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If you tell someone who hasn't played Honor of Kings that you're the Strongest King or something, they actually can't understand your strength, because in their eyes, there's no general concept of what the Strongest King means.

But if...

You tell these friends who don't play Honor of Kings that you are the top Li Bai in the country.

Then even if they don't play this game, they will still be shocked.

The title of top in the country is far more appealing than a simple rank.

So...

After this system was launched, the average online time of Honor of Kings players also began to slowly and continuously increase.

Many players wanted to improve the rankings of their proficient “five-four-three” heroes.

And this weibo hot search that appeared on the third day happened to be at a very opportune time.

This time node...

Was precisely when most players had learned about the hero regional rankings and started to feel a sense of defiance.

At this time, many players became curious about the true Expert on the leaderboard.

This curiosity arose among almost all Honor of Kings player groups.

Players with relatively low strength wanted to know how strong those top players in the country truly were.

Players who were already good and had national standard heroes wanted to know why others were higher than them, when their own operations and strength were already very strong.

So, under these circumstances...

The moment this weibo hot search appeared, it almost immediately attracted a large number of player clicks.

It directly soared to the top of the weibo hot search with an explosive trend.

And the content of this weibo hot search...

Was a video released by the official Honor of Kings.

In the video...

It documented the operation videos of several of the current top high-difficulty heroes in the country.

The top Li Bai in the country, the top Yao, the top Yuange, and several other high-difficulty heroes.

And these high-difficulty heroes, in the operations of their respective expert players, could almost always dominate the entire game.

Many players still felt defiant before clicking into this video.

They wondered why these people were the top in the country.

But after opening the video and watching, the operations of the several players in the video directly convinced everyone.

For a time...

The comments below this video exceeded one million in a very short period.

“Damn, is this the strength of the top Li Bai in the country? Taking the enemy general's head from amidst an army!”

“I still thought my 18th-ranked Luna in the country was already very strong, but I didn't expect that after seeing the operations of the top Luna in the country, I realized how bad I am.”

“I'm not convinced, I see these people's operations as trash, they definitely can't beat me, let them come and duel me!”

“Excuse me, upstairs, what is your current rank, and what is your highest-ranked hero?”

“I am Bronze I, specializing in curing all defiance!”

“Damn, there really are Bronze players, I thought all players below Gold were bots?”

“Don't say that, yesterday I saw a female college student on Douyin who couldn't even pass her Silver promotion match and cried.”

Regardless of the players' discussions...

This weibo hot search undoubtedly raised the popularity of Honor of Kings another notch.

And the emergence of hero regional rankings undoubtedly greatly increased the retention and stickiness of the player base.

Within a few days after this system was launched...

The average daily active player online time for Honor of Kings had already exceeded that of Dota Mobile by two times.

You should know...

The types of the two games are exactly the same.

Yet there was such a large gap in online time.

Not to mention...

The current user bases of the two also differed greatly.

Over the past period, the number of daily active players for Honor of Kings had increased to nearly eighty million.

While Dota Mobile, after half a month of aggressive promotion, only barely reached sixty million daily active users.

Although the numbers don't seem to differ much...

But you should know...

The number for Dota Mobile was achieved by aggressive promotion and marketing, but Honor of Kings did nothing at all.

And now...

Because of Honor of Kings' newly launched hero regional ranking system...

Therefore, in the period that followed, a large number of Dota Mobile users began to be attracted to Honor of Kings.

After Dota Mobile stopped promoting, its daily active users began to decrease day by day.

But on the other side, Honor of Kings' daily active users...

Were increasing day by day.

The gap between the two games had begun to continuously widen.

However, within Penguin Group, they still had no intention of giving up on Dota Mobile, desperately clinging to its last breath.

Within Dota Mobile, their development of new modes and new maps was still furiously continuing.

At the same time...

Not long after Honor of Kings launched hero regional rankings...

Penguin Group naturally also discovered the potential of this system.

But the key was...

They no longer had the energy to simultaneously copy this system.

One week after Honor of Kings' update...

Within Penguin Group, Mobile Game Department.

“How much more time do you need?”

“The gap between Honor of Kings and us is getting wider and wider now.”

At this moment...

Pony and several high-level executives of Dota Mobile were questioning the person in charge in the technical department.

Facing Pony's words, the person in charge wiped the sweat from his forehead and then spoke.

“We have completed the copying of the new modes and new maps.”

“But the crucial AI strength is still under development.”

“We estimate that we will need at least about twenty more days to raise the AI's strength to the level we require.”

Listening to this timeframe, Pony also frowned.

Because for the current Dota Mobile, they couldn't wait any longer.

Not to mention...

Now Honor of Kings had launched some hero regional ranking system, and this system also had a huge positive boost and impact on Honor of Kings.

After they completed the current update, they would have to immediately start copying this system without delay.

After pondering for a moment...

Pony continued.

“We can't wait that long.”

“Lower the AI strength requirements; as long as they aren't so stupid and truly have the strength of players with lower ladder scores, that's fine.”

“As for the new modes and new maps that have been updated, implement them immediately.”

“Okay, I'll go do it right away.” After nodding, the head of the technical department prepared to leave.

However, at this moment...

Pony spoke again, calling out to him.

“Wait.”

“Is there anything else, President Ma?”