The first stage of the 2022 KPL Spring Season regular season ushered in the last week of the game, the first two weeks of the game is very exciting, mostly evenly matched against you and me, there is no lack of unexpected "upset", five kills, stealing home, dragon grabbing a variety of famous scenes emerge in an endless stream, making people more and more looking forward to the third week of the game.
"Mountain Man" vs "Demon King Star"
Last time, the two sides met in the third round of the 2021 KPL Fall Tournament, XYG lost 1:3, but at that time, for XYG, who went all the way from the national competition to the KPL and from Group B to Group S, "not being a clean sheet is a victory". Time does not pass quickly, Wuhan eStarPro, which has won two consecutive championships, is expected to be "triple-champion" after the spring games with a "neat" attitude, while XYG is very pessimistically thought of as "S group one round tour".
But all of this, after the second week of the game, underwent subtle changes. This week, XYG first beat Foshan GK 3:1, followed by a 3-0 victory over Guangzhou TTTG; Wuhan eStarPro lost 2:3 to Chongqing Wolves, multiple winning streaks were interrupted, and then clean sheet Changsha TES.A.
In the second week of the competition, the performance of both teams was remarkable. XYG started to change back to the captain Xi He, the mountaineering five-man group cooperation is more tacit, winning foshan GK and Guangzhou TTG, the rhythm of the next road duo is wide open, to a certain extent, so that the field September has a better space to play, the use of mirrors, Lan, etc. have a strong ability to seize opportunities, after taking out Luna, Hui and other heroes, dare to enter the field operation. In addition to the offensive nature of the wild shot, the confrontation against Lu Kukai is quite stable, if the shot is a spear, then the upper middle auxiliary is the shield, making XYG's team battle more harmonious.
As for Wuhan eStarPro, the reason why it is called "Big Devil King", Qiang can take the initiative to find rhythms in each position, such as the calm Mengtian, Lü Bu, Lian Po, etc., the harmonious Xi Shi, the unknown fire dance, the Luban master of Ziyang, the wild core of the sea of flowers, in comparison, Yi Zheng is a "tower tool man", so the team's task to Yi Zheng in the early stage is to resist pressure.
Many people are accustomed to giving reasons to losers, thinking that Foshan GK and Guangzhou TTG have a variety of problems, big or small, ignoring the strength of XYG itself, but in fact, XYG may have the ability to fight with Wuhan eStar, this time the goal is not to "not be clean sheeted", but to take a small game, or even take the entire big field, so that all KPL viewers know that the demon king is used to defeat.
Developmental pathway vs "sterilization pathway"
Wuhan eStarPro Yi Zheng will usher in a huge test, in the face of the fierce and operational XYG Xiudou, anti-pressure shooting can not withstand the pressure. "No one is easy" may be a terrier, but it does show that the rhythm point of Wuhan eStarPro is not in the development of the road, in the 2021 annual best team awards, Wuhan eStarPro in addition to Yi Zheng all selected, the first week of the spring game The best team of the week is still like this, and the best shooter of the week in the first two weeks is the demon knife of the Chongqing Wolves.
Xiudou's style is the same as that of the demon knife, they are all "offensive shooters". For example, watching XYG's game, it is difficult not to pay attention to Xiudou, especially against Guangzhou TTG, Xiudou Li Yuanfang output is full, against the opponent Ma Chao, Donghuang Taiyi, played 11/4/11 luxury data; and watching the Wuhan eStarPro game, the eyes may be more on Nakano Fu, Yi Zheng gave not many highlight moments.
In terms of hero pool, Li Yuanfang, Marco Polo, Di Renjie, Yu Ji, etc. are all good at both sides, Gongsun may not be able to come out, in terms of techniques, the two are between five and five, the focus is on the team's care for the development road, in contrast, XYG needs to rely on the shooter to open a certain rhythm.
Confrontation with Ueno
In the current version, many teams are Ueno rhythmic, and the common denominator of the strong teams is that their Ueno is not weak. Wuhan eStarPro has the best player of the year HuaHai, FMVP calm, the sense of oppression brought by it, it really needs to be digested by September and Kukai. However, as Gu Ailing said in an interview, pressure is actually an energy, don't think of it as a negative thing, to transform it into the energy of your own progress, it is not a burden.
Losing is also increasing the experience, but on second thought, if you win, "Please, the opposite is FMVP, the best game, defeat them super cool." "It's hard not to get excited, and on the field, there will be unexpected surprises.
The return version, the war side is declining, the calm Guan Yu and Ma Chao, in the game against the Chongqing Wolves, lost, Cool Kai Guan Yu won, Ma Chao also lost. Tanbian scored more stable, Lü Bu, Lian Po, Meng Tian, Xiahou Huan, Pig Eight Commandments of these heroes, Cool Kai is not worse than Tan Ran. What is impressive is the first small game of XYG and Guangzhou TTG, the opponent took out the big Joe system, and the cool lianpo stuck the big joe 2 skill time, making the "elevator flow" invalid, helping the team win the team battle.
In the field position, the strong wild cores such as Mirror, Lan, Hui, and Na Ke Lulu are all in the hero pool of both sides, and there are almost no obvious shortcomings. Huahai's Nako Lulu won 23 consecutive wins, the unique mechanism of the harmony, as if to become his next signature trend, against Changsha TES.A contributed a key double kill; September's mirror, Lan is very silky, against foshan GK's fourth inning, using the mirror to play 7/0 super god data.
Secondary operations
QingRong won the best middle road of the week for two consecutive weeks, and Xi Shi and Unknown Fire Dance performed brightly, and had to be targeted on BP. Lingmeng is a relatively stable point of play in the XYG team, his Xishi is also very good, and his star in the previous three games has won 3 games and 2 wins, which may also be the point of this battle.
On the wandering position, the difference between the two sides is more obvious, Wuhan eStarPro Ziyang uses more functional heroes, and XYG Xihe takes out more protective heroes with frankness, which is related to the team style, after all, Wuhan eStarPro "no one is easy", XYG to ensure that Xiudou has a good output environment, relying on auxiliary tandu to increase the stability of team battles.
The KPL players who can become the starters all have strong personal strength, but the result of a game is not a simple addition of personal scores, so XYG faces Wuhan eStarPro, and there is a gap at the operational level, the latter's vision control and military line operation, all doing very well.
Overall, XYG's victory was difficult, but by no means entirely impossible, with the focus on whether the two sides would adjust their styles after two weeks of competition and whether the impact of the changes was manageable. For example, Wuhan eStarPro turned more attention to the development road, can it still be as high as before; will XYG give up better team battles and fight with the other side in order to cope with the battle? Adjustments are necessary in the long run, but short-term pains are inevitable, and that's the biggest variable in this game.