In the LOL e-sports circle, why can't China beat South Korea?

T1 swept the WBG with a quick 3-0 win to claim their fourth title at the World Finals. Faker and T1 have also become gods again - they have become the first and first team in the history of League of Legends esports.

With the reappearance of Faker and T1, the battle between WBG and T1 not only made Faker and T1 break many incredible records, but also made Chinese players constantly think about problems, such as what the embarrassed king talked to you before, "Is Faker stronger, or LCK stronger?" In the end, the embarrassed king came to the conclusion that after years of hard work in the LPL, the LCK is actually not strong, they are only Faker alone!

So in this article, King Lu wants to discuss another question with you, that is, "In the field of League of Legends e-sports, why can't Chinese beat Koreans?"

The old rules, the following text, only represents the personal opinion of the embarrassed king, welcome to discuss, please do not spray for no reason!

Why can't the Chinese beat the Koreans in the League of Legends e-sports field?

Throughout the history of League of Legends esports, if you put aside the MSI games in the first half of the year, just look at the World Championship in the second half of the year. It is not difficult to find that in addition to the ancient champions of S1 and S2, the Korean LCK region has won a total of 8 world championships, of which T1 has won 4 times, GenG has won 2 times, and DK has won 1 time, while the LPL region, from S3 to S13, has only won 3 championships in total, iG, FPX and EDG have won 1 time each.

In other words, on the stage of the global finals, the LCK is in a dominant position in the face of the LPL. Although combined with the previous article of the embarrassed king, we can come to the conclusion that "LPL did not lose to LCK in S13, but only lost to Faker". But frankly speaking, the LPL did lose the game, and the record of the two divisions was actually out of balance.

So why, in the World Finals, the LPL side always loses to the LCK or always can't win against T1 led by Faker?

Frankly speaking, the embarrassed king feels that this is caused by many reasons, let's look at them one by one:

First of all, China and South Korea have different positioning for e-sports

For South Korea, which is poor in resources and likes to steal culture, they have designated e-sports as a "national sport" since the last century, when SC was popular all over the world. At that time, e-sports was still in the stage of "flood beast" in China. Although in recent years, due to the Asian Games, e-sports has gradually become on par with traditional competitive sports, but the stereotype of "flood beast" still exists.

Therefore, at the national level, the two countries have different positions on League of Legends e-sports - one is a "national sport", the other is an "ordinary competitive sport", and even a competitive sport with stereotypes. In this atmosphere, it is not that the Chinese players are not smart enough for the Korean players, nor is it that they do not work hard enough, but the entire social atmosphere is determined. On a large scale, the Chinese are far superior to South Korea in the vast majority of competitive sports, and even in any other industry. But when it comes to esports, there is still a gap between the two countries, and that's an indisputable fact!

Secondly, due to the different positioning, the ideas of e-sports players in China and South Korea are different

Since South Korea defines e-sports as a "national sport", it is only natural that e-sports has become a major industry in South Korea, while for China, e-sports is only a small branch of competitive sports. Therefore, e-sports, in China, whether it is a club or a player, most of its starting point is just to make money, and compared with South Korea, South Korean players will have more ideas, in addition to making money, there is also the motivation to be exempted from military service, and to win the championship, will be praised by the president and other honors.

Third, due to the different positioning of e-sports, it has caused the differentiation of LPL and LCK regions

Due to the different positioning of e-sports in the two countries, the differences in styles between the LPL and LCK teams are particularly obvious. There is a big gap between the competitive environment of the national costume and the hanbok, the hanbok is biased towards operation, and the national costume is biased towards fighting; Although the game of League of Legends is very hard to play, it is also very important for game understanding. Especially when there is not much difference in the operation level of professional players, the main thing is the hero pool, system, and operation.

And the game of League of Legends has relatively high requirements for coaches. What is especially important for the analysis of the version, the depth of the hero pool, the speed of a hero's start, the level of proficiency, whether it is a hero or not, and the understanding of the system established by a hero. Most of the time, the LCK side can come up with a lot of weird routines to win the game, while the LPL side can only copy homework. A proud and arrogant division is bound to fail, but a division that does not study it will certainly fail.

Fourth, complain about Korean e-sports

I mentioned a lot of the advantages of Korean e-sports, and here the embarrassed king can actually complain about the Korean e-sports circle, and they are not without shortcomings. Compared with the advantages, the shortcomings of the Korean e-sports circle are also obvious, that is: if they can't win the game, they will learn like an ostrich, and they will directly close the server and stop playing. I believe that seeing this, many gamers will smile heartily, understand, understand!

In the end, what the embarrassed king wants to say is that the LPL is actually very strong

Finally, what I want to say is that in the field of League of Legends e-sports, China really can't beat South Korea for the time being. But that's only a small part of the esports scene, and we still have a lot of games that are far ahead of South Korea. League of Legends is just a game, and for a big country like China, it's not a place to be particularly anxious and reflective. After all, for a small country like South Korea, there will also be some advantageous projects.

E-sports has become a pillar industry in South Korea, and its income has even surpassed that of traditional industries such as automobiles. Therefore, the embarrassed king believes that the LPL is actually very strong, after all, one is led by capital and the other is led by the state, and the difference between the two is quite big. You must know that the North American and European divisions, which are also led by capital, are basically directly rotten. In the end, what the embarrassed king wants to say is why League of Legends e-sports is so strong in South Korea, or because they have a small land and lack of resources, and more systematic real economy, next to big countries, basically has no future.

Therefore, we can only take the road of the entertainment industry. In this situation, LPL can still play back and forth with LCK, which is actually very strong. We don't need to be presumptuous, just play and see, don't get too deep into the drama! If you want to quickly surpass South Korea, it's actually quite simple, you can win the world championship by playing e-sports, and add 10 points to the college entrance examination. In that case, there won't be anything to do with LCK!