Chapter 102

Su Xing saw the situation and immediately said: "Although we won, but that match just now also exposed many problems, especially Xiao Tian, ah, you said to slow down a bit, yet you were the one who rushed the fastest."

Xiao Tian's smile gradually stiffened. MMP, you yourself said it wasn't reckless? Now you want to slow down a bit?

Alright alright alright, you're the big thigh, everything you say is right.

This is too hard for me! Mao Kai: →_→

Are you blind backstage? Who dove the tower? Who led the charge onto high ground ignoring the turret? 'And you guys bottom lane, ah, how many times have we said, take the turret, take the turret, do you understand?'

Yu Wenbo and Tian Ye:. Alright, ADC in this version is just a turret-pushing tool, the kind with no right to breathe.

'Alright, Mao Kai, I've finished speaking, do you have anything to add?' Su Xing looked at Mao Kai with a calm expression.

Mao Kai: →_→

You've had me say everything, what else can I say? 'A Le, your vision problem.' Mao Kai pondered for a moment; although Su Xing's performance was perfect, as a coach his job is to nitpick and then give encouragement.

'This match I bought two true eyes and also placed them, ah!' Su Xing said confidently, this time I shouldn't be causing trouble for myself, right?

When I bought those two true eyes, I almost felt heartbroken; saving over a hundred to buy equipment wouldn't be nice?

'You did place them, but you placed them in front of the enemy turret.' Mao Kai said resentfully.

'That's still placing them.'

Mao Kai:. My heart is so tired, most importantly, aside from this, Su Xing's performance is indeed perfect, making him want to criticize but unable to speak.

At that moment someone knocked and entered, it was the venue staff reminding Su Xing to prepare for an interview; the MVP of this match naturally went to mid laner Su Xing, which is indisputable data.

'Help me tidy up the keyboard, you can consider what to order later.' Su Xing instructed, and then followed the staff to the interview area.

'Are you ready? We'll conduct a one-minute interview that will be synced to the online streaming platform.' The host handed the microphone to Su Xing.

Su Xing nodded, the host gave an OK sign to the cameraman, and the picture was immediately transmitted to the online streaming audience.

The host, dressed in a cheongsam-style outfit, smiled and waved at the camera: 'Hello everyone, I'm host An Ran. In the just-concluded match, TE. S team swept R. A team to victory, so we've invited the MVP of this match, Su Xing, to chat with you all.'

'Hello everyone, I'm the mid laner of TE. S team, Su Xing.'

Su Xing naturally waved his hand in front of the camera; host An Ran quickly regained composure and continued: 'First, congratulations to TE. S team on winning the match, their record is now 6:0. First, I want to ask, why did you choose Yasuo as your champion for this match? Did you specially practice him before the game?'

'No, no, I actually play Yasuo pretty badly.' Su Xing paused and said: 'The coach told me to pick it, so I did.'

Backstage, Mao Kai instantly looked bewildered, 'Nima, is this even human speech?'

During BP, who said we should have a bit of fun?

'If I'm not mistaken, TE. S's lineup earlier should have been focused on mid and bottom; was there something that caused you to change strategy and shift to focusing on top and mid?'

'Because we think top lane is easier to gank.' Su Xing replied with a smile: 'In this version, bottom lane priority isn't that high.'

'Throughout the match we saw you seemingly repeatedly perfectly avoiding R. A team's vision; could you reveal how you avoided their vision area?' The host asked a question many people care about, because this scene looks truly unbelievable.

'This is indeed something I researched before the match.' Su Xing said with a smile; he knew someone would ask this kind of question, and in fact he also knew it looks absurd, but once would be forgivable, yet in that match just now it happened more than once.

But what does that matter?

'In this match, we see that compared to previous games, your laning style has become much steadier, with only one solo kill occurring; was this change made for the team?'

'No no no, I'm actually a very steady player; many times I could solo kill the enemy but there's no need, after all I'm a player who likes to farm.' Su Xing said righteously, Xiao Tian:??? This is human speech? The tower dive kill on Xiao Pao wasn't you?

'The final question is about the last high-ground team fight, which you played very aggressively, and this is also your first pentakill after returning to the stage; how do you view this?'

'TE. S team is relatively young, so when they have an advantage they need someone to step up to keep them calm and avoid getting tilted.' Su Xing thought for a moment and said: 'So to prevent them from getting tilted and losing the match, I can only take on this role.'

Host: Backstage everyone, in short, to keep teammates from tilting I just went ahead and killed the whole enemy team? 'Alright then, this interview ends here, once again wishing TE. S team to win another match.' The host also forcibly suppressed laughter and ended the interview.

At this moment, the viewers in the live stream also finished watching the interview, and they all posted question marks.

Is what Su Xing saying even human speech, ah? The pentakill Yasuo was forced by the coach to pick, teammates are all trolls, as captain he didn't want them to troll so he became more of a troll himself? 'Pentakill Yasuo: Actually I play pretty poorly. Can we interview R. A team's mid laner later?'

'I'm laughing to death, to stop teammates from trolling I was forced to get a pentakill?'

'You could solo kill, but there's no need!'

'Hey someone, catch him and take him for a physical!'

'Is this even human speech?'

'Xiao Pao: This Nima doesn't even treat me as a person?'

'Let me tell you a joke, I Su Xing am a player who likes to farm.'

'Yeah, farming farming and then just diving high ground to kill people.'

'R. A: I'm having a really tough time.'

At the same time, on Weibo two hot searches again shot up to the top ten! #Group Stage TE. S Team Defeats R. A Team! # #Rank 11.

#Su Xing: I am a person who likes to farm. ##Rank 15.

After easily defeating R. A, Su Xing didn't have much time to catch his breath; that night he and the TE. S team boarded the flight to Saudi Arabia.

'Good thing we got upgraded, otherwise this would be like being in prison.'

After over ten hours of flight, the TE. S team stepped onto Saudi soil, feeling the wave of heat hit them; Su Xing immediately felt somewhat unwell.

'It's so hot, who can endure this! 'Go to the hotel, quickly rest, the schedule is very tight.'

Because of issues between the Saudi World Cup organizer and Riot, these League of Legends pro players ended up with an extremely packed schedule; they landed in the afternoon and had to start competing the next day.

Moreover, the most crucial point is that the Saudi World Cup format is extremely brutal: win and you continue, lose and you go home, with no third option.

'Hang in there, now go to the hotel to rest, we'll start scrims at 8 p. m.' Mao Kai said wearily: 'You guys don't want to come here to sightsee, do you?'

Everyone:. The next day TE. S team's match was scheduled for 8 p. m., the venue seats were already full, naturally most were there for TE. S team, but what surprised Su Xing was that even at the Saudi venue over half the audience were Chinese.

'Nima, is this still abroad? But for the audience, TE. S team's style is indeed fierce; for viewers watching the match it's practically a treat! 'Alright, alright, get ready to go out, guys.'

At this moment Mao Kai clapped his hands and said: 'This time our opponents are GEN team, I won't say more, just stay calm early on.'

'Don't worry, let's try to finish work early today.' Su Xing picked up his keyboard and mouse, smiling: 'If you don't honestly place wards today, I'll deduct a month's bonus from you!' Mao Kai said with a dark face,

Su Xing:. Amid the audience's cheers, both teams entered in single file, the live audience gave the most enthusiastic applause, and in the broadcast picture the voices of two commentators also appeared.

'Hello everyone, I'm Mi Lei.'

'Hello everyone, I'm Guan Zeyuan, welcome to watch this Saudi World Cup match between TE. S and GEN teams, one is the LCK region's first place, the other is the LPL region's first place, both teams are top-tier strong squads.'

Yes, I believe everyone has been looking forward to this match for a long time.

However, we can also see that the current TES team is centered around the mid-jungle position; they wouldn't pin their hopes on the bot lane, as past matches have already proven this. Even if the bot lane gains an advantage, they wouldn't tilt resources toward it. This playstyle fits the current version well, after all, when the bot lane ADC faces a strong top/mid/jungle, it's hard for them to make a flashy performance.

Alright, then let's skip the ad time, because the on-site BP has already started; don't worry, the ads will still be made up later.

The players on both sides have already begun the ban phase; GEN's side bans are straightforward—Rock Sparrow, Clockwork, Sand Emperor—all banned outright, a move that left the audience calling it absurd.

One must know that in LPL matches, Su Xing never had a chance to pick these heroes, but GEN simply wouldn't let him, as if they knew Su Xing very well.

Furthermore, during the second round of bans, GEN also banned Yasuo and Xiao Pao outright.

Seeing this, the audience also broke into knowing smiles—what is 'swagger'? Banning five mids is swagger!

"What do you want to play, Xiao Tian?" Mao Kai asked.

"Coach, I want to play Pig Girl." Xiao Tian chuckled, "If I play Hammer Pig Girl, I'll lift you up—believe it or not." Mao Kai replied unhappily, "Pig Girl before level six is just a little brother, and for the TES team, the mid-jungle must be strong early on—don't even think about picking a hero like Pig Girl."

"That's not what you asked me." Xiao Tian pursed his lips, "Then what should I play?"

"How about Fire Boy?"

At this moment, Su Xing spoke up: "Uncle Two needs to give Uncle Three some strength!"

Xiao Tian:. The latter half is the point, right? "Alright, then I'll play Fire Boy."

"Give them Ashe, we'll take Ezreal."

Su Xing chuckled, then glanced over the hero list, I need to do something, need to let the audience get hype, that kind of 「Then I'll use Draven mid? 」

Because Brand is already an AP jungler, adding another AP in mid would make the magic damage a bit too much.

But in this version, Xiao Pao and Corki have been banned by them, so he must pull out something new to appear in mid lane.

「Draven」

Mao Kai gave Su Xing a deep look, "You better not be joking, 「Brother, that's not the hero I play? 」"

Xu Wenbo looked somewhat dazed, "Wait, why would a mid laner play Draven?" 「Don't worry, I'll go on a killing spree。」

Everyone: "Alright, Su Xing wants to play, let him play! No way, Su Xing's tactical status is now this high; although we haven't seen his Draven in practice matches, the current version indeed AD mid is stronger."

Xiao Pao and Corki are gone, so playing Draven seems fine.

After TES team locked in Draven, the whole audience burst into enthusiastic cheers, because they thought this was Xu Wenbo's Draven!

This kid was the culprit of 1557 back then!

「Shui Zi Ge, calm down, this is GEN not T1. 」

「Oh no, picking Draven again, the familiar feeling is back. 」

「No, why do you keep obsessing over Draven, is it useful? 」

「Indeed, Draven can be picked, but picking it is really unnecessary; Mao Kai is also gradually turning pale crescent, right? 」

「To be honest, P-zhe is still somewhat afraid of Shui Zi's style of AD. 」

「Don't pick it, please be human, this thing really can't be picked. 」

「To be honest, I think Mi Lei's honest comment is correct; watching TES's match we need to have first aid meds ready. 」

「Others watch matches for leisure, we watching TES's match is basically risking our lives. 」

「This early game just depends on the jungler's operation; the enemy reached Level 6, Draven would suffer a lot. 」

「Wait, how did another Ezreal appear? 」

「???? 」

「Holy shit, this Draven won't be used mid, will it? 」

「Hey, don't, Ezreal mid is stronger than Draven mid, don't do this. 」

「6」

「Oh no, mid lane also got Draven, who could have imagined this! 」

「GEN everyone was dumbfounded, they also didn't imagine Draven would be used mid. 」

When the BP phase ended, the casters, audience, including opponents, all looked bewildered: "No way, bro, Draven mid? You serious?" On TES side: top lane Quisanti, jungle Brand, mid Draven, bottom Ezreal + Goddess of Dawn.

On GEN side: top Kennen, jungle Mantis, mid Hu Li, bottom Jhin + Braum.

(End of chapter)