: A Comeback Victory! SKT Substitute Mid Laner Chovy

"RNG is attacking Baron! There's a Twitch, and Baron's health is dropping really fast!"

"However, EDG quickly surrounded them. Braum and Taliyah probably can't stop EDG."

"Hey, RNG stopped. Looks like they just wanted to force a team fight."

"However, EDG lacks vision control. Their vision upgrade only shows that RNG has started the dragon, but they can't see the dragon's health."

Guan Zeyuan's voice was somewhat hoarse due to extreme excitement.

"Rengar activated his ultimate, and he's patrolling the flank. RNG's strategy is very clear: whoever comes to place a ward, they'll attack!"

At this point, EDG's vision range had been completely compressed.

Meiko, acting as the support, was extremely anxious.

He knew that if RNG took Baron Nashor without much trouble, with the terrifying damage output of a three-item Twitch, coupled with Uzi's ADC skills, they would be at a disadvantage.

EDG's turrets are practically made of paper; they could easily be wiped out in one fell swoop.

"I have to go and take a look."

Meiko gritted her teeth, maneuvered Zyra, and moved a little closer, placing a ward slightly below the dragon pit.

The instant he pierced the eye, a huge block of ice came crashing down on him!

Braum's prediction was extremely accurate, and his Winter's Bite immediately applied a slow effect.

"Zyra's been tricked! Braum's Q hit! Twitch's ultimate, poke him!" Remember exclaimed.

Under the focused fire of RNG's five players, Zyra, even with Karma's shield, was instantly vaporized.

"Nice! Nice!"

A frenzied roar erupted in RNG's voice chat.

Mlxg excitedly slammed his fist on the table: "We've got it! We've got it! The support's gone! Chase! Chase! Chase! We can go for it in one fell swoop!"

"Chase! Karma's shield's gone! Chase, chase, chase! Kill them all!" Little Tiger roared.

In the commentary booth, Guan Zeyuan had already stood up:

"Damn it! The support was instantly killed! EDG is down a player, and their formation is completely messed up! RNG isn't going for the dragon this time; they're going to chase them down. They're going to close out the game!"

Hahaha, it's definitely the puppy that matters!

Zyra is just feeding, EDG's on holiday!

Just kidding!

Congratulations to RNG! 3-2!

[Faker ran pretty fast, that's hilarious! Wasn't this mid laner acting all arrogant just now?]

Our all-Chinese team is invincible!

In the video, Lin Xiu's Lee Sin and Faker's Karma immediately went into a frantic escape mode the moment they saw their support die.

"Brother Li, activate RE! Speed ​​up! Run to mid lane!"

Lin Xiu's voice was extremely calm. Even when everyone thought EDG was doomed to lose, his breathing remained perfectly steady.

Lee Sang-hyeok pressed the E key tightly, and the Enlightened One's psionic shield enveloped the entire team. The four of them fled towards the middle lane in a sorry state.

Behind them was RNG, who were fighting like madmen.

Uzi was now in a state of extreme excitement.

He looked at the four dead bodies fleeing in disarray ahead, and at the Lee Sin who had once made him suffer so much in the bottom lane.

He decided to step forward and be a hero!

He activated his Q skill, accelerating forward, and combined with Lulu's speed boost...

He wants to end the game.

He wants to become the god of AD!

"If I can catch up, I can kill them all! I can kill them all!"

Uzi shouted in the voice chat, his positioning becoming increasingly aggressive, even using Flash to try and land a few more hits on Lee Sin.

"Flash forward, Uzi is amazing!"

"As expected of Uzi, he actually flashed forward!"

"This is the god of AD!"

At this point, both the commentators, Ji De and Guan Zeyuan, were caught up in endlessly praising the winning side, and were clearly speaking without thinking.

In the match footage, Uzi chased down the enemy quickly, and the Lee Sin had already entered his attack range.

The rat's two basic attacks not only depleted the Lee Sin's shield, but also reduced his health by a quarter.

However, at the same time, Uzi also left his teammates several body lengths behind.

Lacking any skills, the poodle and Brown could only follow slowly behind.

Taliyah's Wall of Despair had already been used before the Baron fight, so she could only slowly follow behind.

Although Xiaohu seemed somewhat hesitant about chasing Uzi too aggressively, the voice recording revealed that...

But after stealing a glance at Uzi's excited expression, he chose to keep quiet.

The mouse continued forward and attacked the Lee Sin again, completely entering the range of the Lee Sin's W ward-hopping attack.

"Now!" Lin Xiu's pupils suddenly contracted.

Uzi, because he wanted to win too much and because he wanted to prove himself too much, has broken away from the team's protection!

"Brother Li, give me a shield! Give me a shield!" Lin Xiu roared.

Lee Sang-hyeok didn't hesitate for a moment. He didn't even look at the mouse's position. The instant he heard the command, he cast E on the Lee Sin.

The blind monk made a move.

That's a combo that even Silver players would have to think about carefully in slow motion.

Eye dodge, Flash, Dragon Tail Swing!

"One warehouse!"

Lin Xiu's Lee Sin used W-Flash-R to forcefully circle around to the side and behind the rat.

Under that powerful kick, like a dragon's tail sweep, the Plague Source, who had been unleashing a furious barrage of attacks,

Like a broken cannonball, it was kicked directly back into Karma and Ashe's faces!

The mouse was hit by the blind monk's sonic wave while it was sliding.

"What?!"

Uzi's face turned deathly pale instantly, but his hand moved so fast it became a blur.

But this time, the rat was so controlled that it couldn't move.

"Brother Li, QW! Follow up with crowd control and unleash the damage!"

Lin Xiu shouted at the loudest he had ever spoken in his life in the voice message.

Faker looked at the nightmare that flew in front of him, his most feared enemy, and he stopped trembling.

He remembered what Lin Xiu had said—"I will make sure the mouse gets ahead of you."

Karma unleashed a Mind Flame, slamming it hard onto the rat.

Hanbing reacted quickly, using her ultimate skill, Magic Crystal Arrow, to hit Hanbing at close range, and then started auto-attacking!

With Lee Sin's Echo Shot following up, Twitch's health was almost depleted.

"EDG Linxiu has killed RNG Uzi!"

The once noisy stadium fell into an eerie silence in that instant.

"Uzi got instantly killed? Twitch got kicked back?"

Guan Zeyuan's voice was filled with absurd disbelief.

"RNG was just cheering, how come suddenly, the rat is gone?"

Remember, he went crazy too: "RNG, or rather Uzi, chased too deep! They thought they could end it all in one fell swoop, but Uzi got out of position! Lin Xiu's kick, that kick shattered RNG's championship dream!"

In RNG's voice chat, the previous jubilation instantly turned into a deathly silence.

Mlxg was stunned, and so was Xiaohu.

The dramatic shift from elation to despair left them momentarily lost in thought.

"Withdraw! Withdraw back!" Feng shouted frantically in the rest room, but the players on the field were still somewhat stunned.

Because everyone was frantically chasing after the enemy, their formation was scattered and they dispersed like birds and beasts.

The remaining four members of EDG seemed to receive a shot of adrenaline the moment they saw the rat fall.

"Kill! Leave no one alive!" Lin Xiu followed up with his second-stage Q, and a Heavenly Sonic Wave hit the panicked and desperate Lion Dog.

Karma's shield, Frostfire arrows, Titan's anchor.

Without their core damage dealers, RNG completely lost their ability to fight back.

Braum fell, Rengar fell, and finally even Taliyah, who was trying to escape, was hooked by Nautilus's Flash and fell to the ground.

"ACE! Team wipe!"

"EDG pulled off an incredible 5-0 wipeout from the brink of despair!"

The entire venue erupted in cheers! Those fans who were originally preparing to leave rushed back to their seats like madmen, waving their light sticks wildly.

[Lin Shen! That kick was a miracle!]

[Uzi was so arrogant, so incredibly arrogant, how could he get kicked like that?]

[Faker's W-Flash-RQQ combo was so satisfying, a twist after a twist?]

[Can't Uzi learn his lesson? Dying all the time is worse than getting a bang!]

[Hey, is Bang your dad? Chinese people should support all-Chinese teams!]

[+1, those who don't support an all-Chinese team are rare dogs!]

Come on, if Mata could stay, would you have an all-Chinese team? You're getting cocky just because I called you fat!

At this point, EDG's voice communication was completely reversed, filled with...

"NICE!"

"One wave after another!"

Faker sat in the chair, his hands still trembling even though he was only attacking the tower. But this time it wasn't from fear or panic.

Rather, it was the trembling caused by extreme excitement and dopamine secretion.

He thought of the rat that had overacted and died suddenly, and the rock sparrow that had been trampled to death in its panic.

Those two demons he once thought were invincible,

"So, they're people who make mistakes too," Faker said softly.

"How is your pathetic, defeated state any different from mine?"

The tower shattered, the crystal shattered.

As RNG's final Nexus shattered into countless fragments with a single auto-attack from Lin Xiu, the battle anthem reached its final note.

Congratulations to EDG! They won 3-2, pulling one back from two games down to advance to the finals!

Lin Xiu took off his headphones, and at that moment, he heard the entire stadium chanting his name.

He turned his head and found Faker staring blankly at the screen, tears streaming silently down his cheeks.

"Brother Li, snap out of it." Lin Xiu chuckled and gave him a nudge.

"I did it!"

"I know you did it. Go shake hands with me and tell them who you really are."

......

At the SKT base in Seoul, the night was deep.

The training room was dimly lit, and the sound of keyboards echoed in the empty room.

In recent years, SKT has been the heaviest dark cloud hanging over the heads of professional League of Legends players worldwide.

With Faker, the most important piece of the puzzle, missing, Easyhoon became the helmsman of this super team.

At the S6 World Championship, with his unwavering and despair-inducing Azir and Viktor, he crushed all challengers and brought SKT their second Summoner's Cup in team history.

But at the same time, SKT's terror lies even more in their almost flawless lineup across all positions:

Top laner Huni, jungler Peanut, and the mechanically precise and consistent bot lane duo of Bang and Wolf.

This team possesses a breathtaking dominance in the LCK and even worldwide.

However, in the shadow of this brilliance, a slender young man sat in front of a spare computer in the corner, staring intently at the computer screen.

That was Chovy, a prodigy who had recently joined SKT.

As the support mid-laner for the top team SKT, his life is far from as glamorous as outsiders imagine.

His joining the company was entirely due to Easyhoon's exorbitant salary increase request to management after winning the championship.

SKT's management, however, believes: "SKT's strength lies in its system. Even if we let a monkey (a specific champion) dominate the mid lane, as long as it can hold its own in the laning phase, we can still win the championship."

To counterbalance Easyhoon, the management brought in Chovy, who was known for his terrifying laning skills in Korean solo queue.

Despite the strong support from management, Chovy inevitably found himself in an awkward situation.

Within the team, Easyhoon is a highly decorated veteran and the core of all tactics.

Chovy, even when he occasionally puts up impressive stats, is often criticized by the coach in post-match reviews for being too focused on laning and lacking teamwork.

He spent countless lonely nights on the bench.

Today, instead of doing his usual ranked training, he secretly opened the LPL live stream.

He wanted to see if Lee Sang-hyeok, the traitor to South Korea who was the subject of much gossip in South Korea, would have a chance to make an appearance.

On the screen, the dramatic reversal was being replayed.

"Ward Touch, Flash, Dragon Tail Swing."

"These two midfielders are also substitutes, yet they played two consecutive games in such an important match, turning the tide!"

"If this opportunity were given to me, could I do it?"

Chovy murmured softly.

"Hey, Shizun, what are you looking at? What's the point of studying this second-rate competition where noobs are fighting each other?" A somewhat arrogant voice came from behind.

Chovy was startled and quickly tried to close the window.

That was Easyhoon. He had just returned from a high-end business event, still smelling of designer perfume, and his eyes revealed a hint of hostility.

Easyhoon glanced at the replay playing on the screen and scoffed:

"Where did this noob AD carry come from? He's practically throwing the game away!"

"Such a basic mistake would never happen in our LCK."

"Oh, it's Uzi. That's not surprising. AD carries who get carried away like that would have been beaten unconscious with a baseball bat in the LCK long ago."

"Oh! And Faker, right? He's that EDG substitute, the traitor! He's not even as good as you here. It's good that he went to China to earn some retirement money."

Chovy pursed her lips and remained silent.

Under SKT's strict hierarchical system, he was powerless to refute it.

He had also heard Bang's evaluation of Uzi, which was consistent with Easyhoon's.

Easyhoon shook his head and turned to discuss tomorrow's filming schedule with Bang.

In his eyes, the semifinals of this second-rate region were not worth watching.

Chovy put her headphones back on and rewound the progress bar to the moment before the match started, when the director gave a close-up shot of EDG's mid and jungle players.

This time, his gaze skipped over the trembling Faker.

She noticed Lin Xiu standing to the side, a confident smile on his face.

"That look in his eyes..." Chovy's breathing became rapid.

A long-buried memory suddenly struck him.

That was three years ago, in a dilapidated underground internet cafe in Gangnam District, Seoul.

Back then, Chovy was just a middle school student struggling to pay for internet access. He was crying in a corner because he was being dominated by skilled random players in ranked games.

Just when he was at his lowest point, a young man a few years older than him, wearing a black hoodie, sat down next to him.

However, the young man also seemed somewhat frustrated.

The man wielded a Lee Sin with such fluid skill that it dazzled the opponent, and within just twenty minutes, he forced the opposing team to surrender.

Before he left, the person handed him a can of iced cola and said to him in broken but gentle Korean:

"Kid, skill isn't everything; the courage to throw a punch is the soul of League of Legends."

"Don't be a coward!"

Chovy clearly remembers that the person's deep, mad eyes were exactly the same as Linxiu's on the screen.

"Is he my older brother?" Chovy's eyes suddenly felt hot.

That blind monk who once disappeared from the streets of Seoul, that older brother who gave him his professional inspiration...

Three years later, he reappeared on the LPL stage, and led another Korean traitor despised by the entire LCK to victory.

"Zhi Xun, stop spacing out and come help collect the takeout," Wolf called out from a distance.

"Here I am." Chovy closed the live stream and stood up.

Although his body was still in SKT's training room, and although he still had to face Easyhoon's exclusion and suppression, at this moment, a fire was burning in his heart.

He glanced at Easyhoon's seat surrounded by trophies, then at the blacked-out live stream screen.

"What you can do, I can do too!"