Chapter 3 You don’t lack the top laner, I do!
The day when I signed the contract with EDG's replacement was actually four days later.
Early in the morning, EDG manager Abramovich arrived at the IG base in a club car.
But when he opened the door and walked in, except for a staff member he met in the corridor, Li Mufan was the only one in the huge training room who was ranking.
He goes to bed early at night, but he also goes to work early during the day!
Get up at eight o'clock and start ranking training at nine o'clock!
In real terms, the training time may not necessarily be shorter than that of other players; but Su Xiaoluo wouldn't care if he saw that he was unhappy.
In WeChat, Su Xiaoluo had already told Abu to come in a few minutes. In fact, as a manager, Su Xiaoluo got up very early, but now he had to wake Yu Wenbo up first.
Abramovich sat alone in the training room, looking around at IG's training environment, and then turned his attention to Li Mufan, who was sitting in the front row and was ranking.
Abramovich is EDG's coach-turned-manager, and he knows very well that at this time of day, most professional players are still asleep.
Is it too early to get up? Didn't sleep at night?
He was a little curious and walked up behind Li Mufan.
Li Mufan was full of energy in the morning, as if the system had refreshed him.
Last night, he also officially reached the second node of the system training plan and unlocked the second potential.
After playing the top lane anti-pressure hero for several days, what was finally unlocked was +1 point in the ability to withstand pressure in the lane.
Li Mufan was very motivated after receiving the reward, and he got a top laner in the first game in the morning!
As one of the three fantasy gods in the top lane, the hero Dashu can be said to be the king of pressure resistance online and the troublemaker in team battles!
But it doesn't end there.
The significance of the big tree to EDG is far from being as simple as a top lane tank hero.
Two sentences have been circulating in the league's professional circles.
One sentence is: EDG recruits big trees and requires orders.
Another sentence is: EDG requires three heroes to recruit top laners, Big Tree, Twisted Dryad, and Maokai!
Although this is all a joke, it is not a joke at all to Abu.
As the former head coach and current department manager of EDG, he really looks at this standard!
Seeing the IG team member in front of him playing with a big tree, he suddenly became interested and stood back to watch the game quietly.
Career is different from rank.
Although the top lane in professional competitions nowadays is mostly two big guys torturing each other, the top lane in rank is still full of flowers, and all kinds of light and heavy warriors, tanks, and mages can take it.
This time Li Mufan was facing a weapon master who was very good at tanking.
As a mixed-damage hero, Weapon Master can be said to have beaten the tree randomly until the tree's double resistance was very high, but Li Mufan's response was quite good.
Every [Leap Slash] of the Weapon Master was intercepted from the air by his precise use of his Q skill [Arcane Blow]; if the sword can make up for it, go to A, and if it can't make up for it, use the tree son to blow it up, and then If that doesn't work, just listen to experience; as soon as the opposing jungler disappears in the upper half or doesn't show up for more than half a minute, he will retreat directly to a safe position.
There were no obvious flaws in the entire laning period. If anything, the ability to exchange blood was a little weak, but this is a good thing for Abramovich.
Abramovich understands that some players rely on their youth to operate well, even if it is unnecessary blood exchange, they have to remove the skin twice, but EDG does not need this!
If you place an order, give me a big tree to play with and lie down quietly!
Another person might say that Li Mufan played a little too steadily, but this is exactly the trait that Abramovich hopes to see in the top laner.
Hiss——
The more Abu watched this person's actions, the more he liked him. His right hand kept rubbing his chin, and he was already thinking about how to kidnap someone from IG!
More than half of the transfer period has passed, but his top lane position has never been found. This makes Abramovich anxious, and he urges the factory director to find a top laner every day.
Now I happened to see someone on IG who was initially satisfactory to me, so Abu decided to recruit people.
He knows that IG has bought Duke, and even if there is a top laner in the team, he must be the guardian of the water cooler - who can take the starting position from the new champion top laner?
In this case, Abu's idea of poaching people is actually not difficult to implement.
He tilted his head from the side and looked forward without any trace. It didn't matter if he didn't see it. He was shocked when he saw it!
Isn't this the standard pressure-resistant top laner in my mind, the Emperor Fan who "shone brightly" in last year's S5 World Championship?
The third tier was crushed and failed to qualify for the group stage!
The ancient wealthy IG was criticized by overwhelming public opinion overnight and could not hold up its head.
Fortunately, EDG led by Abramovich also fell in the top eight, and LGD, the No. 1 seed in the LPL, even lost in the top 16!
Under the background of peers, IG’s ‘little mistakes’ became less unacceptable and were quickly replaced by new topics.
After the S5 World Championship, Fanhuang basically bid farewell to the competition. In S6, they only played three small games throughout the year, all of which ended in failure.
Abramovich had almost forgotten that there was such a figure in the IG team, but he didn't expect that he could come across a team-changing contract for a small AD.
Moreover, Fanhuang got up so early to rank, and he doesn’t seem to be a bad person. He works hard to improve. If his performance in the competition is not good, it may be because he really has no talent.
No, Abu then thought, maybe the reason why Emperor Mortal became Mortal Emperor was because he was not in the right team!
As we all know, the league is a game of five people. No matter how well you perform in one line, you cannot withstand the pig-like performance of your teammates.
If Fanhuang were in EDG, could he become a qualified EDG-style top laner?
You can't see much in one round of rank, but at this time, Abu is already the type who seeks medical treatment in a hurry.
In fact, due to the quarterfinals of the World Championship for three consecutive years, it is impossible for the club owner Ed Zhu to not have resentment in his heart.
After big-name players Pawn and Deft terminated their contracts one after another, Edzhu has already made a deal with Abramovich and will not spend more than one hand on wages for players next year!
In the past two years, the influence of the league has increased day by day, and the wages of professional players have also increased, but they are still very different from traditional competitive sports.
Generally, the standard monthly salary for a normal first-line starter in 2016 is more than 10,000 yuan.
But the trouble is, this is the salary set in the previous contract. In fact, if the transfer fee is included in this year's transfer period, the price of a famous star player is seven digits starting with 1!
Only a very small part of this money goes into the players' pockets, while the majority is taken away by the clubs.
This is probably the saying that "there is a price but no market". The value of star players has skyrocketed, but in fact not many bosses are willing to buy it. Bosses like Principal Wang, who are extremely dignified, only bought one Duke in the end.
The same is true for Ed Zhu. When the team never achieves results, he doesn't want to be taken advantage of.
As a result, Abramovich's available funds are very limited, and most of them have been removed after leaving the factory director as the face of the alliance.
As an insider, Abramovich has long known that IG spent huge sums of money to win this year's world championship top laner Duke!
They don't lack top laners, but EDG does!
Koro1, the first-generation top laner in the team, is now in serious decline, and the tank top laner in the version is even more like a fool!
AmazingJ, the second-generation top laner, left for the second team at the beginning of the year. Now he has returned to the LPL but is already a starter for the IM team.
The third generation of top laner Mouse, not to mention it was okay, but thinking about it makes Abramovich sigh. He was a good top laner, but his career had to be terminated due to family changes.
If they don't buy a top laner during the transfer period, they will have to play the spring split next season with koro1, who is less than half of his peak strength. Abramovich will find it difficult to accept this.
Seeing that the former Mortal King was now playing such a tank on the road, uh, "pleasant to the eyes", Abu thought he could give him a chance.
He could think that unless Su Xiaoluo deliberately made things difficult, the price of 'Fantasy Emperor' would not be that high. It would be a fraction of the factory director's price if it were as high as the sky.
Buying a Fanhuang who can withstand pressure, and having a koro1 at home who is also a good DPS hero, and rotating the two top singles, is his ideal state. (End of chapter)