ctnovel Chapter 7: Your college entrance exam essay will be the pinnacle of your writing career.
Chapter 7: Your college entrance exam essay will be the pinnacle of your writing career.
"Am I now using my left hand and my right hand?"
Upon seeing this talent attribute, Lu Chen's first thought was this, and he couldn't help but shake his head and burst into laughter.
At this point, both Zuo Shou and You Shou were still struggling. No one knew why, even though neither of them were bad, they just couldn't win the championship.
Making it to the semi-finals is considered a success, and people will talk about it for a lifetime.
There was another player who had been touted as Faker's successor since his debut, but he only made it to the quarterfinals or the semifinals.
"Great, I've gotten stronger again, and I'm one step closer to becoming number one on the Korean server. I'll try to reach number one on the Korean server within a week."
Lu Chen temporarily suppressed the distracting thoughts in his mind and began to rapidly type on the keyboard.
The protagonist of the novel, Lin Tianran, has already improved his strength considerably, and now he needs to consider which team to join.
When it comes to League of Legends novels, there's a certain importance to which team you join.
The first principle is not to join a team that no one likes, and not to be teammates with players that many readers dislike. Of course, the author's subjective intentions also play a role here.
For example, Lu Chen doesn't like being teammates with Uzi. Xiao Hu was also a genius mid laner when he first debuted, and he didn't play the 4-protect-1 strategy.
Back then, Xiaohu still had the ambition to be the center (C), and he even won the championship when he was teammates with Wuxin in the first half of this year.
As a result, Uzi's arrival led to a trend of 4-protect-1, and Xiaohu also showed signs of slowly becoming the dominant force.
Lu Chen still vividly remembers the 2200-powered Terror Dartman and the 5500-powered late-game Angel from the S9 era.
Generally speaking, when authors arrange the main character's team, aside from these and subjective factors, it depends on the author's own preferences.
In any era, you can't find a team with an excellent reputation.
Lu Chen wasn't a fan of any particular team; he usually assigned the protagonist to a team based on whether that team was strong enough to win the championship.
That's right, just looking at their strength on paper.
If the characters aren't strong enough on paper, then the protagonist would be nothing more than a blob if he went there.
Lu Chen wrote this book at the end of Season 4. The "Dead Sister" who pretended to be the older sister and tricked WE's former support IF into an online romance, along with Clearlove, went all out and joined EDG at Peter Zhu's invitation.
At this point, EDG was doing alright, except for being subjected to a barrage of criticism from 60E (a derogatory term for EDG players).
During this period, there were really not many teams with strong theoretical strength.
One example is EDG. According to the timeline, they will introduce Pawn and Deft in S5, which happens to be the top lane meta.
Top laners this season are insane; their items are cheap and they're overpowered. Top lane Darius, Fiora, and Trundle are all pure stats.
There were a few other teams worth watching, but Lu Chen didn't consider them, such as LGD, the first LPL team to reach the top 16 in the World Championship as the number one seed.
The Tang Sect mid-laner, the Lan Dun Widowmaker, plus the entire club being associated with betting rumors.
Another one is IG, which replaced Zz1tai, but the jungler Kid and the support Sun Yalong are practically from two different teams.
One player couldn't farm jungle camps properly, while the other kept missing their ultimate while playing Sona.
There's also OMG, but the great S5 is on this team, not to mention Lingyao and Gogoing. The whole OMG is in chaos because of management and women's issues, and even 59E can't stand it anymore.
Moreover, OMG is known as the first team in the LPL to have a contract.
"Let's go with EDG."
Lu Chen made his decision. With S5 replacing Tong Yang and adding Clearlove, Pawn, Deft, and Meiko, the team was already at the level to win the championship on paper.
Back in the first MSI World Championship in S5, EDG defeated SKT to win the championship, leading countless LPL viewers to believe that the dark ages were over.
Especially with LGD's rise in the Summer Split, the slogan "The most promising year" has been used throughout the entire LPL since then.
Who would have thought that in the end, both teams would end up with huge problems?
EDG lost 0-4 to FNC. The number one seed, Brand, was defeated by Mordekaiser. World champion Imp was killed by Mordekaiser's three hits.
Just reliving that scene in his mind made Lu Chen want to laugh.
"Okay, let's start!"
Lu Chen's hands flew across the keyboard. The main character had already made a name for himself in Ionia, and his live streams were also going very well because of his Royal Club account.
In the S5 era, there was a famous ID in the Chinese server that many viewers couldn't ignore.
That's Dopa.
Although many people in later generations said he was just bragging, at that time, the top three accounts in the Chinese server were all Dopa.
At least at this point, many LPL viewers thought he was very strong.
The protagonist, Lin Tianran, also encountered DoPa playing top lane during a live stream.
As for the reason, it's that when you enter the ranking interface, someone comes to take revenge on society.
Type directly in the public chat: "Third floor mid-laner, or I'll feed."
Even if Dopa's name is mentioned, no one will give up their spot. So, he has no choice but to use Darius to face off against the protagonist Lin Tianran's Riven.
As for what happens to the ghost next, it's hard to guess.
As expected, the protagonist Lin Tianran naturally pulled off a series of amazing plays, executing a lightning-fast QA combo followed by an EA flash WRQ to take down the enemy general amidst the enemy ranks, instantly carrying the entire team and causing a stir in the live stream. Countless viewers in the live stream began to praise the protagonist Lin Tianran.
Of course, because the protagonist was resented by the royal faction, there were also many sour voices among them.
For example, they might say things like, "You only beat Dopa once, so if you're so capable, come to the mid lane and challenge Dopa."
This kind of plot is also an essential element of League of Legends novels, namely, what Lu Chen considers a reasonable questioning.
Mindless questioning can negatively impact the viewing experience, but questioning based on the protagonist's current status, identity, and strength, followed by a satisfying reversal of their initial doubts, directly elevates the reader to a climax.
The protagonist also triggered the system's reward again, and in a ranked game, he used Riven to completely dominate Dopa.
With a slight movement, he reached the limit of the base competition area. The system recognized the protagonist Lin Tianran's Riven as the world's number one Riven, directly maxing out his Riven proficiency, and further enhancing the protagonist's strength with reward attributes and talents.
The protagonist then started climbing the ranks on the Chinese server while explaining some tips and tricks for playing Riven, essentially becoming Miss A Yi in disguise.
"As we all know, Riven's W and R skills both have cast times, which should be known to players who have played Riven. However, Riven has a very important mechanic, which is the principle of being late to the game."
"What is the 'last-cast principle'? It means that after Riven casts her W or R skill, the skill she casts afterward will have no cast time and will be instant."
"For example, with WR, if you cast W first and then R, Riven's ultimate will not have a cast time. Similarly, with RW, if you cast the ultimate first and then W, the W skill will not have a cast time."
"Then there are some deeper tricks, such as EW. With Riven, you need to wait 0.1 seconds after casting E, which means you can insert an auto-attack and then immediately cast W. This will interrupt the W's cast time, but the control and damage of W will still be dealt."
"This creates Riven's two strongest combos: EAWRQ (lightning-fast QA) or EARWQ. The former is faster, catching the opponent off guard, while the latter allows her W to benefit from the attack damage bonus from her R, resulting in even higher damage..."
Having written this far, Lu Chen realized that he had already met his daily requirement of writing 1 words, so he immediately stopped writing.
Explaining Riven's mechanics clearly at the end of Season 4 was undoubtedly a lesson for many newbies. You should know that even in Season 15, many people still didn't know what Riven's mechanics were.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that fewer and fewer people are playing Riven. However, the fact that the protagonist, Lin Tianran, showed off his skills in the live stream was enough to cause a stir.
"That's all for today's B-word!" Lu Chen immediately closed the writer's assistant. Looking at the random attribute points he received as a reward for completing the daily requirement of 10,000 words, his reaction speed increased from 74 to 75.
Putting everything else aside, Lu Chen felt that he had become a little stronger again.
Enough said, let's go conquer the Korean server again!
With the hero Rogue as his signature hero, plus the "Left and Right King" talent, Lu Chen felt confident that he could significantly improve his ranking this time, at least reaching the top ten in the Korean server.
Once you reach this level, finding a job won't be so difficult.
But just as he was fighting in the Korean server, his book's comment section was flooded with messages from a reader.
"Stop writing your mother's name! If you write that again, I'll have someone deal with you!"
"Stop writing. Your college entrance exam essay is the pinnacle of your writing career."
"Have you even played Riven? And you're talking about the 'last principle'? This is nonsense, pure conjecture!"
"Can you show me your rank? You're either Silver or Bronze, it seems like anyone can write a novel now."
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