Chapter 1380 Artifact Distribution
On April 18th, the matching results of the top four matches of Summit S3 were announced.
The matchup situations are: [Alliance of Losers] VS [Gate of Heaven], [Hell Front] VS [Order].
Because these four teams are all favorites to win the championship, there are not many flaws in this pairing... Anyway, no matter how the pairing is, it is a strong matchup, and the audience has no reason to say it is a shady match.
However, the introduction of "artifacts" does make the situation more interesting.
The effects of these four artifacts are as follows -
[Crown]: Apply the "King's Deterrence" special effect to all hostile units entering the battlefield. The target affected by it will continue to reduce the survival value by a percentage until death (Note: The damage of "King's Deterrence" cannot be damaged except by the effect of artifacts. effects, including battlefield barriers).
[Holy Grail]: All our team members will receive the special effect of "God's Blood Gift" after entering the battlefield. If the target affected by it does not receive any damage for ten consecutive seconds, a "God's Blood Energy Shield" will be automatically generated around it. It can resist/eliminate the special effects (including artifact effects) exerted on us by an opponent.
[Philosopher's Stone]: Periodically releases the "Midas into gold" special effect on all enemy units that enter the battlefield. Once every thirty seconds, the equipment, skills and items on the target affected by it will be attached with a layer of "Value improvement" BUFF, this BUFF will increase the "quality" and "use/equipment conditions" of the item/skill, but the special effect remains unchanged (this effect can only be eliminated by the artifact effect); when the item/skill is used/equipped If the conditions exceed the holder's ability, it will be invalid or unable to be activated.
[Amulet]: All our team members will receive the "divine protection" special effect after entering the battlefield. When our team members are affected by the opponent's continuous ability (including artifact effects), the debuff and damage effects will be reflected, and the buff effects will be retained. and strengthen.
Judging from the official information, the restraint relationship between artifacts is quite obvious.
[Crown] must be a counterweight to [Holy Grail], because the "King's Deterrence" can start to cut the enemy's blood through the barrier from the first second it enters the battlefield; this kind of uninterrupted "continuous" attack cannot be resisted by the player's own means. Damage" is tantamount to abolishing the "gift of divine blood".
The [Holy Grail] restrains the [Philosopher's Stone], because the "Divine Blood Energy Shield" can eliminate the latter's continuously superimposed "value enhancement", and the frequency of energy shield generation is higher than the frequency of "value enhancement".
Next, [Philosopher's Stone] defeats [Amulet], because "Divine Protection" not only cannot overcome the "pseudo-gain" effect of "value improvement", but also makes it stronger.
However, because "Divine Protection" can cause rebound debuffs and damage effects, when [Amulet] encounters [Crown], it is a perfect counter-suppression.
Finally, let's look at the cross comparison... There is no obvious restraint between [Crown] and [Philosopher's Stone], [Holy Grail] and [Amulet], and they can interact with each other.
The above is the information about the artifact; although it cannot be said that the side with restraint will win, but the advantage is huge... at least it can make up for the gap in hard power to a large extent.
Therefore, in this round of strong showdown, the choice of artifact has become the key to victory or defeat.
According to the rules, [Heaven's Gate], which was moved to the "bye position" in the last round, has no right to participate in the distribution of artifacts in this round, so I won't mention it here.
Let’s talk about the other three teams…
First of all, because the [Wasteless Alliance] finished the second fastest in the previous round, it gained the right to be the first to allocate artifacts in the semi-finals.
This kind of brain-intensive work was naturally left to Honghu; after thinking carefully... he finally chose the [Philosopher's Stone] for the team and assigned the [Amulet] to [Heaven's Gate]. The [Holy Grail] was assigned to [Order].
Honghu's idea is very clear, and he will try his best to reduce (it is impossible to completely eliminate it theoretically anyway, so it can only reduce) the possibility of his team being "restrained".
How to reduce it? The allocation he made is the best answer...
Honghu not only settled the accounts of his own team, but also settled the accounts of [Order] together.
After the selection of the [Wasteless Alliance], the initiative will fall into the hands of [Order]; although [Order] can choose whether to replace the artifact of [Heaven's Gate], this exchange cannot change it for them. My fate of being "restrained" is because [Hell Front], which finished first in the last round, (according to normal logic) will inevitably get an artifact that restrains [Order] in the end.
Therefore, this choice of [Order] is actually just deciding whether to be defeated with the [Holy Grail] or with the [Amulet].
If you keep the [Holy Grail], the whole field will be affected by the DOT that continues to lose blood; change it to the [Amulet]... During the battle, as time goes by, all the items and skill special effects will gradually be abolished, and because of its own artifact effect, This process of being abolished will accelerate.
Comparing the two, in this evenly matched duel, it is obviously better to keep the [Holy Grail].
Thinking about it this way... [Order] naturally chose not to change.
Of course, [Order] can also forcefully choose to exchange... After the exchange, they will get the [Amulet], and [Heaven's Gate] will get the [Holy Grail]; and in order to restrain [Order], [Hell Front] will inevitably use the [Crown] to exchange the [Philosopher's Stone] in the hands of [Waste Alliance]. In that case, the final situation will still become... [Waste Alliance] restrains [Heaven's Gate]'s [Holy Grail], and [Hell Front] restrains [Order]'s [Amulet] with the [Philosopher's Stone].
In other words, no matter how to exchange, [Waste Alliance] and [Hell Front] will be the restraining party, and the other two teams will be the restrained party.
If [Waste Alliance] is to be the restrained party, there is only one possibility, that is... regardless of whether [Order] changes or not, [Hell Front], the last choice, forces itself to be the restrained party and drags [Waste Alliance] into the water.
No matter how crazy Feng Bujue is, there is no reason for him to do such a thing...
Using madness to cover up reasonable wisdom or certain beliefs and intentions is one thing, and doing illogical or even stupid actions to appear crazy is another.
So, the final situation is consistent with Honghu's layout.
The semi-finals began with the distribution of [Waste Alliance]-[Philosopher's Stone]; [Heaven's Gate]-[Amulet]; [Hell Front]-[Crown]; [Order]-[Holy Grail]...