LOL: What is a roaming mid laner?

At 12 noon the next day, everyone in YM woke up and rushed downstairs to have lunch.

Since YM's second team lost the promotion and relegation match, the young players are now on vacation. Some children go home to rest, and there are three or two children who stay at the base and use Pangdudu's place as a free Internet cafe.

Due to the different floors, Lin Ran rarely met them on weekdays. He only noticed these children who were younger than him during lunch today.

More than a dozen people sat at a long table. The manager of the second team asked for leave and went home. Brother Hao beside him was both a father and a mother, taking care of these children in every possible way.

"Zhuo Ding, don't just eat, eat more food."

"...Ah, okay." Huddled in the corner of the dining table, the thin boy wearing black-rimmed glasses was a bit dull and introverted. He quickly responded to Brother Hao's words.

"Lin Ran, this is the substitute mid laner Zhuo Ding of our second team. The pony just hired him from the Internet Cafe Tournament. He is a wizard who holds the mouse with his left hand. He will be able to play in the spring game next year."

Brother Hao turned to Zhuo Ding and said, "If you have nothing to do, please ask him for advice. I don't need to tell him how strong Lin Ran is, right?"

"...Hello Brother Ran," the boy named Zhuo Ding nodded blankly, "Please, please give me some advice."

At this moment, Lin Ran felt like the dark boss in Hong Kong movies who would force people to worship him at the dock.

Feeling uncomfortable all over.

JKL on the side laughed out loud, "Are you really holding the mouse with your left hand? What about the keyboard? Isn't that how you cross your hands?"

Zhuo Ding whispered: "It turns out that this is how I play. Only when I came here did I discover that the mouse and keyboard can be changed."

"Are you too stupid?" The Garlic Bastard rarely saw such a person and couldn't help but tease.

One sentence made Zhuo Ding's already thin shoulders tighten even more.

After eating, a team of players entered the team training room.

The manager, Brother Hao, moved a chair and planned to sit down to speak, but felt that this was not dignified enough, so he simply sat on the armrest of the gaming chair.

"In the next week, turn off Weibo, Tieba, Hupu...all on your mobile phones. It's best to uninstall them," he emphasized. "Especially Jack, don't look at those things every day. It won't be good for your mentality."

"Understood." JKL took a deep breath.

Although he has strong ability to withstand stress, visiting the e-sports toilet too much is not a good thing after all - after all, frequent urination is also a disease.

"Let's watch the semi-finals at 5pm today. If you have any questions, ask them directly," Brother Hao gave the schedule. "Before that, we temporarily added a BO5 training match with the LCK team."

"Who to fight? SKT?" Xiao Ming was a little excited.

"Where can we go to fight SKT for you?" Brother Hao sneered. "It would be great if Samsung can come. This is because they only agreed to test the waters after they saw us winning consecutively and reaching the finals."

YM Everyone was silent.

The losses in the S5 Finals and S6MSI caused the LPL's status in the five major leagues to decline sharply.

The LCK, which has won the S Championship for three consecutive years, now disdains playing training matches with the LPL. Usually only teams like EDG and RNG that have participated in international competitions can occasionally get one or two appointments.

Calculate the time to log in to your Korean server account and enter the password to enter the custom room created by the other party.

The opponent's top laner, cuvee, seemed very friendly. He even learned a Chinese sentence "dajiahao" and typed it in the channel chat box.

After the pleasantries, it was a BO5 fight.

Lin Ran faced Crown, who was known as the Crown Brother. In him, Lin Ran saw a stability similar to that of VGeasyhoon. With Victor, he has been playing in the middle lane forever, and he looks like he will never leave the middle lane until he gets a 3-piece set.

In the first game, Lin Ran tried to suppress Crown head-on and chose Jayce, but later found that he had underestimated Crown's ability to mix lanes.

The soldiers he can't replace will definitely not have evil thoughts. He will try to maintain a healthy blood volume in the lane. He will be suppressed by Lin Yan and will not fight back when he is beaten.

This was the first time Lin Ran had seen a mid laner with such a timid playing style. Even if Easyhoon was hit in the face by him before, he would still retaliate with two skills.

Crown's thinking was very clear. Before going home in the first wave, he was stabbed 15 times by Lin Xian, but it was harmless.

After he upgraded the Hex core prototype, the line clearing ability of E [Death Ray] became stronger and stronger, and there was no direct conflict with Lin Ran at all.

When encountering this kind of mid laner, Lin Ran could only quickly push the lane and roam.

But SSG's jungler ambition is also a wizard. Facing YM's other soldiers, he made a surprising move and chose the quick four route - clear out all 6 jungle camps at home, and then return to the city to replenish the green jungle knife and real eyes.

He cooperated with the auxiliary coreJJ to completely light up the lower half of the jungle, giving Lin Ran and Xiaotian no chance to grab the bottom lane.

The enemy's vision control was too good, so Lin Ran and Xiaotian could only try to force the early and mid-term team battles through Xiaolong.

But the first one happened to be the wind dragon. Crown Brother just used E to try to grab the dragon. It didn't matter if he didn't succeed, he turned around and left.

There was no chance in the lower half, so Lin Ran and Xiaotian could only try to hit the road.

Cuvee, who was on the road, chose Gnar to deal with Jin Gong's captain. He didn't push the line in the early stage, but controlled the line of troops in the center, clearly not wanting to fight Jin Gong.

To drag, just drag hard.

SSG is a standard Korean operating team.

Except for top laner Cuvee, SSG's personal strength is not strong in the LCK, but the players will spend a lot of money to buy eye positions. In the mid-term, as long as there is an equipment grid, they must buy two real eyes.

They are accustomed to using the top order to pull in when their vision is brightened, and they win team battles by using more numbers and less information to take advantage of the difference in numbers and information.

Being delayed by SSG until 30 minutes, YM got two wind dragons and one earth dragon. The three dragons were of little help to the frontal battle.

Lin Ran produced a 4-piece set, but Victor's development was not bad. As time passed, Lin Ran's Jace teamfight effect was suppressed by Victor.

The four people in front of SSG took the opportunity and started to advance as a group, taking advantage of their omnipresent vision to catch YM off guard.

Prince An finally caught JKL who was alone, and he did not hesitate to EQ and then R to start a team from a long distance. Although JKL reacted quickly and retreated in a flash, a cloud-piercing arrow from the ruler Han Bing still stunned JKL. Dazzled in place.

JKL was charged and a team battle broke out immediately.

CoreJJ showed extraordinary support skills. He came behind the wall without a trace, and the bull's head flashed across the wall and beat the two of them away. Then he turned on R for immune control and used the bull's horn to send JKL into the SSG crowd.

YM, which lacked key output in the mid-to-late stage, was unable to compete with SSG. Crown and Ruler dealt astonishing damage in team battles.

In a wave of team battles, only Xiao Ming survived. He couldn't stop SSG's advancement at all. The five opponents played [GG] and exited the game.

YM quickly adjusted after losing the first game. Since Lin Ran couldn't open up the situation through laning and support in the early and mid-term, he used brush heroes to delay the late game with Crown.

The two sides quickly transformed from an offensive and defensive duel with spears and shields into a long and smelly tug-of-war. The next four rounds were all about 45 minutes long.

This kind of late game is very particular about the game of vision, the exchange of resources, and the team battle formation.

Different from losing a wave of rhythm in the early and mid-term and then fighting back again, in a game lasting more than 35 minutes, whichever side loses one more hero may determine the final direction of the situation.

In the end, YM relied on Lin Ran's perfect performance in three games to defeat this mid-to-upper LCK team 3:2.

Lin Ran was not happy. He felt that SSG did not expose any tactics and had a set of ideas from beginning to end - delaying late-stage operations and playing the game as if it were a formula.

After five games, everyone was exhausted.

"My old swan, why are you so tired?" After playing the last set, Xiao Ming quickly got up from the chair and started jumping around to relax his muscles and activate his blood circulation.

"Are these people bladder monsters? I'm really convinced. It's disgusting." Xiaotian held his waist and ran to the bathroom. He was used to drinking water to moisten his throat before games, and he couldn't bear the tug-of-war that often lasted forty or fifty minutes.

"Let's watch the game. Let's watch the game." Jin Gong leaned back in the e-sports chair easily.

Just kidding, he was a bladder monster back then, right? These young people are still in trouble.

Lin Ran rubbed his sore wrists and turned around to face the center of the training room.

Hanyi and the analyst were projecting the live broadcast of the semifinals on the computer onto the big screen in the training room. Brother Hao went to call up several children from the second team who were willing to watch the game together.

Because the BO5 training match took too long, the BP of the first game had already ended when everyone in YM watched the live broadcast, and the first game of the semi-finals had just been loaded into the Summoner's Rift interface.

Lin Ran took a look at the lineups of both sides.

Blue square EDG: captain, spider, card, ice, Tahm.

Red square RNG: Ike, Barrel, Ice Girl, Policewoman, Bron.

"What did the RNG choose?" Lin Ran couldn't understand the situation, "Did all the captain cards, Ice, get released?"

"EDG's lineup is very similar to the one we played in WE." JKL came back looking comfortable after draining the water. He ran back and lay on the chair, with his legs stretched out on the armrest in a very inelegant manner, in a posture to hold a cup.

"This is the answer to the version, right? Where is RNG across the Renaissance?"

Xiaotian's originally slender eyes narrowed. If you didn't look carefully, you would have thought that he was closing his eyes to rest.

"Brother Han Yi, please turn off the commentary sound. It's so noisy and it doesn't get to the key points. It's really killing me."

The commentators for this game were Su Xiaoyan, Guan Zeyuan and Chang Mao, which was indeed a bit problematic.

Needless to say, Hanyi also muted the sound, and the coach couldn't stand it.

Lin Ran crossed his arms. He couldn't understand the idea of ​​​​RNG. They no longer use the female police system after the update to version 6.15. The last time it was used was to play RNG in the second round.

The first blood tower has joined the battle, and the early damage reduction of the first tower in the bottom lane has also been cut off. In theory, the defense tower in the bottom lane will be more fragile. At first glance, it seems that heroes like the policewoman are more likely to get into the rhythm of pushing towers.

But this is not the case.

The rise of top laners like Shen proves that the main battlefield in the early game is gradually shifting downwards, and the midfielder and jungler regard the bottom lane as their own home, and they come here for a spin if they have nothing to do.

The female police officer does have an advantage in terms of early lane push consumption, but what about small-scale team battles?

Not to mention T1-level Ice and Jhin, even the previous sewer Verus was stronger than the policewoman.

As long as they win a wave of small-scale team battles, the winning side can easily demolish the bottom defense tower without damage reduction.

In other words, as long as she loses a wave of team battles, the health advantage of the defense tower accumulated by the female police officer in the early stage will be lost.

Once the female police hero is pushed down a tower first, she will become invisible in the mid-term and start messing around, making it difficult to help the team.

So YM gave up on the policewoman, and heroes like Ice, Jhin, and Verus were their first-tier choices for the AD position.

There is a big problem with RNG's thinking now.

Moreover, they also selected three APs in the middle and jungle. If the policewoman is killed in the early stage, then in the mid-term EDG front row will have a magic resistance equipment, and RNG will not be able to impress anyone at all.

A small decision by EDG in the early stage caused RNG to instantly stop its rhythm.

The two EDG bottom laners rushed to the line early and started to push forward. Uzi and Mata were a step slower, and were snatched to the second level by the opponent, and the army line also pressed in.

Meiko was very clever and inserted an ornament eye into the RNG blue buff, and took out the picture of MLXG who was eating blue.

It is very hurtful for the jungler to be exposed in the early stage, and MLXG has not yet realized the seriousness of the problem.

"Be careful when you go down the lane. Don't push the lane so deep. Meiko's vision is worthless." Hanyi and the analyst reminded the players while recording in their notebooks, "The looper wave is going to be gone." .”

Lin Ran nodded and agreed with Han Yi's point of view.

Zhuo Ding on the side asked nonchalantly, "Um... why is there no looper?"

"Pay attention to the factory director's equipment. He starts with amulet + one red. He bought a real eye with the extra money." Lin Ran pointed to Zhuo Ding. "Meiko inserted the spicy hot pot position. The factory director said this What will you do when the time comes?"

Zhuo Ding looked at the factory director who was eating the red BUFF in the lower half of the area, and said without much hesitation, "I will definitely go fight with the wine barrel of Mala Xiang Guo. The third-level spider does not attack the wine barrel casually, but pushes it in the bottom lane. We can support you first regardless of the online status.”

"Wrong, wrong, wrong!" Lin Ran laughed out loud, "You still don't understand how powerful Zhuge Mingkai is. Brother Hanyi, please pause."

Hanyi clicked the mouse to pause the screen. In his opinion, the looper was dead anyway, and no nutritious information would appear in the next two minutes.

"Put yourself in my shoes. Now you are the factory director."

Lin Ran doesn't mind imparting knowledge on the field to the younger brothers around him.

"I can invade the wild area, but what can I do? If I'm going to die, I'll just let Mala Xiang Guo Jiao flash out."

"What if you take advantage of this period to control the river crabs on the top lane, and then insert the real eye in the upper half to ensure the vision?" Lin Ran said, "Look at the wave of troops pushed by the top looper, he must push this wave line, otherwise he will be stuck by the captain and he will not have to play for the next 3 minutes."

"EDG will definitely not let the looper push away the troops so easily. As long as the real eye is sure that the wine barrel is not in the upper half of the wild area and the card is drawn, the looper will die in this wave and will not survive."

"Then I, the spider, will grab another wave of bot lane, and it will not be a loss if I use the summoner skill, so that the RNG policewoman will not dare to blindly push the lane."

"The upper and lower branches are blooming at the same time, and MLXG will be like a headless fly in the early stage, unable to take care of it." Lin Ran said with a dry mouth, "Jack opened the refrigerator and brought me a bottle to drink."

He looked at the iced Coke that Jack threw over, hesitated for a moment, and still refused the momentary feeling of pleasure.

"Just get me a bottle of water, no Coke."

Zhuo Ding glanced at the OB screen at this time, and as a young genius, he immediately reacted.

"Ah..." His face showed the original expression.

Han Yi clicked the play button. Lin Ran had just wasted nearly a minute. As soon as the live broadcast screen came on, he saw that the factory director's spider had finished eating the river crab.

Then he inserted the real eye in his bag into the F4 grass of RNG, which was the only way for the wine barrel to come to the jungle area. This eye locked the location of the wine barrel - the F4 of the Demon Swamp Frog or EDG.

Then the director rushed to the middle and used W [self-destructing spider], forcing the little tiger ice girl's E skill.

This wave seems to be to capture the ice girl, but in fact it is to help Scout's card push the line.

After pushing down the line, the factory director went back to F4 and drove away the MLXG that invaded the jungle. Scout pushed down the middle lane and went straight to the top lane with the advantage of his vision.

Mouse, who is known as the light of the top lane, is exchanging blood with looper's Ike. Looper wants to push the lane quickly, while Aguang wants to keep someone.

As a result, before the looper wave of soldiers had time to advance, the junior boy's card came around from the triangular grass behind.

A yellow card + universal card plus basic attack to play Thunder, directly take the kill.

More importantly, the troop line is still stuck in front of the tower by the captain, and the looper must be handed over to TP for processing.

The factory director's follow-up action was just as Lin Ran expected. After eating F4, he went to the bottom lane to circle around and gank.

The little tiger Lissandra was forced to hand over the TP. Meiko quickly took her good friend deft into her mouth and retreated decisively. The ice girl could only cancel the TP.

"Did you see it? This is a murder caused by a ward position," Lin Ran guessed all this correctly, but his face was expressionless, "RNG's double TP did nothing in the early stage and could not open up the situation, then EDG will definitely not If you give me a chance, the game will be over in the middle of the set.”

"Wow..." Zhuo Ding, who was just playing a small game in an Internet cafe, had never seen such a professional spoiler-style operation before. He looked at Lin Ran with eyes that were almost like stars.

"Brother Ran has such a strong view of the overall situation." He seemed to be Lin Ran's fanboy.

"Basic operations, basic operations." Lin Ran waved his hand indifferently.

The looper whose TP reached the line dealt with the wave of soldiers in time, but was still suppressed by Aguang's captain by 10 knives. RNG lost two TPs in just over 4 minutes, and the early rhythm was completely interrupted.

Without double TP, RNG can only continue to develop, but EDG's early offense is not over yet.

When Tahm reaches 6, he takes the factory director's spider and activates R [Abyss Submarine] to circle back. The deft ice magic crystal arrow hits Braum. The captain's R [Cannon Barrage] is sprinkled down, and the card is also opened to fly. Next to Uzi.

At this moment, EDG gathered four people in the bottom lane, and with the captain's ultimate move, Uzi could not escape and died in the bottom lane together with Mata.

The scout line was not very good and they had to go back to make up for it. EDG wiped out half of the health of the bottom tower, and at 12 minutes, they gathered the strength of four people to attack the bottom lane again.

Mata helped block the arrow and died tragically again. Uzi could only retreat and give up one tower to EDG.

"This is similar to our style of play, which is to grab the bottom lane like crazy and snowball." JKL scratched his head and said.

"RNG is gone," Lin Ran said, "This policewoman will start her scraping performance soon."

Han Yi and the analyst beside him still meticulously recorded every eye position of both parties.

The game was fixed at 31 minutes. Looper tried his best to support but it was ineffective. Badger, who was wearing tactical goggles, also failed to stand up and lead his teammates to win the game.

In the BP session of the second set, EDG released Ember on the red side, but RNG didn't grab it. Lin Ran realized that something was wrong.

Is RNG’s priority for Jhin too low?

Entering the game, the factory director used a wave of smart red, F4, and the three wolves' speed three to beat Xiaohu by a time difference. He successfully captured and killed Bejihu and also dragged MLXG into the water.

When Lin Ran saw this scene, he was sure that their opponent on the 26th was EDG. Hanyi and the analysts didn't even consider RNG's field of vision, and just recorded EDG's rhythm points and timing in their notebooks.

The old-fashioned BP idea and outdated tactical style made RNG completely passive in this semi-final. The director completely disrupted the rhythm of MLXG like "a small pass is not a failure".

It is worth mentioning that in the third game, deft also selected Verus, a sewer hero before the semi-finals, to fight against Ice. This made Lin Ran even more confident that EDG had the same understanding of this version as they did.

It was also 3-0, EDG easily defeated RNG without any bloodshed.

Lin Ran was looking forward to the finals a week later.

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