Starting with Zaozi Ge, a dream lineup

Chapter 17 Preseason Changes

There will be a one-week buffer period between the S7 World Championship and this competition. The two teams will officially start their battle at the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing next week.

The reason this event was held in the Bird's Nest stadium in the capital of China is because League of Legends has entered a period of decline, with the entire market remaining sluggish. As a Chinese team, LPL has not won a championship in seven years.

Secondly, the gameplay of League of Legends has not been innovated for a long time. Li Luo, who came from the future, was certainly aware that after the S7 World Championship, League of Legends would undergo an epic change in the S8 preseason.

The Chinese server client for League of Legends has been updated to version 7.22. Now, as soon as the competition ends and before the All-Star event, the version will be updated again. This version update is also the preseason version for League of Legends Season 8.

The most important thing in this version of League of Legends is the complete overhaul of the rune system. Professional players need to spend time learning and familiarizing themselves with this new rune system.

The new rune system has five branches: Precision, Domination, Sorcery, Resolve, and Inspiration.

Each branch has 3 keystone runes and 9 regular runes.

The Precision tree includes Press the Attack, Lethal Tempo, and Fleet Footwork, making it suitable for damage-dealing heroes, especially AD heroes.

The Domination tree includes Electrocute, Predator, and Dark Harvest, which are more suitable for assassins, burst damage dealers, and some high-damage junglers.

The Sorcery tree includes Aery, Arcane Comet, and Phase Rush, which are more suitable for support and AP heroes.

The Resolve tree includes Grasp of the Undying, Aftershock, and Guardian, and is particularly suitable for tanky heroes and tanky supports.

The Inspiration tree includes Unsealed Secrets, Glacial Augment, and Kleptomancy, and is suitable for a wide range of heroes.

However, Li Luo is confident that he will be more familiar with the new version than other professional players in the early stages of the changes.

Finally, the area that has the biggest impact on the League of Legends market is the launch of new games.

The shooting game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) will aggressively erode the League of Legends (LOL) market share in its early stages of release.

These preseason changes are all strategies Riot Games has implemented to counter the rise of PUBG.

Clearly, Riot Games succeeded, clinging tightly to the last vestiges of the market with a new wave of changes.

After the decline of PUBG, League of Legends quickly became the number one game again.

Therefore, the venue setup for this year's S-series finals was a huge investment by the organizer, Tencent, and the scale of the venue was magnificent, making it arguably the most impressive S-series in history.

And the finals are about to begin, just a few days from now.

There was simply no time for Li Luo to prepare for experimenting with unconventional and winning strategies in ranked matches.

It's fair to say their time was extremely limited. Excluding the time spent filming the finale's behind-the-scenes footage, the time they could use to practice their routines was minimal.

In this situation, in order to quickly familiarize himself with the routine, Li Luo pondered and a plan came to mind.

"puppy!"

Someone nearby called out to Li Luo.

Yu Shuang glanced over there, then waved to Li Luo: "See you later..."

“Okay…” Li Luo agreed and walked over.

The rest of RNG had finished their interviews, and Feng organized the group, and they all headed backstage together.

As soon as Li Luo entered the backstage area, she saw many star contestants that she had only ever seen on TV before...

The most conspicuous person was the factory manager.

"Go for it, Xiangguo!"

"Oh, not at all. I only managed this because of a powerful backer. Otherwise, it would have been really difficult. This kid is hopeless; he's just lucky. Sigh."

Privately, the factory manager and Xiangguo are actually very good friends. As a representative of the control-style jungler, he has always admired Xiangguo's starvation style. The two often face off against each other on the field, and their friendship can be said to have been forged through competition.

Congratulations!

The factory manager was a little envious of Xiangguo. Scout played Lucian three times, and each time he played worse than the last. He was so angry that he almost had a stroke that night. But there was nothing he could do; he was also in the blame.

4396, a mark etched on his body, can never be washed away. He envies the casualness of hot pot, but can't learn it at all.

"The puppy has played quite well these past few games..."

"To hide Xia all the way until the very last time, wow, that's a bit sneaky! Haha!"

"And Little Tiger, Tiger Nine Thousand is not bad, not bad at all!"

"No, no. It's really the puppy that's awesome. To be honest, Brother Li put too much pressure on me, which caused me to make a lot of mistakes."

As the RNG team entered the backstage area, Clearlove greeted each of them.

In private, the factory manager is not as cold and unapproachable as he appears on screen. As LPL player number 001, how could he possibly have conflicts with these younger players?

In real life, the factory manager has a good relationship with most professional players, and he is also very humorous. You'll understand if you watch his live streams.

In this year's S7 LPL competition, Clearlove even defeated RNG to win the LPL championship, making them the team with the best record and the most promising prospects in the LPL.
Especially during the Summer Split finals when they were vying for the number one seed in S7, EDG came back from a 0-2 deficit to win 3-2, a feat that can be described as legendary.

Unexpectedly, they faltered early, and Skt managed to turn the tide with a 1 gold deficit.

He flew to Shanghai specifically to support RNG during their match against Skt tonight.

This is absolutely unprecedented in all the years since the S-series was first held.

Hu Xianzhao (iboy) has a good relationship with Uzi in real life. As a post-00s generation, he has always regarded Uzi as his idol and has been constantly pursuing him in the League of Legends.

"Brother Dog, that's awesome! That Xayah pick was spot on!"

As a top player in the ADC position, iboy also has a deep understanding of Xayah. In the previous match between EDG and SKT, his Xayah was the only one who reacted in time.

He also dodged Skt's control skills, and now he looks at Li Luo with admiration for the Xayah he played before.

Why is Uzi so strong? Whether in the Korean server or the Chinese server, before this, no one could find any trace of Uzi practicing this hero.

At most, I only used it a few times in ranked games when it was first released. I didn't expect that after only a few games, my skill level would be so high.

hiss!
It seems there's still a significant gap between me and Dog Bro. Dog Bro's talent truly makes him the number one AD carry in China.

"Go away, you're jinxing me again."

Seeing iboy teasing him, Li Luo laughed and scolded him a few times. After accepting Uzi's memories of friendship, he became very familiar with iboy.

This ADC born in 00 has a similar mentality to Uzi in the past. Both of them are good at playing when they have an advantage, and their performance is particularly good when they do.

But when things go against them, they start to falter, and their mentality completely collapses.

The group chatted and laughed as they walked backstage. After such an exhausting match, everyone needed a good rest.

After Li Luo whispered a few words in Feng Ge's ear, Feng Ge nodded and walked towards the factory manager.

"Mingkai, RNG wants to invite EDG to play some scrims to prepare for the finals. Do you have time?"

Hearing Feng say that, the factory manager did not refuse and immediately finalized the training match time. Now that they had lost in S7, all the EDG players were staying at the base to reflect.

It's perfectly understandable for them to play scrims with RNG.

(End of this chapter)