You actually want me to...

Yes, although it has been beautified.

I'm very happy, excited, and tired, but more importantly, I'm looking forward to the results.

Q2: Many viewers on foreign websites say that you played the last champion. I'd like to ask about that last game's Gragas E-Flash. What prompted you to make such a big decision to gamble on that opportunity? Was it the encouragement from your teammates?

A2: Huh? I just thought I had a chance and gave it a try.

hope Ran: ?_?

Roland: (?????)

Fine, I guess I'll still have to clean up your mess.

Because I know that in every game, someone has to make sacrifices, and I just want to be an ordinary person behind the heroes.

Q3: You will be qualifying as the LPL's number one seed. What would you like to say to the region?

Upon hearing this question, Roland fell silent for a moment, as he knew very well what kind of past the offline players in this world had experienced.

LCK won five consecutive championships, ushering in a dark era.

LPL has broken through two cities in a row, ushering in the dawn of a new era.

S10 is a year that countless players are looking forward to. Their expectations are different from those of the undefeated S8. Their expectations stem from the fact that LOL has become another kind of umbilical cord in their lives.

League of Legends has been around for ten years.

Ten years have passed, and the original generation of players has generally entered society, while the players who joined in the middle have gradually become busy with their studies.

Do you think they like League of Legends?

They definitely like it. Unlike the Warcraft era of the previous generation, for the generation born after 90, LOL represents the youth of most of them. Although the number of online LOL players is declining year by year, the number of viewers for LOL competitions continues to increase exponentially every year.

Many people don't play the game, but they watch it, care about it, and look forward to LPL's performance. They also hope that LPL can achieve good results in the World Championship and use this as a bond to bring together classmates who have been scattered all over the country offline again.

Heroes never leave the stage; they simply change battlefields.

In Roland's eyes, LPL players' expectations for the regional championship in S10 were actually quite high. They struggled with reality within the game, yet they couldn't let go of their youthful memories. They longed for LPL to win a three-peat, to leave a championship on their home turf, and also for LPL to prove themselves with concrete actions.

The dream of the past is no longer a luxury, and LPL also has the capital to build a dynasty.

Unfortunately, the LPL in the original world always fell just short.

For the LPL, S10 might be the best of times and the worst of times. It was an age of wisdom and an age of foolishness. It was an era of faith and an era of disillusionment. It was a season of light and a season of darkness. It was a spring of hope and a winter of despair. We might have everything before us, or we might have nothing at all.

Thinking of this, Roland picked up the microphone and said softly to the camera in front of him: "Before I went pro, I wondered if a few years ago, if the LPL had a team like the peak SKT that could defeat all the strong opponents in the world and bring hope to the whole region, would I still have gone pro? My thought is no, because this job is really too hard."

"But when I discovered my own talent, when I found that there were no more heroes in the era, when I found that the light I knew had disappeared, I made a decision."

"If the road ahead remains dark, I will be the only light!"

"Just like those who came before."

Elevation: Chapter One: This Child is Terrifyingly Powerful!?

The next day.

When Roland woke up in bed again, a whole night had passed since the final. Recalling those glorious moments on the field, everything seemed to replay as if it were yesterday.

Then, I subconsciously took out my phone, opened the forum, and continued to see how others were bragging about themselves.

This is the champion!

Winning both the spring and summer titles is incredibly prestigious, and any professional player would be thrilled with such an honor. However, this BO5 series also revealed a major problem for him: his performance was far too inconsistent.

While the Sakuragi Hanamichi-style positioning allows him to pull off many incredible comebacks in most disadvantageous situations, Sakuragi Hanamichi himself is a player whose overall strength is not strong enough.

After all.

Roland's greatest weapon to date is his foresight into the current meta and his vast champion pool, which allows him to pick almost anything. He then uses his last pick to counter specific opponents. This strategy might be able to mask his weaknesses for a while in the LPL, but in the World Championship, when facing formidable analytical teams like those in the LCK, his weaknesses will be magnified.

To put it bluntly, he's not strong enough yet.

This self-awareness was quite a blow to his beliefs, especially after winning the championship. However, the rationality he had experienced in the S10 timeline kept reminding him to make changes quickly, so Roland could only silently endure it.

There's a line in No Longer Human: "My pride wouldn't allow me to tell anyone about this period of collapse. Only I know that, in just one night, my heart was completely changed."

Although the actual difference wasn't as exaggerated as the text suggested, it probably reflected Roland's inner struggle.

Then, he decisively got up and started a live stream to receive countless gifts.

【Here it comes!】

[Good grief, you're the first one up out of the four teams going to Worlds. I thought you were practicing, but it turns out you were watching the highlight reel your fans made for you yesterday?]

[It's understandable since he just won the game, but the fact that he's willing to stream means he's genuinely preparing for training.]

[I understand. Just like people who go to the gym like to bring others along; if no one's with you, you'll really slack off.]

Anyway, you're the champion, so you can do whatever you want today.

It has to be said that although Roland's Gragas fed a lot of kills yesterday, his final team fight initiation was really captivating. Whether you play well or not is one thing, whether you dare to fight is another. If it weren't for this fearless playstyle, Shoe King wouldn't have so many die-hard fans.

However, they still overestimated Roland.

Although I had the idea of ​​training, I needed to go and film promotional videos for the World Championship the day after the competition. I only started streaming because I was busy training during the playoffs and had missed a lot of time.

After watching the highlights, Roland ignored the triple barrage of comments and closed the video, slowly saying, "Since I grew tired of coin tosses, I've learned to hit the mark with one shot. Since a wave of praise swept in, I've been able to withstand triple barrages from all directions and ride the wave of praise."

"Don't ask, the answer is that coins don't work."

After joking around with the chat, and seeing that his teammates were still asleep, Roland decided to play a few ranked games to practice.

Thanks to his precognitive abilities, Roland knew exactly what version 10.19 of the S10 World Championship was all about, which helped him compensate for some of his shortcomings.

Nevertheless, he still plans to play some unconventional champions in these ranked games, such as enchanter supports.

Because there are eyes even behind the net.

The S10 World Championship was held in China. Due to the impact of natural disasters and the fact that the playoffs of almost every region ended earlier than LPL, the World Championship players had actually gathered in China and were staying in various quarantine hotels.

The teams that qualified for the S10 World Championship from each region are as follows:

LPL: TES, JDG, SN, LGD

LCK: DWG, DRX, (third seed, etc., sent by Vietnam)

LCS: FLY, TL, TSM

LEC: RGE, G2, FNC, MAD

Aside from these four major regions, you only need to remember TCL (Turkey's Rainbow Horse) SUP, LCL (CIS region) UOL, and CBLOL (Brazil's ITZ). The rest are just there to make up the numbers.

It was also at this time that players from other regions came to the Chinese server, only to encounter the first wave of attacks from the Chinese League of Legends server:

The expert player faced off against professional players at the top of the orphanage.

Before the S10 World Championship, the Chinese League of Legends server began to clean up the Challenger tier, banning various "actors" (players intentionally throwing games) and releasing the champions used by skilled players. These skilled players, who had been suppressing their abilities for a long time, almost burst out laughing at the sight of so many opponents at the World Championship, and then promptly gave their opponents a sound beating.

Never underestimate the existence of top-tier players in the Chinese server.

In fact, there are many skilled players in the Chinese server. Each player in each rank has a hero they play best. It's just a matter of whether they want to use it or not. The most outrageous thing about fighting in the Chinese server is that players will fight 1v2 even when facing the jungler. Among such a large number of players in the Chinese server, almost none of the skilled players are easy to deal with.

Those are all god-like beings.

Unlike training Shakespeare on the LCK server, in the LPL, everyone, from humans to dogs, is showing off, while only the professionals are getting beaten up.

A Fiora with four hits in one second, a Karthus with level six in five minutes, a Hecarim who turned the tables on a full-health Kindred at level three with low health, and an Annie who chased down four members of TSM all by herself—all sorts of terrifying skills were performed in front of a group of professional players. Even Kassadin was played like an early-game champion.

I'm not going to waste my breath on you. I'm going to focus on the details of online play and team fights.

In the LPL, only the survivors are allowed to last-hit minions. Among all these professional players, the most tragic is FNC's "High-Fish Feeder," who has been caught by netizens playing over 20 games and still stuck in Platinum with a win rate of just over 30%. It's heartbreaking to hear about them, and seeing them makes one want to cry; they're almost driving people to despair.

[Jankos: Why are the ADCs and supports on this server so ridiculously strong?]

[PraY: That...that points game is truly hell.]

Wunder: I fully experienced the power of Fiora in the LPL Super Server.

[TSM Official Weibo: The best way to get map resources is to kill all your enemies.]

Meanwhile, in DWG's hotel lounge, DEANY and Zefa, the coaching staff, watched Roland's livestream on the screen, constantly searching his game history on their computers. As the most unpredictable support player in the Summer Finals, the DWG coaching team was extremely wary of him.

"Are you sure? Is this his usual RANK number?"

"It should be. Quick, let's see what heroes he plays most often through this account. His Korean server account is a lie. What support player plays top lane every day? This Chinese server account must be the one he really practices heroes on. Let's see more of his frequently used heroes so we can give him targeted training."

"Okay, I'm checking."

With a flurry of copying and pasting, Roland's match history from the Chinese server instantly appeared before the DWG coaching staff.

only...

Page 1: Top Order

Page 2: Top Lane + AD

Page 3: Finally, we see support players, but they are all enchanter supports, although their win rate isn't great.

"As expected, this is the big move that TES has been hiding all along. Their support is actually a master of enchanter support."

"Oh? Really? But what about his record?"

"Zefa, calm down. Think about the level of fighting in ranked games here. It's normal for enchanter supports to have bad stats. We'll see if we watch his stream this game."

"You're right, I really didn't think it through."

A dozen minutes later, when DWG's two coaches watched as Roland used Lulu to flash and use his ultimate to knock up and freeze three people with Ice Lance, successfully changing the course of the battle, they couldn't help but gasp.

This child is terrifyingly powerful!?

Sublimation: Chapter Two: Then I'll do it.

After a simple game, Roland, with his Diamond Gatekeeper account, successfully encountered one or two accounts with high win rates. This is what the current state of the Challenger tier is like: not only are professional players using super accounts provided by the League to climb the ranks, but these solo queue kings are also basically advancing all the way by winning streaks.

Judging from the current level of attention given to the S-series, whoever can climb the ranks the highest and dominate the most professional players will gain the most attention.

These aren't professional players; they're just traffic and money magnets!

In this atmosphere, almost all the top players in the LPL went crazy.

"See, brothers? Specializing in one hero is really useful. We won't say much more. Playing one hero for a thousand games and reaching Gold rank and getting the minimum reward is definitely not a problem. Emmm, except for Ahri players."

【What? You look down on me, Ahri the Mage Assassin? Believe me or not, I can one-shot you with a combo of AEAQAWRARRQAWA!】