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

Chapter 224 The head coach has finished warming up.

EU region players are devastated.

They were already badly beaten and bruised by a bunch of devils in the group stage, and almost failed to advance from the group stage.

Having finally climbed out of the abyss of the group stage and stood in the quarterfinals, they hadn't even had two seconds to celebrate before the draw slapped their smiles back down.

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The story unfolded exactly as expected, or rather, the last glimmer of hope they held was extinguished at lightning speed.

Perhaps, maybe we can win?
It's guaranteed to lose.

They entered the venue, and including the time it took to start the quarterfinals, they were already in the second game in less than an hour.

If I could have been this efficient at ranked matches back then, my mom wouldn't have had to worry about me being late for school in the afternoon because I played games after school.

Who would have thought that even though the EU was already in such a terrible state, that devil from NXG would have to personally step in.

Even as soon as the second game started, he couldn't wait to take off his suit and put on the NXG jersey.

Even the tournament organizers didn't expect that a single shot from the broadcast would steal the spotlight from the quarterfinals.

Right now, whether at the stadium or in the live broadcast room, the discussion is all about JM's upcoming performance, and for a moment no one is paying attention to the match that is currently taking place.

LPL viewer: What's the point of watching this match? NXG vs. FNC, isn't that like the Trisolarans beating up cavemen?
My Chinese teacher once said that the process can be omitted, and my math teacher once said that the ending is very important.

Now I can confirm that the final score is 3-0. As for the details, they are of course irrelevant.

A few seconds later, the audience even started chanting Jiang Ming's ID inside the venue.

"JM!" "JM!" "JM"

Fortunately, this spontaneous behavior only lasted a short while. NXG's unusual decision on the big screen made countless players interested in watching the game again.

In the level 1 lane swap, Kha'Zix, Graves, and Pantheon rushed straight into the red buff area at the exact time the minions spawned.

While Kha'Zix might only be a small-time Kamaji at level one, the appearance of Graves and Pantheon, two muscular giants, instantly made the FNC players lose their desire to contest the red buff area.

Spider pinched his nose and ran to the bottom lane where someone started with blue buff.

"Suddenly I realized that NXG's lineup isn't so bad when it comes to lane swapping. With Pantheon, whose passive can block turret damage multiple times, their turret-diving ability is in no way inferior to the purple team's Elise."

Xiaoxiao belatedly realized, "And everyone should pay attention. NXG's opening strategy after the lane swap was very different from FNC's in the previous game. After clearing the first set of jungle monsters, Pantheon didn't rush back to the lane. Instead, he stayed in the jungle to protect Kha'Zix, leaving Graves to farm alone in the top lane."

"This is really tough on the crocodile. sOAZ originally wanted to learn from norsha's Kennen in the last game and farm directly in the jungle to avoid NXG's level 2 tower dive, but now the jungler and support have completely taken over the top half of the map. When they saw the crocodile fighting the Krugs, they immediately attacked him. Oh, and Pantheon even stole the Krugs."

"Meanwhile, because Spider was delayed by going from top to bottom, Lissandra was already level 2 by the time the others reached the lower half of NXG."

"I feel like things are going to get really bad if Lissandra takes W at level 2 and has crowd control, she can easily Flash and lock down the person other than your Elise who is responsible for tanking the tower, and they can be easily taken down."

"NXG's jungler and support drove away the Renekton, so he couldn't farm the minion wave or jungle monsters. Three or four minutes passed, and sOAZ's Renekton still had zero CS."

"Oh dear, I need to catch my breath, my train of thought is a bit sluggish."

Watching NXG's jungler and support constantly change positions on the field, while the only target, the crocodile, remained in a miserable state, Miller even imitated Xiaoxiao and started telling a stand-up comedy routine.

"The purple team started with a 4v5 situation, and the crocodile kept AFK. How can we play like this?"

After their early game rhythm was disrupted, FNC, on the purple side, found themselves in a state of confusion, desperately trying to find a direction but unsure how to deal with NXG's wave after wave of attacks.

One second ago, the top laner was still trembling with fear, looking at the destroyed first tower and the minion wave coming towards the second tower, not daring to approach easily, fearing that if he made a mistake, NXG would seize the opportunity and kill him directly in front of the high ground.

But then a system notification suddenly came from the mid lane that LeBlanc had been killed.

sOAZ quickly turned the camera around and saw a shirtless, low-health Pantheon walking out of the turret. Just as the turret was about to take him down, the War King launched a basic attack on a blue minion, and a golden shield immediately surrounded him.

Click!

The crisp sound of collision echoed through Summoner's Rift, and the bright "miss" mark above Pantheon's head made the hearts of the EU spectators in the audience stop.

Is Ueno and Nakano invincible?
Damn it, the mid-lane LeBlanc got tower-dived and killed in five minutes, what kind of invincibility is that?

Pantheon can stack three passive stacks. He can use a basic attack to tank the tower first, then refresh the shield with W, and the fourth basic attack can refresh the shield again.

Pantheon grants immunity to three tower attacks in the early game. While Elise's flight can avoid aggro and redirect tower attacks, Pantheon eliminates the last vestige of the risk of tower diving.

NXG secured the first blood, and FNC's jungler Elise tried to replicate it.

However, when they actually faced Lissandra in the top lane, FNC was dumbfounded.

"Fuck, what is this thing?"

Jungler CyanideFI typed a series of question marks behind Lissandra.

Just as he was preparing to flank and dive the tower, NXG's top laner not only did not retreat, but instead moved towards their bot lane, which made Huang Xing's Sona very embarrassed and dared not rashly draw aggro to tank the tower.

As professional players, it's true that they rarely see this new hero being played in the top lane, but that doesn't mean they don't even know what Lissandra's abilities are.

For a squishy character like him, the crowd control provided by W [Frost Ring] means that if he gets hit, he's very likely to be taken down by the opponent.

"Let the spider go first."

It was just such a brief moment of reflection.

Song Yuan had already cleared out all the minions in front of the tower with a QW combo, while simultaneously dropping the Glacier Path behind the tower.

"Bye, you!"

The azure icy claws continued to recede into the distance, and CyanideFI predictively threw out Lissandra's E skill at its furthest point—miss!

However, Song Yuan activated it ahead of time, falling behind by a body length and narrowly missing the white spider web.

"Pretty!"

"Faced with FNC's encirclement and kill, Norsha was bold and careful. Not only did he not die, but he even ate all the minions before escaping."

With an exaggerated expression, Xiaoxiao exclaimed, "What are you waiting for? Top laners who have suffered from tower diving, Lissandra, learn from this!"

Needless to say, the players' minds were already racing at the sight of the Frost Claw with its incredible teleportation range.

Having E before level 6 and having the ability to protect yourself with your ultimate after level 6 is simply an essential weapon for solo queue top laners.

As it turns out, the players' considerations were correct.

As the game progressed into the mid-game, FNC discovered this thorny problem: they had absolutely no way to counter the split-pushing of this mage who was full of crowd control and had extremely strong survivability.

It's impossible to catch someone with fewer than three people.

On the contrary, the crocodile who is matched up against Lissandra has such a poor early game that once he switches lanes to face the top laner in the mid-game, as long as the jungler comes over, Lissandra can use her E skill to dash in and use her ultimate to help Kha'Zix get a kill.

The NXG lineup is beginning to take shape.

As the match progressed, the players on the field, the commentators and the audience off the field discovered the existence of a hidden boss.

"Graves' level is so high!"

"Wow, is it for real that an ADC is on par with a solo laner?"

"xPeke's LeBlanc went after Graves, a one-on-one duel between the two carries - oh ho ho, God xPeke can't withstand the damage from Graves' shotgun. If he hadn't dodged the ultimate bomb with Flash, xPeke might have died in his own blue buff area."

Mid laner nearly gets solo killed by AD carry!

When the commentator mentioned the level of the male gunner, people suddenly realized what it meant.

Pantheon was always following Kha'Zix's lead in the early game, so it's no wonder Graves' level was high.

Entering Season 3, Graves' pick rate has been decreasing, mainly due to his short range and numerous nerfs to his stats, which have left him without a significant advantage against other marksmen and in team fights.

However, now Graves, who is soloing experience and has a lead in both level and equipment, has given FNC a taste of what it means for an AD carry to be incredibly tanky while also dealing extremely explosive damage.

The invincible top, mid, and jungle dominance that EU viewers were hoping for not only failed to materialize, but the purple team's lineup completely collapsed within fifteen minutes.

The Crocodile with 0-2, the Spider with 0-1, and the Enchantress with 0-2!
It's no exaggeration to say that the phrase "men are speechless and women are in tears" perfectly describes the situation.

If the laning phase isn't the ultimate torture, then the team fights in the latter half are where the real torture begins.

Pantheon uses his ultimate to block the enemy's backline, while Lissandra uses Ice Path to engage from the front, preventing FNC from desperately trying to turn around and counterattack.

Immediately following up, Graves glides in and charges in, using Q and R to raise his gun and fire into the crowd. He doesn't need a target; he just throws the gun wherever there are the most people.

Yihan's mid-lane Lulu switched to support in that instant. While using her ultimate to help Lissandra raise her health, she also started playing a game of lifting up the FNC heroes who were grouped together.

"A perfect entry; Sona and Corki were reduced to low health in an instant."

"Lissandra used her ultimate on herself, and the group slow effect was extremely deadly. Kha'Zix disappeared into the void—wow, he killed Sona first, and YellowStar's ultimate even hit thin air."

"They're about to collapse. It's even more outrageous than the first game. FNC, who tried to fight hard in the early game, is like a clay figure, collapsing under the giant's blow."

In 22 minutes, NXG destroyed all of FNC's outer towers and a high ground crystal.

And two minutes later, they ended the game.

With the first round of the quarterfinals reaching this point, even the most optimistic EU viewers know that their glory, the S1 champion team FNC, will end here this year.

Compared to the previous game where individual performances from the top and mid laners led to victory, NXG's pseudo-four-protect-one strategy of supporting their jungler Kha'Zix in the second game left the other eight teams feeling suffocated.

What is jungling?
Isn't it just about taking two buffs in the early game, ganking a couple of times in the middle, then giving the jungle to the two carries, and being a utility player who provides crowd control in team fights?

What the heck is this about raising a super-powerful mantis?

However, the players didn't have time to feel sorry for the EU region's miserable experience, because what awaited them was the long-awaited moment—the head coach warming up and taking the field.

……

LPL studio.

Bella and Xiaoxiao, who had already received the news, were getting into the mood, and Miller also joined in.

As soon as the halftime break ended and the director switched the signal to the studio, XiaoXiao's exaggerated, cackling voice, as if he had swallowed a Soul Hall elder whole, echoed in the ears of LPL players.

"Haha, everyone, he's here! The man is here!"

The three had a clear division of labor. After Xiaoxiao finished speaking, Miller took over, saying, "We received news that in the third match of the quarterfinals, the NXG team chose to make a substitution, replacing player yihan with substitute JM."

"Wow, it's really great that Ming chose to appear in the quarterfinals."

Bella placed her right hand on her chest to express her excitement.

"Yes, everyone can see how competitive the NXG team is. I was already prepared that JM wouldn't play in the quarterfinals."

As for the specific reasons, there's no need to delve into them with a smile.

[Sob sob, I suddenly realized that every match I see from Ming Ge onwards is one less I'll get to watch.]

【Why? JM is only nineteen, right in the prime of his esports career.】

[The person upstairs is clearly an honest man. Let me ask you this: if you had JM's status and wealth, would you continue sitting in front of the computer playing professionally, or would you expand your business empire?]

To be honest, I really hope JM can manage his club well and discover more talent for the LPL.

[So when will JM update "I Love Invention"?]

[JM Food Time isn't available downstairs from my place yet, hurry up and grab it!]

[Forget playing professionally, go be a boss!]

[@Jinling University, is this Jinling University? I want to report a student who is not doing their job properly.]

[(doge) They're all bosses now, who's going to play professionally anymore?]

Fans in the live stream started making all sorts of memes, and the next scene made the chat and the cheering audience in the room go wild.

Knowing that the director's camera had switched to the backstage area, Jiang Ming was seized by a playful mood. He leaned back in his chair, and somehow managed to drape his suit jacket over his shoulders again.

Only after the referee announced that the contestant should return to the stage did he slowly stand up.

Hidden behind her, Chen Muxin tried hard to suppress her laughter while helping her boss take off his coat, making it appear as if the coat had slid off automatically in front of the camera.

Once the protagonist was fully standing, the other four team members all came to their leader's side, perfectly blocking Chen Muxin from behind.

White Crescent silently raised her phone, found the background music for the God of Gamblers' appearance, and tapped to play it.

Deng!Deng!Deng!
At that moment, the Western audience, who understood what JM was doing, burst into laughter.

The players at the scene raised their hands in unison, cheering for the team leader who was willing to bring them joy in this way.

"JM!" "JM!" "JM!"

(End of this chapter)