Gu Xing confirmed the true identity of the opposing mid laner, and his body trembled slightly with excitement.
Currently, there are only two players in the world who have won the Double S Championship.
Faker is one of them.
Moreover, his real name is Lee Sang Hyuk. He won the M Private Championship in May this year and officially became the first player to achieve a Grand Slam in an official event. Bengi, another player who is one step away from a Grand Slam, was unable to play in the mid-season.
an honor.
It can be said that from honor to strength, Faker is now the number one player in the league!
Many players and even professional players make it their goal to fight or even kill Faker.
Gu Xing is no exception.
However, SKT rarely arranges training matches with LPL teams and has no chance.
He can only try his luck in Korean server qualifying.
Maybe the ranking practice time of the two sides is quite different, or maybe the Korean server is now dominated by professional players, and there are too many high-level players, which dilutes the probability of a collision.
Gu Xing came to the Korean server for a month and never met Lee Sang Hyuk.
This was his first encounter with Faker.
Gu Xing was very excited and turned around to share the joy with his teammates.
"Jack, come here and look, Faker is opposite me!"
Yu Wenbo pushed his feet on the floor, and the gaming chair slid over. When he saw the ID on the loading interface, he put his feet down and stared at Gu Xing's monitor intently.
"Awesome, Lao Gu!" Jack habitually boasted, "Why don't you prove yourself to Faker?"
The base is currently on vacation, and everyone has no training missions. Except for Imp and Hou Ye, who have not returned from eating out, the other players have gathered behind Gu Xing to watch the fun.
Even Hongmi and Jin Wenhyuk are no exception.
Ding Ran, who originally planned to continue to score points in the national server, was also attracted by the shouts of the crowd.
"Faker..." he sighed with emotion.
Ding Ran had heard of this legendary ID when he first came into contact with the alliance - there was really no way, the animation of the double calamity battle between Lee Sang Hyuk and Ryu was too widely circulated.
He didn't expect that the legend in the league would actually be his friend's opponent in this qualifying match!
Gu Xingche went out and took a look at the barrage in the live broadcast room.
[Guigui, you can also be an All-Star in qualifying. Your mid laner is Crown, the starter of Samsung, and Faker in the opposite lane is Captain Jack in the bottom lane]
[Jack is sitting behind Virtue, how can he still play games? Is it possible that he can shadow the clone? 】
[Isn’t Captain Jack a pirate in the Caribbean? You can get benefits in this business, and you can also play computer games]
[You guys are just fishing here, and you don’t even know Captain Jack? Member of League of Legends’ first OGN champion, Faker’s big brother]
[Faker fell to the top spot in a losing streak two weeks ago. He has only climbed up in the past two days. He won’t fall again today, right?]
"Look, everyone," Gu Xing said eagerly, "I'm going to teach Faker a lesson today!"
While joking, Summoner's Rift has arrived in the center of the screen!
He bought jungle equipment and commanded his troops to run towards the jungle at high speed.
On the way, he also chatted with Faker in the everyone's channel. Gu Xing tried his best to express his meaning in simple English so that the other party could understand.
Not only him, but his teammates and players also expressed their love for Lee Sang Hyuk on public screens...
But I don’t know if Faker blocked everyone’s channel or if he simply didn’t know him and was too lazy to talk to him. Lee Sang Hyuk didn’t talk to other players.
Upon seeing this, the barrage started to get angry. Several spectators were not afraid of the excitement and were teasing Faker because he was deliberately pretending to be aloof.
Gu Xing didn't feel embarrassed at all and quickly focused on the game.
He and his teammates circled the wild area to make sure that the opponent did not come to invade, and then ran to the stone beetle camp in the upper half to open the jungle.
There is a huge difference between the current opening arrangements in professional arenas and ranked matches.
Especially in the two aspects of changing lanes and hunting wild monsters as a duo, since the cooperation of the passers-by is not very tacit, once the operation is improper, it can easily backfire.
At that time, not only will you not be able to earn any profits, but it may also cause dissatisfaction among other teammates, which may lead to internal strife.
Therefore, in most cases, the qualifying matches follow the conventional idea of the bottom lane duo helping the jungler at the start and then going online.
Gu Xing decided to go in the opposite direction in this round.
the reason is simple.
Centaur is a typical fast four character. He must clear all the jungle areas in the first round to have enough combat effectiveness to deal with small-scale team battles.
Gu Xing's opponent in this round is the blind monk.
When the opponent reaches level three, he will have good combat strength.
Gu Xing felt that the blind monk might come to invade after Su San and give him a head-on attack before he reached level 4.
Therefore, opening the jungle in reverse is a good choice, which can effectively avoid the enemy's attack on the jungle area.
"Another advantage of starting in reverse is that you can catch waves in the middle..."
"It's okay even if our position is exposed. If we are invaded, we can replace resources by changing to wild areas. We won't lose money on wild monsters. It's a loss-free deal no matter what."
Gu Xing did not forget to teach while playing the game.
He just did what he said, and brushed all the way down from the upper half of the area. When he reached level 3, he immediately activated E [Destructive Charge] and headed straight for the middle!
"The Enchantress is more flexible. A set of skills will definitely not catch the opponent to death. Just use a skill to lower the blood volume..."
The raid seemed ordinary, but in fact Gu Xing had excellent timing.
In the current version, when a single-player character reaches level three, you have to wait until all the first three melee soldiers of the third wave of artillery soldiers are killed.
Since Enchantress's ability to push lanes in the early stage is too weak, her troop clearing efficiency is relatively low. Currently, Faker still needs two Bin experience points before he can advance to level three.
If there are no special circumstances, the first two levels of Enchantress must have learned QW.
Without E [Phantom Chain], it would be impossible for the Enchantress to stop the men and horses from getting close to each other.
All Faker could do was to quickly retreat and escape to avoid being kicked by Gu Xing in front of the opposing Crown.
He decisively handed over W [Dark Shadow] backwards, trying to distance himself.
But Gu Xing was reluctant and still wanted to step forward!
Now it was Faker's turn to be in a dilemma.
If he continues to run back, he still has to be caught up by Gu Xing - Centaur E [Destructive Charge] has a very high acceleration, and while running, the hero's basic attack range will be increased, up to 425 yards.
In comparison, the displacement of Shadow of the Shadow is simply not impressive enough.
But it is unrealistic to trigger the W skill again to return to the original place. Crown is waiting for him to come over at the point where the shadow is missing. Going back at this time will undoubtedly put him in the tiger's mouth!
As a last resort, Lee Sang Hyuk chose to continue moving into his own defense tower.
Gu Xing was not in a hurry to kick him.
He used the movement speed bonus to get close to the enchantress, and Q [Rampage] first reduced Faker's health!
With his passive [Road of Conquest], Gu Xing converted his movement speed into attack power. The enchantress, who was already fragile, went berserk once and her health bar dropped!
When the duration of Destroying Charge was about to end, he kicked Faker.
"It's just the A electric fan..." Gu Xing muttered in order to create a live show effect, connected his basic attack with Q, and scratched Lee Sang Hyuk.
He started from the stone beetle in the upper half of the field, and now he has a red buff.
The basic attack slows down to stick to Faker, and he cuts unscrupulously along the way!
Gu Xing was not afraid of the blind monk coming from the other side.
Level 2 Enchantress has used W [Dark Shadow], and the remaining Q [Malicious Seal] has very low damage and does not have the ability to retain people.
Cooperating with the blind monk can't keep him at all.
Therefore, Gu Xing highlights the idea of doing whatever he wants.
When Faker returned to the tower, his health was only 40%.
Moreover, the position of the soldier line is not very good, not to mention the missing soldier experience, and the Crown will be stuck for a while.
It can only be described as uncomfortable!
"Did you see that?" Gu Xing said with a slightly satisfied tone, "Catch a wave of mid laners along the way to lower Faker's status. This way my jungle area will be much safer."
Enchantress + Blind Monk, if you choose them, you must hit the mid-field linkage.
Gu Xing's wave of level 3 arrests directly weakened the opponent's midfielder's combat capabilities.
Nowadays, there is a big gap in the blood volume of the two mid laners. If we really want to go head-to-head, Gu Xing is not afraid.
He sent two warning signals to his team on the road to remind his teammates to be careful of the blind monk.
Gu Xing finished the lower half of his area, reached level 4, returned to the city to buy equipment, and went straight to the middle road!
He doesn't do anything fancy, he just drives up with his E [Destructive Charge] and kicks him!
This time, Lee Sang Hyuk turned around and used E [Phantom Chain] to trap him and escape calmly.
Gu Xingwu's stomach.
Before the Enchantress's cooling equipment and skill levels have been upgraded, the cooldown time of Shadow Trace is as long as more than ten seconds. Coupled with the phantom chain, the mana consumption is not a small amount!
In the early stage, it was impossible for LeBlanc to use skills frequently.
The only skill set is left to Gu Xing, so there is no way to exchange blood with Crown!
Gu Xing used his body to consume Faker's health and mana, helping his crown in the middle to establish a laning advantage.
SSGCrown:【Xiexie】
Since VG's performance took off, Redmi has made many appointments with Samsung by relying on its backdoor connections and the hard power of the team.
Thanks to this, Gu Xing has a good relationship with several Samsung players.
Among them is the crown.
Crown doesn't know much about Chinese, but he still understands common sentence patterns such as 'hello' and 'thank you'. After all, there are more and more Chinese people in Hanbok, so he can learn some words by ear and sight.
Gu Xing went back to brush a circle of wild monsters, used W [Spirit of Fear] to suck up the blood, and then continued running to the middle!
This time the blind monk also arrived and acted as bodyguard for Lee Sang Hyuk.
A 2v2 broke out between the two sides.
It's a pity that the side effects of Li Sang Hyuk's capture in the first two waves showed up. A set of damage failed to kill the enemy instantly. Hecarim started to sprint and suddenly started to spin!
Gu Xing and Crown worked together and finally each gained a kill, completely opening up the situation in the middle.
"Xiao Gu, you're going too far!" Jin Wenhe couldn't stand it any longer, "Are you really going to keep arresting him in the middle?"
Gu Xing also defended himself, "Have you heard a sentence... The opponent's mid laner is Hou Ye, and the jungler can only capture two lanes; the opponent's mid laner is Faker, and the jungler only sees the middle lane.
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Hearing this, all the onlookers from the training department burst into laughter.
"Just catch him and that's it!" Brother Long was still cheering Gu Xing on, "Let's make sure that Faker will think of the troops as soon as he closes his eyes before going to bed tonight!"
Gu Xingzheng was planning to do this.
With star Lee Sang Hyuk present, his thoughts immediately became clear.
Faker, who was far away at SKT's base in Seoul, was a little annoyed.
Like most professional players, Lee Sang Hyuk doesn't pay much attention to qualifying.
In this game, he finally encountered Captain Jack Sparrow, who he had a close relationship with. Lee Sang Hyuk originally wanted to choose the signature bull head or robot to go down the lane, giving his friend the whole job and torturing him.
As a result, several other teammates were not proficient in the mid lane, so Faker had no choice but to play the mid lane.
Lee Sang-hyeok was not surprised when people from the opposite side of the game kept coming to the middle looking for things to do.
He knows he is well-liked by players.
He has been using the account Hide on bush for a long time. As his popularity becomes higher and higher, the true identity of this account is also widely known.
Players all know that the operator is Faker, so they will inevitably run to the middle and circle twice, trying to show their face so that the opponent will remember them.
Lee Sang Hyuk had expected this. Generally speaking, being caught a few times would not affect his mentality, so he would not complain.
But the opposite jungler is an exception.
The play between centaurs and horses is really disgusting!
I came to the middle three times and was always stuck at the critical moment!
The first time Centaur came, Faker almost reached level 3.
The second time, he was just about to push all the troops under the Crown Tower.
The last time, I wanted to use all my skills to clear the line and return to the city to supply supplies.
Every time the men and horses appear, they will disrupt Faker's original plan, making him feel like he is riding a tiger with a lump in his throat, and it will be so uncomfortable that he will die!
I originally wanted to torture Captain Jack Sparrow, but could it be that I was the one who was tortured in the end?
"What do you mean?" he muttered, "Is this guy originally playing mid lane?"
Lee Sang Hyuk felt that the Centaur player had just the right timing and control of the middle line of troops, much like a mid laner.
Gu Xing couldn't hear Faker's mumbling.
He returned to the city to replenish his equipment and continued to capture Li Sang Hyuk.
The auxiliaries on both sides also began to roam to support, and everyone's goal was the middle!
Nakano Suke kept fighting in the lane, and then the ADC was not willing to be outdone and came to support him.
Eight players from the two teams started a melee in the middle, and only the top laners of both sides were still facing each other honestly!
Gu Xing’s live broadcast room was bustling with people and there were a lot of barrages.
He performed well on the court and scored an impressive 2-0 against EDG tonight. He has a sunny and outgoing personality, can face the camera without any stage fright, and can even teach high school math problems...
The live broadcast effect is excellent and it can naturally retain many viewers.
In this round, Faker was ranked, and netizens felt energetic.
【Big fight in the middle, right?】
[Catch the middle six times in 10 minutes. The Clay Man still has a bad temper. Virtue, don’t go too far!]
[I really caught Faker and grabbed him, it was too cruel]
[If anyone is watching Faker’s live broadcast, please report it immediately! 】
Lee Sang Hyuk is also live streaming on Douyu, but the team is not talking about an exclusive contract. There are other platforms on the Internet that can be watched.
Many viewers ran to Faker's live broadcast room and found that he was being beaten as soon as they entered!
Although LeBlanc is very flexible, with multiple displacement skills and the passive [Flower in the Mirror, Moon in the Mirror], her escape ability is extremely strong.
But facing the vast array of skills of Gu Xing and others, Li Sang Hyuk was powerless!
The screen turned black and white again. Faker glanced at the score bar on the screen and found that there were already 0 kills and 5 deaths. The score was quite ugly.
"Don't fight like that..." He felt a little helpless.
A voice suddenly came from outside the camera.
"What's wrong, Brother Xianghe?"
A dark-skinned young boy breaks into the scene, appearing to be well-behaved and honest.
This is Blank, the rotation jungler hired by SKT this year. Due to his dark skin, domestic netizens nickname him Xiaohei.
Now double-champion Bengi seems to be stepping back from the scene, while Xiao Hei has secured his starting position and won this year's mid-season championship with the team.
"Sonjiu," Faker raised his head and said hello, then lowered his head and stared at the monitor, "Nothing, just a qualifying match. The opponent's team played very interestingly."
He had a kind-hearted personality, and even though he was killed five times in a row by his opponents, he never got angry.
Xiao Hei came over and took a look, and when he saw the ID of the opponent, he suddenly realized, "He... is the starting jungler of VG in the LPL League!"
Seeing that he had not been resurrected, Faker turned off the microphone in the live broadcast room and took the time to chat with Xiao Hei, "Do you know him?"
"It's not me," Xiao Hei waved his hands repeatedly, "MLXG is very familiar with him!"
Blank and Xiang Guo have a good relationship.
He used to play for LSPL, and the two of them became friends at that time, and they would go out to eat whenever they had nothing to do.
It’s not void crayfish, it’s real food.
After returning to Korea, Xiaohei did not lose contact with Xiangguo. In May this year, he went to Shanghai to participate in the Mid-Season Championship, and the two even came out to catch up with each other.
Two weeks ago, Blank learned about the existence of Gu Xing from Xiangguo, and was very concerned about this new jungler who could defeat RNG.
A few days ago, we met by chance in the passerby bureau, and Xiaohei even added him as a friend.
"VG's jungler..." Lee Sang Hyuk finally had an impression.
He doesn't care much about the regular season situation in the outer divisions. After all, the LCK is now the dominant team, and the global finals in the past three years have proven one thing: as long as they can defeat other Korean teams, they can win the championship.
Besides, there is still some time before the World Championship, so there is no need to learn about LPL matters without playing training matches.
But VG is an exception.
Because Easyhoon is there, Lee Sang Hyuk occasionally looks for relevant news.
He knew that VG's performance in the spring split was not ideal, and he also knew that the opponent's performance was improving after changing their jungler and ADC.
No wonder……
Faker understands.
In addition to the mid laner, there are also some junglers who are well aware of the situation in the middle lane.
It's just that the threshold for junglers to master the trend of the army line is higher. They have too many and complicated things to learn, and there are not many players who are truly proficient in the army line.
Bengi, a veteran of the SKT team, is very good at playing with the mid lane troops, making Faker feel comfortable every time he plays.
In Li Sang Hyuk's view, Gu Xing's understanding of the army line is also quite good among junglers.
…
At the 24th minute of the game, Gu Xing lurked on the side, activated sprint and E [Destructive Charge] and quickly rushed to the middle!
R【Shadow Impact】!
The ghost cavalry attacks the enemy formation!
The sudden appearance of men and horses in the shadow vision caught the opponent off guard, and the entire formation was scattered by Gu Xing!
Destroying Charge kicked Captain Jack Sparrow in front of his own team!
Captain Jack, who has brought his talents from the ADC position to the commentary box, has not experienced professional high-intensity training for a long time. He is also older and his reaction is a bit slower.
After being kicked over, he hurriedly dodged.
But it's too late.
Crown's Rock Bird's set of damage crippled him, and Gu Xing's Q [Rampage] successfully took the head!
"pretty!"
Ding Ran, who was watching behind him, couldn't help shouting.
The ADC was instantly killed and the enemy was instantly defeated!
Seeing that Gu Xing had won a complete victory on the frontal battlefield, he ignored them and went straight to Li Sang Hyuk!
Faker knew that it was impossible to win the team battle, and already wanted to retreat to preserve his strength, but he saw the troops coming to find him again!
Without saying a word, he quickly broke up and sold out.
"Faker, don't run away!" Gu Xing became anxious, "Let me kill him once!"
Lee Sang Hyuk brought LeBlanc's flexibility to its fullest, using the W+R two-stage displacement to quickly widen the distance!
Gu Xing had no choice but to give up.
However, a series of signals from his teammates marked him over!
Crown's Rock Bird arrives on R [Wall Curtain], top laner Poppy hands over the teleport to go around and seal the road!
Having finished cleaning up the frontal battlefield, they want to surround and intercept Faker!
Gu Xing was overjoyed and rushed towards Li Sang Hyuk again!
"Faker, I am your fan!"
Gu Xing and his teammates set up a dragnet and spent ten seconds finally blocking Faker into a narrow corner.
He finally used a QA electric fan to take it away!
"I feel good!" Gu Xing laughed heartily.
After destroying the opponent, Gu Xing and his teammates rushed to the high ground, won the team battle again, and flattened the opponent's base!
There was laughter and laughter in the VG lounge.
Gu Xing took one last look at the post-match data panel and sent a friend request to Faker.
"What do you mean, brothers?" He was still a little worried. "Am I too focused on the mid lane? What if I annoy Faker?"
"No," Hongmi patted him on the shoulder, "Xianghe is not that easy to get angry... But I don't know if I can add him as a friend or not."
Seeing that his jungler's friend column had not responded yet, Jack took the initiative to comfort him, "It's okay, Gu. It's just a friend slot, it's no big deal!"
Gu Xing had no hope either.
After all, I have never met him, so it is normal not to add him as a friend.
I was about to switch out to watch the barrage, but found that there was an extra person in the friend list.
Hide on bush
"I'll go, I can really add you!" Gu Xing didn't expect that in a twist of events, he actually got the friend status!
Ding Ran's face was full of envy, "Faker's friend, how long can you play with the happy hour network administrator when you go back..."
Several teammates were also happy for Gu Xing.
While they were teasing each other, the door to the training room was gently pushed open.
Easyhoon's gentle and non-aggressive face appeared in front of everyone.
"What happy thing happened to make you laugh so happily?" He was very curious.