On February 3, the 29th day of the Lunar New Year, SKT will welcome its last opponent before the Chinese New Year, Hanwha HLE.

Speaking of the HLE team, many domestic players are not familiar with it, but when it comes to that once glorious name, I believe many people have been shocked by them, ROX Tigers.

Unlike the glorious dynasties of SKT and Samsung, the old ROX team started out as a group of players who didn't have a team at the end of '14, Smeb, Lee, Kuro, Pray, and Gorilla.

These are some of the frustrated players from the former Najin and IM teams, plus the rat king Pray, who has disappeared from people's eyes for a year, to form a new team, HUYA Tigers.

Since the sponsor is Huya Live, this team is also known as 'Little Huya' by Chinese players.

Most of these players who are now famous were not favored by others at the time, except for the former White Shield's auxiliary Gorilla, and it can be said that Huya was a patchwork army when it was first established.

Despite being regarded as a weirdo team by the outside world, these players quickly merged into a single team, winning the runner-up in the LCK Spring '15.

Halfway through the '15 Summer Tournament, the Chinese sponsor abruptly withdrew its funding.

The ROX players continue to play without pay! In the hot summer, because I couldn't afford to open the air conditioner, the training matches and RANK were basically sweating. The temperature difference between day and night is large, and the team members are sick one after another...... It was in this environment that the ROX players got their tickets to the S5 League of Legends Finals.

But I don't have the money to go abroad to compete! The Korean Esports Association threw an olive branch to the ROX team and subsidized all expenses during the ROX team's S5 period, including plane tickets, meals, and Internet café training venues.

This team has not been favored by the media and players since the S5 group stage, but they have made it all the way to the finals through beautiful games, but unfortunately they met the peak SKT, and finally ROX won the runner-up in the S5 League of Legends Finals!

In '16, the team officially changed its name to ROX Tigers, and Peanut joined the team, forming a dream lineup with Smeb, Kuro, Pray, and Gorilla to attack the team's first championship trophy.

In the S6 Spring Season, ROX, who entered the playoffs as the first place in the regular season, fell to SKT again in the finals and fell to second place.

In the regular season of the summer season, ROX played bravely and was still guaranteed to the playoff finals as the top spot in the regular season.

However, this time, ROX's biggest sufferer, SKT, lost to KT in the semi-finals and lost the news agency battle, and ROX lived up to expectations and defeated KT to lift the first league championship trophy in the team's history.

In the S5 and S6 periods, ROX was already one of the top teams in the world, but unfortunately, the SKT dynasty was at its peak.

After losing in the S5 Finals, ROX in the S6 season faced SKT again in the Worlds.

Finally, ROX stood at Madison Square Garden in New York, infinitely close to knocking down the invincible SKT of the World Championship BO5.

But in the end, he lost 2:3.

But this BO5 duel is one of the most exciting matches in the game's existence, giving birth to many god-level action shots.

Pray interrupted Duke's teleportation, Smeb Rambo roasted SKT, Little Peanut Spider rose 100% to avoid Brother Li's clockwork ultimate, Faker was rescued by four people GANK desperately, and so on.

The deep impression that the little tigers brought to the audience may not be how strong they used to be, but the team atmosphere and spirit of unity and optimism shown by the ROX team deeply infected everyone.

Unlike the LGD team, which was ridiculed by the audience for their optimism, this is a team that will never forget a smile.

They win the game with the same celebratory gestures, with their hands clenched into fists and laughing unbridledly, no matter how exaggerated the celebration.

They encourage each other when they lose the game, and no matter whether they are depressed or not, there is always someone behind their backs to make the frustrated players laugh.

They play games in bunny girl costumes and sing all the way until the game starts, just like ordinary people play games at home, but they are in front of thousands of foreign audiences.

They laughed together, fought, roared, and grieved. Like every young man who loves life.

In the professional arena, there is no team that can match SKT's achievements. But when you and your friends laugh and scold in the voice, maybe you will think of this former ROX.

At the end of '16, in the Kespa Cup, ROX finally defeated SKT for the first time and won the Kespa Cup.

However, the final of the Kespa Cup was the last match for this legendary team.

At the end of the S6 season, the starting five of the team left the team due to the lack of sponsors and differences of opinion among the players, and Gorilla left the team with even more regret: "There will never be a team like ROX again." ”

Since then, the former ROX Tigers have become history, and although the reorganized ROX retains the team name, its performance in the LCK arena is not at all as domineering as the old ROX of the past.

The all-new ROX was only in the middle and lower reaches of the entire LCK league due to its lack of individual ability and experience decisions, and it didn't even make the playoffs once in two years.

In 2018, Hanwha Life Insurance, Korea's second-largest insurance company, entered the esports industry with the acquisition of the ROX Tigers team, which officially changed its name to Hanwha Life Esports, which is now the HLE team.

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Since the SKT game is the final game of the third week, which is played in the evening, the whole SKT team will arrive at the venue after 7pm.

However, Li Xu and Brother Li rushed to LOL PARK at half past four in the afternoon, entered the venue, and sat in the audience like ordinary spectators, waiting for the start of the game.

The morning match was played by KZ against GEN?? G, the highlight of this game is still on the lower road, this is the showdown between the two orphans this season, Emperor Qi and Mr. Dai.

Now Dedt has lost his original conservative style of play, and his desire to attack has become very strong, and he has to find opportunities to touch the opposite side twice by all means, and even find opportunities to have ADC go up to open a team.

However, due to this aggressive style of play, Mr. Dai often suddenly and violently died inexplicably while the output was full, allowing the opposite side to find an opportunity.

Ruler is relatively more stable, and pays attention to the protection of himself when playing output, and Ruler is also the first player to use cloth armor shoes as a common equipment for ADC.

Brother Li became interested: "Do you guess who of these two teams will win?" ”

Li Xu: "At the beginning of this season, these two teams looked half-dead, but at present, they have won two consecutive games, and it is really hard to say whether they will win or lose, but I will definitely play for a long time." ”

As Li Xu expected, GEN?? G's game is still a familiar taste, and the two sides have played three rounds slowly.

In the end, Mr. Dai had the last laugh, and in the case of a violent death in the first game, he was brave and led the team to win two games in a row to defeat GEN?? G。

Originally, Li Xu was going to stay to watch Mr. Dai's post-game interview, but the hungry Brother Li was impatient and wanted to forcibly take Li Xu away.