Chapter 179智商高啊

Even the fans of Team Howling, who had lost heart, only managed to fill less than 70% of the seats in their home stadium for a match against a powerhouse like Team Blue Rain. Many fans gathered outside the stadium, refusing to enter and watch as a way to express their dissatisfaction with Team Howling's recent performance.

But that very night, Team Howling won the individual competition, the stage competition, and then the team competition. They defeated Team Blue Rain, currently ranked second on the leaderboard, with a score of 8 to 2.

"Many factors influence the outcome of a match. Doing the right thing at the right time is the most effective way to achieve victory. Team Howling's attack was strong tonight, and our performance on the defensive end was not satisfactory," said Blue Rain's captain Yu Wenzhou at the post-match press conference.

The reporters in the audience were clear about the game. Even though Team Howling was in a slump and had disheartened its fans, one thing deserved respect: the team's morale had not dissipated as a result. No matter how poorly they performed on the field, their desire to win was clearly evident.

Yu Wenzhou's comment summarized it well.

If victory requires doing the right thing at the right time, then Team Howling had always been unable to find the right time or do the right thing before.

But this time? In this round's team competition, Team Howling chose an extremely crude and violent style of play. After the five starting players entered the game, the sixth player immediately replaced the healer, forming an all-offensive profession lineup without any healing. Then, they launched a one-on-one man-marking strategy against Blue Rain.

This kind of tactic has become extremely rare in the increasingly sophisticated professional circle. After Team Howling instantly completed the one-on-one marking arrangement, Blue Rain's team was immediately cut to pieces. In addition to the healer, Yu Wenzhou's weakness in one-on-one combat made it even more difficult for Blue Rain to face this fragmented situation. They were ultimately unable to form effective teamwork again, and eventually lost the team competition.

The right time, the right thing...

The reporters chewed on Yu Wenzhou's post-match remarks, which sounded like a formality, but felt that the meaning was already clear and didn't need much more comment.

Then there was the victor, Team Howling... Their long-awaited victory over a powerhouse finally allowed them to breathe a sigh of relief and show off their heroic spirit at the press conference.

"The league has only just begun," they said in a deep voice.

Okay...

The reporters looked at the leaderboard after 27 rounds. Team Howling was still outside the playoff zone, but only 8 points away from the top eight. But the problem was that no one in the top eight seemed to be showing any signs of slipping up.

Leading Team Howling by one place was Team 301, which had risen strongly after the winter transfer window. In this round, they defeated Team Yizhan 8-2 on the road, achieving a ten-game winning streak. The highly anticipated cishen sheming yiji (assassination with self-sacrifice) didn't appear in this game, but that precisely meant that Team 301 didn't have only one way to win. They could assess the situation and choose the necessary means. Captain Yang Cong wasn't so rigid either. After changing his style, he didn't have to be an assassin who always sacrificed himself. He could still use the warrior-type charge and attack style he used before, as long as the team needed it.

Team 301 wasn't relying on one trick to dominate everything, everyone realized this.

Team 301's rise squeezed Team Howling out of the top eight. Now that Team Howling had become the chaser, the reporters looked at the schedule, and the real fun was about to begin. In the twenty-eighth round, the two teams would face each other directly, with Team Howling hosting Team 301 at home.

This really had a life-or-death feel to it.

There were still 11 rounds left in the regular season. An 8-point gap wasn't small, but it wasn't too big either. A direct confrontation was an opportunity to complete the reversal in one round. A 9-1 win would allow the lagging side to catch up. A 10-0 win would directly result in a successful counterattack.

However, Team Howling, which had disappointed people to the extreme, couldn't be seen as more promising than Team 301, which had won 10 consecutive games, based on just one victory against Team Blue Rain.

But these players on Team Howling really had some of the tenacity of those who row upstream. The more the outside world didn't favor them, the more they focused on the game.

On March 28, the day before the twenty-eighth round of the professional league, the various teams usually announced the lineup of players who would be playing that day.

"What? I'm playing?"

In Team Happy, the loudest voice when the list was announced came from the computer on their conference table.

Luo Ji, since joining Team Happy, had only played in official competitions during the Challenger League. His contribution to Team Happy was more like that of a technical staff member than a team player.

However, Luo Ji was a registered member of Team Happy, without a doubt. Although he often wasn't with the team because of his unabandonable studies, Luo Ji would always rush to the stadium to meet everyone on every match day, whether it was an away game or a home game.

Although he hadn't played, Luo Ji had watched and been involved in the matches up close, and he was no longer the rookie he once was. His vision and knowledge were greatly improved. As for his level, he naturally had a sense of it. Right now in Happy, even Wei Chen barely had any chances to play. With his skills, it was enough to sit on the sidelines. Perhaps after another year or so of training, he could fight for a chance to play?

That's what Luo Ji thought, but he didn't expect that at this crucial time when the season was gradually coming to an end, Ye Xiu would actually send him to play.

"Do you want to play in the individual competition or the stage competition?" Ye Xiu asked.

"I, I, I..." Luo Ji "I'd" for a long time without saying anything. Sending him to play was surprising enough, but he could even choose the mode of play? This... was probably a little reward and encouragement for this season?

"There are still eleven rounds left, you should accumulate some practical experience," Ye Xiu said.

Luo Ji was a special student at a top university, so there was no question about his IQ. The logic contained in Ye Xiu's words was quickly analyzed by him.

In his opinion, there were only eleven rounds left in the league. If Happy had a particularly overwhelming lead, like Samsara, it would be very normal to let some new players play in some insignificant matches at the end of the season. But now, Happy was in sixth place with 178 points, leading seventh-place Team Hundred Blossoms by 4 points and eighth-place Team 301 by 12 points. They had a larger advantage over ninth-place Team Howling, with 20 points.

However, even if Happy didn't fall out of the top eight, falling to eighth place wasn't a very good situation. According to the current trend of the regular season, Samsara was undoubtedly going to be in first place. If the playoff rules were followed, the eighth-place team would collide with the first-place Samsara in the first round... Everyone should want to avoid this powerful opponent if they could. If they really couldn't avoid it, like if they met in the finals, then they could go all out, right?

Happy wasn't in a position to let new players practice freely, but at this time, Ye Xiu wanted to send him to play, which seemed to mean that Ye Xiu valued his role, rather than giving him garbage time to increase his experience points!

But in Ye Xiu's words, he also said that these eleven rounds were for accumulating practical experience. Could it be that he hoped that the stage for him to play a role would be the playoffs?

Even though he was sitting in his seat, Luo Ji felt like his legs were weak.

Accumulate a little experience in eleven matches, and then play a role in the playoffs, that brutal place where one mistake could lead to a year's worth of effort being in vain?

"Is this... okay?" Luo Ji didn't say any of his mental activities, but only said his final thoughts.

"You've worked hard for a long time, it's time to go on the field and feel it," Ye Xiu said.

"But my level..." Luo Ji hesitated.

"Your level has reached the point where you need to improve through practical combat. Practical combat will tell you how to make trade-offs and choices. You need to develop this awareness yourself. It's not very meaningful to just tell you," Ye Xiu said.

"You can tell me first, I'll pay more attention," Luo Ji said.

"Don't pay too much attention to details," Ye Xiu said.

"Tell me, tell me, I'll definitely recognize it more clearly if you tell me," Luo Ji said.

"I already said it!"

"Ah? Just don't pay attention to details?" Luo Ji was stunned. He thought Ye Xiu was complaining that he shouldn't pay attention to details like "listen first and then pay attention."

"Yes, you see, it's not very meaningful, right?" Ye Xiu said.

The bloody reality left Luo Ji speechless. He really couldn't feel much from this sentence.

"Or rather, pay more attention to the details that need attention," Ye Xiu added.

"Pay attention to the trade-offs between details?" Luo Ji was indeed highly intelligent, and his ability to infer things was very strong.

"Yes," Ye Xiu said.

"I'll pay attention," Luo Ji nodded, not saying anything more. Because he realized that this was indeed an awareness that could only be cultivated through practical combat. And thinking about his current situation, paying attention to details was indeed his habit and style. It was precisely because of this that he could make those extremely detailed guides. However, in the PK arena, the more he cared about, the more he worried about. In addition, the summoner's operations were already extremely complicated, which always made him more and more flustered.

Ye Xiu told him to pay attention to the trade-offs in details, not to ignore the details, but to find the most valuable details that could help him defeat his opponent, and then make full use of them. If he could do this, his control of his character probably wouldn't be so chaotic. Luo Ji knew that he wasn't a hand speed expert. It was impossible for him to control a bunch of summoned beasts like an arm and a finger in extremely complex combat situations.

Trade-offs were indeed what he needed to master at this stage to improve. Ye Xiu was also seeing that his skills had progressed to this stage before arranging for him to conduct further improvements in actual combat, right?

But... there were only eleven rounds left.

Even if he played one game in each round, and even arranged some practical opportunities in team competitions, would it be enough to improve and then perform in the playoffs?

Luo Ji himself still had doubts about this question, and Chen Guo also thought it was unscientific.

"Is Luo Ji okay?" Chen Guo asked Ye Xiu after the pre-match meeting.

"Don't forget, he has a high IQ!" Ye Xiu said.