703: The appearance of the Stray Thorn and the birth of the Crouching Dragon and Phoenix!
"The photo was taken very well," the reporter from CCTV5 smiled broadly, praising the professionalism of his photographer. "We can put this photo directly on the official website as the cover later."
"Can Gu Xing come to me?" he requested, "I want to interview you."
This CCTV reporter has dealt with Gu Xing before - he conducted interviews on behalf of the state media after Staples and the Bird's Nest won the championship, and he also published two special reports, so he is an old acquaintance.
At this moment, Gu Xing naturally had no reason to refuse. He straightened his hair and stood next to the reporter, trying hard to get rid of the sleepiness caused by the long journey and make himself look energetic.
"In recent years, the e-sports industry has developed rapidly, and it has become an Asian Games event for the first time in history. As the most famous athlete in the domestic and even global e-sports field, Gu Xing, you have made a huge contribution to this. Can you talk about your feelings?
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Gu Xing was serious and thought clearly, "I dare not and cannot take credit for the entry of e-sports into Asia, because this is the joint effort of countless e-sports people including me, including Alex, Sky, etc.
Thanks to the unremitting persistence of all the seniors, e-sports has entered the mainstream today. In a sense, I am just a fruit-eater..."
"But I hope that after I retire, my presence can plant a tree in the history of e-sports and bear fruits for those who come after me to draw on and move forward."
In the e-sports circle, he has been regarded as a model of outstanding eloquence. At least he is much better than many players who have slurred speech and frequently add "just" and "that" when they are interviewed. CCTV reporters are very happy about this.
satisfy.
"Let us turn our attention from history to the present," the reporter's smile became more obvious, "League of Legends is the most watched e-sports event in this Asian Games. Among them, the biggest competitor KR Team is bound to win this competition.
, To this end, we have called together famous athletes who are still participating in competitions in our country to form a team with superior strength. I would like to ask Gu Xing, what do you think of them?"
Gu Xing pondered for a moment.
As the reporter said, the KR team is quite strong.
Based on the competitive level shown by the CN team in the two training camps, Gu Xing did not have the full confidence to win.
But now that the matter has come to this, Gu Xing cannot say no. He promises in front of the camera, "The KR team certainly has good strength, but there is still a certain gap if they want to compete with us... The first time after e-sports entered Asia
This gold medal must belong to us!"
When the reporter received the promise, he immediately smiled and his voice was a little excited, "Then I will wait for the good news from Gu Xing as before. I wish you success in this Asian Games and smooth sailing!"
He was busy interviewing the contestants of Honor of Kings International Edition and Clash Royale. Gu Xingze breathed a sigh of relief and finally relaxed his tense body.
Abu hurriedly gathered the players and left the airport. As expected, many fans were waiting outside holding flowers and cheering lights. When they saw the CNLOL team, they waved the little red flags in their hands.
"Brother, come on, this game depends on you!"
"Xiaohu, why don't you steam the steamed buns to get some credit? Don't show your filial piety to Faker!"
"Yan Junze, you too, use your expertise of equality of all beings to mix it up, just choose Ornn, I'm thinking about your carry top laner!"
"Jack, don't turn on the air conditioner too much when you sleep at night. Otherwise, Brother Xing will catch a cold again, and you will be the main culprit for losing the gold medal!"
When Yu Wenbo heard this, he couldn't help laughing.
After the VG base team was wiped out, after a period of ups and downs in performance, fans were once dissatisfied with this and even went to the home game to question the club with banners.
In order to quell the public outrage, the official blog quickly announced the cause of the player's illness and the current status of treatment, making the trouble caused by Jack well known.
"Abu has already reminded me!" Yu Wenbo raised his hands to salute the French military salute, "Brothers will definitely not dare to cause trouble this time!"
In Gu Xing's view, the scale of the pick-up was not too outrageous. After all, there were not many local fans in Indonesia who liked VG. Most of the people who came to pick up the plane were domestic spectators who came to watch the game.
But when you compare it horizontally with other entries, you can see how exaggerated it is.
In today's traditional sports, athletes with a large number of fans are basically related to leagues. Unpopular sports do not have stable exposure. It is obviously not enough to rely solely on four-year competitions such as the Asian Games and Olympics to gain popularity.
It can be said that, except for the national sports table tennis and basketball and other sports that have a wider audience, athletes from other traditional sports are really not as popular among young people as LOL e-sports players.
And this is just a small scene.
Taking a bus to the Kemayoran Asian Games Village in the center of Jakarta, Gu Xing was surrounded by a group of athletes wearing award-winning uniforms from various countries as soon as he got off the bus.
"Virtue, I am your fan!"
"Can you sign your autograph for me? I've been watching your games since S6!"
"MSI played really well. Bro, what skin do you plan to choose for this year's championship?"
They surrounded Gu Xing like stars holding the moon, asking for autographs and photos.
Athletes who come to participate in the Asian Games are generally young, and the coaches are very strict. They cannot go out to play often, and they basically spend their leisure time playing games online.
Among them, League of Legends is definitely a topic that cannot be avoided.
As a leader in the LOL e-sports field, Gu Xing’s popularity among athletes is soaring, which is understandable.
Gu Xing, who was enthusiastically sought after, could only act as a ruthless photo machine. On the way to his residence while carrying his suitcase, he took dozens of group photos and almost stopped laughing.
After finally dealing with the requests from these fan athletes, Gu Xing finally found time to look at the Kia Asian Games Village.
The building complex built in the center of Jakarta is not particularly large. There are only 7 buildings in total, which can accommodate a total of 14,000 athletes. As you can imagine, they are all high-rise buildings.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Looking from the outside, the balcony is densely packed with national flags hung by athletes spontaneously, which looks spectacular.
All CN athletes stayed in Building 4. Staff from the Information Center of the State Sports General Administration greeted them at the door and led them to check in and get their room cards.
"If you need to buy daily necessities, just come to the lobby on the first floor." The staff took the room card from the local Indonesian volunteer and handed it to Abu. "You live on the 7th floor.
Each person can be allocated freely..."
"Is that a god or demon?" Jack played the role of a curious baby and pointed his short finger at the TV screen in the lobby on the first floor.
There was a kind-faced man wearing black-rimmed glasses, about thirty years old, with a smile that made people feel like spring breeze. He put his hand into the glass jar and stirred it back and forth to extract the black balls.
It looked like a lottery ceremony, but Jack couldn't understand the English in the live broadcast signal.
"News and live broadcasts related to the Asian Games will be broadcast here..." the staff introduced, and then he noticed the content on the screen, "Oh, this is Mr. Huo Qigang, aren't you e-sports athletes? The one he is drawing is the LOL group.
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The camera turned and Yu Wenbo saw the League of Legends logo clearly.
"Wow, let's get rid of it and get a good draw!" Jack clasped his hands together and prayed.
When they heard the live broadcast of the lottery ceremony, not only Jack, but also all the members of the CNLOL representative team stopped and paused.
Huo Qigang drew out the first black ball and unfolded it to reveal a red flag.
Everyone started chattering and discussing.
"Are we in Group A?" Uzi asked the teammates next to him excitedly, "Except for the three teams from East Asia, who else is participating in the group?"
After all, you don’t even know who your opponent is, so why are you so excited?
Gu Xing complained in his heart.
He looked at the national flag and the English names below and said, "Vietnam, the host Indonesia, Kazakhstan? And Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, it should be these countries. They are all teams that stood out from different divisions in the qualifiers."
"...To be honest, except for Vietnam, are the other teams even a little competitive?" Xiaohu chuckled.
"I think so, the top four are already certain!" Letme agreed deeply, "We, Wanwan, Vietnam and Han Country, others don't even have a chance to compete!"
This statement was approved by most people.
The other four countries don’t even have competition zones, so what can they do to challenge us head-on?
There are no doors!
Gu Xing suddenly said, "What if this draw will cause our four teams to fight to the death in advance?"
"Huh?" Uzi raised his head suddenly and followed Gu Xing's gaze.
As a result, Huo Qigang took out another black ball, took it apart and looked at it, showing a half-smiling expression.
When you unfold it, you will see that it is the Taegeukgi inside!
The cold country representative team!
The Tai Chi flag moved below the red flag, immediately arousing a burst of exclamations from the teammates around Gu Xing.
"Holy shit!" Letme's eyes widened, "China and South Korea are in the same group?"
"Not only that... but also Vietnam." Gu Xing's tone was full of helplessness.
Another red flag also appeared in front of them, they also entered Group A where China and South Korea were!
"A shady story!" Jack shouted dissatisfied, "A complete shady story!"
Even if China and South Korea, the two biggest competitors, are divided into a group, and Vietnam is added to the mix, who can withstand it?
"It's not fair, draw again!" Duan Deliang was also filled with indignation.
"Oh," Yu Wenbo sighed, "It would be great if you were here, Abu..."
Ji Xing's head was full of questions, "What do you mean?"
"Use Ekko's ultimate move to activate time and space regression. Go back to before the lottery ceremony begins and do it again!" Jack said matter-of-factly, "Isn't your EDG the best at this move?"
"You damn me..." Abu's teeth itched with hatred.
Gu Xing and others were delighted when they heard this.
After the drawing ceremony is over, the complete group results will be finalized.
Group A: China, Hanguo, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia.
Group B: Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan.
The CNLOL team chose their dormitory, put down their luggage, took a quick shower, and then gathered in Abu's room.
"The rules of the group stage in the main stage are to play a double round-robin BO1, with a total of 6 rounds. Two teams in each group qualify, and then adopt the format of A1 vs. B2, B1 vs. A2, BO3 in the semi-finals, and then in the finals.
BO5…”
Abu first briefly explains the rules of the competition clearly.
Letme was still grumbling and complaining, "It's too obvious that Indonesia, the host country, has signed a draw. Isn't this a proper guarantee of sending the semi-finals to the semi-finals?"
Compared with Group A of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Group B is obviously a fish pond!
Wanwan looks pretty good, but there is still a big gap in strength compared to Zhonghan - after all, the card character Wolf King was not called up to compete, but stayed in the RW team and raced against time to prepare for the playoffs.
In this way, as long as Indonesia can seize the opportunity, it may really be able to squeeze out the other two teams and enter the knockout round!
"Okay, now that it's done, don't complain about the draw," Abu advised Yan Junze to relax. "It's unrealistic for us to rely on luck to win the championship. Sooner or later we will encounter strong teams."
"That's right," Gu Xing nodded in agreement, "Especially for the Hanguo team, it's good for us to meet in advance in the group stage. At least we can explore the strength of the opponent, so that everyone can be prepared for the follow-up.
Tactics formulation.”
He spoke better than Abramovich, and the players also knew that the result of the draw had become a reality, so they had no choice but to accept it silently.
Seeing that the team members had calmed down and stabilized, Abu turned to the topic, "I received a notice before the game that version 8.15 will be used in the main game. How are you doing, Zhu Kai and Bai Jiao, in summarizing version information?"
Zhu Kai quickly opened his briefcase and handed the information he printed out earlier to Abu and the players.
"I have carefully browsed the 8.15 version, and it is worth noting that the Sword Girl has been weakened, which is almost the same as the 8.14 patch to kill the Sword Demon," he told his understanding, "I think it will not break the bones, it is still very strong...
"
Gu Xing read the version description.
In the previous version, the overly ostentatious Sword Demon was targeted by the designer. In addition to cutting down the base health by 30 points, the damage of Q [Darkin Blade] to minions was also cut by a large amount. The early charging of E skill was also reduced.
The time is greatly extended, and as compensation, the additional attack power bonus of R [Destruction] is increased by one step.
As a result, Sword Demon was still a non-ban player in the LPL in the past two weeks, and the strength of the selection was quite scary.
The nerfs suffered by Dao Mei in version 8.15 are also painless. The basic attack power, health value and passive layer damage have been increased. In exchange, the range and damage of Q [Blade Impact] have been reduced, and E [Wing Double Blades] have been reduced.
】The range of the ultimate move is reduced by 50 yards.
As Zhu Kai said, it is still very strong, just let it go and make a blind choice.
"Both the blind monk and Olaf in the jungle have been adjusted. The former is to reduce the damage in the early stage and greatly enhance the output ability in the later stage. The latter is to simply increase the attack speed bonus of W [Cruel Strike]. I think Olaf
Raf, we can study it..." Zhu Kai continued.
"Turtle, Olaf needs to be strengthened?" Jack was stunned. "The value is already outrageous. Is the designer afraid that he won't be able to kill an Edici with three axes?"
"But increasing the numerical value does not mean that he will be invincible," Gu Xing analyzed rationally. "Olav basically starts with a fast four when he goes to the jungle. But in this version, there are very few junglers who have no brains to clear 6 groups of camps before doing things.
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Do you want to fight for the swift crab that will be refreshed in 2 minutes?
In this version of Olaf, he must bring a predator to make up for the mobility after the sprint is weakened. Without shoes at level 2, it is equivalent to giving up a cornerstone talent!
Originally, Olaf at level 2 is not very strong. If you lack a main talent, how can you compete with heroes like Qinggang Shadow and Xin Zhao to snatch river crabs?
Therefore, Gu Xing does not agree with Zhu Kai's judgment and feels that Olaf will still be an unpopular hero choice.
After Zhu Kai was denied, his old face turned red, and he tightened his fingers on the information slightly, showing an embarrassed look as he continued, "The mid laner position has not changed much, but the most important thing to pay attention to is Syndra, her Q skill in the early stage
The damage directly increased by 20 points. I looked at the Korean server data and found that this change directly raised the BP rate and winning rate of the ball girl to the T1 sequence."
"The enhancement is indeed quite exaggerated," Gu Xing nodded slightly, "and Syndra is in line with the current version's trend of grabbing the right to the mid lane... Xiaohu, are you proficient in using it?"
Li Yuanhao patted his chest, "No problem, my Syndra is definitely no worse than Faker!"
Several chuckles sounded in the room.
Zhu Kai also smiled and said his interpretation of the version, "Another key point in the middle is the rework of Akali."
"In terms of the strength of the mid laners in the Korean server, she is even better than Syndra. She is a pure numerical monster!"
Akali's previous skill mechanism was too backward. Riot Games made drastic changes to it. Even the people were changed. From Shadow Fist to Outlier Thorn, the daughter took her mother's kunai and came to the canyon to fight.
.
Now Akali's mechanism has a completely new look, which is infinitely better than the original version!
The problem is that it's just too strong.
OP.GG even gave Akali the OP (OverPower) label to highlight her unique status.
When the energy is high, casting Q can restore blood, W can avoid the hatred of defense towers, and the turrets on the opposite side can't even see you!
In addition, R [Internal and External Killing Chaos] can be released without targeting the target, and it can also cause dizziness when aiming at the enemy hero to ensure that its subsequent skills hit!
With this kind of numerical mechanism, it would be outrageous for a brainless assassin not to reach the top of the Korean server!
Not to mention the passerby Rank, Gu Xing can guarantee that Akali will also be a popular hero in the professional arena!
Gu Xing turned to look at Li Yuanhao again, the subtext was very obvious.
Do you know this hero?
Xiaohu scratched his head in embarrassment, "...I think I'm an average player, not particularly proficient, but with the values here, it shouldn't be a big problem."
"That's good." Gu Xing put down the heavy burden in his heart.
He was afraid that Li Yuanhao would not be able to version heroes, which would make it impossible for the representative team's drafter to continue.
"Oh, by the way," White Crescent Moon added beside him, "Qian Jue was slashed, Brother Xing, please pay attention when the time comes - the cooldown of the ultimate move has been increased by a CD, and the Wolf Spirit Bite speed of the W skill has also been slightly increased.
slow."
Gu Xing understood clearly, "This is not a big problem. It is offset by the reset of the previous recovery amount. Calculated, it is still better than the Spring Split."
"Is there no other information besides this?" He looked at the two coaches.
Bai Yueya and Zhu Kai shook their heads one after another, like a rattle, and assured in unison, "No!"
Gu Xing had learned from the experience of the qualifiers and did not trust the words of the two.
He specially went over the updated content from scratch.
In the end, he really discovered the details.
"Didn't you two tell me about the CD extension?" Gu Xing's eyes widened.
"...It won't have much impact, I think?" White Crescent Moon responded ambiguously.
Gu Xing hissed lightly, "The basic cooldown is 60 seconds, and the cooldown after cancellation is 40 seconds. You call this a small impact?!"
Sometimes it's really hard for him to imagine why he always hears such outrageous replies from his own coach.
Bai Yueya gritted his teeth and reported, "Our understanding of the version is this..."
"Stop, stop, stop!" Gu Xing quickly asked the two to stop, "Stop talking about it now, when can we use the training room, Abu?"
He planned to play a few games himself to find out the direction of the version, for fear that he would be led into the gutter by the pair of sleeping dragons and phoenixes.
"The room is still being decorated, and it won't be until tomorrow at the soonest." Abu showed a perplexed expression on his face.
"Let's take a rest first. Everyone, hurry up and catch up on your sleep. We have to work overtime in the next few days!" Gu Xing encouraged his teammates.
After returning to the dormitory, he lay on the bed adapting to the new environment. He was destined not to meet Zhou Gong in a short time, so he was bored and had to turn on his mobile phone to surf.
Kangba also heard about the draw results of the Asian Games, and the discussion was in full swing in the Tieba.