League of Legends Nirvana Journey

Chapter 161 Lee Sang-hyuk, who is about to be full of vitality
As a challenger, what Faker should do is to learn and become stronger, not only to make himself stronger, but also to make his team stronger!

In other words, if Faker wants to continue to win the game and continue to win the championship, he has to learn like a rookie, strengthen his personal strength, and make his team stronger. It is really strong, and Not just a strong lineup, it has to be truly strong, the players and the lineup must be reasonably strong, strong enough to shake the current IG or RNG of this level, strong enough to beat all the top teams, strong To win the championship!
Now that the goal and idea were set, Faker looked at the phone screen that was stuck on the text message interface. The two thumbs floating on the keys no longer hesitated and began to press continuously.

"click"

The sound of nails colliding with the phone screen sounded extremely fast, lasting no more than three seconds. Brother Li quickly edited another text message and sent the edited message to Bengi:

"I promise you, S9, I will stand on top of the world with other SKT players!"

The meaning expressed by Faker's text message is very crazy. Nowadays, almost everyone knows how bad SKT's situation is. SKT, which has never missed any S competition except S4, did not enter the World Championship. You can see how bad SKT's state is in the current stage.

But at this time, Faker announced the ownership of the next S game champion in the semi-disabled state of SKT!

It can be seen how much self-confidence is in these words, and bengi, who knows him best, didn’t care about the arrogance in his words after seeing this text message. After being his partner for four years, bengi certainly understands Faker’s character, although many People boast that Faker is a humble person, but bengi, as the player who has been with Faker for the longest time, of course he knows that the words of these media are often just unreasonable bragging.

"Player XX is a player with no shortcomings, and he also has no advantages!"

"Some people ask, when will our reign end, and as long as this game exists, our reign will never end!"

These words are crazy, right?Even more arrogant than what Ye Qing, who has been accused of being overconfident recently, said, and these are exactly what Faker said!
How could a truly humble person say such things?

The so-called Faker's extremely humble character design is just an incidental product brought about by his strength enough and enough glory.

The real Faker is actually quite crazy. There is nothing wrong with this. Almost all of these professional players became famous when they were young. At this impetuous age, they have completely crushed almost everyone in a project. How can they not be crazy?

Most professional players are basically crazy, it's just that different people have different levels of arrogance.

Bengi doesn't care about the self-confidence mixed in Faker's words. He focuses on other things. What he sees are two other meanings hidden in Lee Sang Hyuk's words:
First, the fact that Faker can say this not only shows that he has communicated, but also put himself in the position of challenger again, which means that Faker will become more difficult to deal with in the next season!

When the strength of the challenger and the devil are the same, of course the challenger is stronger!
Second, Faker said that he would stand on top of the world with other SKT players, not with other SKT players.

At first glance, there is not much difference between these two sentences, but when you think about it carefully, you can taste a lot of things:

Faker has always been the thigh and core of the SKT team. In fact, it is not impossible to say that SKT was led by Faker, but once Faker thinks so, then its nature will change!
Although Faker has always been a thigh, SKT is a team, and the players should complement each other. In a real team, there is no so-called thigh or someone who leads the fly!

Once everyone in the team thinks so and takes action, the cohesion of the team will be gone. Then such a team cannot be said to be a professional team. It can only be called a team with poor strength and combat literacy. A good RANK team, maybe not even a RANK team!
Don't think that this phenomenon is rare. In fact, this phenomenon is the norm, especially for some super top professional players who have been in good condition. The teammates around these players have changed too many batches, and he may have always been in the same situation. A club always stays in the same team, but the condition of his teammates cannot always be as good as his, so replacement of players is inevitable!

After all, the average life expectancy of professional e-sports players is only two years!

In fact, from the audience's point of view, the replacement of players is actually nothing. Doesn't the team just look at which team has the most stars and the best tactical level?Is adding at most one tactical system suitable for the version, but the fact is not as simple as the audience thinks.

A team without cohesion is not qualified to win the championship, not even the qualification to win the championship!

Take Faker, who is the most diligent in changing teammates, as an example. In his mind, the teammates of the first generation of SKT are almost like brothers wearing a pair of pants. Everyone is close and cooperates tacitly. If they lose the game, they carry it together and win the game. Crazy together, this kind of team is very cohesive. If there is any problem in the team, everyone will point it out and correct it in time. When a player in the team has a defect in a certain aspect, a cohesive team will not think about changing players, but rely on other players. The characteristics of the players to make up for the shortcomings of this flawed player.

In Faker's mind, SKT during this period is considered the best SKT. Any problems will be solved together by everyone. This kind of SKT is like the protagonist team in movies, animations, and novels. It will gradually change in each game. Strong, the problems of the players will be solved game by game until they win the championship!

And the second generation of SKT was a bit strange to him at the beginning, but he has only been playing professionally for only two years, so he is far from being called an old fritter, and besides, there is a generation of jungler bengi behind him who has been supporting him, so no It didn't take long for him to get acquainted with the second-generation teammates, and the cohesion of the team is still very high.

The team members are each solving their own problems, and the team is growing slowly. From being defeated by EDG during the S5 MSI period, to the crushing victory in the S5 World Championship later, SKT was also growing at that time!

Then the second generation changed players in S6. Fortunately, although the cohesion of the team declined, the state also declined, and the problem was no longer solved, but their personal strength was already very strong at the time and they could win the championship without any improvement!

But what about S7? bengi retired, and the top laner changed again. The problems of each player are no longer solved, and even they are still happening, but bang and wolf are still there. Even if S7 loses, this SKT can still be called SKT. !

Then what?
Third generation, fourth generation, even fifth generation!
Teammates have been replaced one after another. This SKT team is actually very unfamiliar to Faker. He can no longer remember the close relationship with his teammates before. For Faker, playing games with his teammates has changed from the past with his brothers. Going to the battlefield together turned into working with strangers, and the cohesion of the team was dissipating!

The dissipation of cohesion means the dissipation of executive power and tacit understanding of the team. When the team loses, they no longer think about the solution, but think about other things. Like the operation of RNG's small dragon group today, they may never be able to play!
Such a team may perform well in favorable conditions, and may be able to make a comeback in adversity by relying on the individual strength of its players, but they cannot bear the desperate situation, and they cannot solve the problems within the team, so naturally they cannot bear it either. The blow of failure!
To put it simply, it is okay for a team without cohesion to fight against a team that has no desire to win, or against a team that is equally uncohesive but weaker than them, but they cannot fight a tough battle, and even face many teams that are weaker than them. Teams that are cohesive and have a strong desire to win will always be overturned.

Bengi originally thought that after the demise of the second generation of SKT, SKT would no longer be united as a whole. After all, Faker, who is the absolute core of the team, is not good at uniting the team as a whole. Faker, who likes to use actions instead of words and deeds, is not Can't adjust the atmosphere of the team and the relationship between the players, that's what Doinb and Brother Feng are good at.

But looking at what he said now, it feels like he intends to break through himself, and is ready to squeeze the five members of the next generation SKT into one fist?

In that case, coupled with the reinforcements that SKT will inevitably receive next season, and Lee Sang Hyuk who is about to be full of firepower, SKT will definitely be one of the top teams next season!
Although I don't really believe that Faker can win the championship next season, at the very least, next season's SKT will definitely have the strength to compete for the championship, instead of just staying at home and watching others win the championship like now!
Logically speaking, after losing the last game, the RNG lounge should be silent, but what is surprising is that the RNG lounge still maintains the enthusiastic atmosphere at the end of the first game.

Even Brother Feng did not criticize RNG for losing the second game. In his opinion, his players did their best and performed well enough in the second game. Each player played their due role, but there is no way, the opponent's performance is better!

In fact, losing the game is a very normal thing, especially in projects like e-sports. No matter how strong you are, you will still face the risk of losing the game. It is abnormal not to lose the game!
And if his players lose the game without making mistakes, Brother Feng will never criticize the players. On the contrary, after such a situation occurs, he will only take the initiative to find his own mistakes!
Why can the first game avoid all accidents almost perfectly, and set the victory circle in the already designed tactics, but the second game can only rely on purely personal strength in the chaos?

It can be said that the way RNG tried to win the game in the two rounds was very different. In the first round, the RNG players almost controlled the overall situation!Take into consideration any possible reaction from the opponent!Even if an accident happened, the situation was saved by the cooperation of teammates!

The situation in the second game was completely different. In the second game, except for the attack of the middle field in the early stage, RNG had considered it before, and the rest of the things were basically improvised!
It can be said that the second game was almost completely off track. Except for the main idea of ​​dragging the situation into Uzi's hands, all the rest of RNG's arrangements were directly torn to pieces by Theshy Akali's tyrannical personal strength!

And what IG likes is precisely this kind of chaotic and melee that deviates from the track!
(End of this chapter)