LOL: What is a roaming mid laner?

[Have you finished using Ran Ge? Return it to me quickly]

[No, this is the second drill, give it to me for two more days to feel better]

[Hurry up, it would be too slow for me to score without Brother Ran]

This inappropriate chat took place at the end of December, and the parties involved were Garlic Bastard and Shi Senming.

Since the promulgation of the new rules regarding the Top of the Canyon tier, professional players are afraid that they will not be able to play in the spring split and can only play in the national server during the offseason.

However, the simultaneous influx of a large number of professional players, a bunch of anchors with unique skills who want to be famous, and a large number of directors and crews have caused the ecological environment at the top of the canyon to deteriorate instantly.

Different from the Korean server, the canyon ‘coach’ can guess the identities of the other five players in advance through a series of means such as peeking at the screen and adding friends.

This caused the ranking mechanism established by Riot Games to become unbalanced. Originally, the ten players on both sides were of similar strength, but the hero who had been banned could only pull his hips to mess around, and the winner of a thousand points directly became a master goalkeeper.

As a result, there is a huge gap in strength between the two sides in the top of the canyon rankings. It often happens that the bottom lane has not yet made a two-piece set, and the opposite top, middle and jungle have already come out. Only a set of small skills is enough to kill the ADC instantly.

Uzi played for two days, and his mentality was shattered. He wanted to prevent the midfield, top jungle, and jungle from collapsing into team battles, but this idea did not hold true at the top of the canyon.

Let's do it when we meet. As long as we can't be beaten, we will fight to death. Either you collapse or I will destroy the line. Peacefully develop and replenish troops? It doesn't exist. If you survive, the soldier will be yours. Before that, let's fight.

In this case, it is difficult for most professional players to maintain a high winning rate.

But Lin Ran is different. Except for the cast and crew, no one can block his way forward.

He relies on his brain to play the game. The passerby and jungler cannot cooperate, and he has no vision or teammate protection. He does not push the lane to suppress the opponent, but just calculates the time difference between the opponent's hero to return to the lane and clear the jungle to travel to other lanes.

Although those heroes with special skills who have been banned from playing heroes are messing around, they know who their father is, and they give all the head economy to Lin Ran, and then let the mid laner do the snowballing.

Who doesn't like this kind of teammate? In order to improve his score, the professional brother began to interact with Lin Ran frequently.

When Lin Ran wakes up every morning, his WeChat account is filled with invitations to double queues from professional players, and he seems to have become a social butterfly in the e-sports circle.

On New Year's Eve, YM and others, with the help of Lin Ran, all reached the top of the canyon and drilled one. The rest of the time was spent playing maintenance rounds, which was relaxing and comfortable.

Fast forward to 2017, and all teams have gathered for training to prepare for the LPL Spring Split, which starts on January 19th.

YM's first opponent is IG in the same group. They only have this one game in the first week, and then they have a long annual vacation.

But White Crescent is under a lot of pressure.

Because Han Yi, the YM champion coach last season, is now the head coach at IG, whether he, a new outsider, can make the management and players trust him will first depend on this opening game.

Doom is the data analyst he brought in and is mainly responsible for the daily ranking training of the players and the discovery of version heroes. Su Cheng specializes in competition training materials and is more biased towards the professional arena.

The three of them met in the training room, agreed on their respective responsibilities, and then started preparing for the opening game.

The first thing to do is version research.

The basic numerical capabilities of Riot's new heroes are average, but when it comes to weakening and map resource changes, they will always be the best.

Every version change will eliminate a large number of teams with poor adaptability, and then new forces will spring up like mushrooms after a rain.

With two points of basic attack power and five points of movement speed, the policewoman can instantly become version T0. After Raven was slashed several times, even a Raven-proficient player like TS will use it less frequently.

Everything can support what Jax said - the most powerful weapon is the patch.

In this case, even if you have a system, it won't work. Unless you can allow yourself to open CD-free plug-ins, or forcibly reduce your opponent's intelligence, you will have to adapt to the version.

In terms of heroes, in the S7 pre-season, the Lion Dog and the Enchantress were redone, and the Green Steel Shadow made its debut, with consumption, recovery, real damage, displacement, rush, control...

All the advantages are combined into one, and he can also be involved in the mid-to-late stage. He is simply a perfect hero.

Qinggangying, who has such a perverted mechanism, was severely slashed twice by fists as soon as he logged into the server, but he is still strong.

The changes in the jungle are more obvious, which is also Riot’s top priority every season.

In addition to the previously mentioned adjustment of the refresh time of the wild area excluding BUFF monsters from 100 seconds to 150 seconds, the bodyguard son of the red and blue BUFF disappeared;

Two new birds have been added to the Sharpbill camp, and they have become F6;

And the two gargoyles have now learned to split. The big one is the middle one and the small one is the small one. It is quite cumbersome to brush them.

At the same time, the experience value of the jungle area has also been changed. Except for the double BUFF, the experience value provided by the other four groups of jungle areas when they are cleared for the first time is reduced by 25%.

This change is very critical. Now you can still upgrade to level 3 with BUFF+double camps, but if you want to upgrade to level 4, you need to clear all 6 groups of camps.

Analysts and coaches are working intensively to analyze the various changes in the new version, and other YM team members are also preparing intensively.

What is different from the start of the summer split last year is that this year, countless teams came to us and actively requested to schedule training matches with YM.

White Crescent selected the best from the best and found teams from EDG, RNG, WE and some LCK for training.

Today's strong heroes in the bottom lane are similar to those in the S6 finals. They are still dominated by expendable supports. Liu Qingsong, who is good at hard support, has relatively few training opportunities. Most of the time, Prophet and Jack partner up in the bottom lane.

After several days of training matches, the performance of Prophet, who is better at laning than roaming, is acceptable.

The prevalence of expendable support means that he does not need to go to Xiaotian for linkage. He only needs to switch lanes and push towers with AD. At the same time, he does not need to take on the commanding role. There are two people in the team, Lin Ran and Jack, who can dominate his teammates.

In other words, the prophet is now just a tool player who uses skills to push the lane in the bottom lane, and has little impact on the YM team.

Bai Yueya looked at the training match record on the whiteboard with a winning rate of 80%, and felt a little relieved.

His coaching career has been full of ups and downs. S5 won the LPL championship with LGD in the summer, and participated in the relegation match with OMG the next year. If Guo Hao hadn't found him, White Crescent would have planned to go to the LSPL.

It is self-evident how stressful it is to coach a team that just won the global finals last year. Bai Yueya is sure that once YM's performance declines, he will definitely be bullied by crazy fans online.

But now that I look at it, it doesn’t seem difficult, right?

Previously, Tengjing clearly stipulated that professional players could not compete if they could not reach Canyon Diamond One.

But as the Spring Split approaches, they find that there is still a group of players who are not strong enough.

Can we really not let the game play? This is certainly unrealistic.

In the end, the player who didn't hit the diamond number one just paid a fine of 10,000 yuan and the farce finally subsided.

On January 18, the night before the spring split, YM held a collective meeting.

Su Cheng held a notebook in one hand and a marker in the other hand to draw on the whiteboard.

"Xiaotian, please pay attention. This version of the jungle experience has been changed. It is very slow to upgrade from level 3 to level 4 just by farming. The jungler now has to do things at level 3. It is more difficult to gank online or counter-jungle. A good choice, especially for counter-jungle, with quite high returns.”

Originally, if a group of wild monsters were dropped, the opponent's jungler could still advance to level 4 with 5 groups of wild monsters, but that is not possible now. As long as a group of wild monsters is dropped, the jungler cannot reach level 4.

"According to the third-level route of BUFF-a group of camps-BUFF in this version, that group of wild camps will be eaten in about 2 minutes and 13 seconds to 17 seconds, and it will take 150 seconds for a group of non-BUFF wild monsters to refresh, that is to say If the opponent's jungler is countered by a group of wild monsters and does not gain online experience, he will need to refresh the next group of camps at 4 minutes and 43 seconds to reach level 4. The vacuum period in the middle is equivalent to causing the opponent's jungler to break. Open the connection."

"So carnivorous junglers are quite popular now, and everyone's primary goal is the same as in S6. We still have to prioritize protecting the junglers for invasion."

"Lin Ran, can we choose the red side first tomorrow and leave the counter position to you?" Bai Yueya asked in consultation.

He is very different from Han Yi's serious coaching style. Like most domestic coaches, he tends to be gentle. The advantage is that the psychological pressure on the players is relatively small, but the disadvantage is that it is difficult to supervise the players.

"Okay, I don't have any objections."

After the S6 finals, Lin Ran's roaming support ability automatically increased by 3 points. Including the finals, German Cup and training matches, he accumulated a total of 1,200 points, which he invested all in version development capabilities.

After defeating SKT with Lucian and Banner of Command, Lin Ran has tasted the benefits of version development capabilities. Even if his laning suppression ability is slightly poor, he can use various black technologies to make up for it.

His current values ​​are as follows:

Support roaming ability 89

Version development capability 94

Line suppression ability 91

The ability to grow money by brushing money is 90

Team battle output ability is 90.

He gradually moved towards becoming an all-around pentagonal warrior.

In the afternoon of the next day, everyone from YM took a bus to Shanghai Zhengda Tiandi, the host venue for this spring competition.

"This location is a bit good..." Xiaotian looked through the glass window at the Oriental Pearl Tower not far away.

"This year, the league took advantage of our championship and attracted a large amount of sponsorship," Guo Hao said sitting in front. "The host venue was moved from the Hongqiao Performing Arts Center, where the Aurora Tower and the Bund are."

"This place is quite close to Fudan, only about 10 kilometers away." Brother Hao turned to look at Lin Ran, "This is convenient for Su Cheng to come and watch the game."

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon after putting on makeup, and everyone returned to the lounge to listen to the management's tactical arrangements.

At 4:40, under the guidance of the staff, the YM team members left the lounge with their keyboards and mice in their arms and rushed to the backstage to prepare.

"Ning, are you nervous?" The Garlic Bastard looked at the tall Ning opposite him.

"Why are you nervous?" Ning responded carelessly, "Brother Ran, be careful today, I will catch you."

"Are you swollen now?" Lin Ran smiled and punched Ning on the body.

"That's not good. I have Rookie and Theshy now. One is more powerful than the other. What should I be afraid of?"

The fat cock smiled shyly at the side. Lin Ran looked at the rich collagen on both sides of the cock's cheeks and controlled the urge to pinch his face.

Theshy on the side wears a pair of black-rimmed glasses under her thick, permed hair. She has a tall and thin figure that is quite similar to his face shape, and looks a little cold in appearance.

"Hello." Hearing that the host Yu Shuang had started to warm up the show, Lin Ran took the initiative to say hello to him.

theshy turned his head sharply and stared at Lin Ran's handsome cheeks, grinning with white teeth and an extremely bright smile.

"Ni Howl..." His Chinese was a bit broken, and he blushed for a moment while speaking. He looked very shy. Theshy stretched out his right hand and shook Lin Ran tightly, then switched to English, "You performed very well in this year's finals. ,I am your fan."

Lin Ran felt chills behind his back after hearing these words, feeling that he had also been cursed by some mysterious power.

But what surprised him even more was that theshy's personality seemed completely different from that cold face.

Baolan on the side retracted her slender white arms into her sleeves, covered her mouth and nose with her sleeves and laughed.

The prophet glanced at Baolan opposite, and his body shrank back unnoticeably.

"Prophet, please ignore him, he is a second-level cripple." Jack joked. He and Baolan knew each other before he was a professional.

"How are you talking?" Baolan stepped forward and tried to pinch Jack.

Han Yi and Bai Yueya on the other side nodded to each other as a greeting, but didn't say a word.

Compared with the players, the coaches of both sides of this game are the ones with the strongest desire to win.

…

"Welcome to the live broadcast of the 2017 LPL Spring Split..." The commentators of the opening game were still Wawa and Miller.

Miller glanced at the players' bench and said, "I think YM's uniform is quite interesting."

The doll couldn't help but laugh, "Isn't this black and red team uniform with the blue and white BMW logo a bit inconsistent? Look at how clean the IG team uniform is!"

The YM fans in the audience also burst into laughter.

BMW finally invested together with its previous sponsor Belle International. Since YM’s performance on the S6 last year attracted countless fans, the influence of the team name is not small. The two sponsors discussed it and decided not to change YM’s team name for the time being. .

However, the two sponsors have taken up all the space on the chest of the YM uniform, leaving almost no room. The mix of colors makes the YM uniform look weird.

"The long offseason is finally over. Starting today, our viewers can test the level of each team after the winter transfer period. This is also the first 10-ban game in the LPL!"

"To explain to viewers who are not familiar with the rules, both sides will ban first and choose the first three heroes from the blue side, and then start the second round of BP. At this time, it will become the red side to ban first and choose first. In this way, the red side will ban first and choose first. There is still one last counter bit left.”

"Today's opening game is YM's priority in selecting sides. They decided to take the red side in the first game. In fact, this is the first time we have seen this 10-ban mode. It is not clear whether this version is dominated by the red side or the blue side. excellent."

"There are still many things to watch in this opening game. IG's new top laner has extremely good offensive ability, and Jin Gong has great experience in resisting pressure. It can be said to be a duel between spear and shield; the jungle position is between former teammates. In the confrontation, there is no need to talk about the personal strength of the two teams' mid laners..."

The commentators are still chatting, and the BP screen has appeared.

"The IG blue side banned Lucian first. This hero showed no signs of weakening after being used by Ran in the finals. Nowadays, many of them are used to hit units to restrain mid-to-late-game mages in the pub game, and the effect is quite good."

YM blocked the poodle. This hero was reworked in version 6.24. Q [Cruelty] has become an arc-shaped area of ​​damage. W [War Roar] under the brutal effect also has a 1.5-second control-free effect. It is simply powerful. horrible.

"Spider Queen... This is one of the best heroes used by Xiaotian. Junglers who can do things in the early and middle stages of this version are more popular. Firstly, because the attributes of the little dragon and the value of the first-blood tower have not been weakened. Secondly, because Now that the refresh rate in the jungle is slow, the development pace of jungle cores such as the male gunner and the leopard girl is forced to slow down. The 150-second refresh time of the jungle camp is too long for them."

"It's different when you're a carnivorous jungler. I farm the jungle to catch people and then come back to eat monsters. It doesn't waste any time at all."

Miller has a point.

YM banned Qinggangying again. They knew the offensive ability of theshy and it was impossible to give such a strong warrior hero to the blue side's IG.

IG reserved the last spot for banning players in the first round to the mid laner, and the new version of Enchantress was blocked. The redesigned Enchantress Q skill is much more efficient at clearing the line, and it is also a strong version.

"IG is basically going to pick Syndra as a clear card. The heroes who can compete with her online are all blocked... Sure enough, YM will not release her. The brooding Syndra still deserves a ban!"

Hanyi first took down his best blind monk for Ning.

"Ice and Excavator, keep an eye on the blind monk's position!" White Crescent discovered in the past two days of training that Jack's ice is very spiritual. He can find out with the help of the coaching staff before the game based on the situation on the field. The position of the opponent's jungler.

In the professional arena, the consequences of exposing the jungler's position are very serious, ranging from being alerted by enemy line heroes and being unable to gank, to being counter-jumpered and stealing various neutral resources.

Coupled with an excavator who has the ability to listen to the ground, Bai Yueya is going to kill Ning in this game, leaving him with no rhythm at all.

In this version, the jungler serves as a rhythm engine. Once the position is guessed, YM will be much more comfortable in the early stage.

IG chose the double C combination of Ryze + Jhin, which has a very strong combat effectiveness in the mid-term.

YM's third choice took Zyra as a support.

The second round of BP begins.

"Ban Nami first. They should be targeting the top laner's hero pool!" Bai Yueya adjusted the position of his earphones. In the second round, he planned to cause trouble for the opponent's auxiliary Bao Lan.

Just as he guessed, Hanyi sent Titan to the ban position. After the preseason version update, the top laner returned to the era when phantom gods such as Titan and Dashu ruled.

"YM finally banned Kalma, while IG banned Dashu." Miller glanced at the ban players on both sides. "YM is currently two positions short of top and middle, while IG is the top support."

"How about taking Jace first? We can swing up and down, so that Jin Gong won't be afraid of being restrained." Lin Ran suggested.

White Crescent thought for a moment and decided to follow Lin Ran's advice and first pick up a line hero, Jace.

"Theshy chose Rambo, and Sapphire took down Tamu. IG Jhin, Ryze and Rambo, the three short-legged heroes, are in great need of Tamu's protection!" Wawa increased the volume.

In YM's last counter position, a man in a cowboy hat appeared in the prophet's selection box, the card master Drizzt!

"Then Jace is used by Jin Gong. Ran takes the card and goes to the middle, but the card does not have an advantage against this version of Ryze in the lane. Let's see how Ran handles this situation!"

The lineups of both sides are confirmed.

Blue square IG: top laner Rambo [TS], jungler Lee Sin [Ning], mid laner Ryze [Broiler], bottom lane Jhin [Children’s Wandering God] and Tahm Kench [Sapphire Blue Megan].

Red side: Top laner Jayce [Jin Gong], jungle digger [tian], mid laner card [Lin Ran], bottom lane ice [JKL] and Zyra [Prophet].

"Be sure to keep an eye on the opponent's jungler and try to roll the snowball in the early stage." Bai Yueya gave the last instruction, took off his earphones and shook hands with Hanyi.

The two coaches looked at each other and then left the field.

As the game loaded into Summoner's Rift, the audience burst into deafening cheers.

Shouts of cheers for YM echoed throughout the venue!

Even the headphones can't isolate the continuous cheering sound, and the chicken is a little sore.

When would he be satisfied if he could have so many fans?

Lin Ran looked at the lineups of both sides and felt that his team had a good chance of winning this round.

He has been studying BP since he started playing professionally, and has been tirelessly absorbing knowledge. After selecting the entire lineup, Lin Ran reviewed the game from a God's perspective, and could feel that there was something wrong with Hanyi's BP.

At first glance, IG's lineup is very strong in teamfighting, with both proactive control and teamfight output. Rambo and Jhin can divide the battlefield, and Tahm Kench can also protect teammates very well.

But Hanyi ignored the line.

Taking Tahm Kench in this version means giving up the right to enter the lane by default. If the combination of Jhin + Tahm Kench plays Ice + Zyra without looking at the player ID, they will have to huddle under the tower for the rest of their lives.

As a result, most of Tahm's early ultimate move is useless - once he uses his ultimate move Abyssal Dive to support his teammates, the bottom tower will most likely be directly destroyed.

Although there is pressure to play against Ryze with cards in the middle, Ryze can't control it if the cards only push the lane.

Once Lin Ran seizes the opportunity, wandering onto the road to catch the undisplaced Rambo is the best choice.

The card's ultimate move has a teleportation range of 5,500 yards, while Ryze's level one R [Warp Jump] only has a teleportation range of 1,500 yards. It goes without saying who can rush to the road first.

If Rambo is caught dead too many times in the top lane, Jess can take over the game in the mid-term, and IG will not be able to hold off a front-on team fight.

In other words, Hanyi's BP is too idealistic.

…

Lin Ran bought Dolan's ring and went online. He brought it with flash teleportation, while Broiler brought flash purification.

Before level three, Ryze was basically unable to clear two layers of runic energy to obtain a shield, which meant that Ryze's fighting ability was not very strong.

Broiler also knows this. He knows that Lin Ran's laning strength is not bad. It is basically impossible to kill alone in the early stage. He simply develops peacefully with Lin Ran.

At 2 minutes and 31 seconds, YM, who pushed the lane, took the lead to reach 2 in the bottom lane.

"Xiao Yao, I'll take two more steps forward, and I can see both of his BUFF camps at the same time!" Jack didn't throw out the drone immediately after reaching level 2. He didn't push the troops deep enough now, so he had to move forward a little more. It's an excellent opportunity.

The child and Baolan took this bottom lane combination without thinking of fighting for blood. When they saw Han Bing strutting forward, they immediately retreated to the tower.

Jack adjusted the angle and successfully shot the eagle into the sky.

The drone under Yuan Jiyan's skin flew across the sky and saw the empty red buff and the three wolves. Finally, he captured the blind monk who was eating blue in the upper half of the area. The blue buff that was pulled into the grass still had very healthy health.

"The blind monk has been exposed, and YM is already in control of this jungle clearing trend..."

Jin Gong, who was pressing the line, discovered the blind monk's position and was about to retreat when he heard Xiaotian's call.

"He will definitely fight this Demon Swamp Frog, come and help me!"

Jin Gong, who only thought about sacrificing for the team, did not hesitate and decisively began to push the lane, preparing to go to the jungle.

"Xiaotian's move was to catch the blind monk on the opposite side. Jin Gong helped hit two red BUFFs at the beginning. Xiaotian got three groups of wild monsters in the first half of the jungle, plus the range damage of the excavator's Q skill. His jungle clearing speed is faster than that of Ning who drives alone!"

"It's not that much faster normally, right?" Miller saw that the blind monk had knocked out 1/3 of the Demon Swamp Frog's health when Xiaotian crossed the river, and felt a little baffled, "The blind monk painted both red and blue. It shouldn’t be too slow to farm a single wild monster, right?”

"And Ning's condition is a bit bad. The output of the Demon Swamp Frog is not low, and the blind monk only has 2/3 of his health!"

Lin Ran also drew the red card at this time and prepared to push the line quickly, stopping the broiler from entering the wild area.

Theshy saw Jace speeding up the line push, and he, who was extremely talented, instantly realized what YM wanted to do.

He was so anxious that he pinged the signal frantically on the mini map, and then chattered a lot of Korean - his current Chinese proficiency was still at the level of hello and thank you, and he couldn't express himself in Chinese in time.

Broiler quickly went through theshy's words in his mind and then translated them to Ning, but the efficiency was too slow and not as fast as signal communication.

Ning was stunned for a moment when he saw the warning signal, failed to react immediately, and then wanted to retreat.

But it's too late.

Xiaotian came through the tunnel through the wall above the frog in the Demon Swamp, and pushed up the blind monk who could not react quickly. He opened Ning's wound with his sharp claws. Jin Gong flashed at the same time to close the distance, and EQ blasted him. On the blind monk who was knocked away!

The punishment on Ning was handed over when he hit the blue buff. This version will take 3 minutes and 15 seconds to change to the next punishment. He has no way to recover blood at this time!

He touched the wall and wanted to run, but Xiaotian decisively flashed over the wall, and the real damage of a red angry E killed the blind monk!

"Ning died without even handing over his flash. This wave was too hurt!"

"Go directly to the upper road, I can get there!" Lin Ran used the red card to withdraw his troops. After being beaten by the broiler, he immediately knocked off the blood bottle and retreated down the tower.

"Come on, come on!" Jin Gong was very excited. At this time, there were still four soldiers under the shy tower that had not been cleared away, and Xiaotian had just flashed over the wall to kill the blind monk. He was right in the middle of the first and second towers on IG's top road. It was completely okay. Jump over the tower!

"Is YM crazy? The card is only level 3 and you are taking your teammates over the tower?" Miller looked at the teleportation light that lit up in front of the tower on IG and shouted in disbelief.

Broiler took two steps forward and found that Lin Ran had retreated so far that he had no time to interrupt!

Lin Ran teleported to the tower-resistant soldier, allowing it to avoid damage from the defense tower during this period.

Theshy is attacked from both sides, where can a Rambo go?

He wanted to operate, but Lin Ran drew a yellow card and the immobilized Rambo had no power to resist!

Xiaotian lifted it up and continued to control it, and then Jin Gong fired the cannon form W [Super Charge], switched to the hammer form, and hit Rambo's face with a set of skills!

Theshy threw the harpoon before he died, trying to replace Lin Ran who was resisting the tower, but Lin Ran decisively flashed out of the tower, drawing aggro from the defense tower while also dodging the harpoon and escaping with his remaining health!

"Perfect tower jumping coordination! YM's tower jumping operation is so skillful! Theshy can't do it!" the doll shouted loudly.

The broiler in the middle can only empty out the mana and push the army line out.

At this moment, he extremely regretted why he was afraid that the opponent's midfielder would bring a purification target. If he had also brought a teleport, the ending would be completely different!

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