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Chapter 532 No matter how loud you are, your fist is the only thing that matters!

"Zhou Shen, go easy on me during the match!"

Zhou Dian was initially curious about why Holy Gun Bro was calling him at this time.

I never expected Flandre to say something like that.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Dian smiled slightly and said, "Let's develop peacefully, not fight each other!"

"That's great!" Holy Gun Bro replied immediately.

Despite saying that, Saint Gun Bro was thinking to himself, "I don't believe you for a second! I have to be careful today, I absolutely can't become Zhou Shen's background!"

Saint Gun said something to Zhou Dian before the match, and it wasn't entirely a joke.

Rather, he genuinely knew that Zhou Dian was in excellent condition.

Actually, Snake, the team that Flandre plays, wasn't one of the scrim opponents TES had scheduled in the past few days.

Therefore, Flandre is not among the top laners who were dominated by Zhou Dian in the scrims these past few days.

However, a few days ago, when Flandre was solo queuing on the Korean server, he was matched with a match in the weekly top tier.

In the top lane matchup, Flandre got a little crushed by Zhou Dian.

Saint Gun Bro didn't take it to heart at first.

Which professional player hasn't been crushed in ranked matches?
Let alone being humiliated by fellow professional players.

Many professional players still get thrashed by random players from time to time.

For professional players, the most important thing is their performance in official matches.

Training matches are often unreliable, let alone a single ranked game.

The reason was that in the afternoon, the entire Snake team left the team base and headed to the competition venue.

Saint Gun was thinking that today's opponent was TES, which was also Zhou Dian's TES debut.

I was reminded of the time I got crushed by Zhou Dian in ranked matches a few days ago.

On a whim, I checked the Korean server rankings of the account that I had matched with a few days ago.

I don't know if I don't see it, I'm startled when I see it.

Zhou Dian has actually reached 1400 points in the Korean server, ranking fourth.

No wonder I haven't been able to get a spot with Zhou Shen these past few days.

For a player of Zhou Dian's caliber, having over a thousand points in the Korean server is not surprising at all.

Let alone fourth place in the Korean server, even first place wouldn't be surprising!

It's not like I haven't been to one before.

The problem is that when Flandre was ranked in the weekly top tier, the weekly top tier only had a little over 500 points in the Korean server, ranking around 190th, just right on the edge of the Challenger tier.

Saint Gun Bro also has less than 600 points; both of them are on the verge of becoming Challenger and could drop to Master at any time.

Saint Gun Bro likes to perform acrobatic tricks and mess around in ranked matches, which is why his ranked score never goes up.

After that game, when he saw that Zhou Dian only had a little over 500 points like him, Flandre even joked with his teammate SofM, "Is Zhou Dian really giving up now? How come his ranked points are about the same as mine!"

Over the past two years, no matter what, Zhou Dian's Korean server ranking points have always been at least over 1000.

This year, he's been hovering on the edge of the King rank for a long time, so it's no wonder that Saint Gun Brother suspects that the weekly top ranking is being manipulated.

But just a few days later, today is the day Snake will face TES.

Saint Gun Bro's Korean server ranked score is still over 500 points, making him a bottom-ranked player in Challenger.

Zhou Dian actually gained almost a thousand points!

Saint Gun Bro looked at Zhou Dian's account again and saw large areas of green (indicating a loss), with only the occasional red (indicating a loss).

And he used a lot of heroes, so he won in all sorts of ways, winning in all sorts of fancy ways.

Upon seeing these, Saint Gun immediately understood something.

Oh no, Zhou Shen has stopped playing aggressively since joining TES, and his competitive form seems to have improved. I hope Zhou Shen won't go all out on me today!
That's why Saint Gun said, "Zhou, go easy on me during the match!"

Zhou Dian's reply to Saint Gun Bro, "Let's develop peacefully and not fight!", was no joke.

This is what he truly feels right now.

Although today's match is his TES debut, Zhou Dian doesn't intend to be the main character of today's game.

Since 369 was benched in the Intercontinental Cup group stage, and up until today, in the few matches where Moyu played top lane for TES, the team has mainly focused on the mid and jungle, and hasn't paid much attention to the top lane.

Therefore, Zhou Dian doesn't want to interfere with the team's recent tactics for the time being.

He plans to play tank top laners in the upcoming matches.

If Nakano can maintain his position, he'd be happy to "hang out there".

Because mid-lane carries are inherently easier to win games with than side-lane carries.

The most correct game model is to wait until the mid-jungle duo can no longer carry the game before stepping up to take over.

Teams where everyone can carry and has the opportunity to carry are teams with a higher potential.

If a team only has one carry position, it's very easy to counter.

A little over an hour later, TES easily defeated Snake 2-0.

Just as Zhou Dian had planned before the match, he played Sion in one game and Ornn in the other.

The two teams were already quite different in terms of raw strength, and TES played two games with the most stable lineup of two carries + a tanky top laner + a utility jungler and support, which really didn't give Snake any chance.

However, in both games with tank heroes, Zhou Dian did not fall behind in the laning phase at all, and his development was always up to par, and he was even able to develop ahead of others.

In matches, given the same level of development, tank heroes are generally more valuable to the team than so-called carry-type top lane heroes.

However, the problem with tank top laners is that if your teammates, especially the two carries, have problems, you can only be a punching bag and can't carry the team to victory on your own. Your potential is not that high.

However, in these two games today, TES's two carries dealt plenty of damage behind Zhou Dian and had a great time.

However, this also left many viewers who were hoping to see Zhou Dian dominate his TES debut today somewhat disappointed.

Throughout the two games, apart from team fights, Zhou Dian didn't get much screen time.

Of course, this also became an excuse for the haters to attack Zhou Dian.

Originally, the critics were hoping Snake would pull off a stunning upset against TES today. That would certainly be the best outcome.

At the very least, Saint Gun Bro should be able to completely dominate Zhou Dian in a one-on-one lane, or at least solo kill Zhou Dian once or twice.

However, none of these things came true.

On the contrary, the journey was very uneventful, with hardly any screen time.

However, if the haters don't leave a comment after watching the game, wouldn't they have wasted their time watching it?
Who will make up for the time I wasted?
Therefore, without any legitimate reason to criticize.

The haters focused their attacks on the heroes Zhou Dian played in those two games.

All that can be said is far-fetched and contrived claims that Zhou Dian is a "coward" and a "scoundrel."

They say Zhou Dian didn't dare to draw his sword against Holy Gunner, and only dared to play tanky.

Anyway, they're getting worse and worse, and they don't live up to their reputation. Their championship win was just due to luck and strong teammates.

We spent so much money to rent it just to play with tanks?
Who doesn't know how to play Tank Heroes!

This is even worse than 369, who basically plays damage-dealing champions in every game when he's in the top lane.

If black moves to attack, white moves will naturally retaliate.

The players couldn't help but complain: "Is 369 still here? 369 likes to play his B-damage top laner, but he doesn't play heroes like Jayce as well as Zhou Shen."

If 369 had been willing to play tanks, he wouldn't have been so easily defeated by TheShy and Nuguri; TES might have even been able to beat IG and DWG.

Haters immediately pointed out that even if Zhou Dian were replaced, they still wouldn't be able to beat IG and DWG.

The white team presented evidence, including TES's post-match interview today, where teammates praised Zhou Dian.

The haters immediately said that their teammates were being insincere and didn't dare offend Zhou Dian.

It just highlights his unreasonable and sophistry.

Of course, on the internet, what's reasonable is unreasonable, and what's unreasonable is reasonable.

Ultimately, it comes down to who has the loudest voice and who can shout the most.

If you take it seriously, you'll lose!

After all, in reality, no matter how loud you are, it's useless; only a big fist matters.

The night the TES vs. Snake match ended.

After returning to the team's base, Zhou Dian played solo queue until the early hours of the morning, achieving a six-game winning streak and reaching the top of the Korean server rankings.

After finishing the last game, Zhou Dian didn't even bother to check the Korean server leaderboard. He simply shut down his computer, left the training room, and went back to his dorm to sleep.

Even after switching teams, Zhou Dian is still the one who goes to bed earliest in the whole team.

Going to bed early is a good habit!
Meanwhile, on the other side of the training room, as Zhou Dian shut down his computer and stood up, Knight leaned back in his chair and stretched in a somewhat effeminate manner, saying, "Oops, I couldn't stop Zhou from reaching number one on the Korean server. He's taken so many points from me these past few days!"

However, Knight's Chinese was so unclear that even though Xx wasn't wearing headphones, he still couldn't understand what his mid laner had just said.

Xx didn't care if he didn't hear clearly, and directly said to Knight, "Left Hand, don't brag to me about being number one on the Korean server anymore. I think it's as easy for Brother Zhou to be number one on the Korean server as drinking water!"

As the strongest ranked player in the TES team, Knight's Korean server ranked points have been consistently above 1000 points in the Korean server for the past two years.

Recently, Zhou Dian has been aggressively climbing the ranked ladder and has been frequently matched with Knight.

Sometimes they are teammates, sometimes they are opponents.

However, what they have in common is that most of the time it's Zhou Dian who gets the points.

In the game where Zhou Dian was ranked number one on the Korean server, Knight was matched against him.

Driven by a certain mischievous sense of humor, the other teammates who weren't in ranked matches gathered around Knight to watch, expressing their hope that Knight could snipe him from reaching the top of the weekly rankings and prevent him from becoming number one in the Korean server.

Being surrounded by his teammates made Knight feel a little pressured.

As a result, his performance in this game was quite mediocre, which directly led to Zhou Dian reaching the top of the Korean server rankings.

Hearing Xx's words, Knight was a little unhappy and immediately said, "That's because Zhou Shen is good. Xiong Xiong, I'm just asking you, have you reached number one in the Korean server?"

Xx touched the back of her head and chuckled, "I've never actually been on one!"

At this moment, Ben, the TES support who had been standing behind Knight watching, said in heavily accented Chinese, "No matter who it is, being number one in the Korean server is still impressive!"

Upon hearing this, Xx nodded.

He agreed with Ben's statement; he was just teasing Knight.

It's because Knight always brags about his high rank and how he was once ranked number one on the Korean server.

Ben's words reminded Knight of S7 two years ago, when he was still with PDD's YM team.

When he first reached the top rank in the Korean server, PDD assembled a bunch of online trolls to praise him across the entire internet. The titles "genius mid-laner" and "golden left hand" were bestowed upon him, which significantly increased his value.

Being ranked number one in the Korean server is indeed valuable; otherwise, PDD wouldn't have been able to sell Knight for such a high price based on that alone, even when Knight didn't have any outstanding achievements.

But now, when Knight looks back on this incident, in a year when he still needed online trolls to promote him and increase his value, Zhou Shen had already demonstrated unprecedented dominance.

A single-year Finals MVP grand slam—that's an incredibly high achievement.

As for the boast he made back then, the marketing gimmick his former boss PDD used—being number one in the Korean server—it really was as easy as drinking water for Zhou Shen, just as Xx said earlier!

That's true; which truly outstanding professional player would care about their rank points?

At this moment, Knight felt a slight change in his state of mind.

Perhaps I should set my goals higher, instead of thinking that I've succeeded just because I've achieved a little bit!

The next day, news of Zhou Dian reaching the top of the Korean server was spread by fans.

Let alone Zhou Dian, even for many of Zhou Dian's long-time fans, being number one in the Korean server is nothing compared to his professional career achievements; it's not even worth bragging about.

However, for some Zhou Dian fans who care about public opinion, as well as many TES fans, this matter still needs to be discussed.

After all, these days the trolls have been too arrogant, making all sorts of baseless accusations and slanders.

It would be good to use this incident to curb the arrogance of the haters.

The fact that Zhou Shen reached the top of the Korean server with an extremely high win rate in just a few days shows that he is currently in very good form.

It's not impossible for them to deliver a peak performance on the field!

I ask you haters, aren't you afraid that Zhou Shen will return to his peak and slap you in the face?
(End of this chapter)