Full-time: Starting from Ye Xiu vs. Faker

Chapter 389 Final ()

Unlike a certain parallel world, in this time and space, the LPL finals will be held the latest.

Because Fanhua had just finished MSI, in addition to adjusting the specific schedule, the start time of the summer season was also postponed by a few days to give Fanhua the most time to make adjustments and familiarize themselves with the new version.

This latest final time is just enough to allow the strong teams from other regions to get a result first, and then have enough time and energy to enjoy this powerful showdown between the world's number one region so far.

As Lee Sang-hyuk skillfully began to operate the computer to reversely bypass the wall to find the LPL live broadcast room, a large group of people in the room who were originally doing their own things also became interested.

They don’t know as much about LPL as SKT’s die-hard fans, but they do know one thing:

The Fanhua that gave their strongest force in the LCK Spring Split a beating did not make it to the finals.

So what kind of ruthless players are these two teams that made it to the finals?

However, when Li Xianghe finally cut the picture to the screen, their originally slightly expectant and nervous mood was suddenly stunned.

Who is this guy Tang who makes others need to take two insulin pills just by looking at him?

The timing of Li Xianghe's entry was very coincidental, as it happened to be the promotional video playing before the game, and the trash talk that had been recorded long ago was just what was played.

And when he cut in, Baozi's face just appeared.

In fact, Baozi's harsh words were quite reasonable, but unfortunately, except for Faker and Deft who had a little basic Chinese knowledge, no one at the scene could understand what he was saying.

All I could see was Baozi’s sunny and somewhat silly smile.

Well, very Tang.

"This is Baozi, an extremely special jungler whose thinking is completely unpredictable. Counter-jungling in front of him is tantamount to seeking death."

Li Xianghe coughed lightly and quickly found more buns for him without making any noise.

Even without considering his own filter for Happy, if these guys really had a preconceived notion that Baozi and even Happy were a bunch of idiots, then the World Championship would be a lot of fun.

As an old LPL viewer, he certainly knows that among the top six teams in the LPL playoffs, except for Xuanqi whose style is a little more serious, the others have their own funny ways.

After all, there are quite a few lively and entertaining people in the team.

But no matter how nonsensical it is off the court, these guys are more ruthless than each other when dealing with their opponents on the court.

Each team has its own strengths, each team has its own unique skills, fighting spirit and patience are amazing, and the secret weapon is...

Li Xianghe was really afraid that his brothers would be amused by the comedians from LPL and subconsciously look down on them.

If that happens, the outcome at the World Championship will probably be even worse than at MSI.

But sometimes, personal efforts seem so weak in the face of the overall environment.

While helping Baozi cover up, Li Xianghe was waiting for reliable seniors like Ye Xiu and Yu Wenzhou to show up to improve his image to some extent.

But unfortunately, the next person to speak was Huang Shaotian.

Because the LPL semi-finals did not have this kind of segment where both sides sat together to record trash talk, Huang Shaotian, who was participating for the first time, was extremely excited.

"I tell you, no matter how hard you struggle, it's useless. Your tactics have been exposed in the previous games. You have no chance of winning against us who are well-rested. Just like your jungle strategy, Baozi, our captain has already made a systematic plan - ugh!"

Once Huang Shaotian got excited, he had no control over his words at all.

When others trash-talk, they usually say some relatively empty and harsh words. Even when analyzing players and tactics, they only use one or two adjectives at most to summarize the general styles and counter-relationships.

After all, trash talk itself is a part of the game that adds to the fun of the game. It's all about who can liven up the game and boost morale. There's no need to engage in intrigue and tactical games in this aspect.

But Huang Shaotian is different. He cherishes every opportunity to speak freely.

Once he gets excited, he really has no restraint at all and says whatever he thinks.

Just like now, if Chu Yunxiu hadn't been very perceptive and worked with 957, one covering Huang Shaotian's mouth and the other hugging his waist to lift him out of the camera neatly,

It is really possible that he could reveal all of Blue Rain's tactics right in front of the camera.

Blue Rain carrying Huang Shaotian away is a traditional skill in LPL. Basically, whenever Blue Rain asks Huang Shaotian to shoot a promotional video or talk trash, this scene will appear.

When LPL viewers see this, they usually respond with a "classic" or "Huang Shao starts again" and then continue watching.

But the LCK players are different.

Ever since Huang Shaotian started chattering in front of the camera, question marks began to pop up in their heads one after another.

What's the fuss about?
It wasn't until Huang Shaotian was completely dragged out of the camera that at least twenty of the twenty or so people present started to have their brains shut down.

what?
Can trash talk be recorded like this?
Although LCK also has trash talk sessions, the atmosphere is far different from that of LPL.

On the one hand, there are not so many old players in LCK, and there are very few players with Glory background. Most of them are young people who have come out of the youth training camp.

This results in there not being that many stories between them that the audience would enjoy talking about, and there are really limited points for hype.

In addition, most of these young Koreans are shy, especially in front of the camera, they are as honest as quails.

Therefore, the trash talk process of LCK is basically that the players analyze the opponent's weaknesses and their own advantages one by one, and finally select one or two players with a high tactical position to say a few formulaic harsh words.

I won’t talk about the effect, I can only say that it works.

Like the ones in LPL, especially the one by Huang Shaotian... they have really never seen anything like it.

So, they once again turned their eyes to Lee Sang-hyuk, who was sweating profusely.

How can I explain this to you?

Li Xianghe wanted to slap himself at this moment.

How could he forget that all three of the royal family members are masters of living things?
Especially for the two teams Happy and Blue Rain, they may lack everything, but they definitely have good show effects.

At that moment, he gritted his teeth and introduced: "This is Huang Shaotian, the jungler of Team Blue Rain, the top jungler in LPL, and one of the five most famous players in China's glory."

"You can think of him as a Chan-young brother who is a few years younger but with a more Wanghu-like playing style."

Everyone, look at the guy being dragged away on the screen, and then look at An Bixin with a dark face standing aside.

An Bixin wanted to die.

Although his reason told him that the idiot who was just dragged away might have a powerful strength that was completely different from his temperament.

But when I thought about the fact that I was comparing it to something like this...

He suddenly wanted to hit himself on the head with his precious baseball bat.

On the other side, Peanut, who was dumbfounded just now, didn't expect that he would have a role to play, and his face suddenly turned red.

Suddenly I remembered that when I and my KT brothers defeated Samsung 3:1 to win the championship, I seemed to have acted quite arrogant in front of the camera...

It doesn't look that stupid, does it?

Li Xianghe was sweating profusely and praying secretly, "Senior Ye Xiu, please come out and say something, otherwise the image of LPL will be completely ruined."

But the problem is, because Chu Yunxiu moved Huang Shaotian away, there was no one to fight against Ye Xiu for the time being, so the shooting order jumped directly to AD.

Then everyone saw a big, stupid head and an evil creature with a human form appear on the screen one after another.

Especially the big-headed doll, his face flushed with excitement, his eyebrows flying with joy, he was as frivolous as he could be.

The official photographer was also mean and deliberately adjusted the angle, specifically taking pictures of the two ADs' distinctive faces when they were trash talking.

So one looks like it has a particularly large head, and the other looks particularly anthropomorphic.

The previous few tricks were just tricks, but at least each of them could be considered handsome and beautiful.
These two...

Li Xianghe's hands dropped limply.

Hopeless.

With what these guys have done, even gods can’t save us.

Tired, destroy it.

In a parallel universe in S14, a legendary mid laner once sacrificed his Chengdu Must-Eat List before the game and performed an evil hand gesture dance, which made the opponents who watched it lose their minds and finally put in a good performance.

And here the LPL, without even realizing it, used a promotional video to achieve a similar effect.

Anyway, now, no matter how much reason tells the LCK players that the LPL is full of ruthless people, these people are not easy to deal with.

But as soon as I see their IDs, I will subconsciously think of the jungler who was dragged away for being too talkative, the AD who looks like Xie Jian, the big-headed doll and other things...

How can this be serious?

"Hey, is this a special session for female contestants? There are three female contestants..."

Jiang Canrong was the first to regain his senses and quickly changed the subject.

Probably for the sake of pleasing the eyes, and also to make Chu Yunxiu, who was trying to drag Huang Shaotian away, less anxious, the official put the trash talk segments of Tang Rou, Su Mucheng, and Chu Yunxiu together.

As the only three super female players in LPL, these three have a very good personal relationship. Sitting together is like having a tea party, which eliminates a lot of the tense atmosphere in the trash talk session.

Although the original atmosphere was not that tense.

"Isn't it a top team? Why are there three female players?" someone questioned first.

As we all know, South Korea's game version is far ahead of China in some aspects, and the confrontation is much more intense.

Plus, they still haven't had a truly super female e-sports player. The best one they have is just a tossgirl who can beat up Brother Sun.

Therefore, the public opinion environment there has never been very friendly to female players.

Seeing that the two top teams, Happy and Blue Rain, actually had three female players, several young people immediately began to question.

Li Xianghe glanced at him, without commenting on his contemptuous attitude, and just said lightly:
"If they joined LCK, each of them would be qualified to compete for the top spot in their position."

Lee Sang-hyuk wasn't exaggerating.

Not to mention Tang Rou, the only super top laner in LPL. If she were put in LCK which doesn't have a super top laner yet, the effect would be similar to her performance in LPL when Sun Zheping is not playing.

Chu Yunxiu, the mid laner currently trying to maintain the third place and fight for the second place in LPL, is inferior to Xiye in terms of honors, but has an advantage in the head-to-head record, and often has a slight advantage over Xiye in terms of on-field performance.

Su Mucheng, the strongest Korean-style AD, although this kind of operation is not called Korean-style operation in this world.

These three, regardless of gender, are definitely the hottest names in the e-sports circle. After Lee Sang-hyuk's introduction, the doubts of the LCK group gradually dissipated, replaced by a strong sense of envy and even jealousy.

“How much money does this make…” Park Jae-yoon muttered.

He knew in his heart how great the commercial value of a female player with not only strong physical ability but also good looks was in the male-dominated field of e-sports.

Someone once said that as long as a female player has decent looks and the ability to stand firm in the LPL and not be bullied,

Even if she is in the bottom team, her popularity and commercial value will not be weaker than any top player.

What's more, the current three players in LPL are all top-notch in terms of appearance and strength.

Expanding his thoughts further, Park Jae-yoon was even more shocked to find that not only the female players, but even the male players, the average appearance of the LPL players seemed to be slightly lower than that of the LCK.

These are all pure silver...

I'm jealous……

Park Jae-yoon is not obsessed with honors now. He only cares about how much retirement money he can earn in the remaining time of his career.

"By the way, what are the salaries in LPL? How do they compare to us?" he asked subconsciously.

With such good economic benefits, the players should be able to earn a lot, right?

"There is no credible report on salaries," Li Xianghe recalled and shook his head.

"There are only some early reports about live broadcasts of several well-known players."

"How many?"

"Player Ye Xiu, five years, 1.2 million, just the signing fee."

"Oh, that's fine... Wait, what unit? It should be Korean won, right?"

“RMB.”

……

If before it was all just jokes and small talk as if it had nothing to do with them, then when the topic of salary came up, many players' minds started buzzing.

1.2 million RMB...that’s more than billion Korean won!

Is it just the signing fee?
It is no exaggeration to say that if you add up the salaries of the fifteen starting players of the three major LCK teams and multiply that by five, it would probably be around 1.2 million.

As for the signing fee for the live broadcast contract?

There are even fewer of them. After all, the live broadcast effects of most of them are just so-so.

This is under the premise that An Bixin, the old man, took the absolute majority of the profits.

Neither the live broadcast platform nor the e-sports officials in South Korea have a keen eye like Pei Yunteng, so they can boldly offer high salaries to these professional players.

For a moment, the huge disparity in life left these young people, who had never seen so much money in their lives, speechless.

This time, without An Bixin's call, the private room consciously entered a state of silence.

The defense is broken!
Why can Chinese players earn so much money?
In fact, the judgment of this group of young LCK players may not be objective. After all, most of them are real rookies with no achievements and no traffic, so naturally they don’t have much salary in the first year.

But once they demonstrate their value on the field, their salaries will surely increase significantly.

Just like Faker, although he is still playing on a child labor contract and is paid a minimum salary, given his current reputation in the LCK, who dares to say that his next contract will not be a super big contract?

Although limited by the investment enthusiasm of the competition area and many other reasons, their overall salary level is still probably still not as good as LPL.

But the gap is certainly not as big as they imagined.

But unfortunately, they are all rookies now and only get basic salary, which is only hundreds of thousands or millions of RMB.

Even so, they were already quite proud of it. After all, compared with some other e-sports players in the past, this salary was already considered generous.

However, everything is afraid of a comparison.

"Um... LPL, is there a need for a top laner?" Park Jae-yoon's mind is now filled with that damn 1.2 million five-year signing fee.

He had never made so much money in his life.

Is LPL lacking a top laner? He was able to fight against the new god of LCK for five games, so his strength is guaranteed.

"Brother Jae-yoon, you don't have much of an image over there." Lee Sang-hyuk sighed.

Given Park Jae-yoon's war criminal-level performance in MSI and the public opinion storm surrounding him at the time, it goes without saying how bad his image is.

Although he has washed away the shame in China with his performance in the summer games, who will care whether he was wronged when he goes abroad?
"That's such a pity. If you can play there for two or three years and join a strong team, you might even be able to win a lot of honors. Who wouldn't want such a good thing?"

Park Jae-yoon curled his lips.

Even if they want to recruit players, why should they recruit you? Because you are a MSI semi-finalist?

Jiang Canrong complained in his heart while trying to bring the topic back to normal: "Let's talk about the finals."

The LPL region is really weird.

I haven't even watched their game yet, but just from watching the trash talk segment and a brief discussion about their environment, this group of LCK elites have been subjected to several waves of mental pollution.

By now, the atmosphere in this box has visibly shrunk by several inches.

This can't go on like this.

At this time, the trash talk had just ended and the game had not officially started yet. The host was chatting, and they couldn't understand Chinese, so they waited for Li Xianghe to explain.

"What is the key point of this final?"

Li Xianghe pondered for a long time before uttering two words: "Bottom lane."

That’s right, bottom lane.

The advantages of Xingxin's trident tactics are very obvious. All three lanes have high laning strength and team-fighting capabilities. Just relying on laning suppression and team-fighting breakthroughs, they can achieve excellent results.

There are basically two ways to counter them: either break through head-on on the laning side, or drag them down with extreme operations.

The former is definitely unrealistic. Xingxin is the strongest team in LPL in terms of laning strength at this stage, and although all three lanes of Blue Rain are very strong, their offensiveness is not that strong.

Then, it all depends on operations.

"Huang Shaotian's style and strength are very restraining to Baozi, which is one of Blue Rain's biggest advantages in the matchup." Li Xianghe analyzed.

"He and Blue Rain's support player Yu Wenzhou have the most unbeatable jungler-support synergy in the entire LPL, and even the world."

“I am not sure how they will break through for now, but I am sure that their operations will be the key to their breakthrough.”

Although Li Xianghe himself didn't know how to operate in order to suppress Xingxin's offensive power that was so strong that it made his scalp tingle.

After finally waiting for the game to officially begin, everyone watched the opening ceremony of the LPL Summer Finals and the players' entrance in dull silence.

Then the luxurious display of LPL shocked LCK a little bit.

LCK matches are usually held at a dedicated venue called LOLpark, with only about 400 seats for offline spectators.

The finals were slightly larger, but there was only space for a few thousand people.

As for the LPL, although the summer finals are just so-so, they will not use a venue as prestigious as the Bird's Nest.

But the venue for this event is also quite impressive, the Mercedes-Benz Center in Shanghai, a large arena that can accommodate 18,000 people, and a favorite venue for international superstars to perform live in Shanghai.

They all look majestic.

At this time, the Korean e-sports boys didn't even bother to pick out what was in the pre-match song and dance performance that was from their great universe country since ancient times.
Just looking at the huge venue packed with enthusiastic audiences, listening to the deafening cheers and applause from more than 10,000 spectators, everyone's eyes were wide open.

Some of them had poor self-control and were almost drooling on the spot.

"Is this LPL a succubus?" An Bixin looked at the young people who were distracted and secretly cursed the LPL for its strong mental pollution.

But on the other hand, I couldn't help but look forward to it:

The World Championship is also held in China, right? So there should be a chance to play in such a luxurious venue, right?
And if Samsung can make it to the finals, they should be able to compete for the championship trophy in the stadium called the Bird's Nest, right?
That was an epic and luxurious scene with nearly 100,000 people...

Few of the Korean idol boy and girl groups can perform in venues of this level...

It’s not that Jiang Canrong lacks determination, it’s mainly because of the national conditions.

One of the most important industries in South Korea in recent years is the entertainment industry.

From movies and television to idol boy bands, to various competitive games including e-sports.

The output, after all, is the stars in various fields.

Influenced by this trend, they have always been extremely sensitive to things like fame and popularity.

The group of people endured the ordeal with red eyes for a while, and finally finished the routine opening and player entrance, entering the BP stage that they had been looking forward to.

Not only them, there was also a large group of people in LPL who were looking forward to what kind of black technology Blue Rain would come up with to deal with Xingxin's Trident.

After so many days of deliberate hype, the strength of the Trident tactics has been hyped up to a point where it is almost unsolvable without anyone noticing.

For example, Zhang Jiale, who had been racking his brains to study with Lu Liang and Sun Zheping every day these days, was now staring at Blue Rain's BP.

"Brothers have helped you prepare Xingxin's ultimate move in advance, you can't let them down..."

So, apart from changing Yu Wenbo's mentality in public opinion, does Blue Rain have any targeted arrangements at the tactical level?

Of course there is.

"What the hell is this? A mid-lane Titan? Can Chu Yunxiu play this thing?"

Zhang Jiale glared.

　Update, update, today's chapter is about 6,000 words.

　　I had really intended to write 8,000 words, but the more I wrote, the more stuck I became.

　　Breaking blood defense.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)