Chapter 426: Everyone has a bright future

RNG members returned to the lounge with drooping heads.

Just as they entered, FireFox hadn't started speaking yet when Uzi immediately began complaining about Malaxiangguo's kill-stealing behavior, while Malaxiangguo defended himself, saying he hadn't kill-stealed and had no choice but to do so in that situation.

Uzi naturally disagreed.

"What do you mean 'had no choice'? Do you think I don't know how to take kills? Besides, I think your fasting jungle tactic is useless—you've taken so many heads and still can't beat them. Hey, either stop playing like this and come more to my Xia Lu; I'll get fed and be able to carry a bit."

"I've been helping Xia Lu all game."

"You haven't helped me at all—that's not helping. When the enemy jungler kept coming, where were you? It's annoying as hell, you know how miserable I am? I could have suppressed the enemy, but that damn fly kept hovering over me, I'm really annoyed!"

Malaxiangguo didn't want to argue with Uzi, so he shifted the blame:

"We didn't lose for any other reason—Kled is just too fed."

Upon hearing that, Uzi instantly recalled the humiliation of being killed by Kled a few times in the Baron team fight, and indeed he got angry:

"Damn, Kled is really a broken champion, hey Yan Junze, what's wrong with you? You've raised a super big dad, how am I supposed to play a champion with no mobility? Two or three hits and I'm dead—I can't output in team fights at all."

Yan Junze sat in his chair, and upon hearing that, he spread his hands:

"Their jungler keeps coming top, what can I do? I say something and you don't listen at all—there's no feedback..."

Uzi laughed:

"You're joking—the enemy jungler never goes top; he's clearly always on my Xia Lu!"

"He came—my first death was his gank."

"You die after one gank—you dare to gank and dare to die, but he comes to Xia Lu so many times and I don't die; you're amazing, giving you the hardest-to-die barrel and you play it like this—you're incredible."

"How can that be the same? I'm laning against Kled!"

"Is Kled really that strong? He's weak in lane, okay? Otherwise why is his pick rate lower than Maokai's? If you can't lane, you can't lane—don't blame the champion."

Chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter.

At this moment, Uzi was like Lucian Hurricane's big mouth, his mouth going nonstop, even with split arrows—taking on many with few was no problem.

Xiaohu lowered his head, playing with his fingers, silent, pretending to be air.

Shi Senming had just joined the team this year, a total newcomer; when the elder brothers spoke, he had no chance to interject, his face showing some embarrassment and awkwardness. Originally a lively, laughter-loving person, this team atmosphere made him feel very uncomfortable.

RNG boss Bai Xing seemed already accustomed to such scenes, just sitting there watching.

FireFox looked embarrassed.

After arguing a while, Bai Xing looked at FireFox:

"Coach, got anything to say? How do we play the next game? Can we finish the mission?"

As soon as Bai Xing mentioned the mission again, FireFox began to sweat on his forehead.

"Alright, alright, let's stop arguing."

FireFox tried to take charge of the situation,

"Let's review and discuss later; first, let's figure out the bans and picks for game two."

Uzi was very opinionated:

"I've said it before—just listen to me, give me a champion I can carry with, Ashe is just a tool I can't carry at all, what's the use?"

FireFox was helpless:

"Then I'll try to grab Varus for you—what do you think?"

"Varus works, just Varus—but you can't give me a support I can't lane against; I want to have an advantage. The jungler should ideally be someone who can help me—Jade God works, but I think Prince would be best; Prince can give me attack speed."

"Want me to find you four supports?"

FireFox complained in his heart, but said aloud:

"Fine, I'll think about it, but we also have to see if the enemy lets us. As for everyone else, feel free to voice any ideas so we can discuss together..."

……

VG lounge.

Although winning the previous game against RNG wasn't a stomp, it didn't put too much pressure on VG either; after a quick discussion of game two's bans and picks, everyone started chatting.

Incidentally, they chatted about Fu Lan Duo and Gangzi's former team Snake's recent losing streak; Tabe, unaware of the details, asked curiously:

"Although two players left, I don't think it should have weakened them this much all at once; there must be other issues."

Fu Lan Duo sneered:

"Their results are bad, so they're panicking and started playing with player lineups."

"Have they been constantly swapping players?"

"It's not just swapping..."

Gangzi sighed,

"Just swapping players isn't enough to explain this; they're now messing around randomly, even putting Saofen on support—something like that could happen, I really don't know what Zhu Kai is thinking."

Fu Lan Duo pursed her lips: "Zhu Kai doesn't even have that authority."

"But the suggestion definitely came from him."

"Why not Zuowu?"

"It's all the same—he's responsible anyway. Forget it, let's not talk about this."

After all, Snake is a former team they once invested feelings in; this topic really weighs on them, so Gangzi changed the subject.

But Tabe, out of curiosity, went to look up Snake's match details, and only then understood what Fu Lan Duo meant by lineup combinations.

Simply put, after a rough start in the spring split, Snake's management began pulling shenanigans, seemingly swapping players' positions—for example, letting the jungler Saofen play support, and the AD player Wan Kun (Mint) go jungle…

To date, Snake has already tried out four player lineups:

First lineup:

Top laner Zztai, jungler Sofm, mid laner Tank, AD carry Mint, support Mo.

Second lineup:

Top lane Zztai, jungle ZZR, mid lane Tank, marksman Mint, support Sofm.

Third combination:

Top lane ZZR, jungle Sofm, mid lane Zztai, marksman Ohq, support Mo.

Fourth combination:

Top lane ZZR, jungle Mint, mid lane Zztai, marksman Ohq, support Sofm.

If it weren't for the limit that the starting roster can have at most two foreign players, Snake could probably come up with even more variations.

Since the spring season started, Snake has hardly had any matches where the player lineup was the same; it's truly like playing a combination arrangement game.

Tabe is becoming more and more shocked the more he watches.

Snake's management probably has some misunderstanding—whether a lineup works or not can't be tested in just one or two matches; otherwise there wouldn't be any integration issues, truly treating players as standard interface plugins that you just plug in and use?

Thinking of this, Tabe glanced at Liang Yan, who was sitting on the sofa quietly discussing with Long Ge the opponents for the upcoming practice matches over the next few days, and he genuinely felt that Liang Yan's selection of these three players for VG was an incredibly wise decision.

And for myself, coming to VG to learn under this great master, I have also chosen an extremely correct path.

Meanwhile, RNG head coach FireFox, who also hails from the LMS region, is now frazzled from the boss's tasks and the arguments among the players.