Bin

Bin — The Lone Sword: A Season Where Exceptional Laning Skills Couldn't Bring Team Victory In 2025, Chen Zebin's year-long failures provided the cruelest commentary on the "lone wolf" top laner. He maintained world-class laning dominance, capable of achieving astonishing solo kills and CS lead with various warrior champions. However, all this individual brilliance paled in comparison to BLG's overall decline. That year, he was more like a lonely, broken sword completely disconnected from the team's rhythm—sharp, yet unable to sever the rope of victory. From the moment he lost his dominance in the first stage of the LPL, he and the team struggled, only managing to stumble into MSI thanks to adjustments in the jungle position. However, on the international stage, his "solo" philosophy was relentlessly tested: at MSI, BLG was first swept 3-0 by AL, his individual bravery meaningless against AL's coordinated attacks; then they were swept 3-0 by T1, his repeated attempts to create openings in the laning phase always ending in defeat due to his disconnect from the team. He also liked to make boastful statements before matches, vowing revenge against AL, only to be utterly defeated by AL, and then stripped of AL's championship title afterward, saying they were merely winners, not champions. Even back in the LPL, in the second stage finals' 1-3 defeat to AL, while he might have had an advantage in lane, he couldn't translate it into a team victory; his aggressive pushing often became the team's Achilles' heel. Although BLG regained the league championship in the third stage through jungle rotation, Bin's "heavy on laning, light on coordination" style remained a vulnerability. This vulnerability finally surfaced at the World Championship. In the promotional video for the first day of the World Championship, he told his old rival T1, "T1, revenge is our destiny." However, right after making that bold statement, they were shockingly defeated by 100T, a team with a similar name to the third seed from North America, making it a truly laughable defeat. As the core top laner of the first seed, he completely lost on the world stage. He was obsessed with lane dominance and split pushing, but repeatedly got caught and killed due to lack of vision or misjudgment, turning his personal advantages into team disadvantages. When it was time for him to participate in team fights to decide the outcome, his teleports were often late or poorly positioned. Ultimately, BLG set a shameful record of being eliminated in the round of 16 as the first seed, and Bin's seemingly impressive laning stats became the biggest joke in the face of the team's crushing defeat. Bin in 2025 proved that in top-level competition, a "peerless weapon" that cannot integrate individual ability into the team and cannot make the necessary sacrifices and changes for the team's victory is far less valuable than a simple but reliable team cornerstone. His sword was still swift, but the direction it pointed was completely opposite to victory.