LOL: What is a roaming mid laner?

The moment Lin Ran stepped onto the stage, deafening cheers rang out from the audience, and the crowd was full of people, lingering in the venue!

The flashing lights kept on recording this scene, not only Su Cheng and other members of the CHN team, but also hundreds of spectators.

There are many local YM fans in Indonesia, but more of them are Chinese who flew from the far north to watch the game.

Live broadcasting was not allowed in China, so they flew all the way to Jakarta to watch the game live.

What was flying in the audience was a palm-sized red flag, echoing the bright flag in Lin Ran's hand.

Walk straight, turn around, stand still.

What Lin Ran left in the audience was a back figure, standing like a cliff, like a long pine tree.

He successfully brought the five-star red flag to the center of Mahaka Square.

This also marks the first time that Chinese e-sports has entered the stage of traditional sports.

Looking back on the past 15 years, entering Mahaka Plaza is the best summary of Chinese e-sports.

Looking forward to the next 15 years, stepping out of Mahaka Square is a new starting point for Chinese e-sports.

It is bittersweet, and it is the culmination of the hard work and efforts of many older generations of e-sports people.

The flags of all countries and regions participating in e-sports performance events gathered together in the venue.

Athletes from the host country Indonesia took the stage as player representatives to take the oath.

"For the honor of the team, athletes from all countries will respect and abide by the rules and the spirit of fairness and justice, devote themselves to sports, and defend the glory of sports..."

Immediately afterwards, Mr. Huo Qigang, Chairman of the Asian Electronic Sports Federation, spoke.

After telling about the difficulty of e-sports’ previous development and the symbolic significance of entering the Asian Games, he paused for a moment.

"I announce that the e-sports program of the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games has officially begun!"

There was thunderous applause all around, and the spotlight on the top of the stage was shining with colorful light!

Carrying the wishes of countless people, e-sports quietly bloomed at the Asian Games.

Lin Ran followed Faker back to the designated location to return the flag, and then went to meet other teammates.

Since there are a total of 6 e-sports events selected for this Asian Games, the organizers cannot arrange a dedicated lounge for each team like the World Championship held by Riot Games, and the venue is not that big.

They originally planned to arrange a large room for all athletes in a major event to rest, but there were too many players in the League of Legends event, so they made an exception and gave two groups AB a room each.

Jack couldn't help but complain as soon as he entered the lounge door.

"There is no tactical whiteboard, we can't receive the team's voice on the field, and we don't even have a projector for review... This room is not good!"

When he originally played in the qualifiers in Hong Kong, he thought he would be fine if he just tolerated it, but when he thought of it in Jakarta, the situation was still the same.

"That's almost it," Lin Ran advised, "Do you still have to go to heaven? How about I order some Kaifeng dishes for home delivery and let you eat two egg tarts?"

Letme also expressed relief, "9494, everyone is equally bad, and the Korean team does not have the configuration you mentioned."

Abramovich is well prepared. This time, each of the six coaching staff members has a laptop and can conduct one-on-one reviews with the players. It is not difficult for the players to watch replays of the game.

As soon as Lin Ran put away his backpack, Ms. Yang trotted over.

"Get ready for a urine test. The six of you follow me."

The players looked at each other, their hearts immediately rising.

It's not because they feel guilty, it's mainly because they've never done this kind of test before, and now they're a little panicked.

Entrusting the coaching staff to take care of his backpack, Lin Ran went to the pre-inspection room under the leadership of Ms. Yang.

"Don't be nervous," Ms. Yang said in a calm tone. It was obviously not the first time for her, who works at the General Administration of Sports, to take someone for a urine test. "Just follow the process. It's not complicated."

Players from the Korean team also came to the pre-examination room, and it seemed that they had also received the first batch of urine test notifications.

When the Xiba people saw it, they just nodded in greeting and did not come up to post it as before.

Judging from his expression, he was also flustered by this unknown thing.

Everyone lined up to sign the "Entry and Access Control Form" and then entered the waiting room to wait.

"The drinks and water here are absolutely safe," the official in charge of the inspection emphasized to them, "You can take whatever you want. When you are ready, let me and my colleagues know and we will take you to take samples!"

After hearing this, Jack started to find trouble again, "What if I don't feel the urge to pee after drinking water?"

"Why do you have so many problems?" He made the garlic bastard laugh. "You drink a whole bottle of water. If you don't want to go to the toilet, I suggest you go directly to the hospital to have your bladder checked."

Lin Ran ignored them and got up to find the drink he wanted to drink.

The drinking water on display here was something he had never seen before. It was probably a local brand in Indonesia.

Although officials claim it is clean and hygienic, Lin Ran still believes in international products.

After taking a bottle of Coca-Cola, he kept mumbling: "This is not because I want to drink Coca-Cola, Orange. I really have no choice but to do so."

After reciting a few sentences, Lin Ran unscrewed the bottle cap and started to ton ton ton ton with a clear conscience.

Generally speaking, the preparation time of the players is less than half an hour.

Lin Ran raised his hand to indicate that a prosecutor would lead him to the operation room.

After struggling for a long time, Lin Ran finally got it all done.

All I can say is that the feeling of being watched while going to the toilet is indeed not a good one.

He handed the AB bottle containing the urine sample to the prosecutor for sealing, denied using drugs or supplements in the past seven days, signed the record sheet, and got the athlete's copy.

"This list will be kept for one month. We will test the urine samples. If there are any questions, we will contact you through the Asian Games Organizing Committee."

Lin Ran heard what the official said in English and indicated that he understood clearly.

He signed the entry and exit control form again and successfully left the inspection room.

Liu Qingsong and Jack have also come out, while Letme Uzi and Garlic Bastard are still enduring torture inside.

"Wai Ri, that posture for the urine test is too weird!" The Shiba Inu seemed to be possessed by the President of the United States, and his hands seemed to be playing an accordion. "Why do you have to take off your pants below the knees!"

"...Are you eager to let others know that you have been exposed?" Liu Qingsong wanted to cover his mouth to stop the Shiba Inu from continuing to speak.

Fortunately, there weren't many Chinese people backstage, and they couldn't understand what Jack was saying.

On the way back to the lounge, they happened to meet two teams preparing for the opening game.

Hosts Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.

The team members chatted in their own language.

When they saw Lin Ran, the Arabs showed excitement. If their mobile phones had not been taken away before the security check, they might have come up to take a photo.

"...Have you seen the keyboard of the Saudi mid laner?" Liu Qingsong suddenly muttered as the two sides passed each other.

"What's wrong?" Lin Ran turned to look in the direction of the Saudi team that had left.

"His keycaps are all gold!" Liu Qingsong's eyes glowed with gold when he said this.

If he hadn't been sure that he was living in the real world, Lin Ran would have suspected that Shao Shao had dragon blood and was preparing to open the golden eye.

Jack was still dismissive, "What's the big deal about golden keycaps? Just customize it, just make a set."

"Look at how you have never seen the world!" He also laughed at Liu Qingsong.

"What do you know!" He tore open the wound and punched the Shiba Inu. "If it were an ordinary gold keycap, why would I ask you to look at it? Then he is really gold!"

"ah?!"

Everyone was shocked.

"What's going on? What's going on?" Uzi, who had just finished the urine test, suddenly appeared. Seeing them standing motionless, he asked curiously.

"The Saudi mid laner who just passed by was holding a solid gold keyboard in his hand!"

Uzi's eyes suddenly widened and he took a breath.

"This guy is so scary... How much does this solid gold keyboard cost?"

Lin Ran was still a little confused, "Who knows, I guess it won't be too expensive."

It's just a keyboard after all.

In terms of financial resources, several of them also have tens of millions of assets, so there is no problem in buying one.

"But who would use gold to make a keyboard when they have nothing to do?"

The conversation continued until they rushed back to the lounge.

The final conclusion is that the Saudi will only buy this kind of keyboard if he has too much money.

The BP of the opening game has already begun.

Except for the players who had not yet completed their urine tests, all the athletes in Group A were sitting in the lounge, watching the game.

I have to say that the level of these two teams is indeed average.

They don't even have a professional coaching staff, and the coaches hired temporarily can only replicate the bans imposed by China and South Korea during the qualifiers. I think there must be a reason for the strong players to do this.

But one factor was ignored.

player.

They didn't take the players' thoughts into consideration.

This group of players is truly competing on the court, and no matter how the ban process evolves, it will definitely revolve around the players' own style and hero pool.

You can't always play leopard girl for Xiaoyao and soft assistant for Liu Qingsong. These are choices that go against your own style.

The Indonesian and Saudi teams did not consider these at all and copied the BP of China and South Korea, and the effect was naturally not good.

Moreover, the teams of China and South Korea were very good at drafting in the qualifying stages of the Asian Games. According to Gao Dewei's famous saying, "No matter how you ban, you will never lose."

This is possible mainly because the team members are too strong compared to other teams and the hero pool is deeper.

When a player can use Ryze to counterattack and destroy the opponent's snake girl, all BP traps and games seem extremely pale and meaningless.

This has caused the coaching staff of China and South Korea to face weak opponents. Even if they have an empty ban, it will not affect the final victory. In addition, during the qualifying stage, they are hiding their moves. Their BP process highlights a randomness, which is really unsatisfactory. science.

The temporary coaching staff of the two teams, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, do not even understand the most basic tactics and concepts of League of Legends. Copying the BP of strong teams will not only be unprofitable, but may even be counterproductive.

For example, in the ongoing opening game, Indonesia singled out a sword girl in the mid lane. As a result, the use of Q [Blade Impact] was extremely stiff, as if he was playing a game with 140 ping.

"Wow..." Letme's expression was exaggerated, "If you tell me, my sword girl is better than him!"

There is no boasting in this sentence, and everyone here agrees with it.

"Don't say it's you, his knife girl is not as good as Lin Weixiang!" At this time, Liu Qingsong did not forget to disgust the big eyebrow who was looking after the house in Shanghai.

After a while, other players in the lounge also stopped.

The Saudi mid laner Yasuo is extremely green, and his E [Step forward] keeps wandering around in the crowd of minions. Due to his previous basic attack on the Indonesian team's Sword Girl, he attracted the hatred of the minions, and E went to nowhere. In the process of moving forward, he lost 1/3 of his health due to the concentrated fire from the army line.

From the player's camera, the Saudi guy holding the golden keyboard was smiling very happily.

I have to say that Yasuo Queshi can bring people happiness.

"My evaluation is - this Yasuo is not as good as Brother Ran!" Jack said with a smile.

"Nike, get out of here," Lin Ran crossed his arms, feeling that the Shiba Inu was trying to denigrate people's innocence out of thin air, "Since when did I, a happy man, move forward despite the hatred of the soldiers?"

While several people were joking, a blood exchange conflict broke out in the middle.

Dao Mei made a mistake when using the remaining blood soldiers as a springboard to approach Yasuo. The blade impact failed to kill the minions, and the Q skill naturally did not refresh.

Yasuo wanted to use the wind wall to avoid the sword girl's twin blades, but he was clumsy. After releasing the wind wall, he hit Irelia again, causing him to accidentally leave the protection of the wind wall.

Irelia's double-winged blades were also placed crookedly and did not pass through the wind wall at all, but the effect was still there!

This Yasuo wind wall blocks the loneliness!

Simply put, let me predict your prediction.

The happy man accidentally hit the double blade and fell into dizziness immediately!

In Lin Ran's view, the two people who were competing against each other in the Imperial City in the middle could be called the crouching dragons and phoenixes of the League of Legends.

The sword girl and Yasuo had most of their skills empty, so they could only stand still and attack each other. In the end, Irelia relied on her passive [Ionian Zeal] to kill the happy man!

In the stands, the local spectators who came to support the host Indonesian team were in high spirits and cheered for their midfielder's solo kill!

A group of professional players in the backstage lounge were laughing.

"Box box box box..." Uzi started to be guan gong again, but this time he was amused, "The operations of these two parties are too easy!"

Because the door was open, Lin Ran could even hear the laughter coming from the Group B lounge next door.

Among them, the most magical one is the Jimu Gong, which is impressive.

If you record it with your mobile phone, it can stop children from crying at night.

"I thought the keyboard made of gold would have some attribute bonuses, but I didn't expect it to be 10% off?"

Even after the wound was torn, I still missed the golden keyboard. There was no other reason than envy of the other party's wealth and inhumanity.

In this game, the two sides fought for 33 minutes, and the final head-to-head ratio was 28:22. Indonesia had a small victory and won with difficulty.

"Let's go, bro!" The Shiba Inu stood up and patted his butt, picked up his peripherals and prepared to go on stage.

In the next game, CHN will face Chinese Taipei.

This time the jungler of TPE is no longer Baybay, but Wolf King Kasa.

"Be serious!" Karsa tried to provoke before leaving, "otherwise you will lose easily!"

"Are you serious about beating you?" Letme refused to give in. "Look at the few valuables you received...can you beat my teammates?"

Nakashita Nosuke, the four villains from the original YM cast stood behind Letme, looking evil.

Kasa didn't dare to take another look and quickly ran away.

Su Cheng also left with five players from the CHN team and coach Abu. Since there were so many people in the backstage lounge, it was obviously unrealistic to live broadcast there.

Anyway, as an analyst, she doesn't have much to do if she stays backstage during the game.

Su Cheng used her work permit to go all the way without any obstruction, ran to the auditorium of the stand, set up her mobile phone with a selfie stick, and logged into the live broadcast room account given to her by Lin Ran.

This time, we reported to the Dousha platform in advance. As soon as the broadcast started, the official arranged resources for the homepage and adjusted the popularity to push the live broadcast room to the top of the League of Legends category.

In addition, during the previous live broadcast of the qualifiers, Su Cheng specially gave a preview of the upcoming events. Through word of mouth in major e-sports forums during this period, many netizens knew that there was a first-hand live broadcast of the Asian Games.

All kinds of factors were combined. Less than 5 minutes after Su Cheng started broadcasting, from the background of Dousha operators, the number of people online at the same time in the live broadcast room had successfully reached the top of the entire platform.

Su Cheng has recently found a way to communicate with this group of netizens, and can find the ones he is most interested in among the numerous barrages.

"Today's first group match is against Taipei..." She answered the audience's question about the schedule, "It's very critical. It's best not to lose."

Su Cheng explained to them with fingers crossed.

"There are a total of four teams in the group, and the two with the best results will be selected to advance to the semi-finals. It is not difficult for us to advance, but we must compete for the top spot in the group."

"Because Group B is weak except for South Korea, they have basically secured the first place in the group. If we advance second in Group A, we will face South Korea in advance in the semi-finals."

"The Taipei team also knows this. They will definitely compete for the top spot," Su Cheng continued, "After all, if they get first place in Group A, it will basically be equivalent to a direct promotion to the finals."

This is also the reason why TPE chose to send Casa in this game.

If they only reach the semi-finals of this Asian Games, it will definitely not be considered a success!

The entire lineup is complete, the picture is poor and the dagger is visible, directly fight with CHN to the end.

As long as they can edge out CHN and enter the knockout round as the group leader, they can go straight to the finals and have a silver medal guaranteed!

After listening to Su Cheng's explanation, the audience in the live broadcast room understood the general situation.

And the BP picture has been presented on the big screen!

"TPE is on the blue side and has the right to ban first, they banned Qinggang Shadow first, and we banned Crocodile."

Su Cheng did not dare to neglect and quickly analyzed, "After the 8.15 version update, the BP priority of the crocodile has been greatly improved."

"Firstly, because of its high strength in the early and mid-term, it can play a good role in single-on-one or small-scale team battles. It is perfectly suitable for the team battles of River Crab and Canyon Pioneer that are refreshed too early."

"The second reason is that because of the current version, Conqueror has been reworked."

Su Cheng spoke very quickly. After the training camp, she knew everything about the 8.15 version. Now it is not difficult to analyze BP. She doesn't even have to think about it. She has ready-made knowledge in her mind. She just needs to retrieve it.

"Now the Conqueror has become a way to accumulate layers by damaging enemy heroes with basic attacks/skills. Each layer can gain attack power and magic power... The key is that Crocodile's W [Cold Prey] due to the skill mechanism, It’s equivalent to multiple basic attacks.”

"Ordinary W can stack up to four layers of Conqueror, while Red Fury W can stack up to six layers. This is a huge advantage in a battle."

"All in all, the hero Crocodile has benefited from the Conqueror's revision."

Su Cheng talked a lot eloquently, and the BP link in the picture was still going on.

"The Taipei team gave the second ban position to Troll. This is obviously to change the ban position, forcing us to ban Crow."

In the last class of the first round, Steak still had a design and chose to ban Thresh, Liu Qingsong's best skill.

"The Taipei team can do it..." Su Cheng said thoughtfully, "Qinggangying, Troll and Thresh, the three banned positions are all given to Nosuke, which clearly limits our rhythm points."

Su Cheng knew very well that in terms of the hard strength of the players, TPE would undoubtedly lag behind CHN.

Except for Casa and Snake, a pair of wild assistants who can rank well in the LPL, the other three are not very good.

Even Fengtang, the former mainstay, has seen a decline in operations recently.

It can be said that if the strength of the players is really better than that of the players, the Taipei team has no chance of winning.

But CHN did not take it lightly.

Because they know that this game is actually a battle against the opposing coaching staff.

Head coach Steak, assistant coach Zhanma, analyst Gouba, and even the retired former Flash Wolves coach Char Siu was brought over.

Although the number of people is not as large as that at CHN, the quality is still quite good.

"We eliminated Akali at the end of the first round to prevent the opponent from grabbing this newly reworked assassin!"

"The Taipei team's first choice is Shen... He really came prepared!"

Su Cheng couldn't help but sigh.

Eye of Twilight itself is one of Letme's proficient characters, and it can provide good combat effectiveness in the early and mid-term, which is very suitable for the play style left by the other four in the YM Club.

The coaching staff of the Taipei team caught the key.

They restricted CHN Uenosuke's rhythm heroes, making it impossible for the three of them to get comfortable skilled characters.

In this way, only Double C is not blocked by BP.

The bottom shooter has the worst ability to drive rhythm among all positions, and the situation in the early and mid-term is chaotic.

In the end, Lin Ran’s mid-range unit was left.

The Taipei team was betting that Lin Ran would not be able to get out of the lane quickly and control the rhythm of the game.

"CHN first and second-hand chose Xin Zhao and Kai'Sa, which are one of the few high-quality choices at present..."

The Taipei team then selected Zoe + Olaf.

"Combined with the Shen chosen before, TPE has to bet on the early and mid-term." Su Cheng murmured.

CHN's last pick in the first round was Liu Qingsong who won the Niutou Chieftain.

Then enter the second round of BP.

"We on the red side blocked Lucian first. This should be because we are afraid that the Taipei team will choose a strong laning combination of Lucian + Braum in the bottom lane."

The TPE targets the upper unit and disables Ornn who is proficient in letme.

The fifth ban position was dedicated to Luo and Thain from both sides.

"We banned Luo in order to get rid of the Xia Luo combination that Taipei team may choose. It can be seen that in this game we have to place heavy bets on the bottom half, and try to prevent the opponent from choosing a combination that controls the route."

Su Cheng talked eloquently, "The coaching staff of TPE obviously saw our intention and sent Thain to the ban position. In this way, the three roles Letme is good at, Orn Thain and Shen, are blocked. The opponent wants to block them." His hero pool makes him a breakthrough!"

After she finished speaking, she thought for a moment and added, "I think Letme should choose alchemy. She can also rely on the line and is not too cautious."

As soon as he finished speaking, CHN replaced Singed in the fourth selection!

Su Cheng was not surprised. The coaching staff had considered that letme's hero pool might be targeted and made a special plan.

Alchemy is the result of discussions among the six members of the coaching staff.

If you want to play the new four-pack-two game, you have to go out on the road.

As for the hero Alchemy, the team does not need to invest too much energy. He can just develop in a single line. He is a troublemaker in team battles and can disgust the opponent's back row to death.

Although Letme's alchemy proficiency is not as good as another top laner in RNG, there is no big problem in choosing it.

"Let's see what duo TPE will choose for the bottom lane..."

Su Cheng smiled evilly when she saw Steak's innocent fat face under the camera.

It was as if the long-planned trick had finally succeeded, and there was a hint of satisfaction in this smile.

"Ice + Braum? Freljord combination!" She sounded surprised.

When the audience in the live broadcast room heard this choice, they also put question marks on the barrage.

Braum and the others can understand that this is currently one of the best protective supports, an invincible killer in small-scale team battles, and the selection rate remains high.

But what the hell is ice?

Since the S7 Incense Burner version, Ai Xi has been away from the professional arena for a full year. No one cares about her, and she has long lost the glory she had in the S6 Global Finals.

Now the Taipei team has actually been selected?

baffling!

No one in the CHN player booth responded.

Several people could guess that the opponent must have prepared several tactical lineups during this period.

But Ai Xi, whom they hadn't seen for a long time, caught them off guard.

"Lin Ran, which one do you think is more suitable?"

After a moment of panic, Abramovich handed over the choice to his mid laner.

Lin Ran scanned the list of heroes.

"...Choose normally, we will remain unchanged in the face of ever-changing circumstances."

He replied.

Abramovich did not hesitate much. He had been out of coaching for some time and his ability to deal with emergencies was not as good as before.

But Ji Xing knows very well who the real big daddy is in the team.

He believed in Lin Ran unconditionally.

"Liu Qingsong, give him a choice!" Abu looked at Shao Shao with a firm tone.

The tearing wound is already prepared. Click the mouse on the hero's avatar and quickly lock it!

It was still a familiar avatar, with endless killing intent in his scarlet eyes, and the God-killing Blade at his side showed his identity.

Darkin Sword Demon Aatrox!

I'll finish this chapter tomorrow