After attending the celebration banquet held by Tengjing Sports, the three teams disbanded the next day. They rested for a week before going to Korea for training in early September.
The idea of going to Korea for training was originally EDG and RNG's. YM had no other choice since these two teams were involved. After all, they still had to play mock competitions with these teams. They could only practice with teams like WE in China, which would not be of much use.
Lin Yan accompanied Su Cheng to play in Guangzhou for a day. They ran from Zhongshan Memorial Hall to Guangzhou Tower and enjoyed a meal at the Cantonese restaurant that Su Cheng had previously suggested before flying back to Shanghai.
After returning to the base, Lin Yan found that his support ability had increased by three points. Just as he had guessed, every victory in a BO5 match would increase this key ability of his.
After resting for a day in Shanghai, Lin Yan had to start streaming.
In August, their team's streaming time was not up to standard. In order to earn more money, he stayed at the base and became the main force to make up for the time.
Lin Yan started streaming early in the morning. He yawned in his chair and looked at the dense bullet screen in the stream.
"Streamer, streamer, will the S6 champion skin be Bright Moon or Rui Wen?"
"Streamer, can you enlarge the camera? I want to lick the screen."
Lin Yan ignored the bullet screen. He drank a mouthful of water to moisten his throat. As soon as he opened the app, he saw Hao come over.
"Lin Yan, can you forward this job posting …" He stuffed his phone into Lin Yan's hand.
"Looking for an assistant analyst?" Lin Yan opened it. It was a job posting for YM Club.
"Do you want to work?" Lin Yan glanced at the specific requirements.
"Anything is fine. There's no difference between working and working part-time." Hao shrugged. "It's an assistant job anyway. I just want to reduce the pressure on the coaches. S6 is coming soon. If we're still a small team with these few people, then Hanyi will come to my room tonight and stab me."
When Lin Yan heard this, he imported the recruitment information into his computer and hung it on the top left corner of his livestream room. Then, he sent a WeChat message to Su Cheng.
Su Cheng went to recruit without hesitation after receiving the recruitment notice. This was the advantage of a part-time job. She could do it anywhere and save a lot of time.
Lin Yan glanced at his Korean ID. It was still a bunch of meaningless codes. Lin Yan had not changed his Korean ID ever since Fist sent it to him.
Lin Yan suddenly felt that it wasn't very nice. Since he had a lot of points in his account, he might as well change his name.
He interacted with the bullet screen to seek their opinions.
However, Lin Yan soon realized that he had underestimated the ability of the bullet screen to cause trouble.
Some people said that he should change it to Wuhu Airline, while others said that he should change it to Lbwnb. There were even people who wanted him to use the competition name YMRan.
Lin Yan immediately rejected the third suggestion. After the wedding, why would he go to the Korean server with such an ID? Was he afraid that the actors would not mess with him?
He began to type furiously on the keyboard.
danshaFaker
The system notified him that he could use it. Lin Yan paid the points and restarted the app.
The bullet screen was filled with question marks.
"Let's set a small goal. Let's see if I can solo kill Faker this week." Lin Yan began to make up for the show's effect.
"If you can solo kill Faker, I'll go eat sh * t."
"Did you become arrogant after winning the LPL championship?
I'm afraid you can't even beat the third seed of LCK. "
"I'm afraid you can't do that. There are probably three Korean teams in the top four this year. Can YM make it to the top four?"
"Whether or not they can make it to the top four depends on EDG. As long as it's the top eight, won't our internal battle be guaranteed a spot in the top four?"
Lin Yan was just joking. He didn't expect the bullet screen to react so strongly.
After improving his abilities, Lin Yan realized that his efficiency in gaining points was getting higher and higher. He gained 150 points in a day. His efficiency was amazing. He was already in the top ten of the Korean server.
The high points brought about a longer ranking time. This was exactly what Lin Yan wanted. He continued to laze around in his chair and played with Phyllostachys Pubescens in Weihai.
He was supposed to get off work at 6 pm and go for dinner. He didn't expect to enter another game.
Lin Yan glanced at his own ID — Anti-Bully Tips. He could see the ID of his summoner in the Korean server's BP interface.
He realized that it was another pair of old acquaintances. The top laner was Theshy-, and the jungler was 4opa.
The latter was obviously Dopa. It was as if he was afraid that the Korean Professional eSports Association wouldn't recognize him. He insisted on using such an ID to get his account banned.
"Ghosts won't win easily with this lineup?"
"Who's on the other side?
Is there anyone watching the livestream in another room? "
"The livestream in the livestream has to be delayed. It's much slower than Ranbo."
Lin Yan felt that he could lie down in this game. The two junglers were perennial players with thousands of points in the Korean server. Gaining points was like drinking water to them. They could win easily.
He chose Vampire and prepared to farm until the team battle.
When the game was loaded, the viewers in the livestream finally saw the opponent's ID. Hideonbush was particularly eye-catching.
"Did he really meet Faker?
This game is worth watching. You guys hurry up and play. I'll post a thread. I'll level up by tonight. "
Some viewers who liked to watch the Korean server's OB quickly recognized the other IDs.
"Jungler Little Peanut, top laner Smeb?
Korean Server All-Stars? "
Little Peanut and Smeb were the junglers of this year's LCK Summer Championship ROXTiger. This team was in the limelight and was known as the most popular team to win S6. As superstars, Little Peanut and Smeb were naturally strong.
The lineups of both sides were as follows.
Lin Yan was on the blue side: top laner Ruiwen, jungler Blind Monk, mid laner Vampire, bottom laner Lu Jin, and Tam.
Faker was on the red side: top laner Kenji, jungler Spider, mid laner Sindra, bottom laner Ice, and Boulogne.
Both junglers were obviously in a duo. This kind of tightrope hero was fighting in the early stages. The winner would take all, and the loser would develop in stealth.
Lin Yan brought Storm Paladin's Surge and Ignite. When he saw the opponent's ID, he straightened up and prepared to play seriously.
"Today, I'll show you what a Dansha Faker is," Lin Ran said in a serious tone.
Dopa, who had just started the livestream, was a little annoyed when she saw the two IDs.
"Ah, it should be a mid laner …" Dopa was still in her black pajamas. She took out a ruler and began to measure the distance on the monitor.
Lin Yan hesitated for a while and suppressed his desire to buy Doran's shield. As usual, he went out with Killer's Ring and Reuse Potion.
Sindra and Boulogne were on the other side. Their first-tier team was quite strong. They only left after invading the jungle and setting up their vision in the red zone.
In this way, Dopa and Blind Monk's early game movements were basically guessed by their opponents.
After Lin Yan went online, he went head-to-head with Sindra. The Korean server's Blood Overlord was very pure, and the visual effects were much better than the Chinese server's emasculated version.
Lin Yan went forward and acted as a normal attacker. Faker placed a Q [Shadow Ball] under his feet.
Lin Yan had used this move countless times. When he saw the Shadow Ball under his feet, he immediately canceled his normal attack and moved back to avoid the skill.
Then, he took advantage of Sindra's vacuum to go up and swap.
Faker didn't dodge at all and used a normal attack on Vampire. Lin Yan used AQ [Blood Conversion] and retreated.
This swap was a huge win.
However, Lin Yan's originally tense nerves relaxed.
Faker didn't play seriously at all.
Perhaps it was because he had just changed his ID, so Faker thought that Lin Yan was his fan. Or maybe it was because he didn't recognize Lin Yan's ID and thought that he was just a random player.
Faker's playstyle was very casual.
Lin Yan wasn't too happy.
"This is boring. He's not playing seriously either," Lin Yan mumbled unhappily.
"You're acting all high and mighty after winning one round?"
"If you're so good, why don't you solo kill him first?
What are you calling yourself now?
Do you think you're invincible after winning the LPL championship? "
These comments were mixed in with the rest of the mocking comments.
The moderator "Lin Yan is not allowed to drink cola" took action. A large group of brainless people were sent to the mute list.
Lin Yan was in the middle of a match. The base didn't have a dual-screen computer for him to stream. At this time, he didn't even notice the rhythm of the comments in the stream.
Three minutes and ten seconds later, a clash broke out in the top lane.
The Sh's Raven had used the cooldown of her Broken Wings Dance to successfully kill Smeb, and then Little Peanut had taken her head. Dopa's Blind Monk had rushed over shortly after, and with a combo and two basic attacks from Eye, he had taken Little Peanut's life, before flashing out of the tower with a sliver of HP.
Both sides were still calmly finishing off the bottom lane. They were clearly waiting for their big brother Nakano to carry.
Lin Yan continued to swap out frequently. His positioning was quite exquisite as he repeatedly dodged Sindra's Q skills. At level 4, he even started to go up and use E Tide of Blood to swap out health.
Faker, who had just finished the summer competition and wanted to play two rounds of ranked matches to relax, finally got serious.
He realized that his opponent wasn't a pushover.
But it was already too late. Lin Yan had already used the two reusable potions on him to swap out all of Sindra's supplies and had even taken him down to half his HP.
Lin Yan wasn't going to let him off and continued to press forward.
To be fair, Sindra didn't have a huge advantage against Vampire, and could only deal a small amount of last hits and buffs. However, Lin Yan completely reversed this situation.
Faker looked at his 25 last hits and felt a little uncomfortable.
Lin Yan saved up a strengthened Q with the Scarlet Dash effect and stood in front of the minions, allowing Faker to successfully miss the Cannon Cart with only a sliver of HP left.
At that moment, the top lane was fighting again. The Sh's killing intent was everywhere, and he didn't give Smeb any face. Raven entered the tower and killed him, using Flash to dodge Kenji's W Laurent's Heart's Eye Blade and using E Forward Bravely to successfully escape the tower's range.
Little Peanut also went to the bottom lane to cooperate with Boulogne and successfully killed Tam.
It looked like it was a one for one trade, but anyone with a discerning eye could tell that Smeb was about to collapse. Once again at 0-2, he simply couldn't beat Raven, who had two kills.
The biggest characteristic of the top lane against non-tank characters was that they had an extremely strong ability to snowball. If you died twice, the top lane wouldn't be able to continue the standoff, and could only wait at the bottom of the tower.
If the other side happened to be long-ranged against short-ranged, high-tech against cold weapons … then they wouldn't even be able to stay at the bottom of the tower, and would only be left with calling for junglers.
Lin Yan knew that he didn't have much time left. He had previously said that he would solo kill Faker once, and this had to happen.
He started to move more and more aggressively, and even wanted to force Faker out of the experience zone.
Faker was very unhappy, but when he looked at his remaining 400 HP, he could only retreat to the bottom of the tower and send out a request for help.
Lin Ran used his normal attacks to take out two of the minions, increasing his advantage of having more reinforcements to ten strikes.
He suddenly saw Faker move forward and take a mouthful of blood. The Scarlet Charge energy at the bottom of his HP bar was about to evolve from yellow to red.
But below him, the eight-legged Spider Queen had already emerged from the grass!
Lin Yan sent out a signal as he moved up, wanting his teammates to provide support.
But Dopa looked at the distance and decided to give up. He threw Heavenly Sound Wave at the crater, wanting to take the opportunity to steal the crater.
At that moment, Raven, who was on the top lane, started to fight again.
Lin Yan ran for two seconds and saw that his teammates weren't paying attention to him at all.
He realized that he was currently isolated and helpless. Spiders were definitely much faster than Vampire, and it was very difficult for him to run into the jungle, so he simply tried to turn around and fight back.
He pressed EW at the same time, and the vampire turned into a real pool of blood. However, he was still a distance away from Faker, and this E [Tide of Blood] didn't seem to be able to reach Sindera's body.
Little Peanut set up W Self-Destructing Spider, and then prepared E Spiderweb in his hand.
Faker also used W Force of Mind to pinch a magic ball, ready to press down on WE to stun Lin Yan.
Just as E [Tide of Blood] was about to explode, Lin Ran, who was in his Blood Pool state, suddenly flashed forward!
He passed by the Spider Queen, who was right in front of his face!
The explosion of Tide of Blood hung over Sindra, the Spider Queen and the long-range soldier at the same time!
The low-HP soldier turned into gold coins and flowed into Lin Yan's pocket.
Then, a whirlpool of light surrounded Vampire's body!
Vampire had risen to level 5!
Lin Yan didn't give up as he continued to press the keyboard.
E [Tide of Blood] took 1.5 seconds to charge up, while W [Crimson Pool] lasted for 2 seconds.
The remaining 0.5 seconds would be his operating time!
Ignite hung over Sindra's body!
The moment Faker saw Vampire emerge from the pool of blood, he dropped the magic ball in his hand and prepared to use E Scatter to stun Vampire.
The moment Vampire's head popped out of the pool of blood, Little Peanut flashed and threw a spiderweb right in his face.
Lin Yan's fingers didn't stop pressing the Q key, and the keyboard made a crisp sound.
The moment the pool of blood rose, the spider's spiderweb pounced over, but Lin Yan's Scarlet Dash Q was the first to make a move.
His HP had dropped more than Faker had expected!
He hurriedly used Flash to escape, even forgetting to use Ignite.
Little Peanut's spiderweb hit Lin Yan, and he turned into a spider and tore wildly at Vampire, who only had 60% of his HP left.
But Lin Yan's damage was fully unleashed, and he successfully triggered Storm Knight's Frenzy. With the boost to his movement speed, he fled into the tower in a panic.
The spider, who didn't use Flash, wanted to fly closer to Vampire and continue to attack.
But he only took two bites before Lin Yan fled to the bottom of the tower with a sliver of HP left!
On the other side, Faker, who had used Flash, saw the last second of Ignite burn him to death!
Faker unwillingly opened the death panel. In his opinion, even if Red Q had made a move, it wouldn't have been enough to kill Vampire.
He saw that Ignite had done close to 144 points of true damage, and Vampire's Q [Blood Conversion] had done more than 30 points more damage than he had expected.
Li Xianghe scratched his head helplessly, knowing that he had been tricked.
In the short 0.5 seconds that Vampire had leveled up to level 5, he had leveled up to level 3 Q, and then used Ignite and Q skills in succession.
The increased damage from level 5 Ignite and level 3 Q made Faker miscalculate his HP.
(For every level up, Ignite damage increases by 20. Vampire's level 3 Q does 20 more base damage than level 2 Q, and Scarlet Dash doubles the damage by 40 points.)
His hand speed and reaction on the spot were amazing.
Li Xianghe glanced at Vampire's name opposite him. There was a string of letters in front, followed by his own tournament ID.
Suspicions arose in his heart. Were these really his fans?
Was he messing with his own mentality?
Lin Yan returned to the city, and began to interact with the bullet screen.
"I told you that I could kill Faker alone, but you didn't believe me. What do you say now?"
The bullet screen exploded.
"He really solo-killed him?
How is this Vampire's damage so high? "
"I didn't solo-kill him, I only fought against two and killed Faker."
"I think Ran Bao wanted to run at first, but his teammates probably didn't care about him, so he was forced to kill Faker."
The top laner, The Shy, completed another solo-kill. Smeb didn't seem to care about this round's ranking. He went online to fight Raven, and didn't even look at his equipment.
In comparison, Dopa was an iron slave. This person always used the most suitable method to get points. He wouldn't kill unless it was a sure-kill, and in the middle and late game, he would use his understanding of the game to toy with his opponents.
Raven, who had no antidote, Blind Slave, and Vampire, who had just completed a solo-kill.
There was no suspense in this game.
At 21 minutes, The Shy's super godly Raven teleported to the back, and then entered the battlefield with an R Cast Broken Blade. Together with Lin Yan's Blood Plague and Ember's four long-range shots, the battlefield was completely cleaned up.
The opponent immediately surrendered, and with 4 votes, the Crystal exploded and turned into dust.
Lin Yan immediately felt bored. He knew that Faker hadn't played seriously. Although he had completed a 1v2, it didn't mean much to a professional player like him.
He thanked the wave of gifts, and only when he saw that his score had reached seventh place on the Korean server did he leave the stream in satisfaction.