Chapter 84: I Don’t Have Any League Fans!
“Nice, Fan Ge is awesome!” Clearlove was the first to suddenly stand up from his chair, his face beaming with an irrepressible brilliant smile.
“Refreshing! These two games were played so refreshingly!” He smiled while taking off his headphones and shouted loudly to Li Fan beside him.
That feeling of completely controlling the jungle rhythm, that pleasure of perfectly linking up with mid lane and forcing the opponent step by step into desperation, made him seem to have regained the spirited vigor of the peak period of his professional career.
Especially in the last game, his Excavator was like strolling in his own backyard in the opponent’s jungle, crazily controlling Kang Di’s F6, and Kang Di was like that incompetent husband, only able to watch helplessly.
The F6 on the map seemed to be marked with Ming Kai’s exclusive mark. For a jungler like him who had an obsession with F6, being able to eat every group of F6 on the map, how could there be anything more refreshing than this?
“Fan Ge is awesome!” Tian Ye also jumped up excitedly, thrilled and hugged Li Fan’s shoulder.
“This Ryze, the opponent would tremble three times just seeing you on their screen! Good thing you’re my teammate; if you were my opponent, I’d be so desperate I’d want to retire.” His tone was filled with anticipation for the future. Consecutively defeating strong enemies had lifted the entire team’s confidence to a new height, and everyone felt like they were returning to the peak period of S5.
Charge forward; the next goal is the Spring Split championship.
During the previous four consecutive losses, where would such ideas come from? His mind was full of stopping the losing streak.
Now things were finally different; their EDG had stood up again.
Zet looked at the word “victory” on the screen and let out a long sigh of relief, the corners of his mouth uncontrollably rising.
Although he endured considerable pressure during the laning phase and was even forced to give up several minion waves, he perfectly executed the team’s instruction to play safe, without giving any opportunities.
At this moment, his gaze involuntarily turned to Li Fan who was surrounded by teammates nearby, his eyes flickering, and the ambition deep in his heart was like ignited flames…
Because he switched from mid lane to bot lane, he could increasingly feel the terrifying dominance from Li Fan. With such a mid laner, would there really be a chance to impact the World Championship championship?
Once this idea emerged… it became even more determined to lock down the starting AD position.
Although Li Fan was praised by everyone like this, he still didn’t take credit.
“It’s a team game. Winning the match means everyone played well; losing the match is everyone’s responsibility.”
Hearing this, everyone nodded, but Li Fan’s status in their hearts was already completely different from before.
……
The EDG players, carrying the joy of victory, lined up and walked to WE’s player bench for the post-match handshake.
When mid laner Xi Ye saw the EDG players approaching, he took a deep breath, tried to adjust his expression, stood up to prepare for the handshake.
When it was Li Fan’s turn, Xi Ye extended his hand, squeezed out a slightly complex smile on his face, but still maintained the demeanor of a professional player.
“You played very well…” Xi Ye’s voice carried a hint of depression, but the tone was sincere, “You really have something; no wonder you could lead EDG out of the losing streak and win so many games.”
He paused, a spark of fighting spirit reignited in his eyes, and added: “Playoffs are waiting for you. Next time we face off, we won’t let you roam so easily.”
Saying this, Xi Ye still had confidence, after all, their trump cards hadn’t been used yet.
Li Fan gripped Xi Ye’s hand and also showed a smile.
Although everyone said Greek Little Nest.
But Xi Ye was indeed one of the top mid laners in China.
In the era of lack of talent succession, he carried LPL together with Xiao Hu…
It was just that the results at the World Championship were always unsatisfactory; times and fate.
After all, mid lane had the Great Demon King Faker.
This man truly amazed an era, strong from beginning to end.
“Thank you, you’re strong too. Today we might have been in slightly better state.” He changed the topic: “However… if we face off again in the playoffs, the result might still be the same.”
Hearing this, Xi Ye was stunned for a moment, then the forced smile became a bit more natural. He nodded, said nothing more, just gripped Li Fan’s hand firmly.
Everything was unspoken.
Grudges on the arena should be resolved with strength on the arena.
He wasn’t Wu Zhuang Tai; what was the point of those off-field antics?
When both teams’ players entered the player tunnel.
The venue’s big screen showed the MVP of this match again.
Naturally, without any suspense, Li Fan won unanimously!
Then it naturally showed Ryze’s stats.
11-0-6, damage share 39.7%.
Paired with a clean and refreshing photo, many girls in the venue started observing seriously.
Previously said Unreal’s appearance was very high; seeing in person confirmed it, even higher than the photos.
Won the match and got two MVPs; it really added points.
But they were WE fans; having such thoughts might not be great?
RNG base.
Tiger God, who was watching the match, was breaking out in cold sweat, suddenly under huge pressure.
Damn, good thing they faced Xiao Xue Di before.
If it was Unreal, wouldn’t they be toyed with between applause?
This guy was too fierce.
When did LPL produce such a peerless hunk?
If they meet him in playoffs, what to do?
The EDG group had just returned to the backstage lounge, where Abu and Kuaisu Xing were smiling and preparing to summarize a couple of sentences, because the boss had just called, very satisfied with their performance.
At that moment, the lounge door was knocked on.
A staff member poked his head in, his gaze directly locking onto Li Fan in the middle, and smiled: “Unreal player, get ready; the main stage interview later is yours.”
“Me? Why not Clearlove?” Li Fan’s hand, about to grab the water bottle, paused in mid-air, a genuine look of surprise on his face.
By convention, such post-match interviews usually invited the team’s core player, and EDG’s core was naturally Clearlove.
Seeing this, Clearlove walked up and patted Li Fan’s back hard: “What are you dazed for? Go quickly! Last time against NB, if not for Wu Zhuang Tai’s antics, it should have been me, but now… everyone is most curious about you.”
Meiko also chimed in: “Exactly, two consecutive MVPs, even made Xi Ye depressed. If you don’t go for the interview, who will? Plus, you have so many fans on site.”
Li Fan smiled, straightened his slightly messy hair from wearing headphones: “Alright, I’ll go and be right back.”
While Scout sitting by the water dispenser watched this scene gnashing his teeth, feeling uncomfortable everywhere, like sitting on pins and needles.
You all so harmonious, what position do you put me in?
Kuaisu Xing seemed to notice something, his gaze involuntarily sweeping toward the water dispenser.
Scout hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to let Kuaisu Xing see his expression.
……
When Li Fan walked onto the stage again, host Yu Shuang was already waiting there. Seeing him, she showed a professional smile: “Unreal player, come say hello to everyone.”
The huge LED screen focused on him again, and the audience immediately erupted in even hotter screams and cheers.
Especially the Multiverse fan group led by Yu Luo, wildly waving their support signs.
Especially the two big veteran soldiers like CF, their muscles trembling, making people a bit flustered.
“Hello everyone, I’m EDG’s starting mid laner Unreal.”
Just a simple self-introduction caused cheers from the audience below.
【Here it comes! Interview segment!】
【Wuhu! The main man is here!】
【Close-up viewing of the monster!】
【This guy looks pretty handsome in real life, and plays fiercely in game; no justice!】
Facing the camera, Yu Shuang said in her infectious voice: “Congrats to EDG for winning the match, congrats to Unreal player for getting two MVPs again. You led EDG to win this strong matchup today. At this moment, do you have anything to say to your supporting fans?”
Li Fan’s gaze subconsciously looked toward that special area below the stage, showing a relatively relaxed smile: “Thank you very much to all fans supporting me, whether from the league or friends coming from other games. Thanks for coming to the venue today; I really heard your cheers, very powerful, thanks for the hard work. When I get back, I’ll definitely stream more to repay you.”
“Um… though it’s also possible I have no League of Legends fans at all.”
“Hahaha…”
The audience in the venue couldn’t help but laugh.
Though maybe not before, after today’s match, he definitely has League fans now.
These two games’ performances were really too amazing, too fan-attracting.
As for the saying about eating dumplings for New Year, can your family’s dumplings be eaten for six meals straight?
Clearly it’s a display of strength.
Although he didn’t train for three months and only played one ranked match.
But he indeed pulled out heroes endlessly.
LeBlanc, Lucian, Syndra, Ryze, Taliyah…
Six games, this champion pool is incomprehensible; just know he’s strong.
Perhaps Unreal didn’t lie to everyone in the last interview.
Ranked data only affects his judgment in matches.
“Oh, Unreal player is still so humorous. But after today’s match, I believe you’ll have plenty of League fans. Right?”
The latter sentence was asked to the on-site audience holding the microphone.
“Yes!”
The on-site audience very cooperatively shouted loudly together.
Hearing Li Fan would stream more, Yu Shuang asked a question not on the card: “You stream more… what content will you stream?”
“Uh… I’m a League professional player, of course I’ll stream League of Legends!”
“Hahahaha…” The audience in the venue laughed.
At this time, the director surprisingly cut the camera to a small block of Li Fan’s fan group in the front.
You could clearly see support signs for QQ Speed, Crossfire, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, CS… but none for League of Legends.
Saying this out, indeed no one could believe it.
But everyone immediately sighed that Li Fan had high emotional intelligence.
After all, this was the League of Legends Pro League; mentioning other games wasn’t great.
Yu Shuang covered her mouth and laughed, but didn’t pursue further.
Continuing to ask, if it led to other games, wouldn’t that be an interview mishap?
“In today’s two matches, you picked Taliyah and Ryze respectively, both with perfect performances. Facing a strong opponent like Xi Ye, how did you gain such a big advantage in lane and radiate the advantage to the whole team?”
Li Fan thought for a moment and answered: “Mainly the team communication was done well. In the first game, Taliyah was chosen by the coach as suitable for the lineup, and I was quite confident because I’ve practiced this hero a lot. In laning, Clearlove put a lot of pressure on the opponent early, letting me push the lane and roam more comfortably.”
“The second game Ryze was similar; after getting lane priority, I looked for opportunities together with the jungler, and teammates trusted my commands a lot.”
Kuaisu Xing listening to the translation could barely hold back his smile.
Clearlove’s expression didn’t change, but he gave a thumbs up in his heart.
Nothing else to say, EDG’s starting mid laner position was absolutely secure, and no one could bully Li Fan.
【Lies again! Gouba only played one ranked in three months, so you’re training in the void?】
【So what! Isn’t void training training? You discriminating against the void family?】
Yu Shuang also laughed: “Last question. After winning this key victory, EDG has achieved three consecutive wins, momentum very fierce. So for the upcoming matches and playoffs, what goals does the team have?”
This was also a very standard question.
Usually asked near the end of the regular season.
Li Fan’s expression became a bit more serious: “As for goals, definitely win every match. For playoffs, we’ll prepare seriously. Every opponent is strong; we’ll go all out to impact better results… um, hope to go all the way to the end.”
Not overly boastful, but the last four words sufficiently showed ambition.
After all, Chinese people do reading comprehension all their lives; saying this wouldn’t easily cause resentment.
After all, no matter what, he was a rookie player. A rookie saying after three games “I want championship, I want to be world number one” really wouldn’t be likable.
“Alright, believe through effort you can go all the way to the end. Thank you very much Unreal player for the interview, and congrats again to EDG for three consecutive wins!”
After the interview ended, Li Fan deeply bowed to the on-site audience.
After Li Fan finished the interview, he returned backstage to rejoin teammates, and the group boarded the bus back to base in a relaxed and pleasant mood.
Meanwhile, on the internet, discussions about this match were just starting to ferment.
The topic #EDG Three Consecutive Wins# undoubtedly rushed to the top of Weibo hot search, followed by a “burst” label.
Clicking in, full of fans’ cheers, forwards of match highlights, and analysis comments from various esports big Vs.
Of course, the one everyone studied most was still Li Fan.
《Unreal never attends daily training, yet slaughters in matches. How to evaluate EDG mid laner Unreal?》
【I evaluate your wooden piano! Sitting here evaluating every day?】
【How to evaluate, all came? Am I the people’s judge?】
【EDG wins matches is fine…】
However, while League fans were still passionately discussing the match itself, a hot search term with a completely different style quietly rose at a weird speed.
#QQ Speed Unreal 100,000 Prize Money Challenge, waiting for you to fight!#
