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

Chapter 134 Fighting for those who cannot fight!

[Who are you, handsome guy? ]

[Fine, fine, you're playing mind games with your brother, huh?]

[LPL four players: Why are we wearing team uniforms while you're wearing a suit?!]

[(doge) Don't look, JM might be wearing his team uniform under his suit.]

[What, is the head coach warming up at 2:00?]

[Fellow Yanzu fans, it's fair to say JM is the most handsome guy in the esports scene.]

No problem, bro!

[Riot Games is really understanding. Our JM team has made so many tutorial videos; they definitely deserve to be awarded a "Promotion Champion" award.]

LPL players were naturally delighted to see Jiang Ming, dressed in a suit, walk onto the stage.

However, some people from other regions, especially OGN, are not happy about this.

[What? Why choose someone from the LPL region as the opinion representative for the charity skin?]

[It's probably because there are more people in the LPL; the number of people playing games in just one region is more than the entire population of your country.]

[Does he have any honors? It seems Riot Games has really lost all shame since Tencent acquired a stake in them.]

[For your information, JM is currently the top-ranked player in the LPL region, a video blogger with nearly a million followers, and the owner of the NXG esports club.]

[By the way, NXG Esports Club currently boasts a perfect record in the LPL region—undefeated!]

[Hmm, would you still question a Summoner who has posted over two hundred videos with a total of over one hundred million views?]

[Just recently, Riot Games invited player JM to be their representative for player feedback. Who do you think is more deserving of this honor than JM?]

Just as the debate was raging in the live stream, the LPL backstage manager thoughtfully played a pre-prepared edited video on the big screen.

"Use your brain to play games, it's easy to rank up!"

From the first episode, "League of Legends Beginner Tutorial," which was ridiculed by many, to the first viral video, "2200 MMR: How to Win Games with Decision-Making in the Support Role!"

Jiang Ming turned around and looked at the image displayed on the big screen;
Even though I keep telling myself that this is just the next step in Riot Games' deep marketing efforts with the LPL,
However, the trembling in one's heart can deceive others, but not oneself.

Seriously, the planning of this so-called selection of league promotion ambassadors on the second day of the All-Star game must have been orchestrated by some shady character.

Undoubtedly, when looking back from the perspective of time, Jiang Ming always feels a subtle sense of disorientation, as if he must have once saved the world.

Otherwise, how could I have seized such opportunities time and time again...

Without any cheat codes, without any connections, and with only 700 yuan earned from part-time jobs as initial capital.

He threw himself into esports without hesitation, starting by climbing the ranks, then making a video every two days on average, and finally meeting a teacher who happened to be sharing about the emerging industry of esports in a public lecture.

The mentor at the campus entrepreneurship competition, a senior student who is as versatile as Xiao Hei from the TV series "iPartment", successfully opened an online store, and a snack supplier took the initiative to find her. She also happened to meet a few contestants who were not particularly talented but had amazing perseverance.

Everything was just as the best arrangement had been made.

……

"From level 1 bot match to the first level 1 team fight, the first tower push, the first kill..."

"After watching JM's video, I want to say that League of Legends is grateful to have a Summoner like you."

With her exceptional hosting skills and extensive research into the game before accepting this task, Ma Fanshu perfectly embodied the image of a League of Legends player who could truly empathize with the game, regardless of the actual gameplay.

"So JM, on behalf of the audience here and watching the live stream, I'd like to ask you a question: which champion would you consider choosing for League of Legends' first charity skin?"

The benefits of LPL providing such an edited video are obvious. With over two hundred high-quality videos as evidence, no one questions why Riot Games would specifically choose a player from the LPL region as their promotional ambassador.

Upon hearing Ma Fanshu's question, both the audience at the venue and those watching the live stream expressed their opinions on the hero for this "Pioneer" charity skin through shouts and typing.

【Raven!!!】

[Zed, this absolutely has to be Zed! If JM doesn't pick Zed, I'll eat a pound of rice!]

[It feels like it's Gragas, since it was the E-Flash mechanic that caught Riot's attention with JM.]

[Please, please, give me a Lee Sin skin! Lee Sin players are craving a high-quality skin!]

[Crocodile] [Vayne] [Orianna] [Ezreal] [Jarvan IV] [...]

[I'm so angry and frustrated! Why is nobody picking Udyr? What did my Udyr do to you guys?]

[Bro, this is a charity skin. Considering sales volume, we definitely need to choose popular heroes to make it sell well.]

The microphone was handed to Jiang Ming, and everyone was eagerly anticipating JM's answer.

However, the words uttered by the young man the next moment sent a chill down the spines of LOL players around the world watching the All-Star live stream.

"I choose..."

"Garen!"

"The Might of Demacia—Garen!"

boom!
Wow!
A murmur of surprise rippled through the audience below the stage.

"Wait, why Garen?"

"Huh? Grasshopper Lun, JM, are you serious?"

"It's one thing not to pick Zed or Riven, but why pick a brainless champion like Garen?"

"Garen is great! Long live Garen! We Garen players, JM, will always support you!"

Clearly, Garen, one of the three free champions for beginners, is known for his ability to ambush enemies in bushes and his brainless gameplay. As the first charity skin chosen based on player preferences, Garen's selection has failed to satisfy most players.

Jiang Ming offered his explanation: "When deciding to choose Garen, many Summoners must have had various doubts, but in my opinion, there is no doubt that nothing embodies the competitive spirit of League of Legends players better than the Might of Demacia."

“Keep going!”

"In the tower in!"

"Never forget why we fight!"

"This world needs hope!"

"Countless of us started playing League of Legends and our first champion was Demacia Might, because his skills were so simple and his effects were so easy to understand—of course, more importantly, because a tanky Demacia Might wasn't so easy for experienced players to kill."

"Hahaha!"

Jiang Ming's words made many people in the audience burst into laughter.

The lines spoken by Demacia Warrior also resonated with many viewers, who nodded in agreement.

Indeed, from this perspective, Garen is quite a suitable choice as a charity skin!
Just then, the young man suddenly changed his tone again.

"The biggest reason for choosing the Might of Demacia is that we League of Legends summoners hope to be like him—"

"Fight for those who cannot fight!"

Wow!
A brief silence fell over the venue.

Jiao Yang, the NXG support captain who was originally sitting in his seat, immediately got the atmosphere his boss needed, stood up, and once again took the lead with his powerful voice.

"Fight for those who cannot fight!"

"Fight for those who cannot fight!" One second, two seconds, and gradually, human-to-human transmission began to appear.

"Fight for those who cannot fight!" ×N!

The countless echoing sounds made one feel as if they had arrived in Demacia on the continent of Valoran.

To reiterate, if this were ten years from now, such a scene might be embarrassing or even shameful.

But in 2013, for these young people who were full of hope for the future and passionate about esports, things were very different.

Just right!
On the stage, the Riot Games executive standing next to Jiang Ming had his mouth slightly agape, his face filled with shock.

No, no, not buddy.

We were just preparing a small charity event to express the company's political correctness, and you immediately elevated it to hundreds of levels?

He also knew that the lines the company originally prepared for the heroes would change after being translated into different regions due to different language habits.

But for the LPL region, the Chinese translation of Demacia's lines actually possesses the power of an army's oath before battle, which is truly surprising.

"Fight for those who cannot fight?"

Hmm, your Chinese is indeed excellent.

……

Backstage, there wasn't a sound in the room.

Jiang Ming looked at everyone in confusion, "Wait, why are you all looking at me?"

PDD said in a resentful tone, "Old Jiang, you're making us look really stupid."

"You can even come up with a brilliant explanation for picking Demacia, it's unbelievable."

"Please accept my condolences. The art of language is essentially a matter of cultural differences." Mingkai patted PDD on the shoulder.

"Demacia is indeed good." Seeing the head coach return backstage, he turned off his mobile game and smiled in agreement.

Jiang Ming smiled without saying a word, and simply took the team uniform from Pang Ran and changed into a suit.

The head coach taking off his suit to play the game while warming up is a joke that only happens once. If it happens too often, the audience won't buy it, and it can easily backfire.

"Get ready, after the NA vs. EU match, it'll be our turn to play in the GPL."

"Little Pang, keep it up in solo!"

"Hehe, I've already made it to the semifinals, so you guys better not get eliminated in the first round."

After the event concluded, the first activity was a skills competition for pairs of participants.

Smile and Pangran had relatively bad luck in the draw, and they immediately encountered the most troublesome duo in the All-Star bot lane, Pray and MadLife.

With the map unchanged, the bans and picks on the top side saw the two players on the blue side, Smiling, send Blitzcrank, Kennen, and Draven, who are very strong in duo solo, to the ban list.

The purple team, OGN, banned Caitlyn, Elise, and Annie for their bot lane.

They didn't believe that with JM, that tactical genius, around, the two of them would obediently play the ADC and support matchup game with them.

However, OGN, who had been outwitting the air for most of the day, did not expect that Smile and Pangran would choose a very traditional duo.

Varus + Thresh!

Pray and MadLife, on the other hand, pulled out a bizarre combination of Sivir and Lulu.

"Wheel Mom!"

"They're trying to test our basic skills against us."

Upon entering the game, WeiXiao's expression changed when he saw the hero selection of the opposing OGN team.

He immediately remembered Jiang Ming's instructions before he went on stage.

"Be careful of OGN's tactics. They will most likely use your confidence in your fundamentals to outmaneuver you."

Jiang Ming's words hit the nail on the head.

Normally, duo solo matches are different from solo matches in other positions. There are very few instances of head-to-head kills. The outcome usually depends on who reaches 100 CS first or who takes down the opponent's first tower.

Coincidentally, when it comes to last-hitting, Smile is recognized by players worldwide as a bot.

Without Jiang Ming's reminder, he would most likely have habitually assumed that the opponent didn't want to fight him for last hits and would choose a combination that could get a solo kill early on. Consequently, he would have chosen more heroes that would fight back.

By then, if you don't get a traditional AD champion, and the opponent has prepared a strategy, it's hard to say whether you'll get 100 CS or a tower first.

"That's really underhanded!" Pang Ran also remarked.

Fortunately, I have Mr. Zhuge Jiangming by my side, who can strategize within the command tent and anticipate the enemy's moves from afar.

The Thresh and Varus combo is both strong and durable, making them completely resistant to any strategy you might have.

In the past, the OGN duo relied on this reflection path to defeat the WeiXiao and XiaoXiao combination at the All-Star event by relying on last-hitting and the first tower. WeiXiao, who was best at last-hitting, lost to his opponent in last-hitting.

This can be considered the first step in shattering the pride and illusions of LPL players.

However, now that both sides are on equal footing, the outcome is predictable.

There's an interesting mechanism to duo lane solo matches: the support's last hits are also counted, so the final result is the sum of the last hits for both laners.

This is extremely advantageous for both Weixiao and Pangran, who has undergone professional tool-laying training at NXG.

In the end, amidst the groans of countless OGN players, they could only watch as the two players on the blue side, with a difference of nearly twenty slashes, completed the 100-slash task first and won the first match of the individual skill competition.

[These two from OGN are hilarious every time I see them. It's not like they have the confidence to compete with the "Smiling" and "Giant" combo in terms of finishing blows.]

[A world-class CS player, and the LPL's top CS-farming support!]

[A feast for the eyes; only the word "feast for the eyes" can describe it. When WeiXiao is last-hitting, PangPang is responsible for harassing the opponent; when WeiXiao is kiting the enemy, PangPang always manages to accurately finish off each attack.]

I watched one of NXG's live streams, and all I can say is that JM's team training is pretty outrageous.

After their strategy failed and Pray and MadLife lost the first game of the solo match, they realized that it was difficult to win with the conventional approach. So, in the second game, they changed their strategy and chose a burst damage combination of Darius and Thresh.

As a result, Pangran's Morgana, combined with Weixiao's Ezreal, successfully predicted the attack, making the two players extremely annoyed.

Ultimately, the LPL duo successfully advanced to the next round with a score of 2-0.

On the other hand, despite losing in yesterday's team competition, the North American duo's ability to adjust was still amazing. After falling behind by one game, they won two consecutive games and, with the help of their support teammates, successfully defeated the GPL duo.

The European duo, who received a bye in the draw, couldn't continue their good luck in the second round. They ran into the duo of Smile and Pangran and quickly won 2-0. They now have to wait for the loser's bracket match against the North American NA duo the next day.

Coincidentally, the first team match of the day was between the European LCS.EU and the North American LCS.NA!

However, just when many players thought that EU could defeat NA, who had performed poorly yesterday, NA, who had been thrashed by LPL in two games, actually started copying LPL's playstyle and even mimicking it.

In the first game, after European mid laner Alex Ich picked Talon first, Scarra immediately picked Riven as a counter.

After studying Jiang Ming's lightning-fast QA for a whole day, Scarra, while not as perfect as Jiang Ming in terms of overall operational smoothness and various team-fighting strategies, still had some commendable points.

Most importantly, they successfully destroyed Alex Ich's Talon.

Subsequently, the top, mid, and jungle players even started ganking top and bot lanes together, engaging in mini-games targeting the jungle, essentially applying the same tactics that LPL had used against them the previous day to EU.

The result was that the stunned EU team quickly gave up two games, permanently nailing them to the pillar of shame that EU is inferior to NA.

(End of this chapter)