Chapter 16: Ming Kai's Blind Monk!

【Damn!】

【Straight to Diamond 2?】

【Damn, no wonder he's a top-three ladder player; after finishing the placement matches, he's probably going to reach the Master tier.】

【I don't know what you're surprised about; the Supreme Master rank is awarded to the top fifty players on each server. JM was previously ranked second, so giving him the Supreme Master rank directly feels reasonable.】

【Brother Ming, go go go! Take down Clearlove; the first Master on the national server must belong to our Ming family army.】

A streamer defeating a professional player; just thinking about it is thrilling.

After Jiang Ming went live, the YY side naturally learned of it immediately. Seeing the rank he held after the rank reset, the top executives instantly understood his intention.

"Old Xu, send the conditions to him directly."

"Give him traffic!"

"First, push his livestream room to the homepage. Instruct the publicity department; tomorrow I want to see announcements about the first Master on the national server on our YY platform plastered across all major platforms."

"Right, now is not the time to haggle. Even if JM doesn't change his ID, simply livestreaming his climb to the top on the streaming platform can generate terrifying attention; there's no need to drag out trivial matters."

"..."

With the platform's push, more and more people entered Jiang Ming's livestream room.

One can only say that with the hosting of several City Championship tournaments, the spread via Tencent's core QQ social network, and the quality of the game LOL itself, it has now reached a state of being popular across the entire nation.

Inside major internet cafes, the lights were bright; even if only one-tenth of the people clicked into the YY livestream pop-up, that would still be an abnormally terrifying number.

"Let me explain the rank score calculation formula to everyone: at the start of the new season, all players' ELO scores will be compressed and mapped into the new rank system. The formula is roughly: New Hidden Score = (Old Ladder Score + 1200) / 2. This means the new season actually has a hidden score, and this hidden score often affects the actual skill level of the opponents you are matched with."

"Above 2200 points, the matched opponents are roughly at the Diamond 2 to Master stage."

"Then from 2000 to 2200 points, it's roughly the level of Diamond V to Diamond II."

"1800 to 2000 is Platinum V to Platinum I."

Jiang Ming clicked into ranked mode, and while waiting for the match to start, he explained to the livestream audience.

Unlike in the future where high-rank players basically all ran to the Korean server to play, the current LPL has not yet experienced the crushing defeat of the 2013 All-Star event, and at the same time, the high-rank environment on the national server is still quite OK, with a large number of people on their own server.

【Indeed, my old ladder score was 2120, and they placed me in Diamond 4. After finishing the placement matches, there's hope to push for Master.】

【Envy the god upstairs. Damn, is Riot unwilling to give a few more spots? Only fifty Masters per server is too few.】

【That's what gives it value, right? I heard that at the end-of-season settlement, the game company gives exclusive gifts to Master players.】

【If you feel your skills are insufficient, go fight for it on the servers behind; Zone 1 is definitely where gods fight.】

【Brother Ming, why don't you talk about the Gold and Silver ladder segments? Are we unworthy? (Angry)】

Seeing this bullet screen, a player in the livestream room immediately joked, 【Sorry, below 1800 points, you have no qualification to speak loudly!】

【Hey, you don't have the qualification to speak loudly? What rank are you!】

【(Screenshot) Bro, Junhengjiao Sect Diamond 1.】

【Tsk, suburban Diamond. If you have the ability, come to Zone 1 and reach Gold first.】

【Please carry us, brothers. I'm a beautiful girl with a sweet voice. I don't expect Master; just getting to Diamond is enough.】

Seeing the bullet screens getting off track, Jiang Ming quickly spoke up to guide them, "Ahem, everyone, no need to argue. Climbing ranks is the priority. Today's livestream, I will organize a list of champions most suitable for climbing ranks for each position for everyone."

With these words spoken, and just as they were matched into a game, the bullet screens instantly fell silent.

At the start of the new season, a group of players were eagerly waiting to play their placement matches; now that Jiang Ming had said this, how could they have any other thoughts?

For a moment, various gifts flew endlessly in the livestream room.

(Responding sent the streamer an Excavator)

(Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai Free Shipping sent the streamer two Excavators)

(Fatty Happy Water sent the streamer one hundred Health Potions)

"Thank you, Brother Responding, for the Excavator. Thank you, Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai Free Shipping... Thank you, everyone, for the gifts!"

As the earth-yellow tractor animation rolled across the screen, accompanied by the "putt-putt" diesel engine sound effect filling the entire room, Jiang Ming was somewhat surprised.

This is not the future era where various high-value fake gifts fly everywhere; the most valuable Excavator on YY Livestream costs one hundred yuan each, and normally it's rare to see one in several days. More often, it's scattered flowers, applause, and one-yuan Health Potions like in the current livestream room.

"Yo, matched against that guy JM?"

Inside the WE base, Curl, who was playing ranked, quickly glanced at the chat channel and spotted a very familiar ID.

Smile, who was duo-queuing, was somewhat puzzled. "Our scores are all about the same; how could we be matched with this pervert?"

The League's matchmaking mechanism ensures that players on both sides maintain roughly similar skill levels. Why did it suddenly put three top-ranked people together today?

"Because I'm on the other side..." Suddenly, Ming Kai, sitting opposite the two in the room, spoke softly.

At the season settlement, he was the number one player on the national ladder!

"Then it makes perfect sense."

With the number one on the other side, paired with a few high-rank players, it is perfectly normal for their side to have a mid-laner of top-three caliber.

"Just right to test JM's adaptation to the new season. Ming Kai, focus on ganking mid more; don't come to our bot lane."

"I will!"

Ming Kai also checked the lineup on his side. The mid-lane was Cool from the OMG team; the mid-lane skill level should be on the same tier, so his room for performance in this game would be huge.

"Blue side didn't ban Zed?"

The people on the purple side were somewhat strange that the purple side didn't know JM was on the other side, so they didn't ban the Shadow of the Shadow.

The Shadow of the Shadow has been online for nearly a week. Currently, among high-rank players, a view is circulating: "The Shadow of the Shadow is a relatively extreme assassin; if you don't get an advantage early, it's too easy to be overturned, and its weakness in team fights limits it greatly."

However, that is for players with low proficiency. For a pervert like JM, who could master a new hero the second day and show off wildly in matches around 2300 points, would releasing a new hero that hasn't been nerfed be too arrogant?

"Hey Ming Kai, you guys actually didn't ban Zed?" Curl stuck his head out and asked.

It must be known that under the influence of tutorial videos, there is now a trend among both ordinary players and high-rank players on the national server to implicitly crown JM as the number one Zed on the national server.

"Cool feels he can win..."

In the ranked match, hero bans proceeded at lightning speed.

Blue side bans: Kassadin, Shen, Jayce!

Purple side bans: Widowmaker, Thresh, Orianna!

Entering the draft phase, Blue side's first pick secured the jungler Lee Sin for Ming Kai.

"Ming Kai picked Lee Sin!"