Chapter 21: Hook, He’s Just Here To Slack Off!
Li Fan is still happily playing Speed here on QQ.
He really didn’t expect his appearance to come so quickly…
After all, it’s only been one hour since the training match started.
He could only greet the audience in the live stream room, then go offline at light speed.
Then he walked towards Scout’s position.
He found the atmosphere in the training room seemed a bit depressed, and saw the five people who just played the training match, all with red faces, although not as exaggerated as Uzi…
After all, this is the Number One Person in League of Legends Red Hot, no one can compete with him for this throne.
Who else can ensure their appearance at every finals award ceremony once it ends?
Even Faker can’t do it; in the entire League of Legends, only Uzi can, and this is unprecedented and unparalleled.
It looks like the training match didn’t go so smoothly.
Scout saw Li Fan coming over and snorted coldly, making room for him.
He himself suffered such a big loss against Xi Ye; as for this person whose name he didn’t even know, no need to think, he must have been brutally abused.
Having him play the training match is purely a waste of time; he doesn’t know what the coach is thinking.
Then he stood directly behind Ai Luoli, planning to carefully observe Ai Luoli. There are many problems with failing in lane, the first being the jungler; if it weren’t for the jungler gap, he could easily crush Xi Ye.
He really needs to take a good look at what this guy is doing.
Why did he make him play so uncomfortably?
……
WE Team base.
“Why does it feel so easy? I didn’t even try hard, and the opponent collapsed?” Kang Di felt it was strange.
Clearlove’s jungle control shouldn’t be this poor, right?
“The opponent’s jungler isn’t Clearlove, it’s Ai Luoli.” Xi Ye put the mobile phone on the table and said.
“Ah? Clearlove isn’t playing training match with us? What’s the situation?” 957 asked.
“I just checked Weibo; someone already went to EDG’s page to curse, mainly because someone heard today’s training match lineup in that substitute mid laner’s live stream room; Clearlove didn’t appear.”
“Tch, isn’t it just wanting to hide things?” Kang Di said indifferently.
“Since that’s the case, let’s end it quickly; they also fielded the substitute mid laner this game, just take it 6 to 1.”
Although it’s bo7, it’s not best of four out of seven, but to play all seven games.
Precisely because it takes so long, that’s why surrenders happen at just over ten minutes.
Once it’s confirmed they can’t win, they just click and move to the next game.
After all, a disadvantage can still be dragged out.
Domestic teams might have some relation to this training match mode; once in a disadvantage, you’ll find they all want to quickly go to the next game; disadvantage games rarely show resilience and then look for comeback opportunities.
LCK training matches tend to be bo3 more often; because there are fewer games, situations of surrendering after just over ten or twenty minutes are rare.
So you see more disadvantage comeback matches, various decision making swapping resources.
This isn’t really for training… it’s not like having a theory means you can execute it in a match based on theory.
After all, they don’t train much usually; how could they suddenly show invincible resilience and big comebacks in a match when disadvantaged?
“Is the opponent’s substitute mid laner that guy who often trends on hot search, saying he slacks and neglects his duties all day?” Kang Di asked curiously.
“Yes, otherwise how could this news leak? EDG others don’t live stream at all; only he likes to live stream, though his popularity is indeed quite high now…”
“We are professional players; once we win the World Championship, popularity will naturally be high.”
“That’s true.”
Under WE’s relaxed atmosphere and EDG’s slightly silent one, the fifth game training match officially began.
Starting this year, League of Legends has introduced ten ban slots.
This further tests the team’s tactical reserves.
Blue Side EDG immediately banned Kang Di’s currently strong Kha’Zix.
WE directly banned Nautilus; Mouse’s Nautilus is indeed playable and can mix in top lane.
But mixing like that doesn’t serve training soldiers for them, especially having 957 practice heroes, which is very necessary.
Soon…
The first round of bans ended.
Two OP heroes were left out; after all, not leaving them out wouldn’t serve training.
“Coach, what mid laner should I use?”
“Ai Luoli is taking Lee Sin; basically anything that cooperates with him works.” Kuaisu Xing listened to the translator and glanced at Li Fan.
He didn’t specifically specify a hero for Li Fan to use.
In the end, it’s still a champion pool issue.
He feels Li Fan’s champion pool is still quite limited.
LeBlanc in this patch has become trash; although he plays it pretty well, it’s useless; on the arena, it’s destined few will pick LeBlanc; if it were previous patches… Xiao Xue Di’s LeBlanc is also practiced decently.
So in that case, for Li Fan to get appearance opportunities, he should actually practice Lulu, Karma, these functionality mid laners.
But Zet still doesn’t have strength that’s fully trustworthy.
In fact… no matter what, Li Fan doesn’t have many opportunities.
Li Fan doesn’t know the coach has so much inner drama.
Recently, he’s been taking lessons every night.
Besides LeBlanc, he’s also practiced Lulu to four-star.
No way around it; 500 points of match training is just too useful.
Endless Tournament… the selected opponent is S14 World Championship champion SKT Team.
And his team was top laner Abin, jungler Ning Wang, AD Uzi, support Baolan.
The simulated players’ emotions are all present; recalling those countless Lulu games…
AD gets caught off guard and dives into the enemy crowd to die, then curses why no shield.
Top laner inexplicably starts roaming, staring at enemy support and outputting wildly.
Jungler stubbornly shifts blame, support doesn’t initiate.
Can only say he suffered torment; when Li Fan woke up in the morning, he already felt mentally and physically exhausted.
Endless Tournament doesn’t know how many games; surprisingly, he didn’t win a single one.
Looking at four-star Lulu, Li Fan even thought it wasn’t maxed yet.
“Then I’ll take Lulu.”
“Okay.” Kuaisu Xing was quite surprised; he originally thought Li Fan would use LeBlanc.
Unexpectedly, he picked Lulu.
“You actually know Lulu?” Ai Luoli asked curiously.
“Yeah… it’s okay, I guess.” Thinking of this, Li Fan’s mouth twitched again.
Clearlove in the back directly rolled his eyes.
“Hook, you don’t train at all; how would you know Lulu? It’s purely because it’s easy to carry and hard to collapse.”
He probably didn’t practice support-type mid laners with those four gods as teammates, right? That would be too torturous.
When practicing LeBlanc, his four teammates were top laner theshy, jungler wei, AD Ah Shui, support meiko…
Soon both sides’ lineups were confirmed.
Blue Side EDG: Top Poppy, Jungle Lee Sin, Mid Lulu, Bot duo Ashe and Karma.
Red Side WE: Top Camille, Jungle Elise, Mid Vladimir, Bot duo Lucian and Braum.
