What is a wandering mid laner?

YM Ran's ID appeared in the center of the screen, and then a gorgeous transition into the Summoner's Canyon.

At the beginning, there is a clip of Lin Ran card solo killing Ggoong Demon, Titan's Anchor, Syndra's Goddess Scattering Flowers, and Demon's Demon Shadow... All his outstanding performances this season are shown in the video .

Having said that, Lin Ran was still very moved.

[When did you learn editing? 】Lin Ran sent a message.

【? ? ? 】

Su Cheng replied with three question marks.

Before Lin Ran could react, she sent another voice message.

Lin Ran cautiously put on the earphones.

"Lin Ran, you don't think I made this video, do you?" Su Cheng laughed on the other end, "I'm about to take the college entrance examination, how can I have so much time, the editing studio I hired cost my sister a lot of money Woolen cloth."

Lin Ran pulled out the earphones without changing his face.

Xiaotian ate up the barbecue on the plate and glanced at him.

"Try lemon juice?"

Lin Ran took it and poured it into his mouth.

"It's souring me."

He quickly grabbed two pieces of barbecued meat, and the meat was already full of aroma after being smoked by charcoal fire, and the addition of spices made it more tender and delicious. The moment he took it, his taste buds were stimulated, and a sense of happiness gushed out from his mouth.

"Boys!" PDD stood up at this time and toasted everyone in YM present, "After half a month, the formalities are completed, and we will sign a new contract!"

"All salaries have been raised, at least doubled!" Fat Dudu said, "The LSPL championship bonus will be divided equally among the seven of you, everyone, work hard in the summer competition!"

Chapter 044: E-sports Hua Luogeng

The LSPL finals are over, Lin Ran and his teammates are now sitting in the base every day watching the tigers fight.

On the second day after the final, the relegation match officially started.

The LSPL third-place MF team was eliminated by HYG. The young zoom could only stay silent for a while, waiting for an opportunity to shine.

The runner-up EDE team won four rounds of fierce battles with EPA and finally won. They will meet YM again in the LPL this summer.

"In this way, our YM is quite strong." Xiao Tianshuo said after watching two BO5 games on the gaming chair.

"How to say?" Lin Ran didn't understand why.

“EDE3:1赢了EPA，算上常规赛我们对EDE的战绩是5:0，”小天给林燃掰着手指头算，“所以我们对EPA的胜负关系应该是8:1。”

"There aren't many teams in the LPL that can do it, right?" Xiaotian's analysis is well-founded.

"You are the e-sports Hua Luogeng?" Lin Ran was shocked, "Our team doesn't need to hire a data analyst anymore, I think you can work two jobs for two wages by yourself."

Xiao Ming next to him laughed wildly, as if he was caught by Lin Ran's words.

After getting along for four months, Lin Ran understood the habits of the other three teammates.

Ning defines himself as a talented player. He only plays 5 ranked games after training every day, and he doesn’t necessarily play AD position. He trains fully in the jungle and top laner. ideal.

Jin Gong is a training madman. As long as there is no training match, he will maintain his hand in ranking.

Just finished the finals yesterday and went out to celebrate. After Jin Gong came back, he still played 7 matches before going to bed. This morning he started to practice hard again. He didn’t go to the kitchen until the game started to warm up the leftovers at noon today. Bowl is there to watch the game.

Lin Ran likes Jin Gong's training attitude very much, if only he could control his emotions - every day Lin Ran can hear Jin Gong's hysterical Xiba sound across two rooms.

As for Ming?He is usually a silly and sweet person who can only giggle, but Lin Ran and Xiaotian, two great onmyojis, always feel that the word "hee hee" has a strange smell.

A week later, the LPL Spring Split officially ended.

In the semi-finals, a 1-minute BO5 incident that shocked the LOL circle occurred. QG's mid laner doinb and his teammates had a good relationship, which directly led to QG having no mid laner available.

In addition, dade, who was urgently transferred from South Korea, did not report in advance, resulting in insufficient personnel for QG and had to abstain, and EDG was recommended to the finals.

In the spring finals, the RNG team defeated EDG 3:1 and won the MSI (Mid-Season Invitational) place. This is also the first league championship in RNG team history.

Mata and looper, the two champions of the S competition, are seasoned, escorting this young team. They are aggressive but at the same time do not lose operational wisdom. The lineup system is very healthy.

PDD rented a new base on Lingshi Road, and became neighbors with EDG Club. Lin Ran and his teammates moved into the new home in early May, and at the same time, the YM team officially completed the LPL registration.

None of the five chose to change their IDs, and the contract salaries of Lin Ran and others also increased considerably.

30 per year, Lin Ran is quite satisfied with this contract, the live broadcast contract is still in his own hands, plus the alliance advertising and competition prize money, he can earn a lot of money a year.

During this period, Lin Mingdong came back from a business trip in the United States, and the father and son still had nothing in common to talk about. After dinner, Lin Mingdong told him a few mottos that Lin Ran could memorize, and then took the high-speed train back to Suzhou. .

On May 5th, MSI kicked off, and after half a year, LPL embarked on the road to redemption again.

This year's MSI was held at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center. PDD entrusted the relationship to get ten front-row tickets, and took everyone from YM to experience the atmosphere of the scene.

There were tens of thousands of people in the stadium, and the loud voices blocked their ears firmly. They were sitting in the front row, and there were many team fans nearby holding team flags and cheering for their favorite home team.

The yellow and black RNG and the yellow and red SKT flags caught the eye. One is the champion team of the local LPL division, and the other is the owner of the two-time S championship trophy. The popularity naturally occupies the highest position.

The noon breeze blew slowly, the lights on the scene dimmed, and all the audience quieted down, leaving the stage for the performers of the opening ceremony.

A white-clothed dancer splashed ink with a brush in his hand. When the tip of the pen touched the ground, a very oriental ink-style brush mark blurred in the middle of the stage, revealing the ground-screen technology.

(Remember the words "First Blood", "Little Dragon", "Baron Nash" and other words that burst out simultaneously on the stage floor and the game that year, that is the ground screen technology)

"Handsome." Xiaotian muttered, with a bit of envy and a bit of longing in his tone.

In the silent field, Lin Ran heard the words of his teammates beside him.

"One day, we will stand on such a stage." He said, like Xiaotian, when he saw the championship teams from the six major regions appear on the stage.

In the opening match, the host RNG played against the CLG team in the North American Division.

CLG went against the conventional thinking, and the mid laner huhi took out the dragon king to face xiaohu's czar, but according to the on-site commentary, the cast star dragon king is huhi's unique hero, comparable to the enchantress to faker.

Two minutes into the match, Lin Ran didn't find anything special about this unique dragon king.

The first-level push line was thundered by Xiaohu Tsar. After spending two dials, he returned home with residual blood. At this time, he was only at level 2, and he could only replenish real eyes and biscuits when he returned home, and he couldn't even afford straw sandals.

"On this level?" Ning sneered mercilessly, "I'm good at it."

After making another two dials, the Dragon King went home again. This time he bought a Dolan Ring to replenish the battery life. Lin Ran was stunned by this operation.

If you wanted to buy the Dolan Ring from the very beginning, why did you forcefully push the line at the first level?

After pushing the line, the state is disabled and there is no way to support it. The trip home for nothing lost the experience of two soldiers, and also caused the jungler to dare not enter the wild area of ​​​​the spicy pot.

The first-level blood exchange is tantamount to abolishing the most outstanding roaming period of the Dragon King. When the Tsar's ability to clear troops is activated, the Dragon King will be locked in the middle lane and cannot move.

However, huhi's Dayu Helix Wan played well. This kind of E [Star Stream] made Q [Galaxy Surge] fill the entire screen. The big killer divided the RNG formation several times, and the situation was at a stalemate for a while.

But the CLG policewoman immediately made a cerebral palsy operation, and her position at the second tower in the bottom lane was too aggressive to attract the hatred of the defensive tower. The experienced mata flashed WQ second company and killed AD in seconds.

After the rhythm was stable, CLG's top laner Dashu also handed in his application for joining the party after being unwilling to be defeated.

RNG laughed at Dashu Rentou, Bullhead Bobby forced CLG, and took away the opponent in a wave of 0 for 5.

After watching the entire game, Lin Ran felt that he needed to re-establish his understanding of the top professional league.

Chapter 045: Navy Mid Laner and Navy AD

Lin Ran originally thought that the LPL team was full of top players, and their strength was somehow higher than him and Xiaotian, but judging from the relegation match to the MSI opening match, it seemed that something was not quite right.

Although the LPL team is more than one level stronger than the LSPL, it is not invincible.

Snake and QG are also teams that were promoted from the secondary league to the LPL. The two teams still maintain a very strong competitiveness without changing team members.

Snake is in the middle of the league, while QG is even stronger. Last year, they won the runner-up in the LPL Summer Championship. If it weren't for the escalation of conflicts within the team this spring, it is very likely that they will go further.

Lin Ran watched the game from the perspective of God, and found that the LPL team's vision layout and personal ability were not perfect, and they made many low-level mistakes.

QG and Snake can break out in the LPL, which makes Lin Ran more confident.

After all, YM can be regarded as the only team in the LSPL this year. It has not broken the high ground in 33 games, showing extraordinary dominance. In addition, its defeated player EDE also entered the LPL, and YM's results will not be too bad.

Everyone in YM watched the first day of the MSI match, and when they heard faker's debut, the audience roared with cheers like a tsunami.

Even Ning has been diligent in qualifying training these days, at least starting to practice the new hero Jhin that was released three months ago.

In the MSI group stage, RNG won the first place in the group with a record of 8-2, but in the semi-finals, they were still defeated by the previous world champion SKT.

At this point, LPL has finally recognized the gap between itself and the world's top divisions. Last year's MSI championship was like a dream, and it was fleeting before it was immersed in it.

After the game, mata, an RNG assistant and SSW champion member, took aim at Wuxin, who was the AD at the time. In the interview, he bluntly said that if the AD is replaced, RNG will definitely not stop at the MSI semi-finals.

The RNG management did not hesitate to introduce S3S4's runner-up AD Uzi, and strive to make a breakthrough in this year's global finals.

This can also be called the most explosive news during the mid-season transfer period.

After the end of MSI, Riot's mid-season version arrived.

Heroes such as Vampire, Malzahar, and Snake have been reworked. At the same time, equipment such as Tears of the Goddess and Lost Chapters have been changed, and two new pieces of equipment, Hextech Belt and GLP-800, have been added.

The wild area has ushered in even greater changes. The four elemental dragons of water, earth, fire, and wind have replaced the original small dragons. Only three of them will appear in each game. Killing the four elemental dragons will provide players with more powerful attribute.

After 35 minutes, the ancient dragon is entrenched in the Xiaolong Pit. Killing it will provide players with stronger combat capabilities.

Xiaolong's changes in disguise increased the presence of the lower half of the game in the early stage, making the lane change tactics more risky.

The Riot officials were also fed up with the frequent lane changes in the arena, and each of them grew up to 30 minutes to go out to meet the team. The professional players found it troublesome, and the audience also fell asleep watching it.

Emphasizing laning and enhancing the bloodiness of the game is the goal of the fist's recent changes.

On the other hand, after YM entered the LPL, the expenditure increased sharply, starting players, analysts, artists, coaches, managers, assistants, operations, chefs...

The team's current monthly salary is hundreds of thousands, plus miscellaneous expenses such as rent, PDD has spent almost all of the money it earned from live streaming in the past two years, leaving only some investment projects that cannot be realized for the time being.

The capital chain is about to break down, PDD can't sit still, he is eager to seek external financial support.

Lin Ran had also heard about this incident at the base these days, but he couldn't help. Although the family had a lot of spare money, it was obviously not the same size as a team like LPL, which often injected tens of millions of capital.

YM’s introduction of investment didn’t come to an end until before the start of the summer split. PDD entrusted him with his previous professional IG team boss to bring in investment from a domestic sports goods retailer. The arrival of the funder finally relieved PDD’s financial pressure.

In mid-May, Lin Ran and Xiaotian were invited to film the promotional video for the LPL Summer Championship, but they didn't appear much because they were just rookies who had just entered the LPL league.

With his unforgettable handsome face, Lin Ran got into a close-up shot. He took off the hood of his black hoodie, and facing the camera, the corners of his lips raised slightly, revealing a dismissive smile.

Before the start of the summer split, this promotional video was first released on the Internet. Although most people were attracted by the wet temptation of EDG's wild ghost foot seven, a group of viewers still noticed Lin Ran.

After all, there are very few people who can raise the average appearance of the contestants in the promotional video by a notch.

"Who is this? LPL also invited a male model to make a promotional video?"

"If you are so handsome, if you don't want to become a star, what kind of e-sports will you play?"

Many viewers don't know Lin Ran, they haven't watched Chubby's live broadcast, and they don't know the progress of the LSPL game.

"This is Ran Bao, the mid laner of Team Chubby, very strong."

"One thing to say, Ranbao's level is indeed high, and it's not a big problem to beat Xiaohu."

"Can you beat Xiaohu? He single-handedly killed Faker at MSI this year."

"Nowadays, newcomers always ask the navy to publicize before they become famous? I'm really laughing at me, don't be relegated after being educated in LPL for one summer."

"There was a JKL before, which was even worse than this ran. He started blowing before he played, and he was like a navy AD. I'm afraid he won't even be able to play in the LPL by then."

JKL is also a passer-by with a high score. Last year, he competed with Lin Ran for the first place in the national server.

Last month, YM just established the youth training team, and Lin Ran recommended this young man to PDD. PDD went to Huanggang in person, and JKL gave up the idea of ​​going to his old club IG, and came to the YM base with himself.

Now, one of the two is called the navy mid laner, and the other is called the navy AD, and there is an inexplicable fate between them.

On May 5th, the LPL Summer Split kicked off. YM, as a new force that has been in the limelight recently, was officially scheduled by the LPL for the first game at 26:7 p.m. on the first day of the opening day, against the veteran team WE.

The night before the game, after the coach explained the tactics, the manager Hao stood up to cheer for the players.

"There's no need to be scared tomorrow. WE can't afford to lose! They are the third place in the Spring Split. We're just a new team that just came out of LSPL. It's normal to lose!"

"Don't think that we will continue to win consecutively. The LPL is different from the secondary leagues. Be prepared to lose and play calmly to show your strength!"

At noon on the second day, Lin Ran and his teammates got on the bus and went to the competition venue - Hongqiao Performing Arts Center.

It has to be said that LPL's competition venues are very different from those of the secondary leagues.

Two LED boards are erected on both sides of the security check channel, which are dedicated to broadcasting game highlights and promotional videos. Next to the LED boards, there is also a red and blue defense tower model in Summoner's Canyon.

Going further in is the team support area. There are two BO3 games every day. The staff of the event will prepare support items for the four teams in advance, and the audience can receive gifts by themselves.

After passing by the model of the Great Dragon Pit, Lin Ran finally saw the competition stage.