PUDs ADC laughed and said in their team voice chat, I can hear the audiences screams even through my headphones.

No kidding, even I want to shout. XIU scoffed good-naturedly, The hell, its my birthday today, do we really have to free his Lee Sin so he can come screw me?

Savior said, Coach said, practice team comp.

Hes not that godly. PUDs coach was Korean, and he was currently pacing around behind them. Over on our side, everyone knows how to play this champion, and some arent worse than Road. During the World Championships, I cant possibly ban Lee Sin every single match, we have to try and overcome it. Whats more, it doesnt matter if we lose either.

Aside from the fact that this was only a regular season match, they had also already accumulated enough points to solidly enter the playoffs.

Even if they really did end up losing this round, the match was a BO3 setup, so they would still have an opportunity in the next game.

The two commentators were still in a state of shock.

Meanwhile, the barrage had been spamming for a long time

[Free win, congrats TTC]

[Congrats TTC]

[Congrats TTC]

[They only let out a Lee Sin, thats all, its not that big of a deal. You all make it seem like TTCs win is set in stone with Lee Sin.]

[Fun fact: in last years spring season and the summer season before that, Roads Lee Sin had a 100% win rate.]

[Actually, that champions been heavily banned for a while now. If you add it up, hes only played Lee Sin five or six times]

[Fans, stop hyping him up, or else how embarrassing is it gonna be for you if he loses.]

[Wont say anything else, congrats TTC]

Yuan Qian was the first to pick his champion in this round. When he saw the ban list, he was startled. What is PUD doing?

Xiao Bai furiously added fuel to the fire. Im saying it like it is: freeing Lee Sin is equivalent to looking down on my ge.

For once, Jian Rong agreed with Xiao Bai.

As another coach, Ding-ge could tell what the other side was thinking right away, and he laughed in spite of himself. Are they treating this regular season match as a practice match?

Pine said, In any case, theyre guaranteed to enter the playoffs, so theyll play however they want.

Then what do we do? Yuan Qian was at a loss. Should we still take Lee Sin? What if they have some new strategy that targets Captain

Ding-ge shot Lu Boyuan a look. Ask him.

Lu Boyuan said, Take it.

His expression was indifferent, and he didnt actually seem all that happy about his signature champion being freed. As he adjusted his runes, he said, Just for fun.

Yuan Qian instantly locked in Lee Sin.

After that, it was as if it didnt matter at all what champions the other players picked anymore. The commentators continued to emphasize and revolve around Lu Boyuans Lee Sin.

Until PUDs entire team composition was revealed.

Commentator A said, PUD chose KhaZix jungle, Azir mid, and Alistar support logically speaking, these three champions are quite effective at restraining Lee Sin.

Thats true. Alistars knockup and Azirs ult can both block Lee Sins dash. KhaZix is also relatively agile and can easily avoid attacks. Commentator B paused. But as for whether or not theyll be able to restrain Lee Sin, well only know after the game begins.

The game officially started.

Lu Boyuan walked out of the base, wearing his own championship skin.

The broadcast director was very competent, and he repeatedly switched the viewpoint back over to Lee Sin.

Right off the bat, Commentator A said, The way God Lu aggroed this monster is top-tier, his micro-movements are incredible learn from him, everyone should learn from him.

Commentator B nodded approvingly. Even the way he walks seems to be somewhat different from other Lee Sins.

The commentators could praise anything.

The players POV was available to watch on the broadcast. During each game, only one players screen from each team would be selected for the audience to watch.

In this round, TTCs POV was naturally given to Road.

The moment the game began, the number of people in the POV stream frantically exploded

[Its been ten years! Roads Lee Sin TAT!!]

[Dont be so dramatic, he just played Lee Sin last time he duo Qd with Soft]

[Can Softs fans not stick to my husband all the time?!]

[Like you have the final say in whether we stick to him or not? Who do you think you are? Your husband went to check on my sons room at two AM in the middle of the night, do you know about that??]

[Well, Im not like that, Ive even started shipping my husband and Soft together.]

[Wait a second, hasnt anyone else realized that theres something wrong, with God Lus viewpoint]

[Hahahahahaha God Lu why do you keep looking at the mid lane??]

[When I came in here, I almost thought that I was watching Softs POV.]

A great deal of players all believed that jungler was the hardest role to play, because not only did this role require good mechanics, it also required a certain amount of awareness.

The jungler had to predict what monsters the enemy jungler was killing and which lane would be ganked in the next wave, so that they could lie in wait at that lane ahead of time and counterattack. Junglers also needed to constantly pay attention to what was going on in their teammates lanes in order to provide assistance and gank at a moments notice.

Lu Boyuans camera switched once again to the mid lane, just in time to spot Jian Rong trade a few blows back and forth with Savior, successfully consuming a bit of Saviors health. After gaining the advantage, Jian Rong didnt forget to proficiently flash TTCs team logo.

[Twenty seconds earlier, Softs dancing, twenty seconds later, Softs flashing his logo]

[If this dumbass isnt acting like a prick, then hes on his way to acting like a prick]

[Its basically at the point where Road glances at the other lanes once while checking on Soft eight times.]

[Poor XIU, the Rift Scuttler that he painstakingly fought for quite a while was taken away by a single Q from God Lu]

It was true that Lu Boyuan kept checking on the mid lane.

In the last game, he was always either at the top or bot lane. This time around, no matter what, he had to pay some attention to their mid laner.

XIUs Rift Scuttler was stolen, and he turned around, wanting to give chase. But after he ate Lee Sins Q, he calculated Lu Boyuans current damage before deciding not to pursue him in the end.

Yet at that moment, Lee Sin abruptly stopped, and then flashed their team logo at him.

XIU:

Heavens, they were all getting corrupted by Soft.

At level 7, when Lu Boyuan saw XIU appear at the bot lane, he circled around to the bush behind Savior. Jian Rong, get ready to pick a card.

Jian Rong was playing Twisted Fate, which had a skill that allowed him to cycle through three different colored cards. The blue card restored mana, the red card slowed enemies, and the yellow card stunned the target.

Jian Rong immediately said, Hes got no flash, has his ult.

Lu Boyuan said, We can kill him.

If Lu Boyuan said they could, then they could. Jian Rong promptly cooperated and pressed forward.

Savior was also on alert, and when he noticed that Jian Rongs positioning was unusual, he quickly sought help from XIU in their voice chat before rapidly withdrawing back towards his tower.

Upon seeing Lee Sin appear next to him, he instantly used a movement skill to shift away. Unexpectedly, the second he landed on the ground, Lee Sins Q accurately smashed onto his body.

Saviors action just then was a little rushed, which allowed Lu Boyuan to predict where he was going to move to.

Savior reacted very fast. When Lu Boyuan followed up with the second part of his Q, Savior directly tossed out his ult, interrupting Lu Boyuan midair and pushing him some distance back.

The commentators had long since noticed that Lu Boyuan wanted to tower dive and gank Savior. One commentator frowned and analyzed, They cant tower dive here, right? At level 7, two people going to dive Azir isnt actually very rational see, he was knocked back

Before the commentator could finish his sentence, he saw Lee Sin place a ward behind Savior the second before he was knocked back.

Lu Boyuan had already anticipated that he was going to be pushed away, and he immediately used his W skill to dash to the ward. He flashed, rushing over to Savior, and used his roundhouse kick ultpropelling Savior over to Jian Rong.

Right away, Jian Rong cycled to the yellow card, a stun. With a Q plus Ignite, and then two auto attacks, he cleanly finished off Savior.

Lu Boyuans entire chain of skills just now took less than two seconds to complete.

This Commentator A said, Wasnt that wave way too meticulous?? When did he place that ward? Did you see it?

Commentator B shook his head. I think I did, but Im not too sure. Lets wait until they show the kill replay.

A minute and a half later, Lu Boyuans ult went off cooldown, and he snuck into XIUs jungle straightaway, precisely camping XIU in the bushes next to the red buff.

XIUs health wasnt too great. Sensing danger, he wavered at the side for a moment and didnt go right for the buff.

Commentator A: Actually, this is a bit risky. With how agile KhaZix is, itll be very hard for Lee Sin to sweep him away if his Q misses

As he spoke, he saw Lu Boyuan emerge with a ward hop. XIU swiftly leaped and hid in Lu Boyuans blind spot, evidently also wanting to dodge that Q before engaging with him.

Lu Boyuan didnt even blink. He fired his Q behind a wall that he had no vision of whatsoever, accurately landed the skill, and followed up with his second Q, dealing out the limits of his damage. With one final roundhouse kick ult, he knocked XIU back into Savior. As both of them flew into the air, he used his Q again and killed off XIU before ward hopping and escaping right in front of Saviors eyes.

Commentator A very naturally finished what he was saying earlier. of course, for God Lu, thats not a worry at all.

Commentator B:

After completing that wave, Lu Boyuan recalled to base and bought more items as a kill announcement came from the bot lane.

Xiao Bais Thresh directly flashed and followed up with an E and R, slowing and trapping the enemy ADC. Pine teleported over via Xiao Bais lantern and instantly crushed the opposing teams ADC with his Aphelios.

Nice! Xiao Bai pinched his voice higher. Song-gege1 is super amazing, mwah mwah!

Pine missed a minion, and his face immediately darkened. Youre not getting any more heals in this game.

With the bot lane at a major advantage, Lu Boyuan headed straight for the mid lane. He said to Jian Rong, After we gank this wave, lets go to the top lane.

He spoke as if they had already sent Savior back to respawn at the base.

Jian Rong didnt even think about it. Okay.

The other three people in the team went quiet for a second.

Most likely because Lu Boyuan had become significantly more low-key and restrained in the past few years, they had all forgotten that Lu Boyuan was also once a chuunibyou youth who would directly declare the enemys death in the team voice chat.

Recently, due to the addition of their teams new mid laner, that sort of temperament seemed to be making a reappearance.

Savior was indeed very good at farming. Even though he had been ganked by Lu Boyuan once already, he still had more than a dozen minions under his belt compared to Jian Rong.

As a result, Lu Boyuan made a trip over again.

Savior was as cautious as ever. Unfortunately, the one he encountered was Lu Boyuans Lee Sin.

Lu Boyuans hand speed was too fast, and his mechanics were systematic and methodical. Savior was kicked over to Jian Rong yet again.

Lu Boyuan had a skill that was off cooldown, but he didnt use it. Instead, he gave the kill to Jian Rong.

He keeps staying in front of me Savior clenched his teeth. My flash is gone, XIU, can you come help me?

The icon belonging to Twisted Fates ult appeared over 98ks head. Their mid laner is coming to gank me, I can run Im gone, Road is here too. XIU, go for the drake.

[Roads Lee Sin is so agile that laozi cant even tell how Savior died the last couple times]

[This game is probably gonna become Roads Lee Sins swan song, R.I.P]

[Thank you benefactor PUD for allowing me to witness Roads Lee Sin, thank you thank you!]

[Road keeps giving kills to the dumbass, shipping it~]

[Theres nothing wrong with giving kills to the mid laner, dont fantasize. However Im also shipping it, thank you thank you!]

PUD was at too great of a disadvantage. They were obviously trying to drag the game out to the late game, as they never actively engaged any team fights.

But it wasnt up to them whether or not they were going to team fight.

Twenty-six minutes in, Lu Boyuan circled around behind them. With a ward hop, flash, and roundhouse kick, he knocked back three of PUDs members before he directly killed off four of them, skyrocketing the games rhythm.

Twenty-seven minutes in, TTC decisively went for Baron. PUDs only remaining survivor, XIU, crept around the bushes behind the pit, wanting to find a chance to steal Baron.

The instant KhaZix jumped down, Lu Boyuans ult just happened to get off cooldown. He mercilessly kicked XIU out of the pit, and after taking care of Baron, he ward hopped and hit XIU with his Q, immediately finishing him off with a wave of damage.

Lu Boyuan recalled to base while standing atop XIUs corpse. Lee Sin poured a cup of tea into the championship trophy before he leisurely tilted his head back and took a sip.

[No way no way, there are still people who want to try stealing Baron from God Lu?!]

[Always gotta give a shot, you never know?]

[Hahahahaha its like God Lu is wishing XIU a happy birthday]

[Everyone quick, go look at the match broadcast, XIU was so mad he started laughing hahahahahaha]

Thirty minutes into the game, TTC forcefully advanced. Originally, they were planning to end the game in one wave, but Savior stepped forward at a critical moment. Azir, whose creep score was quite impressive, jabbed twice and oneshotted Pine and Yuan Qian, who had slipped up in their positioning. After TTC pushed two inhibitors, they temporarily retreated.

Thirty-three minutes in, PUDs ADC was left on his own, and he was caught and killed by Yuan Qian. Once again, TTC pressed forward in PUDs mid lane.

PUD was already at a disadvantage, and after they lost their ADC, they basically didnt have any ability to counterattack; they had no choice but to try and guard their Nexus turrets. Xiao Bai flashed and hooked onto Savior, with Jian Rongs yellow card following close after. Lu Boyuan immediately ward hopped and kicked 98ksimultaneously launching Savior, who was standing at an angle behind 98k. The three CCs created an optimal amount of time for Pine to deal damage.

Twenty seconds later, Jian Rong dealt the finishing blow to PUDs Nexus.

TTC beautifully won the second round of the match, bringing the score to 1:1.

The players went off stage, and the commentators started analyzing the odds of victory or defeat in the third round.

Commentator A said, Regardless of what PUD was thinking in the last game, theres no way theyll free Roads Lee Sin again. For the third game I feel like PUD is probably a bit more likely to win.

Commentator B asked, Are you suggesting that Road cant win unless he plays Lee Sin?!

Dont you put words in my mouth! Commentator A scolded amiably. God Lus individual strength is excellent. Actually, none of TTCs current members are weak, but how to say this, its obvious that TTCs teamwork as a whole isnt good enoughespecially the teamwork between the mid laner and the rest of the lanes. Although PUDs mid laner is also a new member, Savior is fundamentally a team fight-type player. He thoroughly understands what he should be doing at every moment, while Soft is clearly a bit weaker in this regard. For example, in the first game, Savior was always the one taking initiative to gank, whereas Soft only ran over to provide assistance afterwards. Like this, no matter how threatening you are on your own, you will rarely ever be able to effectively display your strength.

Instantly, Xiao Bai whipped his head around, wanting to see their mid laner get pissed. Instead, he was met with the sight of their mid laner sitting with his legs slightly spread apart and his elbows propped on top of his knees. Jian Rong wasnt even looking at the TV screen.

Whatcha thinking about? Xiao Bai felt like something was wrong, and he knocked gently against Jian Rongs shoulder. How come you arent saying anything?

Sensing Lu Boyuan look over, Jian Rong swiftly pressed his lips together before he lifted his head and said, Its nothing, I was just wondering why I didnt play Yasuo in that last game.

Xiao Bai said, Im begging you, its enough suffering seeing that blasted thing show up in ranked games. Promise me, dont let him contaminate the high and mighty LPL stadium too, okay?

Jian Rong asked coolly, You think that your old man Zilean doesnt contaminate the stadium? Does your keyboard even have a Q?

Xiao Bai:

Jian Rong stood up and tossed behind him, Going to the bathroom, be back soon.

Lu Boyuan furrowed his brows slightly. Right as he was about to call out to him, Ding-ge suddenly turned around and said that he wanted to discuss the third games team composition with him.

Not long after Jian Rong walked out of the break room, he couldnt help but reach out and brace himself against the wall.

His shoulders hunched forward faintly. After he walked into the bathroom, he immediately bent over and started to dry-heave.

But he hadnt really eaten anything, so nothing came out as he tried to throw up.

With a creak, the door to the bathroom stall opened behind him. When the person who exited the stall saw the familiar team uniform in front of him, he was startled at first before he blurted out, Oh shit.

Jian Rong weakly tilted his head and peered over, meeting the gaze of Squids Doufu.

Squid had just lost 1:2 to MFG. There were a lot of highlights in the showdown between TTC and PUD, so Squid had chosen to stay behind and watch live at the stadium.

At that moment, Jian Rong didnt have any energy to argue with someone, and he probably couldnt beat him in a fight either. He contemplated for two seconds before he decided to treat the person behind him as a fart and paid no more attention to him.

Doufu was given a fright by Jian Rongs deathly pale face. He asked without thinking, Whats wrong with you? Looks like youre about to die.

Jian Rong revived a little and casted a sidelong glance at him. He explained calmly, Not at all. The after-effects of watching your match earlier were just too great, you were so trash you made me vomit.

I cant remember if this has already come up or not lol but Song is the last character of Pines real name (Jiang Yusong). Song = pine, hence his game ID ^