Chapter 1231: What is an international superstar?

"The Miracle Walker is still farming the jungle!"

"Getting solo-killed in lane, Letme really isn't just 'a bit' bad now."

"Maybe it's not that Letme is bad, but that Luo Bao is too strong."

"I really did underestimate her. It seems she was just playing around during her previous streams; this is her actually getting serious."

"If she went to play professionally for two years to train, I feel like she could join the China representative team for the next Asian Games."

"Fun fact: Luo Bao actually has an Olympic gold medal, though it's in a new event and not one everyone is familiar with."

"I think it's called something like Unlimited Mixed Martial Arts. Luo Bao is the strongest woman in the world, the kind who crushes everyone to win the championship."

"Now she's beating people in both reality and games. What kind of goddess is she?"

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Many things are just entertainment to outsiders, but only the parties involved know what it means to suffer.

As a professional player, being beaten like this by a female celebrity—if this gets out, won't the players laugh him to death?

But no matter how anxious he is, it's useless because he can't win the lane.

Once Jax gets an advantage, as long as he plays steadily, it's difficult for Darius to even farm safely. Once there's the slightest misstep in positioning, Jax dares to jump up and trade health.

Facing this situation, he can only call the jungler to help.

But Luo Quan knows better than him how to handle this situation. Regardless of whether the opponent calls for the jungler, she is going to call her jungler to dive the tower.

After all, she has gained an advantage in lane and is suppressing Darius so he can't get experience; why wouldn't she call the jungler?

With over a dozen minions entering the tower, even if she trades one-for-one with Darius, she still profits.

As long as the opposing jungler dares to show their face in the bottom lane, Darius is a dead man.

And their bottom lane chose strong heroes this time, so they also need to push the lane.

The jungler is now struggling to cover both ends; with both top and bottom lanes calling for help, he doesn't know who to listen to.

The result of this one or two minutes of confusion is that top-lane Darius is dove and killed by Jax and Elise. The two of them take turns tanking the tower with precise details, and in the end, both escape with a sliver of health.

Missing over a dozen minions, Luo Quan takes two kills and a layer of tower plating here. After returning to base to buy Sheen, Darius's top lane completely collapses.

Led by Luo Quan's legendary Jax, they win this game even faster than the last one. In twenty-two minutes, they push the opponent's base flat—easy and pleasant.

"Some people actually died at four minutes, but weren't buried until twenty-two minutes."

"Luo Bao, kill a bit slower, Mom is scared."

"Luo Bao is too ruthless. Solo kills, forced kills, tower dives—she's killed Letme four times in a row. Does she really not leave him any face at all?"

"Truly a big villain, too cruel (Well done)."

"Next game, just pick Darius and give him a 'reverse education'."

"Killing him and then attacking his heart?"

"Haha, Letme's mentality is probably going to explode."

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"How about it? Pick a Darius next game and start hacking away?"

After finishing the second game, Mlxg starts egging Luo Quan on to do something big.

This is typical of someone who loves to watch the chaos; it's a pity he used to be Letme's teammate.

Although picking heroes like this can maximize the show's entertainment value, it is an exhibition match after all. Everyone is here to play; there's no need to make it like a grudge match between father and son.

So Luo Quan shakes her head: "I'll just pick Nasus and coast. This game I'll just farm my Q; you guys focus on mid and bottom."

After laning against Letme for two games, Luo Quan discovered that his laning isn't much stronger than those high-ranked streamers. After all, he wasn't known for his laning ability when he was playing professionally, and it has only declined further since he retired.

And Luo Quan's strength happens to be laning. Encountering a Letme whose skills have significantly declined, it's quite easy to handle him.

If she continues to use a fighter to go toe-to-toe with him, that would be too disrespectful.

They see each other all the time; there's no need to be so ruthless.

So Luo Quan chooses Nasus, the Desert Curator, intending to coast through the game.

This hero is very weak in lane during the early game; before level six, there are almost no heroes he can solo kill.

However, Nasus possesses one of the very few skills in the entire league that can grow infinitely.

His W skill, Siphoning Strike, permanently adds 3 damage for every minion killed, and 12 for large monsters and heroes.

In other words, this is a hero who gets stronger just by farming, and there is no cap to the growth.

So as long as Nasus can safely get through the weak early game, once his mid-game items and Q skill are up, he will become very powerful.

But precisely because he is so weak early on, no one picks this hero in professional matches. In ranked games, picking him often means sitting in "jail" for eight out of ten games.

So he definitely can't be picked first, or he'll easily be countered.

If Letme picks Darius again and Luo Quan picks Nasus, she basically won't be able to play in lane at all.

The good news is that Letme probably realized the gap between himself and Luo Quan. Directly after banning Fiora and Aatrox—two top laners who are very good at fighting tanks—he picked Sion, the Undead Juggernaut, commonly known as the "Old Driver," which almost can't be suppressed.

Once this choice was made, the chat exploded with laughter:

"Haha, Letme is too cowardly; he doesn't even dare to take a fighter."

"Is the pressure that high? He really just starts coasting at the slightest disagreement?"

"He still has some brains; he knows to ban Fiora, otherwise his head would be beaten in."

"Speaking of which, how is Luo Bao's Fiora? Is it strong?"

"She's played against TheShy, and he said her Fiora is very strong."

"Holy crap, that strong?!"

"I still haven't seen her 'one-second four-vitals' make a mistake; her proficiency is just too high."

"Damn, hearing you guys say that makes me really want to see her play it. Too bad it's banned."

"I wonder what hero Luo Bao will pick to fight Sion this game. How about Jayce?"

"That works, I just love watching Luo Bao play aggressively."

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Amidst everyone's expectant gazes, Luo Quan moves her mouse over the Desert Curator's portrait and gives a light click.

"The cycle of life and death continues. We will live, they will die."

"Holy crap, Nasus. Is she not able to bear being ruthless to Letme anymore?"

"How many times have I said it? Call him Desert Curator outside; 'Nasus' sounds too ugly."

"Fine, there won't be any top-lane footage for the first twenty minutes. Nasus farms minions to infinitely increase Q damage, Sion farms minions to infinitely increase health; it's all about peaceful farming."

"No fun, I just want to see blood flow like a river."

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No one expected Luo Quan to pick the Desert Curator at the end.

This hero has basically no mechanical difficulty; it all depends on fundamentals and the ability to withstand pressure. Encountering the opposing jungler's targeting, there aren't many ways to counter, and she basically can't create any pressure on Letme.

Seeing this scene, Letme lets out a long sigh of relief.

Originally, he had already prepared himself mentally to be beaten to a pulp in lane. Who knew Luo Quan had such high emotional intelligence? He was so moved he couldn't help but want to shout, "Luo Quan, I'm your fan!" to express his gratitude.

Knowing he was laning against the Desert Curator, Letme completely lost his pressure, and his laning trades and farming actually started to look quite decent.

However, Nasus is least afraid of this kind of sporadic trading. His passive has quite good lifesteal ability; just after Letme finished consuming his health, she would recover it in no time.

Just like that, both sides farmed peacefully for a full twenty minutes, and only when the team fight stage arrived did they finally start to show their true skills.

At this moment, everyone suddenly realized that Luo Quan's farm was a terrifying 218 minions, completely following the timeline. Subtracting the few jungle monsters she ate, it meant she almost hadn't missed a single minion from the start until now.

"What exaggerated fundamentals!"

"I was just watching Sion keep consuming her, but when I looked at the farm, he was inexplicably nearly thirty minions behind Nasus, and two kills down!"

"Facts prove that as long as your fundamentals are good, even peaceful development can still result in suppression."

"Amazing, Luo Bao! If you aren't in the League of Legends Asian Games, I'm not watching!"

"Twenty minutes, 300 Q stacks, two major items. How is the opposing marksman supposed to deal with this Nasus?"

"It's over, it's over. With this development, in another five minutes, she'll have 500 Q stacks. She'll be both tanky and have high damage; she'll scare you to death."

"This is Luo Bao's suppression power!"

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Amidst the fans' flattery, Luo Quan seizes her power spike, starts team fighting with the opponent, and simultaneously sweeps the enemy jungle.

The opponent knows they can't win the fight, but if they continue like this, it will only be harder to fight by thirty minutes, so they have no choice but to engage.

Then Luo Quan activates her ultimate, transforming into the Desert Curator, pops Ghost, and chases the opposing carry to hammer them. One hammer per ADC—it couldn't be more violent.

After taking two team fights like this, Luo Quan gets a double kill and a triple kill, and the game is effectively over.

It's worth mentioning that in the final team fight, with the help of her teammates, Luo Quan rushed the fountain to get a pentakill. Although everyone was dead, their own super minions pushed down the opponent's crystal, which could be considered a perfect conclusion.

And Luo Quan, relying on her performance as the backbone of the team in these three games, wins the LPL 8th Anniversary Performance FMVP, accompanied by a pure silver gold-plated medal.

Before this, no one could have imagined that Luo Quan's side could win three games in a row, and even less could anyone have imagined that she could become the "thigh" (carry) for professional players, beating the opposing champion top laner until he was as obedient as a grandson.

In the past, celebrity guests basically just accompanied the "prince" in his studies; nine people would make him happy, and not only would they feed him kills, but they would also have to go and give him kills from time to time, otherwise the guest almost couldn't play.

But Luo Quan is different. She can suppress her opponent in a normal lane, and with a little care from the jungler, she can clear the top lane, and then in mid-game team fights, she can chase five people by herself.

TheShy coming over would be about the same.

Host Guan Da Xiao walks over: "Congratulations to Luo Quan for winning the FMVP. I believe all the viewers are marveling at Luo Quan's powerful strength. Actually, watching these three games, you are already more than qualified to go to the LPL to play top lane."

Hearing this, Luo Quan waves her hands quickly: "I'm still far from it. Players have to put in a lot of effort to become starters. I haven't played LoL for a long time; I only returned to the game recently after hearing about the anniversary celebration. I definitely can't compare to the players."

"Holy crap, what kind of new-style humble-brag is this?"

"You heard it, Luo Bao is at this level even after not playing for a long time. What would happen if she trained for a month or two?"

"Truly didn't expect that the world's number one top laner doesn't play professionally; it's really a waste."

"Haha, please don't over-hype her. Luo Bao is actually just strong in laning. Once the laning phase is over, she's like a headless fly, not knowing what to do. She's a classic example of top-tier mechanics but third-tier game sense."

"Game sense can be trained, but mechanics depend on talent. It's a pity she's a bit old, otherwise Luo Quan would definitely be called a genius top laner."

"For a girl to have this level, it's unprecedented and will never be seen again. She deserves ten thousand praises."

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Just as the fans said, as a girl, to play like this is already very amazing.

So the entire chat is full of praise for her, including Weibo and Tieba.

And the program on stage has reached the end of this anniversary celebration.

Guan Da Xiao uses his last chance to speak to say to Luo Quan: "Luo Quan, in the LPL, many players say I am a 'reverse poison milk' (bad luck charm), meaning whichever team I favor, that team is doomed.

At the same time, I also heard that you have a one-in-a-million koi fish constitution, and many of the blessings you give can come true.

So, taking this opportunity, can you give a blessing to the four LPL teams that are about to set off for the S11 League of Legends World Championship?"

This segment was agreed upon during the rehearsal.

It was actually said during the live stream, but Luo Quan felt it might be a bit informal, so she planned to say it again on this stage, in this live stream room with a heat value exceeding two hundred million.

"As an old player who has been playing since the game launched, I sincerely wish the LPL can defeat strong enemies and win the championship in the S11 World Championship!" Luo Quan holds the microphone, cheering for the players with a gradually rising voice.

Once the championship call is made, all the audience at the scene stand up, cheering for the highest honor, the biggest event, and the hottest celebration of League of Legends half a month later.

As one of the most watched competitions in the world, S11's popularity is perhaps second only to football and basketball.

Every year at this time, you can see news related to LoL on the trending searches at home and abroad almost every day.

And after Luo Quan's blessing was sent out, not only did it dominate the domestic trending searches, but the international trending searches also appeared directly on the homepage, with more than one hundred thousand related discussions.

What is an international superstar?

This is what an international superstar is.

As long as there is cooperation with a popular party like League of Legends, with the combination of strong forces, getting on the trending searches doesn't exist as a difficulty.

Of course, what is discussed the most is not that Luo Quan got a pentakill or FMVP, nor that she relied on her "Abyssal Abyssal Bawang" luck to give a blessing to the LPL.

It is the two-minute silence after she finished singing "The Lonely Warrior."

She just stood there posing, not saying a word, and then the tens of thousands of audience members at the scene clapped for her for two minutes.

What kind of popularity is this? What kind of confidence is this?

Not only have domestic netizens never seen such a scene, but even foreign netizens are surprised.

There are only a handful of stars who have been able to do this in decades, and Luo Quan has clearly reached such a realm. ===== CHAPTER 1232 =====