LOL: This man is too persuasive!

Chapter 372: Departure to Jakarta!

After analyzing a wave of changes in recent versions, Jiang Zhun and the factory director suddenly discovered that Riot had secretly hidden a chronic poison against EDG.

"The designer knows that the top lane is difficult to target. In these versions, he has begun to increase the proportion of the mid and bottom lane in affecting the game like he did in the previous two seasons."

The factory director repeatedly browsed the A4 paper in his hand. After analyzing all the changes and sorting them out in his mind, he confirmed that his idea was correct.

Last season, due to the designer's changes to the Blazing Censer, League of Legends became the Censer Hero.

The bottom lane, especially the auxiliary position, has become the real 'C position' of the team.

In addition, the lane fantasy gods are still strong, and the pace of most games in the World Championship is still very slow, and team battles are still focused on the bottom lane in the later stages of development.

Therefore, the battle on BP is not interesting. The enjoyment of the game plummets. In addition, every game is basically a bladder game. The audience cannot feel any passion in the first twenty minutes, but the second twenty minutes are A certain side wins the team battle but it is difficult to end the game in one wave.

This is actually very detrimental to League of Legends, which is at the peak of its popularity in various game competitions.

In fact, at the end of S6, League of Legends designers noticed this matter.

Therefore, after the start of S7, they started to redo the runes and talents, hoping to speed up the pace of the game.

And during the S7 mid-season, the new version of runes began to be tested on the test server.

The results were good, with the average match length reduced by around four minutes.

In the S8 season, through the removal of the green jungle knife, changes to the jungle, and the enhancement of the Rift Herald, Riot Games accelerated the game to less than thirty-three minutes as expected.

This also greatly enhances the enjoyment of the event.

The number of online viewers of MSI in the 2018 season was directly close to last year’s global finals.

Moreover, the number of spectators in each competition area has also increased significantly.

"This series of changes they made feel a bit beneficial to RNG!"

Although Jiang Zhun has recently had a headache in training due to different versions of several consecutive events in the league, intercontinental competition, and Asian Games, he still has relatively obvious control over the general direction of changes in Riot Games.

"RNG's four-guaranteed-one system actually seemed to be terminally ill before the start of MSI."

"But after the changes made by Riot Games, RNG, which was originally supported by Uzi in the bottom lane, seems to have a sense of rejuvenation."

"Lashiri was weakened and then strengthened, which is obviously beneficial to strong AD players like Uzi who play in the early stages."

Jiang Zhun knows that times make heroes, and those who conform to the situation are kings.

Unless the team has strong hard power and high plasticity, and the team's coaching team can always figure out the version immediately, it will be very difficult to win the World Championship.

Whether you can achieve good results depends entirely on the face of your fist!

In fact, the version of last year's World Championship was more beneficial to the LPL. After all, the incense burner system is especially suitable for the RNG team.

However, vision was a common problem in the LPL division at that time, especially since SKT had close communication with the Samsung team and learned this style of play, which directly made it extremely difficult for the LPL division to compete in the second half of S7 World Love.

Based on past experience, there is a long rest period between the start of the S tournament and the end of the playoffs in each region. During this period, Riot Games will make a series of changes to the version of the World Championship.

But Jiang Zhunhe, the factory director, didn't expect that the fist's sword would come so quickly this year.

The LPL Summer Split Finals haven't even started yet, and Riot Games has already weakened the MSI champion EDG team!

"Well, it can't be said that this is specifically aimed at our EDG. In fact, IG has also been weakened a lot."

"No, this is not so much a weakening of strong teams, but rather a balance of combat power for strong teams with different styles."

After Jiang Zhun thought for a while, he expressed his thoughts.

"Balance of combat power?"

The factory director touched the little fly at the corner of his mouth, obviously he didn't understand something.

"Since the spring split, the importance of the bottom lane in the game has been weakening."

"Until the first few versions, shooter heroes gradually withdrew from the professional arena. Each team's bottom lane duo basically had a strange combination of mage or warrior combo."

"And the current changes made by Riot are just to adjust the strength and survival space of shooter heroes?"

Under Jiang Zhun's reminder, the factory director quickly grasped the key.

"It seems like this. Compared with the spring split, RNG's total wins remain the same, but in the BO3 of the summer regular season, the second half is basically three rounds. It is difficult to see as clean and tidy as the spring split. I won two points in a row and got off work early."

"Sometimes we even have to fight for forty minutes against a weak team, playing the game of a huge comeback."

The factory director was extremely impressed by RNG's game against BLG before the final game of the regular season.

The Puppy put pressure on the line in the early stage and gained a good advantage.

However, BLG relied on version heroes in the middle and top, and carried out several waves of forced ganks in the bottom lane, interrupting the development rhythm of the puppy.

And when the game returned to calm, the Puppy who returned to the line began to be unable to beat the BLG bottom duo of Crow + Tam.

"According to the current version launch speed, the World Championship is expected to use version 8.19."

"The most advantageous teams should be those teams in the LMS division."

The current version of the Korean server has reached version 8.17, and there is still about a month until the start of the World Championship. According to the speed of Riot version updates, it should be updated to version 8.19.

Although I don’t know the specific content of the version update, the update will definitely be more beneficial to the divisions that use the newer version in the playoffs.

"Fortunately, it's the LMS region, not the LCK or LCS."

"I really don't understand why the playoff version of our LPL division does not use 8.16 but 8.15."

Different schedules for each division, as well as official targeted changes, a series of reasons will inevitably lead to a significant disconnect in the version.

As the factory director complained, the LPL division, as the division with the second-to-last start time of the playoffs, chose version 8.16 instead of the 8.15 version commonly used in other divisions, which made it difficult for him to understand.

"Can't it be seen from the selection of commentators and a series of regulations that people in the LPL division don't understand this game?"

"They will only copy the models of other business leagues without considering the actual situation of the League of Legends."

Jiang Zhun, who always spoke in a pleasant manner, couldn't help but start to complain.

Since the S8 Spring Split, there have been constant mishaps in the LPL region.

Officials often use the old version for safety reasons because of certain bugs in the new version of the game. The most outrageous thing is that even though the national server has been updated to version 8.7, the LPL was still playing version 8.4 during the Spring Split!

This has a very negative impact on players and teams.

For example, a player has not played games for a long time, but he is watching a game. Suddenly one day he sees an interesting routine in the game, and he gets excited and invites his friends to sit in an Internet cafe to show it off.

But little did they know that this routine had actually been weakened because it was too strong.

This will directly cause the player to have no gaming experience for the whole game, and start to doubt whether his strength has really dropped too much, and he should play simpler mobile games like Honor of Kings, which will lead to the loss of League of Legends users.

For another example, the version used in the World Championship is version 8.19.

The playoff versions adopted by each major competition area are as follows:

The version used in the LCK playoffs is 8.15

The version used in the LPL playoffs is 8.15

The version used in the NA LCS playoffs is 8.16

The version used in the EU LCS playoffs is 8.16

The version used in the LMS playoffs is 8.17

At first glance, the LPL’s biggest enemy, the LCK division, is consistent with the version used in the LPL playoffs. It is fair for both teams to win in this version to play in the playoffs. However, in fact, the start time of the LPL division’s playoffs is later than that of the LCK. The competition area is 12 days late!

Coupled with the large number of teams, the end time of the semi-finals of the playoffs is two weeks later than the LCK division!

This means that other people’s LCK division is studying the new version two weeks earlier than your LPL division!

"Hey" the factory director also sighed quietly: "After all, as mentioned above, the LPL is a commercial league. For them, making money is the most important, and how to improve the strength of the competition area is the second."

"Short-sighted, fishing for nothing!"

Jiang Zhun hated the iron and said: "To be honest, if we didn't win the championship last year and the LPL division this year, the LPL business league would be almost dead!"

"Why don't they understand that by improving the strength of their league teams and making the division a top division, they will earn more money!"

"Hey."

"This is not our business."

"Let's continue to study the possible direction of the World Championship version before we go to the Asian Games."

"After all, the middle lane and the bottom lane are the two areas where EDG is relatively weak."

The factory director picked up the report summarized and refined by the data analyst again and read it.

EDG's mid lane and bottom lane are really a bit underwhelming compared to the strong teams such as IG, RW, and RNG in the LPL division.

In the game, the task of Hai Chengmin, Sima Laothi and Mei Kuan in the early stage is to stabilize, wait for their upper and jungle advantages to radiate over in the early stage, and then start snowballing along with the overall advantage of the team.

With the changes in version 8.17, Riot has begun to "balance" the values ​​​​of heroes, weakening EDG's midfielder in disguise.

It is not difficult to predict that version 8.18, which will be launched in a week, will definitely take action in this area again.

"8.18 is a version related to the World Championship. It is estimated that Riot will balance more heroes. In fact, we can refer to the heroes that strong team players in the two LCS divisions are good at and make certain guesses."

"After all, LCK has won the championship for so many years."

"Our LPL won its first World Championship last year, and this year we won the MSI Championship and the Intercontinental Championship."

“It’s hard to guarantee that Riot won’t favor Europe and the United States and give them customized versions.”

As the oldest analyst in the EDG team, Lao Fan actually understands the changes in the League of Legends version every year better than many players and even coaches.

"Anyway, judging from the change of deleting the green jungle knife this year, it is impossible for Riot to enhance the heroes like Big Eye and Octopus Mom in the LCK region."

From the perspective of conspiracy theories, there is really nothing wrong with Lao Fan’s words, but the factory director still said:

"Blacksmith need its own hardware."

"Xiao Jiang and I will go to the training camp the day after tomorrow, and then go to Jakarta to play in the Asian Games. You can help me supervise and urge Hai Chengmin."

"His hero pool is really weird."

"If the old core mages like Tsar, Clockwork, Ryze, and Viktor become strong again in the World Championship, the World Championship will still be very detrimental to us EDG."

"Yeah." Old Fan nodded repeatedly: "Hai Chengmin's hero pool is indeed a bit shallow. To be honest, the proficiency of many of his mage heroes is not as good as that of Sima Laothief!"

……

September 9, Jakarta.

On the first day of school for many primary and secondary school students, a Boeing plane landed at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

"It's not as hot as I thought!"

Malaxiang Guo took off his sunglasses and looked at the sky with the sun hanging high in the sky. He felt comfortable and extremely excited at the same time.

"Isn't this normal?"

"Summers in some tropical areas are really not as hot as in subtropical coastal areas."

Behind them, the players from the Jakarta Asian Games team also carried their boxes and walked into the drop-off channel.

"Hey."

"My eyes hurt when I look at this sun."

The factory director had just imitated the appearance of the incense pot and glanced at the sky. His eyes could not stop crying because of the strong light and were a little sore.

He took out his mobile phone and said:

"The Asian Games exhibition referee team temporarily changed the rules, and our group can enter three teams."

"This is right!"

Hearing the words of the factory director, Mala Xiangguo couldn't help but applaud.

Looking around the world, East Asia's combat effectiveness in League of Legends competitions is definitely the strongest.

But the person in charge of the Asian Games in Jakarta was out of his mind or something, and insisted on dividing the groups into East Asia, West Asia, and so on, and there were only two teams in each group that advanced.

This seemingly fair behavior is actually very unfair.

"Why are you so happy?"

"Shouldn't it be the Z country Taiwan B representative team that is happy?"

The factory director said: "Originally, they basically had no hope of advancing to the knockout rounds. This rule change is basically equivalent to a walk-off. After all, it is impossible for the TB team to lose to Vietnam, right?"

"Anyway, it's a good thing for our group to have one more team advance!"

Malaxiangguo said stiffly: "It's just an extra insurance! And before I came here, I specifically learned about the level of the national teams in Central Asia and West Asia. To be honest, during the live broadcast, if I randomly pick five water friends to go up and play, they should be able to compete." Good to them!”

"If we advance, we will definitely not be in the same group as the Dahan Ming Kingdom representative team. Playing against those teams will lower our level."

"TB can advance and put pressure on us, which is a good thing!"

"After all, Flash Wolves played well in MSI and became known as the BO1 God of War."

(End of this chapter)