Meteor Hammer of the Wasteland, Turmoil at the All-Star Game

Meteor Hammer of the Wasteland: Shockwave's strongest ultimate move. When you play the champion Jayce, your understanding of the champion will rise to master-level proficiency, and your Shockwave accuracy will increase by 50%.

Note: I am the world's number one Shockwave!

There was a saying League of Legends players really liked.

"Ah?"

Chu Ran widened his eyes. This perk was kind of ridiculous.

But—it was powerful!

What did Jayce rely on in lane?

His explosive early-game damage. With equal items, Jayce's damage in the early game was far higher than that of his matchup.

And he built armor penetration, relying on his two skill forms to poke in lane with Shockwave.

If your Shockwave was accurate, then honestly, even tanks had to kneel before Jayce in the early game.

"Not bad."

Chu Ran's gaze sharpened. He immediately picked up the Korean server account EDG had prepared for him and entered the queue.

At that moment, Deft and the others walked over to him. "Come on, Little Ran. Let's eat."

"No, Brother Ran, stop grinding, stop grinding. You're already Challenger on the Korean server. Are you really going to grind your way to Korean server rank one?" Meiko was utterly stunned as he watched Chu Ran start another ranked game.

Although Chu Ran had the system's support, he had not abandoned his own training. Things like match experience were not something the system could give him.

"Huh, isn't that Xiang He?"

Pawn's eyes flickered as he said in a deep voice, "Why is he playing Yasuo top lane?"

"Uh, then I've got this one in the bag. Give me twenty minutes—I'll definitely take it."

Chu Ran had initially thought it was some Yasuo one-trick, but it turned out to be Faker's Yasuo. Then he had absolutely nothing to fear.

Faker might have been a five-time world champion, but Chu Ran truly wasn't afraid of Faker's Yasuo!

Jayce's master-level proficiency made Chu Ran's thoughts exceptionally clear. At level one, he kept his distance from Yasuo and stayed near the brush. Whenever possible, he stepped into the brush and used minor Shockwaves and his range advantage to poke Yasuo.

Once he safely reached level two, it would be Jayce's world.

Although Yasuo had Wind Wall, its cooldown was longer than the cooldowns of Jayce's Q and E.

Yasuo's level-one Wind Wall had a thirty-second cooldown, while Jayce's level-one Q had a sixteen-second cooldown and his level-one E had a twenty-second cooldown.

He only needed to seize that window to poke.

Spark Surge

Shockwave!

Bang!

With a quick QE Combo, the blue projectile shot straight into Yasuo, who was constantly dashing around with E like a laser flying at extreme speed.

"Holy crap? It really is accurate!"

Chu Ran pursed his lips, inwardly a little shaken. Every time QE Combo came off cooldown, he fired another Shockwave at Faker's Yasuo.

Every projectile seemed to have GPS installed. With a 50% increase in hit chance, even Faker's astonishing Positioning could barely dodge any of them.

Deft and the others beside him were all dumbfounded.

Ming Kai carefully examined Chu Ran's screen, deeply puzzled. "Chu Ran, did you turn on auto-tracking for Jayce's cannonballs?"

"No. My mouse just has a spirit artifact inside it."

Chu Ran smiled faintly as another projectile struck Yasuo. Stormraider's Surge triggered, granting a large movement speed boost for three seconds. On top of that, Jayce's E Skill could provide allied units with a movement speed boost.

After switching to hammer form, he could gain another movement speed boost.

Two flashes of golden light appeared.

Leap of the Heavens!

Auto, then another auto. With hammer-form W's passive, he burned Yasuo down. When his Ultimate Ability was nearly off cooldown—

Thunderous Blow activated. He immediately switched forms again, activated W in cannon form, and three blue particles struck Yasuo, instantly finishing off Faker, who was still dashing around with E.

"Awesome!"

"Little Ran, you can brag about Solo Killing Xiang He for the rest of your life."

"I'm not Ximen or Xiao Hu, so no thanks."

Hearing Deft's words, Chu Ran quickly waved his hands. Looking at the Korean Faker had typed in Public Chat, he asked in confusion, "What did Brother Fei say?"

"He said you were cheating. He wants to report you to the officials."

"It's over, Brother Ran. Your account's gone."

Seeing Faker's message, Meiko and the others were all taken aback. Looking at Chu Ran's handsome face, they were filled with emotion.

Although Faker had only been playing casually in this ranked game, making Faker suspect that Chu Ran was using scripts was not something just anyone could do.

In the end, Chu Ran naturally carried the entire game, and the opposing side surrendered unanimously at twenty minutes.

Time flew by.

During the time leading up to the All-Star event, Chu Ran trained every day, then trained some more.

Meanwhile, Abu had been discussing streaming contracts with numerous livestreaming platforms on his behalf.

As the All-Star event approached, it was the last relatively major tournament of Season 6. With so many popular stars taking part, its hype was not much lower than that of the LPL. Chu Ran and the others had arrived at the event venue in Barcelona several days earlier.

When the list of participants for the All-Star Solo Competition was announced, it immediately sparked hot discussion online.

#Easy and Uzi will face off in an Imperial City PK at this year's All-Star Solo Competition!#

#The funniest episode yet—Uzi said on stream that a Solo Competition championship was still a championship, and it was his for the taking!#

"Brother Ran, your Weibo has blown up again. Hurry and look—tons of RNG fans are commenting."

"I can't take it anymore, Chu Ran. Can you fucking stop making me laugh? If I keep hanging around you, I feel like I'm going to laugh wrinkles onto my face. I'm already old enough as it is."

"I saw it. My Private Messages have exploded too. Kai Ge told you to spend less time with your five-fingered lady, but you wouldn't listen."

Chu Ran opened Weibo on his phone and found Private Messages constantly popping up. He had to wait several minutes before he could even use it properly.

The messages were filled with every kind of filthy insult, basically using his parents as the center and his ancestors eighteen generations back as the radius to offer Chu Ran a comprehensive greeting to his family tree.

All of this was because Chu Ran had posted another Weibo not long ago.

Weibo Easy:

Brothers, I have recently spent several years in seclusion, studying under Hong Qigong of the Beggar's Sect. My Dog Beating Staff Technique has already reached perfection. Now that I have emerged to compete in the All-Star Solo Competition, the thought of Soloing the great World's Number One ADC makes me unable to stop humming softly. Enough talk—please watch tomorrow as I seize the Solo Competition championship!

Beneath that post gathered countless RNG fans, Uzi haters, meme lovers, and trolls.

Less than an hour after the post went up, the Comment section had completely fallen.

66666, fucking Dog Beating Staff Technique!

I am one of the Five Greats, EDG-Easy. Please enlighten me!

Damn it, that "humming softly" isn't what I think it is, right?

Don't doubt it. It's exactly what you think it is.

Hahaha, when will I ever see this idiot's Weibo without laughing?

Ran Chu! I'm a locksmith. Let me ask you—how many keys do you want copied? With Little Dog around, you still want to win the Solo Competition? What the fuck makes you qualified?

I'm a fortune teller. Ran Chu, tell me, what the hell are you supposed to be?

Seriously though, isn't the World's Number One ADC joining a Solo Competition basically a dimensionality-reduction strike?

A lot of people want to challenge Little Dog, and Little Dog is naturally willing to play with them, because Little Dog is kind!

Just waiting for Little Dog to crush Ran Chu. Who knows what he's barking about here, Day by day, desperately riding Little Dog's popularity.

There's no suspense in this Solo Competition, right? Little Dog used to idolize Wei Xiao. He inherited Wei Xiao's CSing Skill—the match would be over just from getting 100 CS.

By the time Little Dog got 100 CS, the others probably wouldn't even have 50.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk."

Seeing those comments, goosebumps rose all over Chu Ran's body.

If Uzi didn't put someone down by 50 CS in lane, could that even be called a CS lead?

"Little Ran."

"Damn, it's Coach Abu. What do you need me for?"

When he turned around, Chu Ran nearly blurted it out again. Ji Xing's voice was something he really wasn't used to—it sounded far too much like a woman's.

Abu's eyes immediately narrowed. He had once again caught the scent of offense, but it quickly vanished.

"You've stirred up plenty of hype. Put in some effort during the Solo Competition, and don't lose to Uzi."

"Don't worry. V me 50 yuan before the match starts, and I'll definitely take it!"

Chu Ran Patted chest and Vow Confidently, but Abu and the others in the training room were full of doubt.

During this period, whenever they trained with Chu Ran, he would always ask them to V him 50 yuan before a scrim, saying that if they gave him 50, he would play even fiercer in the scrim.

At first, they didn't believe him and thought Chu Ran was just trying to swindle them out of 50 yuan. Yet somehow, it was fucking true.

Of course, Abu still didn't believe it now.

He had every reason to suspect that Chu Ran was scamming money, deliberately hiding his strength and only going all out after they V'd him 50 yuan.

Over this period, Chu Ran had earned at least several hundred yuan. The main thing was that he was a Pixiu—he basically only took money in and never spent any.

He was only slightly more generous than Faker. He had at least treated all the players to Coke, but whenever they wanted Shanghai Auntie, he claimed he had no money.

Oh, and the Coke was fucking family-size bottles!

"Little Ran, if you're short on money, I can advance you some of your salary. There's really no need to do this," Abu said, covering his face.

Chu Ran froze. "This isn't a matter of money. The potential inside my body can only be awakened when someone V me 50 yuan, and it lasts for one game."

"V V V V!"

Abu was numb. It was only 50 yuan, wasn't it? If Chu Ran could really Step On Uzi and win the Solo Competition championship, it would bring EDG an overwhelming amount of traffic. Forget 50 yuan—even 500 yuan, Abu would be willing to pay out of his own pocket.

He just didn't want to listen to Chu Ran's nonsense anymore.

Saying his hidden potential would only awaken if someone sent him 50 yuan.

If that really worked, then at the World Championship the past two years, he would've just stuffed Ming Kai with five million and maybe they'd have won the damn title already.

After Abu left, Chu Ran spread his hands and raised an eyebrow at Deft and the others, who were staring at him. "Do you believe me?"

"Brother Ran, don't say your brothers don't look out for you. Here's 50—go eat some KFC! Stop talking nonsense."

"Here's 50. Eat KFC or McDonald's, whatever you want. Wallace works too. Hurry up and log in for duo queue."

As Ming Kai and the others finished speaking, Chu Ran happily pocketed a hundred yuan before duo queuing with Ming Kai. To repay him, he specifically revealed a piece of information to Ming Kai.

"Kai Ge, for tomorrow's All-Star Clone mode, try to talk your teammates out of picking Lee Sin."

"Why?"

"Because I'm afraid you'll get kicked around like a ball."