Chapter 190 - Canyon of the Peak, the Rise of the Midlaner

The major forums were abuzz with the discussion.

Players from various regions participating in MSI will train here, which is a very attractive point.

The included points and gold coins also make many players very excited.

All the major anchors are trying their best to kill professional players alone and become famous in one fell swoop.

"That's interesting. If the quality is high enough, we won't have to play on the Korean server with such high latency."

Xiao Ming is very happy. He doesn’t like the feel of the Korean server, which is not as comfortable as the Chinese server.

High latency is also one of the reasons why there are so few Chinese players at the top of the Korean server rankings.

When playing on the Korean server in China, even with a dedicated accelerator, there is a 50% delay, and occasionally 70 or even 100.

Professional players and high-end players are particularly sensitive to fluctuations in ping values. Even a slight delay will affect the feel and connection of skills. They can only exert about 80% of their strength. After getting used to the delay, they can only exert 90% of their strength at most.

"Not very good. The Chinese version is updated slowly and cannot keep up with the international version."

Jack thought further.

The Chinese version has not kept up with other regions, and the biggest reason is the review.

Each version must be reviewed before it goes online, and will only be allowed to go online after it is confirmed that it does not contain any violent or pornographic elements.

This review is often one or two versions worse than the foreign server.

"For this kind of thing... there should be some flexibility this time."

Yuan Shen seemed to be thinking about something.

The influence of this MSI is much greater than I remember.

The impact of winning the S5 World Championship continues to this day.

Gree became famous in the world championships last year and subsequently attracted a lot of capital investment.

Jia Yueting’s LeTV is one of them.

In addition, there are also Funplus Esports, Topsports, Republic of Gamers, Li-Ning Sports...

If you perform very well in a certain competitive event, it will increase social attention on this project.

More than a decade ago, the most popular sport among the older generation was football, but because of the Chinese national football team, there have been no new football fans for a long time.

On the contrary, table tennis has come from behind and has become a hot sport from being an unpopular sport.

More than half of the students in the country can play table tennis.

Why do players from all regions like to train on the Korean server?

Because the LCK team has been the champion for two consecutive years, and they are recognized as the strongest region.

This has led to fresh blood from each region gathering in the Korean server. Under the high-intensity competition, the Korean server has always maintained a high-intensity level that is ahead of other servers.

LPL won the Grand Slam last year, but because of the inherent impression, it always gives people a feeling of being a flash in the pan.

Many people are now questioning whether EDG and IG were lucky last year as they encountered two versions that were very suitable for them.

But if we win the championship again this year, it won't be a coincidence.

Perhaps by then players from other regions will gather on the national server.

Perhaps by then the national version will be able to keep up with the international version.

Yuan Shen has a lot of ideas in his mind. What do you think? Are they bold?

As a human being, you always have to have some hope. When he thinks about this now, he is very motivated to train and play games.

He has no shortage of money or fame now, and has no pressure in life at all.

Hobbies and work have become his motivation for playing games.

There are only two things he is doing now.

One is to see what the world will become if LPL wins consecutive championships.

One is to see what the limits of TheShy, Rookie, and Jack are.

Is there anything more interesting than changing and creating something you like with your own hands?

"If that's the case, aren't they afraid that no one in other regions will play?"

TheShy asked curiously.

When he played on the national server for the first time, he was frightened by the dozen or so regional options on the interface.

But when I think about the fact that China's area is nearly a hundred times that of South Korea, I feel relieved.

"No, even though there are so many barrage kings, the number of diamond players actually only accounts for 5% of the total, and most of them are diamond 1 goalkeepers. The number of players above diamond 2 is estimated to be only about % to %."

"Other players are just joining in the fun, and they'll continue to play wherever they want."

Jack and Yuan Shen explained.

"I don't understand. If you don't understand the game, shouldn't you just shut up? Why can they still type? Isn't this exposing their ignorance? Some of the comments make me want to laugh."

Xiao Ming really doesn't understand. When he plays games, there are always people saying that he plays this wrong or that wrong. The problem of being a know-it-all is simply ingrained in his bones.

"Not necessarily. If you listen to others' advice, you might be able to have enough to eat."

Yuan Shen's eyes looked a little strange, and he remembered some things that happened later.

Some people listened to the advice and changed their image, some listened to the advice and Cosplayed, and there were internet celebrities everywhere who imitated various celebrities.

Apart from anything else, it earns much more than working.

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After the spring finals, life returned to normal.

The version of the LPL finals is 6.6, but the national server has already been updated to 6.7, and version 6.8 is about to be launched.

League of Legends generally updates its version once a week. The Chinese server will launch version 6.8 in a few days and will not update again in the short term.

Therefore, in the eyes of major professional teams, if nothing unexpected happens, version 6.8 will become the version for the MSI Mid-Season Championship. The six teams participating in the MSI are all working hard to study how to play version 6.8.

Including IG, they are also training frantically.

Since we are playing in China, it is much easier to arrange opponents for training games.

But IG only had two opponents, one was EDG and the other was LGD.

On the one hand, the strength of these two teams is also considered top in LPL. On the other hand, the three teams have cooperated in the world championship last year, so there is no need to worry about the inside information of the training game being leaked. The 6.8 version update has relatively large changes.

After the 6.8 version update, everyone gathered around Fumanduo's computer, watching the version update announcement together, with discussions breaking out from time to time.

"Wow! This is a huge change!"

"All the changes are to AP items. Is the mid laner going to rise again?"

"It seems that MSI is the mid-lane version, Lao Song, don't let it down when the time comes."

First, there is the weakening of mercury.

Starting from this version, Mercury can only remove control effects, but not debuff effects.

As far as Yuan Shen remembers, this change only appeared in version 6.9.

But now, it's early.

In other words, the ultimate skills of heroes like Zed, Haunter, Troll, and Fiora cannot be canceled by Mercury.

This is a disguised way of strengthening these heroes.

Secondly, the Ancient Will equipment has been officially removed, and a new series of Hextech equipment has been officially launched.

Hextech gun, Hextech prototype rocket belt, Hextech GLP.

Three classic Hextech equipment, namely the Bloodsucking Gun, the Push Stick and the Ice Gun, are now online.

Not only that, the new equipment Lost Zhang Jie has also been officially launched, and the Ghost Book has also been reworked to enhance the sustained combat capability of AP heroes.

The Staff of Time was reworked, the cooldown of the Hourglass was increased, and the Negatron Cape became an assassin's equipment.

These changes to AP equipment have completely changed the mid-lane ecosystem.

In addition, all magic resistance equipment has been weakened, which in turn enhances AP damage.

Not only AP mages are rising, but assassins are also able to appear.

Even Jie, who has been sitting on the bench, can be brought out to play.

"Fortunately, our trump card has not been weakened."

Yuan Shen lost interest after taking a look.

This version change has little impact on them, except that the hero selection in the mid, top and jungle need slight adjustments.

"Chenglu, heroes like Kennen and Ekko still need to be trained. The Push Stick is a great benefit to them."

Yuan Shen turned around and patted TheShy on the shoulder and said.

"Push stick? Are you talking about the rocket belt equipment? It's very appropriate."

Jack touched his chin thoughtfully, while Fu Manduo looked at Yuan Shen in surprise.

But can you think of the suitable hero by looking at the version update announcement?

This talent cannot be described with the word "exaggeration", it is simply enchanting.

Yuan Shen didn't say anything else. He felt that if he continued talking, the secret of his rebirth would be exposed.

Let’s be frank. I won’t pretend anymore. I come from the future.

One of you will have a serious hand injury, one will be unable to continue to be the dean alone, and one will be defeated and captured by Vietnam...

It’s outrageous to think about.

The significance of the Push Stick to some heroes is no less than that of Gale Force to ADC.

Heroes like Kennen desperately need a means of entering the field.

Before the push stick was available, you could only enter the field by using Flash E.

Because of this, Kennen must make a big mask, a big hat, and a Zhonya set to be able to join the team.

Without the big mask, you can't beat the tank in the laning phase.

Without the big hat, the ultimate move cannot have the decisive effect.

Without Zhonya, everyone will be focused on and killed instantly in team battles.

Therefore, before version 6.8, Kennen's appearance rate was actually not high.

Even if you have collected all three major items, you are still extremely dependent on the summoner skill Flash.

"It won't have much of an impact. As long as we can make it to the finals, we can give our opponents a big surprise."

Rookie is very happy.

They prepared a lot for this MSI.

Among them, there are two major trump cards, both prepared for the strong enemy SKT.

Although this version has strengthened the mid laner, who says that the mage can’t go to the jungle?

When the time comes, EDG will have to see what real four protecting one means!

"There is no doubt that both the mid-lane mage and assassin will rise in the MSI version. Coupled with the already strong jungler and the linkage between the support's roaming, the MSI version belongs to the mid, jungle and support. It will be easy to win the game if the mid, jungle and support can build up an advantage in the early stage." Fumanduo made a summary of the version and then glanced at Jack and TheShy.

This version further weakens the presence of top laners and ADC, and weakens the influence of these two positions on the situation.

I'm afraid that by then both the top laner and ADC will tend to be functional heroes, developing throughout the early stage, watching how their teammates play, and then choosing to join the team or play solo in the mid-term.

The outcome of the game will have little to do with the top and ADC positions.

If the mid, jungle and support collapse in the early game, the game will probably collapse as well.

"It seems like Riot is targeting us. Ever since we won the championship last year, our top lane position has been targeted."

Zizi was a little indignant. He felt more and more that Yuan Shen's transformation into a jungler was premeditated, as if he had foreseen that Riot would weaken the top laner and strengthen the jungler.

If Yuan Shen can see the trend several versions in advance, he believes it.

But after seeing what happened half a year later, he would never believe it.

"What's the big deal? Riot is targeting the annual champions. What they want to see is that the championship rotates. This year it's my turn. This is the only way to maintain the popularity of League of Legends, the league will be vibrant, and the fans will be excited and motivated. If there is only one division champion every year, fans from other divisions will lose their expectations, and the league will lose its vitality."

Fu Manduo saw it very clearly, but Yuan Shen had already opened the game at this time, staring at a hero on the screen in a daze.

"Has the top laner been weakened? I don't think so. Chengluo, I have demonstrated this hero to you. The current version is more suitable for him. You can try it."

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(End of this chapter)