In mid-July, the fifth week of LCK games begins.
DWG defeated DYN 2:0 on the first match day, and the number of wins reached the same 8 games as KT.
The next day, KT easily defeated their mortal enemy T1 2:0 in the fourth news agency war of the year, giving their opponents two consecutive losses and completing a sweep of all opponents in the first round.
Just like a racing match, one day later, in the second round of the fifth week, DWG easily defeated AFS 2:0, once again reaching the same victory level as KT.
But KT's backhand was another 2:0 victory over the sandbox, completing a double kill against the sandbox in the summer split and ruthlessly rejecting DWG's approach.
The two teams competed fiercely, and for a while they were both in the limelight.
However, T1, who had just lost the telecommunications war, was in a miserable state. They then lost to DYN 0:2.
You know, before facing KT, T1 had already lost to DYN once. After entering the second round and being beaten twice by their opponent, T1 experienced three consecutive losses for the first time this season.
What's even worse is that after the DYN war came the news agency war.
Although many T1 fans are cursing the LCK schedule for being cheating, it is foreseeable that T1's four-game losing streak is just around the corner.
You can't even beat the newly promoted team DYN, how can you beat KT with such a stupid performance?
The team's performance during this period was hardly satisfactory, and the one who bore the brunt of the blame for T1 was Brother Li in the middle.
Faker's status in the summer split is indeed very unstable, with highlights and mistakes, but mistakes are often magnified.
In addition, it is difficult to gain an advantage in the early stage of T1 this year, so we can only postpone the team battle in the later stage. In this case, a key mistake will often lose key resources such as the Baron.
Therefore, the scene of Brother Li getting lost and being caught and ruining the game will hurt the hearts of some fans.
When Lin Cheng was huddled at home and live broadcasting on the weekend, he was asked by fans in the live broadcast room what he thought about Li Ge's replacement.
At that time, he was stunned, "Who said Brother Li will be a substitute?"
It turns out that the lineup for T1's internal training match was revealed by fans two days ago.
Many people have discovered that Faker is now ranking alone while the team is playing training matches, while none of his teammates are online. Also disappearing is T1's youth training mid laner Clozer.
In other words, Faker was excluded from the training match lineup.
You know, Clozer is not yet the age required by the LCK to debut.
Clozer, who will only turn 17 at the end of the month, will not be able to play in the game at least this month, and this month T1 still has a telecom battle with KT.
Even though everyone knows that T1's current winning rate against KT is less than 20%, but you don't let Faker play in the training matches in advance, what does it mean to still let him play in the game?
Although there is no clear arrangement within the team, viewers who have experienced S8 have already guessed that Faker may usher in another substitute in his career.
After figuring out the whole story, Lin Cheng said: "I can't say anything about other clubs. Let's see the effect of the substitution. If their new mid laner is really capable, there's nothing much to say."
While remaining neutral, Lin Cheng ran to the Korean forum to take a look.
As a result, there has been quite a buzz on the Korean Net.
"Faker's condition is so bad! He is no longer the LCK first-line mid laner."
"Too many mistakes! Almost all the games we lost had major mistakes by Faker. He should make adjustments after leaving the game."
"Faker is old! He should make way for young people."
"I used to laugh at him that he wouldn't know how to play games when he met Faker, but I didn't expect that Faker would make more money now."
"Obviously he is two years older, why is Faker in worse condition now?"
"Faker is just too hard on himself, he should be more relaxed."
In addition to the trouble caused by KT fans and fans of other teams, a large part of these voices come from within T1 fans.
There are voices criticizing Faker's performance, and naturally there are voices coming out to defend him.
"Why should we blame Faker? Each of these teammates is more outrageous than the last."
"Pants Ro also makes a lot of mistakes, but his teammates can tell the truth. Are all Faker's teammates just rotten fish?"
"He just wanted to find a chance to win the game. You can't blame him if he gets caught."
"Cuzz is like a clown in the jungle, Effort keeps getting lost, and Teddy directs the brush. They are the cancer."
"Without Faker, we can only watch four clowns perform."
"Without Faker, will anyone still pay attention to this team?"
Like many well-known players, Li Ge has the same problem, but that doesn't mean his fans are humble.
Fans did help him win many fights as Brother Li said, but it was hard for Brother Li to predict that his fans would target the team after winning external arguments.
Many of Li's former and current teammates have been attacked by Li's fans, and even Kka has been insulted by Li's fans.
This led to constant conflicts between T1 fans and Li Gewei fans, and they often started to fight online.
It's the same this time, because the speculation that Brother Li will be a substitute has caused team fans and Wei fans to start fighting again.
During this period, T1's poor performance inherently caused problems for the entire team, but the fans wanted to find someone to take the blame. Team fans pushed Brother Li to take the blame, and fans of Brother Li blamed his teammates.
The two sides tried to reason at first, but then started to exchange polite and easy-going greetings.
Although the T1 club did not express its attitude, it released a collection of Clozer's operations on its official social account, which made the meaning quite obvious.
T1 fans have expressed that they are already looking forward to the performance of the talented mid laner Clozer.
Fans of Brother Li immediately came over to disrupt the scene and posted a clip of Clozer being beaten up by a group of LCK players in RANK.
Although Lin Cheng is not a mid-lane player, it is Lin Cheng who beats Clozer the most times in these highlights.
Because Clozer is very stubborn and likes to operate, and he always plays heroes like Sword Girl, Akali, and Sylas who need to lead the lane in the mid-to-late stage, so every time he encounters Lin Cheng, he has to be blocked on the wing.
Lin Cheng operates.
Lin Cheng happily liked this video because he was eating it himself.
It's not that he is on the side of Brother Li's fans, he just simply thinks that his action of beating Clozer is very cool.
In fact, in the final analysis, the main reason for this incident is that T1 has played too poorly recently.
If the record is good, T1 fans will naturally not want to make substitutions, they don't care who plays.
But now that the record is ugly, T1 fans want the team to change, and Li Ge, who is always in the spotlight, is naturally the first to bear the brunt.
Fans of Brother Li are eager for Clozer's team to explode and T1 to dive directly to the bottom, allowing them to recognize who is the core of T1.
At this time, the relationship between the two parties became even worse.
It's hard for Lin Cheng to comment on this situation. We can only see how Clozer performed when he came on the field.
He can just sit back and take a look at the talent of the talented mid laner Clozer.
Seeing that there are actually T1 fans dragging Lin Cheng out for comparison, hoping that Clozer can be as strong as Lin Cheng, Lin Cheng said hehe in the live broadcast room.
Geniuses like Brother Cheng are rare to see in a century. Does T1 really think that they are e-sports Huangpu? Just pick someone out and they will be like Wolong and Phoenix?
Since the matter had nothing to do with him, Lin Cheng was still a little bit embarrassed.
God also ages.
If one day my condition declines, will I encounter the same scene?
Of course, Brother Li will not necessarily be a substitute.
If Brother Li regains his strength and leads T1 to end KT's winning streak at the end of the month, there will definitely be no reason to be replaced.
But now T1 takes the lead and beats KT?
Unless Lin Cheng commits a crazy crime, not only KT will not know how to lose.
However, Lin Cheng originally discussed with Panro the tactic of switching lanes from mid to top, and at least it was not planned to be used in the next game.
If he switches to the middle and beats Brother Li, sending him to the bench, he must not be beaten to death by Faker fans, right?