You actually want me to...

To be honest, with a prophet already in the team, Lao Guo wasn't really keen on wasting money, even though signing a new LDL player wasn't expensive.

In his mind, although the prophet was old, he was at least experienced and could cooperate with the big fish in the bottom lane without any problem. However, considering that his ultimate goal was still to catch the big fish, he could only take a look at whether this support was qualified in order to satisfy him as much as possible.

If they're really that good, offering them a contract wouldn't be a problem. Of course, most LPL clubs think the same way.

That's how it is with support players. Top-tier support players who have made a name for themselves are very expensive, but support players who have never entered the LPL are really not expensive. Even if you buy them and don't use them, it won't hurt your own club in the slightest. This is why Roland can attract the attention of so many clubs.

Of course, Roland on the other side of the screen was unaware of all this. Because what he was doing right now was teaching all the viewers watching his live stream the ultimate technique for solo queue ranking up with support.

"Listen up, what I'm about to talk about is my secret weapon, which involves our hero selection before the match. I believe you've all seen it from my performance just now."

"???"

"When we play support in solo queue, the most important thing is communication. The first thing to do is ask the AD carry what they want to play. Then, based on their answer, copy their ID and check their match history. If you find that their match history is very bad, then don't hesitate to pick a damage support. Otherwise, you can consider picking a support that makes you a support that makes you a support."

This is the ultimate skill for the support role. Have you all mastered it?

Club managers: ? ? ? ? ?

First Encounter: Chapter 3: Support is Actually Very Simple

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[This is an amazing skill, I absolutely love it!]

[This is a classic approach. In fact, it's not just for the support role; I recommend doing this in solo queue for other roles as well. It's important to distinguish between deducting 3 points and deducting 23 points.]

[A seasoned master of point control.]

Although this sounds ridiculous, this method is surprisingly effective. Roland opened his own AD's information and could basically understand the player's usual champion pool at a glance.

Mainly playing mid and jungle, and only having two or three AD carry heroes after flipping through several pages, this is almost the standard setup for all solo queue players: besides their main lane, they only practice one or two other positions.

Unsurprisingly, this guy's AD carry pool only features Ezreal and Varus, with the occasional Miss Fortune pick, clearly indicating he's a Diamond-level veteran player.

Since it was the Chinese server and there were always new viewers watching the live stream, Roland, as usual, talked about some very basic support matters.

"The support role is actually quite simple. We just need to do some minor, insignificant things for the team. You can take out your notebooks and jot them down." At this, the veteran audience members all smiled knowingly, while the new audience members, although they didn't immediately take out their notebooks, also perked up their ears to listen attentively.

There is a sequence of hearing the truth, and there is a specialization in the surgery industry.

Those who truly want to climb the ranks always have the mindset of an apprentice.

Of course, the mindset of an apprentice is certainly not enough; they must also be clinging to a strong leg.

Solo queue is out of the question, absolutely out of the question. I can't play carry, so I can only play support and slack off a bit. As for duo queue? It's just that if the carry doesn't get a role, I can go support and let them have that role. That's the real reason most players come to listen to Roland's stream.

Everything is for the sake of making the "daddy" who helps me rank up have fun.

"First, let's put aside champion selection and runes; it's Season 10 now, so I won't go into that. Let's get straight to the point and talk about the big picture. We'll cover the details later. So, when we play support, we definitely need to ward, tank some damage in team fights, and provide crowd control, right?"

"Uh-huh."

"So, in order for your pet dog... no, AD to develop better, initiating team fights, counter-initiating team fights, and roaming when opportunities arise are definitely necessary, right?"

"No problem."

"Since you've already helped your teammates roam, it's not a problem to note down the summoner spell times of both sides, right? You see, you've already noted down the spells, so shouldn't you also keep an eye on what items they've built? What if you miss a kill because you overlooked an item like Zhonya's Hourglass? Wouldn't that be a huge loss?"

"Cough cough...should?"

"You've done the vision control, protected your teammates, roamed the entire map, and even remembered the skills and items. So it's reasonable to also remember the map resource respawn times and the duration of the enemy's trinket wards, right?"

"Oh, this..."

"Since we've already gone this far, it's only natural to praise teammates when they're doing well in the game and tell them not to get cocky, encourage them when they're struggling and tell them not to give up, call for the jungler when the AD carry is losing lane, and direct the team's rhythm when teammates are off.

"..."

"The main thing is that we need to play the game in a civilized manner. When playing games, you must encourage your teammates, you know? As long as they haven't given up, there is always hope. Of course, if these guys still keep feeding after you've encouraged them, I suggest you report them for intentionally feeding after the game. If they're rude, you can take a screenshot and file a complaint on WeChat, and they'll be suspended for at least seven days."

"??????"

Goodness, upon hearing this, countless viewers exclaimed that they had completely lost their minds.

Roland stopped there, as it wasn't appropriate to explain too much in a short time, otherwise it would affect the watchability of his stream. Once in the game, Roland, controlling Leona, immediately positioned himself defensively in the jungle.

The opposing jungler in this game is Ivern, who doesn't seem to have much fighting power on the surface, but is actually a champion who clears jungle camps incredibly fast. Compared to their Evelynn, the opposing jungler's early game clearing speed is definitely ahead. To prevent their jungler's jungle from being invaded, Leona left a defensive ward before leaving.

"See that ward? Let me tell you, only high-level players usually understand the meaning of this ward." After placing the trinket ward, Roland's expression became serious. "Think about it, at the start of the game I wasted a ward to help the jungler defend their jungle, shouldn't Evelynn owe me that favor?"

"really."

"He's indebted to me, so there's a high chance he'll come if I call him from bot lane later, right? Plus, the top laner is a Malphite against Darius, so he can't gank top lane. This ward of mine is practically a guiding light for him, an island in the ocean of his thoughts. This ward is a lifesaver for him~"

"??????"

Before even noticing the chat messages, Roland had already maneuvered Leona and Varus back to their lanes and started pushing for level two. In all the years of League of Legends, there are a few moves that almost every LPL player knows, and one of them is pushing for level two.

If two level-two players fight two level-one players, they definitely won't lose.

Roland simply controlled Leona to go forward and farm minions. The opposing team understood this and completely ignored Leona, instead focusing on farming minions.

The opposing Bard is an aggressive enchanter support, and what he fears most is a strong engage support like Leona. Once the enemy gets level 2 first and unleashes a combo, their combo can just AFK under the tower.

Seeing that the opponent wasn't greedy, Roland had no choice but to level up to level two along with them.

Seeing that the Leona had reached level two, Bard and Miss Fortune immediately became more cautious in their positioning. Seeing this, Roland didn't rush in, but instead kept his eyes on the minimap.

"It seems to be proceeding in a safe and cautious manner, rather than being too aggressive by going up to level two." After counting the club's meeting rooms, the team leaders of each team glanced at Roland's actions and were quite impressed with him.

The support's tempo determines the tempo of the bottom lane.

Aside from top-tier AD carries leading the bot lane, the normal bot lane dynamics, whether to attack or defend, advance or retreat, are generally controlled by the support. Therefore, every action of the support must be carefully considered. In this instance, the support didn't act rashly but instead paid attention to the minimap, which clearly shows they are an experienced support.

The team leaders had just ticked off the evaluation form when, a second later, they saw Leona pretend to turn around, then suddenly flash back and point a finger at Bard on the other side.

Team leaders: ? ? ?

EAQ was ignited, and the Japanese player showed absolutely no mercy.

After all, she's one of the toughest women in the bot lane, and her fighting style is all about confidence and ferocity. With the support in place, Varus's skills naturally followed immediately. Facing the stationary Bard, Varus unleashed a full QE combo, and the combined damage brought Bard's health to near zero in just a moment.

AD flash, then flash again, then follow up with a basic attack.

With a quick movement after landing, Roland even dodged the opponent's counter-attack Q after they flashed and landed.

At this point, even though Bard was still burning, Miss Fortune had no choice but to use her healing skill on her support.

Unfortunately, it was of no use.

Because Leona's damage was too high in the early game, and Bard's stats were ridiculously fragile, Bard was eventually caught off guard and died in front of his own outer turret.

First Blood!

First blood secured.

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PS: There's currently no break time, so I'll update once a day for the next five days. I'll resume updating twice a day once the break time is restored.

PS2: By the way, I'd like to ask for some free monthly tickets and recommendation votes. I really appreciate those during the new book period.

PS3: Ark is so much fun.

First Encounter: Chapter Four: Are You a Sore Loser?

IG Club.

At this moment, Ah Shui also opened Roland's live stream. Of course, he didn't intend to introduce Roland to IG, because IG didn't lack support players at the moment.

Besides the well-known Blue Brother, Water Brother also knew that there was a bot lane duo who would be joining IG to replace him, and that there were even several backup supports in the second team of IG. Although he and Roland often argued, their relationship was actually not bad, and it wouldn't be enough to push him into a fire pit.

The only reason I suddenly clicked on his live stream now was to see how he was performing. You know, this is the time when team leaders love to spy on others.

then.

He saw the scene where the Leona flashed in with her E at level two. But the scene was so beautiful that he sighed and immediately closed the live stream.

"This idiot, forget it, I'll do it." The moment he closed the live stream, Shui Zi Ge's helpless mutterings rang out. If he hadn't been so fed up with his previous support player, he wouldn't have gone to so much trouble for this goofball.

Meanwhile, in Roland's live stream room.

Roland, who had just killed the enemy support, was now completely high on his emotions.

"Did you see the details I just mentioned? At level two, we shouldn't rush. We should observe the minimap first. For example, I noticed that our top laner was playing very cautiously, while our mid laner initiated a combo at level two, aggressively pushing the lane and suppressing our health. Furthermore, our jungler started invading the lane because of this advantage. Our strategy is clear: we need to test whether our AD carry can keep up."

???

To be honest, although the playstyle is the same, many viewers still said that they really couldn't keep up with this guy's thinking. How did this have to do with testing AD again?

Of course, this is also one of the characteristics of Roland's live stream: he talks nonsense with you in a serious manner, but sometimes you feel that what he says makes a lot of sense.

"Look, top lane is holding steady, mid lane is definitely a carry with this pressure, and the jungler has even teamed up with them. So we need to see if the AD is worthy of our support. If he can keep up with my moves, then this AD is worth protecting."

"What?"

"What if you can't keep up? If you can't keep up, just sell him and go find a carry in the mid or jungle. What's the point of an AD carry in a losing game these days?"

The preseason patch of Season 10, to put it nicely, was a jungler's patch; to put it bluntly, it meant that AD carries were finally paying the price for their dominance in previous patches. The Ardent Censer meta of Season 7, the invincibility of Kai'Sa and Xayah in Season 8—even in Season 9, once ADCs had their three core items, they still dealt considerable damage, only their survivability was slightly worse.

But in Season 10, they really didn't treat AD carries like human beings.

Take a look at how the preseason update logs are written.

Solo lane experience increased by 2%, duo lane experience decreased by 2.4%, which means that if your bot lane has already returned to base once in the early game, you might only be level 4 by the time the top, mid, and jungle arrive at level 6 to gank.

The buff to elemental dragon attributes means that there will be frequent fights in the bot lane. Bot lanes that require a long time to develop will either have to pick early-game fighting AD carries or utility AD carries. Late-game AD carries with long development cycles will not be able to be played.

If the above are all overall changes, then the changes to equipment are just too much.

Physical equipment such as the Lightning Blade, Infinity Edge, Rapid Firecannon, Duskblade, and Night's Edge have had their attributes changed, and new equipment such as the Duel Blade and the Vision Blade have been introduced.

Simply put, AD carry items have become more expensive and less cost-effective. Meanwhile, assassin items have become more cost-effective, and assassins now have two more item options.

Look, ADCin2020.

This game is just so magical.

In conclusion, in this version, if an AD carry is not playing well, they should decisively give up and roam to other lanes. If the bot lane tower plates are gone, they are gone. It is always better to take the initiative to change than to be stuck in jail and die slowly.