Crude! Ugly! Terrible! A bunch of rabid dogs! The crowd could think and say whatever they wanted about High School 13’s performance, but it didn’t change the facts. It was effective. They were winning the ga, and convincingly so. Their team composition that looked risky in Champion Select due to their lack of a beefy frontline showcased its strengths and never really got in danger of collapsing! This was reminiscent of Season 2 and 3 in the Ionia server’s solo queue. Players were still finding out what the best team compositions were and tried the strangest concepts in the process. Most didn’t work. Players were flad, abused, and told to uninstall the ga! But every now and then, sothing special was discovered. Such as compositions that focused solely around comboing ultimate skills, which High School 13 leaned towards in this ga. Or compositions where one Champion would split push a different lane while the rest of his team fought back the five on the other team.
There were a lot of less popular team compositions in League of Legends. Sotis, there’d be a patch where one of them rose to fa. So too the backdooring strategy. It all began after a European team made it work on the highest stage. Suddenly, every League player wanted to try their hand at it and show everyone how good they were. It was the days of Jax pushing down in top lane, never coming to help his team. Or Master Yi running around the map with the movent speed from Ghost and just being a nuisance. Shaco, the Demon Jester, throwing down boxes and spamming the laugh emote to piss his opponents off. To drive them mad!
Beyond all of that. There was sothing more that could decide team compositions. Pure skill. That was what happened in the North High versus High School 13 ga. Lin Feng helped his team pull ahead. They were stronger. And from that mont on, nothing else mattered. They could do whatever they wanted, be however brave they felt like being, and there was nothing that North High could do to stop them. North High lost the ga when they let the Twitch get fed. They just couldn’t get close enough to him to stop him. And his ultimate decimated their ranks. It was even fair to say that the ga was lost before it even began. Because Lin Feng was on High School 13’s team.
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Zeng Rui lost his interest in the ga. He didn’t care for the rest of the ga, or what would happen from High School 13. He’d been worried about Lin Feng. The stories told to him gave him every reason to! And Lin Feng really did surprise him. That Zyra was playing extrely well. But that was just it. The Zyra did all the playing. There were no other mbers on the team, not really. The Twitch was decent. But that was it. The others all relied completely on the Zyra to have any kind of impact on the ga. Without her, they would’ve lost to this already weak team. Zeng Rui could only co to one conclusion. High School 13 might win this ga, might qualify for the main tournant, but they weren’t contenders for the title. They just weren’t good enough as a team for that.
Zeng Rui snorted while looking at the players from High School 13. The Toplaner was a joke. A terrible player and an even worse team player. The sa held true for the Midlaner. Both of them were gatekeepers in Diamond 5, at best. More likely, they were stuck sowhere in Platinum and blad their teammates for their diocre skills. Then there was the Jungler. Zeng Rui didn’t even feel like wasting his breath on that guy. A wreck of nerves with zero impact on the ga. If that guy ever made it out of Gold, then that was completely on his teammates. He didn’t belong at the Shanghai 16 School Tournant. Except for in the bleachers to watch the ga, far away from any keyboard or mouse. They’re only winning because of that Zyra and Twitch. Mostly the Zyra. She’s carrying. Not even very great either…
Zeng Rui didn’t just find fault in the individual skill of the players on High School 13’s team, but also in their team synergy. They were like a group in solo queue, with zero coordination starting from the mont they entered Champion Select. Their strategy going into the ga was flawed, and quite honestly, terrible. The execution wasn’t much better, with the shot caller saying nothing but “Go in! Go in!” or “Fight fight fight!” These were the tactics of a team in Silver, full aggression with zero thought, and not of a team about to qualify for the Shanghai 16 School Tournant!
“Dumbfuck…” Zeng Rui muttered. His team had won the Shanghai 16 School Tournant last year. He knew what it took to lift that trophy. And High School 13 didn’t have it. He didn’t have to worry about this dark horse. They wouldn’t be competing for the title. Their individual mbers were subpar and their shotcaller didn’t make up for this either. A good shotcaller helped his team improve their teamwork and synergy. This Zyra did none of that.
In the last edition of the Shanghai 16 School Tournant, the Finals were Shanghai High School versus Shanghai International School. The deciding factor didn’t lie in a difference in the skill of the individual mbers, though it had to be noted that Shanghai High School had one additional Challenger. But comparing teams based on the average rank of their mbers was the mark of a fool. Shanghai High School won because of Zeng Rui’s ticulous research and precise commands during the ga, and his teammates executing on them flawlessly. All his teammates could be at a lower rank. It wouldn’t have changed the outco of the match. His research was what had changed the outco.
Thinking back to last year and then the possibility of having to face High School 13 this year, Zeng Rui laughed. Ha. They? What a joke. High School 13 were like farrs moving to the big city. They were completely out of place! There was no challenge in beating them! Except. Zeng Rui looked at the ad-carry. She was playing fairly well. They’d have to watch out for her and shut her down early. Then there was that Support. Mr. Dumbfuck.
The Riven who had solo carried his team to a win versus Tonji Affiliated High. That was an achievent. Sothing to actually watch out for. And also the kind of tactic Zeng Rui detested the most. Teamwork! Strategy! Those were the most important in League of Legends! Not so guy showing off his skills on Riven in the top lane. But it didn’t matter how he felt about it. Lin Feng had shown he could solo carry a ga. That was a skill Zeng Rui would have to watch out for. Prepare for. Sothing he couldn’t look down on. Let’s see what role he plays next ga. Maybe I can learn sothing more from that…
However, Mr. Dumbfuck didn’t play the second ga. He actually sat out. Lin Feng got up from his gaming chair after the first ga and said to Wei Dong, “The next one is all you!” He patted his friend on the shoulder and added, “I’ve given us the head start, now go and finish it. Don’t let down!”
Zeng Rui couldn’t believe what he was seeing. Is he stupid? Is he actually stupid? Did his mom drop him? Did he hit his head on the concrete? Lin Feng was the best player from High School 13. By a long shot! They only won the first ga because of him! And now he was sitting out. He was leaving the second ga to the others on his team. If that ga started like the first. If the rest of his team didn’t step up their ga. That would be a loss. High School 13 would be in danger of losing their spot in the main tournant! What in the world is he thinking… This makes absolutely no sense!
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The first ga against North High gave High School 13’s esports team all the confidence they needed. Ouyang especially made all the difference. There were no shakey plays from him. He went in for ganks full of confidence, and this confidence paid off. Everything he tried kept working. There even seed to be a hint of sothing called team synergy blossoming in this ga! This led to kills in the early ga, and by the 10th minute, High School 13 had a lead of 6 to 3 kills. Five minutes later, this gap had increased to 10 to 5 kills.
Wei Dong was no Lin Feng. He didn’t act like he was either. He played to his own strengths and showed that if you put in the hard work, anything was possible. He’d transford from the unconfident Support who hid behind his own outer tower to the confident Support who engaged for Tang Bingyao to capitalize on. They were becoming a phenonal bot lane duo!
However, it wasn’t the bot lane synergy that was making the difference in this ga. It was Yang Fan in mid lane. He played Twisted Fate, and unlike North High’s Midlaner last ga, he did manage to push out the lane. He road bot and top and made plays all over the map, making full use of his ultimate–Destiny! His prediction of the future saw High School 13 go 2-0 and win this best of three series.
At 20 minutes, the ga went from bad to worse for North High. Tang Bingyao hit Tristana’s power spike. Her damage soared and she had the range where it beca impossible for the players from North High to jump on her. She beca the killing machine North High couldn’t put a stop to.
Standing amongst the crowd, Shanghai High School’s Jungler said to Zeng Rui, “I guess that's the ga. Look at those guys from North High. They look like they’ve already given up.”
Zeng Rui nodded. He’d lost interest in the last ga already. There was only the matter of Lin Feng. He wanted to research this player. But Lin Feng wasn’t playing, so there was no point in him staying here any longer. He turned around and walked away. “Trash facing Trash. Co on, let’s go.”
The ga ended at 31 minutes. High School 13 won. The crowd wasn’t as big anymore. Most of them weren’t all that invested in this ga. But that didn’t kill the excitent of the players from High School 13! They jumped up from their seats and started cheering and hugging each other! This was a dream co true! Sothing a lot of them never considered possible! Ouyang, Yang Fan, Ren Rou, and Chen Ze. They were half the team. The long ti mbers of the esports club and the first to have given up. But now they were back. And they were back with a vengeance! High School 13 had officially qualified for the Shanghai 16 School Tournant!
Lin Feng struck his victory pose. The others saw it. They knew what was coming next. Lin Feng laughed and pumped his fist into the air. “Aweso! Next up is first plac–”
“Dammit, Lin Feng! You need to stop saying this kind of stuff in front of so many people! It’s not funny! You’re not funny! You’re embarrassing all of us!” Ouyang complained after jumping on Lin Feng and covering his mouth again.
Yang Fan adjusted his glasses and smiled. “I don’t know, Ouyang. I think I’m with Lin Feng this ti. We’re going to get first. I really believe it. We can do it!”
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