This year's finals were held in various major cities in Europe.
The group stage would be held in Manchester, England, while the quarterfinals would be held in Paris, France. Compared to when they were still in England, there were significantly fewer Chinese students in Paris, France. Therefore, over the past few days, most of the players in the Pullman venue were European players.
Naturally, the majority of the European audience would unconditionally support the Legend team in today's final group of best-of-five matches for the quarter-finals.
They were also full of confidence in today's matchup.
After all, no matter what, even if the Legend team only obtained the second seed in their own LCS league, their true strength and foundation were definitely more reassuring than the first seed this year, MLG.
Moreover —
Their opponent, the Rapid Water team, was only the third seed in the LPL division. They were also a new team that had made it to the finals for the first time this year. Their strength was unsurprisingly at the bottom of the top eight teams.
On the first day of the quarterfinals, God- Hand of God had almost crushed MLG.
Therefore, today's final set of matches was still the battle between the China LPL division and the European LCS division. Presumably, it was the European division's turn to show off their strength and regain face from the third seed team of the LPL.
That was what most of the European audience thought.
Even on the official commentary platform, several European commentators had said before the start of the match that there would be no suspense in the outcome of today's match.
But —
It seemed that this year's finals would always be full of surprises.
Ten minutes into the first set of best-of-five matches.
On the field, the economy and the number of players on both sides were stable.
Even in the face of a top European team like Legend, as the third seed of the LPL, the Rapid Water team, under high pressure … still displayed an amazing tenacity!
Weak top lane.
Weak jungler.
But on the bottom lane, it was the Quick Water team who had managed to gain a small advantage in the 2v2 situation, making up for the disadvantage of their top jungler. This Shadow Puppet's support, Buron, once again amazed the audience. In the early stages of the game, he coordinated perfectly with his teammate, Obama, and suppressed Legend's ADC, Frost, with 18 last hits. In the fifth minute, Buron blinked and forced an opening to help his teammate, Lucian, kill Ai Xi and get a first blood!
This wave of Buron's maneuvers even made SSK's Cube and Season's God of Support, Autumn, take a closer look.
"This support, Rapid Water —"
"Not bad!"
Of course not bad.
Although he was unknown in the past year's LPL campaign and did not have too many amazing performances, after training and preparation in the three domestic teams, and even receiving several personal pointers from No. 1, this main support of the Rapid Water team had completely found the path he should take. In the past period of time, his strength and condition had been improving at an astonishing speed every day.
Vaguely, he already had the bearing of becoming the second core ace of the Rapid Water team.
However.
Relying on support alone, even if he led the rhythm of the bottom lane well, it was still not enough for a new team like Rapid Water to fight head-on with a strong team like Legend.
Therefore, the key to the duel still fell on the Mid Laner, who was already the number one ace of Team Rapid.
Shi Hang's mid.
…
In fact, although Rapid Water had advanced to the quarterfinals with a record of 4 wins and 2 losses in the group stage, the outside world still did not pay much attention to this team.
After all, there was a lot of luck involved in making it out of the group stage. You were placed in the chosen group, and other than MLG, the other two teams' strength was average. Winning those four matches wasn't a big deal. When you met MLG, didn't you still lose two matches in a row?
Because of this mentality, even when the mid-laner captain of the Rapid Water team was mentioned, "Addisi" Shi Hang, people did not pay much attention to him —
That Rapid Water's mid seemed to be okay when it came to winning games, but when it came to MLG's two matches, he was still firmly suppressed by the European Wizard King, Spoon.
His strength was only so-so.
But this time.
It was beyond everyone's expectations.
Shi Hang's opponent was Europe's Number One Spellcaster, Phoenix. After picking out a solo Crafty Enchantress, Lefran from the start of the match, Shi Hang's mechanics had already surpassed the performance of his teammate, Shadow Puppet, Blon, at the bottom lane, and shocked the entire audience.
Ten minutes of face-off.
In terms of last hits, Enchantress was 10 hits behind Jayz.
And this was also a very common situation in the early stages when Lefran faced a strong long-range AD like Jayz.
But.
What was really unexpected and shocked the audience was that, although she was constantly suppressed in the early stages and her opponent took the lead in last hits, at the eighth minute of the game, Enchantress completed a solo kill.
Face-Off kill.
Seizing the opportunity of Jayz's movement to repair his cannon.
Lefran's W burst followed by Q instantly followed by a second ER combo.
Two phantom chains swept out like cold vipers, accurately entangling the target, the Future Guardian, to death. At the same time, the Q skill mark was detonated, and at the same time, [Ignite] hung a flat A.
Synchronized with Jayz, [Flash].
Two chains detonated one after another, triggering damage and confinement.
Another A.
The second stage of the W skill "Magic Shadow Footsteps" allowed him to instantly retreat a few hundred yards away, dodging Jayz's backhanded QE Electromagnetic Pulse Cannon damage, and the last normal attack was already lightly swung out with his staff.
Together with the true burning damage from [Ignite], it burned away the last line of health on top of Jayz's head.
"An enemy hero has been slain."
The female system voice announced the kill.
The entire audience was in an uproar and was shocked!
In the front row of the audience, Huangxue Nightsong's eyes suddenly lit up.
"F * ck."
"Old Shi's Enchantress is something!"
…
The so-called something was naturally more than that.
In the 11th minute of the match, the blue team's Team Rapid Water's jungler, Blind Monk, wandered around the bottom lane. He coordinated with his team's ADC, Obama, and his support, Burone, and brazenly killed the opponent's ADC, Frost. He used the double summon of the opponent's support, Stonehammer, and completed a successful gank.
At the same time, the purple team, Legend, immediately launched a counterattack. Jungler Prince wandered to the middle lane and cooperated with Phoenix's mid laner, Jayz, to kill in front of the blue team's mid laner, Enchantress. Even the top laner, Erilia, had circled to the back of the middle lane and surrounded them!
Then.
It was an even more intense confrontation that shocked the audience.
Two kill notifications from the system's female voice rang out one after another.
"An enemy hero has been slain."
"An-ally-has-been-slained (An ally hero has been slain)."
1V3。
Under the encirclement of the three Nakano players.
In a certain death situation.
Enchantress forcefully switched to another player!
The audience was silent.
Thunderous cheers and applause suddenly exploded in the tournament venue!
In the front row of the audience, Lin Feng nodded.
"This guy …"
"My hands are heating up."
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