World #1 Player Obsessed with Shenanigans?
Chapter 24

My evaluation is, CN Server's Top-Tier Carry [Request Monthly Ticket]

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[Place your bets, place your bets! What win rate will the Grandmaster hit King Rank with? Can he take first? Place your bets!]

[Been waiting for this day! Factory Director, the god of PUA!!]

[Normal King Rank players have around a 55% win rate. I'm betting on 60%. Sound about right?]

[60% is a bit ridiculous. The highest win rate to hit King globally right now is 67%, and that's in the Wildcard Region. You're putting all the pressure on the Grandmaster!]

[There's 70%... but that's still a weak Wildcard Region. The Grandmaster is so insane, even without ranked experience, 60% to King should be a breeze, right?]

Factory Director's stream.

Today's viewership was explosively hot beyond anyone's imagination.

Not only had countless fans and viewers shown up, but also the alt accounts of major pro teams that had been desperately searching for Xu Cheng recently were all watching his live ranked debut.

"What do you guys think? I feel like 60% is doable. Top lane, 55% is enough to start in the LPL."

Factory Director was casually chatting with Xi Ye and a few others on a voice call.

Compared to ordinary viewers, their insight was broader.

Xu Cheng was mainly playing top lane in ranked. Given the current global top lane environment, a 55% win rate to hit King was already enough to secure a starting top laner spot in the LPL.

To put it bluntly, even hitting King with just over 50% win rate, after systematic training and team scrims, could land you an LPL top lane spot—

No help for it, the LPL top lane was notoriously weak and full of cowards.

"His talent is too good. He won't face any strong opponents before Master. 60% is exaggerated, but not impossible."

Xi Ye, however, agreed more with the viewers' take.

"It's starting."

Right then.

On Factory Director's observer client, Xu Cheng had begun his ranked journey.

To be honest, the intensity of placement matches was no different from normals for Xu Cheng—boring to play, easy to win.

After ten placement matches, the entire audience had watched a slaughter.

Factory Director watched with great interest—

His main goal this time was to assess Xu Cheng's actual gameplay. He'd asked him to play top lane in ranked, use normal champions, and not pull any stunts.

So Xu Cheng's performance in placements was incomparable to normals.

Just his skilled use of classic top lane carry champions like Fiora, Camille, and Jayce had Factory Director hyped up at one point.

Isn't this the top lane Big Daddy I've been dreaming of, separated from me for so long?!

"Ah-ha~ Nothing interesting. I'll come back when he's about to hit King."

Xi Ye didn't share Factory Director's patience. If the club hadn't been pushing him hard, he wouldn't have even come.

Of course, since he'd coincidentally been Xu Cheng's "mentor" for a few days, his impression of the guy had already changed.

"Whatever you say."

Factory Director didn't comment, focusing on the observer records and occasionally having his assistant jot down some data.

From Xu Cheng's perspective, the placement matches and the low-tier ranked games afterward were utterly unremarkable, nothing worth watching.

After finishing placements today with a perfect record, he was placed directly into Gold 1.

After another five or six games, averaging twenty minutes per ranked match, Xu Cheng's rank shot straight to Platinum 5.

He chose to log off and rest—

His daily schedule was tight enough; he couldn't just keep grinding ranked here.

And so, time passed in a blur.

A week later.

"Where's he at now? How's it going?"

"If you ask me, this guy's schedule is just wrong. What high-ELO player keeps such normal hours? Playing just a few games a day, like he's preserving his health?"

Xi Ye came back to Factory Director's stream.

The stream's popularity was nowhere near as high as that first day—

After the initial curiosity, a week had worn down most people's patience.

Everyone wanted to see Xu Cheng play high-ELO games, not keep messing around in low tiers.

Though Factory Director was tasked with the assessment, he couldn't wait around every day. He'd long since handed over Xu Cheng's recent climbing replays to the team's assistant.

So when Xi Ye asked, he had no idea either.

"Let's check. It's been a week, should be about done."

Factory Director yawned, rubbed his eyes, and clicked open Xu Cheng's profile, saying to the stream viewers:

"I know, I know, don't rush. Mm... what's with all the question marks?"

Noticing a small portion of the chat still spamming question marks, Factory Director was momentarily stunned.

By then, he had already opened Xu Cheng's profile page.

He saw the other's current rank information—

ID: [Bro! Our Family's Rich Now!]

Rank: 349

Tier: Grandmaster

Win Rate: 90%

Games Played: 46

????

"Holy shit!! What the hell is this?!"

Factory Director jolted, thinking he'd misread it. He rubbed his eyes and looked again...

Yep, it was 90%!

In an instant, Factory Director's mind went numb!

A 90% win rate in Grandmaster?!

What kind of concept was that?

As everyone knew, LOL's win rate system meant that as long as your win rate stayed above 50% as you climbed ranks, you'd advance to Grandmaster, or even Challenger.

Right now on the CN Server, win rates in Grandmaster and King Rank generally hovered between 50-55%. Anyone above 56% was already an absolute beast.

Factory Director's highest, highest expectation for Xu Cheng had only dared to sit at 60%—that alone would have shattered everyone's records!

And Xu Cheng?

A 90% win rate!

A full 30% higher than what Factory Director had anticipated!

Even though he wasn't in King Rank yet, Grandmaster was the reserve pool for Challenger rankings!

This was already the highest tier in the game!

As long as Xu Cheng didn't go on a losing streak from here, that dreamlike 60% record was absolutely achievable.

"Oh my god, 90%?! Are you sure?"

Xi Ye was also dumbfounded now. He shared the same thought as Factory Director—his first instinct was disbelief—

"I remember the official record, the highest historical win rate in Grandmaster was only 70%, right? And that was in the Wildcard Region?"

"Someone pulled this win rate on the LPL's CN Server? Bro, that's a bit fake, isn't it? Too insane..."

"No wait, what I'm thinking is—he only played 46 games... How many damn tiers did he skip? That's ridiculous..."

The stark contrast in data delivered an unparalleled visual shock to everyone, making them wonder—had the meta changed so much that a 90% win rate was now achievable with just a pair of hands?

[With just a pair of hands? I don't have hands!]

[Oh my god!! 90%!! A CN Server god-tier carry, right?]

[My brain's fried! Is that win rate and number of games even real?]

[His 46 games are too insane. Even Dopa wasn't this ruthless! That number of games has to be a record, right?]

[I don't get it, what level does this game count and win rate represent?]

[What level? My verdict—a dimensionality-reduction strike, a tier-breaking lead. From now on, everyone on the CN Server who sees the Data Monster has to kneel and kowtow twice. No other meaning—just awesome, just invincible!]

The viewers in the chat were going wild too.

46 games, 90% win rate to reach Grandmaster—this data could only be described as a tier-breaking lead, a dimensionality-reduction strike.

Because of the week-long lull, the stream's popularity had temporarily dipped, but at this moment, it was skyrocketing at a visible pace!

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