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

Chapter 228 Ultimate Payment Speed!

There was no additional description, nor any other hints to refute it. It was just a typical LOL hero poster commonly found in internet cafes, with a classic line from Master Yi added next to it. After that, NXG didn't need to handle it themselves; they could leave it to Bella and Xiaoxiao, or even invite them to their coastal hotel to improve their living conditions. Miller, who was traveling with them, could upload his "firsthand observations" of NXG's hard training.

In this way, the marketing effort was positioned at just the right level.

Even if Jiang Ming is absolutely confident of winning S3, considering the bloated fanbase, the subsequent various comparisons and attacks will inevitably arouse the resentment of casual fans, so they also need to do a good job of guiding them.

Expansion?

It can't expand even a little bit.

JM brand embroidery needles, each stitch is specially designed to prick LPL inflating little balloons.

You say the fans are arrogant, and that they randomly belittle other teams?
Yes, but may I ask you, if I were to lead the recitation of the "steady" mantra, how would you respond?
NXG's response naturally had a moderately positive guiding effect on IG and Royal Never Give Up;
Imagine three students from the same school going out to take a major exam. The person who gets the best score and makes a good start in the preliminary round is not only not arrogant, but also always studies and practices more than you. When you compare them side by side, you are the kind of person who would rather slack off than sleep.

On September 23rd!

The second best-of-five (BO5) of the quarterfinals of the League of Legends World Championship is underway, with LPL's Royal Club facing off against OGN's Samsung.

To outside viewers, this match between the third seed and the first seed was a sure thing.

Leaving aside the ranking differences between different regions, just considering the extremely similar tactical styles of the two teams, SSO, with its more comprehensive jungle-support synergy, is clearly ahead of Royal Club, which was repeatedly taught a lesson by NXG in the LPL region.

Even before the match started, many OGN fans on Korean online forums were already chanting "Samsung ~ 3-0!"

Even on the day of the competition, some South Korean female fans came to the scene and kept repeating the shout of "step on the face" in front of the Royal Family members who came out from backstage.

"What's the difference between this and later in the table tennis match when he shouted in a high-pitched voice in front of my team captain Long that Lin Gaoyuan was 4-0?"

Sitting in the same venue, Jiang Ming, playing the role of an ordinary fan, was inwardly complaining.

Dude, we LPL members are just joking around saying that Royal Club is the worst of the three teams in S3. You guys don't actually believe it and are taking the joke as reality, do you?

In the original timeline, Royal Club managed to reach the finals despite lagging behind in tactics and player understanding. Now, after two seasons of intense competition within the region, their tactical reserves and on-field experience are vastly different. With players like Tabe possessing coaching talent, and Royal Club having strengthened their roster, why do you think a team like Samsung, eliminated in the group stage, could possibly beat them?

If you're discussing the fully rebuilt Samsung team next year, I can understand; but with the current team, to say they can easily defeat Royal Club is...
How could you drink like this after just a few dishes?

Putting everything else aside, Royal Club, after facing NXG in the region—which was practically a mock test of LCK operations—still lost to Samsung. Those guys from the Dark Forces are probably ready to rush from their homes to Los Angeles with knives and wipe out all of Royal Club's guys.

Whether they owe the champion or not is unknown, but the royal family that made it to the semifinals will definitely have to sign an IOU.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ming looked back with a strange expression, only to see several Korean boys wearing masks sitting at the spot where the Chinese female voice had just shouted "3 to 0".

"Goodness, could it be NJ shouting from backstage?"

……

As it turns out, that shout of "three to zero" did have an effect...

The buff effect was applied to all five members of the royal family.

During the match between Royal Club and Samsung, Waiter, a player who was ranked at the bottom among the three mid laners in the LPL, suddenly broke out.

Ah Zhen, clearly out of sorts, was crushed in three consecutive games: her forehand Slark dominated Clockwerk, her backhand Clockwerk stomped on Slark's face, and in the final duel between Ahri and Kassadin, there was even the bizarre scene of Kassadin overpowering Ahri.

In Season 3, despite Riot's numerous changes, the mid lane still holds a crucial position.

In the mid lane, he was at a disadvantage in the laning phase, unable to trade blows in the early game, and unable to provide support. In the jungle, Dandy suffered heavy losses.

Spider-Man is very cunning; he even called on his support, Tabe, to join him during the invasion, thus completing multiple arrests in the jungle.

As for UZI's bot lane, perhaps because he had been trained by NXG for two seasons, he had accumulated more experience. Even when he was alone in the bot lane, he did not die suddenly. In fact, he even managed to play a 1v2 chase against the SSO duo in the bot lane.

The silence from the mid-jungle duo directly impacted both the top and bottom halves of the map; in all three games, Samsung failed to control even a handful of dragons.

You're saying there's a difference in the players' abilities?
Viewers who watched the match that day would definitely shake their heads in disagreement, as the individual skill of the Samsung players was no worse than that of Royal Club.

In the jungle-support synergy gameplay, Royal Club seems to have an innate immunity, not only being able to respond promptly to the synergy between Samsung Matt and Dandy, but even launching a counter-attack after the opponent has made a move.

With the mid laner completely destroyed, their best jungle-support synergy proved ineffective, and Samsung ended up ridiculously relying on veteran Redmi in the top lane to save the day.

So much so that when the game reached the third set, due to the excessive length of the match, Hongmi's face turned red, and he clutched his lower back in pain, requesting a substitution from his coaching staff.

then……

And that was it. In the second round of the quarterfinals, Royal Club defeated Samsung 3-0, sending them home.

Thus, SSO replaced TSM as the biggest shockwave of the S3 World Championship.

A seeded team that directly qualified for the quarterfinals was defeated by the third seed from the LPL region, and in such a humiliating way that they were completely wiped out.

Korean netizens were immediately taken aback!

Some cursed loudly, some wailed in pain, but most of the criticism was directed at the Samsung team who had just achieved a 0-3 record.

That night, players on the OGN esports forum split into two factions. One faction called themselves the "conservative faction" and created a huge poster depicting VUL's five wins and three losses in the group stage, resulting in their elimination in the group stage, while Samsung, with a zero win rate in the World Championship, was able to reach the quarterfinals.

Yes, the militants drove a suicide truck to the gate of Samsung's under-construction base.

……

September 24th.

Orange Bear vs. SKT!

To the astonishment of countless viewers, the quarterfinals once again ended in a 3-0 score.

Yesterday, players on the forums that were mocking the OGN region were suddenly hit by a boomerang.

As seeded teams, Samsung at least played more than 30 minutes in each game, while Orange Bear only managed to hold on for a while in the first game before being crushed by SKT in the next two.

The top laner was solo killed by Da Mu in lane, the mid laner entered a duo queue mode with the turret four minutes into the game, and the most hilarious bot lane duo was the jungler.

They kept sending out SOS signals until the jungler arrived, only to find Bengi ganking behind them. The two of them used Flash to escape without looking back, leaving the enemy Jarvan IV in the bottom lane, thinking that Caitlyn was giving him a double buff.

In the third game, Faker picked his favorite Ahri, achieving a stunning 9-0-5 score with a fully stacked Mejai's Soulstealer, helping his team win the quarterfinals and redeeming the OGN region's reputation to some extent.

The problem lies with Samsung, not their entire region.

Now that the quarterfinals have progressed this far, the ones sweating the most are not the professional teams that have failed and are preparing to return to their regions to face the wrath of their fans, but rather the team that created the rule that seeded teams from each region directly advance to the quarterfinals.

Apart from NXG, who performed brilliantly in the first BO5, Orange Bear and SSO significantly lowered the prestige of the quarterfinals.

The quarterfinalists, who finished 3-0 without a single win, are hardly worthy of admiration compared to the other representative teams who performed well in the group stage but were limited by their qualification spots.

Questions have quietly arisen regarding the reasonableness and fairness of the competition rules.

"Won't the final quarterfinal match also end in a 3-0 score?"

September 25th.

The final best-of-five series of the quarterfinals has begun.

C9 lived up to their reputation as the pride of North America, successfully taking the first game against IG by capitalizing on Kid's mistakes in a team fight. This prevented three of the eight seeded teams from being swept 3-0, and Riot Games was bombarded by some fans from the region who were angry about questioning the tournament rules.

Of course, that's all. After losing the first game, IG made decisive adjustments.

After Kid secured Ezreal first, support Xiao Wu decisively left the bottom lane to farm, allowing the top, mid, and jungle players to combine their mechs and successfully shatter C9's defenses.

Three to one!

IG has successfully advanced and will face NXG in a life-or-death battle at the Garen Center on the afternoon of the 28th of this month, three days later.

……

"Nice!"

"IG won, 3 to 1, the last LPL team has advanced."

"We have secured three of the four semifinal spots – an invincible trident!"

"If... I mean if, Royal Club in the upper bracket can defeat SKT, then our LPL will achieve a groundbreaking feat in the history of LOL at Staples Center."

"They'll meet in the finals!!!"

Go Royal Family!

……

With the conclusion of the match between IG and C9.

From then on, apart from the teams from the Chinese and Korean regions, all the teams from Europe, America, and the S2 champion region went home.

There was even a remarkable situation in the semifinals where all three LPL teams advanced.

No one expected things to turn out this way. OGN at least has a runner-up title, but a year ago in S2, LPL was still a weak team that failed to advance beyond the quarterfinals.

This result reignited the overconfidence that the LPL had finally managed to calm down for a while.

They were even openly discussing how much of a chance Royal Club had of advancing to the finals after NXG defeated IG, thus securing the S3 championship trophy for their region.

Fortunately, neither Jiang Ming nor the other members of NXG were influenced by the prevailing atmosphere.

He immediately began the next phase of special training after the quarterfinal match against FNC.

There's another reason why the contestants are so motivated!
"The prize money for the top four teams has been deposited into your bank accounts. Please remember to check it."

(End of this chapter)