What is a hexagon jungler?

At the corner at the end of the corridor, a short European and American who looked exactly like Mr. Bean poked his head and stared at a tall figure walking slowly in the corridor.

"WTF, is that Virtue?" Little Doudou's eyes lit up.

"Yes..." The companion next to him was handsome and thin, with a beard and a mature look. His blond hair was neatly combed, and he looked almost like the grown-up Malfoy.

"Martin, you keep an eye on him here, I'll go back to the room to get the team uniforms!" The little boy jumped up and ran away with his short legs.

The man called Martin by his friends looked helpless.

You think I'm a spy, and you're still following me?

How difficult is it to stand up and say hello openly and ask Virtue to stop for a moment and change into team uniforms to take a photo?

I know you admire him, but you won’t lick him like this, right?

When he saw Gu Xing turn around and open a door to go in, he was forced to stand up and say hello, "Hello, Virtue."

Gu Xing, who was about to head to the training room to start a new day on the ship, turned around with a surprised expression, "Rekkles? Long time no see."

"My teammate wants to take a photo with you and exchange team uniforms. Is it convenient for you?" Rekkles made a direct request.

Gu Xing glanced at the time and saw that it was still a quarter of an hour before the training officially started, so he readily agreed, "...No problem, where are the others?"

"Here!" An uncontrollable loud voice echoed through the corridor.

Little Doudou rushed out of his room, sprinted for 100 meters, and almost fell into Gu Xing's arms.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." He hurriedly apologized to Gu Xing, handed the team uniform to him with both hands, turned around and gave orders, throwing the phone to Rekkles, "Martin, please help me take a picture with Xing Guo!"

Gu Xing looked at the pure black team uniform in his hand. It had the orange-red FNC team logo printed on the chest and the player ID on the back collar.

Caps.

It is the FNC genius mid laner mentioned by Perkz and Imp, the pair of G2 double Cs, who seems to have taken over the baton of the next European king.

Ou Cheng turned on the camera function and spoke mercilessly, "You are so happy, right? After all, there were posters of Virtue in the dormitories at the base."

Caps laughed twice and explained to Gu Xing, "Xing Guo, I have been your fan for a long time!"

"It is no exaggeration to say that the S6 finals against SKT made me look stupid!" He continued to express his admiration. "I never thought that the blind monk could actually kick people like that. Even Faker can't react!"

Speaking of this, Caps looked full of longing, "It would be great if I could beat Faker like this one day..."

Gu Xing chuckled, "You won't have a chance this year, but we can always meet in the future, but you have to work hard, Faker is not easy to deal with."

Although he did not enter the World Championship this year, this does not affect Lee Sang Hyuk's status in the mid lane. He is still an insurmountable mountain top and the target that all mid lane professional players want to catch up with.

Gu Xing went to the training room and took out a black marker, signed his ID on the team uniform, then put his arm around Caps' shoulders and smiled cordially at the camera.

He has repeated this process countless times since he landed in Han Country. Players and staff members come to him every day for autographs and photos. Now he is so familiar with it that even his smile has become formulaic.

In his opinion, the relationship between the two is not that close, and they just need to maintain appropriate enthusiasm.

But in Caps' view, a few words of encouragement were already too much to hope for, and he was flattered.

"Thank you, thank you so much..." He held up the team uniform and vowed to Gu Xing at the same time, "I will definitely work harder and strive to surpass Faker one day and become the first player in the team!"

Caps also likes Lee Sang Hyuk, but it is precisely because of this that he has the desire to surpass him.

Gu Xing was noncommittal and obviously didn't take this sentence to heart.

So many professional mid laners want to surpass Faker, has anyone succeeded?

After signing autographs and taking photos, he planned to return to the training room and focus on work.

Rekkles glanced sideways at his teammates and saw Caps holding the team uniform with Gu Xing's signature and couldn't put it down.

Being more pragmatic, he stopped Gu Xing again, "Virtue, can our two teams schedule two training matches later?"

Gu Xing thought for a moment.

VG and FNC belong to different groups, and as the latter is a traditional European giant, its own strength is also quite good. It is only half a level behind G2, and they will not suffer from training matches.

"I have to ask the coach," Gu Xing didn't agree firmly for the sake of safety, "I'll try my best."

Rekkles was very satisfied with this answer.

I am the second seed in Europe and I am not related to Gu Xing. It is not easy to ask VG to consider whether to donate a few training games. What else do I need?

"Let's go, Rasmus," Ou Cheng urged Caps, who was rooting at his feet, to leave quickly, "I want to train, so don't get in the way here."

Caps behaved like a silly boy. After being reminded by his teammates, he realized it later and reluctantly said goodbye to Gu Xing.

Gu Xing watched FNC Double C leave, and finally opened the door and returned to the training room.

"Lao Gu, which fan took you for a photo again?" Jack started laughing as soon as he saw him.

"The people at Fnatic, their mid laner is quite interesting." Gu Xing commented objectively.

When Chaowei heard this, he immediately raised his ears and asked, "Who is interesting?"

"Caps, you two debuted in the same year and entered the S-level competition for the first time. It seems quite fate." Gu Xing sat down and turned on the computer.

Chovy's sense of crisis was instantly heightened.

fate?

I think it’s a bad fate!

He sneered coldly, showing a rare display of aggression, "I have the LPL championship, what kind of championship does Caps have?"

Gu Xing didn't know why and glanced at Chovy who was going crazy, then turned to Hongmi who had just walked in to tell FNC Double C's request.

"Training match?" Homme nodded, "Zhixun, you can arrange it later. If there is no time conflict, add an extra group."

He turned to the topic, "Blue Cat, how is your training with Syndra?"

Chaowei lost his arrogant attacking arrogance and suddenly became sluggish, "...it's still the same."

"You must practice hard," Hongmi urged seriously, "It's not like you don't know how strong Syndra has become!"

For this World Championship, version is set at 19.

Just as Gu Xing and others had predicted, the designer took action.

And it's as precise as a scalpel.

A wave of epic-level enhancements was directly given to Syndra. The extraordinary passive effect triggered by Q [Dark Sphere] after reaching the full level was increased from 15% extra damage to heroes to 25%. E [The Weak Retreat] 】The output of all levels is increased by 15 points.

Proper invincibility enhancement!

In the original version 15 before the LPL playoffs, Riot Games adjusted Syndra's Q skill back to the peak value of S6, allowing the ball girl to experience the strength of a T1 mid laner. This time it is strengthened again, without even thinking about it. Syndra will definitely become the top supermodel in the middle of the S8 World Championship.

Even facing Akali, Syndra can proudly say, "My values ​​are not lower than yours"!

For VG, the problem is that Chaowei doesn't know how to use ball girls.

The sinister intentions of the designer are evident!

They had been holding back all summer without targeting the new VG after Chovy's debut, and finally had a good look before the start of the World Championship!

Gu Xing guessed that Riot designers must have specialized in the overpowered hero pool. Based on the fact that VG frequently banned Syndra during the BP stage in the main game, it was expected that Zheng Zhixun would not be a ball girl, so he specially strengthened it. Come and limit VG!

Now that he heard Hongmi's advice, Chaowei scratched his head helplessly, "Sindra is a hero like clockwork. I feel that the core of moving spells is not suitable for me..."

"That needs to be practiced," Gu Xing said with concern, "I don't require you to be able to train Syndra's proficiency to that of Rookie, but at least you must be able to select it."

"Otherwise it will be very difficult for us to do BP in the future."

Hongmi nodded secretly, thinking that there was nothing wrong with Gu Xing's philosophy.

As long as Chaowei can train Syndra's proficiency to an average level and match the hero's own strength, he can reach the level of a supermodel!

"...I'll try my best." Zheng Zhixun reluctantly responded with a grimace.

Hongmi is not in a hurry now. After all, there are still a few days until the main competition, and players have enough time to improve their proficiency.

"Jack, let's try the traditional ADC today," he turned to look at Yu Wenbo with a friendly look, "I just strengthened it."

There are three reasons for the weakness of ADC in the second half of the summer game. First, the basic armor of all shooters in version 10 has been reduced, and the overall body has become brittle, and the combat intensity during the laning period has dropped; second, the price of ADC's critical equipment has increased. If you want to It takes a lot of time to form a three-piece set, which is not very popular in the current fast-paced competition environment; third, the mid-to-upper swing position is prevalent, and Akali, Sword Demon and Sword Girl are all part of the team battle. With good hands, shooters tend to continuously output units. They will die suddenly if they can't do much damage in a group fight. It's better to use a magic core to deal a round of burst output and then die.

This time Riot strengthens the shooter position, mainly focusing on critical equipment.

Endless, Lanqi, Hurricane, Green Cross and other equipment have received a collective price reduction, ranging from 100 gold coins to 400 gold coins!

Although the basic attributes of these equipment are not as strong as before, what the ADC wants is large and cheap, high-quality and low-priced. If you replenish sufficient combat power early, you can quickly join the team to help the team gain an advantage!

Calculating the three-piece set, shooters can make the three-piece set 3 minutes earlier on average than the original version, which is a considerable improvement!

Coupled with the fact that mages such as Enchantress Syndra have returned to the middle lane, and AP heroes such as Rock Bird and Barrel Jungle are prevalent, there is no need for the bottom lane to supplement spell damage, and it will naturally return to normal.

This does not mean that core bottom lane cannot be played. The strength of this style of play has not been weakened. According to Redmi's view, it can still be chosen if necessary.

"No problem," Jack had no problem with it. "It's all done after training. When has there ever been a problem with the hero pool?"

Chaowei's face turned red with shame.

Although Yu Wenbo didn't say it explicitly, combined with Syndra's incident, he always felt that Jack was hinting at him.

Chovy entered the training match and took out a set of Syndra to prove himself.

result……

He used his strength to prove that he is not suitable for football girls.

There was no suppression in the laning, and there were also quite a few problems with team positioning. Syndra, who gave Chaowei a steal in the training match, did not play her due role!

"...You're just lucky that the designer didn't take drastic measures to cut down all the melee swing mid laners that were popular in the summer games and then support other heroes." Gu Xing patted Chovy on the shoulder, "Otherwise, if I give you a hand, we will all I don’t know how you’re going to practice!”

Taking into account the negative impact of the S5 World Championship, Riot did not dare to cut the Canyon upside down.

The three swingmen of Sword Girl Akali were not disturbed at all. The damage gain of Irelia's Q [Blade Impact] to the minions increased instead of decreasing. Now the line clearing efficiency is even higher. Aatrox The healing amount of E [Shadow Rush] against heroes and the increased attack power after R [Destruction] is turned on have been increased.

The designer allowed the two heroes to continue to dominate the single-player line and clarify their positioning - Sword Demon is used to fight in groups, while Dao Mei focuses on suppressing the line.

To put it bluntly, Chaowei won't be any worse off if he rests on his laurels. He is a stable first-line mid laner.

However, Gu Xing always felt that there was a hidden danger and believed that players with flaws in the hero pool of the version were not worthy of winning the championship.

"Play another game with IG," Hongmi arranged. "It will be good for us to practice more with them."

He saw clearly and thoroughly.

IG can be said to be the best training match sparring opponent.

The root cause is that the laning strength of the three lanes is online. Through the duel with them, you can well see the laning ability of your own team's players.

As long as you can beat the current TheShy or Rookie, it proves that your laning strength has passed the level. As long as there is no problem with your mentality in the main game, and your hands don't shake and you don't get feedback, you can steadily suppress any opponent in laning!

Gu Xing thought so too. As soon as he proposed to start the second training match, he saw a message from Song Yijin, saying that IG was planning to go downstairs to go shopping and relax.

As a last resort, VG had to temporarily cancel the training match schedule.

"Alas, a bunch of old pigeons..." Jack complained dissatisfiedly.

"It's almost lunch time, why don't we go directly for lunch?" he suggested.

It is worth mentioning that everyone has been adjusting their schedules since arriving in the Cold Country.

It turns out that when I was at the club, I basically got up in the afternoon, washed up, had a meal, rested for a while to eat, then played training matches until the evening.

But the schedule of the S8 World Championship is completely different from usual.

The group stage starts at 5pm KR time, which is the same time as the LPL. However, when it comes to the quarter-finals, the game officially starts at 12pm KR time, not to mention entering the venue in advance to prepare for makeup.

It is obviously not realistic to wait until the afternoon to get up!

After reading the schedule, Hongmi simply asked the players to change their schedules. Now they must sit in the training room before 10:30 in the morning, so that even if they wait until the knockout round, the players will not be exhausted.

Now after playing a training match, it's just around 11 o'clock, and Yu Wenbo's stomach is a little empty.

"I just know how to eat," Gu Xing felt helpless, "Why didn't you get so fat that you became a steamed bun?"

Yu Wenbo said fiercely, "I'll eat, eat, eat, eat! How about it!"

"Maibo, please be more conscious," Gu Xing greeted Smeb, "If you lose the Asian Games bet, please fulfill your promise quickly!"

Jack and Duan Deliang laughed out loud, leaving Chaowei confused.

"What's going on?!" Seeing that his teammates were all aware of it, he felt embarrassed and embarrassed that he was excluded from the small group, so he asked quickly.

Gu Xing explained clearly the cause and effect, and Chovy immediately bared his teeth and laughed heartily.

"Brother Jinghao, can I be the one to treat you?" He eagerly wanted to integrate into the small group, "I'm very good at barbecue!"

"Hey Yigu..." Smeb replied angrily, "Let's go together now! Come back after dinner early, we have to train in the afternoon!"

"Okay!" Jack, who heard that he could have sex for free, stretched and tried to make room for his stomach, "It's time for dinner again, brothers!"

Hanguo BBQ restaurants can be found everywhere, and it doesn’t take much effort to find one.

According to local tradition, as a junior, Chaowei naturally took over the arduous task of grilling meat. He would flip it over with tongs from time to time, and when he saw that the pork belly was cooked, he would move it to his brothers' plates.

"You eat it too, it won't taste like anything..." Gu Xing felt sorry for himself and asked Chaowei to just busy serving others.

"Really?" Chovy felt happy when he heard the praise from his jungler. "I said our barbecue skills are quite good!"

When Gu Xing saw Chaowei also starting to eat, he flipped through his phone and reported to his family and girlfriend about his diet today. After a brief reply, he went to pay attention to the recent news in the industry.

Riot Games officially announced that after confirming the final groupings of the draw, the annual World Championship promotion drama begins.

Gu Xing has become the main force in the headlines of external online battles. Riot even launched a campaign, claiming that every time fans clicked a like within 24 hours, the official tweet would send a photo of Virtue.

As a result, netizens on Twitter were stunned to get 70,000 likes. Riot compressed 70,000 photos of Gu Xing to the extreme and sent them. It was actually possible to form the word Virtue through the spliced ​​traces. It was really a lot of effort.

Gu Xing was speechless for a moment as he looked at Riot's cruel work.

Not only this time, Riot Games seems to have no idea how to attract traffic without the prefix # Virtue in recent days. He can see content related to him almost every time he counts two tweets promoting the World Championship. Even the daily The countdown to the main stage of the game is released with his final makeup photos to indicate the numbers.

What's even more outrageous is that the VG official blog posted a photo of Gu Xing and xxx players exchanging team uniforms, and the fists had to be carried there.

All I can say is that the fists are very urgent.

In the previous two World Championships, the duo of Faker and Virtue came to the scene again and again. Riot only needs to create an atmosphere, and the audience who pays attention to these two players will naturally come to watch the game.

But this year the situation is completely different.

Lee Sang-hyeok failed in the bubble game and failed to enter the global finals. Riot's traffic plan was completely missed. Moreover, if SKT does not seek progress and changes, Faker may not be able to compete for the championship in the next few years.

As Gu Xing became the only remaining global traffic figure, he naturally became the target of Riot’s aggressive marketing efforts.

Moreover, Riot knew very well that Gu Xing would not be able to play for long. They heard that the e-sports star planned to return to school after the end of the S8 season, and they suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

Faker is sluggish and Virtue goes to study again. Who will I use as the face of the World Championship next year to attract traffic and promote it?

Riot had no other choice but to continue to use Gu Xing as a marketing tool and plan whether a suitable successor could be found in this World Championship.

Gu Xing hurriedly browsed through the tweets about himself, admiring the rainbow farts of foreign netizens on Twitter, and then turned his attention to a link below.

S8 World Championship TOP20.

As soon as he entered, he saw Chaowei's face.

The media arranged them in order from back to front. Chaowei appeared first, which means Zheng Zhixun's ranking is exactly 20.

"Sure, Blue Cat," Kuro smiled warmly, "I'll be on the list in the first year of my debut!"

Chaowei glanced sideways and showed a very surprised expression, "Wow, 20 people? Okay!"

"Who else in our team is also on the list?" he asked curiously.

"They must all be there," Duan Deliang replied, "That's what happened last year."

Kuro quickly waved his hand, "No, no, no, I'm not here. I only played two games in the summer split. I can't even find any reference data."

He briefly played a few games before the start of the playoffs. However, due to LPL regulations, players who did not play in the regular season could not play in the playoffs. The VG management was prepared to let Kuro play a few games.

But as a substitute, Li Ruixing will definitely not be selected into the TOP20. This is also the norm - Easyhoon, as a relatively important rotation player, failed to enter the selection.

As Li Ruixing said, he himself did not appear in it.

Duan Deliang, Jack, and Smeb occupy the top ten goalkeeper positions in turn.

Further forward are the core members of the team such as Perkz and Imp.

However, until they saw Song Yijin, who came in second place, there was no trace of Gu Xing.

"Brother Xing is number one again?" Chaowei became excited, his expression was very excited, "That's awesome!"

"Hey...don't be too stupid, don't be surprised." Gu Xing had already expected the results of the selection, but he was very interested in the judges' comments and specially swiped his finger to click on them.

[Virtue not only has two crowns in hand, he has even achieved the unprecedented double-lap Grand Slam achievement. Now he is aiming for the third Summoner's Trophy... and this was only achieved in his two years and three months of career. achievements! I think there is no need to use complicated words to describe his success, greatness, no need to say more - LCS commentator Jatt]

[As long as Virtue is not killed, there is still hope of winning in team battles; no matter which team he is on, he will become the favorite to win the championship; whether you admit it or not, Virtue is the benchmark in LOL and even the e-sports field! After becoming famous, he is still not satisfied with this, and actively moves towards his next goal - LCS commentary Captain Flowers]

[Even though VG has experienced personnel changes this summer, the battle line is too long and other factors, they are still able to break out of the LPL league surrounded by strong enemies. The root cause lies in Virtue. The improvement he brings to the team goes far beyond the surface. The operation on is so simple. As a team leader, Virtue’s role far exceeds that of the other 19 players on the list. This is why I will firmly rank him at the top of the list - LCS commentator MarkZ]

"The evaluation is so high?" Jack looked at the compliments of these European and American commentators, and then recalled the evaluation they gave him, feeling extremely unhappy.

"Where is it higher? It's not higher at all, okay," Chaowei rarely refuted Big Brother, "I think Brother Xing is wronged by being ranked in the same list as us!"

Yu Wenbo's eyes widened.

"Dog licking is really awesome..."

Kuro, who was busy eating meat, couldn't stop laughing, and looked at Chaowei with a "teachable" look.

In the blink of an eye, October 10th has arrived.

Haeundae, Busan Convention and Exhibition Center.

The venue can accommodate 3,000 spectators. Although it is not a top-level stadium, the atmosphere of watching the game is high.

The main stage of the annual World Championship is a carnival for players from all over the world. Players from all over the world come together to attend this e-sports feast.

The number of visitors from China is particularly impressive.

Originally, the two countries are very close to each other. A trip to Busan from some areas may take about an hour, which is faster than going to the capital of your own province.

Among them, VG fans can be said to be powerful in numbers!

Gu Xing stood in the backstage passage and could see the VG silver-white team flags flying in the stands on all sides!

Not only were the audience in the venue in high spirits, the area where he was was also extremely noisy.

The 16 main competition teams gathered together, and the languages ​​​​of various countries were mixed together, making people panic and noisy.

"You just need to walk along the straight line drawn by the rehearsal later," Riot employee Vincent warned, "Brother Xing, please remember to go to the front with Maibo."

"OK OK..." Gu Xing made a gesture to indicate that he understood.

Through a wall, he heard the Roaring Emperor shouting.

"Summoners here and around the world, welcome to the cold country of Busan!"

Quan Yongyun's voice was full of passion as always, "After the seven-day qualifying competition, now all the seats have been settled. Welcome to the main round of the global finals!"

"First... let's invite the team to appear!"

"Group A, KT Rolster!"

Newcomer Kiin led other teammates onto the stage and waved hello to the 3,000 spectators in the stands. As he was participating in the World Championship for the first time, he looked nervous and almost turned while walking to the designated position.

However, the KR audience at the scene didn't mind and gave a wave of warm cheers to the No. 1 seed in their division!

If Kiin just almost made an embarrassment, then Lin Weixiang really made a fool of himself.

His thick eyebrows are constantly beating, and his whole face is full of intelligence. Not only does he walk smoothly onto the stage, but his limbs seem to not belong to him but have been temporarily transferred to serve the body. The overall movement highlights an abstraction.

"What the hell, what are you doing, Big Eyebrow?" Jack paused, laughing out loud with his teammates around him.

The audience in the venue also burst into laughter, obviously seeing Lin Weixiang's extremely weird way of appearing.

Da Mei himself didn't take it seriously and stood beside Liu Qingsong, pretending to be cool.

Liu Qingsong took a deep breath and took a few small steps to the side, eager to disown his friend and claim that he didn't know him.

As the teams left the background one after another, there were only five teammates left around Gu Xing.

"Finally, let us welcome the two-time global finals champion...Vici Gaming with applause!" Roaring Emperor raised his voice.

The dull sound of the cheer sticks hitting each other in the stands reached its peak at this moment!

After hearing the name of their team, Gu Xing and Smeb picked up their exclusive props - the Summoner's Trophy and stepped onto the stage.

With the experience of winning many championships, he knew the trophy was genuine as soon as he got it.

Replicas are not that heavy.

The other four people followed him and Song Jinghao closely, and Chaowei acted like a bodyguard to protect Gu Xing on stage.

The group felt a strong sense of oppression, and the two gold stars on the chest of the silver-white uniforms were extremely dazzling.

The spotlight above his head poured down, shining on the Summoner's Trophy in Gu Xing's hand, making it shine.

The cheers and screams in the stands were non-stop, and even many Hanguo spectators stood up to welcome the arrival of this double-champion World Championship team!

Gu Xing and Song Jinghao steadily placed the Summoner's Trophy on the high platform and completed the brief trophy return ceremony.

The cameraman's lens is firmly fixed on the trophy.

"All teams are ready," the Roaring Emperor shouted, showing off his vocal talent, "Let's wait and see who can break out of the siege!"

Gu Xing and his teammates returned to the team lounge backstage.

The opening game has nothing to do with them. As the host, the LCK League received some preferential treatment. KT from Group A will play against RNG!

The group stage won’t be very long, it should be about one game in detail.