Starting with Zaozi Ge, a dream lineup

Chapter 241 Offense is King! (Advanced revisions)
"Yes, it's a dynasty, you heard me right."

Seemingly to reinforce his resolve, Li Luo repeated his words in front of the camera.

Regardless of the astonishment of her teammates, and ignoring the disbelief on Rita's and Wang Duoduo's faces.

For the first time, the word "dynasty" appeared in the ears of all League of Legends fans.

"Isn't that a bit too arrogant? They've only just started somewhere, and they're already talking about establishing a dynasty?"

"Brother Li didn't say anything after winning two championships? Is he putting on an act?"

"Go China! That's the spirit we need! China is awesome! Uzi is awesome! RNG is awesome!"

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Amidst mixed reviews, the most controversial interview ever conducted by League of Legends in China has finally been released.

But regardless of what others say, the end of this interview also marks the complete conclusion of the national team's journey in this Asian Games.

A score of 3-0!

They thrashed the South Korean team and won the first-ever Asian Games gold medal in esports history—a feat worthy of being recorded in history!

From the end of the finals to the conclusion of the interviews, the two trending topics, #ChinaTeamWinsLeagueofLegends! and #Dynasty, have spread across the entire internet and even into real life.

Comparing the impact of this Asian Games victory to that of S7 seems inappropriate, but it did introduce many people to esports for the first time.

This is the Chinese team that won the gold medal.

From the coaches to the staff who help order takeout, everyone is Chinese!
Leaving aside the potential benefits that the gold medal brings to these players and their clubs, almost everyone in the League of Legends competitive community has benefited.

The esports season is very long. After Dota next door won the championship just one day later, the entire Asian Games season was coming to an end.

With a margin of nearly 50 gold medals, the Chinese team undeniably surpassed Japan, South Korea, and many Southeast Asian countries to take first place.

It was June, and the weather was sweltering. A few lazy security personnel stood at the airport entrance, checking the identities of those entering and occasionally asking the queue to be more orderly.

Not long after, looking up, the security personnel suddenly saw a sea of ​​red marching in orderly formation in the distance. They were startled and straightened up from their slumped positions.

Everyone was still wearing the Chinese team uniform, and even Xiangguo, in his flamboyant manner, continued to hang his gold medal around his neck, not caring about being ridiculed.

Upon seeing that it was the Chinese national team, the staff who had been notified earlier quickly came over and led the group to the adjacent waiting hall.

When we arrived, the General Administration of Radio, Film and Television chartered a plane for us, but when we returned, it was a private plane sponsored by the sponsor!

For the first time, esports made athletes from other industries realize just how lavish it could be.

Three standard Boeing aircraft were quietly parked on the dedicated tarmac, with flight attendants holding a banner welcoming all athletes home in glory.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, without giving esports any special treatment, Li Luo, showing no timidity, strode onto the plane.

The others, on the other hand, were like Grandma Liu visiting the Grand View Garden, looking left and right, unable to get enough of the sights, and flocking to wherever there were crowds.

It's not about seeking excitement.

The key point is that this is the first time I've ever seen a modified special plane like this.

Solid wood floors, luxurious massage airline chairs, and even a small bar separated by the middle of the plane.

Keep in mind that this is a large passenger plane, and the cost of modifying it to be like this is in the hundreds of millions.

Each of them has now reached the peak of their respective careers in terms of fame.

The strongest all-Chinese team in history is no exaggeration.

From the moment they won the championship until now, in just two or three days, not to mention the two legendary figures, Uzi and Clearlove, even Letme, who previously had little financial power, has seen his value skyrocket.

Once seated and the plane had taken off smoothly with a roar, everyone closed their eyes to rest.

Refusing the flight attendant's enthusiastic service, Li Luo covered herself with a small blanket, leaned back in her chair, and closed her eyes.

"Entering System Space"

Silently summoning the system, Li Luo opened the long-lost system at an altitude of ten thousand meters.

In other novels, the protagonist usually relies on the system to kill everything, but in Li Luo's case, the system seems to have lost its place.

Uzi is too strong. After several buffs, Uzi, who has returned to his prime, is even more unstoppable.

After a familiar lag, the azure blue screen popped up.

Although Li Luo closed his eyes, and everything was pitch black, a blue screen appeared in the darkness, which was quite mysterious.

As expected, the outside world quickly lost its color, the plane remained suspended in the air, motionless, and everyone seemed to have been put on pause.

After the system underwent a long update to the second version of Fantasy Manager, the added gacha system had an extremely low drop rate.

Li Luo, who often went in late at night to try his luck with a single draw, unknowingly used up most of the points he had earned in the competition.

Unfortunately, the drop rates in Tencent's games are always impressive at the beginning, but after the first drop, they become increasingly "heartbreaking"!
The most outrageous thing is that they drew 7 cards just from the card with the character "Ma Datou".

On the contrary, the cards in my own seat were just some trivial entertainment cards.

"Ding, detecting, host successfully altered history line. Error correction in progress."

"Congratulations, host, on successfully altering the timeline. Esports has experienced rapid development, with its future potential projected to increase significantly. Uzi's wish 2/3 complete."

"Reward: Aatrox's Bloodstained Greatsword 6*1"

"Receive or not?"

Even Li Luo was taken aback when he saw the four messages from the system.

If he hadn't changed the course of history and enhanced the development potential of esports, Uzi's second wish would have remained unfulfilled for who knows how long.

Moreover, even if he were to establish a dynasty, its influence would only extend to the League of Legends community; achieving cross-platform reach would be extremely difficult.

Li Luo doesn't know if League of Legends, an esports game, will be successful in its bid to be included in the Olympic Games.

But now, the system's prompt seems to have given him a glimmer of hope.

At the same time, a question arises: what exactly is Uzi's third wish? Is it a dynasty? Or the S8 championship?
He didn't choose to draw Aatrox's sword, after all, they were on an airplane, and if he caused any damage, he would probably die before he even got started.

After clicking through the lottery as usual, Li Luo shook his head, looked at his empty backpack, and exited the interface with a wry smile.

Compared to the weather in Jakarta, June in China is hot, but there is still a slight breeze that brings a touch of coolness.

After the flight landed completely at the Capital Airport, a light drizzle began to fall.

After disembarking in an orderly fashion, buses from various departments arrived and took their respective team members back to the base.

Esports is no exception; a bus provided by the General Administration of Sport was parked at the entrance.

No one spoke the rest of the way.

In fact, from the moment he ate breakfast today until he took the bus to the airport and boarded the plane, the factory manager lost the excitement he had shown earlier when he was playing around.

The factory manager seemed to have a lot to say, but didn't know what to say.
It's time to part ways again. Just like in the All-Star game, every time Clearlove teams up with RNG members, or rather with Uzi, he can rediscover the feeling of his younger days.

When the bus quietly arrived at the RNG base, Clearlove stopped pretending, got off the bus and hugged everyone. He and Wolf then boarded the bus again, looking forlorn, and drove off.

A hero grows old! Li Luo had something to say, a lot to say, but these words were stuck in his throat, and he didn't know how to express them.

Mingkai is an excellent player, and his strength deserves the championship; it's just a twist of fate.

He can't go to EDG, and Mingkai can't come to RNG.

After a long silence, Xiangguo spoke first:
"The factory manager... he seems to be considering retirement; he's lost his edge..."

"There is a little regret, but he probably has no regrets other than the S-series championship. This Asian Games gold medal is more than enough, okay?"

Xiao Hu chuckled to himself, for him, the gold medal as an athlete was more glorious than three S-series championships.

What good is being good at games? Even if you win the world championship.

When people outside this circle hear this, they think, "Wow, you're really good at games, you're a champion!"

As for the "world" in "world champion," in most people's eyes, the word "world" is just a general term and has no real meaning.

On the contrary, with a gold medal, you can go out and tell people, "I am an Asian Games athlete, and I even won a gold medal."

How prestigious that is!
"maybe"

Without questioning Xiaohu's words, Li Luo straightened his wrinkled clothes, pushed open the base gate first, and went inside.

Does winning the World Championship matter?
He is neither qualified to answer this question nor does he need to answer it.

History is full of uncrowned kings who have been remembered. Whether they win or not, whether they have a crown or not, cannot change the opinions of those who like them and those who hate them.

I want those who like me to like me more, and those who dislike me to dislike me more.

Perhaps this is what a real "person" is like.

Instead of "virtual characters" living on a screen.

This parting is uncertain, and the next reunion is unknown. Thinking of the system in his mind, Li Luo smiled calmly and banished all thoughts from his mind.

The Summer Split will continue as scheduled.

Four days later, RNG will face LGD, the team that defeated IG, in their first battle of the Summer Split.

Sometimes the world is just that wonderful.

There are many professional gamers, and among them are some with exceptional skills.

However, in the game League of Legends, there are only 14 professional players who can go to world-class competitions or enter the finals.

No one wants to give up their chance to play in this kind of competition.

Four days later, RNG decided to start their entire roster.

The start of the Summer Split also means that all LPL teams have fully entered the final sprint stage.

During the Spring Split, everyone can keep a low profile, analyze who should stay and who should leave the team, and prepare team synergy and tactics during the transfer period.

But if anyone remains complacent and doesn't pursue wins, failing to make the playoffs means they'll have several more months without games and their form will be even worse.

Countless League of Legends players have retired because they had no matches to play and their teams desperately needed results, so they had no choice but to retire and switch to streaming.

Four days later, as expected, RNG decisively and cleanly secured the victory against LGD.

With the victory in the first game, the version update followed, and the same major nerf to AD champions as in the previous game was present.

Xiao Ming, who was sitting in the lounge scrolling through his phone, began to express his thoughts with a serious expression.

"Look at this game mechanic change! It's so strange. This change feels like it's targeting us. It feels like the whole gameplay is going to be overhauled!"

"What's going on? Is it really that serious?"

Letme, who was scrolling through her phone, was also startled and quickly took out her phone to check.

"Putting everything else aside, just this change alone makes me feel like a lot of old tactics are going to become history!"

Xiaohu said in a serious tone, his expression not looking good. As RNG's commander, he keenly sensed the malice in the fist.

Seeing everyone on high alert, Li Luo, who had been relaxed, realized something was wrong and checked the version change notification on his phone.

The update announcements weren't scrolling very fast. As Li Luo kept scrolling down, a line of small text with a turret icon suddenly appeared before his eyes.

"Is this... the turret plating mechanism?"

"how come."

My heart sank. Although I didn't want to believe it, it really had happened.

coming!

Li Luo thought to himself.

The biggest change in League of Legends from Season 7 to Season 10 was the change to the tower plating.

This change allowed players with stronger dominance to evolve completely. Similarly, many playstyles that had not yet appeared in this world disappeared into the void.

If we were to say that the biggest change that impacted the World Championship last year in S7 was the synergy between Ardent Censer and enchanter supports, as well as the buffs to ADCs, it was the takeoff of the bot and mid lanes.

Therefore, the changes to the tower plates in this year's S8 represent a major shift in the top and mid lane ecosystems.

After the update, the outer towers on all three lanes have been given a plating protection mechanism. For every layer of plating a tower is destroyed, the tower pusher will receive a reward of 160 gold coins, which is a very generous economic reward.

After all, removing two plating layers is equivalent to gaining the gold from two kills, and this change undoubtedly brings more changes to the hero selection and gameplay in League of Legends.

Let's assume that one team chooses LeBlanc and the other chooses Orianna for their mid lane. These two heroes each have their own strengths. LeBlanc excels at single-target kills and roaming ganks, while Orianna excels at clearing waves, pushing towers, and defending while farming.

In previous versions, it was difficult to say that these two styles of heroes could coexist, because it was either a version where assassins were strong or a version where ranged poke was strong. But now, after the turret rework, it can be said that both styles can coexist. Why do we say that?

Orianna's strengths lie in clearing waves and pushing towers. Once he reaches a high level, his wave clear ability becomes incredibly powerful. However, he is not good at solo kills or ganking in lane.

After all, his skill set prevents him from roaming quickly, while LeBlanc is extremely good at supporting roaming. Often, when she can't kill her opponent in the mid lane, she will choose to go to other lanes to look for opportunities.

Before the plating appears, let's assume LeBlanc goes to support the bot lane. Orianna definitely wouldn't dare to go to the bot lane. The reason is simple: if LeBlanc ambushes Orianna from the bushes, Orianna will be doomed.

This is why many players who play AP champions prefer to signal the opponent to retreat rather than go to support them themselves, because they are more likely to die in the jungle if their vision is poor.

Previously, LeBlanc would go to the bottom lane while Orianna would push the tower in the mid lane. However, the tower pushing speed was very slow in the early game. By the time LeBlanc finished killing someone in the bottom lane and rushed back, Orianna wouldn't be able to take down much of the tower's health, which was a huge loss for Orianna.

Of course, this is also unacceptable for Orianna's teammates, since the loss is not just a matter of two kills.

With the turret plating mechanism, as long as LeBlanc leaves the mid lane, Orianna can basically remove one layer of turret plating, thus reliably gaining 160 gold for herself.

If LeBlanc is away for a long time, Orianna could even get 320 gold. In that case, even if LeBlanc gets a kill in the bot lane or top lane, it won't be a loss for Orianna.

Meanwhile, another scenario arises: if the other teammates retreat in time after being alerted by Orianna's signal, then LeBlanc will get nothing, while Orianna will get the tower plating gold for free. This is definitely a very advantageous situation for Orianna, who has explosive damage in the late game.

This effectively weakens RNG's renowned support for the 1st lane to the point that it can no longer be used.

This change, made six months in advance, can be described as fatal.

After watching all four matches, Left Hand really disappointed. Good luck to SN!

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