Full-time: Starting from Ye Xiu vs. Faker

Chapter 388 Final ()

"Hey, our China Expert is here." Park Jae-yoon looked at the SKT members striding in and went forward to greet them happily.

"What a strange name?" Li Xianghe frowned.

How could he, an iron-blooded warrior who had never stood on Chinese soil in his life and knew little about the customs and people of China, become an expert on China?

"Last time at the airport, both of you were on good terms with those ruthless people from Fanhua. Aren't you experts on China?"

"Then you were beaten like a top by others, so doesn't that also count as half a person?" After all the troubles that happened during this period, Lee Sang-hyuk and Park Jae-yoon have become much closer to each other and can make some harmless jokes now.

"Screw you……"

A few people were pulling and tugging at each other, and the brothers who were watching the show on the other side couldn't help it anymore.

An Bixin pushed his glasses and said, "Everyone, be quiet. We have limited time."

This old guy is really anxious.

For young players like Faker, they are young and have many opportunities. They can wait for the next Asian Games or even the Olympics that may come later.

After all, by the next Olympics, these young people will be exactly 22 or 23 years old, the prime age.

But he doesn't have that blessing. The only chance he has is this time next year.

Although it is true that South Korean e-sports had a very serious tradition of seniority in the past, and because Bengi has always been a supporting role next to Ye Xiu, judging from his performance, apart from the rising star Pinart, basically no one competed with him for the jungler position.

But that also requires him to win the World Championships and the Asian Games.

Especially the World Championship.

As the largest and most influential individual event in the field of e-sports to date, the status of the World Championship is unquestionable.

There is no doubt that South Korea attaches great importance to this award.

If they win, then South Korea will still be an e-sports country and number one in the world, so naturally everything will be peaceful and prosperous, and nothing will happen.

But if I don't win...

That might cause a bloody storm.

The South Korean authorities, having lost face, may conduct a comprehensive cleanup of the existing e-sports field.

By then, it will not be so easy to get a spot by relying on qualifications or something like that.

Jiang Canrong is self-aware. He knows how powerful Pinata is, even though he doesn't owe Wolf Bank a lot of debt yet.

Unless one day Peanut gets drunk and ganks Trash Can and breaks his hand, or the jungle ecology in the next version is changed so drastically that Peanut is completely unable to adapt.

Otherwise, based on his strength alone, he can almost secure a starting spot.

What will An Bi Xin do then?
Turning his head to glance at the high-spirited version of Peanut who was chatting and laughing with his good brothers in KT, An Bixin secretly made up his mind:

No matter what, LCK must win the S-League! Even if he doesn’t win it personally, it’s fine!

He doesn't want to fill in the line for Kaka.

That is why, even though the coaching staffs of the LCK teams had already established contact through official channels to exchange tactics, the insecure Ambition still organized this offline combat meeting for the players.

So when An Bixin saw that this group of young people turned the operational meeting into a team-building meeting, he was really anxious.

Fortunately, his strength, qualifications and status are among the best among this group of contestants, and Park Jae-yoon, the only one who can match him, has no intention of opposing him.

So after his roar, the atmosphere at the scene finally calmed down a little.

"Okay, let's talk about LPL." An Bixin took over the initiative consciously. He was too lazy to say polite words. With a dark face, he looked directly at the area where the SKT members were sitting.

There, five SKT players plus Park Jae-yoon, who was trying to get close to them, were fighting over a can of Coke that Lee Sang-hyuk had bought on the road.

"Can you be serious?" An Bixin suddenly began to miss his baseball bat.

If I had my magic weapon with me, I would have taught you little brats a lesson about the authority of a senior!
"What do you want to ask, senior?" Li Xianghe was just feeling sorry for the Coke he had spent a huge amount of money to purchase. When he saw Anbi Xin's defense was broken, he remembered that he still had important things to do and became serious.

"You played against Fanhua in MSI before, and the result was not very good. Is it a coincidence or is there really a difference in strength?"

SKT and Fanhua only had two open matches. Although they lost ugly games, An Bixin still had some hope.

Li Xianghe recalled the scene at that time for a long time, and then he said four words: "Yes, and no?"

"Don't keep me in suspense!" The number of times An Bixin broke through the defense today is enough to catch up with half of his regular season.

On the other side, Park Jae-yoon took over the conversation lazily: "Look, you're anxious again."

"Simply put, our actual combat capability at that time was indeed not as good as our strength on paper." Although what he said was correct, it sounded funny when Park Jae-yoon said it.

After all, Park was at least 70% to blame for the fact that SKT was not as strong as it appeared on paper.

The remaining 30% was thrown away by him when Faker was clearing out the coaches.

"But even if we were in good shape, our chances of winning would still be slim against that team."

An Bixin was a little bit unbelievable: "Is it that exaggerated?"

He had also seen Park Jae-yoon's strength, a super ruthless guy who led a weak team that couldn't even make the playoffs in the spring to fight SKT for five games.

If their form had not been affected, SKT should not have been at a disadvantage all the time.

"You should know that Sang Hyuk and Hyuk Kyu have a good relationship with the members of Fanhua, right?" Park Jae Yoon said with a smile.

"Yeah." An Bixin nodded. He had seen the vlog posted on SKT's official channel.

"In fact, apart from the days of the official match, the opponent we had the most practice matches with was Fanhua. In total, we played about ten games."

An Bixin immediately became interested: "How many games did you win?"

Park Jae-yoon slowly raised a finger.

"Only one match..." An Bixin took a breath and became more alert to LPL. "Even if IPX was not in good shape at the time, it was terrifying to be able to achieve such a record."

"The Chinese team is really strong..."

Unexpectedly, his sigh made Park Jae-yoon roll his eyes jokingly: "Who told you that we won a game?"

"Could it be that--" An Bixin was stunned.

It shouldn't be that exaggerated, right?
"Only once did we not quit swimming before fifteen minutes."

Even someone as thick-skinned as Park Jae-yoon couldn't help but blush a little when talking about such a tragic record, and the smile on his face faded a little.

It's so embarrassing...

"How is it possible? How did they do it?" An Bixin's voice was a little trembling.

This shouldn't happen. With LCK's foundation, it shouldn't be possible for them to be beaten like this by LPL.

"Because the online situation is unstable." This time, it was Lee Sang Hyuk who answered him.

Because his relationship with Park Jae-yoon had eased, he deliberately made his words a little vague.

Because it is a training match, generally speaking, there will be no targeted bans on heroes, otherwise the training effect will not be very good. Under the premise that the heroes are not restricted, Fanhua can do it. Wherever Sun Zheping goes, that lane will be steadily blown up, and the rest of the lanes will be steadily suppressed.

In the middle lane, Li Xianghe is very strong, but between Fanhua’s two mid laners, Xiye has the external war buff, so they can destroy each other.

Tian Sen is not that powerful, but he is self-aware enough and is willing to use his skills as a tool to withstand pressure.

So Faker can hardly make a breakthrough in the middle lane.

But on the other hand, it is not that difficult for Fanhua to accomplish things on the wing.

Sun Zheping plays top lane, and he can pick any one of the strong Fiora, Riven, or Noxus, and Park Jae-yoon will basically be treated like a spinning top.

If Sun Zheping plays as a support, Park Jae-yoon in the top lane will be a little better off. After all, although Zhao Yang can also suppress Park Jae-yoon at that time, his style is not that oppressive.

Just don't even think about fighting for line rights or anything like that.

But Deft in the bottom lane is going to suffer.

At that time, SKT's support effort was only average, and was basically equivalent to a toy in front of the combined bloody scene of flowers.

The upper and lower lanes can at least break through one lane, and at least two of the three lanes can firmly grasp the line rights in their hands.

Fanhua can push and move first without restraint, cooperate with their highly aggressive jungler to wreak havoc in the SKT jungle, or suddenly launch a gank offensive.

It is too difficult for SKT to turtle in front of them.

"Is it so horrible..." There was no trace of impatience on ambition's face at this moment.

In League of Legends, the importance of operations and tactics goes without saying.

Although there was a reckless period in the past, the current LCK is gradually regaining its fine traditions of operations and tactics.

However, no matter how good the tactics or how rigorous the operations are, if you want to use them, there is a major premise.

That is, you can't be penetrated in the line.
Once you cannot defeat the opponent in the line, all tactics are useless, as the opponent just needs to attack your breakthrough point.

Judging from the descriptions of several SKT players, it is obvious that Fanhua's laning strength is stronger than expected.

"If I have to say, in LPL, most teams that aspire to the playoffs or even the World Championship prefer strong laning, and the team will basically have a highly offensive Demolitionist at least."

Deft, who had been silent, interrupted at this time, with a gleam in his eyes.

He is a die-hard fan of Zhang Jiale, and everyone knows it.

Zhang Jiale felt a little sorry for not being able to enjoy the last MSI.

As for the LPL games, he and Lee Sang-hyuk basically watched all the more important ones.

"Well, a typical example is the defeat between Fanhua and Xingxin." Li Xianghe continued.

When the game was over, SKT had already started fishing, so the two Cars of Mapo were able to watch the decisive battle in a more relaxed state of mind.

If the first game was intense but more or less a familiar scene,

In the second game, Xingxin temporarily pulled out their trident, and Faker's brain began to overload.

It’s not that he didn’t understand this tactic, on the contrary, he quickly understood why Fanhua couldn’t deal with Xingxin’s attack, even though they had successfully killed an important C position.

What overloaded his brain was: Are there any more masters?

Different from Deft who only loves flowers, Faker has a special feeling for Xingxin.

Among all the mid laners in LPL, only Faker gives him a strange sense of identity that does not know where it comes from.

Obviously one is a legendary veteran with great success, and the other is a young man who has just embarked on his professional journey.

This sense of identity became stronger and stronger as he gradually grew into the core of SKT, then became a superstar of the entire LCK, and began to carry SKT on his shoulders.

Therefore, Li Xianghe pays close attention to Xingxin's games and has a deep understanding of Xingxin.

That's why he was so shocked when he saw Xingxin come up with such a magical tactic as the Trident for Yu Wenbo.

For some reason, he really didn't think highly of Yu Wenbo.

Although he was Xingxin's main rotation AD, Li Xianghe instinctively felt that he could treat the opponent like a stray dog ​​on the roadside, even though he was a person who never looked down on his opponents.

Therefore, when Li Xianghe saw the value and combat effectiveness of the opponent under the Trident system, he was shocked.

He subconsciously thought of his own SKT in his mind, and then he wilted.

He was somewhat confident that he could barely replace Ye Xiu. Although Deft was not as good at explosive output as Yu Wenbo, the value he could contribute in the trident system was not necessarily lower than that guy.

But it is absolutely impossible for Khan to replace Tang Rou.

Even though the former is the solo kill king of the LCK Summer Season.

"Super top laner..." Li Xianghe gently uttered these four words.

Tang Rou and Sun Zheping are the only two top laners who can be called super in the current environment.

That kind of unparalleled offensiveness is hard to achieve even for players like Smeb in LCK who are equally good at attacking.

What’s even more terrifying is that Xingxin has more than just a super top laner.

A super mid laner who is at the top in both strength and experience. The two have different styles, but together they can perfectly adapt to the bottom lane rotation in most situations. A nervous but elusive radar-type jungle nightmare, and a young support who can already take up the banner of command...

With all these things put together, how high is the ceiling of this Xingxin team?
So how strong was the Blue Rain team that was casually thrown into the loser group for Xingxin?

When he shared these speculations with the LCK crowd who were watching the fun, unsurprisingly, they were met with silence.

Although some young and bold players like Peanut, Smeb, Ruler and others still had an expression of unwillingness to try, some experienced veterans had already fallen into deep thought.

The relaxed team-building atmosphere when I first arrived has completely dissipated in the face of cruel reality.

Fanhua's brutality against old SKT, Happy's monster lineup, and Blue Rain standing in the final overlooking these two strong teams...

These professional players who grew up with the idea that "South Korea is the best in the world of e-sports" finally began to understand one thing:

This time, they, LCK, are the challengers.

Although the atmosphere has become quite heavy, at least we can have a serious chat about the next strategic layout.

Park Jae-yoon glanced at his watch and the time was just right.

The final next door is about to begin.

He turned on the TV:
"Now that things have come to this, let's watch the game first."

　I originally wanted to add more chapters, but you know, there are T1 and GEN today, and I want to observe the enemy situation.

　　Although it makes me sleepy now.

　　So I'll update tomorrow...

　　slip kneeling
　　
　
(End of this chapter)