Chapter 193 Double Cycle, Meet SKT Again
After returning to the lounge, Lin Dong clearly felt that the atmosphere was much more relaxed.

Not far away, Hongmi waved his hand, thought for a moment, and then spoke.

"Everyone has worked hard. Tomorrow's game should be easier."

"We have played four full games and currently have four wins and no losses, and have four points. We are currently in first place."

"And tomorrow's two games, the first one is against G2."

"This team... used to be very strong, but now..."

Hongmi didn't finish his words, but everyone actually understood.

At the beginning, everyone did have high hopes for G2.

Even after G2 lost to SKT, everyone thought it was normal, after all, SKT was the biggest boss of this MSI.

But who knew that the game with SKT was just the beginning of G2's disastrous defeat.

G2 lost both games on the second match day without any chance of fighting back.

After the game, G2 directly became the second-to-last team in the MSI standings, second only to the inexperienced Turkish team.

Of course, G2’s defeat is also inseparable from their obsession with top laner Ekko.

It had obviously been chopped off, but they still wanted to take it out forcibly.

Although they have strong survivability in team fights, the problem is that their means of initiating team fights are unstable. After being nerfed, their solo laning and lane clearing abilities were greatly weakened, which led to G2's successive failures.

It can be said that the top lane Ekko in this MSI is just like the mid lane Dragon King who was just released, which is a complete version trap.

Seeing G2's stubborn performance, even Redmi was a little disappointed, so he made arrangements.

"Forget it. Their current state is just like the SUP team. It can't be changed by switching sides in the double round-robin."

"Let's let the Marquis play against G2 tomorrow. It'll be a good opportunity for him to practice."

After hearing Hongmi's words, Lin Dong immediately understood.

When Hou Ye goes up to fight, there is no need to catch the mid laner. Just drag the game to the late stage and wait for Hou Ye to exert his strength.

Of course, you still have to build up the advantages that you should have in the early stages.

Anyway, G2 is stubborn, so let's start from the top lane.

So Lin Dong didn't care, nodded, and then asked.

"What about after playing against G2?"

"After playing against G2, the double round-robin is halfway through. Next is the next round. In the first game... we switch sides and play against Sup, the Turkish team."

"Oh." Lin Dong finally understood the meaning of Hongmi's previous words.

Although they are both division champions, there is a gap between the champions.

This Sup team basically just came to MSI for a visit and was eliminated after one round in the group stage.

With VG's current strength, even if they don't play operations, they can easily defeat Sup Team by relying solely on laning like Flash Wolves.

In fact, although the group stage has not yet ended and the schedule is not even halfway there, everyone can actually guess the four teams that will eventually advance.

After all, the possibility of Sup and G2 being eliminated is too high.

However, Lin Dong had already anticipated this result, so he didn't care much.

That's how the competition works, winners take all.

What we need to do most right now is to win tomorrow's two games, just like today.

What's more... winning a small game against SKT doesn't mean that VG really has the strength to completely defeat SKT.

The next day, the third day of the group stage competition kicked off.

Today's battle situation did not surprise Lin Dong.

Especially the first game against G2.

When the G2 players saw that VG actually let Hou Ye play, they mistakenly thought that VG wanted to play in the late game instead of the early game, so they started to get sick again and took out the top lane Ekko.

But this time, Redmi did not indulge the opponent and directly asked Saint Spear to take out the top lane Quinn.

Because the basic damage of Ekko's Q skill was cut, his wave-clearing ability was greatly reduced. When facing a long-range laner like Quinn, he has almost no advantage and can't even survive.

If it was just a disadvantage in laning phase, it would be fine. The key is that in this game, Lin Dong took out the Spider Queen, and his goal was very clear, which was to train the top laner.

As for the Houye in the middle lane...he took out the Ice Girl, and while developing his skills, he also cooperated with Quinn to actively set the pace.

With Ice Girl playing control and Quinn playing burst, and with the jungle area under maximum pressure, there was almost no suspense in this game, and VG won it easily, even creating another "Linglong Tower".

Looking at this crushing game, Gao Jun, the team manager, was dumbfounded.

"No... can this be Linglong Tower?"

"Why does G2 feel easier to beat than Sup?"

After saying that, Gao Jun suddenly looked at Li Yue beside him with a guilty look.

Because if he remembered correctly, there was a special reward mechanism within the VG team.

If it is a crushing victory, it seems that all members will receive bonuses.

I thought the spring season was already the limit, but I didn’t expect... at MSI, this kind of crushing game would reappear!

At that moment, Gao Jun even felt a little disappointed with his friend!

G2 ah G2!

After all, you are the anti-Korean hero!
How can it be so bad?

However, Gao Jun's conjecture was soon refuted.

Because in the second game, VG's tactics were even more brutal.

Although Hou Ye is the mid laner, his ability to kill alone in the laning phase is indeed a little lacking, but Lin Dong is not prepared for this lack in the jungle.

He took out the Leopard Girl directly, got the first blood in the first jungle, returned to the city to upgrade the jungle knife, and made a killing ring. When he returned home in the second wave, the full-level killing ring directly turned into a killing book, and he also bought the boots of clarity in full, and directly turned into a scholar.

So what if the system forces a 50-50 split?
Now I am at the average level of all junglers in the MSI team!

But killing G2 is enough!

Looking at Lin Dong killing everyone in the jungle, Leng Shao in the audience was almost crying with envy!

He even complained, a rare occurrence.

"Coach! Why don't you let me play against this kind of team?"

"Oh my, this is so much fun! It's pure bullying!"

"It's more uncomfortable for you to make me a substitute now than when I was a substitute against SKT!"

When Hongmi heard what Leng Shao said, she rolled her eyes and said angrily.

"How dare you say that! What did you do yesterday that you forgot?"

After these words were spoken, Leng Shao was stunned.

"What did I do to me?"

"When you were playing against Flash Wolves, your solo kill was indeed very cool, but why did you look back so confidently? What if the opponent had upgraded at that time? Couldn't you have continued to deal some damage?" Hongmi said angrily, "Why are you pretending? You don't learn your lesson, do you?"

"???"

The moment Leng Shao heard Hongmi's words, he felt sick.

"No... Coach! It's unfair!"

"If I go over there to deal damage, the opponent's Ryze can use his E skill on me, and then refresh his Q skill to refresh the shield!"

"If I go to make up for the damage, I might not be able to kill him alone!" "Am I looking back with confidence? I am being steady, okay?"

Suddenly, the two were embarrassed.

"……"Red rice.

"..." Young Master Leng.

At this time, Lin Dong, who was very happy with the kill, came down from the stage and immediately saw the two people staring at each other. He was slightly stunned and then said.

"What did you say?"

"Nothing." Hongmi, who looked embarrassed, quickly found an excuse to cover it up and said to everyone, "It's normal to win these two games. Don't take it lightly."

"SKT also won both games today, and... I have some bad news to tell you."

"Tomorrow... we will meet SKT again."

"And this time, when the two sides switched sides, we didn't have such a big advantage compared to last time."

Hearing Hongmi's words, the smile on Leng Shao's face faded, and Lin Dong also nodded and said seriously.

"I guess it will be a bit difficult to do Bp, but no matter what, we have to find a way to beat it. We can only try."

Xiao Duan on the side also shrugged and said.

"I guess SKT won easily today, it was so fast."

However, what everyone in VG didn’t know at that time was.

Although SKT fought back after losing a small game to VG and won three games in a row, Kkoma at this time could not smile at all.

On the contrary, looking at the game on the screen, Kkoma looked extremely bad.

It’s not that the SKT players didn’t perform well.

It was because Kkoma had already seen what he least wanted to see.

Especially in today's two games, the opponent was obviously very weak, but dared to use the same style of play as VG!
Starting from the mid and jungle, they want to tear open a gap in SKT in this way!
Of course, the ending speaks for itself.

The opponent simply did not have this strength. Whether it was the jungle rhythm, the mid lane, or the mid-term operations, SKT crushed the opponent.

But the problem is, if the opponent this time can't make a breakthrough, what about the next opponent? And the one after that?

To be honest, Kkoma suddenly had an illusion at this moment.

Today's SKT seems to have a weakness that everyone knows about!
It’s just like the new version of Fiora’s passive after the rework.

The key is... almost all teams want to give it a try!
Some teams didn’t react fast enough and were pulled back by SKT, failing to exploit their weaknesses, while some teams had bad luck and were forcibly taken away without even figuring out the direction of their weaknesses.

But the problem is... one day, everyone will be able to figure out and break this weakness!

By that time, SKT will no longer have any advantage.

Therefore, for SKT, the most important thing right now is only one thing!
That is to defeat VG again! And then tell everyone! The reason why VG was able to win that game was just because VG was lucky, not because VG knew SKT's weakness.

Thinking of this, Kkoma’s thoughts became clearer.

Then he spoke to everyone in SKT.

"In the first game tomorrow, we will play against VG."

"We can't lose this time! If we lose, the next matches will only become more and more difficult!"

"In the last game, our biggest problem was that the jungler was too weak in the early game and couldn't cooperate with the mid laner."

"So this time, we'll compete with the opponent in the early game!"

"Because this is the second round of the double round-robin, the two sides will switch sides this time and we will be on the red side."

“So this time, Blank should not pick Kindred or Graves, just pick Lee Sin.”

"And the fifth floor... is for Faker!"

“Let Faker find a way to counter the opponent!”

"As for BP, we don't need to worry about the other positions on the opposite side. Let's block the bottom lane duo first!"

"This time, find a way to establish an advantage in the mid and jungle, and then break through from the bottom lane!"

"I watched the game between VG and FW the day before yesterday. They were on the red side and used this method. So this time, let's use our own method to fight back!"

After hearing Kkoma's words, the SKT players immediately became excited and agreed.

At this time, the VG players didn't know that SKT now regarded VG as a thorn in their side.

Until the third match day of the group stage arrived as scheduled.

This time, in addition to Wawa and Miller, the official also invited guests to the commentary booth as usual.

Compared with the failed invitation to the factory manager, Condi seemed much calmer this time.

After all, because of WE, he and Sima Laozei have a good relationship and they often interact with each other. Anyway, WE has no plan to change the starting lineup during this transfer period, so he might as well take advantage of the transfer period to come here for a stroll.

Of course, as to why the official invited all junglers...the reason is actually very simple.

Because anyone with a discerning eye can see that the core of VG's rhythm lies in the jungler.

Inviting more professional jungle players to analyze the situation can make up for the professional mistakes made by the commentators.

Of course, at this time, the LPL officials did not know what a bad start this move would make for the commentary industry.

For example, a certain EDG prince, who is obviously not very strong and has an average of "no scenes" in every game, but he is called a professional player and sits in the commentary booth and talks nonsense. Another example is a certain support player that no one has ever heard of, whose career famous scenes combined are not as many as others' famous scenes in a Bo5 game, but he still madly taunts other players in the commentary booth, but when he is counterattacked, he immediately turns into a white lotus, starts double standards and crazy defense breaking...

Fortunately, this time, Condi was very normal, even a little familiar.

As soon as Miller and Wawa finished their opening remarks, Condi spoke up to remind them.

"Both sides are about to start."

"In this round, VG is on the blue side, and it feels a bit difficult to BP."

Hearing Condi's words, the doll beside him was slightly stunned, and then immediately asked, "Why?"

"The blue team has the advantage of grabbing people on the first floor, and the red team has the advantage of countering on the fifth floor."

"The problem is that in this version, it's not important to grab players, because there is no absolute T0 hero in the version. The only ones worth grabbing are probably ADC, Skateboard Shoes and Lucian."

"But VG generally doesn't try to grab it, because VG snowballs the mid and jungle, not the bottom lane. Unless they're playing against RNG, VG's jungler doesn't like to train the bottom lane."

"As for Icon, whenever he meets a strong mid-lane player, as long as LeBron is out there, VG will definitely give him LeBron first."

"There's no other way. Other assassin heroes can't go back. Only Leblanc has long arms, is flexible, and is not prone to sudden death."

"So for VG, they are a little more comfortable on the red side."

After hearing Condi's analysis, Wawa and Miller couldn't help but nodded.

Miller replied with a smile.

"I've learned something new."

"However, in theory, this is indeed the case, but the key still depends on the lineups of both teams and the performance of the players in this round."

"Let's take a look at the Bp situation of both teams first."

"In this round, VG once again chose to ban Ryze, Tsar, and Time Lord."

"They are still determined to target Faker! It seems that VG is really preparing to attack the mid-jungle rhythm."

"And SKT banned it... Huh?"

"Skateboards, Tam and Wheel Mom?"

"What does SKT mean by banning this player?"

(End of this chapter)