Recaps

In June 2017, Lu Chen maxed out his system stats after two years of deliberately keeping a low profile and decided it was time to become a professional starter. As his RNG academy contract neared its end, Rita offered him a casting job, but Lu Chen refused and declared he would become a legendary player.

• Lu Chen used his remaining points to raise his teamfighting stat to 100, completing his maxed-out stats.
• Lu Chen decided to pursue the system mission to become a starting player for an LPL team.
• Rita visited Lu Chen and told him his RNG academy contract would expire in two weeks, so she had arranged a trial as a caster.
• Lu Chen rejected Rita's offer and announced he would show his talent as a legendary player.
• Rita doubted Lu Chen's ambitions, then asked if he was serious.

Lu Chen told Rita he was the world's top LOL player, but she dismissed his boast. A week later, after Kid suffered a brutal loss to a mysterious player named Chen, Yu, he discovered the account had a 90% win rate and rushed off to investigate.

• Lu Chen declared himself the world's number one LOL player, and Rita joked that he should find his own job if his contract was not renewed.
• After WE lost to SKT in the MSI semifinals, LPL clubs pursued roster upgrades ahead of the World Championship in China.
• Kid streamed a Vayne game in which he went 0-8-0 and dealt only 328 damage, while viewers mocked his performance.
• Kid checked the opposing AD's match history and found Chen, Yu had reached Master with 520 LP and a 90% win rate on a new account.
• Kid ended his stream and hurried deeper into the IG clubhouse as viewers reacted to the mysterious player's record.

IG investigated Chen,Yu after Kid discovered his extraordinary ranked results, and the account soon climbed to number one on the Chinese server with an 85% win rate. As fans and professional teams took notice, IG grew desperate to contact him before a rival club could sign him.

• Kid showed Su Xiaoluo and the IG players Chen,Yu's match history and 520 LP account overview, prompting them to marvel at his 90% win rate and debate whether he was cheating or a prodigy.
• Su Xiaoluo asked the team to contact Chen,Yu and invite him to a tryout, since IG's bot lane was its biggest weakness and JackeyLove was too young to compete.
• Over the following week, Chen,Yu climbed to 1,580 LP, reached number one on the Chinese server, and maintained an 85% win rate.
• Fans debated Chen,Yu's skill and whether he could compare to Uzi, while professional clubs began monitoring him.
• RNG considered signing Chen,Yu as Uzi's substitute, while IG panicked because it had failed to contact him despite discovering him first.

Lu Chen revealed to Rita that he was the rank-one solo queue player Chen,Yu, after she worried that he would be dropped by RNG without a job. Rita confirmed his account and blushed when Lu Chen teased her about promising to be his girlfriend, leaving the two sharing an intimate moment.

• Lu Chen finished his climb to rank one and told Rita he was looking forward to becoming a free agent when his RNG contract expired.
• Rita warned Lu Chen that his lack of talent and experience would make it difficult to find another team, and contrasted him with the mysterious rank-one player Chen,Yu.
• Lu Chen revealed that he was Chen,Yu and explained the name as a combination of his name and Rita's.
• Lu Chen showed Rita his account, which had 1,580 LP, rank one, and an 85% win rate.
• Rita scolded Lu Chen for hiding his achievement after worrying about his future and trying to secure him a caster trial.
• Lu Chen reminded Rita that she had promised to be his girlfriend if he was Chen,Yu, and Rita blushed and closed her eyes.

Lu Chen ended his RNG contract and became a free agent after the club declined to renew it, while other teams struggled to contact the solo queue king Chen,Yu. He returned to Rita, who asked why he had not stayed with RNG.

• IG players and Su Xiaoluo failed to contact Chen,Yu before the transfer window closed, while West feared losing his place to rising talent.
• Bai Xing dismissed Coach Fire Fox's case for signing Chen,Yu, insisting RNG already had Uzi.
• Lu Chen arrived at Bai Xing's office and said he had come to end his contract, which expired that day.
• RNG completed Lu Chen's termination and gave him an extra month's salary before he left the club relieved.
• Lu Chen told Rita he was now a free agent, and she asked why he had not played for RNG.

Lu Chen explained why he had avoided joining RNG and revealed that he was aiming for IG. After Kid contacted him, IG offered him a lucrative contract, and they arranged a tryout that afternoon.

• Lu Chen told Rita that he had no interest in RNG and had been targeting IG’s ADC position.
• Lu Chen accepted Kid’s week-old friend request and messaged him.
• Kid ended his livestream after spotting Lu Chen’s message, while viewers celebrated the possibility of Lu Chen going pro.
• Kid invited Lu Chen to join IG, and manager Su Xiaoluo took over negotiations with Principal Wang’s backing.
• IG offered Lu Chen an annual salary starting at two million, and both sides agreed that Lu Chen would visit the club for a tryout that afternoon.

Lu Chen arrived at IG for a tryout after spending two years honing his skills, and joined the team following a crushing scrim loss to EDG. He prepared to make his competitive debut in the next two scrim games.

• Lu Chen visited IG's headquarters for a tryout, and manager Su Xiaoluo and coach Mafa brought him to watch a scrim.
• IG lost badly to EDG, falling behind across the map before iBoy's Caitlyn led an ace at fifteen minutes.
• Su Xiaoluo introduced Lu Chen to the IG players as the top-ranked Chinese-server player known as Chen,Yu.
• The IG players welcomed Lu Chen, and Su Xiaoluo said he would play the next two scrim games.
• Lu Chen recalled spending two years training and resolved to show his ability in his first match.

Lu Chen made his debut as IG’s new ADC in the second scrim against EDG, with IG drafting Caitlyn for him. The game began with Lu Chen determined to prove himself against iBoy.

• West gave up his desk to Lu Chen and accepted that JackeyLove and Lu Chen had pushed him out of IG’s starting lineup.
• Rookie and Ning Wang reassured Lu Chen before the scrim, while Baolan promised to do his best to work with him.
• IG changed their bans and picked Caitlyn for Lu Chen, while EDG chose Xayah and Rakan for iBoy and Meiko.
• EDG completed a lineup of Maokai, Lucian, Sejuani, Xayah, and Rakan, while IG picked Cho'Gath, Corki, Zac, Caitlyn, and Alistar.
• As the game loaded, Lu Chen focused and declared that he would make EDG his first sacrifice on his debut.

Lu Chen's Caitlyn dominated the bot lane with precise spacing and aggressive pressure, then dodged EDG's gank and helped secure first blood on iBoy. The fight left Sejuani's attack missing and EDG's bot lane in danger.

• Lu Chen's Caitlyn aggressively pushed the lane and repeatedly poked iBoy's Xayah while dodging retaliation.
• Caitlyn's pressure let IG's bot lane reach level two first and forced Xayah and Rakan back toward their tower.
• Clearlove brought Sejuani to gank Caitlyn, while iBoy and Meiko committed to the attack.
• Lu Chen dodged Meiko's Rakan engage, and Baolan's Alistar knocked up Xayah as Caitlyn trapped and damaged her.
• Lu Chen dodged Sejuani's charge, and Caitlyn killed iBoy to claim first blood for IG.

Lu Chen dominated EDG with Caitlyn, turning a bot-lane gank into a kill and building an overwhelming lead that helped IG end the game at twenty minutes. Coach Mafa and Su Xiaoluo watched Lu Chen’s performance with excitement, convinced they had found a star.

• Lu Chen outplayed EDG’s bot-lane gank, secured first blood, and let Ning Wang steal Clearlove’s red buff.
• Lu Chen and Baolan pressured iBoy and meiko out of lane, giving Caitlyn a huge CS and level lead while IG took an Infernal Drake.
• Caitlyn claimed the first turret and farmed Ning Wang’s jungle camps, widening the gap over iBoy’s Xayah to more than forty CS.
• Clearlove missed a fog-of-war ultimate on Lu Chen’s Caitlyn, and Baolan and Lu Chen killed Scout’s Lucian in response.
• IG took objectives and turrets across the map, and EDG typed “GG” in All chat at twenty minutes.
• Mafa and Su Xiaoluo watched Lu Chen’s performance and celebrated having found a remarkable player.

After Lu Chen dominated EDG as Caitlyn in a scrim, EDG questioned IG’s ADC and chose to ban Caitlyn in the next game. Lu Chen then picked Draven into iBoy’s Ezreal, leaving EDG wary of the unfamiliar threat.

• Su Xiaoluo praised Lu Chen’s performance against EDG and credited Kid for bringing him to IG.
• Nofe and Abu asked EDG’s players to explain the loss, while iBoy, Meiko, and Clearlove pointed to Lu Chen’s spacing and ability dodges.
• Abu decided EDG would ban Caitlyn in the next scrim, and EDG used its first ban on her.
• IG and EDG completed their opening bans and picks, with EDG choosing Maokai, Ezreal, and Cassiopeia.
• Lu Chen chose Draven, and iBoy recognized that the ADC could not be West and worried about Draven’s snowball potential.

IG’s bot lane pressured EDG from the start, and Lu Chen’s Draven repeatedly dodged their attacks during Clearlove’s gank. The chapter ended with Draven and Baolan killing Clearlove for first blood.

• Both teams entered the game with their drafted lineups and began laning without attempting a level-one fight.
• Lu Chen’s Draven kept his axes spinning while he and Baolan pushed iBoy and meiko away from the minion wave.
• Clearlove ganked IG’s bot lane, but Lu Chen dodged his E-Flash with Flash and Baolan knocked Gragas into the air.
• iBoy and meiko joined the fight, but Lu Chen dodged their skillshots while attacking Clearlove’s Gragas.
• Baolan and Lu Chen finished off Clearlove despite EDG’s Exhaust and Heal, giving IG first blood.

Lu Chen’s Draven snowballed after killing Gragas and taking both buffs, forcing EDG’s bot lane under its turret. When EDG grouped to defend a stacked wave, Lu Chen and Baolan committed to a dive despite being outnumbered, and the chapter ended as Clearlove arrived to defend.

• Draven killed Gragas, claimed first blood and both buffs, then forced Ezreal and Meiko to burn their Flashes.
• Clearlove told iBoy and Meiko to play safely while Draven and Alistar pushed them under their turret and built a large CS lead.
• iBoy warned that Draven and Alistar were preparing to dive, so Clearlove headed bot to cover the wave.
• Lu Chen spotted Gragas approaching but chose to fight, while Ning Wang moved Jarvan IV toward bot lane and Baolan asked whether they should retreat.
• Draven and Alistar ignored Gragas and pushed their stacked wave under the turret as iBoy, Meiko, and Clearlove prepared to defend.

Lu Chen’s Draven helped IG’s dive kill iBoy and take first turret, leaving EDG’s bot lane far behind. After the teams swapped lanes, Scout saw Draven’s overwhelming items and wondered how EDG could play against him.

• Baolan, Ning Wang, and Lu Chen dove EDG’s bot lane, and Lu Chen dodged Clearlove’s Gragas ultimate before killing iBoy.
• Meiko’s Alistar killed Baolan under the turret, while Ning Wang escaped and EDG’s remaining players backed away.
• Lu Chen destroyed EDG’s outer turret and returned to base for more damage items as IG praised the dive.
• Lu Chen moved to mid and Rookie swapped to bot, where Scout checked Draven’s items and recoiled at his advantage.

Lu Chen’s fed Draven overwhelmed Scout’s Cassiopeia, carrying IG through a dominant scrim win over EDG. The chapter ended with EDG surrendering after fifteen minutes and IG celebrating the easy victory.

• Lu Chen’s Draven drove Scout’s Cassiopeia under her turret, then turned to dodge her ultimate and killed her while surviving the turret shots.
• Scout and EDG tried to focus Draven in later fights, but Lu Chen repeatedly avoided Cassiopeia’s petrifying ultimate and cut down his opponents.
• At a dragon fight, Ning Wang, Rookie, and TheShy set up the enemy team for Lu Chen to claim a quadra kill, while Clearlove escaped as the sole survivor.
• EDG typed GG and left the scrim after holding on past fifteen minutes, and Ning Wang and Baolan praised how easily IG had won.

After Lu Chen dominated two scrims against EDG, IG offered him a lucrative contract, and he joined the team on a six-month deal. The chapter ended with IG announcing the signing of Chen Yu on its official Weibo account.

• Lu Chen credited Ning Wang, Rookie, and TheShy for their contributions, but Mafa praised his flawless play across two scrims against EDG.
• Su Xiaoluo invited Lu Chen to discuss a contract, while the IG players noticed EDG iBoy had messaged the account Lu Chen used, asking who he was.
• Su Xiaoluo offered Lu Chen an annual salary of five million yuan, and Lu Chen asked to shorten the contract term from two years to six months.
• Su Xiaoluo consulted the boss, who approved the shorter contract, and welcomed Lu Chen to IG.
• IG announced the signing of Chen Yu on its official Weibo account.

After IG confirmed that Lu Chen, known online as Chen,Yu, had joined the team, fans and rival clubs reacted to the news. Lu Chen remained unaware of the online commotion and celebrated with IG’s players over hot pot.

• Lu Chen opened and verified his Weibo account, and IG announced that Chen Yu had joined the team.
• Fans questioned whether Chen Yu was the famous C God until IG confirmed that Chen Yu was Chen,Yu.
• Fans and rival teams reacted to the signing, while EDG recognized Lu Chen’s dominance in scrims and Abu regretted failing to contact him sooner.
• RNG coach Fire Fox doubted that Uzi could match Chen,Yu’s seemingly flawless play, but Bai Xing remained confident in Uzi.
• Lu Chen ate hot pot with IG’s players, and JackeyLove shuddered at Ning Wang’s joke about him growing as large as Uzi.

Su Xiaoluo and Mafa discovered that Lu Chen had spent two years as an unused substitute on RNG’s youth team before joining IG, and they welcomed him into the club. After learning the training and streaming rules, Lu Chen started his first livestream with a self-deprecating title.

• Xiaoxiao and Xika claimed on stream that Lu Chen would strengthen IG, while viewers doubted he could earn a starting spot.
• Su Xiaoluo and Mafa read Lu Chen’s record and learned he had been an unused RNG youth-team substitute for two years.
• Su Xiaoluo and Mafa decided not to mention Lu Chen’s history with RNG and treated his signing as a good opportunity for IG.
• Su Xiaoluo showed Lu Chen his training station, explained the club’s training and streaming rules, and toured him around the base.
• Lu Chen started his livestream and titled it, “New here. The streamer sucks, please bear with me.”

Lu Chen began streaming Ranked on the Korean server, drawing a huge audience eager to watch C God play. When viewers spotted that his account was named RNG Chen, they discovered he had once been an RNG academy substitute, and the chapter ended with fans flooding RNG’s social media to demand an explanation.

• Lu Chen went live on Tiger Shark, where viewers quickly flooded in after the platform promoted C God’s stream.
• Lu Chen announced he would play Korean-server Ranked and logged into an account he had barely used since his time in RNG’s youth academy.
• Viewers noticed the account ID RNG Chen and searched for Lu Chen’s history, uncovering that he had been an RNG academy substitute who had left the club.
• Lu Chen changed the account name to IG ChenYu and brushed off viewers’ questions without explaining his past.
• Viewers spread the discovery across other platforms and swarmed RNG’s official social media account, demanding that the club respond.

RNG discovered that Chen Yu, now on IG, was Lu Chen, a former youth-team substitute whose contract they had recently allowed to expire. Bai Xing raged over the lost player and insisted Chen Yu would fail in real matches when the Summer Split began.

• The RNG Weibo staff asked the manager about comments claiming the club had let C God go, and the manager learned that Chen Yu had once been a youth-team player.
• Fire Fox checked RNG’s records and confirmed that Chen Yu’s real name was Lu Chen, who had played for RNG’s youth team for two years before joining IG.
• Fire Fox told the manager to prepare to dismiss the second team’s manager, then reported the mistake to Bai Xing.
• Bai Xing erupted when he learned RNG had released Chen Yu, accused him of being a traitor, and asked whether the contract could be challenged.
• The manager said the contract offered no room to maneuver, and Bai Xing dismissed Chen Yu as a ranked-game choker who would prove himself useless in the Summer Split.

After RNG confirmed ChenYu was the former youth-team player Chen, online debate over his departure faded as Lu Chen dominated Korean-server placement matches on stream. Rookie joined him in the training room, gifted him five Super Rockets, and asked him to carry IG to wins in the summer split.

• RNG stated that ChenYu was former RNG player Chen and that they had parted ways normally when his contract expired.
• EDG's Abu and Clearlove discussed why RNG had let Chen go despite his talent and the value of having two top-tier AD carries.
• Lu Chen streamed five placement matches, winning each by a wide margin until viewers and haters alike fell silent.
• Lu Chen thanked viewers for their gifts and explained that he had no camera yet, then began banning disruptive commenters.
• Nuomi approached Lu Chen, and Rookie entered the training room and offered to duo, but Lu Chen explained that they could not queue together during placements.
• Rookie sent Lu Chen five Super Rockets and joked that Lu Chen should carry him to more summer-split wins, drawing more viewers to the stream.

Lu Chen finished his first livestream with a perfect 10-0 placement record, drawing huge attention and Super Rocket gifts from IG players. After lunch at the club, he went back to pack and told Rita he planned to buy a home with her once he had earned money playing professionally, leaving her resolved to work hard as a caster too.

• Rookie and the other IG players sent Lu Chen Super Rockets and urged him to duo with them after he ranked up.
• Lu Chen ended his stream at Platinum I after ten placement wins, ten MVPs, and no deaths, with his popularity reaching 1.5 million.
• Lu Chen and Baolan had lunch at the IG club, where Lu Chen praised the food and said he was returning to collect his luggage.
• Lu Chen packed one backpack at the apartment, and Rita said she would keep his room for him.
• Lu Chen told Rita they should buy a place together after he earned money playing for six months, and Rita vowed to work hard at the caster's desk.

Lu Chen reached number one on the Korean Server with an 86 percent win rate, drawing widespread attention to his skill and his move to IG. As the Summer Split approached, IG prepared for its opening matches against WE and IM, leaving Lu Chen eager to make his professional debut.

• Lu Chen climbed from Platinum I to over 1,580 Challenger points in less than a week, finishing first on the Korean Server after defeating high-ranked players and pros.
• Fans and gaming sites celebrated Lu Chen's Korean Server ranking, while his new Weibo account passed one million followers.
• Lu Chen ended his streams ahead of the Summer Split, and Baolan said their duo queue had helped him gain hundreds of points and build bot-lane synergy.
• Su Xiaoluo and Mafa told IG that their first-week opponents were WE and IM and scheduled scrims for the next day.
• Lu Chen looked forward to his first professional match, against WE, and resolved to make it the start of his legend.

The Summer Split opened with OMG sweeping RNG 2-0, validating Lu Chen’s prediction and sparking debate about RNG’s decision to bench Uzi. At IG’s scrims, Lu Chen’s team then crushed Snake Esports and DAN across six games, leaving both opponents stunned by his ADC play.

• Lu Chen predicted that OMG would beat RNG, despite JackeyLove, Ning Wang, and Rookie expecting RNG to win.
• OMG beat RNG in two games, with Smlz and his teammates overcoming RNG’s early lead in the second game.
• Fans argued online about RNG’s loss, Wuxin replacing Uzi, and why RNG had let C God go.
• Lu Chen, Rookie, JackeyLove, and the other IG players went to scrim against Snake Esports and DAN.
• IG won all six scrim games decisively, and Crystal, Flandre, Zz1tai, and Qiuqiu were left reeling from Lu Chen’s performance.

After IG crushed six scrim games, Mafa believed Lu Chen had transformed the team and Su Xiaoluo looked ahead to their match against WE. At the venue for his first official LPL match, Lu Chen prepared to make his debut against the Spring Split champions.

• Ning Wang, TheShy, Rookie, and Lu Chen celebrated IG's six scrim victories, while Su Xiaoluo wondered whether the team's confidence might be a problem.
• Mafa said IG could ride their momentum to beat every team, crediting Lu Chen's shot-calling and ability to carry games.
• The next morning, IG arrived at the venue and saw WE welcomed by a much larger crowd of fans.
• Lu Chen assured Ning Wang that IG would gain more supporters and said they would not lose.
• Miller, Wawa, and Rita introduced the lineups, with TheShy, Ning Wang, and Chen Yu named as IG's newcomers.
• As the match was about to begin, Lu Chen gathered his fighting spirit for his first official LPL appearance.