owlsbooks Chapter 82: LPL Practice Team!
Chapter 82: LPL Practice Team!
Top laner Kingen has been performing exceptionally well lately.
He can indeed be considered the tactical core of the DRX team.
In the semifinals against Samsung, with jungler P performing poorly, Kingen delivered a flawless performance, crushing Samsung's top half and leading his team to victory.
His opponent, Samsung's top laner Doran, was practically reduced to a background character.
Not only was he repeatedly solo-killed by Kingen, but he was also completely dominated in team fights.
Netizens jokingly call Dolan Kingen's most loyal son.
The key point is that during the league season, Dolan was very consistent, neither scoring nor giving away points, while Kingen was somewhat of a liability.
When DRX made it to the gauntlet, it was mostly thanks to the performance of their bot lane duo.
DeFord and BeryL single-handedly carried the team into the World Championship.
At the time, everyone thought it was a miracle.
Everyone thought DRX would at best reach the quarterfinals, or even fail to advance from the group stage.
Surprisingly, both top laner Kingen and mid laner Zeka are improving.
Kingen, in particular, has withstood the attacks of many top-tier top laners and grown into the strongest carry.
No wonder the Top Esports coaching staff asked Lin Jin to study Kingen; they had no choice but to.
If Kingen gets a chance to shine during a match, it could be very dangerous.
Tonight, Lin Jin started playing ranked matches on his smurf account and played with his teammates until three or four in the morning before going to rest.
After getting up at noon, I followed the team to the filming location.
The DRX team members arrived shortly afterward.
The two teams greeted each other amicably and, with the help of the photographer, completed a series of "difficult" shooting actions.
Jinzhou in November was quite cold, and Lin Jin was shivering. After finally finishing the filming, the team leader threw a few more sheets of paper at him.
The above is a suggested "script". I'll try to record some trash talk for the final tomorrow when I have some free time.
Now that we've made it to the finals, trash-talking is still very necessary.
Increasing popularity also increases competitiveness.
However, the trash talk was quite targeted, and everyone felt a bit embarrassed after reading it, feeling awkward about saying it aloud.
In the training room, Guo Hao said with a smile:
"What's the big deal? You're afraid to say it?"
"If you ask me, just read it as is, why worry about all the other nonsense?"
"As sharp as you want it to be."
Everyone was left speechless, both amused and exasperated.
The next day, Riot's photographers came to the temporary base to record trash talk for everyone.
During recording, the two teams of contestants are not together, but they will be edited together in the final cut.
After finally finishing the recording, Lin Jin sighed with relief, saying that he finally had a chance to properly play training matches.
With all the other World Championship participants eliminated and only Top Esports and DRX remaining, they have no one to scrim with even if they want to.
I can only train alone, but it doesn't have the same effect as training matches.
So, Guo Hao, with a long face, went to his domestic sister clubs to beg them to lend him some of their best players to form a temporary sparring team to help Top Esports practice.
Of course, it wasn't for nothing; Guo Hao promised financial compensation.
Initially, this suggestion received little response.
But Tencent Sports has spoken up and will form a sparring team.
Each club must provide at least one player, for each position.
So they temporarily formed a sparring team, including JD.com toothpaste, 369, Ale from Li-Ning, Lvmao, and jiejie from EDG, who had already been eliminated.
There are also RNG's Xiaohu, Breath, OMG's Xiao Nai Rou and Shan Ji, who didn't participate in the World Championship.
This formed two teams, who then played a training match against Top Esports.
Tonight is the first game.
Upon entering the battle room, Lin Jin typed:
"Thanks, brothers, for giving up your vacation time to train with us. Thank you."
Jack Spicy Dance also said, "Brothers, you've worked hard."
369: "You guys have to win the championship! Go go go!"
The toothpaste said, "Don't cry if I torture you."
Green Hair typed: "We're here specifically to find fault with you."
Gao Tianliang: "Okay, come on, come on."
In a harmonious atmosphere, the two sides began their training match.
Lin Jin's opponent was 369, and the pressure in the online game wasn't that great, not as much as the pressure from Kingen.
However, 369's strength in team fights and support is indeed much weaker in lane.
However, Lin Jin also focused on practicing team fights and support in this game, and mostly played tank heroes.
During 369's year with JD Gaming, the coach wanted him to transition from a carry top laner to a tank top laner, but he was essentially a prodigy who played champions like Jax, Renekton, and Fiora.
In the recent scrimmages against Top Esports, he still used carry heroes, and his playstyle remained unchanged. He lacked offensive power in lane, but became much more aggressive in team fights.
He repeatedly killed Jack in team battles.
Jack's Hot Dance: "Wow, 69, you're awesome!"
369: "Did you miss me?"
Gao Tianliang said, "Nar has finally started playing."
369: "Damn!"
Lin Jin: "Hey Ka-ge, you guys are famous now."
Everyone: "..."
We played a total of five practice matches today, and Top Esports won four of them.
It achieved a very good training effect.
After the match, Jack, Lin Jin, and the others thanked the sparring team once again.
And knowing that it was already past midnight in China, it was really rare for them to still be practicing with them so late.
Guo Hao thanked them again.
After the training match, Coach Fang reviewed the previous content and talked until after 4 a.m.
When it was over, Lin Jin stood up, stretched, got a cup of hot water, and looked out the window.
It was a little past four in Jinzhou, and the sun had not yet risen.
He thought to himself jokingly, then smiled to himself.
The simple and unpretentious training session came to an end.
After waking up in the morning and having a quick breakfast, I continued training.
They play ranked matches in the afternoon and practice matches in the evening.
During ranked matches, I also practiced heroes constantly according to the coaching staff's requirements to maintain my feel for the game and improve my proficiency.
Furthermore, the coaching staff gave them a task: to master all the heroes used by their DRX team's opponents in their matches.
You must be highly proficient.
So, Jack started practicing Caitlyn like crazy, Gao Tianliang practiced Maokai and Kindred, Zuo Shou added Tsar and Akali to his practice, and Mark temporarily added Heimerdinger and Ashe to his practice.
The coaching staff didn't make any demands on Lin Jin, knowing he could play any hero, which shows they trusted him quite a bit.
On the third day after arriving in Jinzhou, the first mobilization meeting was held.
At first, Guo Hao held up his phone and said with a smile:
"I just spoke with headquarters, and they were very pleased and praised everyone."
"It was precisely because of our perfect performance in the semifinals, where we swept T1, that the stock price of our parent company soared!"
"Sales across all channels have increased significantly in the past few days!"
"This is all thanks to everyone!"
"Therefore, the commendation from headquarters has arrived!"