My buddy is actually a Cao Cao type top laner?

Chapter 165 As everyone knows, the crocodile is the underlying logic of the top lane.
The night before the match against EDG.

Luo Ji and Lao Qiang met up again at a barbecue restaurant for a late-night snack.

After MSI, all the teams stopped training at their respective city clubs and instead moved to their home stadium in Shanghai.

Although there were no audience members, the contestants still had to go on stage. Thanks to being in the same city, the two met up offline very easily.

"So? Are you ready to get brutally thrashed tomorrow?"

"just you?"

Lao Qiang raised his head and glanced at Luo Ji.

Then they turned their attention back to the food spread out on the table.

"Forget it, if you want to beat me, you'd better figure out how to get past my four champion teammates first."

"?"

"If your teammate can't beat my teammate, then what's the point of you beating me? As long as you win, that's all that matters."

"Wait a minute? How did you become such a scoundrel?"

In terms of performance record.

Even last year's champion top laner, Lao Qiang, has to admit that Luo Ji and his team V5's current record is exaggerated to a frightening degree.

Spring Champions + MSI, this is definitely a path to gold.

but.
The V5's configuration still has some major issues.

In versions with low tolerance for error, various tricks can still be used to find flaws, but in versions with high tolerance for error, the quality of the two cores is too important.

It's not that Rookie is bad.

Rookie's performance in S12 can be considered the last highlight of his professional career, after which his career declined steadily. As for the issue of his champion pool, Luo Ji has been subtly helping him to improve it.

The problem lies with Xiao Yan.

Even with good guidance, his talent successfully capped his potential.

In the eyes of most LPL players.

Only a perfect combination of five people can have a chance to compete for the S-series championship.

But Luo Ji knew it clearly.

This is not the case for the S12 version.

As long as the butterfly effect doesn't affect the version of the S12 World Championship, Xiao Yan only needs to fulfill his duty of enduring pressure, deal damage when he should in team fights, and avoid being reckless or feeding. Then there shouldn't be too much of a problem.

The lack of highlights in the AD position can be compensated for by the brightness of other positions.

Even though I know this in my heart.

Faced with Flandre's deeply hidden hint, he still accepted it with a smile and then changed the subject.

just.

At the end of the show.

Watching Saint Gun Bro about to leave, Luo Ji stood beside him with a teasing smile on his face:
"You'd better be prepared. It was embarrassing enough that I beat you last time. If you lose again this time, your S-series championship experience card will be taken away by netizens again."

"Take it or leave it, I'll take the championship skin and split the profits." The gunner, seemingly unfazed, retorted.

"But don't be surprised by me tomorrow."

"Really? I'm looking forward to it."

Lao Qiang spoke calmly, his gaze meeting Luo Ji's in front of him.

They all sensed it.

They are each other's most formidable rivals.

Luo Ji has never been afraid of any so-called aggressive top laner. What he fears most is a seasoned top laner like Lao Qiang who can annoy people from all angles.

I was originally planning to provoke him before the match.

As it turned out, this guy was completely unresponsive, leaving Luo Ji feeling somewhat helpless. But after that helplessness, a powerful fighting spirit quietly rose within him.

An invisible aura emanated from them.

I will win tomorrow's game.

"Wait and see."

7 month 10 day.

The day before version 12.12 was released.

The match between V5 and EDG arrived as scheduled, and even before the match started, countless netizens were already waiting in front of their screens.

Even before the release of Valhalla and Delta Force, League of Legends still maintained its status as the most popular PC game.

And this point.

Just in time for the rise of the "Guochao" (national trend) style, there are not only the Guochao-themed food delivery services mentioned in previous chapters, but also the Guo-style clothing worn by various commentators.

This round.

Colonel, Rita, and Death God PYL co-star in a Chinese-style drama.
Especially senior colonels.

The traditional Chinese clothing he wore gave him the look of an ancient eunuch, which immediately captivated the audience.

[Should we do something about my father-in-law?]

[On the left is Hua Wuque, in the middle is Jiuqiansui, and on the right is Pan Jinlian?]

[Whether it's a national style or not doesn't matter; what matters is that today's match should be very exciting. Xu's 5/0 performance was perfect, and Rookie must be under a lot of pressure right now.]

It's okay, you can always trust Song Yijin, unless he's by the wall ( )

The excitement of the match completely exceeded the expectations of both teams.

Of course, the main reason is that Luo Ji has been advertising too aggressively lately. From Tieba to Bilibili to Douyin, almost everyone in the circle knows that he is involved in the Holy Grail War.

Although Rookie, a fellow teammate, had also run a business and owned a restaurant, it paled in comparison to the Holy Grail War.

at this time.

In the V5 team voice.

Coach Nofe was still giving the players a final pre-battle pep talk, with a focus on Xiao Yan, since he was the only one in the team who was immune to motivational speeches.

"Qi Shen, I won't say anything more."

"I understand, things change every thirty years, right? Could you come up with something different next time, instead of being so perfunctory?"

Xiao Yan was also a little numb.

He's young, that's true, and his motivational speeches are effective, but you shouldn't always feed him the same thing.

Your headquarters are all in Guangdong Province.

Can't you even cook a chicken? Boiled, soy sauce-baked, salt-baked, scallion oil-baked, hand-shredded, steamed, roasted, stir-fried, pork belly, coconut-baked, salt-baked.
There are so many ways to do it.

Why don't you change it?

Nofe scratched his head awkwardly, and PPGOD, who was standing next to him, couldn't stand it anymore and spoke up:

"It's fine if you don't want to drink. See that ID on the other side's bottom lane? LPL's Xiang Gong, he's handsome, plays well, and has a clean background. His womanizing is pure love. But you, my friend, you're ugly, play average, and have a somewhat shady background. Your womanizing is like a toad trying to eat swan meat."

"Isn't this right?"

Xiao Yan settled in Bengbu.

"You can say I'm lustful, but you can't say my pure love is ugly."

"What else? If you had his looks and grades, wouldn't you be dating ten women a year?"

Xiao Yan was stunned for a moment.

He suddenly realized that he seemed unable to refute it.

Luo Ji chuckled upon hearing this and chimed in, adding his support:

"Admit it, most people's pure love is the same as yours, it's just pure and unloved, but now you have a chance."

"Viper has won the hearts of so many female fans, and if you can win over Viper, it's practically the same as you winning over those female fans."

Even if the conversion rate is as low as 1:100, you will still gain new female fans.

"Have you heard what the founder said? First consider the quantity, then consider the quality. As long as you accumulate enough quantity, you will be able to talk about real goddesses."

Looking at Xiao Yan, who seemed to be deep in thought.

Kasa and Rookie, standing to the side, were twitching their lips in a frenzy; they were completely treating him like a real person.

Even if those female fans lose their positive image of Viper and stop supporting her, they will only become fans of other good-looking contestants.

What does it have to do with ability?
Uzbekistan has a lot of public opinion and influence.

He didn't have many female fans during his service; instead, he attracted an "evil god" and was forced to transform into a demon-locking tower.

soon.

The game then began.

In the current version, the main focus of the ban/pick phase remains the mid lane for both sides. The only difference is that the red side needs to ban an additional Zephyr and then ban Gwen in the second round.

Briefly omitted:

EDG: Top lane Renekton, Jungle Xin Zhao, Mid lane Corki, Bot lane Senna + Tahm Kench
V5: Top lane Singed, Jungle Poppy, Mid lane Tryndamere, Bot lane Kalista + Lena.

The moment the lineup was revealed.

The viewers in the live stream rubbed their eyes in disbelief.

I knew you had a lot of tricks up your sleeve, and I knew you liked to be provocative, but I didn't know you could be this reckless when you were being provocative!

Rookie, who plays Warrior AD champions terribly, is playing Tryndamere.

The world's most shameless person gave him an alchemy slacker job.

how?

One of you cuts off the minion wave in the early game, and the other steals the high ground in the mid-game, right?

【Niubi! 】

[The most bewildering episode for the EDG coaching staff: What were they doing to him?]

[As expected, it has to be the version-specific researcher, DreamGod. Only DreamGod can bring a touch of novelty to the boring LPL!]

[As expected of a purge, both sides are ruthless.]

Even EDG was stunned.

They had considered that Luo Ji might release some disgusting heroes, such as an AD top laner, or use Quinn to counter them, but they never thought of Alchemist.

Then take a look at their lineup.

Their lineup really lacked flexibility this time.

"I reckon the people on the other side are totally dumbfounded right now."

"Even if they're stupid, I still have to beat them. I've put in a lot of effort to really annoy them!!!"

Unlike EDG, who only wanted to win.

V5 here.

Luo Ji wanted to win, but also wanted to sabotage his opponent by doing something outrageous.

This is the alchemy choice.

At the start of the game, Meiko was forced to stay in the top half of the jungle to defend, and even the support's wards were placed in the top half of the jungle early on level one.

Do not ask.

The question is because I'm afraid of having my minion wave cut off.

Because of this sudden rise in alchemy, Jiejie, who originally planned to start with red and farm upwards, changed his starting strategy this game and started with blue and farm downwards.

"EDG seems a bit scared."

Commentary seat.

Seeing EDG's fully armed defense of the top half of the map, the colonel felt the scene was a bit funny, but understandable.

This is how alchemy works.

If we say that the crocodile is the underlying logic of the top lane, that is, it is simple and easy to use, has high laning strength in the early game, is strong in small-scale team fights in the mid-game, and is virtually invisible in the late game, it is a very perfect warrior template.

You can't beat the crocodile in the early game, but you can win in the late game. You can beat the crocodile in the early game, but you're not good in small-scale team fights.

So, alchemy.

He's a complete jack-of-all-trades.

He can be used against almost anyone, and the effect is roughly the same against most heroes, resulting in a similar win rate. Because in many cases, he is a Schrödinger's top laner.

It might not be online, because it could be on the opposite high ground. It's like the stock market's price fluctuations: when the west rises, it's in the east, and when the east rises, it's in the west.

Later, many stock market investors realized that putting all their eggs in one basket, with half in one sector and half in another, was a bad idea.

It was tilted to one side and the eggs were all broken.

Considering that Luo Ji is an unconventional player, EDG laid a trap before the minions even reached the lane.

However.
But the net was empty.

Meiko, growing impatient, even started to feel resentful.

This person has already laid an ambush, set up the trap, and even given you the eye of the treasure, so what does it mean that you're not coming?
Where the hell are you?!
You're not even on Summoner's Rift!

(End of this chapter)