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

Zhou Hanyang's speech undoubtedly shocked countless people.

The heart has the Tigers, fine sniffing the rose.

Everyone could feel Zhou Hanyang's yearning for a professional career and a championship.

At this moment, most of the audience understood Zhou Hanyang somewhat.

He was brought on as a last-minute substitute to take the blame; he truly risked everything.

Yu Shuang was equally shocked!

Mingkai was impressed by Zhou Hanyang.

In his eyes, Zhou Hanyang was always joking around and never serious, but he never expected that he would be so resolute inside.

Yu Shuang then asked a few more questions and ended the interview.

Back in the lounge, Abu patted Zhou Hanyang on the shoulder and, without saying anything unnecessary, simply said in a deep voice, "Keep it up, hard work pays off!"

Hard work will definitely pay off!

Clearly, Abu, as the team manager, was worried about potential problems with Zhou Hanyang's interview, so he specifically watched the post-match interview.

The others, however, didn't seem to care about that; they gathered in small groups, laughing and joking.

The competition was over, and everyone took a bus back to the hotel.

Then we went out for a meal together.

The match was held in the capital city, while EDG's club is based in Shanghai, so they stayed at a hotel arranged by the event organizers.

If this were in Shanghai, even if we won the game today, I would definitely go back to the club.

At most, it's just a few people the contestants know well going out to eat together.

After everyone finished their dinner that evening, they were able to get some rare rest time.

Everyone was using their phones in the hotel.

The next day at noon, everyone boarded a plane to Shanghai.

The grand final will be held at the Hongqiao Center in Shanghai.

I will also be participating in the pre-match filming for the finals on the 24th.

So there isn't much time left for everyone.

There are only 4 days left in total, with the finals taking place on April 29th.

After taking another day off on the 23rd, EDG and WE went to the venue together on the 24th to complete the filming.

Basically, it's just pre-match trash talk.

It took a whole day to finally finish filming.

Training officially resumed on the 25th.

The other teams that lost their matches have all finished their Spring Split and are now on vacation.

So at this point, it's basically impossible to schedule practice matches, and you can only maintain your form through ranked games.

After lunch on the 25th, everyone played ranked games for several hours.

In the evening, they gathered together to review the proceedings.

After the replay began, Coach Nofe's gaze immediately fell on Mingkai, and he asked with some doubt, "Why didn't you go for the dragon?"

The translator will translate Nofe's words.

"Huh?" Mingkai couldn't help but be stunned for a moment: "My main goal is the vanguard, so I definitely can't take care of the dragon at the same time!"

"I didn't mean to hold you accountable." Nofe waved his hand, knowing that Mingkai had misunderstood him, and rephrased it: "I'm asking, what is your operational logic behind doing this, that is, your understanding of the game?"

After the translator finished speaking, Mingkai couldn't help but blink twice, then looked at Zhou Hanyang with a questioning look in his eyes.

Should you say it or should I say it?

“Let me explain!” Zhou Hanyang looked at Nofe and took the initiative to speak: “This is my operational logic.”

"Okay!" Nofe nodded. "You tell me!"

In this best-of-five series, Zhou Hanyang was initially brought in as a last resort, so he was allowed to act as the commander and make arbitrary decisions.

However, the strategy for the subsequent finals will definitely still be based on Coach Nofe.

Nofe naturally needs to understand Zhou Hanyang and Ming Kai's interpretation of the current version.

"First, the improvement of a hero's combat power can be simply divided into two categories: their inherent level and attributes, and improvements from external resources," Zhou Hanyang said thoughtfully.

"Leaving aside the self, it's all about leveling up! External enhancements also come in two forms: one is from equipment, and the other is from things like the red and blue dragon buffs."

However, these buffs increase the hero's combat power in a way that can be understood as an invisible boost. Equipment upgrades, on the other hand, are purely visible improvements.

For heroes, both one-piece and three-piece sets bring a qualitative change in combat power, while two-piece sets are relatively less effective.

Let's say we set the value of the first dragon at 1000, then we'll divide that 1000 in resources equally between the two players.

In the upcoming team fights, the side that gains the most gold will definitely have a greater advantage.

Because they can complete their gear earlier. Of course, the premise is that you're not foolish enough to join a raid before you've completed your gear.

"I understand what you mean!" Nofe exclaimed, his expression suddenly clearing.

"Letting go of the first dragon is to ensure we have stronger fighting power when we get the second dragon!"

The problem is, you didn't even go to catch the second dragon!

"The buff from the dragon will only gradually surpass the equipment benefits brought by the same amount of gold once the hero has completed three core items and his combat power is fully formed."

Zhou Hanyang nodded slightly and continued to share his understanding of the game: "If you want to make the three-piece set, the game time will definitely exceed 25 minutes!"

Even without team fights or gaining too many kills and gold, it might take until after 30 minutes!

As long as we don't just camp out fighting the dragon, we can probably take down three dragons. When the opponent gets the first two dragons, we can trade them for tower gold.

Assuming both sides are evenly matched, once we gain an advantage in defensive towers, we will have an advantage in vision control.

Once they gain an advantage in vision control, the bot lane duo can occupy the mid lane. As long as they push the mid lane minion wave, the jungler and support can then establish vision around the split-pushing points on the side lanes.

This will compress the opponent's living space! Similarly, if the mid lane minions cannot be pushed, then the side lane minions can be pushed to the river, allowing you to move towards the mid lane together with the jungler.

Our economic advantage 30 minutes ago is enough to make it easier for us to gain lane control! So, within about 20-30 minutes, our fighting strength will definitely be superior.

During this period, we control the map by setting up vision, looking for opportunities to catch isolated opponents, and then take Baron or force a team fight around Baron.

At the very least, we can reliably control the dragon at this point! Now that we've secured the dragon, we can maximize the benefits of the dragon buff.

Hearing Zhou Hanyang's understanding of the game, Nofe fell into deep thought.

He originally wanted to ask why the bottom lane duo would give up the bottom tower and go to the mid lane in the last game.

Before he could even ask, Zhou Hanyang had already told him.

He didn't expect that this was also part of Zhou Hanyang's operational logic.

This is, after all, version S7. Future games can learn from it, but they cannot copy it completely.

Zhou Hanyang's operational logic is actually a combination of the operational logic that is common in later generations and the operational logic of IG, the S8 world champion.

Throughout IG's S8 season, Ning's average game time controlling the first dragon in all matches was 18 minutes. [Author's statistics]

That's right. In S8, IG was practically invincible in lane, and their average time to get the first dragon was 18 minutes.

There are many reasons why such outrageous data could appear.

For example, the three carries focus more on trading blows in lane, while Ning focuses more on his own development. Instead of spending time fighting dragons, they should go gank or counter-gank...

There are many, many more reasons.

In summary, it can be attributed to one point.

That's IG from S8, who had their own unique theory of the Rift economy!

This unique theory of the Rift economy leads to the fact that the dragon is not a high priority in their team's operational logic.

IG's theory of Rift economy actually originated from Kim Jung-soo, the coach of S8! The GEN team he is coaching this year also has a similar theory of Rift economy!

When other teams have lane control and teleport advantage, they are more willing to take neutral resources or fight in team fights to get kills by outnumbering their opponents. But GEN focuses on taking gold from turrets!

I won't go into details in the book!

Let me explain: when a team has a superstar player and is exceptionally strong in team fights, they're actually more willing to trade resources for gold rather than take neutral objectives!

In S8, IG was invincible in both laning and team fights, while this year's GEN is invincible in team fights with their top, mid, and jungle! They prefer to directly boost their carry's fighting power with gold rather than using neutral resources that smoothly increase their fighting power!

LPL teams strong in team fights include EDG in S5 and S6, WE in S7, EDG after Iboy joined in the S7 Summer Split, IG in S8, FPX in S9, EDG in S11, and JDG in the S13 Spring Split!

Apart from JDG in the S13 Spring Split, every team in these leagues had a mid laner who was incredibly strong!

JD's team fight prowess in the S13 Spring Split was due to Knight picking initiating mid-laners like Annie and Neeko, while 369 played tanky champions!

Jungler Kanavi carries the team, replacing the role of mid laner Knight, making him invincible in team fights!

When the summer split and World Championship came around, the version changes meant that mid laners couldn't pick engage champions and needed to step up and carry, and Knight's true colors were immediately revealed.

JD's core strength, team fights, is no longer invincible, so naturally they don't know how to win games anymore!

That's why JackeyLove said in the TES documentary, "If the bot lane doesn't dominate, they're just going to get pushed around." Everyone thought he was talking about 369, but he was actually referring to Knight!