Chapter 21: Grandpa-Style Mid-Laner! [Bonus Chapter! Please Follow! Please Vote!]

Ye Bo, his face beaming with joy, withdrew from the peculiar perspective.

He had discovered the marvelous utility of this "Gold Medal Reviewer."

To put it simply, this function amplified his various senses, allowing him to enter a match in a state of total immersion and personally experience details that most people would likely overlook or fail to perceive.

Furthermore, Ye Bo could also sense something else.

His understanding of the game had suddenly gained a "sense of accumulation"; he clearly felt an improvement, and it didn't even just include content for the mid-lane position!

Perhaps it was the "legacy" of the old man Ye Bo?

Of course, entering this state required the consumption of {Counterattack Points}.

However, there was one important note at the end: "Reviewing matches the host participated in: Free"!

"Not bad, not bad, good stuff!"

Ye Bo thought to himself that just the ability to review and analyze his own matches without cost was already a huge help for his own improvement.

In fact, whenever anyone watches their own replays, they will find countless things to criticize and countless flaws.

These are things that are difficult for the parties involved in the match to discover.

This is also why, many times when watching high-ranked streamers or even professional matches, one will find that they also have very obvious mistakes and flaws.

The dormitory door suddenly rattled.

A young man wearing glasses, who looked quite refined at first glance, pushed the door open and walked in.

Their gazes met in the air.

"Flandre! So glad to meet you! I'm Ye Bo!" Ye Bo waved at him in a carefree manner.

"Oh, hello, Li Xuanjun." Li Xuanjun immediately greeted him back in a friendly way.

"You came at just the right time; actually, I have something I'd like your help with!"

Ye Bo held a small notebook and, ignoring the look of surprise on the other's face, walked right up to him.

Then he began to rattle off his output.

"It's like this: I just watched the training match video that the Manager gave me—the second training match you guys played yesterday, the one where you used Gwen top. I have a small question and want to trouble you to help me verify if what I'm saying is correct!"

"Look here, see? This is because your ward was on cooldown, so you released the wave early, which led to the minion wave being pushed in; there's no problem here."

"But I'm not sure if you noticed at that moment: the enemy Jax only successfully reached level eight after killing the last minion. A normal top-laner with equal experience should have reached level eight just as this wave killed the second melee minion. So, it's very easy to deduce that the Sejuani must have been behind, and she definitely must have been camping in the second bush at the exact moment this wave arrived, so that she could only share the experience from this wave."

"There was no voice chat in the recording, but I guess you probably didn't communicate this detail, Flandre, which led to the enemy bot lane pretending to have their jungler behind them to intimidate our jungler, successfully scaring them off and causing us to miss a prime opportunity for a tower dive."

Li Xuanjun was actually a bit socially anxious, but fortunately, newcomers in the past were usually very quiet, and most teenage gamers were quite shy, so there was no pressure in communicating.

But just when he came back, the Manager had specifically warned him that this guy was also socially anxious!

Yet... Li Xuanjun still hadn't expected this.

This guy, it was their first time meeting.

How did he start "picking faults" right away!

But as Li Xuanjun listened to the other's endless stream of words, the more he heard, the more earnest and serious his expression became.

By the end, there was even a look of slight shock in his eyes.

"It really is true; I did overlook that point. We top-lane players usually have a keen sense of leveling nodes before level six, but it weakens a lot after level six, as there are many miscellaneous distractions."

"But you're right; I could have completely compared it through my own experience bar. As a 0-0-0 record player who recalled and TP'd to an equal lane, this could have been discovered..."

"Mm-hmm, actually, there's also this roam from the mid-lane..."

Ye Bo briefly stated all the information he had recorded in his small notebook during his first review.

The more Li Xuanjun listened, the more shocked he became.

The takeaway coach, Zhu Kai, went to RNG this year.

EDG's head coach this year is Maokai, who can be considered a very experienced coach in the LPL.

And every time a training match is finished, the coach will inevitably do a review; this is actually the meaning of training matches, and that naturally includes the match Ye Bo just watched.

But the problem is, regarding everything Ye Bo just said.

Among them, at least nearly half—were problems that they hadn't mentioned during their previous review!

Training match videos definitely wouldn't be leaked, so Ye Bo could only have just seen it.

This was a bit terrifying.

However, Ye Bo's original intention in saying all this was just to have the other party help verify whether the results of the analysis he made alone after entering that state were actually correct.

But Li Xuanjun didn't think so.

He didn't even hide his surprise and praise.

"You're good, brother, really good!"

"How about you say all this again when we go to play training matches this afternoon?"

"No problem~"

Clearly, the Manager's warning was entirely true.

A newcomer joins the team, meets a veteran for the first time, and ends up pointing out the other's problems directly!

If this were someone narrow-minded, they might really get angry, thinking this person was too ignorant of "social nuances"!

But Li Xuanjun was not such a petty person; on the contrary, as a veteran, he was even more acutely aware of the significance of this, and instantly looked at this new youth-training mid-laner in a different light.

Coupled with Ye Bo's easygoing personality.

The two soon began chatting familiarly.

"It's a pity you didn't become a streamer with that silver tongue of yours," Flandre joked once they got familiar.

"I was a streamer before, but I've always wanted to play professionally. As for streaming, when we're old and can't play anymore, we can stream every day," Ye Bo replied naturally.

"So, have you thought of your ID yet?"

"Not yet. Coach Abu told me to tell him at lunch, but I'm too lazy to think about such problems, so I'll just use my name. What do you think of 'Bo'!"

"It just so happens that it can also clash with my favorite brand of fire extinguisher~"

Li Xuanjun made a strange, thoughtful expression: "No, that ID is already used by a player, and you should probably change it."

"Is that so? Then how about 'Ye'~"

"I just feel that the ID isn't important. No matter how awesome the ID is, if we don't play well, it's useless, and no one will remember it."

"As long as you play well, even the most ordinary ID will be remembered by people. Flandre, don't you agree!"

When Ye Bo said this, he even shouted the last sentence with a bit of "chuunibyou" flair.

In just this short while, Li Xuanjun, who was already starting to get used to Ye Bo's personality, just assumed the other's fire of "chuunibyou" was burning brightly again.

He laughed and echoed: "No problem! Look at how many people can remember how to spell my ID; don't they all just call me by my nickname anyway?"

However, what Li Xuanjun didn't know was this.

What Ye Bo was thinking about at this moment was actually a sentence he saw when he was recalling things in the system.

【...Therefore, not even the audience can remember your ID】

This sentence made Ye Bo's memory fresh.

Because not even the system said what the old man Ye Bo's player ID actually was.

It meant that even the damn system didn't care!!

So Ye Bo also figured it out.

Even if he really racked his brains and spent a lot of time and energy thinking of a flashy-looking ID.

If he didn't play well, even if people could really remember it, it would just be material for netizens to make all kinds of jokes.

Ye Bo felt that as a professional player now, he should use the method that a professional player should achieve—"Make everyone remember his ID"!

Afternoon.

On the eve of the training match, at Flandre's suggestion.

Ye Bo once again recounted the review notes he had made that morning in front of everyone.

Clearly, almost everyone present had the same reaction as Flandre!

Except for Scout, who had been inexplicably pointed out for a roaming decision error, feeling like he was being "lectured" by a newcomer.

How damn embarrassing!

Of course, that play did indeed look like his mistake during the review, so no matter how unhappy he was, he couldn't say anything.

As for the others at EDG, they all had a good impression of this lively newcomer, especially the jungler Jiejie, who was of a similar age, and they soon started chatting.

And what was even more gratifying was this.

In the following training matches, Ye Bo's performance could definitely be called eye-catching!

Since the opponents didn't know about the roster change, Ye Bo easily got his hands on a few of his signature heroes and carried two consecutive training matches!

Abu, who was standing in the back, had already started to smile.

Especially seeing the "analytical" ability Ye Bo had unexpectedly displayed, as well as the budding command ability in the match, it gave him the surprise of having found a treasure.

At the same time, it also made him determined.

Even if this player hits a Waterloo on the field in the future, he is certain that this will still be a very valuable mid-laner!

He had already decided that even if the other party couldn't complete the challenge, he would give him as many opportunities as possible...

That night.

【EDG Esports Club】 released an announcement—

[After friendly consultations between both parties, we are happy to announce to everyone that free agent Ye Bo (ID: ye) has officially joined the team and will serve as the team's mid-laner. We look forward to player ye growing rapidly within the team and becoming an indispensable new force in the league.]

As soon as this blog post announcement was released.

The comment section immediately became lively.

【Holy crap! This is okay! Auntie Brother actually really made it to the LPL? And it's actually EDG!!】

[So the streamer is really going to play professionally to make a name for himself, huh (]

[This ID is awesome. Granddaddy!]

["Granddaddy" is fine, but maybe it's "Night"; it feels like it fits his assassin specialty style quite well.]

[No worries, if he can perform, he'll be a "Granddaddy-tier" mid-laner; if he can't, then don't blame the forum trolls for calling you an "Armpit-tier" mid-laner~]

[What a pity, why come to EDG? With the "Thief Saint" suppressing him, what chance does he have to play? It's a real waste of such a good talent.]

Given that Ye Bo's popularity had far from faded, the comment section was surprisingly harmonious.

Aside from exclamations, anticipation, and regret, there were rarely any negative voices.

After all, EDG had often brought up new players before, and other teams frequently brought talented rookies to the main roster to learn or gain experience, so the announcement itself wasn't actually that strange.

However.

Just at 8:00 PM on Friday.

When the EDG official social media account began to hype up the match for the next day against their close rival in the standings, LNG.

And announced the starting lineup.

In an instant.

Everything exploded!

Today is two big chapters, adding up to 7000+ words!

It's also to speed up the pacing; skipping the internal team parts directly isn't great, so I added an extra update so we can get into the match part tomorrow.

Asking for a few monthly tickets qaq

I also hope everyone can try not to "stockpile" the book qaq, because during the new book period, follow-up reading is everything; it's really important!!!

I really can't update too much during the new book period, but I will try to update as much as possible and try not to end chapters at frustrating points!

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