LOL: What does it mean to torture players?

Su Mo returned home and took out his phone to play.

The first piece of news is that the TES group has been disbanded!

It seems that this loss has been a significant blow to them.

After all, they were choosing champion skins before the tournament, and then suddenly they fell in the semifinals, which was a huge disappointment.

Immediately afterwards, Su Mo received a message from his left hand:

"Brother Mozi, do you think it's my fault that we lost the last match?"

Upon seeing this, Su Mo guessed that Zuo Shou must have been attacked by fans, and even his teammates had expressed their opinions, which made him feel resentful.

Su Mo: "If we can't win the game, isn't that a team effort? This isn't a solo match."

Su Mo could only try to comfort his left hand.

My left hand is usually quite quiet; I guess I don't have any friends to confide in.

Knight: "Wouldn't it be better to pick Tsar for the last game?"

This issue is clearly not that simple. Theoretically speaking, if a player plays Azir well, picking Azir to lane against Orianna is indeed the safest choice.

However, the Tsar is not so easy to train, and it also depends on the lineup.

Su Mo: "Ekko's choice is definitely not a problem. It has worked well in the past. Matches are full of surprises, which is normal."

Zuo Shou continued chatting with Su Mo, who answered while also checking the online buzz.

I checked the forum first.

Sure enough, a chaotic battle is brewing on Tieba!
#Lefthand is a beast! If he hadn't made those mistakes, TES would have won the championship.
#Can the water ghost just die? What's the point of the bot lane anyway?

I didn't feel the effect of 369, and I don't know what he was doing.

#Stop talking, they're all trash, not one of them is even human.

#Isn't this just handing the championship to DWG?
Su Mo also saw the rating post, and no one on the TES side could pass.

This was clearly driven by emotion.

This reminded Su Mo of the online analysis of TES and DWG before the match started.

I got a lot of flak for being a little bit optimistic about DWG.

It can only be said that netizens are indeed more prone to emotional outbursts and expressing extreme opinions.

The next day, Su Mo went to work as usual and received a message from Abu early in the morning:
"Xiao Mo, bless EDG! Today we're facing G2 in the semifinals, a do-or-die battle!"

Su Mo: "Little G2, easy to handle!"

Abu quickly responded: "I'm relieved to hear that, hahaha."

Something outrageous happened: not long after Su Mo finished chatting with Abu, someone else sent him a message.

Perkz: "Brother Mozi, I know you're feeling really bad right now, but don't worry, after we beat EDG, we'll defeat DWG in the finals and stop LCK from winning the championship."

Su Mo: "Have you ever won a scrim against DWG?"

After Su Mo said this, Perkz didn't respond for a long time. Su Mo understood: he had never won!
At least half an hour later, Perkz sent another message to Su Mo: "Wish me luck, Mozi-ge. I will carry your share and defeat DWG."

Su Mo copied and pasted the message he had sent earlier and sent it back: "Have you ever won a scrim against DWG?"

Perkz then said, "Practice is practice, and competition is competition."

Su Mo smiled. He could already imagine Perkz getting flustered, his face turning red, trying to prove that he was not afraid of DWG.

It was afternoon, and the competition was about to begin.

Su Mo took out his phone and glanced at it. Both players entered the arena, and the pre-match promotional video began to play.

The music first briefly reminisced about EDG's three-peat, then suddenly turned sad.

EDG suffered a defeat in the Spring Split, but managed to secure the fourth seed in the Summer Split with great difficulty...

The factory manager's voice came through: "At the beginning of the season, Mo didn't play, which made us a little unaccustomed, so we didn't achieve any results in the Spring Split."

"Fortunately, we adjusted in the summer season, thanks to my own efforts..."

"When Mo officially announced his retirement, I told the fans that his departure wouldn't have much of an impact on us, but it seems like no one believed me."

"Now that we've reached the semifinals, I think I'll prove that Mo's departure won't have a big impact on us, and we can still be EDG, carrying the banner of LPL against Korea."

The factory manager appeared on screen, his gaze firm and filled with emotion.

Su Mo could sense the factory director's dissatisfaction, which made him seem several years younger. He had felt that the factory director had lost his motivation last year, but now he was suddenly full of energy.

As for who this emotion is directed at...

That's a matter of opinion.

"Well done, factory." Su Mo said with a smile.

Then came Perkz's provocation: "My biggest regret is that Mo retired. If he were still with EDG, I could have beaten him myself and shown him who the best team is."

"The good news is that I still have his contact information and I often interact with him. After winning against EDG, I will immediately mock him and make him feel bad."

Perkz is still so direct, Su Mo thought. If G2 loses to EDG, won't Perkz explode?
Perhaps this is what they mean by "high skill breeds daring"—they can be incredibly smug when they win, but feel utterly miserable when they lose.

After watching the promotional video, Su Mo turned off the live stream and started working.

As evening fell, Su Mo headed straight to the restaurant after get off work.

It turned out that everyone in the restaurant was watching the game, whether they were waiters or customers.

After Su Mo sat down, he originally planned to call the waiter over to order.

However, since everyone was still engrossed in watching the game, Su Mo decided to wait until they finished watching before making a decision.

Judging from the timing, this should be the fourth or fifth game.

After all, four hours have passed. A match usually lasts forty or fifty minutes at most. Of course, if you include rest time and drafting, it's generally about an hour.

"Go EDG! Hang in there!"

"Oh! Jiejie! Jiejie! Charge, evil!"

"We won! I'm going to win! Wave after wave!"

"Let's do it in one go! Let's do it in one go!"

Everyone else in the restaurant got excited and cheered.

Su Mo felt itchy and really wanted to see just how exciting the competition was, but it seemed to have already ended.

Su Mo glanced at the notification on his phone.

#EDG is in poor form and lost their first game.

#G2's rhythm was perfect, score 2-0
#EDG wins a game

#A stunning comeback, EDG overturns a 10,000 gold deficit to win.

The last notification was just sent.

This means that EDG has come back from a 0-2 deficit to win 2-2, and there is now only one game left!
EDG's performance was exceptional; they were surprised to reach a decisive fifth game against G2.

Su Mo then sent Perkz a message: "We're going to lose the last game. You're not going to cry on the spot, are you?"

Perkz: "Impossible, this is impossible!"

Su Mo could sense that Perkz was getting anxious and emotional.

Once you enter this state, your performance in the game cannot be guaranteed.

Moments later, the fifth match was about to begin, and the commentators appeared.

Just then, Su Mo overheard people discussing something inside the restaurant:

"Hey, do you guys think Brother Mozi might suddenly come on? This is the decisive game."

"What are you thinking? He's already retired. Do you think you can just put whoever you want in?"

"You still have to rely on yourself."

"Go EDG! Go EDG!"

As Su Mo was observing the others, a waiter walked up to him and asked:
"The same old rules?" Su Mo nodded: "Yes."

Su Mo always orders the same things when she comes to this restaurant, so the waiters are used to it.

Su Mo looked at his phone. Both teams were ready, and the fifth round of ban/pick began.

Entering the draft phase, G2 released Twisted Fate, and EDG immediately picked it on the first pick.

So G2 took out Silas Conte on the first floor.

Scout's gaming talent is undeniable; he's really mastered the card game recently.

Now it depends on the other positions, especially how to choose the top lane.

The top laner decisively picked Ornn, and the jungler picked Kindred.

They are all heroes that are easy to use.

As the game progressed, the director suddenly gave a close-up of the card, showing that the card had Doran's Blade at the start!
Su Mo laughed: "So bold?"

The commentators were also surprised: "Scout chose to start with a Doran's Blade? This scene seems a bit familiar. I remember Mozi played the AD Twisted Fate strategy before. Is this also a legacy of EDG?"

In the mid lane matchup, Scout started harassing with auto-attacks from level 1. It seems that Caps was eager to trade blows with Twisted Fate because he saw that Twisted Fate had very few consumables, so he leveled up his E skill at level 1.

However, after dodging the second part of his E skill, the card player chased after him and attacked.

The card player leveled up his E skill at level 1, which not only gave him an attack speed bonus, but also added a special effect to every four basic attacks, leaving Sylas completely overwhelmed.

EDG's advantage lies in the bottom lane laning phase, while the top laner just needs to withstand the pressure.

Just as the director was observing the fight in the bottom lane, suddenly, bad news came from G2's mid lane: Caps' Sylas was solo killed by Twisted Fate!
The commentator was stunned: "Twisted Fate got a solo kill? This is a Twisted Fate with Teleport, how could he get a solo kill? Does it feel like Caps was under too much pressure and his performance suffered?"

"Scout, as expected of a three-time world champion mid laner, is definitely stronger than Caps in terms of mental fortitude."

In the restaurant where Su Mo was, everyone was cheering:

"Nice! Oh! Nice!"

"Scout, you're my hero!"

"Stay calm! Just stay calm on the other lanes. Twisted Fate has a huge advantage right now!"

That wasn't all. Sylas revived and teleported to the mid lane, Twisted Fate recalled to base to replenish supplies, and then teleported to the top lane to gank, securing his second kill.

The barrage in the live broadcast room exploded instantly:

"Scout! Scout!"

"The world's best mid laner!"

"If the left-handed player had even half this level of skill, TES wouldn't have lost to DWG."

"That's it! Even without Mozi, we still have Scout!"

The director gave Caps and Perkz a close-up shot, and the two of them were extremely anxious.

Perkz, in particular, is feeling uneasy as bad news keeps coming from other lanes, even though his bot lane is currently evenly matched.

EDG completely controlled the tempo, even though Sylas was able to steal Twisted Fate's ultimate.

However, with two kills and a significant equipment advantage, Twisted Fate is now completely dominating Sylas in lane.

Cards can go to support in advance, and if Sylas wants to follow, he will have to sacrifice the minion wave.

In the dragon team fight, Twisted Fate used his ultimate to fly over and, with the help of his teammates, took down the enemy support.

Push the minion wave in the middle lane, then head to the top lane to provide support.

Jiejie and Scout have a great chemistry; they travel together and cause chaos wherever they go.

This match wasn't as tense as before; in just over ten minutes, the economic gap had reached four thousand yuan.

Jiejie started controlling resources: Dragon, Rift Herald, she wanted them all.

G2 chose to exchange defensive tower resources in an attempt to reduce their economic disadvantage.

The two sides traded blows, and G2 managed to lock down the economy, but EDG controlled all the resources. If this continued, they would lose.

Within twelve minutes of the match, EDG took down G2's mid-lane tower and then began a relentless invasion of the jungle.

Su Mo hadn't finished eating yet, and he felt the outcome of the match was about to be decided.

Cheers erupted throughout the restaurant. Su Mo felt that even if he didn't pay the bill and just slipped away, no one would probably notice.

Fifteen minutes into the game, jiejie secured his second Rift Herald.

At the 17-minute mark, EDG used the Rift Herald to group up in the mid lane, resulting in a 2-for-4 exchange in a team fight, and pushed all the way to the high ground.

Just when everyone thought EDG was going to leave.

Suddenly, Twisted Fate activated his ultimate, flanking and initiating a team fight, securing the kill on the enemy ADC, and then it was time to end the game!

The commentator was overjoyed: "EDG suddenly accelerated! Only eighteen minutes into the game, they're going to win! What's going on? The first four games were so close, and in this last game, EDG is practically crushing everything in their path!"

"Is this EDG? Has EDG's three-time champion strength finally awakened? I think I see hope again! EDG, you're about to win this match!"

G2 made a final attempt to fight back, but it was no use, and they were swept away in one fell swoop.

The restaurant instantly erupted in cheers:

"EDG! EDG! They came back from 0-2 down to win 3-2! EDG!"

"They've awakened! They've truly awakened! EDG is back!"

"This is EDG's true level! Hahaha, four consecutive championships are in the bag!"

"What is DWG? Can they really crush G2 in eighteen minutes?"

For a moment, everyone was immersed in joy.

The live stream continued, and the director gave Perkz a close-up shot.

Sure enough, he burst into tears again, clearly distressed.

Su Mo wasn't worried at all, because he knew Perkz would definitely be able to recover; after all, he was the patriarch of the Optimistic Family!
#EDG comes back from 0-2 to defeat G2
#EDG, the kings are back!
#EDG speedruns G2 in 18 minutes
#In the end, we still have to look to EDG.

EDG's last match definitely restored a lot of confidence for LPL fans.

After TED lost to DWG, most LPL fans had already decided not to watch the game anymore and just wait for the result.

But who would have thought that EDG would perform so well?

"Brothers, things have changed. Our next goal is to win the championship!"

"TES and JDG fans, stop pretending! Aren't you guys trying to carry the LPL banner? In the end, it still comes down to EDG, doesn't it?"

"You guys don't really think EDG can beat DWG, do you? It's because G2 is too bad that they lost to EDG."

"Don't you guys know that EDG hasn't won a single scrim against DWG?"

"They're getting anxious! Some people are getting anxious; they can't beat others themselves, so they hope that others can't beat them either."

Su Mo quickly received a message from Abu:

"Xiao Mo, we won! Hahaha, we made it to the finals! It was so hard! I suddenly feel like crying. It feels like this journey has been even tougher than S6."

Su Mo: "As long as the result is good, that's fine."

Abu: "Do you want to come to the finals live? You definitely want to come, right? I have tickets, how many do you want?"

Su Mo: "Well... let me check the situation first."

Su Mo hadn't considered this question yet, because he hadn't thought EDG could make it to the finals.

Abu: "Okay, let me know when you've made up your mind, as soon as possible."

Su Mo: "No problem."

Immediately afterwards, Su Mo received another message from UZI:
"Brother Mozi, wow, EDG made it to the finals! That's incredible! What's going on? Did you intervene again?"

Su Mo: "No, I was shocked too."

UZI: "Brother Mozi, I'm going to watch the finals live, do you want to come? Let's go together."

Su Mo: "I haven't decided yet. I'll take a look first." (End of Chapter)