League of Legends: League of Unknowns

“Your opponents will be Fudan University, would you like some special treatment, I’ll show you some data on their information?” Aijing said as she smiled.

Lin Dong’s eyes brightened as he said hastily, “That would be awesome, let us… wait, wait. Why is our opponent Fudan University?”

The other members of Team Skycrown were also astonished, they remembered that their opponent was Team Ascent.

Team Ascent was a veteran second tier team, and they had missed out on getting into LPL a few times.

“Fudan University had originally lost, but the members of Team Ascent didn’t follow the rules so the team requested a rematch. The rematch was not publicized and Fudan University won the match. Didn’t you guys know this?” Aijing asked as she blinked.

“What the hell, I didn’t receive any notice!” Lin Dong cursed.

“This…we’ve been studying Team Ascent for the past two days!” Wu Sen groaned.

The others were also speechless.

They had studied and done a lot of homework on Team Ascent, who knew that they had been eliminated and it was Fudan University that had entered the final stage to qualify for LPL instead!

Fudan University team was a team to be reckoned with, being able to enter the top level of professional teams despite being a university team, it was almost unbelievable!

“How much information on Fudan University do you guys have?” Wu Sen asked.

The rest of them shook their heads, they were clueless about Fudan University.

“Uh, I’ve fought against them once.” Luocheng smiled bitterly.

If he had known that Fudan University would be the final boss for Team Skycrown, Luocheng would have arranged more games with them!

“I have a very complete set of information here with me.” Aijing smiled as she looked at the heavy faces of the Team Skycrown members.

“Give it here.” Lin Dong said.

Praying at the last minute still had its uses, for example, just like taking a university exam.

“In exchange, how about giving me all of your combat practice recordings?” Aijing said.

“…”

Lin Dong was speechless. If they gave all their combat practice videos to Aijing, this woman would study their team inside and out, individual strengths and weaknesses, main champions, combinations, tactics…

Once these were in Aijing’s hands, the next time they met Team 71 in a game, they wouldn’t need to play and would just have to surrender at twenty minutes.

“Seems that you’re stingy, it’s okay, forget it. For friendship’s sake, I have the personal information of the five members in Fudan University team. It’s data that I’ve analyzed from the countless matches of theirs, although it may not be fully accurate, it shouldn’t deviate much either.” Aijing said.

Lin Dong hurriedly lowered his backpack and pulled out his slightly outdated laptop, and Aijing passed the information to him.

Opening the document, Lin Dong realized that there was also information on other teams in the contents and his eyes brightened!

Aijing’s manual was valuable in the LOL e-sports circle, and there were many who could spend a pretty sum of money to get their hands on it. However, Aijing had never disclosed any of it.

This document could only see Fudan University’s data, however if he used this thumb drive which would be inserted into her computer…

Lin Dong’s mind was already formulating ways to obtain the data, and it was at this time that Aijing chose to say casually, “Don’t think that I don’t know you’re a master black hat hacker, if you do anything to my thumb drive…hehehe!”

Lin Dong laughed somewhat awkwardly together with her, abandoning all thoughts of stealing the information immediately.

***

Fudan University first team Captain, Lin Siyong:

Individual ability index: 6.3 points

Team-fighting capability index: 6.9 points

Tactical and leadership index: 5 points

Skill and dexterity index: 0.9

Main champion: Tristana

The carry of the team, all tactics and gameplays revolved around the ADC, generally four supporting one…

***

Xiao Bei was looking through the information together with the rest of the team and was a little puzzled and curious at the same time.

“What do the points mean?” He asked.

“Damn it, this isn’t a complete set of information with so little things…oh, it’s points based on their abilities. After analyzing their performances in the matches they’ve played and adding on the matches after that, the points will be more accurate as more matches are analyzed. It’s a way to directly gauge the strength of a professional player, and it was developed by analysts in South Korea. Now, it’s basically the way everyone uses to measure the strength of other players,” Lin Dong explained.

You couldn’t use the games ranks to measure the strength of professional players, a lot of them were in low ranks. However, their personal strength as well as their strength within their team were immeasurable.

Ranks were a one-sided estimation method, but the usage of this strength index was more professional and accurate!

“In that case, would the captain of Fudan University—Lin Siyong be considered high or low?” Xiao Bei asked.

“It’s considered to be quite high.” Wu Sen said as he laughed bitterly.

“How can you tell?”

“Do you know our points?” Wu Sen replied.

Wu Sen was a first tier professional player, and he was currently holding the best scores in Team Skycrown. His capabilities were also way more stable than the other four members, that was why the last person Luocheng needed to worry about was Wu Sen. In this area, Wu Sen’s Support was more detailed and professional than his own.

Luocheng was also curious, wondering how the scores would be for Wu Sen in Aijing’s index.

“I’ll read it out loud then.” Wu Sen said.

Wu Sen, Team Stardust Support, first tier player.

Individual ability index: 6.2 points

Team-fighting capability index: 7.1 points

Tactical and leadership index: 6 points

Skill and dexterity index: 1

After reading it, Xiao Bei froze. The members of the e-sports club including Yang Ying, Xiao Jia, and Zhong Jinbei were also present, and after hearing that, they were all wide-eyed.

“What the hell, it can’t be. Wu Sen, with such a godlike Support, your points are still so low?”

“Average is 6 points, that’s considered to be a first tier player standard.” Wu Sen replied.

“What the hell, then aren’t we damn low?”

“For you guys, probably at most, 3 points.” Wu Sen said.

Everyone was stunned.

They were already considered to be on the higher end in terms of skills in LOL, and normally in ranked games, they basically were a confirmed-win in their games. Who knew these words from Wu Sen would immediately send their brains into a blank state…

3 points!

And that was saying at most!

It wasn’t even enough to live!

They finally knew why their Shanghai University team would never be able to triumph over Fudan University’s team. Even with two members of the team, they were so out of league compared to just one captain from that team!

“What does the 1 point gap mean?” Xiao Bei continued to ask.

“If the individual ability index has a gap of 1 point, it’s still possible to work something out. 2 points would mean you stand absolutely no chance. For team-fighting capabilities, the gap of 1 point would be on coordination in smaller and bigger teamfights that have an additional chance of winning by ten percent. 2 points would mean an additional chance of twenty percent.” Wu Sen explained. As he had always been running in the professional circle, naturally, he was more aware of how the system was.

“F*ck, so you’re saying that if we started a teamfight with a fifty fifty chance, as long as one of their team-fighting capability index is higher by 2 points, the odds shift to a thirty-seventy chance?” Yang Ying asked.

“Yes, it wouldn’t be too far off from that. For a professional player with high team-fighting capabilities, they really can save the world, cementing a solid position for their team to never lose.” Wu Sen said as he nodded his head.

Yang Ying had never imagined that there was such a huge gap between professional players, and he had always thought that they were on par with the professionals. Listening to their explanations, he realized that they were still on a lower level.

Come to think of it, even by putting in their whole effort when they were facing Fudan University’s first team, they still couldn’t defeat them. Just going against that one player—Lin Siyong, and it felt like he could bring down their entire team all on his own!

“Then, what are the points for your team?” Xiao Jia asked in a hurry.

In Xiao Jia’s eyes, the strength of Team Skycrown was already high until they were unstoppable. To say that they were the strongest in the country was not an exaggeration, since they hadn’t seen anyone that was stronger than them.

“You want to hear the truth?” Wu Sen asked.

“Of course.”

“The average for individual ability is only about 6 to 7 points, team-fighting capabilities are slightly above 5 points but not reaching 6 points. Tactical and leadership…rubbish.” Wu Sen replied.

“Hey, we can’t be that bad!” Da Luo said, his voice dripping with dissatisfaction.

“Yeah, it can’t be that low.” Xiao Bei also felt like the rating was hard to accept.

“Wu Sen’s analysis isn’t wrong, I’ve also given around the same rating as him.” Aijing said as she smiled.

Aijing had gotten the recordings of the matches played by Team Skycrown previously. During the time that she had to study it, she had already analyzed the strength data of each member. The average individual strength was 6.2 points, team-fighting capabilities were 5.5 points, tactical and leadership…it really was rubbish.

Team Skycrown and the members from the E-sports club were speechless, in the preseason, they had been so powerful that they seemed to be unbeatable gods. There were also many who speculated that Team Skycrown could compete with the four strongest teams in LPL, who knew that after hearing Aijing’s rating on their abilities, only then would they realize how incompetent they really were.

“The good news is that I haven’t seen a lot of your matches. The ratings can be considered to be still in progress, and you guys have just formed the team after all. There are a lot of improvements to be done on the index.” Aijing said.

“I’d like to know that based on your analysis, what are the odds between our team and Fudan University?” Luocheng said.

“Your overall team strength is already lower than theirs, but to be honest, your individual abilities are stronger than them. However, team-fighting capabilities and tactical-wise, you’re still lower. Initially, I thought it would be a fifty-fifty chance. But taking into account that Fudan University has a strong backing from a foreign team who has a deep understanding of tactics and gameplay, I suspect they’ll use some gameplays which are not expected by anyone in this decisive match. If you can’t manage to overcome this, then there’s only about a thirty percent chance to win. Of course, these are all based on the index points that I have. Sometimes the odds are only ten percent based on the index points, but they still won the game in the end, it all depends on what happens in the match.” Aijing said.

Thirty percent chance of winning…

Wasn’t that too low?

“To be honest, Fudan University’s first team is terribly strong.” Luocheng said.

Luocheng had played against them before, and he was well aware that even with giving everything he had, he still couldn’t change the fact that Shanghai University had lost.

Would Team Skycrown be able to beat this veteran team who had been formed for a long time, with a high amount of fame, and even with the backing of a mysterious foreign team…it was hard to say.

“Try to gain a lane advantage on them.” Luocheng said.

The members of Team Skycrown nodded their heads. Knowing that their opponent was strong enabled them to go all out seriously.

Aijing was only analyzing the data on hand which was quite accurate, but it may not have explained everything. The four of them in Team Skycrown had an abundance of experience in big competitions, and they had the determination when facing important matches to bring out extraordinary plays!