[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-in-s3-training-the-entire-league":3,"chapter-reborn-in-s3-training-the-entire-league-reborn-in-s3-training-the-entire-league-chapter-6":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Reborn in S3, Training the Entire League",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2292476,4484,"Chapter 6","reborn-in-s3-training-the-entire-league-chapter-6",6,"\u003Cp>December 1st, 17:00 sharp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ming’s QQ suddenly blared a sharp alert: the LPL Pre-Season organizer posted in the “LPL Pre-Season Qualifiers” group chat: 【All teams, enter the match server.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Change your team prefix before entering the game!” Jiang Ming’s voice cut through the clatter of mechanical keyboards, “If you’ve already picked your pro ID, don’t change it last minute—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Got it, Yang Ge!” Mid laner Wu Zhiqiang responded first, skillfully searching the match server’s shop for “Rename Card” and typing in the ID etched into his muscle memory:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>NXG-yihan!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The team name, personally designed by Jiang Ming, stood for NexusVanguard (Core Guardian), derived from a tactical term in StarCraft’s Protoss mothership core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn, so many Points—I can finally buy skins I never dared to before.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Support Pang Ran’s eyes sparkled; after changing his name, he wandered the shop. Unlike future players who routinely bought skins for their signature champions, Pang Ran and his teammates, earning barely a couple thousand yuan a month, cursed their meager funds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If high-rank players were this constrained, imagine the average players—that’s why DuoWan Box became an essential tool, sweeping through every internet cafe in the League’s early days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had combat power, let you flex, offered pro guides for champion builds, and most importantly, one-click skin switching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other three said nothing, buying only rune pages and special attribute runes; champion skins could be purchased after entering the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Top laner Song Yuan was creating his twelfth rune setup: 【High Burst Lane Phase】—three fixed armor marks, six scaling armor marks, three major essences…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ming was satisfied with his players’ reactions. Unlike future versions where runes and talents fused seamlessly, here players still had to manually configure runes ahead of time—this explained why early players, watching high-rank or pro streamers, saw rune pages packed with long lists of annotations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On their personal rank accounts, restricted by team finances, Jiang Ming had only granted each player ten rune pages. Now, in the match server, they had to go all out—this match account, provided by the LPL organizers, came with hundreds of thousands of Points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike average players who relied on just two universal rune pages—AD and AP—since forming the team, Jiang Ming had trained them in professional-level rune setups, vision timing, and memory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“One minute until match start!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the “LPL Pre-Season Qualifiers” group chat, the referee @ed all members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The offline tournament used a single round-robin point system: the top two teams from each of fourteen servers faced off crosswise—the server’s #1 team versus the server’s #2 team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Winners then drew opponents from the pool of teams with the same record; losers drew from the zero-win pool—essentially the Swiss-system format later used in World Championships.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this “Swiss system” was crude: fourteen servers’ top two teams were randomly matched, and teams with identical records drew opponents—far from the true Swiss system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After five rounds, the top eight teams by points advanced to the LPL Pre-Season. The final twelve teams then played a single round-robin and double-elimination bracket to determine the top six, who joined the top two teams from the Third City Hero League Championship, forming the eight inaugural LPL teams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Jiang Ming pondered, the referee had already created the room, pulled the players in, assigned positions, and clicked “Start Game.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the referee instantly opened the room, Jiang Ming muttered under his breath: “No equipment check at all? What if someone uses DuoWan Box to auto-timer and gets disqualified?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>QX!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The opponent’s team name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After entering the game, Jiang Ming quickly scanned the five IDs on the purple side—no familiar names.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course not. Any player famous enough for the pro scene wouldn’t fail to top a non-Region 1 server’s ranked queue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As server #1, NXG had first pick in side selection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ming naturally chose blue side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ming Ge, who do we ban?” Song Yuan, as top laner, asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this version, the first pick automatically became team captain, and all three bans were decided by the player in first position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why, in public queues, many players ranked fourth or fifth would beg not to be support—fearing they’d be forced to ban a champion they couldn’t handle, they’d even beg to become someone’s “adopted son” just to get help with bans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shen, Prince, Vienn!” Jiang Ming paused, then settled on these three from the overpowered pool. Without knowing the opponent’s strength, playing it safe by banning the most popular, high-pick-rate champions of the patch was the surest way to secure every advantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not having opponent data wasn’t Jiang Ming’s negligence as boss and coach—it was simply that, at this moment, no one knew who their opponents even were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Yuan swiftly locked in the bans; the purple side’s QX team, also in first position, completed their bans simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taric, Janna, Ezreal!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let Shi Zhenyu take jungle first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m fine with anything. Follow Ming Ge’s call.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When asked by the top laner, jungler Shi Zhenyu shook his head, handing the decision to the coach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since joining Ming Ge’s team, he’d clearly felt it was different from other casual gaming squads. Though the environment was roughly the same, the salary, daily management, and professional training were strictly organized—pro play wasn’t like five guys grinding ranked in an internet cafe; there was no room for laziness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Didn’t WE win IPL5? Abao’s dozens of tactical setups were a huge reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the jungler’s reply, Song Yuan chuckled awkwardly—he still hadn’t gotten used to consulting the “sixth person” outside the game for decisions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Take Lee Sin first!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ming gave the jungler a approving look and ordered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the S3 Pre-Season patch, the jungle’s role? Due to meager jungle gold, it was nowhere near the absolute core position it would become in S6 or S10. Champions were either early-game rhythm-makers like Spider or Lee Sin, or tanky crowd-controllers like Prince or Mundo who didn’t rely on farm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Picking Lee Sin first ensured strong jungle dominance without being easily countered on lane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a private room at an internet cafe in Guangdong, smoke curled thickly as the QX team erupted in heated argument. Their red-haired captain slammed his fist on the table: “Rob the damn thing! JM made tutorial videos—I’ve practiced 50 games in three days, why can’t I do it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But we haven’t even mastered the shadow-switch combo for instant kills…” the support whispered weakly, but the ADC cut him off: “Who cares! Do you know how much we’re being bet on? 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