LOL: What does "mid-lane hybrid expert" mean?

Inside the EDG conference room at this very moment.

Manager Abu, owner Edward Zhu, and founding members Clearlove and Meiko sat around a table discussing preparations for the summer season.

"Scout said he has some things to take care of in Korea and is expected to return three days after the start of the Summer Split. We need to find another mid laner to fill in for the upcoming Demacia Cup and scrims."

Abramovich announced the bad news in his signature androgynous voice.

Upon hearing this, everyone felt a headache coming on.

EDG's performance in the Spring Split was not ideal.

Mingkai performed poorly at the S6 World Championship and chose to rest for the entire Spring Split to regain his form.

The substitute Ai Luoli and Scout showed no chemistry, often arguing over resource allocation. Ultimately, EDG lost 1-3 to RNG in the playoffs, failing to qualify for studying their MSI opponents.

With the Summer Split just around the corner, Clearlove7 is about to make his comeback, and the super rookie Iboy will also officially debut.

At this crucial juncture, Scout, whom EDG considers the absolute core player, actually went back to South Korea for vacation, practically making it clear that "his body is in China, but his heart is in Korea."

"Then we'll just have to let Zet go back to the mid lane for a while." Mingkai shrugged, indicating some helplessness.

As a top-tier tempo-oriented jungler, he understands the importance of a unified mid-jungle duo better than anyone else.

Zet's strength is that he's decent at laning, but his weakness is that he's only decent at laning...

Meiko, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up: "If it's just about finding a substitute, we do have someone in our youth academy."

  

Upon hearing this, Abu, who had been wearing a sullen expression, suddenly brightened up: "Tell me, who is it?"

Meiko logged into her Zone 1 account on the conference room computer and opened the profile of "Lying Down Like C" in her friends list.

"A 90% win rate in Master tier games? Does our EDG youth academy have such talent?" Abu was both surprised and delighted when he caught sight of a green match history list.

It's important to know that under the ELO system in the Chinese server, achieving a 90% win rate means a skill level far exceeding your current rank!

"Wait a minute, aren't you?"

After taking a closer look at Li Yi's frequently played heroes, Abu's expression darkened: "Why are you only playing Malzahar and Galio, those 'noob' heroes?"

Meiko quickly tried to smooth things over: "The Summer Split will most likely be an AD carry meta. Both of these champions have good support capabilities. I've seen top mid laners like Faker and Crown practicing them on the Korean server."

"Oh right, this guy usually streams around this time, so it's a good opportunity to see his skill level."

Curious, Mingkai clicked on the live streaming app and found Li Yi's live stream, titled "18-year-old professional mid-laner teaches you how to climb the ranks in the Rift".

Upon entering the live stream, the EDG members rubbed their eyes, making sure they weren't seeing things.

In the center of the character selection screen is a head of purple garlic.

"There's no support role here either..."

"Holy crap, Lulu for mid lane?"

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"Big-nosed dewdrop!"

After learning that his AD carry was Imp, Li Yi breathed a sigh of relief and decisively locked in Lulu, the Fairy Witch, for mid lane.

"What do you mean I'm messing around again? What else would I be doing if I didn't mess around?"

"This game is clearly a father-son match between Imp and Uzi in the bot lane. If the streamer were to dominate in the mid lane and steal the spotlight, wouldn't he be seen as a homewrecker?"

[Didn't you promise me this enchantress? I've already taken my pants off and this is what you show me?]

Chekhov found inspiration for "The Chameleon" by watching a live streamer.

[Host, have you ever considered using your ID card and a black-and-white photocopy together as a winning combination?]

[Hey, Uzbekistan's policewoman! The yodal trap is here!]

[Hey streamer, is your sycophant trembling?]

Ignoring the sarcastic comments in the live chat, Li Yi controlled Lulu to go online.

My opponent in this game is Talon in the mid lane.

In Season 7, a large number of assassin heroes were reworked, and Talon's skill set also underwent significant changes.

"Before level six, Talon's damage comes from his passive bleed, and to land the three-hit combo, he has to rely on the second hit of his W. But Lulu can easily dodge it with her speed boost."

Lulu in the mid lane has appeared in the LPL before. She relied on the inherent stats of support heroes and the ability to counter assassin heroes' polymorph to gain early-game dominance.

The enemy Talon clearly understood this well, only using W to finish off the low-health enemy and avoid being hit by Lulu's AQA combo to trigger Thunderlord's Decree.

"Oh? The enemy Talon suddenly moved forward, what does that mean? The jungler is probably coming to gank!"

The ward at F6 revealed the location of the enemy jungler Kindred, and Li Yi quickly moved towards the opposite side of the river.

"Remember our collaborative learning philosophy: It's better to do nothing than to make a mistake!"

"Missing three backline minions won't hurt us casual players much, but giving away a kill could give the enemy carry an advantage!"

"Therefore, when we see the enemy jungler show up, we should try to move closer to the opposite half of the map, but at the same time, we shouldn't retreat too far, leaving the enemy a little room to think..."

What was that saying again?

A third-rate mid laner gets caught while pushing the lane too far, a second-rate mid laner turrets under the tower, while a first-rate mid laner maintains an extremely ambiguous distance, giving the opposing jungler the illusion that they can reach base tonight, when in reality there's still a long way to go.

Meanwhile, the enemy Kindred was crouching in the bushes. Seeing that Lulu maintained a healthy health bar and had her E skill shield in hand, he hesitated for a long time before finally switching the mark to the bottom lane.

"Alright, the Kindred mark on us has disappeared, which means the enemy jungler's patience has been exhausted."

Li Yi switched screens to take a look at the bottom lane matchup.

Compared to the peaceful development in the mid lane, the exchange of blows between God and Father in the bottom lane was obviously much more intense.

After several exchanges of summoner spells, the minion wave was controlled by Uzi's Caitlyn in front of the tower, forcing Imp's Kalista to choose between giving up the minion wave and being ganked and killed by Kindred.

"Notice that most mid laners will choose to take Ignite in this version, but we choose to take Teleport."

"We have already established a laning advantage, and if a top-tier mid laner were to play this lane, they could use this teleport advantage to launch a new round of pressure."

"But we're a mid-lane Lulu, and even with an item advantage, we can't deal much damage in team fights. So after we made sure the minion wave was pushing past the enemy turret, we immediately teleported bot lane to protect our carry..."

Now, go to the bottom lane.

Despite receiving the "enemy disappeared" signal from the mid laner, Imp, already guilty of the sin of rage, was still thinking about pushing the lane and had no intention of retreating.

"Lulu, stop ordering your dad around... Oh, TP's here to save us, awesome!"

The enemy Kindred had already jumped out from the triangular bush behind him. Imp, who thought he was going to die, saw the TP beam light up and his eyes lit up.

Kindred was just about to finish off the low-health Kalista and obtain her first mark when she discovered that a purple shield had suddenly appeared on her.

Upon catching sight of Lulu, who was ready to use Flash to turn into a sheep at any moment, Kindred's vision went black, and he could only use Flash over the wall to save his life.

After helping Imp clear the lane, Li Yi walked back to the bush and recalled: "Although it seems like we didn't gain anything this time, the enemy mid and jungle definitely lost a lot."

"Think back to the first failed gank by the enemy jungler: it was because the mid-lane Talon didn't gain a health advantage. The second failed gank was because Lulu was able to gank before Talon."

"As long as Kindred has a temper, his next gank target should be Talon's Cyber ​​Driftwood."