What is a hexagon jungler?

"Come on," Gu Xing happened to bump into the IG members when he came off the stage. He bumped fists with them as a way of cheering, "try to win this game."

Prince Ning was full of confidence, "Gu Xing, just wait and see, I have to educate Tazan!"

The next game will be between IG and Griffin.

It is a battle between China and South Korea, and the two teams had a tough time in the summer split. This matchup is full of highlights.

Gao Zhenning tried his best to beat Tazan violently, so that the opponent could see how powerful he was.

TheShy also had an expressionless expression on his face, and seemed to be taking the upcoming BO1 very seriously.

Apart from the pre-match disputes between the two sides, this matchup will also be directly related to the promotion quota.

Currently in Group D, FNC is leading the way. Earlier today, this European giant defeated Flash Wolves and topped the group with an impressive record of 3 wins and 0 losses.

As long as there are no accidents in the second round, FNC will guarantee a place in the top eight.

Then the remaining spots will have to be chosen from Griffin, IG and Flash Wolves.

If IG can win this game, Griffin with 0-3 will basically announce his retirement in advance, while the Extreme Team with 2 wins and 1 loss will have the initiative to qualify for the group!

In such an important game, TheShy will naturally give his best!

But Griffin thought so too.

With zero wins and two losses, they were already standing on the edge of the cliff with no way out.

GRF must try its best to win today!

When Gu Xing returned to the backstage lounge, he saw the two sides engaged in an unprecedented battle.

Showmaker took out his signature Syndra, hoping to use his favorite hero to lead the team to its first victory in the World Championship.

Unfortunately, his opponent is Rookie.

"Wow, are you so exaggerated?" Chaowei couldn't help but be convinced as he watched LeBlanc avoid Syndra's three Q skills with her movements under the exquisite control of Broiler, "Isn't it too cruel?"

"He is indeed the strongest mid laner today," Mr. Hou said with admiration in his voice. "This enchantress is simply the best!"

In the current version, Enchantress is not easy to fight against Syndra during the laning phase, let alone Showmaker's unique ball girl.

However, Song Yijin's technique is too top-notch.

This year is undoubtedly the peak of Rookie's personal competitive level. He was not at a disadvantage against showmaker in the lane, and he was even able to counterattack Syndra after making [The Lost Chapter]!

The mid lane right was controlled by Song Yijin, and King Ning immediately began to bully others, using Xin Zhao to frequently invade the upper half of Griffin, making it difficult for Tazan to move in the upper half of the map, forcing the opponent to go to the lower jungle area to replace wild monster resources.

As long as Tarzan takes root at the bottom of the canyon, King Ning will immediately attack the enemy's top lane Sword.

TheShy took out Jace in this game, putting great pressure on the enemy during the laning phase. Sword was never Jiang Chenglu's opponent, but was taken care of by King Ning twice, and the situation on the road collapsed instantly!

"Isn't this a sure win?" Jack packed his bag and was about to leave the venue with his teammates and board the bus back to the hotel. When he saw that IG was about to hit the road and clear the level, he immediately felt relieved and said, "Hold it!"

"That's not necessarily true," Gu Xing objected, "Viper is developing quite well."

Tazan has not been idle since he was forced to the bottom half, and has been doing his best to help Viper develop.

The results are quite obvious.

The Xiangsong duo have been at IG for a long time, and their discipline is not particularly strong. Even though they should play cautiously according to the half-zone principle, the burning desire to fight in their hearts encourages them to frequently find GRF bottom lane combination for replacement. .

As a result, Tazan was given a chance.

Although Xiangsong was only caught once, he came to stand guard once in a while, forcing the IG duo to miss many last-hit hits, and even the next tower was bulldozed by Viper!

For Griffin, the talented Viper is their last hope!

The whole team started to advance together around Viper's Kasumi.

The good news is that one of the advantages of the shooter position compared to the mid-to-upper solo line is that he is particularly capable of demolishing towers and can make certain contributions to the team.

In contrast, TheShy's lead can only be limited to his own line and cannot be radiated to his teammates.

This is also the problem faced by the top order.

Their location and division of labor determine that they belong to the pure orphan road.

In normal games, the top laner can try to use a single point push to create space for the team and put pressure on the opponent.

But in this year's World Championship, this trick is not very easy to use.

Just because the real eye sea tactic developed by SSG has been completely abolished, without sufficient vision protection, it is difficult for the single-belt system to advance in depth, and the opponent will target and arrest him if he is not careful!

TheShy had no way of giving back his advantages to the team, so he had no choice but to suppress Sword on the sideline, trying to crush the opponent through single combat.

Sword calmed down and focused on a steady hand, huddled under the tower and took advantage of the connection.

I'm not in a hurry!

Anyway, Viper's Xayah is attacking the city from the front under the protection of Griffin and others. Even if I don't do anything, my teammates can withdraw money to supplement my development!

"My dear, you won't really let Griffin and the others slow down your pace, will you?"

On the bus, Duan Deliang was watching the live broadcast of the game and was dumbfounded, "The economy is about to tie up!"

Viper's strength is indeed good, and Xia is very skilled in using it. Every time she uses skills, she lays feathers before demolishing the tower. In this way, once IG dares to come to defend and clear the line, they will be constrained and faced with the threat of barbs!

Thanks to his meticulous handling, Griffin successively demolished the top and middle towers of the Extreme Team, bringing the situation back to balance!

"TheShy, please do something!" Jack shouted in a loud voice.

Smeb sighed briefly, with regret written on his face, "There is no way, the top laner is like this, it is difficult to influence the overall situation. When Jace's strong period is over, IG will really lose."

"I think we should lower the priority of Solo Girl and Jess. These two heroes are typical win-line but no-win games. They can't snowball even if they have a big advantage in the early stage..."

But as he spoke, he could no longer hold his lips shut.

Song Jinghao came from the LCK, and the concepts there are completely different from the LPL.

After the Hanguo League won consecutive championships in the World Championships in the early years, the audience fan base was quickly divided up.

Everyone will say that they are Samsung fans and SKT fans, but few KR viewers will say that they are LCK fans.

In short, the concept of division is deliberately downplayed.

After all, before the S3-S6 World Championship, only the 2015 mid-season championship was won by the LPL. The LCK audience who had always won was completely uninterested in the honor of the division and had long been divided into small groups.

It wasn't until the emergence of the VG dynasty, and one LCK team after another fell in front of Gu Xing and others, that the audience in the Cold Country Division reunited and united, hoping to encircle VG as a division and take back everything that originally belonged to them.

Of course, Song Jinghao was not a witness to the second half of the plot. He had already come to the LPL at that time. Although he also visited the forum, his impression of the KR audience was still the same as before.

Therefore, Smeb's concept is to participate in the World Championship as a club.

In this case, then IG is naturally one of the strong competitors!

Song Jinghao wished Ji Team would die quickly.

As long as IG is eliminated in the group stage, he will be the top laner in the next schedule!

Although Wunder, Bwipo and others are also good in strength, their experience level is still slightly inferior to Song Jinghao!

Gu Xing noticed that the emotion shown on Smeb's expression did not match what he said, and immediately burst out laughing, "You are really..."

"What's wrong?" Song Jinghao didn't think there was anything wrong with him, "I just want me to win the last LPL championship. It's best for those teams to pack up and get out as soon as they get to the World Championship. What's the problem?"

Gu Xing has some plot points in the competition area.

In last year's World Championship, he accidentally used an EZ jungler to deceive teams from other regions and send Guodian to the quarterfinals. Although this was not Gu Xing's original intention in developing this routine, this was the result.

He still hopes that the other two brother teams participating in S8 can stand up.

As for whether it will create obstacles for VG to win the championship...

Gu Xing believes that as long as he is in the team, he will not lose!

However, although he sincerely wishes that the LPL team will get better and better, the fact that cannot be concealed is that the dragon slayer will eventually become the evil dragon.

Nowadays, the internal divisions in the LPL are equally serious. As the strength of the division increases day by day, both fans and players feel that they are following the same path of the LCK.

It's just that Gu Xing's VG team seems to have the largest number of fans, and it can firmly suppress other teams by relying on its strong strength and unquestionable honor.

"Wait, what is this Jace doing?" Duan Deliang took a breath, "Why did TheShy go to the front?"

Piltover's second battalion commander moved to the middle lane after pushing the bottom lane. With the high movement speed provided by the form switch, he quickly reached the grass in the middle lane and fired a reinforced cannon at the Viper in the distance!

The angle of the shock wave is extremely tricky, hitting the opponent's shooter accurately.

One shot is half a tube of blood!

TheShy's personal development has not slowed down, and he put together a two-piece set in 16 minutes. You must know that this version of Jace, who does not use magic cut, is very early in the formation stage of combat power. The two pieces of armor-piercing armor have been severely reduced when the basic armor is encountered. The crispy ADC is too much for Xayah!

After firing a shot, Jiang Chenglu didn't want to fight anymore. He returned to his bottom lane and continued to play with Sword.

The current version of the shooter no longer has the first three recovery equipment. Viper lacks the blood-sucking ability and has no choice but to return to the city to replenish supplies.

This time, Viper will be delayed for at least 40 seconds, and GRF's advancement rhythm will instantly slow down!

And IG is not a vegetarian. They seize the point where Griffin's core is definitely not there, and the four people in the front push back the line of troops to set up eye positions in the enemy's jungle area.

After everything is done, when Viper returns to the middle, he needs to waste a lot of time to reorganize the offensive!

"TheShy's wandering is a bit spiritual this time!" Gu Xing's eyes lit up, "It solves an urgent need for the front!"

"It's broken, you won't really let them steal something from us, right?" Jack's expression tightened.

"Brother, I reminded you last night that you shouldn't practice operations with IG. Hongmi will not listen..."

Gu Xing waved his hand, "Logically speaking, operating this thing cannot be accomplished overnight. How much change can those few training games in one night bring to IG?"

"I feel like it was a flash of inspiration at best. IG may have learned a few tricks, but most of the time, the business philosophy of switching lines has not been adjusted."

As he said, IG's subsequent line transfer operations are still in a mess.

But it's enough to deal with GRF.

Griffin, as a first-year member of the team, also does not have a team brain, and the operation is a mess!

After TheShy tasted the benefits, he kept repeating the previous gameplay. He no longer stayed in the bottom lane to put pressure on Sword. Now he only needs to push off the side lanes and move closer to the middle lane, relying on the high damage provided by the enhanced cannon to assist his teammates in clearing Line or reduce the health of key enemy heroes.

Gu Xing was speechless.

The canyon is just like the battlefield. It is most taboo to use the same move to disgust the opponent over and over again. It is easy for the opponent to think of a response strategy in advance and set up an ambush.

It can only be said that the reckless IG can't change its mind, and it is estimated that it will not choose to change tactics unless it hits the south wall.

But it happens to be very useful.

Griffin was harassed by Jess, and was at a loss for a moment. His scalp was numbed by TheShy, and he was repeatedly bombarded by Jess until his health was reduced. He didn't even think of an effective countermeasure!

"What is this?" Duan Deliang and everyone were dumbfounded, "Wolong met Fengxia?"

GRF was extremely anxious and eager to open up the situation, but after the initiative was handed over to IG, everyone in the team was overjoyed and began to play "operations" leisurely!

They don't know what they are running. It seems that every time they change lanes, there will be a certain loss of troops in each lane.

But it's okay.

Griffin on the other side didn't realize he was panicking to death.

Before the game, they also believed that the Extreme Team would definitely not be able to operate. Coach Cvmax also specifically emphasized this point to give Griffin a boost.

But now it seems that Team Ji understands operations!

No, bro, are you really good at it? !

As soon as they saw IG starting to change the line, the five people felt a little bit in their hearts, thinking that the other party was holding back bad intentions and wanted to cause trouble.

I put pressure on myself and found it difficult to cope with the unknown team's offensive line transition.

GRF, which started at 0/2, had a lot of pressure to advance. In this game, they came to fight with the idea that nothing could be lost. It was inevitable to be anxious when they saw that their own team could not attack for a long time.

Adding to the pressure, these first-year freshmen all had ugly operations that were deformed due to excessive psychological pressure!

Finally, the chicken feet were exposed, and Prince Ning, who had a keen sense of smell, caught the opportunity.

Gao Zhenning's Xin Zhao came out from the shadow on the side, flashed E and assisted Lehends to throw R [Crescent Guard] in one go, catching Viper off guard!

Kasumi failed to react and flew backwards, breaking away from Griffin's formation!

Song Yijin's Enchantress decisively seizes the opportunity, WR double-steps into the field, and quickly inflicts damage on Viper!

When Viper lands and activates R again, he has been reduced to residual health by IG!

TheShy came over with a cannon, stood up and emptied Xia's health bar!

The absolute core of Griffin died suddenly, and the remaining team members were leaderless and scattered one after another!

Only Syndra stayed where she was, draining all her magic power and pouring all her skills into the enemy heroes!

"Showmaker wants to die standing up!"

The commentator of this scene remembers howling, which echoed in the bus where VG was riding, "He did not give up the last glimmer of hope!"

"But it had no effect. IG swarmed up without mercy and used many skills to kill Syndra. After killing Griffin's double C in seconds, they planned to take over the dragon!"

Gao Zhenning clenched his fists and let out an inspiring roar.

If you like to criticize me, I am a very ordinary jungler with no characteristics, right?

Die to me!

"This is the real deal!" Gu Xing put away his phone with confidence, "It seems that all three of our LPL teams will have no problem qualifying!"

However, after three days of truce, the evolution of the version in the second round of the group stage was a bit unexpected for everyone in VG.

A team has developed a new path for ships.

royal.

On the fourth match day, RNG's Group A took the lead, and each team in the group had to complete all games in one day.

RNG took a different approach, directly abandoning the heroes on the top lane who won the lane but not the team, and started to choose Sion Ornn, or give Letme a team-fighting hero like Sword Demon or Urgot.

As for Uzi, Kai'Sa and Xayah take turns playing, providing late-stage damage to the team's backbone.

Everyone understands it, the classics guarantee one.

It is worth mentioning that, like wild core, four guarantees and one protection can be divided into a narrow understanding and a broad understanding.

The former means that certain lineups can be played, just like using Leopard Girl, Male Spear, and Kindred to default to wild core.

The latter is a matter of philosophy rather than being limited to a specific lineup.

To judge whether it is a four-guaranteed one or a wild core, it mainly depends on the team's resource focus.

The best understood example is VG.

Unless Gu Xing chooses a purely herbivorous jungler like Zach Zhumei, it will basically be a wild core play. The team must build an offensive around him, and the resources it has must be given away.

The same principle can be applied to the royal family.

No matter what kind of hero Uzi plays, as long as the pair of midfielders and midfielders like Xiangguo Xiaohu frequently come to nourish him, and in the mid-term, he will give up troops and wild monsters, and in team fights, he will need Letme to protect him, which falls into the broad category of four guarantees and one.

After the renaissance of RNG gameplay, the style of play has become more stable.

Although they are often crushed by the opponent's fierce offensive in the early stage, the advantage is that the lower limit is very high. Facing a team that is not strong in snowballing and ending the game, even if it falls into a disadvantage in the early stage, it can often regain the position through operation and teamfighting ability.

At least it's quite useful in the intensity of the group stage.

RNG relied on this old-fashioned four-guarantee set with a very high minimum limit to defeat the Vietnamese team for life, and fought fiercely with C9 for 44 minutes, and finally won the victory with Letme's god-level team start!

Even if they still lost to KT, it did not affect the Royal Family's advance to the quarterfinals with a second-place record of 4 wins and 2 losses in the group!

Following RNG, on the second day of the second round of the group stage, another team with a similar understanding came forward.

liquid.

The senior brother is obviously a very trustworthy core player in the team, and there is no problem in building the team's play style around him.

They are also trying to give up the strength of the top lane, give up the resources they should have in the early stage, and take the initiative to wait for the mid-to-late stage before engaging in battle.

Although the technical and tactical level of top laner Impact Oki has declined somewhat, this is because compared to himself, purely in terms of absolute strength, he can easily beat the top laners of most World Championship teams.

This means that even if the liquid is not going well in the early stage, it will not give up all its resources, leaving room for maneuver so that the senior brother can unscrupulously delay development and wait for the arrival of his strong period!

The effect is equally significant.

They can't beat G2, but there is no suspense in bullying the other two teams in Group B.

In the end, Liquid won the playoffs with 3 wins and 3 losses, successfully broke through the group stage, and followed G2, the 6/0 big brother of the Western Division, into the quarterfinals!

Gu Xing was still a little confused after watching the two days of competition.

Between the first round and the second round of the group stage, VG did not practice with RNG or the North American division. They mainly played training matches with the four teams IG, KT, FNC and G2. Their own energy was really limited and they had no time to take care of other teams.

I didn’t expect everyone outside to play so wildly!

However, despite the new version understanding proposed by the Royal Family, the VG training department has experienced many battles and has not followed RNG's gameplay path. It still firmly believes in its own views and goes its own way to increase the combat intensity in the upper half.

Dragon Ball was a bit taken astray.

This has nothing to do with their coaching staff.

After KZ put Jin Jingzhu in KTV, they hired Acorn, a retired professional player, as a coach.

Brother A was ranked among the top 10 players in the three-star team back then. Although he was one of the weakest team members, his reputation was quite bluffing.

This is a typical blue-collar top laner. He was famous for his ability to withstand pressure in LGD back then, and he couldn't even compare to the princess when playing a carry role.

One can imagine how much Acorn loves blue-collar top laners!

Originally, taking into account Khan's offensive attributes and version trends, the team still focused on the top half.

Now that Acorn sees that both Royal Family and Liquid are using a conservative strategy in the upper half, leaving the bottom lane to take on the offensive responsibility, Acorn immediately has other ideas.

I don’t have much coaching experience, but it’s okay to copy it, right?

Both teams can win, and there is no reason for KZ to lose!

As a result, something happened as soon as he copied it.

Longzhu lost to VG first and then to VIT. The consecutive losses were just one step away from being eliminated!

As a last resort, veteran Pray stepped forward again, activated the Face Fruit skill, usurped power from Acorn, and significantly delegated BP power to the players, allowing Khan to play the hero he was best at.

Khan was overjoyed. Facing 100 Thieves in the last group stage match, he completed the gorgeous transformation from Ornn to Jayce!

The Korean cannon is in place!

The old Ssumday was no match for Khan. He was defeated steadily and was penetrated by a single point!

Relying on Khan's wonderful performance, KZ narrowly entered the quarterfinals!

In contrast, VG's group stage journey was much smoother.

Thanks to Longzhu's BP being sick and losing two games in a row, VG secured the top spot in the group two rounds ahead of schedule.

With a wave of his hand, Hongmi simply let substitute Kuro go into battle and feel the enthusiastic cheers from the audience.

Although he has not competed on the same stage for less than half a year, Li Ruixing has cooperated with other VG players for more than a year and a half, and the tacit understanding is still there.

In the group stage, mid laners other than BDD generally did not have high laning intensity, and Kuro was able to cope with it.

Li Ruixing even cut off the MVP of a game against 100 thieves, against his old rival RYU Yue Lun!

After an unremarkable six-game winning streak, VG heads high and advances to the quarterfinals!

The last day of the schedule has arrived, and Group D, which was known as the "death group" before the game, is back in flames.

Griffin was 0/3 in the first round and had no way out. Even though the hope of advancement was extremely slim, he still had to rush forward to fight for a chance of survival!

They knew that they might continue to lose according to their original style of play, so they simply made changes and followed RNG's ideas.

Sword's personal strength is not strong on the top lane. Why do you want to play Jess Blade Girl for him?

Wouldn't it be great to choose Thanion?

Letme Unit 2 is here!

It can only be said that Griffin is at least in line with the new understanding of the royal family. He shifted the focus of tactics and the effect was immediate. He killed the Lightning Wolf and avenged the first round!

But IG immediately put the nail in their coffin.

After several rounds of training matches with VG, members of the highly savvy team have slowly mastered some of the operating ideas of the current specific version.

In terms of discipline and overall operational level, it is still unrealistic for them to compete with VG, but the same sentence remains.

It's enough to beat Griffin.

TheShy continues to wave people to give Sword strength, and then goes to the middle to relieve the pressure on his teammates during the transition period. This trick has been tried and true!

Griffin had just learned the double C secret method in the mid-to-late stage. Faced with IG's unreasonable and reckless fight, he was quickly defeated!

The root cause is that they can't help it. They feel uncomfortable seeing IG players dangling in front of them all the time, and they insist on going up to fight with the members of the Extreme Team.

As a result, the lineup that was not supposed to fight with each other in the early and mid-term to take over the team was seduced by IG into frequent conflicts. As a result, it failed even in the late stage and suffered a disastrous defeat!

This makes sense.

It would be abnormal for a group of pure newbies to be as lychee as Lao Youzi.

Griffin, who lost the fourth game, announced in advance that they would miss the knockout stage, becoming the second team in the LCK region to fail to break into the quarterfinals since S3 - the previous team was MVP Ozone.

The bad news made GRF members distracted, and they suffered miserably against FNC!

They were promoted to the top 16 with a record of 1 win and 5 losses in local battles. This is undoubtedly a great shame for the audience in the cold country!

When the Griffin team left the field, boos broke out in the Busan Convention and Exhibition Center. The dissatisfaction with them had reached the extreme!

Showmaker lowered his head to pack his peripherals. He looked like a primary school student, his eyes were red, and he could not accept the tragic fate of being eliminated from the first world championship.

Coach Cvmax hugged the players one by one and encouraged them with a warm smile to come back next year and do better than this World Championship.

Next year?

Showmaker looked confused.

After countless version changes, there is a question mark on whether the strength of myself and my teammates can break into the World Championship again!

Who knows if this is the only opportunity in this life...

Gu Xing was waiting for the draw ceremony for the top eight in the backstage. He didn't even bother to watch the battle between IG and FNC for the top spot in Group D. He happily browsed the counter bar, quickly found the Korean website repost, and quickly clicked in to watch the school beauty.

Sure enough, the KR audience broke through.

[Griffin is simply the shame of the Great Cold Underworld! Please don't go back to Seoul, okay? We in Seoul can't afford to lose this person! Tell me you are a local in Busan】

[C8 Busan What’s wrong with you? We will also apply for the World Expo in the future! 】

[Last time, Ozone and Imp, the MVPs of the top 16, were expelled from their nationality. I suggest that we also expel Sword’s nationality! 】

[Griffin, get out of the cold country now! No shame! 】

[Let’s take a look at the interesting data, brother Meng. Sword was suppressed for a total of 398 dollars in 6 games, with an average of 60+ CS difference in each game. Is this really a top laner from our division? 】

[That is, when you mention the LCK top laner, you usually think of Marin, Looper, Smeb... all of them are strong men in the lane and can dominate the top lane. Where does Sword come from? 】

[I heard that the CN forum kindly nicknamed Sword, calling him ‘Sword King’. I think we can steal it and use it! 】

[Tazan is also pure and innocent. I haven’t seen this guy in the entire group stage. It’s like Harry Potter wearing an invisibility cloak! 】

[Alas, Viper tried his best, but he just can’t bring these new teammates together]

Gu Xing looked at the Korean forum and suddenly heard Jack next to him shouting, "Fuck you, Old Song!"

"Are you riding the horse too hard?!"

When he looked up, he saw that the broiler Syndra was killing people on the battlefield!

The players with the prefix FNC fell one after another, unable to bear the high damage from the ball girl!

Rookie scored four kills, led the team to win the key game, and got the chance to compete for the top spot in Group D in the playoffs!

Tonight, Song Yijin was in great form. Facing the young Caps in the second game, he took out the Enchantress and roamed the dragon wantonly. It was a complete matchup. The second consecutive MVP led IG to successfully counterattack and win the first place in the group!

At this point, the eight qualifying places for the four groups have been settled, and we are just waiting for the lottery ceremony to start again!

When writing about the game between IG and GRF, some of the reasons for the change in the team’s understanding of the version were included.

The evolution process will be explained in the next game.

PS: Taobo seems to have some opinions on the bot lane. He didn’t play like this during the Asian Games training camp, right?

However, the opponent's level is quite average. Let's look at the quality of JD's bot lane in the knockout round.

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