Chapter 167: Champion Skin!
ps: It's more than a thousand words short, so there is an update in the evening, before midnight
The blockbuster news at the end of the LPL transfer window was delivered like a hurricane to every region.
The teams that participated in the S7 World Finals in the LCK region have been in a dead state since IG won the championship.
There were originally many people on their forum who carried the highlights of the finals made by vloggers here in China, but they were all deleted cleanly.
Even comments with a hint of sarcasm were cleared.
Putting aside the posts of scolding their own team, the whole forum looks like a pure land.
This year's LCK transfer period has also been quite peaceful.
Although the winning team is the IG team, RNG's performance in the semi-finals is undoubtedly a telling many domestic clubs, Chinese players, is also okay.
Therefore, the local players in the LCK region are not particularly popular during this transfer period, and they can only produce and sell themselves.
The SSG team that won the top four did not change personnel, and they chose to fight for another year with the same team.
Under the expectation of countless people, SKT just eliminated the top laner HUNI and the jungler peanut.
There is no news from HUNI, but Little Peanut has transferred to the LZ team, which can be regarded as strengthening the shortcomings of LZ jungler CUZZ.
The Bird's Nest battle seems to have knocked SKT out of spirit, and the players have neither broadcast live nor officially released any news about the players.
For LCK fans, this winter has undoubtedly been torturous.
They want to see the players compete until the LCK's spring season begins.
But for domestic players, they at least have the Derby Cup to watch.
During the transfer period, Li Luo rarely got a period of rest and went home to go out with his family.
The brokerage contract is not very restrictive to Li Luo, Li Luo only needs to broadcast live for 25 hours a month, and he can broadcast live hanbok, which is completely acceptable to Li Luo.
And after the transfer period ended, Li Luo sent Li Hong away, and after saying goodbye to his parents, he returned to the magic capital.
EDG's base is quite lively.
Li Luo has such a long vacation, it doesn't mean that others have it.
After all, EDG has started to take vacations after returning from the top 16 of the World Championships, taking early vacations and going to work early.
When Li Luo placed the salute in the dormitory, he said a word to Li Zhe and walked towards the training room.
As soon as he walked to the door, the phrase "Xi Ba'er" in the training room startled Li Luo.
This loud voice......
Li Luo plucked his ears.
"Qiuqiu, don't scream, I don't blame you for not playing red buffs."
"What did you say?!"
"It's okay, it's okay."
Li Luo walked into the training room.
"I'm back."
Meiko, who was pouring water, greeted Li backward with a smile when she saw it.
"If I get hacked in the future, it's all because of a little black man like you."
Li Luo said hello to Ming Kai speechlessly.
Xiao Tian also saw Li Luo at this time, and his eyes lit up, but he didn't show it, but greeted Li Luo with a somewhat restrained look: "Brother Luo is good." ”
"Hello, feel free, you will be teammates in the future, so you don't have to be so angry."
Li Luo walked over and patted Xiaotian on the shoulder pretending to be familiar.
In fact, Li Luo is enough to be socially afraid.
But Xiaotian looks a little more social and phobic than Li Luo.
Li Luo knows a lot about people like Xiaotian, and if he is not familiar enough, he is not even willing to say a word to you.
However, as long as it is familiar, then the garlic king will instantly turn into a yin and yang strange qi and start the daily mutual scare mode.
Judging from the current situation, Xiao Tian and the old father-like Jin Gong seem to be familiar with each other, but they are not very familiar with other people.
Although Li Luo is not the captain, for the sake of the development of the team, it is necessary to solve this problem.
Li Luo's easy-going spirit made Xiao Tian's spirit obviously relax a little, and he looked at Li Luo: "Where are you sitting?" ”
"Next to you, next to the field."
After Li Luo put the peripheral backpack on the chair between Meiko and Xiaotian, he said hello to the junior brother, and finally walked towards Jin Gong.
"Wow...... Brother shine, wait for me to call...... Finish...... This one. ”
Jin Gong is still a little stumbling in Chinese at this time.
"You're fighting."
Li Luo glanced at the screen, Jin Gong was playing the captain, and the current record was 12/5.
It's 45 minutes into the game, bladder game.
Now the pre-season version has been updated, and the rune talents have been integrated.
Li Luo noticed that the cornerstone talent that Jin Gong carried in this game was quick pace.
The new Season is divided into Precision, Domination, Determination, Sorcery, and Enlightenment.
Of the three cornerstones of the precision department, Attack, Swift Pace, and Deadly Rhythm, Swift Pace is the most popular.
In the case of the current version, which has just been updated, almost all ADCs choose to be fast-paced, and the same is true for more special fighters like the captain, and most mage-type heroes choose to carry comets.
The captain with a swift pace was quite maneuverable, and the golden tribute in the six-god costume walked like a fly in the canyon.
Li Luo noticed that when Jin Gong's teammates realized that the other party might be stealing the big dragon, Jin Gong quickly marked the only remaining incisor tower on the opposite side, and at the same time pinned the signal to signal himself to intercept the people in the big dragon pit.
All of their teammates rushed towards the opposite base.
Jin Gong, on the other hand, is a direct TP, first consumed on the periphery with a bucket, keeping a distance from everyone on the other side.
When the other party's people took down the big dragon and scattered to find a place to return to the city, Jin Gong used his life to keep people, relying on his own hand-to-hand combat and the extreme move of the opponent's return time to the city to interrupt the two enemies who rushed to the dragon pit.
Although Jin Gong himself died, the team managed to break the front tower and launch a fierce attack on the final crystal.
The final crystals of 45 minutes are paper-thin.
With the explosion of the base, Jin Gong happily waved his fist: "Ness! ”
"It's beautiful."
Li Luo praised and sighed in his heart.
The style of the players can often be seen from some of the knee-jerk moves in the game.
Jin Gong is a player who can make a lot of sacrifices for the team in order to win.
But as long as he is given enough money, he will perform better than most top laners.
This is also a big reason why Li Luo will choose Jingong.
"Ni Howl Ni Howl, I'm Jin Hanquan, just call me Jin Gong."
Jin Gong smiled and stretched out his hand to Li Luo.
His hands are large and not as slender as most pros, and he has a loud voice that gives him a very cheerful feel.
"Li Luo, please advise me in the future."
The two hands were clasped together.
In the next two days, Li Luo played a double row with Jin Gong and Xiaotian respectively, and felt the playing style of these two people at the same time.
Jin Gong's style of play is very stable.,Except for sometimes being caught, there's nothing wrong with the rest.,The most commendable thing is that the proficiency of the version of the hero Jin Gong is online.。
But Xiao Tian's performance made Li Luo frown.
Although he had some understanding of Xiao Tian's style of play before he was reborn, the number of times the two of them bumped into each other in the rank was not much, and there was no real double row.
This double row made Li Luo discover a rather fatal problem.
In terms of player style, Xiao Tian is a rhythmic jungler.
It's just that the offense is weaker than that of Xiangguo and King Ning.
And in the first two sets with him in a double row, Xiao Tian's operation occasionally gives people a very strange feeling.
The probability of a professional player doing something outrageous is very low.
And often it doesn't really appear because of this professional dish.
It's that something is wrong with his mind.
Xiao Tian is under a lot of pressure.
Think about it, after all, the EDG team has Mingkai.
Even if Mingkai is declining and no longer at the peak, Mingkai's influence in China is one of the best.
And Ming Kai is still the soul of EDG, and in this case, Xiao Tian, who needs to compete with Ming Kai for the starter, is under great pressure.
It's just that he didn't say it.
But after observation, Xiao Tian has one quality that is worth affirming, and that is his thinking ability.
As long as it is the main point mentioned by Li Luo, he only needs to mention it once, and Xiao Tian will remember it.
This shows that as long as someone takes Xiaotian, then Xiaotian's growth ceiling will be very high.
What EDG is missing now is just time for the team to run in.
And if you want to run in, the Demacia Cup Qingdao Station will undoubtedly be a very good stage soon.
The next night.
Zhu Kai and Abu gathered everyone together for a meeting.
Abu, who was in charge of tactics, swept his gaze from everyone one by one, and then said: "Ming Kai, Li Luo, let's talk about this version, the version to be played on the German Cup side has been finalized, and it is the current one." ”
"Even if we want to train troops, we must at least familiarize ourselves with the version first, your rank situation is not very good except for Li Luo these days, tonight's meeting is to let you have a clear understanding of the version, and doing targeted training according to the version will have a more significant improvement."
"7-chan, go!"
Li Luo glanced at Ming Kai.
Mingkai glared at Meiko, who was innocent, even though he had brought the nickname out of the base.
In the past two days, Li Luo and Ming Kai have discussed with each other many times about the understanding of the new version, and many things Li Luo said made Ming Kai feel refreshed.
Ming Kai himself is also arrogant, but he hides it deeply.
But just a few conversations with the version made Ming Kai realize the horror of Li Luo.
Keep in mind that they started playing when the pre-season version was first updated.
But Li Luo only came back yesterday, and his account did not rank during this period.
In two days, just by looking at the text narrative content of the version update and adding more than a dozen RANK, can you understand the version to this extent?
Inhuman!
Ming Kai originally wanted Li Luo to say it, but he didn't think that Li Luo would give him the right to speak.
After two seconds of silence, Ming Kai said slowly, "Riot's preseason version and the changes before this are clearly aimed at IG teams in the general direction. ”
"With the current version of the curve, the Tsar who has been strengthened before the World Championship version has the opportunity to play, and I even think that the Tsar will become the mainstream hero in the German Cup, and the Tsar with the comet has too strong ability to suppress in the early stage."
"In addition, the jungler has canceled the jungle experience compensation mechanism, which can be regarded as weakening the rhythmic jungler of the early hunger strike flow like the incense pot."
"At the same time, it also weakens the experience of the creeps, which is clearly aimed at Ning."
Li Luo listened.
As soon as the version was updated, he had read it in detail.
The impression of the preseason version of S8 is already very vague.
However, the compensation mechanism for wild areas was indeed removed in this version, and there were no changes.
As for the weakening of the experience points of the jungler, it is also true.
From these two points, Riot didn't make much changes to the version.
It's because ...... Did you change teams yourself?
Li Luo was thoughtful.
Mingkai continued, "The growth of health and armor of all heroes means that it will be harder to get kills in the lane, and the fast-paced team in the early stage will be limited by the version and will not be able to maintain the suppressive power of the previous version. ”
"Correspondingly, the fist weakens the incense burner monster and strengthens a number of hard auxiliaries, but the strengthened ones are hard auxiliaries of the protection type like Bron...... This is equivalent to weakening the ADC's down-to-line ability in the early stage, and the molding ability in the later stage is not so strong. ”
Speaking of this, Ming Kai's tone paused slightly, and he looked at Li Luo: "As for some functional ADCs, they have not been weakened, and even Ember's ultimate move has been strengthened to a certain extent. ”
Abu looked at Mingkai with some surprise.
Although Mingkai has always had an excellent understanding of the version of the game, it is one thing to know, and quite another to be able to say it in a coherent manner.
But soon Abu noticed Ming Kai's eyes on him, and Abu, who had been with Ming Kai since the S2 period, knew the latter too well, and immediately understood.
It's just that Abu's heart has set off a stormy wave.
Li Luo......
Before, I only heard of its name, but I didn't hear of it.
Now Abu has seen it.
Seeing that Li Luo waved his hand, Abu didn't let Li Luo say anything, and said calmly: "So after this fist targeting, it is the slow-paced team that benefits, and according to the style of our team, it is also within the scope of benefit, of course, it depends on the situation of the German Cup, many teams are unwilling to play the main lineup when they play the German Cup, and it is difficult for us to have the effect of honing when we encounter such a team." ”
Abu didn't say a word.
But he believed that Li Luo had already seen it.
At this time, Li Luo had to admit that the designers of the riot really had something.
In addition to weakening the fast-paced powerhouse, Fist also weakened him.
Well...... Li Luo in the IG period.
This version of Calista is still prevalent.
But it's no longer a must-have for bans.
In addition to this, Ezreal is also very popular.
However, Ezreal is not something that Li Luo can play alone, and almost any professional ADC player will use Ezreal.
In addition to these two heroes, there is an extremely unpopular hero who has also made it to the version hit.
Female guns.
Armor-piercing stream female guns.
In addition to the lack of displacement in the early stage of the female gun, the ability to line is actually not bad.
This version is mainly developed, and it relies more on the late 5v5 big team battles to compete for the victory.
The mid lane Tsar's sudden rise to strength, combined with a jungler with a high win rate, will provide a fairly explosive output environment for the female gun.
In other words, this version of heroes who need a long development cycle in the early stage like policewomen, big mouths, and small cannons is no longer suitable for the appearance.
Functional heroes have become mainstream.
According to the style that Li Luo has shown before, this seems to be a reinforcement of Li Luo.
But...... Consider Li Luo's current teammates.
Functional ADCs are a great addition to the IG ecosystem.
But that doesn't necessarily work in the EDG system.
However, Li Luo didn't particularly care about this.
What he really cares about is that Riot's current version of the update and the previous version of Rebirth have almost completely overlapped in general direction except for a few changes.
This is what Li Luo cares about the most.
After being reborn, Li Luo's biggest reliance is the advanced version of understanding.
As long as the general direction of any version does not change much, then Li Luo will be able to get started faster than the coaching staff of other clubs.
Ostensibly the version is aimed at him.
In fact, this is the result that Li Luo wants to see!
The day's discussion lasted about two hours.
In the end, Zhu Kai formulated a training plan.
With the end of the transfer period, the training matches of each team will be scheduled one after another.
Zhu Kai's popularity was relatively good when he was in Snake, coupled with Abu's own huge resources, as long as EDG wants, he can make appointments with almost all the teams in the LPL, and even some teams in the outer divisions.
Another week passed quietly.
Early in the morning, Li Luo received a call from Principal Wang, saying that the designer of Riot had come and needed to ask the contestants for their opinions on the participation in the championship skin, and that a car had been sent to pick him up.
A moment later, Li Zhe also called Li Luo, signaling that Edzhu had already told him that Li Luo would take a vacation today.
Champion skins are a big deal.
After being picked up by car at the agreed location, Li Luo also saw IG's teammates.
"Brother Luo!"
King Ning's eyes lit up when he saw Li Backward, and he rushed over immediately.
Bao Lan next to him was also happy, but he was more reserved, and after seeing King Ning rushing over, he slowly greeted Li Luo.
"You've lost weight, isn't EDG's food not good?"
Rookie looked at Li Luo for a while and said with a smile.
The Shy, who was standing next to Rookie, seemed to think of something, and shook her head again and again: "Ah, it's unpalatable, Brother Luo, pitiful." ”
"It's okay, the base has changed to cook, and it's much stronger than before."
Li Luo said with a smile: "Let's go in first, get together at noon, I'll have a treat." ”
"Then you have to please, big dog!"
Everyone laughed and walked towards the building of the Ace League, which is the place to host the designers of the League of Legends.
Li Luo once again stood in the familiar elevator.
The small advertisement in the elevator makes Li Luo familiar and unfamiliar, familiar because there is also in the elevator in his memory, and strange because the impression printed on the small advertisement and Li Luo's mind has entered for the first time.
"By the way, Brother Luo, are you the main force in the German Cup?"
King Ning seemed to think of something, and suddenly asked.
"Well, the main force, it will take a long time to run in, so this training is a training exercise."
Li Luo's thoughts were interrupted, and he looked up and said.
"That's a good feeling, we are also the main force, don't fall before the finals, when the time comes, whoever loses will please eat."
King Ning smiled.
"I agree."
Rookie raised her hand.
"I agree with that."
Sapphire Blue and Jackeylove chimed in.
"Eh, Jack, do you want to make a head-to-head bet with Brother Luo like iboy, and bet on dinner."
King Ning didn't think it was a big deal to see the excitement, and began to do things.
"You can pull a few down, I'm not happy to find it."
Jackyelove was speechless and replied unceremoniously.
After a while, everyone arrived in the conference room where the Riot designers were received.
The translators were also on standby.
"Hey, boys from Team IG, you're here."
Ghost Crab, the chief designer of Riot, came over enthusiastically and gave everyone a hug, and then motioned for the contestants to sit down.
Then came the long communication.
The first is the finalization of the heroes.
The first to decide was Sapphire Blue.
Sapphire Blue chose Lowe.
Lowe, as the hero he is best at, almost one of them, must be the first choice of Sapphire Blue.
Rookie chooses the Enchantress.
Duke only made two appearances in the S game, using the Crocodile and Nar on both occasions.
After weighing it up, Duke chose Nar.
The Shy is more of a fun.
He wanted to choose Calista.
After some hard persuasion by the designer, The Shy changed his mind.
As a result, Yasuo was chosen.
The Shy used Yasuo once when playing SKT.
So it makes sense to finalize this hero.
It's just that this choice made the designer cry and laugh.
And King Ning's side gave his love to Kai Yin.
In the end, it was Li Luo's turn to choose.
The ghost crab rubbed the sweat in his palms.
He felt that Li Luo might choose a drama master.
However, last year's champion skin is the Drama Master, although Riot currently has no rule that it can't choose the same hero for two consecutive World Championships, but if Li Luo really chooses this hero, he will still do his best to persuade it.
Li Luo glanced at the sapphire blue beside him.
Sapphire pretended not to notice, her gaze wandering around.
After a few seconds of silence, Li Luo made a decision.
"Kasumi."
Bao Lan next to him was slightly stunned, and at this moment, there seemed to be light in his eyes.
As for the details, the IG people have already had a consistent plan in advance.
That is the ink style made in black and white.
The designers came to the scene to finalize the heroes and styles, and the two sides still need to communicate a lot of details in the subsequent production cycle.
When the IG people left the alliance building, King Ning couldn't help but ask: "Brother Luo, why don't you choose a drama master, that's your representative hero, right?" ”
Li Luo glanced at him: "In the future, there will be a chance." ”
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