After analyzing a wave of changes in the last few versions, Jiang Zhun and the factory director suddenly discovered that Fist was secretly hiding a chronic poison against EDG inside.

"The designer knew that it would be difficult to target the upper lane, and he began to increase the proportion of the middle and lower levels on the game's ability to influence the game in these versions, as he did in the previous two seasons."

The factory manager went through the A4 paper in his hand repeatedly, and after analyzing all the changes and combing through them in his brain, he confirmed that his idea was correct.

Last season, League of Legends became an incense burner hero due to the designer's changes to the blazing incense burner.

The bottom lane, especially the support position, became the real 'C position' of the team.

In addition, the road phantom gods are still strong, and most of the games in the World Championship are still very slow, and they still focus on team battles in the late stage of the development of the lower lane.

Therefore, the confrontation on BP is not interesting, the spectacle of the game plummets, and each game is basically a bladder game, the first twenty minutes of the audience do not feel any point of passion, and the second twenty minutes are when one side wins the team battle but it is difficult to end the game in one wave.

This is actually very disadvantageous for League of Legends, which is at the peak of its popularity in various game events.

In fact, at the end of S6, the League of Legends designers noticed this matter.

Therefore, after the start of S7, they started to rework the runes and talents in order to speed up the pace of the game.

And during the S7 Season Mid-Match, the new version of the rune was tested on the test server.

The results were good, with the average length of the game reduced by about four minutes.

And in the S8 season, through the removal of the Green Jungle Knife, as well as the changes to the jungle area, and the enhancement of the Canyon Pioneer, Riot sped up the game to less than thirty-three minutes as desired.

This also makes the event much more enjoyable.

The 2018 MSI online viewership is directly close to last year's World Finals.

In addition, the number of spectators in each competition area has also increased significantly.

"Their series of changes feels a bit better than RNG!"

Although Jiang Zhun has had a headache in training recently because of the different versions of several consecutive events in the league, continental competition, and Asian Games, he still has a relatively obvious control over the general direction of the changes to his fists.

"The RNG four-guarantee system actually tasted a bit of a terminal illness before the start of the MSI competition."

"But after the change of the fist, the RNG, which was originally supported by the lower Uzi, seems to have a bit of a rejuvenation."

"Lanche weakened and then strengthened, which is obviously good for hard AD players like Uzi who play the line in the early stage."

Jiang Zhun knows that the times create heroes, and those who conform to the version are kings.

Unless the team is very strong and malleable, and the team's coaching team is always able to figure out the version at the first time, it will be very difficult to win the World Championship.

Whether you can achieve good results depends entirely on the face of your fist!

In fact, last year's version of the World Championship was more favorable to the LPL, after all, the incense burner system is especially suitable for RNG teams.

However, the field of vision was a common problem in the LPL division at that time, especially the close communication between SKT and the Samsung team, and they also learned this set of play, which directly led to the difficulty of the LPL division in the second half of the S7 world love.

Historically, there has been a long break between the start of the S Tournament and the end of the playoffs in each region, during which Riot will make a series of changes to the Worlds version.

But Jiang Zhun and the factory director didn't expect that this year's fist's broadsword would come so quickly.

The LPL hasn't even started the summer finals yet, and the weakening of the MSI champion EDG team has already been delivered!

"Well, this can't be said to be specifically aimed at our EDG, IG has actually been weakened a lot."

"No, it's not so much a weakening of a strong team, but a balance of combat power for a variety of strong teams with different styles."

Jiang Zhun thought for a while and then said his thoughts.

"Balance of power?"

The factory director touched the small fly at the corner of his mouth, obviously some of which he didn't quite understand.

"Since the beginning of the Spring Season, the weight of the bottom lane to the game has been weakening."

"It wasn't until the previous editions that the shooter hero gradually retired from the professional arena, and each team's bottom lane duo basically had a bizarre mage or warrior Compo combination."

"And the current changes of Riot are not a reversal of the strength and living space of the shooter hero?"

Under Jiang Zhun's reminder, the factory director quickly grasped the key.

"It seems to be the case, although RNG's total wins are the same as those in the spring season, but in the BO3 of the regular season in the summer season, the second half is basically a full three games, and it is difficult to see a neat win of two points in a row like the spring game and leave work early."

"Even sometimes against a weak team, you have to fight for 40 minutes. Play the Jedi Turnaround. ”

The factory manager was extremely impressed with the game against BLG before the finale of the regular season of RNG.

The puppy gives the pressure on the line in the early stage and achieves a good advantage.

But BLG relied on the middle and upper versions of the hero, and carried out several waves of forced gank on the lower road in a row, breaking the development rhythm of the puppy.

And when the game returned to calm, the puppy who returned to the line began to beat the crow + Tamu combination of the BLG bottom lane duo in the lane.

"At the current pace of release, Worlds is expected to adopt version 8.19."

"The most advantageous ones should be the teams in the LMS region."

At present, the version of Hanbok has come to 8.17, and there is still about a month before the start of the World Championship, and according to the speed of Riot's version update, it should be updated to version 8.19.

While we don't know what the version is about, it's sure that the newer the region for the playoffs, the better.

"It's good that it's an LMS region, not an LCK or an LCS region."

"I really don't understand why the playoff version of our LPL region doesn't use 8.16 and uses 8.15."

The different schedules of each region, as well as the targeted changes of the officials, will inevitably lead to a significant disconnection of the versions.

As the factory director complained, the LPL region, as the second-to-last division of the playoffs, chose the version that is not the 8.16 version commonly used in other regions, but the 8.15 version, which makes it difficult for him to understand.

"Isn't it clear from the selection of the commentary and some of the regulations that the people in the LPL division don't know about this game?"

"They're just going to follow the cat and the model of other business alliances. Without taking into account the reality of League of Legends. ”

Jiang Zhun, who has always spoken more pleasantly, couldn't help but start complaining.

Since the S8 Spring Tournament, there have been many moths in the LPL region.

Officials often use the old version of the game for the sake of safety due to some bugs in the new version of the game.

The most outrageous thing is that the national servers have been updated to version 8.7, but the LPL was still playing version 8.4 in the spring game!

This has a very negative impact on both the player and the team.

For example, a player who hasn't played a game for a long time, but is watching a game, suddenly sees a fun routine at the game one day, and calls his friends to sit in an Internet café and wants to show it.

But I don't know that this routine has actually been weakened because it is too strong.

This will directly lead to this player having no game experience for a whole game, and he begins to wonder if his strength has really dropped too much, and he should play the relatively simple mobile games of Honor of Kings, which will lead to the loss of League of Legends users.

For example, the version used in Worlds is version 8.19.

The playoff versions used by each region are as follows:

The version adopted in the LCK playoffs is 8.15

The version adopted for the LPL playoffs is 8.15

The version adopted for the NA LCS Playoffs is 8.16

The version adopted for the EU LCS Playoffs is 8.16

The version adopted for the LMS playoffs is 8.17

At first glance, the LPL's biggest enemy, the LCK region, is the same version adopted by the LPL playoffs, and it is fair that the winning teams of both sides go to the playoffs, but in reality, the playoffs in the LPL region start 12 days later than the LCK region!

Coupled with the large number of teams, the playoffs will end two weeks later than in the LCK region!

This means that the LCK region is working on the new version two weeks earlier than your LPL region!

"Hey" The director also sighed faintly: "After all, as mentioned above, LPL is a business alliance, and making money is the most important thing for them, and how to improve the strength of the competition area is secondary." ”

"Short-sighted, exhausted fishing!"

Jiang Zhun hated iron and said: "To be honest, if we didn't win the championship last year, and this year's LPL division didn't win the championship, the LPL business league would be almost dead!" ”

"Why don't they know how to improve the strength of their league teams, and make the region a top division to earn more money!"

"Hey."

"It's not our business."

"Let's take advantage of the fact that we haven't gone to the Asian Games and continue to study and study the possible direction of the World Championship version."

"After all, the middle lane and the bottom lane are the two weaker links of EDG."

The factory director picked up the report summarized and refined by the data analyst again.

EDG's middle and lower lanes, compared to the strong teams of IG, RW, and RNG in the LPL region, are really a bit unsightly.

In the game, the task of Hai Chengmin, Sima Lao Thief and Mei Buckle in the early stage is to stabilize, wait for their own Ueno to play an advantage in the early stage, and then start to snowball along the overall advantage of the team.

With the changes in version 8.17, Riot has begun to "balance" the hero's stats, weakening EDG's midfield in disguise.

It is not difficult to foresee that version 8.18, which will be launched in a week, will definitely be used in this area again.

"8.18 is the version related to Worlds, and it is estimated that Riot will balance more heroes, in fact, we can refer to the heroes that the players of the strong teams in the two regions of the LCS are good at, and make some guesses."

"After all, the LCK has won the championship for so many years."

"We won the first world championship in the LPL last year, and this year we won the MSI championship and the continental championship."

"It's hard to make sure that the fist doesn't favor Europe and the United States and give them a customized version."

As the oldest analyst in the EDG team, Lao Fan actually has a deeper understanding of the changes in the League of Legends version every year than many players or even coaches.

"Anyway, judging from the change of removing the Green Jungle Knife this year, it is unlikely that Riot will enhance the heroes such as Big Eye and Octopus Mom that the LCK region likes to use."

In terms of conspiracy theories, there is really nothing wrong with Lao Fan's words, but the factory director still said:

"Iron also needs to be hard."

"The day after tomorrow, Xiao Jiang and I will go to the training camp, and then go to Jakarta to play the Asian Games, you can help me supervise and urge Hai Chengmin."

"His hero pool is really weird."

"If the old antique big core mages such as Tsar, Clockwork, Ryze, and Victor in the World Championship become strong again, the World Championship will still be very bad for our EDG."

"Uh-huh." Lao Fan nodded again and again: "Hai Chengmin's hero pool is indeed a little shallow, to be honest, the proficiency of many of his mage heroes is not as good as Sima Lao Thief!" ”

……

Jakarta, September 1.

Many schoolchildren are on school days when a Boeing plane lands at Sugano-Hatta International Airport.

"It's not as hot as you thought!"

Spicy Xiangguo took off his sunglasses and looked at the sky with the sun hanging high, feeling comfortable and extremely excited at the same time.

"Isn't that normal?"

"Some tropical summers are really not as hot as the subtropical coastal areas."

Behind him, the players of the Jakarta Asian Games team also carried boxes and walked into the drop-off channel.

"Hey."

"My eyes hurt when the sun looks at me."

The factory director had just learned the appearance of the incense pot, looked at the sky, and his eyes couldn't stop leaving tears because of the strong light, and they were a little sore.

He took out his phone and said:

"The referee team of the Asian Games exhibition match has temporarily changed the rules, and our group can enter three teams."

"That's right!"

Hearing the words of the factory director, the spicy fragrant pot couldn't help but applaud.

Looking at the world, East Asia's combat effectiveness in League of Legends events is definitely the strongest.

But the person in charge of the Jakarta Asian Games, I don't know if my brain is pumped or what, I have to divide the group according to East Asia, West Asia or something, and there are only two teams in each group that will be promoted.

This seemingly fair behavior is actually very unfair.

"Why are you so happy?"

"Shouldn't it be the B team of Z National Taiwan that is happy?"

The director said: "Originally, they basically had no hope of advancing to the knockout round, and this rule change is basically equivalent to guaranteeing it, after all, it is impossible for the TB team to lose to Vietnam, right?" ”

"Anyway, it's a good thing that we have an extra team in the group to advance!"

The spicy incense pot said stiffly: "One more insurance!" And before I came, I deliberately learned about the level of the national team in Central Asia and West Asia, and to be honest, during the live broadcast, I should draw five water friends to play better than them! ”

"If we advance, we will definitely not be in the same group as the team of the Great Cold Netherworld, and playing with those teams will bring our level lower."

"It's a good thing that TB can be promoted, but it can put pressure on us!"

"After all, the lightning wolf played well in MSI, and he also played the name of a BO1 god of war."

(End of chapter)