Sendo Yuuhi’s Team Wins Three Straight Scrims for the First Time in Six-Hour League Practice
The third win came from roughly 7K behind, and the rest of the night went to waves, turns and vision ahead of an official match.
VSPO — Sendo Yuuhi of VSPO! and the players practicing alongside won three League of Legends scrims in a row on Nov. 3, which one participant called a first for the group. The stream, tagged #LTK, ran about six hours, with Inui Shinichiro of REJECT among those taking part.
The session was built around what the stream’s title called waves and turns. Waves are the lines of minions pushing toward a tower, and turns are the windows in which a team can safely act. The players queued into scrims, and a participant reviewed replays on screen share between games. After the first win, the review was upbeat: the team had played as a team all game, its recall timing was right and its calls came early. Chat singled out Sendo’s Alistar in the second win.
The third win was the one that stood out. Chat said the team had been about 7K behind and turned it around, and a participant put it down to engaging first in the team fights. “The first three-game win streak,” one voice said, and another said they felt they would not lose right now. Earlier, after the second win, a participant joked that it was hard to believe the team was still at zero points, and another answered that the regular season was not what decided things, the playoffs were.
The reviews kept returning to the same habits. Push the wave first, take vision, then move together. Wards go down with the team behind them rather than in a solo gamble, and a player who is unsure what the enemy jungler is doing should back off rather than force it. The group also rehearsed the lineup from its previous official match, in which landing the first engage had been hard. That game was lost after enemy engages caught the team, though a participant said it had been played cleanly through two dragons.
The group agreed to fit in one last game before bed, with one participant noting a 7 a.m. start the next day. It ended in a defeat, and a final review followed. Talk then turned to a couple more practice games before the official match. Sendo closed by thanking viewers for eight Super Chats.
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This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.