Chapter 206 Crashed in advance!
After defeating Flash Wolves, Hongmi rarely continued to review the game, and did not even give any instructions for the next day's game.

Of course, the VG members who returned to the stage were tactful and did not ask any more questions.

Because everyone knows that after defeating Flash Wolves, there are only two Bo1 games left in the group stage, against G2 and CLG respectively.

It's a pity for these two teams. G2 has basically no ability to resist. CLG's tactics are good against other teams, but they are ineffective against VG and SKT, and they are naturally defeated.

These two teams are actually quite interesting.

G2 had no ability to resist because the mid laner was weak and his teammates were not very good. CLG was just the opposite. Their teammates were of average level, but the mid laner's laning ability was a bit weak, which made it easy for them to become a breakthrough point.

Although CLG is the champion of the North American region in the spring season, its strength in the mid lane is still far behind that of the King of Magic, Bjergsen.

Before the group stage began, everyone thought it was North America's black technology, but as the game went on they realized that it was clearly because the mid-unit was not strong enough and was forced to take a shortcut.

For example, in the opening game, CLG used the mid laner Dragon King.

Even though this Dragon King failed in the hands of VG, as long as they encounter other teams with a slightly weaker mid-lane and cannot exert suppression, CLG will be able to use this routine to quickly establish an advantage and win the game.

Therefore, no one was too worried about the outcome of the final day of competition.

The results of the game indeed proved this point.

There is no need to say much about the match against G2. Recalling the last round, when Hou Ye came on the field and started to mess around, Lin Dong was able to use a Leopard Woman to open the situation by himself, not to mention that Leng Shao was on the field this time.

After all, Hongmi misunderstood Leng Shao badly last time. It was originally an accurate damage calculation, but Hongmi thought he was showing off.

Therefore, Leng Shao, who was in hot form and full of anger, was extremely cruel in the game against G2.

Thanks to his efforts, Lin Dong was able to complete another whole game with peace of mind.

As for CLG, there is no need to say more.

Although CLG has tried its best, and in order to allow the bottom lane to develop steadily, it even learned from Flash Wolves and brought out Morgana as a support again, but it was still useless.

Even though Huhi's Tsar was weak in the laning phase, he was still at a disadvantage throughout the game.

After finally getting some damage, when the team fight started, I thought that with Kindred and Morgana's protection, I should have room to play. However, I never expected that the battlefield was completely divided by the ultimates of VG's Gragas and Poppy.

By the time the Tsar arrived again, CLG's front line had been completely defeated.

Looking at the development of Gragas and Poppy in the team battle, Hongmi couldn't help scratching his head and said.

"You know what, this tactic of Poppy and Gragas is pretty good!"

"It's really useful to restrain Kindred."

"He Morgana can only give one shield at most! But we can fight off multiple people!"

"Isn't this more useful than Tsar? It just so happens that when Leng Shao is on the field, Tsar cannot be played. If the opponent wants to use Kindred to restrain the assassin, we can use these two heroes to fight!"

"And it seems that there is nothing that can counter these two heroes! I feel like we can try this strategy when we play against SKT!"

"How about... releasing Faker's Tsar and giving it a try?"

After hearing Hongmi's words, Gao Jun on the side was silent for a moment and then replied.

"It's not like there aren't heroes who can counter it."

"Huh? What hero?" Hongmi was stunned.

"It's okay, don't worry, Faker probably won't play this." Gao Jun said with a smile, "Yasuo!"

"It's okay, don't worry." Hongmi said faintly, "I asked Lin Dong, he said that as long as the opponent dares to play a single Yasuo, he has plenty of ways to train them."

"What can we do?" This time it was Gao Jun's turn to be stunned. "Don't tell me he is going to play a head-locking hero like Wei?"

"Xin Zhao, after killing the red buff at level 1, he flashed directly to the middle lane. At that time, the mid laners on both sides had not reached level 2 yet. Yasuo could only move forward, not backward. If he was stuck, he would definitely flash, and there was a 50% chance that he would be killed directly."

"Damn, it's the same as the game against QG, right?" Gao Jun finally understood, and then sighed, "This kid, why does it feel like he can do everything! The key is that no matter what jungle position he plays, he can always play it... especially disgustingly!"

However, just as the two were chatting, an analyst not far away suddenly walked up and whispered a few words, and Hongmi's expression suddenly became serious.

Just at this moment, the VG team that defeated CLG returned to the stage and ran into Hongmi.

Suddenly, Lin Dong was stunned.

Why is he still like this even though he won? What happened?
Then he heard Hongmi speak.

"Okay, let's review it first."

"But this time we won't review today's game, let's take a look at the match between SKT and Flash Wolves."

"You may not believe this, but Flash Wolves... beat SKT again in the group stage today."

After hearing Hongmi say this, Lin Dong finally reacted.

It’s Flash Wolf!

But he didn't feel any surprise because he already had an impression of this matter.

The two teams, G2 and Flash Wolves, have always been anti-Han Qixia.

Flash Wolves, in particular, performed even more bravely in Bo1 and even had the title of "God of Bo1".

Because of this, when facing SKT at the beginning of the group stage, Lin Dong used a similar tactic as Flash Wolves, starting from the mid and jungle.

If Flash Wolves can use this method to beat SKT twice in Bo1, then VG can do the same!

When playing against Flash Wolves, Lin Dong adopted another tactic, relying on small rhythms and single kills in laning phase rather than head-on confrontation.

That's why VG was able to defeat these two teams relatively easily.

But the problem is that a tactic that works in Bo1 doesn’t necessarily mean it will work in Bo3 or Bo5.

For example, Flash Wolves was able to beat SKT in the group stage, but in the semifinals, they couldn't even beat CLG.

In the final analysis, winning a Bo1 can be achieved with tactics and cleverness, but in the semi-finals, the real test is revealed. If a team has an obvious weakness, it will become a breakthrough point for the opponent.

If you can’t finish it in one game, can you finish it in two or three games?

Moreover, once there is a breakthrough point, once the disadvantage comes, the tactics of both sides will also tilt towards the breakthrough point. In this way, as the breakthrough point, the players will be under increasing pressure and will be more likely to make mistakes.

Therefore, because of this, even though the group stage results were so good, Lin Dong did not dare to take it lightly.

However, although he won enough in the group stage, Lin Dong forgot a crucial issue.

That's the competition system!
At the beginning, everyone expected SKT to be in second place, with CLG and Flash Wolves ranking third and fourth.

Unexpectedly, on the last day of the group stage, Flash Wolves actually stood up!

Not only did they beat SKT in both BO1 rounds of the double round-robin, they even won a game against CLG on the last day, gaining two points in a row, directly overtaking SKT and tying with CLG for second place.

On the other hand, although SKT easily defeated CLG, they unexpectedly lost twice in a row to Flash Wolves and VG, and dropped directly to fourth place on the last day.

And that means one thing.

At this time, in the VG lounge.

Hongmi said with a serious expression.

"We will meet SKT in the semifinals ahead of time!"

"Because SKT lost a game today, they became the fourth seed and are facing us!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the lounge began to lament.

"Damn! What a shitty luck!"

"Yeah! Can't SKT stand up a little bit?"

"It's bad. We're going to play a Bo5 against SKT in advance. It's okay if we win. The other two teams are not a big problem. I'm not afraid of meeting them in the finals. I'm just afraid of losing! If we lose, we'll be in the semifinals!"

"Damn! Why do I feel like if we don't win that many games in the group stage, getting second or third place would actually be an advantage?"

Hearing everyone's complaints, Lin Dong could only shake his head, feeling helpless.

No wonder I always felt like I had forgotten something important before, it turned out to be this! I didn't expect that after going around in circles, I still couldn't escape the same fate as RNG.

But... even if we take a step back, everyone is just complaining verbally, and no one would really do something like deliberately losing the game in order to avoid meeting SKT in advance.

So Lin Dong shrugged and joked.

"It's okay. We don't want to meet each other, and SKT probably doesn't want to meet us either."

"Look at it from a bright side, even if they lose, they will still be in the semi-finals."

This time Lin Dong’s prediction was quite correct.

As SKT lost again, Kkoma, the head coach, was in a very bad mood.

We lost to VG. The opponent was really strong and had great skills.

Especially after the last time Yasuo switched to the top lane and killed Duke alone, he had to re-examine the laning ability of VG's mid laner.

The question is...what happened to losing to Flash Wolves?

Is Flash Wolves any good?

Judging from the overall strength, Flash Wolves' level should be comparable to CLG.

But the thing is, he can win!
And they didn’t just win once, but like VG, they won twice in a row!

At this moment, Kkoma didn't even need to think about it, he knew that there was a lot of scolding in LCK.

So much so that Kkoma has now begun to doubt his life.

And the biggest problem he suspected happened to be the problem he was most worried about before!
"Why can Flash Wolves beat us? Why do they know how to attack us from the mid and jungle?"

"Oh no! Have they really discovered our weakness?"

"I knew it! Ever since VG beat us, other teams have started to follow suit!"

"How about... let's change Bengi?"

"The problem is, if Bengi goes up to play, we can only rely on Faker. He is the type of player who only wants to protect the middle lane. If Faker can't control the game, then we can't win!"

But how could Kkoma know at this moment?

SKT's loss to Flash Wolves has nothing to do with VG.

On the contrary, VG was able to defeat SKT thanks to Flash Wolves' tactics.

The only difference is that Lin Dong knew the way to restrain SKT from the very beginning, and he used it in advance after meeting SKT in advance.

Of course, he couldn't care less at this point.

Because the most urgent task is how to restrain VG's style of play that separates the mid and jungle and divides and conquers!

With the conclusion of the group stage, the standings of each team have finally been determined and the semi-finals are about to begin.

Soon, the staff brought new news.

In the first game of the semi-finals, the head coaches of both teams drew lots to decide the positions of their respective teams in the first round of the Bo5.

Soon, Kkoma went to the stage and started drawing lots.

Soon, the results of the draw came out.

In the first game, VG will be on the blue side, facing SKT on the red side!

Looking at the result of the draw, Kkoma took a deep breath.

Finally there is some good news!
Because the blue side's bottom lane is more suitable for attack, but it is also easy to be ganked.

In contrast, the red side's bottom lane is more suitable for defense.

And this location coincides with Kkoma's plan.

After a moment's hesitation, Kkoma made a decision. He looked at Faker not far away and then spoke.

"Sang Hyuk, this time our opponent is very strong, especially good at snowballing."

"So I don't recommend you to use the mid-lane mage anymore."

"Because we might not be able to hold on!"

"I hope that in the first game of the semi-finals, you can use the assassin mid laner to go head-to-head with the VG mid laner!"

"I'll have the jungler find a way to help you gain an advantage in the laning phase."

"The opponent is on the blue side. As long as we choose to release Skate and Lucian, the opponent will most likely take one of them."

"As long as you can establish an advantage in the laning phase, you can keep ganking the enemy without even having to cross the tower!"

After hearing what Kkoma said, Faker pondered for a moment, nodded, and agreed.

But he still asked the question in his mind.

"The problem is that the opponent is the blue team, and the first floor can grab the hero..."

"Yes, so the mid laner on the opposite side will most likely pick Leblanc. As long as Leblanc is locked, the mid laner will not be able to waver. And I need you to pick an assassin mid laner who can also play an advantage against Leblanc!" Kkoma said, "For the bottom lane, I will find a way to help them stabilize the situation."

After Kkoma's explanation, Faker also understood.

VG likes to swing, just like the previous Diana, who was swung to the jungle position.

Therefore, as long as you release Leblanc and the opponent is on the blue side, there is a high probability that the opponent will directly choose it. In this way, you don’t have to worry about the opponent wavering again.

When facing Ahri, there is another problem of laning.

SKT's previous strategy has always been to temporarily avoid the limelight, but it turns out that this strategy doesn't work.

That's why Kkoma came up with the idea of ​​fighting violence with violence.

But there is a very important premise.

In the mid lane, you must be able to defeat Leblanc!
Perhaps this is indeed a difficult problem for other teams.

After all, the hero Leblanc has long arms, high damage, fast burst speed, and control, making her very difficult to deal with.

But for Faker, it is not a problem at all.

After thinking for a moment, he suddenly chuckled.

"I know what I'll choose then."

"The biggest source of burst damage for the hero Leblanc is the mark. As long as you can avoid the mark, you can have a 100% advantage in the laning phase."

"There happens to be a hero who can do this, and can also take advantage of this opportunity to defeat Leblanc."

"There's no problem in laning, but in teamfights, I may not have as much room to play as LeBlanc."

After hearing what Faker said, Kkoma finally smiled and replied.

"It's okay. In this round, the thing we are least afraid of is probably the team fight!"

"So which hero are you going to choose to fight against LeBron?"

Then, only Faker was heard to answer.

"Didn't our opponent just teach us?"

"Can enter an unselectable state to dodge skills, and the skills are still locked skills. Leblanc cannot avoid damage."

Hearing this, Kkoma immediately understood and asked.

"So, you want to play...Murray too?"

(End of this chapter)