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实在是一个非常有趣的家伙。当我第一次遇见他，他告诉我他要去念医学院，还有
他在一家健身俱乐部做每小时收费60镁的个人训练师，还有一些他聊的很开的女孩儿们（
ㄏㄏ）。
最后我发现Saint根本只是个惯性骗子。不是要攻击他什么，只是经过上面这样的事情之
后，我实在很难完全相信任何他告诉我们的故事。但是其实他这样也不会让我讨厌他，因
为那时候的线上社群生态大概就是这副模样。
我相信Saint几乎被这些事情给弄臭了，因为他从不认为自己可以是一个公众的楷模（这
边语意怪怪的，或许应该是不被认为是公众的楷模？）。在Saint最辉煌的时候，他的确
是一个很好的打野，但是真正显现他价值的是他正是CLG从过去到现在一直都最需要的完
美打野