Chapter 896 Version Changes

The opponents in the subsequent training match were players from KT's own second team.

The main reason was that other LCK teams had just returned from vacation and might not have time, while the LPL teams were still on vacation.

Probably because they had just finished the Spring Festival and were still thinking about it, KT actually had a big fight with their younger brother at the beginning, which made Kang Dongxun's head hurt.

Fighting with the opponent with a lineup that had little combat power in the early stage, the five KT brothers were as irritable as if they had taken gunpowder.

The scene seemed to be back and forth.

Although they were the second team, these young players had good basic skills, and most of them were Korean server kings.

And they also had competition experience.

Starting this year, LCK has created a new secondary league, LCKCL, which is the Challenger League.

Each LCK team must build its own second team to participate in the Challenger League, so as to allow its own youth training players of the right age to adapt to the professional arena as early as possible, unlike the previous youth training players who had to wait for opportunities on the bench even when they reached the age.

The second-team players who perform well in the Challenger League can be directly promoted to participate in the LCK events, which gives more incentives to young players.

The second teams of each club are not necessarily all youth players, but also some retired players from the LCK. Their existence allows young players to improve faster.

Although LPL and LDL have similar communication channels, the development of the Korean secondary league is much better than that of LDL, and it is difficult for players to be forced to play fake games.

The Korean e-sports circle, which has a complete professional e-sports system, has such an understanding: the talent pool of the secondary league is the next generation of LCK.

Under the efforts of Riot in Korea, the Korean secondary league is undoubtedly the best-developed League of Legends secondary league in the world.

There is not only a complete English stream commentary lineup and production team here, but also a certain degree of exposure around the world. There are special e-sports media tracking and reporting on the Korean secondary league.

In addition to the secondary league, youth players who are not old enough to play professionally also have special youth competitions, where they can compete with other youth players or amateur players.

Zeus and Oner, who are on T1's 10-man roster this year, were once the best top and jungle players in the youth training competition.

Zeus was praised to the sky before he even played a single LCK game, mainly due to the exposure of Korean youth training.

In this way, Korean League of Legends has actually formed a multi-level competition system.

From the beginning of the youth training, even if the players are not old enough to play, they can participate in amateur competitions. When they are old enough, they can train in more formal competitions and improve themselves step by step.

Although it is not as exaggerated as the Premier League, it is obvious that Korean Riot hopes to train newcomers through more second-level or even third-level competitions.

Although it seems that there are only ten teams in LCK, South Korea's small population can continuously supply talents to other leagues, and their perfect e-sports system is actually indispensable.

In terms of talent alone, how can Korean e-sports geniuses compare with such a large base of players in Chinese e-sports?

The overall strength of KT's second-team players is good, and they can also fight back and forth in the big fight with the big brother of the first team, but the situation is different after the five brothers of KT calm down.

Lin Cheng no longer rushed forward to fight several people with a lot of hard control, and the little death god did not take Mr. Dai to fight, and the situation quickly turned to KT.

The rules began to emerge. The KT second team players who had been fighting back and forth just now found that they seemed to be unable to win after five minutes.

The coaching staff watching the game saw it most clearly.

After KT began to combine operational resources with small-scale support battles, the experience and tactical qualities of KT second team players were obviously insufficient.

As long as KT took the initiative to attack, it would definitely have an advantage in the fight, and the support would definitely be faster than the opponent.

If KT avoided the battle head-on, the other side would definitely be able to plunder resources.

In just a few minutes, KT widened the economic gap, and then the snowball rolled bigger and bigger.

The second team players began to face almost suffocating pressure and quickly collapsed.

In the next two games, KT did not give the younger brothers a chance to fight, and chose to hit hard to knock down their own second team. In the third game, Lin Cheng was too ruthless and killed Chaoshen in ten minutes.

These younger brothers surrendered directly after 15 minutes.

Lin Cheng was still a little unsatisfied. If the players of the second team were not in this base, he would have rushed over to ask them why they surrendered.

You don't want to be killed by me anymore, right?

The changes in version 11.3 are not small. Although the subsequent training matches are one-sided, it is enough for everyone to have a more intuitive understanding of the impact of some changes.

The overall impact of the weakening of Bloodthirst and Bloodthirster is not bad. Some warrior heroes should still be released, but it has a greater impact on the priority of heroes in the jungle position.

Especially Olaf, who is often used by Peanut.

In this version, Olaf's basic life was reduced by 22 points, and the passive growth was also reduced from 0-100% to 0-70%. With the weakening of Bloodthirst and Bloodthirster, it is obvious that Olaf is no longer as high as the previous priority of being banned.

However, it cannot be said that Olaf was kicked out of the game directly. It depends on everyone's understanding in the future.

The T0 jungler Taliyah in the previous version also had a nerf in 11.3. The designers found that this hero cleared the jungle too quickly, so they directly cut the damage of the Q skill to wild monsters.

Another jungler who was weakened is Udyr. The damage range of Phoenix Stance was slightly reduced.

To be honest, before this year, no one would have thought that Udyr, a hero who can't even be found in the sewers, could be weakened. The myth version really brought many heroes back to life.

Of course, Udyr is now strong and disgusting in the arena mainly because of the existence of the turbo alchemy tank. When the turbo alchemy tank is hit, Udyr will almost be gone.

Looking at these changes, KT's analyst team is actually a little confused.

Udyr, Olaf, Taliyah and other heroes have been weakened. Aren't the priorities of the previously popular jungle core heroes such as Nidalee, Graves, and Lillia raised again?

Except that Udyr, who is a very good jungle core hero, has not been weakened significantly, isn't it equivalent to returning to the previous jungle core hero selection?

Where is the promised weakening of the jungle core?

There has been news for a long time that Riot will weaken the jungle core, but it has not found the key point to cut.

The characteristic of jungle core heroes is that they can quickly clear the jungle and can carry the jungler. Many functional and rhythm junglers have completely squeezed out the playing space.

Compared with jungle cores, other junglers have too low a tolerance rate.

After all, jungle core heroes are useful when they focus on clearing the jungler.

It can be said that in the entire S10 last year, except for Lin Cheng's teammate Bono, no non-jungle core jungler played well.

Bono was able to play well because KT was too strong online at that time. Lin Cheng reversed the version and rushed to carry the jungler in the top lane, leaving all opponents helpless.

This year, due to the large changes in equipment, some heroes other than jungle cores have gradually appeared, but the power of jungle core play remains the same, even more than in S10.

After last year, it is obvious that the whole world has to start focusing on Lin Cheng.

It must be much more difficult for KT to play against the version in the world championship again than last year. KT's coaching staff can't say what kind of targeting Lin Cheng will face when he goes to the world championship this year.

However, fortunately, Peanut is better at jungle core than Bono last year.

He is not called Xiao Brush for nothing.

This gives KT more play options. If it is still the jungle core version, at least when Lin Cheng and other online players are targeted, KT can come up with Plan B.