Chapter 43 043: Looking for a big brother?
Gu Xing returned to the dormitory and planned to take a shower and took out a change of clothes from his suitcase. When he saw Ding Ran lying in front of the table, previewing college courses, he still couldn't control his curiosity.
"What did you say to your cousin this afternoon?" He was puzzled.
"Huh?" Ding Ran hasn't reacted yet.
"When I was chatting with Jack and I just now..." Gu Xing repeated Ding Jun's words again, "He said there was something wrong with the League of Legends branch's team building ideas."
Ding Ran pulled his thoughts away from the math problem, thought about it carefully, and suddenly shouted in a long tone, "Is he serious?!"
Gu Xing waited for his friend to calm down before he learned the cause and effect.
This afternoon, VG held a training match as usual, except that the opponent was changed to the strong league team EDG.
Although EDG failed in the spring split and failed to win the championship trophy, their runner-up results were much better than VG.
And the staffing is quite luxurious.
The other party is willing to start a training match with VG because they also want to try out a new player - Scout, the substitute mid laner from SKT.
Gu Xing and Jack were both in IG at the time, so VG was the main lineup for the spring split.
As a result, he was beaten so hard that he couldn't find his way around.
There was no problem in the mid lane duel. When two former SKT mid laners met, Easyhoon was as stable as ever.
Brother Long, who is on the road, even has a certain advantage.
But the bottom lane was completely beaten into a sieve.
EDG's Deft+Meiko combination is second to none in the 2016 LPL. There is no doubt about this.
VG's current shooter Endless is stronger than IG's Rain, but his strength is limited.
In this collision, the gap is very obvious.
Dandy also helped the bottom lane twice in the early stage, but this only slowed down the duo's threading speed.
In less than 15 minutes, Endless was defeated and killed.
In the end, Deft's Ezreal successfully surpassed the master, forcing VG to point out GG to surrender.
After three sets, VG's bottom lane game exploded.
Ding Jun got up and came to the base to take a look. He was almost angry to death. He saw Gu Xing and JackeyLove leaving again, and then went to Dota2 next door.
"I have been watching your training matches during this period, and I feel that I have some understanding," Ding Ran said with great satisfaction, "so I gave him some advice, which also used the theory you taught me. ”
"Did I teach you?" Gu Xing couldn't understand.
"That's right," Ding Ran imitated his tone, "When playing jungle in ranked games, first look at the winning rate of your teammates and find the strongest one to be the big brother!"
Gu Xing remembered that he did say that, but he was still confused, "But what does this have to do with making suggestions?"
"You also have to raise a big brother in the jungle!" Ding Ran tugged at his fingers and told him, "The VG Spring Split lineup, top laner Long, is more blue-collar, right?"
Gu Xing nodded in agreement.
Brother Long is the kind of top laner who will never get into trouble if you don't help him. He is very stable. His Bobbi Wheel Hammer in the Spring Split can only be described as reliable.
Although he is very strong and has certain offensive attributes, a bit like another top laner GimGoon, currently the top lane is dominated by three fantasy gods, and Troll and top laner Ekko have also been popular for a while.
The hero's style in the top version is positioned as team battle control + damage tolerance, a role similar to a shit stirrer.
The benefits of these roles in the jungle are not high, and the laning period with the top laner is also very boring and lonely.
Ding Ran continued, "Mid laner Easyhoon, Hou Ye, is a famous middle defensive tower. Do you think he needs help from the jungle?"
It's really not necessary.
In most games, Easyhoon likes to focus on development and use his equipment to take over the game.
This is how SKT played in the S5 season, and they didn't eat junglers at all.
In the first training game of VG, Gu Xing did help Easyhoon twice, but that was because he was so efficient in ganking that he almost put the kill in front of the mid laner.
"Endless in the bottom lane..." Ding Ran felt that the opponent was a good person and did not want to give him a bad evaluation. "The strength is quite average. It is difficult to carry the game with help."
"The profit from playing in the top lane is small. I am not used to helping the middle lane. It is ineffective to play in the bottom lane," Ding Ran concluded. "Then, who can the jungler help in the game? There is no big brother in the early game in the team!"< br>
Gu Xing followed his friend's train of thought and figured out his logic, "Don't tell me, it does make sense."
If we play against a weak team, this kind of problem will not be exposed. After all, the other four people in VG except ADC are not bad in strength and can completely crush them.
Facing a strong team, it is inevitable that you will encounter the problems Ding Ran mentioned.
The jungler has nowhere to help in the early stage, and no one in the team can carry the team's rhythm with him.
"So I told my cousin that we need to replace the core player in the bottom lane, a jungler to help him, a top player who can give feedback to the team!" Ding Ran's eyes lit up, "I didn't expect my brother to take it seriously!"
"How about it, do I have to take 1/3 of the credit?" He still asked for credit with a shy face.
"Isn't this what I taught you?" Gu Xing reacted and raised his voice, not to be outdone, and shouted, "Without me, can you understand this?"
"Both of us are great, okay?" Ding Ran smiled, but suddenly frowned, "The question is, who is the team looking for?"
The two discussed it for a while and felt that there were not many suitable ADCs on the market now.
It is impossible for EDG to release a top shooter in the league like Deft.
Even though he made a serious mistake in the S5 global finals by using Jess to teleport the lantern, there is no doubt about Deft's strength in the domestic league and he is definitely EDG's treasure.
The topic came to an end.
After the two took a shower, they simply lay on the bed and watched the mid-season video that had recently started.
This event is held in Shanghai, and the spring champion RNG is participating on behalf of the LPL division.
Spicy Xiangguo, one of the members of the Seven Wolves of Ionia, is RNG's starting jungler.
However, perhaps because he was too busy training and preparing for games, Gu Xing hardly saw him speaking in the group.
"Xiaohu is so strong," Ding Ran sighed repeatedly, "He can actually kill Faker alone!"
The 18-year-old Xiaohu entered the mid-season for the first time and showed his fierce character in the group stage. Faker Lee Sang Hyuk, who was single-killed by him, is a well-deserved legend in the League of Legends.
Combined with Xiaohu's wonderful performance in the last game of this spring's finals - he took out the trick Enchantress, and even though he was restrained by the fat general Lulu, he still hit a super god + single kill in the counterattack.
All this seems to indicate the rise of a domestically talented mid laner.
SKT, led by Faker, stumbled in the group stage and was double-killed by the Flash Wolves in the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan divisions.
"Brother Xing, do you think SKT won't even be able to make it to the finals this time?" Ding Ran thought about it, "Last year, they were crushed by EDG in the mid-season, so it's reasonable to be eliminated by RNG this year, right?" < br>
"I think you should go to the LGD base opposite," Gu Xing said with a smile, "Join the Optimistic Family, and everything will be over with optimism!"
He feels that SKT, as the double champions of the global finals, has a deep foundation and poor performance in the group stage. Maybe they can adjust in the subsequent knockout stages.
After the LPL experienced a disastrous defeat in last year's World Championship, viewers are currently pessimistic about the strength of the division.
Ding Ran immediately retorted after hearing this, "You still don't believe it?"
He took out his mobile phone, found a picture and showed it to Gu Xing, "When we came to Shanghai, SKT even dared to eat Haidilao!"
The SKT players in the picture are smiling brightly and giving a thumbs up to the camera.
Gu Xing has been busy with trial training these days and hasn't surfed the Internet much. This is the first time he has seen this photo.
Haidilao mainly refers to the word "Lao", which is similar to the adjective used by domestic audiences to describe contestants who have changed their minds.
"Do you believe these things?" Gu Xing looked dismissively.
Ding Ran thought he was being harsh, "Then when you start playing professionally, how about I treat you to a bowl of beef noodles?"
Beef noodles once sealed the soul of a top ADC at the time during the 2014 World Championship, causing him to fall from heaven to hell. It is also the most famous food curse in the League of Legends world.
Gu Xing shuddered and forced a smile, "Brother, I'm just kidding!"
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In the afternoon of the next day, Gu Xing and Yu Wenbo went to the Pearl River Creative Center on Lingshi Road. There were many game industry companies nearby. Opposite was Activision Blizzard, as well as the Banana Project, which hosted this year's LPL.
The EDG base is also located here, they actually have a building!
This opened Gu Xing's eyes.
The two received a warm welcome, and Abu personally came to pick them up and drew them cakes along the way.
"Our second team, EDE, has entered the LPL and plans to change its name to IM, and all the players will be transferred there," Abu said in a high-pitched voice. "We will have to form a new team that summer."
"If you two can join together, the club can directly purchase an LSPL quota, ensuring that you will have games to play!"
The person he really wants now is JackeyLove.
But Abu is very smart. He sees that Yu Wenbo and Gu Xing have a good relationship, so he plans to buy them both together.
After all, Gu Xing is now one of the top five high-scoring players in Ionia. He is at the qualifying level. There is no problem in getting it for youth training. It doesn’t cost much anyway.
The two had a trial training all afternoon and performed very well, which made Abramovich even more delighted.
"It's quite late, why don't you try our canteen?" Abu also wanted to build relationships while eating.
"EDG also has a cafeteria?" Yu Wenbo was looking forward to it. "When I go to other clubs for trial training, they always ask aunties to do it."
Gu Xing also felt very strange.
EDG gave him a good impression. The club's decoration style is grand, the management system is strict, and the dormitories and training areas are separated without interfering with each other, which is in line with his image of a regular club.
However, when the group of people arrived at the cafeteria, he and Yu Wenbo were stunned.
"Why are you still standing there?" Abu said pleasantly, "We have many kinds of dishes here, you can choose whatever you want!"
Gu Xing and JackeyLove looked at each other again.
"All the cafeterias in our town are better than this," he muttered, "I swear."
"You don't need to tell me?" Jack glanced at Gu Xing and added quietly, "It's quite difficult to find a school cafeteria worse than EDG."
EDG's canteen environment is very clean and tidy, and the variety of dishes is indeed rich.
It's just that the quality is really worrying and makes people look unappetizing.
The image of a luxurious and atmospheric club that Abu and others spent an afternoon building up in Gu Xing's mind was instantly shattered. See you at 5:50 in the evening!
(End of chapter)