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"How could you lose like that?"

Inside the training room, Li Yi stared blankly at the screen that had suddenly gone gray, and at the Elder Dragon team battle on the screen that was about to collapse.

After practicing for a long time in custom mode, Li Yi finally picked up Clockwerk again in ranked matches, a champion he hadn't played in a long time.

The early laning phase went relatively smoothly. He steadily suppressed his opponent by taking advantage of Orianna's long range and also cooperated with the jungler to create many advantages. The first fifteen minutes were a smooth ride.

However, during the mid-game transition period, the entire team began to inexplicably lose points, including Li Yi, who was caught out multiple times on the sidelines.

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Li Yi began to analyze the game frame by frame.

"My thinking was wrong. Orianna is too slow, so she shouldn't be pushing the side lanes like that."

Looking at his position where he had pushed too far into the mid-game lane, Li Yi thought for a moment and realized that it was probably because he had played too many support-type heroes.

After all, the opposing team might not be interested in a tanky Galio, but they might be interested in a short-legged mage with a Mejai's Soulstealer.

Especially now that clockwork can't be used with sprint.

The reason is simple: Faker used Orianna with Ghost in the top lane during the S6 World Championship to execute a "Blue Butterfly's Cloud Walk" maneuver.

The designers simply added a 2-second delay to Sprint before it could reach maximum speed, effectively nerfing the summoner spell into oblivion.

"You lost a Master tier game in Ionia with Clockwerk. You have completed the replay of the game and identified one key mistake. Reward: 10 points"

"One more round!"

In the second game, Li Yi tried out the Incense Burner Clockwork, which was popular in S10 but no one had tried it yet.

The result is.

The individual pieces of the incense burner did not provide any combat power. Although Li Yi supported the jungler in the early game, the lack of damage caused them to suffer repeated defeats in jungle skirmishes.

After several team fights, it was Li Yi's side that lost their rhythm first.

After surrendering at exactly 20 minutes, the jungler immediately started pinging Li Yi's equipment repeatedly.

Li Yi didn't intend to refute it.

"Although the Incense Burner provides movement speed, its ability power is too low, so it's probably not a viable item..."

  

"Furthermore, my playstyle was flawed. The jungler could have easily switched jungle camps to protect his farm, but my signaling that he could come back actually misled him."

"You lost a Master tier game in Ionia with Clockwerk. You have completed the replay of the game and identified one key mistake. Reward: 10 points"

"The 'Diligence Can Make Up for Lack of Talent' ability has been triggered! Your score reward for this match is doubled!"

Li Yi planned to play another game to practice, but as soon as he entered the ban/pick page, his teammate banned Orianna.

"What the heck, you're checking my stats, huh?"

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In the afternoon, the EDG team members who went out to find food returned and brought food for Li Yi.

Having been starving for a long time, Li Yi began to wolf down his food, asking Mingkai between bites, "Brother Mingkai, do we have any more practice matches today? I want to practice my heroes in real games."

Mingkai found it somewhat amusing: "Now that it's just us and RNG left in the Demacia Cup, who are you planning to scrim with?"

"What about the other teams?"

"They've all gone back to the base for vacation. The Summer Split starts in a few days, so this is their last vacation."

Li Yi was still unwilling to give up: "What about Snake? They played so badly in the Demacia Cup, they should be practicing like crazy these next few days, right?"

Meiko, who was standing nearby, thought for a moment and said, "They have indeed been trying to find people to scrim with, but it seems that no LPL team is willing to play against them."

"After all, playing against bad players will only make them worse. They should be looking for teams in the second-tier league now."

"You should play some ranked games to keep your skills up."

"But when my ranked teammates check my match history, they always ban the heroes I want to practice," Li Yi said helplessly, shrugging his shoulders.

"..."

Coach Nofe, who had been listening to their conversation, stood up, walked out of the training room, and dialed Abu's number.

"Coach Nofe, what's up?" Abu's androgynous voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Is it possible to schedule a practice match today?"

Abu asked, somewhat puzzled, "The other teams are all on vacation. Who said they wanted to schedule scrims?"

"It's that kid Li Yi... Yes, I said a few words to him in the meeting this morning, and now he's really starting to practice Hero."

Nofe was deeply moved when he recalled the scene of Li Yi practicing heroes alone in the training room.

He has coached many athletes, but young men of this age, seventeen or eighteen, are bound to have some of the rebelliousness of adolescence.

Only Li Yi.

The more Coach Nofe interacted with the newcomer, the more he felt that the newcomer possessed a maturity and composure beyond his years, as well as an almost obsessive desire for victory.

This is precisely the talent that Nofe admires most.

"Who? Li Yi? Lian Hero?"

Abu, on the other end of the phone, confirmed he hadn't misheard before replying, "I'll contact the team now. Coach Nofe, please keep an eye on things this afternoon."

After hanging up the phone, Abu immediately sent a message to Sun Dayong, the coach of the IM team.

There's no way around it, that's the advantage of having your own second team.

So, the IM team, who had just been soundly defeated by RNG yesterday, flew for several hours back to Shanghai, and had just stepped into the base, were reluctantly conscripted into the role of beasts of burden.

The resentful IM team directly selected a lineup that focused on early game tempo, catching their own team EDG off guard.

This is from EDG's team voice chat.

Mingkai roared at Li Yi, "Do you even know how to play the Nightmare Orianna combo? You missed two consecutive ultimates!"

This cutting-edge technology was originally proposed by Li Yixian, but Mingkai discovered that he was not proficient at it at all, either activating his ultimate prematurely or failing to attach the ball in every wave.

In addition, both of these heroes need to reach level six to become powerful. Before level six, EDG was already overwhelmed by the opponent's strong pace and couldn't fight back.

"How am I supposed to go to the bot lane if they keep calling me?"

"The enemy keeps invading my jungle!"

"AG (restart) AG, this game is completely unplayable."

Seeing that all three lanes were at a disadvantage and his own jungle was being fed by the enemy jungler Ben4, Mingkai simply shrugged and said he wanted to restart the game.

The top and bottom laners were also annoyed by the opponent's strong early game pace and expressed their second opinion to restart the game.

Coach Nofe hesitated for a moment: "Actually, I feel that this lineup can fight in the late game... If you really don't want to play, I'll tell the opposing coach to restart the game."

"No reopening!"

Li Yi suddenly slammed his hand on the table and began a passionate speech: "Do you know why EDG can't turn the tide in games? It's because we haven't practiced how to play from behind! We think about giving up as soon as we encounter difficulties!"

"You can restart practice matches, but what about in professional matches? Will you be allowed to restart the quarterfinals of the World Championship?"

joke!

How am I supposed to get the settlement rewards if the game restarts?

However, these words left Mingkai speechless. Recalling his painful experience of reaching the quarterfinals every year in the past, he suddenly felt that Li Yi's words made some sense: "Okay, then let's try playing for another ten minutes."

Coach Nofe, standing to the side, now looked at Li Yi with even more admiration in his eyes.

This is the player he wants!

At this point, Nofe had made up his mind that even if Scout returned to the team, he would never let Li Yi sit back on the bench!