Chapter 44: Taesang, I have returned

The pick/ban process wasn't complicated.

Because Tabe didn't know who the specific lineup on the opposite side was, most of them were targeted bans of some conventional champions, such as K'Sante, Xin Zhao, etc.

On the other hand, Doinb's side was clean and neat, directly banning the three mid-lane champions Su Xing performed best with yesterday: Azir, Taliyah, and Orianna. The remaining two ban spots were given to Uzi.

"Are you being this serious?"

Uzi smiled, "You banned all the ones he played well yesterday as soon as you came up. You don't want to lose even one game?"

"Might as well just ban five mid-laners directly."

AJ couldn't laugh or cry, "Who plays games like this?"

"It doesn't matter."

Su Xing shook his head and said, "I can take other champions."

After speaking, he didn't forget to open the chat box with Doinb, who had just added him as a friend, and sent three question marks directly.

"I didn't ban them; the teammates told me to ban them."

Doinb's old face turned red, directly shifting the blame to his teammates.

"Fine, you wait."

Su Xing and Doinb's relationship was actually okay. To be precise, his relationship with the five people of the 2019 FPX was okay.

At the beginning of 2020, the training bases of the two teams were in the same residential area, and the relationship between them when they went in and out was okay.

The most important thing was that at that time, the team Su Xing was on had just completed a reorganization, and in the situation where the overall results were not good enough, they couldn't get those top teams as training match opponents. At that time, FPX would occasionally come over and ask if they wanted to have a training match.

In this environment, the relationship between the players of the two teams was okay, especially the mid-laners on both sides who often soloed in private.

"He is not Zitai, oh."

Uzi kindly reminded, "The laning intensity today might be much higher than yesterday..."

Yesterday, Su Xing's opponents were Xiaocaobao and Zitai. One was a person who retired because he couldn't survive in the LPL, and the other was a veteran who had retired for four or five years. The strength of the two, to be honest, was just like that.

But today's opponent, Doinb, is different. As a champion mid-laner, his talent is naturally not comparable to ordinary players. Moreover, this person has only been away from the professional arena for about a year, during which he has always maintained the habit of solo-queueing on the Korean server.

Besides, the most important thing is that he often groups up with other retired LPL players when streaming, and the high-ranked groups in the first zone are not ordinary people; they are often lineups composed of active professional players.

In this situation, Doinb might show signs of strength decline due to age, but he would also not decline much in overall strength due to the intensity of the environment he is in.

And now, the three champions Su Xing seemed to have a good feel for were all banned, so he would feel very strenuous when facing Doinb.

"It's okay."

Su Xing smiled and said, "I tried playing on the Korean server during the day, and it felt okay."

"Not bad, you even bought a Korean server account?"

Uzi was a bit surprised, thinking Su Xing was playing on a brand-new Korean server account, and said casually, "The high-ranked segment of the Korean server is quite strong. You will clearly feel the gap when you get up there."

"Yeah, I'm using a super account."

Uzi:? Super account, as the name suggests, is a super account.

Ordinary accounts don't have high hidden MMR, even if it's a five-game winning streak, at most it's set to Gold or so.

But super accounts are different.

The hidden MMR of such accounts is specially adjusted by official staff in the background. The initial hidden MMR is at least Challenger. In other words, if you use such an account to match, the opponents are at least Grandmaster on the Korean server.

But Su Xing is not a professional player now, so where did he get a super account?

"A friend gave it to me." Su Xing explained casually, "It feels okay, and I picked up the proficiency of some champions."

"Then what are you going to play this game?"

Tabe asked, "It's your turn to pick."

"Is Tristana a mid-laner?"

Su Xing glanced at the champion on Doinb's side. He was a bit puzzled that he chose a Tristana when he already had a Jinx.

"Yeah, Tristana mid."

Tabe nodded and continued to ask, "It's a pity that Azir and Taliyah were banned. Other champions don't really fight Tristana well. You shouldn't be proficient with Hwei, right?"

"Indeed not yet."

Su Xing thought for a moment and said, "Can I take Yone?"

Nothing else, just because I'm skilled.

In the 2020 Summer Split, he was the first professional player in the LPL to choose to use Yone, and coincidentally, the opponent in that match happened to be the FPX team where Doinb was.

When they heard the name of this champion, Yone, the expressions of Tabe and others changed subtly. They didn't expect Su Xing's choice to be Yone.

Yone doesn't fight Tristana well in lane,

unless it's that kind of Ignite Yone with Teleport Tristana, which might have some say. Otherwise, in most cases, as long as Yone doesn't buy Berserker's Greaves, he basically won't gain an advantage against Tristana in lane.

But the opposite is that if Tristana doesn't cause enough suppression on Yone in the first six minutes, then the first time Yone goes home, he can easily buy Berserker's Greaves. At this time, if both sides continue to lane in the mid lane, the one who should be worried is Tristana.

"Are you sure?"

Tabe confirmed Su Xing's idea again. If this were a professional match, he wouldn't let his mid-laner choose Yone, but this is the Old Man Cup. In this situation, since Su Xing feels Yone can fight Tristana, then let him pick it.

"Yeah, pick Yone for me."

As Su Xing confirmed again, Xiao Duan in the fifth spot directly locked in Yone.

"Taesang, I have returned..."

When his teammates locked in Yone, Su Xing didn't forget to open the chat box to interact. He didn't believe Doinb couldn't remember his Yone... "No, what does this person mean, hey!"

Doinb was extremely uneasy when he saw this Yone appear. No, what is Su Xing doing? Is he doing it on purpose? "What's wrong?"

Teammate AD Zhang Wuji asked curiously, "Isn't it just Yone? Tristana fighting Yone is like hanging him up and beating him, right?"

"Ah, ah, ah, ah, you guys don't know!"

Doinb said helplessly, "Back then in that Summer Split, when Yone just came out, he was the first player in the LPL to use Yone, and also the first player in the LPL to get a pentakill with Yone..."

"Ah?"

"Then it's fine, I won't look at the mid lane this game."

"It's fine, I think you can do it."

Hearing this, several teammates almost laughed out loud. They still remembered that Doinb said at the beginning that banning three mid-laners was enough, but they didn't expect the opponent to pull out a Yone in return, and it looked like a signature one at that.

"No, wait..."

Zhang Wuji laughed and felt something was wrong, asking curiously, "How do you remember so clearly? I remember you don't play Yone either?"

Doinb:... (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 45 =====