What is a wandering mid laner?

Fist gave Bang the position of No.4.

Due to the defeat in last year's global finals and this year's mid-season, Bang didn't get enough honors, and he still maintained high-intensity training without thinking about meditation, and his performance in this year's summer split was extremely impressive.

LCK English stream commentator PapaSmithy commented: Although his operation has declined slightly compared to last year, he is still one of the strongest ADC players in the world. Bang meets all our imagination and requirements for ADCs. He is the template for ADCs.

Now there are still three people who did not appear on this list. Su Cheng knew that the top 3 were probably occupied by the three of them, but the ranking would change.

Although she had no direct relationship with her, Su Cheng was still very worried.

Her slender pale fingers slowly swipe the screen of the phone, and she sees No.3.

LZ.Khan, a boy who looks quite happy, grinning his teeth and making a V-shape towards the camera. The first impression he gives is that he is a tough guy. It is estimated that the effect of the show will be very good if he does a live broadcast.

The official LCS commentator Jatt gave his own comments, which were concise and clear: He was undoubtedly the number one top laner in the global finals, his Jayce and single belt ability are enough to make SKT terrified!

When Su Cheng saw Khan appearing in No.3's position, she stopped breathing for a moment, and her palms were sweating and her fingers trembled slightly.

The girl laughed at herself, it's just a ranking list, it won't determine any actual awards, why are you as nervous as looking at the results of the college entrance examination?

Su Cheng calmed down, moved her fingers calmly, and saw No.2 on the official list.

SKT. Faker

Two years ago I thought Faker was the best professional League of Legends player on the planet, but now I have to add a 'one', of course, this does not affect his frightening strength - EU.LEC commentary Deficio

Su Cheng was satisfied, and the stone in her heart fell to the ground. She quickly flipped down the page and saw No.1 on the list.

YM.Ran

The photo shows Lin Ran holding up the mid-season championship trophy. The boy's profile is exceptionally handsome under the spotlight, and there seems to be a real radiance in his eyes, which seems to be quietly blooming after his dream has come true.

Su Cheng looked at Lin Ran who was kissing the trophy on the screen of the mobile phone, and gently caressed the boy's eyes with her fingers, and her own eyes seemed to be stained with sporadic light.

She didn't know who had captured the picture of Lin Ran holding the cup, so she could only silently type 666 and press and hold the picture to save it into her phone.

Below the photo of Lin Ran is the comment given by the recommender.

"If Faker represents the past, then Ran represents the present and the future. He added 'one of' to Faker's title of 'the best professional player in the league';

No one knows where the limit of YM's mainstay is. Last year's ingenious banner of command destroyed the SKT dynasty. This year, he doesn't seem to need "black technology". Judging from the mid-season, YM led by him is the biggest favorite to win the championship this year. I don't even want to use the euphemistic title of 'one'. "—Papa Smithy

Good milk, big brother.

Su Cheng grumbled in his heart, raised his eyes and saw that Lin Ran had already been lined up with the other nine players, and the screen stayed on the BP interface, but he was still holding in his hand the research on the match data that he had sorted out during the past two days in Shanghai.

Samsung's game video in the play-in competition has been downloaded, Su Cheng put away other thoughts, put on the earphones and prepare to work seriously.

……

"Hi brothers, I am your old friend Xiaopi." In a live broadcast room on the Dousha platform, a male voice greeted the audience who had just entered the live broadcast room.

The male voice ignored the giggling barrage, and continued on his own, "Today our OB arrived at a star..."

"The Koga Ninja, who knows how to use water cannons, is a member of the Pokémon family at the top of the canyon. It is said that all of them are YM players." Pizza, the anchor in charge of OB, said this proudly, "Now I am also the only player in the entire network A YM member OB, right?"

[666, how did you do it? 】

[Didn't it mean that people like YM don't add other people's friends?Can this also be OB? 】

【Strong Pizza! 】

The barrage was overjoyed, since Lin Ran explained the reasons for the intensive commercial shooting on the live broadcast on the evening of September 9, the entire YM team disappeared without a trace.

If it wasn't for the fact that the official Weibo would post pictures of players training every day, the fans would have thought that this group of people had completely disappeared.

Pizza snorted twice, "It's all thanks to the anchor studio. There are many high-score thugs and anchors in it. As long as they are in the Pokémon family, they will notify me, and then I will OB them."

"Xiao Phi is no exaggeration to say that the studio is full of capable people. If you are interested, you can add WeChat in the upper left corner. If you are usually short of three rounds or two rounds in the promotion match, you will not be able to make it. You can call pizza on WeChat..."

A series of broadcasts, the male voice is like a hypnotic devil whispering, very much like the video blogger JY back then.

"In this round, 'Koga Ninja who knows how to use water cannon' uses the mid laner Syndra. I checked his record, and he is all mid laners. If there is no accident, it should be Brother Ran. Everyone has good luck in this round. .”

Pizza locked his perspective on Syndra, and waited for the transition of the troop line. He continued, "Ran's super account has 43 wins and 15 losses, with a winning rate of 74%. The rank has reached the strongest king with 550 points, which is considered S7 Those with the highest scores among the contestants."

Due to the delay in the OB's perspective in the informal match, Lin Ran had already completed a single kill at this time.

Now he is not sure whether it is hot or the opponent is too good. The mid laners on the top of the canyon can't bear the pressure he puts on the line. Unless they use Grasshopper Galio, it is difficult for them to survive in his hands. Level 6.

After half a month of intensive training day and night, coupled with constant internal and external pressure, Lin Ran is now full of suffocation and has nowhere to vent. He has never been so eager for the arrival of a formal competition.

Going back to the city to buy the killing ring, and continued to suppress it crazily when going online, and moved so arrogantly that he almost got two big moles written on his cheeks.

This kind of extreme oppressive confrontation is a pure feature of the national server, and the unique brother Xerath on the opposite side is now so suppressed by him that he can't breathe.

However, Xerath is also considered smart. If he can't win, he will hang on. After he was killed last time, he bought a killing ring, and he is going to upgrade to level 6 and use a long-range big move to fire and mix ring layers.

The hero Xerath has one of the longest shooting ranges in the entire league. If Lin Ran stays online all the time, it will just let the opponent waste mana and miss some last hits.

This was obviously not very profitable, so Lin Ran quickly changed his mind, manipulated Syndra to roam around, and used W [Drive Mind Power] to catch wild monsters and disgust the opponent's jungler.

In 10 minutes, the opponent's 0/4/0 level 5 blind monk's psychological defense was completely defeated, and he quit the game resolutely and went to self-isolation. There was no need to fight 4v5 in such a disadvantaged situation. Lin Ran followed the opponent's order Ideas and teammates pushed and demolished the base all the way.

The dull +36 points, as the base crystal shattered all over the place, the game sound in the headset completely disappeared, and the previously blocked external sound came faintly.

The clattering sound of the keyboard, the clicking sound of the mouse, and several sips that Jin Gong couldn't suppress rushed into Lin Ran's ears.

I don't know if the loss of control of the big Russian brother and the mouse king has also affected him recently. Lin Ran felt a sense of irritability inexplicably, and the evil fire kept rolling in his heart.

This is a rare thing in his career, but Lin Ran also knows that he is not a saint, and it is impossible to be in a calm state of mind all the time.

He tried his best to suppress this emotion and didn't want to affect his teammates, so he simply quit the game client and planned to watch the meeting video and go to sleep early.

The shoulder was pinched twice suddenly, Lin Ran turned his head and looked over.

"Come out and talk?" Su Cheng asked, looking at the gloom on her boyfriend's brows that could not dissipate.

The two left the closed training room and went straight to the end of the corridor.

"I heard from Guo Hao that you feel a lot of pressure recently?" Su Cheng opened the window a crack, and the warm evening wind of early autumn in Wuhan blew on her and Lin Ran's faces.

"It's true that the pressure is not small," Lin Ran admitted frankly, "Maybe I think too much..."

"You really think too much." Su Cheng looked straight into her boyfriend's eyes and found that Lin Ran's eyes that were shining brightly when he picked up the mid-season trophy were now dimmed. Whether it’s an interview or a meeting, you always talk about ‘see you in the bird’s nest’.”

"Setting a goal is a good thing, but it won't work for you," Su Cheng said seriously, "Your goal is too long-term. The semi-finals are at the end of October. Are you going to run for another month with the goal of entering the Bird's Nest?"

She moved out of her field of study, "Do you remember that the teacher asked us to memorize composition materials in Chinese class in high school?"

"Universal material like Sima Qian? The swan song of the historian, the Lisao without rhyme?" Lin Ran was awakened from the long-lost memory, and Zhangkou came.

He, who had difficulty in composition, could only rely on these materials to survive under the nightmarish composition topics in Jiangsu.

"That's what I'm talking about, but I'm not talking about him," Su Cheng continued, "but a marathon runner named Yamada Motoichi, who was originally unknown and won the Tokyo International Marathon Invitational in 1984 champion."

Lin Ran tried hard to recall in his mind, "The one who divided the marathon into sections?"

"The memory is good," Su Cheng patted Lin Ran's forearm falsely and praised, "He divides a marathon into countless small sections, and the end of each section is a small goal."

For no reason, Lin Ran thought of the chairman of Wanda's stalk about earning a small goal first.

"He can see the end point and hope in every section, and he naturally has the momentum and motivation. It is much easier to run down than to forcefully fight for more than 40 kilometers."

Su Cheng made a long speech in one breath, "Marathon and e-sports are very different, but I think this principle is universal. You disassemble the big goals of entering the Bird's Nest one by one. For example, qualifying for the group stage is the first one. Small goals, entering the semi-finals is the second small goal, entering the final is the third small goal..."

Lin Ran pondered for two seconds, trying to empty his mind, thinking about a few small goals that had been broken down, he really felt his back suddenly loosen, "So for me now...to reach the top four is considered a success?"

"..." Su Cheng didn't say a word, she took out a box of cooling oil from her pocket and stuffed it into Lin Ran's palm, "After taking a bath tonight, apply the cooling oil to your temples, get a good night's sleep, and if you still feel stressed tomorrow morning , go to a counselor, I'm not a professional."

"Just figure it out..." Lin Ran stuffed the cool oil into his pocket, took two deep breaths and then laughed, "Wake up tomorrow morning for hot dry noodles?"

"Let's go," Su Cheng nodded and agreed, shaking Lin Ran's arm and speaking cheerfully, "I checked a few hot dry noodle shops before, but I don't know if they are good or not. Some people say that hot dry noodles are just like Tianjin. Pancakes are like fruit, everyone sees them."

……

On October 10th, it began to rain lightly in Wuhan in the early morning, and the fresh air was filled with sadness, as if seeing someone off.

The 8 teams that failed to break into the group stage had already left Wuhan respectively. When they encountered a wealthy boss, they would stay in the hotel for two or three days for the players, allowing them to visit the scenic spots in Wuhan.

However, most of the teams flew back to China the day after they were eliminated. This short-lived trip to the global finals is likely to be the only chance in their careers.

But this didn't spoil Lin Ran's good mood.

Two days ago, he went to chat with a psychological counselor for an afternoon, let go of the pressure and moved forward lightly, and the psychological pressure was immediately emptied.

Sure enough, there are specialties in the art industry, and the emotional channeling ability of professionals is much better than that of Su Cheng.

Lin Ran got up early in the morning, played two qualifying matches full of energy, and his score surpassed the king's by 800 points. It was noon after the warm-up was completed.

In order to maintain their responsiveness, the team members did not eat lunch in a serious manner. They just ate some biscuits to fill their stomachs and set off for the Wuhan Sports Center 5 kilometers away.

Makeup, explain tactics, film pre-match interviews...

Everything is in order. Among the seven members of YM, except for the brainless, unhappy and prophet, the rest are participating in the World Championship for the second time. This is not Heilan House. Every time they visit, they discover something new. Everyone is very calm.

After receiving the waiting instructions from the staff, Lin Ran led the team members to leave the waiting room calmly.

Today is the opening day of the main competition of the global finals. 16 participating teams gathered together to block the backstage.

The familiar contestants greeted each other and joked badly until the host Ren Dong stepped onto the stage.

"Good afternoon, summoners at the scene and in front of the screen!" He was full of enthusiasm, "After the fierce fight in the finalists, starting today, the group stage of the global finals will officially kick off!"

The Wuhan Sports Center was overcrowded, everyone was waving the cheering sticks and making noise, and the eager cheers of the audience came to the players of the 16 teams through the curtain wall!

"Let's invite the team to come on stage!"

"First of all, welcome to the 2016 Global Finals champion YM team to return the summoner trophy!"

Ren Dong's sonorous voice came, Lin Ran and Jin Gong, two tall contestants lifted up the heavy summoner trophy, and led other teammates through the passage to the stage!

What greeted them ahead was deafening applause and cheers!

Their journey to the World Championship starts now!

Chapter 331 : Opening Battle, Wishful Revenge!

The more Lin Ran walked forward, the louder and louder the cheers from the auditorium in front became. The combined noisy sound was transmitted to the walls of the gymnasium and reflected back, blending with the sound waves that came later, piercing his ears. Stuffed to the brim!

The audience at the scene held up banners and support items with [YM#WIN] to welcome them!

The seven team members and the coach Bai Yueya surrounded the high platform in the center of the stage, staring at the huge trophy in the hands of Lin Ran and Jin Gong.

Except for Lin Ran, Xibaren, Xiao Guan and Jack, the other four were seeing the appearance of the Summoner Trophy for the first time, so it was inevitable that they felt novelty.

Thinking of this, Lin Ran still has some resentment.

After winning the championship last year, Riot took back the authentic product—that is, the summoner trophy that he and Jin Gong are carrying now to the headquarters. If YM wanted the trophy, he had to spend $25000 to buy a replica model that was a quarter of the size of the original cup.

Guo Hao remitted the money after he was sponsored by BMW at the end of last year. As a result, Fist took the money and did nothing. One year later, there was no sign of the summoner trophy. The trophy exhibition in the YM base can only be opened from Su Cheng borrowed Lin Ran's FMVP trophy and put it on as a pretense.

Although the gold content is high, the volume is still too small, the difference between the visual impact and the Summoner Trophy is not 01:30.

Looking at Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong's staring and staring eyes next to them, the idiot couldn't help it: "Look at your worthless looks. Brother Ran was right before, our goal is the Bird's Nest!"

"Don't, don't...let's talk about reaching the quarterfinals," Lin Ran became very conservative, "Let's try not to be old godfathers, and first catch up with EDG's best record in history."

"Come on, YM!" The man with a strong physique yelled in full spirit.

With the big brother in the lead, the audience let go of their voices again after a short pause, and the closed gymnasium was instantly filled with the sound of cheering!

This is the charm of home games!

The voices from the audience filled the ears of the YM players, and now they couldn't hear what the other party was saying without sound-proof headphones.

Lin Ran and Jin Gong placed the summoner trophy on the high platform after the gesture instructions given by the Riot staff in the audience.

The spotlight above the stage suddenly turned on, shining on the silver summoner trophy, shining instantly!

"Let us once again give the applause to the YM team!"

Ren Dong, who had a microphone, could not suppress the scorching atmosphere of the scene with the help of amplifying equipment. Lin Ran and his teammates bowed and retreated to the back amidst thunderous applause from the audience.

"Next, let us welcome the two-time global finals champion, SKT team!"

As the most popular overseas team in China, SKT also received warm cheers from the audience!

Lee Sang Hyuk led several other team members onto the stage. When passing the Summoner Trophy, he made no secret of his inner ambition, like a lion who wants to take the prey as his own.

When he raised his head slightly, he met Lin Ran's eyes, and the eyes split instantly. Lee Sang Hyuk turned his head and waved his hands to greet the audience.

If SKT only wanted to snatch the Summoner Trophy, then Samsung came to avenge it. When it came to the stage, from the coach Edgar to the players, all their eyes were on YM.

After a while, they will meet their enemies in the opening game!

But this is just their wishful thinking, everyone in YM didn't look at Samsung people at all, in Lin Ran's view, Samsung was just the loser that he casually swept in last year's quarter-finals.