Chapter 207 Five Speed ​​Mouth and Five Road God
When Kkoma heard that Faker wanted to take Fizz, he was actually a little surprised.

Can Faker play Fizz?

of course.

In the S4 and S5 seasons, the strength of the mid-lane Fizz was very high, especially in the World Championship version. Regardless of the region or team, this hero was a must for mid-lane players.

But why is Kkoma unexpected?
Because he thinks Faker doesn't like this hero very much.

Because during last year's World Championship, when SKT played against AHQ, Faker's Kassadin was killed twice in a row by Ximen Ye's Fizz.

Of course, it was normal for Kassadin to be weak in the early game, and the game ultimately ended with SKT's victory.

But no matter what, for Faker, it was indeed a bit outrageous that he picked Kassadin as the mid laner and was killed twice in the early stage.

After all, Fizz is also an AP assassin, and Kassadin always has more advantages when facing heroes with AP damage than when facing AD heroes.

So Kkoma knew that during that period, Faker hated the hero Fizz for a while, even though he was playing it himself.

After all, during that period of time, whenever the words Faker and Fizz were put together, everyone's first reaction was that Faker was killed by Simon's Fizz, and twice.

However, seeing that Faker was so confident, Kkoma thought for a moment and agreed.

After all, to be honest, after thinking about it, he really couldn't think of any assassin hero who could gain an advantage against LeBlanc more easily than Fizz.

At the same time, on the other side.

Just after SKT and VG determined their sides for the first game of the Bo5 semi-final, CLG and Flash Wolves in the other half of the zone also determined their sides.

Looking at the familiar opponents, Flash Wolves were under great pressure.

Because for Flash Wolves, they would even rather face SKT than CLG.

After all, we won both games against SKT in the group stage, but the game against CLG felt particularly difficult.

But now that things have come to this, Karsa has no choice but to take it one step at a time.

Fortunately, after the group stage and before the semi-finals, each team has five days to adjust their status and study tactics to ensure that they are fully prepared to deal with the next opponent.

Even so, Karsa still has no confidence in the next game.

It's only five days. Can we expect our mid laner to suddenly change his appearance and become as tough as VG's mid laner?

After all, when playing against CLG, killing the middle lane is the best option to win the game.

But just when Karsa was having a headache, the sudden visit of two people brought a glimmer of hope.

Looking at the two people outside the door, Karsa was stunned at first, then he laughed and teased.

"Isn't this Five Speed ​​Mouth and Five Road God? Long time no see."

The so-called five-speed mouth and five-way god is actually a joke on the two of them.

Five Speed ​​Mouth refers to the former Flash Wolves tactical analyst and LMS region commentator Jide, because he not only has a thorough understanding of the game, but also speaks clearly and very quickly, he can be called the fastest "Five Speed ​​Shoes" among commentators, so he is known as the "Five Speed ​​Mouth".

As for the Five Gods...it actually refers to Sofm.

During S5, Flash Wolves signed Sofm and made him a trainee, or in other words a young trainee, who was to be trained to be Karsa's successor. The reason why Sofm was so famous at that time, in addition to controlling Thunder in the Vietnamese server and achieving the achievement of "I am the peak", was more importantly that Sofm was an all-rounder. When competing in the Vietnamese server, he played almost every position!
Not only did he play all five positions, he even led the team into the S-League qualifiers.

It is also because of this that in the S5 period, after signing Sofm, the Flash Wolves’ announcement called him the “Five-Way God”.

Of course, as to why Sofm was not seen in the S game, and why Sofm was later forced to leave Flash Wolves due to visa issues, the reason is actually very simple.

This Vietnamese tough guy was too young at the time and had not reached the official playing age.

As for why he was not old enough to play in Flash Wolves, but was able to enter the World Championship qualifiers on the Vietnamese server...

Because he lied about his age.

Of course, after being discovered by the authorities, his Vietnamese team HFL was also disqualified from the competition.

Having said that, the three of them are old acquaintances.

As for why the two of them appeared here, it was not surprising.

Sofm was signed by VG at the beginning of the spring season and came to LPL.

I remember the same thing. After the end of S5, he left the LMS region and came to LPL as a commentator. In just half a year, he won the award for the best new commentator of the season.

Of course, the two people's purposes for coming here are definitely not the same.

I remember that he came to reminisce about the past. After all, he had worked as an analyst for Flash Wolves and had been a commentator in the LMS region for two years.

As for Sofm, this guy is just here to get a free meal.

But thinking of this, Karsa was suddenly stunned, and then joked.

"Eh? Aren't you VG's substitute jungler? Why do you have time to come to me today? To ask about tactics, right?"

"Haven't you heard?" Ji De said, "He left the team."

"Why don't you wait until you finish playing with VG before leaving?" Karsa asked subconsciously, "VG is very strong now, and I think they have a great chance of winning the championship."

"MSI is not the World Championship. In the World Championship, you can bring a normal substitute and an emergency substitute, but in MSI, you can only bring one. VG will definitely bring Easyhoon." Sofm explained helplessly.

"Oh, that's true. By the way, have you found a new employer?"

"Yeah, I went to the YM team."

"Which team?" Karsa was stunned when he heard the name. He searched his mind for a long time but couldn't remember which LPL team this was.

As if he had guessed what Karsa was thinking, he remembered smiling and helping to explain.

“It’s not an LPL team, it’s a team from a secondary league.”

After all, at the beginning, I remember that I also helped to speak in the secondary league for a period of time, so I am quite familiar with YM's situation.

"Huh? Why are you going to the secondary league? It shouldn't be possible with your ability."

"YM bought him from VG at a high price, hoping to get a spot in the LPL." Ji De said mysteriously, "There's nothing we can do, they paid a high price."

"How many?"

Sofm said a number.

The next second, Karsa's voice suddenly rose an octave.

"Take the young master?!"

"Damn! Is LPL so rich now?"

"No wonder you all ran to LPL!"

To be honest, this number made Karsa a little excited.

Sofm didn't even achieve very good results, but it could command such a high price. If it were me...

But after thinking about it, he immediately gave up the idea.

After all, no matter how high the salary is, if you can't be a starter, it would be boring to be a substitute.

If you are a starter, even if the salary is lower, at least you have a chance to perform, but if you are a substitute... it really depends on luck.

Otherwise, why did Sofm leave VG?

So for Karsa, the thought just flashed through his mind.

But as both of them are junglers, the topic of their conversation soon turned to the game.

Karsa sighed subconsciously.

"It's not easy to play against CLG in the semi-finals..."

"Is it hard to beat them?" Sofm replied subconsciously, "Isn't CLG's weakness obvious?"

"Hmm?" Karsa was stunned, and immediately became interested. "What weakness? Do you have a solution?"

After all, Sofm was once VG's substitute jungler. With VG's current performance, it's possible that Sofm has learned a lot of tricks. "Well... it's not really a solution, mainly because VG used to like to use this style of play." Sofm scratched his head and said, "Look at VG's spring games, especially when the mid laner just came on the court, the laning is aggressive and it's easy to give opportunities. The best way is not to help or counter-camp."

After hearing Sofm's words, Karsa finally reacted!
Yes! How could I forget about this?
There is actually no problem with the mid and jungle of the current Flash Wolves, but the bottom lane has too many problems.

The bottom lane likes to play an early-stage lineup, especially Skate and Lucian.

The problem is that although he likes to suppress others, his strength is not enough to gain an absolute advantage in the laning phase, let alone a snowball advantage.

Therefore, the benefits of ganking the bottom lane are very low, but because he likes to pressure others, he has to go to the bottom lane to help.

In the end, it was useless to help and it was just a waste of time.

If I don’t go to help...will I just watch the bottom lane get caught?

So many times, Karsa had to sacrifice for the bottom lane.

On the one hand, you have to take on the role of protecting your teammates, and on the other hand, you have to help the bottom lane add some AD damage in the later stages.

It can be said that in the Flash Wolves system, he is both a father and a mother.

So at this point, Flash Wolves' bottom lane does have some similarities with VG's mid laner.

Since VG's jungler was able to find a way to solve this problem, as Sofm said, he can also review the video of the game and find a solution!
The so-called desperate attempt to find a cure.

After saying goodbye to Sofm and Jide, the first thing Karsa did when he returned was to look for the game videos of VG Spring Split and start reviewing them.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t look at it, but just one look and Karsa was stunned!

Because the VG mid laner in the early spring season and the current Flash Wolves AD are not completely unrelated in style, they are exactly the same!
And VG’s jungle method is also very simple!
To put it simply, don't treat your teammates as human beings!
Teammates like to pretend? Then let them pretend?

Anyway, he is no longer reliable, so don't bother to counter-camp or protect him. Just use him as bait to fish.

Catch the fish, even if it means exchanging kills, as long as you develop well, you can still get the rhythm rolling!

However, this style of play is completely contrary to the training Karsa has always received!

To the point that for a moment, he didn't even know how to describe this style of play!
"No... this is too..."

At that moment, Karsa felt that his vocabulary was so poor.

Of course, he had no idea that in later versions, this style of play had a very unified name.

Wild core system!

The entire team is centered around the jungler, giving the jungler economy and kills so that the jungler's equipment can be quickly formed, giving the jungler powerful ganking capabilities while quickly snowballing.

This tactic was briefly popular in the S8 season, and then became popular again in the S10 season.

The most well-known among them should be the jungler Kanavi.

Of course, this style of play is not perfect.

Because this kind of gameplay of using teammates to fish, waiting for them to die and then collecting the heads and economic benefits, can easily cause conflicts among teammates. Even many coaches hate it and call it "team cancer."

So Karsa was shocked, and his first reaction was...

"How dare he? How dare he play games like this?"

"Their coach actually agreed with it? And their mid laner didn't even criticize him for this?"

"But... this effect is really good!"

"If I use this style of play, I will definitely not choose Kindred. There is no need to play protection, I just need to get the kills myself."

"As for Lee Sin, he is a bit of a tool and must rely on his teammates in the later stages. On the contrary, Graves and Nidalee are two heroes that you can give a try!"

"The problem is... this style of play will definitely make the bottom lane uncomfortable, and the coach will most likely not agree with it."

After hesitating for a long time, Karsa gritted his teeth and finally made a decision.

"Who cares!"

"Winning the game is the most important thing! What can I do if the bottom lane wants to install it?"

"CLG's mid laner is relatively weak, but he likes to roam to the bottom lane, so he is more suitable for this rhythm!"

"But I definitely can't tell anyone about this. I can only adapt to the situation as it arises!"

At this time, Lin Dong didn't know that the jungle core tactics he learned from AV Brother, combined with IG's unique system of using teammates to fish, suddenly gave Karsa another idea with the reminder of Sofm.

But Lin Dong is actually very troubled now.

For nothing else.

After the group stage, during the break, Redmi arranged another review of the game videos of other teams that they missed during VG's games.

When reviewing the situation, everyone discovered a very critical problem.

"Why do I feel like there's only one Alistar left in the bottom lane who can play as a hard support?"

"When the group stage just started, everyone would more or less pick Braum, and if that didn't work, they would pick Thresh and Poppy."

"But now there are fewer and fewer of them, and there are more soft assists instead."

"For example, Flash Wolves used Morgana before. In three out of four games, they used Morgana."

"In addition to Morgana, Bard and Nanny also appeared one after another."

"Although the version has not changed, the tactics of each team seem to have begun to change!"

"Especially SKT, in the last few games, they were almost all soft supports!"

"Why is this happening?"

In response to Xiao Duan’s doubts, Hongmi answered them in one sentence.

"Because when playing against a weak team, you are competing against your upper limit, and when playing against a strong team, you are competing against your lower limit."

"Weak teams have poor ability to seize opportunities. The best players on both teams who can carry the game better will win."

"The stronger team is better at seizing opportunities. Whoever finds the opponent's weakness first and breaks through the opponent's weakness first will win."

"For example, the supports SKT picked in the past few games mean that...SKT has begun to shift the rhythm and focus, no longer focusing on the bottom lane, but focusing on the mid and jungle."

"SKT's bottom lane is already strong. If they just want to grow slowly, we won't be able to defeat them."

"This means that their jungler has more time and energy to help the mid laner build an advantage while ensuring that there are no problems in the top lane."

"This should be the strategy that SKT started to change after they lost to us."

After hearing Hongmi's words, Lin Dong's expression finally became serious.

If Redmi's analysis is correct, then the next Bo5 against SKT will be in big trouble!
Because he broke through SKT before, relying on their mid and jungle's idea of ​​wanting to create mid and jungle rhythm while ensuring the advantage in the bottom lane!
But now, this method doesn’t work!

I have to say, SKT's reaction speed is really fast.

After losing just one game, we immediately discovered the problem and adjusted the rhythm back.

The only good news for VG is probably...

If Blank plays, he is far inferior to Bengi in playing at this pace.

However, even if Bengi is on the field, VG is not without any solution.

At this time, Lin Dong took a deep breath and suddenly spoke.

"Just fight normally first. If that doesn't work, you'll have to use that routine in advance."

"If the opponent's bottom lane is only interested in retreating and developing, then our bottom lane suppression will be useless."

"We can only think of a way to get the bottom lane to roam!"

(End of this chapter)