"Don't be so surprised," Gu Xing said with a smile when he saw Jack's exaggerated expression, "Can you be more steady like me?"
He opened the webpage and retrieved the mid-season announcement of League of Legends.
"Be calm when dealing with others," Gu Xing taught Yu Wenbo while sliding the mouse wheel to browse the patch updates.
After just one glance, his voice stopped abruptly.
This time it was Jack's turn to laugh at him, "Hoo hoo Huo, Lao Gu, can you still calm down now?" Gu Xing didn't have time to argue with Yu Wenbo now.
He rested his chin on his palm, stared at the screen and murmured to himself, "To be honest, the changes are harsh!"
When Riot Games clearly understands the development trend and positioning of League of Legends, the mid-season update will play a connecting role in the full-year version.
It can be said that the game environment in the professional arena and qualifying matches in the second half of the year will all depend on this patch!
Second only in importance to the year-end new season update, it is a truly huge change!
Last year, in the mid-season version before Gu Xing entered the professional arena, the concept of elemental dragons was officially confirmed. Mages such as vampires, snake girls, and fire men were also redone, and Hextech equipment such as rocket belts and ice guns were launched.
Various changes at that time had a profound impact on the S6 Summer Split and the World Championship, establishing the dominance of the French core role in the mid lane in the second half of 2016.
In this year's 7.9 mid-season version, Riot Games will target the changes to the front row of tanks! "Dashu, Zach, Pig Girl, the three tank characters have all been reworked..."
Gu Xing read the update text.
Maokai's passive recovery and Q's two small skills are simple numerical changes. The redo of E [Sapling Throwing] is quite innovative.
If you throw it into the grass, the tree son will have a larger explosion radius and the damage will be increased.
Of course, the most important thing is the ultimate move.
The previous R [Vengeance Vortex] created a defensive barrier around the big tree, which could apply damage reduction buffs to teammates in the area and cause damage to the enemy.
Now after the rework, the ultimate move has been changed to [Natural Grip].
Gu Xing clicked on the official new skill demonstration video and was still complaining, "It's a bit like the tree world coming to Senju Hashirama in Naruto."
The new version of Big Tree's ultimate move will create a large area of tree roots and slowly push forward, trapping the first enemy hero hit.
"Quie," Jack agreed deeply, "To be honest, the playability of the big tree after being reworked is obviously much higher than before..."
Whether it's throwing powerful saplings into the grass, or using R [Nature's Grasp] to start a group and provide control for the team, it is more interesting than the original big tree.
The operational requirements for players will undoubtedly be improved.
Before, Dashu just drove the vortex of revenge to rush into the crowd on the opposite side. The difficulty was not too high, and it could even be said that he had the skills to do it!
But after the change, the use of the ultimate move will surely become more frequent, which will test the player's ability to judge the situation!
"The remake of the fist is quite trustworthy," Gu Xing commented. "The original Sword Princess Captain Noshou is of good quality."
Although every time Riot releases a hero rework announcement, a large number of players will lament and miss the old characters they are familiar with.
But it turns out that after the hero was redone, character mechanisms such as operating interactive attributes are more adaptable to the game environment than the old version.
Although there are sacrifices, overall, the flaws are still outweighed.
Heroes like Jian Ji, who were almost extinct in the professional arena in the past, have seen a sharp increase in their appearance rate after the redesign, which is enough to prove the success of Riot Games in this regard! Gu Xing continued to scroll down.
Compared to the original top laner Dashu, he is more interested in the rework of Zhumei and Zach in the jungle position.
The revised Pig Girl passively turns into a layer of pig skin, giving the hero immunity to slowdowns and extra resistance, and will remain for a short time even after being damaged.
In addition, it also adds an ice-breaking effect, and applies additional damage to the hero who was stunned by her when outputting again.
[Winter's Wrath] is changed to wielding a flail, and E [Permafrost Field] provides frost
The number of freeze layers, melee basic attacks can stack the layers and trigger stun.
The ultimate move is to throw an ice lasso, which will also stun the opponent. Zach's redesign changes mainly focus on the two skills of QR.
Now Q [Extended Strike] first grabs an enemy, then grabs another enemy through basic attack, and throws them towards the opponent.
R [Dynamic Pinball] no longer bounces four times in a row as before, but will make Zach collapse on the ground when cast, making him immune to control and slowing down enemies standing on him.
After 1 second or more of charging, he can become unstoppable, carrying the enemies on him and bouncing far away!
"My dear, this strength..." Gu Xing marveled, "I don't know how much higher my combat ability is compared to before!"
The foundation of front-row heroes is, first, sufficient frankness, and second, continuous control.
Riot Games is undoubtedly very good at this mid-season update.
For example, Dashu's R [Nature's Grasp], Zhumei's E [Perpetual Frozen Field] and Zack's QR all improve the hero's control ability.
The pig skin of Pig Girl increases the smoothness.
The designer started from two major angles and made extremely precise cuts to change the previous weak and backward mechanism of the tank character!
Gu Xing realized the seriousness of the matter.
"Is it possible that Riot Games wants to turn the game into a world of herbivorous junglers and tanky top laners?" Jack nodded in agreement, "The heroes see the same thing!"
"And not only the jungler and top laner, but also my ADC has been affected!" He asked his jungler to check out the subsequent patches.
Gu Xing raised his eyebrows after looking at it.
The cost of Blade of the Ruined King has increased by 100 yuan, while the price of Infinity Blade has been reduced from 3600 to 3400.
The two pieces of equipment are the core props of the dilapidated special effects stream and the endless crit stream respectively, and are related to the shooter's route choice.
In addition, the two armor-breaking equipments [Dominic Lord's Salute] and [Mortal Reminder] have been weakened.
Although the price is 100 gold coins cheaper, the armor penetration property has changed from 45% extra armor to 35%, which greatly reduces the price-performance ratio!
Even Kurogiri was not spared.
The armor cutting ability of each layer is reduced from 5% to 4%, and the total armor breaking limit is also appropriately reduced.
It can be said that Riot’s move is to raise the status of tanks!
As long as everyone's armor-breaking ability is limited, the front row's frankness will usher in major benefits!
"Lao Gu, what do you think?" Jack asked Gu Xing for his opinion. "Can you tell what versions of strong characters there will be in the summer games?"
Gu Xing thought for a while, "It's hard to say... I think it's better to wait until Hongmi comes back and ask his opinion."
History has proven countless times that heroes who are literally strengthened by patches may not be able to perfectly adapt to the professional arena.
Gu Xing himself is not an omnipotent and omniscient god, so he cannot assess in advance how the game environment will change in the summer split.
Professional work should be left to professionals. He trusted Hongmi.
"By the way, Lao Gu, can I have some cake?" Yu Wenbo pointed at the dilapidated Patrick Star in front of him.
Now only the flaming red lips are left on the head of the pink star, which is full of temptation for Jack, who is overwhelmed by hunger.
"Order your own takeout!" Gu Xing made a food-protecting action and firmly protected Patrick.
Jack's eyes widened, "Are you crazy, eating such a big piece of cake by yourself?" Gu Xing looked at Yu Wenbo up and down with sympathetic eyes.
"I don't blame you. Some things have to be experienced before you can understand them." He started to be the Riddler.
Jack tilted his head in confusion, his expression resembled the Shiba Inu emoticon circulated on the Internet.
The consequence of showing off the whole cake at night was that when Gu Xing rushed back to his hometown the next morning, his stomach was still a little uncomfortable.
Leaning against the window and looking at the receding trees and farmland, he simply took out his mobile phone to entertain himself.
There is no important news in WeChat.
In the group chat of VG training department
, Sb and others informed Jin Wenhe that they were ready to end their vacation and asked the team leader to arrange a vehicle to pick up the airport this afternoon.
Song Jinghao’s tone was not very friendly, [Why is Xiba’s rest time so short? I haven’t played enough and I have to come back to prepare for the summer split!]
On May 25, the team members began their official vacation. The vacation lasted for a week in total.
On June 8th, the LPL will officially start. Before that, they had to shoot the official summer promotion video and makeup photos, so the players were forced to come back early.
After working hard for half a year and finally only having 7 days off, it is reasonable for Sb to feel dissatisfied.
Branch manager Lu Wenjun quickly reassured, [There are still four weeks of regular season before we participate in the intercontinental competition. I will try to give everyone more time off]
This sentence not only did not have a comforting effect, but made Sb even more painful, [I just remembered that there is an intercontinental competition, I am exhausted!]
Gu Xing typed in reply, "Do you want to take more vacations, or do you want to win two more championships?"
Song Jinghao sent an ellipsis before responding, "Then he is still the champion." Sb considers himself a late bloomer.
He officially debuted in 2013 and just won his first league championship last year. After joining VG this year, he finally won the international competition trophy!
Song Jinghao hasn't won enough yet and wants to accumulate more honors and improve his status during his peak period.
Gu Xing saw that his top laner was very good, so he safely cut out of the group chat and went to fight.
The offseason is not over yet, and the trend in the forum is still discussing the Mid-Season Invitational and the Dragon Ball of Liquidation.
The number of hot posts is considerable, providing Gu Xing with sufficient spiritual food.
[I don’t allow anyone who hasn’t seen this video! 2017 MSI finals VG vs. Longzhu fourth game KR commentary version]
[It’s still cooked meat? It’s really a big deal.]
[Ho ho ho, the scene where they all shouted GG in unison at the end was so hilarious, wasn’t it? 】
[The whole scene highlights a "reluctant but forced to be convinced," look, which indeed seems to be the full effect of the program]
[Isn’t there anyone who uploaded CloudTe’s mid-season summary video? People are urging the LCK league to reflect on the example]
Gu Xing was more interested in the last comment. He clicked on the video link below and saw CloudTe's face.
The subtitles below have been dubbed, so he can watch them without any hindrance.
"To be honest, most of the viewers on the Inven forum are scolding Longzhu, and some are scolding them for defeating all the strong teams in China that know how to operate, and then going to the mid-season to give VG Express the championship. This really makes no sense.
!「
CloudTe has clear logic and gives Gu Xing a pretty good impression.
"What does VG rely on to win the mid-season? Isn't it also management? Longzhu can beat the LCK operation team in China, but loses to VG. This itself is enough to explain the problem!"
"Don't just blame Longzhu. Even if Longzhu is 99% responsible for this mid-season defeat, don't the other nine teams in the LCK have no fault at all?"
"For Longzhu, which you say performed so poorly, to go to MSI, shouldn't the nine teams reflect on it?"
CloudTe said with heartfelt words, "Get your mind right, friends. We have been losing for a whole year, and every time our opponent was VG. A total of 4 teams have competed with VG. They have never won, which proves that we are tough."
There is a gap in strength!
"If we want to avenge our past humiliation, the LCK team must unite and unite. We will have another chance next month - the intercontinental competition. We must impress our opponents and regain our dominance!"
At the end of these words, his voice was inspiring. Even LCK opponent Gu Xing was deeply touched.
Just glancing at the comment section, he still couldn't help laughing.
[Some KR netizens are clamoring that SKT won the mid-season tournament. Do you expect Huni to beat Sb? Do you want to recall the S5 semi-finals? 】
[It’s like this, most of Huni’s worth is due to his posture, but when he met Sb, he was beaten like a pig’s nose by the forehand and backhand teaching]
[As for SKT’s poor configuration, if you tie the two junglers nk and Clid together, Brother Xing can handle it with one hand!]
[But what CloudTe said is correct. The LCK is definitely holding back its energy and wants to take revenge in the intercontinental competition. We can’t take it lightly]
[It’s okay, I will take action at the critical moment]
When Gu Xing saw this, he thought it was some funny guy trying to be clever. After taking a closer look, he realized it was Jack's vest.
He was speechless and slid down silently.
Just when Gu Xing thought there would be no more posts to attract his attention.
The popular post instantly caught his eye.
[Has anyone analyzed the OB video of Brother Xing running to area 1 to play ranked game that night after the broadcast? This policewoman’s operation is a bit outrageous]
Gu Xing clicked in and found that it was an edited video clip.
The policewoman with the ID "Guxi No. 1 Edici" on her head flashed Q with extremely smooth E, and then took away Verus with three consecutive headshots!
Gu Xing immediately recalled the scene of "This wave of asking where the opponent's jungler is. If you can't answer, you won't get recognition." He huddled in his chair and laughed out loud.
The comments below are quite varied.
[Holy shit, why is this policewoman’s combo of purple silk smooth, but it looks like a fool in my hands? 】
[Guigui, why didn’t these three headshots move backwards? It’s like firing a machine gun]
[What a fast gun! Caitlin switched to continuous sniping]
[I looked at Brother Xing’s account, and there is another one: “Patrieb is very eager to share. He opened the photo album on his mobile phone and showed it to his jungler. “We were so drunk at the end of the wedding!” Gu Xing picked it up at a glance.
See Peanut's figure.
The brown hair has not been processed for too long, and its color has gradually changed, but it is still easy to identify among a group of black hair.
In addition to ROX members, Gu Xing also saw Madlife and other older generation OGN e-sports people.
Even l was invited to participate.
I have to say that this group of Tigers players are surprisingly popular in the LCK.
The Rat King is very senior, he doesn’t put on any airs at ordinary times, and has many good friends. Little Peanut is even loved by everyone in the industry!
A group of people invited most of the LCK circle, and even invited Roaring Emperor to host the wedding. The entire event was a lively one.
"Brother Lu Zhe is already married. Time flies so fast..." Hongmi sighed with emotion.
But his focus immediately switched, "Why weren't there so many e-sports players at my wedding last year?"
Easyhoon laughed at him, "Brother Chengrong, when you held your wedding, we were still competing outside, so we couldn't help Sister Li."
Hongmi got married in May of the year before last, just in time for the first mid-season tournament.
In the end, the three stars and ten brothers were not all present. The Fat General and Mr. Dai fought hard in Tallahassee, and the remaining eight people and their mentor Edgar rushed to the scene to witness the wedding.
It's really deserted compared to Nofe.
"It's okay," Gu Xing comforted Hongmi, "the other champion coach Kko is not married yet. Doesn't it make you feel better just thinking about it?"
Hongmi laughed loudly after hearing this, "It's too early for him to get married! He doesn't even have a partner, so he probably has to rely on blind dates to solve his personal problems!"
Kko's face is the most handsome among these Mesozoic coaches, and he is known as the second brother of KR.
He has a gentle and elegant personality and has the demeanor of a Confucian general.
But the impact of height on him is really great.
In the country next door where the per capita height is not short, Kko is really far behind the average.
In addition, his heart is all focused on SKT, and he has no extra energy to fall in love. So far, he is still single.
Hongmi, who found confidence from Kko, brought the topic back on track.
"You must have read the mid-season version announcement released by Riot Games two days ago, right?" Gu Xing, who was slumped in his engineering chair, straightened his back and concentrated on preparing to listen.
Jack rate on the side
Speak first.
"The designer's intentions are known to everyone, and he is obsessed with weakening our dominance!"
Hongmi shrugged, "This is normal. Our team has been monopolizing the World Series awards for a whole year. Isn't it reasonable to be targeted?"
Since the beginning of the S6 season, Riot Games has had clear plans for event operations.
They don't want a single team or player to win consecutive championships, lest the professional arena fall into a stagnant situation!
Last year, SKT was tricked.
After winning S and MSI championships one after another, he was immediately targeted by designers.
If they continue to play lane changes at the beginning + herbivorous map control junglers, no team will be able to challenge SKT's hegemony!
With one blow of the fist, the S6 World Championship has become a world of carnivorous and jungle junglers, allowing VG to take advantage of the momentum to reach the top!
Now it’s VG’s turn to win two international championships in a row, so it’s understandable that they are being taken seriously by Riot Games.
"I think herbivorous junglers are going to make a comeback. Can you adapt to it, little Gu?" Duan Deliang looked at Gu Xing, with a bit of worry in his eyes.
When Gu Xing debuted in the S6 summer game, it was dominated by characters such as Blind Monk and Kindred. This jungle environment where carnivores and wild core characters coexisted lasted for a whole year!
Now that things are finally going to change, Duan Deliang is inevitably a little worried.
"I should be fine," Gu Xing was very confident in his ability. "It's not difficult to control the herbivore map. Just hone the hero..."
Duan Deliang looked much more relaxed.
The absolute core of the team said this, and he felt that this summer split would not be particularly difficult.
"It's hard to say how the jungle environment will change. After the patch goes online, male guns will no longer be able to play ARE. Coupled with the weakening of black cut, the strength suddenly dropped, but the two giants of blind monk and spider are still...
.." Hongmi expressed his opinion.
Riot Games believes that the recoilless combo of the male gun ARE is still too powerful and can cause devastating blows to squishy heroes in an instant.
Therefore, in version 7.9, it will be cut off with a wave of the hand.
Even if Graves, the wild core who was galloping on the battlefield at MSI, no longer has the magic power.
However, Redmi currently does not believe that the herbivorous jungler can immediately threaten the dominance of the carnivorous jungler. It must be tested through training matches.
"Ping Duan, you should take care of yourself." Hongmi looked at his assistant. "Me?" Duan Deliang was confused, "What does it have to do with me?"
There is no support in the reworked character. From Xiao Duan's point of view, he was at most affected a little by the change in ADC strength.
Not much impact.
"Didn't you see the changes to salary equipment?"
"Look, what happens next?" Duan Deliang didn't know what was going on and looked very confused.
Red rice has no place to spit.
Many professional players are like this. When looking at the version changes, they only focus on those contents that are clearly strengthened or weakened at a glance.
There is no research on many minutiae.
After all, this is indeed the job of the coaching staff.
"Forget it, I'll tell it from the beginning in case any contestants don't understand..."
"In the mid-season version changes, the auxiliary salary equipment has also been adjusted," Hongmi explained to the team members, "Now the three salary equipment of Ancient Coin, Relic Shield and Spell Stealing Blade have a mission mechanism."
"As long as you stack up to 650 gold coins through the mission and synthesize the second-level salary equipment, you can trigger new additional active effects."
Li Zhixun translated Hongmi's words bit by bit to everyone.
"Among them, if the teammate of the ancient coin carrier kills a minion, there is a chance that they will drop gold coins or mana coins. The former will give 20 gold coins, and the latter will restore mana."
"The Holy Relic Shield is still a tribute for killing minions, and the Spell Stealing Blade can still be used to earn money by attacking enemy heroes or defense towers..."
Hongmi spoke eloquently so that everyone present could understand.
After the three basic salary equipment are stacked with 650 gold coins, the ancient coin can be upgraded to a second-level salary equipment to obtain a skill.
Can order.
The Relic Shield equipment route will obtain shield batteries.
Spellthief Blade becomes able to gain a certain explosive movement speed as long as the passive is triggered again.
"What does this have to do with me?" Duan Deliang still didn't understand the logic, "No, it means that the auxiliary combat capabilities have been strengthened, which is a good thing!"
The low status of auxiliary equipment is not something that happens in a day or two. Now adding mission attributes that can provide combat power to salary equipment is also a major enhancement.
"Don't you see the difference?" Hongmi didn't give in, and revealed the answer directly, "The task stacking speed of Sword Stealing Blade is much slower than the other two salary equipment!"
"The Spell-Stealing Blade now attacks the opposing hero or defense tower, and the gold coins you get after triggering are only 8!"
You don’t even need a calculator. “What does 650 gold coins mean for Sword Stealing Blade? Only by triggering it 80 times or more can you get the explosive movement speed effect!”
"Duan Deliang took a breath of air and contributed to global warming.
Gu Xing also realized the problem.
The current economic plunder speed of the Spellthief Blade obviously cannot allow the carrier to stack up the 650 gold coins required for the task during the laning phase!
Think about it carefully, what kind of game can allow the support to exchange blood with the opponent at such a high frequency in the bottom lane?
In the professional arena that pursues stable development, it is simply unrealistic!
For example, the spell-stealing blade of later generations costs 20 gold coins to trigger once, and a total of 500 gold coins can be stacked to complete the task.
Compared with the Spell Stealing Blade after the S7 mid-season game, the difficulty of the full stack mission is completely different!
In comparison, the Holy Shield, which kills minions, and the Ancient Coin, which waits for the gold coins to drop, are currently stacking tasks much faster than the Sword Stealing Blade!
It is not only related to the speed of stacking tasks, but also directly linked to the real economy that falls into the assistant’s pocket!
In short, Spellthief's Blade lags behind the other two salary items. This will directly affect the game environment!
"The ones that came out of the Spell-Stealing Blade are all expendable soft assistants..." Duan Deliang followed Hongmi's idea and pushed down, his eyes widened, "It's broken."
What is his strongest point?
Consumption on the line!
After getting Zyra Karma Lulu, Duan Deliang can often overwhelm the opponent until he calls out ICan'tBreathe!
Now through this salary change, Riot Games has weakened the status of expendable soft assistants in the bottom lane in disguise!
If Duan Deliang were forced to choose, he would be greeted by the fact that his opponent's economy is naturally lagging behind, and his equipment and combat power are not as good as the enemy's!
Gu Xing also felt that something was wrong.
But I had to praise the designer from the bottom of my heart, "What a cruel change!" The first blow of my fist hit VG's weak spot!
Gu Xing had previously experienced the chaotic changes to delayed assassin bursts and jungle refresh intervals, and thought that Riot designers were all bastards.
I didn’t expect that the other party actually had something!