League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 224 The Chinese server's Han Xin player requests to fight!

"Holy crap, is this Tree Bro?" Fly's voice was excited, but he wasn't sure yet.

At this moment, the live stream chat started flooded with comments, and many people nodded in agreement, confirming that this was indeed Brother Tree.

"It really is Brother Shu? Brother Shu, I'm your fan!" Fly was full of surprise and couldn't wait to send a friend request, but it was like throwing a stone into the sea, and he didn't get a reply.

Fly was slightly disappointed, but it wasn't too bad, because he was in the same WeChat group as Chen Dongqing, and the two had greeted each other. He knew that the QG Alliance division emphasized a scientific schedule and got up very early, so they were probably already asleep after finishing this game.

He composed himself, started a new ranked game, and planned to thrash some random players to get revenge.

What he didn't know was that the recording of his ranked match had been recorded by countless fans and posted online.

Some extreme individuals even used headlines like "Is this all there is to agricultural wholesale markets? LOL pro players are dominating them," sparking widespread discussion across various platforms.

But that's not surprising.

After all, both Honor of Kings and League of Legends are top-tier games on their respective platforms, boasting a large player base and high interoperability. When this scenario unfolds, both sides want to save face for their respective teams.

[Hilarious! This is what a noob looks like! A 130-star King-level player, easily crushed by Tree Bro?]

[How can you say that? Tree Bro is only this good because he's incredibly talented. Try it with another player!]

[Fun fact: Menglei used to be in WE's youth training program, but nobody wanted him.]

[And what's so impressive about beating up a nobody pro player? Fly? Never even heard of him.]

Fly and Tree Bro seem to be in the same club.

[Haha, and they're all on the side lanes, I suggest Brother Shu go play top lane for QGhappy, it won't interfere with his career.]

Don't rush, Fei Niu is quite good, he just hasn't played yet. Let's wait and see how he performs when he gets on the court.

[What kind of performance was that? He got completely destroyed by Tree Bro, he's not that great.]

The argument went on and on all night, even trending on social media, creating a huge spectacle that left the QG club completely bewildered.

Why are the players from their own two divisions fighting each other?

After figuring out the whole story, Hua Luo, the manager of Honor of Kings, was at a loss for words.

You're a full-time professional player, and you can't even beat someone who's just playing around?

The manager is considering whether to keep Fly on the bench a little longer to observe his progress.

There was no other way but to upload this information to Linko.

Linko asked two people in a large WeChat group, and Fly said it was just a normal ranked game, and the drama was started by netizens themselves.

Chen Dongqing said something similar.

He knew who it was when he saw the ID "Feiniu" yesterday, but he didn't think too much about it and didn't expect it to cause such a big stir.

Linko didn't know what to say for a moment, and after thinking for a long time, he said, "But we still need to find a way to defuse this situation. We're all family, and it's not good for us to keep arguing."

Chen Dongqing thought for a moment and said, "How about I stream duo queue with him in the bot lane?"

"Huh?" Fly immediately expressed his confusion and even sent an emoji, "Isn't this a bit inappropriate?"

Chen Dongqing is a top streamer on Douyu, the kind who always tops the charts as soon as he starts streaming, while he's just a nobody streamer now, barely managing to attract some viewers by relying on the rankings and star count.

If the two of them duo queue, Fly will obviously have a huge advantage, which could potentially attract a large number of players.

"So what?" Chen Dongqing smiled nonchalantly. "I can tell a professional player's talent, okay? I felt yesterday that Peng Yunfei was quite talented. You'll definitely achieve great things in the future. Just promote me when the time comes."

Fly was flattered.

Shi Senming, who was in the same group: [.]

In the afternoon, since QG didn't have any practice matches today, everyone was doing their own thing, and Uzi had long since disappeared.

Jian Zihao has recently been chatting very closely with a girl named Jiang Yi, and they're almost hooking up.

Chen Dongqing was a little confused when he first saw the name Jiang Yi. He only realized it was Ao Mimi's real name after seeing it once.

As agreed, Chen Dongqing started the live stream.

As a top streamer who is also in the eye of the storm, countless people flocked to his stream as soon as he started. Most of them were there just to have fun. Chen Dongqing always lets his viewers choose a game to play during his streams. This time, they all planned to choose Honor of Kings to watch Brother Shu get a couple of kills.

Even some die-hard fans of Honor of Kings who don't play League of Legends squeezed into the live stream to see who Chen Dongqing really was.

However, this time it was a bit unexpected. As soon as I entered the live stream, I saw the game interface of Honor of Kings playing on the screen, and it was in a ranked match room.

There's no need for the audience to make a choice.

Meanwhile, an account named Fei Niu was also in the room; it was the victim from last night!

Good heavens, what's going on here?

Chen Dongqing, holding his phone, chuckled and said to the computer camera, "Not bad, bros! I knew you all wanted me to play King of Glory, so I logged in early!"

At that moment, FeiNiu also greeted them in the team voice chat, and Chen Dongqing took the opportunity to say, "This person is a player from our club, we're all family, two games in duo queue, is that okay?"

【? ? ? 】

There's a problem!

[You almost never duo queue with Xiangguo, so you're duo queuing with the Honor of Kings division here?]

[Difficult Clam]

[This is probably to ease the tension; the two sides are arguing quite fiercely.]

At this moment, Fei Niu nervously called out in the voice chat, "What positions should we play? We're both sidelaners, right? Should I play support?"

"No need, no need." Chen Dongqing grinned. "You play the side lane, I'll play the jungle."

"Huh?" Fei Niu asked, somewhat surprised.

The difficulty of jungling is no less than that of playing on the side lanes. Can you really switch positions at will?

Oh, he's Brother Tree.

OK.

The two quickly entered ranked mode, and Chen Dongqing immediately locked in Han Xin in the first game, which surprised Fly.

Can this really work?

"Don't worry," Chen Dongqing smiled confidently. "Do you even know what 'thirteen deadly shots' means?"

Chinese server Han Xin, volunteer for battle!

Chen Dongqing's jungling skills are quite good. He never farms his own jungle monsters. He always farms two buffs and then goes to gank or counter-jungle. If he can't gank, he farms the lane minions.

In the game Honor of Kings, the jungler is like a god; you can freely farm minions and no one will blame you.

Chen Dongqing relied on Han Xin's mobility to constantly farm lanes and invade the enemy jungle. Although he was still 0-0-0 at four minutes, his economy was already significantly ahead.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Dongqing and Fei Niu teamed up and crushed the enemy jungler in a 2v2 match. From then on, the opposing jungler never got a buff again.

With overwhelming superiority, Chen Dongqing rampaged through the area, easily securing victory.

In the second game, Chen Dongqing once again pulled out Li Bai, who was invincible in the early game, and easily defeated his opponent in ten minutes, leaving Fei Niu in awe!

This is Brother Tree!

Of course, Fei Niu himself is not bad either, his record in both games is no worse than Chen Dongqing's.

Fly and Bulls are a future six-time champion and six-time Finals MVP, nicknamed the "farmer version of Jordan." If the two of them team up, they should have no problem dominating a 100-star game.

In the third game, Fei Niu thought for a moment and directly chose Liu Bang to be Chen Dongqing's henchman, and then found that winning became much easier.

Even though he has now reached 140 stars, he is still just a nobody in front of Chen Dongqing.

Chen Dongqing didn't find it annoying at all, after all, winning a game meant getting 100 points!

The two then won a few more games, and Chen Dongqing waited until QGhappy's training match was about to start before the two finally parted ways.

"Goodbye, Tree Bro!"

After playing duo queue with his idol for an afternoon, General Fei Niu showed a satisfied expression.

Chen Dongqing laughed and said, "Keep it up, I believe in you."

He also had a very fruitful day, as his points were enough to max out his awareness and multi-tasking attributes, as well as his proficiency in a single race.

The two then parted ways.

Meanwhile, in the QGhappy rest room, the other players looked at FeiNiu, who had just finished duo-queuing with Chen Dongqing, with envious expressions.

How much popularity can you gain by duo-queuing with someone for an entire afternoon?

At this moment, Fei Niu was thinking that he must strive to make it into the starting lineup and live up to Brother Shu's expectations!

At that moment, the branch manager, Hua Luo, walked in and said, "Tell me the starting lineup for tomorrow's game."

The female manager glanced at everyone and then said, "Fly, on the wing."

Actually, the manager originally planned to keep Fei Niu on the bench for a while longer. After all, it's not a glorious thing for a professional player to be beaten so badly by a casual player.

However, seeing that Fei Niu had unexpectedly benefited from the misfortune and gained a lot of popularity from Chen Dongqing, the manager decided to let him play in tomorrow's game to further capitalize on that popularity.

Everyone turned their gazes to Fei Niu, their strange expressions deepening.

Fei Niu's eyes lit up, and he nodded emphatically.

"kindness!"

Meanwhile, in Chen Dongqing's live stream room.

Chen Dongqing stopped streaming the game Honor of Kings, sat back down in front of his computer, and laughed, "Alright, guys, let's get back to normal streaming!"

At this point, the chat started spontaneously flooding the screen with the names of other games, hoping Chen Dongqing would try them out.

But Chen Dongqing ignored all of that; right now, he was completely absorbed in a game.

"I recently found a great game!" Chen Dongqing said with a smile. "This game is really fun."

As he was speaking, he opened Battle.net and started StarCraft II.

This has confused the audience once again.

In China, StarCraft isn't actually that popular. Compared to its national popularity in South Korea, it's practically nonexistent in China.

So viewers who don't play StarCraft are all wondering, is this game really fun?

Viewers who play StarCraft were even more confused.

Is this really something you can play?

This game isn't like Honor of Kings, which you can quickly pick up after just a couple of tries.

But they weren't sure either, since Chen Dongqing was a very strange person, and they dared not make any conclusions about many things.

Maybe he's got some skills?

But when they saw Chen Dongqing's slow, crawling mining after randomly getting the Protoss match, and how he even carefully looked at the buildings before using the mouse to click, they were all completely bewildered.

If you don't even know the barracks shortcut, what are you playing?

StarCraft is all about intense competition; fast reflexes are key. Each building has its own hotkey. For example, for Protoss, pressing B brings up the build list, and pressing G opens the barracks. Pressing BG and then clicking the mouse quickly builds a barracks.

I've never seen a pro use mouse clicks; that's just too inefficient.

Moreover, Chen Dongqing was incredibly rough in combat, lacking any strategy or understanding, just playing blindly and emphasizing randomness.

As I played, I ended up with over ten thousand yuan in savings, and I had no idea what to do with it.

Seeing this, many viewers shook their heads. Can this level of skill really be considered fun in StarCraft?

Maybe it's just for fun.

Knowledgeable viewers share Park Un-ryong's opinion on this game.

Even if you, Chen Dongqing, have extraordinary gaming talent, you'll still have to practice diligently and slowly when you get to StarCraft.

Chen Dongqing glanced at the disdainful comments on the screen but didn't take them to heart.

Because he also knew that his Protoss character was indeed weak; this was the first time he had seriously played the game.

As for why he chose to play Protoss, it's mainly because he had his own strategy.

Now that he's already reached the beginner level with the human race, he can simply use points to quickly level up. There's no need for him to train much more. He might as well switch to training the other two races and also get the basics of attributes like multi-tasking. It's a win-win situation.

And so this scene unfolded before our eyes.

But Chen Dongqing wasn't worried; he just did his own thing, and the afternoon passed quickly.

Although many viewers don't understand StarCraft, they don't get tired of watching it.

The main problem is that Chen Dongqing is also terrible at the game, to the point where he can't even beat the AI. Watching Chen Dongqing play StarCraft feels like raiding a dungeon.

It's still watchable when viewers and streamers learn together from scratch and gradually improve.

Some players who didn't even know anything about StarCraft started placing bets in the chat.

[The betting market is open! Guess when Tree Bro will be able to play StarCraft properly?]

I guess a month.

[One month? One week!]

[A month is already a pipe dream, and you want a week? Do you even know how difficult this game is?]

I acknowledge Tree Bro's talent, but this game really takes at least a year to master.

Time passed quickly, and Chen Dongqing continued playing until lunchtime when he received another system message.

[Enhancing Multi-Line Operation Skills: From Novice to Beginner!]

This is another basic attribute; now all that's missing is game awareness.

After saying goodbye to the audience, Chen Dongqing closed the live stream and ran to Park Yunlong's side to ask, "How can I improve my StarCraft awareness?"

"Why would you ask that?" Park Unryong frowned. "The word 'consciousness' is too general, because it represents many things. But I can assure you that your method of playing won't raise your consciousness."

Consciousness represents many things. It can be the ability to anticipate the enemy's actions, the ability to plan one's own next moves, or the ability to control the overall game rhythm. In short, it is a manifestation of game experience.

Chen Dongqing nodded. He was either playing story campaigns or 1v1 battles against AI opponents, and he often lost to the AI, which felt like he was just reinventing the wheel.

How can I improve my awareness by playing against the AI ​​every day?

"If you want to improve your awareness," Park Yun-yong thought for a moment and said, "either watch some replays of pro players, or play more ranked matches to practice. There's no other way, but you might not understand the replays at your current level. Just play ranked matches. When you reach Diamond rank using the tactics I teach you, you can start watching replays."

Chen Dongqing felt insulted, but he still nodded: "Hesitate."

He thought for a moment, then asked, "What is the professional league system like in this game? How does one become a professional player?"

"For StarCraft 2, the professional entry barrier isn't actually that high," Park Un-yong said. "As long as your ranking score is high enough, you can directly participate in the professional league."

Chen Dongqing thought for a moment and immediately understood.

Unlike 5v5 games like League of Legends that emphasize teamwork, StarCraft is a 1v1 game. Putting aside mentality issues, if you can defeat top players in ranked matches, you can do the same in competitive matches.

"Well," Chen Dongqing and Park Yunlong sat down at the dining table, watching the aunt serve the food. After a moment's thought, they said, "Is the StarCraft annual finals the WCS? If I want to participate in this competition, how do I qualify?"

"What exactly are you trying to do?" Xiangguo looked at Chen Dongqing expressionlessly. "You don't really want to go play in StarCraft competitions, do you?"

Chen Dongqing grinned: "Actually, I do have some ideas. If I wanted to compete, could I qualify for the WCS this year?"

"." Park Unyong wanted to say what you're doing, but he still slowly answered, "It's very difficult to get a WCS qualification, after all, there are only sixteen spots available globally each year."

"If it's a normal promotion, you need to go to South Korea to participate in the GSL league, which is the most competitive regional league in the world. There are three seasons every year, with a total of three direct promotion spots for champions and five promotion spots based on points."

"But don't even think about those eight spots. They're all very difficult to get. The GSL league is divided into S-level, A-level, and B-level, with a lot of matches. You can think of it as your LPL, LSPL, or City Heroes Championship. If you're a newbie, you'll have to slowly play promotion and relegation matches to advance and accumulate points. As a professional LOL player, you simply don't have that much time."

Hearing this, Chen Dongqing was slightly disappointed: "Then that means it's impossible?"

You really think that's possible?

Park Unyong inwardly complained, but he still said, "But as I said, there are a total of sixteen spots. I only mentioned the first eight. As for the remaining eight, they are a bit easier to determine and will be decided in four global tour events."

"The tour is set in four different cities around the world, with three of them concentrated in Europe and America and the last one in Asia. Local residents of each tour city will have more spots to participate. The champions of the four tours will also be directly promoted to WCS. The last four spots will be selected from the four players with the highest points among the participants of the four tournaments."

Upon hearing this, Chen Dongqing expressed his understanding.

The tour is designed like a wildcard, mainly to give European and American players a sense of participation and allow them to compete.

"One of the four tour events this year will be in Shanghai, and it will be in June," Banbazi explained. "Theoretically, if you can participate in this tour event and win the championship, you will qualify for the WCS at the end of the year."

Chen Dongqing nodded: "Then how do you obtain the qualification for the tour?"

"That's simple," Park Yun-yong said with a smile. "Your China has its own GPL league, with four stages each year. The two stages for the first half of the year are in early April and mid-May. As long as you can win the championship or runner-up in these two stages, you can participate in the Shanghai Tournament in June. There are a total of four tournament slots. As for the qualification to participate in the GPL league, it's very simple. If your ranking score is high, you can register directly."

Chen Dongqing nodded and said, "So, all I need to do is reach a certain ranking score before April, then win the domestic GPL league championship, and then win the Shanghai station of the tournament, and I can directly enter the WCS at the end of last year?"

"Theoretically speaking, that's correct."

Chen Dongqing nodded: "OK."

A question mark appeared in Park Unyong's mind. "What are you OK about?"

"It's nothing," Chen Dongqing said calmly. "Let's eat first."

After talking with Park Un-yong, Chen Dongqing already had a general plan in mind.

The Gold League only takes place in April and May, and May is the time for the MSI in League of Legends, so there's obviously no time to play it.

So, the only option is to participate in the league in early April?

Chen Dongqing took out his phone and checked. The first stage of the GPL Golden League would start on March 25th and last until April 16th, which would be around the end of the regular season. By then, QG would have already secured a playoff spot, so he could focus on playing matches.

The Shanghai Tournament is scheduled for June, which is right after MSI, making the timing perfect and not conflicting with the League of Legends event at all.

However, it is worth noting that the registration period for the GPL competition is from March 1st to March 9th, which is roughly after the Lunar New Year. The requirement is to reach the Master rank.

It's January 25th now, and time is running out.

Chen Dongqing thought about it and realized that he would have plenty of time during the Spring Festival to reach the Master rank and then sign up for GPL. He should have enough time!

After finalizing the short-term plan, Chen Dongqing nodded in satisfaction and began to enjoy his meal.

Next, we just have to wait for the Chinese New Year holiday.

On the eve of the Spring Festival holiday, the QG team set off again to face off against RNG.

The match was completely uneventful, proving that this version of the low-spec, all-Chinese RNG team was simply relying on the defense.

The newcomer Letme hasn't yet grasped the secret of equality for all, and he's completely outmatched in his confrontation with Chen Dongqing.

Chen Dongqing played Jayce and Riven. In the first game, Jayce had a 40-CS lead and solo-killed a tower in ten minutes. In the second game, Riven even completed a tower dive and solo kill. In total, he had a 200-CS lead over Xiao Ren in both games.

Uzi and Xiangguo showed no kindness to this dishonest team and were extremely harsh in their treatment!

Only Xiaohu in the mid lane could barely withstand Gao Dewei's attacks, but that was all he could do.

With both the top and bottom lanes collapsing, Xiaohu could only watch the game slip away in defeat!

"Alright, 2-0!" the commentator shouted loudly. "QG team has ended their pre-Lunar New Year campaign with an undefeated record of 4-0 in the main competition and 8-0 in the individual competitions! The LPL will now take a break to welcome the Lunar New Year holiday. We wish all our viewers a Happy New Year in advance, and see you after the holiday!"

After another easy 2-0 victory, Chen Dongqing was in high spirits. With a smile, he shook hands with the audience and then gave an interview, during which he wished them an early Happy New Year.

Thus, the team's Spring Festival holiday began.

Chen Dongqing, known as "Shanghai Master," didn't need to rush during the Spring Festival travel rush. After saying goodbye to his teammates, he dragged his suitcase home.

His goal before the new year was to first master the [consciousness] attribute.

From now on, we need to start competing in ranked matches.

Chen Dongqing spent 7000 points to max out his [Multi-tasking Ability] and [Human Race Proficiency].

The moment the points were invested, Chen Dongqing felt a wave of dizziness as countless pieces of knowledge and experience flooded into his mind.

Chen Dongqing's multi-tasking skills were only recently mastered, but at this moment, he felt as if countless operational experiences were flooding into his mind. Even if you asked him to control ten squads at the same time, he could still manage to play around with it.

However, once in the rankings, Chen Dongqing quickly encountered obstacles again.

Because of a lack of awareness, Chen Dongqing always felt like he had power but nowhere to use it.

StarCraft 2 placement matches consist of five games. Each win will raise your opponent's skill level by one rank.

At the beginning, Chen Dongqing was matched against Bronze and Silver players. He was able to quickly gather resources and build units with his extraordinary proficiency as a Terran player. Then, five minutes later, he would charge in with his Marines and Tanks, and then use his multi-tasking skills to overwhelm his opponents.

This is the strategy that Park Yun-yong taught him before. Park Yun-yong said that if you can reach Diamond rank using this strategy, you've mastered the basics.

Without tactical changes or the ability to adapt to changing circumstances based on experience, it was purely a matter of memorizing the board and relying on hand speed and brute force.

It feels like when you play top lane in League of Legends, you never care about the junglers on either side, you just focus on pushing the lane, and when the enemy jungler comes, you just take on two of them.

In the mid-game, they don't engage in team fights or ganks, they just push lanes on the sidelines, and they might get a 1v3 or 1v4 situation by chance. Whether they can win or not depends entirely on their skill.

However, assuming his skill level and proficiency are at their maximum, this maneuver is actually not a problem!

At least against Bronze and Silver players, they can still easily dominate.

However, once you reach Gold and Platinum ranks, you'll encounter some resistance. Players in these two ranks are somewhat stronger; they'll scout Chen Dongqing's movements and then take appropriate precautions, ultimately holding off this wave.

However, it was of little significance. After holding on, the opposing team was already severely weakened. Chen Dongqing gathered some strength and launched another attack, easily taking them down.

4-0 in the placement matches!

In the fifth game, Chen Dongqing encountered a Zerg player and finally suffered a defeat.

The opposing team was very strong; their Zerg attacked faster than Chen Dongqing, but Chen Dongqing lacked awareness of reconnaissance and defense.

While he was still building tanks, the enemy launched a rapid push, disrupting Chen Dongqing's plans. The subsequent attacks were relentless, exerting considerable pressure.

Chen Dongqing relied on his riflemen to clear out the enemy one by one, defending wave after wave, but eventually he ran into a problem of insufficient resources and was defeated after ten minutes.

Final ranking: Platinum II, 2800 points.

[Points earned: 2800!]

Chen Dongqing looked at his rank, then at the system messages, and sighed slightly.

Platinum II is just so-so.

He never expected that even with full proficiency and skill, he could only reach the Platinum rank.

"We still need to work harder!" Chen Dongqing sighed, but he wasn't discouraged.

At least he now knows that when fighting Zerg, he has to be wary of Roach rushes, which is a sign of increased awareness.

With a few more tries, getting started with the basics is only a matter of time!

Chen Dongqing composed himself and continued the fight.

Facing the Platinum player again, Chen Dongqing could clearly feel that it was much easier than the last match.

Is there really such a big difference between platinum and diamonds?

The hierarchy is so strict!

Chen Dongqing muttered a couple of words to himself.

Meanwhile, in a certain place in Hangzhou, China.

A large-faced man born in 83 was sitting in front of his computer, studying a game he had just finished playing.

This guy, Da Kalomi, is named Sun Yifeng, player IDF91, formerly the number one Zerg player in China. He was just casually playing on his smurf account today because he had some free time, but he never expected to encounter such a master!

The Marines scattered like flowers, and their two waves of Banelings were perfectly defended!

Sun Yifeng swore that he had never seen such well-dispersed riflemen in his life, not even when he was playing in a competition three years ago.

If it weren't for my quick thinking and the ability to use a multi-pronged attack to pull the opponent out of the game, I would have been the one to lose!

but.

There was something Sun Yifeng couldn't understand.

When you're attacking on multiple fronts, the other front is practically an open goal, and you can easily break through.

Players with this level of marksmanship should be at least aware of this level of defense.

This person doesn't want to win, so they're trying to annoy my Baneling with Spearmen?

Damn it, I've been insulted!

Sun Yifeng grew angrier the more he thought about it, and glanced at the other party's ID.

ilex.

Who is this person?

Sun Yifeng thought for a moment; the name sounded familiar, but he couldn't quite place it.

7500 words today, that's a bit more than usual.

I've written a bit about the interstellar plot; take a look and give your feedback. I deliberately kept the length to a minimum, so I didn't write many words.

As for the career advancement path for professional players in this chapter, I have carefully studied it: high-ranking solo queue player → GPL Gold League → Tournament → Grand Finals. This path is feasible.

It was in 2017 that Blizzard reformed the tournament format, allowing the tournament champions to directly qualify for the World Championship. So the main characters were the beneficiaries, who directly achieved a three-level jump.

Of course, I also made some modifications, namely changing the Austin stop of the four major tours to the Shanghai stop. The main purpose was to reduce some meaningless plot and make it easier to write. In fact, the location of the stop has no impact on the protagonist, since they all start during the holiday after MSI.

PS: Thank you so much to 炫love淘气 for the 7000 Qidian Coins donation! Thank you, boss!

(End of this chapter)