LOL: What is a roaming mid laner?

That evening, the first round of training matches after LPL settled in Kaohsiung officially started.

Everyone in YM took their seats one after another after dinner. After logging in to the account provided by Riot Games, they were pulled into the battle room by Kassar.

Three members of YM's coaching staff were still quietly discussing the BP and tactical arrangements for the training match.

A group of star players did not leave any space for them. They sat behind the YM players on e-sports chairs and surrounded the place.

"Give me a moment..." Su Cheng turned around and felt that he had nowhere to stay.

Lin Ran reacted immediately, "Why are you guys gathering behind me? The projector will play the OB perspective..."

"No, I want to see your first-person view operation." Xiye didn't want to leave.

A group of players nodded repeatedly.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Originally, everyone only studied the video by watching the OB perspective. Now that they finally have the opportunity to see Lin Ran's first-person perspective operations in real time, how could they be willing to give up?

"Chengzi, you can sit here. There is no need to stand if you don't want to BP." Lin Ran took away the keyboard on the gaming chair next to him.

Su Cheng took Lin Ran's arm and took advantage of her thin body to move around among the professional players, and successfully sat on the chair next to Lin Ran.

Xiaohu looked at Su Cheng and then at Lin Ran, and suddenly smiled evilly, and his face looked quite happy.

"We're going to unleash the Flash Wolf's two-player system of wild assistants in this game, and try to see if we can win head-on." Bai Yueya came over to communicate with the team members.

None of the team members had any objections.

The combination of Lightning Wolves, Snake and Casa's wild assistant is unique and invincible in the Wanwan Division. They even defeated SKT with this system of play.

But the training games are actually about testing the lineup and honing their own playing style. If they don't show the opponent's specialty system, how will they know how to defeat their opponents?

Flash Wolf thought so too.

Their coach Steak's approach to BP in the training match was even more decisive - banning the five mid lane heroes Galio, Rockbird, Lucian, Card and Enchantress.

Very targeted.

The professional players behind him were not surprised.

This kind of 5-ban mid laner is very rare in official games, but it is quite common in training games.

Flash Wolf obviously wants to tell YM not to choose a mid laner who can forcefully eat lanes and roam.

Everyone plays the wild auxiliary linkage and the main brush in the middle, which is fair and reasonable.

Lin Ran saw that Lightning Wolf was so targeted, so he no longer engaged in any black technology, and just relied on Victor in the middle lane to develop.

The training match lasted ten minutes.

Xiye Xiaohu looked solemn and thoughtful.

The opponent's Maple Clockwork's data is 0/0/0, with 92 CS, while Lin Ran's record is 0/0/1, with 105 CS.

You must know that from the first wave of soldiers gathering in the middle at 1 minute and 38 seconds, until 10 minutes, a total of 17 waves of soldiers were refreshed. (The eighteenth wave is the gun carriage line at 10 minutes and 8 seconds)

There are 5 sports cars in the 17-wave soldier line, and the total number of soldiers is 6*17+5=107.

On the basis that both sides have returned to the city once, Maple's number of last hits is acceptable.

But Lin Ran's last strike was obviously beyond the awareness of this group of star players.

He didn't eat any group of wild monsters, and even pushed the line to the river to help Xiaotian kill Kassa.

In this case, he only lost two bins in ten minutes.

Xiaohu and Xiye looked at each other and had one thought in their minds - this kid is so terrifying!

As professional players, they know how terrifying this last hit number is.

The gap with Maple's 13 last hits, converted into gold coins, is close to one head.

In ten minutes, it was already quite terrifying to reach this kind of economic gap just by replenishing troops on the line.

They were very confused now.

Humans are not machines for last-hitting, and they cannot miss a last hit for a long time.

Besides, it takes time to return to the city and travel around... How did Lin Ran manage to miss only two bins?

The stronger Broiler clearly saw the details of Lin Ran's laning.

Dean Chicken discovered the truth.

Lin Ran's laning style is not as fierce as him and Scout, but a bit like today's Lee Sang Hyuk - the laning is relatively stable, but there are many small details.

One is to change the line of blood.

Lin Ran's play style is not aggressive, which does not mean that he will only focus on long-range CS like Hou Ye or former EDG mid laner U Gus.

He is very particular about blood transfusions.

In Lin Ran's laning match, every time when his own minions were down to low health, he would move forward and act like a threat, putting the opponent in a dilemma between last-hitting or exchanging blood.

This is actually a very simple laning technique that most pub players will do.

But Lin Ran's was different from others.

He moved forward, but kept his position between the melee soldiers and the ranged soldiers.

There is also no main E [Death Ray], but the secondary Q [Siphon Energy] is clicked first to exchange blood with the opponent at the extreme distance.

You must know that although Victor's Q has additional attack effects, its range is completely different from that of normal attacks, a full 600 yards!

The other side's basic attack range was only 525, so Lin Ran used this 75-yard distance to move forward and disgust his opponent.

Clockwork couldn't touch him with normal attacks. If he didn't want to be fooled by Lin Ran, he could only use skills to fight back.

If Clockwork only uses Q [Command: Attack], the damage will only be enough to break the shield generated by Lin Ran's siphon energy, and the blood exchange will definitely be a loss.

And handing over QW together, you can use the slowdown to step forward and make up for a basic attack to deal thunder damage.

This exchange of blood is a small profit. Flash Wolves mid laner Maple also does this, but the problem arises again.

Since Lin Ran's previous position had always been in the army line, Clockwork's QW was a range skill, which would not only consume Lin Ran, but also wear down the blood volume of the army line.

Lin Ran's Q [Siphon Energy] deals single-target damage and will only attract the hatred of minions.

With one situation ebbing and the other ebbing, the military line naturally advanced toward Lin Ran.

Then Xiaotian came.

This is the tacit understanding that Lin Ran and Xiao Tian have developed since they have lived together for a year and a half. The two of them have a good understanding of each other and know what to do in the position of the army line - if the middle line is pushed out, Xiao Tian will enter the wild. Zone invasion; if the middle line of troops is close to the YM tower, he will disgust the opposing mid laner.

This idea comes from the three representative junglers of the father-protecting style, Factory Director, Child Youshen, and Benji. They usually like to play this way to ensure that their fathers live a comfortable life.

This is Xiaotian's advantage. He distributes his 'skill points' on each basic skill, and can change it into various shapes according to Lin Ran's ideas.

At this time, Wolf King Kasa obviously didn't have much research on Baodai style. When he saw the middle line of troops pushing forward, his first reaction was to invade the Xiaoamano area.

He rushed to the middle after being used by YM Zhongye with a set of skills in his own mid lane.

But at this time, Maple had been forced out of the experience zone by the YM midfielder, and even missed two or three last hits.

Repeat this rhythm twice, and Maple people will be unable to stand it.

As soon as the line was pushed out, a garlic bastard rushed over and used a set of unreasonable skills to forcibly reduce his health. Without the line being pushed out, Lin Ran fought more and more unscrupulously, and Xiaotian's invasion became more and more fierce. .

Under this play style of conjoined twins in the middle and jungle, the last hits of Lin Ran and Maple will naturally widen the gap.

The second small detail that Broiler noticed after watching Lin Ran's laning was the handling of the return to the city.

With one of the best laning abilities in the world, he naturally knows that the mid laner has two choices when returning to the city - after dealing with the wave of troops in front of the artillery truck, or after taking the lead in pushing down the artillery truck line.

In this way, you can make perfect use of the thick-skinned characteristics of the artillery soldiers to withstand the attacks of the opponent's heroes and minions, preventing the opponent from perfectly advancing the line of troops into the defense tower, thereby minimizing your own losses.

This kind of timing of returning to the city is just to make yourself suffer as little loss as possible. Due to the influence of the time of returning to the city and the position of the soldier line, in most cases the player will still lose three melee soldiers. (Everyone should know this)

But Lin Ran didn't miss a single soldier's experience, and he used a more clever method - the artillery cart pushed back the line.

The wave of ordinary troops that reached the middle at 8 minutes and 08 seconds was perfectly used by Lin Ran.

He used up all his mana, using his ultimate move [Chaotic Storm] and E [Death Ray] to quickly push his troops into the middle tower of Flash Wolf.

Lin Ran took two steps back after taking the line of soldiers, causing Maple to lose sight. He returned to the city to upgrade the Hextech core, then bought straw sandals and a bursting wand, and quickly rushed to the line.

It only takes 25 seconds for the hero with straw sandals to rush from the spring to the middle line. (actual measurement)

At this time, the wave of artillery troops at 8 minutes and 38 seconds had reached the middle.

Because Lin Ran quickly pushed forward a wave of soldiers, when the artillery soldiers arrived in the middle, the previous wave of soldiers was still under the Lightning Wolf Tower.

Under the triple attack of the opponent's heroes, minions and defense towers, the YM side's soldier line was quickly depleted.

The artillery soldiers from both sides had just gathered in front of the Lightning Wolf Tower.

This was two seconds later than the expected convergence time, and because the Lightning Wolf artillery line had already launched a horizontal attack formation before, the YM square artillery line had no target to focus fire on.

When the minions are not concentrated, the YM soldier line is evenly exposed to the rain and dew, and the Lightning Wolf minions cannot be consumed quickly.

Therefore, when Lin Ran comes online, he will naturally not lose troops.

(What I wrote is quite easy to understand. It can be regarded as a little trick I figured out by myself to push back the line without losing soldiers. I saw that the UP owners who made the line video did not pay attention to this detail...)

Of the two missing soldiers, one was due to Lin Ran's own last-hitting error, and the other was lost while supporting Xiao Tian.

The remaining 105 soldiers were all taken into Lin Ran's pocket.

Broiler went over these key details in his mind, feeling like Lin Ran was a monster.

He believed that he could do all this in a well-prepared and highly concentrated state.

But just now Lin Ran was replenishing his sword and commanding at the same time; he often pushed the troops and disappeared in the middle, trying to put some pressure on the opponents on the side; sometimes he cut the screen to observe teammates on other lanes, and even made time to record the cooldown of the summoner's skills on the opposite side. .

Lin Ran, who was in charge of all the work, looked relaxed, arranging everything as if he was taking a leisurely stroll.

Only then did Broiler truly realize how terrifying Lin Ran was. Originally, he could only see Lin Ran's operations in the God's-eye view video, which was not intuitive. Now after switching to the first-person perspective, he discovered many details that had been ignored before. .

Broiler felt that he could suppress Lin Ran in the lane, but in terms of his role in the team, he was not as good as Lin Ran.

Is this the strength of a world champion?

The more he thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. This feeling of being surpassed was uncomfortable.

Broiler simply gave up watching the training match and opened a computer to start practicing.

Just as he left, a wave of fighting broke out at the Canyon Pioneer. The Lightning Wolf's formation was loose and Xiaotian seized the opportunity to forcefully start a team battle.

Although this wave of team battles broke out before Victor's power period, Lin Ran relied on the extra bursting wand to dominate the battle, scoring three kills and leading the team to a 3-for-5.

Taking advantage of the situation, YM took advantage of the situation and took over the Canyon Herald. YM took advantage of the gap when all members of the Flash Wolf were killed to summon the Canyon Herald and pushed the two defense towers in the middle.

Casa decisively played GG, indicating that the training match was over.

"Are you still fighting?" Lin Ran asked Bai Yueya while exiting the game.

Bai Yueya saw that Jack and Xiaotian were both yawning uncontrollably, and thought for a moment, "Let's do this for today. Everyone got up very early, so they are probably in normal condition."

"The next round is a training match between RNG and Samsung. You guys can get in first." The speaker was RNG head coach Firefox.

The chairs behind Lin Ran made a clattering sound, and a group of professional players ran to the RNG seats and started to watch.

The four head coaches of the LPL are analyzing the video of the training game that YM just played.

Bai Yueya took the opportunity to learn the lesson carefully.

His comprehensive ability is acceptable among LPL coaches, but compared with top coaches like Hongmi, his level is still far behind.

Hongmi was very surprised by White Crescent's humble request for advice.

The White Crescent Pegasus' meteor-like BP idea in the Spring Split made him feel frustrated for the first time, and now YM's strategy regarding Rift Pioneer has left him unable to find a solution so far.

He thought that a big tree would finally grow in the LPL region, where local coaching resources are extremely scarce.

But the more he thought about it, the angrier Hongmi became.

You are already at this level, yet you still come to me for advice on such a simple question?

Are you afraid that you are not here to take the exam for me?

Hongmi naturally refused to admit defeat, he had to prove his strength to Bai Yueya.

He regarded the questions raised by White Crescent as test papers and explained them in detail one by one.

Bai Yueya felt like he had found a treasure. He held a notebook full of knowledge points and planned to go back to the room to study slowly at night. He did not expect that Hongmi really didn't hide anything and said what he wanted.

It seems that the conversations that Poppy had with various managers and coaches before departure were still effective, Bai Yueya thought happily.

Lin Ran looked at Su Cheng. She was copying out the notes that Bai Yueya stole from her master, planning to keep a copy for herself.

The loose short-sleeves and cropped pants couldn't cover up her slender waist and long legs. Lin Ran only looked pleasing to the eye.

Su Cheng turned on the photocopying machine, took out the hot notebook and gave it back to Bai Yueyue.

She noticed Lin Ran staring at her, "Why are you looking at me?"

"You look good, you are eye-catching." Lin Ran muttered softly.

Now most of the people in the training room have gone to watch the RNG training game, and there is only one garlic bastard next to him.

"What are you talking about..." Su Cheng blushed and patted Lin Ran on the head with the copied notes.

Xiaotian yawned continuously, and his eyes were still bloodshot.

It seemed that last night's terrifying trip to Kayako left an indelible impression on him.

Behind them, the RNG team voice in the all-China class was extremely noisy. As soon as the group was playing, they kept shouting one sentence for fear that their teammates wouldn't hear.

"ADADAD!" Uzi's shout echoed in the 300-square-meter training room, "Kill Emperor Chi, kill Emperor Chi!"

"Look at me! Shi Senming, pay attention to where I am!" Mala Xiangguo, who looked even thinner than Xiaotian, had a loud voice.

"Nice!!!" The five RNG members roared excitedly.

This voice was sent directly to Xiaoyao. He was obviously frightened, his body trembled violently, and he lay on his back on the gaming chair, clutching his chest.

Firefox, who wears the same tactical goggles as Xiaohu, is very satisfied with the team.

This season, RNG has become more mature under his training, and it easily defeated Samsung in this game.

Poppy, who came to inspect in the evening, saw the training results recorded on the whiteboard and clenched his fists in excitement.

Winning all four games in the LPL training matches, it can be seen that the team is in a very hot state.

In the next two days, the four LPL teams set the same schedule.

Gather in the training room on time at 11 o'clock every morning, and first use the Taiwan server account to play ranked hot games.

Lunch time is from 12:00 to 12:30, and those who want to take a lunch break can go back to their rooms, while the rest continue to practice rankings.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the four teams will start training matches at the same time. It is best if you can get an appointment with the LCK. If you can't get an appointment, go to the Flash Wolves or AHQ. If that doesn't work, you can also practice in pairs within the LPL.

After five training games, it’s dinner time and review time for the four coaches.

Due to the large number of training matches, White Crescent and the others could only carefully select representative training match videos for analysis and summary.

The review ends at 10 p.m., and then it’s time for qualifying.

Lin Ran will play three ranked games and then go to wash up and go to bed.

In fact, the biological clocks of other players do not reach bedtime until two in the morning.

But Lin Ran couldn't.

His biological clock has been fixed, and it would not be good to force it to change in such a short period of time.

However, despite the long waiting time for high-scoring qualifying in the early stage server, Lin Ran was still able to complete the guaranteed amount of seven qualifying games every day.

This boring and mechanized training lasted until July 6.

In the afternoon, everyone took the bus to the Kaohsiung Exhibition Hall, the host venue of the 2017 Asian Competition.

"I'm going..." Xiaotian subconsciously exclaimed, and then his voice quickly died down.

He originally thought that the venue for his competition would be the most luxurious venue in the area, if not comparable to the Staples Center and Rio Olympic Stadium.

Who would have thought…

"Is this venue so shabby?" Xiaotian muttered, "Our children's palace there is bigger than this place!"

"To be honest, it's about the same size as the Supermarket Plaza where we hold regular season games...it's really too shabby." Lin Ran looked sideways, and through the window he could easily take in the entire stadium.

Very, very small.

Lin Ran felt that this venue was not as big as the gymnasium of his high school, and it was not as big as the Jing'an Sports Center where he worked hard in the secondary league.

"Brother Hao, is the final also in this venue?" Jack asked.

Guo Hao, who was sitting in the front row, looked at the schedule in his hand and said, "If nothing goes wrong, the entire Intercontinental Tournament will be at this venue."

"Can this...can seat two thousand people?" Liu Qingsong was also a little shocked.

"Be content, Wanwan's LOL development is really not going well," Guo Hao explained to them, "the league doesn't even have a decent sponsor."

"Do you think there are leagues like the LPL and local tycoon leagues everywhere?"

"They won't run a competition and end up ruining it for themselves, right?" Lin Ran joked with a smile.

"Don't tell me it's really possible." Xiaotian was worried about the matter at the venue.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the intercontinental competition officially kicked off.

The venue was really small, and there were many fans sitting outside the stage holding light sticks.

The host LMS division, which was the first to take the stage, received enthusiastic cheers from the home audience.

Flash Wolf, AHQ, JTeam, and Machi members are on stage.

In Lin Ran's view, only the top two of the four teams are a bit of a threat.

The next two teams are the point-giving boys.

The second division to appear was LCK. The moment SKT took the stage, the audience burst into applause!

"The venue is small, but the audience is still very enthusiastic," Xiaotian, who was waiting for the venue, said with a smile, with a little more anticipation in his heart, "The cheers we will get later should be quite spectacular, right?"

The female host on the stage said in a long and drawn-out tone, "Next, let us welcome the winner of the 216 Global Finals and the 2017 Mid-Season Invitational, YM!"

Lin Ran took the stage with his team members from behind and waved to the audience.

But what surprised everyone was.

The 2,000 spectators at the scene did not show any sign, and even the applause that symbolized politeness and respect disappeared without a trace.

Most people were watching indifferently and put away the cheering sticks they received. It was obvious that the locals did not welcome YM.

Only a handful of spectators held up YM team support items to cheer them on.

The words of support were written in simplified Chinese, and it looked like they were exchange students from Mainland China or temporarily staying in Wanwan due to work reasons.

Jack and Xiaotian, who were all smiling, felt very embarrassed. They were as helpless and pitiful as the clowns.

They looked at each other and quickly retracted their hands.

"What do you mean?" Xiaotian couldn't figure it out.

"For some well-known reasons, you don't want to see us," Liu Qingsong said angrily with a stinky face, "It's disgusting to do this."

The seven YM players and the coach's faces were as black as coal.

Various things happened, and the female host at the scene looked a little ugly. The other three LPL teams she introduced next met with the same cold reception as YM.

There was sparse applause at the scene, and after being processed by the radio equipment and then transmitted back through the live broadcast equipment, there was basically no sound.

The audience squatting in the live broadcast room realized something was wrong.

[What is Wanwan doing? Don't applaud? 】

[Do you really look down on LPL? 】

[Are all Kaohsiung people mentally retarded and orphaned? 】

At the end of the opening ceremony, the YM players sat on the player benches, waiting for the game to start.

The rules of the intercontinental competition are simple and clear.

In the two-day group stage, each team will play two games against the same ranked opponents from the other two divisions.

For example, YM will face the Flash Wolves, who are also the No. 1 seed, in their opening game.

"The audience likes to sit in, right? We'll satisfy them later and turn this place into a library!" Lin Ran said fiercely.

Last night, he was thinking about saving some face for the host Lightning Wolves in the opening game and not beating them too hard.

I didn't expect that the audience wouldn't want to show such shame.

Lin Ran, a considerate and kindhearted person, would naturally satisfy them.

This suggestion was echoed by several other teammates.

It's time for them to taste the consequences of their own deeds.