Chapter 38: One Day of Fame, Known Throughout the World

Oh, of course, we must admit that the current alliance doesn’t handle this aspect perfectly, often causing failures in skill and summoner spell interactions, making them appear like bugs.

The team even considered abandoning it entirely, but rest assured.

For flashy maneuvers like Gragas E flash, we certainly won’t give them up—the next patch will optimize them.

LOL’s goal has always been to deliver a richer, more fun, and more strategic gaming experience, ensuring every match holds new possibilities and challenges.

Just like the discovery of this new mechanic, its introduction aims to bring fresh changes to the game’s overall ecosystem.

We hope it will generate more chemical reactions between different champions and force players to rethink and devise new strategies in lane phase, team fights, and resource control.

For example, during lane phase, the new mechanic might alter the traditional advantages or disadvantages of certain champions, requiring players to experiment and discover new counterplay methods;

In team fights, the new mechanic could also become a decisive factor in turning the tide, making team coordination even more critical. Of course, we know that introducing this mechanic may initially cause discomfort, and some issues or imbalances might emerge.

This is completely normal, as the development and refinement of a game is an ongoing process.

We take every piece of feedback and suggestion seriously—your discoveries and opinions are vital to our continuous improvement of the game.…

Finally, thank you again for your support and love of League of Legends. We hope you continue to enjoy the game, uncover more fun through exploring the new mechanic, and keep sharing your thoughts and suggestions with us—together, let’s make League of Legends better.

Wishing you all great matches!

【LOL Champion Design Team】

【!!!】

【Holy shit, this is really Riot’s official announcement—posted simultaneously on Twitter and Weibo.】

【Damn, so Gragas E flash isn’t a bug after all—the designers themselves admitted it.】

【Skill and Flash interaction mechanic? Wow, this could open up so much potential!】

【JM, you old fox, spit out every trick you’ve been hoarding in your pants.】

【Sob sob, I’ll buy the pork floss cake, I’ll buy it, okay? Just give me a Gragas E flash tutorial video—right now, today, immediately.】

Riot’s announcement was like a super bomb dropped into water, instantly sparking a massive wave across the LOL community.

Unlike later designers who became complete jokes, LOL during S3 was still widely regarded by players as a game with exceptional depth.

Now, with designers acknowledging his gameplay insights and the official endorsement of his tutorial videos as promotional tools, Jiang Ming has effectively gold-plated his reputation.

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But unlike regular players, professional players focused their spotlight on Jiang Ming—not just because of Riot’s announcement, but also because he defeated a star-studded lineup featuring four WE team members in ranked play.

A problem Jiang Ming himself may have overlooked—the 2012 WE team had just crowned themselves world champions, sweeping across the global esports scene like a red hurricane, carrying unimaginable traffic.

Before this, simply facing Ming Kai in ranked play had boosted his livestream viewership by a notch; now, defeating the entire WE team outright, the shockwave in the pro scene was unimaginable.

“What?”

“That’s impossible!”

“Say that again?”

“WE, the team that nearly treated other squads like bots, got slaughtered by a random player and a semi-pro rookie jungler?”

The pro players’ first reaction was mostly disbelief. How could that red army—known for its precise tactics and terrifying execution—be crushed by an unknown player?

What a joke.

Even with patch changes, how could the impact be this extreme? If this were true, every single Riot patch would determine whether a top team lived or died—then what’s the point of holding professional LOL tournaments?

If patch changes could topple dynasties, wouldn’t the pro league become mere puppets controlled by the balance team?

Yet all of this changed once Jiang Ming’s Diamond promotion match footage was frame-by-frame analyzed.

The pro scene fell silent; skepticism vanished quietly.

To describe the current state of the LOL pro scene in one sentence—it was shock, then joy, then madness!

Yes, from initial disbelief, to realization and delight, to finally going insane at the prospect of uncovering a strategy from a random player’s video that could overthrow WE.

In the IG training base.

The greasy smell of instant noodles mixed with the scent of youth. PDD, with his messy bedhead, slammed the table and shouted: “Ya’er! Fangkuai Long! Have you figured it out yet? I’m waiting to crush WE in the LPL opening match!”

“Fuck, if you’re so good, you do it yourself—stop giving orders from the sidelines! If I could understand this guy’s techniques so easily, I’d already be #1 on the Chinese server!”

Xiao Xiao, whom PDD called Fangkuai Long, pushed back his thinning bangs and grumbled: “But one thing’s certain—the S3 mid-lane assassins are significantly stronger than last patch. This suits Zhi Tai perfectly…”

All eyes instantly locked onto the shy teenager in the corner.

Kid elbowed Zhi Tai, whose face was flushed red: “Left hand DJ, right hand Jax—smash Ru Feng’s mid-lane defense!”

“Ah… me?”

PDD flashed his signature shark grin: “JM’s game understanding is weirdly brilliant, but in terms of mechanics…” he dragged out the pause, “would our genius mid laner lose to a random player?”

“WE’s new season will probably be brutal. Once this ranked match video spreads, every other team will copy this strategy to counter them.”

“Heheheh!” PDD grunted. “That’s exactly why we need to get ahead of the others.”

As longtime rivals, IG had been beaten by WE so many times—they desperately wanted to crush them in the new season.

Many others, like IG, were cutting and analyzing every clip of JM’s gameplay.

In the end, the pro players were terrified to discover that even in JM’s beginner tutorials, he embedded deep professional-level insights—some subtle understandings even more profound than those of seasoned pros.

A simple Diamond promotion event, lasting only three days from announcement to reaching the top rank, was pushed by various groups to an absurdly high level of popularity.

As the popularity grew, many news outlets voluntarily joined the frenzy.

Once deeper details about the protagonist were revealed, Jiang Ming—already at the center of the storm—became an overnight sensation known to everyone in the gaming world.