LOL: Can’t I play other games professionally?

Chapter 488 Does Uzi miss Yasuo?

Wang Duoduo, a top student who graduated from Renmin University, probably never imagined that one day there would be so many regulations and requirements for commentating on game competitions.

In the game, any words that do not conform to positive values ​​or social values ​​must be replaced. Looking at the notebook full of notes, who wouldn't have their emotions fluctuate?

Don't forget, League of Legends is an offensive game, and killing opponents is the most common thing, but it's precisely this most common thing that can't be mentioned at all.

Then why bother with the hammer commentary? No wonder they had to send their own high-achieving student, who knows how to use words carefully, to be the commentator.

Helpless, Wang Duoduo could only make sure he didn't say anything wrong, while quickly reviewing the words that needed to be replaced in his mind.

For example, the use of human heads is not in line with current values ​​and has a bloody tendency, so it should be replaced by points as an effective alternative. In other words, in the future, taking human heads will be referred to as taking points. There are many other similar measures.

Even the slightest mistake would be considered a commentary mishap. Wang Duoduo, who had never made such a mistake before, encountered a major hurdle in his career, making him even more nervous than the players on the field.

"Brothers, are you all okay?" In the simple but spacious athletes' bench, Lin Ruo was trying his best to reassure his teammates and help them calm down. After all, this was the Asian Games, a competition that concerned the nation's honor.

It's not a club match, so it's normal to have a bad mentality or be a little impatient at times.

Unexpectedly, his words hit the nail on the head. Mouse felt a little strange at this moment. He scratched his head and couldn't help but say, "I'm really nervous about representing my country in the competition. If I make a mistake, will I become a sinner for all time?"

"Mistakes are okay. If we can't win, it's Lin Ruo's responsibility. After all, he said he'd lead us to victory," Tian Ye joked at the opportune moment.

Lin Ruo, who was more confident than anyone else, immediately puffed out her chest and offered a solution to her teammates: "I have an idea to ease the tension. How to avoid it? It's actually very simple. You guys just need to watch me crush the opponent in the early stages."

If you can crush the opponent quickly enough, your teammates' tension will naturally dissipate.

After all, if you're about to win even while lying down, why would you be nervous?

"Holy crap, are you kidding me? You're going to crush the enemy team right from the start."

Okay, UZI found someone even more arrogant than mlxg, who doesn't farm jungle camps after level two. That person is Lin Ruo. However, it seems that Lin Ruo has basically fulfilled his promises.

"The match is about to start, focus." Abu looked seriously at the crowd from behind.

Having been away from the coaching bench for almost three years, he is currently trying to regain his form. Returning to coach the national team immediately is something no one can afford to be complacent about.

However, Abu was still vigorous despite his age, and quickly adjusted his mindset to focus on the draft, giving instructions to the others in a respectable manner.

Time passed quickly, and after both sides were ready, the business meeting was held amidst great anticipation.

Before the game started, Wang Duoduo, the commentator, first arranged the starting lineups for both sides. Neither Xiaoming from the Chinese team nor Faker from the Korean team played.

This is not surprising, since these two players were sent off as substitutes.

"Alright everyone, the match has begun. The strongest battle between China and South Korea in the League of Legends world is about to start. Before that, we need to go through a hero selection process, and then we will enter the game to fight... oh I mean, strategize."

Wang Duoduo, who almost blurted out "fighting," paused for a moment, relieved that he had changed his mind quickly.

In the upcoming matches, all his commentary must be easy to understand and focused on basics. There's no way around it, as the Asian Games has many popular events that attract attention from people other than league viewers.

Although Wang Duoduo doesn't think the general public will watch a League of Legends match, at most they'll learn about the victory through the news and pay attention, but who would actually watch the actual match?

Moreover, this isn't a live broadcast, but a pre-recorded one, which will only be released after the results are announced.

Aside from their own viewers, probably only the general public outside of the original series would know the outcome and still watch the replay...

However, Wang Duoduo didn't care about any of that. He continued to commentate on the draft phase with great enthusiasm: "The draft phase has started for both sides. The blue side is our Chinese national team, and the red side is the South Korean national team."

"In the initial ban/pick phase, the Chinese team immediately banned Morgana, Rakan, and Bounty Hunter."

These three moves were undoubtedly aimed at the bottom lane, which surprised the Korean team's bot lane duo, especially Aiming, who was making his debut in a major tournament.

What makes him so deserving of such preferential treatment from the Chinese team?

However, he was mostly relegated to the support role. Although it was said to be aimed at the bottom lane, it might be more accurate to say it was aimed at the support Corejj.

"Could it be that the opposing team is going to focus on the bottom lane? Otherwise, why would they ban so many heroes from the start? Are there no other heroes worth banning in the top, mid, and jungle?"

Coach Kkoma felt it was a bit unrealistic, after all, the opposing team had Lin Ruo in their lineup. Although Uzi always played a carry-heavy style, it was normal for the draft to favor the bottom lane.

But why should Lin Ruo let Uzi have the lead? The reason is simple: results speak for themselves.

As the savior of the LPL, Lin Ruo has long since replaced Uzi as the top player, so it's unrealistic for Uzi to have more influence than Lin Ruo on the international stage.

Unsure of his opponent's thoughts, Kkoma pondered and could only follow the pre-match plan and adapt to the changing circumstances to guide his team's draft strategy.

The draft strategy is quite simple: since the opponent is focusing on limiting the bottom lane, they naturally have to try their best to limit the rhythm of the entire top half of the map.

Turn off Aatrox, Taliyah, and Ornn.

As the current meta favorite, Sword Demon needs no introduction, and as the red team, they must take on this core ban role.

Taliyah is Lin Ruo's best early-game hero in the Intercontinental Cup, but she still has to be shut down. She can't be given too much initiative, otherwise the team will easily be unable to cope in the early game.

The final pick, Ornn, followed EDG's usual playstyle this year, choosing a tanky top laner who can push lanes in the early game to coordinate with the jungler for tower diving and establishing momentum.

This approach has been a tried-and-true method for EDG since Lin Ruo switched to the jungle position, especially since GimGoon often picked Ornn in this year's matches to ensure Lin Ruo's early game rhythm.

The team has consistently achieved significant results, making this step crucial.

As a representative team built around the EDG roster, it's highly likely they'll adopt this playstyle.

Although they managed to control the bottom lane champions in their first few moves, how can we be sure that this wasn't just a bluff, but a covert maneuver?

In this respect, the Korean coaching staff was absolutely right. Lin Ruo never intended to play the bottom lane position. The reason he chose the bottom lane ban was not for any secret reason.

It's simply that the Korean coaching staff overthought things based on correct judgment. In reality, Lin Ruo and Abu only banned the most threatening heroes in the bottom lane in the early game, which would greatly reduce the laning pressure in the bottom lane.

To put it simply, Lin Ruo doesn't even need to glance at the bottom lane in the early game, allowing her to focus entirely on the top, mid, and jungle.

It is called the Liberation Road or the Liberation of Oneself.

Uzi, experiencing this for the first time, had mixed feelings.

Fortunately, he is good at playing Ezreal. If he could pick Ezreal, Uzi thinks that Tianye could easily pick Shen and go to the top, mid, and jungle to provide support at level 6.

Anyway, he can survive in the bottom lane.

However, things didn't go as planned. With the Chinese team prioritizing the jungler Trundle in the first pick to ensure an early advantage, the Korean team unexpectedly pulled off a backdoor attack.

How do we steal it?

That is, in order to prevent Lin Ruo from gaining an early advantage, they decided to select a stronger early-game lineup than the Chinese team.

It's common knowledge that playing defensively won't win, especially since Lin Ruo has repeatedly broken through the defenses of LCK teams. Therefore, deploying the strongest lineup and taking the initiative is the key to victory.

With Camille and Shen, the Korean team set the tone for the game in the first two moves, holding nothing back.

The meaning is crystal clear: the Chinese team wants their bot lane to be passive and unproductive, and the Korean team happens to have the same idea…

So, the emergence of a roaming Shen means that the Korean team also needs to choose an AD carry to gank the bottom lane separately, and Ezreal is the best choice without exception.

For a time, both sides wanted to grab a pick of Ezreal.

However, it's not easy for the Chinese team to get a reliable EZ in the second and third floors, because the Korean team has already come up with their plan: they need to try to get a stronger mid-jungle combination.

Instead of picking Ezreal and giving the opponent the choice.

Since it's now confirmed that the opposing bot lane is also going to play passively, they have more options to choose from, since playing passively is the easiest thing to do.

However, no matter how well the two teams play, one side of the bot lane will always have to push the lane. It wouldn't be impossible to even give Uzi an ADC who can push the lane.

The only problem is that without support, it's easy to get caught out and ganked repeatedly in the early game.

Uzi inevitably had to make sacrifices, and given this choice, Abu prioritized picking Swain, who had recently risen to prominence, for Xiaohu's mid lane.

The mid-jungle duo of Troll Warlord and Raven made Wang Duoduo, the commentator, feel very reassured.

This is a 100% melee combo, and the kind that gets right in your face as soon as the fight starts, which is quite effective against Camille and Shen entering the fray.

It might turn into something like working in a factory...

After all, getting too close to someone is like giving them more tankiness and allowing them to heal. Unless you have extremely high burst damage to instantly kill them, you're basically just feeding them.

Especially their next choice; going in felt like a suicide mission, because the Chinese team picked Thresh as support on the third floor…

Kkoma was somewhat taken aback and felt that things were a bit beyond his expectations, but he could accept it. As the saying goes, as long as the damage is high enough and the kill is fast enough, then going in is not considered suicide.

Therefore, the Korean team picked LeBlanc, their best champion, for their mid laner Scout in the third pick, maximizing damage and going all out from the start.

This is also the rhythm that Scout is most familiar with, after all, it is well known that since Lin Ruo switched to jungle, EDG has not had a so-called late game.

The two sides will then enter the second round of banning.

EDG has removed Kai'Sa and Sivir, which are the two champions that the Korean team is most likely to change depending on the team composition.

Kai'Sa and Sivir are still very effective against tanks, especially Kai'Sa who can coordinate with Camille and LeBlanc to engage, making her an absolute must-pick.

If we don't disable it, the Korean team might stop playing Ezreal altogether and instead pick him to protect their mid-to-late game team fights.

After China's ban phase ended, South Korea immediately banned Kled and Darius, not wanting China to continue building tanky and powerful champions.

Both sides entered the hero selection phase. The Korean team on the fourth floor, having no heroes to choose from, still picked Ezreal, a hero known for his weak abilities, and decided to let the bottom lane hold out for now.

The situation shifted to EDG, with Cho'Gath being the first champion picked for the top lane.

At this point, the Chinese team's draft also had an obvious problem: their damage output seemed somewhat insufficient.

Although they are all tanky and capable of dealing damage, they are indeed lacking one that can truly deal physical critical damage.

Therefore, on the fifth floor, the Chinese team revealed a hero that could deal more critical hits than a regular AD carry, and most importantly, this hero fit the team's core strategy.

That's pure hand-to-hand combat.

Wang Duoduo, in the commentary booth, faintly heard the sound of a flute rising, and then opened his mouth wide: "Wow, did the Chinese team pick Yasuo on the fifth floor?"

This was something he hadn't expected at all; it was pure hand-to-hand combat to the very end.

However, upon further reflection, Wang Duoduo felt that this choice was indeed brilliant, provided that Uzi was not allowed to play it.

Fortunately, the Chinese team understood. Uzi, sitting on the bench, could only watch with envy as Yasuo was picked, because that was the champion Xiaohu was going to play.

With Yasuo in the mid lane and Swain moving to the bottom lane, one major advantage emerges.

The mage Swain in the bot lane is tanky enough that even a Shen and Ezreal bot lane combo might not be enough to heal him with his ultimate.

Therefore, the crow can push the lane without worrying about encountering too much trouble online.

Meanwhile, Yasuo might have some difficulty in lane control against LeBlanc, but with his Wind Wall and passive, he can easily survive and farm.

This is the Chinese team's strategy: to play it safe in the early game, and then when the five-on-five team fights start, they will have a huge advantage.

Considering that team fights were hopeless and the opposing team was indeed too solid, Kkoma, the coach with the most world championships, had a flash of inspiration and made a positional switch.

His ability in drafting and banning (BP) is also impressive.

They immediately picked Lee Sin on the fifth floor, changed the pace, and sent Camille to the top lane for a solo lane matchup.

During this period, with Camille primarily playing as a jungler, returning to the top lane not only ensures an advantage in laning but, more importantly, provides a split-pushing option.

Obviously, to deal with team fight compositions, you need to use a more flexible approach like split pushing.

Moreover, the top laner Camille, who has developed better, has the ability to take down tanks, which made the Korean team, whose lineup didn't seem very good, suddenly come back to life.

"We can see that the two sides have already shown a very exciting game in terms of the draft phase alone. That's the charm of League of Legends."

Wang Duoduo sighed from the bottom of his heart. He thought the draft was really exciting, and the strategic exchanges and battles between the two sides were full of intelligence.

After the lineup was finalized, a very clear polarization system emerged.

The Chinese team excels in 5v5 battles, while the Korean team is good at smaller team fights of 5v5 or less.

(End of this chapter)