Chapter 408: On the First Day of the Group Stage, New Things Appeared Frequently!

On the second day after arriving in Jiangcheng, LGD started a serious training match.

Today LGD made an appointment with a European team.

After all, there is not much game data to refer to for the 7.18 version used in this world championship, and everyone is still exploring.

Although the 7.18 version is also used in the qualifying round.

But to be honest, the games in the qualifying round are not of much reference value.

You can take a look, but don't take it too seriously.

The teams that made it out of the qualifying round, except FB, are too far behind the other wildcard teams in strength. They simply ignored the version and won by playing casually.

And the games between the remaining wildcard teams are also pure chickens fighting each other, which is also not worth referring to.

The only thing that can be confirmed at present is that the ultimate perverted hero, Kalista, was released in the 7.18 version.

After the subsequent group matches start, the hero Skateboard Shoes should not be released at all.

In the training matches a few days before the group stage, LGD is going to experiment with several heroes that are currently performing well in the public games.

This is also the reason why DGC first arranged a training match with a European team.

Many players in Europe and North America may not have much hard power, but they have a lot of tricks and can often come up with some amazing tricks.

Playing a few training games with them may help you discover some heroes that you haven't noticed before.

In addition, the three LPL teams participating in the S7 World Finals have been communicating with each other.

The three teams continue to share their new discoveries and new understandings of the World Championship version.

After all, this is a local World Championship, and all LPL audiences are more eager than ever for LPL to achieve results in this World Championship.

Therefore, the LPL teams are more united than ever this time.

Unlike the previous World Finals, teams in the same region also guarded against each other.

During this period, DGC has actually been a little worried.

Since the launch of version 7.18, the focus of the version seems to be increasingly biased towards the bottom lane.

An obvious point is that in the casual games and the qualifying matches a few days ago, the frequency of soft supports appearing is getting higher and higher, while the frequency of hard supports appearing is getting lower and lower.

The combination of soft supports and censer makes the strengths more prominent.

The reason why the hero Kalista has become so abnormal now is also based on these factors.

Because this AD can protect his fragile soft support.

Of course, Dgc is not without confidence in his own bottom lane duo.

But he knows more clearly that LGD's strongest point is still the top lane weekly peak.

The changes in the version have actually narrowed the gap between the top lanes of various teams.

To be honest, this is somewhat disadvantageous for LGD.

As for the mid-lane position and the jungle position, no matter how the version changes, the influence of the mid-lane on the game situation is naturally there.

October 4th, the day before the start of the S7 World Finals.

After playing the training games in the past few days before the start of the group stage, Dgc was also slightly relieved.

It seems that the whole LGD team is still online.

The new heroes I trained performed well in the training matches, and the level of using the old heroes in the previous versions has not fallen behind.

The group stage will officially start tomorrow on the 5th.

The time has come to October 5th, and the S7 World Finals group stage officially started.

Each group has four teams. After six BO1 games in the double round-robin within the group, the teams with the top two records in the group will advance to the quarterfinals.

When ranking the groups, the win-loss relationship will be considered first if the records are the same.

If the win-loss relationship is the same, the ranking will be determined by extra games.

In the six games on the first day of the group stage today, three groups, Group A, Group B, and Group C, will play, and each group will have two BO1 games.

Group D has a bye today and has no games.

Of the four teams that made it out of the qualifying rounds, C9 fell into Group A, in the same group as LGD.

FNC fell into Group B, which has no LPL teams.

The Turkish team FB in the wildcard zone fell into Group C, in the same group as RNG.

WE fell into Group D.

After the opening ceremony, the group stage of the S7 World Finals began.

For the opening match of the main competition, the official arranged a match in Group C, with RNG playing against FB.

From the arrangement of this opening match, the intention of our organizer is already very clear.

Even though LGD is the No. 1 seed of the LPL division in this World Finals.

But RNG, as an all-Chinese team, has such a "golden signboard", and at this time RNG's popularity in the LPL is even slightly higher than LGD.

Considering the popularity and traffic, the official arranged RNG to play the first opening game.

Moreover, RNG's opponent today is a team from the wildcard division.

The first game was arranged for RNG, of course, to ensure that the LPL team won the opening game steadily and ensure that the LPL audience could have fun.

Of course, LGD's game against AHQ today should also be relatively stable.

But it is not as stable as RNG playing against the wildcard team.

RNG played the first opening game, and LGD's game was the last game of the day.

At the beginning and end of the first match day, there were LPL teams playing.

Today, the Jiangcheng group match was packed with people, and most of the audience came to support the LPL team.

Of course, in addition to our LPL's own commentary, there were also LPL commentators.

Commentary seats were also arranged for commentators from several mainstream regions such as the European and American regions and the LCK region.

The commentators for RNG's opening game were Jide, Su Xiaoyan, and Haokai.

Haokai usually comments on LCK games, and viewers who often watch LPL may not be familiar with him.

He has a nickname "oxygen bottle".

This person is a bit out of breath when he talks continuously in team battles.

When the team battles are intense, his voice will even break, and his voice will sound like he is about to die.

Those who like his commentary style will find his commentary very passionate.

Those who don't like him will find his shouting and yelling a bit harsh.

However, as a former professional player, Haokai's professionalism in game content is still good in commentary.

At 3 pm, the group match BO1 between RNG and FB started on time.

After all, it was the opening game, and both sides chose a relatively conventional and stable lineup.

There were no strange killer moves, just relying on hard power.

But there is still a big gap between the two teams in hard power.

In this case, RNG won the opening game smoothly without any mistakes.

Although the game took nearly 40 minutes, the entire game situation was firmly in the hands of RNG from more than 10 minutes into the game.

As the focus of the version is increasingly on the bottom lane, it is inevitable that the overall game time will be longer.

But no matter how to say that the one-blood tower mechanism exists, the game will not be like the previous line-swapping.

In the past, when the main opening line-swapping operation was used, the professional game of League of Legends was really long and boring.

A typical example is the game in the S6 season, which often starts for 40 to 50 minutes.

Now all three lanes are lined up seriously, and the chances of breaking through in the early and mid-term are greatly increased.

After the RNG game, the next game is another game in Group C.

G2 vs. SSG.

The No. 1 seed in the European division and the No. 3 seed in South Korea are also regarded as the biggest opponents of RNG to qualify from the group.

All the audience and commentators thought it would be a strong dialogue.

But G2 was beaten.

Samsung defeated G2 in just 27 minutes.

For Samsung, the most famous "bladder team" in the LCK league, their usual games often last for 40 to 50 minutes.

This game lasted only 27 minutes, which was really short.

Of course, it might also be because of the BP.

G2 made a big move in the first game. Instead of choosing the soft support of the censer monster that had dominated the bottom lane, they chose a Minotaur support.

Then they got a jungle Ivern and asked Xiaoju to play the censer as the censer monster.

As a result, Xiaoju also matched the jungle with a mid-lane airplane, and G2's mid-jungle was directly rotten in the early stage.

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Crown used Rock Bird to directly beat Perkz, and then roamed the whole field.

The content of this game is not of much reference value, but it made people realize a support hero that may be very important in the next game.

The support in professional games is different from that in casual games. Their vision and teamfighting tasks are very important, and they even have to set the pace.

This is also the reason why hard supports were the mainstream in the past.

But now the bottom lane is full of soft supports that provide milk and shields, which actually subverts the previous gaming habits of many support players.

In this game, Samsung's support corejj took out the gem, and many people were surprised.

The gem is actually a hard support, but he has milk, shield and can produce censer.

In the eyes of many coaches and players, this hero still has a lot of room for development.

After the two games of Group C where RNG is, the two games of Group B will follow.

The first BO1 game was between LZ and IMT.

IMT is the second seed in the North American division, and LPL audiences are generally unfamiliar with this team.

But there is still a relatively familiar person, that is, their top laner Flame.

Flame is a Korean aid, nicknamed the princess, and he is indeed very handsome.

Flame used to play for LGD and also went to the S5 World Finals with LGD.

The IMT team has a nickname, called "Avengers".

Including the top laner Flame, the other players in this team are also abandoned by the previous team.

These people formed a team this year, and they directly entered the global finals as the second seed in North America, which is quite inspiring.

However, today's stage is destined not to belong to this "Avengers".

Because in this game they are playing against the No. 1 seed of LCK, Longzhu Team, the favorite team to win the global finals.

After the whole game, it feels that Longzhu Team is stronger than IMT in all aspects, and Longzhu did not make any mistakes throughout the whole game.

It took 30 minutes for Longzhu to win this game.

From the perspective of the IMT team, the whole game gave people a serious sense of powerlessness.

After watching this game, the audience around the world also felt that it was worthy of being the No. 1 seed of LCK, and it was really strong.

After this game, the six BO1 games on the first day of the group stage have been played halfway.

According to the old tradition of LPL, the commentator should be changed in the second half after the first half.

The commentator for the last three games today was his old partner, Wawa Miller.

When the entire LGD team boarded the bus to the competition venue, the second game of Group B, which was the fourth BO1 game of the day, had just begun.

The two teams were FNC and the Vietnamese team GAM.

Zhou Dian had nothing to do on the bus, so he took out his phone to watch the live broadcast of the game.

For the majority of viewers, the upcoming game generally felt that there was no gold content.

Because one of the two teams was only the third seed in the European division, and the other was from the wildcard division, it was really hard to say how strong they were.

But Zhou Dian always felt that the Vietnamese might do something fancy.

Although he was more inclined to think that FNC was stronger and could win.

But he also knew that in BO1 games, sometimes strange moves played a greater role than hard power.

If things went wrong today, FNC might capsize in the gutter.

As expected, the two teams with the lowest gold content on the first day of the S7 World Championship played the most exciting and most entertaining game so far today.

When GAM selected Kassadin and Nightmare as the mid and jungle, Zhou Dian felt that this game was not easy.

GAM was an extremely rare team with jungle as the core at that time.

They had been playing jungle core long before the jungle core version came.

In their own Vietnamese league, the whole team often protected jungler Levi to play.

However, the level of the Vietnamese league was too low, and GAM would just kill randomly when playing casually, which was not very useful.

But today, this group of Vietnamese people showed their unique understanding of the game to the global audience in the global finals.

GAM, on the red side, started the game with five people huddled together to make vision in the upper and lower rivers.

Then, when the wild monsters were about to refresh, the top laner Galio and the jungler Nightmare stood in front of F6.

The wild monsters refreshed, and Galio began to help Nightmare fight F6.

It is normal and common for the top laner to help the jungler open F6 at the beginning.

But when the OB perspective slightly raised up, it was found that the GAM bottom lane duo was fighting their own red buff.

The audience was a little confused!

The jungler started with F6, and the bottom lane helped the jungler to beat the red buff to a low health. This is also normal.

Isn't it a regular jungle king start!

But the problem is that GAM is on the red side.

At this time, GAM's top, bottom, jungle and support were all in the upper jungle area.

What is this for?

Some viewers who reacted quickly have already noticed something.

Is this going to change lanes at the beginning?

But the problem is that since the end of the S6 season, after the addition of the first blood tower and other mechanisms, the previous mainstream starting lane change play has directly collapsed.

In the S7 season, basically no team will change lanes at the beginning.

It is rare to see a change of lanes at the beginning of a hundred games.

Sure enough, after the two GAM bottom laners beat the red buff to only a trace of blood, they went straight to the top lane.

Nightmare, who had just finished F6, came over and ate the red buff with one knife.

FNC's top laner Treant suddenly found Lulu and Tristana, and was caught off guard. He was beaten to a sliver of health and had to go home at level 1.

On the other side, GAM's top laner Galio was still online, and followed Nightmare to help him clear the jungle.

In just 2 minutes and 40 seconds, Nightmare had reached level 4.

Both top laners were still at level 1.

After clearing the lower half of the jungle, Nightmare and Galio came to their own next tower.

Since FNC's bottom lane had no control, a large wave of soldiers was about to enter GAM's next tower.

In just two minutes, Nightmare ate both wild monsters and lines.

FNC's response was also very quick. Knowing that Nightmare could not eat this wave of soldiers comfortably, they immediately called their own junglers to cross the tower.

After the large wave of soldiers in the bottom lane entered the tower, FNC's mid and jungle also arrived.

A wave of four encircled two.