Chapter 197: Zoe Sect!

"Congratulations to V5!!"

"With the speed of lightning, they have taken the season opener with a 2-0 victory, defeating WBG, who just won the Weibo Cup!"

The moment the Nexus exploded, Wawa roared loudly: "And these two games were played so fluidly; their form is truly excellent!"

Miller nodded, agreeing with his partner's assessment: "If we talk about it thoroughly, the two games were very similar in style—both were extreme early-game fast-paced blitzes. The total match time didn't even exceed fifty minutes!"

An overly excited Pyl subconsciously corrected him: "To be precise, it should be exactly forty minutes, right? In both games combined, WBG didn't even have five kills. It's too bloody!"

After finishing his sentence, Pyl felt something was off and looked at the two old veterans beside him who were only smiling and not taking the bait.

He recalled the "Space Elevator" on his Weibo page just a moment ago during the match break.

He hurriedly added, masking his embarrassment: "Speaking of which, everyone must have seen the news about training volume recently. V5 is truly the most diligent team in everyone's eyes. Today's performance is really..."

As he spoke, Pyl's voice came to an abrupt halt, and he almost couldn't resist slapping himself.

This big mouth of his!

Why bring up the very thing that shouldn't be mentioned!

Fortunately, Wawa's conscience kicked in, and he took over: "That's true. Although it's a pity we didn't see V5 in the previous two secondary tournaments, they have indeed done a lot of preparation off-stage!"

"Not to mention anything else, just Master Ye's Zoe's outrageous long-range E maneuver—I've never even seen that before!"

"I can't even believe how much effort he must have spent studying Zoe in private!"

Miller also said quite seriously: "And let's talk about the level-one designs and counter-designs in these two games, the mid-game tactical concepts and systems, especially this {Press the Attack System}."

"I originally wanted to say that this system is somewhat similar to last year's EDG, after all, the core members are there... but actually, thinking about it carefully now, the core is not the same!"

Pyl hurriedly caught up to change the subject: "Ah, yes, yes, yes, that's what I thought too!"

"Last year's EDG relied more on the laning advantage in the bot lane, plus the huge individual advantage in the mid lane, and then opened up the situation through mid-jungle synergy."

"But this current V5, while the individual advantage in the mid lane remains undiminished, relies more on the jungle and support to stir up the early-game rhythm! The efficiency is faster!"

"Of course, I really have to mention player Ye again. Although this is only the first match, he feels like he's become much stronger this year. I don't know if it's because the pressure of the rhythm has been shared, allowing him to focus more on laning..."

Pyl, having successfully diverted the deadly topic, became extra talkative and launched into an analysis.

During the previous off-season, esports self-media had collected the training accounts of all players to simply observe their competitive state based on rank volume and rank tiers.

Among them, in terms of rank training volume—V5 had a full five people enter the top five for their respective positions!

First in top lane, first and second in jungle, first in AD, and fifth in support.

The only one who didn't make the top five was the mid lane.

However, it naturally couldn't be that Ye Bo trained less.

It was mainly because during this period, besides taking on the more specific responsibilities of "Head Coach," Ye Bo had also been busy digesting the trophies harvested from the Annual Ceremony.

However, the sharp-eyed Pyl being able to notice that Ye Bo performed better today was not because of this reason.

After all, the improvement of {Basic Talent} is more of a "silent moistening" display of details; there wouldn't be a sudden obvious change in any one aspect.

The real reason is that Ye Bo's "rhythm pressure" has been shared quite a bit now!

He can focus more on laning.

No matter what, being distracted by observing other details on the map will inevitably affect laning suppression; this is an obvious thing.

Although compared to the Viper+Meiko bot lane of the EDG era, the laning suppression of this V5 bot lane is not as good.

But, with BeryL, who previously specialized in this at DRX, to share this work.

Ye Bo can now focus more on laning, fully exerting his strengths in laning—thereby achieving even more powerful laning suppression in the mid lane!

And another piece of good news is that Ye Bo's basic talent "Recovery" is about to be completed, and there are two trophy points left over.

He is quite looking forward to the subsequent new things.

The spotlights of the home stadium dome poured down, focusing on the V5 player bench.

Everyone was in high spirits, standing up, hugging each other's shoulders, talking and laughing.

Brother Shengqiang Ge shouted excitedly: "So strong, brothers!"

"Playing so well, iron buddies! I am a dancer!" BeryL giggled and rambled, and one could tell he hadn't watched few short videos.

Speaking of which, in order to learn Chinese, this guy had gone to great pains.

As a proper person who rolled out from that corner of South Korea and got into a local university, one of the few in the esports circle with an undergraduate degree, BeryL's learning ability was unquestionable, and learning things wasn't slow.

But Chinese, as the world's recognized most difficult language to learn, plus the time from the transfer window to the start of the competition was less than two months, the time was indeed too tight.

And being able to reach today's level, besides benefiting from the Chinese version of the Genshin Impact client BeryL used, which truly made a great contribution.

He also specially switched all the life software around him to Chinese and frantically brushed various video software to force "localization."

The only side effect was that strange words would always pop out of his mouth for no reason...

"Strong, Master Ye! Strong, Brother Yuanshen! Strong, Brother Shengqiang Ge! Strong, Brother Alpaca!"

Xiao Xun really wanted to improve. After the joy of a successful debut, he hurriedly blew up his big brothers one by one according to "mental order."

Highlighting a sense of sincerity.

Deft smiled and patted him on the shoulder to comfort him: "You are also great; everyone is very powerful."

The Alpaca had a foundation, plus BeryL's influence, and the incomparably huge obsession in his heart, his language also progressed by leaps and bounds.

And after this match ended, Deft even more believed that the choice he made again was correct.

Actually, before the match, besides Ye Bo.

The other four still had no bottom in their hearts.

After all, this was the team's debut on the field, and including these two games, there were still many details and areas for improvement and coordination...

However, because this WBG with "paper strength" that was incomparably luxurious, also as a brand-new team, their coordination performance was far lower than expected!

That's why the result was so smooth.

And this is also an advantage that this V5 has that others can hardly compare to————off-stage, or rather, the "locker room atmosphere."

Just looking at the IDs of these few people, it's hard to imagine an atmosphere of backstage arguments or cold wars; it is absolutely first-class happy and relaxed.

Don't underestimate the importance of this point.

The so-called atmosphere, besides being able to speed up a team's coordination.

The most important thing is actually the more critical on-the-spot adjustment ability when the team faces challenges and adversity!

Think about all the broken friendships, the Iceland past, the Seoul past...

"Let's go, go shake hands, wait to slaughter Brother Shengqiang Ge!" Ye Bo greeted everyone to go shake hands.

The five people from WBG also looked fine, and it seemed they hadn't been too affected.

It could be seen that it should also be a team with a good atmosphere.

Of course, it could also be because the temperaments of the few leading big brothers were good, and some people didn't dare to say any nonsense like 'don't talk nonsense'...

Rookie even took the initiative to talk to Ye Bo: "Really strong... But next time, we will fight back!"

"Come on, Brother Ji, the year is still long, we'll meet again later!"

TheShy also took the initiative to ask Ye Bo to solo when he had time, and also invited him to play ARAM together... After all, he saw that rank volume table and found that V5's rank volume was about the same as his.

Professional players not playing rank must be playing ARAM!

As for Gala, looking at Ye Bo always felt his eyes were strange.

Just like looking at Akali.

I don't know if it's because of the experience of being kicked to death by Zoe and the Long Wang in these two games for no reason, making him subconsciously think "Akali is here, Akali is here..."

After shaking hands, they came to the center of the stage to bow.

Everyone prepared to return backstage.

Before leaving the stage, they received a notification that the ones going to accept the interview today were the bot lane duo, which was also the first official interview for the two since coming to the LPL.

Xun happily took the peripherals of the two.

Ye Bo was incredibly happy to know he could escape the work, and he and Brother Shengqiang Ge ran back backstage in two small steps.

Having been off-season for so long, he hadn't surfed the internet for a long time!

This opening match was undoubtedly full of highlights.

The gimmick of "All-God Class" vs. "Champion-Runner-up Combination" attracted a large number of viewers, and the related sharp review posts from all sides had huge traffic.

Among them, the most discussed were naturally the two mid laners.

The second game MVP that had just been released, the 13-1-2 Zoe, the exaggerated data was simply outrageous!

In contrast, the opposing Syndra's 1-8-6 infinite death-seeking, with output damage of 6596, was also very outrageous!

【Roar roar roar, one i8, one i9, too godlike (human)!】

【It's really hard to imagine that Rookie, who once dominated the mid lane, would become like this. I can only say that time is like a knife cutting down the proud. Currently, the only one who has broken through the age shackles is Faker. It's hard, too hard.】

【Is this our All-God Class? Our LPL really has so much hope!】

【Hehe, I can only say Ye has ulterior motives. The All-God Class was originally the hope of our LPL, and he beat it into this. Next year, no one will watch this competition! I'll let you all be unemployed!】

【Indeed, Ye Wen is too bad. Actually, not only did he solo kill Rookie and destroy the All-God Class, he also stole disaster relief instant noodles, beat up old people in nursing homes, and kidnapped Jerry, then framed Tang Mu for it.】

【I don't know about the others, but the kidnapping of Jerry and framing Tang Mu is true. I asked the Three Kingdoms Kill official!】

【One thing to say, it's not that RK and TS are bad, it's really that Ye is too fierce, right? That Weibo Cup just beat Toothpaste and Bin!】

【What are those two goods? Those without an S championship don't deserve to sit at the table to eat!】

With Ye Bo's not-too-rich toilet experience, netizens were relatively tolerant of Rookie by comparison.

Of course, perhaps it was also because this was the first match of the season after all.

Most rational people knew that the current result couldn't prove anything.

Anyway, the "paper ceiling" of this WBG really didn't look low, at least it had a lot of room for imagination.

He didn't have much interest in these evaluations of other players—but he did use a small account to reply in the comment section that slandered him.

"Ye really didn't do those things! Pure slander! At most, he peeked at Brother Shengqiang Ge's Baidu Cloud disk, put mustard in the Factory Manager's tea leaves, was a sour orange assassin, took away Xiao Qi and the raccoon, and that was the cat's own initiative..."

After replying, he quickly scrolled down and saw his own part.

【God! Simply a god!】

【Too exaggerated, buddy, never thought in this life that I could operate like this! Strongly suggest bringing the Zoe skin over; this skin should be my Master Ye's, wow!】

【What do you mean steal? That's taking! That's called taking back what was stolen! That's called justice!】

【My Master Ye disdains stealing, what is everyone in a hurry for? Just take one back this year!】

【Fuck, get out of here! This year must be Silas's! Otherwise, I'm going to make a scene!!】

【Don't open the champagne, I say, it's only the first match. I, a Milan fan, am really afraid of opening champagne so early... But if you really have to choose, it must be my second original wife, LeBlanc!】

【This is called opening halfway? This is fucking opening before even leaving the door! I can only say I knew this All-God Class was fake long ago. There are so many galaxy battleships in LPL this year, I can only say don't be in a hurry!】

Ye Bo looked at the debate below because of the skin, and also began to worry about his own skin.

Unfortunately, the release of the championship skin wasn't that fast. Although the designer said they would show them the first version of the design draft for modification soon, the time to truly go online would be at the earliest after the Spring Split was over.

Ye Bo was in a hurry, very much in a hurry.

Mainly because he couldn't pick Akali at all now, especially in the global BP mode, almost everyone defaulted to banning this hero of his.

Akali only had three sets of clothes left to wear!

The good news is that as an exclusive reward for the championship skin, every hero who owns his own championship skin will automatically unlock all other skin outfits.

I can only say, the hurry is constant and reasonable.

Because it had just ended, there weren't many posts and discussion threads at this time, and after a few quick scrolls, there was nothing new.

Ye Bo refreshed it one last time and prepared to exit.

As a result, he refreshed and saw a picture that almost made him spit out water—a "Character Original Painting" of Coach Danny!

I saw Danny's demonic head and expression, which were seamlessly photoshopped onto the head of the prisoner Silas, and behind it were funny pictures of TheShy and Rookie...

Ye Bo also found that the ID of the poster who made this picture was the same UP owner who made his highlight reel last time, obviously also a prankster!

"Save it and show it to Brother Yuanshen later."

Just in time, on the live broadcast screen, the interview with the bot lane duo also began.

Although both were old players, they were new here, and they still didn't look that active, and their answers to questions were standard.

But very importantly—both took the initiative to propose that they didn't want a translator.

This wasn't to show off their Chinese level, but just to seize the opportunity to practice more.

From this point, one can actually see their usual attitude from the side.

"Wow, the Chinese of the two players is really good now!"

Yu Shuang complimented sincerely and continued to ask.

"Then during the time you joined V5, are there any teammates you are not used to, or who left a deep impression?"

BeryL answered first: "No not used to, Chinese food is delicious, everyone is very good to us..."

"Deep impression, that must be Ye."

"Competing against him in the Canyon last year, I felt he was a genius... Now I find out, it really is like that!"

Deft was also the same object of the answer.

"Player Ye Bo, he had a big influence on me. Perhaps it can be said that it was because of him that I had the courage to come back to China again..."

The barrage flooded with tears.

But some people also typed 【Factory Manager-Meiko: "So, will love disappear?"】

Yu Shuang continued to ask about V5's outlook on the Spring Split this year.

This time it was Deft who answered.

He smiled gently with a warm face and said a passage that didn't seem like something he would say.

"I think what we should look forward to should be the best result of another LPL team I was once in."

"Because this time I also have very good teammates..."

BeryL just kept nodding like a groundhog beside him.

The V5 fans off-stage were excited, screaming and booing constantly!

Just because everyone knew that EDG, another LPL team Deft was once in—their best team history result was exactly the S6 season when Deft was there.

The EDG of that year once achieved a terrifying "Season Full Victory" record!

This record, since that EDG of S6, had never appeared again.

"We all know that the competition pressure in our LPL division this year is very high, there are many strong teams, with such confidence, it seems that V5's internal coordination is very good!"

Yu Shuang smiled and continued to chat: "Side note, it's almost New Year, do you two have any preparations?"

"This, um, should still be training at the base."

"Because going back might have a risk of injury, I thought about it..."

Deft's Chinese improvement speed was indeed not small. Although there were still some accents and improper word usage, as well as unavoidable pauses, he was already able to answer on his own.

And this was indeed a fact.

On the eve of the New Year, V5 still had one match. If they went back, they would inevitably have to go through a tense, super-peak "Spring Festival round-trip" cross-border journey.

Maybe they would be infected with the epidemic in the current "great opening" period.

This was also the two's own intention.

"Then our last question... let's talk about the player Ye you both mentioned!"

Yu Shuang obviously didn't want to let go of the target with the biggest topic, and asked jokingly.

"Player Ye's performance today is very bright, especially those few amazing operations of Zoe, whether it's the skill mechanism or the idea, they are all things we have never seen before, and there is also the super unpopular Long Wang..."

"So as teammates, can you reveal a little bit, does he always study these things in private?"

Asked this question.

Deft just described the scene of Ye Bo's usual training, without adding oil or vinegar, and very realistically restored reality.

On the contrary, BeryL, who had been staying with Ye Bo recently, seemed to be a little excited suddenly.

"This ah!"

"He told me, it was all taught by Zoe!"

Actually, BeryL, an old two-dimensional person, could empathize with Ye Bo's words extremely well.

He even felt he had found a "soulmate"!

BeryL also incomparably deeply believed that those magical ideas of his were simply inspiration given to him by Elysia in a dream...

Only Yu Shuang obviously didn't take it seriously, and after a joke, ended the interview.

And Ye Bo backstage, seeing this segment, looking at BeryL's excited appearance, the corners of his mouth were a bit hard to hold back.

"These days, no one believes the truth..."

That night.

The V5 crowd held a grand celebration banquet and gave everyone a night off to go back and do their own activities.

Generally, at this time, Ye Bo would start a daily live broadcast, training rank while also making up for the off-season duration, so it wouldn't take up the time of usual training matches.

But he didn't tonight.

After returning to the base, everyone was doing their own entertainment activities.

And he entered the improvement of {Basic Talent} again, chasing the last inch of the progress bar to full...

(End of this chapter) ===== CHAPTER 198 =====