When the sunlight of Sao Paolo shone into the hotel where RNG was staying, the first match of the group stage finally began.
Everyone adjusted the time on their phones to the local time because the notifications were based on the time in Sao Paolo. It would be awkward if he missed an hour or half.
The first match was at 9 am local time.
The first match was between SKT and G2.
SKT announced to the world that they were now the big brother of the League of Legends.
They immediately pulled out a very unconventional fast-attack lineup. The Mid Luxion and Jungler Nightmare ended the match in just 24 minutes, with a score of 21:2. It left people speechless.
If it was not for the fact that he had to rush to the fountain at the end, this G2 might have been sealed by SKT.
After watching this match, the online audience started discussing.
"Guogui, isn't SKT a little too powerful? This flawless cooperation, this terrifying suppression. Why did it feel like they were the champions again this year?”
"SKT is too strong. How are they going to win against RNG?”
"It's over, it's over. This year is the South Korean team's world again.”
"Not only this year, which year isn't the South Korean team in the world?”
SKT's performance brought out the Korean phobia that the audience had in recent years.
"What do you think of SKT's performance?”Big Brother Li asked Song Ziyu while they were watching the match in the waiting room backstage.
" Strong, he's really too strong!" After watching this match, even Song Ziyu could not help but marvel at SKT's storm-like attacks. They coordinated their attacks and retreated in unison with almost the entire audience. They retreated when they needed to retreat and fought when they needed to fight. They did not give their opponents any chance. It was simply suffocating.
In addition, this year's mid-season version still emphasized the combination of the center and the jungle.
Although he didn't want to admit it, Little Peanut and Faker's ability to work together was indeed better than Xiang Pot and Bang.
If there was a breakthrough point for SKT, it might be in the upper and lower lines.
Huni at the top lane wasn't exactly SKT's breakthrough point. There was no doubt about his mechanics. At the moment, he was still a very strong Top player.
However, Song Ziyu was confident that his original skill might not be as good as his, but once the system made a move, he would definitely be beaten up.
Bang at the bottom lane might really be SKT's breakthrough point.
Bang seemed to have played steadily in today's match. He had developed steadily in the lane and contributed a lot of damage in the later team battles.
However, in the past six months, Bang's rhythm had been quite good.
The last time, he did not participate in Rank matches or practice matches. Instead, he meditated and got into an argument with SKT fans.
SKT fans accused him of being lazy and not playing ranked games.
The fans hoped that Bang could work harder and continue to win the championship.
However, Bang didn't appreciate it and said,""My salary alone is equivalent to 100 of the people watching the live broadcast here. Don't worry about me.”
Suddenly, a stone stirred up a thousand waves. He was besieged by the netizens and was even forced to come out and apologize.
Right now, Bang had a terrible reputation in LCK, and they were just waiting for the MMI championship to save their lives.
Therefore, Song Ziyu could tell that the amount of training that Bang had been doing had increased recently.
A few days ago, when he was ranked as Bang in the Korean server, his performance was a little too horrible to watch. The decline was a little too serious.
In League of Legends, one would not advance but retreat instead.
If he didn't train for a few days, his skills would deteriorate.
Moreover, there were countless people eyeing your position. If you didn't train well, someone would replace you at any time.
Even Faker could only maintain his peak condition by training hard every day when his talent reached the ceiling of League of Legends.
RNG's matches today were in the third and fifth rounds.
The competition format of the SCI was a double-loop system.
The group competition lasted for seven days. The first three days were the first round, and after a day of rest, the second round was played.
Because there were a total of six participating teams, each team had to fight five rounds in each round.
During the three days, other than one match per day, there were two matches every other day.
RNG's opponents today were Lightning Wolf and G2.
The third match was against G2.
The third game was at two o'clock in the afternoon in Sao Paolo.
In China, it would be one o'clock in the morning.
Those who were watching the competition at this time were definitely true fans.
The League of Legends mid-season version was different from any previous version.
None of the teams had ever played in this version of the official competition. They had only played in training matches with other teams.
Therefore, this version of the fight was like a chef cooking. Every chef would prepare a dish at the beginning. Some would prepare tofu with green onions, some would prepare Buddha jumps over the wall, and some would prepare steamed bass.
At the end of the competition, they would take out their own dishes and compare them with the other teams to learn from their opponents 'experience.
Then, he slowly adjusted his dishes.
Therefore, the World League was sometimes very different from the regular season and playoffs in their own division.
The competition in their own division did not have such high requirements for the adaptability of the version.
However, in the World Competition, the requirements for version adaptability were very high.
Song Ziyu suspected that every time Little Tiger killed indiscriminately in the country, he would pull his pants in the world competition because his ability to adapt to the version was not very good.
Little Tiger's control, awareness, and ability to withstand pressure were definitely top-notch.
In the entire world, there were probably not many players who could reach Little Tiger's level in these abilities.
However, Little Tiger's adaptability might be very weak, so he started to die in the World Competition.
The mid-season competition quickly reflected this point.
RNG did not seem to have found the answer for this version.
In the first match against G2, after playing for a full 45 minutes, Xiao Ming was caught by G2 due to a small mistake in his positioning, and he lost the match in the end.
Song Ziyu had gained quite a bit of an advantage in the top lane, but unfortunately, the opponent was a big tree, so there was no way to kill it.
G2's mid-jungler coordination was a little better than expected. RNG had not taken G2 seriously before.
He was too arrogant. He felt that he had to be careful when playing against the South Korean team. Why was he so careful when playing against a European team?
In the end, he learned his lesson.
"Shi Senming, what are you doing?" After the match, Uzi tried his best to suppress his emotions, but he still couldn't help but raise his voice.
" Mine, mine..." Little Ming apologized hurriedly. He grabbed his hair in frustration and made it into a chicken nest hairstyle.
He had chosen Karma as his Support for this match. During the laning phase, he had run into the opposite jungle and was caught by the opposite Jungler, Olaf, who had killed him.
Then, the rhythm went out of control. In the early stages, they were suppressed by G2.
After that, he made another mistake in his positioning and was forced by his opponent to lose the Ancient Dragon and the Great Dragon. In the end, he lost the match.
However, in the entire game, other than Song Ziyu's top lane, the other lanes did not perform well.
The defeat of this round was obvious.
Song Ziyu entered the arena several times, but he still couldn't save the situation.
League of Legends was still a team game after all. It was too difficult for one person to reverse the game.
Even if it was the fight against the ice girl, if it wasn't for Fragrance Pot and Little Tiger, Song Ziyu would have been killed by Syndra and Lun Tiamu in the dragon pit. There was no way to complete the harvest.
Times had changed. It was no longer the version of S3 where one person could turn the tide.
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