You actually want me to...

"Let's go, Knight. We're just here to treat you to a simple birthday meal. As your teammates, we won't cheat you."

"But...the waiters' eyes are so strange."

"What are you afraid of? You are God, God, you know? What does God have to fear from random stares? We're here to celebrate your birthday, not your death anniversary. Don't be a coward."

"Oh well."

Although something felt off, Knight didn't think much of it since it was a place to eat. It just goes to show how naive and easily fooled professional players from small towns can be; if it were someone like Zezetai, a real shrew, he probably wouldn't even bother stepping inside.

Meanwhile, in a hidden corner of Haidilao:

[Waitress A: The guest at table 9 has hidden something under the table! He's hidden something!!!]

[Supervisor B: Go check if it's a birthday cake (seriously)]

A dozen seconds later, a waitress appeared beside Roland and his group and said to Knight, "Sir, we can keep the things under the table for you." As she spoke, her eyes were filled with barely suppressed excitement.

Young Knight had never seen such an enthusiastic young lady up close before, and instinctively handed her the box.

Then...

[Waitress A: I caught another person secretly celebrating their birthday!!!]

[Supervisor B: Quick, call the guys, let's go! (Excitedly)]

Thirty seconds later, a group of people, equally excited, suddenly appeared, holding signs and pushing carts, surrounding the bewildered Knight.

Looking at the familiar scene in front of him, Roland couldn't help but recite the lines: "It hurts and feels. It hurts and knows. It hurts and knows.てください。ん。

White Crescent Moon: "???"

Viewers who had just entered the live stream: "???"

"Take a good look, this is the birthday chant called Haidilao, which is said to scare even those with social anxiety disorder—【All the happiness 'So Hai Hai'】!"

According to subsequent chronicles and miscellaneous records of League of Legends:

On this day, Knight first conceived the idea of ​​becoming an astronaut.

Integration: Chapter Nineteen: Human Relationships

The next day, a "high-energy moment" edited from a live stream quietly climbed to the top of a video website's trending list. Countless esports enthusiasts, seeing the TES official account displayed in the creator section, clicked in with a bewildered expression.

Then, it exploded instantly!

[666666, what is this? Knight's darkest hour?]

[Hilarious! Watching the whole video, everyone except the birthday person seemed quite happy.]

[A group of people celebrating, one person feeling lonely, and to top it all off, they even streamed it live—that's the most outrageous thing ever.]

[At Haidilao, you can even eat hot pot. jpg]

Everyone laughed so hard they peed themselves.

Especially when they saw countless waiters rushing out excitedly, surrounding Knight and singing "So hi hi" wildly, while Knight looked terrified, everyone couldn't help but burst into laughter.

I'm sorry... they really didn't mean it.

But, but this is seriously hilarious!!!

Knight became famous again, building on his existing fame, but this time it wasn't the kind of fame he wanted. At the TES club, looking at the video on his phone with millions of views, Knight's eyes gradually lost their sparkle: "I...I can't go back."

"Calm down, it's just a birthday video, it's not that serious, really not that serious."

"It's...it's...it's completely irreversible." With his head bowed, Knight fell into a deep, withdrawn state, unable to rouse himself for a long time. Seeing this, the rest of TES could only exchange glances before letting out a collective sigh.

Forget it, let him have some peace and quiet. There aren't any matches these days anyway, let him rest for a couple of days first.

This is what it means to use strong medicine.

As long as it doesn't kill him, he'll go all out. This Haidilao challenge is just a normal experiment. There are all sorts of amazing recipes waiting for Knight.

Everything was just to cure his social anxiety (doge).

In the following matches, TES faced several teams ranked in the lower half of the table, so TES's record was quite stable, with almost a winning streak.

With a strong roster and solid tactics, TES amassed a significant number of points in the early stages of the Summer Split. It was during this period that Roland began to gradually move away from defensive supports and started picking them in a way that countered the current meta of offensive supports.

This playstyle demands a high level of hero proficiency, but it also requires immense patience from the player. At least after the match, whenever Roland had free time to play ranked games, he almost never touched a defensive support hero again.

Because I'm so bored.

What is a defensive support?

You have little to do with laning and trading damage; your lane advantage depends on whether the enemy bot lane duo jumps into your face. You also have virtually no roaming ability. What's worse, when you pick this type of support in ranked games, you even have to guess whether the AD carry you get is even skilled at the game.

If a player fills the AD role, their missed CS can make your blood pressure spike during the boring laning phase.

Yes, this is a defensive support role. It's incredibly functional but offers absolutely no entertainment value and offers almost no initiative.

Roland, who had just finished playing against OMG, immediately started his ranked game that night. However, this time he was not playing support, but instead returned to his original role as top laner.

As a relatively well-known e-sports comedian, Roland's live stream now has a considerable number of viewers, even though it doesn't have as many as those big streamers. As soon as he started streaming, many people clicked in following the live stream notification.

【Here it comes! Here it comes!】

[Hey, you're playing top lane again? Why don't you take a break?]

[Newbie here, just asking! I've been watching for days, why is it that in this TES support stream, everyone's playing top lane?]

Top lane is a passion, support is a way of life. Of course, after all that, all you can ultimately learn from livestreams is about interpersonal relationships and social dynamics.

Technology? It doesn't exist.

It's already Season 10, not five or six years ago. Nowadays, the League of Legends community basically doesn't talk about learning skills anymore; everyone just comes here to watch the fun.

Over the years, all the techniques for a champion in League of Legends can be found online. In higher-level ranked matches and competitions, the tricks used by skilled players are actually simpler, unlike the elaborate combos used in lower-level games.

One focuses on efficiency, the other on gameplay.

So why do most people fail to reach higher ranks? To summarize, there are basically two reasons: either their hands can't keep up with their brains, or their brains can't keep up with their hands.

Yes, that's how real it is.

Especially now that many players are older and have passed their peak gaming years, those who used to be able to easily dodge Malphite's ultimate can't react without anticipation. That's the change.

Given this disparity, Roland's top lane livestream became particularly interesting.

Because what he's playing isn't a game, but rather the intricacies of human relationships.

In this game, Roland was playing on his main account in a Master tier match on the Korean server. He was assigned the top lane and immediately locked in Camille as his team's split-pushing carry for their poke-heavy composition, while the opposing top laner picked Sett.

As mentioned before, LCK is a region that particularly likes Sett.

From competitions to ranked matches, they'll pick up Jinfu as long as you let him out. I don't know if they have some huge grudge against a certain group in China, or if they really like Jinfu's muscles and that's why they love him so much.

At least, it's true that LCK has a bunch of top-tier players.

"Alright, this game we're playing Camille top lane against Sett. We'll take Grasp of the Undying rune, and the rest can be whatever. As for why? Well, it's because women can't beat Sett!"

The ecosystem of the top lane is the one with the most significant differences among the four lanes in LOL.

In the current version of League of Legends, the highest priority for top lane is definitely long-range AD carries, followed by champions like Jayce, then Sett, Aatrox, and Ornn. As for Camille, she's in the fourth or fifth tier, with a very obvious gap between them.

However, Roland wasn't in a hurry. If he couldn't beat them, so be it. In fact, losing made the lessons even more meaningful.

As soon as the game started, Roland quickly positioned himself in the bushes of the upper jungle, firmly guarding the entrance to the jungle for his team's jungler. In this game, their jungler was Graves, while the opposing jungler was Lee Sin, two junglers with different playstyles.

"See? There's a reason why we prioritized positioning ourselves in the river at the start of the game. In our top laner's words, it's like giving the jungler a welcoming gift,"

Live stream viewers: ?

While the viewers in the live stream were still confused, Roland, seeing that the time was almost up, began to slowly move his Camille towards the top lane. Unlike a normal game, his movement was characterized by taking three steps forward and then looking back, as if he was afraid that someone would invade if he left.

"See? This is called feigning weakness to lure the enemy into a trap. If we look at it from a laning perspective, we definitely won't be able to get lane priority in the top lane, and we won't be able to support the enemy once a fight breaks out in the jungle. But why do we still do this? Because of our attitude."

Live stream viewers: ???

"High-level junglers like to look at the minimap, so he must have seen my actions just now. These actions told him that I am actually a top laner who looks at the minimap, which is very important."

"This means that if the bot lane makes a slight mistake or loses its advantage, Graves will decisively abandon his own bot lane and turn to us."

"After all... a top laner who knows how to read the map and support the jungle is definitely more useful than two bot laners who don't know how to read the map and are low level."

"This is what's called the interpersonal skills and venture capital of your workplace. Have you learned it?"

Live stream viewers: ? ? ? ? ? ?

I've completely failed at it. I've really failed.

Hearing your words is like hearing a profound conversation.

Although you make it sound very impressive, I'm pretty sure the junglers I get matched with absolutely never look at the minimap.

[The jungler stated that if the laners gank during jungle skirmishes, he will tend to prioritize the laner's lane afterward.]

To reiterate.

On the road, it's not a simple solo journey for him.

Although we often talk about top lane, the lane is actually wide enough for many players. Today, Roland will show the viewers in the live stream how to become a "control-oriented" top laner.

Integration: Chapter Twenty: Going to Play Professionally Was a Waste of Talent

Returning to the laning phase, the top lane laning phase is arguably the most meticulous and complicated. Because the top lane is long, even if you use Flash, you can't escape once a fight breaks out, so the position of the minion wave is particularly important.

Since Camille couldn't beat Sett at all in the early game, Roland immediately leveled up W at level 1. He would last-hit minions if the opponent wasn't pressuring him, and use W to last-hit minions if the opponent pushed him. In short, the laning phase was all about letting the opponent have their way.

As long as you don't lose experience in the early game and don't get tower-dived, you can consider yourself successful once you get through the laning phase.

As for wanting to defeat the other side?

Let's wait until later.

Although Jin Fu is known as the nemesis of women, he is not as devastating as some people think. There is an old saying in the martial arts world: women are like wolves at thirty, tigers at forty, can suck up dirt when they sit down at fifty, suck up rats through walls at sixty, eat people without spitting out bones at seventy, even Yu the Great dares not block them at eighty, swallow the sea pestle at ninety, and capture Buddha in heaven at one hundred.

Therefore, the later the game goes, the lower the threat level of Sett will be, while the strength of female heroes will truly catch up.

In the early laning phase, the key is simply to stay alive.

At level 2, I learned the E skill, and thanks to the fact that the E skill cannot be interrupted, I always managed to get myself hooked and go for a spin before being hit by Sett's E.

As for counter-attacking, I've never even considered it.