League: Educating LPL is my duty.

At the competition venue, makeup artists quickly tidied up the appearances of the players from both teams, and shortly afterward, the players from both sides began to take the stage.

On the commentary stage, Miller rested his hands on the table, watching the long shot of Li Chen, and joked, "It feels like the overall appearance of our LPL region has improved a lot since C God started playing."

The doll chimed in, "So some people could easily make a living off their looks, but they choose to rely on their talent, and the key is that their talent surpasses that of most people. Isn't that infuriating?"

"I wouldn't say he surpasses most, but he dominates everyone. After all, as of now, there is no top laner in the LPL or even any region who can rival C-God. He truly lives up to his reputation as the highest mountain in the top lane."

As someone who makes a living off Li Chen's popularity, Rita naturally didn't hold back in praising him. She knew some people wouldn't like to hear these words, but that didn't matter; it was enough that Li Chen's fans liked to hear them.

Miller glanced at Rita and said to the doll, "I almost forgot we have a die-hard fan of C-God right next to us."

"You're wrong, there should be two. I've always been a staunch supporter of C-God."

Wawa corrected Miller's statement, putting the other side in the minority, and then got back to the main topic: "OK, both sides are ready and we're starting the ban phase. In the first game, EDG is on the blue side and banned Lee Sin first."

Miller nodded slightly: "As for the Snake team, it seems they have almost no options for banning champions. Jayce, Kalista, and Galio—they can't release any of these three heroes."

Rita followed up, saying, "This is how it is on the red side against EDG: Jayce is difficult to deal with in team fights, Kalista is the meta pick, and Galio can link up with the top laner, which means the red side has a fixed ban."

[I don't know what's so interesting about EDG's matches; they just keep showing the same few games over and over again.]

[I've said it before: EDG doesn't respect their fans. They always rush to leave after a match; they have no shame whatsoever.]

The people upstairs don't seem to be selling skewers.

[The Snake team's actions were unnecessary; let's fast forward to the post-match interviews.]

The game hasn't even started yet, and the draft picks are already fixed. Under these circumstances, nobody really has any faith in Snake Esports.

When Zhu Kai, the team's coach, saw that EDG banned Lee Sin as their first pick, he pretended to be deep in thought for a long time before finally saying, "Let them target the jungler if they want, we'll ban Jayce first."

With lightning speed, he immediately sent Jess back to his hometown, not daring to delay for even a moment.

Anyone who has ever played against Li Chen's Jayce knows that if Li Chen lets any of his other heroes go, the game can still go on, but Jayce is the one hero he absolutely cannot let go.

Otherwise, if the team groups up in the mid-game, Li Chen can end the game with just two enhanced cannon shots, without even needing to engage in a team fight.

When it came to EDG's second pick, there wasn't much to say. It was still about targeting SofM's champion pool, sending Jarvan IV to the blacklist.

Their goal in this game was to take down SofM's tempo-oriented champions and force the opponent to pick sacrifice-oriented junglers like Zac, Sejuani, and Gragas.

Snake Esports doesn't have many carry potential. After Crystal, who performed well in a BO10 and effectively shut down SofM, the team can only rely on their mid laner.

As for the top laner, Nofe didn't treat him like a human being at all. After all, someone who can't even beat Huni should just AFK when facing Li Chen. That would be the biggest contribution he could make to Snake Esports.

It was Snake's turn to ban another champion, and they still had no choice. Kalista was a champion they could try to let go of against other teams, but against EDG, they had no choice but to ban her to avoid a 2v5 situation that lasted for ten minutes or so.

In the third round of player selection, after consideration, EDG promoted Lulu to the ban/pick position. Zhu Kai didn't need to guess that EDG wanted Karma, but as he said before, he had no choice.

"Let's play Galio instead!"

Zhu Kai opened his laptop and said, "The enemy team will most likely pick Karma first, so we can pick Soraka, our AD carry will build Tristana, and our top laner will pick Gangplank. We'll play a late-game game against EDG and stall for time."

Subsequently, EDG unsurprisingly revealed Karma's icon on the first floor and then locked it in.

Seeing this, the Snake team decisively took out the Tristana and the Healer in succession.

The factory manager raised an eyebrow as he looked at the bot lane duo that Snake Team had picked and said, "Tristana and Soraka, the other team is trying to drag it out to the late game and fight team fights."

"They're going for the late game, so we'll go for the early game. Let's get Varus first, and the third pick should be mid. Scout can be a bit aggressive. Let's try to gain an advantage in lane this game. You can decide what to play yourself."

Nofe is a player who adapts his tactics to the opponent. If the opponent is a mid laner like IG, he will definitely let his junior teammate farm quietly and just keep an eye on the lane.

But what kind of thing is Snake's mid laner?

He's just a nobody. SofM was completely shut down, and Tank alone can't make a dent.

Scout nodded slightly, then turned to Li Chen and asked, "Brother Chen, what do you think I should play this round?"

Li Chen rolled his eyes: "Apart from Lucian, you can play whatever you want. This game, Varus is going for armor penetration without any special effects, so you need to add AP damage."

"oh!"

Scout was slightly disappointed, but quickly set his sights on Syndra as a secondary target.

Regardless of the situation, Syndra's mobile casting and long-range mechanics make her a lane-dominant champion.

After reviewing EDG's picks, Zhu Kai asked, "It's Syndra, a tank. Would it be okay if you built Taliyah? Would that be a good counter?"

"We can fight!" Tank was willing to lose but not to lose face. He didn't know if he could win, but as long as he didn't die, he would consider it a success.

With the mid and bot lanes determined, the next step is to draft and ban (BP) around the mid and top lanes.

Once the Snake team got a ban, the first thing they did was remove Riven.

In this game, Zz1tai is going to build Gangplank in the top lane. If Riven is allowed to be picked, Zz1tai, who lacks crowd control and mobility, will likely be constantly tower-dived. Zhu Kai seems to have a pretty clear understanding of this.

"If they don't ban Fiora, they'll ban Riven. Are they not planning to build tanky top lane this game? I heard that Zz1tai has been playing Gangplank quite well in scrims lately, and he's been dominating several top laners."

The factory manager also had his own sources of information, and upon seeing the Snake team's personnel choices, he immediately made a lot of connections.

However, upon hearing this, Li Chen's expression became slightly strange, and an image of an abstract livestreamer involuntarily surfaced in his mind:

In my scrims, Gangplank was one-shotted every time, and those top laners were acting like complete idiots. Even the coach was getting excited watching them, but then they went on stage and played for two minutes and didn't even know who they were...

"Playing Captain? I hope I don't get Miracle Walker early this game..." Li Chen wondered to himself.