LOL: Reborn in Season 3, Taming Lee Sang-hyeok

051 This is the best post-mortem analysis.

After the NLB game, RISE returned to his demanding training regimen.

The days spent training without matches are actually much more tiring than the days spent playing matches.

After all, playing a normal game is quite relaxing, with little pressure. You can just coast through an afternoon, and if you win, you get a day off.

But on training days, it's a full day of training.

Li Zhixing's task was even more demanding; he also had to update videos and maintain the channel's popularity.

Following RISE's victory in the NLB, many GG merchants approached them, hoping to secure a place on RISE's jerseys.

But Li Zhixing didn't think much of it and rejected them all.

RISE is currently just an NLB champion, so he's not really that popular, and his GG seat isn't worth much money.

Li Zhixing is still waiting. He will start monetizing his influence when RISE wins the OGN championship and the viewership truly skyrockets.

Before that, he had to bear the club's expenses himself.

Fortunately, he could afford it.

During this period, Li Zhixing's channel popularity has also reached a new peak.

Compared to before the start of the NLB season, Li Zhixing's fan base has increased by a whopping 50, surpassing the two million mark!

South Korea's internet traffic is incomparable to that of China in my previous life. In this small country, two million fans is already quite an impressive number.

To date, the most-viewed video on his channel is the tactical analysis video he posted on the night of the finals, which quickly surpassed one million views that night and boosted online store sales to a huge extent!

Li Zhixing even felt that this was not enough, so he finally agreed to the request of his fans and issued a notice that he would start a live broadcast on the Twitch platform on the day of the OGN finals.

Li Zhixing's fans have been waiting for him to stop streaming for a long time, so they were naturally very excited to see this live stream announcement.

But for a moment, I also had some doubts.

Why choose to broadcast on the day of the OGN finals?

They quickly understood.

Before we knew it, it was December 20th.

With only one day left until the start of Season 3, the OGN Winter Finals have officially begun.

At this moment, on his live stream screen, the two finalists—KT and CJ—were locked in a fierce battle.

The two teams in the finals are very similar in composition, both being teams that rely heavily on the mid and jungle players.

KT's Ryu and Kakao, as well as CJ's Ambition and CloudTemplar, are the core players of their respective teams and are absolute superstars in OGN.

But in Li Zhixing's words, both sides in the final seemed to be completely worthless.

"Ah, there are a lot of problems with the opening positioning on both sides. Doesn't CJ even guard against an opening invasion? KT's positioning is pretty good, they even placed defensive wards, very standard."

These words shocked countless viewers.

This is the OGN finals, are you still going to comment on whether the standards are up to par?

Li Zhixing continued to face constant criticism.

"CJ's jungle clearing speed is a bit slow, is he really a professional player?"

"Wow, this teamwork...didn't anyone anticipate the enemy's Flash?"

"Ryu isn't even going in? If I were playing Zed, I would have already solo-killed him."

Almost every so often, Li Zhixing would raise some questions about both sides of the match.

Every time a question is raised, the number of comments in his live stream increases rapidly, leading to a surge in the stream's popularity.

The more questions are raised, the higher the buzz becomes...

But longtime fans know that Li Zhixing's criticisms were not unfounded.

In his previous season commentary videos, he maintained the same style, launching indiscriminate attacks, even targeting RISE's own players, all of which were based on sound reasoning and were convincing.

At first, countless viewers didn't take it seriously, but after watching it more and more, they gradually felt like they were being brainwashed.

Could it be... that Neo is actually stronger than both finalists?

The final three games ended quickly, with Ambition's CJ ultimately prevailing, sweeping KT 3-0 to claim OGN's first championship since its inception.

But... at this moment, in Li Zhixing's live stream, under the brainwashing of the streamer, the value of this OGN championship has been greatly reduced.

Li Zhixing watched the barrage of comments in the live stream, with various discussions taking place, and felt that his hours of talking had not been in vain.

He waved at the camera and laughed, "See you tomorrow, everyone! The season updates tomorrow, and I'll be streaming my climb to rank 1 on the Korean server. Stay tuned!"

After saying that, Li Zhixing's live stream was shut down instantly, leaving countless viewers looking at each other in bewilderment.

……

The finals have ended, bringing joy to some and sorrow to others.

While the champion enjoys the accolades and honors, the runner-up endures endless pain.

The KT players, who lost the final, did not look happy.

Everyone returned to the lounge, dejected.

At that moment, KT coach Coach stood in front, his face serious:

"Do you feel ashamed? Do you want to win back in the future? If so, then stop embarrassing yourself here and start reviewing your performance!"

Reviewing a match is something every professional team does, especially after a 0-3 sweep like this, where a review is most necessary.

"But before we do the debriefing, I want you to take a look at this first."

As Coach spoke, he opened a video.

In the video, a handsome young man is reclining on the back of a chair, talking animatedly about the live broadcast of the finals.

The KT team players looked at the scene before them, and were momentarily puzzled.

Who the hell is this guy? How dare he give such a scathing critique of the OGN finals?

The coach didn't say much, but simply told the players to focus and keep watching.

Then they realized something was wrong.

"KT's jungler has a huge problem here; he shouldn't have recalled."

In the live stream, the boy's voice was clear and calm: "The enemy jungler showed up in the mid lane a minute ago, and we know he was farming from top to bottom. Our bot lane is low on health, and the enemy has a Thresh with hard crowd control. He should have gone to the bot lane to help them out."

"Unless the opposing jungler is completely incompetent, KT is bound to collapse this wave."

Upon hearing this, the KT players were slightly taken aback and couldn't help but turn their attention to their own jungler.

Jungler KaKao also looked displeased at this moment.

Because they still remember what happened afterward.

Just as the boy said, CJ's jungler went to the bottom lane and easily got two kills, changing the course of the game.

None of the team expected this scene, but the boy came up with it unexpectedly.

KT's mid laner Ryu asked, "Who is this person?"

"Neo," Coach Coach said softly.

The KT members immediately understood.

So he was Neo.

As a top OGN team, they certainly wouldn't pay attention to the secondary league.

But Neo's prowess was so great that they had heard about it to some extent.

The video is still playing.

The KT members became more and more engrossed in watching.

Li Zhixing's assessment of the battle situation might sound somewhat mystical and intimidating to the average viewer.

But to professional players, it was something truly terrifying.

Is there really someone who can make such accurate judgments about the battle situation?

For the KT team, this is the best possible post-mortem analysis.

Besides KT, there was another team that was also watching Li Zhixing's live stream replay.

It was the newly crowned champion, CJ.