Chapter 38: Famous Overnight, Known to the World

Oh, of course, we must admit that the current League is not perfect in this regard, so that often the interaction between skills and Summoner Spells fails, making it look very much like a bug.

The team even once considered abandoning it, but please rest assured.

For cool maneuvers like Gragas E-Flash, we certainly cannot bear to give them up; the next patch will optimize them.

LOL's goal has always been to bring everyone a richer, more interesting, and more strategic gaming experience, making every match full of new possibilities and challenges.

Just like the discovery of this new mechanic, its appearance is to bring some new changes to the game's overall ecosystem.

We hope that through it, we can generate more chemical reactions in the coordination between different heroes, and also require players to rethink and formulate strategies in all aspects such as laning, team fights, and resource contention.

For example, during the laning phase, the new mechanic might change the original lane advantages or disadvantages of some heroes, which requires everyone to try and explore to find new countermeasures;

In team fights, the new mechanic might also become a key factor in turning the tide, making collaboration between teams even more important. Of course, we also know that the introduction of the new mechanic might make everyone feel a bit unadapted at first, and even discover some problems or imbalances.

This is completely normal, after all, the development and perfection of a game is a continuous process.

We attach great importance to every problem and suggestion you feedback; your discoveries and opinions are an important basis for us to continuously improve the game....

Finally, thank you again for your support and love for "League of Legends". We hope you can continue to enjoy the game, discover more fun in the exploration of the new mechanic, and are also welcome to continue to feedback your thoughts and suggestions to us, so that we can make "League of Legends" better together.

Wish you a happy game!"

【LOL Hero Design Team】

【!!!】

【Holy crap, it really is an announcement from Riot, posted on both Twitter and Weibo.】

【Awesome, my brother, so Gragas E-Flash really wasn't a bug; the designers admitted it themselves.】

【The interaction mechanism between skills and Flash, wow, feels like we can dig up a lot of things!】

【JM old thief, hurry up and hand over all the game techniques you're hiding in your crotch.】

【Wuwuwu, I'll buy the meat floss cake, I'll buy it, okay? I beg for a Gragas E-Flash tutorial video, I want it right now today.】

Riot's announcement was undoubtedly like a super bomb thrown into water, instantly setting off huge waves within the LOL circle.

Unlike the future where designers became a complete joke, the LOL of the S3 period was obviously still a masterpiece with full gameplay in the eyes of players.

Now, for the game understanding admitted by the designers and the tutorial video auxiliary game promotion behavior affirmed by the official, Jiang Ming has undoubtedly gilded himself.

However, unlike ordinary players, the professional players' gaze focused like spotlights on Jiang Ming, not only because of Riot's designers' announcement, but more because he crushed a luxurious lineup holding four WE team members in the ranked match.

A problem Jiang Ming himself might have overlooked—the WE team in 2012 had just been crowned world champions, sweeping the global esports circle like a red hurricane, containing exactly how terrifying a traffic flow.

Before this, just colliding with Ming Kai in ranked had already raised his livestream viewer count by a tier; now it is directly equivalent to defeating the entire WE, and the turmoil caused in the professional circle can be imagined.

"What?"

"This is impossible!"

"Say that again?"

"The WE that almost treated major teams as bots, washed away by a civilian and a semi-pro rookie jungler?"

The first reaction of professional players was mostly disbelief. How could that red legion with precise tactics and terrifying execution be crushed head-on by an unknown person?

What kind of joke is this.

Updates are updates, but how could the impact be so exaggerated? According to this calculation, wouldn't every version change by Riot determine the life and death of a strong team? Would LOL still hold professional matches?

If version updates could truly topple a dynasty, wouldn't the professional league become a puppet of the version balance team?

However, all of this happened until Jiang Ming's Challenger promotion match video was analyzed frame by frame.

The professional circle suddenly became quiet, and the voices of doubt quietly disappeared.

To describe the current LOL professional circle in one sentence—first shock, then joy, finally madness!

Indeed, from the initial shock and disbelief, to the joy after realizing it, until finally becoming crazy upon realizing that tactical ideas capable of toppling WE could be excavated from a civilian's video.

Inside the IG training base.

The greasy smell of instant noodles intertwined with the body odor of young people. PDD, with a nest of hair like a chicken coop, slapped the table and urged: "Hey, Block Dragon, have you figured it out yet? I'm waiting to rub WE into the ground in the LPL opening match!"

"Damn it, if you're so good, you go up; don't just point out Jiangshan from the side, okay? If I could simply research and understand the techniques in this person's mouth, I would have been number one in the national server long ago, okay?"

Xiao Xiao, whom PDD called Block Dragon, smoothed his forehead's gradually thinning bangs and said dissatisfiedly: "But one thing can be confirmed: mid-lane assassins in the S3 version are indeed much stronger than the previous version; this suits Zizai very well..."

Everyone's gaze instantly locked on the green youth in the corner.

Kid elbowed the blushing Zizai: "Left hand DJing, right hand playing Zed, smash Ruofeng's mid-lane defense!"

"Ah... me, me?"

PDD grinned his signature shark smile: "JM's game understanding is indeed weird, but regarding mechanics..." He deliberately dragged out the tail sound, "Will our genius mid-laner lose to a civilian?"

"WE will probably be miserable in the new season; once this rank match video spreads, other teams will definitely copy the pattern to target them."

"Heheheh!" PDD grunted, "So we must be ahead of other teams."

As old rivals, IG had been beaten by WE so many times; they really wanted to step on the other party under their feet in the new season.

There were many others like IG who were live-streaming clips of JM.

In the end of the research, a group of professional players even discovered in horror that in JM's videos, even in game tutorials for newbies, a lot of professional understanding was inserted; some detailed understandings were even more profound than those of them who mixed in the professional circle.

A simple Challenger summit event, from promotion to finally locking the first place, lasted only a short three days, yet under the joint promotion of different groups, pushed the topic heat to a very exaggerated position.

And as the heat grew higher and higher, many news media also actively joined in.

After some deep information about the protagonist was made public, Jiang Ming, who was already on the tip of the spear, became an overnight red-hot darling known to everyone in the gaming circle.