LOL: What is a roaming mid laner?

It was already eight o'clock in the evening when Lin Ran and his girlfriend left the mall after dinner. The two held hands and walked back slowly.

Lin Ran had just had a full meal, and blood circulation was concentrated in the stomach to digest the food, causing a short-term ischemia and hypoxia in the brain...

In fact, I just want to sleep after eating.

The warm wind of June in Shanghai blew on his face. From time to time there were children laughing and playing on the sidewalk, and several boys wearing short-sleeved shirts from the Fudan middle-distance running team ran past him in a row, neatly and briskly.

Lin Ran held Su Cheng's slender and soft palm, feeling satisfied physically and mentally.

"Would you like to go for a morning jog tomorrow?" He asked Su Cheng beside him on a whim as he watched a row of long-distance runners running away.

Su Cheng refused at first.

After going to college, except for practicing running in the weeks before the physical test, she was too lazy to move at other times.

But Su Cheng thought about it and his eyes lit up.

If you practice running to strengthen your body, you won’t be afraid of those hairline monsters who stay up late reading next time you sprint to grab a seat before class!

"No problem!" She agreed readily.

The two entered the community and walked around the garden twice before entering the residential building.

Standing in the elevator, Su Cheng stretched out her green-white fingers and pressed the floor button, "Come to my place tonight."

"Huh?" Lin Ran was stunned for a second.

He was thinking wrongly.

Su Cheng's expression remained normal, "I customized a Summoner whiteboard that is exactly the same as the one in the base training room, which is more convenient for discussing tactics."

The wonderful time is always short, and the topic of discussion was brought back to work by Su Cheng.

The whiteboard with the Summoner's Rift map hanging on it was placed in the living room of Su Cheng's rental house.

Su Cheng had previously drawn ten black lines on Summoner's Rift with a marker. These black lines connected the magnets marked with various locations.

Eight of them are lying quietly near Dalongkeng, and the other two magnets marked "Top Order" are placed in the blue square lower road high tower.

Lin Ran changed into his chocolate bear slippers and sat down on the chair in front of Summoner's Rift.

"Here, here are the version change information and the analysis records I compiled." Su Cheng took the black notebook from her room, with a few pages of A4 paper sandwiched inside.

The specific content of the mid-season version update was printed out on A4 paper, and Su Chengjuan's beautiful font marked the annotation in the blank space next to it.

The three major tanks, Zhumei, Dashu, and Zac, are the top priorities for the hero changes in the mid-season version.

The current pig girl will generate a layer of pig skin after not suffering damage for a period of time, which is extremely resistant and immune to slowdown.

The ultimate skill [Ultimate Ice Prison] is also a first-hand group control skill, and the E skill [Eternal Frozen Field] can also provide a stun effect.

The tree's passive [Essence Absorbing Secret Technique] has been enhanced, and its ultimate move is no longer [Vengeance Vortex], which provides a range of damage reduction effects, but R [Nature's Grasp], which provides group control and initiative capabilities - it can create Five slowly moving tree roots that can provide a confinement effect.

The last one to receive major changes is Zach. Now his Q skill has become a small control, and R [Dynamic Pinball] can even lead the opposing hero to jump back!

(That is: Dashu and Pig Girl have the same skills as the current version; Zach is the one who can bring people back, and the mechanism is no different from the current version except for the change of the ultimate move. I will post the picture in this chapter)

Lin Ran took the notebook and flipped through it, then glanced at the 'Summoner's Rift' in front of him.

"Which game is this?"

"In this year's MSI, you played against SKT with Camille + Cards." Su Cheng picked up a chair and sat next to Lin Ran with his laptop. "I didn't watch the live broadcast at the time. I just spent the past two days on my own. Let’s review it.”

"Now that I think about it carefully, SKT's move to Dalong Pit was a bit reckless." When Su Cheng said this, he suddenly became interested and began to play the role of coach to review their game.

"Their overall decision-making is actually not in place, and it is not just Huni's own problem."

"Huh?" Lin Ran was reading his notes and raised his head when he heard Su Cheng's words.

"SKT helped Huni push away a wave of ordinary troops at nineteen and a half minutes, and then went straight to the Dalong Pit." Su Cheng opened the final video on the computer and showed it to Lin Ran, "At this time, the next wave of troops has arrived. .”

"This is a wave of artillery lines," she used a marker to draw a black line in the canyon, reaching the high ground of SKT's bot lane. "Huni can't guard it carefully."

"But he didn't want to give up the lower road high ground, so he stayed under the tower and didn't return to the city. Then he was raped and killed by Jin Gong over the tower."

Su Cheng concluded: "Huni did make a serious mistake. He could have abandoned the tower and moved to higher ground, but SKT's decision-makers must take the blame for Huni's mistake."

Lin Ran understood that he was just celebrating after winning the game. YM did not review the MSI finals, and he did not know these details.

"And this place..." Su Cheng combined the game video and used the whiteboard to write and draw on it, pointing out all the mistakes made by SKT and YM.

Lin Ran listened and nodded.

After all, players are not machines, they can only try to minimize the error rate.

Including YM, which won the final, was no exception. They made few big mistakes that could affect the outcome of the game, but there were definitely flaws in the small details.

It may be difficult for viewers to see these details when watching the live broadcast, but they are nowhere to be seen when the coaching staff reviews them.

"That's okay, Teacher Su, you work very hard." Lin Ran praised sincerely.

The YM coaching staff did not assign Su Cheng a review task. She was able to take time out of her busy schedule to study the video, which was considered overtime work.

Su Cheng used an eraser to erase the black line on Summoner's Rift, "Either don't do it, or do your best."

"I don't want to hang around." Su Cheng's tone was serious.

Lin Ran rubbed her head. After a brief review of nearly half an hour, they finally got to the point.

Mid-season version study.

It was nine o'clock in the evening, which happened to be the time agreed with Doom, another analyst.

Su Cheng made a video call and Doom connected immediately.

As soon as the screen popped up, he saw Lin Ran and Su Cheng sitting on chairs.

The three of them looked at each other speechlessly.

When he saw Lin Ran specifically moving his chair towards Su Cheng in order to be in the frame, he finally spoke.

"...Shall we contact each other by voice?"

The two people in the camera are very close to each other, with somewhat involuntary smiles on their faces.

No matter how you look at it, they look like a perfect match.

As a single aristocrat, Doom felt like he was taking wedding registration photos for Lin and Su.

Who can bear this?

"That's okay." Su Cheng didn't have any objections.

"The three heroes of the tank update," Su Cheng clicked on the recording function, then opened the document on his laptop to type, "What do you think of the intensity?"

"Above the platinum level in the Korean server, Pig Girl has dominated the entire jungle area, ranking fourth in the same position in selection rate, and first in the same position in winning rate."

Doom had already prepared the information, and now he said, "In the ranking matches of Korean Master and above, Pig Girl's selection rate and winning rate are both first in the same position."

"Zach and Dashu, the two tank heroes, can be regarded as evergreen trees in their respective positions, and their selection rate and winning rate are constantly rising."

Lin Ran looked at the document in his hand, "The main reason is that the changes to their skill mechanism are too strong. Each player has group control and percentage output, and their tankiness has also been improved to a certain extent. It is simply the perfect template for a tank."

Su Cheng quickly recorded it, then grabbed another A4 piece of paper, "Another big change in the mid-season version is the equipment. The adaptive helmet and the gargoyle stone plate armor once again improved the tank hero's performance. The team fights are so intense that it’s hard for them to die now.”

"More importantly, the designer has weakened the armor-piercing equipment again, and the armor-piercing effect has been weakened by 10%. He is really a genius, and he has found a treasure with his fist." Lin Ran laughed angrily.

Doom's voice came through the receiver and still sounded a bit helpless, "Now it's completely a tank alliance. Just bring tanks into the field and then use the meat without brains."

"From this perspective alone, the pace of the new version should be slower," Lin Ran told Su Cheng. "The rise of tanks will allow everyone to focus on resource management and team battles in the later stages."

Su Cheng nodded his head and took note of it.

…

The three of them discussed everything involved in the version changes, trying to analyze the impact of each change on the rhythm of the game.

More than half an hour flew by in the blink of an eye.

Lin Ran had just finished analyzing the impact on the jungle caused by the weakening of the blind monk in version 7.10, which was already online. He felt that his mouth was a little dry, so he took a sip of water and held it in his mouth.

"Where's the Canyon Pioneer?" Su Cheng finished recording, and then kept flipping through the document, "You guys can share your opinions. I'll revise it and send the final version to White Crescent Moon."

Lin Ran said, "Now this version of Vanguard can hit defense towers, and the damage is not low... Has the damage test been done?"

"Did it."

Su Cheng moved his notebook to the side so that Lin Ran could see the table on it.

Lin Ran had already seen how powerful this big guy was in the past two days of qualifying, and he was really good at demolishing towers, but he was still a little surprised when he saw the specific values.

As the average level of the heroes in the game increases, the Rift Herald's health will gradually increase from 4,000 to 6,400 points.

The damage caused by the collision effect to the defense tower is 150+25% of the current health value.

Calculated based on the initial health volume of 4000, the first head hitting the defense tower will cause 1150 points of damage; if calculated based on the highest health volume of 6400, the first head's output will be as high as 1750!

What is this concept? The health of the outer tower is now only 3500 points, and half of it can be knocked down by this one!

Lin Ran thought carefully.

"Now we have to compete for this big guy. If I were to rank the neutral resources 20 minutes ago, I would rank Rift Herald very high."

"Earth Dragon ≥ Canyon Pioneer \u003e Fire Dragon, and behind them are the other two elemental dragons." Lin Ran watched Su Cheng's hands flying on the keyboard, typing very fast.

He suddenly discovered that his girlfriend seemed to have the potential to be a keyboard warrior.

"It looks like it can help advance the rhythm in the early stage. Will this be a strengthening for us..." Doom put forward his own idea.

"It can only be said that there are pros and cons, and it will have a certain impact on our 4 pack of 2." Lin Ran frowned and looked at the Summoner's Rift map in front of him.

"Rift Herald is born in 10 minutes. If we carry out four packs and two towers before then, we will have an equipment advantage when Rift Herald refreshes, making it easier to control the jungle and obtain important jungle resources."

Lin Ran paused and continued, "But if we can't find a chance in the first 10 minutes, then it won't be that profitable for us to carry out 4 packs of 2 in the bottom lane - because the opponent will also use Rift Herald to push back our defensive towers. "

"So... at the beginning of the summer split, we can try a lineup that can play a sufficient advantage in the first 10 minutes, and then use the Rift Pioneer to snowball; or we can choose a more conservative lineup, no longer 4 packs of 2, and hold on Vanguard delays late-game teamfights.”

Su Cheng tapped on the keyboard and recorded all the suggestions Lin Ran said.

"Is there anything else you want to add?" she asked without raising her head.

doom has nothing to say.

Now that Lin Ran understands everything, what else can I do?

As a data analyst, he is not a high-level player to begin with. He is at the level of a diamond goalkeeper in the first district. He is very good at capturing data, but purely in terms of analytical ability, he is really not as good as Lin Ran.

"Not yet. I have sent the captured ranking data to your email. Remember to check it."

Doom and the two said good night to each other and then disconnected the call.

The voices suddenly disappeared, leaving only the faint sounds of two people breathing and typing on the keyboard in the huge rental house.

"How long do you have to sort it out?" Lin Ran asked, seeing that Su Cheng had no intention of stopping.

Su Cheng glanced at the time and said, "Forty minutes, I'll finish the work tonight, so it's okay to keep procrastinating."

She is not used to being stuck on deadlines to complete work, so she feels comfortable finishing it early.

Lin Ran didn't want to go back, so he simply dug out the TOEFL materials that Su Cheng gave him and tried to learn English.

It's been a long time since I've been exposed to written English. Fortunately, Lin Ran didn't miss a lot of knowledge in high school, so I can remember some knowledge.

By the time Su Cheng packaged the compiled files and sent them to Bai Yueya, the time had already reached ten-thirty.

Sitting for a long time made her physically tired. Su Cheng yawned, closed the laptop, stood up and stretched.

Lin Ran just raised his head, and a section of snow-white waistline appeared in front of his eyes.

A little hot.

Lin Ran, who had the air conditioner on all the time in the room, suddenly had such a message appear in his brain.

He quickly excused himself and went out to get some air.

"Go for a morning run tomorrow! I'll be waiting for you downstairs at 6:30 in the morning!" Su Cheng did not forget to remind Lin Ran.

…

Life in Wujiaochang is so beautiful that Lin Ran feels happy and does not miss Shu.

Every day I get up early and go for a morning run with Su Cheng, walking around Fudan University for a long time, then have breakfast in the alley, and then walk slowly back to the community.

After going back to their respective rooms to wash themselves off, Su Cheng put on his schoolbag and went to class, while Lin Ran started the live broadcast - which made the audience and fans overjoyed.

At 11:20, Lin Ran would be stuck in time and order a takeaway lunch, just in time to have a hot meal when Su Cheng got off get out of class.

After the meal, the two chatted for a while, and then Su Cheng went upstairs to take a nap to replenish her energy for the afternoon study. If there were no classes, she would go to the library to study.

Lin Ran would turn off the live broadcast at 5 p.m., walk into school to wait for his girlfriend, have dinner at a restaurant, and then walk back to the community.

In the evening, the two gathered in Lin Ran's rental house.

If there is no work to be busy with, Su Cheng will review the coursework and finish the homework first; Lin Ran will continue to play ranked to maintain his skills.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the two met in the living room to practice English together. They made fun of each other's accented pronunciation.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Su Cheng would pack her schoolbag and rush back to her room upstairs to end a busy and fulfilling day.

For three whole days, Lin Ran didn't appear in the YM group chat. If he hadn't been broadcasting on time, Guo Hao would have come to the door with a knife.

[Today’s grouping ceremony, everyone must watch it on time @All members, your handsome manager will be on stage] Guo Hao reminded his team members.

In fact, most players will not watch the draw ceremony.

But Guo Hao must let them see it today.

Because he will be on stage as the YM manager later to draw lots.

Originally, the LPL lottery was conducted by inviting a few guests. Just like the global finals grouping, they were just selected from the seed pool, and the managers did not need to be on site at all.

But this year's Spring Split resulted in a group of death - Spring Split champions YM and WE were both in the same group. In the same group, there was also a very good IG, which was obviously much stronger.

In order to prevent this unfair grouping situation from happening again, Tengjing came up with new rules.

"It is divided into four seed pools according to the rankings of the Spring Split. The top ones have priority in the drawing. Each team will draw the teams in the other group for the other team and allocate according to the seed pool until the allocation is completed." (For details, see this chapter)

These are Bobby's exact words.

As soon as Guo Hao's message was sent out, the reply came.

Xiangxiang QAQ, whose WeChat avatar changed to a rustic one, took the lead in attacking.

[Don’t look, get out]

Liu Qingsong supported his good brother and maintained his formation, [Don’t look, get out]

‘Yushidai Judai’ Jack and ‘Yukishita Yukino’ Xiaotian also repeated the reading.

The prophet simply pretended to be silent. As long as he didn't see it, Guo Hao didn't remind him.

[…] This is Jin Gong who is still in his hometown in South Korea.

Guo Hao, who was sitting in the background, was almost furious as he looked at the WeChat messages.

[You will definitely see it @Lin Ran is Mr. Lin] He placed his last hope on Lin Ran.

Lin Ran, who had not spoken in the group for a long time, finally spoke up.

[How can I not watch Brother Hao come on stage? 】

【Brothers! I really saw you right! ] Guo Hao was very excited and even sent a gay-in-gay-angry emoticon.

【? 】Su Cheng, whose nickname is "I will never be bald", suddenly appeared.

Guo Hao withdrew a message.

"He withdrew the emoticon, have you saved it?" Su Cheng, who was leaning on the sofa, asked Lin Ran beside him.

Lin Ran denied it, "No, my hand speed is very slow."

Su Cheng glanced at him suspiciously.

There was a laptop on the coffee table in front of them, and the two planned to watch the live broadcast of the lottery ceremony.

"This draw is so exciting. Isn't it too much to pick an opponent for each other?" Lin Ran changed the subject, "I can just imagine these old Yin Coin managers scheming with each other in the background..."

Host Ren Dong of Immortal Grip came on stage and introduced the grouping rules to the audience in a short warm-up, and the draw began directly!

The lottery seed pool is divided into the following four groups: champion and runner-up (YM, WE), 3-6 (RNG, IG, EDG, OMG), 7-10 (Snake Team, JD.com, IM, LGD who acquired QG), two Newly promoted teams (SNG, TOP).

Spring champion YM will be assigned to Group A by default, and they will first select their opponents for WE in Group B.

This opponent had to be chosen from the No. 2 seed pool. Guo Hao, in a suit and tie, took the stage with his hair combed behind his back and decisively named RNG without thinking.

The third runner-up RNG is the strongest team after the first and second runner-up, so Guo Hao will naturally not keep it in his group.

Not to be outdone, WE drew IG, the top player known for its talent and card drawing, to YM.

"This is as I expected," Lin Ran hugged Su Cheng into his arms, "The key is to draw lots for the third and fourth picks."

"Why do I think EDG will come to us..."

Before Su Cheng finished speaking, RNG, which ranked higher in the second round, designated EDG.

In fact, EDG's spring split ranking is not high, and its record is worse than OMG's.

However, with the current mid-season version update, the coaching staff of all major teams know that the herbivorous tank jungler will return to the stage.

The director of the carnivorous jungle version didn't adapt and was kicked as a ball by various jungle players.

But when it comes to herbivore control and civil war, Gui Jiao Qi has never failed!

Everyone in the circle is sure that the factory director will be firmly in the starting lineup and dominate the jungle again.

In this case, EDG is definitely considered a strong team in China.

IG manager Su Xiaoluo looked worried when he saw EDG being assigned to his side.

He can only assign OMG to Group B.

The draw for the No. 3 seed pool was also very quick.

At this point, the top ten teams have been grouped. JD.com and LGD have joined YM in Group A, and IM and Snake Team have joined Group B.

JD.com, like Suning, joined the e-sports industry in order to attract traffic and advertise to its own companies.

They directly bought the QG team where doinb belongs.

The QG boss is overjoyed. Counting the Rainbow QG team that was previously sold to NB, he has already entered and exited the LPL twice, making a lot of money.

Different from TOP's hoop acquisition, which only requires the golden left hand, JD.com acquires all players and retains all players.

There are still two newly promoted teams that have not been drawn. The manager of LGD, who was ranked lower in the spring split, took the stage and took the lead in designating the last spot for Group B.

"TOP!" Ren Dong shouted the name of the club loudly.

The remaining SNGs are automatically assigned to Group A.

At this point, the draw results of the 2017 LPL Summer Split are announced.

Group A: YM, IG, EDG, JDG (JD.com), LGD, SNG

Group B: WE, RNG, OMG, IM, Snake, TOP

"Alas..." Lin Ran sighed, "I thought I could play the golden left hand twice in the summer competition, but I didn't expect to be assigned to another group."

He felt a little pity.

Su Cheng was already asking Guo Hao about the specific schedule of the summer competition. As a data analyst, she had to prepare early.

With the end of the lottery, Lin Ran's vacation will also come to an end.

He had to leave the five-corner field and return to the base to join his teammates and start high-intensity training again.

After the filming of the promotional video is over, the Summer Split is finally here!