Starting with Zaozi Ge, a dream lineup

Chapter 2: Uzi's Peak Skill!
[Open the new player gift pack?]

【whether】

The obvious choice is yes. This is a gift pack that every new player who registers in the professional manager game receives. It contains all sorts of items, including the "Dream Back to the Peak" card and the "Forced Transfer" card. It all depends on luck.

Congratulations on obtaining a single attribute maxed-out trial card *1

A single attribute full value trial card?

What is this? Li Luo looked at the detailed description of the trial card.

[Full Value Trial Card: After use, the host can choose one of their six attributes to be at its maximum value for one round.]

Li Luo was stunned; one item had a perfect score...

What does a perfect score mean? A Mad Dog with top-tier, meticulous gameplay? Precise foresight? Or inhuman, unparalleled reflexes?
Oh right, there's still the gacha! The system still has one free gacha draw left.

The card-drawing page appeared directly. As the prize spun, a card fell out. As the card-drawing machine disappeared, Li Luo couldn't wait to pick up the card.

[In-game Basic Healing Card: Restores the host's current health by 10%]

An in-game healing card? If there's an in-game healing card, is there an out-of-game one too? Li Luo was instantly overjoyed. Uzi's real reason for retiring was due to a hand injury and type 2 diabetes. If he could have a healing card, Uzi, once he recovered, could definitely return to the competition!

Although the system modified Li Luo's identity, and Li Luo's body completely replaced Uzi's, these physical ailments were directly copied over.

When Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on a person, it first tests their will and strengthens their body. Now, the system is also a way of indirectly urging Li Luo to become stronger to complete the mission and restore his health.

He used the basic healing card directly, and a green light appeared on his right hand. He had temporarily ignored the hand pain caused by the tension of transmigrating, but now, with the help of the healing card, a comfortable feeling came over him.

The 10% refers to the overall health level. Although Uzi had many old ailments that were copied, the healing cards did not distribute the benefits evenly.

Instead, he chose the most serious hand injury. Under the nourishing green light, Li Luo felt that his hand injury was not far from being healed. As long as he took one more shot, he would be fine.

After much deliberation, he decided to use the full-value trial card on operations. Although he had mastered the transferred memories, this was his first time competing, and it would be better to be on the safe side.

As for the situation!
This is the fifth game now. Although they lost the last game, it wasn't a helpless defeat like before. RNG is in high spirits right now!

As for the fifth game, Li Luo, as a spectator, knew from the long-term analysis of others in later generations that the reason RNG lost was that individual abilities were insufficient to compensate for the draft loopholes.

In the first game, RNG secured MVP Sejuani with Xiangguo and Janna, the strongest Ardent Censer pick in the current version, steadily countering SKT's ultimate-focused lineup.

SKT's first strategy to counter RNG: the Galio composition.

Because RNG plays an aggressive style with strong individual skills, if it weren't for Galio's powerful support capabilities to assist his teammates, the situation might have collapsed in the early game.

Therefore, this is the main reason why SKT has won five consecutive games with Galio.

In the two-pick option, SKT had the choice between Janna or Tristana and picked Tristana, the AD carry with the highest win rate in the series.

This means they believe that the Ardent Censer system can be countered by ultimate-based team compositions, which is also a manifestation of their blind confidence.

In these matches, with Sejuani being picked and Gragas and Jarvan IV being banned, SKT's strategy was to use Zac as a backup jungler.

In fact, in the two games where Zac played jungle, his tempo and team fight impact were completely inferior to Xiangguo's, which should be the reason why Blank, who started in the third game, was substituted out.

In the second game, RNG did not ban Galio and had a high probability of getting the Galio composition.

However, SKT took a gamble with their draft, securing Galio and gaining the initiative in their composition. SKT also banned Jarvan IV first, avoiding the current meta's strong picks and the early-game tempo of their star player, Mlxg.

At this point, RNG bans Kalista. This position can be considered a fixed ban, because the red side absolutely cannot go against the meta's natural counter.

SKT banned Janna twice because they realized the Ardent Censer comp was too strong in the first game and they couldn't handle it.

At this point, RNG banned Jayce for the second time, probably because they were worried that Huni's split-push Jayce would completely dominate the top lane and be difficult to deal with.

SKT banned Tristana three times, while RNG banned Sejuani three times, likely not expecting SKT to dare to first pick Galio.

Because in a normal ban/pick process, the blue team will definitely choose between Rakan or Xayah as their first pick, in order to counter the red team's possible Xayah-Rakan combination.

Then our team can easily break their system with Galio.

However, SKT still picked Galio first because they were gambling that even if Xayah and Rakan were released at the same time, RNG wouldn't pick this combination.

This draft pick was the boldest attempt STK's coaching staff made in the semifinals; if they lost, they could very well go home 0-3.

However, with both Xayah and Rakan available, RNG didn't pick them, but instead chose a solo Rakan and Twitch.

Because they were determined to pick Rakan to counter SKT's possibility of picking Xayah and Rakan, they were already in a very passive position. SKT won their gamble and also gained an important piece of information: from then on, regardless of whether they were on the red or blue side, they didn't need to deal with the Xayah and Rakan issue, while RNG had to.

RNG's three bans for the red side have been decided, meaning that the red side will no longer be able to use bans to limit the Galio system in future matches.

This is also the direct reason why Uzi allowed Galio to be released five times: because he didn't know how to play Xayah and Rakan, or to put it more bluntly, because Uzi didn't know how to play Xayah.

According to Li Luo's comparison, Uzi's Xayah at this time was only at the level of an average casual player, or even worse.

To break SKT's tactical system, there is only one key point: get Xayah and Rakan.

Thinking of this, Li Luo smiled. Although he was once a master AD in the Chinese Super Server, he was the opposite of Uzi when it came to Xayah and Kai'Sa, two popular skill AD carries in the game. He was not as good as Uzi at playing traditional AD carries.

With the support of peak system skills, this move by Xayah and Rakan should give SKT and Faker a surprise.

Release it! Continue by releasing Galio!

As Li Luo's thoughts drifted away, the treatment for his hand injury was finally completed.

The first mission for the series is: [Win the S7 World Championship and lift the trophy at the Bird's Nest Stadium.]

Current objective: [Win Game 5 of the RNG vs. Skt semifinals]

Reward points * 500
After the system released the task, the black and white colors of the entire world quickly faded, and the world before our eyes was filled with color again, everything was harmonious and peaceful.

The imprisoned figures began to move, as if they had just awakened from their hibernation pods.

"I'll pick Xayah. Next game we're on the blue side, we'll let Jarvan IV and Galio go, we'll pick Xayah and Rakan."

At this moment, Feng Ge had just recovered from the time freeze. His thoughts were still on the moment he handed Jian Zihao the small cannon. When he heard Li Luo say this, he was shocked.

"Zihao, um, we won't just skip the forced pick and ban Luo outright. Next game, we'll give you, Xiaohu, and Xiangguo a three-core lineup and just overwhelm the opponent with damage."

"Jian Zihao, are you crazy? Your Xia is such a noob, have you forgotten how we got wrecked by random players on our smurf accounts the other day?"

Shi Senming didn't choose to sit in his own chair, but instead sat next to Li Luo on the back of the sofa, his hand dangling on Li Luo's shoulder. At this distance, one could easily believe they were a young couple.

When he heard that Li Luo wanted to pick Xayah, he was stunned. This was a do-or-die game, the fifth one. If he messed around and practiced a hero, and they lost, the blame wouldn't be shared by everyone, but would fall solely on Li Luo.

"What are you afraid of? Trust me, while you were sleeping, I secretly practiced Xayah on a smurf account, just to give you a surprise."

Seeing everyone's tense expressions, Li Luo chuckled inwardly; these familiar faces truly brought him joy.

It's still S7 now, and Xiaohu is now the rightful Tiger General. He was able to solo kill Faker from S5 three times in professional matches and is known as the Spring Tiger Emperor among players.

This time, unlike in S9 when he became a complete liability and was easily defeated, he was just wandering around farming with only 2200 damage output. In the end, even Uzi, who had incredible damage output, couldn't save the game.

Xiaohu still possesses that sharp edge that's sorely lacking in professional gaming. With that edge, he dares to pick carry heroes and delivers on his promises.

All Li Luo needs to do is be the anchor of the team. As long as they can plug the last loophole in RNG, defeating the legendary SKT team will not be difficult.

"Okay, Zihao, if you can play Xayah and are confident in your abilities, then we'll get you Xayah and Rakan."

Feng also trusts Jian Zihao immensely. In this S7 era, the Ardent Censer meta, Uzi represents only one thing: he is the eternal god.

Just like LeBron James in the NBA, Jian Zihao now has the power to decide the lineup for a game, and the team must arrange its lineup around him.

"Junze, since Zihao wants to play Xayah and Rakan, could you please pick a tanky champion for top lane? Since we're aiming for a strong bot lane matchup, Xiangguo might not be able to gank top lane in time."

"No problem, give me a big Maokai, Shen is fine too. I can handle pressure. As long as Zihao is confident, I can take down Huni's Jayce. At most, I'll be out-farmed, but I won't get solo killed."

When Letme heard what Feng said, he was overjoyed. It wasn't that he didn't want to carry, but he simply didn't have the ability. There was no version of RNG with a sheep in history, so Letme mainly played passively, which is also the nature of RNG as a team.

In the regular version of S7, due to the release of 7.17 and the World Championship version being 7.18, the time was very tight. Releasing new heroes would not be conducive to players getting familiar with them, so Ornn, the Mountain Flame, had to be banned.

Letme is now considered a sacrificial player in RNG's lineup. As long as he can effectively perform his initiation and protection roles in the late game, that's enough for him.

"Xiangguo, what do you want to pick? SKT will definitely ban your Sejuani, so are you going to pick Rek'Sai?"

"Excavator, Lee Sin, or Jarvan IV are all fine, but this time, if we pick Xayah and Rakan, we might not be able to get Jarvan IV. Let's go in and see. Yan Junze will handle the pressure, and I, as the jungler, will definitely need to provide some damage."

"Okay, it's settled then." After scribbling on the cardboard, Feng made the final decision on the buy/sell (BP) process.

There were still twenty minutes of rest time left, and the lounge quieted down. Although everyone was under immense pressure and extremely excited, they were actually having a mental battle going on inside.

However, Li Luo was not flustered at all. With the experience from his previous life and the skills of the peak Mad Dog, if he still couldn't beat this Push Bang, then what was the point of pursuing his dream? He might as well just crash into a tofu block!
Just to clarify, Li Luo is here in place of Uzi, but due to system modifications, others won't find it strange and will still think he is Jian Zihao!
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