Chapter 437: Winning by Combining the Right and the Unexpected

Meiko quickly said, "Yuan Shen, stop kidding me. You used to play top lane, the best top laner in the world. How can you not be able to play solo?"

957 agreed: "Yes, I feel that if you don't go, our region will not be able to secure the title of the SOLO tournament."

Xiye said, "I think Yuan Shen must have one spot, and the remaining spot will be competed for by the four of us. Meiko just said that he won't participate, so how about the three of us competing?"

The atmosphere suddenly became tense. 957, Xiye and Jack were competing for a spot in the SOLO competition.

Jack said, "Let's compete by fighting!"

Xiye nodded: "It seems that this is the only way."

957 said, "Come on!"

957 rolled up his sleeves and got ready to work.

"Rock, Paper, Scissors..."

An outrageous scene appeared. 957 thought it was going to be a SOLO game, and whoever won would get the spot, but Jack started playing rock-paper-scissors directly.

"Ah? No, the battle you are talking about is rock-paper-scissors?" 957 was shocked.

Jack responded, "What else? You don't want to go solo, do you? That's too tiring. Hurry up, this is the fairest way."

"Well... that's fine..."

957 realized that Jack didn't really want to participate, so he came to stir up trouble.

The three of them played rock-paper-scissors. 957 was eliminated first, and Xiye and Jack faced off one-on-one.

In the end, Xiye won.

"Hahaha, I won!" Xiye was so happy.

957 sighed: "You are so cruel."

So the places for the SOLO competition were decided.

After dinner, the LPL All-Star team chose to go out and play instead of training. There was nothing to train for, so they just treated it as a trip.

The next day, the All-Star Game began.

There were many competitions, which lasted from morning till night.

The LPL All-Star team got in the car and headed straight to the All-Star Game.

When we arrived at the parking lot, Fu Manduo called out, "Did you take all your stuff with you? Don't leave anything behind."

After getting off the car, everyone was about to go in, just then, a group of people approached quickly.

"Yuanshen! It's really Yuanshen!"

Hearing the noise, Yuan Shen looked over and saw that the leader was a blond boy, Bilson!
Bjergsen came with the North American LCS All-Star team, all of whom were familiar faces.

Of course, the others only looked familiar, but Yuan Shen couldn’t remember their IDs and names.

"Hello, Bilson." Yuan Shen greeted.

Bilson came up and shook hands with Yuan Shen, and said, "I'm your fan, can we take a photo together?"

Yuan Shen nodded: "Of course."

So Yuan Shen and Bilson stood up, and Bilson took out his cell phone to take a picture of himself and Yuan Shen.

The two teams walked in together.

Not long after he entered, someone else came to look for Yuan Shen.

"Yuanshen!" He was also a blond boy, looking tougher than Bjergsen.

Rekkles!

"Yuanshen, congratulations on achieving the highest achievement, three consecutive championships, congratulations." Rekkles shook hands with Yuan Shen.

"Thank you."

"Can I take a picture with you guys?" Rekkles asked.

"I'm fine." Yuan Shen turned around and looked at other LPL members. Everyone had no problem, so they took a group photo together.

Yuan Shen continued to walk forward. There were many professional players in the corridor, from different regions, with different skin colors, different hair colors, but the same age, all young people.

Yuan Shen was recognized by many people along the way, most of whom he didn't know. However, since the professional players who were able to come in were elites in their respective regions, Yuan Shen tried his best to satisfy their requests for photos.

After going through numerous hardships, everyone finally entered the lounge.

Meiko complained: "I can't go with Yuan Shen in the future. He is too popular. Everyone wants to talk to him. It wastes a lot of time."

Jack agreed: "People are afraid of being famous just like pigs are afraid of being fat. Being too famous is not good either."

Yuan Shen teased: "So this is why you only won one championship?"

Hearing this, everyone laughed.

A moment later, the first game began.

This is in Brazil, so the first game is between the host CBLOL and the North American LCS.

The LPL All-Star team gathered together to watch the game.

The BP of these two teams highlights a casualness, do whatever you want, which is also the purpose of the All-Star Game, just have fun, winning or losing is not the most important thing.

After the first game, the second game will be between the LPL All-Star team and the LEC All-Star team.

For LPL, the real enemies are only the LCK region and the European and American teams. Just play with them and win easily.

After the first game, I returned to the lounge.

Fu Manduo praised: "Although we haven't practiced together much, the level of tacit understanding is indeed very high. Maybe this is the cooperation between masters. They can achieve tacit understanding without too much training."

"And it's also very entertaining. I hope you all have fun."

Xiye said, "I suddenly realized that Jack and Meiko work well together. You two are not on the same team, so how can you have such tacit understanding?"

Meiko responded, "Sometimes when I pull Jack to play games together, the seats become in sync."

Xiye nodded: "So that's how it is, that's good."

Yuan Shen said: "Aren't you going to play in the same team?"

After these words were spoken, everyone became alert. This kind of topic cannot be discussed casually as it involves the rift between the two clubs.

Meiko responded: "We are all workers, how can we have the power to decide who we will partner with?"

At this moment, Fu Manduo reminded: "The SOLO match is about to begin, you should get ready, Xiye, Yuanshen."

The SOLO match started, and the first one to play was Faker.

The audience was noisy.

Yuan Shen and Xiye watched together.

Players from both teams came on stage, shook hands, sat in their respective seats, and did BP.

After selecting the hero, enter the game screen.

The basic rule is that one blood and one tower cost 100 knives, and whoever meets one of the three conditions first will win.

BO3 format, best of three.

A moment later, Faker won 2-1.

Yuan Shen came on the court, and his first round opponent was Levi, the jungler from the wildcard zone.

Jungle vs jungler. Although Levi is a jungler and doesn't seem to need to laning, his laning ability doesn't seem to be very strong, but he is a mechanical freak and is well-known.

However, he still couldn't do it in front of Yuan Shen, and was finally taken down easily.

Xiye was also doing well, and they both entered the next stage at the same time.

After a day of competition, all the LPL players left together. Compared to playing the game, the most fun part of the All-Star Game was hanging out together when they were not playing the game.

The next day, the All-Star Game continued with the division competition. This time they were competing against the wild card division, and they won easily.

Meanwhile, in the quarterfinals of the SOLO tournament, Yuan Shen faced Ruler.
Yuan Shen didn’t know why an ADC like him came back to play in the SOLO match, but since he was here, he would deal with it well.

The regional competition was easily completed and entered the SOLO stage.

Yuan Shen was about to enter the stage. At this moment, Jack said, "This Ruler is quite good. You can't be defeated by him."

Yuan Shen smiled: "If I can't beat him, won't you help me get revenge?"

Jack glanced at Xiye and said, "I don't have this chance. I have to look to Xiye."

Xiye spread his hands and said, "I am here just to participate. If Yuan Shen can't beat him, then I have no chance."

Yuan Shen left the lounge and walked onto the stage. The audience cheered: "Master Yuan! Master Yuan! Master Yuan!"

Ruler walked towards him, and the two shook hands in the middle of the stage, then walked towards their respective seats.

After Yuan Shen sat down, he replaced the peripherals, slightly debugged the equipment, and entered the BP stage.

In the LPL All-Star team lounge, the LPL All-Star team members are staring at the screen.

Xiye said, "Is this Ruler so awesome? Jack, I rarely hear you say awesome."

Jack responded: “Let me put it this way, I think Ruler is the strongest ADC in LCK right now.”

957 was surprised: "Such a high evaluation? Better than Bang and Pray?"

Jack nodded: "Yeah, that's what I think anyway."

Xiye muttered, “Then I feel the situation is not good. After all, Yuan Shen is a jungler and he hasn’t played top lane for a while.”

Soon, both sides finished choosing their heroes. Ruler got Varus, obviously aiming to consume the enemy, while Yuan Shen got Nasus and went out with Doran's Ring.

Xiye looked at 957 and asked, "What do you think of this Doran's Ring and Nasus? Can we win?"

957 said with certainty: "We will definitely win. Nasus is not afraid of being consumed, but is afraid of being killed in one wave. With Varus's consumption-based playstyle, it is difficult for the opponent's Nasus to win."

The laning began on the Howling Abyss, which is also the ARAM map. Yuan Shen chose to enter the bush and hide at level 1.

The troops were coming, but Varus had not appeared yet, so Yuan Shen was not in a hurry.

After the soldier's health was low, Varus finally appeared and walked out from the opposite bush.

Sure enough, it was a good idea not to continue moving towards the opposite side at level 1, otherwise he would have been kite-ed by Varus.

Varus finishes off, and Yuan Shen uses his E skill, which can both finish off and consume Varus's health at the same time. All he has to do is put the E skill in the right position.

Yuan Shen was stuck in the bushes and refused to come out until the CD of the second E skill was ready.

So Xiye sighed: "Master Yuan really is strolling in the garden at a leisurely pace, not in a hurry at all, and without any pressure at all."

Yuan Shen approaches the minions and uses his E skill again, consuming Varus while continuing to last hit and develop.

Varus uses the Q skill to change color, and Nasus doesn't need to move around to dodge the skills. Even if he eats all the skills, he can just use the passive lifesucking effect to hit the minions a few times.

Everyone at the LPL All-Stars gradually felt something was wrong:
"It seems that the hero Nasus is a bit of a scoundrel. It's fun for him to consume others, but the opponent can't suppress him."

"There is something. Nasus's E skill is different from Varus's Q. Varus's Q needs to be predicted and can be easily avoided by moving, but Nasus's E skill has a large range and is not easy to dodge."

Soon, Ruler was tortured. He couldn't win the attrition battle or make the last hit.

Moreover, Yuan Shen and Nasus were not planning to fight him to the end, get a single kill or something, and just continue to consume the enemy's energy.

In the end, I won by getting 100 last hits, and it was done easily.

Jack joked: "This is totally a game of finishing off the enemy. There is no operation at all."

Meiko said: "There is no other way. The opponent is not someone who can fight with Yuan Shen. He chose Varus to consume the opponent. I guess Yuan Shen guessed it, so he chose Nasus."

After winning the first game, the second game will start immediately.

Entering the BP, this time Yuan Shen chose Taliyah, and Ruler chose Lucian.

"It's over. There's no way to beat Lucian. Taliyah's arms are too long. If Lucian uses E, he will be countered by W." Jack came to the conclusion immediately.

At the beginning of the game, Yuan Shen only needed to push the line in the first three levels.

Ruler kept adjusting the angle, trying to use the Q skill to deal damage.

But Yuan Shen was standing too far back, so Ruler had no chance at all.

Meiko analyzed: "Although Yuan Shen is a jungler, he is very good at laning details and knows how to defend against Lucian's Q. It feels like this Lucian will either fail to last hit and suffocate himself to death, or rush forward to fight and get himself killed."

Meiko's words came true. Lucian couldn't push the minion line and started to fall behind in last-hitting. It was like a fight but he was short-handed.

At level 4, while Taliyah was pushing the line in front of the defensive tower, Lucian used his E skill to close the distance and moved out of position as soon as possible. He thought Taliyah might use her W skill first.

However, Taliyah did not do so and continued to use the Q skill to output damage, fighting and retreating at the same time.

It was out of reach and Lucian didn't want to fight anymore. Taliyah chased forward and then used a W skill to bring Lucian back, followed by a Q skill, and severely injured Lucian in one wave.

Xiye agreed: "It's a very nice tug-of-war. I feel the difference in strength is quite obvious. Ruler should be unable to win. Taliyah just needs to defend against the level 6 wave."

Jack said: "Poor Ruler was played around by Yuan Shen."

After reaching level 6, Lucian is lagging behind in last-hitting, and this is his last chance.

Lucian uses his E skill to deal damage, Taliyah pulls back, Lucian uses his ultimate, Taliyah uses his W skill, and Lucian flashes through W to continue dealing damage.

Taliyah flashed to create some distance and counterattacked, which led to an awkward situation. Lucian's ultimate was at the wrong angle and couldn't hit anyone, and if he wanted to output with a basic attack, the distance was not enough. Instead, Taliyah was able to use Q to output him and finally completed the solo kill.

957 cheered: "Nice! Nice Master Yuan! So cool! Lucian is numb from being pulled."

Jack said: "I feel like Yuan Shen can see through Ruler's thoughts. The heroes he picked are all good counters, which makes Ruler very uncomfortable."

After winning the game, Yuan Shen went over and shook hands with Ruler.

An outrageous scene occurred. Ruler actually asked to take a photo with Yuan Shen and even took out his mobile phone.

So the two took a photo together on the stage.

Yuan Shen left the stage and returned to the lounge.

Meiko stepped forward to greet them: "Let's welcome back SOLOKing."

Yuan Shen laughed: "What the hell is SOLOKing?"

Meiko explained: "Your solo is too fierce. When I see other people's solo, they are nervous and entangled. But when I see you solo, it seems like you crush them easily."

Yuan Shen replied: "It wasn't easy either. We fought for several minutes."

Meiko complained, "Huh? You think you can finish it in a minute or two? Is it going to be easy this time?"

Yuan Shen looked at Xiye and said, "You will play against Faker in the next game, right? Can you win?"

Xiye was full of confidence: "I have killed him alone before, I can win, no problem."

Jack said cheerfully, "Don't brag here, or you'll get beaten up and that will be hard on you."

Xiye was quite open-minded: "It's okay. I'm pretending to be awesome before the fight even starts. It's okay if I don't win in the end. I've already pretended to be awesome anyway."

Everyone was in a state of confusion after hearing this. It turned out that they had prepared a three-dimensional defense long ago. Win or lose, they would win. (End of this chapter)