LOL: Can’t I play other games professionally?

Chapter 218: Bullying people in games, and bullying children in chess?

After defeating Snake and winning seven consecutive victories, EDG soon faced WE for the top spot in Group A at the weekend in a fast-paced tournament.

The two teams were far ahead in the standings and did not bring too much suspense to the game.

At the end of the fifth weekend of the LPL Summer Regular Season, EDG defeated WE 2:0, and their eight-game winning streak further consolidated their top spot in the standings.

The same-group duels were suspended in the second stage of the cycle. With more than half of the schedule completed, the LPL Week 6 quickly entered the mode of different-group duels. The teams in Group A and Group B will cross-duel and meet each other.

Among them, the focus of LPL audiences is undoubtedly the pig-dog battle between EDG and RNG, who are at the forefront.

With Uzi's return, RNG has recently recovered, winning three consecutive games and keeping close to OMG, which has suffered two consecutive losses. It seems that they are also likely to compete with EDG.

Driven by public opinion, the focus battle arrived as scheduled on Saturday, July 7.

In the end, under the attention of everyone, EDG defeated RNG 2:0 as expected.

EDG, which has won nine consecutive games, not only secured a playoff spot early, but also had the top spot in the group within reach compared to WE, which had three losses behind them.

There was a lot of heated discussion on the forum after the game.

[Zaozige just returned and is not in great shape, but his online play is okay.]

[It's pretty good. I forgot to use my flash when the team fight started, and died twice in a row.]

[Ah, don't you know how long the cooldown for Puppy's flash is?]

In the daily atmosphere of finding criminals in groups, most netizens on the forum tend to focus on another topic.

[Is it possible that EDG will maintain an undefeated regular season record for three consecutive seasons? ]

[Honestly, this is even scarier than winning the season championship. No team has ever been able to maintain such a stable state from beginning to end.]

[Domination can't even be called full strength. Are they really treating the LPL like a human-bot competition? Can they win whenever they want?]

[It's not EDG going all out, it feels like Lin Gou is going all out and treating the LPL like a bot league.]

In the spring of this year, netizens on the forum were more likely to mock and express dissatisfaction with EDG's undefeated regular season record.

After all, after EDG won the championship with a perfect record in last year's summer season, everyone knew about their ugly performance in the World Championship, and their reputation as a "phantom god in civil war" was well-deserved.

But after the MSI and Intercontinental Championship in the middle of this year, two consecutive high-quality international championships allowed EDG to make a beautiful comeback, completely get rid of the illusion of civil war, and become the hope of Chinese e-sports.

Since then, Guodian has become a true synonym for positivity.

After the game, the EDG team left Zhengda Plaza and returned to the club in a business car.

During the short holiday the next day, Sunday, Lin Ruo went out early in the morning and took a taxi to an area more than 20 kilometers away from Lingshi Road, an officially designated Go grading site, to complete the target task.

Since I passed the Go Association's official website exam and completed the level assessment half a month ago, I was successfully ranked at the most basic level 25.

During the remaining week or so, Lin Ruo successfully completed five consecutive online jumps, rising from level 25 to level 8. After obtaining the certificate, he qualified for the offline competition.

To advance from Level 8 to Level 1, from amateur level to real amateur level, you need to participate in at least multiple offline competitions and accumulate enough points to be promoted. The specific number of times varies according to personal ability and competition results.

With his current abilities, Lin Ruo felt that it wouldn't take long.

It’s mainly a matter of time. After finishing today’s offline competition, Lin Ruo doesn’t know when he will have time to come a second time.

Although the examination location is not too far from Lingshi Road, a test can last from 3 hours to 5 hours, and the main problem is undoubtedly the long waiting time in line.

Maybe it would take half a day. As a professional League of Legends player, he naturally doesn't have much free time. During the season, he estimates that he can come once a week.

As he entered the examination venue, Lin Ruo was dazzled by the people in the room.

Most of them are parents accompanying their children to take the amateur level 8-1 assessment.

Playing chess since elementary school is no joke.

People of Lin Ruo's age either never play chess or have already reached the amateur level.

It rarely really starts after the age of 15.

"Big brother, what do you do for a living?" A half-grown child next to him pulled his mother's sleeve and kept questioning the adult who was at least two and a half heads taller than him with a puzzled look.

Lin Ruo scratched his head and smiled faintly: "As for me, I was actually just passing by."

"You are here to take the exam too, right?" The child's mother quickly exposed Lin Ruo's lie.

"I think I've seen you somewhere before?"

"Are you a professional League of Legends player? My husband often watches the games on the big-screen TV at home, and I remember you appearing on it."

It seems that this young mother has an extraordinary memory, and she can remember everything on the screen.

Although Lin Ruo wanted to keep a low profile, he had to admit it at this moment and said with a hum, "Yes, I am indeed a professional League of Legends player."

"Your name isn't Lin Ruo, is it? My husband often mentions you, and he always has that expression on his face."

The woman recalled it and didn't dare to think about it anymore.

"What expression?" Lin Ruo was very curious.

The woman hesitated, then smiled sheepishly. "It's just... you know that gnashing-teeth look. He kept talking about ganking you after watching the game yesterday."

Lin Ruo understood.

It is estimated that it was a distinguished RNG fan who launched a nagging attack on him because of the loss of the game.

After the chat, Lin Ruo entered the venue.

The young woman in the back was talking on the phone excitedly: "Hey, honey, I met Lin Ruo, the one you've been thinking about day and night. I sent him the photo. Come and see if it's true." "Fuck, it's really him. Come on, help me." An anxious voice came from the other end of the phone.

"I can't help you gank him. He didn't provoke me." The woman refused.

Hearing this, the voice on the other end of the phone suddenly became several degrees louder: "No, I asked you to help me get an autograph!"

...

Following the procedure, they arrived outside the competition classroom. Looking at their opponent, Lin Ruo couldn't help scratching his face again: "Is there anyone older? Although I like the number 7 very much, bullying a 7-year-old..."

"The order of battles is random. There's no rule for choosing opponents at will. Just get used to it. Those who take the 8-1 level assessment are basically children of this age group."

"Given your current age when you start learning Go, even if you participate in amateur rank promotion tournaments in the future, the chances are you'll encounter kids who are twelve or thirteen years old."

The administrator said calmly, unable to resist a second glance. "And I heard you've only been learning for less than a month? Go isn't about age. Whether you can beat a two-and-a-half-year-old kid is another matter."

The game starts soon.

In a classroom full of children playing chess, Lin Ruo looked particularly out of place squeezed in.

In order to finish the game quickly, Lin Ruo maintained a high level of concentration throughout the entire game. In the best-of-five format, the battle ended in just one and a half hours.

It lasted for an hour, and the little brother cried for half an hour because of the beating.

But this did not prevent the little brother from being very strong. He wiped his tears while finishing the whole game.

"Little boy, you are great. The online barrage kings usually can't last more than 10 minutes against me." After the game, Lin Ruo did not forget to comfort him and show his humanistic care.

The child left the scene with a grievance under the pull of his mother. He wiped away his tears and then posted a message on WeChat Moments: "I met a 17-year-old chess player who was as strong as a monster. I tried my best but still couldn't beat him. Even though I lost, it's still an honor."

...

Feeling relieved after finishing his work, Lin Ruo took a taxi back to the club and walked into the training room. His teammates were working hard to rank up, as a new round of King's rank assessment was about to begin.

In order to get points, it is normal to use both hands and mouth.

"This big mouth can spray too much. Oh my god, Lin Ruo, come over and see if it's turned on. How can the attack speed be so fierce?"

As soon as he got on the plane, Lin Ruo heard the complaints from the factory manager next to him, and then he stood up and walked over.

"The KDA is pretty good. It seems like you either ran fast or your tempo was off the charts."

The factory manager's face darkened and he rolled his eyes: "Is this what I asked you to focus on? Look at Big Mouth."

You little bastard, it’s unacceptable if it’s not dark for a day, right?

"Big Mouth, Big Mouth's attack speed is very normal." Lin Ruo turned and touched his nose and said.

The factory manager was shocked, as if he had heard something unbelievable. "That's normal. Five blasts per second is an underestimation of him. He must be cheating."

"Lulu took out the incense burner." Lin Ruo said.

The factory manager's anger instantly cooled: "Can an incense burner have such a huge bonus?"

Lin Ruo spread his hands, took out his mobile phone, opened the app, searched for equipment, and showed the factory the specific content.

"Censer's passive effect 1: When healing and shielding are cast on a friendly hero, they will provide the target with a 20-35% attack speed bonus and cause the target's attacks to absorb 20-35 health points when hitting, lasting for 6 seconds."

"With such a high attack speed bonus, why haven't I seen anyone using an Incense Burner in competitions?"

The factory manager is full of black question marks.

"Has it been strengthened in the previous version?"

"What version update are you looking at? It also strengthens the incense burner?" Lin Ruo teased.

The popularity of incense burners in the late 17 season was never due to deliberate enhancement in a certain version.

"Because our support item must be Redemption first, who has time for Censer? Even if Redemption was nerfed at the beginning of the summer season, we still have to build Bird Shield now."

Tian Ye, who had just finished his meal, walked into the training room picking his teeth.

The incense burner's low cost-effectiveness determines that it cannot be the first choice of auxiliary equipment.

The factory manager reluctantly believed it, but suddenly a new idea popped up in his mind: "Then if we have four protecting one, wouldn't it be invincible if we give Lin Ruo an incense burner?"

Tian Ye thought this idea was quite childish. "Kai, you really don't play support and don't understand the basics of life. The Censer costs 2300 gold, and you want me to buy it in the early game to protect my AD carry and develop early. I can't even build an gold Eyestone. You don't want vision? You don't want laning?"

"Then pretend I didn't say anything." The factory manager coughed and quickly took back his words. He didn't usually play support, so he really didn't notice the characteristics of the censer.

“No wonder this thing has never been used in competitions.”

"Who knows, maybe it will be available in the future." Lin Ruo said casually, turned around and sat back in the gaming chair, checking the content of the upcoming 7.15 version.

No deliberate strengthening.

Why did the Censer have such a big jump from version 7.14 to 7.15?

The LPL national server version has always lagged behind, and the real 7.15 version will not be launched until August.

Unlike LPL, the US server's update announcement for version 7.15 was issued as early as July 7, and was successfully launched in the game a few days ago.

He can check the content of the newly updated version across regions at any time.

I opened Twitter, found the official LOL operating account, and quickly found all the information about the changes in version 7.15.

(End of this chapter)