LPL History

Chapter 131 Cleverly Breaking Three Methods of Stealing the Sky and Changing the Sun, Rune Wars Concealing the Mysterious Sharpness

Wu Zhuangtai's words were like a bucket of cold water, instantly waking Xiaosan from her dream of becoming famous.

Indeed, OMG itself doesn't have many fans.

Where did this bunch of supporters who suddenly appeared come from?

The global population is only six billion, and they are all WE fans. There are no extra people to give to OMG.

These 60e support them now simply because the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

WE was eliminated by EDG, and the 60e fans placed their last hopes on them.

Thinking of this, Xiaosan couldn't help but speak up:

"If we lose the game, won't we get roasted to death?"

"Hey bro, I'll curse you out of your wits."

Upon hearing Lingyao's words, Xiaosan swallowed hard.

In preparation for today's tough battle, OMG has done a lot of research on EDG behind the scenes.

Unlike Zhou Li during Season 2, Zhou Li, now playing the AD position, makes EDG seem less invincible.

Of course, that's just what it appears to be.

This doesn't mean that Zhou Li's AD carry skills are worse than his mid-lane skills.

It's simply because different locations give people different intuitive feelings.

The bottom lane position is more about farming and developing during the laning phase. The laning intensity is not that high, and it requires cooperation between two people.

However, the top and middle positions are solo lanes. Once a player frequently gets solo kills in lane, it proves that the player is absolutely outstanding in terms of individual skill.

The visual impact and psychological pressure they bring to others are also completely different.

Why did Zhou Li in S2 make so many teams feel hopeless and fearful before the battle even started?

As a mid-laner, he is always able to solo kill other professional players in lane, triggering a series of chain reactions, such as invading the jungle or supporting the side lanes.

WE was always able to establish a huge advantage early on.

This gives people the feeling that the game is over before it even begins, and they are powerless to resist.

The AD position, on the other hand, doesn't create such a sense of pressure.

Even someone as powerful as Uzi, who's been touted as a myth, has the most classic saying: "Wait for Uzi's three-piece set."

Even though Zhou Li had almost perfectly embodied the role of an AD carry in previous matches, not only was he able to handle team fights perfectly in the mid-to-late game, but he was also able to suppress his opponents in lane and often got kills in lane.

Throughout the entire LPL Spring Split, Zhou Li had the highest average damage output, average CS, average gold difference against his lane opponent, and KDA in the league.

However, if you put these data into a mid laner and a top laner, it will only make people feel more suffocated and desperate.

From a conventional perspective, firstly, the ADC cannot provide much help to the team in the early game, and secondly, the ADC is relatively easy to target.

Moreover, when it comes to team replay analysis, the focus is often on laning details and tactical thinking.

There are relatively few post-game analyses of team fights, since team fights rely more on the players' awareness and on-the-spot reactions, making them very difficult to execute.

So OMG knows Zhou Li is very strong, extremely strong, but that doesn't give them the feeling that EDG is invincible.

Of course, there's another reason: the tabe gets a little bit of food on it.

Because in a sense, in the bot lane matchup, the ADC often determines the lower limit, while the support determines the upper limit.

During the laning phase, the ability to seize opportunities by exploiting the opponent's mistakes in an instant, thereby gaining an advantage or even securing a lane kill, is largely a skill that supports can achieve; this is the upper limit of their potential.

The ability to maintain a stable state and absolute focus during intense laning phases, preventing the opponent from finding opportunities, is the responsibility of an ADC; this is called the lower limit.

Zhou Li can tell Tabe how to build vision, how to position himself, and when to provide support.

However, these fleeting opportunities during the laning phase cannot be helped by verbal reminders.

Unless he takes direct control of Tabe's brain.

Therefore, OMG's understanding is that Zhou Li is very strong, but he is being held back by Tabe. Their bot lane will face pressure, but not to the point that it's impossible to lane against him.

When it comes to the real deciding factor, it will depend on their top laner, Goging.

This is why goging, the core member of the OMG team, remained silent during the conversation.

Because he's pretending to be an expert without saying a word.

"Hello viewers watching the live stream! You are now watching the 2013 League of Legends Pro League Spring Split Finals! The two teams facing off are OMG Esports Club and EDG Esports Club!"

"I'm commentator Miller!"

"I'm the commentator, Waa!"

As the voices of the Haier Brothers rang out, the final competition officially began.

"After more than two months of fierce competition, only two of the eight top domestic League of Legends teams remain, and they can still compete for the final championship on this stage!"

"I wonder which team will have the last laugh today and win the first LPL championship trophy and the 500,000 yuan prize money!"

The doll picked up where Miller left off and continued:
"To be honest, the final result of the competition today may have surprised many people. WE and IG, who were favored by most people, both fell in the semifinals. On the other hand, OMG and EDG, who were not highly regarded before the competition, have made it to the finals today. Their appearance actually proves the development of our domestic League of Legends clubs."

"Yes! Both teams can be considered absolute dark horses. EDG eliminated WE, and OMG eliminated IG, both advancing to the finals with a score of 2-0. I think that, based on the current situation, today's finals absolutely represent a showdown between the strongest League of Legends teams in China!"

"The finals will be a best-of-five series. The team that wins three games first will be the winner and will lift the championship trophy. Actually, I think these two teams are quite similar."

Miller smiled and said:

"First of all, both teams are in black. I saw some people online joking that there's a reason why EDG and OMG became dark horses, first of all, they bought skins."

"Secondly, the styles of the two teams are actually quite similar, especially in the mid and top positions. Both Shenchao and Gogoing are typical players who are stable in lane and extremely aggressive in team fights. As for the mid laners Cool and White, as new generation mid laners, they are both very good at assassin heroes like Zed and Fizz, and their pressure in the mid lane is very strong."

“Yes,” Wawa nodded, “If there’s any difference, it’s the bot lane. We know that Xiaosan is a very stable ADC player. You can see from his laning phase that his death rate in lane is very low, from the regular season all the way up. As for EDG, Lion, I can only describe him with two words—brutal!”

"EDG's bot lane has the most kills in lane among all teams. And looking at the data, Lion's output data ranks first among our ADC players in the Spring Split! His average kills reached a terrifying 9.1 per game. The only pity is that Lion played very few games during the regular season, otherwise I think he would undoubtedly be number one on the kill leaderboard."

Miller looked at the data, smiled, and said:

"It's worth mentioning that the player currently ranked first on the kill leaderboard is also from EDG, and is also an ADC player, UZI."

Upon hearing Miller's words, the doll said:
"Yes, EDG's two ADC players are both incredibly strong. UZI's playing time is actually not enough, but he still tops the kill leaderboard. This mad dog is just like Lion, very aggressive in lane. EDG having these two ADCs is really scary."

"However, I think there's a slight difference between Uzi and Lion. We've seen that when Uzi plays, EDG's tactics tend to revolve around the bottom lane. But when Lion plays, EDG focuses more on the mid and top lanes. Lion's dominance in lane is entirely due to his terrifying individual ability. I heard that Lion is the shot-caller for EDG. Have you seen any screenshots of Lion's first-time play online?"

Miller's face instantly contorted in pain, as if he were recalling some unpleasant memory.

"Don't even mention it. When I saw that first screen, Lion's screen cut, I tried to follow it closely to see what Lion was seeing. But in less than five minutes, my optic nerves couldn't take it anymore, and I didn't sleep well that night."

In the live stream, the netizens were instantly abuzz as they listened to the two praising the Zhou rituals.

[You idiot, what the hell are you bragging about?]

These two are more disgusting to look at now.

Traitor!

[OMG, go for it! Go for it, Xiaosan! Kill Zhou Chu!]

At this point, both sides had entered the business proposal (BP) phase.

OMG, playing on the blue side, immediately banned Vayne.

Zhou Li used Vayne twice, and both times Vayne left a deep impression on the OMG team during their post-game analysis.

Once this hero gets going, he becomes very difficult to deal with.

The other two bans were given to Zac and Zed.

EDG, on the other hand, opted to ban Kha'Zix, Evelynn, and Thresh.

Subsequently, OMG locked up the crocodile on the first floor.

"Oh! OMG, gogoing is very confident; he locked up the crocodile right on the first floor!"

Crocodile is Shenchao's signature hero, but it is also Gogoing's signature hero.

OMG's player selection was clearly a move to prioritize securing kills over counter-killing.

Moreover, as a top lane dominant champion, Renekton is not afraid of being countered by any champion when he is picked first.

The picks were given to EDG. Seeing that OMG had picked Renekton first, EDG countered by picking Rumble and then locking in Jarvan IV.

OMG, on the other hand, picked the bot lane duo of Twitch and Sona in their second or third pick.

EDG countered by picking a strong combination of Varus and Zyra.

OMG then picked Elise and Jayce. EDG added Ryze for the mid lane as their last pick.

At this point, the lineups for both sides were completely finalized.

Blue side: OMG Esports Club VS Red side: EDG Esports Club.

Top lane: (gogoing) Desert Butcher VS (godlike) UZI.

Jungle: (loveling) Elise Queen VS (lucky) Jarvan IV.

Mid lane: (cool) UZI VS (white) Ryze.

ADC: (san) Plague Rat VS (lion) Smite Arrow.

Support: (pomelo) Sona VS (tabe) Zyra.

Miller looked at the lineups of both sides and said:

"We can see that OMG has brought out a lineup with very strong early-game pressure! Whether it's the top laner Renekton, the mid laner Jayce, or the jungler Elise, these heroes are all very easy to set the pace in the early game! Obviously, OMG's strategy today is to gain a big advantage in the early game, just like they did against IG, forcing IG to surrender in 20 minutes."

"Yes, in comparison, EDG's lineup is more late-game oriented... Hey, what's going on? The game is paused."

While the commentator was still giving his commentary, the two sides who had just entered the game suddenly paused.

Miller received the message from the director and began to speak:

"Sorry, we just received a message from the director that due to network fluctuations, we need to wait patiently for the network problem to be resolved."

The audience didn't expect that this wait would turn into an hour.

Just as the audience began to complain, the official team immediately made a decision.

Reopen directly.

"Due to network issues, the connection was lost for too long, so we can't reconnect for the previous game. But thankfully, the game hasn't started yet, so we can just have both players restart the game according to their previous character selections."

Upon receiving the message to restart, gogoing thought for a moment and quickly started operating on the client.

Both sides quickly selected their heroes as in the previous game, and this time they finally entered the match smoothly.

As soon as OMG entered the game, having chosen the normal positioning before the restart, they immediately headed towards the bottom lane.

They circled around from their own bottom half of the map towards EDG's jungle.

The mouse activated its stealth and went to the front to scout vision, where it happened to spot Zyra standing guard at the Blue Buff entrance.

The herb hiding in the grass shouted excitedly.

"Brothers, here's something cool for you!"

He immediately learned the E skill, and then used Flash the instant he used E!

"Oh!!"

A gasp of surprise erupted from the crowd!

"Wow! That was Spider's E-Flash! So cool! Tabe didn't even have time to react and was trapped in place by the Spider Queen. It looks like he can't escape now!"

Although OMG didn't have much crowd control at level one, they had Jayce and a close-range Twitch, which resulted in very high burst damage.

Furthermore, Jayce's Q when switching to hammer form also has a slowing effect.

Even though Tabe used Flash, he was still killed by Twitch.

First blood!

Hearing the announcement of the first kill, Zhou Li angrily cursed:

"Are you an idiot? You're going to die anyway, why are you even using your flashbang?"

While he was cursing, he quickly observed the attributes of the OMG members.

Because of the rune system, runes can be customized, allowing players to have different attributes even with the same starting build.

When Zhou Li pointed at the crocodile, he was stunned to see that the crocodile had more than 50 points of magic resistance.

He was a little unsure and took another look.

51 points.

"Damn it, this crocodile has 51 magic resistance when it leaves the house?"

Generally speaking, the standard runes for top laners are armor and health.

gogoing's attribute comparison definitely shows that he replaced all the runes with magic resistance.

Upon hearing Zhou Li's words, Tabe instinctively replied:

"We have 3 AP champions on our side, so it's normal for him to take magic resistance runes, right?"

Tabe's words infuriated Zhou Li.

"Can you fucking close your anal fistula? Stop opening it unconsciously every day, down there!"

As is well known, there are only two sets of rune pages in total.

Once you enter the champion selection phase, you can only choose one of these two rune sets to equip, and you cannot adjust the rune pages that have already been configured.

When Zhou Li entered the game in the previous round, he had already checked the attributes of gogoing crocodile.

It's still a perfectly normal life armor.

This means that gogoing did not expect to face a 3AP lineup before the match and did not prepare magic resistance rune pages.

If so, they were already changed in the previous round.

But now, this crocodile has magic resistance all over its body.

The only explanation is that gogoing changed his runes during the restart! (*)

At this moment, Zhou Li also remembered that besides being known as the leader, gogoing also had a prestigious title: Rune God of War!

Zhou Li pressed the Enter key.

[EDG_lion: Gao Diping, you're something else, you even changed your runes? Have you no shame?]

Seeing his "micro-management" instantly exposed and dismantled by the opponent, gogoing blushed, but still quickly typed out a question mark.

This greeting thoroughly angered Zhou Li.

[EDG_lion: Did you deduct your XXXXXX?]

At this moment, Miller and Wawa, who were in the commentary booth, also noticed Zhou Lifang's text and asked in confusion:

"Huh? Did gogoing change the runes during the restart?"

The doll couldn't help but speak up:

"Wow! That's a bit sneaky. Did they see EDG's 3AP and immediately switch to magic resistance runes? That's 50 points of magic resistance right from the start, Rumble must be stunned!"

Miller couldn't help but laugh:
"Gogoing has a deep understanding of runes. It just so happens that the crocodile skin he's using today is also called Rune Warrior."

At this moment, Zhou Li had already summoned the referee.

The game was paused again, drawing boos from the 60e fans.

However, just five minutes later, the referee informed Zhou Li of the decision to continue the match.

In the referee's words, they had no way of knowing whether gogoing had actually changed his runes.

Although this can be completely determined by watching the live stream replay.

Even if you watched the live replay and confirmed that the crocodile didn't bring magic resistance in the previous game, it doesn't mean that he doesn't have any magic resistance rune pages in his two rune sets.

Maybe they just forgot to change it in the last game and remembered it this time.

Regarding this situation, the competition rules didn't anticipate that a genius would pull off such an incredible feat, so there was absolutely no explanation for it.

Of course, Zhou Li knew that the main reason was that the pressure from the 60e members present was simply too great.

League of Legends doesn't even have a rewind function right now. In the last game, no one got any kills, but in this game, Tabe has already given away one. To restore the situation to this point, the staff would have to manually restore it, and who knows how long that would take.

The match resumed quickly.

[EDG_lion: You're not going to restart, huh? I gave you a chance and you failed!]

What does it mean to bring full magic resistance?
They don't even respect Zhou Li's ADC skills, do they?!

(End of this chapter)