The guy that Wolf was referring to was undoubtedly Tian Tian, the ace player of Team KG.
Indeed.
In today's set of 'best-of-five' matches, Wolf's existence was almost completely overshadowed by Tian Tian's brilliance if one only looked at the matchups between the top laners of both teams.
The eyes of the entire audience, and even the entire world, were all focused on the single player of the KG Team.
As the main top laner of Team SSK, Wolf, who was not inferior to Tian Tian or The-Sword in terms of strength, had completely become a background character.
Four matches.
Champions were constantly being rotated.
However, in the early stages of each match, it was almost a one-sided suppression.
It was not to the extent of crushing, but it was true that anyone with a discerning eye could see that under Tian Tian's fierce and powerful offensive operation, the top laner hero under Wolf's control could only be in a passive defensive position, barely maintaining his own development rhythm.
Wolf even had to rely on his jungler's constant roaming to put pressure on Tian Tian's top laner to maintain the pace of the early stages of the match and avoid more serious problems.
To put it bluntly, in today's set of 'best-of-five' matches, SSK's only loss was in the top lane.
If Wolf had been able to take the initiative in the matchup on the top lane, then the victory of the other three matches would have been much easier and faster.
"It's not your fault."
Mafa shook his head.
"Even we didn't expect YGG to be in such a good state today."
"Besides, if you want to take responsibility, I have to take responsibility as well."
Indeed.
In today's four matches, Mafa, as the jungler of the team, had also focused most of his energy on the top lane. However, after several roaming gank, the world's top laner, who was equally as famous as Nian Thirteen, had returned empty-handed for the first time in history.
Even in the third match, his jungler, Prince, had made a mistake when he roamed the top lane, allowing the opponent's top laner, Gnar, to seize the opportunity to counterattack. This further led to Gnar's unstoppable development.
…
"First, it's because YGG has indeed become very strong to a very troublesome extent."
"Secondly, the current version is indeed an environment where the top player dominates. It just so happens that KG Battle Team is able to display over 120% of their combat power."
Cube calmly and objectively analyzed the situation.
"But KG can only be considered a special case. He doesn't have much reference value. After all, there probably isn't another top laner like YGG in the world right now who can match perfectly in lane and has strong teamfights. Even The-Sword from Minx can't reach this level for now."
"However, we still need to be vigilant."
Cube paused, looked at his teammates in front of him, and said calmly:
"If it was just a top-tier player, even if it was YGG, it wouldn't have caused us so much trouble."
"The competition between teams is mainly divided into two aspects. One is the individual ability of the team members, and the other is the understanding of the version and the execution of tactics."
"Today, aside from YGG's contribution, we were forced into a corner by KG —"
"Another important reason is that their KG's understanding of the game version and their ability to coordinate with each other's tactics is not inferior to ours."
"Even —"
"It's not just KG."
"Don't forget, their KG is only the second seed in the LPL division. What we're going to face next is …"
"He's their first seed."
His voice trailed off.
The other members of SSK were silent and solemn.
Yes.
Cube didn't need to say this out loud. They all knew it in their hearts.
The teams in the LPL region had caught up to them in terms of understanding and usage of the game version. Today, they had only met KG, but in the finals five days later, they would face God- Hand of God, a top team that was known to be even better than KG in terms of understanding and usage of tactics.
In the past, SSK was far ahead of all other teams in terms of individual ability and understanding and usage of the version.
But now, they had lost the advantage of understanding and usage of the version.
If they wanted to take the initiative to win, they could only consider the individual ability of their team members.
But this was also a difficult road to walk.
Although God- Hand of God didn't have a top-tier top laner like Tian Tian, their mid and AD were no less of a threat to them than KG's Tian Tian.
King's Machida only had a single lane, and when they faced King, they needed to rely on their three lanes to gain an absolute advantage in order to secure a victory.
But God- Hand of God's Morning Star and Barren Snow Nightsong had two lanes: mid and bottom.
Moreover, the individual ability of the top laner was not to be underestimated.
"Let's analyze it this way."
Cube opened his mouth again and made a final, objective, and calm judgment:
"We'll face Team God in our current state.
"It'll be very troublesome."
The support member of SSK purposely emphasized the word 'extremely'.
Beside him, Ray couldn't help but say angrily, "Hey, why does it sound like we won't stand a chance against Team God? It's not that exaggerated- "
Cube just glanced coldly at his AD.
"Of course it's not that exaggerated."
"Even if we face Team God now, our chances of winning are still at least 50%."
"But this in itself is already a problem we've never faced before."
"What we need is a greater certainty — or even a steady victory."
As he said this, he turned his eyes to his other teammates again.
"Any one of Team God's positions might not be able to pose too much of a threat to us, but they have two troublesome aspects. One is their teamwork, and the other is the teamwork of Morning Star's mid and Wasteland Nightsong's AD, these two C positions in the mid and late game."
"If we can't break the cooperation between these two C positions, we're bound to be under great threat and risk."
"As for Barren Snow Nightsong, leave the bottom lane to me and Ray. With Mafa's cooperation, we should be able to suppress them to a large extent."
"But there's still Morning Star's mid lane-"
At this point.
Suddenly, Han Shihao, who had been silent since the beginning, finally opened his mouth.
"Leave the mid lane to me."
His tone was as indifferent and calm as ever.
But this time, Cube did not choose to accept it. Instead, he looked straight at the captain of his team.
"So."
"Since we've reached this point, we need to talk about this issue in detail."
"Even if Brother Shihao can make such a promise, it's not enough at this point in time."
"As teammates, as partners fighting side by side, we need to know more."
"For example —"
"Brother Shihao, how far can you go against Morning Star now?"
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