preservation capabilities.

Even if a random Challenger player with a strong hero pool of five different champions were to come and play after 30 minutes, they could still crush WE's lineup in team fights.

Facing EDG's ultimate turtle-like late-game lineup, WE decisively focused on protecting their units in the early game.

They plan to self-destruct directly with EDG. If EDG doesn't explode within 30 minutes, they will!

So they locked Kennan up on the fifth floor!

Kennen is a counter to Gnar, and Kog'Maw is stronger than Xayah in the early game. Guess how the author plans to write this game? I just learned this at Worlds the other day!

[Please, ZuoShou, stop playing Orianna... We lost Season 10 because of Orianna! It's Season 14 already, why are you still fixated on that guy who can't even play Orianna properly? It's disgusting!]