LOL: Serve the country with loyalty, I have full attributes to resist Korea

Chapter 350: Not choosing Nidalee? A completely useless "name-calling nerf"! The spring season is over!
On January 2023, 1, the opening game of the S14 season in each region will officially begin!
The opening game of LPL was once again held at WE's main venue in Huzhou, and WE was naturally the best choice for the opening game.

After all, in the current LPL region, WE's popularity is far ahead of others.

Jin Yibo treated him like a treasure in his hand and would not miss any opportunity to make friends with him.

Even the retired UZ couldn't stand the loneliness after winning the championship, so he announced his comeback again, and even joined EDG, which was "unimaginable" to everyone!

But the popularity of the two teams is still far from catching up!
You know, UZI and EDG have countless "love and hate" stories, starting from the S4 World Championship when EDG eliminated OMG and created the classic format of "XXX owes XXX a championship!", and then to the pig-dog war in the following years.

It can be said that the fan groups of the two teams have always been at two extremes, and they have been scolding each other for many years!

The combination of the two now should be explosive news, and EDG should become the team with the largest traffic.

But from the discussion of today's opening game, we can see that WE is still firmly suppressed!

The reason is naturally because the current environment of LPL has been completely reshuffled. Regardless of whether they were once black or white, there is now almost a consensus on a "black-free zone" - WE!

The first defending champions, the first team with a chance to create a dynasty, and home to only two triple crown winners in the region.

Each of these titles alone has a position that no one can shake.

At least nothing will change until WE loses.

"Welcome everyone to the opening ceremony of the 2023 LPL Professional League Spring Season!"

Following the host's voice, the contestants for the opening match began to appear on stage.

The lights at the scene suddenly flashed.

There was a flash of purple light, and the giant screen's 4D special effects looked like a lotus flower blooming in the void. Then a person slowly "rose" from the center of the lotus, as if he really came from the void.

When the audience who had managed to grab tickets saw that man's appearance, they immediately burst into screams and shouts!
"God K! God K! God K!"

"Holy crap, this special effect is pretty cool. Is LPL willing to invest so much this year?"

"You don't understand, right? LPL is only responsible for paying for the venue this year. All these special effects are equipped in this main stadium! This is the face of my home team!"

"It is said that this 'Moon Pavilion' was deliberately left as a space for K-god's third skin. From this point of view, it seems that this year's champion skin should be decided!"

"Okay, okay, God K understands me! I just like the Queen of the Void!"

Some Conan viewers have speculated that the triple crown skin, which has not been officially announced but has always been highly anticipated and will be launched in the middle of the year, is coming.

Immediately after winning the championship, Carl Jr. couldn't wait to run to Cheng Ming to ask for the "inside information", so he even knew it earlier than Riot's designers, and therefore secretly started practicing Void Queen.

Cheng Ming chose Belvis not only because he really liked this hero, but also because this hero was his most representative hero in S12.

It's just a pity.

When the S13 season version was released, Belvis was hit hard!

The various basic + growth values ​​have been doubled down, and the damage reduction of the E skill has been reduced from 70% at all levels to 30-70%. The most important thing is that when you kill the Rift Herald and enter the true form, the health of the summoned "Void Fish" will be greatly reduced!

Not only does this make clearing the lane much easier, but its greatly weakened early-game capabilities also make it difficult to implement a tactical system that forcibly seizes the canyon.

It can be said that it was a blow to the aorta.

If we also look at the "Jungle Changes" in Season 13, it makes sense that the designers were so scared of making public appearances for a month.

To sum up the jungle changes in one sentence: "It reduces the impact of differences in "personal level" between junglers, and further reduces the influence of the jungler position on the progress of the game."

S13 first enhanced the values ​​of all wild monsters for the first time, and at the same time completely deleted the "jungle knife" that had existed for nearly ten years.

Instead, it is replaced by the "Spirit Pet" that can help in jungle fighting!
The purpose is to make it costlier to clear the jungle in the early stages, and transfer part of everyone's jungle clearing ability to the spirit pets.

The meaning of this move is actually very clear - to balance the jungle clearing efficiency of all heroes!

To put it more directly, it will no longer be easy for heroes such as "Neptune, Ekko, Joker, Nunu..." to appear, who can inexplicably lead other jungle heroes by more than ten seconds in the early stages of jungle opening!

Netizen comments: [All it takes is a roll call! ]

And if, this fist can also be explained as wanting to "reduce the difficulty for novice jungle players to get started."

Then if you look at it with the next cut, the real target will become clear!

Newly added "Own Jungle Clearing Bonus": Jungler heroes will cause 20% additional damage to wild monsters in their own jungle, but this additional damage will not be triggered when invading the enemy jungle.

What's the meaning! ?

That is to say, when you kill wild monsters in your own home area, the damage will be increased by 20%. In fact, the efficiency is not much different from before.

But if you want to counter jungle, the efficiency will be reduced by 40% in one round trip! !
Almost cut in half!

There is also an addition to "Mark of Death": when a large monster in a jungle camp dies, all small monsters in this camp will be marked for death and will collectively "commit suicide" after 10 seconds.

The "anti-wilding" method that has been passed down from ancient times has been physically eradicated and the last loophole has been blocked.

This results in a significant reduction in the benefits of counter-jungle, while also significantly increasing the risks!

It's a very simple logic. It used to take 35 seconds to clear an enemy jungle area, but now it takes almost 1 minute, and the health volume will be even more unhealthy.

If you wait one more second, the risk will be greater than one point!
As long as the counter-jungler's invasion fails, the opponent's jungler only needs to quietly clear his own jungle area, and his development progress can easily surpass that of the opponent!
In addition, there are "Minion Experience Changes": Before completing the first spirit beast evolution, jungle heroes only gain 75% of the experience points from lane minions, no longer based on the influence of the jungle hunter, unless the level of the jungle hero is behind the average level.

What does this mean?
To put it bluntly, the jungler on the advantaged side will not allow you to steal the line in the early stage, but the jungler on the disadvantaged side can eat it and quickly make up for the level!
It can be said that it hits the vital point, and the target is clear as it cannot be clearer.

It's no wonder why Krd fans all over the world were so excited, and why the design team acted like a tortoise and felt so guilty.
But in fact.

When Cheng Ming saw these changes, he was not at all surprised.

Because he actually knew very well that these changes were the changes that would appear in the S13 timeline. He was very familiar with each one of them, and there was almost nothing unexpected.

It's just that on this timeline, due to the appearance of Cheng Ming, the designer team did have some tendencies, but the result did not actually change.

It was not done unintentionally → It was done intentionally.

Perhaps a timeline correction?
Just looking at it this way, the designer seems a little innocent this time.
Since Cheng Ming knew about it a long time ago, he naturally had an idea. After all, he has been preparing for S13 all along.

"We saw it! EDG released Nidalee right at the start of the opening match!?"

"After more than a year, we can finally see this hero's colorful portrait on WE's selection screen again!"

"But to be honest, almost every change this year is aimed at Nidalee. Although she is still playable, her strength has been greatly affected. I think even her win rate in pub games has plummeted."

"Haha, JDG is putting themselves in danger today for all the teams. We can wait and see if WE will force a pick, but I personally think it doesn't make much sense." "They really didn't! WE picked the Ruined King first!"

Obviously, Nidalee, a hero who makes a living by counter-jungling, is the biggest victim in the S13 version.

This doesn't mean that the problem can be solved by just "not opposing the wild" and just "opposing people".

Again, if one wave of invasion fails, it is likely that the entire jungle area will be destroyed, and the risk and reward are too mismatched.

To take a step back, even if the jungle is really countered, the experience changes of the military line will leave the disadvantaged side with a means of rescue.

Therefore, the mainstream way to play Nidalee in Rank now is to just focus on clearing your own jungle area after level 2, which can still make use of the jungle clearing efficiency advantages of some heroes.

At this moment, even Cheng Ming, a hero living in legend, is no longer selected, which undoubtedly confirms to everyone the idea that "Neptune is no longer playable."

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The reason why Cheng Ming didn’t choose was not actually because of this.

All members of WE in S13 are close to reaching their peak condition.

After a year of training with Cheng Ming, Angel has walked out of the shadow of the WBG period. Although he has not yet regained his Black Angel version, he has at least found the state he was in during the SN period.

Not to mention Abin, the only one in LPL who can compete with him right now is WBG's Theshy, but Theshy is the easiest to catch in the world, so it is really painful for him when facing Cheng Ming.

As for Jack Ai, he seemed to have a second spring after winning the championship last year. Although he still occasionally dies while resisting the tower, he is becoming more and more confident, which also brings out his greatest style to the extreme.

Finally, ON, after two full years of hands-on training with Cheng Ming, his growth can be said to be the greatest in the team, and this year it finally showed.

In addition, Cheng Ming has not been affected by the version, and his strength has not shown any signs of decline. His understanding of the version has even reached a higher level.

After all, Cheng Mingke has never been a hero who only knows how to play counter-jungle!

Such a WE team is enough to crush most teams with the difference in hard power, and there is no point in even using any routines or systems.

As for EDG, which played in the opening match, they only had Uzi who had retired and returned. It was obvious that there was a big gap in hard power between the two sides.

"UZI uses Varus's ultimate to start the team fight! W, Q, and E all come out ready to shoot. Ah, but! The black fog is coming from the wall! Our position has been stolen! Another feint to the east and attack in the west!"

"Triple control chains arrived at the same time, and Varus died instantly!"

"A huge collapse! WE has not been affected by the nerfs in the previous version! Krd's dominance in the new season is still terrifying! It's just that the form has changed!"

"Let us congratulate WE for winning the opening game!"

Uzi puffed up his lips and let out a breath, his eyes full of helplessness.

But losing to WE seems to be normal in everyone's eyes. At most, the red-hot netizens will come and criticize them.
The LPL spring season is in full swing.

WE, as always, showed its absolute dominance in the spring. The title of "Tiger Brother of Spring" has long been forgotten, and people only know "King of Spring" WE.

Cheng Ming's understanding of the version that went beyond everyone else once again became the object of imitation and learning in global competition areas.

However, the LCK region on the other side is not very peaceful.

First up is Kim Dong-jun, a veteran of the LCK and a ten-year veteran, whose experience as a commentator is second only to the Roaring Emperor. Due to the "Not Turning Off the Microphone Incident" during the S12 finals, he announced his resignation and was "demoted" to the LPL Korean stream.

Logically speaking, the three of them said a lot of unpleasant things at the beginning, but the other two were not affected.

The reason is because Kim Dongjun mentioned, "Won't T1 play just as badly in the semifinals?"

Just with this one sentence, he was blasted wildly by T1 fans, and finally under pressure he was forced to "voluntarily" resign.

So if we really talk about fan culture, LCK is much richer than LPL. South Korea is the real originator in this regard. In the end, it all depends on who is the winner.

If you win, it means that e-sports should honor the strong!
If you lose, it means you are a badass and love to mess around with fans, damn it!

T1, which was still in the semi-finals last year, no longer has the protection of the championship halo. Because of this incident, it instantly became the target of fans of other LCK teams.

And T1's troubles don't end there.

T1 announced at the beginning of the year that due to Lee Sang-hyeok's hand injury, they had to rotate in a substitute mid laner during the spring season.

And it also started since the rotation of the mid laner.

T1————“True form” revealed in an instant!
Without Faker, T1 started to lose games one after another since the beginning of the season. In the middle of the season, they suffered seven consecutive defeats, achieving an outrageous record of 1 win and 7 losses!

It is understandable that T1 lost to teams like KT and GEN, but losing twice to BRO, which is last in the LCK standings, is really speechless.

It’s no wonder that many people joke that T1 is a “living off their parents” team.

But, it only started when Faker announced his comeback.

T1 immediately began to turn the losing streak into a winning streak!
The facts before our eyes prove that the difference is not a little bit obvious.

It seemed as if the four little players of T1 couldn’t even play the game anymore as soon as they lost Lee Sang-hyeok’s presence in the game.

Mix sushi with protein powder and stuff it into your mouth!
This situation has exacerbated the concerns of all T1 fans.

[What will our T1 team do without him next year? ? ]

[This is God's last year, so I beg you four to stop sending me off! ]

[I feel like I have to look at Samsung this year. Chovy has already become a new god. I think Samsung will be fine this year! ]

[Three Stars? Not the Krd prisoner-of-war camp? Don’t come and embarrass yourself! ]

[Who the hell still watches LCK now? If WE didn't have a game today, do you think I would be here? ]

[God is still here, God is still here. There is only one true God! This year, my God will come to Seoul to prove everything! ]

[Shit! Those CND dogs and Korean traitors upstairs! All of them should die! Shit! ! ]

The LCK has split into two divisions.

Half of them are the faction that invites gods to the capital, and half of them are the faction that points to the sword.

This scene is very similar to the LPL before S8
As the spring finals in major regions around the world come to an end, the places for each region to participate in MSI have all been announced, and Riot has also begun pre-promotion, with the official account sending out several video tweets.

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Compared to the tweet, about this year's "new competition system" of MSI.

What the audience is more interested in is obviously the other trailer that was released at the same time - "Champion Skin"!
(End of this chapter)