League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 148: Become a Blade Girl in One Night!

That's right, that's what Chen Dongqing is going to do.

Playing Honor of Kings

The day before the start of MSI, an idea suddenly popped into Chen Dongqing's mind.

If playing Torbjörn can level up Heimerdinger, then what about playing Arthur?

However, due to the tight schedule of the group stage matches in the past few days, he usually went to sleep shortly after returning to the hotel, so he did not have the opportunity to test it until today.

Chen Dongqing logged into his QQ account and successfully entered the Honor of Kings interface.

Just then, a notification came in regarding a points-based task for Honor of Kings.

[Task objective: Increase the number of stars you have in your King rank in Honor of Kings!]

[Mission Reward: The mission will officially begin once the host reaches the King rank. For each additional star in the maximum ranking, you will receive 50 points!]

This task is similar to the tasks in Overwatch, both of which involve raising your personal ranking score cap and then gaining points, but both have prerequisites.

For example, Overwatch requires 50 wins in normal matchmaking, while Honor of Kings requires reaching the King rank before starting. So, it's about half and half.

But this is not the focus of Chen Dongqing's attention.

He quickly went to the store and bought a newly released hero.

Yang Jian.

Immediately afterwards, he quickly entered the ranked matches.

His main focus of the experiment was whether it was possible to train heroes.

Upon entering, he immediately locked onto Yang Jian without hesitation, and then prepared to begin a massacre.

He played Honor of Kings a lot before becoming a professional League of Legends player, because he was a high school student at the time, and it was perfectly normal for him to play the game at school every day.

Moreover, due to his gaming talent, his skill level in Honor of Kings remains quite high, and he has been a Glory King in every season.

At that time, he was a Challenger in both the Ionia server and the QQ server, a true dual-server champion, and quite a prominent figure at school.

Now, more than a year has passed, and Honor of Kings has gone through five seasons in a flash. His rank has slowly dropped from King to Gold I.

In that case, Chen Dongqing wouldn't know how to lose this ranked match.

They went in and immediately locked onto Yang Jian, starting a killing spree.

For a Glory of Kings player to kill a Gold player is incredibly easy; the game didn't even last eight minutes.

Chen Dongqing's Yang Jian jungler dominated the entire game, and in the end, Chen Dongqing transformed into a war god by skillfully executing an infinite combo with his dog and using his ultimate to heal, directly taking on five opponents and destroying the base!

A bunch of things popped up after the match, with various settlement interfaces appearing, but Chen Dongqing didn't care. He was waiting for the system message.

Sure enough, a system message was sent out with a "ding".

[Hidden Mission in Honor of Kings: Win a ranked match using Yang Jian to complete the mission!]

[Quest Reward: Blade Will Proficiency +1, repeatable!]

[Current Blade Dancer proficiency: 83, cap increased to 95!]

"Haha, there really is!!" Chen Dongqing couldn't help but burst out laughing.

The designer of this pesticide hero sewing job is amazing!

Because Yang Jian's second skill is a patchwork of the old version of Irelia's E, it also has the mechanism of determining whether the skill stuns or slows based on the percentage of health of both sides.

His ultimate ability is extremely similar to Irelia's ultimate, and his first ability is Lee Sin's Q.

When this hero was released, many people said it was a stitched-together version of Irelia and Lee Sin.

So when Chen Dongqing needed to practice playing Irelia, this was the first hero he thought of.

As expected, there was a hidden mission!

His current proficiency is 83, which isn't too far from the 95 cap—it's only 12 points away, and he can grind it out in one night!

Immediately afterward, Chen Dongqing continued to participate in the ranking without saying a word, and the role of Yang Jian was still chosen!

This time, the match lasted a little longer, dragging on for eleven minutes before ending, but the final victory was still beyond doubt, with Chen Dongqing once again securing the win with a terrifying performance.

Yang Jian has always been very skilled.

[Current Blade Dancer proficiency: 84, cap increased to 95!]

continue!

Immediately afterwards, Chen Dongqing's proficiency with Irelia began to rise steadily.

After playing a few rounds, Xiangguo returned to his hotel room. As soon as he opened the door, he heard some strange noises.

He frowned and leaned closer, glancing at Chen Dongqing's phone screen. He was immediately startled: "Dude, what are you doing?"

"What's wrong? Playing King of Glory?" Chen Dongqing replied confidently.

"What's wrong?" Xiangguo was completely bewildered. "So that's why you came back so early, you were playing this game here."

"Just playing around, huh?"

However, Xiangguo was too lazy to care and just casually made a comment.

After all, Xiangguo understood that it was perfectly normal for Chen Dongqing to play other games; he was even playing PUBG in the training room yesterday.

In comparison, playing Honor of Kings seems a bit better.

Since they are both MOBA games, perhaps they are similar?

Xiangguo didn't think much of it. After washing up, he lay down on the bed and prepared to sleep. Since joining QG, his sleep has been much better than before.

Chen Dongqing, on the other hand, turned off his phone volume and silently played Yang Jian.

The fight went on until 2 a.m.

[Current Blade Dancer proficiency: 95, already at the cap!]

It has to be said that the speed of leveling up in Honor of Kings is much faster than in Overwatch. Chen Dongqing played four games per hour for more than three hours straight, and directly maxed out his Irelia proficiency!

It wasn't until this point that Chen Dongqing finally couldn't hold on any longer. He plugged his phone into the charger, yawned, closed his eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.

Immediately afterwards, a familiar light shone into my eyes.

His consciousness did not sink into sleep, but returned to the field of today's group stage match.

[Meditation training begins! Please select the match you wish to review!]

That's right, he hasn't finished his work yet.

Now that Irelia's proficiency is 95, shouldn't I show it off in a real game?

Without a doubt, he chose the second match, the rematch against SKT. After making the selection, the screen in front of him quickly fast-forwarded, and in an instant, the match began.

He was facing Ekko, Kindred, and Ryze.

Chen Dongqing vividly remembers this game because he rarely plays so badly. The mid and jungle ganked him at level 3, the jungler ganked him at level 4, and then the mid and jungle ganked him again at level 6. He didn't get a proper lane matchup the entire game.

In the mid-game, SKT's roaming continued to pose a great threat to him, and he didn't even dare to cross the river when pushing lanes!

Today, through meditation training, Chen Dongqing will break this deadlock.

The match started quickly.

Chen Dongqing still went directly to the top half of the jungle to defend the jungle, and then went to the lane along with the minions.

At this moment, Chen Dongqing clearly felt the difference while laning!

It has to be said that there is a significant difference between this 95 proficiency level and the 82 proficiency level I achieved this afternoon!

Most obviously, he has a clear plan for the minions' health and knows when his equipment will be able to kill jungle monsters with his Q.

At the same time, he also gained a clear understanding of the E skill. He knew when it was a stun and when it was a slow. This detail is very important because in many fights, both sides' health is ambiguous and it is difficult to judge in the chaos. Sometimes, the difference between a fight and a stun is just that one.

When facing the big tree, Chen Dongqing had a plan in mind: just cut it down!

My Q skill has been buffed so much, do you think I'm afraid of you?

There's not much to say. Chen Dongqing first laid out a line slightly, letting the melee minions of both sides fight each other while luring the big tree up.

The level 1 Maokai is actually quite strong; at least he's not afraid of fighting against Irelia, so the opponent has the right to finish off the enemy.

However, Chen Dongqing also has room to maneuver.

When the minions were low on health, Chen Dongqing unexpectedly used Q on one minion to move forward, then auto-attacked the tree, and quickly used Q on another minion to change its position!

At this moment, Maokai used his Q skill, but Irelia had already moved away, so the Q only slowed her down.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Dongqing retaliated by attacking a minion, taking down all three melee minions. Then, after the slow effect of Maokai's Q skill wore off, he directly Q'd Maokai and unleashed a basic attack.

Once the fighting spirit was high, their combat strength was clearly not weak. Immediately afterwards, Irelia chased after Maokai and attacked him relentlessly, easily gaining a level one advantage!

Chen Dongqing nodded, but his expression remained unchanged.

He actually executed this maneuver on the field, but it wasn't very effective because it didn't create a sufficient advantage.

The key was those few ganks.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Dongqing continued to lane, but this time, he was not focused on laning, because he mainly kept his eyes on the minimap and occasionally switched between the top and bottom lanes.

He knew he would definitely be caught at level three, but that was clearly not something that could be solved by simply retreating at level three; that would be like burying his head in the sand.

He needs to anticipate the enemy jungler's moves based on SKT's overall strategy. Only in this way can he avoid being ganked in similar situations in the future.

After finding the answer to the question, Chen Dongqing indeed noticed many details.

For example, SKT's bot lane had a delayed release this time, the support lost a little bit of health and mana, and the AD lost a little bit of mana.

It appears that the Swamp Frog will be available at the start of the game.

At the time, Uzi and Liu Qingsong said the same thing, so Chen Dongqing mistakenly thought that SKT's jungler was going to farm from the top half of the map to the bottom half, so he increased his pressure, but was ultimately forced to use Flash.

But if you look closely, you can see some details. For example, why did the support only lose a little over 100 HP? Would it only lose that little HP if it were fighting the Swamp Frog?

Clearly, this was actually caused by helping the jungler start the blue buff, but in order to prevent his own jungler's jungle route from being exposed, Wolf deliberately tanked the blue buff for a couple of hits, simulating a Gromp start.

But this trick is indeed effective.

In addition, there are additional details. For example, Wolf and Bang, who should have been in a slightly advantageous laning phase, played particularly steadily in the first three levels, not even giving each other any opportunities, and directly letting the minion wave pass to them.

This is the kind of laning style that only happens when you're left to your own devices.

If Chen Dongqing had switched screens to check the bottom lane at that time, he might have become suspicious and might not have tried to use Flash.

If I had Flash, I might be able to use it to escape when I'm tower-dived at level six.

Following that, there was a level 6 tower dive, and Chen Dongqing used the same method, starting with SKT's overall strategy.

Around six minutes in, it was the time for the second round of buffs to spawn. Under normal circumstances, Blank should have helped Faker take the blue buff.

Faker, however, played a trick this time. He positioned himself at the edge of the vision range, pretending to walk towards the blue buff, disappearing from sight in two steps. Then, he and Blank ran directly to the upper half of the map from the shadows.

At that time, Chen Dongqing was pushing the lane to prepare to return to base for supplies. When he realized that he was surrounded, he quickly retreated, but it was too late.

It has to be said that this gank was still very tricky, but there are still details to observe.

The details this time are in the jungle.

One minute ago, five minutes ago, Xiangguo spotted Kindred in the jungle. At that time, Kindred had sixteen CS.

He knew Kindred's first round of jungle clearing: double buffs plus Gromp plus Rift Scuttler, which meant eight kills.

Then, with eight more cuts this time, it's easy to deduce which three groups of jungle monsters they are: the Toad, Wolves, and F4.

For professional junglers, calculating the number of kills isn't a major problem.

This actually shows that the Krugs in Kindred's jungle are still there.

If there were no interference, Kindred would definitely farm the Krugs next, and Kindred did indeed move upwards at that time.

So here's the question: how can Kindred, who needs to farm their own Krugs, possibly finish farming the Krugs in one minute and then rush to the bottom half of the map to help Faker get the blue buff?

This is not realistic.

This is actually a clue that the action of hitting the blue buff is a trap!

Kindred actually met up with Faker right after finishing the Krugs, ready to tower dive!

Seeing this, Chen Dongqing sighed.

In the post-match analysis, everyone is an omniscient and omnipotent God.

But once you're actually on the field, who can uncover all of these details?

Perhaps, only when the consciousness attribute reaches its maximum value of 95 will one have this level of top-tier consciousness.

What Chen Dongqing needs to do now is to learn and grow as much as possible. He can't defeat SKT until he becomes a perfect top laner.

After dodging both waves, Chen Dongqing began looking for opportunities to secure a solo kill.

The current build for Irelia is usually to rush Trinity Force without any conditions, and then build Blade of the Ruined King, Guinsoo's Rageblade, or Guardian Angel, Sterak's Gage, etc.

The first period of dominance is when you use a small wooden hammer and a bee stinger.

These two items provide attack power, health, attack speed, and cooldown reduction—all the core attributes that Irelia needs.

Having confirmed that the opponent was unlikely to come to gank again in the short term, he decisively and forcefully launched a suppressive attack, seizing every opportunity to trade blows.

If any exchange of blows goes wrong, he immediately reverts to a previous strategy, finding a solution based on the previous maneuver involving the Tree of Life.

In the end, Chen Dongqing managed to reduce the tree to half health with a perfect skill-dodging and health-trading mana exchange, and pushed the minion wave into the tower.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Dongqing dove over the tower!

Chen Dongqing is experienced in tower diving; he first activates his W skill and slowly auto-attacks.

Once the attacks from the tree and the turret hit him, he swiftly launched an attack, first using RA to unleash a small burst of damage, then using ER to stun the tree, followed by ARQAR!

Irelia's ultimate in this version has no casting animation, so this combo only lasts for a short time: AEAQA. She bursts down Maokai, who is down to half health, and then flashes out of the tower to escape.

After securing the solo kill, Chen Dongqing nodded slightly in satisfaction; he felt it was pretty good.

As for the subsequent solo coaching period, Chen Dongqing put himself through grueling training.

In fact, he had already made significant progress in his single-stance training through meditation, so much so that he felt no pressure at all when he continued to practice single-stance training later.

But this time, facing SKT, Chen Dongqing felt the pressure again.

SKT's execution is indeed strong. Whenever Chen Dongqing tries to push across the river alone, they will launch a timely attack to gank him. From God's perspective, it looks like he walked right into a trap.

Under such immense pressure, Chen Dongqing dribbled cautiously with every step, his gaze almost always fixed on the minimap.

He had to determine exactly when SKT would come to catch him, down to the exact second, and also how many SKT members there were.

With Trinity Force, Irelia is extremely powerful; if SKT only sends two of her, he won't run away.

Following this, the two sides engaged in a back-and-forth struggle. Chen Dongqing seized the opportunity when his teammates pushed the mid lane and applied pressure, and then decisively pushed deep into the bottom lane.

Because Faker was farming minions in the top half of the map, while Bang and Wolf were defending the tower in the mid lane, there was at most one jungler in this wave!

Therefore, Chen Dongqing made a brave move, directly taking on two opponents in the bottom lane. He first used the high burst damage of Trinity Force + ultimate to force out Kindred's ultimate!

Standing in the midst of Kindred's ultimate ability, Chen Dongqing held his skill ready and remained motionless.

Once his ultimate skill ended, he immediately used E to stun Maokai, then used the final R+WAQ combo to take down Kindred. He then quickly used Q on Maokai and used the true damage and healing from W to stand and fight!

With the high attack speed bonus, Maokai's damage output is less than Irelia's W recovery!

This was undoubtedly a double kill! The strength of the Blade Dancer was on full display!

Immediately afterwards, Chen Dongqing became increasingly dominant on the side lanes, and Maokai and Kindred alone were simply not enough to stop him. SKT had to send other players to the side lanes.

But this resulted in the loss of the middle lane.

Following that, Chen Dongqing continued to play steadily, constantly probing SKT's sensitive spots on the side lanes, but each time he withdrew just before the opponent was about to reach their climax, giving them no chance.

Although there are often opportunities to make mistakes and be caught, meditation training is not afraid of mistakes. It involves going back in time, keeping the previous mistake in mind, and starting over.

SKT was thus pulled back and forth tirelessly, and in the end, QG's advantage continued to grow!

Next comes the final team fight phase, where Irelia's team fight ability is a true test. Chen Dongqing's current team fight skill of 90 points is barely enough.

The team ultimately won two team fights and secured a hard-fought victory.

In the instant before the base exploded, Chen Dongqing had a sudden thought and reverted back to the beginning of the game.

One more round!

Every match against SKT is precious, as every game is one less we can play.

Then, an unknown amount of time passed.

When Chen Dongqing himself started to feel annoyed, he finally ended the competition.

The scene before his eyes suddenly shattered, and Chen Dongqing's consciousness briefly sank before he opened his eyes.

Sunlight streamed through the hotel windows, casting its light onto the pristine white sheets.

It was already noon, and this meditation training had lasted for a full ten hours.

Fortunately, there were no rules or regulations today, so he wouldn't have his pay docked.

At the same time, the message in my mind finally arrived.

[This "Meditation Training" session has ended. Attribute changes are as follows:]

[Consciousness: 90→91]

not bad.

Chen Dongqing nodded in satisfaction; he had made tremendous progress that night.

He remained calm and unhurried, first washing up in his slippers before slowly walking towards the training room.

All of Chen Dongqing's teammates had arrived, and they were all quite surprised to see him finally come.

Manager Linko immediately rushed over and asked, "Are you alright?"

He saw that Chen Dongqing went straight to her room to sleep yesterday, and came so late today, so he thought the child had a health problem.

After all, Chen Dongqing, regardless of other things, is at least law-abiding and almost never late.

"Of course I'm fine, I'm perfectly healthy," Chen Dongqing said with a smile. "When are we eating? Hurry up, finish eating before the training match!"

"Huh?" Coach Banbazi asked from the side, "Why are you in such a hurry for a practice match?"

"I spent all night in my room reviewing the game," Chen Dongqing said directly. "I've completely figured out how to play Irelia!"

Upon hearing this, the other team members were completely skeptical.

You think you can understand a hero that you couldn't even master in so many practice matches after just one night of reviewing the game?

They didn't even bother with the hot pot.

What kind of post-mortem analysis is this?!

Chen Dongqing played with Yang Jian all night yesterday, how could he not know?

Chen Dongqing remained calm and decided to prove everything with actions, grinning as he said, "You'll see in a moment."

When it came to lunch, none of the team members wanted to leave the hotel, so they simply ordered takeout and ate something quick and easy.

After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, the training match finally began.

Once they reached the semifinals, the remaining four teams stopped scheduling practice matches with each other, mainly because with the competition approaching, it wasn't convenient to test each other's skills through practice matches.

Fortunately, QG's two coaches are well-liked, and after sending a few messages on their phones, they quickly arranged for the players to join them.

Moreover, the opponent is absolutely tough.

ROX tiger.

"Does this team not get holidays?" Xiangguo asked, looking at the several IDs in the room.

banbazi shrugged and said, "How would I know? You should ask them."

Chen Dongqing immediately started typing in the room, asking, "Why didn't you have a holiday?"

Meanwhile, Peanut quickly responded as well.

Basically, they're on vacation right now, but they have nowhere to go, so they're just playing games in the training room.

Chen Dongqing sighed upon hearing this. Compared to other teams whose training bases were left empty during holidays, perhaps a team like ROX was a true professional team.

Without sponsors or fan groups, a few passionate teenagers, eating instant noodles and playing games, reached the top of the world.

Without further ado, the training match began soon.

This time, Chen Dongqing insisted that the coach select Dao Mei, as she wanted to give a performance.

Banbazi certainly didn't believe Chen Dongqing's words, but he didn't mind picking a game with Irelia to see what would happen, since scrims weren't worth much anyway.

Meanwhile, Smeb smiled slightly and picked Riven, determined to go head-to-head with Chen Dongqing!

then

A solo kill occurred in the top lane just four minutes in.

Riven killed Irelia!

?

The QG players all turned around, expressing their confusion.

Is this your Irelia?

Chen Dongqing coughed lightly, slightly embarrassed: "Smeb is indeed a bit too fierce, I was careless."

It has to be said that as the top laner in the LCK and also the most mechanically gifted player, Smeb's mechanical attributes and Riven proficiency are definitely in the 94-95 range.

If Chen Dongqing goes head-to-head with her, she'll really suffer a loss.

Of course, the main reason is that Irelia is not strong in the early laning phase compared to Riven, and she needs Trinity Force to reach her power spike.

After Chen Dongqing died once, he immediately prepared to make cloth armor boots. Riven is stronger than Irelia in the early laning phase, but because she is a pure AD carry, she can't beat Irelia in the late game, whether it's pushing lanes or team fights.

So, just drag it out until later.

Soon, as the mid-game lane pushing phase arrived, Chen Dongqing, now equipped with Trinity Force and Boots of Speed, gradually gained the initiative and successfully fought back in a skirmish on the side lane.

Later in the team fight, Chen Dongqing relied on the tenacity provided by his passive [Ionia Fervor] to wreak havoc, ultimately overpowering Smeb with a quadra kill in the team fight and securing the victory!

"Wow!" After winning the match, Xiangguo was filled with disbelief. "You actually figured it out, didn't you?"

Chen Dongqing then curled the corners of his mouth into a wicked smile: "Looks like you still don't understand me."

"One game proves nothing," Banbazi said rationally. "Let's play another one."

As he spoke, he started another game.

Since it's a practice match, the drafting and banning (BP) phases can be discussed.

Therefore, Banbazi asked Smeb to pick Poppy to put some pressure on Chen Dongqing, and Smeb readily agreed.

The result of this game was no different from the previous one.

Poppy managed to dominate Irelia in lane, but once Irelia got Trinity Force, he couldn't control her anymore.

In this version, Irelia's Q can only be used once; once it's used, it's gone. In reality, she doesn't have much mobility in team fights. She's basically a warrior hero who relies on stats to stand and fight; high stats make her strong, and low stats make her weak.

Therefore, while Poppy counters Irelia now, she's not as dominant as she was in later versions.

As a result, Chen Dongqing continued to transform into a war god in team battles, and once again led his team to victory!

"This one's pretty good, right?" Chen Dongqing said smugly. "I'm just asking if it's good or not!?"

"Great! Absolutely fantastic!" Banbazi couldn't stop smiling.

Chen Dongqing, that young man, always manages to give me little surprises!

This gives them even more confidence in their opponent in the final!

That's right, the coach is already considering the opponent in the final.

(End of this chapter)