Chapter 600: Cramming-style Teaching

Brazil Region has no spring season, only summer and winter seasons, corresponding to the spring and summer seasons of LPL and LCK.

The opening day of the Brazil Region winter season is June 3, a few days earlier than LPL's.

"That really isn't a difference of just a few days......"

Liang Yan pondered.

It's already the 23rd, with less than two weeks left before the season starts.

Then we need something quick to learn.

There are still methods, after all the Brazil Region's level is what it is; a team wanting to improve its ranking, even without changing players, can widen the gap with other teams by slightly improving one aspect. Moreover, thinking from another angle, CNB team's weakness actually means there is plenty of room for improvement.

Liang Yan began to ponder what to teach CNB.

Something that doesn't require much thinking, not closely related to the players' mechanics or execution.

Is there such a thing?

There is.

Two words: vision!

Normally, doing vision well requires thinking, but if a team's vision control ability is already extremely poor and they just want to bring it up to an average level, then it actually doesn't require much thinking.

The method is also simple; just rote memorization will do.

Depending on the enemy jungler's type—whether they have wall‑crossing skills, crowd control, whether they are a wild core or tempo type, etc. —based on the enemy jungler's differences, our starting positioning and when and where to place wards are all things that can be followed from experience.

Simply put, Liang Yan just needs to give CNB a "vision" guide, have CNB's members memorize it, and then follow it according to the situation in matches.

After all, they are professional players, so they should still have this ability, right?

Thinking of this, Liang Yan looked around the training room and saw a movable blackboard in the corner, and immediately stood up:

"May I borrow your tactic board?"

"Oh oh, okay!"

Liang Yan pulled the tactic board over and happened to see, beside it in the corner, a box containing many Summoner's Rift maps, so he also took a few sheets.

The CNB members all looked at Liang Yan with puzzled faces, not knowing what he was going to do.

But the VG members, upon seeing Liang Yan's posture, immediately knew that Jiao Shen was about to bring out the real deal and start teaching these people.

Liang Yan grabbed a handful of magnetic push‑pins, fixed the Summoner's Rift map onto the tactic board, then picked up a red watercolor pen, turned to face everyone, and said calmly:

"Like this—I won't talk about overly complex things; I'll explain something simple. If you can learn it, I believe it will give our team a significant boost.

"What I'm going to talk about is actually just two words: vision……

The CNB coach, who transitioned from a domestic professional player to a coach, had his eyes light up, immediately opened his notebook, and prepared to take notes.

The CNB players also stared at Liang Yan with full attention, listening earnestly—while they do enjoy playing for fun, such a great improvement opportunity is right before them, and the instructor is none other than Firrrrrre, who won a championship with a team half a year after debut, then joined another team a year later and secured an MSI title, a near‑mythic Grand Slam contender—to receive his personal coaching is an opportunity that can't be missed, even money can't buy it, so naturally nobody would want to let it slip.

"First is early‑game vision; this is the top priority. If we get this right, our early‑game anti‑Gank ability will greatly improve. Let's start with how to set up opening vision.

"Depending on the situation, we usually have several opening vision setups…… Hmm, coach, you'd better jot this down on the map……

The CNB coach immediately fetched a few reduced‑size Summoner's Rift maps, returned to his seat, sat properly like an elementary student, and looked up at Liang Yan:

"Please continue!"

Liang Yan then began to write and draw on the map fixed to the tactic board.

"If you think you have an advantage in a level‑1 teamfight, or if you want to actively invade the enemy jungle to place vision and see how the enemy jungler starts, then your starting positioning should generally be like this……

"Top here, jungle here, mid, AD, support……

"Like this."

Liang Yan turned around and glanced at everyone.

For the VG members, these are things they've long known by heart, even become instinctive, and with Liang Yan personally directing, this is just a review for them.

But for CNB, such a rigorous, reliable, systematic technique is something they've never encountered before—it's like opening a door to a new world.

"As for the specific reasons why we do it this way, I won't go into detail now due to time limits; we'll understand it through playing matches later—this is also a means of self‑improvement.

"Moving on.

"After positioning, when there are about ten seconds left until minion spawn, we need to move. To see the enemy jungler's start, we usually invade the upper half because it's safer; the upper‑mid jungle route should be taken like this—when grouping, keep your positioning not too tight to avoid being camped, but not too far either, lest you get caught out of position; try to keep about three hundred yards distance, then…… place the ward here.

"Normally we don't place two invading wards—that would be wasteful; one is enough. If the jungle monsters have respawned for more than twenty seconds and the enemy jungler still hasn't appeared here, then it must be a lower‑half start.

"Alright, next let's talk about how to position and place wards for defense when not invading. This is very simple—everyone knows the five‑star line‑up, but how do we set up wards to prevent invasion? Generally I divide it into three methods depending on the situation.

"The first method……

At this moment, watching Liang Yan speak confidently in fluent, pure American English, the CNB members couldn't help but show admiration, even feeling a sense of lofty reverence in their hearts.

Regarding the true strength of the world's strongest jungler, they now have a concrete impression, and they clearly understand why Firrrrrre is the world's No. 1 jungler; moreover, they now have an answer to just how large the gap between themselves and him is.

The things Liang Yan is saying now, they actually had some vague, fragmented, unsystematic notions of before; but Liang Yan breaks them down point by point, marks them out, even gives specific timings down to the second, and upon hearing it they suddenly grasp everything, feeling a sudden enlightenment:

'"Oh, I see now why strong teams do vision like that—it's because of this……

Liang Yan doesn't know what the CNB members are thinking; he just teaches, force‑feeds them the most basic and important vision knowledge in a cramming style.

He then continued:

"Next I'll talk about vision placement during the laning phase.

"First, at the start of laning, depending on whether we know the enemy jungler's starting position, we will have several different ward placement schemes……