The lineups for both teams are confirmed.
IG is on the blue side.
Their lineup is: Top lane Fiora, Mid lane Ryze, Jungle Xin Zhao, Support Braum, ADC Lucian.
RNG is on the red side.
Their lineup is: Top lane Swain, Mid lane Yasuo, Jungle Lee Sin, Support Alistar, ADC Warwick.
RNG's form this year has been explosive.
IG has not won a single major match against RNG.
Even in the championship and runner-up battle of the playoffs, they lost 2:3 to RNG.
So.
RNG is very confident.
Confident to the max.
They feel their chances of winning the semi-finals are very high.
Coming to the laning phase.
Ming said in the earpiece: "Jackeylove's mana is low, he's four or five seconds late to lane. Ning is probably starting in the bottom half, Xiaohu, be careful, stay near the river on top."
"Got it." Xiaohu sat in the player's seat, a smile on his face.
Yan Junze received the information about the jungle starting bottom.
He planned to suppress Fiora while she was still low level.
He started pushing TheShy's lane.
Just then, Ning's Lee Sin stealthily approached the top lane.
Yan Junze was stunned for a moment and said in the earpiece: "Didn't you say Ning started in the bottom half? How come he's at top lane in less than three minutes?"
Ming said with annoyance: "We were tricked by Jackeylove. He intentionally Q'd the red buff, giving us the illusion that Ning was starting in the jungle."
Yan Junze: ...
Karsa was still hitting his blue buff.
He asked anxiously: "Can I run? Bro!"
Yan Junze stared at the computer screen and replied: "I can run, Fiora and Lee Sin are only level 2, they don't have enough damage to kill me!"
"Whoosh..."
Suddenly.
A tadpole-shaped white light shot out.
It was Lee Sin's Q.
It hit Yan Junze's Swain at the absolute limit of its range.
Fiora also used her Q to dash forward, auto-attacking to break Swain's passive.
Up to this point.
Yan Junze could have still escaped by using his Flash.
But he judged that Fiora and Lee Sin had already used their abilities and didn't have the damage to kill him, so he kept his Flash firmly in hand.
As if by fate.
Fiora reached level 3.
He pressed CTRL+E, instantly learning his E skill, Duel.
This gave his auto-attacks a slow effect.
At this moment, even if Swain used Flash, he wouldn't be able to escape.
He could only be killed in front of the tower.
First blood...
The mechanical and cold female voice echoed through Summoner's Rift.
A small line of text appeared above the computer screens of all the RNG players.
IG: TheShy killed RNG: Letme.
The comms in the RNG battle room went silent for half a second.
Then.
It became chaotic.
Xiaohu: "Bro, didn't you say you could run? How did you die?"
Yan Junze rubbed his hair and replied: "Shy's operation was too amazing."
Karsa, the team's engine, quickly comforted him: "It's okay, just make sure we have good vision next time. It's just 400 gold, no objective was lost."
The comms went silent again.
...
RNG player lounge.
Heart, the head coach, saw Yan Junze get killed.
The 400 gold was kicked into Fiora's pocket.
His face turned white.
He secretly thought: "Giving TheShy the first blood, with his world-class top laner skills, Junze will have a hard time restraining him in solo lane. I have to see what Karsa's rhythm is like."
Heart, as the top-tier coach.
Was extremely familiar with the strong lineups and strategies of the current meta.
He knew it all too well.
In this game for RNG.
They were relying on Swain and Yasuo to hold on in the early and mid game.
And then, when Uzi's equipment was finished, he would take over the game.
But now, if Swain dies once more and his experience and level fall, RNG's lineup will lack support in the mid game.
They won't be able to wait for Uzi's equipment to be finished.
If they lose a team fight.
The game can be declared GG.
The team manager looked at Jiang Chen.
He slowly asked: "Jiang Chen, theoretically, Fiora and Lee Sin at level 2 shouldn't have enough damage to kill Junze, what happened?"
Jiang Chen recalled in his mind.
He said: "Shy was too detailed in this play."
"He auto-attacked the melee minion that was getting focused when he pushed forward."
"After he moved forward and finished a set of skills, the melee minion just died, giving him experience to reach level 3 and learn his E instantly. Combined with Ning's Lee Sin, they secured the kill."
Mlxg's narrowed eyes widened a little.
"Shy is playing too meticulously, right?"
Jiang Chen smiled: "Just basic operation."
He sighed in his heart: "Ning is worthy of being the S-World FMVP, his form is too good."
In his original world.
IG's top, mid, and jungle completely dominated the opponent.
And Ning's rhythm was just insanely good.
...
Next, it was Shy's personal show.
He returned to base and finished his equipment.
At level 6, he and Lee Sin once again perfectly coordinated, instantly killing Swain.
RNG lacked support in the mid game.
Fiora took flight.
She helped the mid lane kill Yasuo.
She teleported down and killed Uzi and Ming.
They secured three dragons, and when the fourth dragon spawned, RNG fought tooth and nail, but they got aced in a 1 for 4 trade. TheShy, on the other hand, had already reached a perfect score of 8-0-1, with a 100% participation rate. He took the Baron instantly, pushed the base and secured the victory.
This suffocating rhythm.
RNG was left with no room to fight back.
Heart, the head coach, sat in the player lounge.
Ashen-faced.