You actually want me to...

Good grief, even the celebratory monsters have arrived.

Unfortunately, there aren't many support players in the LPL who are willing to pick these unusual champions and actually perform well with them.

To be honest, only TES at this point in time would dare to let their support play like this. On other teams, if you want your support to play champions other than Leona and Nautilus, unless the coach approves the strategy, you're basically out of a job.

However, TES is different. Before JackeyLove arrived, their bot lane AD was simply unable to compete in lane and couldn't even hold his ground. But Roland was able to use these unconventional tactics to maintain the rhythm and achieve results.

Regardless of the risks, for TES, the worst-case scenario is a lane collapse anyway. If the pick is effective, they make a huge profit; if they lose, they don't lose anything. If it's ineffective, that's to be expected.

Moreover, his privilege was based on his success in pulling out several "black technology" heroes in a row, and this value was not long-lasting. Once Roland's heroes could no longer produce results, this privilege would be quickly taken back.

To put it bluntly, whether a player can get the coach to make concessions depends primarily on their own value.

Although they couldn't see the online chat during the match, the TES players could still sense the current anticipation and buzz online, especially 369. Roland had returned even later than him, yet Roland's popularity was already surpassing his. Seeing Roland about to successfully show off again, they couldn't help but sigh, "Roland, it's your turn to perform again today."

"It's just a tactical necessity, there's no such thing as performing. But 369, you could actually expand your champion pool. When you're playing against top laners like TheShy, you could unleash your secret weapon. Don't you think that would be really cool?"

"Clam?"

"It's like when everyone thinks your highest level is 9, and you suddenly pull out a box of 999 Cold Medicine from your pocket and shout, 'You didn't expect that, did you? This is my true power!' Don't you think that kind of setting is surprisingly cool?"

"Oh, this."

Listening to Roland's words, 369's mind was instantly a bit chaotic. Although it sounded like nonsense, this idea... just thinking about it made him feel strangely excited.

Perhaps... we could try it out quietly with a hero?

Seeing that 369 had been tricked into thinking by Aban, White Crescent, who was holding a notebook behind her back, secretly smiled and then gave Roland Tree a thumbs up.

The reason why they were willing to give Roland such unpopular heroes was to work with Roland to make a good impression on the team members, which can be described as establishing trust through action.

I don't care what you like to do or how you do it, as long as you can pull out a skill that's presentable, I'm willing to withstand public pressure to help you get a position.

The mainstream heroes are practiced in daily training matches, while the remaining options are entirely up to the players' self-discipline. Although this method may not necessarily guide them to practice the meta heroes every time, it at least tricks them into expanding their hero pool depth.

As for whether it can produce amazing results, that's a headache for coaches and analysts. All the players need to do is practice the heroes and then leave the rest to them.

"Go ahead and pick it. I reckon they didn't expect this." "Absolutely! You know, I specifically practiced this hero to prevent Big Head from dying instantly."

"Come on, you say that but you always rush ahead of me."

"Haha, I'm not afraid of dying anyway, right?" With the last two seconds left in the selection time, a "valuable" hero suddenly appeared in the last column of the TES hero selection.

I knew you'd choose me!

Time Old Man - Kieran

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First Encounter: Chapter Sixty-Seven: Mastering the Frequency~

"Time?"

"Does Cat King, as a professional support, have any insights into this hero?" Guan Ge was completely stunned the moment he saw this hero appear. Mid-lane Zilean still has some traceable records, but those are all from a long time ago. This support Zilean... isn't it a bit too unpopular?

"Well... I rarely see this either, but Zilean does have a bit of a Conter Braum feel to the laning phase, and his ultimate is surprisingly effective against SN's lineup in a certain sense."

"As you can see on the screen, even Coach Chashao was completely bewildered."

The lineups for both sides at this point are:

SN: Top lane Sett, Jungle Rek'Sai, Mid lane Zoe, Bot lane Kai'Sa + Braum

TES: Top lane Ornn, Jungle Sejuani, Mid lane Diana, Bot lane Aphelios + Zilean

The hero Zilean actually has a low margin for error. Despite having a second resurrection ability with his ultimate, he is very fragile and easily hit by the enemy's AOE attacks.

But this one is different.

TES already has two strong frontliners in the top and jungle, while SN's lineup doesn't really have any hard dives. Take Sett, the top laner with no mobility, can be rendered useless in team fights with a single slow from Zilean, and with his ultimate, it's easy to keep Heimerdinger from dying easily. This champion isn't the most suitable for the support role in this game, but for Roland, it's the best choice because he doesn't really play pure enchanter supports.

Since TES usually picks late-game compositions, Karsa's jungle was bound to be weak in the early game. His jungle route was to start with red buff and farm downwards, intending to avoid the enemy Rek'Sai and also to help the bot lane carry.

There was no conflict, because TES dared not have any conflict.

Braum + Rek'Sai, anyone who tries to engage in a level 1 team fight is an idiot. After setting up necessary wards, TES didn't even defend their own jungle. Go ahead and invade if you want; they might lose in the early game, but their composition is definitely going to be at a disadvantage in the early game anyway.

However, SofM isn't stupid. A level 1 invasion would be a thankless task for him and could easily turn into a jungle swap. Compared to the fast-moving bot lane duo, he prefers to gank TES's weaker top lane.

Upon going online, Snake and Huanfeng showed no intention of competing for second place, establishing a significant lead from the start. SN's bot lane attitude was clear: "I'm just going to take the pressure, do whatever you want."

There's no way around it; after all, Zilean is a hero who really does counter Braum a bit.

While the double Q stun is difficult to land, it's not a concern if the opponent initiates. The E skill's speed boost and slow are quite flexible, and combined with long-range attacks against short-range attacks, it can be incredibly annoying for the opponent. Most importantly, there's the ultimate skill after level six.

Braum is already difficult to engage with, so imagine you finally reach level six during the laning phase, and then find an opportunity to use all your skills to control and kill the enemy AD carry, only to have that person say "Believe in Brother Chun and you'll live forever" and resurrect right in front of you. Wouldn't you be devastated if you saw that?

However, those things happened a few minutes later. In the early stages, Roland's Time was nothing more than a ruthless bomb-dropping machine.

And so, what echoed in the TES team's voice chat from then on was:

"Fire in the hole!"

"Headshot!"

"Unbreakable!"

"You want to piece me together?"

A string of classic quotes followed, leaving the TES team completely bewildered.

"Hey, can you stop yelling? Are you playing CF here?" Ah Shui, who was closest to him, was completely annoyed. His strange, unpredictable shouts even caused him to lose a cannon minion. How could anyone tolerate this?

"No, don't you guys think that adding dialogue and body language could effectively improve the hit rate in the game?"

"Sorry, I don't think so at all."

“ε=('ο｀*))) Sigh, it seems you guys didn’t play much video games like Ace during your childhood.” Roland sighed with some regret and then shut his mouth, which had been chattering on and on.

In fact, he simply thought it was fun.

The difference between an unpopular hero and a popular support is that once you pick it in a match, the opposing bot lane duo will be completely bewildered. They can't calculate your skill damage, can't figure out your strange combos, and don't know where your "kill point" is. Then they'll slowly start to play defensively.

To put it bluntly, it makes it easy for the other party to overthink things.

Don't be surprised, some people in the bot lane, when they see the enemy picks LeBlanc support, start farming minions cautiously and hesitantly. As a result, when LeBlanc seizes an opportunity to engage and burst them down, their first instinct isn't to chase after her and fight back, but to start retreating in the opposite direction.

It's one thing to retreat in the opposite direction, but some players in the bottom lane will cautiously move forward again after the enemy's second set of skills is ready, making them look like complete idiots.

To put it bluntly, this is a manifestation of being frightened by an unknown combination.

SN's bot lane is currently in this rhythm, but it's not entirely because of this reason. Even if they know that the enemy has used up their bombs and there's a vacuum period, they don't dare to go in. Because once Braum starts with WQ and jumps in, Zilean immediately uses a speed boost to attach and then turns around and spins away.

This brings us to the bug that Zilean has in the laning phase.

There has always been a debate in League of Legends: is it better to slow down the enemy or speed up your own team? Here's the conclusion:

It significantly slows down pursuers but accelerates escapers.

From Leo Tolstoy's *The Theory of Relativity of the Canyon*

The hero Time is quite special; he can both accelerate and decelerate, meaning he can adjust the game's frequency at any time, find the Hertz that best suits him, and then drive off on the road of no return.

Ahem, let's get back to the main topic.

The biggest advantage of combining acceleration and deceleration is that, unless both players in the bottom lane initiate a fight at the same time, it is very difficult for the opponent to force them to engage. In fact, if you recklessly engage them and fail, there is a high chance that you will be severely damaged or even killed.

Because of the reduced cooldown of his W skill, he can use his speed boost to kite you one second and then throw a slowing bug on your head the next. It's a purely annoying skill, and then he throws a bomb on your head, leaving you helplessly watching the countdown, with no chance to fight back.

Yes, this Zilean pick also has a hint of using Huanfeng to cheat.

Tahm Kench hid for so long in the first game, so in the second game, shouldn't we let him blow us up?

Watching the old man in the screen frantically throwing "trash" at him, Huanfeng, after being hit several times and running out of health potions, finally couldn't suppress his ambition and started calling for his jungler.

And it was at this very moment that Roland's rhythm was just beginning.

First Encounter: Chapter Sixty-Eight: Have you ever heard of a combo that kills and destroys the spirit?

"Holy crap, this thing is disgusting. How can a snake even keep an eye on the other side?"

"I can't do it, the enemy's push is too strong, and Sejuani is always in the bottom jungle." No one expected that in just a few minutes, Zilean would manage to annoy the mid and bottom lanes with his excellent map traversal skills.

The combination of Manaflow Band and Biscuit Delivery talent increased his maximum mana; most importantly, the items he bought after his first back to base completely eliminated his mana shortage problem.

Fairy Amulet, one of the most beloved items for ranked support players.

A price of 125 and 25% base mana regeneration—these two attributes don't seem like much, right?

Okay, here comes the most crucial attribute.

If you sell this thing back to the store, you can get 80 yuan for it.

What the hell does this mean? It means that even if I buy all four items except for the boots and the support item, I will only lose 180 gold when I sell them. But those 180 gold mean that I will never have to worry about mana sustain in lane again. Mom will never have to worry about me running out of mana during small-scale team fights again.

Overall, this item is an absolute godsend for supports who frequently use skills in the early game.

With the combination of his talent and equipment, Roland was able to fully utilize his map-running ability.

He would roam mid lane to give experience, run into the jungle to protect the jungler, and run into the bottom lane to push the minion wave. Thanks to the double speed boost from his W skill, the old man's experience loss while roaming was not significant. The direct result was that he and Sejuani dominated the bottom half of the jungle.

At this moment, Sofm was indeed disgusted to the core.

With Braum unable to leave the bot lane and a potential 2v1 situation in the jungle, he had no desire to roam to the bot lane and instead stayed in the top lane, just like in the first game. However, he wasn't without his gains. Rek'Sai's ganks were still too unpredictable, and with Sofm's ability to capitalize on opportunities, 369 couldn't withstand the enemy's onslaught and gave up first blood.

First Blood!

"Wow, the location of this excavator is so weird, I feel like it's everywhere."

"Calm down. After all, it's digging tunnels and doing civil engineering. You should have some respect for it."

"Why are you bringing up civil engineering again? This major isn't as exaggerated as people say online."

"That's why I said, don't let the online trends easily lead you astray. There's definitely a difference between the internet and reality, because reality is usually more outrageous. In this profession, if you choose to work on a construction site, the lower your education level, the higher your salary will be."

"what!?"

"Even there, if you work hard enough, you can stand on the same starting line as civil engineering students from Tsinghua University. How about 369? Are you interested in giving it a try?"

"Excuse me... Goodbye!"

After chatting for a while, the anger I felt after being killed faded considerably without me even realizing it. As a tanky top laner, one's mental fortitude must be strong. Unfortunately, 369 is notoriously bad at mentality in top lane, so Roland could only try to reason with him through this roundabout tactic.

TES's strategy for this game was simple: to maintain their advantage in the bot lane until the laning phase ended. As long as they could keep the bot lane priority, Sejuani would have room to farm excessively in the early game.