You actually want me to...

"Ah, that's right. The game's over. I'm going to the restroom now, Coach. Call me when you leave."

"Can we come back before we go?"

"I really can't hold it in, Coach. You know, holding in your pee can take you a thousand miles, but holding in your poop can't get you anywhere." As he spoke, Roland's movements gradually quickened, showing that he really was feeling the urge after watching these two games.

"But you always take a long time to come out. Tell me honestly, are you constipated?"

"Of course not. You wouldn't understand my troubles if you don't watch videos when you go to the toilet. Some funny videos can only be found when you're on the toilet, and they keep coming back no matter how many times you try. They're endless, and even some random videos will update at the perfect time. But once they're on the toilet, you can't find them anymore."

"Is that so?" White Crescent looked over with a puzzled expression, but Roland gave her an affirmative look.

"Of course, it's all very mysterious. Just like those food videos, you can't see them during the day, but you can't escape them at night. It's all destined by fate, bro."

As Roland turned around, closed the door, and slipped into the bathroom, a few seconds later, a thunderous sound echoed in the ears of everyone in the room.

Fitness training, hip exercises, Kegel exercises, that's how it is.

The saying goes that farting is like thunder and pooping is like shooting an arrow; the clearer and louder the sound, the better one's health (doge).

Inside, Roland was happily scrolling through videos and setting off fireworks.

Outside, White Crescent took her notebook, turned around, and walked out of the room. Although there was no smell inside, the sound still felt strange.

As the previous champions, it's natural that the team will face relatively weaker opponents in the early stages. This is to maintain the overall entertainment value of the tournament. For example, the next opponent, RA, and the one after that, LGD, are opponents whose strengths and weaknesses are well known. In particular, after LGD single-handedly raised the blood pressure of the entire region's audience at the S10 World Championship, they immediately started a major tanking phase, with all the players except the AD carry being rookies. Their five-year plan has started again.

Since it wasn't strong enough, it naturally couldn't attract the attention of the white crescent moon.

Then his gaze shifted downwards, and a very familiar team logo suddenly appeared in his field of vision.

Yes, that's it.

Without a good whetstone, how can one forge a truly exceptional knife?

JDG, you're still the most reliable team when it matters.

Integration: Chapter Sixty-Three: Awakening of Humanity

Ten days later, when TES and JDG gathered again at the Shanghai Stadium, Duke and the others had extremely complicated expressions, because just a few days earlier, TES's coach, White Crescent, had suddenly treated them to a good meal.

New members, new team, everyone understands. Generally speaking, we should ask the other side not to go too far.

After all, the JDG brothers have never separated for many years, and Dong Ge's saying that they are all my brothers is extremely applicable to this LPL team. However... although the request that day was similar to what they guessed, the direction of the request was very different.

As they thought about it, the scene from that day seemed to reappear in their minds.

White Crescent Moon: "I've come today to ask you for a favor."

JDG members: "No problem, no problem. We're all old friends, we'll definitely take good care of you."

White Crescent: "That's good. Don't be polite to these two brats. Give them a good beating and let them know what the dangers of the martial world are like."

JDG members: "OK, got it, we definitely will... Huh!???"

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Yes, in any other team, the coach would treat the players like treasures, afraid that their players would be bullied by the seasoned veterans of the other team. But this guy, on the other hand, treated them to a meal and asked them to step up their game.

The problem is, JD.com is only good at delivery, not at sales.

Unfortunately, since the coach has already treated them to a meal and the etiquette has been perfected, the only option left is to forcefully arrange a move on the opposing team's top and jungle laners.

Meanwhile, in the TES lounge.

Roland stared at the water dispenser next to him, while glancing at his coach with some confusion.

This isn't right.

It's one thing not to put him on the field against LGD and VG, but to keep him on the bench against JDG? Is the coach trying to replicate MLXG's career?

A professional emergency rescuer?

Seemingly noticing his overthinking, White Crescent picked up her notebook and glanced at Roland's head, scolding him with exasperation, "What are you worried about? If you weren't so stubborn, would I have let you sit here watching the show?"

"I'm not a coach, to be fair, if you said I can't carry normally, that would be one thing, but how could you lie and say I can't feed??? During the time I played ranked games, which region in the Chinese server hadn't heard of my name, Aban?"

"Then explain why you win more games than you lose in scrims, while the Prophet loses more games than he wins. Isn't it you who's causing trouble?"

"I'm innocent, Coach! I've been trying my best to feed, but I don't know why these guys can charge faster and more aggressively than me whenever I charge. You know that mages and supports don't have much mobility, so I just can't keep up with them."

Upon hearing this, White Crescent sighed softly, understanding the problem in her heart.

The team members' impression of the two supports was that one played an offensive rhythm and the other played a defensive counter-attack. They were fine for bullying weak teams, but once they encountered a team of equal strength, their relatively weak defensive counter-attack style, which they had not practiced much, would have huge loopholes, and defeat would be inevitable.

After a moment of silence, the two decided to wait and see how the first game went.

As expected, after White Crescent deliberately exerted its strength, JDG played an almost insane four-protect-one strategy in the first game.

That's right, I'm talking about the "four-protect-one" strategy being implemented.

Although he wasn't quite skilled enough, his repeated ganks on Ueno were quite successful, completely breaking Ale's mentality in the very first game. Looking at Ale's 0/7/1 weapon score on the screen, even Roland felt that the scene was a bit too outrageous.

"Come on, please begin your performance and tell me where the problem lies."

"Question? Oh, what's the underlying logic of your question? Where's the top-level design? What's the final value delivered? What are the key points in the process? How do you ensure a closed-loop answer? What are your strengths compared to others? What are your thoughts and accumulated knowledge? Would this question be different if I asked it? What is your unique value?"

"???"

"Ahem, sorry, this office worker's muscle memory kicked in, I'll watch now... I'll watch now."

To be honest, if Roland were to analyze this game, the junglers on both sides were actually quite similar in the early game. Even between the top jungler in the LPL and the worst jungler in the LPL, there wouldn't be a significant difference in their early game jungle clearing and ganking.

So where is the problem?

Ale, who plays in the top lane, is too young and inexperienced in professional play. He was easily outmaneuvered and manipulated by a seasoned veteran like Duke. Moreover, his mentality was not stable enough. When his mentality collapsed later, he couldn't even see the opponent's poor acting skills.

Of course, if we're going to nitpick, when Ah Le discovers a weakness in the enemy top laner, he tends to pay less attention to the positions of both the enemy and friendly junglers.

In other words:

Once he discovers high-quality free-range chickens, he tends to focus more on enjoying the deliciousness of the chicken and ignore some potential threats, such as being targeted by scammers.

But they are young people after all, so it's understandable.

As for how to comfort them, just use the biggest scam in the LPL.

What is the biggest scam in the LPL?

The phrase "a promising future" is so overused that it's comparable to a gas company's "gas will be connected soon," a restaurant waiter's "the food will be served soon," or your parents' words during Chinese New Year when you were a child: "I'll save the money for you first."

Anyone who believes that is an idiot.

Oh, and we also have to add the fact that a certain place claimed to have abundant living supplies, which is a complete slap in the face to other places.

"After they come down, try to comfort them. You're good at that. Then you can go up next time."

"No, Coach, why are you making me sound like a jerk? All my girlfriends have been my first love."

"I know, that's why the targets this time are all men. Besides, if they were as easy to manage as you, that would be great. They only care about money and don't need any motivational speeches. No, it's not good if they're like you. If you can't reach a certain rank, they deduct your bonus as if it's your life. They even livestreamed themselves collecting information on the actors who were sabotaging you and reporting them one by one. The official Weibo account was almost bombarded by those actors who hired online trolls."

Only at times like this would White Crescent truly appreciate Roland's admirable character; he really was all about money. Our TES, putting everything else aside, just has this damn rich boss. Any department could scrape together a little bit of money and give this guy bonuses for two years straight.

"I call this being clear-headed! You can fool me with your feelings, but if you try to cheat me out of my money, you might as well die. I can love many people in my life, but how much money can I actually make?"

White crescent moon: ...

Summary: Chapter Sixty-Four: You Underestimated Involution

More than ten minutes later, after TES's halftime break ended and White Crescent had successfully given a pep talk, Roland finally sat back down on his bench and said with a grin in the team voice chat, "Didn't expect that, did you? I'm back~"

Although lounging around next to the water dispenser seemed pretty good, Roland couldn't help but feel uneasy about receiving such a high salary without actually playing.

This is just like the hypothetical principle that so-called "experts" love to propose. For example, if you were offered five million dollars to eat a piece of shit, would you eat it? The moment you ask such a question, you know that the person is brainless. Five million dollars is a lot of money. Nobody would believe it unless they ate ten or eight pounds of it.

Besides, given the current level of competition, if you can get five million per bite today, someone else can get three million per bite tomorrow. This cycle might eventually escalate to one hundred or eighty thousand per bite.

So-called "professors" have too little understanding of human nature. I suggest they all read "One Hundred Years of Solitude," "The History of Urban Development," and "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" a hundred times before they start talking.

"How's it going, A-Le? How's your mentality? Remember what I told you? It's impossible to clear the game without stumbling a few times and using a few resurrection coins. There has never been a player in the league who had a smooth journey. Look at A-Shui, he got hooked and beaten up as soon as he entered the lane."

"No, if you're going to tutor me, then tutor me. Why are you dragging me into this?"

"I'm using you as an example, you're a typical example. You're a senior player, why are you still so concerned about saving face? Otherwise, how can you justify your multi-million dollar contract? You agree, coach."

"Ah, indeed."

Listening to the team channel buzzing again through their headsets, both Alehahuang felt their mentality, which had been shattered by the opponent's crushing defeat in the previous game, had recovered considerably. This is the power of atmosphere. According to unscientific research, if every LOL player were to go to an old-fashioned internet cafe to play face-to-face with their friends, their performance would be completely polarized.

It's either a winning streak or a losing streak.

First round of bans:

JDG: Syndra, Samira, Xayah

TES: Cards, Udyr, Gragas

They're still targeting each other in the bottom lane.

One round of PICK:

JDG: Kai'Sa, Graves, Orianna

TES: Zoe, Olaf, Miss Fortune

Let's talk about Olaf. In the early stages of Season 11, Olaf became very strong due to the stats from Mythic items. When ahead, he could build Vanguard to kill, and when behind, he could build Bloodthirst to survive. Vanguard, in particular, wasn't just a stationary destroyer at this point; it actually had a dash.

A champion with mobility, immunity to crowd control, high damage output against squishy targets, and fast jungle clearing speed almost meets all the requirements of a jungler in this version. As for Miss Fortune, she was a bit of a surprise to JDG; they had originally thought it would be Senna or Ezreal.

"Coach, ban the top lane in the second round, ban Aatrox and Pantheon." As if he had thought of something, Roland casually mentioned it.

"I can understand Sword Demon, but what does Pantheon mean?" White Crescent asked with a slight doubt upon hearing this.

"Because we have Twilight Celestial, if Aatrox and Pantheon are released at the same time, I'm afraid Knight will feed like crazy."

Knight: ? ? ?

"Alright, I won't listen to your nonsense. As long as we see results, I'll go with your draft picks this game."

Second round of bans: Jayce, Aatrox, Gnar, and Pantheon were all banned.

The top laners available included Ornn, Renekton, Sett, and Camille, and even Ale had his signature Jax. Just when Ale thought he was going to be the fifth pick again...

"Ah Le, what do you want?"

"Huh? Should I go first?"