LOL: What is a roaming mid laner?

Lin Ran was lying on the double bed, staring at the ceiling.

The girl beside her made regular and even shallow breathing sounds.

Lin Ran raised his eyes and glanced at the time.

"I have to go, you..."

Before she finished speaking, Su Cheng opened her eyes,

This sentence made Lin Ran choke. He turned around and pinched his girlfriend's soft cheek.

"When is the next vacation?" Su Cheng held the air conditioner to protect her chest.

"...Before or after the intercontinental competition." Lin Ran was not sure either. Now that Liu Qingsong was injured, everything has changed.

After tidying up the bed, Lin Ran went to the bathroom to take a shower, changed into clean clothes and returned to the room. He gently kissed his girlfriend's forehead and gave a few warnings along the way.

"Don't open the door randomly at home at night, and check whether it is locked before going to bed..."

Su Cheng returned the kiss with a hint of satisfaction in her smile, "I know."

Lin Ran then left with peace of mind.

I got in a taxi and rushed back to the YM club base 10 minutes before midnight. I clocked in and entered the training room with a bit of fuss.

Except for Liu Qingsong, the rest of the team members are here.

They have no other place to live in Shanghai. During most of their breaks, these teammates follow Jin Gong to Haidilao, or follow Jack to eat at high-priced restaurants such as bungalows. After all, the whole team except Lin Ran is a Shiba Inu. He made the most money, and he felt unhappy if he didn't make a few trades.

As soon as Lin Ran entered the training room, he smelled the smell of hot pot wafting in the air, which was blocked by the cold wind constantly blowing from the air conditioner. As the door opened, Jack and Big Eyebrow also smelled the smell of fresh air. This made Lin Ran The hot pot flavor is more intense.

The two lowered their heads and sniffed their short-sleeved shirts, then ran to their respective rooms to change clothes.

Guo Hao rushed to the training room at zero o'clock, followed by Gouba and Hongmi.

Their faces were a little stiff, and they didn't seem to be in a good mood.

Three big black faces that looked like Bao Qingtian entered the training room, and the YM team members who were still immersed in the joy of vacation calmed down instantly.

"The most critical issue we face now," Guo Hao was the first to speak, "After Liu Qingsong is injured, do we need to recruit an assistant from the second team?"

Lin Weixiang felt cold.

Is this the end of his 100% win rate support journey?

"I don't think it's necessary," Hongmi frowned, and Jiang Chenglu translated everything he said, "It's too troublesome."

Gou Ba also echoed, "Liu Qingsong will only be absent for two weeks. There are a total of 5 regular season games. Just get over it."

Guo Hao shrugged his shoulders and looked helpless. He didn't want to argue with the coaching staff on this issue anymore. They had been arguing all night, and they all had their own opinions but did not have a unified view.

Da Mei listened to their words, his restless heart beating up and down in his chest.

It's so fucking exciting.

"How many assistants do our second team have?" Lin Ran responded to the manager's words.

"Four," Guo Hao had already prepared the information and distributed the resumes of these youth training assistants to each team member. "Two of them are rotations in the LDL, and the other two have just arrived."

"Oh, so many?" Xiaoyao sighed.

Thanks to the rapid increase in YM's strength and popularity, the second team in the secondary league now has a very sound personnel reserve.

Among the current major youth training systems, it is recognized that the most popular club is YM.

The first stop for most high-scoring master kings who embark on the career path with dreams in mind is to come here for trial training.

Countless e-sports stars have emerged from the YM youth training system. Maybe Jack, a 14-year-old top three in the national server, a chosen one with 300,000 fans after his debut, cannot be replicated, but from Lin Ran, Xiaoyao to those who have left the team Xiao Ming and Ning Wang, as well as the next generation of domestic top mid laners Knight, did not have any other traffic base before their debut.

Ever since the ancestor of Severn gradually retired and was used by EDG to sell his feelings, it is no exaggeration to say that these people make up half of the domestic star players in the LPL.

Teenagers all want to be successful, and YM Club, which can be said to mass-produce e-sports talents, naturally fascinates them.

If the trial training goes well, there is even a possibility of being promoted to the first team of YM directly. This is an opportunity that many people dream of.

Lin Ran looked at the resumes and found that the four assistants were all between 17 and 18 years old. There was no problem that they would not be able to make it onto the LPL stage.

"You can't tell much from the LDL league data," Jack said from the side. "They are all casual killings, with no reference value."

The other teammates all agreed with Shiba Inu. They all came from the secondary leagues and knew that there was little gold there.

Lin Weixiang, who looked smart on the outside, nodded along with the trend, then frowned and realized something was wrong.

Who are you implying?

Kill casually in the secondary league?

Da Mei, who led the team to dive into the city hero competition with Bu HuaXiao back then, felt that he was being targeted.

As a jungler, Garlic Bastard has a very keen sense of smell. He noticed something strange about the big eyebrow next to him, and immediately patted Lin Weixiang on the shoulder, "Brother Xiang, don't doubt it, Jack is hinting at you."

He originally thought that Big Eyebrow would go to Jack to settle the score, so that he could sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and tigers.

I still remember that before the opening game last week, Lin Weixiang used a super ghost sword girl to trap the Korean server king that he had at his fingertips.

He had a grudge, and he was just trying to kill someone with a borrowed knife.

Lin Weixiang had no reaction.

Oh, I'm a pig? Beat up starter Edisi in front of the head coach and manager?

Seeing that he was not fooled, Xiaoyao secretly cried out that it was a pity.

Guo Hao is also a veteran. He has traveled all over the country and dealt with capital in these years. In terms of human behavior, he is no longer higher than this group of team members. Standing in the center of the training room, he can easily see through everyone's thoughts.

He immediately tapped the table and turned up the volume, "Can you be more serious?"

"The issues discussed now are really important to us!"

Jin Gong acted like a transparent person next to him, not talking at all, still savoring the bottom of the tomato pot tonight.

Lin Ran stood up and said, "Well, Jack and I will go to the second team downstairs to see what the strength of the four assistants is. Seeing is believing."

He is the team leader, and Shiba Inu is the ADC who needs to partner with the support. They are indeed the most suitable candidates.

"Add me as a supporter!" The Garlic Bastard raised his hand, "With the help of Ye Fu, you can't leave me alone when choosing a supporter, right?"

In the end, Jin Gong and Lin Weixiang stayed here, and the other three people and the coaching staff all left the room and went downstairs to the second team training room.

"Burning pot, burning pot..." Lin Ran heard the voice behind him and knew it was his head coach. Hongmi's poor Chinese pronunciation was very funny.

"What's wrong?" He paused.

Hongmi, Gou Ba and Jiang Cheng Lu surrounded him.

"Unless you find that kind of incredible talent later, you will reject the manager's suggestion, okay?" Gou Ba made a very sincere request.

"Why?" Lin Ran didn't want to understand.

He does have this power.

If it were a normal personnel change, Guo Hao would be able to decide it himself.

But now it concerns team members, and Lin Ran, who is the absolute core of YM, naturally has a lot of say.

His current status in the team is even more exaggerated than Lee Sang Hyuk's status in SKT. No one would regard him as a simple e-sports player.

"That's right, if a new person is brought in as a support, we have too many things to teach," Gou Ba frowned, "From the most basic troop lines and eye positions, to how to fight in team battles, and how to wrap up the entire tactic... "

"Just two weeks, do you think it's necessary?"

After listening to Jiang Chenglu's translation, Hongmi nodded repeatedly.

Since taking off today, two members of the coaching staff have put on the same pair of pants, and manager Guo Hao obviously wants to promote new players.

Lin Ran thought about it carefully.

Time is indeed short and there is a lot to teach.

It's not that the support in the secondary league is really that bad. They don't know anything about the positioning of troops.

But the status is different and the needs are also different.

Ordinary LPL teams don't need to have top-notch support capabilities, they just need to be able to use them barely.

But they are YM, a team that is already on top of the world.

In exchange for an assistant with an average level in the LPL league, it will obviously not be able to keep up with the team's rhythm, and it may take time and the effect is not good.

Maybe not as good as Lin Weixiang - after all, Da Mei has been following the team's tactics in the past two years, and his laning cooperation with Jack is quite good. What he lacks is the roaming experience in the support position and a certain knowledge of eye positioning.

Lin Ran said nothing.

Seeing this, Gou Ba continued to persuade, "It's not that Hongmi and I are unwilling to teach. The team really doesn't have the conditions now."

"YM doesn't have a dedicated auxiliary coach, it all depends on the two of us..." He glanced at Hongmi, "We don't have enough energy at all."

Many European and American teams have dedicated single-position coaches. These positions hold the title of assistant coach, and their actual job is to help the players in that position figure out the details of the laning phase.

For example, the top lane coach will focus on the top laner's blood exchange, consumption, and troop line management in training matches and games.

The head coach can only teach these things in a limited way. After all, most of them have not been professional players in the League of Legends before. People like Hongmi who have played professionally have retired for several years and cannot keep up with the growing technical level.

I have to say that the threshold is very high. Unlike the head coach who is mainly responsible for tactical formulation and operational ideas, the assistant coach has to teach the high-scoring masters of the Korean server how to line up. They must not ask for keyboard warriors or sick friends, otherwise they will practice laning with real swords and guns. He was carried out of the club twice.

This position is basically for the older generation of e-sports players who have retired and are re-employed, returning to the club to shine and provide some help to the younger generation within their capabilities.

But YM doesn't.

They are a club that has been built slowly from scratch. The most senior players - Lin Ran, Xiao Yan and Jin Gong are all still serving, so naturally they cannot be assistant coaches.

It would be unrealistic to look for it outside.

Especially for coaches in the auxiliary position, it is simply difficult to achieve success.

Because of the scarcity of personnel.

No matter which server, there are the fewest players with auxiliary specializations, from Bronze to King.

Even in the professional arena, the turnover of support positions is much slower. For many years, there have only been a few old monsters on the stage, and not many players have retired.

There are only two support players from the older generation in China, Feng Zhong Zhui Feng and Sun Yeyou. One has retired and the other is still in aahph.

After that are Aya Hirano and Meiko. These two are still on the court. Counting further back, they are Shi Senming and Liu Qingsong.

No one could be found at all.

At that time, Guo Hao felt that these assistants were useless, so he hired someone to teach Lin Ran how to line up?

I'm afraid it won't be considered a success unless the assistant coach can last for 5 minutes.

Every member of the team is very strong, so there is no need to hire an assistant coach.

What he originally wanted to do was to use all the money wisely, and spent a lot of money to buy the coaching staff of Hongmi and Gouba.

If Liu Qingsong hadn't been injured suddenly, Guo Hao's calculation would have been fine.

Who would have thought that an open wound or cervical spine injury would suddenly result in hospitalization?

Now the disadvantage of not having an assistant coach has emerged. If a new player is promoted, Hongmi and Gouba must personally teach the assistants these laning knowledge.

Seeing that Lin Ran had no intention of speaking, Gou Ba quickly continued to add, "We usually have to supervise review training matches, update the version, and study our opponents... we are really busy already."

Lin Ran pondered for two seconds.

As Gou Ba said, the YM coaching staff is indeed very busy at ordinary times. The main problem is that the year-round schedule is full, and there is basically no time for rest. It is indeed too much to add additional work tasks to them.

"What did Brother Hao think?" Lin Ran was quite curious.

The rest of YM had already run downstairs to the training room of the second team, and Jack was still waving his hands to urge his mid laner to hurry up.

Lin Ran walked down while listening to the coaching staff's reply.

When he arrived at the door of the second team's training room, Lin Ran finally understood the whole story of the dispute between the manager and Gouba Hongmi.

Guo Hao is already making plans for next year.

Because the contracts of YM's starting lineup and six substitutes will all expire during this winter's transfer period and they will become free agents.

If the club wants to maintain the original lineup for another year, the signing fee + salary that needs to be paid may be close to 9 figures.

After the club has harvested hundreds of fans from the LPL division, according to the law of diminishing marginal returns, if it makes such a large investment again, the benefits will obviously not be as good as before.

Even if Guo Hao sincerely wants to retain people, it will be difficult for this fund application report to be approved by BMW China.

The team members were scattered, but he had to stay here and continue to fight.

It is also necessary to make early plans for next year's S9 - if new players can be promoted and a star player can be cultivated, then S9's recruitment will be relatively easy, and the next generation of YM will have a foundation.

This is very realistic.

"...Let's go in and take a look first." Lin Ran agreed without a word and pushed the door open and entered the training room.

If they were to find a talented youngster, they wouldn't be able to push them into the second-tier league.

Since BMW China's capital injection, the YM base has undergone a large-scale renovation. This is the first time Lin Ran has entered the training room of the second team.

Different from the spacious and bright upstairs, the space here is cramped, and the overall shape is in the shape of a back. There are rows of computers on the outside close to the four walls, and the inner circle of the back - that is, the center of the room, is where the coaches and analysts are. Of course , now it is commandeered by Jack and Xiao Si.

In the early hours of the morning, the training match has long ended, and more than a dozen youth training players are still ranking here. From time to time, someone will say a few Chinese curses.

"Brother Ran, are you here?" An excited voice suddenly came out.

Bai Jiahao's face appeared in his field of vision.

"Long time no see," Lin Ran raised the corner of his mouth, "You are now..."

He paused.

"I'm vying for the starting spot!" Bai Jiahao was full of enthusiasm. "I've been included in the LDL rotation now. If I perform better, I might be able to play!"

"Not bad, good, keep working hard." Lin Ran gave a few perfunctory words of encouragement, and Bai Jiahao was already extremely excited.

The starting mid laner of the second team saw Lin Ran coming in and even wanted to hang up and ask for an autograph and a photo.

Although Lin Ran was in the same building as them, they didn't see each other that often. Seeing the lively Shi Yizhong at this moment, it was natural that he couldn't hide his excitement.

"You keep fighting, don't be in a hurry." Lin Ran reassured.

He himself ran behind Jack and Xiaotian, who were looking at the training game videos of the youth training assistants, hoping to pick out a good prospect.

Lin Ranzai looked at it carefully for half an hour and already made up his mind.

Guo Hao's heart dropped when he saw his expression.

Lin Ran directly pulled Guo Hao outside the training room.

"To be honest," he said in a calm tone, "neither of these four people can do it."

Guo Hao's face was full of disappointment.

"It's because of Hongmi and Gouba..."

Lin Ran interrupted him, "Not entirely."

"If we just look at the LPL average, one of them is qualified, but this is obviously not the result we want."

The level of domestic assistants is indeed uneven, and there are too few good assistants.

As for the four assistants in the youth training, their talent is not as good as that of the prophet when they were first promoted last year, let alone compared with Liu Qingsong and Shi Senming.

"Let's finish the S8 in front of us first. Let's combine work and rest to recharge our batteries."

Guo Hao nodded.

He originally just wanted to train new players while Liu Qingsong was resting due to injury, so he wouldn't be stupid enough to give up on the World Championship.

Lin Ran said this, and Guo Hao could only give up his plan.

"By the way," he suddenly remembered something, "from now on, there will be physical therapists and fitness coaches coming to take you to exercise for an hour after dinner every day, so that this time can be freed up."

"Ah?" Jack, who had just left the training room of the second team, was shocked. "Don't mess with me!"

For a lazy dog ​​like him, it is impossible to exercise, even in this life.

"Liu Qingsong is learning from the past," Guo Hao said with a smile, "If you don't want to be hospitalized, just be obedient and take good care of yourself."

Jack's expression changed.

He remembered the time when he was tortured by roast duck and was hospitalized.

Lin Ran was very happy to hear Guo Hao's arrangement.

He wishes he could exercise more

Why not?

Big chapter tomorrow