Chapter 550: Global Protest Storm!
At the end of the S6 World Championship, Roit weakened the percentage of Fiora's passive true damage against Xing Dao, and sped up the tempo, allowing the jungle and bottom lane to engage in more intense confrontations, restricting EDG in the overall environment.
This approach is actually reasonable.
All previous championship teams have to go through this.
Look back.
SKT won the S3 World Championship, and the designers severely nerfed Faker's Zed and weakened the Ruined King at the same time.
To this day, even after several enhancements, it is still difficult for Jie to appear in the professional league.
SSG won the S4 World Championship, weakened Lucian, and pushed the overall environment into the tank League era, causing severe damage to Jayce and Rumble, who had shined in the LCK.
There is nothing much to say about the S5 World Championship.
Because it was a deformed version released in a hurry, both Fiora and Noxus had stats that were unreasonable.
Iron Man and Gangplank, who have achieved a 100% winning rate, can be said to be BUG-level existences.
How strong is it exactly?
Let me put it this way.
Pick any team from a mainstream region, even if it's a European or American rookie, as long as they get one of these two heroes, they can beat the LPL champion in the head.
Don't let your imagination run wild, I'm not hinting at LGD here.
It’s roll call!
Although the attributes, equipment, and environment of the heavy warrior have been continuously weakened since then, it is only aimed at strong heroes with super high winning rates in both competitions and ranks, rather than simply targeting championship teams.
The above changes are normal.
It is natural for any competitive game champion to suffer one or two targeted nerfs.
It is impossible to allow a team to continue to become stronger by using a formula-based playing style.
but.
From the S8 preseason to now, Fiora and Shen have been weakened, the appearance of offensive top laners has been restricted again, Irelia's stats have been weakened, AP equipment attributes have been improved, Kassadin and Syndra have been greatly strengthened, and a series of version updates have clearly tended to target EDG.
MSI just ended, and they are going to rework Aatrox and Conqueror...
Come before the game.
Come again after the game.
Isn't this bullying an honest person?!
In public, as the owner of a top LPL club, Ed Zhu must stand up for the division and not allow this kind of targeting to become normalized.
Personally...
TNND!
If EDG is treated like this, won't my investment in getting close to a small goal go down the drain? !
Of course, effective protest is definitely not just about posting a few words on Weibo.
Ed Zhu doesn't think he has that much influence.
Preparation work must be done.
After making the decision, Aide Zhu called the person in charge of Tencent and obtained official approval. He then contacted the online studio to fan the flames in major bulletin boards, forums and media comment sections.
It’s 7pm, prime time.
Adezhu updated his circle of friends with a message: Whatever player plays in the top lane will be nerfed, it's disgusting.
Immediately switch to the secondary account, take screenshots and send them to the studio.
Brush comments and buy hot searches.
In just one hour, a series of topics such as "EDG boss Aide Zhu complains about Roit designer in his circle of friends", "Normal revision or deliberate targeting", "General cuts what he uses", "Is Roit's company surnamed Han?" all made it onto the popularity list.
And it’s not just domestic.
Foreign Twitter, Facebook, live streaming platforms, and even a website with black and yellow letters starting with P have all started discussing this matter.
Let's stick to the facts.
The MSI champion team was weakened, just like the S-League champion was weakened. It is a normal behavior and not unusual.
But the bad thing is that Riot wanted to buff the European and American regions, so he improved the attributes of most AP equipment before MSI, and strengthened Syndra and Kassadin, who were the most difficult for EDG to deal with.
So much so that EDG used its regular lineup to play against FNC and KZ, and had to bear these two ban positions almost the entire time.
There is only one free spot left in the top three classes.
That's it.
Don’t look at the teams that play against EDG. The first three bans are often given to the fixed heroes in the top lane, and in extreme games, the fifth ban will be given to the top laner.
But that was a ban position achieved by EDG based on its own strength, the concept is completely different.
It's like in a boxing match, the one who is being hit can only defend, and the one who is restricted by the rules can only defend.
The former is impeccable.
The latter can only say that this rule is stupid!
"The designer is a Korean guy? LCK won the championship for three consecutive seasons without any cuts, but EDG won two championships and was targeted from the beginning to the end?"
"Brother Jie changes whatever he uses, and he pukes."
"No wonder I felt something was wrong after watching these few updates. It turns out to be so disgusting."
"Mantis went to the designer's house to trigger isolation and helplessness!"
"The designers are like crazy this year, making random changes. They strengthened AP heroes once in the Spring Season, strengthened AP equipment once again in the MSI, and now Viktor Karma and other heroes are playing top lane."
"And Karthus, the jungler, died seven times in ten minutes when he encountered Graves. What a jerk."
"The version is already out of shape and they don't care, they are still staring at Brother Jie."
"The designer is just being greedy!"
"Last year I was still in Diamond II, but this year I'm stuck in Platinum I and can't go any higher."
"Silver is here, why are you playing a mage in the bottom lane in the high tier? Forget about it, you're playing a mage in the bottom lane in the cancer tier. Don't you think you have the intelligence to play a mage?"
"It is suggested that punishment can be used on designers. What? Punishment is for wild monsters? Are designers human?"
At the beginning, the mainstream opinion was to protest against EDG being targeted.
As time went on, it slowly became a catharsis for the deformed version of myself.
Now, the rhythm can't be stopped.
After all, protesting on behalf of EDG is just a momentary outrage. European and American audiences are not very willing to participate, and the Koreans in LCK even treat it as a joke.
However.
When the topic shifts to something closely related to one's own interests.
Players all over the world have started to denounce the incident.
When posting, they would also mention the unfair treatment suffered by EDG and Xing Dao, using the names of top teams and professional players to increase the persuasiveness.
"KZ is too weak. In the most favorable version, they were beaten 3-0 by EDG."
In the KT team's training room, Mata, the only remaining support named M, was waiting in line while reading a post on the Inven forum: "But fortunately, EDG is going to be weakened again. It will be up to us to show our skills in the future."
"I think we should show our support," General Pawn thought.
"Why should we support them? We are their opponents!" KT top laner Smeb didn't quite understand.
Smeb's name has a very interesting explanation.
——Sb surrounds me.
This means that Smeb's teammates have always been a bit of a drag.
This year, I formed a galaxy battleship with General Pawn, Deft, Mata, and Score, and I feel we have a chance to win the world championship.
Smeb is happy to see EDG being targeted continuously.
Would you be a bastard if you don’t take advantage of a good opportunity?
“An opponent is an opponent, and right is wrong.”
General Pawn said in a steady voice, "And you don't want to run into the same situation after you win the championship, right?"
"That makes sense!" Deft waved his fist. "As former teammates, we want to show our support to General... After all, the changes that have been made cannot be undone."
"It's better not to say it." Mata added secretly...
