novelODS Chapter 11 The Clever RNG Coach
Chapter 11 The Clever RNG Coach
"Abu, that's where your stubbornness comes from! You only see Xiao Mo's dismal stats on the surface, but you completely fail to grasp the tactical value he demonstrates!"
EDG stated this emphatically.
These words not only shocked Abu so much that his pupils contracted, but even Lin Mo, who was standing in the corner, was stunned.
"Tactical value?" Abu frowned, increasingly bewildered. "Come on, Mingkai, explain yourself! What do you mean by tactical value? You face-checked a bush at level one, got completely destroyed by the enemy Camille, your health was drastically low, you were down by over 100 CS for the entire game, and you only dealt a dismal 815 damage. Is that what you call tactical value?!"
"That's right! That's exactly what makes Xiao Mo's game so terrifying!"
The factory manager's eyes lit up: "Abu, put yourself in his shoes! If Xiaomo hadn't checked that bush at level one, would Letme have thought he was an easy rookie to bully? No! Letme would definitely have played steadily. He might even have called for Spicy Pot to dive the tower like crazy, thus creating an opening in the top lane!"
"But because Xiaomo 'deliberately' scouted the bushes and suffered a great loss, this gave RNG a fatal misinformation—that Xiaomo is a complete newbie and not worth worrying about at all! As a result, they gave up on targeting him."
Abu's eyelids twitched violently as he listened: "So he was stabbed over a hundred times? Was that intentional too?"
"This is precisely the core of the entire tactic, and it's what I admire most about Xiao Mo!" The factory manager got more and more excited as he spoke, gesturing a minion wave in the air with his finger. "Think about it, if Xiao Mo showed even the slightest desire to fight back in lane, or even made a slightly aggressive move to try and take a cannon minion, what would Spicy Hot Pot do? With Spicy Hot Pot's 'starvation-style' jungling style, he would definitely camp out in the top lane and turn Xiao Mo into an ATM!"
"But!" the factory manager raised his voice, "Xiao Mo completely abandoned all the cannon minions and dangerous minion waves! He perfectly implemented the highest principle of 'never taking a single minion' under pressure! What did this lead to? It meant that Spicy Pot couldn't find any excuse to gank him or any angle to tower dive in the top lane!"
"As a result, Mala Xiangguo completely lost his rhythm in the first ten minutes! He couldn't find a breakthrough in the top lane, so he could only go to the other two lanes, which is why I was able to easily guess his jungle route and successfully ambush him several times!"
"Xiao Mo sacrificed himself to rust the enemy's sharpest spear. Then he gave back a portion of the minion gold to me and Scout! Now, Abu, do you still think Xiao Mo really played badly?!"
Quiet.
The entire EDG lounge fell into a deathly silence.
Everyone's eyes widened.
Including Lin Mo.
He swallowed hard, thinking to himself that it was a waste of the factory manager's talent not to get involved in pyramid schemes!
His theory was so well-structured and logically sound that even Lin Mo himself almost believed it!
Lin Mo was internally ranting, but on the surface he held back and didn't reveal any flaws, even putting on an air of profound mystery, as if he were "hiding his merits and fame".
Abu, standing to the side, had his mouth slightly agape, his mind racing as he processed the factory manager's outrageous statement.
After being bombarded with criticism by the factory manager, a picture flashed through his mind: a green rookie top laner, for the sake of the team's victory, endured humiliation and used himself as bait, sitting under the tower for tens of minutes, and finally made a stunning move!
That's right!
If that weren't the case, based on his understanding of Lin Mo, no matter how nervous the kid was, he couldn't possibly have made such a bronze-level play as "leaking six minions in one wave"!
But isn't this a bit too risky? Didn't they discuss it beforehand?
Abu turned his head and glanced at A-Guang sitting on the sofa.
Ah Guang's expression was even more blank than before, and he was muttering to himself, "Hunger starvation as a way to withstand pressure...sacrificing the individual for the greater good of the team...is this how you withstand pressure?"
Seeing Ah Guang almost driven to despair, Abu turned to Lin Mo and asked, "Lin Mo, tell me the truth, were you really like what Ming Kai said back then?"
"Uh..." Lin Mo nodded without hesitation, "Really! More real than real gold and silver!"
"Good lad!" Abu patted Lin Mo heavily on the shoulder and made his decision, "In that case, you'll start again in the fourth inning! But remember this..."
Abu abruptly changed the subject, his lips twitching slightly, "Next game, if you're going to show off, at least do it like a human being. Don't go for another 815 damage output, or we'll both get roasted by the audience, you know that!"
"I guarantee I'll complete the mission!" Lin Mo said, mentally worshipping the factory manager three times.
A top-tier jungler must have a clear strategy, right? Clearlove truly deserves to be called a world-class jungler!
……
at the same time.
A similar scene was unfolding in the RNG team's rest room, which was just a wall away.
Head coach Firefox (Feng Ge) pushed up his black-rimmed glasses and looked at the dejected players in front of him.
"What's going on in this game? Did your team fight coordination falter a bit in the mid-game?"
Uzi rubbed his wrist in frustration: "It's not a teamwork issue, it's just... there's something indescribable about it. The way those guys on the other side move is like they're cheating, it's so hard to hit them with skills."
"Yes!" Xiaohu quickly agreed, "I even suspect that EDG was hiding their strength in the first two games, and then suddenly went on a rampage in the third game, with each player being so fierce. Oh, except for Malphite."
Upon hearing this, Fire Fox let out a cold laugh.
"A sudden burst of power? There's no such thing as a sudden burst of power in this world! A player's individual skill level is constant."
Firefox walked to the tactical whiteboard, picked up a marker, and wrote two English letters on it heavily—Mo.
"The reason you have the illusion that they've 'become stronger' is because we fell into EDG's carefully designed operational trap from the very beginning of this game!"
"And the key to this trap is this most unassuming substitute top laner—Mo!"
Upon seeing this ID, Letme couldn't help but ask, "Brother Feng, you're not saying we got completely destroyed by this Mo, are you? He didn't get a single assist the entire game, and his damage output wasn't even as high as a super minion's."
"Lightmy, this is the difference between your tactical vision as a player and mine as a coach!" Firefox said with a hint of disappointment.
He tapped the tactics screen next to him and directly pulled up the replay of the beginning of the third game.
"Do you really think that a top laner who gets temporarily replaced by Abu in a do-or-die game is a complete novice who can't even last-hit minions?" Firefox surveyed the crowd, her eyes gleaming. "I checked Mo's ranked game history a long time ago; his fundamentals are incredibly solid. This 'bot' performance today completely defies the laws of nature! So, I think he's... faking it!"
Uzi frowned slightly: "Pretending? What's the point?"