Preface: The S16 season has officially begun, and most players are closely following the recent matches. The third segment of the LPL region is highly competitive. After the first week, the state of LPL teams became a hot topic. Mid-laner knight once again received the Weekly Best Player honor. He has fully become a representative of the LPL, with 30 selections to the Weekly Best Team, ranking first in LPL history, and 13 Weekly Best Player awards, also the most in the region. The only thing missing now is a World Championship title. If he can win it, he will truly be the strongest professional player in the LPL.

LPL's Best Player, First in History

Most players are familiar with knight. As a mid-laner in the LPL, he became known for his unique playstyle after his debut, earning the nickname "Golden Left Hand" for using his left hand to operate the mouse and his right hand for the keyboard. He was originally a player from the esports academy, producing many classic moments while on the YM team. After failing to advance to the LPL, he joined SNG, then transferred to TOP. During his years on TES, his popularity gradually peaked. In his one year with JDG, he won his first top-tier world championship, and the MSI trophy elevated his honors even further.

After joining BLG, knight's performance remained very stable, essentially becoming the team's pillar, and he gradually shed the label of "big-game choker." Over the past two seasons, their overall results have been fairly consistent, often winning the LPL championship, but problems arise at world events, especially in the recent EWC and MSI competitions. After the first week of the third segment, it was no surprise that knight once again became the Weekly Best Player. Some netizens carefully counted his honors and found that he far surpassed others.

So far, knight has been selected to the Weekly Best Team 30 times and named Weekly Best Player 13 times, both ranking first in LPL history. There may have been a lot of criticism and teasing about him before, even discussions about him being a "big-game choker," but in the past two years, his individual skills have improved rapidly, allowing him to calmly pull off god-like plays against top professionals. Now, he is just one World Championship trophy away from being the undisputed greatest player in LPL history. If he wins the championship this season, his status in the LPL will be unreachable.

It feels like the highest-status domestic mid-laner is still Xiaohu, the only professional player to have won the MSI championship in two different roles. For so many years, he too is just one World Championship title away. Although the LPL has won the World Championship three times, in those three wins, only Flandre (Saint) was a domestic top laner; the other mid and jungle players were all Korean: GimGoon, Doinb, TheShy, Rookie, Scout. Until now, the region has not been able to shake off the shadow of Korean imports. We don't know when we will see a true all-Chinese lineup lift the World Championship trophy.

Goodbye believes

Perhaps people's evaluations of knight are not particularly positive, but his performance in recent years has indeed reached the top tier. In the MSI competition, he defeated Faker and Zeka. It can only be said that his teammates held him back too much; otherwise, he would have gained another world-class honor. I hope that this round of BLG roster adjustments can make knight's dream come true.

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