LPL didn't want me? I joined SKT instead!

One team after another fell to SKT's unreasonable "overwhelming individual skill".

The outside world went completely crazy.

On the South Korean esports forum Inven, discussions about SKT dominate the forum every day.

[Holy crap! What kind of monster team is this? They barely even build any wards, they just pure skill and crush the opponent?!]

[I've watched matches for ten years, and this is the first time I've seen this kind of play. Xiao Yan and Faker are like two emotionless, ruthless machines; TheShy is a killer, and Peanut is a robber. This match was exciting to watch, but something just felt off.]

[This is outrageous! Yesterday, in the MVP game, SKT only had three assists the entire time! All of them were solo kills and lane kills! Is this what you call a team game?]

With the deliberate marketing and promotion by the SKT club, an extremely arrogant title began to circulate in the esports circle.

"A galactic battleship? No, this is an 'all-god team'."

Media and fans jokingly say that the current SKT team has gathered the "world's best" players in all four positions except support.

Faker, the world's best mid laner, is undoubtedly the Demon King.

TheShy, the world's best top laner, is establishing his tyrannical rule with a series of bloody solo kills.

Peanut, the world's best jungler, has rediscovered his peak form from Season 6 and become the jungle overlord.

Xiao Yan, the world's number one ADC, is a monster whose lane dominance makes all AD players feel hopeless.

Under this halo, SKT's support position has become an extremely interesting meme.

Wolf, the support player who won the dynasty championship and three-time S-series champion, now spends most of his time in the game standing behind Xiao Yan, occasionally giving him a shield, or simply AFK in the bushes.

Because Xiao Yan's individual abilities are too strong, strong enough that he alone can push the opposing duo out of the experience zone.

Wolf even joked in a live stream, "Playing matches now feels like I bought a VIP front-row ticket to a movie, watching Xiao Yan torture the opponent. As long as I stay alive, I win the match."

Thus, a famous joke was born in the esports community:

"Whoever is by Xiao Yan's side is the world's number one support."

Some netizens even created a parody image: Xiao Yan is walking a Shiba Inu wearing headphones next to him, with the caption: "SKT's new starting support, currently with a 100% win rate."

This extreme fervor and fervor propelled SKT's reputation to an unprecedented peak.

However, no tactic in this world is perfect. Moreover, SKT currently doesn't even have a tactic.

When exceptional individual ability collides with exceptional team management, cracks finally appear.

……

In Week 7 of the regular season, SKT will face KSV, currently ranked second in the standings.

Before the match began, everyone expected SKT to stage another massacre.

But reality poured cold water on this arrogant "all-around genius team".

The first game.

Xiao Yan continued to exert terrifying pressure in the bottom lane, out-farming Ruler by thirty CS in ten minutes. Faker also steadily suppressed Crown in the mid lane. TheShy, in the top lane, relentlessly dominated CuVee's Maokai under the tower.

Everything looked exactly the same as the previous matches.

But KSV won't engage in lane battles with you at all.

Ambition picked Sejuani, completely abandoning jungle control and letting Peanut invade the enemy jungle. He focused all his energy on vision control and minion wave management.

At 12 minutes, when TheShy attempted to tower dive and kill CuVee, KSV's support CoreJJ (Tahm Kench) used his ultimate to bring Ambition to the top lane, and with Maokai's crowd control, they caught and killed TheShy.

This isn't GG, it's a recommendation for the treasure book "LPL Doesn't Want Me? I Joined SKT Instead!"

This is TheShy's first death in the last five games.

"It's okay, I can fight back," TheShy said coldly in the voice chat.

But KSV didn't give him a chance to fight back.

They took advantage of Tahm Kench's mobility and perfect vision network, and began to frantically avoid fights, switch lanes, and push towers.

While Xiao Yan was pushing down the bottom lane tower, KSV had already used the Rift Herald to take down SKT's top and mid outer towers.

While Peanut was catching and killing Ambition in the jungle, the four members of KSV had already grouped up and taken the dragon.

SKT's players felt like they'd punched cotton. They possessed terrifying damage and mechanics, but couldn't find anyone to fight. KSV was like a group of eels, slippery and elusive, always operating in SKT's blind spots.

At 25 minutes, SKT still had a 2,000 gold lead, but they had three fewer turrets than KSV, and their vision control was completely suppressed.

"Big Dragon Force Team." Xiao Yan frowned and gave the order.

SKT's five players gathered at the Baron pit.

But KSV's response was textbook perfect. CuVee's Maokai pushed the bottom lane to create pressure, while the other four players used their range advantage to poke relentlessly above the Baron pit.

When SKT couldn't resist initiating a team fight, and TheShy's Camille used E-Flash to enter the fray, KSV's formation instantly crumbled. Ambition's ultimate precisely froze TheShy, while Ruler's Varus unleashed a barrage of attacks from a safe distance.

Without perfect team fight initiation coordination or skillful team fight positioning, SKT's five players resembled five scattered soldiers fighting independently, gradually being whittled down by KSV's perfect formation and positioning.

A 0-for-4 exchange allowed KSV to take over the Baron Nashor.

At 32 minutes, KSV used the Baron buff and a perfect 1-3-1 split push to destroy SKT's base without firing a shot.

The second round followed the same script.

SKT still gained a huge advantage in the laning phase, but in the mid-game, their poor vision control and lack of team coordination became their fatal flaws once again.

KSV capitalized on two perfect opportunities to pick off isolated targets in blind spots, completely turning the tide and ultimately ending SKT's winning streak with a 2-0 score.

……

That loss did not cause SKT to change their playstyle.

On the contrary, amidst overwhelming skepticism from the outside world, SKT has gone further and further down the extreme path of "zero operation," becoming increasingly reckless.

They were like a group of fanatical madmen, trying to break the inherent rules of this game with the purest violence.

The subsequent matches became the bloodiest and most unreasonable period in LCK history.

TheShy's evolution speed is frighteningly fast.

After the setback with KSV, TheShy's playstyle underwent a qualitative transformation. He remained aggressive and domineering, but he learned to "control his temperature."

Instead of mindlessly diving towers, he controlled the minion wave in an extremely awkward position, using his perfect understanding of the hero's mechanics to trade blows without taking damage. He began frantically calculating the enemy jungler's farming route, and could even determine whether the enemy mid laner was moving towards the top lane based on a slight movement from the enemy mid laner.

In the match against AFs, TheShy faced Kiin, who was then hailed as the strongest domestic top laner in the LCK.

That was a top lane duel that will go down in history.

TheShy picked Lucian for top lane, facing off against Kiin's Gangplank.

For a full fifteen minutes, Kiin's Gangplank didn't manage to collect a single cannon minion. TheShy's Lucian was like a ghost; every slide, every burst of divine light, precisely struck the Gangplank's vitals.

When AFs' jungler Spirit tried to come to the top lane to help, TheShy displayed his incredibly skillful and devastating gameplay.

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