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

Chapter 159 Large-scale Internet Addiction Rehabilitation Campaign!
After netizens with incredible connections dug up the family backgrounds of several contestants, the live stream chat exploded.

Previously, Jiang Ming's handling of the bonus distribution issue, which had been criticized as being too controlling, suddenly seemed reasonable in everyone's eyes.

It turns out that NXG club is genuinely considering the well-being of its underage players.

Looking back now, the way Little Stone could seamlessly transition into selling products no matter what he said was a special skill he developed for survival.

My friend, are you trying to kill me?

From this perspective, NXG truly deserves the title of the best club in the LPL right now; they really go to great lengths for their players.

Xiao Shitou and Xiao Wu stared at the comments on the screen, their eyes still calm and their faces still bearing faint smiles. They even took the initiative to chat with the viewers about their own situation.

If it were when they first joined the team six months ago, they might have actually been hit where it hurt and broken down.

But now, no more.

During their time at the club, the boys underwent a transformation from caterpillars to butterflies.

The once withdrawn little monster who curled up in its cocoon has now grown into a boy who can stretch his wings in the sunlight and believe in the light.

During this journey, Jiang Ming not only taught them how to improve their e-sports skills, but also reshaped their mental world.

From initial self-isolation to proactive participation in teamwork, the team systematically taught life skills, social etiquette, and philosophy of life.

The psychology professor he specially invited from his alma mater opened a new window for these young people who had been labeled as "problem children" and "internet addicts" to understand themselves.

When applause and flowers poured in on the field, the arrogance in the eyes of the little monsters had long since settled into composure, and their former confusion and stubbornness had turned into a light and breezy smile, allowing them to shine with their own unique brilliance on the e-sports stage.

The difference in strategic positioning is immediately apparent.

JM is great, right?

Alright, alright, that's enough. Today's event is about winning the championship, why bring this up?

[Some people are trying to profit from this tragedy.]

Seeing that the trend of the comments had changed again, Jiang Ming subtly gave Chen Muxin a wink.

He investigated the contestants' family backgrounds with the intention of helping them on their path to success, not to use this as a way to gain sympathy and market himself.

Some money is worth earning, while some is not. When all you care about is money, even if you succeed temporarily, you will eventually suffer the consequences.

He has a clear understanding of just how murky the e-sports world is.

Chen Muxin: "Okay, now let's move on to the next question."

"A question from the online referee robot Captain Dragonfly!"

Perhaps the second question led to a positive outcome, as the subsequent interactions gradually shifted towards anecdotes about the team members' lives.

Who in the team is the most "stingy"? When ordering takeout with everyone, they are always very meticulous about the costs, feeling the pinch even for spending a penny more, and will even haggle with the restaurant?

Xu Jing (serious face): NXG employees are all averse to takeout. Ordering takeout is strictly prohibited during work hours. The food in the cafeteria is delicious enough.

Who is the team's "narcissistic ceiling"? Someone who always thinks their gameplay is amazing, constantly invites others to watch their highlight reels, and then endlessly boasts about it?

Song Yuan (looking at AD): This question seems to need no further explanation.

[Whose game ID in the team makes you want to complain the most? You definitely wouldn't choose such a name if it were you.]

Pang Ran: That has to be Xiao Wu's ID. Every time Ming Ge goes on a match, he has to be included. Otherwise, there's always a feeling of leaving something to regret at the base.

【…】

……

The interview segment with the champion lasted for about half an hour. Although the viewers in the live broadcast room were still asking all sorts of questions, Jiang Ming knew very well that when doing live broadcasts, the program must not be monotonous, otherwise it would be easy to lose the viewers who were not interested in the Q&A.

"Wow, I didn't expect everyone to be so interested in the daily lives of our NXG players! However, we can't neglect one thing at the same time; we also need to take good care of our technical viewers. Next up is the second segment of today's program, which is specially prepared for those fans who are eager to learn tactical details and dream of becoming professional players."

"The second segment is called: NXG Dream Chasing Training Ground!"

Chen Muxin cleared her throat and solemnly introduced the rules for the second part of today's NXG championship live stream event:

"In this segment, five members of our NXG team will act as training examiners. We will randomly select several lucky viewers in the live stream to have the opportunity to enter the game and experience firsthand the daily training of an esports team. How about it, aren't you excited?"

[Oh ho, finally the main course is here!]

[Old Man Leiser, Bronze 2, requests to participate.]

[The Noxian master of technique is ready.]

Pick me, pick me, pick me! I want to experience what it's like to be a professional gamer.

The barrage of comments caused the live stream to heat up. Chen Muxin coughed lightly and instantly switched to professional commentary mode.

With a light tap of her finger, a dynamic scoreboard popped up in the center of the main live stream screen, with clear rule entries appearing one by one in a blue light effect:

"Attention all trial players: NXG Club will be using a 100-point scoring system for this trial. The score will be based on rank, 40% of the score, 20% of the score, 10% of the score, 15% of the score, 15% of the score, and 15 ...."

The interactive sessions in the live stream will not completely replicate the club's offline trial process. The rules mentioned by Chen Muxin are a simplified trial mechanism specially designed by Jiang Ming for this live stream.

It is worth noting that, in addition to ordinary viewers, many professional players and team managers who were lurking in NXG's live stream were also very interested in NXG's innovative trial training method.

See, it works well, so let's just copy it.

With the second round of drawing winners from screenshots of comments now complete, the list of the first batch of players to experience the service has been released.

"This experience adopts a batch rotation mechanism, with fifteen players experiencing the experience in batches according to the live broadcast room. In each round, three players are randomly selected to form a temporary team. When the first player enters the battle interface, the other two players simultaneously enter the pre-match preparation state. This compact arrangement effectively avoids the problem of excessive waiting time for the audience."

The young man with the game ID "Want to Say But Hesitant" is an ordinary League of Legends player, whose rank is neither high nor low, around Gold II.

He enjoys watching matches and is keen on reviewing professional leagues from an observer's perspective. Although he can talk eloquently about tactical details such as team fight decisions and resource allocation, his friends always jokingly call him the "ceiling of cloud gamers".

He wanted to speak but hesitated, wanting to prove himself.

Dramatically, during the NXG team's championship victory live stream event, this Gold II player, eager to prove himself, unexpectedly won the opportunity to participate in a live stream trial and became one of the lucky viewers selected by the system.

"Ahem, unfortunately, I have to tell you all that because your rank is not up to par, your base score will be reduced by 40 points!"

"Now, I will assign you to five different rooms with different training content."

[Haha, that's hilarious! Getting forty points deducted right off the bat is something else!]

[After deducting 40 points, how many are left? Sixty. That's probably not enough to pass the trial.]

[What does it mean to be struck dumb? This is it. You used to watch matches and think you could do it too, pointing fingers at those bad players. Little did you know, you haven't even met the minimum requirements to be selected for a professional team.]

[Damn, my highest rank is only Diamond 4, I'm not qualified, I'm not qualified at all! (doge)] The first stop of "Want to say but holding back" is the basic skills test that Xu Jing is in charge of.

In the secondary live stream room, the flamboyant Xu Jing's smile became increasingly grotesque:
"Hehehe, the rules are simple. There are three sets of basic skills training. The first is to last-hit specific heroes with no items for ten minutes. The second will include interference from a regular-level computer..."

It doesn't seem too difficult; as long as you can get 65 kills in 10 minutes, you'll pass.

"They really look down on people."

He hesitated to speak, inwardly complaining. You see, ever since watching JM's tutorial videos and understanding the importance of minion economy, he has been practicing his last-hitting skills regularly. Even with opponents interfering in the laning phase, he can still get around 70 last hits in ten minutes, and practicing in single-player mode is a piece of cake for him.

Viewers on channel 120021 gradually moved to several secondary live broadcast rooms.

People are now watching with wide eyes, even if they weren't lucky enough to be drawn as audience members, it's still great to be an observer.

"The basic skills of the players during the trial training are usually based on heroes such as Soraka or Anivia."

Jiang Ming stopped being his mascot and started his commentary work ahead of time. "Basic skills, as the name suggests, test the player's mastery of the hero's basic abilities. In LOL, a hero's offensive ability consists of basic attacks and skills. Skill effects vary and are affected by cooldowns. However, the mastery of basic attacks, which is only affected by projectile trajectory and attack speed, is the best test of a player."

"Anivia, Soraka, and Fiddlesticks are among the most difficult champions in the League to handle in terms of projectile design."

[+1!]

Every time I play Anivia, I'm disgusted by that ridiculous arm-raising animation.

Soraka's big banana is like a soft, yielding banana; it feels like it doesn't do any harm.

[Unbelievable! Playing these three heroes, not only is last-hitting minions difficult, but you're also not allowed to buy items.]

The live stream chat was filled with comments like a meteor shower, while the five trial players were facing a unique last-hitting challenge.

He seemed to want to say something but held back, his expression focused and serious.

When you see a minion with low health, rely on your long-established intuition to accurately locate the low-health minion and quickly right-click repeatedly.

puff!
Soraka's extremely slow-moving banana collided with the soldier's body.

bingo!

empty?

The trajectory of the bullet precisely overlapped with the death health bar of the melee minion, yet no finishing sound effect was triggered.

There were no extra coins awarded for last-hitting enemies.

Damn, I missed the very first one?

Gan!
They calculated the minion's health bar accurately, but they didn't anticipate Soraka's attack speed.

He hesitated, his ears burning, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw his friends' teasing comments in the live stream, saying "The King of Mouths Revealed." He quickly moved his mouse to the next target.

However, under the strict rules of no attack speed items and disabled skills, three melee minions simultaneously entering the kill threshold gave him no chance to adjust.

call out!call out!call out!
The blue team's ranged minions unleashed a barrage of magical projectiles, successfully securing kills for their own heroes against enemy soldiers.

[Hahaha, that's hilarious! Old Hugh, you actually stabbed me three times right off the bat!]

[Oh dear, you always brag about how great your fundamentals are, how come you messed up right from the start?]

[There are only three melee minions in one wave. If they all leak out, I could do it myself this time.]

The harsh reality of esports basic training is that even players who have undergone systematic training still have a significant gap in last-hitting accuracy compared to professional league standards.

When restrictions such as being naked from the game, having skills disabled, and even having thousands of viewers in the live stream, coupled with the simulated first-hit mistake in a real match, are stacked on top of each other, they can become the trigger for the collapse of psychological defenses.

This situation is particularly noticeable in games when last-hitting minions under the tower: when a player misses three minions, they often become anxious due to the economic gap, which leads to haphazard skill usage, forced wave clearing, and other distorted operations, ultimately creating a vicious cycle of "missing minions - impatience - collapse".

Imagine if you were frustrated in a normal ranked game, let alone now with tens of thousands of eyes watching you...

His hesitant last-hitting was a failure. His eagerness to prove himself led to a mistake in his first wave of attacks, and he failed to adjust in time. In the end, his last-hitting count at the ten-minute mark was an embarrassing 52.

Inside the room, the other players who were trying out the basic skills had also been defeated one after another!

Surprisingly, the live stream chat didn't have time to tease these players.

Even the best performer was only a player who had reached Diamond 4 rank, barely managing to pass the first and second groups.

The third group's general computer interference training turned them into complete mules.

"Oh, is it because your computer settings are malicious, Riot Games?"

"Just focus on last-hitting minions, why are you chasing me around and attacking me!"

"Oh dear, there's also fear, my cannon!"

"Dude, you can't even jump big on a computer?"

Screams echoed in the live stream. Gradually, the "Diamond 4 God" whose lips were originally raised at a 70-degree angle were pulled back to their original state by the Doomsday Messenger's whip, and he completely broke down.

Challenge failed!

The basic skills training area ended in a complete wipeout, and the situation on other tracks was equally disastrous.

Not to mention Xiao Wu and Pang Ran's "online classes".

Song Yuan was leading a group of players who considered themselves top-tier in a "tug-of-war training" session in the top lane.

In the scene, the difference in health between the two heroes facing off is immediately apparent. The hero on the left has a full health bar like a reservoir, while the hero on the right is like a leaky bucket, barely clinging to life with only half health left.

"It's a tug-of-war! How many times have I told you? Is this some kind of stroll?"

"That's it? That's it? With your skill level, even my grandma could dodge skills better than you when she's typing on a keyboard."

"Don't you understand the importance of trading blows? How can you get a solo kill without trading blows? How can you get your jungler to tower dive?"

While operating the game, Song Yuan kept talking non-stop, putting constant pressure on the opposing player like a perpetual motion machine.

It's unclear how the other players are experiencing it, but the constant laughter outside the live stream room already demonstrates just how good the live stream is going.

What's it like to try out for NXG fans?

NO!

This is clearly a massive online education session on internet addiction!

　They're here! Kneel down and offer water, Lao Qing kowtows on the spot. (Next chapter preview: The Black and White teams make their appearance!)
　　
　
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