In the history of the S competition, LPL has been runner-up four times, which one lost the most desperately?
The League of Legends S14 season, the first phase of the LPL Spring Tournament has come to an end. Frankly speaking, in the first stage of this spring tournament, although the game was still quite exciting, it also revealed some unsatisfactory points - for example, compared with the past, the traffic and popularity have declined slightly, and the tactics of many teams have begun to tend to "LCK-style operations" again.
But the flaws are not hidden, and the competition of the top 5 teams is still very exciting. During this period, there were even many players who began to look forward to the fact that there would be teams in this year's LPL that would stand up and reproduce the glory of S8, S9 and S11. But the embarrassed king is here, and he wants to say "shame and courage", which is the king's way!
A few days ago, when I talked to you about the reasons and solutions for the decline in LPL popularity, many friends said that if S3, S4, S10 and S13 could be replaced by champions, we should not have the dilemma of declining popularity now. This seems to be true, but in fact, players who are familiar with the competitive world know that whether it is traditional sports or e-sports, it is not the third or fourth place that is sad and desperate, but the second place. The kind of despair that seems to be only a line away from the peak, but it can't be climbed, is only known by the second place.
So among the runners-up of S3, S4, S10 and S13, which one will make everyone feel the most desperate? Today, the embarrassed king will talk to you about it! The old rules, the following words are based on fait accompli, and the central idea only represents the personal meaning of the embarrassed king. Welcome to discuss, no unreasonable spraying!
Which of the S3, S4, S10 and S13 runners-up was the most desperate?
Frankly speaking, for the embarrassed king personally, the two runners-up of S3 and S4, in fact, I don't feel hopeless, I just feel pity. At that time of S3 and S4, it was simply that our skills were inferior to others, and we were backward in all aspects, and we knew it. Where there is no hope, there is no despair.
And for the LPL region, we only officially joined the global finals system in S3. If RYL can debut and win the championship at the peak, it is perfect, but if he doesn't get it, there is no reason to despair. After all, if you haven't reached the pinnacle of the competition area, there will always be a reason to climb, and there will always be obstacles ahead. This is the consciousness of being a chaser, and it is also the welfare of being a chaser, you can climb up by feeling the stones!
As for the runner-up of S10, the embarrassed king only felt a pity at the time, after all, in S8 and S9, our division has been crushed by iG and FPX, and won two consecutive championships. This S10 can be won, although it is three consecutive championships, but it has not been won, and there are also the first two championships, so I can comfort you. Moreover, the S10 champion DWG team was also the choice of the moment at that time, and Xu Xiu was the chosen son of S10.
What really makes the embarrassed king feel desperate must be the runner-up of the S13 season. The S13 World Finals, T1's performance, everyone has seen it. From the league to the MSI to the S competition, they are typical of the low start and high go. Even during the World Finals, the four LPL teams swept all teams in the LCK except T1, but they just couldn't win T1. Even the four teams combined, were beaten by T1 with a score of 1 bar and 11.
In the face of this kind of achievement, including the embarrassed king, all the fans of the LPL can't even find an excuse to lose the game. And what makes the embarrassed king feel even more desperate is that the teams we lost to in S3, S4 and S13, they sat in the middle, and they were even the same person, can you believe it?
is the guy named Lee Sang-hyuk, who has been training for ten years, except for a little bit of picking, and the stalk of "Eunjing" ridiculed by fans, he is basically unstained personally. At the beginning of the S13 season, he was ridiculed in the LCK as a "drag bottle", and as a result, he missed several weeks in the summer tournament, resulting in a seven-game losing streak in T1, and after his return, he proved his leadership with his fourth crown.
In the World Championship, when playing BLG, the two man-machine machines don't mean much, but when playing LNG, faker suppressed Scout in counterpoint and proved her own laning ability; when playing JDG, he once again proved that the desperate Lee Sang-hyuk is worthy of his reputation and proved his ability to open a group; when playing WBG, Akali Youlong proved his assassin ability; and after the game, he didn't show up the weak explosion gesture, which proved his professionalism. In these words, the embarrassed king is praising Faker without reservation, and this is what makes LPL fans desperate. Faker alone basically suppressed an entire LPL division in S13.
If you talk about the victory or defeat on the field, you can cover it up with state and performance. So off the field, the current situation of the LPL is really desperate - the most desperate place now is that the youth training system of the LPL is almost collapsing. In recent years, a new generation of almost no superstars has emerged, and the current LPL is almost all supported by old players. Even S8's "chosen son" Jackeylove is already a veteran. LDL, which has high hopes, is almost unsightly in the current game. Look at the LCK next door, the champion top laner Zeus, who is only 19 years old this year. LPL now, how many 19-year-olds can play? This is where the real despair lies.
In the end, what the embarrassed king wants to say is that from MSI's division finals, to the dream of winning the top four in the S competition, and then to being a string of four. In the end, it continued the fact that SKT (T1) had never beaten in BO5 in the World Championship since S3. Ten years ago, when they were kept clean, everyone wanted to say "I can do it", and after ten years, they were swept again, and everyone thought that "this is the difference in strength". When there is hope, there is despair, but the heart is like water, which is the most desperate. Is your heart like water?