LoL: The Chinese LPL wants to revolutionize the competitive and will pilot tests in the second division
League of Legends has managed to endure over time thanks to Riot Games not being afraid to make changes when they played. Systems like runes were updated a while ago, we keep learning about new champions that add mechanics to the game, and quality of life improvements are even being applied to games so that the experience is superior to what it was five years ago.
This must also happen on a competitive level for the MOBA from the Californian studio to achieve top power and relevance. And one of the leagues that is willing to take such revolutionary steps is the Chinese LPL. Starting today we can see the implementation of a new best of three maps in the LDL, the second division of that region.
A test in the second competition
The biggest novelties we have had in 12 years of competitions are the use or not of series to the best of one, three or five maps, as well as the arrival of the five bans per team a few years ago. Nothing changes between the big leagues, or even in the European regional divisions. But League of Legends' increasingly crowded roster could prompt some tweaks like LDL.
The Chinese LDL works as a talent pool in China, and it has a peculiar format. The first round is played to the best of one, while the second is the best of three. But as of today, this approach to the calendar has a new twist: the mode Fearless (without fear in Spanish).
This is Fearless mode
The Fearless mode, in essence, is quite similar to the Conquest that we can see in Hearthstone, without going any further. During the best of three, the team that wins now removes the champions they used in the victory from their possible use options. This makes him have a total of 10 champions locked in the next game, 5 chosen by the other team, and the 5 he put his win on the leaderboard with.
According to Saritarookie in the ChinaGap media outlet, this adjustment, in addition to responding to the need to shake up the metagame, could also seek to attack match-fixing scandals in the second Chinese LoL competition. At the moment we don't know if this test can end up transcending the LPL next year, and thus the rest of international competitions, but we will have to keep an eye on it.
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