Chapter 164 - Group A: First Place, Top Order Brawl
"RNG is still not strong enough, but that doesn't mean your bottom lane is okay."

Back to the base, the first thing to do is to have a meeting.

The duo in the bottom lane were still criticized.

Fu Manduo's review is quite good. It is not just hindsight, but he tries his best to guide the contestants to express their thoughts at the time, and then provides more possibilities to broaden the contestants' thinking.

Yuan Shen, on the other hand, played Solo with TheShy.

"You don't need to practice the matchup between Gnar and Yasuo. You're already good enough at it."

Yuan Shen looked at the two corpses displayed on his black and white screen thoughtfully.

Without the characteristics of Top Lane Light and Top Lane Overlord, relying only on his own basic attributes and the bonus of S-level hero proficiency, his operating level can probably be maintained at around 101.

If you use A-level hero proficiency, it will only be at level 94 to 95.

Higher than the current TheShy, but also extremely limited.

It still depends on the hero restraint relationship.

"Your personal strength has already reached its peak level. What's left is to slowly analyze the game and accumulate a lot of laning experience. This is a process of continuous improvement, so don't rush it."

Yuan Shen touched TheShy's head.

As expected of the future Martial Saint, TheShy’s talent in personal operations is stronger than his, and his reaction and hand speed are also faster.

Of course, as long as he possesses the system, there is no limit to his abilities.

Therefore, Yuan Shen does not envy TheShy's talent.

"The afterimage mechanism, understanding of the soldier line, blocking the attack interval of the defense tower, blocking the attack interval of the soldiers... I can teach you these skills, and you can learn them, but you still need to figure out the laning experience yourself, and you also need to practice more to master the heroes. If you want to reach my level..."

Yuan Shen raised his head, tilted his face upwards, and began to calculate.

"One plus one equals one, one plus two equals two...it will probably take another three years of polishing."

"What should the nest do now?"

TheShy is convinced by Yuan Shen.

Dopa is also a big brother, Rookie is also a big brother, and he admires them both equally.

But they are mid laners, and he plays jungle and top lane, which are different positions, so he is not convinced.

But the more he got to know Yuan Shen, the more ignorant he felt.

Throughout the entire S5, no one had figured out Yuan Shen's true abilities, and the same is true for him now.

Unfathomable and terrifying.

"Now? Let's practice team fighting."

Yuan Shen suddenly laughed.

He doesn't know why TheShy is addicted to ARAM, but he should like this training method.

"Team fight?"

TheShy's head was full of question marks until Yuan Shen sent him an invitation to a melee, and then he reacted.

"This!! Use it up!!"

Looking at TheShy's excitement, Yuan Shen silently chose to quit.

"You play by yourself, I'll go to the ranking."

"why?"

TheShy was confused again.

"Now I don't need to practice team battles anymore."

Yuan Shen touched the non-existent beard on his chin and smiled.

Then, under TheShy's admiring gaze, he turned around and left, and started to earn points in the ranking match...

Damn, it’s not a good thing that this disciple is too talented. If he doesn’t improve his own strength, he will be surpassed one day.

Although a teacher does not have to be better than his disciple, if possible, Yuan Shen hopes that his progress can be consistent with or even surpass TheShy's.

"A new hero has been released in the test server. Have you seen it?"

Jack and Xiao Ming bowed their heads to admit their mistakes, acting like good boys. They started laughing as soon as they left the training room. Jack and Xiao Ming put their arms around each other and came close to Yuan Shen.

"ember?"

Yuan Shen raised his eyebrows.

"Fuck, you really know?"

Jack had a secret that he couldn't tell, and he felt very uncomfortable.

"Jin is about to come out..."

Yuan Shen fell into memories.

Jhin is the 129th hero in League of Legends.

The 128th is the Sea Beast Priest Illaoi.

The 127th one is the Eternal Hunter Twins Kindred.

"I've looked at this hero. He's different from the traditional ADC that relies on basic attacks. He focuses more on the connection between skills and basic attacks. I think he's more suitable for me."

Jack was eager to try it out; he liked this weird bottom lane combination the most.

He also played Syndra and Ziggs at Yuan Shen's suggestion.

IG's deep hero pool on all three lines is also their biggest reliance in swinging BP.

"It's still too early. The national server will be online at least after the Spring Festival. By then, I guess both versions will be updated at the same time."

Yuan Shen didn't care much about it. The Chinese server version has always been about one month slower than the Korean server.

Sometimes two versions are updated at the same time, and domestic players have not experienced the strength of the new hero, and the result is that the new hero is weakened.

This is also one of the reasons why professional players are increasingly reluctant to play Rank training on the national server.

Of course, this does not include Yuan Shen.

It is easier to rank up on the Chinese server, but the queue is fast, the latency is low, and the points awarded are the same as on the Korean server.

He loves the national server so much.

In the entire IG, only Yuan Shen still maintains the habit of gaining points in the national server.

Even Jack and Xiao Ming have switched to the Korean server to play Rank training.

"Well, do you have any ideas for new heroes?"

Xiao Ming came over with Yuan Shen's water cup, ready to take out some information.

Everyone knows that Yuan Shen's understanding and foresight of the version are sometimes more reliable than those of analysts.

This kind of thing is hard to describe, we can only think of it as a snack for Yuan Shen.

"It's not out yet... But, Xiao Ming, you can get familiar with the hero Zyra. I think she will be a good match for Jhin."

"By the way, last time I asked you to practice Frost Lady, just practice on your own and don't play Rank. If possible, TheShy and I can practice laning with you."

Yuan Shen flipped through his notebook. There were some things on it that only he could understand.

After all, art that is too advanced is always abstract.

"Alas……"

Looking at the messy records in Yuan Shen's notebook with occasional black balls on them, Jack showed a look of disgust.

"Your handwriting is too ugly. You will definitely not get any points in the college entrance examination."

Yuan Shen was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head.

"I...I didn't go to high school."

Jack was stunned. They knew something about Yuan Shen's family situation, but they didn't expect...

"Yes, I'm sorry..."

"Hey, it's all over."

Yuan Shen sighed, turned around and left with the cup of water, looking lonely.

"You're going too far, Jack..."

Xiao Ming turned to look at Jack and said dissatisfiedly.

"How can you say that?"

"I……"

Jack was almost in tears.

Damn it, I deserve to die!!
No, apologize, apologize now!!

Brother, wait for me!!

"What are you looking at?"

Outside the door, Rookie poked Yuan Shen's shoulder and whispered.

"Shh, I'm in KTV Jack."

Yuan Shen waved his hand, motioning Rookie to come over.

"KTV..." Rookie looked confused, but still stuck his head out.

They are all top professional players, and they are professional at blocking vision.

"Nothing...it's inexplicable."

Rookie turned and left, leaving Yuan Shen alone standing there, looking at Jack and Xiao Ming's annoyed expressions and trying hard to hold back a smile.

Compulsory education only goes up to junior high school, but what does this have to do with his graduation from graduate school in his previous life?
Knowledge is something that can never be lost as long as it is in the brain.

……

The spring season is still going on.

In the first stage, there are three competition weeks in total.

Excluding the rest time, there are a total of nine days in which we will play against five teams.

For IG, such a schedule is not complicated.

Although the opponents in Group A are strong, only EDG and RNG can pose a threat to IG.

M3 and EPA were both swept by IG -.

The gap in strength was too great. These two teams couldn't even last twenty minutes against IG.

The first and second weeks of the league have ended one after another, and the standings show the true strength pyramid of each team.

Group B, QG won all the games.

Under the guidance of Gimgoon, top laner V has performed quite well in recent games. He is at the same level as TheShy and 957, and is known as the three new stars of LPL.

Following closely behind is WE, which was completely reorganized and recruited new players.

Top laner 957, jungler Condi, mid laner Xiye, bottom lane Mystic and Ben.

The player Ben was requested for exchange when IG bought TheShy.

Although they lost TheShy, they have 957, and they have found talents like Khan among the youth training players, so they are not short of top laners.

At the same time, we exchanged for the support that needed the most reinforcement, so it was not a loss overall.

LGD, which was runner-up in the spring and summer last year and ranked in the top four in the world championship, has not performed well this season.

They could only rank third in Group A and lost the games against QG and WE.

The veteran strong team OMG seemed very sluggish, even teams like VG and HYG had a hard time beating them. The whole team was only supported by one Uzi.

This dark force that once amazed the world has lost its former glory and has completely become a league relegation team. The players and management have also gradually begun to muddle through.

In Group A, IG won all the games.

The second is EDG, and then this season's dark horse team RNG.

If nothing unexpected happens, these three teams will shine in the playoffs.

In terms of record and paper strength alone, RNG is not inferior to any top team, but they have not yet found a style of play that suits them.

"LPL dark horses emerge frequently, traditional giants decline"

《Popular in the arena, analysis of top single Poppy》

"The Immortal Yasuo is popular all over the world, and he is the biggest villain!"

"OMG's decline began with Yuan Shen and ended with Uzi"

E-sports news reports the situation in the LPL arena in real time. Any hero that appears in the professional competition will soon become popular in the casual games.

Especially Yasuo, this elegant and flexible hero has always been a popular hero in Rank. And because Yuan Shen developed the Immortal Yasuo, his strength in the early stage and high tolerance after the equipment was formed, Yasuo became popular all of a sudden all of a sudden all over the world, and many people in major competition areas followed suit.

In every ranked game, there are people who come in and say "Yasuo on the X floor, if you don't give it to me, I'll give it away."

The emergence of pre-selected positions does not limit their creative ideas at all.

Top lane Yasuo, mid lane Yasuo, bottom lane Yasuo, support Yasuo.

If they weren't really afraid of being killed by wild monsters, it would not be uncommon to see five people pre-selecting Yasuo.

The entire Summoner's Rift is filled with a happy atmosphere.

Of course, this is just the joy of Yasuo players.

Their happiness is built on the suffering of nine other people.

Many people went to Yuan Shen’s live broadcast room and accused him of being the culprit.

A poem quickly spread.

"Anyway, he's not uncomfortable. He just needs to press E enough. All three keys on the keyboard are pressed except Ctrl+6. He presses E until he has nowhere to go. He's standing still with a dog tag of zero and six..."

In addition to heroes and playing styles, what surprised LPL viewers the most was the emphasis LPL placed on top laners.

Some people even made a ranking for the top laners in LPL.

The veteran top laner is still here, Ma Run defeated Flandre.

There are also newcomers competing first, and they are the first to show off their golden tribute of 957.

In addition, the overall strength of Tong Yang, A'long, and Xi Yang is increasing.

Even Zizi is no longer the dispensable character that only existed in IG group photos last year, and he has more opportunities to play.

Of course, no one has gone into the details to find out which of these top laners is number one.

The FMVP of the World Championship has only been selected since S4.

In the first year, it was Mata who played the support position.

There is only one FMVP champion in the top lane position, and that is Yuan Shen.

Before the next top laner who wins the championship FMVP appears, there is only one top laner, and that is Yuan Shen.

Sometimes LPL fans are wondering, by winning the FMVP and then running away without giving others the chance to challenge him, isn’t Yuan Shen’s behavior too hurtful to other top laners?
Of course, there are also those who say: Damn it, just pretend to be cool and then run away, it’s so exciting!

On January 1st, IG will face EDG.

Compared to the German Cup, EDG is in obviously stronger shape.

Flandre integrated into the team very quickly, and the jungler-support coordination between Mingkai and Meiko became smoother.

The duel between Rookie and Pawn was tit-for-tat and neither side gave in.

Both teams fully demonstrated their top-notch strength.

In the first game, IG was given a warning by EDG.

Pawn suppressed Rookie as if he was on drugs, and Zz1tai and Meiko also performed perfectly, completely destroying IG's middle and bottom lanes.

In thirty minutes, the economic gap had already reached 11,000.

Just when everyone thought that EDG had already secured victory with such a huge advantage, Yuan Shen and TheShy stood up.

TheShy picked Ekko against Flandre's Poppy, while Yuan Shen chose Graves.

Even if the team's economy collapsed, the two of them kept up with their development.

TheShy was solo laning and even found an opportunity to kill Flandre once.

Rookie's Tsar guarded the defensive tower and kept clearing the lane, delaying the development time.

When the stalemate reached the 48th minute, Ekko entered the field and immobilized three people. Rookie and Jack risked their lives to output, giving Yuan Shen a chance to harvest.

A two-for-four exchange plus a big dragon narrowed the economic gap to six thousand.

After the revision, the male gun showed his invincible combat power in the late game for the first time.

However, in this situation, Deft stood out.

Big Mouth has also been revamped in the new season.

With the help of Lulu's protection, Deft sprayed five enemies in one second and walked A like a devil, directly melting IG's front row.

The amount of blood that disappeared in that instant was so shocking.

In the first game, IG lost.

Yuan Shen's record of 11-7-9 could not be saved.

Season S5 is the last season where players rely on individual combat power to fight one against five.

After S5, team strength becomes more important.

However, the IG players adjusted their mentality quickly and played to their full potential in the second game.

Jack chose Draven, and with the roaming protection of Yuan Shen and Rookie, he defeated Deft's Kog'Maw in the laning phase.

After two games, the game ended in a tie of one to one.

By the time the final round came, Yuan Shen had figured out EDG's tactics.

Choose Zzitai to play in the top lane, let the top lane be left alone, and let him and Flandre compete to see who is more oily.

As for the others, they let Jack bear the pressure while the mid, jungle and support madly targeted Pawn.

The coordinated rhythm of IG's mid, jungle and support made Pawn's life very difficult.

His strength is comparable to Rookie's, but no matter how strong a person is, he can't beat three at once.

In the last game, the two sides fought for thirty-seven minutes, and the game finally ended when EDG started a team fight with Rookie, and Yuan Shen and Qiyana used their ultimate to save the game.

After IG defeated EDG 2-1, it also meant that the first stage of the game officially ended.

(End of this chapter)