As the news of Lin Fan winning TFT Worlds continued to ferment, the topic quickly took over every major section.
And right then, League of Legends' official Weibo quietly posted a new update, instantly hijacking almost everyone's attention.
MSI Finals — TES Team Mic.
After waiting this long, the video was finally here.
Everyone rushed over to the League of Legends official Weibo, excited.
"It's here, it's here."
"Hahaha, JackeyLove is killing me. This is way too funny. The team atmosphere is so cheerful."
The moment you clicked in, it was an instant crit.
JackeyLove: "I played way too well!"
Everyone else: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah…"
JackeyLove: "Fan-ge, what's going on with you lately? Every day it's Twisted Fate, Ryze—can you not play anything else?"
Dine: "Isn't helping bot lane win good? Next game I'm ganking top."
JackeyLove: "Wrong, wrong, Fan-ge, I was wrong. I was wrong, I was wrong. I'll never dare again."
Just from the opening few seconds, everyone lost it and started typing.
Comments piled up one after another.
"Jackey, restore that rebellious, cocky vibe."
"So is this why he picked Ryze and then immediately played LeBlanc?"
"Definitely. LeBlanc mid straight-up killed Faker!"
"Careful—his name is Big Fei."
"You still won't even call him Big Fei Teacher."
"So funny. I didn't expect Brother Infinite Borders and JackeyLove to be this comedic. Are all handsome guys goofballs?"
"Honestly, Brother Infinite Borders' face is pretty strong. It's just his fashion that's rough—kinda 'handsome-but-tacky.' Just call him Handsome Tu Bro."
"People have already called him that."
…
Dine: "Don't rush, don't rush. Wait for me to get in. Follow, follow, follow. I won't die, I won't die."
Zoom: "Fan-ge, get out, get out."
Tian: "We can keep diving. Doesn't matter how many show up—we can still kill."
With the gameplay clips layered into the audio, it was pure art.
With those three coordinating, they easily killed SKT's top-jungle duo.
Dine: "In teamfights, just delete their ADC. When you see me charge, charge with me."
Everyone: "No problem!"
Dine: "Stop. Don't hit it—don't hit it. Kill people first, kill people first."
Watching the smooth, harmonious comms—plus the absolute discipline of "stop" meaning everyone instantly stops—made it obvious why their tempo ran so well.
"So TES's core really is Brother Infinite Borders. Seeing this, I don't even dare imagine what TES would look like if he weren't there."
"We've seen it. Look at the first five games of spring split."
"One word: GG."
"Mid is really the brain. When the mid daddy is there, everyone's pressure drops so much."
"And the team atmosphere is too good. Brother Infinite Borders' authority is maxed. If he says stop, everyone stops."
"Status!"
"Imperial status!"
"If TES can keep this going, this year is the most hopeful year again!"
"Let's not put that much hope on them, or it'll be another RNG. Like EDG last year—surrounded by three Korean teams, they still fought their way out and won Worlds. Who believed EDG could win?"
"Sometimes miracles happen when you don't hold the highest expectations."
Under the official video, comment counts kept climbing.
"JackeyLove, JackeyLove. You're the topic again—you're trending again," Mark said after watching the video and reading most of the comments.
"Look—everyone's telling you to restore that rebellious vibe."
Mark shoved his phone in JackeyLove's face, showing Weibo as he scrolled.
"'JackeyLove has no value, he's only carried by Tu Bro.' …Okay, not this one—this one's probably just joking."
"I can't believe it. A few months and you've revealed your true form. Thick eyebrows, big eyes, looks honest and plain… turns out your heart is black," JackeyLove said. He never expected the support sharing his dorm room would backstab him now.
"Hahaha. The moment JackeyLove said that, I knew it would get into Team Mic. Sure enough, the official account knew to farm effects," Lin Fan laughed too.
"Look, chat's been yelling it nonstop."
JackeyLove leaned in curiously. Sure enough, the whole chat was spamming "restore."
"It's not that I don't want to restore my rebellious vibe. It's just that Brother Infinite Borders' forces are too huge. Look—my support is wearing the same pants as him. That tells you how terrifying his evil empire is. The whole club is his people."
"Outnumbered. I really don't have the courage to face their dark forces!" He made it sound tearful—if not for the grin at the corner of his mouth, you might've believed him.
From this, everyone could tell the team was harmonious.
Unlike other teams with all kinds of messy internal drama, TES only focused on winning. Everyone respected each other.
There was no "I'm big bro so you must listen," and no fighting over who gets to be big bro.
Once a team falls into that, even if it's strong, it won't end well.
OMG back then was the classic example…
After teasing JackeyLove with Mark a bit, Lin Fan shifted his attention to Genshin Impact—he was going to do a hidden quest.
As a lazy dog, every day he first cleared the four daily commissions, then went to the Adventurers' Guild to cash in 20 primogems, then ran domains for talent materials, other mats, and artifacts.
After all, there were too many games to play. Especially Infinite Borders, which ate huge amounts of time.
And later, scrims would also take more time. Naraka: Bladepoint might be the neglected child, but he still had to log in once in a while—spread the love, don't be a scumbag.
So he hadn't done many hidden quests yet. Now he planned to follow guides and catch up.
"Let's see what quests Liyue Harbor has. The Adventurers' Guild should have a bunch. Go find Sister Lan."
As he spoke, he controlled Diluc to head to the Sea of Clouds, to Sister Lan's location to pick up the quest.
After some dialogue, he accepted the hidden quest: Various Matters at the Adventurers' Guild.
He moved to the objective and solo'd a Hilichurl Rock Shieldwall Mitachurl. It wasn't hard—after killing it, he found a little cat, Huīhuī, then returned to Sister Lan.
Adventure Rank: 48.
"Why doesn't Brother Infinite Borders carry Xiao Zao more? He seems kind of dumb. Not just hidden quests—he hasn't even done a ton of story quests."
"He mainly plays it to follow Brother Infinite Borders, and to kill time during queues. It's different from Brother Infinite Borders actually playing seriously."
"True. But there are hidden Genshin whales among League pros too. Meiko was one of the earliest. I've even seen his stream—C6 Hu Tao. It scared me to death."
"Damn, Meiko whales that hard? Brother Infinite Borders is still zero-spend. He only cleared Abyss to Floor 11, and I already think that's strong. If he were willing to spend, he'd be unstoppable."
"Brother Infinite Borders puts all his love into Infinite Borders. He even said he plays pro just to whale in Infinite Borders. I don't know what kind of little vixen Infinite Borders is, to hook him this hard."
"Honestly, Infinite Borders isn't human-friendly. It's both pay-to-win and grind-to-win."
"Genshin is kind of the same. You have to spend to pull characters, then you have to grind to build them. Otherwise you're still trash. Some big streamers spend a ton and still can't clear three floors of Abyss."
"Is Uzi playing summer split or not?"
"Probably not. I watched his stream—he said he wants to rest for a while. But he probably won't retire for real, right?"
After all, rules changed. After retiring, there's a two-year cooldown.
If he "retires" again now, he really can't return to pro.
Because that retirement would be forced.
Main reason: he didn't plan to renew, and RNG called him to an "event."
He arrived and got dizzy—because the event wasn't anything else.
It was his retirement ceremony.
Forced retirement, right there…
"If you're curious, go find that retirement video. Uzi's hands were shaking on the mic. He clearly didn't expect RNG to do something that bottomless."
"Hahaha, after all those contract issues got exposed, RNG became the most shit club in the league."
"Whoa, I've never done this hidden quest. How many hidden quests even are there?"
"If we knew, they wouldn't be called hidden quests."
"'Fresh Meat' is easy. Just follow the steps. To save time when you go find Harris to pick it up, bring 10 pieces of meat first."
While they chatted, Lin Fan finished the quest and got 300 Adventure EXP.
"Tired as hell. But today's harvest is solid—two hidden quests done. Next, it's time for other games."
"I'm not streaming tonight. We have scrims."
Lin Fan said to chat.
The moment he said it, the chat flooded with question marks.
"Brother Infinite Borders, you've been slacking for days. Now you're not streaming, you're thinking about scrims? League is just a job. Streaming is real life."
"I suggest you let others do scrims. You should stream properly!"
He only glanced at chat and saw a wall of ridiculous takes.
"If I dared say that to White Moon, I wouldn't even make it to tomorrow. My luggage and my whole person would be thrown out of the club."
"Time's tight. The 10th is the season opener. Count it—we've gone six splits without a first opener win. White Moon told us: we must take the first win in summer, or we're all going to raise pigs. I don't want to fight Clearlove for business. The picture is too beautiful."
"And it's Patch 12.10. The changes are huge. If we don't train, we might lose to EDG again. We've won so much—we really don't want to lose," Lin Fan said.
Patch 12.10 was indeed a massive update.
All champions got tankier. Healing and shielding were nerfed across the board.
And the key point: turret damage increased. Early tower dives became harder.
If you pay attention, it's clearly targeting TES.
It's meant to weaken TES mid-jungle's early strength—if it's harder to tower dive, tempo won't snowball as fast.
It's a big nerf to TES's early game.
Like Jax says: yes, the strongest weapon is the patch.
In the scrims versus EDG, they already felt turret damage.
If they tried to play the same way as before, without level 5–6 it was hard.
Trying to fight at level 3–4 has a high chance of trading kills—unless you juggle turret aggro well and use summoner spells in time.
Once tempo slows, the game drags later.
And once mid hits level 6, going for kills becomes risky.
Riot had effectively nerfed TES's early aggression.
The impact was big.
That's why Luo Sheng had been frowning all this time.
IG's title run back then also benefited from patch advantage—every lane was strong in lane. Once you won lane, you snowballed a massive lead.
Every patch change creates a top-tier team.
With this change, Korean macro teams got buffed.
But that's normal. To avoid one-team dominance, Riot always changes things after Worlds.
The LPL won Worlds last year and now won MSI too—this change makes sense. Riot wants to give other regions chances.
Of course, the LPL also has slower-tempo teams like EDG, LNG, JDG. On this patch, they can be like a fish in water.
You can predict that making top four shouldn't be an issue, and Worlds slots can be fought for—after all, the LPL has four slots.
And with tankiness up, top lane "four sisters" see a big rise, and juggernauts can show up too.
Aatrox and Jax become mainstream.
In that situation, Luo Sheng naturally thought of the two substitute tops.
Zoom's pool became a bit less suitable. So he started scheduling scrims for Qingtian and Da Huang.
Once timing is right, he'll let them play on stage.
For TES, this patch is a big challenge.
Before summer starts, they really need to find a better tempo for this patch.
So scrims won't be few.
Chat spammed complaints, but they also understood.
Patch changes hit teams hard.
Lin Fan checked the time, said goodbye, and logged off to scrim BLG.
Tonight was another high-intensity training session. Tiring, but it gave them a clear understanding of the new patch.
Your mom's kiss—Fiora is invincible!
Bin's Fiora chopped everyone to pieces!
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