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

Chapter 6 NXG Team?

December 12st, 1:17 sharp.

Jiang Ming's QQ suddenly popped up a harsh prompt sound, and the person in charge of the LPL preseason made an announcement in the "LPL Preseason Promotion Tournament" working group: [All teams are ready to enter the competition server].

"Change your team prefix before entering the game!" Jiang Ming's voice cut through the clacking of the mechanical keyboard. "Don't change your class ID if you've already thought of it—"

"Got it, Mingge!" Mid laner Wu Zhiqiang was the first to respond. He expertly searched for "name change card" in the game store and entered the ID he had already etched into his muscle memory:

NXG-yihan!

The team name designed by Jiang Ming himself, the full name of which is Nexus Vanguard (Core Guardian), is derived from the tactical term for the core of the Protoss mothership in "StarCraft".

"Tsk, there are so many coupons. I can buy a lot of skins that I couldn't afford before."

The auxiliary Pang Ran's eyes lit up, and after changing his name, he went shopping in the mall. Unlike the players in later generations who would buy a skin for the hero they were good at, Pang Ran, who now only had a total salary of one or two thousand yuan, only regretted that he did not have enough financial resources.

This is the case even for high-level players, not to mention ordinary players. This is why in the early days of the League of Legends, Multi-Play Box became a must-have software that quickly swept major Internet cafes.

It has fighting power, can act smart, has the master's guide to check the hero's gameplay, and most importantly, it can change the skin with one click!
The other three people remained silent and just kept buying rune pages and various special attribute runes. Hero skins can be purchased after the game interface.

Top laner Song Yuan is creating his 12th rune combination: [Specialized for high burst in laning phase]—3 fixed armor marks, 6 growth armor marks, 3 essences…

Jiang Ming was quite satisfied with the reactions of several of his players. Unlike the later versions where talents and runes were integrated, the current rune talents had to be allocated in advance. This was why when early players saw high-ranking players or professional players playing rank live, there would be a long list of rune pages with various notes on the rune page.

Due to the team's financial conditions, Jiang Ming only gave each of the players ten pages of permissions on their rank accounts. Now that they are on the competition server, if they don't make as many as they can, it would be a shame to let down the competition numbers with hundreds of thousands of points provided by the LPL organizers.

Different from ordinary players who use two sets of runes, AD and AP, Jiang Ming has been giving them professional-level training in rune talents, vision, time memory, etc. since he started to form the team.

"The game starts in one minute!"

In the "LPL Preseason Promotion Tournament" group chat, the referee @ all members in the QQ group.

The offline competition adopts a single round-robin points system. The top two teams in each of the fourteen servers will cross-match, that is, the team ranked first in the server group will play against the second in the server.

The winning team then draws lots from the teams with the same points, and the losing team draws opponents from the pool of teams with zero points and one goal, which is the Swiss round rule used in later world championships.

Of course, the so-called "Swiss Round" is actually a simplified version: the top two players from fourteen servers are randomly matched, and those with the same points draw lots to compete, which is far from the orthodox Swiss Round.

After five rounds, the top eight teams with the highest points advance to the LPL preseason. The final twelve teams in the preseason will then compete in a single round-robin points tournament and a double-elimination tournament to determine the final six teams. Together with the first and second place teams in the third City League of Legends Championship, a total of eight teams will become the first LPL participating teams.

Jiang Ming was thinking. The referee had already built the room, pulled the players in one after another and assigned them positions, then directly clicked to start the game.

When the referee opened the room in seconds, Jiang Ming couldn't help but complain: "There's not even an equipment inspection. What if someone uses the multi-player box to time it with one button and directly give them the loss?"

QX!

The opponent's team name.

After entering the game, Jiang Ming quickly scanned the IDs of the five players on the purple team on the right, but didn't see any familiar IDs. It made sense. A player who could become famous in the professional arena couldn't even take first place in a team ranking on a server other than Zone 1.

In terms of side selection, NXG, as the first server, has priority in choosing sides.

Jiang Ming naturally asked for the blue side first.

"Brother Ming, who should we ban?" asked Song Yuan, who was on the first floor.

In today's game, the first floor is the captain by default, and the banning of the three heroes will be done by the player on the first floor.

This is also one of the main reasons why many players ranked fourth or fifth in the casual games, in order to avoid being assisted, kneel down and beg their godfathers to help ban the heroes they are afraid of.

"Shen, Prince, and Vayne!" Jiang Ming thought for a moment and decided on these candidates from a group of super-model heroes. Without knowing the specific strength of the opponent, in order to ensure that every point is obtained, it would be a safe bet to ban the heroes with higher appearance rates in the version.

The lack of information about the opponent is not because Jiang Ming, the boss and coach, is irresponsible. The main reason is that at this point in time, no one knows who their opponent is.

After receiving the accurate information, Song Yuan quickly locked it in the hero column, and the first floor of the purple team QX also completed the ban at the same time.

Card, Wind Girl, EZ!

"Let's get the jungler for Shi Zhenyu on the first floor."

"I'm fine with it. I'll listen to Brother Ming."

In response to the question about the top laner, jungler Stone shook his head and left the decision to the coach.

After joining Mingge's team, he could clearly feel that it was different from other gaming teams that were just for fun. Although the environment was similar for everyone, the salary, daily management, and professional training for them were all very standardized. Playing professionally was different from the ranking of five people in a row in the Internet cafe, and they could not do what they wanted.

Haven’t you seen that WE won the championship in IPL5? Abu, who has dozens of tactics, is definitely a major contributor.

Hearing the jungler's words, Song Yuan smiled awkwardly. He was indeed not used to asking for advice from the sixth person outside the game during the game.

"Take Lee Sin first!"

Jiang Mingru looked at the jungler in an instructive manner and gave instructions.

In the S3 preseason version, what can we say about the status of the jungler? Due to the lack of economy in the jungle, it is completely incomparable to the absolute core position in the later S6 and S10 seasons. The heroes that can be chosen are either those who can lead the rhythm in the early stage, such as Spider and Lee Sin, or those who do not consume much economy and provide large-scale group control, such as Prince and Mumu.

On the first floor, choose Lee Sin first, which ensures that you are strong in the jungle and will not be targeted by the laner.

at the same time.

Inside a private room in a Guangdong internet cafe, a smoke-filled room erupted in a heated argument between the QX team members. The red-haired captain slammed the table, "Robbery! If that idiot JM can make tutorial videos, why can't I, who practiced 50 times in three days?"

"But we haven't even mastered our Shadow Swap combo yet," the support weakly reminded, only to be interrupted by the ADC: "What are you afraid of? Do you know how much this internet cafe is betting on us winning? A full twenty Red Nanjings!"

(End of this chapter)