You promised a top lane tutorial, but you're just using Worlds as material for your videos?

Chapter 102 The Blitzkrieg in Poland! Gaining a new ability—Serpentine Movement [4.4K]

After shaking hands following the match, they returned to the locker room.

Walking in the athletes' tunnel.

"Imp, we've won two straight games, aren't you going to treat everyone to a meal?" PYL said.

LGD has finally broken their losing streak and achieved two consecutive victories, and PYL is in a very good mood.

When he's in a good mood, he wants to rip off the big spenders.

"Where should we eat?" Imp thought it was a good idea.

"Let's go to the villa!"

"Damn it, I paid last time too!" imp muttered.

He felt that PYL had gone a bit too far.

"Damn, the combined salaries of the four of us might not even equal yours. If you don't treat us, who will?"

PYL said, "I'm not pretending anymore, I'm laying my cards on the table, I'm going to rip off the big spenders."

“Besides, Xiao Zhou has been with the team for a week now, and we haven’t treated him to a meal yet. He eats in the canteen every day, so we should treat him to something nice!” PYL added.

what?
Zhou Dian never expected that he would be involved. You, PYL, you're just ripping off big spenders, why are you using yourself as a cover?

According to PYL's reasoning, as the team leader, he is the one who should treat Zhou Dian to dinner.

However, imp's thinking in this regard is simpler, without so many twists and turns.

Imp glanced at Zhou Dian, then reached out and put his arm around Zhou Dian's shoulder.

According to imp, although his gaming experience seems to have worsened since Zhou Dian joined, he can still win matches.

The greatest gaming experience is actually the moment you win the game.

Imp was very happy after winning two consecutive regular season games.

I have to treat you to this meal!

"I'm only treating Zhou to dinner! You guys don't need to join in!" Imp said jokingly.

This naturally earned PYL a middle finger scornful look.

In the end, PYL successfully managed to get imp to have a meal with him.

They brought along the coach, team leader, and even the French king—basically everyone from LGD who came to the event today—and all went to the villa together.

Since everyone has a two-day holiday starting tomorrow, they immediately started drinking.

Zhou Dian naturally doesn't drink alcohol, so he was teased for "preparing for health at such a young age".

And the one who can drink the most is naturally imp.

imp's drinking capacity is like his salary; the other LGD players combined might not be able to match him.

The next morning, Zhou Dian arrived at the training room, downloaded the first-person perspective recording of his own game from the previous day, and began teaching how to play top lane Lucian.

Around noon, PYL arrived at the training room and saw Zhou Dian uploading a new video.

"Damn, whoever loses to you is really unlucky, you'll make an instructional video of them and humiliate them!" PYL laughed.

"Team Leader Ping, you can't say that!" Zhou Dian shrugged. "I'm doing this to benefit all top lane players and help them find their shortcomings!"

"Oh, so, Holy Gun Bro should thank you!"

"No need to thank me, it's all my pleasure!"

"Damn, you're shameless! I can't stand it!"

With that, PYL turned to leave.

Before he could even turn around, PYL continued, "We finally get two days off, how about we go out and have some fun? I'll go and call Eimy and the others."

After yesterday's matches, the first round of group matches in the LPL Spring Split regular season has concluded.

That's perfect, because of IEM, the LPL will be suspended for a week.

The competition will resume next Thursday, which will coincide with the start of the inter-group matches.

Not only LPL, but also other regions such as LCK will suspend for a week to make way for IEM.

The champion of each region's summer split last year will be invited to participate in the IEM Katowice tournament; for the LPL, it's EDG.

There are ten days in between when there are no LPL matches, so most clubs will give their players two or three days off.

However, Zhou Dian has no intention of taking a break.

After all, it's only the middle of the Spring Split, and after a break, it will take time to get back into form.

You need to rest; there's plenty of time to rest during the off-season.

"I'm not going to the Ping team. I have a plan to practice heroes this afternoon!" This time, Zhou Dian was no longer joking around, but looked serious.

You can't control what others want to do, but he can control himself.

"Alright! I'm off then!" PYL turned and left the training room.

After a while, seeing that it was lunchtime, Zhou Dian also got up and left the training room.

When they arrived at the cafeteria, none of their teammates were there. Except for Imp, who was still in bed, the others must have all gone out to play.

in the afternoon.

Zhou Dian was playing ranked matches when Imp arrived at the training room and also started ranked training.

Judging from his complexion, he should be completely sober now.

At that moment, only the two of them were in the entire training room.

Sure enough, when Imp was awake, he was either drinking or training, highlighting his "self-discipline".

Snake team training room.

The whole team is here and training.

Manager Zuo Wu was quite dissatisfied with the team's performance in the first stage of the Spring Split this year.

Therefore, even though most teams took a short break, Zuo Wu did not give Snake's players a break.

Train harder, all of you! What kind of rubbish are you playing?!

After being eliminated in the gauntlet last year, Snake's goal this year is to make it to the World Championship.

After the first round of five matches in the same group, they had a record of 2 wins and 3 losses, tying for last place in Group A with LGD.

Zuo Wu began to worry that Snake might not even make it to the playoffs.

The current LPL format is actually quite brutal.

The twelve teams are divided into two groups, A and B. The top four teams from each group advance to the playoffs, while the bottom two teams from each group play in the relegation matches.

In other words, if they don't make the playoffs, they'll have to play in the relegation matches; there's no middle ground.

There's no such thing as me just coasting along as long as I can stay in the LPL.

If you slack off, you risk being demoted!
At that moment, Zita leaned over to Flandre and said, "Li Xuanjun, the top laner has updated his video, hurry up and watch it, let's watch it together!"

Saint Gun remained silent.

"Guess which top lane champion he's teaching in this new video?" Zz1tai asked again.

"Not interested!" Flandre focused on his ranked game.

"Damn it, you used to watch every episode without fail! How come you're not interested anymore!" Zitai shook his head. "Fine, if you don't want to watch, I'll find someone else to watch with!"

"Holy crap, Liu Zhihao, are you toxic?!" Saint Gun Bro couldn't hold back any longer.

Seeing Zita and Saint Gun Bro laughing and joking around, Zuo Wu quickly went over and said, "Liu Zhihao, what are you doing here instead of training?"

Although Zuo Wu kept a straight face and pretended to be serious.

But she wasn't intimidated by him at all.

"I am here."

As she spoke, Zitai suddenly remembered something, "Brother Zuo, didn't you say you were going to give me the manager position?"

"Huh? When did I say I was going to make you the manager?!" Zuo Wu was completely bewildered by Zitai's nonsensical remark.

"Didn't you say that if the top laner could make it in the professional scene, you would let me be the manager?"

Zuo Wu, the "top lane veteran," frowned and pondered for a moment. "I did say that. What happened? Did he stop making videos and go pro?"

Gan!
The posture is a bit numb.

It turns out our manager really doesn't surf the internet!
With a shrug, he declared, "LGD's current top laner, Zhou, is the ancestor of top laners!"

"Oh? It's him!"

Zuo Wu stroked his chin and continued, "Winning two regular season games is all you call 'making a name for yourself'? Your standard for 'making a name for yourself' is way too low!"

"You bastard! I knew you were going to cheat!" Zitai pouted.

"Ha! Everyone in the industry knows that my word is my bond!" Zuo Wu changed his posture, crossing his arms. "If Top Laner Lao Zu can win the LPL championship, I'll admit he's made it! That's not too much to ask, is it?"

"Tch, this is boring!" Zz1tai dragged his chair back to his desk. "Why don't you say you want him to win the World Championship?"

During this week without LPL matches, forums like the Anti-Pressure Bar were relatively quiet, with not much to discuss. The only thing to do was repeatedly post LPL-related terms like "pig" and "dog" to generate buzz. Once the IEM tournament starts, there will be matches to discuss.

Just when many forum users were feeling that the forums had become rather dull lately, a sudden event ignited a discussion throughout the entire League of Legends esports community.

EDG pulled off a big move!
EDG, as the champion of last year's LPL Summer Split, was originally invited to participate in this week's IEM Katowice tournament.

As a result, with the match about to begin, fans discovered that the entire EDG team was still at the base.

What's going on here?

Katowice is in faraway Poland.

Unlike playing an LPL match, you can't just arrive on the day of the match.

To get to Poland, we'll have to leave at least two days before the competition starts!
Immediately afterwards, EDG Club's official Weibo account released an announcement.

They explained that they couldn't go to Poland due to visa issues!
Therefore, they had no choice but to withdraw from the IEM Katowice tournament.

They are deeply sorry for this and hope that their fans will understand.

This wouldn't have been a big deal; if we don't want to fight, then we don't have to.

After all, IEM has limited prestige in the League of Legends esports scene.

The general public is just a little disappointed that there are no LPL team matches to watch this week.

However, many of EDG's extreme fans went and flooded the official Weibo account of the Polish Embassy.

In their apology statement, EDG Club implicitly shifted the blame to the Polish Embassy, ​​claiming that the visa issues preventing them from traveling to Poland were due to someone else's fault.

So, that very night, the hog ransacked the Polish embassy.

After being confronted by EDG, the Polish embassy realized that they had been framed by EDG.

They quickly came out to clarify, saying that EDG had never even applied for a visa.

Well, now it's the turn of all the onlookers to have a good laugh!
During the three years of S4, S5, and S6, EDG dominated the domestic scene, and naturally, EDG's fanbase was also the largest in the Chinese League of Legends community.

Fans of other teams have all been disgusted by the pig's offal to varying degrees.

Muay Thai warnings and depressive knife techniques are also classic examples of offal fighting.

However, in the past two World Championships, EDG has underperformed. They were swept 4-0 by FNC in S5 and then suffered a 4396 defeat in S6, which has made the "pig-zha" (a derogatory term for EDG players) less rampant.

After all, if an idol doesn't achieve anything, their fans won't be very enthusiastic.

Besides the fandom!

The negative publicity stunts EDG has generated for the team over the past two years, which has led to widespread support for EDG during this crisis.

Thanks to the efforts of onlookers, the truth was quickly uncovered.

It turns out that EDG didn't want to participate in the IEM Katowice tournament, but they also didn't want to give up their LPL spot to another team.

So they resorted to the tactic of "delaying".

The tournament was dragged out until just before it started, and then I ran into visa problems and couldn't go. IEM officials couldn't invite other teams at the last minute either.

After the truth came out, fans of other teams naturally mocked and ridiculed EDG.

I don't know who was particularly talented, but they called EDG's actions this time the "EDG Blitzkrieg Poland Incident".

All I can say is, that's fucking apt!

As the new week begins, the LPL regular season will resume, and the entire LGD team will begin preparing for their match against EDG.

Dgc originally thought that playing EDG in the first match of the inter-group competition would give him a slight advantage.

Because EDG went to Poland to participate in IEM and then immediately played against LGD, the long journey inevitably affected their performance.

Furthermore, there was no time for pre-match preparation.

LGD, on the other hand, had been conserving their energy and preparing for the battle for a long time.

Dgc was planning to strike hard this time, capitalize on EDG's weakness, and take them down directly.

But who would have thought that EDG would pull off a "blitzkrieg against Poland"?

This has caused Dgc to be a bit listless these past few days, and he hasn't been very energetic.

Zhou Dian didn't care much about these things; he felt that they should fight however they wanted.

EDG's strength has declined significantly compared to two years ago.

On days without matches, Zhou Dian performed many ability draws.

Most of the time, I'm drawing B-level abilities, with the occasional A-level one.

His main goal was to gain more hero proficiency and expand his hero pool.

Unfortunately, I didn't get a single useful B-rank ability.

The heroes I drew all had low proficiency levels; some were only at the level of knowing the skills.

Do I still need to draw a ticket?

Even if he's never played it, he knows that!

Then Zhou Dian spent 100,000 interaction points to draw an A-level ability, which made him even angrier.

This ability significantly increases hand speed.

It looks pretty cool.

However, there is a qualifier.

Significantly increases your screw-driving speed!
What a system! It's even figured out my future after retirement, hasn't it?

It seems that drawing B-level and A-level abilities is purely a matter of luck.

If you want something truly useful, then you need an S-rank ability.

You really do get what you pay for!

I brought up the system panel and checked my interaction points. I wasn't far from a million, and I should be able to reach a million before the match against EDG.

The "Top Lane Lucian Tutorial" has been posted for over a week, but it has only garnered a few hundred thousand interaction points.

After all, the opponent in the material is the Snake team, which isn't particularly popular.

Lucian, as a champion, wouldn't be very popular if moved to the top lane.

Many viewers came in out of curiosity and didn't really approve of the top lane Lucian playstyle.

After all, so far, only Zhou Dian has played Lucian in a single match, so it's not a universally applicable champion.

Ordinary players tend to blindly follow the crowd; before a gameplay style becomes popular, most of them won't really accept it.

Many people even directly cursed, saying that Zhou Dian's teaching of this ADC top lane playstyle was purely disgusting and disrupting the top lane environment in the Chinese server.

Zhou Dian naturally didn't care about such opinions.

He even hoped these people would hurl more insults.

These are all interactive elements!
On Thursday, the day the fourth week of the LPL regular season began, the number of interaction points on the weekly leaderboard reached one million.

The "Top Lane Lucian Tutorial" provided him with hundreds of thousands of points, and another hundreds of thousands of points came from the video of his match against RNG.

The comments section of that video is still filled with arguments from various fans, but things have quieted down considerably recently.

The main force retreated, leaving small groups to continue fighting.

All I can say is that "pigs and dogs" are the secret to LPL's popularity!

Unfortunately, Clearlove hasn't played a single game in the Spring Split so far, and he probably won't play in EDG's match against LGD tomorrow either.

Is he really going to retire?

Zhou Dian didn't really believe it.

How could a dream-like jungler retire so easily? What about your dream?
Once a million interaction points are collected, Zhou Dian will start the draw.

[Start S-rank ability extraction?]

Draw it now!

[Consume 100 million interaction points to begin drawing S-rank abilities]

[Keyword for this ability extraction: Snake]

quickly
[Draw complete. Obtained S-rank ability - Serpent Walk]

[Serpentine Movement: In the game, your chances of dodging non-targeted skills are greatly increased.]

[Acquired an S-rank exclusive hero – Cassiopeia, the Serpent's Embrace. Proficiency: Top-tier!]

Upon seeing the ability he had drawn, Zhou Dian immediately exclaimed "NICE!"

That was a brilliant "snake-like" movement; it really shows a significant improvement in your positioning skills!
Since the ability is called "Serpent Walk," its exclusive hero is indeed the Snake Woman.

The Chinese word "Snake" means snake, so the Snake esports team is also known as the Snake Team.

The keyword for this ability draw was 【Snake】, and the final ability and exclusive hero both contained the word "snake," which was quite fitting.

(End of this chapter)