LOL: What does "mid-lane hybrid expert" mean?

"You won a Master tier game in Ionia with the Valiant Bomber, recording two highlight plays and ranking 2nd in the team in terms of rating. Reward: 5 points."

"You won a Master tier game on Ionia with the Colossus of Justice. You had 0 highlight plays in this game and ranked 5th in the team. Reward: 15 points."

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

"Sure enough, the optimization of the scoring system has had a significant effect."

Li Yi turned his gaze away from the results panel, recalled his performance with Galio in this game, and compared it with his rank data from the period before winning the Demacia Cup.

In this game, his Galio still opted for a pure tank build with Sunfire Cape and Gargoyle Stoneplate, and continued to use the strategy of letting his teammates get kills while he himself farmed the lane.

Normally, the system might give him a third or fourth rating based on his damage mitigation percentage and crowd control duration, but in this game, he was placed at the bottom, even lower than the support Janna who only used shields from start to finish.

"Also, are the LP requirements for Challenger in Ionia really that high these days? I'm almost at 500 LP and still haven't made it into the top 200?"

Li Yi sighed, no wonder it's said that Season 7 was the peak of League of Legends player numbers, the competition was already so fierce even in the middle of the season.

"Just one more King of Glory rank to go!"

One hour later.

"Three more wins to reach the King rank, let's go!"

  

Stop, stop, stop.

Li Yi stared at the screen, lost in thought.

In an effort to extend players' online time, Riot Games often deliberately sabotages players in crucial matches for rank advancement.

The teammates Li Yi was matched with in these two games seemed to have agreed in advance to go against him.

When he pinged to say there were no explosives, his teammates rushed in like old folks grabbing eggs at a supermarket; but when Li Yi said they could engage, they all started farming gold again.

Li Yi felt there was no need to review the game since it wasn't lost because of his own mistakes.

I doubt I'd give it many points.

Therefore, Li Yi simply turned off his computer, closed his eyes, and meditated. At the same time, he brought up the simulation training page and set his opponent Scout's hero to Lucian.

"You have completed a simulation training session with Scout (S7 Summer Split version). Reward: Game Understanding Points * 1"

"You have completed a simulation training session with Scout (S7 Summer Split version). Rewards: 1 Personal Mechanic Point, 1 Match Experience Point"

"Phew... the laning phase is really tough."

As the saying goes, when you see someone virtuous, think of emulating them; when you see someone not virtuous, reflect on your own shortcomings.

While learning Scout's trading rhythm and micro-management during last-hitting intervals, Li Yi also repeatedly reviewed several counter-attacks he had capitalized on the opponent's mistakes to ensure that he would not make the same mistakes in reality.

at the same time.

Scout, who is just a wall away, is also working hard to expand his champion pool.

His agent's words that day were like a Damocles' sword hanging over his head, constantly reminding him that even if he didn't like playing these team-oriented heroes, he still had to match Li Yi's performance in the Demacia Cup.

"Damn it!"

Judging from Scout's annoyed expression and the way he flicked the mouse, his practice of Malzahar didn't seem to be going very well: "Who brought this idiot mid-laner Sion to the Korean server?"

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The next day.

The LPL officially announced the format, rules, and group arrangements for the Summer Split.

The Summer Tournament will still use the double round-robin format within each group and the single round-robin format outside each group, but the grouping format will be slightly different.

Spring Split champions WE and runners-up RNG were placed into Groups A and B respectively, while the remaining ten teams were divided into three seed pools, with the two champion and runner-up teams drawing opponents for each other's groups.

The final grouping results are as follows:

Group A: WE, EDG, IM, Snake, IG, DAN

Group B: RNG, OMG, Newbee, JDG, LGD, SNG

"What the heck, what kind of grouping is this?"

"IM, Snake, DAN, what's this? Are the four teams from Lingshi Road here to play Guandan in Group A?"

"Is Dan from Ling Shi Road too? I don't seem to remember him..."

Coach Nofe, standing to the side, flipped through the prepared materials: "DAN defeated VG in the Spring Split to be promoted to the LPL. If I remember correctly, this should be the first LSPL team to defeat an LPL team in the promotion/relegation tournament."

"Li Yi, Aodi, you two who have played in LSPL should remember this team."

I remember it!

Li Yi said he not only remembered it but was also deeply impressed by it because this team had quite a few memes.

In the original timeline of the Summer Split, this DAN team immediately defeated EDG, IM, and Snake, achieving a three-game winning streak. As a result, Clearlove changed his Korean server ID to 43967.

This also gave rise to famous memes such as "Ling Shi Road Killer" and "Ling Shi Road Destroyed by a Dan".

There are also many memes about the team members. In addition to the mid-laner "Second Brother" Ggoong, whose ID is similar to Gao Diping, there is also the support Cat, who later achieved a "Yellow Star Triple Combo".

As for the story after it was acquired by Top Esports a year later and its logo became a spinning top... well, that goes without saying. Every minute and every second, it created new history, and to this day, it remains an insurmountable peak in the Chinese music scene.

"Our Group A seems really strong."

"And speaking of which, why is WE always in our group? If we could just pick on RNG, who's so easy, we could probably get first place in the group..."

Having just swept RNG in the Demacia Cup finals, Iboy was clearly a bit overconfident, and thus blurted out those words without thinking.

Meiko quickly stepped forward and covered his mouth halfway through the conversation, saying, "Hey, little brat, you don't know how to speak properly."

After saying that, he glanced at Scout not far away.

Your Uncle Scout just got swept 5-1 by an easy opponent in the Spring Split...

Fortunately, he was wearing headphones and his facial expression didn't change much.

Meiko breathed a sigh of relief: This guy's Chinese level is only limited to daily communication. From this distance, he can probably only understand something like RNG.

"In the afternoon practice match, Li Yi, you'll play the first BO3. Coach Abu has arranged to play against OMG from Group B."

In the first game, Li Yi locked in Lissandra. OMG obviously didn't expect this unconventional pick. Icon's Syndra played very aggressively in the early game, but at level six, Li Yi found an opportunity to use his W to stun her while blocking vision, and then helped Clearlove's Lee Sin secure the kill.

The opponent's mid and jungle rhythm was disrupted. In the mid-game dragon fight, Lissandra used her E to flank from the side, flashed and used her W to stun three OMG players, and then used her ultimate to lock down Smlz's Jhin. EDG got a 3-for-0 trade, and at fourteen minutes, the opponent typed GG.

In the second game, Li Yi picked Galio. OMG chose LeBlanc to try and suppress her, but Galio, equipped with Sunfire Cape, used his passive and Q to clear waves and kept Li Yi pinned on the lane.

After reaching level six, he twice used his ultimate to support the bottom lane—Righteous Strike knocked up the enemy duo, and combined with Meiko's Nami's ultimate control chain, Iboy's Varus secured two double kills. At 23 minutes, OMG, trailing by 5,000 gold, failed to steal the dragon and had no choice but to surrender.

The two games were played in less than 40 minutes, and Li Yi efficiently scored 30 points.

As for Scout, who took over the shift, Li Yi wasn't too sure about his performance, since he couldn't very well go back to the main training room to spy on him.

Of course.

Li Yi guessed that it probably wasn't going to be very pleasant.

As for the specific reason...

That evening, Fireri Zhao Zhiming, another jungler from EDG's first team, knocked on the door of Li Yi's training room, carrying his computer peripherals and a pillow for taking a nap.