Requiem for Invictus Gaming
IG的镇魂曲
全文摘自ESPN LOL版块
MADRID -- The five starting members of Invictus Gaming weren't supposed to be at the League of Legends World Championship, let alone the Palacio Vistalegre. They weren't supposed to be in Berlin, Germany for the group stages because they weren't expected to qualify for the world championship at all.
(马德里 - IG的五名首发不应该在世界总决赛上,更别说在Palacio Vistalegre了,他们不应该在德国柏林参加小组赛,应为他们根本没有资格来参加这次世界总决赛)
They qualified as the LoL Pro League's third seed anyway.
(但不管怎么说,他们都赢得了三号种子位)
Following iG's unexpected semifinals loss at the 2019 Mid-Season Invitational, the LPL summer was a downward spiral for the reigning world champions. They finished sixth in the summer season, they called up rookie Lu "Leyan" Jue after benching starting jungler and 2018 worlds finals MVP Gao "Ning" Zhen-Ning due to internal issues and in-game performance. In summer playoffs they were quickly swept by LNG Esports, and were not a heavy favorite to make it out of the LPL regional qualifier. After a shaky series against JD Gaming that iG barely won. Most expected the talented roster of up-and-coming LPL team TOP Esports to make it.
(随着输了2019季中邀请赛,这个世界冠军在LPL夏季赛就陷入的沉沦,他们在在赛季末取得了第六名的成绩.由于他们的内部问题和比赛中的表现,他们的首发打野,2018世界总决赛MVP获得者坐了板凳席,取而代之的是叫上了菜鸟Leyan,在夏季赛季后赛,他们被LNG横扫了,而且他们也不是被认为最有机会赢得世界总决赛LPL赛区资格赛的队伍,在磕磕绊绊的比赛后他们艰难的赢了比赛.面对有极高天赋的TOP,)
Invictus beat them 3-2.
(他们取得了3-2的比分)
Placed in a worlds group with Damwon Gaming and Team Liquid, most anticipated that this would be Team Liquid's best chance at taking bot laner Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng
(IG和DWG与TL被分到了同一组,'最期待的就是这次TL有很好的机会出线',Doublelift说道)
Invictus did not look good in the first week. They obviously had the raw talent -- this has always been iG's strength -- especially in top laner Kang "TheShy" Seung-lok and mid laner Song "Rookie" Eui-jin, but lacked any semblance of cohesion. Although Leyan was, and still is, a top prospect from China's LoL Development League, he wasn't ready for this big of a spotlight this soon and his inexperience showed. Yet it wasn't the pressure of defending their world championship title that was getting to iG. It was simply how they played - taking any and all fights, this time with even less synergy due to having a young, rookie jungler. Ning returned for the second round, and iG went 2-1 to take the second seed from Group D.
(在第一周IG看起来不怎么样. 他们显然很有天赋,这也是他们强的地方,尤其是上单theshy和中单rookie,但是他们缺少凝聚力. 尽管Leyan以前或者现在也是一个来自中国LOL发展联盟的很值得期待的选手,但是他还没准备好在聚光灯下,他表现的毫无经验. 然而压力不是来自于捍卫他们的卫冕冠军.他们玩的很简单,参与所有的打架,但是这次少了一些配合因为有以为年轻的菜鸡打野.当Ning回归后的第二的回合,IG取得了2-1的战绩并从D组出线了)
"I don't think there's much pressure at all," iG bot laner Yu "JackeyLove" Wen-bo said after iG's first two group stage games.
('我不觉得有任何的压力',IG的下路喻文波JackyLove在前两场比赛结束后说道)
"You just play the game how you're supposed to play it and try to make it as far as possible."
('你只要做你应该要做的事情,尽力让我们走的更远就行了')
Last year, JackeyLove was a 17 year-old rookie, swaying under the weight of the Summoner's Cup that he refused to put down in post-match interviews after winning the world championship.
(去年,还是17岁菜鸟的JackyLove,赢得了世界总决赛之后,在召唤师奖杯的重量下摇摇晃晃的拒绝了赛后采访)
People forget that iG weren't supposed to win worlds last year either. That honor of "supposed to" went to their fellow LPL brethren, Royal Never Give Up. Yet, at the end of the year, it was iG who raised the Summoner's Cup in Incheon, and RNG who unexpectedly lost in worlds quarterfinals after winning every other possible tournament that year. iG weren't supposed to beat KT Rolster, as volatile of a team as they were. This roster is always microns away from handing the game to their opponents at any given time, but their talent is undeniable. Their in-game prowess doesn't have a ceiling, but it also doesn't have a floor.
(人们可能忘记了IG同样不应该赢得去年的世界赛.那个荣誉 '应该' 给到同为LPL兄弟队的RNG.然而,但是在最后,是IG在仁川赢得了召唤师奖杯,RNG却在赢得了一切可以赢得的联赛冠军之后,意料之外倒在了八强赛.以IG反复无常的状态,IG也不应该几百KT Rolster.IG的选手们总是很容易的就把游戏的决定权交给了对手,但是这依然不能否定他们的天赋.他们在比赛中的精彩表现没有上限,但是同样也没有下限)
"Supposed to" is what we say when all we have is the past - which is all League of Legends gives us in terms of analysis. "Supposed to" is based off of recent performances. "Supposed to" means coming up with some sort of prediction from what can be gleaned from the past, harvested and turned into something that makes sense in the present.
(当我们所拥有的一切都是过去时，我们就会说“应该”。"应该"是根据最近的情况预测的的。“应该”意味着从过去收集到的信息中做出某种预测，并将其转化为对当下有意义的东西)
Yet iG have never made sense.
(然而这不会发生在IG身上)
Watching iG play is often a comedy of errors -- a highlight reel of mechanical feats coupled with highly questionable decision-making. They take remarkable risks for seemingly no reason. In today's loss to LPL first-seed, FunPlus Phoenix, iG facechecked brushes as early as Level 1, picking fights when they were at obvious disadvantages.
(看IG的比赛就像是一个犯错的喜剧--一个精彩操作的高光时刻紧接着就是一个很有问题的决定,他们会无理由的做一个极度冒险的事情.在今天输给LPL一号种子FPX的比赛中,在一级明显劣势的情况下选择打架.)
There were times that everything clicked and iG was the most beautiful team in the world again: TheShy's Kayle ultimate onto JackeyLove's Kai'Sa to clean up a fight in the top side jungle, the time when FunPlus Phoenix went forward into a choke point and iG's Galio/Rakan combination collapsed onto them for an iG teamfight win. Then, there were times when FunPlus mid laner Kim "Doinb" Tae-sang's Nautilus was targeting out iG's carries, or TheShy made some extremely rare mechanical misplays.
(什么事情都有要点,IG再次成为了最nice的队伍,在野区的上方,theshy的天使给jacky的卡莎大招,让卡莎进去收割.还有在FPX前进到一个关键点的时候IG的加里奥和洛的组合击溃了他们为IG取得了胜利.但是,也有这样的时候,FPX的中路Doinb的诺提勒斯瞄准了IG的carry点,并且theshy犯下了特大的操作上的失误)
These same five members of iG were world champions. Now, FunPlus Phoenix and iG's own mistakes have ensured that a different champion will be crowned this year.
(五个同样的成员IG之前是世界冠军,现在FPX和IG的失误决定了今年将会出一个新的冠军)
Invictus means unconquerable and in the end, iG were just that. While FunPlus played well and certainly deserve to make it to worlds finals, iG were the ones who ultimately took themselves out of the fight and they did it in the way that they always do: by picking bad fights and making confusing decisions.
(Invictus 意味着不可征服的,直到最后IG就是这样.FPX玩的很好,并确定可以前往决赛,IG确失败了:因为他们糟糕的打架和混乱的抉择)
Throughout multiple years and iterations of the team, Invictus Gaming has been unconquerable by others, but easily taken down from within. Analyzing iG's earliest lineups involved a lot of guesswork because no one knew what version of iG would show up on that day. They had the talent, but lacked discipline. This applies nearly eight years later to the current iG.
(队伍经历了多年的发展,IG不能被其他的队伍征服,但是他们很容易内部出问题.我们很难去分析IG的整容,因为并不知道他们今天会使用什么样的版本.他们又天赋,但是缺少纪律.八年后IG依然适用这句话)
This may be the last time that we see this particular iG lineup and this certainly isn't the way that they wanted to go out. There's an odd sense of loss when talking about iG now - a team that could set records with a 16:01 single game time at MSI and still lose to Team Liquid in the semifinals. This is a team that won the LPL's first world championship and that too is fitting. Considering the general volatility, high kill-count, and memetic aggression of LPL teams, iG embodied that too.
(这也许是最后一次我们看到IG拿奇怪的阵容,但是这肯定也不是IG想要的.IG现在有一个很奇怪的现象,在季中赛上,他们可以在16分01秒赢下一局比赛,也可以输给TL这样的队伍.这是拿下第一个LPL世界冠军的队伍,有点不太合适.考虑到LPL团队的日常动荡,高杀伤数量和侵略攻击性,刚好iG也体现了这一点。)