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The LPL Summer Playoffs will officially begin on the 10th. Looking at the progress of this year's summer season, after the reform of the competition system, there have undoubtedly been many unexpected teams or players, and many new memes have been born.

In the previous canteen program, an audience member mentioned a very important topic, which aroused widespread heated discussion among the audience.

LPL rookie curse, a large number of players are affected

During the canteen program, an audience member made a brilliant comment about the best rookie. To put it simply, there is a rookie curse in the LPL region, that is, players who have won the best rookie award often do not perform well afterwards. Here are a few well-known player cases, Wayward from WE team, Shan Ji from NIP team, Tang Yuan from RNG and Leave from EDG.

In addition, FPX's jungler Milkyway also saw his performance decline in the summer season after winning the Rookie of the Year award in this year's spring season.

These five best rookies did not perform well in the season after winning the award. In the traditional sports industry, there is a term called the rookie wall. Many players hit the rookie wall and perform poorly after an outstanding season.

In terms of performance, these five players who have won the Best Rookie award have indeed brought very surprising performances to the audience. If we rank them based on the degree of amazing performance, I personally think that Brother Galaxy can be ranked first, followed by the two top laners Shan Ji and Wayward. They all performed very well in their Best Rookie season.

Tang Yuan's personal performance in the season when he won the Rookie of the Year award was relatively not that outstanding, but it was definitely not as bad as this year.

To break through the rookie wall, you need to break through yourself

Regarding the rookie curse, the guests in the cafeteria can reach a unanimous opinion that the players' strength will decline after the version changes, and the season in which they won the best rookie happened to be the version they were good at. There is another key factor here. I personally think that when these players first started playing in the game, other teams would not pay much attention to them.

Take Brother Yinhe as an example. There was a jungler named Xiaopeng in the LPL region who had a similar highlight season. They played well at the beginning because other teams didn’t understand this player’s playing style well enough, and they were able to perform very well when the version was suitable.

With subsequent version changes, coupled with targeted research on these players by other teams, the players' condition will decline rapidly after the crack is completed. The key to breaking through the rookie wall lies in whether the players can achieve self-breakthrough under unfavorable circumstances, or strive to expand their own playing style to adapt to different versions through more efforts.

Another way is for the team to have a mentor to help, who can be a player or a coach.

It usually takes a long time for new players to grow.

In fact, there are many best rookie players in the LPL region who have grown into top players. There are two in the BLG team. Bin in the top lane and Elk in the bottom lane have both won the title before. Then these two players encountered some difficulties afterwards. From the experience of these two players, we can actually understand why many young players cannot play well after winning the best rookie award.

After Bin won the Best Rookie award, he performed poorly for a long time, even when RNG won the MSI championship in the season. At that time, Bin's biggest problem was that he was terrible at team battles and was too focused on dangerous individual operations. But last year, Bin succeeded in enlightenment and became stronger again through long-term practice. This year, he became the strongest top laner in LPL.

The same goes for Elk. After a highlight season in WE, his personal performance suddenly became very poor. During his time with UP, he made various outrageous mistakes and was severely criticized by the audience.

Judging from the rate at which these two players are developing, I personally think that the audience should have more understanding of these rookie players. The five best rookies we mentioned above may very likely explode like Bin and Elk in a certain year in the future. Before that, they will experience a lot of difficulties. The key point is that they need to always believe in themselves, build their own playing system through a long period of practice, and believe that one day they will be able to make it.