Rebirth is fine, but I get eight hundred dollars right from the start?

The comments section went completely crazy.

[Femme Fatale!!!]

[This has to be the Enchantress! What else is there to watch but the Enchantress?]

[Yes, yes, watching tutorial videos isn't enough, we have to see some live demonstrations!]

[Actually, I'd rather see Twisted Fate. Have you guys noticed that a lot of mid-lane players really like Twisted Fate? And... don't you think it would be more interesting to let Emperor, who popularized LeBlanc mid, experience the terror of LeBlanc on the opposing team?]

[Haha, that makes sense! Using your own weapon against you, right? I'll vote for the card too!]

[Riven, Riven! What are you doing? Riven is such a cool champion, don't you want to learn how to play her?]

[Yeah, everyone used to say Riven wasn't strong and you had to build her as a semi-tank. Now, this guy from Fairy Tale Book is unleashing a lightning-fast QA combo in high-elo, decimating a bunch of solo queue pros. Can you stand it? I don't believe it.]

The three factions—the LeBlanc faction, the Twisted Fate faction, and the Riven faction—were locked in a fierce battle in the live chat, with one faction taking turns to shine and the gifts being sent out more enthusiastically than during the Lunar New Year.

The streamers lurking in the live stream room, seeing this scene before them, felt their vision go black and almost crushed their mice.

No, buddy.

We accept that you're skilled.

We accept that you're handsome.

But you've even managed to create a sophisticated livestreaming experience?

Changing the room name at the start of the stream to create suspense, voting for heroes to create interaction, even duo queueing to climb the ranks—something viewers naturally dislike—can be packaged as a "master-apprentice teaching demonstration," and you even took on two apprentices with 2400 points as live GGs—what do you call that? That's called having a complete grasp of the audience's psychology!

The interaction was maximized, the gifts were plentiful, and the topics were endless.

A streamer making his debut managed to act like the top streamer on the platform.

Is there anything you can't do?

Are you fucking fed by God?

Finally, just a second before Lin Shu and Xiao Li were about to enter the hero selection screen, the live stream gave the answer to the hero selection for the first game.

【Riven】! (7777 votes!)

[Riven! Riven! Riven!]

[7777 votes, over seven thousand people want to see you play Riven, Emperor, you'd better decide what to do!]

[Light-speed QA! Light-speed QA! Today I'm going to see what a real light-speed QA looks like!]

Lin Shu glanced at the vote count, grinned, and decisively locked onto Riven's profile picture.

"Okay, since everyone wants to see Riven, let's play one game—mid lane Riven."

Unlike the later version of Rui Mengmeng, which was reduced to a roadside character with neither a proper mechanism nor high stats.

Just this month, in version 1.0139, Riven received a buff to her Q damage, making her perfectly capable of playing mid lane.

As soon as the game started, the chat channel became lively.

"Damn, I'm queued with Emperor!"

"What do you guys think? I'm going to switch mid and play a tank role."

"Okay, I'll play support, I'm all set." The player on the third floor chimed in.

Before Lin Shu could even speak, the seat had already been clearly given up.

He could only type "Thanks, bro" in the chat box.

[I'm so envious. When I play ranked matches, why are there never any teammates willing to give up their positions? Every game, five people fight over a single spot, and nobody is willing to give in.]

No, I don't even want to talk about you.

If you had the skill of Emperor, who wouldn't give way? If you dare to let him carry, I'll carry; if you dare to carry, I'll be carried. That's the ecosystem of ranked matches, okay?

That makes sense. The strong have privileges everywhere, while the weak can only play support roles.

While the chat was still joking, the atmosphere in the live stream suddenly became tense the moment the draft phase was completed.

"Holy crap! A pro game! A pro game!" Players started frantically calling out enemy positions, "The enemy mid laner is YGami! The jungler is Clearlove!!"

Following that, more IDs were uncovered—

"The All-Stars are here! Hensen, UZI (ranked second in the Chinese server), Yu Zhe... This lineup on the purple team, is it a professional All-Star team?"

Viewers in the live streams who regularly play at high ranks are already getting excited.

These days, there are only so many people in the High Division, and everyone sees each other all the time; it's no exaggeration to say they're old acquaintances.

But a match like today, where the blue and purple teams almost put together an all-star lineup, isn't something you see every day.

However, soon someone noticed something was wrong.

"Wait a minute, on the blue team... besides Emperor at 2600, why is everyone else at 2200 or 2300?"

"Is the system up to something? The blue team's average score is significantly lower than the purple team's."

"That's how it is in high-elo games. The higher the elo, the harder it is to get matched. If an Emperor account with 2600 elo wants to be matched with opponents of the same elo, it will take forever. The system can only give him a bunch of teammates with 2200 or 2300 elo, while the opposing team is full of top-tier solo queue players and professional players."

"Understood. The system thinks Emperor alone can make up for the gap of two or three hundred points."

"This is the system-certified 'If I can't carry it, I lose' mode."

While the viewers were still analyzing the game, the heroes for both sides were already determined, and the live stream entered the game loading page, showing the lineups and matchups as follows:

Blue team: Top lane Captain, Jungle Lee Sin, Mid lane Riven, Bot lane Ezreal + Taric.

Purple team: Top lane Jax, Jungle Nocturne, Mid lane Diana, Bot lane Graves + Blitzcrank.

Lin Shu himself did not react much to the concerns of the viewers in the live broadcast room.

Let alone five high-ranking random players or professional players, even if the entire current WE team came, he would still think they're nothing special.

After rubbing his wrists, Lin Shu, not forgetting that he was live streaming, also casually posted a screenshot of his talent runes on his computer's homepage.

"This is the streamer's mid-lane Riven mastery and rune details. The standard mastery setup is 21-9-0, and the runes are red attack penetration, yellow flat armor, blue scaling magic resist, and quintessences attack damage."

"Let me explain briefly why I chose magic resistance instead of cooldown reduction. We're playing mid lane this game, which is different from top lane where you can engage in multiple skirmishes. Mid lane is all about burst damage with a single skill combo, so I chose to sacrifice some cooldown reduction in the early game and use magic resistance to increase my margin for error."

Okay, okay, I've got it.

Actually, Emperor didn't need to make any special mention of this; would we doubt you?

[Different from the standard Riven runes? That must be someone else's problem!]

[Such attention to detail! Top lane Riven and mid lane Riven face different champion types, so they definitely can't use the same rune page.]

[Hehe, can I say I don't have that many options at all? I just have one AP + AD combo set?]

Me too.

Once in the game, Lin Shu continued to explain some details about preventing early-game invasions. After confirming that neither side had any intention of invading, he then went to the mid lane.

It's actually easy to understand. The other three members of the blue team are not strong enough, while the purple team is wary of the Exile standing at the edge of the river.

The reputation of a person is reflected in the shadow of a tree. The five people on the right have encountered the Emperor before. Compared to risking a risky start by giving away one or two kills to increase the difficulty of the game, they prefer a more stable start.

"Play it safe in the mid lane, I'll try to find an opportunity to help you."