League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 472 Ilex is the strongest position one on this planet.

"It was alright." After the match, Chen Dongqing lay back in his chair and laughed, "With my Void Spirit, my ultimate ability could hit two or three targets at a time. How could the other side withstand that?"

"That's awesome!" Several DOTA2 teammates nodded in agreement and immediately praised him.

DOTA2 certainly acknowledges Chen Dongqing as a super carry, and since they aren't as close to him as they are to LOL players, their feelings are more of respect.

It has a similar feel to the travelogue Chen Dongqing read in his previous life.

Chen Dongqing also praised his teammate with a smile, giving him some feedback.

Meanwhile, in a certain place in Russia

After losing the game, VP immediately reviewed the match, trying to find the problems in the previous game.

"I still don't understand," RAMZES666 said. "How did this void arise?"

"I don't know," said 9pasha, the offlaner. "My first impression of this Void Spirit is that he's incredibly reliable at last-hitting, and I'm having trouble keeping up with his farm."

It's truly surprising that a strong Omniknight couldn't last-hit as well as a weak Void.

And this Void player is a League of Legends player?

Do League of Legends players who are used to playing in a game without denying minions really have such strong last-hitting ability?

"My feeling is that Void's entry is very aggressive." The two supports from the VP team also said, "His strategy is very clear. He just focuses on us with his ultimate in team fights. We really can't survive."

Take the first fight as an example. Void knew he couldn't kill a high-level carry during his ultimate, so he focused on the position 5 support. This proved effective, and he successfully got the first kill.

In subsequent team fights, Void used the same strategy: he left the carry role to his teammates, it wasn't his responsibility, he was only responsible for killing supports. He considered it a success if he took down one support in each team fight, and he would leave without stopping after killing someone!

This is simply the current state of DOTA2 support players.

In fact, this Void playstyle puts a lot of pressure on teammates. After all, it's not appropriate for a core player to focus all their firepower on the support.

Because of Void's actions, QG did lose a few small team fights, but it wasn't a big problem. This was an acceptable loss, because the carry player got to farm, which was enough.

As it turned out, this position 1 player was indeed trustworthy, because in the first team fight after Void Spirit got his full gear, his ultimate ability directly trapped VP's two carries, killing them both and winning the game in one fell swoop!

"If you ask me to guess," RAMZES666 hesitated for a second before saying, "I feel his consciousness is very good."

RAMZES666 still doesn't understand how this Void knew which jungle camp he was farming in, and how he could teleport over and use his ultimate so fast that he didn't even have time to activate his attribute change!

Of course, what he didn't know was that Chen Dongqing didn't actually know he was there. Chen Dongqing just used his own consciousness attributes to roughly judge a few wild spots where the Water Elemental might exist, and then patrolled them one by one.

Anyway, he has a powerful move in hand, so he won't die no matter what, and we can try it boldly.

As for why the ultimate move is so fast, there's nothing special about it; it's purely thanks to the 99-point reaction time.

With proper preparation, a 99-point reaction speed can even surpass human limits. It's simply a matter of teleporting over, seeing the Morphling, and then unleashing the ultimate. It's that simple.

If it weren't for the relatively long physical distance between China and Europe, resulting in a slightly higher latency, it could be even faster.

"Besides that," VP coach said third, "this Void's farming ability is also top-notch. After he started getting kills, his economy quickly climbed to the top of the game, and then he quickly widened the gap. By the end, he was leading the second-place player by a full four thousand gold."

"This is terrifying data for Faceless Void, since this champion needs to fight constantly in the mid-to-late game and doesn't have much time to farm."

At this point, the VPs looked at each other in bewilderment.

Strong in lane, aggressive initiation, accurate awareness, and fast development.

All of that combined makes it "strong"? How could it possibly have any weaknesses?

Is this guy genuinely that strong? No way!

The first reaction of the VP members was disbelief.

This won't work; we need to try again.

The training match continues.

In the second training match between the two sides, the battle was still fierce and intense.

In this match, Chen Dongqing chose the Wandering Swordsman, who has a built-in AOE skill, and still focused on farming.

The advantage of Sven is that he is a strength hero, making him slightly stronger in lane. Seeing that they couldn't suppress Sven, VP simply stopped trying to exert pressure and chose to let their two carries farm together, competing on development and carry ability.

After all, targeting them in the last game didn't have much effect, so let's try a different approach this time.

But as it turns out, this line of thinking is completely wrong!

Although we lost the last game, we still managed to last for more than forty minutes.

This game was a mutual farming match. Sven came out of the game in 20 minutes and cut them down with just two hits!

Soon, the increasingly fed Sven acquired a Black King Bar and used its power to secure the Roshan's Aegis. He then pushed high ground with the Aegis for the second time, and after respawning, he unleashed a Black King Bar and his ultimate to wreak havoc. The game was easily won in 28 minutes!

"Sukabul!" RAMZES666 slammed his fist on the table again, uttering a classic Russian curse.

He could still argue that the team as a whole didn't play well.

In this game, when both teams were farming and it came down to a contest of individual skill between their carry players, they ended up losing miserably!

Isn't this solid proof that he is indeed inferior to the other side?

Come again!

In the third round, Chen Dongqing pulled out the Phantom Assassin and was the first to use the Berserker Axe, which can spread attacks. This time, he still used a combination of attacking and farming.

Almost identical to the first game, Phantom Assassin was at a slight disadvantage in the early laning phase because she needed to build Battle Fury. However, with Battle Fury in hand, Phantom Assassin quickly farmed jungle camps to make up for lost gold through Battle Fury's AOE ability, and soon turned the tide in the mid-game. In the end, she dominated the game again with her unstoppable farm!

In the fourth game, Chen Dongqing picked Anti-Mage, which was even more extreme. As mentioned before, this hero has the most overpowered map mobility, with a 1200-yard blink every six seconds, but his head-on combat ability is extremely weak. Therefore, this is a split-pushing hero who relies heavily on awareness and a good understanding of the overall game. If team fights are needed, it depends heavily on judging the right timing to engage.

Unfortunately, as a top laner, split pushing and creating pressure are Chen Dongqing's strengths.

In this game, Chen Dongqing completely outmaneuvered the Russians, who were not good at managing their resources, causing the already mentally unstable Russians to become furious but helpless!

However, the Russians' frontal combat capabilities were still strong. Although the Anti-Mage was doing very well on both the top and bottom lanes, it was actually at a disadvantage when fighting the four of them head-on.

Unfortunately, the Anti-Mage carry's positioning and pressure system is exactly what QG is currently practicing. After all, it's a 4-1 split push, so pressure on both sides is inevitable, and it relies heavily on team coordination and cooperation, which is exactly what QG is currently practicing.

Faced with this direct disadvantage, Chen Dongqing was at a loss for what to do.

There's a saying in Dota: "Anti-Mage with 20,000 gold can be killed in a second." This perfectly describes the hero Anti-Mage, whose ability to fight head-on is simply too poor.

The enemy team has too much crowd control, so he has to find the perfect opportunity to join the team fight.

Soon, the opportunity came.

At 41 minutes, during a team fight initiated by VP, Chen Dongqing kept a close eye on the movements of the enemy Monkey King, Gangplank, and Benny.

Seize the opportunity when the opponent's three key characters have all missed their skills, and immediately use Blink to enter the fray and face Benny head-on!

Benny is one of the most annoying supports in Dota 2, possessing two long-duration point-and-click crowd control abilities, making him one of the most threatening enemies.

Chen Dongqing didn't have much to say, he flashed to her face and stunned her with the big stun hammer.

The Great Stun Hammer is an incredibly overpowered item in Dota 2. Its basic attack has a 25% chance to stun enemies, and it also has an active effect that stuns a nearby target for two seconds.

A two-second stun is enough for him to kill the support during the enemy team's skill cooldown period.

After crippling Benny, I used my ultimate ability, Mana Void, to detonate him and secure the kill!

Immediately after killing the person, Chen Dongqing didn't linger. He took two steps back and then teleported away.

After waiting for his skills to cool down, he then targeted the remaining opponents.

Without Benny as a key restrictive role, he could play however he wanted. Relying on Anti-Mage's mobility, he made seven in and out of team fights, first killing all four of VP's members except for their carry, and then cooperating with his teammates to chase down the enemy Monkey King, successfully wiping out the entire team!

What followed was a typical push to bait the opponent into buying back, then we went back to control Roshan's Aegis, and then took advantage of the opponent's buyback cooldown to push high ground and easily win the game!

In four training matches, Chen Dongqing played as the center in all four games!

This is DOTA2. The Carry role is the primary position. The more resources you consume, the greater your ability becomes, and with greater ability comes greater responsibility.

Chen Dongqing is like a fish in water in this kind of game!

After the four matches ended, Coach Xiao8 ran over with a big smile and said, "Brother Shu, are you tired? Let's call it a day. The results of the practice matches were fantastic!"

These four games certainly made the coach very happy.

Although QG has been dominating domestic teams in scrims, they are about to face TI8, a global tournament. If they can't defeat top international teams like VP and OG, they will ultimately be unable to win the championship.

But it's great, the feedback we got today in the match against VP was quite good!

They slaughtered VP, the current team leader in points, in four games? Is this for real? That's insane!

If they were to face OG, wouldn't they just crush them easily?

Later, AME was amazed by Chen Dongqing's performance in those four games.

No matter how many times he watches it, Chen Dongqing's overall strength still amazes him!

He's truly a perfect all-rounder!

Is this the Holy Body of DOTA?

"That's fine then." Chen Dongqing said with a smile, "That's all for today, I'm going to play LOL for a bit."

LOL is still his main job, so he can't neglect his LOL teammates.

I heard that the LOL division's regular season hasn't been going too well lately?

After tidying up the keyboard, Chen Dongqing hummed a little tune as he walked next door.

As this DOTA icon walked towards the LOL division, everyone present couldn't help but sigh in sorrow.

They both came from the LGD team. If this guy started playing DOTA2, they would most likely have been teammates, and who knows how many championships they could have won!

With this sigh, AME returned to his seat and resumed playing the game.

He benefited greatly from watching the game today, and he plans to digest the information in ranked matches.

Meanwhile, on Twitter's forums.

Several hours later, the trending topic on Twitter about "Chen Dongqing announcing his participation in TI" remains highly popular.

With the help of some professional DOTA2 players, the discussion on this matter has now been largely concluded.

I'm already looking forward to ilex's performance at TI8, what about you?

Me too, Bro.

To be honest, I feel sorry for the QG team. After all, they were one of the teams with the strongest momentum to win the championship this year, but they quickly fell because of the addition of a person with connections.

QG should just pray that this so-called "greatest player in LoL history" can deliver the same performance in Dota 2. But my assessment is—impossible!

[Haha, that's impossible. After all, what kind of skill could a professional player who comes from League of Legends possibly have?]

Amidst countless discussions, there was a frenzy of self-indulgence among overseas DOTA2 players.

Chen Dongqing has never even been on stage, yet they have already given him a death sentence.

How terrifying!

But amidst the discussions, many people were surprised to find that the tweet previously posted by VP's number one player, RAMZES666, had mysteriously disappeared.

Just a few hours ago, RAMZES666 said, "QG's roster change is a good thing for them."

What's going on? Is he under the club's control? Why would the club care about this?

Just then, RAMZES666's Twitter account suddenly posted a new tweet:

I take back what I said earlier, Ilex is the strongest position one on this planet.

Upon seeing this tweet, countless DOTA2 players were stunned.

Bro, what are you doing, fucking?!

Why are you encouraging others to act arrogantly?

For a moment, countless players had no idea what RAMZES666 was up to.

Is he being sarcastic or sarcastic? That doesn't seem like it!

After this statement, overseas ILEX supporters seemed to find a pillar of support and were revived, sparking another wave of flame wars on Twitter.

This has even attracted the participation of professional League of Legends players.

The North American pro player, Doublelift, who once had a falling out with DOTA2 pro N0tail, was the first to join the fray, offering a sharp comment: "Hey, I told you long ago, with ilex's esports talent, he'd be number one anywhere. He's a StarCraft champion, let alone DOTA2, which isn't even as difficult to play as LoL? Don't be ridiculous /laughing and crying /laughing and crying"

Also joining the fray was G2's mid-laner, Perkz, whose comments were even more unrestrained, directly making enemies for Chen Dongqing: 【Haha, DOTA2! Welcome the champion! VP? OG? Are you guys ready?】

Since both OG and VP are European clubs, they are constantly at odds with G2, so Perkz boldly initiated a team fight, demonstrating his fearlessness.

With the involvement of professional League of Legends players, the flame war has escalated even further.

At this point, the question is no longer whether "ilex can adapt to DOTA2".

The issue has now escalated to the level of "LOL vs DOTA2".

Countless people now hope that RAMZES666, the instigator of this latest incident, will come forward and explain the meaning behind his recent tweet.

But RAMZES666 seemed to have vanished, never to reappear.

Because he has already entered training mode again.

VP's opponent this time is OG.

At this moment, the two players are discussing in the room's chat.

N0tail typed, "Hey bro, what exactly did you mean by that tweet?"

RAMZES666 was furious when he heard this.

Damn it, you're the one who started saying Ilex is no good, which made me use Blink Dagger and my ultimate to team fight!

Now look what happened! After just one practice match, I've become the clown, and you have to take the main responsibility, you know that?

The bear was about to type an explanation, but then he thought about it again and realized that wasn't right.

Why should I tell OG?

Why not keep them in the dark and let them get crushed by QG?

After thinking for a moment, the bear simply typed: "It's nothing, I was just kidding."

(End of this chapter)