Chapter 33: At a glance, everyone has committed the sin of arrogance

Upon hearing Su Xing's words, AJ could no longer force a smile. This person dared to even critique Uzi; he didn't dare imagine how Su Xing would sharply critique his own extremely rough laning performance.

"I'd like to interview our mid-laner: when you were wave-managing, why did you dare to invade the jungle?"

At this moment, Su Xing switched his perspective to Bei Shang's Graves. Watching at triple speed, his jungle pathing and some details were fine.

It was just that he couldn't understand why Bei Shang chose to invade the jungle when the top lane was being pushed in and the mid lane was managing the wave.

"I thought he would speed-run to level 3 in the bottom half to gank bot."

Bei Shang was silent for a few seconds, then said, "If I followed that line of thought, invading the jungle at that time should have been a huge profit. Once the Lee Sin showed up in the bottom lane, I could have stolen his Blue Buff and the Wolves."

"It seems your thinking has gone wrong."

Su Xing sharply critiqued, "Have you ever thought about why the Lee Sin would go to gank a bottom duo that is being pushed in, when his own mid and top laners have lane priority?"

He could fully understand why Bei Shang had this thought. When your own bottom lane or the opposing bottom lane is Uzi, if you play jungle and don't find a way to appear in the bottom lane at level 3, you look like you don't know how to play.

But the problem is that their mid-jungle was LeBlanc + Lee Sin; it was obvious they were telling you they wanted to play mid-jungle or top-jungle. How could they possibly go gank bot at level 3?

Bei Shang:... For a moment, he didn't know how to answer.

"Actually, you didn't put the opposing mid-jungle in your eyes at all, did you?"

Su Xing continued unhurriedly, "You felt just like Uzi, thinking the opponents were trash. I'll just ask you: if this were an LPL match, would you dare to invade the jungle at that point in time?"

"Uh, my bad."

After a few seconds of silence, Bei Shang didn't make excuses but apologized directly, because... Su Xing wasn't wrong.

If this were a Korean server Challenger match or a professional game, he wouldn't have the guts to invade the jungle like that even if he were given ten lives.

But... who were the opposing mid-jungle in this game?

Zitai, who was once made to cry by TheShy while active, and Xiaolongbao, who disappeared from the scene after playing a few LPL games.

And himself?

A former LPL starting jungler. In this situation, he subconsciously developed an arrogance, feeling that the opponents were all trash.

"You guys have also played professionally, so I won't say anything too harsh."

Su Xing said slowly, "I'll just say one thing: even a lion hunting a rabbit uses its full strength. If you want to win until the end, I think you should pay attention to your attitude in many situations."

He could have used even sharper remarks to attack the mistakes his teammates made,

but after thinking about it, Su Xing felt it wasn't necessary. The Old Man Cup was, after all, just a bunch of old men playing; using the harsh standards of professional players to demand things of them was indeed a bit difficult.

"The jungle issue is settled; it's your turn, AJ."

However, when he switched his perspective to AJ's Tahm Kench, he fell into silence after watching for just a moment. It wasn't the laning mechanics; it was a bit of an eyesore.

Illogical trading, last-hitting like a Bronze or Silver player, and positioning that was hard to look at—there were so many points to criticize that he suddenly felt he didn't know how to evaluate it.

Watching it, even Uzi couldn't help but laugh, and suddenly the entire YY channel was filled with laughter.

"Don't laugh, everyone stop laughing."

AJ said with a red face, "How many years has it been since I retired? Being able to lane even a little bit is already pretty good."

"Ahem, indeed."

Su Xing thought about it and realized that was true. If he remembered correctly, AJ retired in 2018.

It was now 2024, and AJ was already at the end of his career when he retired. Being able to look like a human being while playing the game six years later was actually not bad.

"As for the top lane, there's no need to review it." Su Xing paused slightly and said, "But my advice is that it would be best if you could maintain the same caution you had when facing TheShy."

"OK, OK, my bad, my bad."

AJ breathed a slight sigh of relief.

How could he not hear that Su Xing was saving his face by not reviewing it? Because he also knew very well where his own problems lay.

Like the others, he had also committed the sin of arrogance... When playing against TheShy, although he would be solo-killed, it happened rarely. The root cause was that he feared TheShy; even when TheShy used skills to poke, his first thought was to run, not to think about how to fight back.

But when it was his turn to play against 957, it was completely different. Why did he make mistakes?

The reason was that he felt 957, who retired in the same year as him, wasn't as strong as TheShy, so he wanted to fight back. It was precisely because of the thought of wanting to fight back that he gave 957 the chance to solo-kill him and start snowballing.

However, in reality, although both retired in the same year, he had basically not played League of Legends for the past few years, while 957 had kept up his feel for the game by casting and playing Master-tier games.

"Alright, everything that needed to be said has been said."

Su Xing said slowly, "Does Coach Tabe have anything to add?"

"It's quite good; I think what you said is quite good."

Tabe came back to his senses and smiled, "Let me say a fair word. Actually, the problems Su Xing mentioned objectively exist, but if it were me doing the review, I might have a better relationship with you guys and wouldn't point out the problems so sharply."

"I don't know what you guys are thinking, but I personally feel that his review this time is quite meaningful. I hope you can also realize some of the problems that exist within yourselves."

"Indeed, I also think it's quite good."

Uzi smiled and said, "Mainly, what was said are facts. If you're wrong, you have to stand straight and take the beating."

"By the way, Su Xing, when you were playing professionally, did you also often review and scold your teammates like this?"

AJ was very interested in the answer to this question. He remembered that the team Su Xing was on back then didn't have great final results, but Su Xing's performance was extremely individualistic.

"Ah? When did I scold people?"

Su Xing was slightly stunned. Wait, AJ didn't think that his tone during the review just now was scolding, did he? "Uh, does this not count?"

AJ was full of question marks.

"To be fair, it shouldn't count."

Su Xing paused for a moment and said with extreme sincerity, "When I played professionally, I would flame five people by myself. If anyone wasn't convinced, I'd tell them to log on and solo me."

"Five people?"

Uzi was a bit surprised and said, "You didn't even spare the substitutes?"

"Substitutes?"

Su Xing shook his head and said, "No, the fifth person was the coach. Sometimes if his pick/ban wasn't done well, I would be the first to flame him after the match."

"That's not right. Then why didn't you scold him during the pick/ban?"

Tabe asked with a smile, "Since you felt the pick/ban wasn't good, you should have offered your own opinion."

"I'm not a team tyrant; why would I interfere with the coach's pick/ban?"

Su Xing said calmly, "If the pick/ban is done well and you still lose, that's the players' own problem. But if the pick/ban isn't done well, even if you win, it's the coach's problem."

Everyone:... You are quite a piece of work.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 34 =====