League of Legends: Reborn in Season 3, Tuning the Entire League

Chapter 106 Why bother with professional gaming? Go home and raise pigs!

(The Shadow of War slays the Lava Behemoth)
Just four minutes into the game, a first blood kill notification came from the top lane.

[Oh no, Nuoyan is going all out in ranked, and with Gogoing's Renekton, JM is doomed this game.]

[An insane matchmaking system! Three professional players in the top, mid, and jungle positions, a 3v1 situation with no sportsmanship whatsoever.]

Is it possible that JM is just too strong?

The notification that Jiang Ming had given up first blood caused great concern among the viewers in his live stream.

On the contrary, the bot lane duo's sadness at being matched with JM when they first entered the game was instantly halved after seeing that the top lane had already secured a win.

It's good to gank top lane. Feeding the top laner Renekton will make him invincible in the early to mid-game. Even if JM is on the other side, so what? Two fists can't fight four hands. Besides, he's already at a disadvantage against ranged champions in the mid lane...

Ok?
Is the mid lane at a disadvantage?
The camera panned to the bottom lane duo, and their eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. The two minion waves were meeting not far from the purple tower, and Gragas had already safely reached level three, and his condition was much better than LeBlanc's.

However, the two did not send a question mark to the mid laner like the jungler would. Judging from the communication between the mid and jungle just now, their mid laner is probably a grumpy guy.

With a strong jungler on the team, there's a high probability of climbing the ranks, so there's no need to provoke LeBlanc.

The duo's desire to climb the ranks outweighed their doubts about being at a disadvantage against the melee-ranged mid-laner.

Just as the two had expected, the mid-lane LeBlanc was facing off against Gragas. Not only did she fail to gain an advantage, but she was also suppressed by her opponent. Ga Dewei was on the verge of getting a red card, especially since he had just been arguing with his teammates, saying that there was no need to watch JM's videos and that he could crush the opponent with his own skills...

As a result, they turned the tables and got taught a lesson by understanding the minion wave!

Gragas, who has taken control of the minion wave, can use Q or W to last-hit minions in front of the tower without missing a single one. Occasionally, he can even use his skills to launch a counterattack. The most outrageous thing is when the opponent uses E to knock him up while he is flying in mid-air with W. That exchange of health is the culprit that led to the current situation.

Not only did the attack speed reduction from Gragas' Q skill cause me to fall behind in last-hitting minions.

Given LeBlanc's small stature compared to Gragas, and the fact that her passive ability had built-in healing, Gadgetzan was already in a dilemma after just two interactions.

Even with him struggling in lane, the purple team's jungler, Zhao Xin, was still eager to try and gank mid lane to cause him trouble.

Alright, alright, you junglers, you're good at nothing but finding carry players to support you is the fastest in the entire league, okay?

"Still young!"

On the other side of the game, Jiang Ming looked at the enemy's LeBlanc who only had half health left, and shook his head slightly, making a simple comparison in his mind.

Compared to the incredibly confident and skilled player in S5, Ga's performance in S3 was more than enough in terms of mechanics, but his attention to detail and mental fortitude were nowhere near that of a top-tier mid laner.

"Now the roles are reversed, everyone. Have you learned how to handle the minion waves in the early game?"

"Use minimal cost to develop your strength. When Gragas reaches level four or even five, it's time for the enemy LeBlanc to be careful."

"Like, like now."

boom!
In contrast to Ga's obvious intention to whittle down the opponent's health, Jiang Ming's unexpectedly thrown rolling barrels always hit the opponent's face with precision. The terrifying damage of his level 3 Q was so great that LeBlanc could only withstand two hits before she cried out that she couldn't take it anymore.

When Gragas was using his usual Q to poke, Gaddie seized the opportunity and used W to try and use QE to poke.

Unexpectedly, this played right into Jiang Ming's hands. The Q skill that was supposed to be used turned into a dancing animation, and the LeBlanc who used W to get close to Gragas seemed to be deliberately crawling under Gragas's belly.

puff!
The E skill, which deals full damage to the first target, is perfectly triggered.

call!
Not only E, but the ignited flames also rose above the Fairy's head.

"Is he trying to solo kill?"

Gawei, watching from the screen, felt insulted. How could he possibly kill a LeBlanc who could use her second W to return and still had Flash available?

Boom!
However, before anger could take over her mind, a brown wooden barrel, anticipating her return, exploded precisely on the hero.

The health bar dropped by one-third.

【Hey, time for a brawl!】

Jiang Ming, who had pre-charged his W skill, managed to land a basic attack during his E skill's mid-air combo. After successfully predicting and dealing damage with his Q skill, Jiang Ming finally had an idea.

Don't underestimate the damage of that basic attack in the early game. Other mage heroes might not think much of it, but Gragas is clearly not a traditional mage. His ridiculous W skill not only provides him with 18% damage reduction, but also a whopping 70 attack damage.

Even if you can only unlock W at level 5, the attack power bonus is only 30 points.

Thirty o'clock!
Did you know that the shady merchant in the canyon sells the Storm Sword for 1550 dollars, which only adds 45 attack power?

As long as he can find someone, no mage can out-attack him in the early game.

Furthermore, due to the minion wave, LeBlanc's W landing point is already halfway past the mid-line, and with the E skill's slow effect active, she is still quite a distance from the turret.

So here's the question: how many seconds does Gragas's E skill last in Season 3?

The answer is seven seconds, but with full cooldown it's only four seconds.

They chased her all the way to the tower, and before LeBlanc could reach the safe zone, Gragas' second E was ready.

Without giving Gai Wei more time to react, Jiang Ming initiated with E-Flash, once again sticking to LeBlanc's body, and completed a solo kill with an EQ combo.

NXG-JM has killed VG We1less!

……

Clearlove: ?
He wouldn't stay silent after being criticized; that's not his style, Mr. Yiqu Nuo and Mr. Keli Er Lawu.

The moment Gragas solo-killed LeBlanc in the mid lane, Mingkai's question mark appeared in the chat channel.

Ga Dewei took a deep breath and ignored the jungler's invitation to interact with the national treasure.

I just used the black and white screen time to shake my hands wildly in an attempt to adjust my state of mind.

He admitted that JM was indeed not the kind of number one player that Ruofeng claimed to be.

"However, the battle in the middle lane has only just begun, and I will get my revenge."

Get back at the party?

Jiang Ming was unaware of what Ga Dewei, the S3 Youth Edition player, was thinking at that moment; otherwise, he would have been worried that he would have burst into laughter during the live stream.

In the mid lane of Season 3, it was a snowballing duel between assassins. What makes you think that someone can get back up after being solo killed once?

Jiang Ming naturally wouldn't give the opponent a chance to stand up. The two extra items in the Barrel's equipment slot completely killed LeBlanc's hopes of turning the tables.

Dolan Ring +1!

One Lesser Grail!

That's right, Jiang Ming is going to play a mid-lane Gragas build this time. He'll use Doran's Ring to boost AP, health, and mana regeneration, and Chalice of Harmony to provide magic resistance and basic mana regeneration.

Oh, by the way, the Lesser Chalice also has an additional passive: it provides the hero with health regeneration equal to a percentage of their base mana regeneration.

It has health points, healing abilities, and mana replenishment.

With the combined boost from equipment and the hero's passive abilities, what do you call this? This is called a perpetual motion machine in the mid lane!
Once Jiang Ming crafts the Holy Grail, the mid-lane minion wave will essentially be no longer relevant to LeBlanc.

They greeted each other with wooden barrels, not caring about mana consumption at all. Gadwei wanted to fight back, but facing two Doran's Rings and Gragas who had added thirty points of magic resistance with a Chalice of Harmony, the two skills hit him without any effect.

Two minutes later, the heroine returned home with low health.

Fortunately, Jiang Ming remembered that he was streaming, so he didn't get too carried away playing solo lane. He explained to the viewers what roaming lanes were and how, after pushing back the lane, he led his jungler to advance into the blue side's jungle.

While entering the jungle, Jiang Ming didn't forget to explain to the viewers in the live stream, "Why do we emphasize that you must push the minion wave before ganking?"

"Like right now, the minion wave gives me not only some vision, but more importantly, it distracts the enemy mid laner. Whether the enemy LeBlanc comes to support or not, she will be at a disadvantage."

"Come on, he'll lose minions, or he'll lose the jungler!"

As a result, Mingkai's men suffered.

A chrysanthemum-shaped letter suddenly appeared from a dark corner, poking his horse's butt in various ways. Just as he was about to activate his E and sprint away, he was blasted back to the fountain by an atomic bomb.

At 9 minutes and 7 seconds into the game, Mingkai, who had just revived, managed to gank the bottom lane with his ultimate ability.

But not long after leaving, I saw a notification on the system page that the Gragas had killed them both in the bottom lane!

As for Ga's LeBlanc in the mid lane, she had just finished clearing the minion wave in front of the tower.

Faced with the agile LeBlanc, Jiang Ming had no intention of engaging in a lane battle with her. After clearing each wave of minions, he would head to other lanes.

Whether in the jungle, the bottom lane, or even top laner Gogoing's Renekton, none of them were spared.

"Often, junglers shouldn't complain about their laners not supporting them. Before making that request, always check the enemy's minion wave. In this instance, the blue team's bot lane also had a problem. They forced a gank on our support when they were stuck in the mid lane without lane priority, and the result was obvious—they paid double the price." "Remember, always prioritize clearing minion waves. You'll never maximize your losses. As I always say, kills are great, but minions also give you a lot of gold."

"Of course, if you say you're missing five out of ten cuts, then never mind what I said."

【Hahaha! 】

No one would have thought that JM could tell jokes while playing high-elo ranked games; it just shows they didn't treat the enemy LeBlanc like a human.

The viewers in the live stream went from initial confusion about the minion wave to surprise to admiration.

They discovered that no matter how the Gragas roamed and supported, the mid-lane minion wave was always under JM's control, as if LeBlanc was intentionally cooperating.

Every time Gragas leaves, LeBlanc obediently pushes the minion wave to the tower, and when a new wave of minions is about to reach the purple team's tower, Gragas can take over on time.

It's about killing someone and finishing them off simultaneously; that's all there is to it.

Because of the addition of Gragas, who is always on the move, the purple team gradually turned the tide of the battle.

Game time: 15 minutes and 20 seconds!

The jungler died again, and the score, which was originally 2-0 at the start, has now become 2-3!

Mingkai temperature value +100!

Finally, at the eighteen-minute mark of the game, the battle for the third dragon ended, and the team was about to face the Baron.

After a team fight, a Gragas with half health returned to his lane. Ga's LeBlanc, with full health, initiated the attack. However, after a series of maneuvers, the low-health Gragas recalled to base on the spot, with the corpse of the LeBlanc lying at his feet. The LeBlanc had dodged two chains and used her ultimate to blast him back into the tower, successfully turning the tables and killing him.

"He has... a big one!"

"big!!!"

After watching the entire mid-lane battle, Mingkai, who hadn't used his ultimate, couldn't hold back any longer and wanted to type a message to remind the enemy Gragas that he had stolen the dragon without using his ultimate.

Clearlove: "Damn it, can you stop feeding in mid lane? You can't beat them in lane, you can't gank as well, and you get killed by someone with half health when you're at full health. Do you even know how to play?"

We1less: "Damn it, you talk too much nonsense every day. What I do is none of your business."

Clearlove: "nmsl wsnd!"

"The barrel is roaming the whole map, are you playing a 4399 mini-game while it's just playing?"

Clearlove: "Why are you playing professionally if you're this bad? Go home and raise pigs!"

(Everyone) gogoing: JM, please support this!

JM: ……

Jiang Ming himself did not expect that after the combination of Ga Wei and Ming Kai was arranged, the name of the pig farm was actually released a little earlier due to his intervention.

From then on, Mingkai had a unified nickname – Factory Manager!
Mingkai's fans call him "piglet" or "pig offal," and when someone is dominated in the jungle or lane, they say it's like being "raised like a pig."

Even the "killing sword" has acquired the nickname "pig-slaughtering knife".

Thus, Mingkai, as the manager of the pig farm, embarked on a one-way road of raising pigs in the wild in China and being raised as a pig abroad, with no turning back.

……

#In a high-elo ranked match on the Chinese server, a professional player was brutally crushed by JM in a 3v1 situation!#
#LeBlanc, the Deceiver, faces Gragas in lane, only to regret it for the rest of her life because of a single minion.#
#Gragas's Infinite Roaming: How Much Do You Know About Lane Controls?#
#A huge advantage turns into a disadvantage, WE's jungler angrily berates the mid laner after being toyed with by JM's minion waves!#
#Why bother with a professional career? Why not just go home and raise pigs? Is this a sign of moral decay or a distortion of human nature...?#
Even before the match ended, online discussions about "WE jungler Mingkai swearing and cursing, criticizing a certain professional player for being too bad and saying he should go home and raise pigs, earning him the nickname 'Pig Farm'" skyrocketed in popularity, with sensationalist headlines and clickbait posts flooding forums.

Even because Jiang Ming, who controlled the barrels, was the culprit behind the incident, both YY's platform account and NXG's official Weibo account inexplicably gained a new wave of attention.

However, Jiang Ming, who wasn't very enthusiastic about participating in these meme discussions within the e-sports circle, didn't choose to jump on the bandwagon to capitalize on the attention, even though he was one of the main characters.

Ultimately, the "pig farm" is a product of the impetuous young people's desire for victory, and there's no need to correct who's right and who's wrong.

After finishing the game and successfully gaining a large lead, Jiang Ming mentioned that he would release tutorial videos on minion wave management later. After ending the live stream, he still had many things to take care of.

……

The next morning, Lin Jingyi brought the team's live streaming statistics she had obtained from the YY platform to Jiang Ming's office.

"Our NXG's 120021 room saw a peak of 340,000 viewers during the live stream, surpassing the viewership of WE's championship win broadcast last year."

"In addition, in terms of live interaction, the number of bullet comments exceeded four million, with each person sending more than ten bullet comments."

"The average viewing time per person exceeded two hours, and the total number of viewers exceeded 60,000."

"The fan conversion rate is also good; our official Weibo account has gained about 20,000 real followers."

"Keywords for bullet comments..."

As Jiang Ming listened to his senior's report on key data, he flipped through the documents in his hand.

"Don't worry about the number of viewers watching the live stream, and don't compare it with WE anymore. The live stream data from S2 is not very relevant to the LOL section, which experienced an explosive growth in players in S3. It will only increase in the future, and the growth rate is beyond your imagination."

Although Lin Jingyi didn't quite understand why her junior was so confident about the increase in LOL players, she didn't question it. At least so far, every seemingly incomprehensible decision her junior made had been correct, and that was enough.

"The key point is the gift data. Our total gift rewards yesterday amounted to 62000 yuan."

"so much?"

Jiang Ming was somewhat surprised. He knew that 2013 was not the future. The live streaming industry was still in its early stages of development, and the atmosphere of viewers giving gifts and tips was not as strong as it is now. Even though YY platform valued high-quality content and popular live streaming rooms like NXG, a tip of 60,000 to nearly 70,000 yuan was still a very impressive number.

What? These gamers actually spent their internet fees on game guides?

Jiang Ming was wondering about this when Lin Jingyi continued, "No, the income from gifts is only a small part of it."

"Our real big gain yesterday was in online store sales. During the five-hour live stream, our online store saw a total increase of over 30,000 orders, a conversion rate of 10%, and an average spending of 50 yuan per person."

310,000 live stream viewers, a 1% conversion rate, multiplied by 50!
hiss!
That's a transaction amount of nearly 1.5 million.

That's almost equivalent to his entire online store income last year.

Even just considering the transaction volume, after deducting costs and commissions from the players' live streams, it's still an outrageous figure.

Are you sure there are no statistical errors?

"That's right, the data from the online store's backend has been transferred to your phone, junior."

"Speaking of which, the sudden increase in orders is easy to deal with for the manufacturers, but the female customer service representatives at the school almost had their hands paralyzed from typing so much."

"Consider it overtime, and give out red envelopes as appropriate. You can decide the specific amount. Just make sure there are no problems with after-sales service."

Jiang Ming is the type of person who takes the big picture and delegates the details. As long as the overall direction is correct, he is happy to delegate authority to people he trusts and who are capable.

At the same time, Jiang Ming also treated those who worked for him well.

There are indeed many bosses in the world who want their horses to run but don't want them to eat much grass, but that doesn't mean he wants to become one of them.

Compared to being stingy, he preferred the style of a certain guy surnamed Quan, who believed that as long as the pay was right, the employees' eight-hour workday was just the upper limit set by the company, and certainly not the upper limit of their efforts.

"Have the team members' commissions been calculated yet?" Jiang Ming asked again.

"Here it is, this is a detailed statistical table for each contestant."

Lin Jingyi took out a new document from her bag.

"Let me see……"

The results of NXG's five-man battle last night were very impressive.

First place: NXG-stone (7,400 orders, 392111 in revenue)

Second place: NXG-sorry (2,200 orders, 129888 in revenue)

Third place: NXG-norsha (1,040 orders, 68121 RMB turnover)

Fourth place: NXG-door (886 orders, 49996 in revenue)

Fifth place: NXG-yihan (...)
As expected, Little Stone, who was born with the ability to drive sales, won the top sales spot last night without any doubt.

Seven thousand four hundred orders, nearly four hundred thousand in revenue, a large portion of which came from Logitech gaming peripherals.

It's almost three times more than Xujing, which came in second!
As for Xiao Wu coming in last place... it can only be said that it was within Jiang Ming's expectations. After all, for someone who was an autistic child when he came to the club, to be able to sit in front of the live broadcast room and speak, and even sell products, in just half a year is already a very good leap.

(End of this chapter)