For the long -term watch audience, Rookie is a player that leaves many deep impressions. He, along with the 2018 IG team, was considered the heroes of LPL when they first brought the World Championship for this area. Even after breaking up with IG and joining V5, TES or NIP, Rookie is always considered a bright star of the LPL tournament.
Rookie and teammates at IG 2018 are the first to win the World Championship for LPL
However, when walking to the group stage stage of the Summer LPL 2024, Rookie showed a rapid decrease in form. No longer showing certainty, Rookie now shows the ability to choose positions in the fighting quite weak and make confusing decisions. Even after the latest defeat against LGD, Rookie and NIP team were also criticized by BLV LPL.
The ability to make the exact decision of the current Rookie has been weakened
“Honestly, Leyan has created some bright spots for NIP but they often make serious mistakes in the middle of the match. They play as if they were beating. When in a disadvantage, instead of finding a way to minimize damage, they rushed into adventure fights and only lost heavier.
Theoretically, Rookie must be the star of Nip and carry this team. But he played so badly and there was no link to the jungler. When LGD had difficulties, they still sought to organize the match and seek opportunities. And NIP collapses completely and has no connection ” – LPL's BLV Mact and Zhao Yunri shared on the official broadcast of the tournament.
Rookie received a lot of criticism from the BLV of the LPL: “In theory, Rookie must be the star of NIP and carry this team. But he is now too bad and there is no link to the jungler. When LGD has difficulty, they still seek to organize the match and seek opportunities. And NIP collapses completely and has no connection.”
In fairness, Rookie also has some bright spots in the match against LGD. Typically, the solicill Haichao phase in the road at the first game. However, it is not enough to cover the reality that Rookie often makes confusing decisions leading to NIP completely lost the advantage. Even this guy has a situation of Lucian surfing full of carelessness at the end of game 1 and directly led to the loss of Nip.
Rookie's careless handling at the end of game 1 has made Nip completely fail
With this defeat, NIP closed the LPL group stage in the summer of 2024 with a bad loss. In LPL history, only two other teams used to have similar achievements: Team We (Summer LPL 2022) and V5 (LPL Spring Spring 2020 and Summer LPL 2021). Even if compared to the “underneath” teams in the Nivarna table, there is no team that loses white like NIP.
Nip is the only team that lost in the group stage of the summer LPL 2024
In fact, Rookie drops in form is also sympathetic. This player turned 27 years old and was hard to play as well as 5 or 6 years ago. So Rookie can play well and win the title is difficult to happen. Only if Rookie kept playing badly like the match against LGD, the last time in his career would be unfortunate notes.