mousepad-d2 Chapter 6: You should come along too.
Chapter 6: You should come along too.
Including the Rift Herald team fight, even though it was clearly a 3v5 situation, they insisted on going forward to fight, only to give the enemy a few more kills.
What's wrong? Is the game not difficult enough, or are you worried that the enemy's late-game lineup won't be able to develop?
Chen Song stopped speaking, and the room fell into a brief silence.
Mafa remained silent, feeling as if Chen Song was the head coach, giving him a lecture.
That's strange, wasn't he here for an interview?
"Chen Song, your analysis is correct." He stared intently at the tablet. "Always thinking about fighting to gain an advantage is not a good direction."
His eyes were wide open, recalling the best-of-five series against Team Liquid at MSI.
At that time, if we had just slightly changed our playing style, wouldn't it have been... wouldn't it have been...?
I was just thinking about it.
"Knock knock knock!"
There was a knock on the door.
"Come in!"
Su Xiaoluo's voice broke the silence.
A staff member wearing an IG team uniform stood outside the door, looking somewhat rushed.
"Manager Su, Coach Mafa."
The staff member first glanced respectfully at Su Xiaoluo, who was sitting in the main seat, then turned to Mafa and reported, "The first team has already gathered in the training room. Today's scrim opponent is FPX. Coach Karam asked me to inquire about Coach Mafa's situation... approximately how much longer?"
"Coach Mafa will be there right away," Su Xiaoluo replied.
"Okay. I'll go and relay the message."
The staff member gently closed the door and turned to leave.
Su Xiaoluo stood up first. He glanced at Chen Song, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Chen Song, why don't you come along too?"
In Su Xiaoluo's opinion, since the boss had already hinted at Chen Song's performance, it was reasonable to let him go to the training room.
"it is good."
Chen Song nodded in agreement.
The training room and the tactics room are located on opposite sides of the same floor corridor, less than 10 meters apart.
Following Mafa into the training room, Chen Song glanced around briefly.
The training room is shaped like an inverted U, and there are about ten computers placed inside.
Although it doesn't look big, it has all the basic facilities.
Several contestants, wearing headphones, were sitting in front of their computers, completely unaware of Mafa and Chen Song.
Chen Song glanced around and saw that the players were already ready in the game room, waiting to enter the BP phase.
After seeing Mafa enter the training room, the tall man, who looked to be over 1.9 meters tall and was holding a notebook, turned around and glanced at Chen Song before focusing his gaze on Mafa. He said in Korean, "Our opponent this game is FPX. Although we are familiar with their playstyle, we should still be cautious during the draft phase."
Mafa nodded and said softly to Chen Song, "Chen Song, you are welcome to observe freely, don't be shy."
Chen Song pursed his lips and nodded.
Following Mafa, Chen Song slowly walked behind the player, his gaze calmly fixed on the computer screen.
The scrim between IG and FPX has officially entered the draft phase, with IG on the blue side.
Yuumi was the first hero to be banned.
Chen Song saw Youmi and realized that the game had been updated to a new version.
In his previous life, Season 9 was many years ago for Chen Song. Although the differences were not particularly large, the team composition and gameplay were completely different.
As a Grand Slam coach, it took him some time to adapt to and understand the current version of the game after he came into this world.
However, he focused more on version 9.8 for the interview, while Yuumi was on version 9.10.
By the time he came to his senses, both sides had already prepared their first three bans.
IG's first three picks were Yuumi, Sylas, and Gragas, which were banned respectively.
On the other side, FPX eliminated Jayce, Kennen, and Aatrox.
"Should we pick Akali first?"
Chen Song frowned, took out his phone, quickly opened a webpage, and searched for the September 9.10th update.
IG's first pick of Akali reminds me of their first pick of Ryze against TL back then.
As expected, after reading the update, Chen Song roughly understood the direction of the version.
"Isn't this just feeding the enemy Galio?"
Just as Chen Song was mentally preparing, FPX on the red side instantly locked in Galio on the first pick, and then immediately picked Gangplank on the second pick.
IG's second and third floors are occupied by Lee Sin and Kai'Sa, respectively.
FPX then picked Lucian on their third floor.
Upon arriving here, Chen Song couldn't help but think of FPX's lineup.
Now we'll see how the IG coaching staff prepares to respond.
IG banned Titan and Rakan in their last two picks.
FPX's lineup consists of Ryze and Sivir.
By observing the coach's draft picks, Chen Song discovered something that puzzled him greatly.
That means there's no problem with the amount of communication between the coach and the players during the draft phase, but the quality of that communication is clearly an issue.
They tend to rely more on the individual talent of their players to compensate for their weaknesses in the draft phase, rather than employing a targeted tactical system like FPX in selecting heroes.
Especially when it comes to picking champions, like first picking Akali, it was entirely TheShy's personal idea, and the coach just nodded in agreement.
Even the coach of the champion team uses this kind of coaching style?
Chen Song initially thought that this situation was an isolated case at the LNG club, but he didn't expect that even the champion club would be the same.
So, does this mean that's the coaching culture of LPL clubs?
Chen Song couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when he thought about this.
FPX locked in Thresh as their fourth pick.
The Counter slot was reserved for the jungler.
Meanwhile, IG's fourth and fifth floors picked up Minotaur and Vampire.
It seems that Akali is a flexible pick, but Vladimir is actually the one who goes for top lane.
"Captain Galio, then it has to be the prince."
Chen Song's voice wasn't loud, but it happened to be heard by head coach Karam.
The next second, FPX's fifth player appeared during the champion selection countdown and immediately picked Jarvan IV.
The final lineups for both sides have been determined.
Blue side IG: Top laner Vladimir, jungler Lee Sin, mid laner Akali, AD Kai'Sa, and support Alistar.
Red team FPX: Top laner Gangplank, jungler Jarvan IV, mid laner Galio, AD carry Lucian, and support Thresh.
Putting aside the lineup, just looking at the three lane matchups, IG is at a disadvantage in all of them and can't get lane priority at all.
With no lane control and a lineup that offers no margin for error, how can we possibly win?
Karam wouldn't gamble this game on the vampire, would he?
FPX's Galio disappeared in the mid lane after pushing the lane, leaving the top and bottom lanes, who were already at a disadvantage, to worry about being ganked at will.
This is definitely a lane-pushing, carry-all lineup.
Akali is indeed stronger than Galio in terms of solo kill ability, but Galio has absolute lane control. In comparison, all of Akali's movements will be controlled by Galio.
Moreover, Galio is not afraid of Akali's solo kill ability at all.
If the mid laner loses lane control, the jungle will be the first area affected.
For champions like Lee Sin who rely on early-game tempo, Akali losing lane control makes her very passive when invading the jungle.
Once in the game, the differences in the junglers' focus on farming are quite obvious.
IG's Lee Sin chose to start with red buff, and he will likely clear the top half of the map to relieve pressure on Vladimir.
FPX's Prince also chose to start with the red buff, his intention was very clear: to use Galio's wave-pushing ability to launch a four-man gank on the bottom lane.
With just the first wave of minions, IG lost lane control on three lanes.