"They've got their bets in! What win rate will Grandmaster need to reach Challenger? Can he make it to rank one? Place your bets!"
"We've been waiting for this day! Factory Director, the god of PUA!"
"King Rank Players usually have around a 55% win rate. I'll bet on 60%. Sounds about right, doesn't it?"
"60% is a bit ridiculous, isn't it? The highest win rate anyone's managed on the climb to Challenger worldwide is only 67%, and that was in a Wildcard Region. You're putting way too much pressure on Grandmaster!"
"There's someone with a 70% win rate... but that was in a weak Wildcard Region. Grandmaster's so damn good. Even if he's never played ranked, getting to Challenger with a 60% win rate should be a breeze, right?"
Factory Director's livestream.
The number of viewers today had surpassed everyone's expectations.
Not only had countless fans tuned in, but the smaller accounts belonging to all the pro teams that had been desperately searching for Xu Cheng lately were also watching his first real test in ranked.
"What do you think? I reckon he can manage 60%. In the top lane, a 55% win rate is enough to earn a starting spot in the LPL."
Factory Director chatted casually with Xi Ye and the others over voice chat.
They knew more than ordinary viewers and had broader perspectives.
Xu Cheng mainly played top lane in ranked. Given the current state of top laners around the world, a 55% win rate on the climb to Challenger was already enough to earn a starting spot in the LPL.
To put it bluntly, even a player who reached Challenger with a win rate just above 50% could play top lane in the LPL after some system training and team scrims—
It couldn't be helped. The LPL's top laners were famous for being easy to bully. They were a bunch of cowards.
"He's too talented. Before reaching Master, he won't run into many strong opponents. A 60% win rate sounds crazy, but it's not impossible."
Xi Ye agreed more with the viewers.
"He's started."
Just then,
with Factory Director spectating, Xu Cheng had begun his ranked climb.
To be honest, the placement matches were so easy for Xu Cheng that they felt no different from normal games. They were mind-numbingly dull, and he won with barely any effort.
After the ten placement matches, viewers across the internet had watched him stomp weaker players.
Factory Director watched with keen interest—
The whole point this time was to assess Xu Cheng's performance in real games. He'd asked Xu Cheng to play top lane in ranked, stick to standard champions, and avoid any flashy nonsense.
So Xu Cheng's performance in the placement matches was on a whole different level from normal games.
His practiced use of classic carry tops like Fiora, Camille, and Jayce alone had Factory Director practically swooning.
Wasn't this the top-lane carry god I'd been dreaming of, lost to me for years?!
"Ah, this isn't very interesting. I'll come back when he's close to Challenger."
Xi Ye didn't have Factory Director's patience. If his club weren't pestering him nonstop, he wouldn't have come by at all.
Of course, he'd happened to play Xu Cheng's "master" for a few days, so his impression of him had changed a long time ago.
"Suit yourself."
Factory Director didn't comment. He watched the match recordings closely, occasionally asking his assistant to note down some statistics.
From Xu Cheng's perspective, the placement matches and the low-ranked games that followed were painfully mediocre. There wasn't much to see.
After finishing his placement matches that day, he went undefeated and was placed in Gold I.
He played another five or six games, averaging twenty minutes per match, and climbed straight to Platinum V.
Then he logged off to rest—
His schedule was already tight. He couldn't spend all his time playing ranked.
And so, time flew by.
A week later.
"How far has he climbed? How's it going?"
"Honestly, this guy's schedule is all wrong. What high-ranked player keeps such a normal routine? He only plays a few games a day. Is he trying to live a healthy lifestyle or what?"
Xi Ye returned to Factory Director's livestream.
The stream had nowhere near as many viewers as it had on the first day—
After the initial curiosity wore off, a week had already tested most people's patience.
They wanted to see Xu Cheng play high-ranked games, not keep messing around in low-ranked ones.
Factory Director had been tasked with evaluating him, but he couldn't sit around waiting every day. The recordings of Xu Cheng's recent ranked games had long since been handed over to the team assistant.
So when Xi Ye asked, he didn't know either.
"Let's take a look. It's been a week, so he should be close."
Factory Director yawned, rubbed his eyes, and clicked on Xu Cheng's profile. Then he spoke to the viewers:
"Yeah, yeah, I know. Don't get impatient, everyone. Hmm... What do you mean, all those question marks?"
Noticing that a few viewers kept spamming question marks in the chat, Factory Director paused in surprise.
By then, he'd opened Xu Cheng's profile.
He saw Xu Cheng's current rank—
ID: [Bro! We're Rich Now!]
Rank: 349
Tier: Master
Win Rate: 90%
Games: 46
????
"What the hell?! What is this?!"
Factory Director jolted, thinking he'd misread it. He rubbed his eyes and looked again...
There was no mistake. It was 90%!
Factory Director was stunned.
A 90% win rate in Master?!
What did that even mean?
As everyone knew, LOL's win-rate system meant that as long as your win rate stayed above 50% while climbing, you'd eventually reach Master and even Challenger.
These days, the win rates of CN Server Master and King Rank players generally hovered between 50% and 55%. Anyone above 56% was already incredibly good.
The absolute best Factory Director had dared to hope for from Xu Cheng was 60%. That alone would surpass everyone else's record!
And Xu Cheng?
A 90% win rate!
A full 30% higher than Factory Director had expected!
He wasn't Challenger yet, but Master was the proving ground for the King Rank!
It was already the highest tier in the game!
As long as Xu Cheng didn't go on a losing streak, he could definitely achieve that dreamlike 60% win rate.
"Good heavens, 90%??? Are we sure that's right?"
Xi Ye was dumbfounded too. Like Factory Director, his first reaction was that it couldn't be real—
"I remember the official record. The highest win rate ever in Master was only 70%, right? And that was in a Wildcard Region?"
"A win rate like that on the LPL's CN Server? Come on, that's got to be fake. It's way too ridiculous..."
"No, what I'm wondering is, he's only played 46 games... How many tiers did he skip? That's insane..."
The staggering contrast in the numbers gave everyone an incredible visual shock. They couldn't help wondering if the game had changed so much that a 90% win rate was now something anyone could manage.
"Anyone can do it? I don't even have hands!"
"Good heavens, 90%!! So he's the CN Server's unstoppable carry, huh?"
"I'm stunned! Are that win rate and number of games for real?"
"Those 46 games are ridiculous. Even Dopa wasn't this brutal! This has to be a record for fewest games, right?"
"Honest question: what level is that win rate and number of games?"
"What level? My take is—he's in a league of his own, crushing everyone by an entire dimension. From now on, everyone on the CN Server who sees a Data Monster will have to drop to their knees and kowtow twice. I'm not exaggerating. He's just that damn good. He's invincible!"
The viewers were going wild.
Forty-six games and a 90% win rate to Master—those stats could only be described as a crushing, dimension-level advantage.
The livestream, whose viewership had dwindled over the past week, saw its audience explode before their eyes!
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