LOL: What is a roaming mid laner?

Now YM's popularity has swept the entire LPL. Whenever there is a YM game, the popularity of the live broadcast room is twice as high as usual.

In this kind of team, the attention that the team members receive will naturally not be low. In the post bar, they can be regarded as permanent experience books comparable to pigs and dogs.

Xiaotian was confused in the two group matches, and many viewers started to follow his lead on the Tieba forum.

[Just ask if you don’t understand, is it all because of the jungler that YM is pulling his hips now? Isn't the management ready to substitute? 】

[I've said it before, if Ran hadn't protected him, he would have been nothing, and now the rhythm wouldn't be maintained. Forcing Ran to play late-game cores, the game was no longer enjoyable to watch compared to before, and every game was dragging on. 35 minutes! 】

There are those who are rhythmic, and there are also those who can't bear to defend Xiaotian.

[Two fields theory, right? I didn’t see you jumping out when you were carrying in last year’s World Championship and this year’s Mid-Season Championship? 】

[It made me laugh. People who don’t know think that YM is currently in last place. When I looked at the group stage rankings, I found out that it is first in the positive number? 】

[At most, we don’t arrest people, and we don’t see Xiaotian giving away anyone’s head, right? 】

[Can the keyboard warrior wait until someone loses a group match before coming out to complain? 】

Although the audience holds different opinions on both sides, there is one issue they all agree on:

From the beginning of the summer split to now, Xiaotian's performance is indeed average.

Originally, before the emergence of the theory of economic suppression in the jungle, Xiaotian's early performance was pretty good, but his rhythm was interrupted after the birth of the Canyon Herald at 10 minutes, and he was confused along with the whole team.

But now, Xiao Tianshu doesn't understand, and the number of ganks has dropped off a cliff.

Suddenly, Xiaotian changed from the all-powerful wild father in the hearts of many fans to the lost man in the jungle who can't do anything to stretch his hips.

Some people also linked him with Wuhu Da Sima, who has become popular recently, and uploaded a spoof video on station B - "Da Sima forced to log in to Tian's jungle account to help YM"!

The video cuts the voice of Da Sima during the live broadcast of the wine barrel to Xiao Tian's game. From the square jungle, the layer cake to the collapse and sale, all the elements are available.

The editor is also a genius. Every sentence of Da Sima can correspond to Xiaotian's actions on the field. It can only be described as "completely consistent".

In just two days, the number of views of the parody video exceeded one million.

But Xiaotian, who is at the center of the public opinion storm, does not feel comfortable.

His performance on the field was not good, and his private messages on Weibo exploded every day.

Although the proportion of trolls is small, YM's attention is too high, and the absolute number is not small.

And Xiaotian cares very much about other people's negative opinions, so this slap in the face made him autistic.

The time soon came to June 17, YM played against JDG.

JD mid laner doinb, as the No. 2 veteran after Lin Ran, also figured out that YM's current play style was going through a difficult period of change. He knew that Xiaotian's sense of rhythm had deteriorated, so he decisively came up with a late-game core carry in the game.

Xiaotian was still confused in the first game. Although he didn't have a big rhythm, he didn't drive the team's offense.

The key point is that YM chose the early and mid-term lineup, and did not gain enough advantages during the strong period of the lineup. In the late team battle, doinb's Kassadin kicked a kid, and they lost without any suspense.

In the second game, the remaining four teammates worked together and used hard power to defeat Jingdong's third line. There were 7 single kills in one game, and the score was 26:4, which was extremely brutal.

In fact, there was a gap in hard power between the two sides, and Lin Ran was not worried at all about the outcome of the third game.

When they played LGD and SNG before, didn't they wait until the final game and win the game?

But Lin Ran didn't expect that the prophet suddenly fell ill.

The Jingdong team led by doinb not only includes himself and the Korean aid clid who is good at bullying newcomers, but also the support lvmao.

The prophet's soft assistant was directly smashed by the opponent's Japanese girl. The game started 0-5 in 10 minutes. He was either dead or on the way to death.

Jack also started to attack, and was hit frequently. Xiaotian was obviously in a bad state after being autistic, and even using his signature spider did nothing.

Lin Ran's plane hadn't even left the mountain yet, and Jingdong's big mouth in the bottom lane was almost super awesome, using W [Biochemical Barrage] to kill like crazy.

Even though Lin Ran used explosive packs to kill two big mouths, he still couldn't change the situation where his opponent's equipment was formed in advance.

Coupled with doinb's Ryze, JD's double C output exploded and they just won the decisive game.

Doinb clenched his hands into fists in excitement, his face flushed, and he looked like he was about to cry with his head buried in his head in the next second.

After being acquired, they lost 3 major games and 6 small games in a row. Unexpectedly, as the last one, they actually won the group leader YM.

At the end of the game, the official League of Legends blog posted:

[The end of the top league winning streak: YM lost the game against JDG tonight. This unprecedented winning streak created by the YM boys was fixed at the number 35...]

Many viewers commented below the YM official blog, and the number of comments exceeded 10,000 in just one hour. In the regular season when the amount of attention is not high, this number of comments is already quite amazing.

However, most of the comments were encouraging, and there were few criticisms with personal attacks. Most of them asked the players and coaching staff to prepare for the summer games.

To be honest, 35 consecutive wins in major games is terrifying for a top league team. Even SKT at its peak was unable to achieve such a long period of dominance.

Fans are very content and know that this kind of record will be broken sooner or later. Now failure is a relief for the players - so they don't have to worry about losing the game every day and ruining the record.

However, the fans are appeasing the fans, but the very small number of trolls are not idle.

Lin Ran logged into his Weibo account to post a fan activity copy in response to the club's operational requirements, and found that the person who arrived earlier than the fans was actually a keyboard warrior.

You must know that after winning the mid-season championship, he deliberately adjusted his personal settings to only receive private messages from followers.

If trolls want to find him, they have to come to the Weibo comment section.

Lin Ran doesn't usually like to post on Weibo. His account is full of forwarded club activities and advertisers' copywriting.

Unexpectedly, there were actually people standing guard under his Weibo. When Lin Ran posted on Weibo, they would come over and say something.

He didn't know why the trolls were so idle, but Lin Ran didn't even have time to fall in love, so he had no time to study the psychology of these people.

He has no fear and always replies, "Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to comment. You arrived earlier than my fans. Thank you for your hard work." He is a master of yin and yang.

But just because he can handle it, doesn't mean everyone can withstand the firepower of trolls.

In the early hours of the morning two days after losing to JDG, fans discovered that Garlic Bastard's original Weibo name of YMTian9 had been changed to TTTian9.

The team name prefix is ​​gone.

The rhythm is really explosive now.

Fans thought that Xiaotian was going to be dragged by the club to look at the water dispenser. There were people in the post bar helping to find YM’s new jungler. There were even extreme fans who were looking for Xiaoyao’s next winter transfer home in their personal chat on Weibo...

All kinds of comments started to ferment in the middle of the night, and even reached the forefront of Weibo's hot searches.

If the club's night shift operator hadn't immediately notified manager Guo Hao, he would have had to wait until he got up in the morning to find out that something like this had happened.

Because everyone was in poor condition, Guo Hao simply gave the club members a day off, and he was not at the base at this time.

Guo Haohuo made an urgent call to Lin Ran.

Lin Ran, who was used to going to bed early and getting up early, had already fallen asleep at this time. He had a bad temper when he was woken up by the ringing, but he managed to control his temper in time when he saw the caller ID.

"Is something wrong?" he asked drowsily, huddled in the bed and didn't want to move.

After all, there is nothing more comfortable than sleeping under a quilt with the air conditioner on in the summer.

"You ask Xiaotian what's wrong first, and I'll drive back to the base right away." Guo Hao tried to calm down his tone.

Lin Ran wondered, "What's wrong..."

Guo Hao explained the matter as briefly as possible and then hung up the phone.

Lin Ran turned his head and looked at the bed next door.

The garlic bastard huddled in the corner, the quilt wrapped him up like a silkworm chrysalis, and the faint light from the mobile phone could still be seen vaguely.

Lin Ran got out of bed, sat on the small bed, and patted his butt hard through the quilt.

"Hey, get up." He said angrily.

The silkworm chrysalis turned over.

"Huh?" Xiaotian's voice was thin.

Lin Ran first picked up the remote control and turned up the air conditioner temperature.

Then he lifted off Xiaotian's quilt.

Gao Tianliang, who was 169.5cm tall and weighed only 80 kilograms, was lighter than Su Cheng. Lin Ran easily picked up Xiaotian and then pinched the back of the garlic bastard's neck.

"F***!" Xiaotian screamed like a slaughtering pig, "The team leader is beating someone!"

"Wuxuowei, you can scream and wake everyone up." Lin Ran didn't care.

The garlic bastard shut up decisively.

Lin Ran picked up Xiaotian's phone and asked, "What are you looking at? Why did you change your Weibo name?"

Xiaoyao quickly started to grab it.

Before the screen of his phone was turned off, Lin Ran glanced at it and saw the Weibo private message interface.

Lin Ran raised his phone high and looked up at the content on the phone.

[Stinky dog ​​hasn’t retired yet? Stay to cheat your teammates? Qiuqiu, please roll away]

He fell silent.

Xiaotian took advantage of him not paying attention, stood on the bed and stood on tiptoes to snatch the phone away.

"...Don't read private messages."

The garlic bastard sat on the bed without saying a word with his head lowered. His fingers moved unconsciously, and private messages appeared one after another, and veins popped out on his thin arms.

Lin Ran finally figured out the reason - Xiaotian was scolded for breaking his defense, and then changed his Weibo name.

He sent a private message to Guo Hao with the results of his investigation.

There was a knock on the door suddenly.

Lin Ran thought the manager had arrived, so he went to open the door and found a group of people outside.

All the team members came, all in their pajamas and disheveled clothes.

"Axiba..." Jin Gong said in an ups and downs voice, "What are you doing, you bastard?"

"I'm still playing ranked, but I hung up Faker's phone and came to accompany you." Jin Gong stepped forward and pinched Xiaotian's neck, "You have to make it up to me!"

Nowadays, Riot Games has very strict supervision on professional players. If you are caught doing this kind of idle behavior, you will usually be fined 10,000 yuan, which is not a small sum.

"Stop talking nonsense," the pale Xiaotian curled his lips, "Your father, I didn't ask you to come."

Jack flicked on the light, and the whole room became bright again.

He put his two hands on Xiaotian's shoulders, pressed his big head on the garlic bastard's collarbone, and looked at Xiaotian's phone with his eyes.

"No way, little bastard?" He pretended to be surprised, "A 10% off troll can break your defense? Why don't I show you the private messages on my phone?"

"Go, go, go!" Xiaotian was very impatient, "Are you going to crush me to death?"

Lin Weixiang raised his eyebrows, "Gao Tianliang, what are you doing? The online violence that Master Tish and I faced at that time was much more violent than yours."

After he and Liu Qingsong demoted Team Gluttony Sa, their boss Dong Xiaosa posted a long article, and the team members were also severely exposed at that time.

"And there aren't many people trolling your private message at all," Jack discovered the blind spot, "Out of the ten comments, two female mothers asked you to eat more, seven male mothers asked you to train well and don't care about anything else, and the remaining one was a troll. Comment……"

"You are selectively blind and only seek private messages from trolls, right?"

Liu Qingsong rolled his eyes impatiently, looked at Xiaotian's mobile phone screen, and pulled it away to prevent Xiaotian from continuing to look at it.

"Here..." The prophet took a glass of warm water at this time, "If you can't sleep, take some melatonin. I still have it in the room."

While Xiaotian was drinking water, Bai Yueya and Guo Hao also rushed over.

"Xiaotian, are you okay? Why are you reading private messages?" Guo Hao drove all the way over. Most of his anger was gone, and he stepped forward and patted Xiaotian on the head.

"I told you at that time that there was no use in looking at this thing. Yu Wenbofei asked you to look at it... Do you have the ability to withstand stress like someone else?"

Jack was shocked, "Is it me who is taking the blame?"

"Who can not lose the game?" Lin Weixiang said from the side, "It's not like a god."

Jin Gongle couldn't do it, "You were crying in a group match. Your ability to withstand pressure is too bad, right?"

"Go see a psychological counselor tomorrow morning?" Guo Hao suggested, "During this period, I have uninstalled Weibo, Tieba, Hupu, etc., and train hard not to read comments."

YM Club is not short of money now, and it is naturally equipped with psychological counselors. It is just afraid that these children who have just entered society and become professionals will have psychological problems in a high-pressure environment.

But usually no one uses YM. Lin Ran, Jin Gong, Jack, Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong are all great masters of anti-stress, leaving only the prophet who will run there when nothing happens.

Once this incident occurs, a psychological counselor will probably come in handy.

"There is no need to worry about these public opinions," Lin Ran enlightened, "As long as you can win the game, no one will criticize you."

"Who said that?" Jack immediately retorted, "I surf every day, and many people will criticize you when they win, right?"

Lin Ran hit him and beat him, "You talk so much!"

The two were playing around, and Xiaotian sat on the bed holding a Bulbasaur doll and watched.

Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong sandwiched him in the middle, as did the left and right door gods. Jin Gong and the prophet sat behind him, and the four people surrounded him.

Not sure if it was the warm bodies of his teammates around him or the higher temperature of the air conditioner in the room, but Xiaotian felt his face turn red, and there was a warmth in his heart.

He grinned.

Guo Hao seemed to know that nothing big happened for the time being, "Let's all go back..."

None of the team members were obedient. Liu Qingsong ran to the bathroom to solve his personal problems and saw Lin Ran's skin care products.

"Brother Ran, these things..." Liu Qingsong seemed to have discovered a new world. Just as he was about to ask, he heard Guo Hao's shout.

"You're not going to rest now. Are you going to catch up on your sleep during the day? I'm telling you, this is the only day off before the intercontinental competition!"

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately dispersed.

Guo Hao watched Xiaotian take the melatonin with water before preparing to leave with Bai Yueya.

"Let me change my Weibo name back." Garlic Bastard said softly.

"Okay, let me take some of the public relations pressure off," Guo Hao said half-jokingly, "otherwise you will be torturing the manager if you lose the game."

White Crescent Moon turned off the lights before leaving, and the room was once again enveloped in darkness.

The next morning, viewers who saw Weibo's hot search and wanted to eat melon discovered that Xiaoyao's Weibo name still had the prefix YM.

Weibo’s review speed is rarely impressive.

At the same time, YM’s official blog published an article opposing online violence, which was immediately forwarded by the League of Legends’ official Weibo.

Lin Ran also rarely edited a Weibo post.

[If you don’t change the jungler, don’t spread rumors.

Ps: I don’t know how to influence the clone. The private messager who asked me to kick all four teammates should rest. They have all run away and you will take me to the World Championship? 】

This Weibo made many fans feel at ease.

The garlic bastard who uninstalled Weibo went to stay in the psychologist's room for the whole morning, and when he came back he was very active and started to improve his ranking.

Su Cheng also hurried over after her morning class.

"I'm sorry, Xiaotian, I blame my messy tactics..." She apologized.

She just learned the ins and outs of Xiaotian's incident from Lin Ran this morning.

Su Cheng believed that this matter was her fault. She felt that if she had not mentioned this jungle economic suppression tactic, Xiaotian would not have been lost and out of rhythm in the early stage, and he would not have been scolded like this.

"Stop making trouble, Sister Su," Xiaotian said with a smile, "I know your tactics are very feasible, but I didn't do it well myself."

"And I haven't apologized to you yet," he said again, "If I had beaten you a little better, you wouldn't have been sprayed so badly."

? ? ?

"Is there anyone else spraying Su Cheng?" Lin Ran, who was sitting aside, turned his head and asked. He suspected that he had heard wrongly.

"Don't listen to his nonsense. It's nothing." Su Cheng waved his hand.

"What's going on?" Lin Ran looked at Xiaotian.

The Garlic Bastard also realized that he had said the wrong thing and immediately kept silent.

Lin Ran and his girlfriend looked at each other. Su Cheng knew that she couldn't hide it from him, so she had to explain: "Many people said that the coaches and analysts are not good enough, and they asked Brother Hao to prepare to strengthen them..."

She said hurriedly, "You know, there are always a few comments that are not very friendly..."

"Delete it, don't look at these things." Lin Ran frowned.

It’s okay to take pleasure in the comments on these social platforms when you have nothing to do, but it’s not a good thing to read them every day.

Su Cheng glanced at Xiaotian, but couldn't resist Lin Ran, so she obediently took out her phone.

Lin Ran used his thumb to unlock the fingerprint and wanted to delete all the e-sports forums on Su Cheng's phone.

But Su Cheng had more surfing props than he imagined.

Playing Kangba, Guoba, Weibo, Hupu, and NGA, you can be called a master of freestyle surfing.

Good guy, he admired secretly.

This is simply Big Head Jack No. 2!

Su Cheng took back her mobile phone, which was missing a bunch of apps, and continued with a sad face:

"But now we don't have to use the jungle economic suppression tactics anymore..."

"The new version 7.12 is out, and the competition server will be launched next week."

(In reality, version 7.12 was launched in the third week of the summer season, matching the timeline in the article)

Su Cheng was very well prepared and had prepared a version analysis report.

"The magic power originally provided by [Jike's Convergence] has been changed to armor, and the new skill effects and attributes are more suitable for hard support..."

Lin Ran looked at the analysis report and found that not only Kike's aggregation equipment had been changed.

Bird Shield [Box of the Iron Sun] has become more suitable for hard support with higher tankiness.

[Knight's Oath] also changes the basic life recovery into a cooldown reduction, which can be said to be greatly enhanced.

The changes to three pieces of equipment announced the return of hard support to the stage. (See this chapter for changes)

"With the strengthening of these props, the hard assistant will become stronger again," Su Cheng was very excited. "The three-person linkage between the middle and wild assistants will become mainstream again!"

"We can ask the assistant to rush over when the Rift Herald is about to refresh. If there are more people, there will be fewer people to attack. In addition, if the assistant can find opportunities and grab the view of the Dalong Pit first, we will have the initiative."

Su Cheng drew a circle, preparing to come back and calculate when the support would need to go to the upper half to support.

"This way we don't need to use the jungle economic suppression idea, and directly use the advantage of vision to force the canyon group..."

Before he finished speaking, Xiaotian suddenly said, "But in this case, isn't the economic suppression tactic in the jungle also suitable for hard support?"

"After all, the hard assistant has enough control and strong roaming ability, and can suppress the opponent's jungler."

Lin Ran didn't expect Xiaotian to say such a thing, "You haven't been sprayed enough? Are you still using this style of play?"

Xiaotian said, "Brother Ran, let me ask you something."

"What?"

"Are you planning to change jungle?"

Lin Ran didn't expect Xiaotian to ask such a question, so he answered truthfully, "I haven't thought about it yet."

"Unless there are special circumstances, I will definitely not change jungler." Lin Ran said sincerely.

He really can't live without Xiaotian.

This is related to the ability of the jungler.

In fact, the audience's judgment on jungle play is very intuitive.

Either go crazy and gank to catch people, and the world will focus on your mad dog jungler. The representative player of this style of play is Mala Xiangguo.

Either make a fortune silently, add red and blue to the three lines of troops, and use the lonely Chari C-type jungler who yells at me when playing in a group. The representative player is Levi, the Vietnamese soldier.

Then there are map control players who prefer to protect their father and control key neutral resources such as big and small dragons. Representative players are Benji and Guijiaoqi.

The three paths respectively correspond to the three most basic functions of jungle ganking, development, and map control.

In fact, the general direction of this understanding is correct, but the problem cannot be generalized.

Because as the version continues to change and the team's play style continues to evolve, junglers rarely have a path to black.

For example, garlic tortoise.

As he said in an interview after defeating ROX in the semifinals last year: 'When I was in China, I often saw people saying that my playing style is like a certain jungler, but I have to say that my style is completely different from theirs. '.

It's really different.

Among the three basic jungle abilities of gank, development, and map control, Xiaotian did not fully maximize any of them, but got them all.

If you look at each of his abilities individually, they are good, but none of them are as strong as the top level.

But Lin Ran is like a giant buff, and his presence makes Xiaotian's ability value on the field increase crazily.

Assume that the full score of the three abilities is 10, and Xiaotian's ability value in gank and map control is 7. With Lin Ran's BUFF increase, the ability value will reach or even exceed the full value.

When using gank heroes such as blind monks and spiders, followed by a mid laner who can roam and support at any time, Lin Ran will supplement the damage and control ability, and the success rate of gank is absolutely guaranteed.

When using heroes like Zhumei and Olaf who tend to control the map, the mid lane rights controlled by Lin Ran can radiate into the wild area, allowing Xiaotian to easily control the field of view and control map resources.

It can be said that Lin Ran made Xiaotian a success, and Xiaotian made Lin Ran a success.

The power of the midfielder in their style of play will be greatly reduced if they are left alone.

It is difficult for Lin Ran to find such a highly adaptable jungler, and Xiaotian cannot find a mid laner who can perfectly control the lane and is willing to roam to support the jungle.

So under normal circumstances Lin Ran would not change jungler.

After Su Cheng proposed the theory of economic restrictions in the jungle, the problem with YM now is that Xiaotian cannot fully implement the idea of ​​​​anti-wild development.

In fact, the lane control controlled by Lin Ran is of great help to the counter jungler. He can support immediately, and the radiation impact range is wider than that of the opponent's mid laner.

It stands to reason that his 'BUFF amplifier' can also help Xiaotian complete the wild core play, but the garlic bastard himself has a problem.

Just like last year's male gun leopard female couldn't train, he still can't adapt to this wild core development idea.

Garlic Bastard was moved to tears when he heard Lin Ran's words, "I knew you were reluctant to abandon me..."

When Su Cheng heard this, he frowned dissatisfied.

Xiaotian was full of confidence after receiving Lin Ran's assurance, and his negative emotions were swept away, "I must practice this style of play, you believe me!"

"When we master the linkage between midfielders and auxiliaries and the economic suppression tactics in the jungle, won't we be invincible in the world?" Xiaotian put his hands on his hips and was extremely optimistic.

I ran out of time, so I talked about half of it and will update the rest tomorrow.

Remember this jungle economic suppression tactic, it will be of great use in the World Championship.

I'll lay down the foreshadowing first.

Ps: Xiaotian is indeed quite fragile. I remember losing two games in the 2020 Spring Split, and then he said on live broadcast that he had no confidence.