Fierce shooter

May 22nd.

All members of EDG boarded the flight back to China.

The club's deep pockets have arranged first-class flights for them, and according to Li Zhe, it may not be long before EDG will be able to fly on its own club's exclusive plane when they go abroad to play games again.

Of course Li Luo had heard about this. While he was amazed by EDG's wealth, Li Luo was also thinking about some changes that would happen to the team in the summer split.

Li Luoyou had discussed it with Abu before this.

Based on the current stability of the club's performance, EDG does not plan to introduce players during this transfer period. At most, it will find some new players to train in the youth training.

Li Luo had no objection to this.

It’s just that Li Luo is very concerned about the changes in the next major version.

Although the specific changes will still be subject to the official server, there are undoubtedly some signs on the test server.

Although a long time has passed since Li Luo was reborn, Li Luo is still very impressed by the major changes after the 2018 mid-season version.

It is no exaggeration to say that the decline of adc began with this change.

Throughout the MSI mid-season, Li Luo was well hidden. In most cases, he played this position around the team, hiding his aura of personal ability to the point of being almost ignored.

Although many of Li Luo's statistics in MSI ranked first in the ad position, Li Luo's choice of heroes was relatively messy.

EDG's opponents also gave them a lot of face, and would always knock down popular heroes like Kai'Sa, leaving Li Luo without too many opportunities to show off.

And the same is true for another version of the hero Ezreal.

The only game where Li fell in MSI that attracted enough attention was Draven in the final game.

However, Draven is a hero who transcends the three realms and should not be included in the ranks of regular adcs.

After the game, Li Luo also browsed some forums. Many of Li Luo's "hardcore fans" had a rather strange attitude towards Li Luo's performance in this MSI.

Li Luo performed very well.

But it doesn't seem to have reached the threshold they expected.

Little did they know that Li Luo also had his own plans.

He has kept a low profile like this, so his fist shouldn't be enough to cut off that knife... right?

Li Luo didn't know.

This feeling of being manipulated by the version made him quite uncomfortable.

…

Little did they know that Riot Games designers were also having heated discussions at this time.

"Hey, boss, I don't think we need to make such a big show of it. EDG is now stronger overall. The position of adc has been very important since the game of League of Legends first appeared until now. This change will increase the proportion of adc in the laning period. It’s too sharply shaved.”

one of the designers questioned.

"Brother, I know you play adc, but I think this time we did not weaken certain adcs, but fine-tuned the basic values ​​of adcs. This is already a very balanced weakening method. Let's reduce it. Isn’t it good that the proportion of roads is like this?”

Another designer shrugged: "Think about it, the bottom lane is a two-man lane after all. The two-man lane means that the confrontation on this lane is carried out by four people. Usually the bottom lane is when the opponent makes a mistake. The opportunity will be caught by the other side only at the bottom. After all, the probability of mistakes by four people is greater than the probability of mistakes by two people in the middle and top."

"In my opinion, the confrontation in the bottom lane lacks some professionalism compared to the middle lane and top lane. I very much agree with this weakening."

The designer who spoke first raised his hands when he heard this: "OK OK, okay, I can accept the weakening of the value, but is it necessary to also adjust the adc's equipment? Isn't it necessary?"

The designer Ghost Crab sitting at the head looked expressionlessly at the designers arguing in the conference room, without any change in his mind about his decision.

Throughout the spring split, all their changes had some impact on IG.

But the impact on Li Luo was minimal.

Simply, they plan to weaken the adc's proportion in the team as a whole.

It is necessary to allow ADCs to have sufficient output capabilities in the later stage, but not to make them live very comfortably.

Thus……

Although it will affect all ADCs, Li Luo, as the top of the food chain among today's ADCs, will definitely be the most severely affected!

The reason why the skill values ​​of many ADC heroes were not affected this time is because Ghost Crab planned to spend the time on the blade.

It's too early to go under the knife now.

Being able to become the chief designer of Riot Games, Ghost Crab knows all too well.

The wool needs to be removed little by little.

Everything must be done within a measure.

He felt that he had a good grasp of the "degree" in this version.

…

After returning to China, EDG players got a short vacation.

Li Luo also had some free time and was able to go home and spend two days with his parents.

This month's live streaming task was completed in Europe. Li Luo is not a person who procrastinates. He likes to solve things that may bother him in advance. Li Luo feels that this habit of his is pretty good.

The German Cup will start at the end of May, and Abramovich also asked the players for their opinions after returning to the base. Most of the teams participating in the German Cup this time will not send their main players, and the same is certainly true for EDG, so Abramovich solicited the opinions of the players. Anyone who doesn't want to go can just report to him.

Li Luo definitely didn't want to go. Events like the German Cup were originally used to train newcomers and allow teams that weren't getting along well to find a training stage.

Moreover, the German Cup will not have any help with the points for the whole year, and it has nothing to do with the quota for the World Championship or even the domestic LPL league.

Apart from the fairly generous bonus, the rest is useless.

The bonus was no longer much of a temptation to Li Luo at this time.

It's not that Li Luo doesn't like money anymore.

But now Li Luo will consider cost-effectiveness when measuring wealth.

Li Luo would participate in important events even if he had no money.

When faced with unimportant events, Li Luo is more willing to use this time to take a rest and adapt to the new version.

Of course, when the German Cup started, Li Luo returned to the base and went to the scene with the team, for no other reason than because the German Cup was held in Zhuhai. Li Luo had not been to Zhuhai yet, so he wanted to go Yo yo, this is a trip at public expense.

In addition, there is another important news for Li Luo.

That is this year’s Asian Games squad.

In the hotel room.

Abu, Li Luo and Ming Kai all had different expressions.

Abu and Mingkai frowned slightly, but Li Luo's expression was calm.

At present, the candidate lists for each position are almost the same, which means that people outside the candidate list are basically certain to have no chance.

The coach Abramovich who has been finalized is still very well-informed in this regard.

He raised his head and glanced at Ming Kai, whose expression caught his eye. Abu sighed, but didn't know what to say.

a long time.

Ming Kai seemed to have come back to his senses. He rubbed his face, raised his head and smiled reluctantly: "It's okay, I know. If there's nothing else, you can talk, and I'll leave first."

Watching Ming Kai leave, Abu slowly exhaled.

"I know you have fought for it, but from a macro perspective, it is indeed difficult for Nanjiang... to be selected. He can only show his full strength in our environment that he is very familiar with. This is why he has never been selected. I have worked hard at the beginning of the season to master what I have mastered now, but it will be difficult if we are on a team where all our teammates are strangers.”

Li Luo said slowly.

Mingkai lost the election.

In addition to the five starters in this Asian Games, there will also be one substitute player.

But even as a substitute, Mingkai had no chance.

"Of course I know."

Abu rubbed his temples: "But it's hard for me to say such words in front of him."

"me too."

Li Luo also sighed softly: "The Asian Games... to be honest, it's not very easy to compete."

Although Li Luo knew clearly that before the rebirth, the Chinese team defeated the Korean team in the final with a score of 3 to 1.

But the situation now is slightly different from that then.

Although the Korean team's roster has not yet been finalized, the Korean team's selection method has changed.

In my impression, the South Korean team's Asian Games lineup is Kiin in the top lane, score and peanut in the jungle, faker in the mid lane, and the bottom duo of Chi Di and coreJJ.

However, Li Luo is certain that the finalized Asian Games roster this year will definitely change.

After all, SSG failed to win the championship in 2017, and Gen's state this year is also quite average. Coupled with changes in the selection method, there is a high possibility of changes in the bottom lane.

Little Peanut did not perform well in this MSI. I believe the Korean team will give more consideration to the jungle position.

In other words, except for the middle lane and the top lane, which are likely to remain unchanged, the other three positions are likely to change.

Whether the Korean team after the changes is stronger or weaker than the Korean team in the timeline before Li Luo was reborn is unknown.

The most critical thing is that there are also problems with domestic personnel selection.

The Asian Games naturally requires five domestic athletes to compete together.

Domestic players...

Who will be the domestic top laner?

Among the top four teams in the spring split, there are two domestic top laners.

letme, and mouse.

The selection method is based on performance. Players like Brother Shengqiang whose performance is not ideal will not be considered for selection.

Correspondingly, members of the WE team who failed to advance to last year's World Championship and whose performance in this spring's spring competition was not impressive will not be considered for the list.

This means that the domestic midfielder entering the Asian Games this time will not be Xiye.

While Li Luo was thinking, Abu said slowly: "There is no doubt that the top laner is basically letme. In addition, as for the jungler, King Ning was selected as the starting jungler. After all, he was the world champion last year. Although his performance in this spring game is not good. It’s too stable, but considering you can tie him up, it’s not a problem.”

"That's what I said."

Li Luo was a little helpless, but did not deny it.

Prince Ning's unruliness will be shown to everyone except him.

"The winning unit will probably be Xiaohu. There are really few domestic mid laners. Xiye actually considered it at the beginning, but..."

Abramovich shook his head when he said this, and then said: "As for the bottom duo, you must be the starter, and the assistant is Tian Ye. During the selection, Uzi was considered as a substitute, but the bottom duo is special and what is needed is After a long period of tacit understanding, the level of tacit understanding between Uzi and Tian Ye is much inferior to that with Shi Senming."

"Considering the limit on the number of participating players and the overall macro strength of the team, we finally chose to use mlxg in the jungle position on the bench."

Li Luo sighed after hearing what Abu said.

As for the decision of mlxg as the substitute, Li Luo understood it very well.

Nakano, Nakano.

It is not objective enough to only talk about one of the positions without looking at the two positions together.

To be fair, Li Luo felt that this team was a bit unstable.

The Asian Games will be held in August.

It’s midsummer but the World Championship is approaching at the same time.

In addition, the Asian Games itself is a world-type event, and considering the time, Xiaohu is indeed a bit sensitive.

Leaving aside letme for now, Li Luo is not worried about the top lane collapse, but it would be a little difficult to let letme have the same role as Jin Gong in EDG...

It is undeniable that letme is an excellent pressure-resistant top laner.

Especially the tank heroes who start a team are very good at playing, and the timing of releasing team battle skills is also very good.

But once the team needs him to assume a certain carry ability, his ability and mentality are not enough to support him to do this.

The upper limit of hitting the road can be seen at a glance.

The little tiger in the middle is a factor of instability.

King Ning in the jungle... is used to playing in the midfield with The Shy and Rookie, and then playing with Letme and Xiaohu. Faced with these two completely different styles, can he make timely adjustments and transform his own playing style? .

Has mlxg adapted to the current version's malice against him.

Another point.

adc...how much will be cut this time.

All of this has laid landmines one after another for the Asian Games. This is the first time since Li Luo's rebirth that he has no confidence to face the competition.

Li Luo is also a human being.

He also has obsessions.

Before the rebirth, Uzi led the team to defeat the South Korean team and let the national anthem be played in Jakarta.

Can he do it now?

Li Luo took a deep breath and adjusted himself.

…

June 4th.

The first major version update after the end of MSI has arrived.

The appearance of the new hero Pike has attracted a lot of attention, especially the killing move similar to Noshou's ultimate move, which has made many players eager to try it.

For Li Luo, what he is most concerned about is the changes in adc.

But at this glance, Li Luo's eyes were condensed.

What was supposed to come, came anyway.

The basic attack power of all shooter heroes has been weakened by 4 points.

Of course, according to Riot, these 4 points of attack power are not lost.

Instead, it is converted into a growth-type attack power. When the hero reaches level 9, it will be the same as the ADC attack power of the previous version.

In addition, the armor value of each ADC is reduced by 5 points.

This means that ADC is weaker in the early laning phase. Of course, in 2v2 fights, due to the weakening of armor value, there is not much difference. However, once factors such as junglers or top laners intervene, and changes The previous differences will be clearly reflected.

If this is only aimed at weakening ADC during the laning phase, then the changes to Infinity Blade will be a heavy blow to ADC.

Infinity Blade's own critical strike chance has been removed.

Two new attributes have been added at the same time.

The first is that the chance of a critical hit will be doubled.

This is similar to Yasuo's passive.

If there is a 50% critical hit chance before the Infinity Blade is released, then it will be 100% after it is released.

At the same time, 15% of the damage caused by critical hits will be converted into real damage.

The price has also been adjusted from 3,400 yuan to 3,700 yuan.

Going up, it seems that the damage after making it has been strengthened.

But what is the reality?

You must know that the current endless is no longer suitable for adc as the first output equipment.

The newly added Aashiki will undoubtedly become the first choice for ADC equipment.

After having Lanqi and an attack speed equipment, the third supplement of Endless seems to be the most suitable.

The ADC damage after the three-piece set seems to be higher than before, but this is only true under certain circumstances.

In the past, the three-piece adc set was endless, attack speed equipment, and whisper.

It has attack power, attack speed, and armor piercing.

But now that the first piece must be released, Qingyu can only make up for the fourth piece.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the ADCs before the three-piece set has also been weakened. Compared with the endless and attack speed equipment, Lanqi and attack speed equipment...the combat effectiveness is far behind.

This change is undoubtedly devastating to the team with adc as the core.

It seems that this change has the greatest impact on the RNG team.

In fact, the impact on EDG is also terrifying.

Although EDG can play in the middle and jungle, the most reliable way to win the game before is to go to the road. The rhythm of playing in the middle and jungle radiates to the lower half, relying on excellent cooperation, small-scale confrontations, and control of resources to expand their advantages.

To put it bluntly, EDG needs to make the bottom lane the support point in the early and mid-term.

However, this change has obviously weakened EDG's core playstyle.

"It's difficult to travel."

After Li Luo read all the changes, he sighed.