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The post-match scoreboard was absurdly one-sided, so much so that it stung Leonkai’s eyes.
The live chat was flying.
【Hahahaha, straight-up shut out!】
【My evaluation: a goose egg!!!】
【Leonkai, what the hell are you playing!】
【Tsunami! Is this funny? Goose egg!!】
【What the hell are you even doing】
【Leonkai actually played okay this game. The main thing is that guy on the other side was seriously ridiculous. Felt like he was guaranteed to kill two or three every round, popping up like a ghost】
Looking at the comments from his viewers on the second monitor, Leonkai’s already flushed face turned even redder.
“We were kind of inhuman this game, Wuxiangdan,” Leonkai said over the mic.
Wuxiangdan had been beaten into silence too. “Nothing we could do. That guy kept showing up in the weirdest places mid-round. Felt like he was everywhere.”
He was starting to suspect that the “Calm Down” on the other side had wallhacks on, simply going wherever they had the most people.
At that moment, Leonkai suddenly noticed a friend request in his friend list. He clicked it open and saw that it was from that “Calm Down” on the opposing team.
Leonkai accepted the request without hesitation.
Calm Down: “Kai-ge, Kai-ge, I’m your fan!”
Seeing this message, Leonkai couldn’t help but laugh.
The classic fan beating up his idol, huh.
That damn 4396 is still chasing me!
……
“You’re even taunting him after the match?” Huang Zicheng looked at Yang Yu’s actions and asked with a smile.
Yang Yu said, “I really am his fan. I learned basic techniques like counter-strafing from him.”
Although Leonkai’s current skill was no longer what it had been back then, as a former genius youth, his theoretical knowledge had been maxed out. There was nothing wrong with the various beginner tutorials he had made.
A lot of Yang Yu’s fundamentals had been learned from Leonkai, so he still had quite a good impression of him.
After thinking it over, he directly sent Leonkai an invitation. “Kai-ge, want to play the next one together?”
Seeing the invitation from the big brother on the other side, half of Leonkai’s anger dissipated, and he was almost about to agree in the very next second.
But then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a bullet comment appear.
【Kai-ge, content is here. Can you activate your prosthetic eye Ding Zhen and start identifying him?】
The temptation of gaining rank was huge for Leonkai, but right now he wasn’t sure whether this “Calm Down” was cheating or not, so he still refused.
Boss Shy: “My viewers want me to check whether you’re cheating. I’m going to watch the replay of that match just now. Be careful~”
Calm Down: “Sure. I’ll go solo queue and rank up then.”
The other party’s completely unconcerned attitude made Leonkai raise an eyebrow. Then he said in voice chat, “Wuxiangdan, you go ahead and play first. I’m going to watch the replay of that match just now. Quite a few people in the stream want me to see whether that guy on the other side was cheating.”
Wuxiangdan replied, “All right. I’ll wait until you’re done watching. Wanjiqi just started streaming too, so I’ll go to his stream and make clips!”
After saying that, Wuxiangdan directly left the TS voice chat.
Leonkai: “???”
You damn—! Aren’t you my clipper?
I’m getting cucked! I’m getting cucked!!
The stream instantly hit peak entertainment value, and Leonkai directly downloaded the ranked replay from the match just now.
After downloading it, he started watching from the pistol round. He directly switched to Yang Yu’s perspective, then turned on X-ray.
Yang Yu’s pistol-round play was extremely rational. His style was confident and precise, and there didn’t seem to be any issue at all.
【He has a lot of little movements】
【Why didn’t he shoot the first Wuxiangdan who swung across?】
【This guy plays so confidently】
“There’s nothing wrong with the pistol round. This guy really is pretty accurate,” Leonkai commented. “The main thing is that we need to look at those rifle rounds. In those rifle rounds, he really did disrupt our tempo in key rounds, and then we got snowballed.”
He quickly skipped to the first rifle round. Leonkai remembered this round clearly—it was the one where he was holding the rear on the side lane, got one kill, and was immediately traded.
Leonkai wanted to see how Yang Yu had handled it at the time.
Then he saw that Yang Yu’s details were extremely meticulous. Even when his teammates were making heavy footsteps and even throwing a Molotov, Yang Yu stayed silent the whole time and did not reveal any information.
After his teammate lost the duel, he swung out to trade. There was nothing wrong with that kill.
After getting that kill, Yang Yu did not linger on A second floor at all and directly rotated to connector.
This one rotation made Leonkai cry out in surprise. “Holy shit, this guy’s second-phase positioning is too smart.”
“There was an exchange of fire on the side lane at the start, and there was no sound afterward. That means there was no one on A second floor anymore—at least, there wasn’t much pressure on A second floor for the time being,” Leonkai commented. “At this time, rotating to connector means that if the other side speeds up through connector, he can also help take pressure off his teammates.”
Very soon, in the demo, the CT in B site called over the mic that the terrorists had already reached the barrels. Yang Yu also left his utility to his teammate in connector and quickly rotated back to B.
Yang Yu’s perfectly timed rotation happened to catch “Wuxiangdan” sneaking through the CT smoke, directly killing Wuxiangdan without taking damage. Afterward, relying on pre-aim, he successfully got another kill.
What amazed him was Yang Yu’s immediate turn back toward A after the firefight in B site ended.
As an old CSGO player and also a CSGO match commentator, Leonkai pursued more reasonable approaches in all kinds of ranked play.
So at this moment, seeing Yang Yu’s string of decisive rotations—and seeing each of those decisive rotations successfully pay off—was truly satisfying for him to watch.
Leonkai couldn’t help but say, “From what we’ve seen so far, we still can’t confirm whether he’s cheating, but the information from these rounds could be gathered even without cheats.”
“Look at the opportunities he got in this round. Did he need that much aim? It was all trades and shooting people in the back, and just like that he easily got a 4K. Everyone can learn from the thought process in this round.”
“That’s how playing CSGO is. You have to really make an effort to think.”
He had just finished watching Yang Yu’s map understanding and judgment of the match tempo when, in the very next round, he saw Yang Yu adopt a slightly aggressive style.
At the start, Yang Yu threw a Molotov into the terrorist entrance, then immediately pushed toward the side lane. First, he tanked Leonkai’s bullets and headshot him; in the next instant, he flicked and positioned onto Wuxiangdan, instantly killing him as well.
Afterward, on the second timing, he peeked out again and one-tapped the terrorist beneath the side lane who wanted to seize an opportunity.
Leonkai sucked in a breath when he saw this scene.
【That crosshair placement??】
【???】
【That flick is terrifying】
【Bro, did you even see him before you headshot?】
Leonkai didn’t think this wave looked particularly suspicious, because in the first wave, when Yang Yu pressed down and fought him, he himself hadn’t headshot Yang Yu with the first bullet, giving Yang Yu the chance to counter-kill him.
Wuxiangdan’s position for the trade was very close. At that distance, the difficulty of flicking wasn’t that high; it just had a strong visual impact.
In the following rounds, Leonkai still did not see any overly absurd suspicious behavior. Instead, Yang Yu’s positioning and playstyle made him feel extremely comfortable watching.
“Wow, this positioning really is smart.”
“It’s completely chosen based on his teammates’ positions. He’s constantly roaming around the map, yet he can always end up in the right place.”
Immediately after, Leonkai saw the round where Yang Yu got a five-kill.
Then he saw that Yang Yu’s playstyle wasn’t formulaic either. He even started using their utility patterns to make mid-round decisions.
At the same time Leonkai seized an opportunity, Yang Yu first instantly killed the terrorist at the spiral stairs, then turned around and instantly killed the terrorist on the side lane.
This pre-fire finally gave quite a few people in the live chat an opening.
【???】
【That pre-fire??】
【Is this guy that ridiculous on A second floor? How many times has he danced around like a dragon already】
【This one is pure wallhack, right】
But Leonkai was carefully watching Yang Yu’s later positioning choices. Combining them with the various pieces of information on the map, he realized that Yang Yu really could have made these plays.
“Holy shit, this guy really plays so much like ropz!” Leonkai finally reacted.
No wonder Yang Yu’s various positioning choices and playstyle had felt so familiar to him—because ropz also liked to play in these spots.
Leonkai rubbed his head and drew in a cold breath. “Honestly, if you covered up the ID, I’d really feel like this guy was ropz!”
“God damn, this positioning is way too smart. And in a lot of these rounds, he basically didn’t take frontal duels at all. He killed the other side entirely through information gathering.”
【What about that pre-fire just now?】
Looking at the question in the chat, Leonkai explained, “At the start of that side-lane round just now, a Molotov was thrown. If his information gathering was quick, he could react and realize there was still one person on the side lane. It’s explainable.”
Leonkai concluded, “Judging from this match replay, this guy doesn’t look suspicious. But this is only an online replay. If there really are conditions for it, he could prove himself offline. From what I see, he’s a very smart player.”
“But this guy really is talented! He genuinely understands positioning. He’s too much like ropz.”
Earlier, when Yang Yu had joked in chat that he was his fan, Leonkai hadn’t felt much.
But now, watching Yang Yu’s smooth positioning and somewhat shady playstyle, Leonkai really felt a little jealous.
After all, ropz was his favorite professional player, and he also wished he could have that kind of top-tier talent.
Back then, Leonkai had also considered himself a genius youth, the kind who was fully qualified to go pro.
It was normal to admit that there was always a heaven beyond the heavens and people beyond people. Over the years, Leonkai had also met overly talented youths in ranked.
But this was the first time he had encountered someone this exaggerated. In terms of talent, the other party was already showing signs of crushing him.
For example, he especially liked ropz’s ranked playstyle and had watched countless POV demos to learn from it, but he was only similar, not the same.
This “Calm Down,” aside from having a few too many little movements, played like ropz playing ranked. A pure freak.
Leonkai’s mood instantly became a little complicated.
He was happy that another genius youth had emerged domestically.
But at the same time, because Yang Yu was just too outstanding, his Dao heart was a little shattered.
His words had already drawn a conclusion for his cheat inspection.
But at this moment, he saw someone send a bullet comment.
【Maybe this “Calm Down” is using the same cheats ropz used back then】
When ropz first debuted, because he played too well, the entire European community and even many pro players said he was cheating.
After more than an hour of painstaking cheat inspection, Leonkai had explained every bit of thinking in this match clearly, but there were still people stubbornly clinging to their own views and insisting that this “Calm Down” had cheats on.
Seeing this, Leonkai said with utter helplessness, “I’m seriously begging you.”
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There’ll be another chapter later. Everyone, keep warm with the weather changing. The weather in Jiangxi has had me running to the bathroom all day…