For gamers who love League of Legends, Nidalee is probably a very familiar champion. To master this character, players need to have relatively high skills to take advantage of her mobility, burst damage, and disrupt the enemy formation.
On the Vietnamese server, one of the highest-achieving “Boy One Champion” at the moment is Hiếu Nidalee, who owns the YouTube channel Hiếu Nidalee with only 46 thousand subscribers and the fanpage Nidalee Leo Thách Đấu having 179 thousand followers.
Although the number of followers is not large, this guy has an impressive record of climbing to Top 1 Challenger mainly using Nidalee and is currently holding this position on the Vietnamese server. Recently, after reaching the highest milestone, he set a challenge to achieve 140 consecutive game wins to receive a reward of up to 15 million VND.
Of course, with his “team-carry” ability, Hiếu Nidalee shouldn’t have much trouble reaching this milestone IF he isn’t “hunted”. In other words, getting sabotaged or trolled in-game leads to losses. This happened during his first attempt and caused him to end his streak with regret.
Returning for the second challenge, Hiếu Nidalee spent 5 days, playing 20 games a day to achieve a record of 99 consecutive wins. However, misfortune struck once again yesterday, right on the decisive 99th match.
As soon as the game started, the teammate playing Tristana immediately recognized him and banned Nidalee, not forgetting to add a comment: “Challenger level but playing in Platinum?” The rest of the teammates, except for the mid-lane player playing with him, seemed to deliberately want to lose this match to make Hiếu Nidalee “fail” his streak.
Many viewers watching the livestream at that time advised him to exit the game immediately, as it was highly likely that the others would troll and ruin the game, causing the challenge to “fail”. However, he remained confident and chose Jax, believing he could still “carry” and that there was no need to exit.
Obviously, what had to happen did happen. Tristana, right at the start of the match, charged in to fight and continuously fed the enemy Top, while the duo Kaisa and Zyra kept roaming, fighting, not placing wards, and feeding uncontrollably. No matter how much he pinged or communicated, no one listened.
The opposing team also chatted that they were “map hacking” right on his livestream channel, as his stream was live without delay to interact with everyone. Ultimately, they were discovered everywhere, and furthermore, the channel of the mid-lane player with him was also being “map hacked”.
The result was a bitter loss; despite his best efforts to carry the team, both Jax and Kalista were “powerless”. The Nexus exploded at 34:14, ending his 99-game win streak that he had worked diligently on for 5 days. This defeat genuinely shocked him, and it took a while for him to regain his composure.
Many people argue that if trolling and ruining games is considered “toxic” in League of Legends, then the act of a Top 1 Challenger playing in Platinum is also an unseemly behavior. However, it is clear that these are two actions with different purposes. One side intentionally ruins the game, causing frustration for others, while the other simply aims to overcome challenges to continue improving their own account.
In League of Legends’ regulations, there is no restriction against players using multiple accounts. Especially when you have already reached Top 1, the act of “grinding” a new account to rise to Challenger is not wrong at all. Unless you are boosting or playing for someone else, which is indeed wrong and should be condemned.
In fact, only viewers have the time to judge, while Hiếu Nidalee, right after his second defeat, has continued to create another account to participate in the challenge of 140 game wins for the third time. It remains unclear whether he will succeed or not, but if you are a decent player, challenge him on the other side of the battlefield rather than trolling the game, as that merely shows you are weak and a “loser”.