LOL: Can’t I play other games professionally?

Chapter 363 Reaching the Top of the Nation, Please Call Me the God of Swords

It's definitely time to let Lin Ruoshuang have her way.

Lin Ruo was worried that if Kaka also started a game and both sides won at the same time, he would have to play one more game if he wanted to become the number one player in the country.

The result is obvious: the game's matchmaking system is indeed a spectator who enjoys watching the drama unfold.

They just happened to bump into each other.

Lin Ruo didn't want to either, but since that was the case, the only option was to have a head-on confrontation to determine who was superior.

Seeing that Kaka had locked onto the Ursa Warrior, Lin Ruo immediately locked onto the Dragon Knight and switched lanes to the mid lane. This time, he didn't need to study any skills.

After all, if a beginner can't even remember the skills of the first hero they use, their memory must be terrible.

As for whether the Dragon Knight has any specific advantage over the Ursa Warrior, I don't know.

Lin Ruo simply looked at the names of the opposing heroes and felt that it was fair for a warrior to fight another warrior.

However, although the Dragon Knight doesn't need to understand the skills, he still needs to study the Ursa Warrior, as he has never played this unfamiliar hero before.

You wouldn't know unless you looked, and after looking, you'll find that Ursa Warrior is actually an agile hero, lacking any of the standard awareness that befits his name.

Skill 1 involves leaping forward and slamming the ground, creating a powerful impact that damages all enemy units within the vicinity and slows them for 4 seconds.

Skill 2 increases attack speed, and Skill 3's claws deeply tear open the enemy's wounds. Continuous attacks on the same enemy will cause more damage. Simply put, activating skills allows you to stack damage through continuous attacks.

The R skill enters a state of rage, granting status resistance and reducing damage taken by 80%. Casting it removes any negative effects received, which perfectly matches the bear's savage nature.

At the start of the game, buy a Quelling Blade and a Stout Shield as starting items. These are two essential items for Dragon Knight in the early game and you don't need to worry about them. With the Stout Shield, you're less afraid of being poked, and with the Quelling Blade, you can better last-hit and deny.

As usual, Lin Ruo manipulated the Dragon Knight to dodge creeps and leave the lane. He judged that the Dragon Knight should have a comfortable time in the mid lane because he did not think that the Ursa Warrior could pose much of a threat to him in the lane. The reason was simple: the lanes in Dota 2 are naturally shorter.

The range at which the Bear Warrior can stack damage through its third skill is very limited, so the suppression effect is naturally not very obvious.

Furthermore, the initial attack power of the Bear Warrior hero is very low, much lower than that of the Dragon Knight. In a real head-on confrontation, Lin Ruo doesn't necessarily have to show weakness.

Lin Ruo, with her perfect lane-control technique, almost controlled the minion wave in front of her own tower from the very beginning, giving the top-ranked player Kaka a tutorial on lane-control right off the bat.

The lane was already short, and now it's even closer to the red team's tower area, which greatly reduces the Ursa Warrior's room to maneuver.

Lin Ruo, who was steadily last-hitting minions, took advantage of the tower defense to complete the last-hitting of the first four minions without missing a single one.

Kaka, who was pushing forward, did not attempt to last-hit minions. His main objective was to whittle down Lin Ruo's health and to exert effective pressure on him in terms of denying last hits.

However, the result was obviously somewhat unsuccessful. Even so, Kaka, who did not move the minion wave much, still achieved his basic goal, which was to make the enemy minion wave push back to the river area for a standoff, so that he would have more room to maneuver.

Lin Ruo, who had just leveled up to level 2, used his fire-breathing skill and basic attacks to slightly weaken the retreating bear warrior, and the minion wave inevitably began to shift towards the enemy tower.

If this trend continues, his laning phase will indeed be very risky, so Lin Ruo only has one method: to push the lane all the way to the enemy's tower.

In this way, the Radiant's minion wave will be quickly cleared by the Radiant's tower defense, and then he will block the position, and the second wave will also be in the area in front of the tower.

Soon, the minion wave will clearly move back to the area in front of your tower.

They repeatedly circled back and forth between the two towers. Under their own tower, they could farm minions without worry, while under the enemy tower, the Ursa Warrior had to consider whether the rapidly dying minion wave would give them the opportunity to come up and stack damage.

There was no chance of that happening naturally. Kaka could only wait until the minion wave was cleared before pushing forward and using a jump attack to slow down and whittle down the Dragon Knight's health.

However, such consumption is negligible. Lin Ruo is not stupid. Once his own minion wave is cleared, his retreat will definitely be much faster than the Ursa Warrior's pursuit.

So the Ursa Warrior's two hits at intervals are not much different from tickling him.

Lin Ruo felt extremely comfortable returning to the tower to farm the lane. The Ursa Warrior couldn't deal damage, but he had a much higher chance of being able to damage the Ursa Warrior.

Because not only is his single basic attack damage stronger than Ursa Warrior's, but he also has a fire-breathing skill that doesn't require basic attacks to wear down enemies, making him effective in close combat and ranged attacks.

After the exchange, Kaka was in a difficult situation. Not only did he not have an advantage in health, but the minion wave would also reach his tower as soon as it rotated. Although he had the distance to keep attacking and stacking damage, he couldn't stop the minions from being wiped out by the tower.

He could only eat silently, occasionally going up to attack, but attacks without layers were still just tickling Lin Ruo.

When the bear warrior tried to force the minion wave in the river, Lin Ruo's approach was simple: to lure the enemy minion wave to the tower before his own minion wave died.

He heals, I heals, and Lin Ruo accepts the exchange of finishing blows with a clear conscience.

With control skills similar to those of Dawn Goddess, even a bear warrior pushing the lane would have to think twice before trying to harass him in front of the tower.

He dared to use his skill A while clearing minions, and Lin Ruo dared to turn around and abandon the minion wave to take the stun effect from his basic attack. Trading a minion for a potion was definitely a good deal.

Kaka was probably a little sleepy late at night, and made this mistake without thinking, trying to take advantage of the gap when the Dragon Knight was attacking the creeps to move forward and harass them.

The problem is that Lin Ruo is too cautious, spending most of his time farming minions under the tower, so the Ursa Warrior's attacks will inevitably be attacked by the tower.

Kaka's original intention was to use his first skill to jump forward and slam the ground after the attack, then turn around and pull away from the turret's range. However, he clearly underestimated Lin Ruo's reaction and was hit by a basic attack that included a stun.

After three consecutive tower attacks, coupled with the Dragon Knight's relentless pursuit, the Ursa Warrior, whose health was not at its absolute peak, lost more than half of his health and could only drink a potion under the tower to recover.

Lin Ruo stopped pushing the lane and instead controlled the lane in the river area. The bear warrior either had to return to base or use two potions; otherwise, he had no right to come out and lane.

The dragon knight turned around and went down to pick up the rune. The resourceful Kaka, with less than half health left, went out of the tower to quickly clear the blocked minion wave.

Given the Dragon Knight's normal movement speed, he could indeed clear the minion wave and escape, but the problem was that the rune Lin Ruo picked up just happened to come in handy.

This was a speed rune. The dragon knight, who had just devoured it, experienced a surge in movement speed to its limit. He turned around and launched a Bolt-style 100-meter sprint, fearlessly charging towards the bear warrior in the river.

It ran faster than someone in a hurry to poop. Kaka, who had just turned around and launched her attack, was stunned and unable to move.

Lin Ruo, who didn't need to transform into a dragon, simply continued to follow behind and attack with A, one, two, three times in a very rhythmic manner.

Don't you like to be passive against A? Well, you should take action.

Faced with the questioning, the bear warrior, whose health was dwindling, dared not fight back, only moving his feet. At this moment, Kaka wished she could transform into a bear and run into the tower on all fours to escape.

In reality, he could only use two feet, so he couldn't shake off the dragon knight's pursuit at all.

The good news is that he doesn't need to fight back, but the Dragon Knight has to keep chasing and attacking. As time goes on, the two will naturally gradually widen the gap between them.

The bad news is that his health is simply not enough to withstand the two of them completely creating distance between them. This distance does not include basic attacks, but rather the dragon knight's flames.

Just like Kaka, who had moved away from the tower, still managed to land the blood-stained flames of the hairpin precisely on the bear warrior's burly body.

Kill with one blow!
After defeating Refuse in the laning phase, Lin Ruo once again defeated Kaka.

When Ursa Warrior returned to the lane, the mid-lane situation completely changed. Lin Ruo, who had reached level six, looked at Ursa Warrior, who was only level four, and was filled with the urge to kill him.

After transforming into a dragon with its ultimate ability, the ranged attacks become even more powerful, leaving the Ursa Warrior completely defenseless.

The level 1 ultimate skill, Dragon, doesn't deal much damage, but its sustained damage is considerable. Using it to kite and pressure the enemy in lane often yields unexpected results.

With this pace of development, Lin Ruo, who no longer needs to buy medicine, is in a great economic position. After that, he doesn't need to do anything else. He can simply transform into a dragon and slowly clear minions and develop his strength using ranged attacks.

As a tanky hero with excellent mid-to-late game capabilities, Dragon Knight only becomes both tanky and deals damage after acquiring certain equipment, so delaying development is an essential requirement.

After all, the core skill of the Dragon Knight is its ultimate move; with the ultimate move, it's a Dragon Knight, without it, it's just a high-level infantryman.

The ultimate skill, transforming into a dragon, increases attack range, and increased attack range translates to a better environment for dealing damage.

Furthermore, the ultimate skill can transform into three forms: green dragon, red dragon, and great ice dragon.

The green dragon's attack inflicts corrosion and poison, making it effective against buildings and perfect for pushing towers.

The red dragon's attack has splash damage and also inflicts the corrosive effect of a level 1 dragon.

The Great Ice Dragon form is the Dragon Knight's most powerful form. Its attacks not only have splash damage, but also reduce attack speed and movement speed, which is equivalent to a ranged hero having a built-in Berserker's Fury + Eye of Skadi, ignoring skill immunity.

Buy more Soul Rings and Magic Bottles to replenish sustain, and use the tower-pushing properties of the ultimate skill to stay in the mid lane and take down the defense towers. This is Lin Ruo's only goal in the early game.

Ten minutes later, Lin Ruo began to roam as much as possible with the Dragon Knight, not to catch anyone, but to pull jungle monsters and farm to speed up his development.

Once you buy a very smooth Drum of Endurance to support your stats, along with attack speed and movement speed, and a Blink Dagger to alleviate your relatively clunky nature, you can ensure your ability to initiate team fights in the mid-game.

The Dragon Knight has reached a point where it can fight effectively, but if it wants to become a true big boss, the Black King Bar (BKB) is the first truly game-changing item, serving as a crucial tool for protecting the formation in frontal team battles.

There was no further development, because Lin Ruo felt the game wouldn't drag on until then.

At 15 minutes, a top-tier 4v4 team fight broke out between the two sides. Lin Ruo, who was the first to engage in the jungle, was the first to leave the battlefield and wait for his teammates to teleport down.

As the great battle was about to break out, he switched to his knight form and used the speed rune and the blink dagger to instantly launch a first-strike control attack. He jumped over and stunned his opponent. If the opponent wasn't tanky enough, he was basically doomed.

Lin Ruo was naturally not foolish enough to control the tank; he controlled the enemy's number three position Twin Head Dragon.

As a result, as soon as the team fight started, one of Kaka's teammates was killed, making it much more difficult to continue the fight.

All they could do was kill the dragon knights who had entered the fray and were already low on health because they had been attacked; only in this way could they save face.

However, the Dragon Knight is still too tanky compared to the Two-Headed Serpent, not to mention that Lin Ruo, who has transformed into a dragon, also has a stun skill called Dragon Tail Sweep.

For Kaka's team, which lacks control, they are not easy to kill in a short time, so they are likely to die easily.

Because the Red team, Night Elf, has top-tier crowd control heroes like Tidehunter.

Having narrowly escaped death, Lin Ruo turned around and used her Ice Dragon form to deal damage as her teammates entered the fray. She not only preserved her health but also ended the abrupt team fight with a double kill.

With the Dragon Knight's development further enhanced, the Radiant's situation naturally became meaningless.

The game ended at 25 minutes, and after another exhilarating team fight, the Dire team crushed the Radiant team's base.

Lin Ruo, whose score increased by 25+, successfully squeezed out Kaka and reached the top with a score of 9175.

The title of No. 1 in the Chinese Dota 2 server has officially seen an unprecedented change of leadership, a record that will never be replicated.

Because the person who sat on the throne was a top professional player from League of Legends.

This is something no one could have imagined, because no one could possibly do something like this.

At this very moment, the 4396 live stream room was still packed with people in the early hours of the morning, with barrages of comments filled with surprise and awe.

Holy crap, I was already certain Lin Gengxin would win and mentally prepared myself, but he actually did! I'm so incredibly excited now.

It's normal to be excited; this is like a meteorite hitting the Earth—it only happens once every hundred years.

[No joke, if you told me now that a current League of Legends pro player could defeat numerous Dota pro players to reach the top of the national rankings, I still wouldn't believe it for a second.]

[Just wondering, when will Lin Gou play StarCraft? I'd love to see it.]

[Just give me money, I'll send you a hundred greatswords, and Lin Gou can get you seven or eight ranked games in League of Legends a day.]

"That's an exaggeration." Lin Ruo retorted while watching the comments. In fact, he would be willing to play League of Legends ranked matches if given 50 big swords.

Well, it's best to keep this low-key.

Before shutting down Dota 2, Lin Ruo didn't forget to take a picture of his ranking as the number one player in the Chinese server. As the saying goes, what's the point of reaching the top if you don't post it on Weibo to show off?

No, not only do you have to post on Weibo, you also have to post on Twitter to be considered professional.

Lin Ruo turned her head and checked the time again. The 25-minute game had ended, and it was exactly two minutes past midnight, which was practically midnight.

It's perfect time to go to sleep now. He didn't stay up late tonight and successfully reached the summit. It's not that he achieved the best of both worlds, but it's definitely very nice.

(End of this chapter)