Chapter 357: One Person, Two Accounts

The documentary ended, but Ye Bo’s heart was still stirred, savoring this precious experience.

Shaking his head, he returned to streaming mode: "Alright brothers, it's time for the other important task of the day!"

"Let me see if the game update is finished."

"I've played the beta version of this new hero; this is the 'most mechanical' hero in League of Legends, oh~~"

Ye Bo logged into the client, and the opening screen featured the poster for the new hero, [Feral Rose - Briar].

This was also the final work of the soon-to-be-promoted Brother Three-Ring as a hero designer, fulfilling his long-held vision of creating a "female vampire hero," and it carried a bit of a "letting go" vibe.

Although Ye Bo had already seen the hero's skills, he still had to follow the process and show the "Hero Introduction" promotional video in the stream.

The familiar voice of Uncle Dun came through.

At the same time, a playful, loli-like voice drifted out as well.

"I've heard humans have a saying called 'fair-weather friends,' and you actually say I eat everything!!"

A white-haired little loli wearing shackles and standing barefoot on the ground appeared on screen, instantly drawing a wave of praise in the chat.

[So cute~~]

[Wait, what? White hair! Loli! Jailer! Yandere! Forced! Bondage! Vampire! This hero is a collection of all my fetishes!]

[Although human fetishes are free, what the hell is a vampire?]

[I declare! The title of Jailer Poppy has officially changed hands! Even if this hero is trash, I have to taste it one way or another!]

Ye Bo looked leisurely at the excited chat, inexplicably revealing a strange smile.

"To be fair, this hero is quite cute when not using W, but once W is activated..."

He casually pressed the spacebar to pause, capturing a few frames of Briar when she "activates her W skill" in the video.

His screenshot skills were on point, and in an instant, the chat was flooded with question marks.

The little loli turned into a raving lunatic in a second!

"Sigh, so everyone should focus more on the hero's mechanics; the design of this hero's mechanics is actually quite unique~~"

"The passive is roughly a Darius passive with lifesteal, Q is a Jax Q with a stun, W is a core skill that's hard to explain, E is roughly a long-range area-of-effect version of Poppy's E, and R is somewhat similar to Vex."

Ye Bo used his expertise to explain the skills to everyone, but the focus of the chat was somewhat peculiar.

[Jailer Poppy? Lunatic Poppy!]

[The girl has such great expressions!]

[Even better, there's actually a contrast!! This is my wife!]

[Seriously, this ultimate? As an ADC player, I can already feel smoke coming out of my head.]

[I'm an ADC farming in the bottom lane, suddenly the sky goes dark, a purple mark, a pink mark, a red mark, and a black mark appear on me, a spear suddenly appears under my feet, and I hear 'oh oh oh oh' from the sky, I don't know what it is, but it feels like League of Legends is actually quite fun.]

Facts prove that as long as a hero's appearance and positioning are well-designed, even if it's hard to get into professional play, its popularity among the player base won't be low.

Teemo and Urgot are the best examples of positive and negative cases!

Briar, although her appearance design isn't exactly the most exquisite or beautiful type, just inexplicably hits the right spots for some people.

And as the hero's skills were displayed.

All the viewers finally understood what Ye Bo meant by "most mechanical hero."

This hero's core mechanic, and almost all skills, serve the W—and the effect of the W mechanic [Blood Frenzy] is: when activated, Briar "self-taunts," only tracking the nearest target to automatically seek enemies.

Simply put.

This is the first mechanic in League of Legends that is, in the true sense, "controlling yourself"!

And except for the E skill, which has a very long cooldown and is the only way to save one's life, once W is activated, Briar cannot interrupt it through any other means, including Flash, Cleanse, or Quicksilver Sash.

Until the state ends, or death!

The first time Ye Bo played, he was "dragged" by the opponent under the tower several times in a row, and even if he used Flash, he would immediately run back to continue chasing foolishly—until he was chased to death by the tower!

The important thing is that all of Briar's prowess is in the W.

After activation, not only does she gain super high {Attack Speed} + {Movement Speed} + {Lifesteal} + {Percent Health Damage}, but her basic attacks also become noble area-of-effect damage!

This means you can't *not* use W!

Obviously, the mechanical design dictates that this hero has an extremely low "operational difficulty"—one could even say it's infinitely close to zero.

During the W skill's duration, you can even truly "take your hands off the keyboard"!

You can't control it anyway~

Although Ye Bo doesn't particularly like playing heroes with no room for operation, since he promised Brother Three-Ring's commission to show the "unique charm" of this hero in the stream and help promote it properly.

He thought of a way.

"Let's start a custom game with viewers! I'll create a custom room to play the new hero, just wait for me to tell everyone the password to join~"

"But I need to take both the mid and jungle positions."

The viewers in the stream didn't understand what he meant at first, only busy frantically refreshing the custom room to try and squeeze in.

And then, Ye Bo returned to his computer desktop, first "dual-opening" a League of Legends client and logging into the account "Forty-Year-Old Aunt Wants to Go Pro."

The viewers who realized what was happening had already widened their eyes.

Yes.

Ye Bo wanted to "dual-open one person"—playing two heroes by himself!

This was actually inspiration he got from a challenge he saw a blogger do while browsing Bilibili videos.

It's just that the blogger used a "Jungle Hero" + "Support Yuumi" dual-open challenge, only switching screens to throw two Yuumi skills during jungle clearing gaps, and then letting Yuumi retreat to hang on the jungler when the time came.

And don't even say it.

That blogger played over a dozen ranked games in a row, and the teammates didn't even notice!

Of course, the dual-open combination Ye Bo wanted to challenge was significantly more difficult.

But this was exactly the way he thought could best demonstrate the "features" of this hero.

Ye Bo was about to announce the room password in the stream, but suddenly remembered something, took off his headset, and shouted to the next room.

"Mom, Dad! Want to play?"

Before long, the sounds of two people climbing out of bed and putting on slippers came from next door.

"...Coming!"

And Ye Bo waited until both of them joined the room before announcing the password in the stream; the room was packed in less than a second.

The stream was amused.

[I knew Master Ye's mom played League, but does his dad play at that age too... wait, how much!? Diamond I???]

[Wow, what is a family of experts! It has a bit of that sect bloodline flavor, wow!]

[I get it now, the gap between me and Master Ye is my dad, my dad is fully responsible!!]

[I squeezed in! I must know if this is the only chance in my life to solo kill Master Ye! Brothers, cheer for me!]

[One person dual-opening + bringing the whole family, this last spot, no matter how you look at it, feels like it belongs to the family.]

[Hey, is that ID Director Xun? Damn, there's a fix!]

On the other side, Xun, who was on vacation at home, unleashed the speed of a professional player.

The familiar ID {V5 Imperial Guard} appeared in the last slot of Ye Bo's team.

Ye Bo naturally noticed this ID and typed on the public screen with a smile: "What's the situation, Xun-zi? Didn't you say touching a computer these days makes you a puppy?"

{V5 Imperial Guard}: "Woof woof woof!"

However, the skill level of the netizens in the stream was uneven, so to balance the combat power of both sides, Xun was eventually moved to the opposite side.

Both sides swapped out the viewers with the lowest ranks, and even let the highest-ranked Challenger viewer play mid, trying to ensure the skill level was balanced as much as possible.

And Xun was already rubbing his hands and laughing evilly in his own stream: "Good, good, good, Master Ye is going to dual-open jungle this game, right? Today, let everyone see who the big brother in V5 is, wow!"

He confidently picked Nidalee.

Seeing the opponent pick the Lee Sin + Briar mid-jungle combo, he still didn't care.

After all, the new hero had just launched, and because it didn't meet the conditions for appearance, it couldn't appear in the S13 World Championship, so Xun's knowledge of this hero was limited to the skill video he had just seen in the stream.

Following his usual routine, he prepared for the classic Nidalee level-two invade.

"Mid-lane buddy, help me keep an eye on Master Ye, wow! He has to operate two people!"

Nidalee's level-two combat power is unquestionable.

But Xun might have underestimated the combat power of this new hero.

Ye Bo was operating Lee Sin in the mid-lane laning against Tristana, and suddenly noticed the extremely cowardly Tristana starting to press forward, immediately sensing something.

Glancing at the minimap, sure enough, the Nidalee emerging from the river had appeared!

Ye Bo immediately moved—to go support himself!

In the stream, one could only see him frantically Alt+Tab switching screens.

Two windowed clients were constantly switching to capture information, the switching speed was so fast it was ridiculous, making everyone in the stream dizzy!

And Xun calculated that Ye Bo was operating two people.

He deliberately didn't make a move at first.

He waited for Tristana to also arrive to support, and the moment they engaged with Lee Sin and "trapped the opponent's hands," Nidalee closed in and started with an auto-attack Q hidden spear strike!

But at that very moment.

Ye Bo first operated Lee Sin to punch the Tristana jumping into his face -> then instantly Alt+Tab switched screens to operate Briar, and then used a "70-degree angle W" to dash forward, dodging that spear!

Briar's W [Blood Frenzy] has a {dash displacement} when used.

Logically speaking, as long as you understand Nidalee's operation, dodging this spear isn't a reaction that's too difficult.

But the problem is that Xun had deliberately chosen the timing—this wave of Ye Bo's was clearly infinitely close to operating two heroes "simultaneously"!

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