novelODS 052 Five people reached the summit!
052 Five people reached the summit!
Inside CJ's base, the team that had just won the championship watched Li Zhixing chatter incessantly in the video, but their reactions were completely different from those of the KT team.
"Ah, is this Neo?" Ambition couldn't help but frown. "What an arrogant guy. How dare a secondary league team say something like that?"
"Yeah," said support player Madlife, his expression also displeased. "I remember he was the one who said OGN teams weren't strong, right?"
Having just won the championship, and with an invincible 3-0 sweep, the CJ team was brimming with pride, feeling like they were unbeatable.
When someone suddenly appears and launches a scathing critique of them, they naturally find it hard to accept.
"Anyway, they've already advanced to OGN."
Ambition chuckled, "We'll teach them a lesson in the Spring Split."
"That's true." Madlife smiled as well. "Forget about them, let's drink!"
"Cheers!" Ambition smiled broadly, planning to down the drink before going live to celebrate.
......
Before we knew it, the next day had arrived.
Although Li Zhixing has been out of school for a long time, he has maintained the daily routine of a high school student and is already getting up very early.
On the first day of the competition, all the top players will get up early to climb the ranks and compete for the first king in the entire server. Li Zhixing has nothing to do at the moment, so of course he will not miss it.
The team's cook also got up.
As soon as Li Zhixing got out of bed, he saw a message from Ma Yingdong.
Ma: [Hurry up, folks! I'm ready!]
Li Zhixing accepted the invitation with a smile and entered the queue.
Li Zhixing had promised to coach Ma Yingdong in duo queue for a while, teaching him some things step by step.
Of course, Li Zhixing won't keep guiding him to the King rank forever. He'll let go after playing a dozen or so games at most, and he'll have to figure out the most crucial path for himself.
The match footage has been covered, and I haven't been playing ranked matches much lately, so I'm running out of footage. Li Zhixing is eager to get to work and is planning to put in some serious effort today to produce some material.
But then, Ma Yingdong suddenly spoke up: "Brother, have you been browsing the INVEN forum today?"
"Hmm?" Li Zhixing raised an eyebrow and asked, "What's wrong?"
Li Zhixing would only check the forums before and after the RISE competition; he rarely did so at other times.
"You're famous! I'll show you!"
As Ma Yingdong spoke, he shared a post.
Li Zhixing clicked on the post and saw that it contained a lot of content.
These are snippets of Li Zhixing's live commentary on both sides of the finals, and Ambition's response after his subsequent live stream.
Ambition had clearly been drinking heavily; his face was flushed, and he was even speaking somewhat incoherently.
"You're asking me how I rate RISAE and Neo? What the hell are you talking about?!"
"I'm the OGN champion! You're comparing me to an NLB champion?"
"The Spring Split starts in a little over a month, so let's all look forward to it and see if RISA can beat us, hahaha..."
Li Zhixing scrolled down and saw countless comments under the post.
[If you don't understand, just ask: how did these two teams start fighting? Do they even know each other?]
[The main problem is that Neo is too arrogant. A few days ago he said that the OGN teams were not as good as RISE, and during the finals he kept nitpicking on stream, making it seem like it was true.]
[It's true! Is there anything wrong with what Neo said on his livestream? Didn't he get everything right?]
[Who can't be right with a God's-eye view and hindsight? It's all so confusing!]
[This is really funny. Does Neo think he'll never run into CJ and KT again? How dare he nitpick like this?]
Is it possible that CJ really can't beat R1SE?
[What the hell are you talking about, you little brat?]
As expected, the comments under the post were almost unanimously in support of CJ.
After all, they are the newly crowned OGN champions, riding high on their success. Even casual observers would unhesitatingly support CJ over RISE.
At that moment, Ma Yingdong's voice could still be heard: "How about it, is it exciting or not? Do you want to respond live?"
Li Zhixing pursed his lips and shook his head: "Boring."
He could certainly understand Ambiton; after all, he had just won the championship and was in a happy mood when someone poured cold water on his enthusiasm, so it was normal for him to be upset.
This is the effect Li Zhixing wanted.
When someone gets anxious, there's something to talk about, and that's when their channel gets traffic.
Once the desired traffic generation effect is achieved, there's no need to say anything more.
After all, there's overwhelming support for CJ from the outside world, so for him to go out and attack against the odds at this moment would make him look somewhat clownish...
You can't be a clown.
However, this does not mean that he is wrong.
Who's right and who's wrong will be revealed when the Spring Split begins.
......
In the following time, all six members of RISE, including the chef, were immersed in the intense ranking queue, and their scores naturally soared.
The bot lane duo of Kim Hyuk-kyu and Cho Se-hyung needs no introduction; both are incredibly aggressive and dedicated, making them the fastest-rising scorers.
In just five days since the server opened, the two of them have already reached the newly introduced King rank this season. Although they are not the first King rank players since the server opened, they are almost there.
Lee Sang-hyeok and Lee Hang-seok's mid-top duo didn't lag too far behind. Compared to the duo, they didn't have to grind as much, but they still managed to climb to the top rank.
Five days later, the scores of the four players steadily improved and advanced steadily with their high win rate, and soon all of them rushed into the top five.
Li Zhixing was right again. After their four teammates were baptized in RISE, getting into the top five in the entire server was as easy as eating and drinking for them.
In this server launch, Li Zhixing actually fell behind in the ranking competition, and has only just slowly reached the King rank.
There's no way around it, the ranked matches during this period after the server opened have been incredibly competitive. There are countless people who stay up for days on end just to climb the ranks.
Li Zhixing, on the other hand, was the opposite.
For the first three days after the server opened, I coached Ma Yingdong in duo queue, and after each ranked match, I would give him a first-person perspective recap.
The difference in talent was clearly demonstrated here; whenever Li Zhixing reviewed the game with his four teammates, they would understand immediately.
But giving Ma Yingdong a debriefing requires a lot of talking, and sometimes it can make your blood pressure spike.
In addition, I have to spend two hours every day editing videos, which results in not many ranked matches.
After nearly ten days, the number of games played was barely sixty, with a win rate of ninety percent, which is ridiculously high and unique among players in the King rank.
Winning by playing more games can only bring temporary success. To maintain his ranking in the end, he needs to rely on his win rate. When other players' score growth slows down, he will naturally climb to number one.
And indeed, within a few days, his score continued to rise steadily.
With an extremely high win rate and a high efficiency in gaining points through collisions, he overtook countless players who were ranked ahead of him, and his ranking rose like a rocket.
When it was early February, more than ten days into the season, he fought his way through the competition to reach fifth place.
On the Korean server's leaderboard, a strange phenomenon has finally appeared.
1: RISE Faker 107 games, 244 LP
2:RISE Deft 112 games, 221 LP
3:RISE Mata 117 games, 215 LP
4: RISE Looper 102 games, 209 LP
5:RISE Neo 77 games, 198 LP
The four people at the front of the line were all family members.
The five members of R1SE have completely dominated the charts!