I don’t know if you guys have heard about it. In the recent LOL change announcement, the designer announced that he will focus on weakening some heroes who are too strong in the current version. What’s interesting is that most of these heroes are popular heroes in LPL, but no one cares about them in LCK. This makes people wonder whether the designers of LOL are targeting the hero pool of LPL players. Doinb, who is the mid laner of the LNG team, bluntly said about this, "I feel that the designers of LOL are targeting LPL players, and the recent updates are all about weakening the LPL."
Brothers who have been paying attention to both LCK and LPL games recently should have discovered it. , this major version change has completely different impacts on the two divisions. The LCK has officially launched the Shakespeare mode, and there are many games that still fail to break out in more than 30 minutes. On the LPL side, many team battles still broke out in the early and mid-term. Except for individual teams, LPL teams advocate team battles to the end. Even if they are only at a numerical disadvantage, they still have to try to take over the team and rely on operations to gain an advantage. It is precisely because of this that there is a huge difference in the hero pools of LCK and LPL. The LPL advocates heroes who are very powerful in the early game, while the LCK loves heroes in the late game.
This is most vividly reflected in the mid lane position. In recent LPL games, the two heroes that have played the most and performed most brilliantly are Rock Bird and Crow . Among them, the advantage of Yanqiao is sufficient damage in the early stage, which allows Yanqiao to provide sufficient damage in small-scale team battles in the early and mid-term. Yanqiao also performs well in roaming support. The current practice in the LPL competition area is to use Rock bird replaces the card. The crow wins in terms of its continuous combat capability. The current version of the crow's continuous combat capability has been enhanced to an epic level with its durability simultaneously improved. The heroes that LCK makes good use of are completely different.
If our LPL understanding of the new version is "Since the durability has been improved, then try to choose heroes with higher damage or stronger battery life in the early and mid-term to open up the situation in the early stage." Then the LCK pursues "try not to fight in the early stage and choose heroes in the late stage." Stronger heroes end the game." Therefore, the LCK chose heroes whose development curve is closer to the later stage, such as Kassadin Viktor and Yellow Chicken. Although these heroes have also appeared in the LPL, especially the Yellow Chicken, their frequency of appearance and winning rate are far less than those of the Crow and Rock Bird. But in the LCK, these heroes are almost mandatory in the mid lane.
Regarding this, Doinb, who also sits in the middle lane, publicly stated, "Are the designers of LOL targeting the LPL? The popular heroes in our region have been weakened, and the popular heroes in the LCK are either not nerfed or enhanced." Many water friends feel that The designer is obviously trying to weaken the dominance of the LPL, and the place where the sword is wielded is the usual hero pool of the LPL players. This was also reflected in the last year. Before the World Championship last year, the LPL liked to choose warriors in the middle lane. Heroes fight, but in the LCK the mage hero is still in the middle. After the start of the World Championship, the designer weakened the warrior mid laner, causing all LPL teams to re-familiarize themselves with the version.
Through these operations, we can clearly feel that LPL is indeed being targeted by designers, but from the designer's perspective, there is really no way. After all, the LPL's performance has been too strong in recent years. If there is no interference, the LPL is likely to directly dominate the S and MSI games. In order for the league to continue to develop, there is nothing wrong with LOL designers doing this. What do brothers think of this?
