Full-time: Starting from Ye Xiu vs. Faker

Chapter 408: Everything is afraid of a comparison

Duo queuing with this mysterious top laner is more comfortable than ever before.

When this thought popped up in Li Sang-hyuk's mind, even he was shocked.

No, he is also a legendary mid laner in LCK. Including the tryouts during the offseason, he has a lot of talented top laners to partner with, including the old and the young, the talented and the experienced.

In the end, he was defeated by an ordinary top laner who was unknown in the national server?
But after reviewing his performance in the past three games in his mind again, Li Xianghe had to admit, no matter how reluctant he was:
This Hu Tian Guiyan really gave him an almost "unprecedented" comfortable experience.

What kind of top laner did Lee Sang Hyuk encounter before?
It can be roughly divided into two types.

One is similar to Park Jae-yoon before the spring finals, and Khan before he hit the rookie wall due to being pushed to full intensity.

Single-line attacks are very powerful, but they also require certain resource support to achieve the desired effect.

In other words, it is the type that needs to consume resource C.

But because their hard power is not enough, at least it is not perfect and has certain shortcomings, so Li Xianghe often has to fill in holes and clean up the mess for them.

The other type is a pure mixed player, and this is the top laner that Lee Sang-hyeok has come into contact with the most.

Not to mention Park Jae-yoon who was completely depressed after the Spring Finals under multiple pressures, Khan originally had the ability to be a carry-type top laner, but SKT's tactics were too distorted during that period.

He tried his best to protect Lee Sang-hyuk and used the top laner as a tool. Therefore, no matter how ambitious Khan was during this period, he had to serve Lee Sang-hyuk obediently.

Even if Lee Sang Hyuk himself didn't want him to do that.

The characteristics of this top order are also very distinct:

They will indeed try their best to ensure that Lee Sang-hyeok has a comfortable development and team battle environment so that he can give full play to his abilities.

But correspondingly, all the pressure from the carries will also fall on him alone, making it hard for him to breathe. It is basically impossible to expect the top laners to share the pressure.

To sum it up simply, Lee Sang-hyeok can only choose one of the two: playing comfortably in the best gaming environment, or having someone to help share the pressure with him.

But when he was duo-queuing with Hu Tianguiyan, Li Xianghe was shocked to find that he seemed to have met a top laner who could help him fulfill both wishes at once.

There is no doubt about Hu Tianguiyan's strength in laning and team fighting. He was able to suppress and beat a player like Khan who is very close to being a super top laner throughout the whole process without calling on the jungler. This has already proved that his personal strength is enough to become the absolute core.

In Li Xianghe's opinion, such a powerful king of the road should play independently and give full play to his abilities in a ranking game where there is not much strategy and cooperation and personal strength is tested more.

But Hu Tianguiyan didn't fight like that.

After easily defeating Khan, Hu Tianguiyan demonstrated his excellent discipline and high self-awareness.

That would have been fine, but the key point is that he started to protect Lee Sang-hyuk.

Of course, completely different from those blue-collar top laners who do nothing but take damage and start team fights, Hu Tianguiyan's protection is a proactive and offensive protection.

He will rely on his own advantages and ability to distract the opponent to disrupt the opponent's formation as much as possible, but he is willing to leave the most brilliant and core tasks to Faker.

After a few rounds of playing like this, Li Xianghe was completely confused.

No, it turns out League of Legends is such a happy game, right?
What a cool game!

After the three games were over, Li Xianghe watched the recordings of the three games with great interest, while wondering who this magical Hu Tianguiyan was.

After once again confirming in his mind that there is no top laner named Hu Tianguiyan in LPL, Li Xianghe was no longer calm.

From what he felt, Hu Tianguiyan's strength, and more importantly his style and discipline, would make him a top laner that countless teams would be vying for no matter where he was.

How come it didn’t even make it to LPL?
Just as he was daydreaming, Khan, who was complaining nearby, became unhappy.

At first, when he saw Li Xianghe didn't say anything, he thought his boss was thinking of a solution, so he didn't say anything and just waited quietly.

But after a while, Li Xianghe still didn't say a word, and his eyes became more and more vague and empty. Park Jae-yoon then realized belatedly:
His boss is distracted.

"Boss! Are you going to abandon your loyal royal guard?" Khan screamed, scaring Li Sang-hyuk so much that he came to his senses.

Then his face turned red.

My own top laner was complaining to me in front of me, but I was thinking about the mysterious top laner who beat up my little brother. It was a bit abstract.

His old face turned red, and he was angry and embarrassed. Suddenly, Jin Donghe's chubby and silly face looked a little hateful in Li Xianghe's eyes.

"Isn't it shameful to be beaten like this by a stranger?" Li Xianghe rolled his eyes.

"A passerby? How is that possible?" Khan screamed, "Sang Hyuk must have made a mistake. Someone with this strength must be here to snipe our top laner!"

"Every single one of the top laners in LPL is preparing for their Worlds tournament. They have no time to fight us, just like Tang Rou, the player you met before."

Li Xianghe frowned and watched Khan's face gradually wrinkle as he recalled the tragic scene of being ravaged by Tang Rou. He decided to strike while the iron was hot and continue to increase the pressure.

"The top laners of the four S-League teams are basically using their regular accounts to rank up, and this can all be checked on the website."

"As for top laners outside of the S Division, the better ones basically have live streaming rooms. You can go and check if there is any live streaming room using the ID Hu Tian Gui Yan."

It’s not that Khan doesn’t want to be tough, but his captain is recognized as the player in LCK who understands LPL the best, no one else.

Could it be that the person who abused me was really just a passerby? Are passersby in China so perverted?

Seeing Khan's expression gradually turning into autism, Li Xianghe hurriedly drove him away: "It's good to know, why don't you go and train more? You can't be no match for the passers-by in LPL, right?"

Khan left in a daze and Lee Sang Hyuk was too lazy to comfort him. Anyway, this idiot was born with a big heart and was very resilient.

Even though he cursed Khan, it was more of Lee Sang Hyuk's way of sending him away.

Li Xianghe himself was also curious about his question.

Who exactly is this Hu Tianguiyan?

After thinking about it, he used the translation software and started typing.

Hide on Bush: "You've done a great job."

Han Wenqing on the other end looked at it and smiled: "It's still not vigilant enough. The signs of the machine flipping are a bit too obvious. But to be able to do this is already very good."

Then he started typing on the keyboard.

hutianguiyan: "Thank you, you too."

Hide on Bush: "But I want to ask a question: Why did you choose to play this way?"

When asking this question, Li Xianghe himself actually had some guesses.

Although there are still many doubts, in Li Xianghe's opinion, the most likely answer is indeed Khan's initial guess:

The opponent is a super top laner from LPL, who came to recruit me on behalf of the team because they valued my potential.

These three games not only fully demonstrated the opponent's strength, but also allowed Li Xianghe to play very comfortably.

This can be said to be a textbook example of recruiting players. But the question is, for two teams with super top laners, do they really need a mid laner?
Ye Xiu and Xiye, one is a talented young man who is not inferior to him in the matchup and is even slightly better than him, and the other is recognized as one of the best mid-lane players in LPL in terms of individual strength.

Considering Ye Xiu’s age, Xingxin does have the possibility of recruiting him, but don’t they have a genius named Qiu Fei, who has already earned the status of a top player in North America?

Li Xianghe was a little embarrassed.

But after a few seconds, the other party gave an answer that Li Xianghe did not expect.

Hutianguiyan: "Maybe it's because I'm older, I subconsciously think more and pay more attention to it."

This is the truth.

Although Han Wenqing was also very masculine and strong when he was young, he was keen to fight Ye Zheng head-on.

But as he gets older, his thoughts and style are changing little by little.

In another timeline, in the ninth season of Glory, after Han Wenqing successfully recruited Zhang Jiale and Lin Jingyan to form a four-star hegemony, he naturally gave the core position to the more explosive Zhang Jiale in the crucial game.

Like Ye Xiu, he never minds playing a supporting role as long as he can win.

It’s just that Xingxin’s team attributes meant that Ye Xiu had to shoulder the responsibility of providing the backup.

If these words were read by someone who knew Han Wenqing's identity and past, they might seem natural, but for Li Xianghe, they were a little incomprehensible.

Hide on Bush: "Old?"

hutianguiyan: "I will be 29 next year."

Li Xianghe took a breath.

At the age of 29, can you still maintain this state?
Although another super top laner, Sun Zheping, is also not young, he is only 26 years old after all.

There is still a big gap in physical function between people aged 28 or 29.

Lee Sang-hyuk can only think of one player who can still maintain such top personal strength and condition at the age of 28.

He suddenly had a guess.

Hide on Bush: "May I ask what is your relationship with player Ye Xiu?"

Han Wenqing smiled, and without any hesitation, slowly typed out the answer.

hutianguiyan: "Before he moved to LPL, I was probably his arch-enemy."

He had no intention of hiding any more about his origins.

Li Xianghe immediately entered words such as Ye Xiu, glory, and rival into the search software, and immediately, the answer appeared in front of him.

Han Wenqing, the soul of Team Tyranny, and Ye Xiu's nemesis for his entire professional career.

Team Tyranny, during the Glory Period, interrupted Excellent Era's quest for four consecutive championships and led the Glory League into an era of warlords.

When LPL was rising, we did not join it in the first year for various reasons, but now we have obtained a place through the promotion and relegation matches.

Now Li Xianghe knew everything.

Indeed, the other party’s goal was to recruit me, just like other LPLLSPL teams.

The only difference is that this time, it was a Chinese e-sports powerhouse that let their team soul and leader come up and find him in person.

Such attention, coupled with the pleasant experience of playing duo with Han Wenqing before, made Li Xianghe not feel any resentment after sorting out the logic. Instead, his favorable impression doubled.

After all, recruiting players is not something shameful, and the other party also gave me enough respect.

On the other side, Han Wenqing waited for a while, thinking that the other party should have checked his information. Han Wenqing calmed himself down and started his first recruitment.

"I have been working in the e-sports field for many years and I am no longer at the age of being competitive."

Although he knew that the other party had not done anything to harm anyone, when Han Wenqing said this, Li Xianghe couldn't help but think of his old teammate.

Although Park Jae-yoon can be said to have begun to take shape as a human being now, this cannot change the fact that when he was a teammate with Lee Sang-hyuk, he was a complete bastard.

Will you become less competitive and petty as you get older?
not necessarily.

Han Wenqing naturally didn't know that Li Xianghe was gritting his teeth at his former teammate, so he went on to send out Tyranny's first invitation to Li Xianghe.

"So for me, as long as the youngsters can prove that they can be the pillars of Tyranny, I will be happy to help them step into the center of the stage."

"So, young man, are you interested in giving it a try and becoming the pillar of Tyranny?"

Seeing that the other party finally made clear the recruitment information, Li Xianghe was a little dazed for a moment.

Putting aside his identity as an LCK player, this is a very attractive option.

A prestigious wealthy family, led by their leader himself, wants to entrust the future of the family to a young man who may just be a fledgling.

The key is that the cooperation between the two sides is still in sync.

For most young people, this probably has a fatal attraction.

Lee Sang-hyuk asked himself, if he had not already become a professional player, and a professional player in LCK, he would most likely be tempted, right?

But there are no ifs. He is Lee Sang-hyuk, Faker, one of the top players in LCK, and the future of Korean e-sports.

He is destined not to belong to Tyranny.

But when he was about to politely decline Han Wenqing's kindness, he was at a loss as to what reason to use.

Logically speaking, the best solution at this time would be to directly reveal your identity, so as to cut off the possibility of the other party continuing to pester you.

But for some reason, Li Xianghe didn't want to do this.

Although he still has no idea how smart the machine translation produced by his translation software is.

After thinking for a while, for some unknown reason, he did not explode himself when he was refused.

Instead, he made up an excuse that he wanted to focus on his studies. After all, his current persona was that of a young man who had just finished the college entrance examination.

I thought the other party would keep pestering me for a while, but Han Wenqing responded quite straightforwardly:

"I understand, and I wish you a bright future."

Then, he stopped talking.

　Update, update, today's supplementary test almost broke my waist,

　　
　
(End of this chapter)