LOL: What does it mean to torture players?

"Ow~"

With a mournful cry, the dragon crashed down, and a purplish-red buff aura surrounded the five T1 players.

"T1 has secured Baron Nashor!" Remember breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at the minimap. "Now the focus is on Mozi in the bottom lane! Has he taken down the inhibitor yet...?"

The narration abruptly stopped.

The director switched the camera to the bottom lane high ground.

There was no one there.

Only a few EDG melee minions were futilely hammering at T1's bottom lane inhibitor turret.

"Where is the barbarian king?!" Guan Zeyuan was stunned.

In the fog of God's perspective, a figure wielding a large sword was not pushing the tower.

Fifteen seconds earlier, the moment Su Mo pushed the minion wave past the river ruins, he immediately veered into the blind spot of the jungle.

Using the movement speed bonus provided by the Green Cross, he moved like a ghost along the jungle path of the T1 Blue Buff, crossing the mid lane and silently making his way to the small patch of bushes behind the Baron pit!
He didn't push the high ground at all! He created a perfect illusion using the bottom lane minions, fooling everyone in T1's overall assessment!
"He's up there! Mozi is right there in the bushes above the Dragon Pit!!" Miller's eyes widened, his voice shrill with shock. "He didn't even use his scanner, he just walked right through T1's blind spot! T1 thought he was in the bottom lane, but he's actually right above them!!"

T1 secured Baron Nashor and prepared to recall inside the Baron pit.

"Stay calm, we have the Baron buff. Go back and defend our high ground, and we can turn this game around." Faker reassured his teammates in the voice chat while pressing the B key.

Just as the recall loading bar reached its final second.

"Keep them here!"

Meiko, who had been timidly standing at the edge of the river, suddenly sprang into action!

Rakan activated his ultimate, "Fleeting Glimpse," then flashed and used his W, "Grand Entrance," bracing himself against Caitlyn's traps and damage, and charged straight into the dragon pit, simultaneously launching Caitlyn and Lux, who were recalling, into the air! Interrupting their recall!
"EDG's support initiated a strong attack! But the damage wasn't enough! Rakan is about to be instantly killed!"

T1 players landed after being knocked up and were preparing to focus fire on and kill the clueless support.

Just then, a red figure suddenly fell from the edge of the wall above the Dragon Pit.

Su Mo's Barbarian King had no Flash or Ghost.

But he has a special E skill: Whirlwind Slash!
The moment everyone's attention was drawn to Rakan in front of the Dragon Pit, Su Mo clicked the mouse inside the Dragon Pit. Tryndamere's greatsword drew a cold arc in the air, directly passing over the thick Dragon Pit wall, and like a meteorite, it slammed into the most vulnerable center of T1's back row!
"The Barbarian King has entered the arena!!! Brother Mozi has descended from the sky!!!" Guan Zeyuan roared hoarsely.

T1's formation was instantly thrown into chaos!
"What is he doing here?!" Gumayusi's pupils suddenly contracted as he looked at the barbarian king's face, his heart skipping a beat.

But T1 is T1 after all, and their reaction is still world-class.

Keria's Lux used her Q skill, Light Binding, to directly hit Tryndamere at point-blank range the moment she landed.

Faker's Azir also unleashed his ultimate ability, "Imperial Wall," sending out a line of golden-armored soldiers to try and push Tryndamere out of the dragon pit!
Two deadly control effects almost completely shut down the Barbarian King's room for maneuver.

But Su Mo's eyes were as cold as a stagnant pool.

His fingers were already on the number keys in mid-air.

"Ding!"

A flash of white light appeared the instant Lux's Q skill touched Tryndamere's body.

Mercury Scimitar! Instantly solved!
The immobilization effect didn't even slow the Barbarian King down for 0.1 seconds.

Faced with the oncoming Tsar's ultimate, Su Mo couldn't use Flash to pass through the wall, but he pressed his W skill [Contempt]!
As Caitlyn and Lux ​​turned their backs to Tryndamere and tried to create distance, mocking icons appeared above their heads, their attack power was drastically reduced, and their movement speed was significantly decreased.

Then, Su Mo didn't dodge the Tsar's wall at all. Instead, he followed the direction the sand wall was pushed open and used the force to slide directly in front of the slowed-down policewoman!

"He used Tsar's ultimate ability to get close to the AD carry!!" Miller's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

Flat A falls.

"Shh!"

When the passive effect of the Green Crossbow is triggered, Tryndamere ignores unit collision and gains increased movement speed.

The blow struck the policewoman, and the red critical hit number was alarming. Half of her health bar vanished instantly!
Gumayusi used her E skill, [90-gauge rope net], to move backward.

However, with the buff from [Navori's Blade], Tryndamere's E skill cooldown is significantly reduced after a critical strike. The E skill he used to spin into the dragon pit is already ready again!

Su Mo pointed his mouse, and the second [Whirlwind Slash] followed the policewoman's movement trajectory flawlessly, the greatsword slashing down again!

Crit!

The policewoman fell to the ground!

"EDG.Mo has killed T1.Gumayusi!"

"Damn it! The AD carry is dead! Tryndamere without summoner spells is like a god of war in the dragon pit!!" Remember shouted.

Seeing this, Oner's prince's eyes turned bloodshot, and he used his ultimate skill, Cataclysm, to trap Tryndamere. Combined with Jayce's Warhammer burst, Tryndamere's health was instantly depleted.

"Endless rage!"

Five-second real man activated!
Ignoring the damage from the prince and Jayce, Su Mo, with only a sliver of health remaining, strode towards Lux, who was standing to the side.

Knife up and down.

Crit!

Lux is dead!
"Double Kill!"

At this moment, Chen and JackeyLove on the front lines also joined the damage output. Vi's Iron Fist shattered the Prince's armor, and Xayah's feathers filled the narrow dragon pit, her barbs fully extended.

T1's formation was completely disrupted by Tryndamere alone. Although Faker's Azir tried his best to deal damage, he was ultimately overwhelmed by the EDG team's encirclement and suppression.

"Triple Kill!" JackeyLove's Xayah secured the kills on Azir and Jayce.

A perfect 0-for-4 exchange! T1's Prince, with only low health, managed to use his EQ combo to escape through the wall in a sorry state.

The entire dragon pit was a mess, except for Su Mo's Barbarian King, who had used his Q skill to recover some health and stood quietly in place, holding his greatsword.

"Baron Nashor ruins lives... T1's Baron buff trial card only lasts for a mere ten seconds!" Guan Zeyuan stared at the screen, his tone filled with disbelief. "In this team fight, Mozi's decision-making was simply divine! He used the bottom lane minions as bait, creating the illusion of a split push, and then used the blind spot in vision to sneak up above the Baron pit! Without any summoner spells, he used positioning, Quicksilver Sash, and awareness to completely shred T1's backline!"

"What's most terrifying is his on-the-spot reaction," Miller exclaimed. "Instantly using Mercury's Treads to counter Lux's Q is basic, but he used the push from Faker's Azir's ultimate to close the distance with Caitlyn. That's true skill and daring! Most people would think about how to get back when pushed away, but he turned the opponent's control into his own mobility!"

The live stream chat had already turned into a boiling ocean of comments:
[Amazing! This is truly a god playing a game!]

[Faker: My ultimate is for pushing people, not for you to ride on!]

[T1 Coach: He has no Flash or Sprint, he's useless in team fights. Su Mo: Your understanding of reckless players is too superficial.]

What is a true assassin? It's someone who walks up to your face with a big knife, cuts you to death in one stroke, and you can't escape!

21 minutes 30 seconds.

EDG didn't need the Baron buff at all. They pushed forward with a large wave of minions accumulated in the mid lane, directly pushing onto T1's high ground.

T1 only had Oner's Jarvan IV trembling under the tower. Facing five ferocious EDG players, he didn't dare to use a single skill, and could only watch helplessly as the high ground tower and crystal were instantly destroyed.

"One wave! One wave!" Ah Chen shouted excitedly in the voice chat.

EDG's army poured into T1's high ground, and the two inhibitor turrets collapsed like mud under Tryndamere's critical hits.

Jayce and Caitlyn rushed out of the fountain to make a final defense, but Xiaoyue's Syndra used a Weakness Retreat to stun them both. JackeyLove followed up with damage and killed them again.

Su Mo ignored the people in the spring; he simply clicked on the huge blue crystal quietly.

"boom--"

The scene freezes at 22 minutes and 15 seconds.

T1's crystal nexus exploded into countless fragments.

"Congratulations to EDG! In the first game of the S13 World Championship finals, thanks to top laner Mo's unexpected performance with Tryndamere and his breathtaking macro-level command, they have taken the first game! 1-0!"

Guan Zeyuan's voice echoed throughout the entire Gaochi Sky Dome, and the LPL fans at the scene erupted in deafening cheers.

On the battle platform, Su Mo released the mouse, picked up the thermos on the table, and took a sip of water. He glanced at the Barbarian King on the big screen's results panel, whose damage conversion rate was ridiculously high, and slightly twisted his slightly sore wrist.

"Well done, brothers." His voice was steady, without much inflection. "Let's go to the lounge for a drink of water. This is just the beginning; T1 hasn't shown its hand yet."

Beneath the dome of the Gorchi Sky Dome, red and blue lights flashed wildly like an inverted aurora borealis. The shouts of tens of thousands of spectators merged into a deafening roar, almost lifting this top-tier e-sports arena in Asia.

"EDG!!! EDG!!!"

"Mo God!!! He's so handsome!!!"

Amidst the deafening cheers of LPL fans, Su Mo, carrying a thermos in one hand, walked at the very back of the EDG team, passing through the glass tunnel in the center of the stage. His pace was unhurried, and he even nodded slightly to a few fans holding up signs that read "Happy Ending, Brother Mo" as he passed the front row of the audience.

The director's camera relentlessly followed that slender figure, broadcasting this strikingly contrasting scene simultaneously to tens of millions of live streams worldwide.

[Here it comes! The old man who always seems to be taking a stroll after a match!]

[Others win the championship and take the city first: They jump up and hug each other excitedly. Mozi: I'm thirsty, let's have some water and take a walk.]

[What the hell?! Happy end of get off work! Is he just here in Seoul for a vacation and casually playing in the finals?!]

[T1 players are probably numb right now. Getting crushed by a retro hero like Tryndamere in the first game must be incredibly traumatic.]

After walking through the long corridor, the EDG team members pushed open the door to the lounge.

"Hahaha! Awesome! That was fucking awesome!" As soon as Chen walked in, he excitedly punched the sofa, turned to look at Su Mo, his eyes sparkling, "Brother Mo, how did you come up with that last dragon pit play?! Using Azir's wall to teleport and attack Caitlyn, I was so stunned that I forgot to press my skill!"

Xiao Yue was so excited he was practically dancing around: "Yeah, yeah! When I saw you didn't have Flash or Sprint, I thought you were really going to push the bottom lane. But then you suddenly fell from the sky and stunned Gumayusi!"

Su Mo walked to the water dispenser, filled her thermos with hot water, and expertly tossed in a few goji berries before turning around, her tone as calm as if she were discussing what to have for dinner:
"I didn't think about it much. The policewoman has long reach, and if I walk straight past her, I'll definitely get kited. The Tsar's ultimate has a fixed hitbox, so as long as I calculate the angle and slide along that force, I can just get close to the policewoman's basic attack range."

He blew on the steam rising from the rim of his cup, took a small sip, and continued, "Besides, I've built Mercury's Treads, so Lux's Q is useless against me. They can't engage in this team fight."

There was a two-second silence in the lounge.

Then, JackeyLove couldn't help but swear: "Damn, judging from your tone, this game sounds like an elementary school math problem. What the hell is this angle calculation?! That's Faker's fortified wall! Who would dare to use that kind of momentum to move at such extreme frame rates? Only a freak like you would dare to play like that!"

Meiko smiled and shook her head: "That's Mo Ge's level, we can't learn it. But the brothers played really well this game, especially Chen's counter-gank in the bottom lane in the early game, which broke Oner's rhythm, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to roam."

Mingkai walked in with a tactical board in his hand. Although he couldn't hide his smile, he still clapped his hands as usual to signal everyone to quiet down.

"Alright, alright, let's save the praise for after we win the championship. 1-0 is just the beginning. T1 is an extremely resilient team. In the first game, they were caught off guard by Mozi's Tryndamere. In the next game, they will definitely make huge adjustments in the draft and tactics."

Mingkai walked to the whiteboard and quickly drew several key ward positions and jungle routes with a marker: "We're on the red side this game, so we'll reserve the counter pick for Mozi. T1 will most likely strengthen their defense in the top half of the map, or directly pick a strong dive composition to target our backline. Chen, the pressure in the jungle will be immense next game; Oner will definitely be marking you closely."

"Don't worry, I'm tough!" Ah Chen patted his chest.

Su Mo sat on the sofa with his eyes closed, his mind rapidly reviewing every detail of the previous game. Zeus's positioning habits, Oner's counter-ganking timing, Faker's skill casting animations... these seemingly scattered pieces of information were quickly integrated in his brain, forming extremely sophisticated response models.

Just then, there was a gentle knock on the door of the lounge.

LPL's official host, hope Ran, walked in wearing an extremely elegant custom-made cheongsam and carrying a stack of cue cards. She wore a professional smile, but when her eyes swept over Su Mo, a hint of barely concealed excitement flashed across her face.

"Excuse me, everyone, congratulations on winning the first game!" hope Ran greeted everyone with a smile, then walked up to Su Mo and handed him a card. "Brother Mo, this is a short interactive interview arranged by the organizers before the start of the second game. It mainly asks for your thoughts on Tryndamere in the first game and your predictions for T1's tactics in the next game. Please take a look at the questions first, and if you feel there's anything inappropriate, I can change it at any time."

Su Mo took the card, glanced at it only, and then casually handed it back to hope Ran: "No need to change it, just ask the questions on this card." (End of Chapter)