What is a wandering mid laner?

"Why did you really add this little yellow duck?" Su Cheng asked with staring eyes.

"Let's keep it as a souvenir." Lin Ran unfolded the hot towel and moved his right wrist, "I'll change to another one next year."

"Heh," Su Cheng blushed and pretended to be disdainful, "You are so confident that S8 can win the championship?"

Lin Ran ignored her, and got up by himself to pour out the cooled hot water.

When I came back, the demonstration of the details of the champion skin was not over yet.

Jin Gong's Qinggangying skin W [Tactical Sweep] is to kick out a slow zone with a flame texture, and R [Hex Ultimatum] will display the YM icon in the center of the enchantment, surrounded by hexagons The horns also feature a flame symbol.

The skin of the little prince looks a bit like Lu Bu, but the tone is much darker, and brand new movements have been added when swinging the halberd.

The Xialuo skins of Jack and Liu Qingsong both have special black feather floating special effects when they cast their skills. With the non-stop love talk, they look like a couple.

And Lin Weixiang's VN skin can only be described in four words - lackluster.

This is probably the most underwhelming skin in the YM champion skin series.

Compared with the other heroes, Wei En is not suitable for making more complicated special effects. A black dragon symbolizing YM appears at the foot of R, and sparks are all over Q when he rolls...

The three rings and E [Devil's Judgment] just changed the color.

The final Ari, the special effects are quite luxurious, in addition to the deceitful orb turning into a deep black, E [charm and magic] actually directly throws the little yellow duck on the top of the head.

When casting R [Spirit Assault], because Ahri's movement speed is so fast, the little yellow duck will even fall on her furry tail.

In terms of details alone, Ahri is the most brilliant of this group of champion skins. Lin Ran feels that this skin can directly increase the sales of the entire set of champion skins. This year's skin share will definitely not be less.

In the action of returning to the city, Lin Weixiang's Wei En shook his earthy hand, Jin Gong started the familiar smashing of the keyboard, and Liu Qingsong, who is addicted to watching Korean groups, chose a dance.

He couldn't enjoy dancing alone, and he insisted on pulling Jack to do the same move back to the city, and the combination was so similar.

Ahri's return to town looks much cuter.

When she pressed B, she stood there and yawned after working day and night. The orb of deceit in her hand burst into dazzling light, forming a small projection in the air.

There were no empty seats in the final venue, Ahri and the prince stood together, welcoming the cheers from the audience.

The projection of the deceitful orb disappeared, Ahri looked around, but did not find the person he was looking for, and suddenly became listless, and the nine furry tails behind him spread out, wrapping Ahri like a round fan.

Then he slumped on the ground in a duck sitting posture, the little yellow duck above his head was as dejected as Ari.

Under the strong request of Suantou Wangba, he had a special effect of returning to the city linked with Lin Ran - when the prince returned to the city, he waved a halberd to force the enemy back, the tip of the halberd was still stained with blood, and he sat on the ground exhausted, He took out a reduced version of the Orb of Deceit from the armor, and the projected content played was also the moment when he and Ahri won the championship.

The screen faded to black, and the final epilogue appeared in the center of the screen—a tribute to YM's winning performance in the 2017 global finals.

"Tsk," Su Cheng commented sourly after watching the whole video, "What are you two doing?"

"When you went to the Riot headquarters, the two of you wouldn't have performed such an embarrassing return to the city on the spot, would you?"

Lin Ran quickly denied, "How is that possible? Xiao Wangba and I proposed to take a group photo of the two of us when we returned to the city, but the fist was rejected, and only such a proposal was proposed."

In the group chat of the YM competition training department, several team members have watched the promotional video of the champion's skin, and they are chatting hotly at this time.

Yuki Judai: [Dude, the special effects of this skin are mediocre, but brother Ran’s fox is cute, so the action of returning to the city is just for fun, right? 】

Lin Weixiang posted an emoji package of "Obviously I came first", obviously very dissatisfied with Jack and Liu Qingsong's Xialuo skin.

The honest man Jin Gong sent two red envelopes in the group. He felt that Qinggangying's skin was very suitable for him, and he didn't care about other people's thoughts-the West Babies didn't think about rushing sales when they chose Camille.

After all, everyone knows everything, and Qinggangying only has the source code and one skin.

Suantou Wangba was quite happy, bullying Lin Weixiang, the administrator of the water dispenser in the group, and stored a bunch of weird GIFs of big eyebrows in his mobile phone, which happened to come in handy.

At the same time, the discussions about the YM champion skin in major e-sports forums have also continued to surge.

[I'm going to blow up this fox skin! 】

[Although the clothes are so tight, they are much more beautiful than idol singers with bare legs]

[Why do I think this fox looks like Erika?Dark red hair + little yellow duck + witch costume?complete elements]

[This witch costume is made in China, it is different from Japan...but it doesn't stop me from scolding Jiangnan old thief]

[We also have to kill a wave of old Jiangnan thieves here, right? 】

[Won't the champion fur fox make a move?Brother Ran’s signature is really good, YM is the only one here]

It is worth mentioning that for this champion skin, Riot specially arranged for players to sign the version, and the whole process of signing their IDs was included in the return action, which is also a commemorative innovation.

Due to the rush of time, the players did not have time to practice more, so they submitted their signatures to the fist.

The sun was shining fiercely and everything was visible. As soon as the champion's skin came out, all audiences could see the difference.

Xiaotian's signature is the most standard, although it is not particularly brilliant, it is not ugly either. The joint signatures of Jin Gong and Liu Qingsong look quite good.

Lin Weixiang's signature is more complicated. It is not beautiful to sign the three letters LWX separately. He also chose continuous strokes.

But inexplicably, his signature is not as smooth as YM's top assistant, and it can't even catch up with the team's starter Eddie Jack——Although the Shiba Inu is strict, the letter arrangement of the signature is very compact, and the entire signature looks very tall and straight.

According to the statement owed to Jack, there is also a gap between the champion AD.

Lin Ran's signature is also round and mature. His R wraps the two letters a and n, and a small flame is drawn at the end, which looks pleasing to the eye.

"My signature, ouch... yes, handsome." Lin Ran was complacent.

"It's almost there." Su Cheng gave him a white look, and applied toner on her face, "Turn off the lights and go to sleep, you have to go back to the base tomorrow."

……

The physical examination report will take 12 days to come out, and the champion skin has not yet been launched on the official server, and the live broadcast event agreed with Vincent will have to wait until the end of the spring split.

Lin Ran finished his vacation and returned to the base to train with the players, first to study the opponents in the playoffs.

At this time, the war in the Spring Split was rekindled, and the first contest was between WE and RNG.

This season, the performance of the Red and White Legion is quite mediocre. The hair-dyed brother-in-law is in a state of collapse, Kandi is becoming more and more addicted to fighting, and the dark circles are as good as the pandas. Even the 957, which has always been elegant and easy-going, has ushered in a precipitous decline.

White Crescent was depressed when he entered the BP. He originally thought that he had found a pretty good job after leaving YM. With this group of players, he still hoped to fight for another year in the World Championship.

But he never expected that the strength of several players would degrade so quickly.

Age has become the biggest problem restricting WE2.0.

95725 years old, Kandi, ben and brother-in-law are all 23 years old, and Xiye, who has been in the WE club since child labor, is the youngest among them, also 21 years old.

The years are ruthless, leaving indelible marks on them who have fought in the alliance for many years.

Unlike DOTA next door, League of Legends has extremely strict age requirements, which makes LOL players almost have the youngest average age in the entire e-sports circle.

Response speed, comprehension ability, ability to adapt to the version... These burdens have caused unparalleled pressure on the veteran.

In the same version of the hero, a 17-year-old teenager dares to go to the game after practicing 20 sets, and can still play well with his super reflexes and operational skills; a 23-year-old veteran may not be able to achieve this effect after practicing 50 sets in one night.

While Riot's frequent version updates enhance confrontation, it also overdraws the careers of these veterans. Every time the version is updated, they have to adapt to new powerful heroes, new systems and tactics.

Even the well-known champions Marin and bengi, who are talked about in the e-sports circle, were not particularly old in their last championship year-Ma Datou won the championship at the age of 24 and S5, and Benji was 22 years old.

Since then, although they are still shining in the league, they have not won any world championships or even league championships. It has become a luxury until they enter the playoffs. Stupid even led VG to dive into the secondary league.

The characteristics of the game are on the one hand, and the competition system built on the competitive platform also excludes veterans.

A typical example, the League of Legends is currently one of the few e-sports events in the world that can establish a league system, and Dota is a standard cup game.

Let’s not talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the two competition systems. Just talking about the requirements for players, due to the long time span of the league and the change of versions, the stability requirements for players and teams are higher.

The cup competition only plays one version, the time is much shorter, and it has the attribute of elimination. Whoever can find and adapt to the version first will be the final winner. This competition system pursues the depth of version understanding.

It can be clearly seen that the league is more suitable for rookies, because the cost of trial and error is low, and the competition system is extremely long and there are a lot of opportunities for improvement and growth.

The cup competition is more suitable for veterans. They are very capable of studying a single version within the specified time, and they also crush newcomers in terms of game understanding.

LOL e-sports competitions implement the league in the competition area, and implement the cup competition system in the world competition, which can be regarded as the fusion of the two.

But the problem is that if you want to be able to play large-scale cup games such as the S World Championship and the MSI Mid-Season Championship, you must first stand out in the league in your own division.

This will naturally lead to the League of Legends professional teams paying more attention to cultivating young rookies.

Now the youth training of various professional teams does not even need 00-year-olds from 18, and the age limit is pushed down to 02 or even 03, just to fight for the future.

Although veterans have mature experience and more stable mentality and performance on the field, they are easily overwhelmed by version changes in the long league.

A veteran who was still at home in the previous version, once the version is updated and weakens his favorite heroes, he will immediately fall into a period of labor pains, and he may not recover from the setback.

But now, WE led by White Crescent is tortured by the age problem.

Although LOL has entered the cup mode since the playoffs, and everyone only plays version 8.6, it is reasonable to say that it is more beneficial for WE, a team with a relatively old age composition, but the mentality of the previous players has collapsed.

They couldn't understand why they were able to slip from the level of participating in the S7 World Championship to the edge of the playoffs in an instant.

The problem is that a few players can feel that either the coaching staff is holding back, or they are simply changing their ways.

WE players can only look for reasons from themselves, and cannot find reasons for throwing blame, which is very difficult for most people to accept.

And White Crescent is not a coach who is good at enlightening players' mentality. Although he is very good at playing a lot of bad cards to the upper-middle level, that's it.

It is simply impossible to go further with WE.

0:3, the red and white army WE was swept out of the game by the good brother RNG who also participated in the S7 World Championship.

Watching his team members being brutally beaten by RNG, in the backstage lounge, the white crescent moon sitting on the sofa helplessly supported his forehead.

He has to figure out a way to deal with it during the offseason, otherwise this WE2.0 team is likely to miss this year's World Championship.

On the second day of the playoffs, TOP faced BLG.

It is worth mentioning that BLG changed mid laners in the second half of this spring split.

Mole, nicknamed Little Northeast, has entered the professional arena. This new star has shown amazing talent in the second half of the regular season, and he can be called a rising star in the LPL.

But in front of Zhuo Ding, Xiao Dongbei's performance is quite average, and it can even be said to be poor.

ADC quality inspector Jin Jiao had no advantage against Old Dream and ppgod, and AJ, the big daddy of the top lane team, couldn't get an advantage from Snorbymon zoom with all his strength. .

"Congratulations to TOP! They defeated BLG 3:1 and successfully advanced to the top six in the Spring Split!"

Lin Ran is not surprised by this result, TOP is not weak this spring, but for Zhuo Ding and this team, the challenge is yet to come.

Three days later, TOP challenged RW.

RW is uncharacteristically, Hanyi no longer chooses the popular blue side, but focuses on the red side.

The whole BP concept is not complicated. The red team finally chooses the counter position for Doinb, so that he can get the hero he wants to suppress Zhuo Ding.

The team tactics are biased towards four packs of two.

Hanyi is copying the system he implemented in YM to RW.

On the road, Aguang is called Xiao Jingong. In addition to the smile of light, he is also good at resisting pressure. After all, he was honed in EDG back then.

The wild boy, who is only a tortoise's head away from Xiaotian, can be called a high imitation version of Putian.

Mid laner Doinb, who used to be an old dean, has developed his roaming ability quite well now.

In addition to poor hero pool, poor operation, poor roaming support ability, poor command ability in team battles... and Zoe, Doinb is already comparable to Lin Ran.

Bottom Asura + Prophet, the performance of this duo is also quite good. Although the Prophet does not have such a strong roaming ability and big chrysanthemum view, it can be regarded as quite satisfactory.

It can be said that what Zhuo Ding faced was completely another S6 version of YM.

"Brother Han, is this a YM remake?" Jack poured the residue of the raccoon's crispy noodles into his mouth, and lay down on the chair in an extremely domineering and cool posture.

This six-to-four BO5 will determine YM's opponent in the semi-finals. The training department attaches great importance to it. After several players finished the training match, Redmi projected the live broadcast of the event directly onto the curtain in the center of the training room. The entire training department of people are watching.

It has to be said that the game was quite stalemate. Until 25 minutes into the first game, the economic gap between the two sides was still only about 2K. Under the premise that each team had a small dragon, this could almost be said to be a balance of power.

But in the 28-minute big dragon team battle, the zoom demon came to the world, time + Zhongya + Landry's torment, the three-piece crow entered the field twice, completely destroying RW!

After the game, Aguang put on a pain mask, and his captain was suppressed from the beginning to the end of the game. If it weren't for the other players' advantage, RW might not have lasted for 28 minutes.

"Why are you playing the captain?" Shiba Inu shook his hind legs, "They don't really think they have the strength of Jin Gong, do they... right Sebago?"

This sentence was licked by Jin Gong comfortably. Jack looked at the smile on Jin Gong's face and knew that he had a supper and fried rice tonight.

Hanyi is also aware of this problem.

Not every top laner is called Ji Mugong. Playing as a captain, playing wild and stocking, can still cause damage in the mid-term.

He quickly changed his strategy and played the ancestral tree for Ah Guang.

"But in this way, RW's four guarantees and two guarantees will not be easy to implement." Gou Ba, who was watching the live broadcast of the game, had a lot of complaints about Han Yi's BP.

Hongmi crossed her legs and drank coffee, and nodded in agreement with her analyst's opinion in a serious manner.

"Why?" Xiaotian played the role of a curious baby at this time, "Because I chose a big tree, sadness will be released on the road, and will it drive TOP to tilt the entire tactical center of gravity downward?"

"This is one of the reasons," said Gouba. After a spring split, he has a pretty good relationship with the players now, and his personality is also lively when facing acquaintances. "There is another more important point."