050: Do you really know how to play League of Legends? (2-in-1 5700-word chapter)
Gu Xing arrived at Hongqiao Railway Station at noon, and VG team leader and translator Jin Wenhe was waiting outside.
For the professional e-sports circle, most practitioners have just woken up at this time.
Jin Wenhe got up early and drove over half an hour to get here. He yawned and poured coffee into his mouth to refresh himself.
Gu Xing felt very embarrassed when he saw this scene, "Sorry to trouble you."
"It's okay. This is my job as a team leader. I have to do things after I get paid." Jin Wenhe didn't take it seriously. He fastened his seat belt and drove towards Songjiang University Town. "When you arrive at the base this afternoon, you can start immediately.
Training match.”
"So fast?!" Gu Xing was surprised, "Where's World 6?"
Jin Wenhyuk gave an explanation, "The summer split has started for two weeks now. VG has played three games, with 2 wins and 1 loss, which is not bad. However, World6's performance is relatively average. Whether it is official games or training games, it can't keep up.
Rhythm."
He appeared on the LPL stage in the summer of 2015. After Dandy returned to the jungle position at the beginning of 2016, he could only be transferred to the second team UP by the club and was not even allowed to play in the first team's training matches.
After finally waiting for UP to be relegated from the secondary league, World6 finally got a few LPL-level training games - that was because VG wanted to sell him to OMG and wanted the new owner to try the effect.
Who would have thought that the contract for this deal was on Ding Jun's desk, but in the end it failed because of the swap between Dandy and Imp.
World6 has not yet adjusted from the loose state of the second team, and has not yet adjusted well with its teammates. It will start a high-intensity LPL game, so its performance will naturally not be particularly outstanding.
But manager Lu Wenjun didn't want to wait any longer.
The VG League of Legends division’s salary investment this year is quite terrifying. Imp’s salary is among the highest in the entire league. Add in the expenses of Easyhoon, Redmi and others, and there is no doubt that it will break through the 10 million mark.
If his results in the summer split are average, he, Lu Wenjun, will be the first to bear the brunt.
He discussed it with Hongmi and decided to let Gu Xing give it a try. If he performed well, he would play directly.
"That's it..." Gu Xing has been busy with matters related to the college entrance examination and leaving Zhenhai during this period. He has not watched VG's recent games, so he doesn't know much about it.
Returning to Longhu Haowangshan, Jin Wenhe saw that some team members had not yet arrived at the training room, so he took Gu Xing to record the fingerprint lock first, so that he could enter and exit the base freely in the future.
"The dormitory is still the same as before. Now that Ding Ran is not here, you can live alone." Jin Wenhe led him upstairs. "There is no way. There are a total of 7 players in the training department of our first team. There must be someone who is alone in a room with two people."
, you came late, so I didn’t arrange a roommate for you..."
He was afraid that Gu Xing would be dissatisfied and think the team was exclusive.
"It's good, I just like living alone!" Gu Xing was overjoyed.
After living for eighteen years, he looked forward to having an entire house to himself.
I never expected that I would be able to realize this dream, both big and small, at the club.
After placing his backpack and suitcases, Gu Xing picked up the Philco Ferrari red and Logitech mouse on the table, and went downstairs to enter the training room.
"Lao Gu!" Yu Wenbo's angry voice sounded behind him, "I miss you so much!"
He also wanted to rub his friend's hair to show intimacy.
However, they found that there was an irreparable height gap between the two. If they wanted to touch the top of Gu Xing's head, their posture would be very awkward.
With no choice, Yu Wenbo had no choice but to give up.
"Congratulations, you're all in the LPL!" Gu Xing congratulated sincerely.
I heard Jin Wenhe mention this before on the way here.
VG faced OMG in the first game of the summer split. They first let Imp win a game to ensure the bottom, and then decisively replaced JackeyLove in the second game, allowing the newcomer to make his career debut.
Hearing this, Yu Wenbo was extremely happy, and even his tone became lighter, "So signing with VG is the right choice. If there are games to play, it will not be in vain for me to give up the live broadcast."
"Let me tell you, it's really cool to stand on the LPL stage." He couldn't rub Gu Xing's hair, so he simply patted Gu Xing's back.
Seeing his friend's puzzled expression, Yu Wenbo was very proud, "You will know when the time comes. The feeling... is incredible."
Gu Xing is still a newbie and can't understand what his friends mean.
Several VG members took their seats one after another, and he finally met imp.
When I first saw it, I felt guilty in my heart.
Is it possible that the S4 mouse champion skin is really made according to the imp model?
Especially the round glasses are the finishing touch!
"Hello, hello, I'm here..." Imp took the initiative to greet Gu Xing in Chinese, but he couldn't quite understand the second half of the sentence.
Fortunately, the next imp-specific translation section has been launched. He took over the role of Hirano Aya. After two weeks of getting along with each other, he could probably identify some daily expressions. He quickly said to Gu Xing, "He said he knows you!"
During the previous trial, Imp was deeply impressed by the two raids on Gao Dewei using wine barrels.
With a smile on his face, Gu Xing exchanged a few words with the other party.
Jack answered the conversation from time to time.
He likes Samsung White very much. This championship team gave him an extremely exaggerated impact in the enlightenment era. It was the first time he realized that the game could be played like this, which completely subverted his cognition.
This resulted in Yu Wenbo and imp getting along very harmoniously with each other even though they were in a nominal competitive relationship.
After World6 entered the training room, they also came to meet Gu Xing.
Nicknamed World Girl, he has a gentle temper and is easy to get along with. He has fair skin, clean facial features, and two small tiger teeth when he smiles.
Brother Long and Easyhoon were still discussing what to have for tonight's supper. It wasn't until Hongmi walked into the room and announced that horse racing training would begin that the noisy discussion gradually disappeared.
Gu Xing hasn't played a game in more than a week and is a little unfamiliar with the canyon. It would be okay if he plays in the ranked matches. It won't be stressful for him.
But facing professional teams, we really encountered some troubles.
In the early stages of the first game, he couldn't find much rhythm. Fortunately, he also knew that he had to slowly find his form, so he chose a male gun. Even if he was busy, it would still be useful if he delayed it until the later stages.
In the end, it lasted until 43 minutes and 30 seconds. Gu Xing's steady punishment took down the dragon. The male gun's explosive output helped VG win the team battle, and they finally made a difficult comeback and won!
Under normal circumstances, training matches rarely reach the late stages.
The ownership of Baron Nash in the first game can affect the outcome of the game. Many teams do not want to continue playing after losing the baron, so they simply start the next game quickly.
But in this Red Rice game, it could be seen that Gu Xing's touch had not yet recovered, so he was given a little more time, and the training match was not stopped even when a Baron was released first.
Seeing that VG didn't give up, the opponent could only continue to fight. After dragging and dragging, he was really overturned!
"Wow, I'm so tired..." When Imp saw the enemy type the word GG on the public screen, he slumped backwards on the e-sports chair, doing a truly international fallback.
He has gained a lot of roundness since coming to China, and now his lower abdomen is slightly bulging.
For the ADC, dealing with this late-game situation is very energy-consuming.
They must be constantly aware of their surroundings.
Except for Vayne, who can produce meat due to her skill characteristics, most shooters wear damage equipment to ensure output efficiency. Their bodies are very fragile, and they may be killed instantly if they are not careful.
Moreover, constantly moving A during a team fight will also put a lot of burden on your own hands, making it easy to get injured.
"In the early stage of this game, I was biased because my hands were a little raw, but it's okay. I'll be in good shape by the end of the game," Gu Xing did not forget to maintain good communication with his teammates. "I will choose an excavator later to capture more people.
Let the buddies have a good time!"
After getting the promise, imp felt as if he had eaten a sweet date, and suddenly became energetic, "Is it really fake?"
Gu Xing never deceives others.
In the second game, he took out Rek'Sai and captured the opponent's bottom lane 4 times in the first 15 minutes, successfully helping his ADC get three kills.
After Imp gained the kill economy, it was a natural progression for him to play Carry. He controlled Kalista to repeatedly jump across the Summoner's Rift, delivering explosive output in the mid-term team battle, and finally achieved a superb record of 9 kills and 0 deaths!
In the following training games, Gu Xing still stayed in the bottom lane to help the duo.
Imp, who went crazy during the training session, showed a happy smile.
He really wanted to say something right now!
VG management watched the entire training match this afternoon from behind the player seats.
"The performance is really good," Lu Wenjun praised. "The operation is good and the thinking is very clear. He is a natural talent."
Hongmi also agreed with him, "The style of play is indeed very smart. If you can learn it well, there is still a lot of room for improvement."
Aside from using the male gun to warm up his hand in the first game, Gu Xing has been planning around the bottom lane.
This is also the original intention of VG to exchange imp.
After dinner, Gu Xing originally wanted to go to the seat at the edge of the players' bench where he had tried out, but was stopped by Jin Wenhe.
"You can take Dandy's seat," he pointed at the empty machine next to Easyhoon, "and behave well tonight."
In some teams, there are unspoken rules for seating arrangements in the training room.
The starting members sit in one row, and the rest of the team fills in at the edge of the players' seats.
After this afternoon's training match, the VG coaching staff really wants him to come on the court and try out the results.
Gu Xing didn't know the truth yet, but he had some guesses in his mind.
After a set of training matches in the evening, his tense body relaxed.
The results of today's training match are written on the whiteboard behind him.
7 wins and 2 losses.
Considering that he has just joined and there is still room for improvement in his coordination with his teammates, this winning rate is indeed not low.
Gu Xing just wanted to start two qualifying games to score points, but was called over by Redmi.
Jin Wenhe first explained to him, "Starting from today, Coach Homme will have small classes every night, mainly to teach some concepts and details of professional players, which will be very helpful for your future growth and progress..."
Gu Xing made it clear that he understood clearly. He showed the energy he had in the previous class and concentrated on being ready to listen carefully.
"Let's first talk about League of Legends itself. What do you think is its essence?" Hongmi's words came to his ears through a translator.
"Tower pushing game?" Gu Xing is not sure of the answer to this question, but whether it is Summoner's Rift or the Howling Abyss of Polar Brawl, the ultimate goal of victory is to destroy the enemy's main crystal.
"Yes," Hongmi nodded slightly, "but we can dig deeper."
He is very good at inspiring new people. At this moment, he is following the guidance and asking Gu Xing to follow his own thinking. "Let me talk about a common question first. Why do many people think that being economically leading has an advantage?"
Gu Xing did not hesitate, "Because economic leadership means that we can make better equipment with stronger attributes and combat effectiveness?"
"Indeed, in most cases, there is nothing wrong with thinking from this perspective, but when facing some lineups and teams, the view is not valid," Hongmi said, not too fast, and his tone sounded very comfortable.
, "For example, if the dragons in the mid-season version are updated, if the economic difference between the two sides is almost the same, but one team gets two fire dragons..."
Now each fire dragon will provide the team with an 8% increase in attack power and spell power. Two fire dragons will provide a 16% increase, which is a considerable improvement to the core output.
"There is no doubt that the team that controls Xiao Long has a better chance of winning. It can be seen that the argument that 'economic leadership has an advantage' is not accurate. There are other variables that affect the situation," Homme put forward his own point of view, "In
In my opinion, it would be more appropriate to call League of Legends a resource game."
"Defense towers, big dragons and small dragons, gold coins, experience, vision and other factors... are all a type of resources, and they are included by me."
Jin Wenhe translated diligently, "Now that I have defined it from my perspective - League of Legends is a resource-based game, then there are two points that need special attention in how to win. One is how to plunder resources efficiently, and the other is
How to allocate resources within the team more rationally is also a question that the coaching staff of each team in the circle needs to think about and study."
"All tactical systems are developed and perfected based on these two points."
Seeing that Gu Xing understood what he was saying, Hongmi continued.
"A typical example of efficient plundering of resources is the policewoman's rapid push system. Through the line-to-line suppression ability created by the policewoman's range advantage, she can quickly pull out the defense tower, and then change the line to advance. With the line she is on as the core, she can
Stop invading the enemy's wild area, allowing the team to obtain resources as quickly as possible."
"As for the concept of 'how to allocate resources reasonably', the most appropriate example is the four-point push. This is one of the classic tactics of League of Legends. Many professional teams use it with great proficiency..."
As an LPL viewer, Gu Xing has a deep understanding of this.
This trick originated from the Assassination Star, the world champion in the S2 season, and was further developed by the Korean team. It repeatedly tortured the LPL team to death in several international competitions.
"The general concept of the four-one point push is this. The team members arrange their ward positions to provide guarantee for the single lead point, and then the four people hold them in front, allowing the player responsible for the single lead to use their hero characteristics or their own strength to achieve the lead in the matchup.
Eat wild monsters, soldier lines, and defense towers to develop quickly, while squeezing the defender's gold coins and experience, so that the single-point advantage snowballs until the balance of the line is completely lost."
Hongmi said eloquently, “The tactical environment has advanced to the extent it is today. If you neither know how to use the four-point push nor know how to respond, then you cannot be considered a strong team because the tactics themselves are not special.
It’s complicated, the ward placement arranged by his teammates, the wild monsters transferred to him by the team...it’s essentially a simple allocation of resources.”
He used two examples to explain the concepts of ‘resource plunder’ and ‘resource distribution’ that he just mentioned.
Gu Xing felt that Hongmi was quite suitable to be a teacher because the explanations and cases were combined, making it easy to understand and step-by-step.
"The reason why I explain so much to you is that in professional e-sports, players must fully understand the tactics proposed by the coach, otherwise it will be difficult to implement on the field and the effect will be very poor." Hongmi emphasized.
Gu Xing nodded repeatedly like a chicken pecking at rice.
"I won't focus on tactics with you today, but I'll start with every little point of resources. After analyzing all the resource points, your understanding of League of Legends will be improved to a higher level." Jin Wenhe translated.
At that time, I also played Xindaya and used Chinese poems.
"First of all...the wild monsters. Since you are a jungler, you must be very sensitive to this resource. I will start from here," Hongmi adjusted his glasses, "In addition to the red and blue BUFFs, there are four remaining
When setting up a wild monster camp, the refresh time is 100 seconds. You must be aware of this simple issue."
He and Gu Xing looked at each other, "Then I would like to ask a question, what is the latest version change related to the jungle area, do you know?"
Gu Xing said without hesitation, "In the update to version 6.9, except for epic wild monsters such as big dragons and small dragons, when other wild monsters are killed, they will only provide experience to the killer. It turns out that as long as you help nearby, you can share the experience points..."
"The reason for this change is mainly because of the popularity of line-swapping tactics in the past. If the top laner is swapped, they will eat wild monsters with the jungler in the early stage. They can gain experience to make up for their own development. After the change, the difficulty and disadvantages of line-switching will rise to a higher level.
, the experience loss faced by the top orderer after being switched will be more serious."
Gu Xing likes to study data. Every time before playing a game, he always goes to the official website to look for version updates, and then goes to the data website to find the latest strong jungle characters.
This is also the reason why he played very few ranked games each season but his scores were not low.
Very adaptable to versions.
"What else?" Hongmi asked with interest.
"As long as you purchase the initial jungle equipment broad blade, amulet, and upgraded green, blue, and red jungle knives, when the hero kills large wild monsters, it will provide 50 more experience points. If the level of the wild monster killed is
If you are higher than yourself, you will also receive 30 additional experience points," Gu Xing remembers clearly, "This is a big enhancement for the jungler."
Originally, the broad blade and talisman only provided 15 experience points when killing large monsters, and the three-color jungle knife only provided 30 experience points.
At that time, the status of the jungler was not really high, he was just an enhanced support.
But with this change, using the lowest-level jungle equipment and eating the six groups of wild monsters in the first round, the hero can gain an extra 210 experience points!
You know, the experience required to upgrade a hero from level 1 to level 2 is only 280 points.
The version change instantly increased the jungler’s influence on the situation!
Hongmi was very satisfied. He didn't expect Gu Xing, a newcomer, to be able to answer all the questions he asked.
If you can name half of them, you have passed the test.
But Gu Xing's performance gave him a big surprise.
"Based on this version update, strong jungle heroes will also be replaced..." He taught the newcomers bit by bit, so that Gu Xing could adapt to the professional arena as soon as possible.
According to Hongmi, this kind of thinking is a required course for professional players.
Even though many LPL players don't have it, he still has to teach.
It is his responsibility as a coach to make players better in his own hands.
…
On the evening of June 11th.
After a whole day of training matches, VG's effect became better and better after replacing Gu Xing, and the rhythm was very smooth.
Win more and lose less, the atmosphere in the training room is relaxed and comfortable.
Hongmi stood in the center and signaled everyone to quiet down.
"I'll announce the starting lineup for tomorrow's game against RNG..." He glanced at each player.
The top laner, mid laner and support trio have not rotated, so there is no rush at all now. Jack knows that he will have to follow behind and learn for a while. His current ability is not as good as Imp's, so he doesn't have much hope.
Even World6 doesn't have much hope. Gu Xing has been playing in the training matches for the past two days, and the results are very good.
No matter how you think about it, there is no reason to let him start.
How can I become a starter in the LPL just by messing around with my summer job?
Jack was also happy for his friend, "Okay, brother, give me a good spicy hotpot tomorrow!"
As the leader of the seven wolves of Ionia, he can't play, but he can send in goons!
After Hongmi left, Jack did not forget to instigate conflict in the group chat, [What do you guys say, RNG will play VG tomorrow, and the first Seven Wolves jungle competition will begin!]
Shi Senming was surprised that Gu Xing became the LPL starter so quickly, but he chose to support Mala Xiangguo.
After all, the strength of RNG's lineup is here, and the strength of the Spring Split champion should not be underestimated.
Lin Weixiang, who prides himself on being able to read faces, unconditionally supports Gu Xing. He is probably convinced that he can win the world championship and win a regular season game.
It’s rare for MLXG to bubble up, [@I really only know how to play jungle, my brothers have shown their true skills in the competition, I will definitely not give in]
Gu Xing pretended to be calm and sent two emoticons.
In fact, I was very excited.
In the early hours of the morning, he lay in bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep.
Seeing that the sky was almost getting dark, Gu Xingcai was overcome by fatigue and slept until noon.