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Chapter 87: Some are happy, some are sad
IG players' rest area.
Mafa looked relaxed, looking down at her phone.
Compared to him, Karam next to him seemed extremely excited; Mafa sensed that Karam was about to explode at any moment.
Before the match, Karam was full of confidence, thinking that IG could easily crush JDG. However, he ended up getting crushed in both the top and bottom lanes and losing the match due to a large lead in kills.
To be honest, Karam was quite angry at the performance of these players.
Especially Duke's turn, everyone with eyes could see that it was impossible for him to die, but Duke did it anyway. For a moment, he felt like Duke was just playing him.
"Coach Mafa, why don't you seem upset at all about IG losing the game?"
Karam glanced at Mafa.
As an assistant coach, he didn't seem upset at all after the game was lost; he even had the leisure to look down and play on his phone.
"What?"
Mafa looked up and pressed the lock screen on her phone: "How could I not be sad? I'm furious right now."
"You're furious? I didn't feel it at all."
Karam took a deep breath: "I clearly saw you staring at your phone and laughing just now."
"I was so angry at the comments from netizens that I laughed."
......
Meanwhile, in the JDG players' lounge.
Redmi stood in front of the tactical board, his expression so calm that it was impossible to tell whether he was happy or angry.
He won the first game, leading by a large margin in kills and dominating both the top and bottom lanes. Logically, he should have been very satisfied, but he wasn't.
"Zoom, you didn't play well in the early laning phase in the top lane."
Redmi's voice wasn't loud, but his tone carried an air of authority: "You were already getting so much CS down against Duke, what if it were TheShy? With Duke bringing Comet, you can play even more passively and just wait for reinforcements."
Redmi does a good job in pointing out what the contestants didn't do well; it directly points it out and tells the contestants how to do it and how to adjust, instead of criticizing them from the start.
One thing that makes him completely different from Karam is that he absolutely does not allow players to talk back to him and they must obey his orders unconditionally.
He's more like a real Korean coach, with a coaching style exactly like a Korean team. There's a clear hierarchy, and a coach is a coach; there's no player arguing with the coach.
Players like Ning who challenged him would have been relegated to the bench long ago.
"I think I need to sell some blood to better control the line."
Zoom responded.
Zoom believes that lane control is crucial when you're at a disadvantage; you absolutely cannot let the opponent push the lane too easily. This is a view shared by almost every professional top laner.
Upon hearing this response, Redmi calmly replied, "I don't care what you think, I care what I think."
Even Zoom, who gives off a kind and honest vibe, looked helpless after hearing what Redmi said.
Zoom has a thought he dares not say: You Redmi plays Crocodile, I'll play Ryze.
As a professional player, especially after solo-killing Ryze in lane, Zoom believes he ranks among the top top laners in the LPL, yet he's being criticized by an outsider.
Which player deliberately sacrificed themselves online? Do you think it was a fixed match?
But Redmi is exactly that kind of coach. He won't listen to your explanations; he believes what he sees more.
Zoom was helpless; he could only suffer in silence.
Keep in mind, this was even with him playing well. If Redmi had treated him like this, he probably would have been...
......
LNG base.
"IG was completely terrible this game, both their top and bottom lanes played like this."
Zhu Kai smiled.
He just wants to see IG get thrashed, especially a game like today's match against JDG where they were slaughtered by a large margin.
He just felt it was a pity that he didn't see Chen Song participate in the draft phase.
"It's not that Duke played badly, it's just that when he got caught, Ning saw the predator right next to him, but he still didn't leave. I still don't understand why."
Zuo Wu leaned back in his chair and shared his opinion.
In his opinion, IG had just won three consecutive games and should have been in great form, but the performance they showed in the game just now was not even as good as when they started the summer split.
It wasn't just Duke in the top lane; Baolan in the bottom lane did too.
"They probably thought they wouldn't die, so they pushed the wires first."
Zhu Kai said something that seemed to understand but not quite.
At this point, he didn't need to understand anything; he just needed to cater to Zuo Wu, and his mission would be accomplished.
"All I can say is that Redmi's draft picks were excellent. Giving Greenmao Fiddlesticks support in the bot lane was incredibly effective."
Unlike Zhu Kai, Zuo Wu was genuinely watching the game attentively.
......
"The top and bottom lanes are at a huge disadvantage this game."
In the IG training room, TheShy and Chen Song were discussing the match.
He felt the biggest problem was Duke's Ryze in the top lane. He made mistakes that shouldn't have happened, which made the Renekton a huge threat to IG's lineup in the mid-game.
It's something Chen Song often talks about: constant small mistakes.
What did you see in Duke?
Chen Song asked with a smile.
"Duke's Ryze actually played quite well in lane, but after that gank, his mentality probably changed, which led to Renekton seizing the opportunity to solo kill him in lane later."
TheShy finished speaking and stared at Chen Song.
"Does this feel like your situation when IG lost the game?"
Chen Song pondered for a moment: "In the games before the three-game winning streak, you were either too aggressive and got caught out, or you were completely shut down and lost. Think back carefully to those games when you were on the top lane, or the specific situation during your laning phase."
......
"Welcome back after a short break."
Guan Zeyuan stared at Rita with a smile: "If you're an IG fan this season, you should have noticed that IG often loses the first game in a best-of-three series."
Rita responded with a laugh: "That's definitely how they've been this season."
Guan Zeyuan said seriously, "Given IG's loss in the first game today, what kind of draft adjustments will they make, and what kind of strategies will their opponent JDG have prepared to counter them? Let's wait and see."
Neither side chose to switch sides, and Duke is still on the court.
Rita smoothly continued, "Yes, actually there weren't many changes in the draft phase. JD Gaming banned Rek'Sai, Jayce, and Irelia, while IG still banned Olaf, Aatrox, and Sejuani."
"Will JD.com continue to acquire Silas?"
Guan Zeyuan said thoughtfully, "What surprised me was that when JD Gaming picked Sylas first, no one on IG chose to pick Renekton first to directly gank Sylas in the laning phase."
"JD.com snapped up Kai'Sa first."
Rita thought for a moment: "Now that Sylas has been released, should IG consider it?"
Before the words had even finished, just as Rita had said, IG secured Sylas on the first floor.
On the second floor, JackeyLove got Xayah.
It's clear that JackeyLove is a bit angry because he lost the laning phase in the last game!