LOL: What does "mid-lane hybrid expert" mean?

Chapter 112 I benefited greatly

"We beat SKT?"

"We beat SKT!"

A strong sense of unreality!

Fortunately, Iboy's top-tier play just now caused a stir among the audience, which made the EDG team realize that they had won the main match against SKT while sitting in the arena!

Meiko, who had already stood up, ready to remind everyone not to forget the handshake as usual, recalled the thrilling team fight from just now and sat back down, pulling down her headset: "Hu Xianzhao, you were fucking awesome just now, fucking awesome!"

"Haha, I'm awesome!"

Iboy leaned back in his chair, savoring the moment he'd just made a move.

Normally, he would make eight mistakes out of ten attempts at using Mercury's Treads to remove Lee Sin's R, but just now, in that instant, he suddenly felt that the root duration was extremely long, so long that he couldn't possibly make a mistake even with his eyes closed.

"But to be honest, it was Brother Yi who reminded me beforehand. If I had used mercury to undo the snake woman's petrification, I probably would have been kicked away!"

Iboy recalled Li Yi's advice to push the mid lane together, and a roar immediately shattered his wishful thinking.

At that moment, he suddenly felt a sense of lingering fear.

So close!

It was just a hair's breadth away. If Li Yi hadn't reminded him, Iboy would have stood shoulder to shoulder with that man named Yue Lun, becoming an eternal background figure in the Top 10 moves of the Great Demon King!

"Xiao Zhao, you're too business-like!"

"I mean it. Look at Kai, he just wouldn't listen to Yi's orders and he was petrified on the spot."

At this moment, Mingkai, who had just stood up, twitched his eyelids: Can I say that I had also been tapping the floor, but I just didn't realize it?

At this moment, the five SKT players stood up and waited for the winning EDG players to shake hands with them.

Without any communication, they each had their own ideas.

Top laner Huni glanced at his decent damage output stats and breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, he hadn't opted for a tanky build for team fights as his second item, instead choosing Titanic Hydra for split pushing. Although he didn't achieve the desired split-pushing effect, he still managed to deal considerable damage to the tanky Galio and Gragas.

Jungler Peanut watched his damage bar plummet, even worse than the support Karma. Suddenly, he understood his idol, Clearlove (Ming Kai). Lee Sin is incredibly difficult to deal damage in a losing game.

Bang, in the bottom lane, suddenly felt a sense of fatigue before the Nexus exploded. SKT, the club, gave him dazzling stardom, but also immense pressure.

From the Spring Split to MSI and then to the Summer Split, his few holidays were filled with endorsements and events. He thought the Rift Rivals was a more entertainment-oriented tournament, but he didn't expect that both the LPL and his own region's viewers would take it so seriously—four consecutive days of high-intensity matches, and a sudden crushing defeat after a winning streak, made him feel an unprecedented weariness towards the game.

Wolf, the support player, seemed fine, though he was sure to get a good scolding from Coach Kkoma after going to the bench. However, he was confident he could lead SKT to a comeback in the fifth game if the other three teams could win two games back.

Mid-laner Faker, looking at the EDG members who came to shake hands, glanced past Mingkai and Meiko, finally settling on the slightly immature face of the young man. However, unlike the others' jubilant exuberance, this man's expression held only a calmness as if he had won many times before.

He suddenly remembered a sentence he had once said: "No tactics work against me; the only way to defeat me is through laning skill." Countless talented mid-laners have fallen for him, some getting solo-killed, others taking pride in killing him once or twice.

Without exception, they all eventually became defeated under the Demon King's command.

Shall we invite the next young prodigy mid-laner?

This is absolutely true.

However, in Li Yi, there is no familiar youthful arrogance, no eagerness to prove himself, and no ambition to "become Faker's successor" that he shouts every day.

Looking at the maturity in Li Yi's eyes that didn't belong to his age, Faker suddenly had a question that even he found somewhat novel: What if the other party didn't have the sharpness of a teenager, nor was he a genius in the traditional sense?

"Arrogance, conceit, and haughtiness—that's the problem with SKT right now, and it's also the problem with the entire LCK region!"

In the LCK studio, the Roaring Emperor roared in exasperation.

The two younger commentators next to him hesitated to speak, after all, only veterans like the Roaring Emperor could say such things. If they dared to agree, they might receive a surprise gift box containing a dead rat or a razor blade right after get off work.

"While you're letting the opponent use their most effective offensive system, you're also going to field a lineup with three lanes as the core. Coach Kkoma, do you think the opposing LPL players will be afraid of you just because they see these five IDs?"

"The LPL teams are now directly in the finals, while we LCK teams climbed up after defeating the LMS! Whether it's SKT or the teams that come up later, I hope you all remember to maintain a challenger's mentality!" As a veteran who has been involved in esports for more than ten years, the Roaring Emperor is heartbroken that his beloved region has been ruined by arrogance.

[Huni, why are you lying to us? Even if you ban Jarvan IV, your Jax isn't invincible!]

[Damn it, SKT should win 99 out of 100 games against LPL, but they were out of form in this one game and EDG came along!]

[Aigoo, Mr. Jeon Yong-jun, why are you saying such pessimistic things? Our LCK teams will win!]

In the LCK backstage lounge, Kkoma bent down to pick up the tactical manuscript he had just smashed in anger, and sat down expressionlessly.

He didn't react to the Roaring Emperor's criticism.

Or rather, he didn't dare to show anything in front of the camera. Even though he was a three-time champion coach in the League of Legends game, he was still just a junior in front of a veteran like Roaring Emperor who had come all the way from StarCraft 0GN—after all, there was the matter of seniority.

However, he did not think there was anything wrong with the lineup and always believed that SKT's players were fully capable of handling this three-core system.

You can see this from the bot lane matchup. Even when they were pressured and on the back foot at levels one and two, Bang and Wolf were still able to turn the tide little by little through their individual skills.

Their performance in team fights goes without saying. If Galio hadn't descended from the sky during that 4v4 Baron fight, SKT could very well have launched a perfect counterattack with a 0-for-4 exchange, completely rewriting the course of the battle.

The best draft picks, the best players!

He just lacks a little discipline!

From the level 1 Caitlyn wandering aimlessly in the jungle, to Huni's inexplicable jump during the mid-game lane swap, to Peanut missing his teammates' synchronized recall while farming jungle camps —

Every small mistake may not be fatal, but for a team aiming for the gold medal, it can be a small leak that causes a great disaster!

Kkoma knew that in a winning team, it was inevitable that some players would slack off, but the team just wouldn't change their discipline, an issue he had repeatedly emphasized before almost every match this year!

Sitting in his chair backstage, Kkoma suddenly recalled a scene from a few days ago.

The footage shows EDG's rookie mid laner, Li Yi, being interviewed after defeating SSG.

When the host asked, "How do you ensure your teammates obey your commands?" the contestant replied with a smile, "My teammates are afraid of being attacked by me!"

What was seen as a joke by LPL viewers turned out to be incredibly insightful for Coach Kkoma!

Ever since he started rotating Easyhoon and Faker in Season 5, he's been accused by many fans of "playing power struggles." But now, looking back, he thinks, "What I've done is nothing!"

All I did was send the contestants to the water dungeon to calm down!

In the LPL, they would throw the person and their belongings out of the base, terminate their contract, and ruin their reputation!

"I've been too gentle with you all!"

Kkoma took a deep breath. He really still had a lot to learn about palace intrigue!