Chapter 120: A Wild Dog Actually Thinks It’s A Senior?
During Li Fan’s live stream, that bold statement “Give me another hour, and I can go pro,” paired with him getting beaten badly at the start, then watching the move list for a bit before beating his opponent badly, instantly became perfect clipping material.
After all, the all-rounder and quick-learner tags on Li Fan himself carry extremely high topicality.
Not to mention that after today’s match ended, during the interview, he said he never practices heroes.
Putting these two sentences together is simply like they hit the same nail on the head.
【Good grief, so League of Legends doesn’t need practice, but other games require tons of training time……Street Fighter needs an hour of practice, but League of Legends doesn’t even need a minute.】
【Hehehe, the god of gaming has confirmed it, League of Legends is the lowest difficulty game out of all of them! LoL Dogs, stop barking!】
【What operations does Street Fighter even have? Isn’t it just punching in front to gather energy?】
【Damn it, if you don’t master the frame data for every character’s moves, you think you can play this game well? Do you even know what negative frames are?】
【This trample-one-praise-one crap is really disgusting, if you don’t like playing League of Legends just don’t play, why step on it?】
【Huh? Then what does it mean that you despise Honor of Kings all day? Saying it’s a screen protector game gives your pathological psychology a bit of satisfaction?】
【We’re just doing what LoL Dogs used to do, if you feel offended, that proves I’m right.】
【We’ll bring this up from now on!】
Various game forums have gone off the rails, originally it was marveling at Li Fan’s gaming talent and how quickly he picks things up, but it turned into direct arguments over the gaming disdain chain.
Gotta say, game players are the easiest to argue with.
Even in the same game matches, they curse each other out in all sorts of ways, let alone different games.
Street Fighter is indeed quite niche……
But who hasn’t gone to a game hall to play a round or two?
UP masters in the gaming sections of major video platforms jumped on it, naturally including Yu Luo, who’s known for quality and speed.
Yu Luo’s clipped video title was as eye-catching as ever: 《【Unreal】From Getting Abused to Counter-Kill! Claiming Pro in One Hour? Is This the World of Talent Monsters?》.
Gotta say, after this period of clipping, titles like these come naturally, with almost no difficulty.
The video carefully selected Li Fan’s stunned expression when he was first KO’d, his focused side profile seriously checking the move list in the middle, and his smug smile after landing smooth combos and winning later.
Finally freezing on the screen of him boldly declaring to the camera.
Showing off Li Fan’s smug face to the fullest.
The editing rhythm is brisk, with voiceover and effects perfectly enhancing the dramatic and show effects.
Of course, it didn’t forget to include that interview line, huh? Does League of Legends need to practice heroes? Adding even more depth.
Once this video was released, its heat skyrocketed.
But ninety percent of the viewers are fans, with not a shred of disgust.
As for strangers, they’re also marveling at how exaggerated this talent is.
This kind of gaming genius who can play any game has left the ranks of ordinary people, truly not something to be jealous of.
【Holy crap, this learning speed is truly ridiculous! As expected of the all-rounder king.】
【Showing off? No, he’s really learning and applying on the spot!】
【Other people’s brains: top-tier CPU. My brain: potato server.】
【He won Speed with QQ Speed, got called a god in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, now picks up Street Fighter this fast……Is there anything he can’t do?】
【@Domestic Street Fighter pro player, someone’s here to kick the gym!（Doge）】
【Unreal: An all-round game king held back by League of Legends.】
……
After all, Unreal’s little fanboy is now a big streamer on Bilibili too, also showing many ordinary people another path.
Which is being a clipping streamer……
Others have some popularity, but can’t compare to Li Fan at all, so they were quickly “repurposed” and re-clipped without authorization by other marketing accounts and small UP masters, with titles becoming even more exaggerated:
《EDG Mid Laner Unreal Announces Entry into Street Fighter Pro Circle!》
《LPL Face? No, it’s the face of the gaming world! Unreal Conquers Street Fighter V in One Hour!》
《Shocking! While Faker Was Grinding League of Legends, He Was……》
These videos further expanded the event’s reach, even radiating to the fighting game circle.
Some Street Fighter pros and famous streamers were asked about their views on this during live streams, most smiled it off, some jokingly welcomed the challenge, others seriously said different fields are like different mountains, fun is fine, but pro isn’t that simple.
While Li Fan’s Street Fighter clips were going viral across platforms, in a certain rental room, Ding Chunqiu was staring at his computer screen, face ashen.
He had just finished his daily training for transitioning to Street Fighter streaming and was about to go live, habitually scrolling Bilibili for new material.
But the homepage prominently pushed Yu Luo’s clip: 《【Unreal】From Getting Abused to Counter-Kill! Claiming Pro in One Hour?》.
“Damn it!”
In the video, Li Fan went from initial flailing to later mastery, especially that line “Give me another hour, and I can go pro.”
The more he watched, the uglier his face got, his breathing growing heavy.
Why? Why right now? Why Street Fighter of all things?
Ding Chunqiu felt like he was suffocating.
Back then, he wasn’t doing well in the League of Legends pro circle, neither high nor low, and with age catching up, continuing seemed pointless, so he needed another way out.
After painful reflection, he decided to transition early to a currently niche but promising game, dive deep into it, should make some money, and if possible, even compete as a high-age pro player to eat from that bowl again.
Rather than ending up factory working later.
After all, young people really aren’t willing to dive deep into games like this.
He researched for a long time and finally chose Street Fighter.
This game has heritage, international events, domestic pro scene still developing, player base small but growing.
He figured he had a fighting game foundation, poured massive time and energy these past months, practicing combos in training mode daily, memorizing frames, watching master match recordings, and had basically touched the threshold.
His streams were starting to pick up, low popularity but a few fixed viewers praising his quick progress and understanding.
He could almost see himself standing firm in the new field, even becoming pro player Ding Chunqiu in Street Fighter.
But Li Fan’s video was like a bucket of ice water, dousing the fledgling flame in his heart to just smoke.
Explosive heat means more people will pay attention to Street Fighter, and the more geniuses that join, he didn’t think his current self could compete with these youngsters.
“Fuck!” He slammed the table hard, hurting his hand.
But now he couldn’t control his emotions anymore, “Unreal, you fucking sick or what??”
“Not playing League of Legends properly, not preparing well for the upcoming finals, coming to Street Fighter for what, Corki?”
“Showing off? You got high talent? You got strong learning ability, huh?”
“You a League of Legends player coming to our Street Fighter circle bossing around, acting like a big bad wolf! Pro in just one hour?”
“Play a couple games, glance at the move list, and think you’re good? Do you fucking know how much pros put in behind the scenes?”
Staring at the frozen screen of Li Fan’s somewhat smug face, a massive sense of crisis and jealousy.
He was afraid, afraid Li Fan might really take an interest in Street Fighter.
Even if just playing occasionally, with his terrifying learning speed and built-in massive traffic.
It would suck away most of the attention in this already niche circle.
Then, who would notice him, Ding Chunqiu, who busted his ass for months to barely look decent?
Plus, EDG club management is super chaotic, if Unreal actually gets good and competes in Street Fighter matches, wouldn’t that steal all the popularity?
“No way……Absolutely not……” Ding Chunqiu muttered, his eyes turning a bit sinister, he had to do something.
He grabbed his mobile phone from the desk and opened Weibo.
Weibo interface popped up, next to his account avatar still hung his old bio: former KING team player, former ZTR team coach, once guided MLXG.
Ding Chunqiu didn’t hesitate anymore, fingers flying across the screen.
“Recently a genius mid laner popped up in League of Legends, really riding high huh.”
“As a veteran, seeing you like this now, it’s kinda sad, League of Legends circle finally gets a genius, but your heart’s not on the right path.”
“Playing this today, that tomorrow, acting all high and mighty in other games, makes you look all-rounder? Makes you look talented?”
“Sure, your talent is good, you learn fast. But people’s energy is limited!”
“A pro player’s golden period is just those few years, you’re squandering your talent now, not focusing on League of Legends itself, not deepening your champion pool, not studying the meta, not polishing details, messing with these flashy side talents all day, to me that’s laughable.”
“You’ve got heat, you’ve got topics, but esports ultimately speaks through results!”
“When your state slips from distraction, when your champion pool can’t keep up with the meta from lack of practice, when your team loses key matches because of your wide hobbies……Too late for regrets.”
“You’ll realize your so-called all-rounder, so-called genius, is all cashing in your future!”
The 200-character essay spilled out effortlessly.
After reading his own essay, Ding Chunqiu couldn’t help nodding.
His original irritable mood was gone, gotta say, he wrote this essay really well.
Perfectly standing on the angle of a League of Legends senior, advising the young one, looking all for-your-own-good.
And sure enough, lots of EDG fans below deeply agreed.
Coach Ding didn’t say a word wrong.
Right now it’s cashing in the future, relying on youth to pull off effects, if he keeps being this arrogant, Spring Split might get champion, but the upcoming Mid-Season Invitational is another story.
Then embarrassing themselves internationally……Wouldn’t that cement EDG as civil war phantom gods, foreign war soft-legged shrimps?
【Coach Ding is right! Unreal has been a bit cocky lately, playing in training matches is fine, but streaming it and spouting off big words.】
【Still gotta listen to senior advice, pro player’s golden period is short, should focus indeed.】
【Wait, who is this coach from? Stop riding coattails.】
【LOL, a wild dog kicked out of pro entirely, hugging Mala Xiang Guo’s thigh, now acting like he guided Mala Xiang Guo?】
【Giving all sorts of advice? Dumbass! Who cares about you?】
【Has Unreal been bad at League of Legends? Second on Spring Split regular season MVP list, EDG record leading all the way, this is neglecting one’s duties?】
【Ding Chunqiu is just sour, huh? Heard his Street Fighter streamer transition is lukewarm, scared Unreal will steal his rice bowl?】
But people like Ding Chunqiu are rare, Guangdong……
“Xiao Hai, King of Fighters has no future, Unreal played Street Fighter once and popularity exploded, wanna try Street Fighter again?”
Xiao Hai glanced……thinking to himself.
Street Fighter, huh?
