Chapter 207 The Playoffs Begin

The first match between Tyranny and Tiny Herb was highly anticipated, and Happy Internet Cafe continued its tradition of broadcasting the matches. However, Ye Xiu and the others couldn't conveniently sit in the internet cafe to watch anymore. After the Challenger League, they had become somewhat famous. Although they were far from the top-tier gods, it was not uncommon for them to be surrounded by onlookers in their own territory. Therefore, the Happy crew could only continue to hide in their residence and watch the top four battle on their projector.

At this time, the individual competition was over, with Tiny Herb winning 5 to 4. The score showed how intense the battle was, as it was clearly decided by the last player standing.

The players rested, and the broadcast reviewed the exciting moments of the individual competition. When the time was up, the team competition officially began.

Tiny Herb's starting lineup consisted of Wang Jiexi and Gao Yingjie's Magicians, Wang Bu Liu Xing and Mu En, Xu Bin's Knight, Duhuo, Liu Xiaobie's Swordsman, Feidaojian, and Yuan Baiqing's Cleric, Dongchongxiacao.

There were no surprises in the player list. This was Tiny Herb's usual starting five this season, but those familiar with Tiny Herb would have some discussions about the characters.

"They're using a Cleric!" There were quite a few voices discussing this.

Because the Tiny Herb team has two healing characters, not just one. One is the Cleric, Dongchongxiacao, who is playing in this match, and the other is the Guardian Angel, Fangfeng, who has contributed greatly to Tiny Herb's two championships.

During Tiny Herb's two championship seasons, they had a player known as the God of Healing, Fang Shiqian. He was proficient in both healing classes and had extremely high attainments in both. Using different healing classes based on different situations and needs was a major tactical feature of Tiny Herb at that time. Fang Shiqian perfectly demonstrated the aggressiveness of the Cleric and the protectiveness of the Guardian Angel to the world.

However, Fang Shiqian appeared as the operator of Fangfeng during Tiny Herb's two championships and when he entered the All-Star lineup, so later generations who only look at this information inevitably ignore his true face. However, those familiar with Tiny Herb will never forget this.

Tiny Herb now continues this style, but it is rare to find a player like Fang Shiqian who can play both classes to such a high level. Yuan Baiqing, the successor Tiny Herb later found, can also play both classes, but he is indeed far from Fang Shiqian's achievements. He practiced hard for two seasons but did not make any breakthrough progress. The essence of this tactical change always felt somewhat ambiguous with Yuan Baiqing. Does this tactic still have value? There has been a long debate about this issue.

In addition to Tiny Herb's starting five, the sixth player is Zhou Huaibo's Ghost Swordsman, Shijunzi. When Qiao Yifan was still on the team, Shijunzi was a pure Formation Ghost, but this season, according to the needs of the team, Shijunzi cleared his skill points and changed to a Ghost Swordsman who cultivated both formations and slashes. Zhou Huaibo seemed to be more comfortable using a Ghost Swordsman who cultivated both.

Tyranny's starting five consisted of Han Wenqing's Grappler, Damo Guyan, Lin Jingyan's Rogue, Leng Anlei, Zhang Jiale's Grenadier, Baihua Liaoluan, Qin Muyun's Sharpshooter, Lingxia Jiudu, and Zhang Xinjie's Cleric, Shibuzhuan. The sixth player was Bai Yanfei's Elementalist, Luota.

The starting lineups of both sides were not too surprising. They were the lineups they frequently used in the regular season. In the regular season, the two sides had one win each in the team competition, both taking their home field. However, the rules of the playoffs require counting the small score of the number of kills, so some people looked back at the small score situation of the two team battles in the regular season and found that the final small score of the number of kills in both games was exactly the same.

Looking back at the previous records of encounters, there is even less reference value, because both teams had major adjustments last summer. The only season's record of encounters showed that the factors affecting the outcome seemed to be just the home field advantage.

The home field is Tiny Herb's.

So they won the individual competition with a one-kill advantage, but no one can say for sure how much the home field map selection advantage affected the game.

Next is the team competition. Although the essence of Tiny Herb's double healing change tactic is no longer there, which class they use can still indicate their attitude towards this game to a certain extent.

The Cleric mainly attacks, and the Guardian Angel mainly defends. With the Cleric playing in this match, Tiny Herb will obviously play more aggressively. They showed a very positive attitude from the beginning.

However, in the Tiny Herb team, Han Wenqing, Zhang Jiale, Lin Jingyan, and Zhang Xinjie all had direct experience playing against Fang Shiqian, and quite a lot of it. No one in the league is more familiar with Tiny Herb's set than them. After competing with Fang Shiqian, and then feeling the changes controlled by Yuan Baiqing, the four of them could only regretfully feel: this is indeed not the same level.

Fang Shiqian is known as the God of Healing, but in fact, his ability makes people forget that he is a healer. His healing class plays a role in attack and defense that makes opponents feel even more troublesome.

And Yuan Baiqing, whether he uses a Cleric or a Guardian Angel, he does well, but the most impressive thing is his original job of healing.

This is the difference between him and Fang Shiqian, and the reason why he has a vague grasp of this style of play.

Tyranny's veterans seem to understand this very well. They only treat Yuan Baiqing as an ordinary healing class. They did not guard against him having Fang Shiqian's troublesome ability in auxiliary aspects.

The veterans' experience helped them make a judgment.

Experience is a very valuable thing, and it is also the wealth that veterans are most proud of.

However, experience can sometimes be harmful, because experience can sometimes become outdated. Such experience is inappropriate, and the judgments made based on it are inevitably biased.

Tyranny's veterans' judgment was biased this time.

Yuan Baiqing's Cleric's assistance actually made them feel uncomfortable, so uncomfortable that they even recalled the scene when they fought against Fang Shiqian.

Has this player grown to this point?

Tyranny's veterans were horrified to see the glory of the former God of Healing from Yuan Baiqing's Dongchongxiacao.

This was an oversight, and such an oversight will eventually pay the price.

Team competition, Tiny Herb wins.

As for the score of kills, that is no longer important. Tiny Herb, who has already won the individual competition, does not need to calculate the score of kills and has completely won the first game.

Tyranny's championship hopes were indeed very high, but it is difficult to say that it was an upset to lose to Tiny Herb.

At the post-match press conference, Tyranny's veterans looked quite stable.

"Tiny Herb played very well." Always the usual polite words.

"Everyone, every season, will have a lot of growth. Some are noticed, while others are ignored." There were no names mentioned, but in fact, Tyranny was criticizing themselves.

Tiny Herb's team lineup this season is indeed full of the atmosphere of growth.

Gao Yingjie and Xu Bin were both selected for the All-Star lineup for the first time, so their growth goes without saying. In addition, Liu Xiaobie is no longer a brainless player who only relies on hand speed, and he is only one step away from the All-Star lineup. In this obvious atmosphere of growth, Yuan Baiqing was ignored. Has he unknowingly mastered Fang Shiqian's secret key to being called the God of Healing?

"Everyone played very well in this game, but Yuan Baiqing's performance was the key to our victory. His excellent performance in auxiliary aspects put the opponent in a passive position. He guided the victory of this game." When Tiny Herb attended the press conference, captain Wang Jiexi unreservedly praised Yuan Baiqing.

This was really an explosion that no one had expected before the game.

People are more willing to stare at those famous gods, staring at those players who have had eye-catching performances before. Qin Muyun was the fifth who was silently ignored, and so was Yuan Baiqing.

In this game, the victory was ultimately decided by such a character who was ignored from the beginning. Discussions about him continued all night.

The match that took place the next day was simply the opposite of Tiny Herb vs Tyranny.

The one who decided the outcome of this game was the god-level player who had been watched from the beginning and who everyone was looking forward to.

Zhou Zekai, still Zhou Zekai.

This player, who is extremely silent and introverted off the court, has become an unsolvable existence on the court.

Everyone knows to pay attention to him, everyone is trying to deal with him, and all teams are making various deployments to target him. But it's useless. He is invincible on the court. Team Howling has shown an extremely strong momentum this season, and their ace player Tang Hao is a fearless person who dared to confidently say "the lower defeats the upper" in the Rookie Challenge. But they were defeated.

Home field, Howling was crushed by Samsara.

There are not many tactical details to analyze. There is only one reason for Samsara's victory and Howling's failure.

Unsolvable.

Zhou Zekai is unsolvable.

The player who wanted to defeat him was defeated by him. The tactic that wanted to limit him was restricted by him.

Such a failure really left Howling with no temper.

At the post-match press conference, captain Tang Hao only said one sentence: "We will win the next game."

This is determination, this is attitude.

But what will they win with? Everyone really can't see it. Even when Tang Hao said these words, his teammates, the players of Howling, didn't seem to be able to muster much enthusiasm. Even Tang Hao himself, did he believe in what he said? People are very doubtful.

A strong Howling was hit hard by Samsara.

Tyranny, who had the highest hopes of winning the championship, was defeated by the explosion of an inconspicuous player.

The combination of the Four Heavenly Kings does not seem to be invincible.

Zhou Zekai, however, seems to be truly unsolvable.

Who will be the champion?