Chapter 176 Opening Game, North America's Black Technology
However, Lin Dong's emotion did not last long.

After successfully selling an unknown young player for 300,000, WE quickly sold him out, perhaps because they were afraid that VG would go back on their word.

And looking at The Shy, which seemed to be easier to buy than Ning Wang and Xiao Ming, even Lin Dong found it a bit outrageous.

I thought it was a bit difficult!

But after thinking about it carefully, Lin Dong suddenly felt relieved.

【Oh, I forgot.】

[The warrior top laner in Season 6 is too bad, and it’s hard to be useful even if you help. ]

[Brother Long didn’t even have a chance to play…]

[After all, this version is not a warrior version at all. Playing around the top lane is just asking for trouble. ]

[However... considering the current strength of VG's second team, isn't it a waste of talent to use them for internal team training? ]

[Although it is not the most suitable version, and a team may not be able to fully play its role, but it should not be difficult to learn from Sima Laozei and become the emperor in the secondary league, right? ]

[There's no need to worry about the version in the secondary league, just kill as many as you want. ]

[I just don't know if the little witch will arrange it this way. 】

But what Lin Dong didn’t know at this time was.

Just as he was silently complaining in his heart, Li Yue, who was not far away, had already laughed out loud.

as predicted.

Soon after returning to the base.

Li Yue started the meeting.

During this transfer period, there were many changes within the VG team.

Sofm and Long Ge saw that the competition in VG was too fierce and eventually left the team.

PDD used money to send sofm to YM, and at the same time traded YM's bottom lane duo back.

Brother Long hesitated for a long time, but finally decided to go out and give it a try.

As luck would have it, as soon as he went out, he met Zuo Wu, who was invited by Gao Jun to go out for a smoke. Being both wanderers in the world, the two hit it off immediately.

After a short trial, Brother Long finally decided to leave the team.

And Xiaowu... was thinking about trying again.

But for him, this meeting was not good news.

Because in the conference room, the first thing Li Yue said when she saw him was...

"You can try the second team."

"Okay." Xiao Wu was helpless, but he had no choice but to agree.

"Team One remains the same. Everyone go prepare for the game. Oh, by the way, Lin Dong stays."

“……”Lin Dong.

Soon, a group of people left the office.

Looking at the people in front of him, Lin Dong was suddenly stunned.

The Shy is the top laner, Ning Wang is the jungler, and the bottom lane is A Shui and Xiao Ming...so who is the mid laner?

Even if it's a secondary league, we have to get five people together!
"We're missing a mid laner... eh? Wait?"

"Xiaowu has been transferred to the second team. Could it be..."

Sure enough, the next second, Li Yue's voice appeared again.

"Arrange the lineup for the second team."

"The top laner and support will remain the same. For AD, Jack will play AD, Gao Zhenning, you... will play jungle, and Xiaowu will go to the mid lane."

After these words were spoken, the room fell silent again.

Gao Jun on the side widened his eyes and was about to speak subconsciously.

"Boss, wait a minute... The mid and jungle positions are extremely important. You're letting an AD play jungle and a support play mid. Isn't that a bit too..."

"Shut up." Li Yue glared at him and said, "Didn't Saint Spear switch to top lane? Isn't he playing well now?"

"..."

"By the way, if Hongmi is free, please give some pointers to Team Two."

Hearing this, Hongmi frowned.

Because when he first joined VG, he didn't expect this situation!
Didn’t we agree that you would only be responsible for one team?

Why do I have to be in charge of the second team now?
It’s not that he doesn’t have the energy, the key is that he thinks it’s a waste of time.

It was a blessing for the second team to have a good seedling. And to have found a monster like Lin Dong was a blessing from their ancestors and pure luck.

You don't really think that these people in front of you are all top geniuses, do you?

So Hongmi subconsciously wanted to refuse.

"that……"

"I hope the second team can achieve good results in the second half of the year." Li Yue said seriously, "Coach Hongmi, you can completely refuse, but I still hope you can give them a chance, just like you gave Lin Dong and Leng Shao a chance. I will pay extra for their salary."

"……"Red rice.

This is a bit difficult!
However, Hongmi still retained his rationality and did not agree immediately, but said.

"How about this, let them play a training match and let me see their potential first."

Thus, this brief meeting ended quickly under Li Yue's "one-man show" arrangement.

In VG's training room, everyone in the newly formed second team was quite excited.

On the one hand, by joining VG, although it is only the second team, not only will you have the opportunity to be promoted to the first team, but you will also have the help of the first team coach in training. Your strength will definitely improve quickly, and you will have a greater chance of succeeding.

On the other hand...

VG really gives money!

So after a brief discussion, everyone quickly confirmed it.

We must perform well in this training match!

Redmi must be made aware of its potential.

So everyone in front of the computer is eager to try it out.

Even Gao Zhenning, who was kicked to the jungle position by someone's words, looked excited and even asked.

"By the way, who are we going to play against in this training match?"

"Ahem, this time the idea might be a little tough." Gao Jun at the side said silently, "Winning or not is not important. It mainly depends on your potential, operation and thinking. Don't be nervous, just show your strength."

"Don't worry! Although I play AD in YM, I also know a little bit about jungle!"

However, compared to the excited crowd, Xiaowu, who already knew the truth, had a bitter look on his face.

nonsense!

Now is the transfer period, and all the major teams are busy forming their roster. Who has time to play training games with the second team?

Do you think everyone is like VG, buying all the players in two or three days without even having a tryout?
Of course, there are also teams whose lineups remain unchanged, such as WE.

But will they play a training match with an unknown team?

will not.

So using simple process of elimination, there is only one answer left.

"Well, it's hard to find opponents for training matches right now, so let's just make do with this for now." Hongmi saw everyone sitting down, so he said, "This time, we'll play against VG Team 1 in the training match. However, for the sake of fairness, I'll help you with the tactics and BP arrangements this time."

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of the people who were excited just now froze instantly.

Play against VG team?
us?

what?
Is this a question of whether the idea is hard or not?
Why don't you just let the spring season champion play a training match with us?
You might as well let us win the championship directly in the secondary league!
This is less difficult.

Ah Shui, who was standing by, shrugged and encouraged.

"Don't be scared! Go to the other side! What are you afraid of?"

…………

A week later.

5 month 4 day.

The 2016 MSI Mid-Season Championship was held as scheduled.

Because the competition was held in Shanghai, VG arrived very late this time.

The game was in the evening, so everyone arrived slowly in the afternoon.

After going through the official procedures with ease, Lin Dong finally met VG's first opponent in this MSI.

The champion of the North American region, with a mid-lane + AD dual-core play, successfully defeated TSM, which had Bjergsen and Big Brother, and won the CLG team that successfully won the championship.

As the opening game, and hosted by LPL at its home stadium, the audience was quite lively this time.

Almost all of the audience are domestic.

But Lin Dong didn't care about these. In fact, he was very worried about the CLG team.

You can underestimate the fighting power of the teams in the North American and European regions, but you must never underestimate their creativity.

For example, in the S7 season, the War Enthusiasm Diana tactic that broke through SKT's bottom lane came from the MSF team in the European division.

What’s more crucial is…the two Carries of the CLG team are both newcomers, and there is very little game data available, so it is very difficult to target them.

Even Redmi has complained.

If we had known this earlier, we would have learned from EDG next door and studied the opponents of MSI in advance.

Of course, Redmi probably didn't expect that the team that won the championship in the end was not TSM, but CLG.

Soon, in the lounge.

Redmi started with a brief pre-match arrangement.

"Briefly tell me about the opponent this time."

"The opposing top laner was very good at playing offensive top laners like Fiora, but because of a strategic conflict with CLG, they later switched to playing protective top laners like Maokai. However, they had to be careful during pick and ban."

"The opponent's jungler has the same style, and is good at offensive jungle, but also because of CLG's tactics, the recent training games are more inclined to farming. I guess they may choose farming junglers such as Kindred and Graves."

"As for the mid laner Huhi, he is a Korean player. I am familiar with him. He is very good at playing assassin mid lane in Rank, but his performance is very ordinary on the field. There is almost no eye-catching place. So don't worry about his mid lane assassin, but pay attention to his two heroes, Ekko and Ryze. He can tie with the North American King of Magic Bjergsen with these two heroes. His strength is not bad, but Ekko... I think we can beat him in the mid lane. I will ban Ryze, so don't worry about him."

"As for supports, they are better at counterattacks, but not so good at initiating a teamfight. Robot and Janna are very good. Other than that, most are soft supports, like Sorcerer. If you really want them to initiate a teamfight, they probably only know how to use Alistar."

"The only thing we need to pay attention to is CLG's new AD."

"This is a player who is not good at laning, but is extremely good at finding opportunities to output damage in team battles. He is a true pressure-resistant AD."

"In the finals of the North American division this year, the Bo5 lasted for five games. He was suppressed in four games, but his output in all five games was higher than that of the senior brother..."

After hearing Hongmi's analysis, Lin Dong finally understood why CLG seemed to be strong enough to make it to the finals, but was eventually defeated by SKT.

Because of this style, it is difficult to find opportunities to drag the game to the late stage against SKT's operational lineup.

AD is weak in laning and can only drag teamfights, and the support likes to counterattack, so it is difficult to cooperate with teammates to start a teamfight...

The weakness of this style of play is too obvious.

The jungler just needs to be smarter and help the mid lane more. No matter in the early or late stages, as long as the mid laner has enough advantages, they can completely crush CLG.

Because as an ADC, it is actually very difficult to catch up with the mid laner in terms of development!

Especially this version of Kog'Maw that has been scrapped.

So Lin Dong spoke decisively.

"When playing against CLG, I feel like it's a good opportunity to play around the middle lane."

"First, take care of the middle lane, then go to the bottom lane, it should be easier to win."

"Their mid laner shouldn't be able to play Cards, right?"

Lin Dong's idea was quickly recognized by everyone.

Especially Leng Shao, he couldn't wait any longer.

After all...the early-stage rhythm revolves around the mid-stage.

In the VG team, he is the only one who is most familiar with this style of play!
At the same time, in the commentary booth.

As a local commentator, the colonel did not appear in the opening match this time.

Instead, Wawa and Miller were responsible for the commentary, and they also brought a mysterious guest.

EDG's head coach Abu.

In fact, the official wanted to invite the factory director at the beginning.

After all, if you ask who in LPL knows the most about MSI, it must be him.

He started studying before the finals. Who can compare to him?
However, I don’t know if it was because the invitation was too hurtful, but the factory manager didn’t agree in the end. Instead, Abu agreed.

As the players from both sides took their positions, Wawa began to introduce the situation of both teams to the audience.

"Welcome to the opening match of the group stage of the MSI centralized championship."

"Let me first give you a brief introduction to the current situation."

"Because the group stage adopts a double round-robin format, the format of today's game is BO1, with VG on the blue side facing CLG on the red side."

"Everyone should be familiar with VG's lineup. It is exactly the same as in the finals, so I won't introduce it in detail."

"On the CLG side, the top laner is Dashan, the jungler is Xmithie, the mid laner is Huhi, and the bottom lane is the newcomer Stixxay as the ADC, with the support Xiao Hei."

"Speaking of this support from CLG, please don't get me wrong. The reason why everyone calls him Black is not because of his skin color, but because of his last name, which is Black."

"Okay, without further ado, let's take a look at the BP situation of both teams."

"VG chose to ban Ryze, Sorcerer, and Kindred."

"CLG banned Leblanc, Lucian, and Ekko."

However, having said this, Wawa immediately turned the conversation to EDG's head coach Abu.

"Regarding this BP between the two sides, what does Abu think about it?"

And Abu also analyzed it and said.

"It's obvious that VG doesn't want CLG to have too much burst and drag the game into the late game."

"Similarly, CLG doesn't want VG to snowball in the early game. You see, LeBlanc, Lucian, and Ekko are all heroes with snowballing abilities, and their burst is high in the early game, especially Ekko, who was just strengthened in the 6.8 version of this game."

"In fact, CLG's mid laner Huhi is also good at playing the hero Ekko, but this game was not favorable to CLG from the perspective of BP, because VG, as the blue side, had a chance to snatch Ekko from the first floor, so banning Ekko was their last resort."

"Now that Ekko and Ryze are both banned, the choice of mid laner is a big problem for CLG."

"Because as far as I know, although Huhi likes to play assassin mid laner, his performance in the game is not particularly good. In comparison, VG's mid laner Icon's performance on the field is quite outstanding. If CLG is stubborn and continues to use the mid laner assassin, this may not be good news for CLG."

As soon as Abu finished his analysis, both sides started choosing their positions.

This time, because Hongmi was unsure of CLG's playing style, he adopted the method of selecting positions later.

The so-called second-hand position selection means giving up the advantage of grabbing heroes on the first floor, first choosing a support or top laner, and then watching CLG's selection and then responding accordingly.

Soon, Poppy, a hero who can both serve as a support and deal damage, was locked down by VG.

On the other side, CLG was not to be outdone and immediately locked down the top lane Maokai.

However, behind the tree, CLG hesitated.

At that moment, Lin Dong suddenly felt something was wrong.

next second.

A new hero that has never appeared in the game was selected by CLG for the first time!

Aurelion Sol!

Abbreviation: Dragon King!

as predicted!

In the opening match of the MSI group stage, the CLG team gave VG a big surprise right from the start and pulled out the North American region's black technology!

(End of this chapter)