Chapter 50: How Do You Have Such Confidence?

  Backstage lounge.

  Chen Cheng and other team members finished their appearance and then entered the rest room for a break.

  In fact, it's not just them. Apart from the two teams that are about to play in the summer tournament opener, all six other teams have been arranged in the same locker room.

  If it were a month ago, Chen Cheng would have been very excited to see so many famous players and would have eagerly asked for autographs and photos like an ordinary player. But now that he has become a professional player himself, when Chen Cheng looks at these people again, he is no longer looking at idols and goals, everyone's identity is the same, they are all sitting in the same rest room, there is no such thing as you being higher or lower than me, who is whose fan!

  Moreover, the relationship between each team is not as bad and full of gunpowder smell as players imagine. Everyone is a professional player, and it's hard to meet once, so there are absolutely more common topics than you think.

  No sooner had they entered the rest room than Captain Hana Kinnikuman and two other old teammates started chatting enthusiastically with players from other teams, everyone laughing and talking, the whole rest room was on fire!

  However, Chen Cheng, a newcomer who was participating in the LPL league for the first time, did not receive such good treatment. Everyone had their own small circle and topics of conversation were all different, which made it impossible for him to join in at that moment, so he could only sit quietly in his chair with his eyes closed.

  "How is it, Chen Cheng? Is it very exciting to come to the LPL scene for the first time?" After walking around and coming back, Xiaoxing sat down beside Chen Cheng with a plop. As someone who has already participated in one spring season, compared to Chen Cheng, he can be considered an old bird.

  Chen Cheng shook his head: "I'm fine, you should go ask Xi Qian, after all he's the youngest, it's his first time here and he might be having some trouble adapting."

  Chen Cheng's worries are not unreasonable, the youngest ADC player in the LCD team, Xi Qian, is also the most introverted, and usually doesn't communicate with others in the base, let alone now that he has arrived at a completely unfamiliar place.

  I hope it won't affect tomorrow's game!

  "Don't worry about that, Old Leather will take care of it!" Xiaoxing waved his hand and said, his task was to accompany Chen Cheng to chat and relieve boredom. "By the way, tomorrow we'll be competing against the Wang clan, how confident are you?"

  Xiao Xingxing's eyes shone brightly as he stared at Chen Cheng, motionless. He always felt that this new teammate had a special kind of magic, which could bring surprises to the team at any time!

  "How confident are you?" Chen Cheng was taken aback for a moment. Although he had never thought about this question, he still replied quickly: "Fifty percent, what about you?"

  "Five-five? You really think we can go five-five with the current royal family?" Xiaoxing's tone was unusually low. "To be honest, I'm not as optimistic as you, personally I think it would be good if we could get three-seven, while everyone is not around I'll say something in my heart, don't tell anyone I said this - I think tomorrow we will basically lose 2-0, ah, it's not that I'm belittling myself, but the royal family with Saike and Kuang Xiaogou is just too terrifying, if you saw yesterday's two matches between the royal family and YC, you would know why I say this!"

  "I've seen it," said Chen Cheng.

  "Did you see that?" Little Star was shocked. "How can you still be so confident? Don't you realize how strong the royal family is now?"

  "It's really strong." Chen Cheng nodded, he had watched the two matches of Wang Zuan against YC yesterday, which also took place in the 32-to-16 knockout round of the Demacia Cup. Insec had a bloody sweep in both matches, with a total of over 30 kills and assists in both games. Especially in the second game, it was simply brutal, with YC's mid laner GANK, who is also the team's first core player, ending up with a score of 0/5/1 in less than 20 minutes into the match, almost completely crushing their opponents, and even more miserable than Snake team, which they had eliminated a few days ago.

  It's no wonder that Xiaoxingxing lacks confidence, YC team as one of the two new stars in this LPL season, although their strength is somewhat lacking, but it's absolutely not comparable to Snake, a second-rate team that just crawled out of the city league. Even if LCD were to face this team now, at most it would be a 6-4 win, and it's impossible for them to take down the game as easily as Wangzu did!

  "Since you already know, why are you still so confident?" Little Star was extremely puzzled.

  Chen Cheng said: "Because this move is ineffective against me."

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  Just as everyone was having a heated discussion in the rest room, a staff member pushed open the door and said that the opening match was about to start, please go out and watch!

  The contestants immediately stood up and walked towards the audience seats.

  Whether for the sake of giving the host a face or to observe the strength of the two teams, this opening match is a must-see for everyone!

  Inside the venue, with more than 30 professional players taking their seats at the same time, the audience suddenly erupted into cheers and screams.

  Of course, the contestants sit in the guest seats, which are at a certain distance from the audience seats. Otherwise, there would be many enthusiastic fans rushing over to ask for autographs!

  The enthusiasm of e-sports fans is in no way inferior to that of entertainment stars, and some are even more crazy - wasn't the team leader kissed by a crazy female fan just the other day?

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  It's worth mentioning that when the players entered the stage, the opening match had already begun, and the large screen was displaying the BAN picks of both teams.

  Sitting in the guest seat, Chen Cheng can clearly see the live broadcast screen on the big screen. Although it is still the first time to watch the competition live at such a close distance, he has not felt anything unusual. At this moment, his whole mind has already been put on the BAN selection of both sides.

  The two teams that competed in today's opening match were W1 Team and W1A Team, both of which belong to the W1 Club, and can be said to have come from the same school with a deep relationship!

  Infighting among allies, this is a scene that many spectators are delighted to see, and it's also the result of careful planning by the organizers!

  After all, W1 club is the most popular and well-known existence in the current e-sports circle. Compared to other teams, they are far ahead, even ONG team, which has dominated the domestic scene for more than a year, and EDC team, the champion of last season, cannot be compared with it in terms of fan base!

  After all, it is the only domestic team that has won the world championship, and W1 was still worthy of respect in its heyday!

  In comparison, the LCD team was quite pitiful. When Chen Cheng sat down earlier, he deliberately scanned the audience seats and found that among the thousands of spectators in the entire venue, only a handful were holding LCD team signs - to the point where you almost needed a magnifying glass to find them. As for the individual team members, except for team captain Pi Ye's few female fans holding up signs in support, the other team members basically had zero supporters...

  To be honest, Chen Cheng didn't care much about fame, because in his opinion, only winning the game is the most important thing. For professional players, the championship trophy is the greatest recognition, and everything else is just a fleeting cloud!

  Of course, you can also understand that Chen Xiang is sour grapes, but it cannot be denied that Chen Xiang entered the e-sports circle to play professionally, not for fame and popularity. He is truly single-mindedly thinking of achieving results, doing something for China's LOL, which has been suppressed by South Korea's giant mountain!

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  Chen Cheng's heart was focused on watching the live broadcast screen, at this time both sides' BAN picks had already ended!

  Blue team W1A's three BAN positions: Hammerstone, Weapon Master, Cinder.

  Three BAN positions for Purple Side W1: New Hero Brohn, Kassadin, LeBlanc.

  The final lineups for both sides were:

  Top: Wukong + Jungle: Lee Sin + Mid: Anivia + ADC: Tristana + Support: Nami

  Top lane: Angel, Jungle: Blind Monk, Mid lane: Card, AD carry: Obama, Support: Nami!

  From the selection of heroes, it can be said that neither side has gained an advantage. Both teams have chosen very strong heroes in the current version, with no obvious strengths or weaknesses!

  The only relatively surprising thing is that W1A's mid laner actually picked Annie. To be honest, I'm not very optimistic about this pick by Chen Xiang. It can't be denied that Annie is a terrifying hero as a mid lane AP carry, with extremely high burst damage in the early game and a high chance of getting solo kills after level 6 with just one set of skills. Moreover, her auto-attack range is as high as 620 units, second only to Caitlyn's in the entire game, and she has very strong laning sustain ability!

  But also just a flat A, compared to the super long range of flat A, Annie's skill range is short to the point where it's unbearable, this hero can be said to be the only one in the entire game where all skills have a shorter range than flat A, especially the most commonly used W skill, almost having to stick their face to hit the enemy!

  Her short hands were Annie's most fatal weakness!

  If it were just a matter of being short-handed, that would be one thing, but Annie is also a leg-shortened mage with no displacement, which is still okay for assisting in team fights, but using her to solo mid lane is too risky, who can afford to sell on mid lane?

  Even if the hands are short, it's still okay, but even the legs are short and out of proportion. Who dares to use such a mid laner?

  It is precisely because of these two unavoidable shortcomings that Annie has almost disappeared in official competitions.

  "It's not surprising, I heard that W1's mid laner Ye Ye used Annie to crush all the mid laners in LSPL. Annie is his signature hero and one of his most skilled heroes, he plays her really well." Chen Cheng heard the discussion coming from the back row, the voice seemed to be IC team's mid laner Ziyue, a veteran player who was once just one step away from becoming a national server mid lane god.

  It can be seen that the posture is highly evaluated for this newly promoted mid laner.

  It's not just him, Chen Cheng has also heard some rumors about this evening, seemingly a teenage genius, the most impressive mid laner in the last LSPL, known for his fierce playstyle and pursuit of solo kills on the top lane, even being called the number one Anni in the national server. Especially after Palm's retirement, this teenage genius has been expected by many W1 fans to live up to their high hopes, with some brainless fans even directly hyping him as having great potential to surpass his peak state and maybe even rival the top Korean mid laners like the Great Demon King!

  Not to mention whether these remarks are based on facts, personally speaking, Chen is still skeptical of this guy. As a mid laner himself, if he were to face him online, not to say that he can beat him 100%, but just by choosing a hero and relying on kiting and roaming support, he can easily make this Xī Yè turn around in circles!

  In this era where mid laners with long-range abilities and assassins with long legs are flying everywhere, isn't it easy to counter an Annie?

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  PS: I didn't want to respond, but seeing more and more book friends mentioning the problem of the protagonist's personal ability in the review area, it's actually intentional. If the protagonist had top-notch skills from the start, this book would be boring, after all, it's only 100,000 words or so... Except for rebirth stories, every protagonist needs to grow and train to reach the peak. The protagonist was just a passerby before, if he could directly crush veteran professional players as soon as he entered the professional circle, it wouldn't make sense, right? ~~~~~~ In fact, compared to other LOL novels, this book's golden finger is already very overpowered, because it can be used throughout the story, no matter what time. Here, I guarantee that this book will not have a situation where the protagonist is abused. I try my best to write an exciting story while making sure the plot is reasonable and doesn't have obvious flaws. Thank you for your support~~~~~~~ Also, I want to remind everyone that if you think this book is written well, please be sure to collect, click, and vote for recommendations, because these are extremely important for a new book, and will greatly affect the author's confidence. Many books become abandoned because of poor data, it feels like a naked woman standing in front of her man, but he just ignores her and plays games, making her feel cold and ignored. Please help~~~~~