Reading on his phone
The S5 World Championship Finals was over.
SSK from Korea's GN division defeated North America's SEASN, successfully defending their title and winning their second consecutive championship.
Although the tournament was over, the international esports scene was destined to be sleepless tonight.
That was because SSK had displayed a frighteningly perfect strength in the finals.
And because of the glorious legacy of Korean professional esports from Lee Dao-jae to Han Shihao, the continuation of the glorious "F".
Tonight, the top teams and top players from all the major professional divisions in the world would not be able to calm down.
Taipei, Assassin Squad's training base.
In front of the computer screen, Nian Shisan fast-forwarded the recordings of the previous four matches of the B5 finals. He racked his brain trying to figure out the playstyle of SSK's jungler. In the end, he slammed his mouse angrily.
"F * ck!"
"How are we supposed to play when they're this strong?"
"SSK must be cheating, bastard!"
"F * ck f * ck!!"
The Assassin Squad's jungler captain, widely recognized as the best jungler in Taiwan and one of the Seven Kings of the World, cursed out of habit, but even he did not want to admit it. After watching SSK's match recordings several times, his right hand trembled slightly.
It was a subconscious tremble.
It was a sense of fear that arose after personally experiencing the unstoppable might of their opponent.
…
Europe, Legen Squad Club.
Several members of the squad gathered in the training room and watched the four matches of the B5 World Championship Finals in silence.
In the last match, the jungler of the Legen Squad could not help but shiver when he saw how SSK Squad easily defeated the SEASN Squad. He mumbled subconsciously, "That's right, that's right.
"So, so strong —"
The top laner, Legen, who was widely recognized as the most likely candidate for the title of "Seven Kings of the World", was silent for a moment before he spoke.
"Their top laner is also terrifying."
"Their awareness in team battles … is stronger than mine."
Just this comment alone was enough to carry weight.
Everyone was most familiar with SSK's mid laner, Han Shihao, and one of the Seven Kings, the jungler, afa. But in reality, under the brilliance of these two, the other three members of SSK …
In fact, none of them were weak.
As the captain of the team's mid laner, Phenix was also silent.
His eyes fell on the computer screen. The strongest King of Law in Europe, ranked third among the Yonkō (Four Emperors), finally let out a soft sigh.
"The current SSK …"
"He is invincible."
"No one can stop him."
…
"There's no solution."
China, Shanghai, G-Hand of God Club.
In the training base, looking at the video of the third match of the finals that had just been played on the computer screen, Morning Star gave a simple one-word evaluation.
It wasn't just the combo of SSK's mid laner Fox and jungler Blind Monk.
He was referring to SSK's current strength.
It was "unsolvable".
Nightsong laughed self-deprecatingly.
"Even if it's SEASN … there's no team in our LPL that can deal with Auun's team, right?"
This sentence was the most depressing and cruel reality.
Because it was true that even the North American SEASN team that was eliminated by SSK 3: 1 in the finals of the B5 was not something that the current LPL teams could compare to.
Even the publicly recognized strongest team, G, admitted that they were no match for them, let alone the other LPL teams.
If even SEASN was a giant that the professional teams had to look up to, then South Korea's SSK, who was even stronger than SEASN, was no different from a towering mountain.
It wasn't simply in terms of individual skill. Otherwise, SEASN wouldn't be that much weaker than SSK.
It was strength in all aspects, from the coach's tactical arrangement to the individual hero pool of the players to the tacit understanding between the team members. SSK had demonstrated perfection and impeccable enough to make their opponents despair.
Nightsong's mood was a little sour.
Tonight, he had first watched the live broadcast of the Shanghai Sixteen School League. At that time, he had been impressed by the strength of the players from the two high schools, but now …
How long would it take for the new generation of young players to rise in the national esports?
How much longer would they have to endure the rise of the professional esports in the national server?
Even —
"Will that day really come?"
Nightsong asked his mid laner with a bitter smile.
Morning Star was silent. Then, he took a deep breath and nodded.
"It will come."
…
At one o 'clock in the morning, the members of High School 13's esports club left the internet cafe together and found a late-night barbecue stall to sit down for a celebratory dinner.
Although it was supposed to be a celebratory feast, after witnessing the terrifying strength and performance of the Korean SSK Squad, the team's mood had been slightly dampened.
After all, compared to the S5 World Championship, the Shanghai Sixteen School League was just a small game for high school students.
So what if they won the championship of the Sixteen School League?
Even a first-tier LPL team was eliminated by South Korea's SSK in the semifinals with a score of 3: 0.
So, what was there to be happy about with such a small achievement?
"If SEASN could win … I'd rather our team didn't win the Sixteen School League —"
Ouyang sighed in despair.
Ren Rou rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"Can't you be a little more ambitious? At the very least, our local LPL team has to win the finals in exchange, right? "
Ouyang was depressed.
"No matter who wins the championship, it's better than SSK defending their second consecutive championship …" Yang Fan lamented.
Yang Fan sighed. "SSK is really strong now. Even SEASN isn't a match for them. Which team in the world can take a few blows from SSK?"
Steamed Bun took a sip of his juice soda and shook his head.
"Actually, SEASN's loss is reasonable."
"SSK's strength lies in the fact that they are invulnerable in all aspects, especially the hero pool of their five official players. Team SEASN has been at a natural disadvantage since the start of the Ban selection, and no matter how they counter it, it's useless."
"But it's different the other way around. Aside from Auun, the other four players of SEASN, especially their top laner and jungler, were too shallow. They were easily targeted."
"So it was inevitable that they would lose the match."
Listening to An Xin's analysis, the members of the esports club nodded in agreement.
Chen Zi took a big gulp of Sprite.
"Then isn't SSK invincible now?"
"Their hero pool is so deep, and they have one of the Four Emperors and one of the Seven Kings. Not to mention their ridiculous coach …"
"How can there be such a heaven-defying team?"
Lin Feng was busy eating his barbecue and didn't participate in the discussion.
But when he heard Chen Zi's grumbling, his movements paused for a moment.
Such a heaven-defying team …?
Back in the day, their national server also had such a team.
In the distant S1 season, the team he was a part of —
Him in the mid lane.
Fatty in the top lane.
Eleven in the jungler.
And the two teammates in the bottom lane.
If Steamed Bun's tactical arrangements were included, then they weren't inferior to the current SSK team.
In that era …
They.
They should have been the best in the world.
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