The semi-final stage of the 2021 League of Legends Global Finals will be held from October 30 to 31, Beijing time, and LPL's only hope is that EDG will face the LCK Second Seed GEN to impact the final! And one of the biggest winners of this year's S11, the runner-up of the LPL Summer Tournament, the second seed FPX upset to stop the group stage, the points 2-4 they only got 2 points in the first round, the second round counted the overtime to swallow 4 consecutive defeats. Looking at the overall performance of the FPX in the group stage of 7 games, in addition to the single Nuguri carrying the weight forward, the other four have different degrees of mistakes and sluggish conditions, coupled with the FPX's questionable bad BP, which makes it difficult for the Fire Phoenix to achieve nirvana rebirth in Iceland.
First of all, the FPX coaching staff and players have an extremely backward understanding of the S11 game version, which is vividly demonstrated when the group stage meets DK twice: when the group stage opener against DK, FPX chooses the crown prince, Gallio's Nakano with Lukasha and titans, trying to tear apart DK's formation in the middle of the period through the "do whatever you want" system and Kasha's big move, but this tactical arrangement is too idealistic. Doinb's Gario was crushed by ShowMaker's longsword conqueror Youji during the line-to-line period, and the FPX's female gun Kayumi of the line DK had no advantage, the DK blood exchange completely prevailed, and Tian's prince's early gank route was clearly seen by DK's vision, and Nuguri's Jace was powerless to return to the sky.
In the second round of DK, FPX's Upper Nakano sake barrel, blind monk and knife girl were all hit by DK Nobobi Blood, and the lower road embers and Bron had no bright spots on the line. In the early stage of DK "military training" on the road to catch Nuguri's barrel 4 times, and FPX did not choose to help, but let Doinb's knife sister eat a huge amount of economy to make a meat suit, the mid-term small dragon regiment battle DK finished exploding FPX, Canyon's Bobby first hand punched away the knife sister, the barrel around was stuck by cards and could not enter, the DK front formed four dozen three, the blind monk forced into the field was knocked unconscious by Bobby flash, DK was able to play 0 for 5 regiments to extinguish FPX a hammer. In the FPX seven group matches, Tian only got two of his most handy Foyego, the coaching staff has a deep "obsession" with the prince, while the FPX is mostly embers, Kasha and other non-version strong heroes, and the auxiliary positions of Bronn, Titans, And Riel also do not conform to the soft auxiliary trend of S11.
Then there is the state of the players, before many games through the expressions of the FPX players can see that the atmosphere in the team is quite not optimistic, especially the state of playing wild Tian is unusually low, when the first round of playing C9, his prince did not bring up the rhythm in the early stage, C9 Nakano doubles 3-0 start, the mid-term Perkz's Reitz gave the opportunity many times, was caught by FPX 4 times to make the C9 rhythm stagnate, FPX got the second dragon after Tian staged a wave of "Singing Gold" in the lower half of C9 In the second round of the battle C9, the FPX on and in the early and middle were pressed without line rights, Tian's prince sent a blood and double buff when he grabbed the road, and then the two sides played a C9 for four in the eight-person melee in the canyon pioneer river except AD, and the wild Zhao Xin cut down three kills, and the FPX rhythm blew through; the blind monk of Tian only released a big move in the whole field when playing DK, and a touch of the eye "save the life and help the injured foot" sent away ShowMaker's card. One of the few highlights of the group stage was when he won two Foyego games against RGE, the first helping the team win, and finally lost a good game due to the FPX mid-term rush to cross the tower to grab a single.
When all walks of life advance the FPX team with a distinct style, the "self-contained system" Doinb is often the focus of the spotlight, but in the S11 group stage, Doinb did not become the mainstay of the team, and the "tool man" hero was frequently single-pressed by the other three teams when selecting the "tool man" hero, and the FPX middle road did not have line rights in most cases. In addition, when Nuguri selected Jace, Kennan and other heroes who were strongly pressing the line, FPX rarely took care of the road, and was more accustomed to giving up the economy to Doinb, such as tian's blind monk in the early stage of the FPX second round of RGE, always around Doinb's Silas, when RGE's wild scarecrow "military training" went down the road, FPX chose to sacrifice two sides, and finally Doinb's Silas in the late FPX pushed the RGE base to be counter-packaged when the skill was completely empty, and the FPX was tragically destroyed and reversed.
In addition to the midfield that has been criticized by all walks of life, the FPX's next-road duo can only be said to be decent, playing a line kill in the line period, but unfortunately the mid-to-late stage did not stand up for the carry game, although this was affected by BP to a certain extent, coupled with the other side often for the FPX down the road, such as the second round of FFPX against RGE, RGE's wild "military training" down the road and successfully opened the situation; FPX Nakano finally began to help Nuguri during the overtime. But RGE's core player Hans sama's female gun was ahead of the curve when he hit two on the next road. Overall, the down-road combination of FPX is relatively general in the state of S11, and the down-road of FPX will gradually "stealth" when the midfield rhythm is muted, leaving Only Nuguri to find opportunities to support in the team battle.
And the game version of the "water and soil" BP, in addition to the single Nuguri all the staff slump state have made FPX terminally ill, and the last straw to crush the "Phoenix" is the fatal decision-making mistake in the late stage of the FPX, the first round of C9 mid-term FPX full grasp, pay Nakanosuke three flash plus three big moves to take away Perkz's Reitz, FPX turned back and directly opened the dragon, thinking that it could take advantage of Kennan's big move plus number of people to win, but C9 four to five first deal with Kainan, Playing 0 for 3 to defend the big dragon, although this FPX thrilling victory, but such an irrational decision has laid the groundwork for the subsequent defeat of the FPX: the second round of playing RGE FFC mid-term avoid the RGE lineup of the strong period of the sharp edge, think that the other side will rush off the big dragon so the whole staff gathered in the middle of the road to dismantle the house, but RGE decisively gave up the big dragon before and after the package, the group destroyed the FPX after the reverse wave to end the game, and the subsequent overtime FPX originally rolled up a lot of economic snowball in the early stage, However, Ueno failed to catch a single order before the birth of Ōryū, and the FPX down road group came one step late, and RGE was able to reverse the situation by playing 2 for 5, and finally eliminated the FPX.
The FPX team was founded at the end of 2017, after participating in the Demacia Cup that year, it was officially unveiled in the 2018 LPL, and the little phoenix with mediocre results in the first year ushered in the current Nakano group Doinb and Tian in 2019, and soared as the spring runner-up of the LPL in the same year with the iG, JDG and TES teams, which was also the first time in the history of the FPX team to participate in an international competition. FPX made its group stage debut and lost to LCK No. 2 seed KZ, then defeated the LMS division's MAD and Vietnam's VCS division DBL, in the final to overturn the LCK No. 2 seed GRF a battle to become famous, and with this hot momentum to win the 2019 LPL Summer Championship, and finally in the S9 World Final 3-0 swept G2 in Paris home, successfully helped the LPL defend the S Championship! Last year and this year's FPX successively introduced LCK champions on singles Khan and Nuguri but the effect was average, last year's FPX, which did not qualify for S10, this year as the runner-up of the LPL Summer Tournament, the second seed upset and stopped the S11 round of sixteen, ending the Iceland tour dismally. I hope that Little Phoenix will learn the lessons of the game in the offseason, adjust its own state in time, and let the LPL and the world see the FPX "Nine Days of Phoenix Dance, Nirvana Reborn" again in the future!