After a brief chat with Ling Wang, Manager Li Wenjing approached Qin Xuan and the other person, smiling. "The club has provided you with equipment like mice and keyboards. Go take a look."
"It's a good opportunity to get used to them while playing on the Korean server this morning."
"Don't be too nervous, I believe in your skills."
The two nodded and entered the training room as directed by Li Wenjing.
Li Wenjing stayed outside with Ling Wang, filled with anticipation. "I've watched all their observer perspectives."
"That Hu Zian played ordinarily; with some effort, he might succeed."
"But Qin Xuan, he's simply on another level, like a celestial being."
"Whether it's the details or his mindset, he's absolutely world-class."
"And have you noticed?"
"The first time you played against him, he was just relying on pure operational details."
"But as the number of games increased, his awareness has also been growing exponentially."
"Could it be that geniuses truly exist in this world?"
Ling Wang nodded in agreement. "That's why I was so eager to have him come here for a tryout."
"If other teams discover this gem, do you think we'd still be able to snatch him up?"
"Good brother!" Hearing Ling Wang's words, Li Wenjing first smiled, then his expression fell. "But with our team's current situation, can he stay?"
"After all, this season, IG is only fifth from the bottom..."
Ling Wang shook his head. "I don't know."
"But we have to try, right?"
"That's true." Li Wenjing nodded, then asked Ling Wang, "What about you?"
"Still no team is interested?"
Ling Wang waved his hand, indignant. "Don't even mention it."
"Those teams think I've become weaker. Even if the training matches go exceptionally well, they still don't want to offer me a high salary."
"Since they look down on me so much, would it be shameless for me to go to them again?"
"So even if I passed the tryout, I didn't stay with that team."
Li Wenjing sighed deeply. "Alas, yes."
"It's a shame that after winning S8, our boss's focus shifted away from League of Legends. Otherwise, you guys wouldn't have fallen apart like this."
Li Wenjing also felt great regret over the disbandment of the S8 championship roster.
The reason he chose the esports industry in the first place was because he was amazed by the performance of the IG team in the S8 season.
Now, through his own efforts, he had become the manager of IG's League of Legends division.
Yet, he had to watch helplessly as that once invincible team disbanded.
Just as Li Wenjing and Ling Wang were lamenting IG's decline, Xun, who was responsible for hosting Qin Xuan, rushed out of the training room in a hurry.
"Manager, those two are too strong."
"Especially Qin Xuan, he's dominating the Korean server's Diamond tier."
"If this continues, we won't be able to gauge their true strength."
"Look, should we get them some super accounts?"
Li Wenjing and Ling Wang exchanged glances, seeing a hint of expectation in each other's eyes.
Previously, because Qin Xuan's account rank was too low, he and Hu Zian could only queue up for matches together.
So, to ascertain their skills, Li Wenjing had specially prepared two Korean server Diamond accounts for Qin Xuan and the others to play on.
The result was obvious.
Their skill level was indeed higher than that of Korean server Diamonds!
Li Wenjing immediately decided, "Go, give them your two highest-ranked accounts."
"I want to see what kind of effect they'll have when they play against Korean server Masters with their current strength."
"Okay!"
Xun responded and turned to leave.
Ling Wang couldn't suppress his curiosity and said to Li Wenjing, "Why don't we go watch them play high-elo games?"
"Honestly, I also really want to see if Qin Xuan can still dominate in the higher ranks."
Hearing Ling Wang's suggestion, Li Wenjing hesitated.
He actually had some matters to attend to at the moment, but the thought of witnessing Qin Xuan's gameplay firsthand made him unable to resist.
"Alright, let's go take a look too!" Nodding, Li Wenjing finally agreed to Ling Wang's suggestion.
Entering the training room, all nine IG players were gathered behind Qin Xuan and Hu Zian, wanting to spectate.
Only when Li Wenjing deliberately coughed twice did they each return to their seats and pretend to open their games.
Li Wenjing and Ling Wang slowly walked behind Qin Xuan and the other, looking at the screen.
They discovered that the two were currently in the pick-and-ban phase.
The opposing team's first pick had banned Jax, Qin Xuan's frequently played champion.
A good ban!
Li Wenjing and Ling Wang exchanged another look.
This was exactly what they wanted to see.
As professional players, only knowing one champion was far from enough.
And Qin Xuan, from beginning to end, had only ever played Jax.
Therefore, they wanted to see if Qin Xuan could achieve the same level of dominance with other champions if his Jax was banned.
After the ban phase ended.
Hu Zian successfully picked his signature champion, Tristana.
Qin Xuan, after a moment of hesitation, picked Aatrox.
Originally, after Aatrox's rework in 2018, he didn't play the champion much.
Because Qin Xuan felt the reworked Aatrox's skills were slow and his damage was low.
It wasn't until the S8 World Championship, when TheShy's Aatrox achieved god-like status, chasing and killing four opponents, that this champion returned to his attention.
From then on, Aatrox became one of his must-play champions.
Now that Jax was banned, it was a perfect opportunity to practice.
The game began.
Qin Xuan and Hu Zian were on the blue side again.
The jungler, following standard practice, started clearing camps from the bot lane.
Qin Xuan went to his lane normally.
Li Wenjing asked Xun to check.
In this match, apart from Qin Xuan and Hu Zian, all other players were legitimate professionals, including those from youth academies and active players.
On Qin Xuan's side, the jungler was Hacker, known as the "Ultraman of Esports," playing Lee Sin.
The mid laner was Xiao Yueji, playing Akali, and the support was Zhuo, playing the tanky Nautilus.
On the opposing team, the top laner was Shan Ji Ge's Renekton, the mid laner was Du Ying Bi's Karma, and the jungler was Xiao Huang Ren's Hecarim.
The bot lane consisted of Xiao P's Kai'Sa and Xiao C's Leona.
This meant that the game intensity Qin Xuan and his team were facing was no less than that of a formal LDL match.
"If Qin Xuan can still achieve such brilliant results under this lineup, then no matter the cost, I will persuade the boss to keep him!" Li Wenjing thought to himself.
As the laning phase began, Qin Xuan, at level one, conventionally learned his Q skill, the three-part knock-up.
Because Renekton usually learned Q or W early on and rarely E, having the three-part Q in hand made his Aatrox's laning phase easier.
Indeed.
When all the melee minions in front of both sides were low on health, Renekton used his Q, intending to hit both the minions and the enemy.