Compared to the first game, both teams made some minor changes to their lineups.
The early game capabilities of the FY team were still decent, and their late game wasn’t too bad either. The MBQ team was the same, perhaps with a bit more dominance in the mid game.
After the ban-pick phase ended, the second game officially began.
Xiong Jiahao, Feng Jin, Yao Jing, Ming Qiang, and Zhou Genshuo, the five players, carried out Coach Jian Zihao’s strategies and principles, completely forgetting their defeat in the first game.
They then began the strategic tactics of the second round.
Starting with a synergy between the jungler and the support, forming a small circle.
And then with a synergy between mid and bottom lane, forming another small circle.
This way, they hoped to prevent FY’s team members from coordinating well with each other, and stop MBQ from finding any weakness to exploit.
Thus, when MBQ found it impossible to take the initiative and both sides were drawn into a stalemate, it came down to team fights and the individual skills of the players.
And at such a juncture, Jian Zihao’s confidence in his five players under his command was stronger.
"Everyone, play well," Jiahao, the team captain, encouraged everyone after the kickoff. "Principal Ding has high expectations for us, and the entire school is watching us. For Mist City Arts and Science University, for our future, let’s do this!"
After the start of the game, FY’s performance was indeed much better than in the first round, hardly leaving any significant openings for MBQ to exploit.
MBQ tried to replicate the situation in the mid lane from the first round.
But Yao Jing in mid lane was apparently playing with more caution, and MBQ’s jungle’s attempts to gank him turned out to be fruitless after camping for about a minute.
MBQ’s jungler thought that FY’s jungler, Zhou Genshuo, would come to mid lane.
But instead, Genshuo didn’t focus on mid lane this time around and chose to visit MBQ’s top lane instead.
With the synergy of the top laner and jungler, they successfully burned a Flash from MBQ’s top laner, forcing them to return to base and burning another Flash in the process.
Now things were looking up.
MBQ’s top lane was directly left without Flash or teleportation.
"Genshuo, let’s continue doing this," Ming Qiang said to Zhou Genshuo with a smile.
MBQ’s jungler quickly realized the pressure on the top lane and began preparing to support, thus, relieving some of the pressure on the mid lane.
During this time, Yao Jing, relying on personal skill and the advantage in the mid lane, directly gained control over the minion wave.
Once Yao Jing secured this advantage in mid lane, he followed Coach Jian Zihao’s strategy and began roaming towards the bottom lane.
Although the first bot lane roam didn’t yield much, Yao Jing maintained his economy by continuing to farm minions in the mid lane without much loss.
On the second bot lane roam, Yao Jing successfully collaborated with the bottom lane duo and managed to exhaust a number of summoner spells from the MBQ team’s bot lane pair.
Not only that, but MBQ’s support was also successfully taken out for first blood.
Just like that, FY turned the tide of the game!
When the audience saw this turn of events, their spirits began to lift.
Because the situation in the second game started to tilt in favor of FY, with advantages in economy, kills, and tempo—pretty much everything was under FY’s firm control.
They didn’t give MBQ any chance throughout the game.
"This is a good start!"
"666, they should’ve played from the start."
"Honestly, MBQ took us by surprise in the first round because they had been hiding their strength."
"Keep up this rhythm."
"FY is still strong!"
When FY started to pull ahead, the online comments flipped sides, with many acknowledging the team’s tactics and strength.
In the Bilibili stream, the viewership for this midseason championship semifinal had reached 20 million, indicating incredibly high popularity.
When FY smoothly claimed first blood, the students of Mist City Arts and Science University couldn’t help but cheer.
Cheers erupted everywhere, and anyone unaware might have thought FY had won the world championship.
Ding Yue, seeing the turn of events in the second game, couldn’t help but reveal a smile at the corner of his mouth.
The changes had indeed been good, and the players executed Coach Jian Zihao’s tactics particularly well.
"Not bad, not bad, they’ve played quite well," said Huang Youjie and Xu Bin, praising the team’s performance.
They typically compliment when the play is good and are quick to criticize when it’s poor.
Since FY was their team, both Huang Youjie and Xu Bin did not criticize after losing the previous round but instead joined Principal Ding in encouraging Jiahao and the others.
"I feel we’ve got this round in the bag; as long as we give Jiahao, the ADC, a substantial advantage in the lane, the opponent’s bot lane will basically collapse," mused Principal Ding confidently about Jiahao, the talented ADC.
At that moment, Coach Jian Zihao said confidently over the voice call, "Principal Ding is right, Jiahao is indeed a rare and supremely stable and strong ADC, he reminds me of myself at my peak."
As it was known, Jian Zihao himself used to play as an ADC.
He was once touted by netizens as the world’s top ADC; of course, given the current circumstances, Jian Zihao had not yet won an S Competition championship, but his individual ADC skills were indeed very strong.