My buddy is actually a Cao Cao type top laner?

Chapter 177 Bitter Wine Goes Down the Throat, Heart Aches (jpg)
The night the game ended.

V5's Heroic Mic Check still caused a huge uproar.

Luo Ji understands the power of online traffic; his witty remarks, delivered into the microphone, bring back a huge influx of fans.

Although one of the coordinates was "beep beep beep" processed in the later stages, after so many years in the internet industry, everyone can tell what that "beep beep beep" thing is by just a little bit of thinking.

Do not ask.

The problem stems from the darkening of the internet over the years.

Just like many people.

They're so experienced that they can treat embellishments as if they don't exist, and they don't need AI to remove them; they can fill in the gaps with their own imagination.

This is talent that is cultivated later in life.

No matter how you look at it, I think the V5 owner made a killing.

[It seems the son of the gambling king didn't initially plan to invest much in V5; he only invested in V5 as a side project to acquire land. Unexpectedly, the player he randomly picked up became incredibly popular.]

[Just like TES, with JKL on the team, win-loss records don't matter at all; JKL's mere presence is enough to generate buzz.]

[Compared to Meng, he's still okay. The show is more entertaining, and he's more handsome. The main thing is that the other contestants would have been impotent by now, but he's actually selling cups for the health of his fans. I'm so sad!]

[23333, why does this remind me of "Sadako the People"?]

It's not like the flowery words on the internet.

In the lounge.

Nofe looked at Luo Ji, who was sitting in his seat playing ranked games and causing chaos in the entire League of Legends community, and felt quite emotional.

Who would have thought.

In other teams, Luo Ji would only be a sycophantic young player, and in the LCK, he would be bullied. But now he has completely established himself in V5.

In the short time he was playing ranked games.

Karsa is helping him grind in the mobile game, Rookie is helping him get a date with TheShy, Xiao Yan is helping him test the cups that were sent to him, and the support player PPGOD is overwhelmed by the crazy tactics that have flooded his inbox.

If it weren't for GimGoon helping to share the burden, he felt like PPGOD's brain was about to overload.

The LPL teams they used to play for.

They only practice a dozen or so heroes a season, playing them back and forth. There's no pressure on the field; whether they win or lose depends entirely on their performance on the day of the match.

And now.

There are a lot of new things they need to master and understand. Regardless of whether they are useful or not, Luo Ji's first requirement is that they can play with them, not how well they can perform after playing them.

Nofe naturally supports this.

He is a coach with a very rich tactical system, but most of the teams he worked for before had obvious flaws, and the players, in turn, limited his drafting and banning.

After a seven-game winning streak.

V5 had already received an invitation from the tournament organizers to go and record their official playoff photos. After all, with this record, unless they lose every game in the next round, they really couldn't think of any way for V5 to miss the playoffs.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! This is a rare filming opportunity. The sooner we finish, the more free time we'll have."

"There's no need to rush. Slow down, or you'll bump into someone."

"Holy crap, come around the corner and say something!"

"It's too late, sprint!"

The entire V5 club was filled with phrases such as "Can't Stop", "Blind Spot", "I Thought It Was a Speed ​​Bump", "Then Talk to the Doctor", and "We Are All Trying Our Best to Live".

Considering today's filming.

V5 didn't schedule any training matches that day, focusing instead on shooting and outdoor activities, and then treated their less than half-day of free time as a holiday.

There is only one requirement:
The only rule was not to miss the practice match the next day, meaning to be back before noon. This made Rookie and the others extremely happy.

Anyone who has ever worked knows this.

What is it like to work a regular job with only one day off per week? The fatigue between your brows is undeniable. For professional players, especially those in strict clubs like EDG, there isn't even a single day off per week; it's all completely military-style management.

in particular.
EDG's cafeteria food used to be notoriously bad.

When the group finally arrived at the recording site, Luo Ji finally understood why he always felt that these LPL promotional videos were amateurish in his previous life—because they really were amateurish.

Everyone was reciting their lines to the camera as if they were memorizing a script.

As for the rest, that's all left to special effects.

As for whether it looks good or not?
This comes down to the three essential elements of photography: the model must be attractive, the model must be attractive, and the model must be attractive.

With Luo Ji, Kasa, and Rookie as established actors, even the worst is still e-sports star Xiao Yang, so they can make a decent film no matter how they're filmed. On the other hand, Xiao Yan and PPGOD just don't feel quite right no matter how they're filmed, so after struggling for a while, they gave up.

That's it~
While filming, Miller and Wawa also came over to chat with Luo Ji, both of them showing great interest in this year's biggest dark horse.

When asked by the two whether he would continue to play heroes that are less commonly seen in competitive matches.

Luo Ji said the following:

"Normally, yes, after all, you all know that I am a player trained by Xuanjun. The greatest success of coming from a famous school is to transcend the school. He is known for his acrobatic top lane skills, so I naturally have to inherit or even surpass that title."

"But some heroes are hard to pick, right?" Miller pointed out.

"correct."

Luo Ji nodded.

"So I usually pick based on the version. There's no need to pick a certain number of heroes in the first year. If they're suitable, I'll pick them; if they're not, I'll wait."

aside.

The official vlog was secretly started, and Luo Ji discovered this, but he didn't stop it. He would never complain about this way of mutually increasing traffic.

"I see. So, in the last round against WBG, you deliberately recreated GimGoon's famous moment in the second game, or did you have other intentions at the time?"

The question was asked by the doll.

As a veteran commentator who has been in the industry since ancient times, he has indeed seen the shadows of many players in Luo Ji's competitions.

"Actually, I felt that my teammates needed a little more time to recover their form. At that time, Ka Ge's form was average, while the opponent's form was very hot. The opponent was even leading by one game, which was a pretty bad situation. If the team's mentality had been a little worse, they might have lost the second game."

"So at the time, I was thinking about whether I could attract all the enemy's attacks, which I felt was something I should do as a top laner." "As long as the top laner's wall hasn't fallen, the game will continue. Everyone has off days, but they don't disappear; they just hide temporarily, and finding them requires a little patience."

"True failure begins the moment you give up the search."

"And then, as expected, I witnessed their condition improve."

After listening to his explanation.

Both Miller and Doll gave Luo Ji a deep look.

Careless.

This kid is a master of showing off.

These words don't sound like something an uncultured professional player would say.

If it were someone else, they would think that the sentence structure was copied from the internet, but when they think about Luo Ji's performance, they can only sigh that there may really be monsters in reality.

What followed immediately.

It was an overwhelming joy.

Compared to the LCK's frequent use of memorable quotes, LPL players don't actually have many who can utter sentences rich in philosophical meaning. The conversation between these three today filled that gap.
The staff who had finished recording the vlog excitedly took their leave and began preparing to edit the video. With such an impressive track record, no one thought there was anything wrong with what he said.

The only ones in the entire LPL who are going against him are the shady Korean supporters. Right now, the Korean supporters are not happy. The record of three championships in four years has made them look like rats in the street.

They will only nitpick even more when faced with Luo Ji, who personally ruined T1's road to revival at MSI.

After the shooting.

As always, Luo Ji took his fishing gear and embarked on his fishing journey.

As for the company?

That's not important. The company is already on the right track. If he goes back and interferes, it will only have the opposite effect.

Just like LeEco.

The boss might be losing money when he's around, but the employees will definitely make money when he's not there, and that's the case right now.

In this case.

It's better to choose a fishing rod between a house and a car, a fishing pond between black fish and dark beer, and a fishing spot between your workplace and your job.

Anyway, as long as he continues to play in the LPL.

The fame and influence that comes from his strength will naturally lead to his company making a fortune through various channels.

of course.

Doing so also means facing complaints from one's own secretary.

"Boss, all the employees in the company are praising you."

"I know."

Listening to the words on the other end of the phone, Luo Ji could hear the joy in the secretary's voice, which made him feel very good and his vanity soared.

S12 was a tournament without spectators.

Facing rows of empty seats every day, even with all the hype online, Luo Ji still doesn't have a direct sense of his online popularity. No amount of comments can compare to the joy he felt from this phone call today.

"They all want your autograph."

"I know too."

"So, boss, when are you planning to go back to the company for a visit?"

"After the S-series, as you know, if I achieve some success and immediately go back to the company to do this and that, what will the outside audience think of me? Only when the company is running normally and I don't go back much will they think I'm a good player who is focused on my profession."

Luo Ji, without batting an eye, solemnly told the lie.

He finally had a half-day off, and if he went back to the company, wouldn't his holiday have been wasted? His secretary couldn't persuade him to give up, so she could only angrily say that she would definitely bring the staff to the event to cheer him on if there was a live performance.

I also gave a briefing on my recent work progress.

Just as Luo Ji predicted, with his hindsight perspective, Luo Ji made every step in the business world very steadily.

Sustainable development is the only way forward.

As you can see in the professional League of Legends scene, top players all have their own ways of monetizing their skills, and in particular, top professional players all have one thing in common: they are extremely stingy.

For example:

Faker's Coke, Chaowei's clothes, and his phone in his left hand.

Compared to these, most of the early LPL professional players who actually made money performed poorly, such as Uzi.

Sealing the evil god was a great achievement for him, but running out of money was a reality he had to face. Not to mention the famous gambling king, Cathay Boon, who was currently living on borrowed money.

Luo Ji was already calculating things in his mind.
To defeat Faker, it's not enough to just beat him on the field. In terms of honors, to catch up with Faker's three-time world champion, you'd have to win all the way up to S14.

Therefore, we had to find another way.

Their competitive results are better than his, and their off-field value is also higher.

the most important is.

(P.S.: The following are all jokes/memes)
Eun-jung's due date is at the end of 23, which is also the time of the S-series finals. That means if they can beat T1 next year, there will be 6 people crying their eyes out after the match.

Don’t say anything else.

At least back then, Guapi must have genuinely been interested.

Just like on the day Eun-jung got engaged, one Sylas, one Pantheon, one 1-3, one 1-4, a lifetime of liberation, a lifetime of unyielding.

He knows how to play the awkward game.

Of course, we don't know if he still has feelings for Eun-jung. If he does, try playing top lane with Rabbit Riven, mid lane with Rabbit Fizz, bottom lane with Rabbit Ziggs, support with Rabbit Blitzcrank, and jungle with Rabbit Teemo.

It's estimated that it can force him to unleash his strongest form.

And defeating Faker like this is also a victory in a broader sense.
grass.

It's burning up!

(End of this chapter)