There is a total of one stone in the LPL mid lane, and I exclusively own twelve stones.

Before the S4 roster was determined, Riot introduced new rules and regulations for the LPL division, forcibly disbanding the ADG team and LMQ team, and forcibly disbanding the EDE team.

This makes many LPL players worry that Riot will play some tricks during the group stage draw, but judging from the draw, Riot is quite fair and just.

Both LPL and OGN players are very satisfied with this lottery result.

Players in the LPL division don't need to worry about the five teams in the LPL division fighting each other and falling in the top 16.

The players in the OGN division breathed a sigh of relief.

Neither the No. 1 seed nor the No. 2 seed in their division met the EDG team.

As for the third seed NJW, this is an experienced baby. If EDG beats them, it doesn't matter.

After all, Group C seems to be a group of death, but in fact, except for EDG, other teams are not strong.

"Brothers are off to war, see you in Korea!"

At the EDG base, the EDG15 boys were divided into two groups and boarded the bus for the expedition.

"Goodbye today, see you in Busan tomorrow!!"

"Don't fall behind. If anyone falls behind, I'll make a mockery of you with a small smile!"

"Hahaha, I have been working hard for a year. If I fall behind at this time, won't this year be wasted?"

EDG15 smiled and waved goodbye, agreeing to gather in Busan for the top 8!

Top 8 in Busan.

In 2014, the famous Train to Busan had not yet been released, and EDG15 members had basically never heard of the city of Busan, but this did not affect most EDG members’ yearning for Busan.

As the S3 season champions, the EDG players who won the championship in America Los Angeles are already considered people who have seen the world, but this time South Korea competes in S4, both Sima Laothi and Hirano Aya are looking forward to it.

Without him, South Korea has a girl group - Girls' Generation.

Girls' Generation in 2014 was so popular that even Lu Yiming, who didn't know much about Korean entertainment, had heard of Lin Yoona's name.

"MoDan, the identity of the reborn person is wrong."

""Rebirth of Si Ling Stationed in Korea""

Lu Yiming secretly thought that when Riot confirmed that the S4 series would be played in South Korea, Sima veteran Aya Hirano thought he would have the opportunity to see the girl group. He also played the girl group's MV dance and introduced the girl group members to Lu Yiming.

It has to be said that these female celebrities are indeed much higher level than the art students he played in his previous life.

This is the third time Lu Yiming has gone abroad. The last time he went abroad was when he sent the ADG team to Europe to participate in a competition.

The disadvantage of going abroad with public funds is that there is not enough freedom. However, for EDG players, winning the world championship is the first priority. Let other teams do the purchasing abroad.

After getting off the international plane and setting foot on Singaporean land, Lu Yiming and the others couldn't help but look at each other while listening to the familiar Mandarin spoken at the airport.

“Have I gone abroad??”

The old thief Sima asked about his soul, and Ming Kai looked like someone who had experienced it before: "It's so rare, so strange. Most of the people in this country are Chinese. It's normal to speak Mandarin."

"High-visibility bag, new addition."

Hirano Aya began to teach the old thief Sima the history of Singapore, while Lu Yiming sat at the back of the bus, opened his laptop, and analyzed the new version of hero data.

Before the S4 finals, Riot Games conducted an update. This update included Lu Yiming, Ming Kai and other EDG players, as well as EDG analysts, who analyzed and experimented with the new version.

In the new version after the update, the damage of regular AP heroes in the S4 season such as Clockwork and Syndra in the early and mid-term has been unbearable. The damage of the Murloc, Wine Barrel, and Enchantress in the early stage is still noticeable, but it is different from the damage in the S3 season. In comparison, it is not on the same level at all.

When League of Legends designers balance the game, they increase or decrease values ​​in a very simple and crude way.

Their behavior is to add water to the noodles, and noodles to the water. This group of League of Legends designers work, and Lu Yiming thinks he can do it.

"Currently, all the traditional mages in the mid lane are G-rated, and the only one who can still show some skill is Ryze."

"Warrior version?"

After the version update, Lu Yiming and EDG analysts conducted comprehensive analysis and testing, and initially concluded that the S4 season is a warrior version.

But this is just EDG's preliminary guess. They still have many heroes that have not been tested, and they are not sure whether they have actually entered the warrior version.

"No, we haven't directly entered the warrior version yet. The mid laner now has strong assistants Lulu, Rambo and Time."

"But Jace, Riven, Pantheon, these heroes are much more powerful in the middle than before."

"If you exclude these regular mid lane heroes, then Blind Sin, Crocodile, Captain, and even Xin Zhao can all play in the middle."

"Besides these heroes."

Lu Yiming flipped through the LOL page and saw a hero that he had barely used.

Frost Witch - Lissandra!

Lissandra debuted on April 30, 2013. This hero was completely unusable in the Assassin mid laner version of the S3 season. Even if she had a big move, she would be taken away by the Assassin mid laner.

Before the finals version, Lissandra's damage was not as good as that of a traditional mage, and it was difficult to compare her damage with heroes such as Clockwork and Syndra.

But now, with Clockwork, Syndra and other heroes being cut down, Lissandra's damage has counterattacked Clockwork, Syndra and other heroes.

"Lissandra's damage was relatively average before, but now that the damage of heroes such as Clockwork, Syndra, and Ryze has been cut, Lissandra's damage is enough to see."

"The current version of Riot does not directly strengthen warrior heroes, but weakens top lane tanks and mid lane traditional mages, which leads to the seeming rise of warrior heroes."

"In fact, in the version update of Riot, the only warrior that has been strengthened is the blind monk, Gnar."

"If you include the assassin, there is also a poodle!"

"So, in the S4 season, the Warrior mid laner is most likely a trap."

Lu Yiming wrote down today's findings. Since Riot launched the version update, Lu Yiming, Ming Kai and EDG analysts analyzed Riot's changes.

However, the time was too short, EDG had too many things to do, and there were many heroes in League of Legends, so the version analysis work was very slow.

The workload of version analysis is very heavy. In the past, many teams fell into the version trap in the global finals.

Even some teams that participated in the finals were eliminated, and it is unclear what the version of the finals will be.

For example, the most typical S8 season.

IG top laner Theshy also used a tank top laner in the top 8 of the group stage. It was not until the top 4 that he finally understood which heroes should be prioritized in the S8 finals.

The EDG team currently believes that the S4 finals are the warrior version, and mid laners Jace, Yasuo, Pantheon, Riven, etc. have higher priorities.

The top heroes such as Crocodile, Rambo, Olaf, and Poodle have higher priority.

Lu Yiming is not sure whether the S4 finals is the top lane version. Since his rebirth, the timeline has been completely messed up, and he doesn't know how Riot will update it in the future.

"The group stage hasn't started yet. You can slowly ponder the version issues. Don't be too anxious."

After Lu Yiming finalized the hero Lissandra, he did not immediately verify it. Instead, he continued to check the hero interface of LOL to find a more suitable version of the hero.

The bus stopped at the International Exhibition Center.

The Singapore International Exhibition Center is known as the largest exhibition hall in Asia. All EDG members got off the car and looked at the tall International Exhibition Center in front of them, nodding their heads.

Apart from anything else, Riot chose a really high-end venue for the competition.

In the S3 season, the Lakers played at their home court, and this time the group stage was held in the largest exhibition hall in Asia.

"Welcome EDG team members, please come with me!"

"Welcome ADG team members, please come with me!"

There were fist staff at the entrance of the International Exhibition Center to receive them. The EDG team and the ADG team settled in the International Exhibition Center hotel separately. After everything was arranged, all ADG members, Sima Laothief and others were excited to take a look around. Singapore.

"Brother Lu, do you want to go shopping together? You didn't go shopping when we first arrived in America last year. Why don't you go shopping this year?"

The old thief Sima invited Lu Yiming. Last year, Lu Yiming stayed alone in the hotel to analyze the teams participating in the competition and the professional players who needed attention.

Brother Lu will not stay in the hotel this year.

Last year EDG was a brand new team, so there is nothing wrong with being careful. But this year, EDG is the strongest team in the world!

Before the group stage draw, Riot Games has announced the S4 Season World Championship team rankings and the rankings of each position.

The EDG team still ranks first in the official rankings, while the second ranked team is the EDE team.

This year's EDG team has the right to be a little more arrogant.

"You go ahead, I'll stay and test the hero."

Lu Yiming waved his hand. He had no interest in going shopping.

A great man once said that strategically, we despise the enemy, but tactically, we value the enemy.

In the EDG expedition short video, everyone in EDG is very arrogant and looks down upon all the teams in the OGN division.

But if you really have this mentality, the EDG team is likely to overturn.

Samsung White in the S4 season is considered by countless LPL viewers to be one of the strongest teams in history.

Other EDG players can go out to play, but as the leader of EDG, the captain of EDG, and the core of the three EDG teams, Lu Yiming is not allowed to go shopping.

EDG's fifteenth son only has one chance this year, and he can't let EDG's fifteenth son become a joke.

Lu Yiming refused to hang out, so Mingkai took the initiative to stay with him. Mingkai is a professional player with a very professional attitude. He is now 21 years old and at the peak of his e-sports career.

Age is the biggest weakness of professional e-sports players. Looking at his past life, Mingkai only has more than a year left in his peak period.

By the S6 season, Mingkai is expected to stretch his hips and transform into Guijiaoqi.

"Brother Yiming, you work too hard!"

"You've just arrived in Singapore. Why don't you take a break first?"

Mingkai saw Lu Yiming sitting in front of the computer checking hero data, and took out a bottle of Pepsi and handed it to Lu Yiming. Lu Yiming waved his hand to indicate that he did not drink Coke.

"Bring me a bottle of oriental leaves."

“I’ve been consuming too much sugar lately, and I’m going to give up sugar for a year.”

Lu Yiming, who prefers to drink Coke, refused Coke this time. His body is no longer as good as before. When he was just reborn, he could stay up all night with Bai Yejin. He was a real seven times man.

Now Lu Yiming felt that he was a little weak and could only advance in one night.

Lu Yiming thought this was because he drank too much Coke. He drank one Coke every three days too often.

"Hey, the Eastern leaves taste so bad, how can you drink it??"

Mingkai put the coke back and got a bottle of Oriental Leaf for Lu Yiming. Lu Yiming opened it and took a sip. He pointed at the computer screen and said, "Mingkai, play solo with me as the blind monk mid laner. Let me test Lisang." The strength of the hero Zhuo."

"Lissandra? Are you sure you want to fight with Lissandra and the blind monk?"

"Don't talk nonsense. I feel that the so-called warrior version may be a trap."

Lu Yiming and Ming Kai opened a custom room. Lu Yiming chose Lissandra and faced Ming Kai's blind monk mid laner.

Judging from the hero's numerical value alone, it is not possible to analyze which of the two heroes is stronger. Lu Yiming needs to conduct multiple tests such as laning tests and actual combat tests to understand the strength of this hero.

Lissandra is a typical early-attack mid laner and roaming mid laner. When facing off against Mingkai mid laner, I found that Lissandra was actually faster than the enhanced Blind Sin in terms of pushing the lane.

Lissandra in the S4 season is still the oldest version of Lissandra.

Lissandra's passive [Ice Bloodline], every 18 seconds, the next skill does not consume mana.

Each time Lissandra slows/roots an enemy hero, her passive cooldown is reduced by one second.

Except for the passive, the skills of the old version of Lissandra and the new version of Lissandra are exactly the same. Lissandra is a hero that is relatively cheap in the early stage, and the existence of passive allows Lissandra to be more powerful in the early stage when pushing the line. Be more comfortable.

"The fist strengthens the damage of the blind monk's Q skill, but does not strengthen the damage of the blind monk's E skill. This makes the blind monk unable to push Lissandra in the push line."

"Lissandra is a hero that can push lanes quickly. It's just that heroes like Clockwork, Syndra, Ryze and other heroes have pushed lanes faster before. This makes Lissandra a bit useless."

"Pushing the lane can't push the traditional mage hero, and the damage burst is not as much as the traditional mage hero."

"After the traditional mage hero has been weakened, the only one who can compete with Lissandra in the push lane is Rambo."

After a short test, Lu Yiming had a general understanding of the priority of the hero Lissandra. He asked Mingkai to quit the game and replaced him with Rambo for testing.

"Pushing the line really can't push the strengthened Rambo!"

"Try Old Man Time and Lulu!"

In the latest version, Rambo's Q damage has been enhanced by Fist. In the push line, Lissandra, the hero, really can't push Rambo!

Lu Yiming pulled Mingkai to continue the test. During the test, Lu Yiming found that Lulu couldn't push Lissandra completely when she pushed the line.

Old Man Time can compete with Lissandra in pushing the line in the early stage. As Lissandra's magic becomes stronger, the speed of Old Man Time cannot match Lissandra's.

"The hero Time Old Man is also a threat to Lissandra. Although the pushing speed in the mid-to-late stage is not as good as Lissandra's, he can rely on his E skill acceleration to provide quick support.

Coupled with the existence of the ultimate move, when using Lissandra as a hero, it is better to ban Old Man Time! "

“Lee Sang is not very good at beating Lee Sin in lane, but his lane pushing speed and roaming are far superior to Lee Sin.

Let’s test other heroes and test Lissandra’s strength. "