LPL History

Chapter 312 Zhou Li's Hammer Stone Startles Mr. Dai, Crescent Moon's Scheme puts the Demolition Team in Danger

LGD Esports Club.

dorm room.

The giant soldier sat to the side looking aggrieved, applying medicated oil to his wrist.

"You're really useless, kid. You managed to twist your own hand while trying to attack from one side."

Zhou Li lay on the bed with his legs crossed, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Upon hearing Zhou Li's words, the giant soldier's face immediately turned visibly red.

"Shibata! This doesn't count, let's do it again next time!"

Seeing that the giant soldier's expression seemed genuine, even Zhou Li, who always thought he was vengeful enough, felt a chill.

That kid is fucking scary.

"Turn off the light, I'm going to sleep."

Zhou Li gave the order, then lay down on the bed and closed his eyes.

In my mind, the Records of the Grand Historian has long been a magnificent work!

Zhao Shiheng, a native of Han, whose ID is Mata, was a master strategist from a young age and skilled in vision control. In the S4 World Championship, he led the Samsung White team to victory, wielding the Minotaur with ease and controlling the Star Hammer with masterful skill, ultimately winning the championship and the FMVP title. He was known throughout the land as the "King of Support".

However, he was arrogant and unruly, and had four shortcomings:

The first incident is known as the "Busan Helmet Smash": In the S4 quarterfinals against SSB, a drafting error led to a crushing defeat in the first game. Se-hyung angrily threw his headset to the ground, closed his eyes, and slumped down, refusing to listen to the tactics. The referee issued a red card and fined him. Korean media criticized, "The outcome wasn't even decided before the morale was already broken; where is the leader's talent?"

The second incident involves "Royal Family's Fan Insult": During his time playing for RNG in Season 6, Shiheng encountered a random player making a mistake while duo-queuing on stream. Suddenly, Shiheng shouted angrily, "You are as stupid as pigs and dogs! Chinese players are all trash!" Viewers angrily burned his support flag, and state media criticized, "The arrogance of barbarians, insulting our land!"

Thirdly, "VG abuse of power": When he was the commander of VG in S5, he relied on his championship experience and repeatedly overstepped the coach's authority to make unilateral decisions on the draft. Mid laner Hetong advised, "We should follow the version," but Shiheng retorted, "What does this brat know?" He forced Shiheng to choose a counter-pick lineup, causing VG to collapse like a house of cards.

Fourthly, "bullying the good and committing evil": He often relied on his seniority and repeatedly bullied younger people with a sense of pride. His three-star teammate, the Colossus, was harmed by him, fell into a state of inner demons, and a generation of prodigies fell because of him.

In the world of esports, loyalty and integrity are paramount. Yet those who are arrogant and conceited, though they may excel for a time, will ultimately be condemned by the world—is this not tragic?
At that time, Zhou Lang provoked a conflict at VG's camp, which aroused Li Zhao's long-standing resentment. He then declared that he was furious and took action, leaving Mata with a black eye and a swollen face.

Afterwards, Yin Zhu Gong offered a brilliant plan to avenge the shame of S4.

Mata, arrogant and domineering, suffered two major setbacks, causing Han Yan to fall into ruin and ultimately lose his lofty ambitions.

Jun Yi's arrogance has been utterly virtuous; to crush the champion's banner is a great virtue!

[Key character (Mata) unlocked, ability gained: Arrogance.]

[Arrogance: Your opponents will subconsciously belittle your abilities and fall into a state of arrogance.]

[Hero: Soul Warden's proficiency has reached the perfect level.]

"have to!"

Zhou Li sighed helplessly.

I was initially annoyed that the system kept giving me proficiency with tank heroes, but now, I'm not even playing a top laner; I'm playing a support instead.

Can Thresh be played top lane?

Zhou Li thought about it and felt that none of it seemed feasible. But he was unwilling to give up, so he simply sat up again and walked towards the training room.

As the saying goes, practice makes perfect; why not just try it a couple of times and see?

Zhou Li turned on his computer, logged into the game, and was about to play a solo match when he saw someone's ID light up in his friends list.

[Hyukkyu, are you still training so late?]

Zhou Li sent out the message and waited quite a while before receiving a reply from deft.

And their attitude is completely different from before.

Ah... Zhou Li, I think we shouldn't contact each other anymore.

Upon seeing Deft's reply, Zhou Li flew into a rage.

"Damn it, Kim Hyuk-kyu! I stayed up all night with you, playing support and helping you rank up, and you think you can just walk away after putting your pants on?!"

What the hell kind of scumbag is this?!

Zhou Liqiang suppressed his anger.

Could it be that Meiko, that innocent-looking woman, is up to something again?

With their own players absent from EDG, and Deft spending all his time with Meiko, there is indeed a possibility that they could be taken advantage of.

But then Zhou Li thought again that with Mei Kou's level of skill, no matter how fragrant the white lotus flower was, how could it possibly have the mellow fragrance of his West Lake Longjing tea?

After a moment's thought, Zhou Li realized where the problem lay.

Deft's sudden change in attitude towards himself is most likely due to Mata.

As is well known, Deft and Mata have a very good relationship and often duo queue together.

Even when Mata was still partnered with Imp, she always said she wanted to be with Deft.

It's likely that Deft saw his comments about Mata during the match.

Between himself and Meiko, Deft might still choose himself, but between himself and Mata, it seems Deft has chosen Mata.

EDG player seats.

Deft sighed helplessly as he watched the other side fall silent.

Although he felt that Mata's behavior in the previous game was indeed not good, he was, after all, an old friend of his.

Now that things have gotten so ugly between the two sides, he has no choice but to choose Mata.

Deft lost interest in continuing the game and was about to quit when he saw a message from Zhou Li.

Okay, Hyukyu, I got it.

[Haha, I haven't slept for the past two days, I've been practicing Thresh so hard, I wanted to duo queue with Hekkyu, what a pity.]

However, I also know that Hyukkyu must have his own difficulties, after all, there's Mata's situation...

[But if it were me, I definitely wouldn't mind Hyukkyu and Mata duo-queuing. Even friends need their own social circles.]

But that's what makes Hyukkyu better than me; he always considers others.

Deft looked at the message from the other end and pursed his lips.

He couldn't believe that his kind-hearted junior was really as despicable as outsiders claimed.

He's so pitiful!

He even practiced Thresh for two days straight to improve his skills!
Keep in mind, he's LGD's starting top laner right now! Imagine the pressure he had to endure to master Thresh like this!

Mr. Dai felt incredibly wicked! He had actually said such cruel things as "don't contact me again." After thinking for a moment, Mr. Dai replied:

Ah... don't worry about it so much, you're right. Actually, I was going to go to sleep, but I felt like I could play a game.

Twenty minutes later, Mr. Dai looked at his impressive 20-0-3 score and couldn't help but send another message.

Your Thresh is amazing! Did you really only practice for two days?

[Haha, does Hyukkyu want another round?]

Mei Kou walked into the training room humming a little tune.

He was out having fun, but Mr. Dai messaged him saying he wanted to play duo queue with him.

This surprised and delighted Mei Kou, who immediately took a taxi back.

Sure enough, what does Zhou Li have to compare with my sister?

I am the only one who can be Mr. Dai's personal assistant!
As soon as Meiko stepped into the training room with her left foot, she heard Deft's overjoyed voice.

"Wow! Zhou Li! You played so well! Wow, that hook! Wow, that's amazing!"

Mei Kou stood there stunned for a long time before silently withdrawing his lotus-shaped little feet.

Mei Kou's phone suddenly rang, and the ringtone filled the training room.

"I should be under the car, not inside it..."

He answered the phone and found it was Mata calling.

Because Meeko and Deft have a good relationship, Deft had previously introduced Meeko, who was a newcomer at the time, to Mata.

Mei Kou put the phone to her ear, and Mata's extremely broken Chinese came through.

"Double queue with Deft and Reverse?"

Mei Kou answered softly:
"We should both be under the car."
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OMG Esports Club.

White Crescent is planning to rally his team members to launch a battle plan for next week's match against LGD Esports Club!

The LPL Spring Split has now completed its second round.

OMG secured victories.

In reality, OMG's two victories were not particularly impressive, as their opponents were a struggling WE team and King, who had just been promoted to the LPL.

Moreover, even against these two teams, OMG's victories were not easy.

This is completely different from their expectations at the beginning of the season.

After all, when OMG bought UZI, they were called a "galactic battleship" with the ultimate goal of winning the S5 World Championship!

Most importantly, although OMG is still winning games, the problems and internal conflicts exposed are quite numerous.

First up is gogoing, the former leader, whose performance this season has been extremely poor. His shallow champion pool, coupled with the constant changes in the game version, has left him completely lost.

The issue in the mid lane is related to the world-renowned ADC, Mad Dog.

Previously, OMG was a team that focused on mid, top, and jungle play.

The original ADC Umbrella King was often jokingly referred to as an accessory on the big brother.

But UZI is different. He used to play for Royal Club, where the team played a four-protect-one strategy!
He desperately needs resources to develop!

However, in Summoner's Rift, the total amount of both minions and neutral resources is fixed.

If some people want more resources, then it is inevitable that some people will have fewer resources.

Furthermore, in terms of draft picks and tactics, we should also lean towards UZI.

This naturally led to dissatisfaction from the state of affairs.

After all, Wu-Zhuang was previously known as the best domestic mid-laner. Who wouldn't have a bit of arrogance if they could become a top player in a top club?
Why should I have to give way to you in everything just because you, UZI, come here?
In addition, due to OMG's immense popularity a couple of years ago, off-field incidents also occurred one after another, among which the most affecting the players' performance was dating.

At the same time, OMG's management team has clearly become a bit arrogant. As early as 2014, they began to package the players' image.

OMG was jokingly called the "migrant worker team" by netizens in its early days. Perhaps this stung the nerves of OMG's management. In order to make the club's image match their strength, the club directly made the OMG players wear suits and hair gel, creating the first idol group in the LPL - EXOMG!

EXOMG then released their first group single, "Light of the Planet," as their battle song for the S4 World Championship.

As for the result, they were defeated once again by Royal Club, where UZI plays, and fell in the semifinals.

OMG's management probably thought, since they can't beat Royal Club, they'll just buy their players.

Royal Club has been runner-up in the World Championships twice, and OMG was also a semi-finalist before. With this combination, wouldn't the championship be a piece of cake?
So even though OMG didn't perform very well in the Demacia Cup and the Spring Split this year, everyone still felt that the team's ceiling was the World Championship, but they just hadn't gelled yet.

But White Crescent, as the coach, knew that OMG was actually in a very dangerous position.

What worries White Crescent even more is that they will be facing LGD next week!

Or to be more precise, White Crescent wasn't worried about LGD, but rather about Zhou Li within the LGD club!
Losing to LGD is never a terrible thing, especially since it's only the regular season of the Spring Split.

The terrible consequences of losing to LGD.

Let's see how the two teams that played against LGD are doing now.

Look at EDG, two weeks have passed, and there's still a group of netizens constantly bombarding their official Weibo account with criticism.

After the match, EDG's scandals were exposed, and the battle between Koro1's female fans and EDG fans has not stopped.

And look at VG, they're in even worse shape!

One is suspended, and the other is lying in a hospital bed.

A perfectly good team, which had last year's champion jungler and support, and was considered a favorite to win the championship before, is now struggling to field even five players for the competition!

Zhou Li, this kid, now has another title besides being known as the worst Korean player.

Team-destroying maniac!

And they... OMG...

I didn't dare to think any further about the white crescent moon.

Therefore, he wanted to give the team members as much encouragement as possible before the game started, in order to ease any conflicts.

It's less of a meeting targeting LGD and more of a meeting targeting Zhou Li.

Just as the white crescent moon was about to speak, a loud bang was heard!
UZI kicked the computer case, his face flushed, and cursed loudly:

"Go ahead and hit your mother!"

(End of this chapter)