LOL: What does it mean to torture players?

Chapter 216 Champion skin selection! A Guang's sudden departure! Meet Faker again!

When talking about the selection of champion skins, everyone was very excited.

Scout also said: "I choose Taliyah."

A Guang commented: "This is the aesthetic taste of normal people."

The factory manager rolled his eyes again.

Meiko thought about it and said, "For me, I want to choose Lulu."

A Guang continued: "Sure enough, I knew you would choose such a cute hero."

Meiko responded: "Don't just talk about others, what do you want to choose? Tell me."

Ah Guang held his chin up, as if thinking.

Suddenly, the factory manager asked: "Do substitutes also have skins?"

Ah Guang was anxious: "Hey, Mingkai, what do you mean? How can you be so disgusting!"

The factory manager smiled complacently.

A Guang didn't hesitate for a moment and said, "My skin will probably be that of Shen or Fiora."

"Ah?" Everyone looked over and was quite shocked.

A Guang looked innocent: "No way? These two heroes are top laners, and they are the representative heroes of top laners."

The factory manager asked back, "Brother, can you play these two heroes? Have you played them before? Just choose?"

Ah Guang muttered, "Do I have to play it before? I've played it in a random game!"

The factory manager twitched his lips and said, "Why didn't you say you played it when you were playing against the bots?"

A Guang said seriously: "I also played it when I was playing against the computer."

The factory director stopped talking. He felt that he was wasting his breath. Now A Guang was as shameless as Su Mo.

Abu gave a timely reminder: "You can only choose this hero if you have used it in the S game. I told you before, did you forget?"

Ah Guang suddenly realized: "Yes, yes, that's right, I remember now! No wonder it felt a little strange."

"Then I'll choose... a big tree. I'll choose a big tree!"

Meiko joked: "This is what suits you. Honestly, if a Shen skin has EDG and Mouse written next to it, wouldn't you think it's weird and inconsistent?"

A Guang nodded: "It seems a little bit."

At this time, Abu looked at Su Mo and asked, "Xiao Mo, what do you want to choose? Have you made up your mind?"

Su Mo thought about it and replied, "I think I'll choose Kaiying."

Abu nodded: "No problem, Kaiying, you have played it before, and it was in the finals."

A Guang complained: "Yesterday I saw a lot of people playing top lane Kaiying, it's just terrible, a trouble maker, very disgusting, they all learned it from you. But many of their records are negative..."

Abu looked at Zet: "Zet, what about you?"

Zet replied: "Big mouth."

Abu nodded, and then concluded: "Then my champion skins have been decided now. The top laner is Kaiying, the jungler is Rek'Sai, the mid laner is Taliyah, the ADC is Kog'Maw, the support is Lulu, and the substitute top laner is Maou."

"If you want to change it, tell me before the day after tomorrow, otherwise I will report it to Riot Games as the final word, and it will be too late to regret it then."

Everyone in EDG nodded.

An hour later, everyone was full, some even stuffed.

After resting for a while in the hotel, everyone went home.

Su Mo went back and started preparing his travel plans, planning the route, booking hotels, and buying air tickets.

As a result, I was told that I had to go to TX headquarters to attend an event three days later.

There was no choice but to change the plan a little. I would go to the south first, just as if it were a trip, and then go to the north after that.

Three days later, all EDG members came to TX headquarters together.

The manager of the TX League of Legends division personally entertained the EDG team and took them on a tour first.

I have to say, it is worthy of being called TX. The office environment is convenient and cannot be compared with that of ordinary small companies.

Compared with TX's office environment, EDG's training environment is nothing.

So Abu said on the spot that he would renovate the training base and give everyone a surprise before the start of the spring season.

After the tour, TX brought everyone to a room and asked them to sign the newly purchased peripherals, which would then be given to the winning audience members.

So everyone in EDG worked for the whole day. Su Mo also chose to work hard because these were distributed to the players. They were busy from morning to evening, and Su Mo and his team's hands were numb.

In the evening, the manager invited everyone to dinner and we had a delicious meal.

The next day, Su Mo headed north and started his journey.

It is not the winter vacation now, and office workers do not have holidays, nor is it a holiday. For Su Mo, it is quite comfortable. There is no traffic jam and he does not need to buy plane tickets in advance.

While traveling, Su Mo was also paying attention to the transfer situation of major clubs.

First, EDG officially announced that Zet had left EDG, which made Su Mo couldn't help but sigh.

The comments below are all mixed with blessings and expressions of pity.

"Is EDG's championship lineup dismantled just like that?"

"I hope Zet can find a good owner."

"That's for sure. He is the champion ADC after all."

"Isn't the champion ADC Mozi brother?"

#It was revealed online that EDG is in contact with several well-known ADCs.

EDG's ADC position is vacant, which makes other clubs feel a sense of crisis!

Especially those clubs with strong ADC, even RNG are very nervous.

Although there has always been a gap between RNG and EDG, it does not hinder the players' desire to pursue the championship. Before the issue of the championship, everything else is trivial.

Especially since EDG has Su Mo, whoever goes to EDG will increase the chances of winning the championship.

The most nervous person is Principal Wang, because they have a super rookie Jackeylove in their team. Many clubs are optimistic about him. He can achieve good results right after his debut and has performed very well and has great potential.

#Imp leaves LGD#
When this news came out, everyone thought that Imp was going to join EDG.

But in the end, LGD joined WE as a substitute.

#Karsa joins RNG.

This news caused quite a stir.

After all, Karsa is not from LPL, and no one thinks RNG will introduce foreign aid.

But suddenly I realized that it didn't seem like introducing foreign aid, and I had taken advantage of a loophole.

Not only that, RNG also promoted many ADCs from its second team and youth training as substitutes for UZI.

It seems like this is meant to put pressure on UZI.

You know, after the fact that RNG didn't know how to play Xia was exposed last year, UZI's reputation on the Internet has been somewhat problematic.

Everyone thinks that it is impossible for a first-rate ADC not to be able to play such a popular hero in this version. This is simply slacking off.

Can’t you learn more from Mozi, who practices all kinds of heroes and is great at whatever he plays?

RNG started to increase the intensity of UZI. Once there is a substitute, the players can no longer relax. It's human nature.

Then, another important news came out.

#Top Sports invests in LPL, acquires DAN and changes its name to TOP. #
TOP inherited part of DAN's lineup and added some new members.

Then, something else happened that Su Mo didn't expect.

#Mouse officially announced his departure
When Su Mo saw the news for the first time, he thought he had seen it wrong.

A Guang never mentioned this matter before.

But thinking about it carefully, when I talked with the boss that day, when A Guang came back, he didn't seem unhappy but he didn't show any sadness. It was obvious that there were some things that they couldn't agree on and they needed to wait and see.

Unlike Zet who decided not to renew the contract on the spot, Guang probably wants to think about it again.

Now I probably found a better place, so I made the choice.

It is understandable that A Guang is not the most core member of EDG, and the treatment given to him by the boss may not be very good.

Moreover, since A Guang won a championship and became famous, he would definitely want to significantly increase his salary, which would create a contradiction between the two.

As for why other teams want to hire A Guang at a high price, their mentality may be different. Either the lineup requires a top laner like this, or they are attracted by his title as a champion top laner and the popularity he can bring.

All in all, this kind of thing is quite normal if you think about it carefully.

Soon, Su Mo received a message from A Guang: "Brother Mozi, where are you?"

Su Mo responded: "I'm traveling in Northeast China."

"I'm here too, what a coincidence."

Su Mo didn't know if it was a coincidence, because he had told A Guang before that he wanted to come here for a trip.

"Can we meet, Brother Mozi?"

If it were before, Su Mo would have definitely refused, he wanted to play alone, but now, he chose to make an appointment with A Guang for a time and place, just three days later.

The two of them were actually quite far apart, so it would take some time to get there, and there was no rush.

Three days later, Su Mo met A Guang at the agreed place on Harbin Central Street. A Guang was wrapped up like a rice dumpling.

"Damn, it's really cold here. Even peeing outside can freeze instantly." When A Guang saw Su Mo, he complained crazily.

Su Mo responded: "Have you tried it?"

A Guang didn't answer, but just chuckled.

"By the way, Brother Mozi, you should know that I have left the team." A Guang said.

"I see. Congratulations on escaping from the sea of ​​suffering." Su Mo joked.

"What the hell, if EDG is a sea of ​​suffering, then the other teams must be in purgatory?" A Guang joked.

"Have you already found a new home?"

"Ah."

"Which team?"

"RW."

"Oh, I saw it. That's the team Doinb joined, right?" Su Mo remembered that he had seen it on the news.

"Yes, that's it, Brother Mozi, let's find a place to eat and talk while we eat."

So the two of them found a small, inconspicuous barbecue restaurant, which was much warmer inside.

The two of them sat down and ordered skewers.

Su Mo asked: "Who else is in RW?"

A Guang replied: "As far as I know, of course it has not been completely confirmed. Some people have agreed but have not signed the contract yet. Apart from me and Doinb, the jungler seems to be Flawless, the former jungler of IM."

"Then ADC, Sima Laozei, formerly from OMG."

Su Mo nodded: "Yeah."

A Guang continued: "The support was Killua, I think it was this ID, I can't remember, it was from YM."

Su Mo responded: "The lineup is quite luxurious, it seems that you are going to do something big."

Ah Guang rubbed his hands together: "Hehe, although I feel it's okay, it can't be compared with EDG. EDG has you and Changzi, as well as Scout, Meiko, and all-stars."

Su Mo smiled, without commenting, and said:
"In short, I wish you RW good results in the spring season."

Ah Guang said, "Brother Mozi, next time we meet on the field, we will be rivals."

Su Mo teased: "So you want to bribe me in advance and pay me to keep you safe?"

Ah Guang smiled: "That's definitely not the case. I will find a way to defeat you! If I can't defeat you, just ignore what I said."

"Hahahaha..." Su Mo couldn't help laughing.

A Guang is also very humorous now.

Su Mo can feel that A Guang is now much more confident than before, worthy of being the champion top laner.

This reminded Su Mo of the story of Faker and Easyhoon.

All I can say is that a real man stands between heaven and earth, how can he be depressed and inferior to others for long? Many people have this idea.

After the meal, A Guang paid the bill and the two went their separate ways.

Su Mo continued with his travel plans, while transfers among major clubs were still ongoing.

In addition to LPL, LCK has also undergone drastic changes.

LZ changed its name to KZ, and a new substitute top laner Rescal arrived.

SKT, Huni, and Peanut announced their departures, and new players joined the top, mid, and jungle positions. It seems that Faker will not have an easy time in the new season.

Once there are substitutes, the players' bargaining power will decrease and the club will take the initiative.

SSG was renamed GEN, and Ambition announced his retirement. Although he did not win the championship, he still chose to get married and have children.

The mid laner Crown chose to accept a high-paying contract in the North American division and leave LCK.

There is also a little-known piece of news.

#GRF enters LCK through the promotion and relegation match.

In short, both LPL and LCK are undergoing changes, with new blood joining, new teams being formed, and new forces rising. The coming year will be bloody again.

Then, the All-Star Game voting began.

It will be held in early December. At the same time, foreign players are not eligible to participate, only local players.

When Su Mo was traveling, he would take out his mobile phone to check these developments when he had nothing to do at night.

After several days of voting, the situation has basically stabilized. Unless anyone commits fraud in the future, there will not be any major changes.

Su Mo was limited to the top lane position.

There's no other way. We can't let him shoot once in every position.

If two contestants were ranked first, it would be very embarrassing for the other contestants.

Now Su Mo is firmly in first place in the top lane position with 91.2% of the votes, which is a bit exaggerated.

You should know that after Faker won three championships in S6, his All-Star vote rate did not exceed 90%.

Su Mo guessed that it might have something to do with the fact that he took the lead in speaking out during Champions Night, which led to the fact that domestic players now generally have a good impression of him.

In the jungle position, Zzitai is undisputedly ranked first, and his current vote share is 76.3%.

The second place, Mala Xiangguo, is at 19.2%, a gap that cannot be caught up no matter what.

Originally the gap between the two would not be so huge, and the value of the S-League championship that brings glory to the country is revealed.

Then comes the mid lane position. Since Scout cannot participate, the competition between Xiye and Xiaohu is very fierce.

Xiye is currently leading by one percentage point. If there are no other interference factors, Xiye should get the spot in the end.

In the ADC position, UZI is in the lead with 43.6% of the votes, which is much worse than Su Mo expected. The reason is probably that EDG's championship has greatly impacted the influence of UZI and other clubs.

Zet cannot participate, but after he wins the championship, many people who like UZI will choose to support other ADCs, which is inevitable.

In the support position, Meiko is in the lead with 73.4%, which is almost the same dominance as Zhazivar.

But now the problem comes, a team can only have two players at most.

Now that EDG has three players in first place, one of them must be replaced by a player from another team.

In the EDG group, Su Mo spoke:

"I won't go to the All-Star Game. I'm traveling, working in factories and fields. You guys go."

There was a response soon.

Clealove7: "You're not going? Stop it. Do you believe that players will rebel if you don't go?"

Meiko: "Exactly. If you don't go, how can Mingkai and I go? If someone starts to accuse us of behind-the-scenes manipulation, we'll be finished. You two go. I'm not going. And you're the mainstay. How can you be absent at a time like this? The club won't agree to your not going."

Su Mo thought about it and it made some sense, frowning slightly.

When people gain something, they always lose something, such as freedom.

Fortunately, I didn't lose much.

After everyone discussed in the group chat, it was decided that Meiko would not go, and Su Mo and the factory director would go.

Meiko chose to contact the authorities and expressed her abstention.

So the auxiliary position was taken by Xiao Ming, who came in second.

In this way, the LPL All-Star Game representative team is determined:

Top laner Mo, jungler Clearlove7, mid laner Xiye, ADCUZI, support Ming.

EDG, WE and RNG, three teams to share.

The coach is WE's coach, Hongmi, so each of the three teams has two places, which is quite balanced.

After the places were decided, Redmi formed a group and invited everyone in, and named it: 2017 All-Star LPL.

Su Mo didn't say anything when he joined the group, but the group soon became lively.

RNG, Ming: "It is a great honor to work with you all, and it is a pleasure to work with you all."

WE, Xiye: "There are so many big names, which one should I hug... It's so hard to choose."

WE, Xiye: "Brother Chang, gank the mid lane more. Faker is still in the mid lane on the LCK side. I can't beat him."

EDG, Clearlove7: "Didn't you kill him solo before? You are too modest."

RNG, UZI: "MingKai, come to the bottom lane, I will lead you to victory."

After UZI and Zz1tai spoke the truth at the same time, the atmosphere suddenly changed.

EDG, Clearlove7: "You lead me to victory and you want me to help you in the bottom lane? Who leads who wins?"

RNG, UZI: "Isn't the jungler the one who supports his father? Otherwise, you want to go to heaven? Do you think you are Brother Mozi?"

The two began to slander each other crazily, and everyone got used to it.

EDG, Mo: "You two should form a separate group to curse each other."

After Su Mo appeared, everything in the group returned to normal.

WE, Xiye: "Brother Mozi, please guide me. I'm a new player and don't know much about this game."

RNG, Ming: "Where is Brother Mozi being cool?"

Hongmi: "Hello everyone, I am honored to be selected as the coach of the All-Star Game. This time the game is for entertainment purposes, and since you are all on vacation now, you probably don't want to spend time training. So we can just take some time to play together online and get familiar with each other."

Hongmi: "Then everyone can think of some weird routines and heroes during this period, and then use them for entertainment to improve the show effect."

When this was mentioned, Su Mo suddenly felt that I had the advantage.

He has already reached the master level in this regard, and has tried all kinds of weird routines in various fields.

Sure enough, other people noticed the problem.

WE, Xiye: "@EDG, Mo, Master, I'm counting on you, please teach me what weird strategies I can play in the mid lane."

RNG, Ming: "#EDG, Mo, Mozi, I've also watched your support game, you're awesome, please teach me how to play support."

RNG, UZI: "Brother Mozi, I count as one too."

The factory manager and Meiko are friends with Su Mo, so they chose to send a message to Su Mo directly and ask Su Mo for help.

Su Mo's reply was simple: "I've played all the games before, just pick one and watch it, everything is playable."

A few days passed quickly and Su Mo returned to Shanghai. He was really tired from playing and didn't want to go out for the time being. Besides, the All-Star Game was about to begin.

At noon, Su Mo arrived at the airport at the agreed time.

As soon as I arrived at the airport, I saw a large group of people gathered on the side of the road, and I had no idea what they were doing.

"Boss, I'm your fan!"

"Director, please sign for me."

"..."

When Su Mo heard someone calling, he realized it was the factory director.

He walked over to say hello and quickly caused a sensation:

"Brother Mozi is here! Brother Mozi is over here!"

"Brother Mozi, I'm your fan..."

Fans came up to ask for photos and autographs, and Su Mo had to satisfy them one by one.

After dealing with the fans, Su Mo noticed that Factory Manager, Hongmi, Xiye, UZI and Xiao Ming were all there. The person who was surrounded just now was not just one person, but a group of them.

Su Mo walked forward and greeted him.

Xiao Ming exclaimed: "You are really too popular, Brother Mozi. No one cares about us when you come."

Su Mo responded: "Why do I feel that this is not a good thing."

UZI glanced at Su Mo and said, "It's not a good thing... How about you give me all your fans and popularity, and I'll take care of it."

Su Mo smiled: "I want to, but I can't do it. There's nothing I can do."

Hongmi greeted, "It's almost time, let's go in first."

So everyone chose to go in and wait for the flight first.

This time the flight will take more than twenty hours, a very long journey.

After a whole day of flying, the EDG team finally arrived at their destination.

After getting off the plane, we went to the hotel together to check in.

Soon, everyone was stunned by the tough customs of the people here.

There are groups of security personnel outside this hotel, holding various automatic weapons!

If this happened in China, this level of security would generally only be seen in very sensitive places.

This is just a hotel.

After entering the hotel, Abu whispered: "In order to successfully host the All-Star Game, the authorities here have invested a lot of effort."

"Outrageous." This was the thought in the minds of everyone on the LPL All-Star team.

Arriving at the front desk, everyone began to go through the formalities.

Su Mo took the opportunity to look left and right.

Just then, she suddenly saw a familiar figure.

Faker!

In addition to Faker, there are Peanut, Ruler and others. This is the lineup for the LCK All-Star Game.

However, Su Mo felt that Faker and Xiaohuasheng were not so close anymore.

During S7 and MSI, Xiaohuasheng was like Faker's follower.

But now, Peanut is keeping a little distance from Faker.

Rumor has it that Peanut has decided to leave SKT, which makes sense.

Five members of the LCK All-Star team walked past Su Mo. They also noticed Su Mo, nodded, and left.

"Leaving now?" Su Mo originally wanted to say hello and have a few words with the other party, but the other party didn't give him any chance, so he had to give up.

"Take the room card and let's go upstairs." Hongmi said suddenly.

Su Mo took a room card and walked to the elevator with his teammates, got on the elevator, went upstairs, found his room, and then opened the door with the room card.

The decoration of this room is pretty good, and it has all the necessary things. Su Mo packed his luggage and then lay down directly on the bed. He felt a little tired, so he took a nap first.

It was already afternoon when he woke up again. Su Mo picked up his phone and took a look. It was six o'clock, time for dinner. He woke up because he was hungry.

There is news in the 2017 All-Star LPL group.

Hongmi: "Are you all awake? Let's go eat together."

EDG, Clearlove: “Probably still sleeping.”

Hongmi: "We'll leave in half an hour."

When Su Mo saw that the time was almost up, he got up and left the room.

Outside the corridor, other people came out one after another.

Let’s go out and find a place to eat.

Hongmi greeted, "This time you come here as a tourist. Apart from the time for the game, you can go out and play. However, you must travel with a companion. It's better for us to travel together and bring a translator. This way it will be safer."

Everyone ate something, and then went to the supermarket to buy some daily necessities. When they came back in the evening, they had nothing to do. Su Mo took out his mobile phone and took a look, and found that there was a new message.

Rita: "Brother Mozi, are you here? I'm here at the All-Star Game too!"

This was something Su Mo didn't expect, Rita also came.

But that’s true, if someone is needed to interview the players or something, LPL will definitely send someone over.

Su Mo replied: "I arrived at noon."

Rita: "Brother Mozi, do you want to go out for a midnight snack together and take a look at the night view here?"

Su Mo: "Forget about the midnight snack. It's different here than back home. Try not to go out at night, okay?"

Rita: "Rub your hands together (expression), I know~ Hehehe (expression)"

(End of this chapter)