LPL History

Chapter 286 Abu angrily rebukes Tong Yang for his arrogant attitude; Kou Rou encounters Zhou Li again, eager to make a contribution.
EDG Esports Club.

Abu walked into the training room.

He glanced at Kou Rou, who was still interacting with female fans in the live stream, and said with a gloomy face:
"Tong Yang, stop the live stream and get ready for the practice match."

"Oh, oh," Kou Rou nodded, smiling as he said goodbye to the fans in the live stream.

It took Kou Rou another ten minutes just to say goodbye to his female fans.

Seeing that Kou Rou had turned off the live stream, Abu couldn't hold back any longer and made a sarcastic remark:

"I think Tong Yang should quit playing professionally and go live streaming. He already has so many female fans anyway."

His opinion on braised pork belly was extremely negative.

In Abu's opinion, Koro1 didn't achieve much, but he attracted a lot of female fans with his decent-looking face, which is considered one of the better ones in the e-sports circle.

With the adoration of these female fans, this kid is getting more and more arrogant and conceited. They had arranged a training match at 3 pm, but he was still streaming as if he didn't know anything about it, making the whole team wait for him.

Hearing Abu's sarcasm, Kou Rou silently curled his lip, somewhat unconvinced.

It was the club that initially encouraged him to interact with fans through live streams, but now that he's doing so, some people are unhappy about it.

"Get serious, everyone," Abu clapped his hands. "The Spring Split is about to start, and you guys need to get into form. Our win rate in the scrims against LGD was very low. If we go into the Spring Split in this form, it will definitely not work."

While logging into his account, Tong Yang casually asked:
"You're fighting with Lao Gan Di again this afternoon?"

"Didn't I already notify them yesterday?" Abu's voice rose a few octaves. "Right now, only LGD and OMG can compete with our team. The other teams are putting too little pressure on you."

EDG made personnel adjustments at the end of last year.

With the arrival of Samsung's ten players in China, the deep-pocketed EDG directly acquired S4 champion mid-laner Fat and Samsung Blue's Deft.

With the addition of these two top Korean players, EDG's strength has clearly improved by more than one level.

When they face their old LPL rivals in scrims, they can practically win with their eyes closed.

Only two teams could pose a threat to them.

One is IG, and the other is LGD.

LGD has brought in two key Korean players this year: Acron, the top laner for Samsung Blue, and imp, the ADC for Samsung White.

These two experienced professional players have brought tremendous fighting power to LGD upon joining the team, making them the strongest opponents EDG has encountered in scrims so far.

Judging from the results of the scrimmages so far, the other team, IG, may be the club that made the most money in this transfer.

IG Club has acquired Kakao, the jungler from KTA, the champion team of last year's OGN League Summer Split in South Korea.

However, considering the other party's strength and the price, this deal can only be considered average.

The key point is that when Kakao came to IG, he also brought his little brother, Song Yijin.

This young mid-laner from South Korea showed no signs of adjustment after arriving in China, and dominated in scrims.

Of course, before the top teams in the LPL got to know each other, in Abu's eyes, EDG's biggest enemies were not even these two teams.

It's OMG!

After their disappointing performance at last year's World Championship, OMG did not choose to bring in Korean players to strengthen their team, unlike other LPL teams.

Instead, they chose to buy Royal Club's UZI!

This move undoubtedly thrilled LPL fans.

It's important to understand that OMG is considered the strongest team by LPL fans. Even though EDG won both the Spring and Summer LPL titles last year, in their eyes, OMG is still inferior. The only point of criticism against OMG is that, in the fans' view, their bot lane is too weak.

Although Umbrella King created the famous meme "Little Umbrella is unleashing crazy damage under Big Brother's crotch", compared to the shining performances of other positions in OMG, Little Umbrella often disappears during the game and has almost never stepped up in crucial matches.

In this context, when OMG announced that UZI would be joining the team, the fans of 59e went wild!
There's a saying that goes, "When things are going well, Jian Zihao is awesome; when things are going badly, he's crazy; and when things are desperate, UZI is amazing."

UZI gives everyone the impression that he is a player who can create miracles.

Among the current LPL ADC players, UZI is undoubtedly the number one ADC!

With the addition of LPL's top ADC, wouldn't OMG be invincible?
Moreover, when all teams choose to bring in Korean players, OMG's all-Chinese roster stands out even more.

It's important to know that OMG right now has top-tier players in all five positions in the LPL!

So from the moment UZI joined OMG, OMG was called the LPL's "super team"!
Judging from the current online public opinion, OMG this year can be said to carry countless hopes of LPL fans.

For OMG fans, their mission this year is not the LPL championship, but to directly aim for the S5 World Championship!
What they didn't know was that OMG, on whom they had placed so much hope, had already been completely crushed in the scrims.

Even Abu was a little puzzled as to why this year's OMG team was performing so poorly.

After several encounters, although OMG has clearly strengthened its roster on paper, Abu feels that it is not as good as the OMG of last year.

Clearly, UZI's addition did not bring about a positive synergy for OMG.

Perhaps this is a case of "one monk fetches water, but five monks have no water to drink."

However, Abu did not look down on OMG because of this, after all, the team has just been formed and is still in the process of getting to know each other.

Based on OMG's roster strength, if they can gel as a team, they should be quite strong.

However, Abu's biggest worry right now is the problems within his team.

Abu, who has always had absolute control over the entire EDG team, has noticed that there seems to be a troublemaker emerging in the team recently.

The two new Korean players are quite obedient, but this Koro1, with the praise of female fans, has become the number one top laner in the LPL, and now he even talks with his chin pointed at himself.

This is without having achieved any significant results.

If he really gets good results, then we'll have to call him Little Bu.

So Abu has been mostly playing scrims with LGD lately.

Because LGD's top laner, Acorn, is currently considered the strongest top laner among the top teams.

He wanted to use LGD to properly suppress Koro1's temper.

Because of Koro1, when EDG entered the scrim room, all five members of LGD were already there.

Abu glanced at the LGD players' IDs and frowned in displeasure.

"Why isn't Acorn here? Why is Li being brought up instead?"

He knew this Li well; Li's poor performance during the Demacia Cup left a deep impression on him.

To Abu's surprise, Kou Rou became noticeably excited.

"Hey! Isn't that Li? Damn, guys, I'll get you guys revenge!"

At this moment, Zhou Li was unaware that he had become a stepping stone for Kou Rou to use in his attempt to show off.

He was still enjoying the discovery of the historical records.

(End of this chapter)