League of Legends: League of Unknowns

Taking advantage of the big gold difference after taking the Baron to attack the enemy high ground was a very basic strategy that was known by every single professional player. Almost every team would use this tactic after taking the upper hand. It wasn’t that the professional players were not skillful enough and were scared of pushing the high ground even with the lead on items and gold. The fact was that as a professional team, you could not leave any space for error!

That was the reason why Team Skycrown had taken the Baron before attacking the high ground even though they had a huge lead on gold. This kind of cautiousness would not leave any room for Team Beijing to get a chance to make a comeback.

By using the Baron’s buff to attack, the win was basically already in their hands.

Team Beijing did not do much defending. Having been under the pressure from Team Skycrown the entire game, they would not have any chance left in this situation. No matter how Team Skycrown played now, they would have already won.

“Congratulations to Team Skycrown for winning the first match!” Miracle shouted with a loud and enthusiastic voice.

The crowd went wild, and those who had come just to support Team Skycrown all stood up to clap.

Team Skycrown did not disappoint their fans, instead, they had exceeded their expectations!

In their last encounter with Team Beijing, it had taken them more than forty minutes to deal with them. This time, it had only taken them a mere twenty minutes to end the game. Team Skycrown’s excellent teamwork made everyone envious.

“Hah, master really is awesome! He used Shen as a Support to make Team Beijing lose!” K, who had gone all the way to the venue to watch said with a big smile on his face.

K was a man from Shanghai, meaning he had already disliked Team Beijing for a long time now. Previously when Team Beijing had been defeated, he had celebrated with a few cans of beer. Today, Team Skycrown had brought out their real strength to deal with them and had ended it within twenty minutes. Those people from Team Beijing must be dumbfounded!

“Hm? Does that mean that you are his student since you called the Fighting Hawk your master?” Someone sitting beside K turned to him in shock.

K then realized that there were quite a number of people looking at him and he laughed, “That is correct!”

“Handsome, how did you meet him?” A girl asked.

“It is very easy. Team Skycrown always appears at the Demacia Cafe. They’re there almost every day, so if you go there, you might be able to meet him.” Someone else from Shanghai said.

“Really? I have always wanted to get an autograph from a professional player but I’ve never gotten the chance to do so. If Team Skycrown is really always at Demacia Cafe, can we talk to them directly?” A girl who worshipped professional players asked.

“Of course, sometimes we would even ask them to play with us when they are not training. After that, all of us would gang up on them. Hahaha, they were killed by us so easily, that was fun!”

“Wow, really?” The girl’s eyes suddenly lit up.

Normally, professional players were hard to get close to, saddening many players who worshipped them. Who knew that Team Skycrown was special and always appeared in an internet cafe? If you wanted to meet them, you could. You might even get the chance to play against them! Not a small amount of people would want to ask a professional player to teach them or even give them tips, or even just to be there for the sake of it.

“We are also from Demacia Cafe. We are good friends with Team Skycrown as well.” Those from the Demacia Cafe answered the questions from the people around. Suddenly, people started to get heated up even though it was rest time.

“Team Skycrown’s team leader really is strong. Long ago, I used to think that Supports were useless. After seeing him play, I finally realized that Supports can also be awesome. My friend, can you please ask your master to give me a spot in his friend list? I would like to observe him playing when I have nothing to do.” A man with pimples who was standing beside K asked.

“His friend list is probably already full, even so, you could come to Demacia Cafe to watch him play. Captain Yu usually likes to mess around. He likes to use a smurf account to play until Diamond rank and then he would play a random champion.” Xiao Jun said with a big smile.

“Play a random champion!?” The surrounding people heard Xiao Jun and were shocked.

Playing in a Diamond ranked match with a random champion as a Support!? This must be the first time that anyone had ever heard anything like this.

“It’s true. If you don’t believe me, you can come to Demacia Cafe to see for yourself. I have seen Captain Yu use almost every champion.” Another regular from Demacia Cafe also said and smiled. After he smiled, he looked toward Luocheng who was on stage and sighed, “But back to the point, when Captain Yu plays seriously, he really is unbeatable. In this game, his Shen was the one who was controlling the flow of the game the entire time. Those who don’t know what was happening might even think that he was a Jungler or Top.

“Ah Meng, I have told you many times that Captain Yu really is awesome. The games that you normally see him play, he wasn’t playing seriously. After this competition, do you see how great Captain Yu is now?”

“Yes, that’s true.” That player named Ah Meng nodded his head.

Ah Meng had not been around the Demacia Cafe for long, only going there because of the crowd and just to watch how the professional players played. Who knew that going there would enable him to see the famous Fighting Hawk torturing enemies in Diamond rank? That made him feel completely uneasy…

There were many people in the Demacia Cafe who came just to watch him play. All of them were either eating popcorn or chewing on some gum, and once he died, everyone would start to make fun of him or even try to teach him how to play. This made Ah Meng slightly annoyed.

In reality, those who frequented the Demacia Cafe and saw Luocheng losing so much had started to suspect that something was going on.

During the LPL, Luocheng had used his Support to lead his team to victory against Team Revelation as well as today’s Team Beijing. Everyone could finally tell that he was always just trying out some new strategy or even a new champion. When he went into a competition and fully committed and became serious, you could finally see how much terror and skill he was hiding behind his back this whole time! And you, who was watching from the sidelines, could only clap and applaud!

***

Team Beijing was indeed very strong. In the LPL, they had won the matches against Team Dusk with a two to zero. This new team had let everyone know that they had what it took to be in the top four.

Even so, Team Beijing could only eat Team Revelation’s dust as they lost to Team Skycrown. It was almost as though he was being looked down upon.

If Team Skycrown had won the first match by switching up the lanes and starting the game with three buffs to enable the snowball effect, then the fact that Team Skycrown had used their surprising strategy to engage in team fights of small scales to get the upper hand and ending it at the twenty eight minute mark could only be described as an extreme feat!

After the two matches, Team Skycrown had beaten Team Beijing two to zero, and this outcome was unacceptable to Team Beijing.

As the word ‘DEFEAT’ appeared on the screen, Number One stood up.

Three to four years ago, he and Fighting Hawk had participated in a solo competition. Both of them were top-tier players but Fighting Hawk had ascended the throne while he had been cast aside, forgotten.

Xie Lianda had sworn to himself that he would become stronger and stand in the center of attention.

He would not allow himself to be that pathetic anymore.

He knew that it would be a challenge to beat Team Skycrown, but even if they were at a disadvantage, they would be almost around the same strength.

Alas, reality was cruel. Team Skycrown’s real strength was far greater than Team Beijing’s expectations and they did not have the chance to make a comeback in both games. The overwhelming pressure had lasted the entire game.

“Number One…” Ping Feng stared at Number One who had sorrow in his eyes. He wanted to comfort the latter but did not know what to say.

Ping Feng knew about Number One’s past and that this match was important to him. It was just that… they lost really badly, so much that it was hard to bear.

If they had won at least one round, it would not have been this hard on them.

“Captain, it’s fine. There are still many competitions.” The Support Pi Ka also spoke up to comfort him.

“They are coming over here.”

The winners from the competition had to go over to the losers to shake their hands, as was the rule set for a friendly match.

Number One slowly returned to his senses as he saw Luocheng, the Fighting Hawk, walking toward his direction.

To be honest, Number One hated these types of handshakes the most. It felt as though it was a way to laugh at the loser. He had already been through this three or four years ago and now, he had to experience this once again. Number One had also gotten sick of Luocheng’s face.

Number One extended his hand reluctantly and shook Luocheng’s hand, desperately not wanting to see him again.

He hadn’t managed to surpass him in the past and also, he still could not surpass him currently! How did this guy not become rusty over the years, this was so annoying!

“Number One, do you still play Starcraft?” Luocheng suddenly asked with a smile on his face.

Number One lifted his head in surprise after hearing this.

“Some… sometimes,” He answered.

“If you have the time, we should play again sometime. It’s been such a long time since I’ve played it, the main reason being that the player base is getting smaller and smaller, it’s very hard to find a suitable player to play against.” After saying this, Luocheng continued to walk and shake the hands of the other members of Team Beijing.

Xie Lianda shook the hands of the other members of Team Skycrown awkwardly, his mind was still replaying the words that Luocheng had said.

He… he knows that I started off from Starcraft?

He has seen my records!?

There was no way he could know this. In his team, only Ping Feng knew that he was a former professional Starcraft player, no one else knew of this…

Number One stood there trying to regain his senses for a very long time.

He had really thought that Luocheng had forgotten all about him from long ago.

***

The Starcraft league, how many people still remembered it?

How many people knew that some people had given up almost everything for the Starcraft competition and still, could only watch as the situation became worse day by day, and finally, it had been forgotten…