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"Not only are these two teams strong in the LCK division this year, there are two teams that are a bit outrageous according to the training matches we had scheduled before. One is SB and the other is DWG. These two teams from the secondary league are unprecedented. Entering the forefront of LCK.”

Liu Qingsong leaned on the chair in a very lazy posture, and then said: "On the contrary, the mainstream strong teams in the LCK this year are relatively low in the rankings. Teams like GEN and KT are not visible at all."

"It's very confusing."

"Fortunately, we have gradually adapted to this version of play. I feel that in the next game we have to try our best to win the opponent with a score of 2-0. Otherwise, it feels a bit dangerous in terms of small points. Let's get at least nine first. Win, right? With the guarantee of winning nine major games, we will have enough space to try and make mistakes."

Xiang Guo made his proposal.

In the past few games, the Thorn Birds lost at least half of the games because of the drill lineup.

This has also led to comments criticizing the strength of Thorn Birds appearing on the Internet.

Some people spoke up for the Thorn Birds, saying that the Thorn Birds were most likely used to practice the lineup, which would attract a lot of ridicule.

This has always been the case at the level of public opinion in the e-sports circle.

After all, someone did "control points" before this, and then the team was eliminated after controlling it.

According to the comments of these netizens, the drill lineup is of course practiced in the training match. Doesn’t it deserve to lose in the main match?

But in fact, many times in training matches, nothing can be tried out at all, because there is always a lack of seriousness between the two parties.

And usually when a team conducts lineup drills, the lineup they use is actually used against another team. Whether it has any effect can only be known after the two teams compete on the field.

The time for the Thorn Birds was too short.

From the establishment of the team to now, it has taken about three months.

In three months, even if the entire Thorn Birds team can complete their daily training schedule, the opportunities for practice are actually limited.

In fact, Zuo Wu once made a suggestion, which is to be like the LGD team.

The LGD team is very typical in the LPL.

They will most likely choose to be bad in the spring split, regardless of the results of the spring split, and then try to improve the team's strength as much as possible during the transfer period from the spring split to the summer split, so as to take a gamble in the summer split.

If the bet can win a spot in the World Championship, LGD will undoubtedly make a lot of money. If the bet fails, it doesn't matter. As an old club, LGD's operation level is super high among many clubs.

Many clubs with similar results to LGD have disappeared in the blink of an eye, and their attention in the LPL will become less and less as time goes by. But LGD is different. No matter which season LGD is in, no matter how good the results are, Damn, they always attract enough attention.

Because they can be upset every season.

This method of concentrating all the strength, keeping a low profile, and then catching a strong team by surprise can be regarded as a way of operating a club.

Of course, in Zuo Wu's view, his own club is much stronger than LGD in terms of foundation and potential.

Therefore, Zuo Wu also made a suggestion, that is, not to pursue the results of the Spring Split too much. In the Spring Split, just use an apprentice's heart to improve yourself as much as possible. If their team can be maintained until the Summer Split, they will definitely be able to Qualitative changes come from long-term training.

Nowadays, the pursuit of results is too much and thus giving up some opportunities to expand or improve the strength of the team. In Zuo Wu's view, it is obvious that the gains outweigh the losses.

From Zuo Wu's perspective, his statement actually makes some sense.

Snake has only missed the World Championship many times before.

And Zuo Wu’s suggestion does have a cause-and-effect relationship. If you want to maintain your grades, of course you have to use what you are best at to play. If you play more things that you are best at, you will naturally have no time for those things that you are not good at. To experiment and train.

Li Luo also seriously considered this suggestion.

But before Li Luo could think of the final conclusion, the version change of LOL directly pushed the Thorn Birds to the forefront.

That afternoon.

The moment the update announcement for version 9.4 appeared, there was a bit of silence in the Thorn Birds base.

Li Luo frowned slightly and stared at the version information changes on the screen.

In Li Luo's impression, the equipment changes were indeed completed in the S9 season, but Li Luo can't remember exactly when it was completed.

Subconsciously, Li Luo felt that such huge changes involving equipment and even runes would often be included after the mid-season version.

So Li Luo didn't actually think too much about this before.

However, when this version actually appeared, Li Luo still felt caught off guard.

"Damn it, this...is this the rhythm of Menghui S5?"

Xiangguo smacked his lips and couldn't help but curse.

The biggest impact on the Thorn Birds in version 9.4 is the change in critical strike equipment.

As we all know, during the S8 season, there was a change to the critical strike equipment. To be precise, it was the change of Infinity Blade.

After the changes to the Infinity Blade, the synthesis does not require a critical hit cloak. The Infinity Blade alone does not contain any critical hit chance. The newly added effect of the Infinity Blade doubles the hero's original critical hit chance and increases the chance of attacking the hero. Ten percent of the critical damage dealt is converted to true damage.

Today, this effect has been removed.

In addition to adjusting the critical hit chance by 25%, the current Infinity Blade also has a new critical hit damage of 25%.

In fact, it is somewhat similar to the Infinity Blade before S8.

In addition to the Infinity Blade, all critical strike-related equipment has also been adjusted to varying degrees.

Among them, attack speed equipment has generally lowered its price.

Coupled with the enhancement of Jinx some time ago.

It is not difficult for Li Luo to guess that the current version of mainstream AD heroes may move from skill streams such as Lucian and Ezreal to late output types such as Policewoman, Jinx, and Wheel Mom.

This seems to be a big gain for Li Luo personally.

Because everyone knows Li Luo's carry ability, if Li Luo really develops to the later stage, Li Luo will definitely have the ability to take over the game. No one doubts this.

But in all the Thorn Birds games before this, Li Luo's role has always been that of a functional hero.

Let Li Luo play a functional hero, Xiye play a late-stage core, Xiangguo and Liu Qingsong and Yefu can coordinate to set the pace, and Brother Shengqiang can play a greasy thing to disgust the opponent...

Or it could be that Holy Spear takes a core hero like Vampire who has the ability to carry in the late stage, and Xiye plays a tool man to coordinate with the incense pot to set the rhythm.

From the beginning to the end, Li Luo on Thorn Birds never played much late-game carry heroes like Kai'Sa.

It's better now.

Not only have there been major changes to critical strike equipment, mainstream heroes in other positions have also been adjusted and weakened to varying degrees.

For example, Sword Demon's E skill has been cut.

Akali and Camille are all cut.

Akali's cut was particularly deadly. Before, Akali was under the defense tower and could hide in the smoke grenades. Now, after this cut, Akali has no way to hide herself.

Mainstream top laner Urgot has been greatly weakened.

On the adc side, Lucian has also been weakened.

It is worth mentioning that in order to give the late-stage core adcs a better chance to play, Riot Games also greatly strengthened a hero.

The Lord of Shadow Stream, Jie.

QWR and even basic attack speed have been enhanced to a considerable extent.

This kind of enhancement is a huge threat to the adc position.

"We have to adjust our tactics. This is equivalent to strengthening the role of plating on the bottom lane hero. We can no longer have the same attitude as before that it doesn't matter if we lose two layers of plating in the bottom lane."

Liu Qingsong turned to look at Li Luo and said, "Brother Luo, I don't remember that you have played the hero Jinx. You may have to practice recently."

"You really need to practice."

Li Luoshen nodded in agreement: "Then... let's go? It just so happens that my live broadcast time this month has not been finished yet."

"let's go!"

Liu Qingsong and Li Luo quickly started the happy double row mode.

at the same time.

Riot Games headquarters.

"This knife should be severe enough."

Ghost Crab looked at the actual version with satisfaction.

These are the masterpieces he created after racking his brains and losing an unknown amount of hair in the past two months.

"It is indeed ruthless. Although on the surface we have strengthened the ADC's carrying ability in the later stage, in this way, the battles in the early and mid-term of the bottom lane will actually become very frequent. After all, the plating of the bottom lane will be very critical."

A designer standing next to Ghost Crab nodded slightly and continued to add: "If it is a hero like Ezreal or Destiny Master, it is actually very easy to be effective in small-scale team battles, even if it is In the early stage when the equipment is not very good, they will be very useful."

"But if you use a late-stage hero, you won't have much room for maneuver in the early stage, and you can only rely on the most monotonous ordinary attacks. In this case, the strength gap between the AD players themselves will be very blurred."

"But boss, I still think... is this a bit too targeted at the Thorn Birds... No, it can even be said to be a bit targeted at the LPL region."

Ghost Crab heard the words and smiled: "What our designers have to do is to balance. As you said, the new version will strengthen the collision in the bottom lane in the early stage, but in fact, because both sides are development-type ADCs, they do not have much combat effectiveness. , even if there is a collision, it will probably be a waste of time for both parties."

"This will make the rhythm of the game much smoother. The LCK team will most likely not go to the bottom lane because they know that they can't get much profit, so both sides will not go to the bottom lane, allowing each other's bottom lane to develop stably and develop into the later stages. Then pick up the team, but in this case, if the LPL and LCK teams compete, it is actually very easy for fierce fighting to break out in the bottom lane."

"The game will also be better to watch."

"And...don't you think that after such an adjustment, the real benefits will come from the European and American regions?"

Ghost Crab looked at the gradually astonished designer and said with a smile.

…

The duo tour of Li Luo and Liu Qingsong is in full swing.

However, what surprised Liu Qingsong was that Li Luo's Jinx level was very different from what he imagined.

Ever since he partnered with Li Luo, Liu Qingsong would learn something about Li Luo's past when he had nothing to do.

Including Li Luo's hero pool and Li Luo's operating habits.

Liu Qingsong looked at it carefully.

However, the hero Jinx is indeed the blind spot among Li Luo's many heroes.

To be precise, it seems that adc players who have become famous since the S7 season have rarely touched Jinx, a hero who was once the top T0adc in the S5 season.

Think about the heroes Li Luo played before?

Those who prefer the later stage include Rat, Policewoman, and Kai'Sa.

Among these three heroes, Rat is invisible and can steal people, which is quite consistent with Li Luo's sunny temperament.

The female police officer is long, has displacement, and has clamps to block the road.

Kai'Sa is more like an assassin in a sense.

But Jinx is a team-type hero through and through. Regardless of the team, Jinx's personal combat effectiveness is not only the weakest among all adcs, but also ranked at the bottom. It is difficult for Jinx to have no one to protect him. How much operating space.

Liu Qingsong has always been worried that when Li Luo plays the hero Jinx, he will occasionally make some dangerous moves like he does with other heroes.

Such ADC support must always be watched from behind. If you relax a little bit, the ADC may die suddenly.

Support will be very tiring to play.

But what surprised Liu Qingsong was that when Li Luo got Jinx, he played it very easily.

In addition to some terrifying laning strength, Li Luo's Jinx will only use the artillery to show off the extended range of his cannon form in team battles after making a cannon. In most other cases, Li Luo will The position he placed gave Liu Qingsong enough sense of security.

He doesn't need to be exhausted, as long as he raises his hand, ad will be within his field of vision.

This is very comfortable.

After three consecutive games and Li Luo won the triple MVP award, Liu Qingsong was completely numb.

"That's the end of today's live broadcast, brothers. I really don't like playing Jinx as a hero. That's it. Two hours are up. Let's go eat. Bye bye."

Li Luo greeted the audience.

Since the live broadcast time per month is short and Li Luo is relatively self-disciplined, the time he needs to broadcast every day is not much.

Including queuing, it takes exactly two hours to qualify for three games.

Quan thought it was time to clock in and go to work.

The audience in the live broadcast room was obviously still unsatisfied.

"A textbook team-fighting ad, this is Brother Luo's strength."

"There is no way. Brother Luo, who has won two consecutive championships, is now at his peak. Even I have to avoid his edge."

"Since you are avoiding it, I will avoid it too."

"I'm following!"

"I feel like Brother Luo is in this state, and there will be no problem if he plays for another three to five years. I heard that LOL has a chance to enter the main event of the Asian Games in 2022. Brother Luo can play until then, right? Wearing the national flag again and beating him for a gold medal !”

Li Luo saw this barrage before turning off the live broadcast.

Liu Qingsong, who was sitting next to him, also saw it.

Seeing that Liu Qingsong was a little distracted, Li Luo couldn't help but stretched out his hand and waved it in front of his eyes.

"What are you thinking about?"

Li Luo asked with a smile.

"It's okay. It's just this person's speech that made me a little confused. I feel like it's almost time for me to retire by then. I'll be old by then."

Liu Qingsong sighed: "Of course, I still have to think about it."

Li Luo just smiled and said nothing.

In fact, Li Luo had heard many times before he was reborn as to whether LOL could be shortlisted for the Asian Games.

For Li Luo, who has devoted most of his youth to League of Legends, there is no doubt that League of Legends occupies a large part of Li Luo's heart, and Li Luo also has deep feelings for League of Legends.

But sometimes Li Luo also wonders, League of Legends...is there really a reason to enter the main draw of a national-level competition?

This game, whose rules and versions are all controlled by the operator, is fundamentally different from other sports competitions.

To put it simply, from the day football started to flourish to the present day, all the rules are actually very different, all kinds of tactics are very mature, and the final competition is the ability of the individual athletes and the entire team.

But League of Legends…

At this time, Li Luo was also a little confused. This version change made Li Luo not sure. They, an all-Chinese class formed by five Chinese people, finally succeeded in doing everything they should do after trying their best. Can you climb the mountain of versions?