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

Chapter 59 Foolish and Rich LGD
Number one in Korean server?

What do you mean?
Dgc was a bit confused by the seemingly random phrase "white crescent moon".

Although Dgc has been busy preparing for LGD's two regular season matches this week, he hasn't been paying much attention to the Korean server ranked leaderboard.

However, he also knew that just a few days ago, the number one spot in the Korean server had finally changed hands.

Cuzz, who had held the top spot in the Korean server for almost a month, was overtaken by a YouTuber on D-site who makes tutorial videos, 【上单老祖】.

What does the white crescent moon mean?
Damn, I'm so stupid!
Dgc finally realized what was happening and angrily slapped himself in the face.

How could I have forgotten about that!

This "Top Lane Master" is someone who mainly plays top lane!
Most importantly, [Top Laner] is a complete solo player and doesn't have a team yet!

The white crescent moon means I should go find this "Top Lane Ancestor"!

It seems that Xiaobai thinks this "Top Lane Master" is quite reliable.

Dgc feels the same way.

After all, being able to reach the top of the Korean server with a high win rate should make him quite reliable.

Although professional matches and ranked matches are two different games.

But this isn't a tournament of the level of the World Championship.

The top player in the Korean server should be able to adapt to LPL quickly, right?
Moreover, judging from the Fiora and Camille tutorial videos previously released by [Top Laner], this person is very talented and creative, and should have no problem adapting to professional matches.

With that in mind, Dgc went to the op.gg website to check out the latest Korean server rank leaderboard.

I wonder if this "Top Lane Master" is still ranked number one in the Korean server.

Even if he falls from the top spot in the Korean server, he'll still likely have over 1000 points in Challenger.

Find someone with a 1000 MMR rating on the Korean server to come over; that would barely count as completing the task.

Go to op.gg, open the Korean server rank leaderboard, and Dgc's eyes immediately go to the top.

Then, Dgc was completely stunned.

He suspected there was something wrong with his eyes!

Rubbing his eyes, Dgc looked at the top of his phone screen again.

I'm sure I didn't read that wrong!
The first line of the Korean server's rank leaderboard is—

1. [TopKing], the highest rank in the game with 1556 LP.

Anyone who knows anything about [TopKing] will know that [TopKing] is [TopKing's] Korean server ID.

[Top Laner] Reached number one in the Korean server a few days ago, and he is still number one today.

This makes perfect sense!

What's unreasonable is the number following the ID.

Holy crap, 1556 points in the Korean Challenger rank? Is that even possible for a human?

Dgc glanced down at Cuzz, who was currently ranked second in the Korean server and still had over 1200 points.

[Top Laner] This Korean server number one player has actually left the second-ranked player in the Korean server by a full 300 points?

This is not like the beginning of the season when ranked games were first reset.

The distribution of scores in high-ranking Korean servers has now largely stabilized.

Under these circumstances, he actually reached over 1,500 points in the Korean server's Challenger rank, leading by a significant margin of 300 points.

My God, what kind of monster is this?

Dgc couldn't help but feel a surge of secret joy.

Kid, you're the one!

If we get this kid over here, there's a good chance that the problem won't exist in the future!
A village within the city of Guangzhou.

Inside the rental house.

Zhou Dian was a little annoyed; he hadn't played a game in two hours.

The queues at [TopKing] are too long these days.

After finally getting into the queue, the other side kills you instantly.

This has been Zhou Dian's usual routine in ranked matches these past few days since he reached the top rank in the Korean server.

Under these circumstances, it is truly remarkable that Zhou Dian was able to help [TopKing] reach 1556 points in the Korean server Challenger rank.

After experiencing it himself, Zhou Dian felt more and more that Bang was a real pervert.

Zhou Dian isn't the first to reach 1500 points in the Korean Challenger tier. The first to achieve this feat was SKT's current ADC player—Bang!

Bang became the first person in the Korean server to reach Challenger rank 1500 last year.

At the time, the Korea eSports Association even awarded Bang a special prize for this!

After reaching 1500 points in the Korean server's Challenger tier, Bang, like Zhou Dian now, did not stop his climb to the top.

In the end, Bang reached over 1600 points in the King rank before stopping his climb.

Because it's simply impossible to fight any higher!

However, even Bang, who has over 1,600 points in the King of Glory rankings, has not managed to leave the second-ranked player in the Korean server by a gap of 300 points like Zhou Dian has.

Because the second-ranked player in the Korean server at the time was Bang's smurf account, with over 1400 points in Challenger.

It's too difficult to start a game on my main account, so Bang started playing on his smurf account.

Does this mean I should also play on a smurf account like Bang?

But playing on a smurf account doesn't make any sense to me!
Bang's ranking up is purely a side effect of his daily ranked training.

Zhou Dian ranked higher in order to increase his market value.

It's about quality, not quantity!
Therefore, even if Zhou Dian plays ten accounts with 1500 points in the Korean server Challenger rank, it's no different from playing one account.

At this moment, Zhou Dian couldn't help but wonder if he had really asked for too much.

In today's LPL, apart from the top Korean players who have big contracts, the salaries of most domestic players are not very high.

Domestic players, despite their talent, still can't secure big contracts.

You need traffic!

In the past few days, as [TopKing]'s Korean server ranking has been rising higher and higher, forming a precipitous lead, some clubs that had previously approached him for the weekly rankings have contacted him again and offered him higher prices.

Some people have offered up to 200 per year, but they can't agree on the contract length.

The other party demanded a three-year contract, but Zhou Dian only wanted a one-year contract.

Perhaps it's time to lower our expectations!
Of course, salary requirements can be lowered, but Zhou Dian will definitely not budge on the years of service requirement.

The first contract is for only one year; I won't do it any longer!

Just then, Zhou Dian's cell phone rang.

The call came.

Zhou Dian pressed the answer button and put the phone to his ear.

"Hello, are you the current number one top laner in the Korean server, the 'Old Master' himself?"

"it's me."

"Um, I'm Chen Xu, the head coach of LGD. Are you interested in joining LGD?"

".have!"

Upon hearing that the person on the other end of the phone was from LGD, Zhou Dian felt that perhaps he didn't need to lower his standards.

Zhou Dian has also heard about LGD's current urgent need for a top laner.

Another thing is that LGD is partly influenced by people who are foolish and have too much money.

In 15 years, they were able to bring in the champion AD-imp with an annual salary of over eight figures.

In 16, they even brought in Marin, the FMVP top laner, with an annual salary of nearly eight figures.

Right now, many LPL players are only earning six-figure annual salaries.

Although imp helped LGD win an LPL championship, ultimately, both of these signings were failures.

Especially after Marin joined LGD, things ended up in a complete mess!
Marin was so exhausted that he fled back to LCK overnight.

Next, Zhou Dian and Dgc briefly discussed salary and benefits.

Upon hearing Zhou Dian's request, there was no significant emotional fluctuation on the other end of the phone.

Instead, he said, "Wait for me a moment, I'll give you an answer in a bit!"

Less than half an hour later, Dgc called again.

Zhou Dian pressed the answer button, and Dgc's voice came from the phone.

"Our boss has already given his approval!"

"Come and try out! If you pass the trial, your contract requirements won't be a problem!"

(End of this chapter)