You actually want me to...

"So, what are we wary of C9 for? A-P's passive attack?"

After watching for a while, Roland felt that C9's fluctuating performance was very similar to LGD in China. Of course, LGD was definitely not as good at creating drama as these people, after all, the cultural level is different, and there are not as many trolls in foreign countries as there are in China.

"Let's avoid upsets. We need to try our best to win against teams other than DK."

"First qualification?"

"No, let's secure a point first, then aim for second place."

"As expected of a cunning old fox, I admire you." With that, Roland cupped his hands in a respectful gesture.

"Same here. As for how to keep things stable, you know what I mean."

We're all adults here, so there's no need to spell things out. Similarly, we're all adults here, so there's no need to carry unnecessary burdens of fame.

Qualifying as the first team in the competition sounds great.

However, the price of being number one will be hostility and isolation from all other teams in the competition. To put it simply, it will be very difficult to find people to play training matches. To put it simply, many years ago when everyone played KartRider and QQ Speed, in the item race, who dared to rush to the front in the last stretch of the final circle?

No matter how good the technology is, it's still vulnerable to being ganged up on.

On the night after the meeting, since there were almost no scrimmages at that time, everyone except Roland could only play ranked games to maintain their skills.

Of course, there was no live stream.

Another problem for professional players playing on foreign servers is that once they go live and reveal their ID and location, they are easily targeted by random players who intentionally sabotage the game. This is more common on the Korean server, and various records and screenshots can be easily found online.

only...

When Roland stretched and came out of the screening room (hotel room) at four in the morning, he passed by the hotel training room on his way back to his room and noticed that there were still lights flickering inside.

Driven by curiosity, Roland quietly pushed open the door and saw Haro alone in a corner, ranking up by himself.

"Not asleep yet?"

While speaking, Roland also handed him a bottle of drink. Although he couldn't understand the words on the drink at all due to his level of literacy, it tasted alright and everyone liked it.

Ha Huang's eyes never left the screen; he simply reached out, placed the book on the table, and nodded in thanks. Roland wasn't in a hurry; it was already so late, a few more minutes wouldn't make a difference, so he simply sat and watched him play.

Only after the game was over did Ha Huang slowly take off his headphones, stretch his wrists, and open the bottle of drink he had gotten earlier.

"You're up so late too?"

"It's different. Gathering so much information about the opponents in such a short time, I'm already fast at four o'clock. Why are you pushing yourself so hard?"

"No... I'm just a little annoyed."

Professional players, especially those of his age whose reflexes have declined, and who are junglers, can be considered a significant breakthrough for TES in this MSI.

Speaking of intuition, Canyon, one of the top three junglers in the world, is definitely more intuition than him.

As for his skills, someone so young certainly wouldn't be lacking in reflexes.

So what gives him an advantage over his opponents?

Jungle experience?

He knows what most world-class junglers know, and he doesn't know what world-class junglers might know—that's reality.

The reason why geniuses are called geniuses is because their uniqueness is too difficult to replicate. Even though the players who can enter the LPL are already one in a million, who can deny that there are differences between geniuses?

"A lot of pressure?" Roland looked into Harold's eyes and took a sip of his no-longer-icy drink.

"almost."

"Don't stay out too late. At least go back before dawn."

"it is good."

Roland patted Harper on the shoulder, left with just that one sentence, and then quietly left the hotel training room amidst Harper's complicated gaze.

He's the talented one.

From the moment he transmigrated to the present day until he discovered he could thrive in the professional scene, Roland never denied that he was a prodigy, but just because he was... didn't mean that all his teammates were too.

For ordinary people, if they want to close the gap with geniuses, there is really only one thing to do: work hard.

Even just those two words are based on his own talent.

There's only one S-series champion each year.

Talent, ambition, luck, and ability are all indispensable, with talent being the most important.

Roland wouldn't stop Harold's actions, because trying his best was all he could do at the moment. Since he couldn't raise his ceiling vertically, he could only increase his tolerance for mistakes horizontally. Given his own talent, he wasn't qualified to give Harold advice from the same level. The only thing he could do was to set a bottom line.

Before dawn.

Because there is not much time between dawn and getting up the next day to prepare for the competition, staying up too late will affect one's mental state, which in turn will affect the team's performance.

This was from the captain's perspective, so he spoke with confidence and accepted it readily.

Since there aren't many opportunities to create, seize every opportunity you can.

Making his combos a little faster, his targeted skills a little more accurate, and his jungle clearing movements a little more precise—every small improvement, even if it's just a difference of one second, might be the key factor that allows him to defeat the "genius."

What is the pinnacle of achievement for an ordinary person?

It's all about practice makes perfect.

Because hard work—it's also a talent.

Back in his hotel room, as soon as he opened the door, JKL's voice came through first:

"You saw Emperor Hara?"

"Ah."

"That's good. Go take a shower now. I feel disgusted by the smell of your stinky feet even through the door."

"Damn, that means there's something wrong with your nose. Smell it if you don't believe me." After closing the door, Roland rushed towards Ah Shui's bed without thinking.

"Holy crap, get away from me, you stink."

"Stinky man, stinky man, how can a man not smell bad? Come on, smell my feet, do they smell good?"

"Get out of here!!!"

The Battle for Supremacy: Chapter Twenty-Nine: We're Not Here to Fight!

The next day.

As the night sky rose at 2 a.m. in China, the match between TES and C9 finally began.

Ha Huang yawned, glanced at his dark circles in the mirror, then at the two Xia Fu brothers in the room who also had kaleidoscope-like panda eyes, and a million question marks flashed through his mind.

"Look at you, if you hadn't been so rowdy last night, would I be this exhausted?" Rubbing his eyes, Ah Shui even felt that his eyes were starting to hurt if he stared at one spot for too long, a bit like the physical state he used to experience after staying up all night.

"How can you blame me? If you hadn't resisted so much, it would have been over long ago!"

"You took the initiative, and you're blaming me?"

"Okay, you take the initiative next time."

The TES players, looking completely bewildered and frightened: Σ(°ロ°)

Despite the fact that White Crescent's pre-match analysis suggested that C9 was likely to win as long as Roland and JKL didn't both make mistakes, necessary preparations still needed to be made, namely, to exploit C9's weaknesses with a superior strategy.

What are the weaknesses of the C9?

It's actually a weakness that all regions except LPL and LCK make: vision control.

The European and American teams have suffered from poor vision control in the World Championship more than once or twice. When it comes to drafting, Europe and America are known as the cradle of strategies, and many unconventional strategies originated from them.

In terms of strength, although it is a battle of weak teams within the region, this so-called battle of weak teams does not mean that they are bad at team fights or seizing opportunities. The number of times that other regions have defeated LPL and LCK has increased year by year. The reason is that after they make up for the gap in tactics and vision, the remaining gap in overall strength is actually not that big.

The real reason they lost was that they didn't pay much attention to vision control.

But that's just how it is.

Vision is not so much related to the players, but it is extremely important to the coaches and analysts.

Encountering a retirement-style competition zone like those in Europe and America.

Either the coach's contract is high or the player's contract is high; you can't have both, so most people will choose the player over the coach.

This is very dangerous.

"Remember, today we'll mainly rely on vision to exert pressure. Don't worry about DK learning your vision techniques; your vision control isn't as good as DK's anyway." Holding the coach's special little notebook, White Crescent repeated the strategy for this game over and over again. Of course, he also took the opportunity to tease someone who had forgotten to ward because they were trying to initiate a team fight.

Roland listened intently to the door invitation, but he didn't take it seriously either.

It is something that has a specific focus.

He admits that his vision isn't as good as Genshin Impact's, but if you ask Genshin Impact if he can outmaneuver him in team fights, Genshin Impact certainly wouldn't dare say yes.

"Got it, Coach. Since we're going to win this game by controlling vision, should I use Fiddlesticks?"

"No! Stop! Please don't! We're here to compete, not to fight! Calm down!" Hearing that this guy was going to play with the scarecrow, not only White Crescent, but even Ah Shui and the others tensed up a bit.

"No, I just wanted to play with a scarecrow, is it really that big of a deal?"

"You probably wouldn't be that bad if you worked out, but can you take a look at the physiques of those two big guys from C9's Ueno? Have you ever thought about how many moves we skinny guys could possibly take against them?"

No joke.

With this guy's shameless, scarecrow-like playing style, he'd probably end up in the hospital if he won and in the morgue if he lost. Who the hell could stand that?

Soon, a round of bans:

TES: Senna, Thresh, Renekton

C9: Varus, Gragas, Fiddlesticks

The moment the Scarecrow appeared in the ban list, coupled with Roland's bewildered expression when the camera panned across the screen, the entire LPL live stream instantly turned into a sea of ​​joy.

[Hilarious! Even the powerful Banhuang has met his end.]

[Banning the straw man in a reverse version – just how much psychological damage did the board king inflict on them?]

To be honest, unless it's an important match, who would dare give him this?

Because of him, many professional players have petitioned Riot Games overnight to remove the passive ability that forces the Fiddlesticks to be active. Looking at the entire professional scene, while it's not impossible for him to do this again, he has certainly achieved something unprecedented.

The reason why the Joker is not commonly seen in competitive play is because if the vision is filled, there is basically no room for the Joker to make any plays.

But the scarecrow.