Allocating Points

"Ahh, finally, we get a day to take it easy." After their victory over Anyone's Legend, Rookie stretched in the lounge.

"Are we reviewing the games when we get back? I think we could still improve the way we played the second game today," Lin Heng said as he packed his things.

"Kid, could you stop grinding so hard? At this point, can we order some food first?" Ning walked over with his backpack and patted Lin Heng on the shoulder, joking.

"Food first. We can talk when we get back," Danny said with a smile.

That was how it was with games they won: fewer of the things they had done poorly tended to come to light, so there was naturally less to review.

With today's match over, they could rest tomorrow. Their next match was against JDG, and they would have to go to Suzhou to play it.

But Suzhou was close to Shanghai, so there was no need to rush over.

Uzi, meanwhile, started his own review as they walked.

"I felt like I wasn't practiced enough on Ziggs. All I could do was clear minions. Next time, play Ziggs support and show me how it's done."

"Hey, don't talk nonsense," Lin Heng said, turning at once.

"I like playing unconventional supports, but Ziggs's skills are too easy to dodge. He has no Poke or crowd control early on, so it'd be hard to pick him as a support, right? Besides, if I can play Ziggs, why wouldn't I play Xerath?"

"Hahaha, I thought you were trying to unlock some achievement for playing every single champion onstage," Uzi said with a laugh.

Lin Heng froze, only then remembering that he still had a system.

The matches had been packed close together these past two days, and he had spent a great deal of energy studying Weibo Gaming and Anyone's Legend's bot lanes.

As a result, he hadn't checked how many system points he had earned over those two days.

His [Mischief System] was as low-key as he was.

Unless he opened it himself, the system would never suddenly pop up in his mind or before his eyes to make its presence known.

Of course, Lin Heng was deeply relieved by that.

If a voice suddenly rang out or a screen popped up in front of him while he was concentrating on his play, it would interfere far too much.

He was very satisfied on that count.

He opened the system for a glance as he walked and discovered that he had earned 58 points from the matches over the past two days.

Of course, the matches alone couldn't have earned him that many; only 10 points had come from the games themselves.

But that was already a great deal. In the matches he had played in the LDL, getting two or three points in a game had been a lot.

Sure enough, he needed a big stage. And though they looked a little washed now, beating veterans like Xiaohu and Flandre, who had solid records, earned him a substantial number of points.

Of course, since it was his debut and the club had certain requirements, Lin Heng hadn't chosen to earn points through particularly extreme methods.

At most, he had targeted a particular opponent during a game to make them miserable, then danced and flashed his emote.

He hadn't gone around provoking everyone like crazy for points as he had in the past.

As for his own teammates, those four old geezers were in far too good a mental state now. They accepted his strange ideas and plays too readily, making it hard to leave them speechless.

Instead, they only got more excited the more they played.

In Uzi's own words, "If you can carry me to a win, you can even play AD. I'll support you."

The old Uzi had been the type who insisted on playing carry champions and being the team's core.

But there hadn't been much choice about that either. With the roster they had back then, there really wasn't much else they could do but play through bot lane.

Of course, Lin Heng had firmly refused. "No. As far as I'm concerned, no position is more fun than support. AD is the most boring, and only top lane is kind of interesting."

Ning immediately turned to stir things up, saying to TheShy, "Cheng Lu, this kid wants to play top and take your spot."

But TheShy replied with some anticipation, "Oh? He wants to play top? Then I'll swap to support. Support is a lot of fun too."

Ning was speechless. "You people are no fun."

It was clear from that just how good a mental state the current six-man Invictus Gaming roster and their coach Danny were in, and how readily they accepted things.

As long as what Lin Heng did didn't have too much of an effect on the game, they genuinely supported letting their support play however he wanted.

Of course, Lin Heng himself was absolutely unwilling to make plays in a match that would cause him to lose.

That would have been putting the cart before the horse.

Aside from the 10 points he had earned across the two matches, the remaining 48 came from the system achievement [Make an LPL appearance and complete a perfect debut].

Lin Heng didn't hesitate or consider the other functions and goods in the system shop. He simply bought five skill points.

Each skill point cost 10 points, which was expensive, but skill points were the most important thing to a pro player.

He opened his current status panel, and the bright red system interface appeared before his eyes.

Host: Lin Heng

Mechanics: 91

Game understanding: 91

Teamfighting: 91

Mental: 100

Awareness: 91

Champion pool: 100

Lin Heng nodded in satisfaction. His mechanics, game understanding, teamfighting, and awareness had all risen by one point on their own.

Attributes didn't have to be raised with skill points; they could grow through practice and understanding.

Lin Heng had known that for a long time. When he first obtained the system, his mental had been 89. He had never spent a single skill point on it over the years, but since he constantly had to cause mischief in matches and ranked games, he would have cracked long ago if his mental hadn't been good.

He had also spent a relatively long time benched and targeted, so his mental had grown rapidly over the past few years, reaching 100.

After coming to the LPL and joining Invictus Gaming, the intensity of both matches and scrims had risen a level. As a result, his [Mechanics] and [Teamfighting] had indeed improved a little during this period.

Through reviewing games with Coach Danny and Invictus Gaming's veterans, his already excellent [Awareness] and [Game understanding] had also improved.

Lin Heng then put all five skill points into [Mechanics] without hesitation.

In an earlier meta, he would have prioritized [Teamfighting], but the current meta was all about laning, so there was definitely nothing wrong with putting points into [Mechanics] first.

[Mechanics] referred to the basics: reactions, movement, landing skills, prediction, health calculations, and so on.

[Teamfighting], meanwhile, primarily improved control of vision before teamfights, estimates of both compositions' damage, the ability to adapt on the fly during fights, and so on.

Simply put, [Teamfighting] was more macro-oriented, while [Mechanics] was a little more micro-oriented.

Seeing his [Mechanics] reach 96, Lin Heng felt a quiet thrill of satisfaction.