"YM is unstoppable. They won the match against RNG cleanly!" Mille shouted as he watched RNG's base Crystal shatter into pieces.
"Their winning streak is still ongoing. YM hasn't lost a BO3 since they were formed!
This record is ridiculous! "
Seeing that he had won his first LPL match, Lin Weixiang's chubby body jumped up in excitement. He grabbed Liu Qingsong next to him.
Liu Qingsong wanted to laugh, but when he saw the camera on the side, he continued to maintain his cold demeanor. He forcefully suppressed the slight smile on his face, making his expression look very strange.
"Smile, Liu Qingsong!" Lin Weixiang didn't understand his good brother. Why didn't he smile after winning the match?
He turned his head to look at his other teammates.
Lin Yan, Xiao Tian, and Jin Gong's movements were uniform. They first opened the data panel to look at the damage output, then finished the drinks in their paper cups and got up to shake hands with RNG's team members.
Their movements were smooth and without any sloppiness. It was like an instinctive reaction engraved in their minds.
Lin Weixiang looked at their serious faces and suddenly realized something.
Experts should act like experts. Smiling so brightly after winning a BO3 match would give people a frivolous feeling.
One had to be steady.
Lin Weixiang, as a veteran, immediately stopped smiling and tried to remain serious.
However, the camera had recorded his facial expression just now. Everyone knew that Lin Weixiang looked like a fool when he smiled.
"Not bad." Lin Yan patted Xiao Ming's shoulder.
"Don't disgust me." Xiao Ming laughed and punched him.
From Lin Yan's point of view, Xiao Ming's performance in the last match was quite impressive. He cooperated with Spicy Saucepan to launch a few sneak attacks on YM's bottom lane. He even used a Hammer Stone Hook to predict Lin Weixiang's Blink.
He had fattened Ouze, but it was useless.
This was where the ADCs felt awkward.
Currently, apart from the poke-style ADs (led by EZ and Verus), most of the ADCs in the professional scene would only be effective after a three-piece set.
Twenty minutes into the middle of the game, an ADC with normal growth would have two large pieces of equipment and Level 2 shoes. At Level 12, they would have less than 1500 HP and less than 60 Armor.
It was neither tanky nor had high damage output. It was as fragile as a piece of paper.
In a team fight, the ADC was extremely reliant on the protection of his teammates. Otherwise, if a Warrior or Assassin were to cut in, he would be instantly killed.
But today, except for Karma's strong protection ability, most of the rest are output type soft support (Ella) or group opening type hard support (Hammer Stone).
For example, in this battle, YM's big moves were aimed at Ouze. If he dared to show his face and attack, Captain Rambo's big move would directly rain down. Even if he had Hammer Stone, under this set of big moves, even if he didn't die, he would be crippled.
The damage output environment was limited, and coupled with the fact that his equipment was not at its peak, Ouze could not deal enough damage in the limited time. The damage output position could not deal damage, and naturally, the team fight would be lost.
There was only one way to solve this problem. When the team fight began, Ouze had already made a three-piece set. At the same time, he was also prepared to make life-saving equipment.
There were two ways to achieve this method, one positive and one negative.
The positive way was to drag it out. It was to drag Ouze's equipment out and delay the team fight indefinitely.
The negative way was to give more money to Ouze and let him develop ahead of time.
The development just now was not enough. He had to be fatter.
It was not some obscure principle. If Lin Yan understood it, Ouze naturally understood it too.
The key was how to achieve it.
Ouze shook hands with Liu Qingsong, who was walking at the back, and then turned back to pack up his keyboard. His thoughts had already flown away.
After the game, Lin Yan, Lin Weixiang, and Liu Qingsong were interviewed by the stage host.
"Let's welcome our two LPL rookies …" Yu Zhen smiled and looked to his side. "Introduce yourselves first."
"Hello everyone, I'm YM's support, Pinus." Liu Qingsong was very cold. He was still expressionless during the interview.
"Hello everyone, I'm YM's ADC, Lin Weixiang." Lin Weixiang put down the microphone after he finished speaking.
He glanced at Lin Yan beside him.
The backbone of his team was smiling as he answered Yu Zhen's first question. The smile on his handsome face was warm. Lin Weixiang felt that if he were a girl, he would definitely be in love.
But … as an expert, shouldn't he be serious?
Lin Weixiang felt that his judgment had been wrong.
He looked to his other side. Liu Qingsong still had a sad face.
Lin Weixiang was confused. He leaned over and whispered into Liu Qingsong's ear.
"Are you pretending to be an expert?"
Case solved.
"Lin Weixiang, do you want to die?" Liu Qingsong's lips moved slightly. He tried to lower his voice.
For some reason, this sentence hit Lin Weixiang's funny bone. He covered his mouth and laughed. His two thick eyebrows twitched.
Lin Yan and Yu Zhen looked at the two of them in confusion.
The audience in the live broadcast room saw this scene again. They connected it to Lin Weixiang's expression change when they shook hands after the game.
[YM's substitute AD is probably an idiot, right?]
[Why does he look so silly?]
[He and the support next to him are probably a team, right?]
[Brainless and unhappy?]
[What do you mean by brainless and unhappy …]
The duo being interviewed didn't know that they had only played a BO3 game, and the audience had already thought of nicknames for them.
"I'd like to ask player Ran, what do you think about the champion's skin that will be on the shelves soon?" Yu Zhen finally asked the most important question of the day.
"My teammates and I have looked at it. The special effects of the skin are very cool. Everyone is very satisfied." Lin Yan held the microphone and began to promote the skin. "I also hope that the audience will come and buy it. When the skin is on the shelves, we will also have an interactive livestream."
[The skin is definitely going to be bought, but when will the livestream start?]
[What about that son of a bitch, Jack?
He hasn't livestreamed since the spring competition!
He's not playing the game, and he's not broadcasting?]
[Don't embarrass him. The little streamer is sick.]
The skin still had to be promoted. After all, it was linked to his own income.
Originally, the rule was that 25% of the sales of the champion's skin in the first year would be given to the champion, but there were some exceptions this year.
The league was in full swing. It was certain that the champion team couldn't eat all the 25% of the income. Starting this year, all the clubs in the championship area would enjoy a share of the sales of the champion's skin.
This money was like a cake for the league. After all, if the team didn't win the championship, there would be no source of income, and the headcount effect would be even more serious.
The top teams would divide all the income, and the teams with poor results and popularity wouldn't even be able to drink a mouthful of soup. This would definitely affect the balance of the entire league, and thus destroy the fairness of the e-sports competition. The bottom teams would breed all kinds of gray income in order to survive.
Even if it was divided among the other 11 teams, Lin Yan and the other four would still get as high as 1.2% of the skin income.
In other words, for every 10,000 sets of YM champion's skin sold worldwide, 120 sets of skin sales would be divided among the players themselves.
It was important to note that this wasn't divided according to the sales of each player's champion's skin. Instead, it was calculated by the entire team. Skins with high sales didn't mean that the players would get more. They would be divided equally among the players with low sales.
A set of five hero skins plus a "Commanding Flag" eyelid skin would be sold for about 400 RMB.
After all, Lin Yan was the champion of the LPL. Conservatively, Lin Yan estimated that about one million sets of skins would be sold worldwide. Then, he would get a share of the income of 12000 sets of skins. Lin Yan's pre-tax income would be about 4.8 million RMB.
(Fist didn't give specific figures for the champion's skin sales. I can only use the 2018 Fist charity skin 'Dark Star Kegas' as a comparison.
That charity skin sold for a total of 6.10 million USD, and the price was 1,350 USD, which is about 9 USD. That means that this skin sold a total of 700,000 sets. The first LPL champion's skin has a zone bonus, so one million sets should be about right?)
With every additional set of skin sold, Lin Yan could pay off his mortgage sooner. How could he not be anxious?
The renovation of the Four Seasons Villa by the lake was not slow. In another two months, they would be able to move in. Calculating the time, it would be the end of the spring competition.
Jack was successfully discharged from the hospital on March 4th, but he still had to rest according to the doctor's instructions.
It just so happened that the other teams in Group B were weaker. White Crescent simply let Lin Weixiang play first. If he won the first game, he would continue to play. If he lost, Jack would play to guarantee a win rate.
On March 9th, YM faced OMG.
OMG, with Young Master Leng, Icon, and Old Thief Sima, were strong. They wisely aimed their attacks at the bottom lane.
OMG's coaching team, who had watched the recording of YM's match against RNG, knew that the opponent's top, middle, and junglers were very well-coordinated. The new duo was their weak point.
In the first round, OMG jungler World 6 ambushed the duo seven times in 20 minutes. It was crazy.
Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong's awareness of gank prevention clearly lacked training. In the seven ambushes, they gave away a total of five kills. They were even killed by Old Thief Sima once.
World 6 frequently attacked the bottom lane, but Xiao Tian found an opportunity to attack the other two lanes.
At this time, Icon was young and high-spirited. His playstyle was very fierce. Since last season, he had been a regular on the kill list. However, his frequent suppression would expose his flaws.
Lin Yan sent troops to the front of the tower, and then a few rounds of military training. Icon was beaten until he could not take care of himself.
Jin Gong also brought out a warrior-type top laner. OMG's top laner, Frozen Sunset, preferred to use tank heroes. Jin Gong liked to play this kind of person.
Previously, he had chosen the warrior-type hero because YM's playstyle leaned towards the jungler leading the bottom lane to eat neutral resources and defense towers. However, now Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong obviously could not let YM's jungler pour in too many resources. Xiao Tian and Lin Yan began to help frequently.
Jin Gong was grinning from ear to ear. He pulled out a Kenji and pierced through OMG. Titan's Frozen Sunset could not stop him at all. He could only watch as Jin Gong crazily destroyed the tower.
Old Thief Sima's Ice was closely watched by Lin Yan's Clockwork Spring. The big move, [Command: Shockwave], was reserved for Old Thief Sima.
In the end, Dragon's Lin Yan pulled in three enemy players with a big move. Together with Jin Gong, who had teleported from the back, they defeated OMG.
In the second round, it was Xiao Tian's turn to carry. With a spider, he destroyed World 6's nanqiang in the jungle. At the same time, he also helped establish an advantage in the top lane.
In the end, there was not even a normal team battle.
Under Lin Yan's command, YM successfully killed Frozen Sunset, who was hiding in the bushes. After killing him, they activated Dragon. After that, OMG began to use Calabash Brothers to save their grandpas — one by one.
In the end, YM took in Dragon. OMG was also wiped out. Lin Yan and the others took advantage of the situation to flatten the opponent's base.
Their winning streak was still ongoing.
On March 11th, almost halfway through the group round robin, YM faced off against their old rival, IM.
Although they had both fought their way up to the LPL from the secondary league, their circumstances were now different. Today, IM was only a mid-tier team in the league.
However, there was also a new highlight. IM's jungler had become Flawless, a Korean player who looked like Kofu from Doraemon.
Kofu's individual strength was average and he did not have much of a brain. However, his strength was that he was hardworking and his execution of team strategies was not bad.
He had an inexplicable obsession with eye placement. His average eye placement was 1.1. If you excluded ZZR, who had only played one game and whose data was not useful for reference, Kofu's data was only 0.01 worse than Vietnam's king, sofm. He was ranked second in the jungler position.
The number of eye placement was even more exaggerated. 0.6 eye placement per minute. He was ranked first in the jungler position (see picture).
What did this mean?
In a 35-minute game, Kofu had to place 38 eye placement and eliminate 21 eye placement.
This kind of data was ridiculous.
Kofu completely used eye placement to lock down the opponent's jungler, trying to drag the opponent to the same level as himself.
Phyllostachys Pubescens did not react in the first game and fell into Kofu's trap. The entire game's movement was clearly seen by IM's vision. They discovered where to go to catch him in advance and got lost in the jungler.
If not for Lin Yan and Jin Gong standing up in time and using Ryze and Gnar's solo carry to end the game, the outcome of this game would have been hard to say.
"Did you stick your head out?" Lin Yan said to Xiao Tian during the break.
"What?" Xiao Tian, who was relaxing himself, was stunned for a second. He did not understand what Lin Yan meant.
"Xiao Tian, if Phyllostachys Pubescens stuck your head out of your shell, wouldn't you become Kofu?" Lin Yan said reasonably. "I think you were assimilated by him in the last game."
YM's lounge burst into laughter. Jack's body was twitching from laughing. He quickly went to post about his experience.
White Crescent did not say anything. The other members had performed well, and he only asked Little Tian to reflect on the problems in the previous game.
Su Cheng, who had come to watch after class, laughed as she stuffed her left hand into Lin Yan's uniform jacket pocket.
Lin Yan grabbed Su Cheng's hand through the thin uniform jacket.
Su Cheng sat to the side, replying to messages on her phone with her right hand.
Lin Yan had nothing to do, so he gently rubbed Su Cheng's knuckles.
"Ouch …" Su Cheng blushed and pulled her hand out. She slapped Lin Ran's back lightly. Lin Ran was not sure where she had touched.
Knight and Little Tian seemed to have taken a liking to each other. Ever since the two of them met, their relationship had been quite good. At this moment, Left Hand was bashful for a while. Then, he plucked up the courage to sit beside Little Tian and habitually twisted his legs together.
"If you can't catch an online hero, why don't you just go to the opposite jungler?" Left Hand kindly reminded him.
During the quarterfinals of the German Cup, the SOFM's method of dealing with his roaming was exactly the same as Kofu today. They used their vast vision to control the map and block the gank route.
Lin Yan's solution was to take their own jungler and force his way into the jungle. They would first mess up the opposite jungle and then radiate their advantage to the side lanes.
Left Hand felt that this method was also suitable for Xiao Tian.
As a world champion, Xiao Tian felt embarrassed being criticized by Left Hand, who was still in the secondary league. However, he had a good relationship with Knight and knew that what he said made sense.
"Aiya, how can I not know what you know?" Xiao Tian was stubborn. "Sometimes, it's not as simple as you think. It depends on the lineup!"
"Oh, oh." Left Hand mumbled and lowered his head again.
"Hahaha, isn't Knight too cute?" Su Cheng saw this scene and whispered to Lin Yan.
"Is he cuter than me?" Lin Yan suddenly asked as he smelled the citrus shower gel on her body.
Su Cheng didn't expect Lin Yan to ask such a question.
However, Su Cheng didn't hesitate. Her excellent memory allowed her to remember Lin Yan saying "You're cute everywhere" before the New Year. She didn't know what to do and didn't know what to do.
Su Cheng's long school life had indirectly cultivated her strong competitiveness and unyielding spirit. Her ability to hold grudges had reached the max, and she had decided to get back her face.
"Of course you're cuter." Su Cheng smiled sweetly and said sincerely. She straightened her body slightly and secretly turned on the recording function on her phone.
She was now waiting for Lin Yan to subconsciously ask "Which part of me is cute?" and then choke him with one sentence. At the same time, she would also record his embarrassed and helpless appearance as a witness to her victory.
"It's good that you know." Lin Yan was very satisfied with his girlfriend's answer. He patted Su Cheng's head lightly.
"Huh?"
Su Cheng was stunned.
Why didn't you play by the rules?
"Don't you want to know which part of you is cute in my heart?" Su Cheng didn't give up. She stared straight into Lin Yan's eyes.
Lin Yan wasn't stupid. Su Cheng's purpose was obvious. She was obviously setting a trap for him.
"Broad shoulders, long legs, and outstanding appearance?" Lin Yan was habitually narcissistic. "Alas, there are too many parts of me that are cute."
Su Cheng's lips moved slightly. She swallowed the words "Why don't you go die?".
"Teacher Su, this little trick of yours won't work."
Su Cheng snorted twice and turned off the recording function on her phone. She secretly decided to study hard.
Lin Yan took a new disposable paper cup and went to the beverage machine to get a cup of Red Bull.
"If it's not a crucial game, don't drink too much Red Bull." Su Cheng changed the topic. "It's not good for your health to drink too much."
Lin Yan saw that his teammates were preparing to go out. He stood at the back of the team and asked.
"For example?"
"Excessive caffeine can cause neurological problems, including but not limited to depression and anxiety. It can also lead to increased blood pressure and faster heartbeat." Su Cheng's tone didn't fluctuate. "Excessive sugar may also cause obesity."
Lin Yan glanced at the Red Bull in the paper cup.
"Phyllostachys Pubescens, do you still drink Red Bull?
It's just to make you excited so that you won't get lost in the next game. "
Xiao Tian turned back and stared at him. "Go away, why don't you drink it?"
At this time, the second game was about to begin. Lin Yan had no time to change drinks.
"I'll help you find a staff member to change it?" White Crescent asked before the BP game started.
Lin Yan shook his head. "No need. Just win this game quickly."
He took over the second game.
Once again, he took out the midlaner Qing Gang Yin and kicked the IM midlaner Athena's head.
At the same time, he also cooperated with Xiao Tian to invade the jungler's jungle. Qing Gang Yin was extremely threatening with the jungler's jungle wall. Several times, the jungler was successfully taken over by the YM midlaner when he was halfway through killing the jungler. His economy level fell behind a lot.
The jungler's jungle fell, and the jungler's vision space sharply shrank. Lin Yan and Xiao Tian succeeded in killing the bottom lane Jinjiao with 4 packs of 2. Then the snowball rolled bigger and bigger, and the IM slowly died.
"At 26 minutes, YM won another game and won eight consecutive games. Is there no one who can stop them?" Remember shouted on the commentary platform.
"Their next opponent is EDG." The commentator Hallucination said in a hypnotic tone that could be used as a lullaby.
His commentary was characterized by almost no fluctuations in his tone. Although he had a certain level of understanding of the game, the audience was unwilling to listen to his tone.
"EDG … Sigh." Remember moved the microphone away to prevent the audience from hearing his last sigh.
But this sigh was enough to prove a lot of things.
On March 16th, YM faced EDG.
Ghostfoot Seven was still sitting on the bench with the exemption card, and Prince Love Loli came out.
Factory Director Deft left without him, and the newcomer Zet was obviously not able to keep up.
Even if YM was still Lin Weixiang + Liu Qingsong, other than Iron Pig, not many people were optimistic about EDG's victory.
However, EDG had never let anyone down in terms of disappointing.
In the first small game, they actually controlled the advantage!
Just like OMG's jungler in World 6, Love Loli frequently caught down. After several LPL games, Lin Weixiang and Liu Qingsong's awareness of gank prevention was constantly improving.
Xiao Tian also realized EDG's traditional way of thinking early on. He squatted twice, but did not win the 3v3, allowing Zet to establish an advantage.
After that, Meiko was freed to roam the middle lane and help Scout catch Lin Yan.
Mouse was still in the top lane, but he was better than OMG's top laner Frozen Sunset. Jin Gong also did not have much of an advantage.
In just 20 minutes, EDG had two small dragons, one earth and one fire, and also destroyed two of YM's outer towers. Their economy was ahead of 3K!
But YM did not panic, and still set up a tight defense line, allowing Lin Weixiang and Lin Yan to quickly develop.
Lin Yan took Clockwork as the team's main C, and ate the safest minions and jungle resources. He also dealt 210 damage in 20 minutes, and did not fall behind in terms of economy.
The game had completely entered the mid-game rhythm.
The Dragon was about to respawn, and EDG had just landed in the Dragon pit when they realized that their vision in the pit had been emptied by YM. Coincidentally, Zet and Scout's vision modification was also on cooldown, so they could not see the Dragon pit.
"I can eat this Dragon alone, you guys go and take a look at the Dragon pit!
They don't have any meat, so they can't tank the Dragon at this time! "Love Loli said.
"I don't think so, let's go together!" Ah Guang disagreed. "They have Big Mouth and Clockwork, so they can kill the Dragon quickly!
We can't steal the Dragon without you! "
The players in the team had different opinions, so logically speaking, the main commander should make the decision.
Originally, Factory Director was in charge of commanding, but now that he was on the bench, Meiko had to take the lead.
"… Anything works," Meiko shouted.
Anything works?
Are you guessing?
Ah Guang did not understand what it meant to command Meiko.
"Let's go, let's go!" He simply shouted.
"I'll still …" Love Loli still wanted to control the Dragon. If they could get an additional 8% attack bonus, their combat power would rise to another level.
But Mouse had already run over. Scout saw that someone was leaving, and subconsciously rushed towards the Dragon pit.
Meiko had difficulty choosing, so when she saw that someone was leaving, she followed.
Zet, the Korean support, recognized Scout, who had arrived before him and was stronger than him, and also followed.
In the blink of an eye, the four players of EDG were all running towards the Dragon pit, and Love Loli cursed in her heart.
Although the commander Meiko did not explicitly say that Love Loli wanted to go to the Dragon, she did not say that he could not go to the Dragon either.
At this time, Abu and Factory Director were listening to the team's voice chat in the backstage lounge. The consequences of not following the commander's orders in a professional competition would be severe.
Love Loli was afraid that she would be the scapegoat if she did not go, so she could only follow behind her teammates and rush towards the dark Dragon pit.
But because of the confusion in the commander's orders, the formation of the five players of EDG heading towards the Dragon pit was not tight.
Ah Guang was at the front, and Love Loli was at the back. They were the only two in the front row of EDG, and the three weaklings in the middle and bottom were quite a distance away from Ah Guang and Love Loli.
Lin Yan and his teammates were crouching. Just as Love Loli said, the five of them could not hold off the Dragon at this time, so they simply cleared their field of vision and waited in the bushes, planning to wait for someone to come over and act as their field of vision.
He never thought that EDG would rush over in such a formation. Ah Guang was about to enter the Dragon pit, and the three weaklings behind him had just stepped into the upper half of the river, and the three of them were still together!
More importantly, they did not set up their field of vision in the bushes on both sides of the river. Lin Yan originally thought that it would be good enough if he could catch one of EDG's players, but he did not expect that they would throw themselves at him, and the three weaklings would rush straight in!
This kind of formation and detail was common in the secondary league, but in the top league, it was a crime to do so!
Lin Yan did not give them a chance. He was afraid that Clockwork QR would be dodged by the players of EDG, so he directly used Flash and appeared in front of the three weaklings of EDG!
The huge force of the shockwave pulled all three of EDG's players to Lin Yan's side. He controlled Clockwork to cast another QW, and the Thunder Lord's Decree came down!
This talent was actually an area of effect damage, but the area was relatively small, and most of the time, it was a single-target damage.
But this was an exception!
Lin Yan's Clockwork big move rolled all three of EDG's players together, and the thunder fell on the three of their heads!
The HP of the three weaklings of EDG was instantly reduced!
Lin Weixiang's Verus charged up and flashed, and an arrow pierced through the three of them. Together with Jin Gong's Captain's big move, it directly buried EDG!
"Oh my god, YM's teamwork!
How did Ran find the opportunity! "Doll shouted.
"Rather than saying that Ran seized the opportunity well, it's better to say that EDG's formation is too bad!"
Mille could not believe it. "They didn't even set up their field of vision, and directly went into YM's arms!"
With the three of them dead, YM directly took down Dragon, reversing the situation. Their Clockwork and Captain's formation had reached the point where EDG could not stop them at all, and they successfully turned the tables!
In the second game, EDG was not as lucky as the previous game. Xiao Tian crouched down and successfully won the 3v3, gaining the bottom lane advantage.
They retreated step by step, losing two towers and one pagoda.
"We can't let go of this middle tower, or else our jungle will be gone!" Ai Loli wanted to call her teammates to defend the only outer tower.
"I want to develop, develop!" Scout played Clockwork this game, and he did not want to defend the tower.
In his opinion, Liu Qingsong's Bull's Head would definitely seize the opportunity to force it open, and with the current equipment gap, they could not win the team battle.
Everyone in EDG once again looked at the commander Meiko.
"… Yes, yes, yes!" Meiko replied.
Yes my * ss!
In the previous game, it was because of her "yes, yes, yes" that the formation was messed up and Dragon turned the tables. Ai Loli planned to follow her own ideas this time.
Ah Guang thought so too, and he planned to defend the middle tower with his teammates.
Lin Yan glanced at the EDG players who were defending the tower. Originally, he thought that if EDG was determined to defend, he could operate the middle tower for a while and push it later.
However, just as he was about to retreat, he saw Scout's Clockwork appear in the bottom lane.
What do you mean by this?
Are you looking down on us?
How dare you defend the tower like this?
Lin Yan, who thought he was being looked down upon, was flustered and exasperated, and he commanded Liu Qingsong to dodge directly.
This time, not only did Ai Loli die, but Ah Guang and Zet also died.
It was not only the middle tower that fell, even the second tower and the jungle were swept clean by YM, and there was nothing left to play with after this wave.
"28 minutes, YM flattened EDG's base, and it's 2: 0 again!
They haven't broken the invincible golden body!
Is there no one who can stop them? "Doll waved his arms and shouted excitedly.