LOL: What is a roaming mid laner?

In the S6 finals, the factory director's blind monk kicked away 1/3 of the piglets.

It can be said that after YM won the championship and RNG formed an all-China class and gained a large number of fans, the only ones who can still stay to support EDG are die-hard fans.

The more they love this team, the harder they curse when the team loses a game.

Especially after the microphone voice of EDG playing against YM was released, they became even more excited.

[What are you fighting? Lost on time in first to mid term? Face the baron and defend the middle tower? 】

[‘Anything is fine’, ‘Anything is fine’, meiko, do you call this a conductor? Grandma Jin Gong is better than you! 】

[Although I also think Meiko’s conductor is stupid, what does this have to do with Grandma Jin Gong? 】

[Pule’s Dirty Dance is not here, EDG’s decision-making is a piece of shit. 】

[One thing to say, in China you still have to look at me, Brother Seven! 】

EDG's team command system is obviously in big trouble.

In the early and middle stages of the game, EDG can rely on the coaching staff's tactical arrangements to open up the situation, but in the middle and late stages, the coaching staff plays a very small role and relies heavily on the players' performance on the court and the decision-making ability of the commander.

As the current conductor, Meiko is very hesitant when making decisions. Many times he himself cannot make up his mind.

As a result, the other players didn't know what to do. They fell into disarray as soon as the mid-term was reached, and all the advantages they gained in the early stage were given back.

Everyone can accept being lost for one or two games, but so far EDG has played 9 BO3 games and only won 4 of them.

You must know that they have not yet played against WE. The Red Army, which has been dormant for many years, failed in last year's bubble game. Now it has become the top force in lpl. How can EDG win?

If we continue like this, let's first consider whether we can make it to the playoffs!

After YM won nine consecutive victories, the remaining opponents in the round-robin between groups were LGD and VG.

The performance of these two teams this year is not ideal. If nothing else, YM can easily win.

The competition was not stressful, so YM decisively took two days off.

Su Cheng had to hand in his thesis assignment and had no time to spend with Lin Ran. He could only stay at the base and hang out with his teammates.

Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong began their own premiere journey.

The two are now very focused on their live broadcasting career, and the reason is simple - lack of money.

The two of them packaged a 400,000-year contract, which is equivalent to 200,000 per year for one person. The club includes food, accommodation, and five social insurances and one fund. It was a pretty good treatment in Shanghai in 2017, but it was not enough for e-sports players.

The reason is also very simple. The career life in this industry is too short.

It is said that programmers can reach the age of 35, but most e-sports players have already retired at the age of 25.

E-sports players at the top do make money. It is not difficult for them to earn 8 figures a year, but many people will never even reach the threshold of the top league in their lifetime.

They struggled and were unknown in the secondary leagues and even the City Hero Contest. Until they were 22 or 3 years old, because they couldn't keep up with the rhythm and their strength declined slightly, they were kicked out of the team by the management for various reasons and replaced by age-appropriate ones. Players with smaller reflexes, faster reactions and better operations.

These people have no academic qualifications. Most of them are teenagers who are addicted to the Internet. They are not famous in e-sports. Most of them return to their hometowns to work as network administrators or use their previous savings to open a milk tea shop.

Lin Ran, Jack and others, who have stood at the pinnacle stage of this e-sports since their debut, naturally do not know these things. Even if they heard a few words, they did not really understand this feeling.

But Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong, who have played in the secondary league and the City Heroes Competition for a year, know this kind of feeling, and they don't want to live that kind of life.

YM's name is still visible. Liu Qingsong, Prophet and Lin Weixiang's live broadcast contracts are under the team's banner. As long as they broadcast enough time, they will get money. The amount of the live broadcast contract is definitely not low for the two people's salaries. Naturally, it is very effort.

Jack, the lazy dog, was half lying there playing with his mobile phone. If he could not live broadcast, he would never live broadcast, which was in sharp contrast to the hard-working substitute duo.

When Lin Ran was interviewed last time, he said he wanted to live broadcast, but under Jack's subtle influence, he also turned into a lazy dog.

Just accumulate the live broadcast time until the day when the champion skin is released, Lin Ran comforted himself.

He opened Lin Weixiang's live broadcast room and was surprised to find that there were many of his fans inside.

This group of people were yelling in Lin Weixiang's room, asking him to turn up the volume of his headset to the maximum level so that they could hear the voice of Lin Ran, a lazy dog ​​who was not on the air.

Then move the camera, it would be better if it could be aimed at Lin Ran himself.

Lin Ran didn't expect the fans to be so crazy. If he didn't start the broadcast, these people would go directly to his teammates' live broadcast room and look for traces of him through various clues.

He yawned and huddled in his chair to look at the qualifying time.

22 minutes and 15 seconds, the magic number.

No one has been lined up yet.

But it’s understandable.

Lin Ran is now playing several Korean server ranking games a day, and has reached 1415 points, only 40 points away from the first place, Little Peanut, ranking fourth in the Korean server.

The high-scoring system matches him with very few opponents, and it happens to be another LCK match day. As the high-end games of the Korean server are almost exclusively occupied by professional players, there is naturally no one to be ranked.

"Alas, masters are always as lonely as snow." Lin Ran sighed.

Lin Weixiang laughed there.

"Brother Ran, look how smart I am," he opened the career interface of his client and said seriously, "I was about to reach 1,000 points, but then the queue was very slow, so I knelt down 10 times in a row. , dive directly to 700 points, otherwise I won’t be able to train seriously if I queue for too long.”

[It’s really yours. This bowl is definitely top-notch understanding. 】

[…Isn’t it true that kneeling for 10 consecutive times is not your cup of tea? 】

[Don’t be embarrassed, if the anchor says to control points, that means controlling points! 】

Fans who originally planned to watch Lin Ran's movements in Lin Weixiang's live broadcast room were amused.

Lin Weixiang queued up and took a look at the barrage when choosing a hero.

"Why did I give away in the second game against RNG..." Lin Weixiang yelled, "That's not a giveaway. The other jungler kept coming to catch me, and I just kept getting caught."

He pondered for two seconds and continued, "Then the jungler on the other side has worked hard to come here. It's not easy for everyone. I can't help but catch them, right?"

【? ? ? 】

[The angle is so strange, I feel like a Buddha. 】

[I really need to thank you for the spicy hot pot, right? 】

Lin Ran was happy and turned to look at his teammates, "Lin Weixiang sacrificed himself for others. If he hadn't given a few heads to the opposing jungler in that game, the MVP might have been his."

Lin Weixiang waved his hand pretending to be generous, "Brother Xiang, I'm too arrogant. I don't even pay attention to this mere MVP of a small field."

"Indeed, it's thanks to Brother Xiang's presence in these games, otherwise we wouldn't have to overturn the game, and we would have already started to expand and choose this year's skin." The Garlic Bastard started to be weird again.

Liu Qingsong on the side finally laughed without the camera.

"If you don't send me, I will control the rhythm of the entire venue!" Lin Weixiang clenched his fists to cheer himself up, "The world is focused on me!"

Lin Weixiang's live broadcast effect was much better than Lin Ran expected, and there was no cold spot at all. This person is still a good actor even if he doesn't have a career as a comedian.

When they play against LGD, version 7.5 will be officially launched on the game server.

The first big news in the version update is about Ryze.

[After observing the ranking and competition data of major servers, we found that this old mage from Rune Continent was too active - the combination of Zhonya's hourglass and warp jump is powerful and there is no way to break it. We do not I think this is a very cooooool linkage method, which will give Ryze’s opponents a very poor gaming experience...]

Riot designers talk a lot.

To sum it up in one sentence: Zhonya’s hourglass will now interrupt Ryze’s R [Warp Jump].

This knife struck directly on Ryze's main artery, and the old mage who guarded Runecontinent conscientiously fell to the ground.

A group of old Ryze players were crying on the forum. Many Ryze-specialized players had used this technique before Lin Ran.

In their opinion, Lin Ran was the culprit behind Ryze's weakening. If he hadn't used this technique in the S6 finals, these specialized players would have been able to use it for a long time.

[We have weakened Sprint and weakened Lucian. Now it’s Ryze’s turn. You are so cruel! 】

[Who will be the next victim? 】

The second big news has an even greater impact.

Changes to Blade of the Ruined King are now available.

This piece of equipment originally sold for 3,400 gold, but now it's 100 gold cheaper. Its attack power is increased by 15 points, its life stealing effect is increased by 5%, and its attack speed is reduced by 15%.

The active effect's physical damage of 10% of maximum health becomes 100 magic damage. (See picture for update announcement)

At first glance it looks like it has been weakened, but it is not.

"The value of the 15 attack power increased by dilapidation is easy to understand. We use long swords as units. A long sword with 10 attack power sells for 350 gold coins, that is, each point of attack power is worth 35 gold coins. The value of 15 attack power is 525 gold coins. The increased We calculate the 5% life stealing value based on the [Vampire Scepter]..."

During the version analysis meeting that afternoon, analyst Doom directly projected the panel diagram onto the curtain in the center of the training room.

This is the calculation concept of the cost-effectiveness of equipment by most professional data analysts. By directly calculating a single attribute that can be purchased at a price, the price of that attribute can be obtained.

For example, for attack power, you can use a long sword, a single-attributed equipment that only adds attack power, as a reference, and use price/attribute value to calculate the attribute price of attack power.

As for life stealing, cooldown reduction, and the basic attributes of equipment being sold individually in LOL, Doom introduces a secondary synthetic equipment to calculate the value.

The Vampire Scepter has 15 attack power and 10% life steal, and sells for 900 gold.

10 Vampire Scepters cost 9000, providing 150 attack power and 100% life steal.

What should be noted here is that the reference object used when calculating attack power was the long sword. Now when calculating life steal, the value of the subtracted attack power attribute must also be based on the long sword.

Because the cost-effectiveness data has different reference objects, the numerical results obtained are also different.

Everything must be rigorous to be scientific.

150 attack power is worth 15 long swords, which is 350*15=5250 gold coins.

9000 gold coins - 5250 gold coins = 3750 gold coins, the latter is the attribute price of 100% life stealing.

In this way, 5% of life stolen is 3750*5%=187.5 gold coins.

"The attribute price of the weakened 15% attack speed is easy to calculate," Doom continued. "Take a dagger that sells for 300 gold coins and provides 12% attack speed as a reference. The attribute price of 15% attack speed is 375 gold."

"Therefore, this new dilapidation is 525+187.5-375=337.5 gold coins higher than the old dilapidation attribute price without counting the active effect."

He finally gave the data calculation results, "And this version is 100 gold coins cheaper..."

"The value of the ruined panel has been increased by 437.5 gold coins." White Crescent nodded, indicating that he understood.

437 gold coins, the damage of the active effect of Destruction is not worth the money at all. What is more important to the heroes is the slowing effect of the active skill.

"The most important thing is its linkage with the black cut." Su Cheng sat on the chair and frowned, turning the black pen in his hand quickly. "When there is a breakdown, a basic attack will trigger two layers of black cut special effects."

[Black Cut Passive: Inflicting physical damage to the hero will apply a layer of 'cutting' armor-breaking effect, and the broken passive percentage physical damage can trigger Black Cut. This mechanism was not available until version 7.12 on June 14, 2017. It has been modified, the announcement is shown in the picture]

"Lucian..." Lin Ran hesitated.

"It's impossible to let this hero play mid lane for you again." Bai Yueya laughed.

As soon as this version is launched on the competition server, Lucian will immediately transform into the son of the version.

Currently, Black Cut still provides 5% armor sundering for one layer, and 30% armor sundering after 6 layers.

Destruction + Black Cut are released at the same time, which means that the hero only needs three basic attacks to trigger the Black Cut armor-piercing effect that originally took 6 basic attacks to fully stack.

As for Lucian, if he basic attacks, then E slides, and then clicks on two passive shots, he can fully stack the black cut.

It's simply outrageous.

Extremely outrageous.

(So ​​at that time, Destruction + Black Cut suddenly emerged, and all available heroes bought this set of equipment. Ranked players did not care whether they understood this mechanism or not, they just followed the trend and it was over. Today, I will explain this to everyone in conjunction with the cost-effectiveness of the equipment)

"This mechanism should be changed..." Jin Gong said from the side, "Otherwise it would be too exaggerated."

"But it hasn't been changed yet," Su Cheng shook his head, "We have to adapt to this version. The outfit of Ruin + Black Cut will definitely be popular."

Today's coaches and analysts are not fools. As soon as the version is updated, this obvious and exaggerated change will definitely attract attention.

"In this way, it shouldn't be a problem if the special effects flow is very popular," Lin Ran counted the heroes on his fingers, "Except Lucian, Ice and Crocodile can do this."

Bai Yueya nodded, "We also have to include heroes who can produce ruined equipment alone. This piece of equipment is also very powerful if purchased alone."

"Verus, EZ, Big Mouth, Rat, Spear of Vengeance..."

"The spring of ADC is coming." Jack told the truth.

"More importantly, except for rats, these heroes you mentioned all have one characteristic," Su Cheng said, letting go of his strength and stopping the pen in his hand. "They have good combat capabilities in a two-piece set."

"The reason why the fist is broken is to force people to play in the mid-term rhythm..." Lin Ran clicked his tongue.

This reason is very simple. In the future, heroes such as Lucian and Han Bing who can produce broken black cuts will definitely become popular in the version.

As for Verus, Big Mouth, and Spear of Vengeance, these three heroes can join the group with the combination of Destruction + Hurricane + Level 2 shoes. The time point at this time is about 20 minutes.

Once the rhythm of the version moves closer to the mid-term, Riot's own son Ezreal will immediately make his debut.

Even if the equipment of the three magic cuts is formed, the third piece of equipment can still make up for the strong damage of the version. The mid-term combat effectiveness is extremely strong, coupled with the good flexibility, he will also become the hero of the version.

The faces of the players present were solemn, and they knew that things were about to change.

"I wonder, can he stop changing the version?" Xiaotian shouted to vent his inner dissatisfaction.

At present, they have not lost even a small game, and there is no doubt that they have the answer to the version. Every time the fist moves, the team with the best results is always the one who is disgusted the most.

They can obviously continue to win the game without doing anything, but when the version changes, everything must be re-researched and adapted!

"Let's work overtime these two days and try to master the version first." Bai Yueya was also very helpless. "It's only one month until the playoffs. The next major version change of Riot should be in the mid-season."

"That is to say, this version study is related to our results in the spring playoffs. Please leave it to you two."

Su Cheng and Doom nodded.

Everyone in YM understands the importance of this version. No one is laughing or joking anymore, they all stay in the base and practice hard.

In the game against LGD, Jack returned as the starting AD.

But this time the assistant he matched was not the prophet, but Liu Qingsong.

Bai Yueya wanted to test out a new lineup, and Liu Qingsong, who was good at assisting, was treated as a guinea pig.

LGD adheres to one concept - a new version naturally requires a new lineup.

The jungle position was replaced by Wild King Eimy. After more than half a year, LGD management finally understood this simple truth: Wild Saint and Wild King are unreliable, but Wild King can only get lost and go shopping, while Wild Saint will forcefully deliver.

Dharma Wang, who had just led the team to an 8-game losing streak in small games, was also carried down to look at the water dispenser, and was replaced by Jinoo, the new Korean top laner.

(Tip: In reality, on March 16, 2017, Jinoo, the sword fairy, represented LGD in the starting unit against WE Xiye. The foxes scored 0/9/0 in two games, and then replaced the King of France in the game against VG on the 18th. Go up to the unit to fight Brother Long, one sword girl and one crocodile penetrate VG)

Jinoo, eimy, godv, imp, pyl, fans thought that LGD would form a galactic battleship again and prepare to take off.

This is the first time in Lin Ran's career that he has faced godv. Gao Dewei was still on the bench in last summer's game, and Lin Ran played the Dharma King.

Although there has never been a head-on confrontation before, anyone who has experienced S5 is very familiar with Gao Dewei, and Lin Ran is no exception.

If it hadn't been for the global finals that year, he might not have been able to make up his mind to play professionally.

Lin Ran knew that Gao Dewei was a very traditional mid laner who focused on brushing and cleared the jungle after clearing the lanes. This was exactly the same way Lin Ran played when he got heroes like Yellow Chicken - he didn't treat his own jungler as a human being. watch.

Get enough equipment to take the lead, then come out to pick up the team and attack the explosive output carry team.

Bai Yueya has also coached LGD before and knows Gao Dewei thoroughly.

He directly took out the Titan Swing, and finally gave it to Lin Ran to move forward, forcing the line to wander.

Lin Ran supported roaming and helped Xiaotian blow up the Wild King, and then the classic 4 pack of 2 gave Jack an advantage.

In the team battle, Jack, who returned from injury, felt hot, and Verus took over the game after finishing the rundown + hurricane. At this time, Gao Dewei was unable to get resources due to the rotten jungle area, and his development was not yet formed.

Verus, who was wildly triggered by the dragon group's passive attack speed effect, turned into a bobble head monster. He performed a picturesque A move and finally ended the game with four kills.

In the second game, Gao Dewei was pushed to the edge. He took out the bright moon and wanted to confront Lin Ran head-on.

But Lin Ran was already prepared for Gao Dewei's signature moon.

Lock the crocodile directly.

In terms of laning alone, a crocodile beating a bright moon is similar to a father beating his daughter, it is complete abuse.

Gao Dewei personally witnessed Lin Ran's weird hero pool for the first time.

It's both a Titan and a Crocodile. Are you still the mid laner?

Lin Ran tried a new version of the ruined + black cut outfits, and then discovered the ridiculous damage of the hero Crocodile.

W [Cold Hunting] will trigger attack special effects, and Red Fury W can slash 3 times.

This means that Black Cut triggers faster than Lucian.

Ruined + Black Cut, a Red Fury W directly stacks up to 30% of the armor breaking effect, and can also deal 3 times of broken passive percentage damage...

Lin Ran caught Gao Dewei once in the grass on F4. He activated R in advance and saved up his anger. He bit off half of the bright moon's blood with a red angry W!

You must know that Gao Dewei specially used the Explorer Arm Guard to superimpose armor in order to prevent being killed alone!

"What the hell kind of damage is this?" Commentator Zeyuan looked at the crocodile on the screen connecting with Destruction and taking the initiative. EAQEA used a set of combos to quickly hit with the help of Destruction's attack speed bonus!

Gao Dewei's Bright Moon was instantly killed during the stun process!

There were audience members in the audience covering their mouths and looking at the live screen in disbelief. Why is this crocodile’s output so exaggerated!

What was even more exaggerated was yet to come. As soon as Lin Ran came out with his third resurrection armor, he used his minions to build up Red Fury, and E decisively rolled into the highland tower!

Not too fancy, just flash the red fury W and slash directly on the imp, and then add the active effect of destruction, and then connect with a Q [Tyrant Strike]!

The imp blood bar almost disappeared at this moment!

A set of combos was very fast. Jack's Verus also shot an arrow to compensate for the damage. When pyl reacted, imp was already dead!

LGD, who lost their ADC, suffered defeats and had no choice but to swallow the bitter pill.

LGD fans, who use little yellow dogs as their avatars and are known as the "optimistic family", experienced the same situation as IG fans Gouzi.

Failed to take off with broken leg.

But after all, the fan elements involve dogs, so this is understandable.

In the last round-robin match between groups, YM played against VG.

YM members and Benji reunited after a long separation since the S6 Global Finals.

At this time, VG has recognized the reality - they are destined to play in the relegation match.

The chemistry between Benji, Hou Ye and Long Ge was extremely different, and coupled with the unusable bottom lane duo, they didn't even have the ability to resist at all, and were pushed by YM all the way.

"11 consecutive wins in the big game ended the inter-group round robin! YM has adapted well to the new version. They still have 5 tough battles to fight!" I remember watching the VG base shattered and said.

YM also knows that the other five teams in Group A are not weak teams, and the challenges of the new version are about to come.

I spent a long time with my partner today, and then read version updates for a long time. I have roughly smoothed out the pre-S7 version timeline. Starting tomorrow, I will hit the word count!

ps: This chapter’s version explanation is just to prepare the ground for everyone.

The enhancement of the rundown will affect the Spring and Summer Splits, MSI and even the S7 Global Finals.

Besides Xia Luo and Xiao Pao, what else is there in the version of the Incense Burner Monster?

The Mouth, Skateboard Shoes, and Verus of the Broken Hurricane.

Of course, ADC’s ​​status in S7 was not built in a day. I will let you know how Riot changed the version in subsequent chapters.

The amazing thing about LOL e-sports lies in the iteration of team strength brought about by version updates. A team that was strong in the previous version suddenly declined in strength in the next version.

Is it because of the player’s personal strength? Of course there are factors.

But the version is absolutely inseparable.

The closest typical cases to us are IG and FPX, especially the latter, where the impact of the version is even greater.

Everyone needs to know:

The game unfolds within the framework that Riot Games wants. If you play well and achieve results, Riot Games will focus on weakening the game. Everyone must believe that the installation speed of patches is much faster than players practicing unique skills and teams practicing secret weapons.

No player can escape this law, whether it is reality or virtual fiction.

Unless the protagonist in the e-sports novel is a humanoid plug-in that can see through the whole picture or has no skill CD, you have to adapt to the version.