Chapter 190 [Easter Egg Challenge: The Chapter of Glory]! Double Weird Selection!
Chapter 190 [Easter Egg Challenge: Echo of Glory]! Double Weird Selection!
January 2023, 1, V14's opening game.
Although it is called the opening game, the first game of the season actually started at 5 o'clock, opened by two fringe teams, LGD and UP.
The highlight is scheduled at 7pm during the prime time.
But the protagonist of today can also be seen from the venue chosen by the official.
The opening match is usually held at the Hongqiao Performing Arts Center in Shanghai, but this time it was held at the home court of Shenzhen V5, which was considered to be a great honor.
V5 also made special decorations for their home stadium today, especially putting a lot of effort into the images of the players of this new V5 team.
"Fuck, look at Master Ye!"
"Hurry up and take a photo for me!"
From the gate to the audience passage, you can clearly see the makeup photos of all V5 members for this season hanging on the wall, with eye-catching introductions next to them.
Obviously, the area below Ye Bo’s photo is where most people take photos and check in.
And his introduction sounded like a crosstalk!
《2022 Summer Season MVP, 2022 Summer Season Champion, 2022 Best Rookie, 2022 MVP 2022 World Finals Champion, FMVP Player》
Even the resumes of the two veterans next to him, Flying Gunner and Deft, are not as long as his!
Now the first game is over.
The audience who had not yet entered the venue quickly squeezed into the crowded main venue. Just a quick glance from above could tell that the seats were packed and the atmosphere was extremely lively!
It is no wonder that today’s competition is called the “Esports Spring Festival Gala”.
Listening to the noisy sounds coming from across the wall, Ye Bo was obviously eager to try it out. The passion that had been suppressed for a long time was ignited in his heart. Those who didn't know would think he was a newbie making his first appearance.
"You have a really good attitude, Master Ye."
Xun, who was making his debut after changing teams, was obviously a little nervous——especially today when he had to face off against his two “former” top and mid players from his time at IG!
"Don't be nervous~ Just play like we trained. You did great in the training match!" Ye Bo patted the other person's shoulder to comfort him.
"Hey, that's mainly because you and Genshin are so good."
Xun was obviously very happy to be praised.
However, as long as he thinks that there is Beichuan who is eyeing him in the background and wants to make progress all the time, he dare not be complacent at all!
It’s true.
Ye Bo and Beryl are mid laners and support respectively, both of whom are in positions that require the most coordination with the jungler. Therefore, both of them have their own unique understandings of the jungle area, which has undergone the biggest changes in S13.
Saint Spear smiled and consoled him, "It's okay. I heard that Jiang hasn't played many ranked matches recently. I should be able to handle it. I'll support you, okay?"
As soon as 7 o'clock arrived, all the lights in the venue suddenly went out.
The host Yu Shuang's voice resounded throughout the venue, welcoming the WBG players to the stage first.
The rebuilt WBG is definitely worthy of the nickname "All-God Class", at least in terms of traffic, they are truly gods.
Almost every time a contestant’s ID is read out and they go on stage, there will be a burst of screams like a tsunami from below!
"Brother Shai! The best in the world! Brother Shai, I love you!"
"Come on Rouji! Fight hard, Pizza! Stop playing with your bangs, Liu Shen! BP hard, Danny, don't play pranks, and win easily!"
"We must make those dutiful men shut up!!"
"We must win! Let's celebrate with Ning Baolan later!"
It is not difficult to see from the state of the fans that they were quite confident in their home team before the game.
Perhaps, the expectation of winning the Weibo Cup is still building.
Everyone seems to think that I have the advantage against V5!
“Next, let’s give Victory 5 a round of applause!”
"Top laner Flandre! Jungle Xun! Mid laner YE"
When it came to the middle lane, the audience seats, which were obviously inferior to theirs, became restless, and instantly erupted in a terrifying wave of shock!
It directly surpassed the scene when WBG appeared before!
Yu Shuang, who had not shown any sign of waiting before, could only smile and wait in the face of this scene that even covered the sound system.
"Wow, ye are really popular in China."
Backstage channel.
Beryl, who felt for the first time how popular his mid-lane teammate was offline, couldn't help but sigh to Deft.
"Normal," Deft was more used to it, as if he had seen such scenes before: "Sang Hyuk was also so popular after playing in Season 3."
The spring season has just begun.
At this moment, the "championship bonus" and "free criticism period" have not expired yet - at least before the first losing game, the popularity will remain at the peak level!
And due to the split of EDG this year, Viper returned to China, and the two who stayed in the team did not have much expectations because of the lineup, and the playing style of Saint Spear, who came to V5 with them, was not that attractive.
As a result, Ye Bo completely siphoned away most of the popularity bonus after winning the championship!
Looking around at this moment, his cheering items alone occupied half of the audience seats!
However, the next two players in the bottom lane took the stage one after another, and were immediately greeted with cheers from the audience, and the scene was not much less than that of Saint Spear.
It can be seen that most Chinese players have a good impression of these two players both on and off the court.
Both players took their seats and prepared.
"Welcome back! This is the live broadcast of the 2023 E-sports Spring Festival Gala Super Weekend!" Wawa's iconic loud voice echoed in the live broadcast room: "It is also the opening day of our LPL Spring Season!"
"That's right. LGD lost to UP 0-2 in the first game, which is a bit unfortunate," Miller continued, "It's mainly because of the new global BP system we used this year. It seems that many teams are still adapting to it."
"Hey Team Ping, who do you think will win in the second game?"
Miller turned the topic to today's guest commentator, former LGD star PYL Chen Bo.
It’s not that the official doesn’t want to invite players from WBG and V5—the key is that they can’t!
IG, which has the largest traffic in WBG, has almost "all members returning" this year.
Ning and Baolan, who had retired for two years, suddenly announced at the end of the transfer period that they would join the UP team together.
Perhaps they also want to emulate the traffic phenomenon of WBG's reorganization of Incheon this year?
Just in the first game, the UP where the two of them were was actually defeated by LGD!
As a member of the opening match team, PYL watched his old team being beaten up, and was asked such a fatal question that was easy to fall into a trap. However, he seemed to show the characteristics of the "God of Death" and answered very straightforwardly.
“As for me, I’m more optimistic about V5!”
It is not enough for PYL to answer, he also needs to add his own analysis.
"I have also studied this global BP competition system. At present, it seems that the restrictions are still limited in BO3 matches. It will be completely different in BO5!"
"With YE's hero pool, it seems like it won't be that easy to limit him during the regular season."
There is no need to guess the barrage, the quarrel starts almost instantly.
Wawa Miller didn't respond to such a dangerous topic at all, and quickly said, "But it's worth mentioning that this opening game version has only been online for 4 days. It is unfamiliar to everyone. I think today's game must be full of variables!"
"No matter what, this will definitely be a match worth looking forward to!"
"Both players and coaches are ready, let's move on to the BP phase!"
Danny at the back of WBG looked very serious and seemed to be worried about something.
The coach behind V5 was a completely unfamiliar face, and no one had any impression of the ID displayed below!
Definitely no impression.
Because this is V5's training and competition manager, also known as the life nanny and takeaway coupon snatcher. He is not responsible for BP at all - he didn't even bring a notebook when he went on stage!
Talk about it.
It's a bit unlucky to play the opening game today.
The person in charge of making the rules in LPL is simply a genius. The version used on the opening day was actually version 4, which was just updated to the global server 13.1 days ago!
This means.
Including V5, everyone has only conducted a very brief exploration of this version, and it is definitely impossible to explore the so-called "version answer".
The biggest change in this version is the rework of "Jax"!
In addition to the model and numerical changes of all small skills, the E skill has increased the damage by {percent health}.
The biggest change is that the R skill [Grandmaster's Power] is changed to [Weapon Master].
While the original passive {three rings} and active {double resistance} remain unchanged, a new "instant burst" AOE damage with considerable value has been added——and the frequency of passive triggering will be changed to 2 attacks, instead of every 3 attacks!
It is equivalent to having a full-level sheep knife during the duration!
There is no doubt that this must be a huge unilateral enhancement, and the slight reduction in early combat effectiveness can be ignored!
"Blue side WBG still banned Akali! Respect for the champion skin, no problem!"
"The red team V5 directly banned weapons, and then it depends on the banning of heroes such as Quesanti, Ryze, Syndra, Jayce, etc. These are all very strong players in this version." Wawa interpreted the BP of both sides.
"Did WBG choose to ban Syndra, the character in the game?" Miller said in surprise.
But PYL has a good memory: "No, no, no, I remember that Master Ye's Syndra was also very good. Last year, it should be in the playoffs against Scout, there was a Syndra that performed very well!"
"Yes, yes, yes, I remember now. But to be honest, Syndra has been reworked and is completely different from before."
Syndra had all her skills reworked during the World Championship.
Simply put: this hero has changed from an early-mid-term burst-kill type mage to a mid-to-late-term core-kill type mage.
It is true that he is no longer a hero of a completely different type; it is not an exaggeration to call him a new hero.
Besides.
There is one more thing that must be mentioned, which is the new season equipment that has directly changed the current mid lane situation.
【Staff of Time】!
In the S13 season, this equipment that has existed since ancient times officially returns at the "Mythical Equipment" level, and its effects are quite unique.
In addition to the better recovery and attributes than before, after stacking 10 layers, you will directly get the outrageous bonus of [Level Up]!
Many players have no idea what "leveling up" means.
It takes 10 minutes to fully stack the Time Staff, and normally it takes about 20 minutes to fully stack it, which is around level 13-14.
And if it is the experience bar of level 14——assuming that one person enjoys the experience of the soldiers alone, it will take about 1-4 waves of soldiers' experience to level up.
That’s nearly 3 minutes!
Level 1 may not be a big deal for other heroes.
But for some heroes that are extremely level-dependent, especially those who will undergo a qualitative change when they reach level 16, speeding up their development time by 3 minutes is absolutely worth a fortune!
More importantly, the Staff of Time, which has mythical-level attributes, will make the mage very "tanky".
This means that it will become more difficult for those early stage heroes to kill these development heroes!
At the same time, [Archangel's Staff] was completely reworked, and the full stacking effect was changed from a useless addition to: "A high shield automatically triggered based on mana."
From attributes to effects, the two pieces of equipment are perfectly matched, they can be said to be a match made in heaven!
In League of Legends, since the introduction of mythical equipment in S11, there have been countless examples of a piece of matching equipment becoming extremely popular.
For a hero who can equip these two pieces of equipment at the same time, you can imagine how great the benefits will be.
The equipment is cheap, takes shape quickly, and has a very high cost-effectiveness when stacked up. However, it is still very tanky before it is stacked up!
That’s why, in the German Cup data, the BP rate of Ryze and Kassadin is close to 90%! Even though these two heroes have not actually changed anything.
First round of BAN:
WBG: Akali, Syndra, Ice
V5: Arms, Jayce, Ryze
"V5's red team banned several heroes as usual, and WBG's intentions are very clear, they are clearly targeting your mid lane!"
"In that case," Miller clapped his hands in anticipation, "Sure enough! Grab Silas!"
"I have to remind the audience again that this Sylas is the real equivalent of 'banning by grabbing'. After being selected by WBG in this game, he will not need to occupy the ban slot in the next game and will be banned by default!"
Of course Danny knew who the core players of V5 were.
Although it seems that the dominance of Sylas and Akali has dropped a bit in the current version, it is not as abnormal as it was in the World Championship.
But Danny still wasn't ready to release this scene!
The characteristics of global BP began to emerge.
As long as they choose it in the first game, it is equivalent to "burning" this hero - the BP pressure when they switch sides to the red side in the next game will be greatly reduced!
If it is according to the traditional competition system.
If WBG wants to target the red team in the next game, they will have to ban Akali + Sylas + Ryze by default. How can they play this BP?! ?
Of course, Danny also attaches great importance to his beloved disciple Beryl.
The new season has just begun, and the balance and environment of various heroes are still in a chaotic state.
At the very least, the current bottom lane structure has not changed from the World Championship.
"Line Power" is still the king of everything.
So in order to prevent the opponent's bottom lane duo from getting their famous Ashe + Galio system in S12, he chose to ban the swinging Ashe in the third round.
"We don't need to worry about this, just go with Quisanti Gavirus!" Ye Bo said affirmatively.
Beryl, who was sitting on the edge of the stage, had no objection either.
Although in name, both Zhong Fu and others are "head coaches".
But in fact, Beryl has always been intentional and has respected Ye Bo's ideas in many aspects.
If you were to ask him the reason, after all, he was the one who had been defeated by the other party, and he was convinced of the defeat.
This seemed natural to him.
"They didn't take the bottom lane, they really value the top lane"
Danny looked at the opponent's BP decision and felt that it did not exceed his expectations.
In his opinion, the easiest place for his team to have an advantage today is the top and jungle, and they are going to play against the opponent's rookie jungler and the elderly top laner!
As expected, the opponent paid great attention to the top and jungle in the BP stage, and even did not choose their most confident Caitlyn Varus + Galio system in the bottom lane.
"Then steal the ball from him!" Danny waved his hand and gently pressed Theshy's shoulder: "Chenglu, it's up to you."
"Yeah." Theshy looked like he had been prepared for it.
Wawa stared at the BP panel: "WBG is trying to grab the big shot and the Tsar?"
"and many more?"
"What the hell is Tsar? There's already Sylas. Could it be Theshy?"
Top lane Tsar and top lane Sylas are things Theshy has played a long time ago.
It is not difficult for everyone to guess it once they make associations.
And if you think about it carefully, whether it is Sylas or Tsar, there seems to be a certain saying when it comes to laning against Quesanti!
only.
When Beryl saw the opponent choose the big head, the lower half of her face seemed to tilt slightly.
"In this case, WBG is blocking V5's mid lane to the extreme!!"
"In the next game, the two signature players in V5's mid lane will be burned! WBG will have very little BP pressure when they go to the red side. Coach Danny's understanding of the overall BP is really impressive!"
"V5 picked Wei, one of the two strongest warrior junglers in the jungle right now, and entered the second round of BP!"
But it is obvious that because WBG focused on targeting the mid and support heroes, they were restricted by the opponent's second round of offensive in the jungle.
Danny actually felt that something was wrong, but for the time being he could only stick to his own ideas and continue to push the restrictions in the middle to the maximum.
Second round of ban————
V5: Pig girl, Monkey brother
WBG: Leblanc, Yongen
"WBG is equivalent to banning six mid laners again. Does that mean Master Ye can only play unpopular heroes like Pike again?"
"But it seems that the opponent is not afraid of you choosing this kind of hero. After all, Pike can use Sylas's burst, Akshan can use Tsar's range, and WBG's top-mid swing is just waiting for you to choose later!"
".What kind of hero is this??"
"Contestant YE has locked onto the Star-Forging Dragon King!!!"
"This is a hero that will be reworked in the next version. How can we expect him to appear in the game in this version?!"
【Legendary King of Whole Life!!】
[There are people playing this game in North America, but you really need to have a special skill to play it. And I heard that the gameplay will be completely changed in the next version. It’s really a waste to practice this.]
[Is it possible that he practiced just for the global BP? This is the benchmark of a diligent player. Well, as long as he practices enough, the global BP may even enhance him! ]
[I'm already looking forward to what the original batch will do. I feel like when these two meet, there will be a new idea every 3 seconds! ]
[It still depends on the result. A good result is a double trick, and a bad result is a double trick.]
The Dragon King was obviously a choice that no one expected.
Danny's expression also showed a visibly frown.
There are mainly two reasons why Ye Bo likes to play.
The first is what was mentioned earlier - any hero who can equip the two pieces of equipment, Time + Archangel, can reap the benefits of this version.
It is obvious that the Dragon King himself wants to produce these two pieces of equipment!
But this thing is so unpopular that even if other professional players discover it, they are unlikely to practice it.
Especially when I heard that this hero is going to be overhauled in the next version, there is no reason to favor him at all.
So it is.
In fact, this is not Ye Bo’s main reason.
The real reason was an "Easter Egg Challenge" that Ye Bo received on the day the S13 season started.
[Easter Egg Challenge: Echo of Glory]
[The long river of time flows endlessly, and the pearls of the old canyon will eventually be baptized by the fire of rebirth——but before that, they may also be waiting for a pair of hands that can carry the embers and ignite the starry sky for the last time]
[Challenge description: Countdown starts until the hero rework goes online, limited-time practice efficiency increase +500%]
[Challenge Rewards: Level 5 proficiency and below can permanently retain the amplification practice progress. For the part exceeding the level, you need to use the "unreworked version" of the hero to enter the arena once. Regardless of winning or losing, all practice progress can be synchronized to the new version of the hero]
At first, Ye Bo didn't pay much attention to this task.
It wasn't until I saw the official season announcement that it was announced that a mid-term rework of 2023-6 heroes would be carried out in 8.
The first to be affected are weapons, and in the next version, the Dragon King.
After actual testing, half a month of training is equivalent to three months of training in the past. The cost-effectiveness is simply outrageous!
Even if the purpose is just to "expand the hero pool", there is no reason to miss it.
As for the initial weapon, due to the version selection problem in the first game, it was confirmed that it could not catch up, so Ye Bo only practiced until level 5 and then stopped.
But the Dragon King.
The more he practiced, the more curious he became, and the more he felt that this hero was interesting!
At the same time, I feel more and more sorry that the next version will be redone.
but.
What no one could have imagined was.
The truly shocking thing about V5 is not the Dragon King.
Since WBG's top, mid and support have already obtained 3AP, if the jungler chooses a tank jungler like Maokai, the lineup will have serious attribute deviations.
In the end, they could only choose between Lee Sin and King of the Ruined King, and they chose King of the Ruined King for Karsa.
As for the choice of shooter, Danny took into account that the opponent had no Ice support and his side had Galio as a guarantee, so he was actually not too dependent on the AD's pushing ability.
Gala proved in S12 that he couldn't use the policewoman and was not very good at playing that kind of advancement system.
In the end, he was able to take down Aphelios, his best character.
Danny didn't even think about being able to overtake the line in the bottom lane. After all, the jungler must take care of the top lane. As long as he can keep an eye on the opponent's bottom lane during the laning phase, it will be enough for WBG to have the rhythm in the upper half that they desire!
"What support does V5 have left? Fantasy, Lux? Does Genshin Impact have another Bard?"
"well!?"
“Is this the wrong choice!!!”
The whole audience burst into uproar instantly.
It was because in the selection position on the fifth floor of V5, the only empty avatar belonging to the auxiliary role——an extremely strange masked man appeared.
The lineups of both sides are confirmed.
《Blue side: WBG丨丨Red side: V5》
[Top: Liberator vs. Nazumang's Glory]
[Jungle: Ruined King vs. Piltover Enforcer]
[Mid-lane: Desert Emperor vs Star-Forged Dragon King]
[Archer: Solemnity of the Waning Moon vs Arrow of Punishment]
[Assistance: Great Inventor vs. Fate Master]
(End of this chapter)