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

Chapter 58: Is it reasonable for the head coach to be more skilled than the players?

"Jungler RampageBoard's ranked points: Diamond 2 - 72 LP!"

Mid laner: ..."

At this moment, BLQG was exactly the team Jiang Ming had been most worried about. Of the five players, only the highest-ranked AD player had reached the King rank, while the other four teammates were all Diamond rank.

Facing the LPL live broadcast cameras, with no outstanding individual image, no achievements, and a rank introduction that is uniformly Diamond, they are easily labeled as a weak team by players.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Diamond-ranked players in Season 3 were weak. There are only fifty Challenger slots in a region. After excluding some non-professional players, how many slots are left when they are evenly distributed among various professional teams?

But the audience is ultimately a visual creature. They don't care that professional players only refer to the ranking points in the first region, nor do they care that Diamond 1 players can squeeze their way to Challenger. The audience only knows that your team doesn't even have five Challengers.

Especially in contrast to BLQG is Jiang Ming and his NXG team.

Joker flipped through the NXG team members' profiles, his pupils constricting slightly, and introduced with a hint of surprise, "Below are the individual introductions of the NXG team members."

"Top laner Norsha, ranked points: Challenger 437 LP!"

"Jungler Stone, Ranked Points: Challenger with 777 LP!"

"Mid laner Yihan, ranked points: Challenger with 446 LP!"

"ADsorry, ranked points: Challenger 552 LP!"

"Support Door, Ranked Points: Challenger 589 LP!"

Under NXG's extremely high daily training intensity and physical enhancement, the five NXG players, whose original talent was not particularly outstanding, have made a qualitative leap in their strength.

Not only did they break through their own rank ceiling, but they also basically reached the upper-middle level in the King rank.

The ranking scores of the five players on the team also reflected Jiang Ming's impression of the difficulty of scoring points in different positions.

The jungler Shi Tou has the highest rank score, followed by the support Pang Ran who plays the game with his brain, and the lowest is naturally the top laner Song Yuan who enjoys a solitary life in solo queue every day.

The camera focused on each of the five NXG players, and as Joker read out their current rank points, the audience erupted in cheers, while the chat in the slightly delayed live stream was flooded with comments.

【Wow!】

[Everyone's a King-level player, what's the point of this victory report?]

[BLQG's highest-ranked AD carry is only a Challenger-level gatekeeper, almost 200 points behind NXG's lowest-ranked top laner.]

[A King-level player carrying four Diamond-level players is like having to play against five King-level players; all I can say is that the matchmaking system is insane.]

[Friendly reminder: even five Kings (highest rank) aren't always enough. Just look at how badly a five-King PE player was thrashed during the qualifiers.]

[Reported! The entire NXG team is cheating!]

[Waaah, this team doesn't even need to worry about starting gear, they're already equipping it.]

[It's not just a difference in skill level; compared to NXG on the right, haven't you noticed the difference in appearance between the BLQG players?]

[Ouch! It's one thing to be outmatched in skill, but now even the art style is inferior?]

If this were in Bleach, the five members of NXG would be top-tier powerhouses, while BLQG... well, they'd probably just be cannon fodder who die after appearing in one episode.

How can you compare them?

On one side are unkempt soldiers, wearing cheap T-shirts, with hair so messy you can't tell if they washed it that morning.

On the other side are well-dressed, poised, and clean-faced regular soldiers!

Just as the live chat was buzzing with discussion, the commentators paused for about ten seconds, whether Joker forgot or did it intentionally, before Wawa added the introduction to Jiang Ming. "NXG, with all members being top-tier players, I don't know if you viewers were shocked, but when I first received the materials, I almost thought the director had printed it wrong."

"However, NXG is not just about that. The last person the camera is now focusing on is our NXG team's head coach - JM!"

"Currently, my rank points are 899, making me the number one player in the national server!"

【? ? ? 】

【Suit??】

"Wait, where did I get this?"

[Suit! Tactical board! Am I sure I'm watching an esports competition?]

[Alright, alright, JM, you're trying to act all high and mighty for the audience.]

[If you don't understand, just ask: Is it reasonable for the head coach of a professional esports team to be more skilled than the players?]

[It makes sense, how is it not? If the players can't win, then the head coach can take off his jacket and personally step onto the field. (doge)]

You know what, you really have to believe it, JM personally taking to the field is what makes this NXG truly complete.

[NXG: I wouldn't even bother fighting you street urchins.]

I have to say, JM is really good at this. That suit paired with the tactical board perfectly captures the professional coach's style.

I'd only ever seen this kind of scene before on football or basketball fields.

[Where are those who previously questioned JM? Step forward!]

[The funniest thing is that WE fans, because of a ranked game that exposed their true colors, started belittling JM, saying he could only bully others in ranked matches and get completely crushed in professional games. But look what happened, JM's professional team is far more professional than any other player in the Chinese esports scene.]

As things stand, no one in the League of Legends community dares to claim more expertise in the professional scene than JM.

[Bullshit, is the training schedule for NXG's players something a normal person could come up with?]

Backstage, besides the audience in the venue and the live broadcast room, there was another group of people watching the official premiere of the LPL preseason.

Of course, when they saw the packed audience, the number of viewers in the live stream exceeding their target, and the barrage of comments like snowflakes, the LPL league officials finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, Tencent invested a huge amount of promotional resources in the early stages of the LOL league, from the city championship to various large and small prize tournaments. If it went wrong, it would be difficult to explain to the higher-ups.

Thankfully, thankfully, as long as we get started, everything will be fine.

Judging from the current trend, it can even be said that it has far exceeded their expectations.

"Putting NXG in Group A for the opening match was definitely the right move. JM really has a knack for coming up with ideas," a middle-aged man remarked in the room.

"Yes, from team uniform design to professional coaches, suits, tactical boards, and player image management, it can be said that the traditional competitive sports system has been brought to our game competitions."

"And NXG's player training schedule, with less than eight hours of rest time every day, JM really dares to do that."

“I think this arrangement is quite good.” The person in charge who had previously visited the NXG base said, “Now that we have established the name of the League of Legends Professional League, what does it mean to be a professional league? It must be moving towards standardization and professionalization.”

"JM's NXG is actually ahead of our official ones."

“I visited their team base before, and even established domestic clubs like WE and IG can't compare.”

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