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

Chapter 5 Go home and raise pigs!

In the Zhujiang Road internet cafe's array of CRT monitors, a small pilgrimage ceremony was underway at camera number 17. On a makeshift stand made of three packs of Red Nanjing cigarettes, a mobile phone screen played a slow-motion video of a tower-hopping kill. As the kill mark exploded, a series of metallic clangs echoed from the back row, a tribute of over thirty mineral water bottles crashing to the ground simultaneously.

"Rewind! Rewind and check the energy control!" The dyed-blonde network administrator squeezed into the crowd, the "Noxian Guillotine" spray paint on his T-shirt already blurred with sweat. "This guy must be stuck with the script. Who can calculate energy to the single digit?"

No one objected. Everyone watched with bated breath as Jiang Ming demonstrated "Shadow Exploring" in the video: The moment W followed by E triggered energy recovery, Zed suddenly moved at a right angle, narrowly missing Lee Sin's Sonic Wave—as precise as a safe-haven trajectory drawn with a compass.

"Fuck! I'll brag about that for three years!" The guy playing Juggernaut in the corner pounded his keyboard so hard that the spacebar spring snapped and hit the ceiling. The network administrator took note of this and planned to add "Seatbelts required for watching porn videos" to the store's rules tomorrow.

When the progress bar reached the equipment analysis stage, someone suddenly tapped Lin Xiao on the shoulder. Turning back, he saw two guys with dark circles under their eyes at the end of the long overnight booking line. The guy leading the line was rubbing his hands and laughing, "Hey, can we project our screen onto the internet cafe's big screen? We'll pay for the internet."

"OK, no problem."

"The details of the movement, the awareness..." After the video was transmitted to the big screen, many players waiting to enter the game watched the video and exclaimed, "It's so damn strong!

"I feel like if JM wasn't distracted by live streaming, he would have been the top of the national server. He's so fast at mastering new heroes."

Those who know about new heroes know that they are all numerically weird. It is a good idea to use them to gain points as soon as possible before they are weakened.

But therein lies the problem. When a new hero starts from scratch, it takes quite a while just to familiarize yourself with his skill operations, not to mention the various details that follow.

As the video was successfully uploaded to major video sites and the number of views increased, countless people marveled at Jiang Ming's strong talent and profound understanding of the game. He was able to control lightning in the high-level segment on the third day after the new hero was launched. From the video, it can be seen that he has thoroughly understood the mechanism of this hero from head to toe.

Soon, Jiang Ming's new hero teaching video also entered the field of vision of many professional team players, and the reactions of the professional players were no different from those of ordinary players.

Shanghai WE training base.

Inside the room, the IPL5 championship trophy glowed coldly in front of the tactical whiteboard.

In front of a row of computers leaning against each other, a young man with a bowl-cut haircut is working hard at the computer.

Mingkai, who had just finished a rank match, was queuing for the next game seamlessly. As a man who has been dominating the national ladder for many years, if he wants to avoid being dragged down by the guys below, he needs a huge number of games to support it.

Mingkai's mouse wheel made a small, grinding sound. On the screen, the Shadow Lord was slicing through a wall of three wolves at an odd angle. At the 47th second mark of the video, he tapped the spacebar, and the screen froze on the enemy jungler's vision, which had been inserted 0.3 seconds before his death.

"This person's awareness is super strong." The assistant Curly tore open a bag of snacks and came close to the screen, "Give me some!" Cucumber-flavored crumbs fell on the mouse pad with the WE team logo printed on it.

Jiang Ming's voice echoed through the video, "In this situation, absolutely don't physically explore the field of view. If there's someone in the grass, Zed can recover energy by using Shadow and E combos."

The hero in the game used a shadow clone to follow up with a ghost slash, and through energy recovery, Jie realized that there was someone in the bushes, so he took small steps and turned around, just avoiding the sound wave that flew out from the fog of war - the blind monk's gank intention was predicted and cracked.

Mingkai's monitor froze on a single detail: Jiang Ming pinged the Baron pit three times at 25:13—just as the enemy jungler had returned to base to plant a ward. He pulled up a replay of their scrimmages with KT, and the opposing team's midlaner made the exact same mark at the exact same moment.

"This isn't a talent," Mingkai said, crunching his noodles. "It's a fucking prophecy."

"It looks like Shadow Lord will be the favorite of the new season." Curly nodded and said, "The global flow we're good at has been nerfed to pieces."

Mingkai took out the tactical board and drew a skull next to the name "Jie"!
"What about Ruofeng? How is his assassin training going?" Mingkai asked.

"We had a whole day of activities today, and he and Weixiao both went to sleep. I haven't asked about the situation yet." Curly said without thinking.

The young man with the bowl cut was a little displeased, but since no one was in the room, he didn't want to show off to Curly, who he had a good relationship with. He muttered softly, "Everyone knows this is the assassin meta I'm not good at. If you don't practice more, what can you expect to achieve in this state when the LPL starts?"

"Why don't you practice more? What profession are you in? You might as well go home and raise pigs..." "There's no other way. Our team has to survive too. We have to accept the commercial activities that need to be accepted."

An extremely sharp voice sounded behind Curly and Mingkai.

Abu pushed the door open with a stack of documents in his arms, the latest version of the "Esports Manager Qualification Certificate Examination Outline" tucked under his arm.

Mingkai looked back at Abu, didn't say anything, just continued watching the video.

"Mingkai, the video blogger you're watching is one I've been following recently. He's a very talented mid-lane player with a strong understanding of the game."

"Especially when it comes to understanding hero mechanics, he's basically figured out every new hero from the past six months within two days of their release."

"Should we try to invite him to play professionally at WE?"

In Mingkai's opinion, if such a strong mid-lane player could join their team...

"Haha, what are you thinking about?" Before Abu could say anything, Curly laughed out loud. "He's now considered one of the top bloggers for League of Legends tutorial videos. His YY livestream sometimes has more traffic than ours. One time, a fan in his livestream revealed that he seemed to be a student at Jinling University. How could someone like that possibly become a gamer like us?"

Abu continued: "Before us, IG next door actually invited them."

"IG?"

"Isn't Zzitai playing mid for IG? He's a top-tier player. Why are they subbing so soon?"

"Probably not. They probably value JM's game understanding. Now many teams in other regions have started to equip coaching staffs, and IG probably wants to follow suit."

"JM agreed to IG?"

"No," Abu said, flipping through the information in his hand. "Last week, JM publicly recruited high-scoring players in his live broadcast room to form a gaming team called NXG. It seems that he has the idea of ​​leading the team into the professional league."

Upon hearing this, Mingkai and Juanmao were both stunned.

Indeed, if you can be your own boss, who would go to the battlefield to play professionally?

"It seems that JM has made a lot of money selling meat floss pancakes..." Curly sighed.

"He's definitely making a lot of money. The quality of each of JM's videos is incredibly high. High-ranking matches, coupled with detailed explanations, have seen hundreds of thousands of views. Even if only one percent of people visit his store, it's still an incredible amount." Speaking of JM's online store, Abu perked up. "Many people in our industry think JM's business model is very valuable. Using live streaming or videos to attract viewers to Taobao stores to make purchases has become a major monetization method for gaming teams."

"Taobao store, cash in, sell meat floss pancakes like him?"

"It's not just meat floss cakes. I looked through JM's Taobao store and saw snacks, e-sports peripherals, and even some trendy brand clothing. He can earn at least hundreds of thousands of yuan a month."

There was envy in Abu's words.

I can only say that he is worthy of being a top student of Jinling University. His brain is smarter than these people. College students earn more than 100,000 yuan a month!

Curly suddenly remembered something and flipped through the Taobao order history. "The meat floss pancakes I bought last week were shipped from Jinling University's Pioneer Park... Shit! He sent a sample pack to the WE base!"

(End of this chapter)