Chapter 37

Excluding basic lane matchups and roaming timing control, the training that has always given the mid-laner Zhongzi the biggest headache is various vision placement issues.

For example: controlling the enemy F6 and river vision in a favorable match, requiring over 80% coverage!

Wu Zhiqiang: "I, the mid-laner, have taken over the support's duties; who can I complain to?"

Ten-plus minutes later, the tide turned.

The top laner who was wailing just a second ago now wore a Tom-and-Jerry grin; Song Yuan kicked his gaming chair so hard sparks flew: "Gaga-gaga, little Xu, where are you running? I heard you like helping people train 1v2?"

"You were having so much fun trolling me just now; now it's my turn!"

"Gaga-gaga!"

Training positions swapped—now simulating support roaming and AD 1v2 timing.

At this moment, facing the roaming support simulation, Xu Jing, guarding an empty nest alone, looked on in terror as Song Yuan gradually twisted into a Picasso-esque style.

"Don't come over!"

"Record the opponent's warding habits!"

"Actively build a heatmap of the enemy jungler's routes, constantly calculate and feedback the enemy's key skill cooldown windows on the public chat..."

"Finally, jungle-support coordination!"

Pang Ran took the jungle route plan handed to him by Shi Zhenyu with a stiff face; as a support, his training volume was no less than his teammates'.

In fact, due to fluctuations in various data, compared to other training focused on building muscle memory, the memory-intensive requirements for the support role were the most painful task.

Beyond that, supports often need to serve as the shot-caller, especially when their own team's mid-lane cannot share the pressure; Pang Ran's workload skyrocketed.

From basic resource contesting and avoidance, prioritizing focus-fire choices in team fights, collecting information on three-lane minion wave situations, to special positioning and blocking in team fights, vision tier placement during pushes and defenses, and finally safe warding plans when the jungle falls, vision trap setups during Baron Nashor pressure, and so on.

You could say memorize one thing a day, never repeating the same thing every day.

"I really don't know how Brother Ming's brain is built; he can come up with so many training methods for a single game."

Pang Ran, sometimes even experiencing memory confusion, said with deep admiration.

He couldn't imagine how developed a normal person's brain would have to be to organize so much.

Shi Zhenyu shrugged: "So Brother Ming is the boss; we are just ordinary NXG members."

"Why think so much? Just like Old Pang you chose support, I only study jungling; everyone has what they are good at and what they should do."

"That's true!"

The training room returned to silence, leaving only the unceasing sound of keyboard tapping, countless crumpled draft papers on the desks, and the "Death Special Training N. 0" document in Jiang Ming's computer that was forever updating, all silently stating: this cruel cultivation named "becoming stronger" is forever on the road.

Just as the NXG team buried their heads in training, preparing for the upcoming matches and the imminent entry into the LPL.

Outside, the livestream where Jiang Ming crushed a host of professional players to advance to the strongest, and secured the number one spot on the national server while carrying the debuffs of actors and AFK players, grew in influence as time fermented.

The fastest spreading was the match video from that day; before Jiang Ming even uploaded it himself, ordinary players' edited clips of the livestream highlights had already garnered over a hundred thousand views.

And when Jiang Ming finished producing the video the next day and released the highlights, the accumulated traffic exploded in an instant.

#E-Smash-Gust#

#A gameplay that defines an era, the connection between skills and Flash! #

#A hero called trash by a pro player, a terrifying 87% win rate in JM's hands! #

#Server One Challenger tier, crushing pro players to reach the summit! #

#Do pro players definitely surpass solo queue? I don't think so! #

#Climbing ranks while carrying the debuffs of actors and AFK dogs, just how strong is JM? #

#Mechanics and game sense coexist; this man is truly playing the game with his brain. #

LOL Bar!

Black WE Bar!

From various esports forums to portal websites, even Weibo hot searches had a top-ten entry pushed up by YY's operations.

#LOL Season Update, YY platform streamer achieves the first and strongest Challenger!! #

A pun: both the first Challenger, and the number one Challenger on the national server.

As the discussion grew more intense, Penguin, which was already heavily promoting LOL, seeing the topic of the season update's Challenger battle rising steadily, simply utilized Jiang Ming's livestream topic, with operations actively stepping in to give it a hot search entry on their own QQ platform.

【Rational discussion, just how strong is this person JM!】

【Feels like a one-of-a-kind existence; damn, nine pro players in one match, equivalent to hanging other Challengers to beat them.】

【Don't hype him; being number one on the national server is just ranked, the tempo in pro matches is different.】

【The person above clearly wasn't there; anyone who watched that day's livestream wouldn't say that.】

【The purple side's four WE members plus PDD, led by JM and his own team... seems like just one jungler from NXG, two people crushed the opponent's tempo.】

【Can't win lane matchups, can't steal tempo, get crushed in team fights! If it were me, I absolutely wouldn't dare say pro players are stronger than solo queue.】

【This person isn't just strong mechanically; his game sense is terrifying too; if he hadn't been livestreaming on YY the whole time, I would definitely think he had played professionally.】

【This year WE Should Emphasize; JM didn't say S3 is the jungle-mid version? WE's strongest is the bot lane; the AD facing a bunch of assassins feels like there's no way to play.】

【Wuhu, it looks like our LPL region's establishment this year will be very exciting; JM didn't say his team has already broken into the LPL?】

#Shocking, Riot designer replies to JM's callout! #

Online discussion was suddenly interrupted by a piece of information inserted midway.

However, the next second, not only national server players but also international LOL enthusiasts joined the topic.

#League of Legends: Riot Designer#

"Dear Summoners: Thank you very much for your love and attention to 'League of Legends', and we are very happy to see everyone actively exploring and discovering new mechanics in the game.

First, we must clarify that there are many interesting playstyles in the game left by our design team after long periods of conception, testing, and adjustment.

We thank this JM player from the LPL region, who discovered the interaction possibilities between hero skills and Flash.

As top players on the Ladder Rankings, we have actually been following JM for quite a long time.

His tutorial videos have solved a great many problems for the vast number of new players, and it can be said that he has made a tremendous contribution to the promotion of our League of Legends. Hereby, we sincerely invite player JM to become the player feedback representative for our LOL game.