LOL: What is a roaming mid laner?

It was already two o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived in Wuhan. As soon as we stepped out of the airport, we could feel the rolling waves of warm air hitting our faces.

The climate difference between here and Shanghai is quite obvious. Although it is mid-September, the afternoon temperature still remains above 25℃, and there is a lingering heat in the air.

While Lin Ran was holding the suitcase and waiting for others, many young people gathered around him, some of whom even raised their mobile phones to take secret photos of him.

He was distressed.

Ever since he became famous, he couldn't figure out why these passers-by secretly photographed him.

Is it because he recognized his identity, or simply because he looks too handsome?

While Lin Ran was struggling between the two answers, the three teams, plus the sparring team and Riot staff gathered together.

It's hard not to be recognized now.

Dozens of people gathered together, some of whom were wearing team uniforms. TheShy looked tall and cool as he held on to his classic slippers with one hand in his pocket. His black-rimmed glasses made others instantly recognizable.

Spectators who follow the league games all took out their mobile phones to take photos, and some young people came up to ask for autographs and photos.

The entire team was held back.

"I said it would be better for everyone to go separately, but you have to stay together..." Guo Hao sighed.

Su Xiaoluo on the side held on to her black-rimmed glasses, "It's really not that eye-catching if we disperse."

WE's leader, Xiaoshou, nodded in agreement, and Bobby had a look on his face.

He originally thought that traveling with three teams together would look more impressive and save some trouble, but he ignored the popularity of these star players.

More importantly, there is no harm without comparison.

The three teams that originally competed in S7 were all very popular players, and IG has attracted many fans this year with its bloody brawl-like fighting style. The remaining 10 players in the training team are also in their respective positions. Among the leaders, even Yewang Eimy has many fans.

In such a setting, the management of the three teams and Bobby's side seemed empty and uncaring.

However, only Guo Hao, Xiaoshou and Bobby felt a little embarrassed, while Su Xiaoluo breathed a sigh of relief.

Most of the management of e-sports clubs have a bad impression in the minds of fans. Once something goes wrong, they will take the blame quickly and decisively. However, there are not many managements in the history of League of Legends e-sports with a reputation as high as that of Su Xiaoluo. personal.

At that time, because IG was not reimbursed for air tickets, IG missed out on Uzi, another top-level ADC in the LPL after Dabuliucha. In this regard, RNG was much better. After all, IG was given 50 yuan to buy a cup of milk tea.

Furthermore, the retirement of the ancient IG member and scapegoat 0 generation Visible Shadow. Su Xiaoluo's promise of "holding a retirement ceremony as an LPL player" failed to come true in the end. It can be seen that the shadow really disappeared like a shadow in the end. He heard that he left the professional arena quietly.

Other matters such as Weibo office and other matters have also made many people have a very bad impression of this manager. Su Xiaoluo himself is not an Internet expert, so he naturally knows how outside public opinion evaluates him. Therefore, unlike the other two managers, he is eager to Fans regard themselves as invisible.

It took nearly half an hour for a group of star players to barely escape, get on three buses painted with LPL and Riot logos, and go straight from Tianhe Airport to their accommodation, Liantou Peninsula Hotel.

The distance between the two places is nearly 50 kilometers, and the bus journey takes about an hour. Lin Ran took out an eye mask from his Disney blue school bag, covered his eyes and adjusted the seat position to make himself more comfortable.

The week-long shooting task was a bit overwhelming for him, who was originally full of energy. In the next half month, Lin Ran will have to prepare nervously for the World Championships. He now does not miss any opportunity to rest.

There was silence in the bus, and Lin Ran quickly fell asleep.

When he woke up again and took off his blindfold, what came into his eyes was not only the bright afternoon sunshine of Wuhan, but also an unusually majestic long ring-shaped building.

The trees are lush and lush, and the players can feel the gleaming greenery through the windows. The ring-shaped hotel is backed by the shoreline of Harem Lake and faces the Yangtze River. The surrounding area is so empty that there is no obstruction by any tall buildings.

At a glance, you can have a panoramic view of the lake and river bank.

Many players were amazed while sitting on the bus. They did not expect that the hotel they would stay in would be so luxurious.

"Are you spending a lot of money?" Lin Ran looked at Vincent.

"It's the first time it's held in China. Everyone from top to bottom paid great attention to it. The upper management helped us contact the local area and booked a room on the 5th floor of this five-star state-owned hotel. We also gave a lot of discounts," Vincent said symbolically. A few words of humility, "Of course we have enough influence to build the e-sports brand."

"There will be a big operation in two days. This year's operation is not just as simple as booking a hotel." Vincent said mysteriously, saying "big operation" like a CSGO player.

Everyone got off the bus and carried their suitcases into the splendid and luxuriously decorated hotel lobby.

"In order to facilitate the training, our three teams and the training group are all on the same floor. It is best for everyone to allocate rooms based on the club." Vincent rushed back from the front desk, and the two staff beside him took the players' ID cards. When I returned it, I also handed over the room card.

The group of people swiped the room card and pressed the elevator to go straight to the 7th floor. This was the benefit of being a host. Vincent directly cut off this lucky number.

"Our colleagues have arranged the computers in the training room two days ago..." Vincent led them forward, "You can connect the peripherals and use them directly."

Although everyone is a representative team from the LPL division, the global finals is a club-based competition after all, so the training rooms of the three teams are not put together like in the previous intercontinental competition.

As usual, Lin Ran and Xiaotian were in the same room. The two put their suitcases in the hotel bedroom and left immediately before they had time to pack them up, rushing to the training room on the floor.

It was said to be a training room, but it was actually transformed from a suite. Two rows of computers occupied both sides of the living room, and a Summoner's Rift whiteboard was placed in the middle area.

Lin Ran stepped forward to check the computer. The console and display accessories were all equipped according to Riot's competition standards. They were no different from before. Players could just connect the peripherals and use them.

The YM group fixed their positions, sat down, and started a battle for people with the other two brother teams.

Although there are many people in the sparring group, their personal strength and level of running-in are also divided into different levels. The most suitable team training target is the IG team. All their members came to Wuhan with original equipment, so the intensity of the training matches can be imagined.

The coaches of the three clubs were all scrambling for the opportunity to practice with IG, eager to create a hidden secret in the golden house. In the end, Bobby had to come forward and set the rules.

"Each team can play up to three training matches with IG every day. The rest of the time you have to find other members of the training team to practice laning and the like..."

But RNG coach Huohu and WE coach Hongmi were very dissatisfied with this. 3 games was too few for them.

Guo Hao used his skills to mediate the conflict between the coaches of the two teams and took the opportunity to lure IG coach Han Yi away. With his sharp tongue, he successfully got his old partner to agree to play two training games with YM first.

Since S7 is held in China, Riot China naturally uses the Canyon Top region as the only designated training server for professional players.

LPL players' original Canyon Top accounts cannot be used, but they can all log in to official super accounts with adjusted hidden points.

Lin Ran grabbed the mailbox on his mobile phone, looked through the emails sent by Riot staff, and successfully found the account password.

Because Riot needs to refresh coupons and gold coins, a super account needs to be logged in twice. Lin Ran took a look at the account with a string of garbled IDs, and decisively logged out one more time. His brain was working rapidly, thinking about what to get a new ID. Better.

"How about my ID?" The Garlic Bastard looked at the screen with pride.

Lin Ran turned his head and looked - Bulbasaur with the vine whip.

"Are you addicted to watching Pokémon?" Jack also wanted to use his Yuki Judai (Yushi Dai) in the Korean server as an ID, but when he tried to type it in, he found that the ID had already been registered and used, so he could only give up in frustration.

"Hurry up, are we teammates anymore?" Xiaoyao insisted on the other six people to have similar IDs.

Lin Ran and others couldn't defeat him, since he was just an ID anyway, so they simply followed Xiaoyao's temper.

Jack's quick eyesight and hands quickly snatched Squirtle away, and Lin Ran could only kill the other Pokémon.

In the end, Jin Gong successfully changed the IDs to the same series with the help of Xiaoyao, and there were all seven YM members.

Jin Gong: Gengar who can shadow ball

Xiaotian: Bulbasaur who can use the vine whip

Lin Ran: The Koga ninja frog who knows how to use water cannons

Jack: Squirtle with a wagging tail

Lin Weixiang: The Carp King who can splash in the water

Liu Qingsong: The air-cutting Rayquaza

Prophet: The fast dragon that can reverse scales

After logging in to the account again to refresh their IDs and gold coins, they bought skins and runes with ease, opened a custom room, and brought in everyone from IG who had just gone online.

Lin Ran was typing on the keyboard, [Please work harder, be as bold and unrestrained as you want. 】

Except for TheShy, who cannot read Chinese, the other four people on IG all raised question marks.

[Especially the top order, please let TheShy be more serious. ] Lin Ran continued typing to communicate with them.

YM wants to do some targeted training today.

Bai Yueya has been communicating with Su Cheng and Doom for the past two days, and they can vaguely see the standard routine of this version.

Although the status of the bottom lane has been rapidly elevated after the popularity of the incense burner soft assistant, it does not mean that the bottom lane duo will dominate the game from beginning to end.

The auxiliary does not buy eyes in the early stage, the ADC goes out with the Shield of Relics, etc. All the measures are to allow the soft auxiliary to make [Blazing Incense Burner] in advance.

This situation requires that soft assistants cannot wander around at will during the laning phase. They must stay in the lane and eat up the gold coins provided by [Ancient Coin] and [Sacred Shield], two salary items that can only work with the help of military lines.

Therefore, in the Incense Burner version, before the assistant makes [Blazing Incense Burner], the entire game is actually completely controlled by the midfielder and Ueno.

Due to the low efficiency of soft assistants in coordinating jungle ganks, today's professional junglers in the early stage will have more linkage with the top and middle single lanes. For them, the bottom lane duo is mainly for protection.

After prioritizing the release of the top and mid laners, they can then use their superior level and economy to cooperate with the junglers to double-team the opponent's bottom lane.

To put it simply, there used to be Thresh, Titan, female tank... No, it should be called Leona, the goddess of dawn. After such hard supports were defeated by soft supports, the jungle route became relatively monotonous.

Originally, the jungler could cooperate with the hard assistant with control in the bottom lane to kill, first release the support and then use the jungle assistant to roam together to deal with the other two single lanes, or invade the jungle to restrict the opponent's jungler.

But now that more than half of this road is blocked, it is not impossible for the jungler to open up the situation from the bottom lane, but the risks and benefits of this approach are no longer proportional.

In addition to the reduction in the number of auxiliary control skills in the bottom lane, which will cause trouble for the jungler to catch, the current summoner skill combination of the bottom lane duo with healing + barrier is also quite good at saving lives.

Another key point is the change in strong jungle heroes. Carnivorous characters such as blind monks gradually disappear, while herbivorous characters such as pig girls rise. Herbivorous heroes are weaker in the early stage and do less damage. They cooperate with double The bottom lane combination with salary equipment is more difficult to get kills.

In the early stage, most of the routes around the bottom lane were blocked, and the junglers could only launch attacks around the top and middle lanes.

In this case, the requirements for linkage between the middle and top lanes and the jungle have become higher, which poses a new challenge to YM.

There is no problem with the cooperation between mid laners Lin Ran and Xiao Yao. They proved last year that they can not fall behind in the face of the world's top midfield combinations such as SKT + Faker.

The hidden danger lies in the linkage between Ueno and Ueno.

In Xiaoyao's jungle route planning map, his affinity rate with top laner Jin Gong is the lowest - as mentioned before, affinity rate refers to the time when heroes in two positions on the same team are relatively close to each other and account for the overall game. proportion of time.

In layman's terms, a low affinity rate between top and jungle means that the jungler rarely stays near the top laner.

Originally, this low data did not have any impact. YM was released on the road, and the Xiba people relied on the gold coins issued by other road push towers and their own ability to supplement development, and the economy was still much higher than the normal top order.

But in the current Incense Burner version, Xiaotian and Jin Gong must adapt to each other's presence.

In the view of the YM coaching staff, relying solely on Lin Ran and Xiaotian's mid-field linkage in the early stage, their trip to the World Championship will definitely not go smoothly.

Because no matter in terms of BP or detailed tactical processing within the game, a single midfielder linkage can easily be targeted.

Last year, YM won the championship by playing five games with ROX and SKT, two of the world's top teams, with mid-jungle linkage + four-pack and two talents. If they only played mid-jungle linkage in the early stages of this year, the probability of winning would definitely not be high.

Rich tactical reserves are a must-have quality for top teams, and adapting to the version is an essential requirement.

The teams that can enter the global finals all have two skills. As long as they dare to go against the version, a world-class team can turn into a weak team in an instant - the Optimistic Team in S5 and EDG in S6 have fully proved this. .

The biggest advantage of Bai Yueya compared with RNG coach Firefox is that he is not so iron-headed, which is also his way to gain a foothold in YM.

Ueno and jungle linkage must be practiced, and using IG as a whetstone is definitely a good choice. IG currently focuses on mid and Ueno. To be honest, they are very suitable for the early rhythm of this year's World Championship.

In addition to playing in the middle and jungle, the auxiliary Baolan also has a unique understanding of Gou, which just meets the auxiliary requirements of this version-just not dying.

If it were Aidixi, Gouzi might really be able to take off in Wuhu.

The problem lies in the ADC, which has always been IG's weak point.

West's performance in the regular season is quite satisfactory, and he even has the intention of competing with e-sports Yuan Shao to become the No. 1 ADC in IG team history. However, when it comes to the playoffs and bubble games, the competition left by the God of IG's ordering will definitely be soft and BUFF. Triggered.

Although West's performance in the key game was not as disastrous as that of the old man who dug into the grass and sent the team to destruction, it can hardly be called satisfactory. The famous scene of the big mouth flashing and spraying five people was counter-killed is still sung in the forum and is also mentioned. He was given the title of Emperor of the West.

However, how Xihuang plays now has nothing to do with YM. Lin Ran and other players practice the early stage jungle linkage, which includes the pressure they face after choosing a weak combination, and how to establish an advantage after getting a strong combination. .

This practice lasted until 7 o'clock in the evening, and Hongmi and Firefox were just about to break down the door and rob someone.

Guo Hao decisively gave everyone on IG to the other two companies to enjoy. Hongmi and Huohu argued endlessly about who IG would serve first, and Broiler escaped first under the leadership of Vincent.

Hongmi muttered something in Korean, and WE translator Junri asked the Riot staff aside with a Northeastern accent, "What's going on?"

"Drawing lots, Rookie is the guest of the draw tonight." The female staff member with long hair replied.

Firefox nodded in understanding. These days, he was just busy dealing with preparations for the war, and he had no impression of the lottery guests at all.

"Axi..." Hongmi was so angry after hearing the news that he lost the right to own the broiler for another two or three hours.

He glanced at the YM training room and saw Guo Hao communicating with Bai Yueya with a cheerful face. He knew that these two old Yin coins were definitely aware of the broiler lottery.

Guo Hao was cursed and sneezed. He rubbed his nose and prepared to take some medicine at night to prevent it. At this stage, his cold and fever would not have much impact, but if it was transmitted to the team members, it would be a big problem.

He secretly made a note and continued to stare at the screens of the team members. Lin Ran and others were preparing to visit other members of the training team.

Bobby is very considerate in this regard. He brings two people for each position in the top, jungle, and bottom auxiliary positions. Plus IG, there are 3 players in each position. On the one hand, it allows the three teams to find training opponents and prevents this from happening. Time conflict; on the other hand, it also diversifies sparring styles and makes it easier to adjust training objects according to imaginary enemies.

Lin Ran faced two mid laners, Zhuo Ding and doinb. Although the current golden left hand learned a roaming move from Lin Ran, his purpose was not consistent with Lin Ran.

It was simply because it was too difficult for him to crush his opponents in a single line in the professional arena, so he established advantages through roaming. Most of these advantages were concentrated on himself, quickly widening the economic gap between him and the opposing mid laner.

Today's Zhuo Ding has a distinct style - suppress the laning as much as possible in the early stage, roam in the mid-term to expand his economic advantage, collect people everywhere and make luxurious equipment in advance, and complete the harvest with the dual advantages of operation and equipment in team battles.

The golden left hand is a typical resource-eating monster. It is no problem to become the team's big DPS brother after eating resources, but it is not good to assist teammates, and it is easy to get lost in the play style.

Doinb, another mid laner in the training team, has been very successful in this transformation. He was originally a middle-finger mid laner who used resources to provide explosive output, but after following Lin Ran around the court in the Spring Split, he began to try something new. Rich and diverse mid lane play styles.

Now he can be both the core and the supporting mid laner. Lulu and Karma are also unique in the current LPL. JD's poor performance is mainly because their teammates are too stretched.

The training plan Lin Ran arranged for himself was very simple. He was to suppress Zhuo Ding in the lane, and suppress Doinb in roaming and team fights. Even if he maintained good condition.

When the time came to eight o'clock in the evening, all team members quit the game and stopped training.

Guo Hao was handing out takeaways, while Bai Yueya borrowed equipment to project footage from Riot's official live broadcast room onto the training room screen.

"The draw for the qualifiers and group stage of the 2017 Global Finals is about to begin," said Ren Dong of Immortal Grasp standing in the studio facing the camera, his voice full of passion as always. Sitting next to him was Riot designer Chun Li. Remember the explanation.

"Summoners, are you ready?"

"I would like to invite two guests for this lottery ceremony!"

AmazingJ, an old friend who has been competing with YM since the secondary league, and King Ning's favorite, He Ji, combed his hair like an adult and appeared in front of all the audience with their arms around each other.

"This is called an ogre magician," Garlic Bastard still remembered Jack's cold joke that day, "You can tell by looking at his body shape."

Still no one paid attention to his cold jokes.

The first thing to do was the draw for the play-in rounds. The third seeds from the four divisions of South Korea's LCK (SSG), Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan LMS (HKA), North America's NA.LCS (C9) and Europe's EU.LCS (FNC) were divided into four. group.

"The playoffs are boring..." Jack flattened the e-sports chair and lay down on it like a bed. His feet were raised on the armrests of the chair in an extremely arrogant posture. "How can these teams lose?"

"That's hard to say. I think the strength of the teams in the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan divisions is too stratified. Their No. 3 seeds can easily overturn. Last year, ANX was able to enter the top 8..." Lin Ran said this, his eyes still lingering. Chat with Su Cheng on the phone screen.

"Hey, isn't that tabe?" Jack rubbed his chin and looked at the screen. Lin Ran raised his head and glanced at the familiar name.

What a tabe.

This old support who relied on support Annie to shine and won the runner-up in S3 with the Royal Family has been on the commentary desk several times. After experiencing the S5 leak scandal, he went to IG as a firefighter for half a year. Together with Yu Huang, he was dominated by various LPL players. Take turns to beat.

He finally realized that his career as a player should be over. Lin Ran heard that after Tabe left IG, he went to find a teaching position in an external competition area. Unexpectedly, he became the head coach of HKA in the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan competition areas.

After the No. 3 seeds in the four divisions were drawn, the eight champion teams from the wild card regions of Turkey, Oceania, and Japan were evenly divided into 4 groups and ranked below the four teams from the major competition.

If nothing else goes wrong, this group of fish fry masters who won the wild card competition with a crushing record will be ravaged by this group of third seeds who fought hard from the bubble game 10 days later.

The wild card and the five major regions are as different as clouds and mud. There is a huge gap in strength. In most cases, they are not even qualified to stop them.

"The draw for the play-in round has come to an end. Let's continue with AmazingJ and draw the four No. 1 seed pool teams in the group stage!"

AmazingJ looked a little nervous. He rubbed his hands and walked to the glass basin containing four opaque black balls.

He will decide the groupings of LPL No. 1 seed YM, LCK No. 1 seed LZ, EU.LCS No. 1 seed G2 and LMS No. 1 seed Flash Wolves. Among the five major regions, North America was eliminated from the No. 1 seed pool due to poor performance in the mid-season. , their summer champion TSM can only wait for its fate in the second seed pool.

The little chubby hand stirred inside for a while, and AJ took out the first ball.

The moment he opened it, he couldn't help but laugh.

YM!

A black and red dragon appeared on the big screen behind AJ. After circling twice, the black dragon turned into the YM icon and was embedded directly below Group A.

Immediately afterwards, the official live broadcast room played YM’s highlight moments of the year.

In the mid-season, Lin Ran's yellow chicken was buried in the sand and destroyed G2. In the summer semi-finals, the cannon defeated Lucian with a single face. Galio was included in all three sets of the finals. Jin Gongjian Ji stole the house, Liu Qingsong Thresh's Predictive divine hook, Jack’s five-kill performance and Xiaoyao’s ferocious Spider Queen…

And the scenes of them winning trophies again and again.

A rich-voiced narration sounded in the lounge.

"After defeating SKT to win the Summoner's Trophy in the 2016 Global Finals, YM has been making great progress and continued to maintain their strong posture. While winning the LPL Spring and Summer Double Championships, they also won the Mid-Season Championship and the Asian Championship Championship. There is no doubt that , YM will be the favorite to win this global finals!"

Then AJ took out all the remaining three balls. LZ was in Group B, G2 was in Group C, and the remaining Flash Wolves were in Group D.

AJ has completed his task after drawing the No. 1 seed pool, and the next drawing will be handed over to another guest broiler.

"The main thing is to look at the next two teams assigned to Group A..." At this point, Guo Hao was inevitably a little nervous.

Broiler, whose cheeks were fleshy and full of collagen, took the stage with a shy and honest smile on his face. His next task was crucial - to draw out the 8 teams from the second seed pool and determine the world championship for all teams. fate of the group stage.

This includes the second and third seeds RNG and WE in the LPL, the second seed AHQ in the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan divisions, the second seed MSF in the European division, the second seed SKT in South Korea, the first and second seeds TSM and IMT in North America, and the first seed GAM in the Vietnam division.

If you draw a good lot, you may change your destiny. If you draw a bad lot, you may be disappointed.

Broiler first took out a black ball, opened it in front of the camera, and smiled the moment he saw the team icon.

TSM.

"The North American senior brother is here!" Ren Dong shouted in the studio, "The North American summer champion TSM will be assigned to the same group as our LPL number one seed YM!"

Guo Hao breathed a sigh of relief. In his opinion, this opponent was not very strong and YM could defeat him easily.

…

The three teams of imt, ahq and msf were assigned in turn. After going round and round, Broiler will draw the last opponent for YM.

"This is not good news," remembering, who was sitting in the studio, frowned and said, "Neither WE nor RNG have been drawn out. According to the principle of avoiding the same group in the same division, they will not live in Group A with YM..."

"The only two opponents left for YM are GAM in the Vietnamese division and SKT in the Korean division." Riot designer Chun Li, who was invited to come here, nodded to clarify the facts.

"Let's see which team the broiler will draw!"

As Ren Dong shouted, the broiler took out the black ball and opened it!

This time his smile was brighter than before.

The YM training room burst into laughter, and the cheers echoed heavily in the closed room!

Guo Hao smiled crookedly, and a group of players and managers gave high-fives in celebration.

"GAM!" I remember clenching my fist fiercely, "YM really got a good draw!"

There are layers of barrage, covering the live broadcast room!

【武～What a handsome cock! 】

[I have a question, why is it said to be a good sign? 】

[Senior Brother, your face is split with laughter this time, right? The probability of qualifying is quite high! 】

[That’s it, the weak teams are all here in YM, what about the other two LPL teams? 】

After that, RNG and WE were drawn out one after another. Everyone knew that the last black ball was SKT. After being separated by routine, the grouping pattern was clear.

Group A: YM, TSM, GAM

Group B: LZ, IMT, RNG

Group C: G2, AHQ, WE

Group D: FW, MSF, SKT

"The remaining one spot in each group will be determined after the qualifying stage," Ren Dong explained to the audience, "But currently, YM has a very high probability of qualifying. Apart from their hard power, the level of opponents in the group It’s also an important reason why it’s not high.”

"The same is true for WE. G2 and AHQ are not very strong teams. If the boys of WE work harder, they can hope to qualify first in the group!" Ren Dong, Yi Ji and Chun Li are still analyzing the qualifying form.

"RNG is more difficult. Longzhu defeated SKT to win the championship this summer. You must know that it was the first time Faker witnessed his opponent win the championship trophy on the domestic league final stage. There is no doubt about their strength!"

As soon as the grouping results came out, some people were happy and some were sad.

Lin Ran and his teammates had no time to think about it at this time. The two opponents had been determined and they had to train seriously to prepare for the group stage in half a month.

The heroes are competing, and the strength of each team will be revealed in half a month!

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