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In this year's S14 season, LPL began to circulate a rumor about a customized version targeting Faker and T1. Simply put, it is believed that Faker was able to win the championship last year because he was favored by Riot, and a suitable version was specially customized for T1.

As the World Championship approached this year, a series of changes made by Riot once again caused dissatisfaction among the audience.

Riot's new version announced, Faker strengthened for the fourth time

Previously, Riot officially announced a version change, which was to strengthen Tsar and Clockwork. These two are heroes that Faker is good at, and Tsar and Clockwork were strong heroes in last year's World Championship version. Faker's Clockwork's championship skin has not been released for long and is still hot. In the current version, Tsar is also one of the best AP options besides AD mid laner.

The most difficult thing to understand here is that if the strong mid laners in the world championship version are the same every year, then what diversity can we talk about in the world championship? The audience is already very tired of the aesthetics, and if they are all similar versions, it is indeed unreasonable.

I thought that was the end of it, but Riot announced the changes to version 14.17 yesterday. The new version strengthened mid laner Ryze, Caitlyn and Varus. These three heroes happen to be the ones that T1 is good at. Faker got the third strengthening, and at the same time, Riot also made a wave of key changes.

This change weakens the three key runes of the Precision system. Faker's AD mid laner is not top-notch, which means that Faker has received the fourth strengthening. All four changes are beneficial to Faker.

LPL is completely speechless, and the outside world can't stand it anymore

When this change came out, the LPL audience was completely speechless. Netizens said: This is obviously to strengthen Faker and T1. I have to say that Faker's collision was really effective. Now Riot is not hiding anything and directly strengthens Faker. If the strengthening of Tsar Clockwork can be barely explained, then this new change is a bit difficult to explain.

At the same time, viewers on the external network couldn't stand it anymore and said on the Reddit forum that the changes were too outrageous. Originally, the LPL viewers were annoyed, but now the external network has also noticed something is wrong.

-Another T1 version is here.

-The next one to be strengthened should be Lee Sin, right?

-T1 is strengthened in the World Championship, a familiar plot.

-Or else T1 will just have to make it to the S game to qualify for the next S game, please, Riot.

It can be seen that the changes in these two consecutive versions have made the customized version, which has been hotly discussed by everyone, and the idea of ​​customized version that many fans scoffed at has become very reasonable. Many viewers did not believe in customized versions before, but as a result, Riot released two consecutive versions, and the audience had to doubt whether customized versions really exist.

LOL version rotation, the designer's level is questionable

Personally, I think the enhancement of Ryze in this new version is reasonable, because Ryze has been in the sewer for too many versions, and the audience agrees with this, but the previous changes to Tsar Clockwork are indeed difficult to justify.

Then the most crucial point is the weakening of Precision Runes. We all know that an important reason why AD mid laners are so strong in the current version is that Precision Runes are too strong. Swiftness, Vitality Absorption and Chop Down are basically standard for AD mid laners. The ability to stay in the lane is unsolvable, and it is difficult for a mage mid laner to compete with it.

In 14.17, Riot weakened all three runes, plus the previous weakening of the AD mid laner itself. With this double debuff, the AD mid laner is likely to no longer be strong, and the mage mid laner has been doubly strengthened, because if the AD mid laner falls, the originally strong AP mid laner should be able to play, but he got strengthened again.

Personally, I think the core point about the issue of version rotation lies in the level and stance of the designer. In the case of version rotation, the normal idea is to strengthen many heroes that have not been on the field for a long time, but the designer chooses to strengthen Tsar Clockwork instead of other AP mid laners. The designer can have various reasons to explain why he strengthens these heroes instead of those. From this perspective, the designer's power is too great.