Introduction:

Since BLG, the LPL's top championship favorite, suffered a heartbreaking loss to HLE in the MSI finals, their external reputation has completely fallen apart. Especially Bin, who was once elevated to the status of "world's best top laner" by LPL fans and casters, has now been reduced to the "scapegoat" of the LPL. Even LPL caster Guan Zeyuan openly dissed him in a video, stating, "Bin claims he's the world's best top laner—he might fool the audience, but he shouldn't fool himself." (Interestingly, Guan Zeyuan had previously publicly praised Bin as the world's best top laner in an earlier video.)

Because Bin's performance in the match was subpar, many viewers and fans commented under BLG's official account, hoping that Bin would change his "bad temper" in the future. Some even suggested that BLG's management should be tough and bench Bin for the third split, making him realize that teamwork is more important than individual play. Although many people dislike Bin, according to recent leaks from LPL insider "Lianlian Hongcha," BLG will not abandon Bin even if he performed poorly at MSI, since Bin is the team's core player.

Xiaoxiao supports Bin for the second time

Although most outsiders believe Bin should take the blame for the loss, some industry insiders think that other BLG players made even greater mistakes. For instance, LOL veteran Xiaoxiao has recently posted multiple times in support of Bin. In his first post, he stated that Bin's Aatrox laning against Zeus's Mundo in the decisive game was fine, because the main purpose of picking Aatrox was to suppress Zeus's growth. Xiaoxiao also pointed out that Viper had mechanical issues, such as strange deaths in teamfights while playing Ezreal in game one and randomly using his ultimate as Miss Fortune in the decisive game.

After Xiaoxiao's first post supporting Bin, many LOL viewers thought he was just trying to gain attention, since his contrarian stance did get him trending on hot searches. However, to the surprise of many, even two days after the MSI finals, Xiaoxiao continued to post in support of Bin. This time, he attributed the loss to jungler XUN and the shallow champion pools of BLG's players.

Xiaoxiao believes that in every decisive game in the LPL, teams often pick champions to deny the opponent. BLG was afraid of letting Kanavi have Vi and Zeus have Aatrox, so they had XUN and Bin play these champions early. However, XUN and Bin are not proficient with these champions, leading to poor teamfights. Xiaoxiao suggested that in future decisive games, LPL teams should confidently pick their signature champions, so that even if they lose, the match would at least be more exciting.

After Xiaoxiao made these remarks, many LPL viewers joked that he was dragging too many BLG players into the blame. Some even speculated that in a few days, he might also find fault with BLG's mid laner Knight. Of course, some viewers analyzed whether Xiaoxiao's words were reasonable. One viewer argued that a player's champion pool depth reflects their true value, questioning why HLE players could play Vi and Aatrox while BLG players could not.

Conclusion

Personally, I think Xiaoxiao really likes Bin too much. He even posted multiple times to review the MSI finals just to support Bin. In my opinion, BLG's strategy of picking to deny the opponent was not wrong, because as a professional player, your champion pool should be deep enough and not easily predicted by the enemy team. After reading Xiaoxiao's posts, I also recalled the decisive game between T1 and AL in last year's S15 World Championship. Jungler Oner clearly stated after the match that he had never played jungle Mundo before, but the T1 coaching staff told him to pick it, and he did.