Chapter 294: Thanks to Ye the Sage for the Open Source!

"What did he blow up this time?"

Ye Bo pushed open the door and looked at his teammates, who were huddled together, clutching their phones and giggling.

"Master Ye is back!"

"Master Ye! My brother Bin blew up again!"

Ye Bo took one look at the big screen, which was showing the post-match loser's interview that hadn't ended yet, and he could already guess what happened.

He didn't even need to search for it after getting his phone back; as soon as he opened the post-match forum, it was full of real-time reposts.

He also saw Chen Zebin's latest post-match remarks.

{Q: Before the match yesterday, you showed great confidence in today's result, but unfortunately, you didn't manage to take it today. Where do you think the problem lies?

{Bin: I don't really feel anything, just that my luck wasn't very good.

{Q: You have always been a very confident player. Now that the team's previous winning streak has been broken, what kind of mindset will you use to adjust for the upcoming matches?

{Bin: I don't think there's anything to adjust. It's just the regular season. Winning isn't winning the championship. Our goal this year is definitely the Summer Split and the World Championship. Just wait for us to take our revenge on V5 in the playoff finals!

Nowadays, whenever Chen Zebin posts on Weibo or his personal space, the management tries their best to keep a tight watch, hoping to keep him from "blowing up" too much.

It was just like a year ago when Ye Bo was still at EDG, and Ming Kai would watch Ye Bo's post-match interviews every single day.

The only difference was that every time Ye Bo "blew up," it didn't make people resent him; instead, it became a source of joy and a fun topic for fans and viewers to discuss after the match.

Chen Zebin's statements were different.

Nine times out of ten, it was a massive explosion!

The most critical part was that for others, "blowing up" was mostly pre-match trash talk, at most a boomerang. Mr. Ming Kai, the King of Memes, was the best example; it was mostly just for laughs and banter.

Chen Zebin specifically chose to blow up when he was losing and in an unfavorable position!

Of course, most of the audience was already used to him, so they just watched it for entertainment.

The reason it blew up again this time was that someone had posted a clip of the interview Ye Bo had just finished.

It contained a similar interview question—the two formed a sharp contrast!

{Yu Shuang: Both sides were very confident before the match. Master Ye, you successfully took the match today, how are you feeling now? Did you make any special preparations for today's match?

{Ye: Of course I'm very happy! It's mainly because our fans and friends really want to see us win. It would be so painful for them if they saw us lose, so we have to try our best to win every single match!

{Ye: As for special preparations, there aren't any. Our whole team treats every match quite seriously. We treat every match as a path toward the World Championship stage and give it our all.

It can only be said that it was fortunate Ye Bo's main stage interview ended first, and then the loser's group interview took place.

Otherwise, many people would definitely think that Ye Bo had seen Chen Zebin's interview first and then intentionally attacked him!

But it was obvious that Ye Bo, who finished his interview first, wasn't saying those things to attack anyone; they were just his genuine inner thoughts.

And the comment section below was, unsurprisingly, very lively.

【Wooo, this is Master Ye. The line "how painful it would be for fans if they saw us lose" is really worth learning for all the B-tier teams!】

【I feel like brother Bin is the spinning top from Inception. Since he first appeared in S10, the Ox-Head and Horse-Face, the God King, and the Holy Gun have taken turns spinning him, making him spin steadier and steadier, to the point where he can't return to reality!】

【Case solved. Actually, Master Ye is a time traveler. He knew long ago what brother Bin would say after the match, so he was being sarcastic in advance!】

【I am the time machine, I can prove the person above is telling the truth, Ye is a total villain!!】

【Bad luck, lag too high, didn't eat a banana, still in the process of gelling, wrong patch, poor hand feel, mouse leaking electricity, keyboard flooded, called the jungler again, stole my kill, who the hell changed my keybindings?】

【The great conceptual gods of Summoner's Rift: Master Ye, League Super, World Fly, Off-season Water—now there's another one: Post-match Bin!】

【Why are you still talking about World Fly? World Fly is about to be buried in the dirt!】

"Eh? Fly seems to be playing!" Xun, who was surfing the web nearby, suddenly shouted after seeing a piece of breaking news.

"For real?" Ye Bo immediately leaned over to look.

It was a personnel announcement just released by T1: "Starting from the next match, player Faker will return to the starting lineup!"

Come to think of it, T1's current situation can definitely be described as "standing on the edge of a cliff."

The number of teams in the LCK and LPL is different, so the LPL uses a single round-robin points system, while the LCK uses a double round-robin, with the top 10/top 6 entering the playoffs.

T1 has already finished 3 matches in their second round-robin, and their current match record is 3-9, placing them third from the bottom of the league.

They have already suffered a 9-match losing streak.

They haven't even managed to win a single match!

Although it is normal for the team's strength to decline after replacing a key mid-laner with a player who lacks synergy, their decline is clearly still unbelievable to everyone!

And in fact, Faker was originally planned to rest for another two weeks.

Because the opponents in the first few matches of the second round-robin were other bottom-tier teams, they thought the four T1 youngsters should be enough to handle it.

Who knew they would start the second round-robin with another 0-3!

They couldn't even win against the bottom-tier teams!

If T1 loses two more matches, their regular season points will inevitably fail to squeeze into the top six, and they will be directly eliminated from the playoffs, ending their year early—the club was truly forced into a corner and had no choice but to have the mid-laner rush back to save the day.

But no one knows.

Whether Faker, who is returning after leaving the stage for more than a month, can really save this team.

"Still feels like something is wrong..."

Li Xianghe, inside the T1 base, looked at the scarlet {Defeat} screen in front of him, muttering to himself as he clicked to exit the game.

The Grand Steward next to him, Bengi, suggested: "Actually, you don't have to practice Tristana. I feel like this hero will definitely be nerfed in the next patch; the designers won't allow this kind of hero to dominate the mid lane."

Li Xianghe shook his head, adjusting the wristband on his arm: "I can't."

"There are at least four matches until the next patch, and we can't afford to lose."

As the MSI-winning team that just finished, V5 naturally becomes an object of research and reference for regions around the world for every match.

Except for Blood Dog, which was basically removed from the mid-lane position after being urgently nerfed in the second patch.

The Statikk Shiv LeBlanc, as well as the Tristana and Viego from a few days ago, all caused quite a stir.

Of course, mid-lane Viego is not like the first two; it's not something anyone can practice—this hero requires too much from a player's champion pool, and the requirements for laning skills and mechanics are even more abnormal, and its inherent strength isn't considered "unsolvable."

Currently, apart from Ye Bo, only the highly talented Chovy has picked it later, and his performance was quite good.

As for others who picked it, they were either crushed in lane or made many clumsy plays after possessing someone in team fights, failing to unleash the hero's absolute advantage in fighting ability!

Tristana is different.

Tristana can not only counter the other "scumbag" LeBlanc in this patch, but due to the enhancement of {Navori Quickblades}, the hero's strength has further increased, making it almost compatible with all team compositions in this patch!

But as the saying goes.

Although mid-lane Tristana is nothing new, many traditional mid-laners really can't play it!

Compared to Lucian, a "mage-like" champion that uses abilities as its output method, Tristana is closer to a pure ADC in its essence.

Plus, the "laning logic" of Tristana in the mid lane and in a bottom duo lane are two completely different worlds.

For Li Xianghe, 1v1 laning, hero mechanic control, and combos are all very simple.

But he just always feels like his understanding is missing a layer... the effect he shows is very average, no matter how he plays it, it feels wrong, and even his win rate in ranked games isn't high!

Li Xianghe, who is about to return to save the day, can't help but feel a bit anxious.

In the next few matches, he will face KT, Hanwha, and DK—the mid-laners Bdd, Zeka, and Xu Xiu have all performed quite well on Tristana recently!

If T1 suffers a disadvantage in the Tristana pick against these three teams, it will definitely be very painful.

"Show me his footage again." Li Xianghe said, rubbing his forehead.

"Ye's?"

Bengi looked troubled after hearing this, explaining while operating the screen to pull up a folder.

"There is no new footage. We previously suspected that he was using a smurf account to practice, so we specifically monitored a batch of high-ELO accounts on the Korean server that suddenly started playing Tristana, but after ruling them out one by one, we found that none of them were him."

"Here, there are still only these two games."