LPL History

Chapter 255 A loyal minister sheds tears on the banner of meat floss, and tiger cavalry tramples the three Han armies.

"Brothers, the match is about to start, let's review WE.A's second game first!"

Douyu Live.

80768.

Ruofeng couldn't help but be overjoyed as he watched the popularity soar in the upper right corner.

But in order to show his magnanimity as a leader, he forcibly suppressed the twisted corners of his mouth.

As it turns out, launching his live stream debut ahead of schedule was clearly the right decision.

After retiring at the end of 13, Ruofeng has been broadcasting live on YY channel 90001.

Thanks to the charm of Captain Feng, the captain of WE, he can be said to be one of the most popular streamers on YY.

Then in September of this year, he signed a contract with the Douyu platform, but he has not started broadcasting since then.

Ruofeng is waiting.

Waiting for the moment when his debut will make history in the popularity of live streaming!
Ruofeng's original plan was to invite the five former WE players back to help him make his debut.

At the time, both Smile and Strawberry were preparing to retire, but suddenly they were promoted to WE.B team and even entered the World Championship.

Faced with the intense training schedule, Smile and Strawberry naturally couldn't spare the time to help Ruofeng, so Ruofeng simply postponed his debut again and again.

During that time, he watched Strawberry and Curly rejuvenate on the professional stage, and his youthful passion, which had just subsided, was reignited. He used all sorts of connections to contact Zhou Li, willing to risk breaching his contract, just to return to WE and show his skills again.

As a result, Zhou Li refused, albeit rather impolitely.

But now that he thinks about it, he should thank Zhou Li for rejecting him back then.

Calm down. If Zhou Li accepts him, not to mention that with his current strength, he might ruin his reputation, the platform's breach of contract penalty alone would require him to sell meat floss cakes for several years to pay it off.

So Ruofeng waited.

His original plan was to wait until after the World Championship to continue the WE five-man comeback debut.

As a result, we watched helplessly as WE.A and WE.B both advanced to the semifinals.

Ruofeng couldn't sit still any longer.

Seeing WE's popularity soaring, after discussing with the platform, he finally decided to launch his first live stream!

And the debut content was broadcasting the World Championship Finals!
You can say that Big Nose lacks emotional intelligence, but you absolutely cannot deny Big Nose's intelligence.

Although Big Nose's reputation later collapsed due to his lack of emotional intelligence, the objective facts remain—

He is one of the most successful League of Legends professional players after retiring.

And this first live broadcast proved Big Nose right once again.

At this moment, the popularity of Big Nose's live stream room was even higher than that of the official live stream room!
The legendary captain of the old WE team is here to commentate on the current WE.A World Championship matches – that's sure to be a huge draw!

Just ten minutes earlier, with Ruofeng's words "Explode instantly!", WE.A once again destroyed SSB's base, changing the score to 2-0!

Compared to the first game, the second game lasted slightly longer, nearly thirty minutes.

However, although it took ten minutes longer, it did not mean that the game became more intense.

It's just that Samsung Blue had a strong early-to-mid-game lineup, so WE.A's power spike came a little later.

Overall, this was still a one-sided match with little suspense.

At this moment, Big Nose is in the live stream, showing his understanding of the game and his feelings for WE to his fans.

"Although Samsung Blue managed to pick Lulu and Nidalee this game, it was a really forced pick! It felt like a poor imitation. Emperor and Spirit clearly wanted to find their rhythm in the early game, but they were completely outmaneuvered by Zhou Li, wasting a lot of time and putting both the top and bottom lanes at a disadvantage."

"I had high hopes for Zhou Li even before I retired. To be honest, during WE's most difficult time, I once considered promoting him from the second team to the first team."

Ruofeng spoke eloquently in the live broadcast room, but when he talked about Zhou Li, he adjusted his glasses somewhat guiltily.

In fact, at that time, Big Nose had no idea that his youth training team had a jungler named Zhou Li.

Moreover, now that he's relying on his status as the former captain of WE, he speaks in a senior's tone. To be honest, although he doesn't know much about Zhou Li, he's still a little worried that the somewhat mentally unstable kid might suddenly attack him without any regard for his status as the former captain of WE.

So Ruofeng was actually quite insecure.

But with such a high level of popularity in the live stream right now, he simply couldn't resist taking advantage of the hype.

"But why didn't I promote him to the main team back then? Because I felt he was just too young. Maybe bringing him to the main team could have changed WE's situation at the time and made things easier for me, but I really didn't want to force him to grow too fast. To be honest, without that experience and growth in the secondary league, Zhou Li would definitely be a top player in the world today, but his ceiling would definitely not be this high!"

"Actually, I was really, really, really conflicted at the time, but in the end I chose to bear it alone."

When he got emotional, Big Nose's eyes reddened.

He glanced at the camera in the lower right corner and noticed that the interface for capturing people was a bit small, so he intentionally or unintentionally dragged the mouse to enlarge his face and place it in the center of the live stream.

Then he thought that perhaps the room lighting wasn't good enough, and he couldn't see the tears in the corners of his eyes clearly, so Big Nose took off his glasses in a pretentious manner, rubbed his eyes, and his voice choked up a bit.

"I'm sorry... It was really too difficult to think back to those days, and I couldn't help it. I shouldn't have said that. Today is my first day on Douyu, and WE.A is very likely to enter the finals. I should be happy. I'm sorry everyone."

Ruofeng's genuine emotions in front of the camera quickly resonated with his fans.

[Waaaaah, don't cry, Team Wind!!]

[It must have been so tough for Team Wind back then. I feel so sorry for them.]

If only Team Wind were still around.

[Right now, Team B is only missing the Wind Team.]

【Feng, you will always be our captain!】

Seeing that the emotions had been building up, Ruofeng spoke:

"Sigh, I'm getting old. My emotions easily make me hungry. I just realized that I've been commentating on the game and forgot to eat dinner."

Ruofeng took out a meat floss cake from off-camera and ate it with relish.

"Brothers, wait a minute, I'm skipping dinner too. I'll have a pork floss pastry to replenish my energy. This pork floss pastry is really delicious and highly nutritious. Brothers who haven't tried it can go to my Taobao shop in the bottom right corner and buy a box to try first. I guarantee you'll definitely buy it again." The chat was filled with emotion once more.

[Good job, Team Wind!]

[I've already placed an order for the Wind Team.]

[Team Leader Feng, take a break. I placed ten orders.]

[The pork floss pastries from Fengdui's shop are really delicious; I've already bought them four times. (The content in parentheses has been removed; each pastry costs one cent.)]

"It's the same with Xiye. I actually noticed him a long time ago. At that time, the club wanted to promote Xiye from the youth team, but I absolutely refused. Many people may think that I was doing this to protect my own position in the team, but actually I was thinking of retiring at that time. I was just trying to protect these promising players."

Then the comments section erupted with praise for its greatness.

While netizens were still empathizing, Ruofeng quickly glanced at his Taobao backend and, seeing the surge in orders, finally couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"I am truly happy for them for their achievements today."

It's clear that Team Wind is genuinely happy.

Ruofeng cried, sold the cake, and the timing was perfect; WE.A's third game began.

"Actually, at this stage of the match, I can already make a bold prediction: the third game might end even faster than the first game!"

In the live stream, Ruofeng appeared very confident.

"When we were reviewing the second game just now, we could see that Samsung Blue had lost all will to fight back in the mid-to-late stages of the match. Actually, I can understand the current state of the Samsung Blue players. Back in 12 and 13, our WE team also achieved great results, winning all the way. At that time, everyone's mentality was a bit inflated. Under such circumstances, once you lose the first game, it is very likely that this is just the beginning."

"Especially since the current WE.A team is just too strong, you simply can't find a way to defeat them, which is even more despairing. It's like in the novels, where you think you're invincible, but suddenly an enemy appears out of nowhere, and it's not even on the same level as you. It's like they could crush you with a flick of their wrist. My mentality would definitely collapse."

As a first-generation League of Legends player who has experienced both highs and lows, Ruofeng's analysis can be described as very accurate, perfectly capturing the psychological state of the Samsung Blue team at that moment.

The Emperor started to concede defeat from the second game onwards.

After following the coach's instructions and taking Lulu, it didn't bring any changes to the team.

As for jungler Spirit, his mentality had already exploded due to being implicated by the Emperor and the immense pressure he had to bear with Zhou Li's team.

In League of Legends, if the mid and jungle positions have problems, the game is essentially over.

The third game between the two sides has begun.

The Emperor, who already had a terrible mentality, started making erratic plays and was directly solo killed by Xiye in lane.

Under such high pressure, Spirit was completely unable to keep a clear head. He was completely disoriented by Zhou Li in the jungle. Several times he tried to gank, but Zhou Li figured out his intentions and he was always counter-ganked.

Spirit's ganks don't feel like helping teammates; they're more like a death knell for them.

Eighteen minutes later, Zhou Li's Lee Sin had already led his teammates to charge onto Samsung Blue's high ground.

At this moment, the South Korean live stream room was deathly silent.

WE.A's rapid and overwhelming offensive, like a raging storm, seemed to have squeezed out all the air, leaving people feeling a suffocating sense of despair.

This match between the top seeds from China and South Korea directly demonstrated the enormous gap between the two teams, a gap that seemed to stretch into the heavens!

"Ah... in that case, it seems like SSB will have a hard time dragging the match into the very late stages..."

Quan Yongjun's tone was filled with exhaustion; even the Roaring Emperor could no longer roar at this moment.

Compared to the resentment of losing the game, today's match brought South Korean netizens a sense of confusion and helplessness that was beyond their comprehension.

It's just like when OMG was swept by SKT in the All-Star tournament.

At this moment, South Korean netizens finally understood how LPL viewers felt at that time.

Samsung Blue Players' Seats.

At this moment, of the five players, only Deft was still completely immersed in the game, desperately trying to buy himself a few more minutes to develop.

But as the opposing Lee Sin drew a seven in the air, leaving a beautiful arc, and with a flash of golden light, kicked him out of the crowd, Deft's mouth was wide open, but he couldn't make a sound.

He knew that his journey in the World Championships had come to an end.

【ACE!】

Staring at the gray screen and the constantly collapsing defense towers, the other four members of Samsung Blue, like Deft, remained silent as if they were dead.

In some matches, you already know you can't win from the very beginning.

So rather than feeling resentful and annoyed after losing the game, it's more like a relief after torment.

Human joys and sorrows are not shared.

Compared to the sadness of the Koreans, LPL viewers are already joyfully celebrating the Lunar New Year.

Watching the Samsung Blue base turn into dust, Miller, his eyes red with tears, shouted:
"WE.A! They defeated the invincible number one seed from the Korean region, Samsung Blue! They became the first team to reach the finals of the 2014 League of Legends World Championship!!"

"They eliminated Samsung Blue, the team that dominated the OGN region, but now they can only regretfully stop in the semifinals. Who would have thought that this youth team, which was still competing in the LPL secondary league just half a year ago, is now only one step away from the top of the world!!"

"Let's congratulate WE!!!"

Bella, disregarding the surging waves before her, shouted:
"For the past six months, I've constantly heard the phrase 'fear of Korea.' 'Fear of Korea, fear of Korea, fear of Korea'—these two words have become a persistent nightmare for countless LPL viewers! But now, WE.A! They've delivered a resounding victory that tells us now it's not us who need to fear Korea, but rather they who need to fear China!!"

In Ruofeng's live stream, Big Nose once again shed tears of emotion, this time with genuine feeling, and couldn't help but let his nose run.

Congratulations WE!

LPL viewers are absolutely thrilled!

In the first round of the match between WE's ten players and Samsung's ten players, WE won a crushing victory!
[Damn! Congratulations WE! It's been so long since I've heard that!]

[I'm so upset I could cry myself to death at home.]

[Zhou Ge is awesome! WE is awesome!!]

【Just asking, who else?!】

(End of this chapter)