LPL History

Chapter 274 The Divine Monk Breaks Through the Enemy's Formation with Two Feet, and the Korean Online 70s Collapse

"Faced with WE.A's offensive, Samsung White is powerless to resist!!"

"Zhou Li! He went in! He used an R-flash to kick four people away! Leona followed up with her ultimate! My god, Samsung White is going to explode this time! Mata is the first to fall! He didn't use his ultimate and summoner spells again!"

"Imp! Kill the imps! Don't let any of them escape! That old scoundrel Sima has gone mad! He's been targeted for so long, now he's going to vent all his pent-up anger!!"

"Pawn! Pawn has fallen too! WE.A! They pulled off a perfect team fight and wiped out Samsung White!"

"Congratulations to WE.A for winning the second game of this World Championship, which is also the match point in this BO5! Now they are only one step away from the final trophy!!"

As Miller shouted at the top of his lungs, WE.A was drowned out by the cheers of the audience.

2: 0!

WE.A has almost secured the victory!

After all, no team had ever pulled off a comeback from 0-2 down to win 3-2 in the finals before!

When one side reaches match point first, the pressure on the other side becomes immense!

The greater the pressure, the more likely it is to cause operational errors and command mistakes.

Just like Mata, who is usually the most calm and rational person in Samsung White, his mentality has been completely broken at this moment.

For Mata, this game was definitely the one he least wanted to face in his professional career.

In order not to put themselves in a passive position, they chose to use their ultimate move in the second game.

As a result, this ultimate move not only failed to help them win against WE.A, but also made Mata the biggest scapegoat for losing the game.

Mata can no longer be considered a scapegoat in this game.

He's carrying a cross, about to be nailed to it by angry South Korean netizens!
South Korean netizens are far angrier at Samsung White's loss in this game than at any other time.

In fact, even South Korean netizens didn't expect that the surprises brought to them by the South Korean teams at this year's World Championship would be bigger and bigger.

From the group stage onwards, NJWS was eliminated and suffered various humiliations at the hands of WE.A, which made Korean netizens feel that they had lost all face. At the time, Korean netizens called it the most shameful defeat in the history of Korean e-sports.

They believed that even the most humiliating and infuriating things couldn't be worse than this.

Unexpectedly, Samsung Blue, who was in Group B, soon presented them with another great gift.

Samsung Blue, thinking themselves invincible, tried to control the score in the group stage, but ended up shooting themselves in the foot. In the last round, they were defeated by WE's B team, and afterwards, Zhou Li even stepped on their head and mocked them as a clown.

South Korean netizens felt that this was absolutely the most infuriating thing ever, and that nothing could be more infuriating than this.

Samsung Blue's actions were utterly shameful.

However, Samsung Blue still advanced as the top seed in the group. Moreover, the general public believed that WE.B was able to defeat Samsung Blue because it was a BO1 match, an unexpected situation, or because they had high expectations for Samsung Blue, the number one seed in the OGN region, and considered Samsung Blue to be the favorite to win the championship and the only team that could defeat WE.A and regain face.

As a result, Samsung Blue quickly became a huge disappointment among South Korean netizens.

In the semifinals, as one of the ten members of Samsung and the number one seed in the OGN region, Samsung Blue demonstrated to the world that even the number one seed has its limitations in the opening act of that highly anticipated China-Korea battle.

They were swept 3-0, and in every game they were completely crushed like bots, with no hope in sight. The gap in strength between the two sides was like an insurmountable chasm!
This match plunged South Korean netizens into deep despair, leading them to hurl insults at Samsung Blue, the number one seed.

Shameful, so shameful!
Not only did they lose the game, but they lost so badly!

South Korean netizens are furious, because nothing could be more infuriating than this.

They channeled their anger into strength, eagerly anticipating the upcoming showdown between Samsung White and we.b.

After all, the Samsung White performed far better than the Samsung Blue in the World Championship.

However, in the semifinals, WE.B pulled a quick and decisive move, slapping Samsung White hard before choosing to retreat!
This has caused an even bigger uproar among South Korean netizens!
I was seething with anger and just wanted to vent it on WE.B, but instead I got slapped and the other side just disappeared.

This made South Korean netizens even more furious.

Fortunately, Samsung White at least made it to the final round.

Given Samsung's current form, it might just be able to compete with WE.A!

As a result, they were completely crushed right from the start.

In the second game, just when they saw a glimmer of hope in the early stages, Lee Sin used two kicks, combined with Mata's "clumsy acting," to bring the Korean netizens back to reality and shatter their hopes.

South Korean netizens were already in a state of explosive emotion, and at this moment, Zhou Li, who is always good at fanning the flames, posted a message on his Twitter immediately after the end of the second game.

This post was extremely brief, containing only two numbers.

7: 0.

7 to 0?
South Korean netizens were taken aback.

The finals are best-of-three (BO3). Even if you win the championship, it's only 3-0. What's with the 7-0 score?!
Where the hell did you get that 7-0 score?
Do I still owe you four games after the match?

However, soon, enthusiastic netizens from China went to great lengths to bypass the Great Firewall and explain the situation to South Korean netizens.

The score of 7 to 0 refers to the semifinals of the 2014 League of Legends World Championship, a historic China-Korea showdown between WE and Samsung. WE won 7 and Samsung lost 0.
Samsung's ten-man team was completely shut out by WE's ten-man team!
South Korean netizens are absolutely furious!!
They never expected that the foreshadowing WE.B laid in the semi-finals would be picked up by Zhou Li and used against them again!

Those who knew Zhou Li better understood that this pile of excrement was clearly not something Zhou Li had picked up and thrown on their heads; he had deliberately defecated and stored it for a long time, just waiting to throw it on their heads now!
This guy not only disgusted the Korean audience back then by making WE.B withdraw from the competition, but he also has tricks up his sleeve now!
As a result, the score of 7-0 became a global sensation.

However, only Zhou Li knew that none of this was a coincidence.

Because these are all the will of Seven.

The Samsung White lounge at this time.

The silence has lasted for quite some time.

By the end of the second game, the morale of the five Samsung White players had been completely shattered.

If you've used all your ultimate moves and still can't win, what else can you do?
Mata even considered quitting the match altogether, suggesting they just forfeit.

And just when Samsung's morale was at its lowest, the score of 7 to 0 reached their ears.

After all, they were all young people. Seeing that Zhou Li's competition was not over yet, they had already tacitly accepted the score, and a sense of anger immediately arose in everyone's hearts.

The coach was also very good at stirring up emotions. Seeing that everyone had a reaction, he quickly began to add fuel to the fire and persuade them.

We must win at least one point, no matter what, and absolutely cannot let the Chinese people look down on us.

This isn't just for yourselves. Our goal now isn't to win the championship, but to put on a great performance. If we can get just one point and give Zhou Li a good slap in the face, then we'll be national heroes!
After a few words of encouragement from the coach, the Samsung White team quickly regained their composure, each of them looking indignant.

"But how should we play the next game? Can we just rely on anger alone?"

Mata was clearly the least perceptive person in the group. His usual composure made him less susceptible to the coach's inflammatory rhetoric, and his excellent analytical skills allowed him to hit the coach's weak spot with his questions.

The coach, who had been speaking eloquently, was speechless upon hearing Mata's words.

After stammering for a while, he finally blurted out:
"We have indeed been pushed to the brink. In the current situation, I think no tactic is more effective than letting you go out and have a good fight. Pick your best heroes, the heroes you want to play the most, and leave no regrets!"

The coach's words undoubtedly excited everyone again.

"No regrets!"

Mata coldly observed the excited crowd, not participating in this final celebration.

However, to Mata's surprise, Imp spoke up at this moment.

"Coach, how about we play bot lane for this game? I feel like I can really dominate the bot lane!"

Upon hearing Imp's words, Mata refrained from calling him brain-dead for the first time.

He had given up and was too lazy to talk, but he still cursed Imp several times in his mind for being brain-dead.

The coach readily agreed and nodded, saying:

“No problem, we do need to change our strategy,” he said, then looked at Mata and asked, “Mata, is that okay?”

Mata sneered, but did not refute.

"Whatever, I'm fine with anything."
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"Viewers watching the live stream, you are now watching the 2014 League of Legends World Championship. The two teams currently competing are Samsung White Esports Club from the OGN region and WE.A Esports Club from our LPL region! I am your commentator, Miller!"

"I'm the commentator, Waa!"

"I'm Bella, the commentator!"

When the familiar commentary voice rang out again, the popularity of the official League of Legends live stream had reached a staggering 100 million viewers!
Everyone is hoping that LPL will wash away its shame, crush South Korea, and win its first World Championship title!
"In the previous two games, WE.A has already won the first two games and reached match point, with the score currently at 2-0! The finals are a best-of-five series, and the first team to win three games will lift the final championship trophy! Now WE.A is not far from the final victory! Go WE.A!"

As soon as Miller finished speaking, Bella excitedly exclaimed:

"Wow, I'm so excited! If WE.A wins this time, they'll set multiple world records, and I feel like those records will be hard to surpass in the future! If WE.A wins this third game, they'll become the only team in history to maintain a perfect record in the World Championship and win the title! They'll also become the first team to fight their way from the secondary league to the finals and win the championship in just six months! And with an average age of only seventeen, they'll be the youngest team to win the championship! In addition, they'll be the first LPL team to win the World Championship, the first team to maintain a 49-game winning streak from the start of the league to the finals, and the first team to win the championship with their jungler as the core..."

She won several first places in a row without even breaking a sweat.

Zhou Li sat in his seat, feeling a mix of emotions.

He glanced at the surging crowd in the stands, feeling the intense heat of the spotlight, and sighed.

Based on his previous two time-travel experiences, Zhou Li discovered that the timing of time travel has a certain degree of randomness.

Who knows, if he shuts down Samsung White's base this time, the dog system might send him to 2015 the next second.

So he decided that he must enjoy this last game and absolutely not push too fast.

He's worked so hard to climb to this position; now it's time for him to enjoy life.

In such a tense atmosphere, Zhou Li even stood up and waved to the LPL fans in the audience, which immediately earned him a warning from the referee.

Zhou Li paid no attention to it at the time.

How great.

Look how arrogant our LPL viewers have become.

He had just seen an LPL viewer pointing at the Korean viewer next to him and shouting something.

Based on the lip movements, it should be garbage.

The competition isn't even over yet, and the LPL has already decided on the championship trophy.

This made him think about 2015, the year he might be heading to next.

In fact, that year was also a year of extreme arrogance for the LPL.

Even before the World Championship began, LPL viewers felt that this year's championship was a sure thing.

While EDG initially defeated Faker's SKT to win the MSI championship, this wasn't the biggest reason for LPL's overconfidence.

Zhou Li recalls that the reason LPL became so arrogant was mainly because WE had the IEM qualification due to their family's legacy, so they went to participate and crushed GE Tigers from the LCK region.

What kind of team is GE Tigers? It is a top team in the Korean LCK league. Formerly known as HUYA Tigers, it was later renamed GE Tigers, then KOO Tigers, and finally ROX Tigers, the name that is perhaps more widely known.

Logically speaking, the attention given to IEM was already gradually declining at that time, and WE defeating a Korean team didn't seem like something to make too much of a splash.

But the key issue is—

WE earned their qualification through their family's wealth, while GE Tigers earned their qualification through genuine strength.

At that time, WE was in extremely poor form, ranking last in the LPL league standings!

And what about GE Tigers? They're ranked number one in the LCK standings!

As a result, the last-place team in the LPL defeated the first-place team in the LCK and ended up taking second place in a global competition!
With something like this happening, how can LPL viewers not get arrogant?

Even the worst team in our LPL league can easily defeat the best team in LCK, and they can even win the runner-up position in global competitions.

There are eleven teams in the LPL that are stronger than WE!
If LPL doesn't win the S5 championship, who can?

The situation back then was actually somewhat similar to that of South Korea now.

At the All-Star event, SKT, who were at the bottom of the standings, defeated OMG, one of the top teams in the LPL at the time, with a 3-0 sweep.

How could the Koreans not become arrogant?

Now that the finals have turned out this way, how could the Koreans not be plunged into unprecedented fury?
Zhou Li could imagine how angry, desperate, and pained the Koreans must have felt at that moment.

But he's been a bad person since he was a child.

He'd be happy to throw a bucket of gasoline on someone whose butt was on fire.

You can't blame Zhou Li for this; after all, you can't blame the road for being uneven if the person is incompetent.

Because they're Korean.
Zhou Li flexed his wrists and said with a smile:

"Brothers, let's give the other side a good beating in this last round."

He's already started enjoying it ahead of time.

(End of this chapter)