Regarding the story of Sky Li Xiaofeng, the "first person in China's e-sports", in the past ten years, major media and kol have talked about it countless times. However, there is a very key point of information that has not been mentioned --
Is sky a "esports genius"?
1. One of the biggest controversies in the early years of esports: two-time wcg champion Sky is not talented?
Maybe some friends who have experienced the peak era of "Warcraft 3" from 2004 to 2011 will question my beginning, when did Ehsky hook up with the word "genius"?
In those years, similar views of denying Sky's talent often appeared online:
"Sky has a hair talent? The style of play is rigid, lack of flexibility, and often watch the opening 3 minutes to know Sky's tactics. ”
"Sky does have outstanding results, but it is completely based on hard work and hard work, and in terms of talent alone, he is really average."
"If Xiaot (now the estar boss) had half the effort of Sky, the first person would have been T-General."
However, correspondingly, we all know that any competitive sport that wants to stand on the top of the world is certainly not enough to rely on hard work, not to mention the historical supergiant like Sky who can "wcg two consecutive championships".
While saying that Sky has no talent, on the other hand, it is the peak Sky who has cut through thorns in various competitions, picking gold and silver. Is there really a rare miracle of "the ugly bird 100% pure sweat transformed into a golden phoenix"?
2. Competitive sports, how do we understand "talent"?
The so-called "talent", that is, it can only be strengthened by acquired training, but it cannot be created out of thin air, similar to the "overlord color domineering spirit" of "One Piece", there is no such thing when it is born, then it is impossible to have it no matter how the acquired training. "Warcraft 3" players always say "moon is full of talent", but also because moon can always play some "others are difficult to imitate and learn" magic strokes, such as the "stealth AC blocking the road and demolishing the house" that came out on the spot, gorgeous overturning.
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Sky also has a lot of talent that is "difficult to achieve through hard work the day after tomorrow", and his situation is somewhat similar to Ronaldo in football.
Some fans have said that Ronaldo is a "role model for people who lack talent", and he has successfully matched the genius Messi through extraordinary efforts and self-discipline, achieving seemingly impossible achievements.
However, those who really understand the ball know that "Ronaldo lacks talent" is definitely one of the biggest jokes in the fan circle.
The 18-year-old "Little Luo" debuted at the home of Manchester United, and he came out with a sharp dribble and a sharp breakthrough, and the surprise of the Red Devils' new No. 7 was no less than mbappe in the previous two years, and Haland in these two years.
Today's Ronaldo, although he has changed his playing style because of his age, he can take out a physical quality comparable to that of others at the age of 28 at the age of 36, jump higher than everyone else, and stay in the air for a long time. Repeatedly starting and playing all over the field, he was frequently brutally violated by opponents, but he was still rarely injured.
C Luo's physical quality is indeed due to his extraordinary efforts and self-discipline, but to achieve such an excellent degree of "reverse science" and become the "only one in the world", it is inevitable that he cannot be separated from his superior innate physical condition.
It is true that compared to Messi's extraordinary sense of ball and fancy breakthroughs, Ronaldo's talent is not like the type that is most easily related to our traditional cognition, but how can the "talent" of real competitive sports be limited to a single dimension?
No superstar can be an "embroidered pillow" that "only shows off" Their training efficiency, growth space, physical fitness, self-discipline, competition concentration, psychological quality, etc., are also indispensable talent elements for their own growth into superstars.
Similarly, sky's talent is not the so-called "genius-like technical creativity & impromptu change" that is most easily associated with our traditional cognition. Pei Leking, the founder of we club, once commented on Sky:
"Sky's talent is very high, it's just that his type of talent is not the type that most of us understand."
3. Where is Sky's talent?
【Excellent game understanding rate and tactical development ability】
Don't look at Sky's lack of "on-the-spot response" in the game, but, it is no exaggeration to say that the classic tactics, playing styles, and execution details of the Terran race in Warcraft 3, including the prototypes of some famous playing styles, many of which come from the creation, development or improvement of Sky Li Xiaofeng, including but not limited to,
Sky with a wave of tower streams, as well as various variants developed by Sky itself;
Sky Stream (Grand Mage + Beast King + Witch Breaker, against the Beast Clan);
The Panda + Lawbreaker Witch System of the Terran Civil War;
· The playing style of the Terran fast mine is perfect, with the attack and defense of the card timing point multi-line containment, the opponent is tied in the opponent's home, with the infantry for time, to protect their own mine, "love the people like the son of Li Tianwang" The ridicule also comes from this;
MK speed mine + three griffin stream details perfect
And so on, and so on, and so on
Sky's impressive achievements do come largely from his "tactical crushing" and "detail crushing".
The same is to fight the magic beast every day, every day to think of tactics,
Why is Sky always able to be one step faster than other Terran players in the same period, creating new tactics and having the ability to perfect and develop each one?
Why do more mediocre players have to follow the champions to "copy homework" and use the play created by the gods?
Obviously, this is one of the manifestations of Sky's extraordinary talent.
【Super tactical execution and stability】
In the years when Sky peaked, a popular sentence in the domestic Warcraft circle:
"Everyone knows How Sky plays, but no one can beat him."
The "Poison Milk Ghost King" Ted once said that peak sky is the "Great Devil" who can bring the strongest frustration to opponents. Sky's playing style seems to be very textbook, lack of on-the-spot response, and his opponents can often judge Sky's intentions in advance and respond. But even so, Sky is often able to beat its opponents with completely unchanged tactics.
Peak sky is such a "desperate" existence, even if you know in advance that he will attack in a few seconds and how to attack, you are still 99% defenseless. Why is that? The core reason is that Sky's super tactical execution and stability, almost every detail of commonly used tactics are grasped in pure fire, fine operation, and truly realize the "can not change with the same".
Therefore, in the years when Sky was at its peak, China's other two "human emperors" infi and th000 never dared to fight with Sky to fight the Terran civil war, whether it was changing the way of playing or fighting hard, as strong as they could only get a victory from Sky only occasionally. Therefore, due to the existence of Sky, the two Terran kings at that time, Infi and th000, were forced to "concurrently" the identity of China's "top night elf players".
[Being able to "work extraordinaryly" for many years is a talent in itself]
Sky's teammate at we club, infi Wang, who is also a two-time WCG champion, once said that Sky's hard work is a talent.
"How hard does sky work? Even on the day of the return of the WCG double champion, Sky did not rest, and went straight to the base for training as soon as he left the airport. ”
"[The intensity of non-human training as sky] can't be learned, and some people (most people) can't sit still."
"That's talent."
Yes, I think I am also a kind of "desperate sanlang" workaholic, but if I want to take the world championship like Sky and rush back to China, and voluntarily give up the rare half-day rest and relaxation, direct training, I can't do it 200%.
Sky can withstand the intensity of non-human training, and it is consistent for many years, which is an extraordinary talent for perseverance. For 99% of the world's people, to withstand such training intensity, "hard force" can not be "forced out".
postscript
In fact, the type of talent of sky reminds me of Thera Matekai of Naruto, who seems to have mediocre ninjutsu, but can stand alone through extraordinary physical skills.
Because he did not have dazzling and cool ninjutsu, he left some viewers with the illusion of "mediocre talent", but if you think about it, how can you practice the world's best physical skills, how can a "talentless boy" achieve it by sweat alone?
What's more, to be able to approach the "ceiling" of human common sense for many years in the degree of effort and self-discipline, such perseverance and hard work, how can it not be a talent?