Saintvicious篇
Saintvicious – Saint is a really funny guy. When I first met Saint, he told
me he was going to Med School and that he worked at a fitness club for like
$60/hr as a personal trainer. And that certain girls he chatted up etc etc
etc (hehe).
Eventually I found out that Saint was just a pathological liar. Nothing
against the guy, just after the previous examples I could never really trust
any of the stories he told us but I don’t
hold it against him at all because that was about par for the online
community at the time.
I believe Saint mostly stopped with the bullshit as he never believed to
become a public figure. Saint was a good jungler in his time, but what made
his career shine was that he was the perfect jungler that CLG needed, and
still needs. Saint was a leader and took charge of his own path.
Due to his incredible work ethic, we all trusted in Saint and knew that he
was doing what needed to be done. CLG communication from solo lanes has
always been terrible (outside of Hotshot), but Saint was the only jungler
proactive enough to work on the communication with jiji and also respond to
Hotshot’s calls.
His biggest weakness as a player was initiating, which is why we largely
relied on Hotshot for initiations. The shining examples would be when CLG,
known to give up all uncontestable dragons, sat behind dragon as 5. Saint on
Amumu, bandaged Dragon and flashes forward to ultimate 5 people.
All of us on the other side of Dragon are just dumbfounded because half of us
don’t have flash and Saint didn’t say anything except I’m going in as he
bandaged in. Outside of that weakness, Saint was also hard to work with as a
teammate. Mostly the negative interactions were between Saint and Hotshot as
I think Saint did not respect Hotshot as a player during that time period.
I felt that this dynamic was very unhealthy as the tension between Saint and
Hotshot was very high, and I felt that in a team environment that was not
supposed to exist. Some of this negativity spilled over to Double and I, and
because of it we decided to replace Saint.
Tl;dr Saint was the best jungler CLG ever had as his personality and
playstyle was the right fit towards the communication issues that has
historically plagued CLG. With the jungle prowess came an increasingly toxic
environment, which eventually collapsed upon itself.
Saintvicious -
Saint實在是一個非常有趣的傢伙。當我第一次遇見他，他告訴我他要去念醫學院，還有
他在一家健身俱樂部做每小時收費60鎂的個人訓練師，還有一些他聊的很開的女孩兒們（
ㄏㄏ）。
最後我發現Saint根本只是個慣性騙子。不是要攻擊他什麼，只是經過上面這樣的事情之
後，我實在很難完全相信任何他告訴我們的故事。但是其實他這樣也不會讓我討厭他，因
為那時候的線上社群生態大概就是這副模樣。
我相信Saint幾乎被這些事情給弄臭了，因為他從不認為自己可以是一個公眾的楷模（這
邊語意怪怪的，或許應該是不被認為是公眾的楷模？）。在Saint最輝煌的時候，他的確
是一個很好的打野，但是真正顯現他價值的是他正是CLG從過去到現在一直都最需要的完
美打野