Dean, stop being C, your teammates are not worthy!

Chapter 226 - Champion skin, officially released!

"How about... really playing top?"

Abu and Feng Ge looked at each other and both had a new idea.

Obviously, Yuan Shen, a top-jungle swingman, is the best choice to play top.

Zhanzhang and Xiangguo, two junglers with different styles, they both want to bring them.

When facing a herbivorous jungler, let Zhanzhang control the map, and when facing a jungler like Xiaohuasheng, let Xiangguo go and rush.

Perfect...

The first game against SKT at MSI is enough to prove that Yuan Shen's current top strength is not weaker than that of a super first-line top.

The training selection is still going on.

From time to time, staff members will reveal the progress of the selection on Weibo.

For example, XXX beat XX, and XX was invincible in the training match, which aroused the curiosity and questions of many people in the e-sports circle.

But soon, the list of the North American representative team was also released.

Top laner - Impact, Darshan

Mid laner - Bjersen, Huhi

Bottom lane - Doublelift, Stixxay

Support - Olleh, Aphronmoo

As for the jungler position, it is everyone's old acquaintance.

S5 world champion, Yuan Shen's good friend, IG's adoptive father, and the owner of the champion spider skin.

Kakao.

Like Impact, after North America gave him a considerable reward, Kakao chose to naturalize.

This money plus the income from the champion skin is enough for him to support his younger brothers and sisters until they graduate from college.

For Koreans, naturalization in North America is not something difficult to accept.

It can also be regarded as returning to one's roots.

The second jungler choice is CLG's Xmithie.

This lineup can be called a luxurious North American All-Star.

The lineup selection in North America also caused a lot of discussion among netizens.

"Fuck, Mr. Oak, the guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, is actually naturalized."

"Kakao, are we going to meet him again?"

"The Americans are really willful. They are originally an immigrant country, and they all naturalize."

"Let's not talk about Big Brother and Bjergsen. They are old acquaintances, the first-generation top laner of SKT, the jungler of the S5 champion, and everyone in the CLG team is also familiar with them. But who is this Olleh?"

"Currently the support with the strongest laning ability in North America, and also the exclusive support of Doublelift, the two have a high degree of tacit understanding."

In addition to discussing, everyone also began to urge their own team's lineup list to be finalized quickly.

Time waits for no one. Others have started running-in training, and they can't fall behind too much.

The second thing is what the players have been waiting for for a long time.

IG's championship skin will be on sale soon!

Generally speaking, the championship skin will be sold around April and May of the second year, which is just before MSI.

But this year it was a little slower.

The reason is that Riot has put more sincerity into this skin, and they want to make it the best.

It's not because of conscience, but because they want to make more money.

The player base of LPL is really too big.

The market size of China, if you ask a financial analyst to evaluate it, you can guess how popular this champion skin will be.

It's a very remarkable income for ten people to buy one set.

You know, this is the first set of champion skins in LPL, and it is also the most famous and fan-filled IG champion skin.

In terms of the total amount of recharge, domestic players are not as rich as North American players, and they don't spend as much money as they do, but LPL can't lose on this skin.

From S2 to now, players are too looking forward to this world championship.

Each set of champion skins has a main color.

It is closely related to the team uniforms.

For example, the white of Samsung White and the red of SKT.

And this time, the main color of the champion skin made by Riot for IG should be black, because both the Black Dragon champion jersey and the IG uniforms are black.

Last year, all the IG teams except IG were black.

But the final result is the same blue and white porcelain as the expedition uniforms!

Blue and white!

Blue and white series!

The blue and white style is a special mark of China, just like the ink painting style.

Yuan Shen's champion skin was finally chosen as Fiora.

The hero's original painting has been released on the Internet.

The blue cheongsam is matched with a white skin that glows, red hair and white face, but the war blade in his hand is also made of porcelain. It looks a bit bulky, but it has a full sense of fighting.

When the big move is used to break the flaw, there will be a crisp sound of porcelain breaking.

The model is also very delicate, without the jagged effect of some inferior skins.

The special effects are also very sincere. The usual Fiora is very normal, but after the big move, the special effects are all turned on.

IG's skin set is very well made.

Fiora, Spider, LeBron, Draven, Thresh.

Originally, it was very entangled to shoot Coco. Shen and Thresh both have champion skins, and Mata in S4 is the champion FMVP.

Choosing the same skin as him will inevitably be compared.

As for his strength, let alone compared with Mata, he is not even in the top eight compared with the supports of other teams in S5...

Many people say that he does not have the strength to be a champion, but in fact, they really overestimate him.

He does not even have the strength to be in the top eight.

If it weren't for Rookie, it would be a bit of a stretch to enter the World Championship.

In LPL, Shekeke is the kind of support who counts from the back to the front.

But Wu Suowei, he has a skin!

What do you have?

After the Riot designer said that the first set of LPL champion skins can be chosen from any hero, Shekeke confirmed his choice.

However, the blue-white series Thresh and Mata's white series Thresh are too similar, and there is not much difference in appearance.

One SSW and one IG, they look similar.

And the most different thing about this set of skins is that it also comes with a ward skin.

It looks like Principal Wang.

This makes the LPL audience very happy.

They have already thought about buying a set.

Now there is an extra ward skin, it's worth it!

99 one, a set of five champion skins, with a ward skin, if you buy a set, you can get 18% off, and the final price is 439.7 yuan!

As soon as the champion skin was launched, it was sold like crazy in LPL.

The pricing of this skin is also very particular.

The previous champion skins were 79.

But IG's champion skins are 99, which is more expensive than any previous champion skins!

But that's not all.

The 99 set is just a skin without a signature.

If you want to buy a signed skin, you have to spend 129!

A set costs 568 yuan!

In addition to the eye position skin, a set of player signed avatars is also included.

I don't know how many players are scolding Tengda for making money with such an operation.

But after seeing the special effects and player signatures, they can't resist the word "really good".

Of course, skins at this price are nothing to Yuan Shen.

The most basic model of Faker's Hall of Fame skin costs 128, and the advanced model costs 3,000 yuan.

But now it seems that it is still a bit difficult for Faker to enter the Hall of Fame.

What is the value of only an ancient champion from S3?

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After the champion skin was released, all major discussion groups, forums, and Moments were full of jokes.

"Here, can you lend me 568 yuan? I really want to go home, I miss my mom, the fare is 560 yuan, and there is 8 yuan left for instant noodles. I don't play League of Legends, I don't know IG, and I don't know what IG champion skin is. Please, thank you kind people."

"Hello, I am Qin Shihuang, I took the elixir of immortality and didn't die. Now there are hundreds of millions of troops sealed in the underground imperial mausoleum, and tens of thousands of tons of gold buried underground cannot be excavated. I need your help, 568 yuan, and when I succeed in restoring the throne, I will give you ten thousand taels of gold, the generalissimo, and here is my Alipay 535816579."

"I, Sun Wukong, send money!"

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IG champion skin sales directly rushed to the top of Weibo hot search.

This is the first time.

This also proves from the side how hot the champion skin sales are.

Those who have a little bit of connections have heard an astronomical figure from Tengda Operations.

It's just that I heard that the boss Pei Qian smashed the bottles in the office and didn't seem very happy.

Probably still not satisfied.

I really, cried to death.

It's clearly said to lose money but always want to make more, how can this not move people.

Tengda's welfare is second to none in the country and even the world. When this news came out, many Tengda employees felt ashamed and began to work overtime to share the worries of the boss.

We are professional at being cattle and horses.

As long as the money is in place, everything will be wasted!

IG's champion skin, the first champion skin of LPL, is undoubtedly selling like crazy.

According to statistics, the profit of selling an Apple phone in China is two hundred dollars.

And what is the cost of selling a skin?

It's data and labor costs.

These are not considered costs, the selling price is the profit.

Each set makes 600, 10 people make 6,000, 100 people make 60,000...

And the sales volume of the national server broke through 100,000 on the first day, and the sales volume was 60 million, and it is still being sold at an astonishing rate.

Adding the sales volume of major global competition areas, it is undoubtedly an astronomical figure.

And 20% of the money will be distributed to the players.

Of course, not everyone can afford the champion package. The single hero with the highest sales volume is still Fiora's champion skin.

In the casual game, you can often see a five-man team with a champion skin lineup. Don't worry about whether you can win, it's blue and white porcelain!

It's all about being handsome.

Many players who can't afford the skins are jealous to the point of madness, and choose to ban heroes like Fiora and Leblanc every time.

If I can't play, you can't play either!

All beings are equal!

Just when the champion skin sales were in full swing, another piece of news attracted the attention of the players.

The training selection has entered the end, and the list of the representative team has come out!

The first sentence of the official slogan is very attractive.

"Top players, your emperor is back!"

Top: Yuanshen, Flandre.

Jungle: MLXG, ClearLove.

Mid: GODV, Xiye.

Bottom: JackeyLove, Uzi.

Support: Meiko, Ming.

In the ten-man roster, IG and EDG account for three, RNG accounts for two, and WE and LGD account for one each.

These four teams are also the results of official consideration.

Although IG and EDG both have three positions, there are still differences.

Of the three members of IG, two are starters and one is a substitute.

Of the three EDG players, two are substitutes.

As soon as this lineup was announced, the Tieba forum exploded.

"Fuck!! I, Yuan Shen, am back on the road again??"

"I think there's nothing wrong with that. Flandre is the only domestic top laner who can do it. The competition for the jungle position is so fierce!"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this lineup, I say this is the strongest all-China class. Who is in favor? Who is against?"

"There's nothing wrong with it. It can only be the strongest all-China class. They are the top players in every position in the LPL. I can't find anyone better than this."

"How do you choose the bottom lane? Uzi can be chosen? Are you not afraid that he will scold Yuan Shen again?"

"How dare he? Now if he scolds me again, I'm afraid he will either be directly expelled from the country or kicked out by RNG."

"Exactly, in one year, times have already changed!"

"Speaking of e-sports strength, I don't know who is bragging about someone like Uzi who has no championship?"

"Can Xiye come in? Why not Xiaohu?"

"No, if Xiye is so handsome, why don't you choose Xiaohu? When did you become blind, Jimei?"

"The female fans upstairs, get out of here, look at the entertainment industry for looks, and the e-sports industry only for strength."

"You don't have good looks but you still want to have strength? Do you think Yuan Shen, Jack RookieTheShy, is not handsome?"

"The posture is not handsome."

"It was a blast."

Netizens are discussing this list a lot, some agree with it, some question the strength of a certain player, and some are selling movies and amplifiers.

This public opinion became more and more popular, and eventually it turned into a discussion among netizens about the strength of all players in the LPL.

One post became extremely popular among the scapegoating community.

The name of the post is "I found that the nicknames of players are closely related to their strength!"

The author of this post listed many nicknames of professional players and found that most of the nicknames of LPL players are actually linked to their performance on the field.

Finally, an LPL player strength system was even divided based on nicknames.

The strength from bottom to top is king, emperor, emperor, brother, man, Jiang, Allah and God.

Representatives of each class are also clearly arranged.

The representatives of the "king" generation are the substitute midfielders introduced by LGD this year, King Funny, and King Eimy. The characteristic of this class is that they are picky.

The characteristic of the "Emperor" generation is that most of the time they are a bastard, but occasionally they have their brightest moments, such as the representative characters Kang Emperor, Hu Ai Emperor, and Jade Emperor.

The characteristics of the "Emperor" generation are actually similar to those of the "Emperor" generation, but they have an additional characteristic. Occasionally, they will die suddenly and get nothing.

The representative figures are Shanghuang, Dinghuang and Xihuang.

If king, emperor, and emperor are derogatory terms, then brother, man, and Jiang are complimentary terms.

The "Brother" generation can only be selected based on their strength, regardless of their qualifications. For example, Brother Leg 957, Brother Ma, Brother Crystal, Brother Holy Spear, and Brother Shy are all considered to be the new generation with outstanding strength.

As for the "male" generation, you can rely on strength or qualifications, and you can be selected if you meet one of them. The representative characters are "rubbish" male Xiye and "die" male posture.

As for the "Jiang" generation, one must have both qualifications and strength.

It just so happened that there were three top players on the representative team.

Bath sauce, factory sauce, Wei sauce.

As for the "Father", "Allah" and "God" levels above this, they are beyond the Jiangzi generation, but there is no unified name.

For example, Pawn Dad, Chicken God, Yuan Shen...

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Professional players also like to visit the Guokanliang Bar when they have nothing to do.

Yuan Shen knows very well that many professional players have small accounts on Tieba, and they often go to blackmail their own posts and interact with netizens who have bad breath.

The idea of ​​"Feng Nan worshiping Jiang" has naturally spread to the circle of professional players.

Even when chatting and bragging in the group, they are now using this nickname.

"Hey, Wei Jiang, remember to put more soy sauce in your meal today!"

Meiko said with a smile.

"Don't be naughty, be careful I slap you!"

Wei Shen said while playing Rank.

"Damn it, where is my F4? Wei Zhen, are you stealing my bird again?"

"Well, it's just a habit. If the jungler is Yuan Shen, I will definitely not eat his chicken. Your chicken is more delicious."

Wei Shen looked embarrassed. He and Xiangguo teamed up more often. It was common to eat three wolves and big birds. Anyway, Xiangguo didn't like farming. He liked military training to gank and catch people to death. It was right to leave the wild monsters alone without farming. It's a waste, why not let him help share it.

"..."

The arrogant atmosphere among his teammates made Yuan Shen feel a little out of place.

Several people are playing a training match, and ten people form a team freely, constantly arranging and combining in order to find the most suitable partner.

The current lineup on the opposite side is Flando, Xiangguo, Xiye, Uzi, and Xiao Ming.

Judging from the strength on paper, it is not much worse than their side.

When we first started playing training matches, the two sides were still fighting back and forth.

But as the number of games increased, Yuan Shen's winning rate increased.

There are two players who like to study their own people. This civil war is impossible to fight!

In addition, the combination of Jack and Meiko is not inferior to Uzi and Xiao Ming. All three lanes are pushing the line and pressing the knife. Mingkai is like a fish in water. Whether it is invading the jungle or catching people, it is very comfortable.

Xiangguo wanted to operate the factory manager, but every time he was halfway through, either Yuan Shen or Wei Shen came to support, and he could not finish it.

In addition, Mingkai has amazing awareness. Once he counter-camped, the opponent's blood exploded, and then there was a big advantage in three lanes, and the line collapsed directly.

There was no operation or tactics at all.

The most exaggerated collapse was that the opponent chose GG surrender in five minutes.

"No more, what's the point of playing this, it's too outrageous, I want to re-assign people!"

Xiangguo was very anxious.

He thought that his strength was not worse than Mingkai, but the collapse of the line had a great impact on him.

"There is still a problem."

Yuan Shen stretched his body.

During this period, he also summed up a lot.

For example, Wei Shen's style tends to brush the jungle, expand his economy, and carry in the late stage.

This does allow him to develop well in the late stage, but it makes Mingkai very uncomfortable in the mid-term.

Jack and Meiko in the bottom lane also need time to get used to each other, and occasionally there will be problems with coordination.

In addition, whether it is the middle lane or the bottom lane, there are too many times to call the jungler, even Mingkai, the famous master of balancing water, cannot take care of all three lanes.

And he likes to catch the middle and bottom lanes, which makes Yuan Shen very uncomfortable.

In the training matches these days, Yuan Shen has not enjoyed the care and resource allocation of the jungler for a long time, and he plays by himself.

Of course, he also won many games by lying down, often before he has exerted his strength, Wei Shen and Jack have already defeated the opponent.

There is another problem, that is, all the advantages and wins and losses of this Chinese representative team are based on the online advantage, and Mingkai's style is also very suitable for playing advantage games, so there is no pressure to win these days.

But what if they encounter a team whose online ability is not inferior to theirs and cannot play an advantage online? What should they do?

In short, after three days of running-in, the two teams changed again.

Yuan Shen, Xiang Guo, Wei Shen, Jack, Xiao Ming

Flando, Zzitai, Xiye, Uzi, Meiko.

Yuan Shen felt much more comfortable after the lineup changed.

Jack and Xiao Ming were his teammates, which was equivalent to only changing the mid and jungle.

The opposing lineup was also EDG's top, jungle and support, with double C replaced.

The combination of Xiye and Uzi was much worse than Pawn and Deft, and was considered a weakened version of EDG.

Yuan Shen's side, although a little weaker than IG, was also extremely limited.

Xiangguo liked the style of ganking and fighting, which was also very suitable for Wei Shen and Yuan Shen.

The coach of this representative team is also the top in the country, and was formed by crowdfunding from major clubs.

EDG's coach Abu served as the head coach, Feng Ge served as the deputy coach, and the data analyst was also an elite drawn from major clubs.

It can be said that they worked together to win the championship of this Olympic exhibition game.

As soon as the transfer period was over, the LPL Summer Games opened.

At this time, a very embarrassing thing happened.

The players selected for the representative team had no time to play LPL games.

Moreover, all these ten people are the pillars of their respective teams.

Especially IG and EDG, three of the five players ran away. Will the game still be played?

Will the game still be played?

There is no way. Regardless of the value of the Olympics, from the symbolic meaning of representing the country, the LPL official must make concessions for him.

The starting list is the core of each major team. Not participating in the competition has a great impact.

It is inevitable that the team's strength will drop a level.

Although IG and EDG have the foundation of the system and will not become relegation teams, they will definitely not be able to maintain the first-class level of the league.

For this reason, the LPL event operation official worked for two consecutive days and nights before the schedule was rescheduled.

The end time of the Olympics is probably in the middle of the summer season.

Therefore, many of the schedules of the first half of the IG, EDG, RNG, LGD, and WE teams have been adjusted to the second half of the summer season.

Although there are games in the first half of the summer season, they are very few, and the opponents are not strong, so the impact on the points is also minimized.

This adjustment is not fair, it is the official sacrifice for these teams to participate in the Olympics.

Moreover, even if this sacrifice is ten times greater, many clubs are willing to do it.

This is an opportunity that only happens once every four years, and it is an opportunity for the club to appear in front of the people of the country. If they don’t go to S6…

Forget it, it’s a bit difficult not to go to the World Championship.

IG and EDG are the two teams that have made the biggest sacrifices.

EDG still has Ai Loli and Mouse as substitutes, and Pawn and Deft are double Cs. It’s okay to play against WE without Xiye, but it’s a bit difficult to play against the newly formed Snake team.

IG’s opponents are LGD, which replaced Funny without Wei Shen, and RNG, which replaced Wuxin without Uzi.

After renting Ning from PDD and promoting Xiao Xiaoguang from the second team to the first team, and cooperating with She Keke to play in the bottom lane, all teams are paying attention to IG’s performance.

In the first half of the summer season, although there were few games, there were still games after all.

Many people are waiting to see the joke of IG, the king's team, and want to see how many consecutive defeats they will suffer.

However, unexpectedly, IG's performance in several games was quite good.

Although the opponent was not strong, the cooperation between IG's top, mid and jungle was unexpectedly strong.

The performance of TheShy, Ning and Rookie completely supported the top half of the IG team.

However, the bottom half was still as bad as before.

It was just that the opponent's top, mid and jungle collapsed faster than Xiao Shiguang and She Keke, so IG's points were still able to stay at the top of Group A.

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