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

Chapter 22 Zuo Wu's Arguments [Please continue reading]

In the game League of Legends, the skills and techniques are universal.

When a new strategy or technique is introduced for a hero, it will definitely not only circulate within a single server.

The popularity of Fiora's A-Flash combo in the Chinese server has naturally attracted the attention of domestic professional players.

Most of the professional players in China usually play ranked games on the Korean server.

As a result, these domestic professional players brought the Fiora A-Flash combo to the Korean server.

Soon, the pick rate of Fiora in the Korean server also saw a surge.

For a time, Fiora could be seen playing A-Flash in ranked games, from casual matches to Korean Challenger games.

In fact, Fiora's pick rate in the Korean server is higher than that in the Chinese server.

Because Korean players don't ban Fiora much, Fiora can be picked in most games.

They prefer to ban some of the strongest heroes in the current version.

Shanghai, Lingshi Road.

Snake team base.

With the 17 LPL Spring Split starting in just half a month, the entire Snake team has already gathered at their base to begin pre-season training and preparation.

In 16, the Snake team was ultimately eliminated in the S6 Regional Finals.

In the new S7 season, team manager Zuo Wu has set an ambitious goal: to qualify for the S7 World Championship held on home soil.

Therefore, during the offseason, Zuowu brought in Zz1tai for the mid-lane position.

For the AD position, Zuo Wu made a special trip to South Korea and went to great lengths to recruit the genius AD carry, Ohq.
Crystal, who suffered a severe hand injury, switched to support.

With the addition of head coach Zhu Kai, Zuo Wu felt that Snake's lineup this year had a good chance of making it to the World Championship.

Therefore, Zuo Wu called his team members back to the base ahead of time to begin preparations for the Spring Split.

A loud shout suddenly came from the Snake team's training room.

"Wow, I did it!"

Saint Gun turned his head, glanced at Zita beside him, and said excitedly, "Liu Zhihao, did you see that? How was my Fiora A-Flash four-hit combo? Fast enough, right? I told you I'd practice it before you did!"

Saint Gun Bro just played a ranked game in the Korean server Challenger tier, using Fiora and pulled off a combo of A-Flash-Four-Break.

"Damn it, I'm not convinced!" Zita pushed up his glasses. "Why did you learn it so quickly? I've been practicing for half a day and I can only hit a training dummy. When I use this hook-eight-A flash-four-break technique in actual combat, I always make mistakes. Either I don't hit the opening, or I flash in place, or it's super slow. It's not even as fast as my normal four-break technique!"

"I told you, playing top lane requires talent!" Flandre chuckled. "Don't get involved in top lane stuff, just focus on playing mid!"

Zz1tai was originally a mid-laner. After Rookie joined IG in 2015, there was no place for Zz1tai in the mid-lane, so he switched to top lane.

After playing top lane for IG for two years, he left the IG team he had served for many years during this offseason and joined the Snake team, returning to the mid lane.

Upon hearing Flandre's words, Zz1tai immediately retorted, "Get lost, Li Xuanjun! Mid lane is clearly the one that needs the most talent!"

At that moment, the voice of team manager Zuo Wu came from behind the two.

"Flandre is a top laner, and Zz1tai is a mid laner. It's perfectly normal that he plays Fiora better than you!"

Zuo Wu, who had nothing to do, was sitting behind Saint Gun, watching him play ranked games.

They euphemistically called it "supervising the team members' training."

Hearing Zuo Wu's words, Saint Gun scratched his head sheepishly, "I'm not very good at playing Fiora, but the top laner's Fiora is really strong!"

"Oh? You mean the top laner who created the Fiora A-flash combo that's been all the rage these past few days?" Zuo Wu said.

“Yes, that’s him!” Zz1tai chimed in. “I don’t even know how he came up with the Fiora A-Flash combo. This guy is a genius. I feel like he could totally be recruited to play pro. It’s such a waste for him to be a video blogger!”

Upon hearing this, Zuo Wu said disdainfully, "He's just a Fiora pro, he can't play professionally!"

"You can practice your champion pool! I think this guy is really talented!" Zz1tai quickly said. It's clear that Zz1tai highly admires the top laner.

"Impossible!" Zuo Wu waved his hand. "I've seen plenty of guys with such amazing skills. They can only play one hero their whole lives and can't master other heroes. How could my judgment be wrong?"

Finally, Zuo Wu added, "If this top laner, Lao Zu, can make it in the professional scene, I'll give him the team manager position!"

at the same time.

Shanghai, GT esports team's training room.

"Damn it!!! Why can't I get it to work again?!"

The team's top laner, GimGoon, first yelled out a Korean curse, then slammed his fist on the table, drawing the attention of everyone else in the training room.

Looking at the screen in front of GimGoon, he is playing Fiora in the ongoing match.

On the right side of Fiora's skill bar, Flash has just gone on cooldown.

The day after the release of the Fiora A-Flash tutorial video by [Top Laner], Zhou Dian still couldn't pick Fiora in a single high-elo ranked game on the Chinese server.

However, my teammates were generally in pretty good condition today.

As long as your teammates don't consistently underperform, you can still climb the ranks in the weekly peak.

The speed at which you climb the ranks is nowhere near as fast as when you pick Fiora.

After playing for a while, Zhou Dian's score had reached Master 580.

This score is already high enough to reach the King rank. Once the leaderboard is updated after midnight tonight, [Top Laner Old Ancestor]'s rank on the first server will change from Grandmaster to Challenger.

At this moment, Zhou Dian glanced at the computer desktop and realized that today was already December 31st.

16 is almost over, and the New Year's Day holiday is just around the corner.

Zhou Dian suddenly lost the desire to continue playing ranked matches and climbing the ranks.

At least not today.

How can you lock yourself in your rented room to play ranked games on New Year's Eve!

The original owner was an autistic teenager, but now that "I" have arrived, I can no longer remain autistic.

The beauty of this world is something we should all experience.

Even if you're experiencing it alone!
Without hesitation, Zhou Dian logged out of the client, shut down his computer, and went out for dinner.

Then I went back to my rented room, quickly tidied myself up, and took the subway straight to Guangzhou's landmark building—the Guangzhou Tower.

Zhou Dian is going to experience the New Year's Eve atmosphere!

The Guangzhou subway was so crowded that Zhou Dian got a real taste of the "human heat".

The popularity was even greater after arriving at Guangzhou Tower.

At midnight, as the crowd counted down in unison, 2016 came to an end.

2017 has arrived.

At that moment, Zhou Dian felt a slight stirring in his heart.

He could sense that he became more excited in situations with more people around him.

Isn't this just "showing off"?

For some reason, Zhou Dian suddenly thought of the S-series finals he had watched before.

I pictured the players holding up the Summoner's Cup.

I imagined the deafening cheers of the audience.

In esports, what's called a "show-off" is nothing more than a player with a big heart and a player who thrives in big situations!
(End of this chapter)