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Chapter 289 Pig King Fusion! Invincible Under Heaven!
This is Abu's personal motive. After all, both Qi Jiang and Meiko are his beloved students. Qi Jiang is definitely no longer able to play in high-intensity professional high-level games, but Meiko is still doing alright.

With three EDG players and three RNG players, Pig King's two teams have clearly divided up the national team player slots.

However, it must be said that the fan base of these two teams accounts for 80% of the LPL's total. It is no exaggeration to say that "when Pig King and Pig King team up, they are invincible."

Of course, some netizens know that once the list is announced, it cannot be changed, so they started analyzing it, comparing the strength of the Chinese and South Korean lists.

"Holy Gun Bro should have no problem beating Khan. He's been pretty good at Gun at MSI this year. Jungler Xiangguo is about even with Peanut. Bot laner Piston has never lost to Uzi. Mid lane is hard to say, that's the Big Fly duo!"

"That's enough. Dafei and Xiaofei couldn't even beat Bdd. Do they think they can beat Kshine in a matchup?"

"Can you blame Faker for SKT's terrible roster this year? This is a team game. With the current roster, even if you let Yao carry the team, he wouldn't be able to do it."

"What? EDG's roster isn't a rookie roster? YuNan has only played half a season, Tian is a rookie, and YaoGe just switched to mid lane. If they can improve, why can't SKT?"

"..."

The online discussions are endless, but the history of esports has proven countless times that blindly trying to build a super team has almost always failed.

Whether it's esports or traditional sports.

In football and basketball, even a super team like the Galacticos is basically doomed because there's only one ball, and there aren't enough players to go around it.

The same applies to League of Legends. Team resources are limited, and everyone in a super team wants to get their share, so it's impossible to divide them equally.

Wang Yao can only take it one step at a time for now, but in his opinion, this configuration is more than enough.

As time passed, Wang Yao, along with Saint Gun, Abu, and others, flew to the training ground. The first thing he did after getting off the plane and arriving at the hotel was to collapse onto the bed and begin to rest.

I don’t know how long it took.

Wang Yao finally woke up and opened the curtains to find that it was already evening.

He stepped out of his room and saw Abu coming out of the next room.

"You're awake? Then hurry up and wash your face to refresh yourself. We're just about to have a meeting."

"Row."

Wang Yao rubbed his eyes and nodded. He went back to his room, splashed cold water on his face, washed up, and then headed to the meeting room that Abu had mentioned.

When Wang Yao arrived, everyone else was already there.

Shi Senming waved to him, "Hehe, our mid-lane powerhouse is here!"

"Go! Go! Go."

Wang Yao was speechless for a moment, then sat down next to him, still yawning and looking listless.

no way.

Even an 18-year-old boy can't withstand such a high level of travel fatigue.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Abu tapped the table with his fingers and coughed lightly, "Since everyone is here, let me give you a brief overview of the competition format for this Asian Games."

Everyone quickly perked up. In fact, there wasn't much information released about the e-sports event that was selected as a demonstration sport at this year's Asian Games.

Netizens only know that League of Legends has been selected as an exhibition match event, but they know nothing about the more specific details, and they only just found out about the main event roster.

"This is the first time an esports project has been selected for such a national-level intercontinental tournament, and fortunately, other countries are also very enthusiastic about participating," Abu said with a smile.

For any emerging competitive sport to be included in the Asian Games, the first requirement of the Olympics is widespread popularity.

The number of participants needs to be large, on a global scale, not just in terms of the number of people. "However, we can't provide such a large training venue for the main competition, so we need to hold a qualifier here in Hong Kong first."

"There are a total of 8 spots in the main competition, so there's no need to worry now. The pressure to get into the main competition isn't that great."

Abu's words made everyone's expressions much more relaxed.

After all, they are fighting for their country, so the pressure is immense.

To put it bluntly, if they lose to a bunch of wildcard teams, they'll be bombarded with criticism from domestic viewers, friends, and family.

"But we shouldn't be too happy yet."

Abu used a strategy of first belittling and then praising, "Specifically, it will be divided into several regions, calculated based on the location of the countries: Central Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia..."

“The host country, Indonesia, automatically gets one main draw spot, meaning there are actually only 7 main draw spots.”

"However, because our East Asia region is the strongest, we have 3 spots in the main competition, while the other regions have 4 spots."

"I'm telling you this so you won't feel too much pressure, but you also need to maintain a certain sense of urgency, after all, the Taiwan and South Korea regions are still very strong."

It's undeniable that South Korea is strong. It's no exaggeration to say that, to date, the League of Legends scene is dominated by South Koreans.

The reason why the Taiwanese team is so strong is because they have great teamwork.

Their roster is almost entirely composed of Flash Wolves players. Although Karsa left Flash Wolves, it was only for half a year, and the tacit understanding built up over the previous years is still there.

As for the other teams representing Macau, Hong Kong Island, and Japan, they can be ignored.

There is still pressure to qualify, but not too much.

Next, Abramovich proactively handed over the reins to his two deputies. Although he was nominally the head coach, he actually didn't know how to do coaching at all.

Abu is mainly responsible for overall coordination, while Zhu Kai and White Crescent handle the rest, such as draft picks and training.

Immediately, Zhu Kai spoke first.

"The version has been announced. This competition will use version 8.10, which is the latest version. You guys are either on vacation or participating in MSI, so you haven't had time to learn about this brand new version yet, right?"

"I only have a general idea, I haven't looked into the details." Flandre was very cooperative and said, "Tell us about it."

Zhu Kai nodded and continued, "Because the league hasn't started, there are no match samples for us to study carefully. I can only offer some of my opinions based on the version changes. Let's start with the equipment changes."

"First, in the mid lane, the two effects of Doran's Ring—mana regeneration on minion kills and basic mana regeneration—have been removed. This means that mage heroes can no longer frequently use skills to contest lane control in the early game."

"Furthermore, the price of [Lost Chapter] has increased from 1100 to 1300. Although the magic power has increased, this price increase still has too much impact on the mid lane."

One of the more important reasons why mages should get the [Lost Chapter] item is that this equipment has a passive effect: when you level up, it will restore a certain amount of your mana!

This passive ability can increase a mage's ability to stay in lane.

Now that these two key mana regeneration items have been nerfed, it will make the laning phase for mages particularly difficult in the early game.

The most comfortable rhythm for a mage is to use Doran's Ring to survive the early game, and then go back to buy the Lost Chapter at 6 minutes and get the Blue Buff, so that they will have enough mana.

Whether you stay in lane farming minions or roam to the side lanes, you'll have plenty of mana!

But now that this rhythm has been disrupted, the mage's development is not as comfortable.

(End of this chapter)