Chapter 59: No More Player Kim Tae-sang

Ah this.

Doinb felt a bit embarrassed; in this situation he couldn't do anything.

The card pushes the lane and reaches Level 6 first—what can he do?

"It's fine, help the bottom lane."

A Le's tone was somewhat unhappy.

This round, the enemy's goal is crystal clear: to target me. In this situation, taking a loss is fine, but what about my teammates?

Being a lonely orphan in the top lane and not seeing teammates is one thing, but why can't I even hear teammates' victory reports? Especially when I open the data panel and see the creep score of both mid laners, I feel suffocated. How can this card get seventy last hits in seven minutes? He hasn't been lacking in mid lane either—last hitting every single one, right? Look at Doinb: setting aside his one death, those fifty last hits look off; there are still twenty—did they go to the turret?

"OK, OK, don't rush."

Doinb hurriedly persuaded, saying, "Just hold on a bit longer and we'll switch lanes."

A Le:. Can I still hold on until the lane swap?

Maybe. After Su Xing took A Le's head, he didn't do anything else and walked back to mid lane on foot again. Based on the effect of his ultimate just now, he also learned that the enemy jungler was in the lower half, so he didn't need to worry about running into the Ruined King and Meng Yan on the way.

Not long after, Bei Shang easily secured three jungle plants, while the cost was that the first water dragon was taken by the Ruined King.

Both sides continued this ongoing development phase. During this time, Doinb's Meng Yan wanted to use his ultimate to coordinate with Le Yan's Ruined King to punish Su Xing's card in mid lane, but Su Xing's card was very experienced.

When there is a minion wave, use whatever skills are available to clear it aggressively; when there is no minion wave, retreat and disappear from the minimap to increase pressure on the opponent.

"Old card."

Le Yan, who had gained nothing from several ambushes, also had to admit that this card looked even more stable than the Wuhu God—how can we catch it? "It's somewhat unsolvable."

Doinb's tone sounded quite depressed; by now in this game he had started to feel a bit dazed.

He completely didn't know how to lane against Su Xing anymore; in the first game he played Xiao Pao and got crushed, thinking he had underestimated the opponent; in the second game he played Ka Er Ma and got crushed, still unaware of his own problem.

Until this game, he selected the most confident hero, Meng Yan, and his true inner thought was to play the hero he excelled at using his own strengths to win this match.

But what about reality?

Yes, in this game I indeed wasn't solo-killed by Su Xing, but I think it would be better to let him solo-kill me eight or ten times, at least then I could still laugh.

Now Su Xing is using Doinb's strongest playstyle to beat Doinb,

This huge gap makes Doinb feel extremely stifled inside; if Su Xing were a current professional player, he might think it's fine, but the key is that Su Xing is also a retired player.

Moreover, Su Xing has been retired longer than me, and he's even someone who hasn't touched the game for several years; yet in this situation I still can't beat Su Xing—how can I not feel depressed? "No way, that's too strong!"

Zhang Wuji blinked slightly; he had always thought that not being able to beat Su Xing and raising a monster father was Doinb deliberately creating show effects, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to joke around with the opponent so casually earlier.

Now it looks like Doinb has been trying hard all along, he just keeps losing to Su Xing.

"Koreans don't deceive Chinese."

Doinb's expression grew increasingly gloomy as he said, "Really, how absurd—how can someone who hasn't played the game for several years be this strong? Am I really getting old?"

Everyone:. Doinb suddenly brought up this topic; as relatively young people, they momentarily didn't know how to respond.

"Why?" Doinb's face was full of bewilderment; he found it hard to accept that the opponent used his own strongest playstyle to defeat him like this, which felt worse than being killed a hundred times.

However, no matter how much he racked his brains, he couldn't change the current course of the game; after Su Xing gradually expanded his advantage, he could do even more.

Including not only withdrawing funds from A Le's Kai'nan, but also starting to apply pressure on the enemy bottom lane duo together with Bei Shang's Liliya, with the whole game pace under his control.

A Le and Zhang Wuji et al. also stopped teasing and instead calmed down to think of ways to win this game, after all if they didn't win a game Doinb might become withdrawn.

Just the idea is good, but reality is extremely frail.

Under Su Xing's command, Uzi and the other four could hardly make any mistakes, like the Sand Emperor and his sand soldiers striking wherever pointed; A Le and Le Yan et al. facing this situation also had no recourse.

These old guys are almost like robots with not a single mistake—what can they do?

The game time gradually reached twenty-five minutes; after his three-item set, Su Xing began a crazy solo lane push.

If Doinb doesn't look at him for just one minute, he loses a turret; but the problem is that looking actually doesn't help much, because the AD card output from the three-item set is still enormously exaggerated—if he's slightly careless and gets caught, it's just nonstop auto-attacks until death.

"Can't play, clicked, clicked."

Doinb seemed to have made some decision in his heart, and he exhaled a long sigh of relief: "Mine, mine, I really can't play, the mid lane gap is too big."

"Still okay, I think I can still play."

Zhang Wuji paused briefly, then said, "Keep persisting, persist?"

"Forget it, not necessary."

Doinb shook his head and said, "To be honest, it's pretty tough, but sometimes there's nothing you can do—if you can't win, you just can't win."

"Don't, if you give up so easily, how can you still be a Doinb player later?"

A Le also urged, saying, "Wait until I get my three-item set and land an R to destroy heaven and earth."

Doinb:. Is there a chance that, after the base explodes, A Le's Kai'nan still won't be able to assemble a three-item set?

"Forget it, being a damn Doinb player."

Doinb pursed the corners of his mouth and said, "From now on there will be no more Doinb player; how could someone as trash as me possibly make a comeback to play professionally?"

Before today, Doinb indeed still had the thought of making a comeback in his heart; he felt that even though he had retired for a year, no matter how you say it, he still had many advantages over those youngsters.

For example, hero pool, command ability, experience, etc. —these are things that can make up for the gap between him and younger players.

But after these few practice matches he realized that perhaps some of the things he had always valued were actually just his wishful thinking; in fact, in others' eyes they were worthless.

In terms of match experience, is Su Xing worse than him?

In terms of laning ability, is Su Xing worse than him?

In terms of hero pool, can he surpass Su Xing?

In terms of command ability, can he surpass Su Xing? Different questions, same answer—at this moment Doinb finally realized that there would no longer be a professional player named Kim Tae-sang in the LPL.

(End of chapter)