LPL History

Chapter 279 Crimson Clouds Collapse, Flags Raise, Bows Draw to Shoot the Sun, Wolf Hunts

Zhou Li chatted casually with Imp, who was clearly struggling to keep up with Zhou Li's enthusiasm.

What frustrated him most was that Zhou Li didn't speak to him in Korean, but insisted on using Chinese.

This gave imp, who had only recently started learning Chinese, a real headache.

As a result, I made several mistakes in ranked matches.

So he could only give a perfunctory answer.

"Pfft, are you listening to me?"

"Uh-huh."

"Pfft, did you poop?"

"Uh-huh."

"Pfft, did you wash your hands after you pooped?"

"Uh-huh."

"Pfft, have you eaten?"

"Uh-huh."

"Pfft, Deft is better than you."

Zhou Li looked at imp's screen and spoke.

"Uh-huh?"

imp keenly noticed the word deft and subconsciously turned his head away.

"What are you saying in reverse?"

Zhou Li pointed at imp's screen.

“I’m telling you, Deft is better than you, look, look,” he suddenly switched to Korean, which imp could understand perfectly, “You got hooked, you’re going to get killed by Deft’s lane!”

In the game footage of imp, Thresh's hook hit the distracted imp, and with Deft's output, imp was killed.

Imp's face visibly turned red.

"Hey, what are you doing? Don't talk to me!"

He happened to be matched with Deft in this ranked game.

What imp found even more unacceptable was that the Thresh standing next to Deft was Mata.

This adulterous couple had been flirting behind his back since he was still a 3-star White, and now they're openly duo-queuing like this...

In order to address the chaos caused by actors and production crews in the Chinese server, the Chinese server temporarily opened up the permission for duo queueing in King of Glory in early 2015.

"Pfft, isn't this Mata? I heard that when he was your teammate, he always duo-queued with Deft and left you out. Is that true?"

Someone tore off his final, deliberate attempts to beautify Mata.

"What are you doing?!"

imp is in a hurry.

He was so anxious that he kept stamping his feet.

Seeing that Imp's face was indeed flushed, Zhou Li patted him on the shoulder and comforted him:

"Hey, it's just one ranked game, why are you so excited? It's 3 PM, I'll wait for you and help you rank up."

Gao Dewei and Taobao Quan, who were standing nearby, huddled together and whispered to each other.

"Holy crap, I have a feeling he might actually be mentally ill."

"It's kind of scary."

"Brother, you were just being sarcastic to him. Don't take me with you when you die."

Zhou Li seemed to have overheard their conversation. He suddenly turned his head, stared at Taobao Quan, and smiled, revealing a mouthful of bright white teeth.

Taobao Quan gave an awkward smile, then quickly turned his head away, not daring to say anything more.

Zhou Li reclined his chair and sprawled next to Imp, watching the opponent's match and occasionally offering Imp a few pointers.

Honestly, he really did it for Imp's own good.

After all, he was once the world's number one ADC in Season 3, and he mentored the champion ADC Sima Laozei in Season 4.

Although imp is also a champion AD in this timeline, it is well known that there are differences even among champion ADs, right?
But imp clearly had his own ideas. Amid Zhou Li's sigh of frustration at his lack of competitiveness, the blue team, where imp was located, surrendered after fifteen minutes.

What broke Imp's heart even more was that at the very last moment before surrendering, his own support player said something to him—

"I wish I had Deft as my support."

Looking at the exploded base, Imp turned around and glared angrily at Zhou Li beside him.

He was about to get angry, but then he remembered that the other person was mentally ill, so he suppressed his anger.

"Come on, let me help you win a game," Zhou Li said as he logged into the game, "I'll help you stop those two."

imp ignored Zhou Li and clicked "Start Matching" on his own.

Then a hand reached out from the side, grabbed his mouse, and clicked to cancel the queue.

"Why are you so stubborn, kid? I'll definitely get you a win! Be a good boy!"

Pyl, who hadn't spoken until now, awkwardly walked over and said:

“Um, Zhou Li, this seat is mine.”

He's a support, so his position is naturally next to imp, who plays as the ADC.

"Then you can sit in my seat, the equipment is the same anyway."

Zhou Li waved his hand, completely unconcerned.

Pyl stood awkwardly in place. After noticing the signal from Wei Shen, he could only walk to Zhou Li's seat and sit down.

As Zhou Li logged into the game, he couldn't help but sigh.

This time, my persona really worked.

While logging into the game, Zhou Li also opened a live streaming app and started streaming.

After all, helping imp rank up is also a way to showcase his skills. Based on his years of experience, building a fanbase requires starting small.

After Zhou Li started his live stream, he discovered that his account only had a little over a hundred followers, which was incredibly dismal.

After the broadcast started, no one came into the live stream room at all.

However, this was no challenge for Zhou Li, so he changed the title of his live stream.

Climb the ranks with the champion AD carry, Giant Soldier.

It's a lie that he's helping Imp rank up; his real intention is to ride the wave of popularity during his livestream.
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YY Live Room.

90888.

The man with a buzz cut sat in front of the computer screen, saying nothing.

He simply waited quietly for the game to start in the upper right corner.

This process lasted a full seven minutes, and he remained silent throughout.

However, this somewhat somber livestream room is the most popular livestream room in YY Live's League of Legends section, bar none!

Because the man sitting in front of the live stream camera is named Dopa.

This South Korean streetball legend also played professionally in his early years, but was banned due to a cheating scandal.

After being invited by YY, Dopa came to YY Live and started his ranked matches in the Chinese server.

Dopa reached the top of the Chinese server in just 24 days with 261 solo queue games, a win rate of 75.8%, and 1293 LP in the Challenger rank.

YY naturally began to hype this up, and in an instant, every League of Legends player knew the name Dopa.

After reaching the top of the Chinese server, Dopa was clearly not satisfied, so he started playing a second account.

At this point, the players on the Chinese server finally realized what was happening.

How could a Korean player so easily reach the top of the Chinese server?

Wouldn't that make it seem like our Chinese server has no players?
As a result, all the major streamers mobilized, making a great show of force, and all declared that they would fight a counterattack against Dopa.

Even so, no one could stop Dopa from climbing the ranks.

Soon, three of the top five accounts on the Chinese server belonged to Dopa.

This is the fourth account he has logged into.

To break into the top five in the national server, we still need one more win.

If he wins this match, he will have four accounts in the top five of the Chinese server.

So all the major streamers mobilized again, some genuinely wanting to block him, others just wanting to ride his coattails, but in any case, they boosted Dopa's popularity even more.

It's fair to say that Dopa, wielding Twisted Fate in his left hand and Kassadin in his right, has left even casual players and professional players in the Chinese server struggling to compete. And now, even though Dopa himself hasn't made any significant contributions, his fans are incredibly excited.

Because they are about to witness another Dopa account break into the top five in the Chinese server.

Amidst everyone's anticipation, Dopa finally entered the game.

As soon as the game started, fans immediately began looking up Dopa's opponents and teammates for this match.

Upon seeing the IDs of both sides, the fans began to worry.

Because the two IDs on the other side were just too eye-catching.

Opposite Dopa are Mata and Deft!

Besides these two, there are also active professional players Koro1 and Clearlove from the EDG team, who are obviously duo queuing, as well as Spicy Pot from the King team.

Upon seeing the five people opposite them, the fans immediately lost their composure.

[Holy crap! Is this some kind of targeting?!]

【Wait, the opposing team has five professional players? How are we supposed to play like this?】

[It's so hard to keep it up. Can you honestly say this wasn't unintentional?]

[The last match ended like this, I'm speechless. Is the Chinese server so unplayable?]

[That's how it is in the Chinese server; if someone is too bad, they'll sabotage the game behind their back.]

[This is hilarious, it's absolutely disgusting.]

At that moment, someone in the LGD eSports Club clicked into the live stream and saw these conspiracy theories.

Zhou Li couldn't help but want to laugh.

It's unbelievable that these fans could say such outrageous things.

Are people so bored that they would deliberately manipulate your ranked match?

The reason he clicked into Dopa's live stream was because he and Imp were matched with Dopa!

"Pfft, this game is in the bag, we've been matched with Dopa, we can just sit back and win."

Zhou Li said with a grin.

Imp scratched his head helplessly and started complaining in Korean.

"Is Dopa really that good?"

"Isn't he amazing?" Zhou Li pointed to the comments on the screen and read aloud, "Look at what his fans are saying. It's a pity Dopa didn't play professionally, otherwise Faker wouldn't stand a chance."

After saying that, Zhou Li himself couldn't hold back anymore.

But Imp clearly didn't catch the sarcasm in Zhou Li's words. He saw that he had been matched with Mata and Deft again, and the opposing team was an all-professional lineup. He was so nervous that his palms were sweating. Therefore, he naturally put aside his earlier unpleasantness with Zhou Li and said seriously:
"Bullshit! These fans are hilarious. Dopa is good in ranked games, but why are you praising him in professional matches? When he was a pro, we completely crushed him. I've been playing on the Korean server since Season 2, do you think I don't know Dopa's skill level? Nobody knows better than me! He only became famous because he was banned!"

Seeing that imp had started rambling on and on, Zhou Li was getting a bit of a headache.

"But this guy is pretty amazing too, isn't he? This TheShy."

The duo of Dopa and TheShy has become a nightmare for the Chinese server.

The two had previously duo-queued frequently on the Korean server, and now, their duo-queue win rate on the Chinese server exceeds 95%, to the point that many people choose to ditch immediately when matched against them.

However, with five professional players on the opposing team, they definitely won't quit immediately.

When Zhou Li mentioned TheShy, Imp nodded.

"This kid is pretty good, but he has a really bad mouth."

Besides TheShy, they only had one random teammate with the ID "Ani's Cake Shop".

Zhou Li looked at the barrage of comments and said with a smile:

"Pfft, the comments in his live stream are so funny, do you want me to read them to you and then stop?"

Although Zhou Li uttered a question, he clearly didn't give Imp time to answer, and proceeded to speak on his own:

"Wow, this game is going to be hard to win! Why isn't our bot lane Mata and Deft? Imp can't beat Deft!"

Imp's face instantly darkened.

"Don't say that. Imp is a champion ADC after all."

imp's lips curled into a smile.

"Exactly! We have champions, what does DePutt have?"

“Deppe has a special mata.”

"..." Imp looked over suspiciously, "Is this what the comments said?"

"Oh, that's what I said... Don't get excited, the following sentence is really from the comments—What does Samsung White's victory have to do with imp? They could win even if they had a dog tied to their bot lane."

imp clenched his fist.

"Imp is really bad. I've seen him never win a ranked game against Deft. He just lost one game."

"Don't read it anymore, Ashiba."

Zhou Li was clearly a little tipsy, laughing heartily.

These netizens are really interesting; the things they say are so nice.

"The key is that our team has this Li, you guys don't know who the worst Korean import in the LPL is..."

Zhou Li paused for a moment.

"Damn, these idiot comments."

In fact, from any perspective, it seems that the opposing team had the upper hand in this match.

Because the opposing team not only consists of five professional players, but also players who can all still play their own positions.

The only overlap is between Clearlove and Mala Xiangguo in the jungle position.

Now let's look at their side.

Ani's Cake Shop is also a well-known "King of the Streets". This ancient "King of the Streets" has earned the reputation of being the best weapon player in the Chinese server by relying on his hyperthyroidism playstyle.

However, as the skill level in the Chinese server has become increasingly stronger, Cake has started to struggle in high-level matches and has been dubbed by netizens as the top of the five worst players in the Chinese server.

Dopa clearly understood that he wasn't in a good position in this game, and he started asking for a role as soon as he entered.

45 mid, juggle.

He and TheShy duo queued together, always with mid-jungle synergy.

However, to everyone's surprise, right after Dopa finished typing, Cake, who was on the first floor, immediately locked in Lee Sin and brought Smite.

Imp was stunned for a moment upon seeing this, then shouted in dissatisfaction.

"Damn it! What is he doing? Why is he stealing the jungler's jungler role?!"

Not to mention Imp, even Zhou Li, who was always calm and collected, suddenly became serious.

Because at this moment he finally remembered the essence content of this ancient ID.

Zhou Li immediately opened the webpage and searched for and entered Ani's cake shop's live stream.

Looking at the man who looked like an electric baton from afar and Zhou Dongyu up close, Zhou Li knew that his memory was correct.

"Oh no, it looks like we're in big trouble."

Zhou Li's heart sank, and he stopped slumping in his chair.

The five professional players opposite him didn't make Zhou Li take it seriously, but this A Ni Cake Shop forced him to take it seriously.

After seeing the opposing team pick their champions, Zhou Li, who was on the second floor, didn't hesitate to lock in LeBlanc for the mid lane!

He didn't choose to pick Cho'Gath, even though he had perfect proficiency with him. There are some heroes whose ceiling is limited.

In this desperate situation, even the giant bug can no longer save Imp.

His mastery of LeBlanc and his laning ability as a mid laner were already stored in his mind during Season 2. All he needs to do now is practice a little to regain his feel for the game.

"Pfft, hold on in the bottom lane, I'll try to crush the enemy mid lane as soon as possible!"

Seeing that Zhou Li had locked up the Enchantress, and hearing Zhou Li's audacious words, Imp's glasses fell off the table.

What kind of ritual are you performing?!

Meanwhile, Dopa's live stream was filled with question marks.

【Wait, what's going on?】

Why would someone want to pick a jungler?

Why would anyone want to pick the mid laner?

[What the hell?! Are this cake and Li even human?!]

(End of this chapter)