Daniel Sun

Conquer

[Tony Chau @SaskioLoL]

met a cute asian girl at a social gathering last month

we hit it off immediately.

good chemistry, easy conversation.

then she mentioned she plays league.

i locked in

we traded discords to duo.

she sent me her ign. i added her and did what any normal man does

i checked her opgg

90% winrate on rengar in emerald

every other champion on the account.

50% winrate lulu, janna, yuumi, karma

this woman was BOOSTED.

a couple days later we're both online and she wants to duo.

sweet girl.

so i hop on my smurf and duo boosted her from emerald to diamond over 10 games.

she's thrilled. she's giggling in vc.

she asks me on a date because shes so happy to have reached diamond

I gathered all the evidence and tipped off my riot friend on twitter that her account was being boosted

A couple days later she sends me a screenshot of her getting banned

my smurf also got banned

then i took her to one of the nicest restaurants in vancouver to cheer her up about the ban

moral of the story

i ruined this woman's ranked account

watched her cry about it over discord

took her to dinner

and enjoyed the meals thoroughly

Study the Saskio way

[Tony Chau @SaskioLoL]

i've cried after sex twice in my life

both times it was because i realized something about league of legends

first time i was 16. lying there.

staring at the ceiling. completely hollow.

not sad

not happy

just nothing

and i thought "this is exactly how i feel after a 40 minute loss"

you give everything. every ounce of focus.

every good decision.

you play the best game of your life and your bot lane hands it over at the 40 minute mark and there is nothing you can do

that emptiness taught me the first brutal truth.

the effort doesn't always match the outcome.

you can be perfect and still lose.

you can give everything and still walk away with nothing

second time was different. i was 18.

things were good. really good

her head on my chest. total peace.

everything quiet. everything clicking

and i thought "this is what a perfect game feels like"

not the LP. not the rank.

the feeling.

total control. total presence.

nothing outside that moment exists

and that's when it hit me

i'd been playing this game completely wrong for years

i wasn't queuing to win.

i was queuing to escape.

using ranked like a drug so i didn't have to think about my actual life.

filling a void instead of building something

no wonder i was hardstuck. you cannot climb while you're running away

so i fixed the life first. the void.

the thing i was hiding from

and the game got easy

fewer games. more intention.

every single one meaning something.

i stopped playing scared and started playing to dominate

your rank is a mirror of yourself.

if you're hardstuck the problem was never your macro.

it's whatever you queue up to avoid

i fixed it. hit my peak three months later

took crying after sex twice to figure that out

and i'd do it a third time if it meant challenger again

Study the Saskio way

[Tony Chau @SaskioLoL]

Bard players are the strangest human beings in League of Legends

no bard player has ever agreed with another bard player on how to play the game

there are 10 different builds and every single one of them thinks theirs is correct.

one guy is going FULL AP.

one guy is building TANKY with deadmans plate.

one guy is running full ENCHANTER

meanwhile they all have a 50% winrate

and then they roam

level 3. GONE.

no explanation.

you're 1v2 into a lucian nami and he's collecting chimes on the other side of the map

you DIE. you type "where are you"

he deafens

you can't dismiss them.

they're playing a completely different game with rules only they understand and roughly 50% of the time it's correct

every bard player thinks he's a philosopher

every bard player has left his adc to die and felt nothing

never duo with them

Study the Saskio way

[☆ ★ @imfynerthanfyne]

i’m really done with dating

[Dezton @d3zziiii]

but my support has cancer?

[Daniel Sun @D1unnyS]

Sometimes I miss you too much

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

Older generations say "we all struggled in our 20s."

No, you didn't.

You didn't pay $3,000 for rent and $25 for eggs.

You didn't graduate into $55k student debt and $0 job security.

Gen Z isn't dramatic.

Ther're drowning.

[Daniel Sun @D1unnyS]

“Forgive yourself for not knowing earlier what only time could teach.”

[Ninkey @ninkeygwen]

???????????

[Daniel Sun @D1unnyS]

@dpmlol Delete the game st this point

[V2 @V222LoL]

how does this even happen

[Tony Chau @SaskioLoL]

Went to an underground rave in Vancouver last night and met a Chinese Elo Booster making $30k a month

we're outside smoking at 2 am and he tells me the secret to climbing

"western players think too much"

that's it. that's the whole secret

he boosts 15 accounts at a time. bronze to challenger. takes him 1 week per account

doesn't watch replays. doesn't study matchups. doesn't watch guides

just queues. kills people. wins

i asked him "what's your strategy?"

he looked at me like i'm fucking stupid

"see enemy. kill enemy. why need strategy?"

brother is making $30k a month with the simplest philosophy i've ever heard

meanwhile you're hardstuck gold analyzing your deaths in a spreadsheet

he plays in a high rise apartment. 13 hour sessions. no breaks except bathroom

jungle main. lee sin, qiyana, diana. fast tempo. constant violence

duo queues with clients at the same time.

carries them while boosting another account solo

raves and smokes on weekends

his clients? chinese people who want to flex. they pay premium prices for speed

"western players very scared. always thinking. always asking 'what if'"

"chinese players just fight. if you die, you learn. if you win, you win"

this guy has boosted over 400 accounts in 2 years

bronze to challenger, bronze to challenger, over and over

his secret? no secret. just violence

"you make game complicated. game is simple. you stronger than enemy or you not. if not, play better"

told me western players are his easiest money

"they pay more. they ask less questions. they think my English is bad so they don't argue"

his English is perfect. he just plays dumb so clients leave him alone

he finished his cigarette and said something that broke my brain:

"you coach players to think more. i coach players to think less"

he's right about one thing

every hardstuck player i coach is drowning in information

they know TOO MUCH and do TOO LITTLE

this guy knows ONE THING and does it 13 hours a day

see enemy. kill enemy

no wave management debates. no "should i roam or shove?" no "is this the right play?"

just pure action. pure violence. pure results

we went back inside

conversation was worth more than the entire rave

western players are cooked because we think league is complicated

eastern players are winning because they know it's simple

kill enemy. take tower. win game

everything else is just cope

Study the Saskio way

[Wist @WistfulHunger]

Rivals tournament with 40K on the line: We're playing just for the vibe

League players in solo queue with +16/-20 LP on the line

[Barento @razlol]

Rift Herald has evolved.

[Elolesio @Elolesio_]

The most impressive OPGG I've ever seen, guy is in diamond with 5 csm, 9/11/6 KDA and 60% wr

Apparently he just "groups and fights people". If he can hit diamond doing that, then why can't you?

[Phantasm @Phantasm_EUW]

2000LP Season 16..

wow this milestone hits really hard when I had to grind a total of 2 weeks for this kappachungusdeluxemaximus

[𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐯 @fedevalv_]

This might be the hardest edit of all time😭😭😭