LOL: Can’t I play other games professionally?

Chapter 351 I think I have the talent to be a swordsman.
The most powerful episode featuring the revamped Zhao Xin.

Under Lin Ruo's command, he bravely charged in and out seven times, rapidly destroying OMG's base in 25 minutes and taking the lead in the BO3 match.

As everyone knows, a jungler who can't play Zac isn't a good jungler, so in the second game, Lin Ruo pulled out his signature Zac King.

Its main selling point is taking off with one hand.

Yes, as a good Zac jungler, you must know where you can fly, what kind of ambush position is best for a surprise fly, and which position is the best for a maximum fly.

Lin Ruo was fully aware of all this.

Firstly, with a level 3 E, you can use E slightly below the red side's tri-bush in the bottom lane and then use your ultimate to gank the bottom lane. In addition, with a level 3 E, you can also use E above the blue side's top lane tri-bush to gank the top lane.

At level 5, you can use your E skill directly behind your teammates, and the enemy will have absolutely no vision of you.

Furthermore, Zac's level 5 E ability can also be used to cross the dragon pit and steal the dragon without taking damage with Smite. This is an essential tool for Zac to steal the dragon when it is impossible to force a team fight head-on.

Zac jungle is very difficult, so it's best to take W at level 1, because the cooldown and slow of Q at level 1 are actually less useful than W.

After a level 2 gank, you can perform the basic EAWAA combo to catch the enemy. Due to his passive ability, Zac's level 2 tower dive is usually a pretty good option.

To ensure effective sustain while jungling, Zac must pay attention to the timing of picking up meat. Generally, he should not pick up meat when W is less than one second away from being available, and it is best to use two or three skills in succession and pick up the meat all at once when W is on cooldown for about three seconds.

Zac's abilities drain health based on a percentage of his current health, while his passive health regeneration is based on a percentage of his maximum health.

However, since the location of the meat pieces is unpredictable, it's not guaranteed that you'll be able to pick up certain pieces. Getting blocked by monsters and having to take extra hits is not worth it.

Only by mastering the art of picking up meat chunks can Zac ensure that his early game tempo remains intact.

What's the problem? It's that you can't even clear the jungle properly, and when you want to gank someone, you find that you not only don't have enough time, but you don't even have enough health.

Given Lin Ruo's level of expertise, such a problem would not have occurred. Moreover, before the match, he specifically discussed the life philosophy of the hero with Zac Wang Laoning, which undoubtedly added another layer of insurance to his professionalism.

This Zach is definitely going to be the center.

At level three, Lin Ruo effortlessly ganked and killed the tower under the turret, using his passive ability in conjunction with GimGoon's push.

In the early to mid-game, Zac's main focus is on ganking; farming jungle camps is out of the question because even if he wanted to, he simply couldn't manage it.

Zac's ultimate and Q skills are very unique. After last year's rework, the addition of his E skill is equivalent to having three control skills. It is no exaggeration to call him the most terrifying disruptor and backline destroyer.

As long as you jump well, jump beautifully and brilliantly, there's no team battle you can't win.

Lin Ruo, who had been keeping a close eye on the road ahead, arranged a full range of services for Xi Yang.

Although Zac is good at farming jungle camps, he's actually quite adept at invading enemy jungles.

With Gnar pushing the lane, Lin Ruo was able to roam freely in the top jungle even more unrestrained.

With her robust physique, resurrection passive, and extremely long-range dash ability, Lin Ruo, who excels at lurking, can deliver a fatal blow to OMG in team fights as long as she finds the right position.

However, before that, he first opened up a gap in the top lane. Only when Gnar gets fed in the split push will Lin Ruo have more room to perform.

When the tower fell at 11 minutes, it meant that OMG didn't have much time left.

The pace of the game was slow in the early stages. Lin Ruo made some gains by invading and tower diving around the top lane. However, in the mid-game, the game inevitably fell into the hands of EDG due to the vision space created by split pushing.

Lin Ruo's Zac always appears in all sorts of places, doing all sorts of sneaky things, ready to take off at any time. There's nothing OMG can't do.

What should have been a perfectly good 5v5 game turned into a search for Zac. OMG didn't dare to step out of the turret area because they couldn't find Zac.

Because Zac jumped too far, the space he could gank was extremely large.

OMG, who were dragged along the whole time, were powerless to do anything and ultimately failed in their search for Zac, suffering a slow death after 30 minutes as their base was destroyed.

EDG defeated OMG 2-0, securing their sixth win in the league and continuing to lead the standings.

In the gloomy OMG lounge, the water dispenser manager, Ai Luoli, accidentally burst out laughing.

Faced with the head coach's questioning gaze, Ai Luoli immediately coughed and said, "My sister is going to have a baby. Well, Coach, you know, I'm genuinely happy for her."

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"Xiao Ai, you'll have to rely on yourself from now on. Brother Lin can help you once, but he can't help you a second time, you know? If it really doesn't work out, just retire early and come back to the club as the security captain next year."

"Being a streamer is fine too, I can help you create some entertainment value. But as for commentary, you absolutely shouldn't do it. The waters are too deep for you to handle, you know?"

After stepping down, Lin Ruo bombarded his younger brother with WeChat messages, actively arranging his funeral.

There's no way around it; it's perfectly normal for him to worry about his career because of his love for Lolita.

Of course, he can't change Ai Luoli's skill level. My only advice is that you should retire early and not linger.

However, Ai Luoli was a bit blindly confident, saying that his strength was okay and his performance in training matches was good, but that various mistakes would always occur in the matches, affecting his judgment.

To this, Lin Ruo only had one sentence: "Isn't this just nonsense?"

There's always an element of uncertainty in any competition, but it's alright, after Lin Ruo and Ai Luoli revealed to each other that Abu had left him a monthly salary of 50,000 for the security captain position.

Ai Luoli thinks retiring is actually not so bad.

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After finishing the match and returning to the club, Lin Ruo, sipping AD calcium milk, continued her live stream. The long night was too short to miss, so she had to hurry up and climb the ranks.

With his MMR approaching 8000, the level of the matches he plays against will also increase. Besides encountering high-ranking Dota streamers, Lin Ruo's biggest gain tonight was playing against active Dota professional players.

Although the opponent wasn't particularly famous, he was at least a professional player.

In this Shadow Fiend matchup, Lin Ruo still displayed a very strong performance in the early game, a stark contrast to the Shadow Fiend played by Xiao Lu a few days ago.

The starting items should focus on sustain to ensure that the pressure in lane is not interrupted. This is the key to Shadow Fiend's early game development, using his strength to generate benefits in last-hitting.

To ensure strong suppression, one must be proficient in basic techniques such as A-band shadow compression.

In particular, the main way to deplete health is to use the extended ranged attack twice, or to use the extended ranged attack first, then retreat, wait for the extended ranged attack to cool down, and then go in again to use the extended ranged attack for a 3-hit combo.

Due to its short range, the short-range cannon is very difficult to hit, and it can only be used to whittle down enemies in close combat.

Once you enter the mid-game, quickly increase your combat power. For high burst damage heroes, Black King Bar (BKB) is the core item for Shadow Fiend in the mid-game, providing magic immunity and ensuring that Shadow Fiend can output stable damage in team fights.

Wands are used to increase magic resistance and improve survivability.

With these items, Shadow Fiend entered his most powerful period. For Lin Ruo, this period was undoubtedly a time of rampage, regardless of whether the opposing team had professional players or not; he would kill whoever he wanted.

The match ended quickly in 30 minutes, which perfectly demonstrated why Lin Ruo climbed the ranks so smoothly, because his performance in terms of skill was in no way inferior to any professional player.

That evening, besides the news of EDG defeating OMG, the trending topics on Weibo also included the news of Lin Ruo crushing a player from the current professional team NB in ​​a Dota 2 ranked game.

EDG's unstoppable dominance in the Spring Split is nothing new; they're practically the undisputed champions.

However, Lin Ruo's victory over a Dota 2 professional player was something that happened to him for the first time that day, so it was no surprise that it sparked a huge discussion on Weibo.

Many fans believe that Lin Ruo is very skilled in Dota 2, strong enough to surpass some professional players.

It was not only beyond expectations, but also unbelievable.

[You're telling me he's a pro League of Legends player?!]

[No, if you're going to play LOL, just focus on beating LOL pros. What's the point of coming to beat our Dota pros? Are you trying to cause trouble?]

[Cross-professional dimensional reduction attack, what a novel term...]

[Perhaps for Lin Gou, this might not be considered a career change, since anything related to games could probably be considered part of his profession.]

I never believed in perverts before, but sorry, I believe it now. This is the epitome of perversion.

[Playing against a bottom-tier pro player is nothing to brag about. Wait until Lin Gou meets a top-tier current pro player and he'll teach him a lesson.]

[Bro, stop talking. I've seen this kind of sentence structure countless times before, and it makes me panic every time I see it. It's like giving Lin a buff; every time someone says something like that, Lin takes off the next day.]

[Got it. Lin Ruo is the Dragon King, a professional at slapping faces. His mouth isn't even that crooked; if it were a little more crooked, I'd really believe him.]

Talent is certainly valuable, but hard work is even more evident. After all, who else can play more than ten Dota games a day without a tournament like Lin Gou? I'm not jealous at all that he can beat professional players.

Those who don't know him might think he's a streamer, or a Dota pro player, but no one has ever thought he's a League of Legends pro player because he never plays League of Legends on his streams.

[Yeah, every time I watch his stream, I try to find out if League of Legends is actually on his computer screen.]

The incident sparked heated discussions on Weibo. After finishing another ranked game, Lin Ruo, the person involved, decided to watch the live Dota match that was in progress.

He didn't know why he was watching; maybe he wanted to learn some tactics and techniques.

After playing so many ranked matches, Lin Ruo had absolutely no concept of Dota 2 tactics or techniques; he could only rely on his strong awareness to get things done.

That's the right way to put it; Deep Blue's stats completely crushed everything.

So Lin Ruo suddenly became interested and decided to take a look. Dota 2 matches are more difficult than the easy-to-understand LOL matches.

It can be said that there is also an entry barrier.

League of Legends matches are relatively fixed, and viewers can easily tell where a hero goes and what they want to do, but Dota 2 is different.

The game has too many tricks and too many resources and items, making it look very complicated.

It's common to only have a superficial understanding without careful observation and thought.

Furthermore, the gameplay strategies and even hero builds vary from match to match, and it's impossible to truly understand them without deliberate study.

Basically, you never know what will happen next.

In short, none of these are the main points. In Lin Ruo's opinion, the best thing about Dota 2 matches is that the game's skill effects are indeed spectacular.

Although Lin Ruo was still not used to the online game style due to her living environment.

Besides these aspects, Dota 2 games do often result in long, drawn-out matches, which significantly diminishes the excitement of the game.

After all, it's pure torture for anyone to hold their attention for more than an hour while watching a match.

Playing a game for an hour is something Lin Ruo definitely doesn't have the patience for; it's too much of a test of willpower.

League of Legends in Season 6, especially Season 5, also tended to be slow-paced, but Riot Games noticed the problem early on and started to speed up the game pace.

The removal of the Sightstone jungle item is a clear example.

While watching the match, Lin Ruo glanced at the live stream's popularity; the current Dota 2 match was only moderately popular.

The official DOTA2 leagues in China are basically successors to the ACE League from the early days of DOTA, but none of them have reached the popularity and participation level of the ACE League back then.

Perhaps it was because things were more open back then, and all sorts of famous memes emerged frequently, which is why things are a bit monotonous now.

Lin Ruo watched it carefully for about ten minutes. There was still a lot he could learn from it, with many details and points of interest related to the competition.

[What's going on? Is Lin Gou preparing to switch to professional Dota? He's already starting to watch Dota 2 matches in advance.]

[It's over, LOL is doomed. Quickly call Abu to unplug the internet cable on the spot.]

[Don't get me wrong, Lin is probably just watching casually because he's tired of playing. He's not taking it seriously, but of course, he might casually participate in a Dota 2 league next year too.]

If Lin Gou (Lin Gou) goes to play Dota 2, I'll stop being a fan because I really don't understand it.

[Do you think it's possible? Dota 2 could give him a 2000 million annual salary? No need to think about it, it's actually quite possible, haha.]

[Or Lin Gou could go; I'm already fed up with Teng Jing forcing me to spend money every day.]

[Damn it, you guys haven't even reached the top of the national server, and you're already thinking about playing in the professional league? You're even more delusional than Lin Gou, aren't you?]

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Looking at the comments on the screen, Lin Ruo only had one sentence: "Do you think I can't count money?"

However, Dota 2's prize pool is indeed the highest in the world, and you can really make a lot of money from it.

Lin Ruo thought about it for a moment and realized that if he didn't play League of Legends, he could definitely play Dota 2. As long as he could make money, he wouldn't object to playing any game.

But the future is the future.

Lin Ruo's requirements aren't high. He just wants to win five world championships in League of Legends, outlast Leonardo DiCaprio, and become the number one player before thinking about changing careers.

Well, that's not a high requirement at all.

(End of this chapter)