Chapter 4: He Doesn’t Even Count As A Substitute
Smack, that’s fast!
The race to three ended just like that.
After all, in Speed, if you run fast in a game, even maps that take over a minute and ten seconds are possible.
Brother Sun really plays Speed quite well, much stronger than average people, but compared to real professional players, he’s still far behind.
Especially since Li Fan has the best running methods for various maps. To put it bluntly, although his reaction and hand speed haven’t reached the top level yet, relying on this experience, he can crush these professional players without any pressure.
Once the current Speed professional players learn these operations, it’ll come down to their own reaction and understanding of routes to suppress opponents.
Don’t think Speed is just running maps—its operation difficulty far exceeds League of Legends. In a sense, it’s a game that relies more on age; as age increases, many operations become impossible to perform.
If we must compare, take the Eye of Coastline card qi—if you want to complete continuous cards, it’s much harder than a Marth triple kill. Even professional players have huge differences; some can card up to over 800 km/h speed, while others can only manage 600 km/h.
Of course, those who can’t do continuous cards just step on the acceleration pad and eat dust behind— the gap is extremely obvious.
And most Speed players only know basic operations: getting it moving, drifting, and double spray. Beyond these skills, they don’t even know tail drift…
So the gap between car hands is also terrifyingly large.
Its competitiveness is truly no worse than other games, especially in top-level matchups.
Some viewers who came into the live stream room later had a huge change in opinion.
This spring’s New Idea Fun can actually be run like this?
It really has something!
Such a long drift that’s not even a card drift—super cool.
Li Fan’s follower count was also rising at this time, already reaching 20,000.
All earned from his efforts during this period.
【Gained learning points: 20, freedom attributes: +1】
This prompt stunned Li Fan for a moment.
Learning points of twenty… that’s nothing, but this freedom attribute afterward is way too important.
After all, this is his foundation.
Compared to other professional players, his reaction and hand speed are still at a huge disadvantage.
Without any hesitation, he directly added this freedom point to reaction.
After all, League of Legends isn’t a game that relies heavily on hand speed, but reaction is essential.
If reaction is poor, one dodge followed by a Q, another dodge followed by a Q, and the first-generation Q connect becomes on himself.
Then he pondered why a freedom attribute appeared only today? That’s very strange?
Could it be… related to his followers?
After all, one of the system conditions is to see the external reaction—it’s not like he gets rewards just by playing other games.
Under these circumstances, Li Fan chose Speed.
After all, he himself is an 18-year veteran Speed player, with all operations at his fingertips. Most crucially, the SSC Spring Split has begun.
A League of Legends professional player participating in Speed professional competition— no need to think, there would definitely be tons of topics.
And facts proved this step wasn’t wrong.
Learning points increasing more and more, followers also increasing, and he even earned a small side income.
After all, EDG only gives substitute players basic salary; Li Fan’s monthly salary is only 10,000 yuan.
And five years later, the official raised the minimum salary standard for substitutes to 20,000 to better protect professional players.
This is also why many professional players occasionally take booster gigs—because boosters can earn more than their main job in some sense.
After all, not everyone can get a 40 million annual salary without winning the World Championship.
This is also why they have the confidence to poach others and then cause a scandal.
But this gave Li Fan even more ideas.
“Those who like the streamer, help me hit follow. Follow so you don’t get lost, lest you can’t find it next time you want to watch.”
“And I believe many people are very interested in the streamer’s operation just now. In the next few days, I’ll make a tutorial video for you all.”
“Next challenger, please come up…”
Just soloing one by one like this, quite a few people in the live stream room initially cursed Li Fan for neglecting his duties as a professional player, not training at all and playing these random games all day.
Even more infuriating is EDG’s mid laner.
You know, after Clearlove was eliminated in the quarterfinals last year, there wasn’t much time left.
What are you, this hook mid laner, trying to do sneaking in?
Trying to drag Clearlove down again?
In some sense, these fans doing this is actually quite exaggerated.
After all, Li Fan hasn’t even gotten a chance to appear.
Up to now, he hasn’t played a single match, just listed as a substitute on the roster.
But look at Uzi’s fans, then look at Clearlove’s fans, and it feels very reasonable.
Li Fan was happy with it.
If not for so many people cursing him, the popularity wouldn’t have risen this fast, so it actually achieved the effect.
【Holy crap, Akina Mountain Car God? Watching the streamer run Speed really has something—feels like every map is at the limit!】
【Rose of Love Board Car running 1:30? You sure this isn’t cheating?】
【My god, this is too exaggerated. The result you ran is faster than my Renault—I can only run 1:36 with Renault.】
【No, is Rose of Love Board Car at 1:30 that exaggerated? I can run 1:26 with Board Car!】
【Saying that is like talking out your ass—who would believe it? Board Car’s straight-line speed is only 197; how could it run Rose of Love under 1:30?】
【Clearly a League of Legends professional player, why can he play Speed so slickly?】
【He just plays some maps well—you guys don’t think he really knows them all, do you?】
【Keep watching and you’ll know…】
【Can only say professional players are professional players—not only good at League of Legends, but also good at Speed.】
【That’s just awkward praise—this guy couldn’t even make it to the arena during matches, and he’s not some important substitute.】
The next solo matchup ended amid the shock of the entire audience.
Quite a few Speed fans also poured in.
They played until 2 a.m…. before reluctantly saying goodbye to the audience in the live stream room and going offline.
To be honest, in the basement, there really was no one to disturb Li Fan.
Five yuan per blood vial, and he received a full 200 today! Plus some fan badges and gift revenue, totaling over 1,200.
At the same time, some marketing accounts and esports media started to stir.
The main reason was still because EDG lost to RNG today.
【The source of EDG losing the match is actually him?】
【EDG team’s player neglecting his duties, affecting the players’ state!】
