We promised to win the championship together, so why did you all retire?

Before going online, Bai Liang habitually took a stroll around his own Ueno area's F6 area.

He was on the red side, which is why TheShy had the counter pick.

Helping the jungler guard the jungle area before going online is a standard practice.

Let alone competitive matches, mid laners should have this awareness in any game where the skill level is even slightly acceptable.

Then Bai Liang obediently started reading the skill descriptions.

He hadn't played or seen it in three years, so he didn't know how much Irelia had been changed.

But I think there probably aren't many.

After all, Irelia was only reworked in 18.

It's impossible to redo it after three years.

Designers aren't that diligent.

At most, it'll just involve changing some numerical values.

Change things like mana consumption, damage, or attack power bonus to an additional attack power bonus.

Back then, Irelia was really a bit of a supermodel.

But weakening it is also quite simple.

Reduce base attack damage by a few points, or base armor and magic resistance by a few points.

It's just a clever trick by the designer.

Bai Liang felt he knew everything.

But as it turns out, he overestimated the anthropomorphism of the designer.

After taking a quick look at the skills, Bai Liang was stunned.

What does it mean when the ultimate skill's disarm effect is gone, leaving only a slow effect?

What does it mean that even when the passive stacks are full at five layers, they don't add as much as the previous four layers?

I'm so powerful, you'd better nerf me already!

Once the minion wave was officially launched, he felt a significant difference.

—Is this Q ridiculously slow?

Previously, Irelia's Q ability had a very fast flight speed, and once the player was skilled enough, opponents sometimes couldn't even hit her.

What now?

It feels like it's not even as fast as LeBlanc's W.

Even with a fully stacked passive ability, a single strike doesn't deal enough damage.

The attack speed increase isn't significant either.

While level 1 is still strong, it requires both Conqueror and passive abilities to be fully stacked.

But here comes the problem:

It's not particularly difficult to stack Conqueror and passive in the top lane.

What about the middle lane?

Bai Liang finally understood why he hadn't been able to get a match with Irelia these past few days.

He had initially thought it was because of the high score range.

A truly skilled Irelia player would probably have already reached Challenger rank.

Master and Grandmaster level Irelia players tend to win the lane but not the team fights, which is why she has a low pick rate in high-elo games.

Now it seems...

It doesn't seem to be a problem with the players.

It's simply because Irelia's stats are too low right now; she's been nerfed almost from head to toe, so nobody uses her to climb the ranks anymore.

Think about all the mid-lane heroes he's encountered these past few days—

Others: Sylas/Fizz/Viktor/Lissandra/Ahri

Bai Liang: LeBlanc/Akali/Yasuo

It's so embarrassing! [Facepalm]

Is this progress?

Bai Liang now probably does understand that he is Lao Deng.

But it doesn't matter—

He still has confidence in his Irelia.

After all, the S8 champion AD once commented on his Irelia:

"Brother Bai, this is one of the few heroes who are still somewhat human. Cherish him."

Furthermore, the AD carry who won the gold medal at the S8 Asian Games also praised his Irelia:

"I feel like this is all there is to it since Xiaohu came along."

Although it's already the end of Season 11.

But no matter how difficult it is to play...

Is Yasuo really harder to play?

Since the nickname "Happy Wind Man" came about, he has basically never been happy again.

Bai Liang has played quite a few games with Yasuo these days.

Well, how should I put it...

Yasuo isn't from the region, but it's also unlikely that Yasuo isn't from the region.

Online opinions seem to say that the Mythic version is a major buff for mid laners, greatly increasing their ability to influence the game.

But only veteran Yasuo players know how awkward Yasuo can be.

The Siren is incredibly fragile, and there are tons of assassins in the mid lane who can easily harass you. Getting solo killed at level three has almost become a formula.

The key issue is that even if you manage to build it, it might not be that powerful, because damage is already excessive in this version.

Yasuo is a melee champion, so his safe output time is far less than that of an AD carry.

The shield archers were even more numerous.

It does offer some survivability, but it's still not as good as the old Statikk Shiv, and its solo kill potential has plummeted.

That means they can only make a little bit of shabby clothes to make ends meet.

Bai Liang simply didn't believe it.

Is it possible that Irelia is even more powerful than Yasuo?

After reaching level three, Bai Liang smiled with relief.

—Damn it, even E has been changed?

Previously, Irelia could cast her E very quickly; the activation speed and stun duration of E basically depended only on hand speed.

But now—

The mechanism of E has also been changed.

No matter how fast you pull, the dizziness time is always 0.25 seconds.

Furthermore, during this process, Bai Liang also discovered that he could no longer hide Q as before.

Moreover, when Bai Liang was immobilized by the enemy Viktor, he discovered that his E skill had also gone dark.

It's dark! It's gone! Down!

What does that mean?

This means that not only can Irelia no longer hide her E with Q, but she can't even pull out the second part of her E when she's rooted.

to be frank.

Even if Bai Liang knew that the Irelia's ultimate wouldn't disarm him, he wouldn't be this upset.

What is disarmament?

This means the target cannot perform a normal attack.

Although it can still be dispelled by Purifying Mercury Cauldron and other similar abilities, Irelia's ultimate is a wide-ranging sword array, which is basically a group disarm.

This is a powerful mechanism that the designers previously implemented to ensure that Irelia could have room to deal damage in team fights.

But it's obvious that this thing is too powerful.

Therefore, Bai Liang was well aware that the duration of disarm would likely be reduced or even removed soon.

Now that three years have passed, I'm not too surprised that he's gone.

—But he really couldn't hold back anymore after changing E.

The Q-to-E combo, once an essential skill for skilled Irelia players, naturally has its place.

Hiding the second stage animation of the E skill can greatly improve the concealment of the attack.

In a sense, it raises the skill ceiling for Irelia.

Being immobilized and unable to unleash the second stage of E is even more devastating.

This completely negates Irelia's original counter-attack ability.

Previously, a fed Irelia was forced to use her root skill:

You have angered a lion!

The currently fed Irelia is being forced into a root effect:

If you've messed with me, you've really messed with cotton.

So what if you step on my head?

You can step on it!

"well……"

Bai Liang couldn't help but sigh.

It seems that he will still need some time to adapt to the current version.

This will probably take quite a while.

The changes to the canyon mechanics are manageable; you'll get the gist after playing a few games.

But so many heroes have undergone changes in recent years...

It's probably difficult to figure it out without playing with it yourself for a while.

To be honest, he's a bit too much.

The Demacia Cup is only a few days away, is it too late?

"Hey, why are you sighing?"

While relentlessly attacking the opposing top laner, TheShy glanced at the mid laner and directly praised him:

"Fifteen minutes, playing Irelia and not dying once."

"Wow, that's amazing!"

Bai Liang: ……

Now she's even more beautiful.

Oh oh oh, oh my god!

Just over twenty minutes later, the opposing team simply surrendered.

TheShy's Camille has gone on a killing spree, achieving godlike status in less than fifteen minutes.

Seventeen were killed in twenty minutes.

It's clear they were playing very seriously.

He repeatedly took on two or three opponents in the top lane, completely breaking the opponent's mentality.

The bot lane duo of Draven and Nautilus also consisted of two CS (Counter-Strike) champions, clearly indicating they've been duo-queuing for a long time.

The opposing bottom laner seems to be a random player.

As a result, after these two players dove the tower at level three, they went straight to the second tower to lane, and the enemy bot lane was completely crushed.

Their record is equally impressive.

The jungler really enjoyed taking advantage of the situation in the top and bottom lanes.

Bai Liang was the only one who developed alone with a score of 0/0/7.

no way.

Viktor's range is too long, and Irelia's burst damage is too low right now.

He has already exhausted all his strength and means to survive.

But it's clear that the audience won't care about that.

Especially TheShy's male fans who frequented the live stream.

Bai Liang glanced at it casually, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

[A Chinese spy thriller, investigating a case diligently in a canyon!]

[If I get matched with Bai Liang, who can instantly kill me?]

Who brought the girl?

Oh no, I've become the younger sister!?