Chapter 121: Cross-dimensional Training Method!
Today is the third-place match, and the official side has scheduled the match quite humanely. The finals are arranged at Nanjing Gymnasium, and they’ve given a week’s preparation time.
The purpose is to expand publicity and let everyone prepare to grab tickets.
After all, Nanjing Gymnasium can accommodate over 18,000 people, which is also a fairly big attempt.
The official wants to know how many tickets out of these 18,000-plus can be sold in this one week…
It’s also to show other capital the popularity of League of Legends as a sports competition.
To be honest, this move is indeed quite risky, but it’s really necessary.
Without holding finals in a large venue, there are no solid data points, and in that case, convincing people to shell out money isn’t so simple.
EDG having four more sponsorships, making other teams envious, isn’t it just because of Li Fan’s super high popularity, and these fans are willing to spend money.
After all, capital isn’t stupid; spending money to buy fame only exists in novels… they still need to make money in the end.
Today’s third-place match still doesn’t have enough offline popularity.
Because when the semifinals started, no one thought the team they supported would lose…
Except for a small portion who are addicted to matches.
However, the live stream room’s popularity is still maintained at five or six million.
Although they don’t really want to watch, the home team only has this one Spring Split match to play; if they don’t watch, there’s nothing to watch, and the next matches have to wait until Summer Split officially starts.
Of course, these people in the live stream room are still cursing… it can only be said that this live stream room has extremely heavy aggression; seeing a couple of displeasing comments will start arguments.
But this five or six million popularity… isn’t enough in front of Li Fan!
According to the popularity rankings, Li Fan’s live stream room is still first place, with a full 90,000 online viewers and over ten million popularity.
This makes many people unable to hold it together.
Good grief, who would’ve thought that now players aren’t relying on League of Legends to eat, but League of Legends is relying on players to eat.
Jin Yibo looking at the backend data is also shocked.
Who would’ve thought that this gap would be so huge.
You know, RNG has Uzi; in his view, he’s a player with popularity that’s not low at all. If Clearlove can’t do it, Little Dog has very big potential.
But today, he completely can’t carry this popularity…
In the past, he’d be very satisfied with this data, but compared to Li Fan, it’s quite a bit off.
He’s increasingly satisfied with his decision that day.
Sure enough, he himself has foresight and vision; that Old Xu under him has fixed mindset, still sticking to the old ways.
He glanced at Chen Yao who was doing data recording nearby; it seems subsequent events still need to let young people put more heart into it.
He has no interest in today’s third-place match.
Seeing Li Fan’s such exaggerated data, he couldn’t help but pull out his mobile phone and click into Li Fan’s live stream room.
But this time it actually surprised him quite a bit, because Li Fan wasn’t playing other games, but looking at the update announcement.
The national server’s version update is one version slower than the foreign server.
Because Tencent also has to be careful; if they launch together and there’s any messy stuff inside, such a big company wouldn’t be done for?
However, the impact on professional players isn’t as big as imagined.
The reason is simple: the national server’s training environment is already very poor, with lots of cheat software and actors.
For LPL professional players, the only advantage is the exchange environment.
But in fact, League of Legends exchange can be done completely with signals.
In this situation, going to other servers for training has no issues at all.
Version 7.9, which is actually the upcoming Mid-Season Invitational version.
There are two heroes here that everyone values very highly.
Both are junglers.
Zac has been reworked; his ultimate skill is no longer the shit-stirrer endlessly bouncing around, but wrapping people up and taking them to a designated area.
Combined with his E skill entry, current Zac has extremely strong team initiation ability.
The second rework is Sejuani, which Clearlove is very good at.
Her passive has received a strong buff, immunizing slow and providing massive resistances.
With pig skin on her, tankiness has been further elevated; her vision control ability in mid to late game is already top-tier.
Plus her E skill, she can cooperate with melee heroes to do things, meaning the top lane meta might undergo some changes.
Some heroes that couldn’t be picked can now be picked…
Then there’s a hero buff.
Riot has also noticed that Maokai, reworked in the previous version, has absurdly bad data; win rate directly came to 47.6%, which seems acceptable, but compared to the previous 51.4%, it’s way off.
Hard-turning a hero into trash also made Riot’s official designers a bit embarrassed.
They hurriedly made some fixes, adding extra control time based on distance, with max bind duration up to 2.4 seconds!
Completely not considering whether this ultimate can hit…
Increasing bind duration results in the awkward situation of ults not hitting people.
Maokai who always misses ults, the situation doesn’t seem to have changed much.
As for items, the changes are mostly reasonable, but one item is very awkward for sustained damage heroes!
That’s Adaptive Helm!
Added unique passive: receiving magic damage from skills or effects reduces subsequent damage from that skill or effect by 15%.
This item can be said to be a must-buy for all tank heroes in the subsequent Summer Split.
This can effectively counter AD and Ardent Censer this item.
Because ADC’s first item is Blade of the Ruined King effect, combined with Ardent Censer it’s extremely exaggerated.
This leads to tanks’ top choice being this…
From this, it’s not hard to see that League of Legends official designers are intentionally raising the priority of Ardent Censer this item.
Because since version 7.2, they’ve been continuously buffing Ardent Censer, it’s just a pity that up to now it hasn’t been valued by everyone.
After all, support can’t spend 2300 gold on Ardent Censer as the first item.
But later on, even if the cannon car minions don’t eat it, they have to give it to support.
They must do Ardent Censer on the second back to base; without it, bot lane can’t even lane.
And another change is that after killing Rift Herald, you no longer get a buff, but a summonable Eye of the Herald that can deal massive damage to turrets; having Rift Herald is equivalent to stably taking down a turret.
Very clearly, the designers also noticed that Rift Herald has no takers unless you’re in a huge advantage.
Everyone just treats it as non-existent…
The reason is still that the returns don’t match the effort.
Health is way too thick; taking down Rift Herald requires massive manpower and time.
With that time, opponents would’ve already snuck down to gank bot lane and snowball.
“League of Legends designer, you don’t know what kind of monster you released!”
Seeing Li Fan uncharacteristically seriously studying the version update, the bullet comments in the live stream room instantly exploded.
【？？？What’s going on, did I enter the wrong live stream room?】
【Am I seeing things? Fan Ge is looking at version update? Sure it’s not the wrong content? Shouldn’t you be looking at PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds version update announcement?】
【Forgot the interview? Fan Ge is the type who can understand matches just by looking at materials, so naturally he has to take a look.】
【Something’s off, very off, like nine out of ten points off! Streamer, if you’ve been kidnapped, just blink!】
【Fan Ge, if the club is threatening you, just tell us, we guarantee to help ransom you.】
Li Fan looking at the full screen of question marks and shocked expressions, couldn’t help laughing out loud. He adjusted his sitting position and said slowly into the mic: “Why are you all so shocked? Researching the Mid-Season Invitational version a bit; I really haven’t looked at Mid-Season Invitational version changes much during this time. As a professional player, don’t I have to see what important changes there are?”
After saying this, there were even more question marks in the live stream room.
【？？？？？】
【Oh my god! Unreal actually knows he’s a League of Legends professional player.】
【It’s over, he really acted it out!】
【Taking a loan to study MSI? Clearlove calls him an expert!】
【Good grief, straight good grief; EDG traditional art Clearlove studies MSI opponents, studied and decided not to go. Unreal won’t study the Mid-Season Invitational version and then not go, right?】
【It’s done for, done for; EDG mid and jungler are both this tricky, why do I have a bad feeling, won’t flip over later, right?】
【Don’t! Fan Ge, be steady now, get the Spring crown first!】
【I have a feeling this live stream today is going to be a famous scene! If EDG can’t go to Mid-Season Invitational, it’ll be a joke.】
【Hahaha, just like a certain Tang Sect mid laner.】
【Feels like Unreal listened to Ding Chunqiu; indeed as a professional player, he should return to duties, don’t touch other games.】
【Being able to listen is good…】
Li Fan glanced at the bullet comments and happened to see a few mentioning Ding Chunqiu and Weibo. The smile on his face converged a bit.
For this guy… he actually isn’t very familiar with what happened with Ding God’s Street Fighter incident.
He just knows ineffective socializing, playing King of Fighters with five or six people, teaming with foreign players to beat domestic players, betraying the sect Ball Ball, targeting Xiao Hai… later Xiao Hai wanted to reconcile with Ding Chunqiu, but this guy is self-righteous, even yanking hands during handshake like it’s 28.5 million.
Although Xiao Hai’s Street Fighter isn’t the absolute top, his status in the fighting game circle goes without saying, solidly Faker.
Put in the League of Legends circle, it’s like Otto targeting Faker… and Faker chooses to reconcile with Otto.
Seriously, it’s like a sci-fi story.
Of course, he’s equally unfamiliar with this guy’s League of Legends professional career.
Mala Xiang Guo’s substitute… kicked to the roadside by Xiang Guo.
Then following the team from secondary league to LPL league.
Later, King team sold to Royal Club, establishing RNG and directly kicked out of the team; after all, RNG never takes trash.
ZTR or Qin Fen thought about it, Ding Chunqiu is at least from our team, so gave him a job as assistant coach.
Last night, Li Fan saw his Weibo post, and the Weibo bio guiding Mala Xiang Guo…
Shameless is impressive.
Upside-down heavenly gang; a substitute still guiding Mala Xiang Guo.
For such a person, saying one more word is giving traffic; just ignore.
And today there really is something more important.
To be fair, although Street Fighter 5’s feel is poor, without that punch-to-flesh satisfaction.
But guessing rock-paper-scissors with others is still very fun…
Street Fighter reaction is very important, reaction isn’t important, it’s just extremely fun.
“Alright, version research temporarily ends here.” Li Fan said, casually closing the League of Legends client’s update announcement page. “Theoretical knowledge reserve complete, next is the practice session.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he skillfully switched to desktop and, under everyone’s watchful eyes, clicked open 《Street Fighter 5》 launcher.
【？？？？？】
【Practice session? Practice what?】
【Me… I knew it!】
【Hahaha, sorry I was wrong, I shouldn’t have had hopes for Fan Ge!】
【《Theoretical knowledge reserve complete》, only looked at announcement for ten minutes, then practice other games?】
【As expected of you, Li Fan! This turn flashed my waist!】
【Just wanna ask, is that brother who said Fan Ge listened still here? Face hurt?】
【If you believe Unreal, better believe I’m Qin Shi Huang.】
The live stream room’s popularity not only wasn’t affected by this action at all, but rose a bit more; bullet comments scrolled faster, filled with a joyful atmosphere.
Li Fan ignored the full screen of roasting, while waiting for the game to load, said leisurely: “Fighting games train instant reaction and prediction, which is very helpful for mid laner’s micro and psychological warfare. How can it be called neglecting one’s duties? This is called cross-dimensional training method.”
“Don’t look down on this cross-dimensional training method; I think the entire professional circle should learn from me…”
【Goddamn cross-dimensional training method!】
【I declare, from today on, League of Legends professional players’ daily training adds Street Fighter 5】
【On being stubborn, my Fan Ge is one of a kind!】
