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

Chapter 137: The initial results of the training are evident.

The second floor of a private residence in Guangdong Province.

"Nice!"

"Well played."

"That was such a cool move."

Sitting in front of the computer, Zhu Yihang raised his arms high, cheering for the players' amazing skills in the game.

"Yes, that's right. It's unhealthy for a team to only have one outstanding player."

Zhu Yihang, who has been watching WE's matches since Season 2, has always felt that Mingkai, the jungler, was clearly restricted by his teammates and the jungle. Someone who plays aggressively in ranked games and farms the enemy jungle as easily as eating and drinking, suddenly became timid and mediocre in professional matches. He doesn't believe that there are no external factors influencing him.

The most important issue is the lack of guidance!
Now, under JM's coaching, the All-Star Dream Team has proven his point.

Mingkai is not incapable of playing, nor can he only win games by relying on his teammates. As one of the top three players in the Chinese server, he also possesses the ability to carry the game.

"It's a pity, if only we could have collaborated with JM..."

Zhu Yihang secretly regretted it, as he had conceived the idea of ​​starting an e-sports club at the beginning of this year.

If it were before this year, he might have approached this "e-sports Confucius," who is famous far and wide in the Chinese server ranked games, since the other party's understanding of the game is the most terrifying among all the people he has ever met.

With someone like that leading the team, an esports team is bound to be pretty good.

One step slower!
He has now formed his own esports club and achieved a terrifying record of three consecutive wins. Many of his subsequent ideas are based on JM and his NXG management. How could anyone give up their status as the boss to work for him?

Zhu Yihang looked at a proposal titled "EDG Esports Club" on his computer desk, reached out and flipped through the heavily marked paper, and sighed heavily.

"The cornerstone of team building, core players to consider—"

"Semi-military management...referencing the development model of esports in South Korea..."

However, Zhu Yihang did not give up his idea of ​​forming an e-sports team. On the contrary, after seeing Mingkai's performance at today's All-Star game, he became even more determined to enter the e-sports arena.

Even if he couldn't sign JM, it didn't matter. Edward Zhu's eyes were also on several highly professional active players and coaching staff at NXG Club.

In fact, many investors share similar views with Edward Zhu.

When the All-Star Game's domestic viewership surpassed five million, investors with a keen business sense quickly recognized the industry value it represented.

Suddenly, LPL league teams like PE, WOA, LM, and even some teams still in the city league competition stage saw many previously unattainable sponsors come knocking on their door, expressing their willingness to provide investment support.

……

Back to the game.

After securing another kill on Orianna, Jiang Ming's score reached 2-0, while Ming Kai's Lee Sin also gained an assist.

Because Orianna was melted almost instantly, Lee Sin, who had withstood the turret attack, still had half his health remaining.

"Let's control the dragon."

"Row."

Jiang Ming glanced at the situation in the bottom lane. Varus was acting timidly without Flash, and he and Zyra didn't dare to go too far forward to harass, so the bottom lane was kept in a pretty good position.

"Old Park, you'll have to endure some more hardship on your journey."

"Alright, the crocodile can't threaten me without its flash."

PDD didn't have any objections. His teammates would get paid anyway if they took the dragon, and besides, he was a Rumble, so he wasn't afraid of outfarming Renekton.

After killing someone, Talon, who disappeared in the mid lane, put a lot of pressure on GPL's side lanes. Even though they knew that Talon would most likely go to the bottom lane to help Lee Sin take the dragon, both the duo and the top laner Renekton moved back a bit.

It's better to be safe than sorry. At Talon's current level and damage, none of them can withstand him.

Stanley in the top lane was very frustrated. After all, he was an invincible crocodile in the early game, but he failed to kill a Yordle several times. Either the opponent would retreat decisively and not give him the distance to use E and Flash to bite, or the Prince would come and he would cower under the tower in advance. If he couldn't deal with the minions, he would use his ultimate to clear them. Without the minion wave, his Flash, which was used up in the previous gank, was still on cooldown, so he couldn't dive the tower.

Even though he knows that Talon will most likely help Lee Sin take the dragon, he doesn't dare to be too aggressive, lest JM pull off a counter-strategy.

The cautious approach taken by everyone in GPL did not have any real effect.

Because Talon neither helped fight the dragon nor tried to gank the top and bottom lanes, which were already on guard.

"Watch out, JM's Talon has gone to the top jungle."

"The prince just helped Renekton hold off a Polanyi, so he's only at half health. If Talon catches him in the jungle..."

Jiang Ming's timing was very clever, perfectly timed to coincide with the gap when GPL's defensive vision disappeared during a round.

On the big screen, the Prince, who had been counter-jungled at level 1 and had failed to gank multiple times, was severely behind in experience and was still only level 4. He didn't even know if he could reach level 5 after defeating the first group of Krugs in front of him.

HarLeLuYar, who is currently tacitly giving up the dragon to LPL's mid and jungle players, is completely unaware of the impending danger in the jungle.

"Drink!"

As was his habit, the jungler used his EQ combo, the flag landed, and the two golems leaped high into the air.

The audience on stage, however, looked at him with a hint of pity.

Well, once the displacement is completed, life or death is uncertain. Farewell, brother!
Even without his ultimate, a level 6 Talon can still use his basic skills to instantly kill a level 4 Jarvan IV who is only at half health.

The perspective shifts to HarLeLuYar on the purple team. He's fighting jungle monsters and thinking about how to break the deadlock and become the savior of his team and even the region. Suddenly, he sees a strange man walking out from around the corner.

"Hi?"

"Hi!"

"You're not a jungler, are you?"

"I'm not, but you can farm your jungle monsters and I'll farm you."

HarLeLuYar instinctively activated Flash, but the EQ combo, which was on cooldown, gave him no more room to react.

Blademaster took two steps and, using the movement speed from his boots, used his E ability to reach the Prince's face at maximum range.

"How pathetic!"

Despite the laser warning from the turret, unleash the [Throat-Cutting Battle] + AQA combo.

Swish!Swish!
With a fan-shaped blade flashing back and forth, Jiang Ming dealt two instances of damage. After slowing down the enemy and landing a damage-boosting basic attack, he gracefully departed after taking a second hit from the turret.

The 1.5-second bleed damage from the Q skill is sufficient.

Incidentally, in the version before the All-Star event, thanks to Jiang Ming's feedback, Riot Games urgently fixed the bug where Talon's passive increased damage against champions with negative status effects, otherwise, without Ignite, this wave might not have been so easy.

CNLPL-JM has defeated GPL-HarLeLuYar!

The prince eventually collapsed beneath the second tower.

"Wow, a massacre!"

"In less than ten minutes into the game, JM had already reached a level where no one could stop him."

"After killing the mid laner, Talon has now become the third free agent in the game."

Wawa shouted, "GPL's mid and jungle have collapsed. JM has once again shown us what the way of the assassin is with his superb understanding."

Miller was also very excited, "After this return home, I guess I'll have Brutalizer and Boots of Speed."

"Yes, once he levels up, Talon can clear ranged minions with a single W. With the cooldown reduction provided by Brutalizer, Talon's ultimate will have a very short cooldown even at level one."

"Mingkai's Lee Sin has great equipment, while GPL's Jarvan IV is still a pitiful level four. The jungle is about to be completely lost."

In the TGA live stream, the LPL chat was filled with laughter and cheers.

[Wuhu, it's so great to be an LPL fan.]

Hey, what are you looking at? I'm not watching the game anymore. I'll just check the result after get off work tonight. (doge)

[You really can't let JM get an assassin with such explosive roaming ability. Whether they can even penetrate your mid lane is another matter, but your side lanes can forget about having a good game.]

[Brothers, I've signed up for NXG's youth training qualifiers. See you in the Summer Split, fighting alongside JM!]

……

The mid laner died twice in a row, and the jungler was caught and killed in the jungle, completely disrupting GPL's early game rhythm.

Meanwhile, in the LPL, once Talon's ultimate was off cooldown, they started playing a guessing game with their opponents—

Which path do you think I should target next?
The prince bets on the lower route.

"I'm sorry, you guessed wrong."

After enduring the pressure for ten minutes, PDD finally got his hero.

Lee Sin once again used his ward hop and Insec kick, while Talon, equipped with Boots of Speed, activated his ultimate to accelerate, arriving at Renekton's side with lightning speed, surpassing even Usain Bolt's.

[Shadow Strike] [Throat-Cutting Battle] [Eliminate the Weeds]

The moment he landed, he unleashed AQ, unleashing all his power on the crocodile.

PDD didn't even need to pay the finesse for the remaining low-health crocodile; he simply used his Fire Feast skill and a single electronic harpoon to collect the precious 300 coins.

"hey-hey!"

A pig-like laugh echoed in the LPL team's voice chat.

"Keep pressing, keep pressing, if you keep pressing, you'll end up finishing off the same opponent as me."

“You call for reinforcements, and I will call for reinforcements too, but the fighting power of the people we call for is not the same.”

"You press, I press, we all press, and the finishing blows are evenly matched, everyone's laughing."

You call in reinforcements, I'll call in reinforcements; I'll bring my big brother, what will you bring?

Smiling: "Old Park, are you preparing for the postgraduate entrance exam?"

"To be honest, before I started playing e-sports, my old man, Lao Pu, was a well-known handsome young man in the surrounding area, and his grades in elementary school were excellent."

"And then, your junior high school grades weren't ideal?"

"..."

A cunning yet naive giant delivered a devastating blow that sealed the victory.

At eleven minutes, Jiang Ming, who already had Youmuu's Ghostblade, secured a solo kill in the mid lane and, with the help of the Lee Sin who arrived later, demolished GPL's mid tower.

They also crippled the prince who wanted to defend the tower and drove him back to the fountain.

Thirty seconds later, without the threat of a jungler, WeiXiao, who had built attack speed boots, Bilgewater Cutlass, and an attack speed short sword by last-hitting minions, initiated with an E-flash and pinned Zyra to the wall.

He immediately went invisible and rolled to dodge Varus's ultimate, then activated his hunting mode.

With pinpoint accuracy, and knowing Zyra was certain to die, Death Sentence served as a feint, keeping Varus alive as well. Double Kill!
Double kill!

The bot lane duo's kill in their lane matchup once again drew cheers from the audience.

"E Flash!"

"handsome!"

"Ah, smile!"

There is a very interesting phenomenon in the arena;
That is, when a teammate is in a really good mood, showing off their skills, and the atmosphere and communication are all positive, this situation often spreads from one person to multiple people.

Without a doubt, the five LPL players have now entered this state.

The player's performance was so hot that he completely dominated his opponent!

This is also the scene that Jiang Ming hoped to see: in the first year, to make the most of his foresight and bring out NXG's dominance in the entire region.

Then, by leveraging the esports attention generated by this dominance, investors from outside the industry can be attracted to enter the market. Once investors are in, they will have to join the LPL inner circle, regardless of what the team that has taken the biggest slice of the pie is thinking. If they want fans, attention, and money, they will have to join the inner circle.

Once the LPL is on track, we can then start planning for OGN. After all, these guys who can't handle the game don't have the perseverance that the LPL had when it went six or seven years without a World Championship. If you really let them go two or three seasons without winning a championship, it's entirely possible that they'll shut down their servers and stop playing with you.

The time following the first match against GPL was a scene of LPL fans cheering and lining up.

Many longtime fans of S2 probably vented their frustrations from last year's S-series, shouting loudly every time the LPL team got a kill.

Thirteen minutes later, the second dragon spawned. Facing LPL, who had already destroyed the mid and bottom lane turrets, GPL was unable to compete. They were thinking of ganking PDD's Rumble again, but PDD had already scurried to the bottom lane.

When a team's only remaining decision and option in a match is to target the top laner, it means they are on the verge of elimination.

Rumble ran away, and Jarvan IV and Orianna moved to the top lane to try and push the first tower, but Jiang Ming and Mingkai from the LPL side coordinated much faster.

Thirty seconds later, they appeared directly in the middle lane!

It was Mingkai's eye-touch spinning kick again, and this time he successfully pulled off the famous scene of two candied hawthorns in one go.

"I told you, no one can resist the dopamine release brought on by extreme performance."

Without stopping, and coordinating with Vayne to follow up with additional damage, Jiang Ming secured another kill. He glanced at the jungler beside him out of the corner of his eye.

Seeing the smile on the other person's face and the sincere admiration in their voice as it rose higher and higher, I couldn't help but feel moved.

Grain Dance – Nicholas Pig Farm and Seven Sauce Contestant, initial training successful!
Entering the mid-game operation phase, Mingkai and support Thresh together seized vision control in the GPL jungle, while Talon temporarily separated from them.

Two minutes later, the GPL players only saw a crocodile melting in front of the bottom lane's second turret.

Rumble unleashed his ultimate from a distance, keeping the enemy in place. Before the GPL top laner could even figure out what was happening, a man with a cherry blossom blade effect activated and who had used his ultimate to become invisible quietly appeared from the jungle behind him.

[Shadow Strike] [Throat-Cutting Battle] [Eliminate the Weeds]

"Another corpse from the sewer!"

The Season 3 version of Talon may not be as agile as the original Time-Traveling Boy, but in terms of burst damage, even doubling it wouldn't compare to the current Talon.

As luck would have it, Jiang Ming triggered the 2% critical strike chance from his rune, and a critical strike Q skill hit the crocodile's major artery.

"Wow!"

In the commentary booth, two English commentators, one Korean commentator, and the LPL trio all let out a loud "whoosh".

They could hardly believe their eyes. A top laner Renekton hadn't even used his ultimate ability before being instantly killed by Talon during the silence duration.

Looking at his black-and-white screen and the brightly lit jungle area on his right, Stanley hesitated, wanting to say something but then stopping himself.

Who is to blame?
Is it Nakano's fault?

It seems that everyone on the team, from myself to the support, died in various ways.

Nobody's to blame, it's just that the food is bad.

Talon's killing spree continues, sixteen minutes in!
CNLPL-Jm has defeated GPL-Toyz!

Beneath the second mid-lane tower, the fully healed Orianna turned into a corpse.

"Damn it, what kind of hero did Riot release with their patches? One use of E silence and a full-health hero is already in the kill zone. There's absolutely no room for skillful play."

"Just bear with it. After All-Star, Talon will probably be nerfed."

"Brother, do you want to hear what nonsense you're spouting?"

Especially when the purple team has a huge economic advantage and doesn't have a true tank, choosing Blade of the Ruined King as the second item, with its fully stacked attack power, is simply outrageous.

If you add a third item like Last Whisper or Black Cleaver, then every hit will feel like a true wound.

During this time, several teammates also advised Jiang Ming to bring out the butcher knife.

He rejected me. Even if it's a cruel joke, players in the GPL always have their own people, so they'll at least give me some face.

Tomorrow's finals are against OGN. If you keep urging me to release the Killer Sword/Book series, I'm actually quite interested.

With a significant advantage, everyone on the LPL side developed exceptionally well. Even Rumble, who was known for his resilience, quietly pulled out a Liandry's Torment and Zhonya's Hourglass.

PDD: Compression resistance? ??
No, bro, I either got caught and killed, or I didn't get enough kills. During the few minutes the enemy Jarvan IV was targeting me, my own bro got two dragons in a row to give me extra gold. All I had to do was play on my phone under the tower for a bit. And you're telling me that's called being able to withstand pressure?

If this is considered enduring pressure for a top laner, then please arrange matches like this for me every game from now on.

At 17 minutes, under vision control, LPL seized another opportunity, and the Prince and Zyra, who had just reached 400 gold, both perished.

With both jungler and support eliminated, GPL successfully breached the map from the second tower all the way to the top lane high ground.

……

North America, Riot Games.

A group of designers are also paying close attention to the All-Star Game in Shanghai.

Exclamations of surprise filled the room.

"hiss!"

“Oh my god!”

"Talon is absolutely insane, a full-health kill in half a second."

"We must consider limiting this Noxian assassin in the next patch."

"Dude, like I said, simply weakening the effect isn't very effective. The biggest problem right now is the existence of the silence mechanism."

"If Talon uses his E on a squishy target when he has an advantage, it's tantamount to declaring that player dead, and that makes for a terrible gaming experience."

"But if we remove it directly, will we also have to change the silence effect on other heroes?"

"Right now, we still have content to prepare for next season, and the workload of verifying and adjusting the data is simply too large."

"He really gave us a tough problem."

"Hmm, I suggest we weaken them first, at least to prevent the assassins from becoming too invincible."

"Haha, I think this year's competition is much more entertaining than last year's."

A bearded designer chuckled, "Besides, it's precisely because of these changes that we were able to achieve success in the 2013 season, isn't it?"

……

Finally, in the first game, when the five GPL players were on the verge of a mental breakdown, the LPL, who secured the Baron in 21 minutes, delivered their traditional performance.

Who should be the first to be killed?
Originally, this arduous task fell to Pangpang's Thresh, but in the final team fight, with the backline completely decimated by Jiangming's Talon, PDD's Rumble, who wanted to compete with Vayne for the right to reap the rewards, charged too far forward. After using his Zhonya's Hourglass and Fireball to unleash his ultimate, he was accidentally taken to heaven by Zyra's Death Flower.

[As expected of the GPL region, which boasts the S2 World Championship title, they actually managed to take down two LPL players.]

[To the person upstairs: I'm jealous of your talent.]

In a single exchange of two for five, the LPL team, with an economic advantage of over 10,000, destroyed the GPL's crystal.

In the semi-final, we're leading 1-0!

If yesterday's BO3 match between LPL and NA could be excused by the players' poor form and jet lag, then today's similar experience for GPL can be said to have woken up a group of fans from regions who were pretending to be asleep.

So, your LPL All-Star team is really that strong?
Fighting anyone is the same as fighting cavemen!
Even though the laning phase seemed fine on all three lanes, and there was no clear dominance between the players, once the mid and jungle players got moving, the purple team became like a broken faucet that couldn't be turned off.

However, to everyone's surprise, the MVP of the first game of the semi-finals against GPL was not awarded to Talon again, but was ultimately given to Mingkai's Lee Sin.

That makes sense.

In the early game, whether it was Lee Sin's level 3 E-flash gank in mid or his Insec kick that brought Orianna right to Talon's mouth, it can be said that half the credit for this incredibly fed Talon went to Lee Sin.

Jiang Ming naturally had no objections.

The second game started quickly.

GPL adjusted its tactics, choosing a lineup that heavily favors the early game, aiming for a thrilling clash with LPL.

"Thank you for the kindness of the GPL region!"

Backstage, the OGN members watched as the big screen switched to the hero selection for the blue team, GPL, and felt incredibly grateful.

Coincidentally, their tactical design includes the option of picking early-game heroes to pressure the LPL in terms of tempo.

However, when PDD, on the purple side, picked Jayce on the fifth floor, Jiang Ming picked Kha'Zix in the mid lane again, and the bot lane duo instantly locked in Varus and Zyra, the smiles on the faces of the five OGN players gradually faded with time.

A strong early game?

Let's take a look at poke-style lineups.

The team consists of two defensive champions: Zyra as support and Xin Zhao as jungler, along with Jayce, Kha'Zix, and Varus, who all have poke abilities.

At the start of the second game, PDD's Jayce received god-like treatment.

First, Zhao Xin ganked top lane with a single buff at level 2, helping to secure First Blood. Then, Kha'Zix got a solo kill in mid lane, and after getting Tear of the Goddess, he gave up the first blue buff.

Five minutes later, Zyra roamed to the top lane and, together with Xin Zhao, caught the GPL top and jungle duo who were trying to target Jayce.

Just how terrifying is a Jayce who has a full load of team resources and gets kills and minions like crazy in the mid-game? LPL demonstrated this in the second game of the semifinals.

Three times!

In the dragon fight, three basic attacks took away half of the support's health.

A single shot from the mid lane killed the jungler and AD carry, who still had a third of their health remaining.

Players witnessed the entire game as Kha'Zix initiated with his W to slow down opponents, and Jayce used his ultimate to train the GPL players' positioning skills.

(End of this chapter)