LOL: What is a roaming mid laner?

"Come so early?"

Lin Ran looked up and saw Song Yijin quietly pushing the door open and walking into the training room.

"...I can't sleep," Broiler yawned with a big mouth, and his chubby face now looked more rounded, "Zhenglu got up in the middle of the night and turned off the air conditioner, which almost heated me to death."

After staying in China for three years, the level of swearing in cocks has become higher and higher, and it feels like a master.

"Why are you calling me?" Jiang Chenglu suddenly appeared.

"Ah?" Broiler was confused for a moment, "I mean Jiang Chenglu."

"It's Jiang Chenglu."

"..." Broiler was speechless.

Lin Ran laughed loudly beside him, feeling extremely sad when he saw the same shocked expression as when he first heard Jiang Chenglu's name.

"What are you playing at?" Song Yijin took a bottle of ice water and sat down next to Lin Ran.

There are only four or five people in the huge training room now. There are only two players, Lin Ran and Broiler. The others have not gotten up yet because they went to bed late.

"I haven't chosen a hero yet, I just queued up." Lin Ran replied.

Rookie watched helplessly as Lin Ran pre-picked Yasuo before the ban started.

This move caused an extremely violent reaction from passers-by on the same team.

GenShowMaker: [Ran! NoYasuo! NO! 】

Lin Ran was typing on the keyboard.

DanShaFaker：【plz trust me】

GenShowMaker: [ni keng wo ji ba le, wan pyke buxingma? 】

Broiler read out the showmaker's words, "How many times have you tricked me? Can't you play with Pike?"

He stopped dead in the middle of reading.

Lin Ran scratched his head, "No, why does he know Chinese?"

As far as he knows, ShowMaker should be a player discovered from South Korea and has never played in the LPL.

"Many Korean middle schools offer Chinese classes, and Korean Pinyin is also required," Jiang Chenglu's voice suddenly appeared, "It makes sense that he can use Chinese Pinyin."

He had been peeping behind him just now, and when he realized that Lin Ran had a question, he immediately jumped out to answer it, and also to gain a sense of presence.

After communicating with Lin Ran in Chinese, the healer started speaking Korean in the team chat channel.

This time, before Lin Ran could speak, Jiang Chenglu took the initiative to translate: "He was asking the other three people if there was anyone who didn't pass the second today, -3 for safety."

"I know," Lin Ran's expression was very calm this time, and he pointed to the Korean sentence, "I have read this sentence dozens of times a month, and I also used Google Translate to check the meaning."

Ever since he started practicing Yasuo like crazy, he has seen this kind of thing a lot, and he can only say that he understands it all.

Jiang Chenglu wanted to talk more, but Broiler actually took over the conversation.

"Deft said he passed within seconds..."

"Tarzan said that he also beat the score once, and if he beat the score again, it would be -10 points. It's not worth it."

There are not many players like Showmaker who use their professional ID as a nickname in the game. Most professional players, like ordinary players, have random names.

Compared with Jiang Chenglu, Broiler's advantage is that he can match these weird Korean server IDs with the names of professional players. After all, he competes in the Korean server thousand-point king game every day, and he has many good friends and has many LCK players. Player's friend position.

Apart from the slightly strange accent in the translated Mandarin, there are no other shortcomings.

Jiang Chenglu was stunned on the side.

He did not expect that it was not the Xiba people who took over his job, but the Chicken God.

Is there any justice?

Lin Ran obviously cannot empathize with Jiang Chenglu now, nor can he understand the pain of the translator.

He was waiting attentively for the game to load.

The selection process has ended. Lin Ran successfully selected Yasuo and also changed into the Nightbringer skin, which looked very cool.

But at the last second of loading the game, the client interface flashed and returned to the queue interface.

"Wairui..." Lin Ran was speechless, "Are you doing this again?"

He was not surprised.

Every time this group of Korean server kings saw themselves picking Yasuo, someone would stand up and say, ‘It’s a matter of seconds.’ However, the rest of the people’s answers were exactly the same—brother, I passed in seconds today.

Lin Ran has never been afraid to speculate on people's hearts with the worst possible malice. At least 80% of these answers are lies.

Because every time it comes to the moment of life and death before loading the game, someone will suddenly quit and cancel the game.

Everyone is playing psychological games.

Because there was only one person who retreated instantly, and Lin Ran had four teammates.

As long as they can trick others into retreating instantly, they can save 3 points.

Fennu will not close the client until the last moment.

Lin Ran didn't have to wait long this time, and was immediately scheduled for another game.

There were only a few people in the Korean server's thousand-point bureau in the morning. Lin Ran saw the ID GenShowMaker appear in his team's chat channel again.

The same goes for the other two people, only Mr. Dai is missing.

"Hahahaha, it was Brother Hekui who did it in seconds!" Broiler laughed so hard that his eyes were gone.

The organizer didn't expect that Lin Ran was still on his side. Obviously, according to the probability, the probability of him going to the opposite side would be higher!

Feeling helpless, he issued a series of ellipses.

[He wants to practice Yasuo, so he has to do it every second]

Tarzan's reply was very quick: [In the last game, I just said that I passed it in seconds]

Everyone waited for another three minutes. Lin Ran chose Yasuo and quietly watched them perform game theory.

As expected, he was defeated again.

Three minutes later, Lin Ran entered the match again.

This time Tarzan disappeared.

Pure black humor.

But it was replaced by Deft.

KTDeft: [? ? ? 】

Mr. Dai is probably also good at typing, and his typing speed is extremely fast, and a series of Korean words appear in the chat channel.

The broiler had been suppressing laughter just now, but now it finally stopped.

"What is he talking about?"

Hearing Lin Ran's words, Jiang Chenglu followed him like a hunting dog and responded quickly.

This time he took back his job before the broiler could say anything.

"Deft said 'I've been waiting for 6 minutes, why haven't you come in yet'?"

This time, not only the broiler, but also several surrounding staff members burst into laughter.

Lin Ran smiled gregariously.

Then the corners of his mouth slowly converged and he couldn't laugh anymore.

Even tears were rolling in my stomach.

"Gan!" he said angrily, "I'm really bad at Yasuo now!"

Lin Ran sighed, "The prejudice in people's hearts is like a big mountain. No matter how hard you try, you can't move it..."

"What the hell?" Broiler didn't understand at once.

Lin Ran had no choice but to explain, "I, Yasuo, have indeed been cheated before, especially last month, when I was forced to become a Hanbok ghost. Now that I have practiced it, these hardcore slaves still think that I, Yasuo, am particularly cheated. "

"It's a pity. I originally wanted to lead them to win a game." He said with a bit of regret on his face.

"Haha." Broiler felt that Lin Ran was filling his cup - he had this expression every time he saw Jack talking big words.

…

At one o'clock in the afternoon, all the players and coaching staff of the four teams in the intercontinental competition gathered together.

Hongmi is still standing in the center of the room. As the head coach of YM, he has also become the head coach of this intercontinental competition invisibly. Especially after predicting that the Sword Demon will kill everyone, he is now somewhat majestic.

"Let's agree in advance," he said solemnly, "The arrangements made by me and other members of the coaching staff are based on the LCK division as the imaginary enemy."

"No one has any doubt about this, right?"

After listening to Jiang Chenglu's translation, the more than 20 players present naturally had no objections.

They are surprisingly unanimous in this regard - LMS must not be a match for LCK.

Even if Flash Wolves can win a game with a burst of seeds, the remaining three games can drag down the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan competitions.

Do you expect the other three teams to stand up?

Very blue.

"From my personal point of view, the strength configuration of the four LCK teams is like this..." Hongmi turned on the projector and projected the slideshow he made on the screen, "KT\u003eKZ\u003eAFs\u003eSKT, everyone can see , which is different from their seeding."

"The reason is also very simple. The current version is different from the spring split. The seeding is determined by the spring playoffs. There will naturally be changes now."

Since the level of professionalism in the LPL competition area has become higher and higher, the players themselves rarely observe their opponents and study how to deal with them. These are the jobs of the coaching staff, and the players only need to be responsible for training well.

Therefore, Hongmi now needs to explain to them bit by bit, so that everyone can understand it as much as possible.

"We have played for three weeks in the summer split, and everyone should be able to feel that the middle and top jungle are becoming more and more important, and the tactical weight of the bottom lane is getting lower and lower..."

"There are many reasons, the most important of which are the river crab and the canyon pioneer," Homme jumped to a slide. "Now the experience and economy provided by the river crab are almost equivalent to a wilderness camp, and it can also provide an altar of vision. It’s an exaggeration to say that the most likely point of conflict in the early stages of the game is at the upper and lower rivers.”

"Swift Crab refreshes in two minutes. At this time, the middle lane is about to reach level two. Although the top lane is slower, the speed of upgrading to level two is about 2 minutes and 10 seconds... But the duo in the bottom lane refreshes in River Crab due to sharing experience. It’s impossible to get promoted to two before and after.”

Hongmi took a sip of tea and continued, "Everyone knows that the strength of level 2 and level 1 heroes are completely different concepts. The combat effectiveness of the top, middle and jungle at this time must be stronger than that of the bottom duo."

"This leads to the fact that in the first wave of neutral resource replacement battles on the map, the strength of the top, middle and jungle positions is even more important. After all, it is useless no matter how big your bottom lane advantage is. Unless you choose Braum to assist, two level 1 heroes will be in the middle. It’s a joke in the river crab team battle.”

This point is very simple and easy to understand, and everyone expressed their understanding.

"The second one is Rift Pioneer. At present, the value of the little dragon guarding the bottom lane is far less than it." Hongmi clicked to the next slide, which shows the refresh time and rebirth time node of Rift Pioneer. "Because Pioneer's The push ability is terrible in the early stage, and it brings far more than just a first-blood tower to the team, and it also gives the team advantages in jungle resources and vision control."

"The geographical location of the Pioneer means that the top, middle and jungle have a stronger influence on it, and the striker's own power period is late. At 8 minutes, he is basically a pendant. He needs to output but not output, and he needs to control but not control. , Ue Nakano had good fighting ability at that time.”

Hongmi explained the two major reasons clearly, and Kasa sat among the RNG players and nodded repeatedly.

He is worried now.

The RNG coaching staff are not idiots, and naturally they can clearly see the trends in the version. They put him on the bench at the beginning of the summer split and let Mala Xiang Guo return to the starting position.

Which of the two junglers will be chosen ultimately depends on RNG's tactical focus.

Mala Xiang Guo has always been loud in the early stage, with very strong offensive ability, and his main attack point is the upper half. In most cases, he does not raise Uzi in the early stage, but chooses to lead the rhythm with Letme and Mid Tiger. .

Casa himself is the most typical of the guaranteed play style. When the Flash Wolves were known as the Bay Factory, except for the KDA data and escape skills that resembled the ancestor of Severn, the play style was also very similar.

It's just that Kasa's ability to seize opportunities in the early stage is stronger than Guijiaoqi, and the blind monk also plays well.

The RNG coaching staff has now chosen a style of play that caters to the version. The two junglers chose Spicy Hot Pot, striving to replicate the idea of ​​​​S7, allowing Uzi to develop smoothly until the mid-term before injecting resources.

Casa can only look at the water cooler and wait for the version to change or the coaching staff to change its mind.

Hongmi is still chattering, "After determining the focus of the version, let's look at the four LCK teams and we can distinguish their strengths."

"KT is the strongest in my opinion. The top, mid and jungle composed of Smeb, Score and newcomer Ucal are very strong. Moreover, although deft and mata in the bottom lane are slightly older, their abilities have not significantly deteriorated."

"In terms of individual player strength, KT basically has no loopholes. They have been known as the Galaxy Battleship since their formation last year, and they are not in vain." Jiang Chenglu also added Chinese idioms in the translation, "Last year, because of certain Not entering the World Championship due to well-known reasons..."

Hearing this, the players in the training room looked at each other and laughed tacitly.

In the S7LCK bubble match, KT’s coach showed off his strong point and played the T0 version of Kalista for two consecutive games. This divine BP was as good as the old godfather’s iron man in the S5 World Championship, and it changed the mentality of his own players. It collapsed and ultimately failed to overcome the difficulty of Samsung.

"Is he the coach who said in last year's Intercontinental Championship, 'I'll swim back if I lose to the LPL'?" Lin Weixiang suddenly remembered something, "There does seem to be something wrong with this guy. He is simply a bad guy."

The players laughed even louder.

"Last year's head coach resigned after the bubble game, and now ZanDarC is coaching KT..."

When Hongmi mentioned this name, Broiler let out a sigh with a nostalgic look on his face, "He is an old man from KT. He worked in both KTA and KTB back then, and he is very senior."

He also came to the LPL competition area from KT in S5 to dig coal, and he has a deep affection for his old club.

"That's right, so we can't take it lightly. KT won't make low-level BP mistakes again this time. He should be our number one enemy in the LPL." Hongmi knocked on the whiteboard and reminded the team members, "Everyone should sort out the next steps. That’s understandable.”

"KZ has Khan, Peanut and BDD. This top, middle and jungle combination has stronger offensive capabilities than KT, but the strength of Xuan Ming and Xuan Ming in the bottom lane has declined, so I ranked them second; AFs has the top top midfielder in Korea. Kiin in the single position and Spirit in the jungle, but Kuro in the mid lane and Aiming in the bottom lane are a bit stretched..."

"I ranked SKT last, the same as their spring split ranking, without any changes," Hongmi explained, "mainly because top laner Thal is too weak."

Jiang Chenglu translated this and added a joke, "He is really that kind of... that kind of rare top orderer who cooks fresh and refined dishes."

Hongmi changed the PPT page, and now he shows all Thal’s data from the field to qualifying.

"As can be seen from the picture, he will not use Camille, Sword Lady, Jax, Sword Girl, Crocodile and other warrior heroes who need to use basic attacks to engage in melee combat. The two strongest warriors are Noshou and Troll. , yes you heard it right..."

All the players in the audience gasped.

"Is this really the top order?" Lin Ran murmured.

"The one he used most throughout the summer season was Nuo Shou, and his proficiency is indeed pretty good. As for Troll...his ID means that he doesn't want to play Troll anymore, so he's half a Troll with unique skills."

"Compared with regular top laners, Thal is better at mage top laners such as Crow, Vampire, Ryze, and Snake..." Hongmi said helplessly, "Such heroes are very development-hungry, but he often misses the chance. knife."

"In the first 15 minutes of the entire Spring Split, he was ahead of his opponent in only 21.9% of the games, which is enough to prove his poor basic skills of finishing. Moreover, his anti-gank awareness is very poor, and he basically dares to catch and die."

After hearing all this, all the team members looked disillusioned.

They usually don't pay much attention to the LCK league and they only encounter SKT during training matches. However, since there are many strong teams in the LPL division now, many teams are not as crazy as they were in the past two years to play against the Korean team. This has led to this The group of players had no impression of newcomer Thal at all.

They never expected that such a talented person could come to the intercontinental competition.

"Can this person also play top lane in SKT?" Jin Gong sighed repeatedly, "Times have changed."

When he went to Samsung as a trainee, SKT was still at its peak. It had just won the S3 world championship. All young players wanted to go there to get gold. Even the standards for selecting trainees were higher than those of ordinary clubs.

But now times have changed, and SKT has even been reduced to using players of Thal's level as the starting top laner, which made him sigh.

After Hongmi and other players calmed down, they revealed their strategy, "We follow the ancient Chinese proverb in the intercontinental competition finals mechanism, which is similar to Tian Ji's horse racing."

"A best-of-five-game system. Except for the final tiebreaker where you can freely choose your representative team, each team in the remaining four games must play once."

"A high-grade horse versus a medium-grade horse, a medium-grade horse versus a low-grade horse, a low-grade horse versus a high-grade horse... I think everyone here knows this principle better than me." Hongmi said.

He wrote down the four representative teams of LCK and LPL on the whiteboard in sequence.

"KT is the opponent's absolutely superior horse. My ideal idea is to use RW to touch it..."

Han Yi's face was a little stiff.

They all know the level of KT, and letting RW face this galactic battleship is basically equivalent to giving away points.

Doinb, who had been sitting there silently, suddenly said, "If we need to do this... yes, no problem."

His eyes are firm and powerful, revealing his infinite desire for victory.

Doinb just wants to win.

After leaving the secondary league, he has not won any championship.

This intercontinental tournament is a great opportunity and he will make sacrifices for the team when necessary.

Hongmi nodded, "Next, I plan to let IG go against SKT. This is the opponent's weakest link. As long as TheShy defeats Thal, victory will be easy."

TheShy, who looked very shy and introverted, suddenly grinned and grinned.

Now he is at his peak. When playing against a top laner of Thal's level, he can kill him casually without blinking an eye. If he doesn't press 30 dollars in the lane, it's equivalent to being suppressed.

"RNG goes to play the African team, just press the top lane and let Uzi penetrate through the bottom lane."

After hearing Redmi's arrangement, RNG head coach Heart quickly stated, "We can let Kasa play, protect the puppy and make him play more comfortably."

"Huh?" Kasa almost exclaimed, but finally suppressed his emotions.

Immediately a look of excitement appeared on his face.

I didn't expect that he would still have a chance to play!

Uzi also showed some joy.

At the beginning of the summer season, when the coaching staff asked Xiangguo to start again, he complained quite a lot.

It's not a personal opinion on Xiang Guo, but a matter of playing style.

For Uzi, Casa is playing well, why would you replace him?

Uzi is very satisfied with this Lightning Wolf King who often comes to the bottom lane to help catch people and counter-crouch.

The main thing is to play comfortably.

There is a jungler who is always crouching at the bottom of the map. Coupled with his and Xiao Ming's strong laning ability, RNG's strength in the lower half is among the best in the world.

Putting on the spicy hotpot, Uzi will always think of his days in RNG in S6 and S7.

No matter how the team's performance is, he is really unhappy when playing. Many times, the opponent who can obviously suppress the opponent cannot make a last hit, but he is forced to give up because the fragrant pot is wandering in the upper half.

Although the team's jungle rotation was not to his liking, Uzi did not ask the management to change their thinking.

As long as there is no critical moment when he is forced to do something, he is still very mature.

If the coaching staff doesn't listen to your suggestions, then the game will continue like this.

In the regular season, I can tolerate it.

Now that he heard that Heart took the initiative to change the jungler, Uzi could not help but feel happy.

Even Letme breathed a sigh of relief.

He was eager for Casa to play.

Xiang Guo plays a game and puts too much pressure on himself.

He has to listen to instructions all the time, because Xiangguo focuses on the top half, and everything in the early stage has to be served by the jungler.

Manage the army line, exchange blood frequently to facilitate the jungler to catch people, follow the incense pot to resist the invasion of the jungle...

Letme doesn't like this very much.

Catching the fragrant pot means that you must shoulder the heavy responsibility of carrying.

But compared to the highly maneuverable top laner like Dao Mei, he prefers functional roles in team battles like Sion Ornn.

After S7 was educated by South Korea's top laner, Letme, who has entered the second half of his career, can also recognize his own level.

His positioning is to support growth online, provide stable control in team fights, and create perfect output space for the C position.

Besides, Uzi has been strong all spring. If your coaching staff doesn't protect him and has to stir up the pot, why should I carry him?

Once you lose the game, you will be sprayed with words such as "Why do you play the carry hero?", "Can't you just be a bastard?", "Pauwuz is enough, does the team use your C?" and so on.

Except that Mala Xiangguo would be a little frustrated when he heard this personnel arrangement, the other RNG players felt that this was not a bad thing.

Seeing that Heart was so cooperative and even willing to change the jungle rotation to ensure victory in the LPL, Hongmi's tone became much more cheerful.

In his opinion, the strength of the LPL division this year is definitely ahead of the LCK. As long as nothing unexpected happens, winning this intercontinental competition is not a big problem.

"Finally, it's YM. Under normal circumstances, we can guarantee a win against any team... Even if the plan goes awry, everyone just needs to win one game. If it's postponed to the fifth game, we can still have a final say on the field. "

Hongmi is very confident.

The surrounding players also showed smiles.

YM is like a strong backing for the entire competition area, standing firm and difficult to shake.

This feeling is indescribable, but it is extremely reassuring.

Even if you lose the game, there won't be much psychological burden.

After all, YM is still here.

"Here..." A Guang hesitated and raised his arms, "I have a question."

"Um?"

"How do we ensure that each team can meet the expected opponents?" A Guang has never thought about this.

"That's a good question..." Hongmi pondered for two seconds after listening to the translation, "I don't know the answer either."

"Huh?!" Everyone was confused now.

"The problem of game theory is very complex... It is impossible to win 100% of the time, and we can only judge the possible order of the opponent's team through guessing."

Hongmi then said, "I plan to let YM play first, get a good start to give everyone confidence, and increase the fault tolerance rate."

"I think it's OK." Hanyi agreed with Hongmi.

If YM wins the first game, LPL only needs to win one game in the next three games to drag the game into a life-and-death game, and then YM can be used again.

Not a bad idea indeed.

The coaching staff of the other two teams exchanged opinions and raised no objections.

"Then it's settled!" Hongmi clapped his hands. After talking for so long, his mouth was inevitably dry. He picked up the tea cup and took a big sip into his mouth. He opened the live broadcast room of the event.

"Let's take a look at this semi-final. Maybe LCK will expose some tactics and give us an extra point to win in tomorrow's final."

Facts have proved that Hongmi thought too much.

The LCK representative team highlighted the word stability in the semi-finals against Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Play steadily and use decent tactics to match the strength of your leading players to win the game.

Originally, Lin Ran thought that the LMS could win the game by relying on the excellent performance of the anti-Korean Flash Wolf in BO1, but it backfired.

Flash Wolf met KT.

In the confrontation between the strongest combat forces of both sides, FW returned with a disastrous defeat.

The three lanes of laning were crushed, and KT already had a 6k economic gap at the end of the 15-minute laning period.

Mr. Dai is completely crazy. Even Ucal, who just entered the professional arena this year, can ride on Fengtang's head and beat her.

8k in 17 minutes, 1w in 20 minutes...

The economic gap keeps widening and it's a complete crush.

Next, KZ faced MAD, and all members exploded. Khan had a gloomy face and vented all his anger on MAD's head after losing to YM yesterday.

In his first hand, Jayce fully embodies the characteristics of the offensive top laner.

Not to be outdone, the African team bulldozed G-Rex's base in nearly 26 minutes.

"Congratulations to the LCK division! As expected, we swept the LMS 3-0 and advance to tomorrow's finals with our heads held high!"

Hao Kai was still trying to mobilize the atmosphere at the scene, but unfortunately the number of spectators was too small, and the sporadic cheers could not make any waves at all.

The audience who came to watch the semifinals were either a very small number of Flash Wolves fans or Korean fans - KT, KZ and SKT all have popular players, and there are also some die-hard fans.

But the total number of supporters of these elements is not as large as the number of spectators in yesterday's group match.

The scattered spectators could not even fill one of the stands. In addition, this semi-final was purely a one-sided fight. Anyone with a little bit of common sense in watching the game knew that the result was no doubt in doubt.

Even Hao Kai didn't need an oxygen bottle when commentating. Can you imagine how boring this game is?

The audience saw the expected results, and of course there was no excitement.

"The LMS division's results in this year's intercontinental competition were not ideal. Together with the group stage, they achieved a miserable record of 0 wins and 11 losses," Qi Huan continued to say in a calm tone, "This is not a problem of one or two teams, but of the entire The competitiveness of the competition area is declining!”

"If they continue like this, they may not be able to maintain their status in the top five major divisions..."

I wanted to talk about hallucinations again, but my partner Hao Kai quickly brought the topic back.

"Tomorrow afternoon, the LCK will start a desperate battle with our LPL to compete for the title of the first division in Asia and even the world!"

The extra chapter has been released. You can watch it with confidence this time. There won’t be all kinds of disgusting extra bugs like last time.

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Ps: Isn’t today a short day? 5,000 words of extras plus 7,300 words of main text, a total of 1.2w of updates

PS: The extra can be read together with Chapter 28