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

"Holy shit!!! Holy shit!!! Holy shit!!! Holy shit..."

"Darius dog!!!"

"It's all operations, there are no numerical values ​​at all!!!"

"666666666!"

"Awesome, awesome, awesome..."

"God A! God A! God A! God A!"

"To be honest, LGD's top laner is really terrible. He should just retire. What's the point of him playing professionally?"

"777777777!"

"???????????? Darius can kill like that? I don't understand, but I'm shocked."

……

Darius' triple kill completely set the tone for the game.

In less than 10 minutes of gameplay, we were already down by 3K gold, which basically made the game unplayable.

If Imp had played a late-game ADC, we could have focused on building around him, but in this game Imp played Varus.

This is an ADC who excels in the early to mid-game but has absolutely no late-game potential.

Moreover, EDG is currently a team that completely dominates when they gain an advantage, giving LGD absolutely no chance.

The top laner is a complete noob.

Even Zhou Hanyang, who was a novice, couldn't understand it. He had no idea where LGD had found such a person.

The jungler is brainless.

Zhou Hanyang remembers it clearly, it was at the S14 Old Man's Cup.

LGD's jungler Eimy was assigned to the same team as Zz1tai and AJ.

A team that could have reliably qualified for the offline finals ended up losing because of their jungler, Eimy, who picked Xin Zhao and took Teleport instead of Smite.

The stance even went so far as to subtly hint to Eimy that he hadn't switched to Smite due to a glitch.

Eimy was still saying that he forgot to change the Smite.

If you get stuck and don't replace the card, you still have a chance to restart, but if you forget, you'll never have another chance.

As for the mid-laner, Wu-Tai... he's completely lost his form now.

With such a top, mid, and jungle player, they have absolutely no hope against EDG's superior operational capabilities.

In 26 minutes and 30 seconds, EDG completely overwhelmed LGD.

In the second game, EDG defeated LGD in just over 20 minutes.

On the way back, Zhou Hanyang kept laughing and complaining that LGD's top laner played Jarvan IV in one game and Gragas in another, even worse than Mingkai played. As a result, he was choked by Mingkai on the spot.

After defeating LGD, EDG began the second round of the regular season.

They defeated IM, DAN, Snake, IG, and WE again!

EDG achieved a 15-game winning streak in the regular season, ranking first in the standings with a 15-0 record and advancing to the playoffs.

Due to their advantage in regular season points, EDG can directly wait for the teams below them to rise up from the top four.

The LPL playoffs used version 7.16.

Because Riot Games made significant version changes before the S5 World Championship, Mordekaiser, a champion that could be considered a bug, appeared in the World Championship.

Therefore, since S6, Riot Games has generally not made major changes before each World Championship, but rather made gradual, minor adjustments.

Theoretically speaking, versions 7.16 and 7.18 are already quite similar.

7.16版本于8月14日正式更新上线，而LPL常规赛打完，时间已经来到了8月20日。

EDG's last match was also on August 19th.

Prior to this, EDG had not conducted in-depth research on the playoff version.

8月20日放了一天假期后，EDG众人于8月21日正式开始研究季后赛的7.16版本。

After all, the playoffs will officially begin on August 22. Although EDG is waiting in the semifinals, there is only one week left.

EDG will face their challenger on August 28th.

In the EDG club, Nofe stood at the front of the meeting room and said, "What are your thoughts on patch 7.16?"

"Sunfire Cape has improved its cost-effectiveness, so I think if junglers and supports can build tanky items, then top laners must build damage items!" Mingkai said first.

"The jungle champions should still mainly be Sejuani, Jarvan IV, Gragas, and Zac. It still depends on the late-game team fights, where the role of the ADC will increase, and the ADC will become more important in the late game."

“Hmm.” Meiko nodded slightly as well: “Caitlyn was nerfed, Lucian, Ashe… AD carries like these all lack damage in the late game.”

Everyone started talking at once.

Listening to everyone's understanding, Zhou Hanyang fell into deep thought.

Riot Games will use version 7.18 for this year's World Championship, which is essentially no different from version 7.16.

The only change is a nerf to strong tempo junglers like Lee Sin and Elise.

Because the World Championship has such a long schedule, there is an iterative process every year.

When a team comes up with a new version of the solution, other teams either copy it directly, or even surpass it... like EDG in S11.

This is why Scout is known as the "Master Thief".

He not only stole JieJie's MVP, but also ShowMaker's championship.

EDG defeated DK using DK's playstyle.

Another option is to find a different path.

For example, the T1 in S12 and the SSG in S7.

S12的T1虽然拿到了最后的冠军，但S12的T1和S7的SSG一样，他们在瑞士轮的成绩很差。

It's because they realized that following the mainstream version's understanding wasn't enough to win, so they went to find their own way of playing.

The JD version, which was based on teamfight strategy, has evolved into an extreme lane control strategy.

SSG in S7 couldn't beat RNG in team fights, so they had no choice but to switch to split pushing.

In fact, most teams' initial understanding did not involve the incense burner.

why?

The incense burner is only effective if it is the first item produced.

However, in a match, the support must spend money to upgrade their support item as their first item, otherwise their vision will fall behind.

Otherwise, considering the economy of supports, by the time they build support items and then Ardent Censer, the game has already been decided, and even if they have Ardent Censer, AD carries won't be able to change the situation.

Do other teams not know that Ardent Censer is strong? Of course they do, but for most teams, vision control is a higher priority.

Until the nerfs to tempo-based junglers and the rise of tanky junglers.

With the introduction of the tanky jungler, the first item can be the green jungle item to compensate for the vision gap caused by the support building Ardent Censer.

This gave incense burners a chance to appear.

Throughout the summer split leading up to the S7 World Championship, Riot Games made virtually no adjustments to the talent system.

As a professional player, Zhou Hanyang naturally knows that it's not as some people say, that Riot Games made a major overhaul before the World Championship.

It's simply because the tempo jungler has been weakened, so junglers can only build tanky junglers.

Then, the version's durability is relatively high, so it just requires the ADC to step up and carry the game in the late game.

This gave incense burners a chance to appear.

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