Chapter 1167: Stead Bun’s Review
Translator: Nomyummi Editor: Nomyummi
"Zuo Chenrui got a lot of things right. Perfect timing, let’s use his evaluation as a starting point for our discussion!" Ye Xiu said, taking the paper from Fang Rui and lifting it in the air.
Soon afterwards, whether they ca onstage the previous round or not, everyone in Happy went to the strategy room. The always quiet, cold, and loneso Mo Fan seed quite eager this ti. He was the first to go into the room, although his expression was as apathetic as always.
In the strategy room, everyone sat down at their own seat one after the other. After Ye Xiu ca in, everyone stopped chatting.
The projection screen rolled down. Ye Xiu sat in front of a computer to the side and opened up their previous match.
"The first round of the individual competition... Yeah, there’s not much to say here. That Hundred Blossoms kid was too nervous. This issue..." Ye Xiu looked at his teammates. At Happy, there was only one person who would be nervous. Ye Xiu look around the room. In the end, his gaze landed on a laptop.
The new season started in September and so did school. Having a young genius mathematician push his academics aside to focus on a professional gaming career was sowhat of a waste, but in this past year, Luo Ji had co to love Glory deeply. He was also unwilling to give up on his position as a pro player. After weighing the two options, Luo Ji decided on staying at school. When he was needed for a match, he would fly over to the stadium.
Fortunately, this was esports. Even if Luo Ji wasn’t personally with the team, as long as he was online, he could still practice with everyone else. However, since Luo Ji was at school, he obviously had to spend a lot of ti on his academics. He couldn’t completely keep up with Happy’s pace. Happy tried their best to arrange for more important matters when Luo Ji was free. Everything else could only be communicated online. For example, right now although Luo Ji wasn’t here in-person, a laptop was placed where he would be sitting. Though a bit strange, he could participate in the eting through a video call.
"There’s not much to say about this issue. Dealing with it is mainly dependent on you. From my experience, try to focus on the match as much as possible and don’t think too much about other things. It’ll help a bit." Ye Xiu said.
"Yes yes yes..." Luo Ji spoke through the laptop. Everyone felt weird seeing it.
"The second round was Stead Bun’s. Stead Bun, you see how he evaluated you? He gave you 10 to 0. Do you know why?" Ye Xiu asked.
"Why?" Stead Bun asked back.
"Because you played very well at the start, but then played badly at the end." Ye Xiu said.
"No wonder I lost!" Stead Bun suddenly understood. He lowered his right fist to his left palm.
"Yeah... let’s look at Stead Bun’s match!" Ye Xiu said as he opened the VOD of Stead Bun versus Zhang Wei.
A huge display of Stead Bun’s match started playing on the projection screen. This wasn’t a recording of the broadcast, but Glory’s own specialized VOD. By using a special video player, they could change the viewpoint and the speed however they pleased.
Ye Xiu fast-forwarded until the point where Stead Bun and Zhang Wei t.
Zhang Wei threw a Lava Flask, while Stead Bun flew over with a Powerful Knee Strike...
For the first half, Zuo Chenrui gave Stead Bun 10 points. What was 10 points? Perfect play was 10 points. For any other analyst, giving out 10 points was extrely rare. But for soone like Zuo Chenrui, who could give 10000 points for looks, what was 10 points? He wasn’t stingy about that, just like how he wasn’t stingy about jabbing at soone.
10 points...
Ye Xiu took the newspaper and for a mont, he didn’t know where to start. Stead Bun and Tang Rou were the sa. Both of them had started playing in the tenth server. Ye Xiu had personally watched over these two blank pieces of paper as the papers were drawn on. For Tang Rou, her lines were crisp and clear. Her thought process was distinct. Ye Xiu could see the logic behind every stroke. He could see her thoughts. However, for Stead Bun, his art was the legendary abstract art. His playstyle and his logic did not coincide much, if at all, with those of a normal Glory player. However, sotis he could produce surprising results.
As Stead Bun’s skill continued to grow, in his practice, there were tis where even Ye Xiu was caught off guard. As for Ye Xiu, he had constantly been trying to understand Stead Bun’s thoughts. For example, he would frequently review the VOD after practice together with Stead Bun and have him explain his logic when Ye Xiu didn’t understand.
Lots of tis, Stead Bun also scratched his head in wonder. He had clearly already forgotten about his thoughts at that ti. This wasn’t Stead Bun getting derailed, it was simply due to the nature of this ga. Glory was fast-paced. Oftentis, inputs could not be carefully thought about and were done instinctively. There were very few players who could rember every detail in their match perfectly. In Happy, the only one who could do this was nad Luo Ji, definitely not Stead Bun.
Even though he couldn’t get an answer for everything, from the places that Stead Bun could explain, Ye Xiu gradually started to get a feel for it.
Stead Bun wasn’t playing without any logic whatsoever. It was just that his logic was rather bold and imaginative. It was born from wild creativity and observation. In this point, he was very similar to Wang Jiexi. The difference was that Stead Bun had only played Glory for a year, while by the ti Wang Jiexi beca a pro player, he had been playing Glory for far longer than Stead Bun. His foundation in Glory had been more solid than Stead Bun’s.
As a result, Wang Jiexi’s creative playing was precise, sharp, and unpredictable. It was why he was called the Magician.
As for Stead Bun, he was limited by his foundation. His creative playing would sotis crash into a dead end, leading to noobish mistakes.
Once he understood Stead Bun’s situation, Ye Xiu couldn’t help but sigh. If Stead Bun had started playing Glory sooner and had more ti to grow, he would definitely be even more terrifying today. But he had only just started now and suffered for that. It was true that Stead Bun was quite talented, but this was no longer the ga. Compared to the in-ga Glory, everyone in the Pro Alliance was brimming with talent. And those who beca Gods were the best out of all those talents.
Every rookie found by Ye Xiu in Happy had a certain amount of potential, but in Glory, because of all sorts of reasons, all of them had been delayed. Sun Xiang and Tang Hao, these new generation Gods, were only 20 years old. They were even younger than Tang Rou and Stead Bun, yet they were already the stars of this era.
It wasn’t the first ti that Ye Xiu had thought about this. If he had discovered them earlier, or if they had found Glory fun earlier and started practicing systematically, would their current selves have already joined those at the top of the pyramid?
Unfortunately, there were no ifs. He could only dream. Right now, Ye Xiu could only do his best and help these latecors grow faster. However, towards Stead Bun, the amount of help that Ye Xiu could provide was becoming less and less. Stead Bun’s playstyle was special, his unique talent. If Ye Xiu forced him to follow the conventional logic of Glory, it would kill his talent. Ye Xiu could not help Stead Bun develop his unique talent. As the saying went, what ca next would depend on Stead Bun’s own good luck.
As a result, Ye Xiu would generally just help Stead Bun make as few mistakes as possible. Those obvious dead-ends would help remind him not to make the sa mistake next ti.
In Stead Bun’s match against Zhang Wei, he was bold and creative in the first half, but in the next half, he regressed back to the ordinary and confronted Zhang Wei head on. When he asked for the reason why, Stead Bun’s answer couldn’t be refuted.
"I had more health!" Stead Bun said.
Everyone in the room stared blankly. They wanted to laugh, but they felt like it was nothing to joke about. In the first half, gain the upper hand and get a health lead. Then, in the second half, there was no need to use any special tricks, just directly trade blows. It was a very common and logical strategy. Even the master of playing dirty, Fang Rui, had the sa idea in his match against Zhou Guangyi. After successfully pulling off the cooldown thod twice and gaining a health lead, he imdiately started fighting against Zhou Guangyi directly.
"Yeah, that..." Ye Xiu also hesitated. He fast-forwarded to the middle. "Okay, then let’s take a look at how you played after you had more health than him."
Stead Bun had more health, yet he still lost to Zhang Wei. It wasn’t hard to realize that Stead Bun had made many mistakes. The strategy etings weren’t just Ye Xiu lecturing them. During this ti, everyone was free to speak up. The rookies and Qiao Yifan were rather quiet, though. Su Mucheng just listened more often than not. She would typically only raise an issue if sothing was missed. Today, no opportunities had appeared yet. Ye Xiu wasn’t the main speaker either. So, after they started analyzing the latter half of the fight, Wei Chen and Fang Rui were the ones dominating the discussion.
"Here, here. At 2:41, you hesitated! Don’t you think you could have just thrown your Brick at his forehead?" Wei Chen pointed at the projection screen. His tone of voice and attitude didn’t seem like he was discussing tactics. It sounded like he was telling him how to fight like a gangster.
"You’re right!" Stead Bun again put his right fist to his left palm. He had taken a liking to his movent recently.
"The hesitation is okay, but you shouldn’t have leaped back and retreated afterwards. Why not just use Tiger Flips the Mountain?" Fang Rui said.
"That’s not necessarily correct. After jumping backwards, you should have followed up with a Powerful Knee Strike. It would have been very strong too," Wei Chen said.
"Powerful Knee Strike? He could just use Shadow Cloak and wrap you up," Fang Rui said.
"That’s why you need to jump backwards first to dodge Shadow Cloak before counterattacking," Wei Chen said.
Fang Rui looked distracted for a mont, but he quickly responded, "Fuck, if there’s no Powerful Knee Strike, where would the Shadow Cloak co from?"
"Young people these days, do you not understand the word ’predict’?" Wei Chen said.
"Predict, my ass!" Fang Rui wasn’t polite at all to this shaless senior. "Stead Bun, don’t listen to his nonsense. You should have just used Tiger Flips the Mountain and flip him."
"Peh!" Wei Chen spat. "Stead Bun, trust this senior. Jump back first and then Powerful Knee Strike. Watch the opponent carefully. You’re aiming for that small ti gap. It’ll definitely give your opponent the biggest surprise."
"Surprise, I like it!" Stead Bun said happily.
"Mm, mm." Wei Chen nodded his head as if he were teaching a child. "Rhythm. What’s important is the rhythm."
"Stead Bun," Ye Xiu called out at this mont.
"Hm?" Stead Bun looked towards his boss.
"You hesitated here," Ye Xiu said. "Don’t hesitate next ti. React faster."
"Okay," Stead Bun replied.
"Alright, good." Ye Xiu nodded his head.
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