Professional e-sports should always belong to the world of young people.
This is a sigh made by an official commentator of the national service. At that time, he happened to be commenting on a game between two professional teams, old and new, and witnessed with his own eyes a veteran top professional player who was finally defeated by a newcomer in the confrontation. The picture of the younger generation being cut off from the horse.
And such views and remarks are often recognized by most people in the e-sports circle.
The feelings of ordinary players and fans may not be obvious, but only in this industry field will they have a more intuitive and real experience.
Talent, potential, hard work, diligence, modesty, perseverance—
The most important advantages of top professional e-sports players that can be listed out, but almost all have the same premise.
That is "young".
In e-sports, the most basic and core ability lies in operation and awareness.
The operation depends on the reaction speed and hand speed.
Consciousness is thinking.
Young professional e-sports players are in the peak physical state in terms of operation, and their mental activity and sensitivity are also at their peak. Even if they are lacking in experience or other aspects, they can still perform amazingly.
Every professional esports player comes from a young age.
With the passage of time and the long battles in the professional arena, although the experience has become more and more rich and the style of play has become more and more stable, almost every player will deeply feel that their state is also declining a little bit.
It is difficult to maintain a high concentration of energy for long periods of time.
The operations that used to be done smoothly have now become laborious and may even be unsustainable.
This is the inevitable harsh reality.
Perhaps some professional players who are diligent and hard-working enough can try to maintain their state and slow down their sliding speed through a lot of practice every day, or make up for the lack of operation level through their rich experience and mature play style—
But the vast majority of players, when they get older, will soon fall from their golden peak.
Can no longer surprise the field.
Under the regretful gazes of fans, audiences and commentators, he was defeated by the newcomers and fell to the altar.
This situation is not uncommon, and most professional e-sports players who have entered this circle have actually made corresponding psychological preparations, knowing that they will one day be compared by younger rookie players.
How do you define "young"
In the field of professional e-sports, the golden peak age for a professional player should be 15 to 18 years old. This stage should even be called a "juvenile", but at this stage, both the operation and the activity sensitivity of conscious thinking are all The most invulnerable.
Of course, after one to two years of training from this stage, one will enter the peak of the most mature comprehensive strength of a professional player—
At this time, they not only maintained their golden peak status, but also had enough practical experience to form their own style system, so that no one could find the slightest flaw.
This stage should be between the ages of 18 and 20.
And after the peak, it naturally begins to go downhill—
In other words, for a professional e-sports player, starting around the age of 21 or 22 may not be considered young.
For example, Dawn Morning Star and Wild Snow Night Song of God-Hand of God team, one of them is the No. 1 mid laner in the national server, and the other is the strongest ADC in the national server, but the peak of their personal status was a year or two ago.
Now, one of them is 23 and the other is 22.
It is also about to reach the node where it goes from the top to the downhill.
It is precisely because of this that even though God-Hand of God is still the strongest in the national service, he still has a sense of crisis all the time, so he spends a lot of energy to cultivate the youth training system.
Because they know very well that the two biggest trump cards, their own team's mid laner and ADC, may not be able to stand for them for a long time.
And once the state of Dawn Morning Star and Wild Snow Night Song slipped—
It almost means that the overall combat power of the God team will quickly drop at least one step down.
even more.
Not only God-Hand of God, the veteran top teams in other major regions are also facing a similar situation. Although as a veteran giant, they have a more mature operation system and player training system than a new team club. Intuitively, what determines the competition between the two is that the former has the top ace player.
If Autumn's strength declines, what will happen to Season's team
Or Phoenix to the Legend team.
Spoon is for MLG teams.
Recite Thirteen to the Assassin Team.
It's all the same reasoning, and it's all the same worries.
But this kind of thing is unavoidable. Maybe the old man is replaced by the new one, and the old team is overthrown by the new team. It is a doomed law.
the only exception-
There is only one team.
…
"In the LCK region, there's actually nothing to say."
The Korean competition area that should have received the most attention and deserved the most analysis and research, at this moment, Lin Feng seemed to have no intention of going into detail, and directly gave such a concise and clear conclusion.
When the barrage in the live broadcast room was confused and questioned, someone patiently explained one more sentence:
"Because the overall pattern hasn't changed."
"Last year, this year, or next year or the year before - it's all the same."
This is not to say that there are no outstanding newcomers in the Korean LCK division.
On the contrary, including the LPL division, plus the European and American LCS divisions, the rookie professional players emerging from South Korea are definitely the highest quality and the top—
Like that The-Sword.
Or that Fly.
A newcomer of this quality is almost at the peak of his debut, and is directly qualified to be included in the level of the Four Emperors.
But even so-
In the South Korean LCK division, those new players and new teams emerging in an endless stream are destined to be unable to truly overthrow the original LCK power structure in the next year or two or even longer.
Maybe they are qualified to challenge top veteran teams like Warrior or even Fate and replace them in the near future.
But at the top of all of them, there is still such a team.
Always sit high on the throne of God.
No matter what the wind blows, let the newcomers challenge, it is destined to be unshakable.
"Compared to those South Korean rookie teams, for the current or future national LPL division, there is always only one mountain that really needs to be faced."
At the end of the analysis, Lin Feng said this to the fans in the live broadcast room.
It was as if he was saying to himself:
"Just keep an eye on the SSK team."
"Find a way to..."
"Climb over this mountain."
"That's enough."
Time to come another day.
In the morning, the top 32 of the LSPL trials began to draw lots.
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The update is sent, the business trip time is extended, and the way home is far away. Good night, my friends.