You actually want me to...

Even Mark is just an average support player, and his best champions are only Leona, Athena, and Leona. In the S10 World Championship, he was despised by everyone in the LPL, but now he has become the most normal one next to JKL.

Players who mainly play mid, top, and jungle might not understand what it feels like to encounter a support AD carry like this.

But if a solo queue AD player encounters such an overpowered support, they would have already tilted and gone to take a shower in a fit of rage, not even bothering to wait for level 15.

"Wuhu, off work!"

"Screw getting off work, everyone keep working hard, the championship skin selection... um..."

Just as Roland was about to say something, JKL, who was closest to him, swiftly pressed his hand to Roland's mouth, while simultaneously shouting, "Come and help me! This idiot is about to make another bold statement, I can't stop him by myself."

"Holy crap? They're here!"

Upon hearing that this guy wanted to set a bad example, the TES team couldn't hold back any longer. Even the furthest away, Da Huang, came over to help hold down Roland's struggling hands, all the while marveling at how strong he was.

Roland herself has a very hot figure, but many people don't believe that she has such a figure.

In society, it's common for people who work out to get beaten up by people from all walks of life. This has gradually given people the misconception that people who work out are just muscular and filled with protein powder. But these guys watched Roland train every day, and they knew all too well what real strength was. Besides, there's a famous saying in the fitness community that's been widely circulated: "A big guy isn't necessarily strong, but a guy with a thick neck is definitely a formidable fighter."

Looking at his arms, which were as thick as his own thighs, everyone who was holding him down kept wondering how he had developed such a powerful physique.

Fortunately, Roland wasn't serious and didn't have the strength to struggle. As JKL and the others saw that he was slowly returning to normal, they started to release him one by one. After all, it was a competition, and there were countless cameras pointing at them outside the arena. It wouldn't be good if someone saw them.

When they turned around, a camera lens that was clearly already in focus suddenly appeared in front of the TES players.

Well, I've seen everything.

[Wow~ Are these TES bastards really going this far? It's only daytime!]

[Looks like they're holding back the board king to prevent him from speaking. I get it, this guy's probably trying to set another flag?]

[Setting a flag? Break his legs.]

[Great suggestion from upstairs! How about this, we'll crowdfund to cover your travel and medical expenses. Go ahead.]

[Ahem, I suddenly remembered I have something to do, so I'll stop here.]

Break his leg?

Didn't you see that the four big men in the shot seemed to be having trouble holding down the human board king? This monster, which is almost equivalent to a human-shaped Jinfu, is the only one they've seen in all the years they've watched LPL. That one is one of the four former top trash talkers in the Chinese server: Death Declaration.

Anyone who sleeps with that is an idiot.

"Well then, since Ah Shui is in the second game, let's have him go for the interview. Any questions?" While packing his things, Roland turned around and asked his teammates for their opinions.

"No, why is it me again?" He was in the quarterfinals last round, he was in the group stage the round before that, and he was even in the send-off ceremony before that. Doesn't he get any rest? "Didn't you say before the match that you would support me unconditionally? Now that's your chance, you go do this interview. I've been to so many, I won't go again."

JKL doesn't want to do this stupid job anymore. He has to pay attention to this and that in the World Championship interviews, and he has to be watched and criticized by the whole world. It's a waste of energy and time. Why doesn't he have time to do something else?

"Yes, I did say I would support you unconditionally."

"Then go ahead."

"But what does my unconditional support have to do with me going with you?"

"No...didn't you say you'd provide unconditional support? Then why didn't you go and give the interview when I asked you to?"

Hearing this, Roland finally understood where the other party had gone wrong. So he patted him on the shoulder and said to JKL earnestly, "I already said I support you unconditionally. It's just that I don't have the means, so I can only support you in spirit. That's what unconditional support is. You understand what I mean?"

"???"

Settled: Chapter Forty-Four: Everyone Has a Beast Within

The news that two LPL teams had advanced to the semifinals spread to LOL fans across the country overnight. Although they had expected TES to advance, firstly, it was not yet a done deal, and secondly, they were impressed by RNG's "glorious deeds" during S8, so no one dared to be too certain.

But by this point, most of those who were going to be excited had already gotten excited.

[It all comes down to Group D, the fateful battle between DK and GENG!]

Today, you will be watching a large-scale emotional drama series starring Colonel Guan and his family: True Colors/I'm Actually Fine.

If DK advances, this will be their third best-of-five series against TES, right?

Indeed, you can tell they're really holding back. If they lose three times in a row, this team will probably never be able to hold their heads high in front of TES again.

As the saying goes, good things don't happen more than three times, but now they are standing on the dangerous edge. What's even more outrageous is that DK won the number one seed with their hard-earned strength, but considering their previous two BO5 losses to TES, the general opinion among LCK fans is that they hope GENG will advance. It all sounds quite magical.

"We never expected that our first batch of LCK fans would come from our rivals."

Ha Huang scratched his head in confusion. He originally thought that Korean trolls were already an outrageous group of creatures, but it turned out that there were also Chinese trolls on the Korean side. Especially due to the unique national conditions of Korea, the combat power of Korean trolls was even stronger than that of the Chinese server.

At most, the Chinese server will only give you a "keyboard attack," but if the trolls are pushed too far, they'll just send a dead rat.

However, it was still early, otherwise Haro probably wouldn't have imagined that among all of Asia, the people in the Japanese region were actually the most ruthless, directly taking action on the field.

"That's normal. There's nothing that's too overpowered online, but we can't let our guard down against DK just because of that."

Indeed, they successfully won two BO5s against their opponents, but the problem is... the players on that team haven't changed much. Even top laner Khan's strength has definitely changed after half a year of practice. On the other hand, while Haro is okay, Da Huang is a complete rookie, and he even switched from jungle. If it weren't for the current meta giving opportunities to play passively, he might not have been able to withstand Khan's onslaught.

While others may see them as invincible, they are not so confident and are quite uncertain.

Now, the group is sitting in front of the screen to watch the LCK internal battle and see how far DK has come.

"What would you like to drink? I'll go buy it."

Seeing that the competition hadn't started yet, Da Huang, being quite perceptive, took on the role of a lackey and volunteered to run errands.

"It's all right."

"random."

"It's up to you to decide."

The "Three-Pronged Approach (Lazy Person's Limited Edition)" from Nakano left Da Huang completely bewildered. Only Roland thought for a moment and added at the end: "As long as it's a carbonated drink, these people won't make a fuss. But remember, if you see a red drink, don't ask, just run."

"what?"

"What are you 'huh' for? It's obvious you've never experienced the brutal beatings of a beverage assassin. I'll just say it here: every single red beverage is an assassin. If you don't believe me, have you heard of the classic 'Red Scream'?"

After the bewildered Big Yellow was outmaneuvered, Roland finally turned his attention back to the big screen.

Compared to T1's old god, Teacher Dafei, his old rival, Showmaker, Rongguang, is undoubtedly more likely to win Roland's favor. It's not about whether there will be any spoilers or not, that's still too early to say. Rather, it's because Roland admires Showmaker's youthful and somewhat "wild" personality.

Everyone has a wild beast inside them, but as they grow older, this beast is burdened with more and more shackles, slowly transforming from a ferocious beast into a domestic fowl, and then from a domestic fowl into a pet. You can't judge whether this is right or wrong. Being unconventional is exhilarating, but it can also be very difficult most of the time. Suppressing your personality is depressing, but this depressing feeling can make you more comfortable integrating into society in most situations.

Showmaker gives the impression of displaying to the whole world what he should have at this moment. He can be arrogant when he wins and accept defeat when he loses. This kind of personality will annoy you if you are his subordinate, but it is hard to hate him if you are his opponent.

"Guess what the odds are?"

"It'll be 3 to 1, or at most 3 to 2, depending on whether DK wants to try out a different lineup."

"Are you so sure?"

"Of course, because DK is on the blue side."

That's all.

While chatting with Xiran on his phone, Roland was also slowly waiting for the match to begin. It's true, if the prophet is the king of the benchwarmers and has reigned supreme for eternity, then Xiran has also successfully disappeared from the public eye like a resentful woman in her boudoir for countless chapters. There's no way around it; once the playoffs begin, the players' personal lives must be controlled. Until the end of the S-series, they can only communicate with each other through online chat.

As for why there's no video?

Because that thing takes too long; video calls require waiting for the other person to put on makeup, and a woman's makeup time can easily start at half an hour.

Many men don't understand women. They think that a woman's "no makeup" means she doesn't put on any makeup, just like them, and that she looks the same after waking up. In reality, when a woman says she's not wearing makeup, she doesn't mean she spent an hour doing a full face of makeup. She just applied some concealer, did her eyebrows, put on some lipstick, and then turned on a beauty filter when she turned on the camera.

Try it out.

Roland, who was already short on time, didn't have time to wait for the other party to get this thing working, so he simply started texting instead.

It was during their conversation that the match between DK and GENG officially began.

As predicted by LPL viewers, in the first three games, DK almost always relied on the advantages provided by the current version to aggressively compress the opponent's bans while on the blue side. This is Kkoma's classic trick, as he loves to use this to forcefully exploit the opponent's champion pool. GENG could only passively respond. Then, in the second game, on the red side, they deliberately gave away the current meta to the opponent and reluctantly lost the game.

But once the fourth game, the match point game, Genshin Impact started to dominate.

With Zilean as support and Jhin as AD, Showmaker, in front of a global audience, stole all of Roland's Zilean moments, including "close-range self-destruction" and "leveling up to six by stealing lane experience." He managed to gain an advantage with just one or two small plays, successfully dragging the game into the late game. Then, relying on Showmaker's powerful game-closing ability, he took down GENG in one round and advanced to the semifinals.

This concludes the semi-finals.

Upper bracket: T1 vs. EDG.

Bottom bracket: TES vs. DK.

Settled: Chapter Forty-Five: Just Because...They Wanted to See

[It's here! China vs. South Korea!]

[IG in S8, FPX in S9, TES in S10, so what about S11?]

[Finally, this has come! We have to get revenge for S7 this year! LPL, kill them!]

As a veteran player, seeing this match really brought back some memories...

If the victory in S8 was like the emergency room in the ICU, the victory in S9 was like the special medicine in the ward, and the victory in S10 was like the bowl of porridge during the recovery period, then the present moment in S11 is like a blue pill that seems capable of changing the past.

For most LPL players, the S7 Bird's Nest stadium was a painful memory.

His pain wasn't from losing the game in his most promising year, nor from failing to protect the field he had secured the first time, but from the fact that many people's game friends stopped there after that day, never to light up again.

Yes, even though three or four years have passed, we still don't know how many "comrades-in-arms" we lost on that day.

This is not just a tragedy for the LPL, but a tragedy for every one of us players.

The semi-finals, held on home soil, will be a showdown between China and South Korea.

Countless words that correspond to the past resurfaced before everyone's eyes. At this moment, even the fans of the various teams within the LPL, who were already arguing endlessly, stopped arguing. Because at this moment, the largest fan groups in the history of the LPL: Royal fans, Piglets, Water Ghosts, Chinese Misfits, Champions fans, Fun People, and so on, and even the 60E who were once thought to have disappeared, all showed up at this moment, and then... united together for the first time.

LPL has gone mad!

Overnight, the internet seemed to be undergoing a renaissance, with various events, memes, and even match results from the S7 era being unearthed. Memes, in particular, were so similar to those from that year that they didn't even need to be changed much; simply altering the team icons slightly was enough to create something new for the new year.

But despite the simplicity of the solution, no one complained.

Because...that's exactly what they want.

Early LPL viewers were actually a particularly unfortunate group. A large part of them were first introduced to the concept of esports through LPL, and they also witnessed the early days of WE reaching the peak. However, compared to the fleeting glory of the old WE, their memories are perhaps more of the dark dominance brought by the Korean wave.

The most exciting BO5 in history between Samsung's ten players, Marin Faker, Tigers and SKT, Ambition's battle for revenge and proof.

For four consecutive years, each year was the most promising year, and each year was an era dominated by LCK.

So these people got tired and weary. But before they could even escape the shadow of the competition, the harsh realities of society soon struck them again. Yes, those who witnessed the dark ages of the LPL are now mostly in the 24-30 age range. They are young people who have elderly parents to support, fear marriage and childbirth, have little money, and are facing high housing prices.

In a sense, this group of people can truly be called the unluckiest people in the world.