• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 13:56
CEST 19:56
KST 02:56
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Code S RO8 Preview: herO, Zoun, Bunny, Classic7Code S RO8 Preview: Rogue, GuMiho, Solar, Maru3BGE Stara Zagora 2025: Info & Preview27Code S RO12 Preview: GuMiho, Bunny, SHIN, ByuN3The Memories We Share - Facing the Final(?) GSL47
Community News
BGE Stara Zagora 2025 - Replay Pack2Weekly Cups (June 2-8): herO doubles down1[BSL20] ProLeague: Bracket Stage & Dates9GSL Ro4 and Finals moved to Sunday June 15th13Weekly Cups (May 27-June 1): ByuN goes back-to-back0
StarCraft 2
General
Jim claims he and Firefly were involved in match-fixing The SCII GOAT: A statistical Evaluation Code S RO8 Preview: herO, Zoun, Bunny, Classic DreamHack Dallas 2025 - Official Replay Pack BGE Stara Zagora 2025 - Replay Pack
Tourneys
[GSL 2025] Code S: Season 2 - Ro8 - Group A [GSL 2025] Code S: Season 2 - Ro8 - Group B RSL: Revival, a new crowdfunded tournament series SOOPer7s Showmatches 2025 Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament
Strategy
[G] Darkgrid Layout Simple Questions Simple Answers [G] PvT Cheese: 13 Gate Proxy Robo
Custom Maps
[UMS] Zillion Zerglings
External Content
Mutation # 477 Slow and Steady Mutation # 476 Charnel House Mutation # 475 Hard Target Mutation # 474 Futile Resistance
Brood War
General
BGH auto balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ FlaSh Witnesses SCV Pull Off the Impossible vs Shu BW General Discussion StarCraft & BroodWar Campaign Speedrun Quest Will foreigners ever be able to challenge Koreans?
Tourneys
[ASL19] Grand Finals [BSL20] GosuLeague RO16 - Tue & Wed 20:00+CET NA Team League 6/8/2025 [Megathread] Daily Proleagues
Strategy
I am doing this better than progamers do. [G] How to get started on ladder as a new Z player
Other Games
General Games
Path of Exile Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Beyond All Reason What do you want from future RTS games?
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine UK Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Vape Nation Thread
Fan Clubs
Maru Fan Club Serral Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Korean Music Discussion [Manga] One Piece
Sports
TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 2024 - 2025 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion NHL Playoffs 2024
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
A Better Routine For Progame…
TrAiDoS
StarCraft improvement
iopq
Heero Yuy & the Tax…
KrillinFromwales
I was completely wrong ab…
jameswatts
Need Your Help/Advice
Glider
Trip to the Zoo
micronesia
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 19064 users

Chinese Player Names, Nicknames, and Origins

Forum Index > LoL General
Post a Reply
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21242 Posts
April 28 2015 04:21 GMT
#1
This is long and filled with dank memes. You have been warned.

To preface: Having extensive experience on both the Chinese and English interwebs, I must say the dankness and associative imagination of Chinese internet memes/jokes/humor far surpasses those of the western counterparts. A lot of jokes are super meta in that they combine many different sources of references, making them often difficult to navigate and understand. Hence the wall of text that follows – some of these explanations are mad convoluted.

There are other nicknames and stuff that float around, and Chinese netizens are notoriously for randomly combining current events/puns/references to refer to players that are usually clear, but may or may not stick around since they're super circumstantial, etc. I -think- these origins and explanations are all accurate, but I might have messed something up. This post is not meant to flame any specific player.

EDG

Koro1 – 扣肉 (KouRou), meaning braised meat. Homonym of his name.

Clearlove – 诺言, (NuoYan). Chinese for “promise,” which was his original ID.

Nickname 1: 诺导, aka Director Nuo. One of the more complicated origins, requires a lot of background knowledge. At the most basic sense, a “Director,” when applied to LoL/DotA, means someone who is very skilled at predicting and controlling the flow of the game, as if they wrote a script and all the other players are just acting out his vision. It took on a more disparaging meaning in League of Legends, where for a period, high elo games were flooded with people getting paid off by other to throw games. A rich player would pay others to either intentionally troll/feed/afk if they get matched the other team, or try hard to win if they’re matched on the same team. Someone who pays off people is called a Director, and the people receiving payments are called Actors. In Season 1, Clearlove reached #1 on the CN ladder, and was accused by people of paying off other players to help him reach the position. Later on, as he went pro and became a legitimately strong jungler, it got embraced as a more praising term. As far as I know, he himself has never really used/acknowledged this ID. There are reports of a fan calling him by this name once at a LAN and he was noticeably unhappy about it, not sure if it was ever confirmed.

Nickname 2: 厂长 (ChangZhang) – Chinese for “factor director,” “plant manager,” “farm owner,” etc.
Clearlove was a bit infamous for flaming teammates/other pros in solo queue back in the day. One insult he used was telling some people* who weren’t playing well to “go home and raise pigs,” (it sounds much less awkward in Chinese, trust me ). Netizens started jokingly referring to Clearlove as the “pig farm owner.” Similar to Director Nuo, the term was actually turned around to become semi-praising. Clearlove would often out-jungle the enemy jungler, and people started comparing to him outplaying the enemy jungler as “raising them like a pig for the slaughter.” That phrase has since become a generic way to say (in Chinese) that one jungler was completely outplayed by the other. Clearlove has since embraced this second definition - http://lol.mingrent.com/zatan/14106.html

His fans are refered to as "piglets."

*"Some people" were, amusingly, some LGD members, including Quan and TBQ I believe.

Pawn – 小胖 or 胖将军 (Little “Pawn,” General “Pawn”, Pawn being a homophone for the Chinese for fat). Pretty straightforward – Pawn is chubby and his ID is a homophone for fat. Note that in Chinese culture, calling someone fat doesn’t carry the insulting connotation it does in English. If anything, it’s somewhat of an endearing/praising term. Same with prefixing names with “小”/Xiao/Little. Pawn is well loved in China, don’t worry.
General Pawn comes from his stellar play, often carrying EDG. There’s also a relation to him carrying on the legacy of General Dade.

Deft – Called 羊驼 (YangTuo). Chinese for alpaca, pretty straightforward.

Meiko – Just Meiko! New player this season, doesn’t really have any nicknames/stories yet, or at least none that have caught on/I’m aware of.

iG

Zzitai – 姿态 (ZiTai) – It’s just his ID!

Kakao – no nickname, just his ID!

Rookie – Just his ID!

Nickname 1: 弱鸡 (RuoJi), meaning weak chicken. Sounds similar to "rookie."

Kid – 小孩 (XiaoHai) – means kid in Chinese.

Kitties – 射可可 (SheKeKe)– I actually don’t know why he’s called this one, all I could dig up was that he had an old ID under this name?

LGD

Acorn – Usually just called by his ID. Occasionally referred to as “A哥,” which means (Older) Brother-A. He has the dependable, older brother image I guess?

Flame – Usually called Flame, sometimes referred to as 公主, meaning princess. Result of being a pretty boy.

TBQ – 淘宝权 (TaoBaoQuan). His original ID was just “Quan,” which is the last character of his name. LGD used to be sponsored by the e-commerce site Taobao (Chinese eBay is best comparison), so his in-game ID looked like LGDTaobao.Quan or even just LGDTaoBaoQuan. People started calling him “TaoBaoQuan,” which stuck, and he embraced the name and changed his ID to TBQ.

We1less – 韦神, meaning Wei God. We1less’ surname is “Wei,” which is how he got his ID. Casters started calling him “Wei God” when he made some big plays and it just stuck. For those who are familiar with Chinese Dota, know that “God” doesn’t have the same mythical connotation of skill and domination in League as it does in DotA.

Imp – Called by ID mostly, Netizens like to call him 小婊, translating roughly to “bitch” or “whore.” It sounds a bit insulting but it’s sort of meant to be endearing/light-hearted. Recall to all those Imp x Defat pics floating around from around world’s, along with that hilarious Imp x Pawn video and you’ll see Imp is a very, erm, touchy person. Whores himself out in esports bromances ;D Also his arrogant attitude (did you see Piglet cry?) etc. contributes. Again, I don’t think this term is typically used disparagingly.

Pyl – 平野绫 (PingYeLing) – Kanji characters for Japanese singer/voice actress Aya Hirano. PYL is the abbreviation of the romanized Chinese characters. When PYL first started playing LoL he and a group of friends all took Jpop singers/VA names as their IDs.

OMG

Gogoing – 大哥 (DaGe), meaning big brother.

This seemingly simple nickname actually has a pretty complicated backstory. So OMG, some of you may know, adopted the nic name “Forces of Darkness,” for a couple of reasons. One, they pretty much supplanted Chinese superteam/favorites WE to take the top spot in China during S3, so they were by default the “bad guys.” In addition, they made a team promo video and photoshoot that netizens likened to a mafia/mob movie trailer. In Chinese, mob/mafia/underground societies/criminal organizations is called, among other things 黑社会, or Black/Dark Society. This basically established OMG’s image as a bunch of mobsters/gangsters. In Chinese slang, the head/leader of a gang is called the Big Brother, and Gogoing basically looked the part.

As a side note, the other members of OMG also had their “mob” nicknames, but Gogoing’s is the only one that stuck.
Cool – 可靠小弟, reliable little brother.
San- 收债流氓, debt collecting goon/punk.
Pomelo- 杀气白脸, white faced killer.
Lovelin- 腹黑军师, black/dark heart tactician.

Nickname 1: 符文战神 (FuWenZhanShen), meaning Rune War God. In the old days, tournaments had a lot of restarts due to internet/technical issues. One time, OMG vs. WE had to restart a game after WE had an advantage, and according to rules everything (runes, champions, masteries) had to be the same. Gogoing was found to have secretly swapped runes to run more MR runes due to the AP heavy comp from WE, after giving up first blood before the restart.

Used disparagingly, because Gogoing refused to give back the first blood in the restarted game, whereas in the previous game in the series, OMG had demanded Caomei give up a first blood in a similarly restarted game, which Caomei complied with (WE won that game anyways).

Nickname 2: 旋转木马 (XuanZhuanMuMa), meaning a carousel (spinning horse literally). Popularized after OMG vs. LGD in LPL Spring 2015 playoffs, where Gogoing had some embarrassingly bad Hecarim performances.

[image loading]

[image loading]

[image loading]

Want to gank me? I have ult!

Cool – 无状态 (WuZhuangTai), roughly meaning “not in form,” or “not in good condition.” He used to use it as an ID when he first started laddering and it just stuck around.

Nickname 1: 萌妹子(MengMeiZi), meaning “moe/cute little sister.” Not used often, but pops up here and there. Cool is considered by many to be pretty handsome and kinda “cute,” and he has some “moe” pics floating around.

Nickname 2: AV态, meaning Adult Video Tai, AV is the Chinese slang for porn. One time during LPL, Cool's stream got hacked and the hacker started streaming porn.

Loveling – 灵药 (LingYao), meaning “Miracle Drug,” which was one of his first IDs.
Loveling has used a series of IDs throughout career, including Lovelin, Drug, and Allen among others. The “Lovelin” ID was because he used to date a girl named Lin. After they broke up he changed his ID to Drug as a nod to his original ID, and then Allen for a bit (I actually don’t know why). He has changed it back to Lovelin, except with a g at the end, to form Ling from his original LingYao ID, to mean “I love myself.”

Nickname 1: 药导, meaning Director Yao. Same reasoning as Clearlove – he’s skilled and was said to have planned OMG’s strats for a period, so he was the “director.”

Nickname 2: 自拍药 (ZiPaiYao), meaning Selfie Yao. For a while Loveling posted an absurd number of selfies on social media.

Uzi – 小狗 (XiaoGou), meaning “little Dog/puppy.” Pretty well-known since Royal Club had the famous “raise the puppy” strategy. One of Uzi’s original IDs was “狂小禹,” and was renowned in solo queue for playing hyper aggressively. People would refer to it as Uzi entering “mad dog” mode, so the last character of his ID was exchanged with the character for dog, so his entire ID basically read “crazy puppy” or “mad puppy.” The first character got dropped at some point and we got to what we have today. He was also well-known for having a bad attitude, so the “dog” nickname was originally meant to be somewhat insulting. Whenever Uzi is involved in flaming/attitude problem drama these days his anti-fans still use “dog” in an insulting manner these days.

Cloud – 诺夏 (NuoXia), no meaning as far as I know. It’s just the ID he used on the Chinese ladders. He also had another ID that had 云 in it, meaning cloud, which is why his current ID is Cloud.

San
– 小伞 or 伞皇 or 伞爷 (XiaoSan or SanHuang or SanYe), meaning Little San or San Emperor or San-Man. See previously - little is just a term of endearment, and emperor is similar to God as a respectful/hype term. Again, doesn’t indicate some absolute dominance of the game or anything. San means umbrella for what it’s worth.

Nickname: 伞大屌 (SanDaDiao), meaning Big Dick San (yea...)
[image loading]


Bigpomelo –柚子 (YouZi) – Pomelo in Chinese.

Nickname: 大雪碧 (XueBi), meaning “big Sprite” like the soda.
Two origins for this one. One time during post-game when the camera was on pomelo, he raised a bottle of Sprite to the camera for some reason, so fans jokingly referred to him as a Sprite spokesperson.
[image loading]


The more commonly known origin is one time during a stream, bigpomelo flamed a teammate, saying “我x你妈大血 b,” which translates roughly to “I’ll fuck your mom’s big bloody vagina.” X = common way to get past Chinese censors to say “fuck” or something similar. B, pronounced in English (bee), is like “Bi” in Chinese pinyin. The pinyin for 血 (blood) is “xue,” so you have “xueb,” which is a homonym for xuebi, or Sprite.

Xiyang – 夕阳 (XiYang), means “setting sun.” part of an old ID, 冰封夕阳, roughly meaning “Ice Sealing the Setting Sun.” It’s supposed to be a very artistic and elegant name…or something like that~

VG

Hetong - ID

Carry - Usually just ID

Vasili - 死亡宣告 or just 宣告 (SiWanXuanGao or XuanGao), meaning Death Sentence/Announcement. It's his old ID, SWSG.

Mata - Usually just Mata

Dandy - Usually just Dandy, though occasionally called some combination of 斗地主 and Dandy. 斗地主 (DouDiZhu) is a popular Chinese card game, and Dandy streamed/still streams a loooooot of it while in queue or just instead of playing LoL. He's not very good at it, to the amusement of Chinese netizens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dou_Dizhu

Snake

Flandre – 圣枪哥 (ShengQiangGe), nickname for Lucian. Literally means “Holy Gun Bro.” Not as commonly used to actually refer to Lucian these days – which you may or may not know most Chinese players just call “Obama.” Yea we’re racist like that. Flandre is called “Lucian” cause he used to really love playing Lucian in solo queue.

Kryst4l – 水晶 (ShuiJing), means “crystal.”

Baka, Beast, Ella – just their IDs!

Royal

Cola – 可乐 (KeLe), means cola

Godlike – 神超 (ShenChao), means “surpass god,” so it’s actually even more godly than his English ID~

Corn – 玉米 (YuMi), means corn.

Zero, Insec – IDs

Namei – 那美 (NaMei). It’s short for his old ID那逼很美, which means “that pussy is beautiful.” Wonder if Riot knows and would make him censor it huehue. (RIP bigfatjiji and Crystal Meth).

King

Assassin – 脚神 (JiaoShen), meaning Foot God. His old ID was 从头虐到了, which means “Owned from head to,” deliberately leaving out the character for “foot.” As such, people nicknamed him Foot God and it stuck.
Assassin also used to be known for playing Sion and building a lot of Phantom Dancers, and I heard an alternate explanation was Sion’s crit animation is kicking them with his foot, hence the name. Not sure how trustworthy this origin is, but included here for your amusement.

Mlxg – 麻辣香锅 (MaLaXiangGuo), meaning spicy hot pot, a popular Chinese dish. Similar but not quite the same as normal hot pot, spicy hot pot is stuff cooked and served to you usually instead of you sitting there and cooking it as you eat. It’s delicious~ His ID is just an abbreviation of the name.

Wuxin – 无心 in pinyin. Means NoHeart, which he sometimes uses as an ID.

Skye, Leyn – usually just referred to by Id. Leyn usually just Ley.

Team WE

Aluka – usually just ID, sometimes A

Spirit – 小雪碧 , meaning “little Sprite,” to distinguish from from bigpomelo (see above). See here:


Xiye – 兮夜 in pinyin.

Mystic – 大舅子 (DaJiuZi), which means both uncle (on your mother’s side) as well as your wife’s older brother depending on context. Mystic’s family came to visit him once and WE posted some pictures of his little sister on Weibo (Chinese Twitter). Chinese netizens, in true Twitch chat fashion, all went “grill? grill? Marry me loli* pls,” and started referred to Mystic as “brother in law,” implying they want to marry his sister.
*In Chinese young/pretty women as well as girls are all jokingly referred to as “loli.” It doesn’t have as heavy a pedophilia/creepy connotation that it does in Japanese/English.

Conan – 柯南 (KeNan). In China (and most of Asia), Conan comes from Detective Conan and not Conan the Barbarian or Conan O’Brien or whatever other famous Conans there may be in the west.

YuZhe – 宇哲 in pinyin. Zhe is his given (first) name.

M3

Dade – 大帝 (DaDi), meaning Big Emperor. Sounds similar to Dade, meant as a sign of respect, etc.

Looper – ID

Condi – ID

Candy – ID

Ruo – ID

DreamS – 灵梦 (LingMeng), meaning insightful/brilliant dreams or something like that, was his original ID.

Smlz – 司马老贼 (SiMaLaoZei), part of his old ID. It combines a common Chinese compound surname that has some historical connotations (Those of you who know Three Kingdoms and/or played Dynasty Warriors should recognize it) and a name that means “Old Thief.”

GT and EP are relatively new teams, as far as I know they just use their IDs for the most part. Some casual nicknames are tossed around, but nothing has really stuck so far.

TranslatorBaa!
739
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Bearded Elder29903 Posts
April 28 2015 04:46 GMT
#2
Big dick San, LOL + that photo, so much win.
WriterSalty oldboy that loves memes | One and only back-to-back Liquibet Winner
Carnivorous Sheep
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Baa?21242 Posts
April 28 2015 04:49 GMT
#3
On April 28 2015 13:46 739 wrote:
Big dick San, LOL + that photo, so much win.


Welcome to the Big Dick Club, god bless.
TranslatorBaa!
thejuju
Profile Joined January 2015
United States413 Posts
April 28 2015 04:50 GMT
#4
This post is so dank.

I like it
@whyjujuwhy | THE BIGGEST FRAUD ON LL | Ultimate Passionlord | N E V E R G I V E U P
terialk
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States770 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-28 06:46:35
April 28 2015 06:44 GMT
#5
Aluka is frequently called Kadi 卡帝 as well (since he's the driving god you know >.>). A bit tongue-in-cheek but appropriate lol. I think it came from his usage of Sion (since Sion ult is referred to as driving/steering), but there might have been some other origin.
"This is not the beginning of an end. Instead, it is the end of a beginning." // Little Sprite Fan :D // Never go full China. // At least NA won at Dota 2.
manisier
Profile Joined May 2013
Australia240 Posts
April 28 2015 09:28 GMT
#6
Disappointed at the exclusion of TBQ's greatest nickname, Rich Homie Quan.
ESPORTS JOURNALISM
niukasu1990
Profile Joined July 2012
1007 Posts
April 28 2015 12:51 GMT
#7
kakao and rookie are mining bros
AlterKot
Profile Blog Joined January 2014
Poland7525 Posts
April 28 2015 14:35 GMT
#8
Kelsey Aron Moser posted few more in the reddit comments.

Some others that I liked hearing about in the past (some are probably older and not as popular anymore):
Gogoing - Vietnamese Crocodile: LPL casters were debating what kind of alligator/crocodile Gogoing's Renekton is because he's quite good at it. Wawa decided on Vietnamese Crocodile because Gogoing apparently looks Vietnamese.
Cool - 萌妹态 or Cute Girl Tai (Tai from his ID). There was a phrase for a while that started with "I am a cute girl, and I thought..." that resulted from some confusion over whether a person on a WE fan page was a girl, when the person was male. Cool liked using this phrase for a while, so it became a nickname.
Loveling went by Allen he said because he "just liked the name," but it actually was the same as Candy's old ID when he was a sub for WEA, so maybe there was some confusion that prompted the change? He changed it from Allen to Drug when WEA qualified for LPL. When he went by Drug, he said he was asked to change it (this was right before the Worlds qualifier) because it had negative connotations, and that's when he name-changed to Loveling. He said he wanted to go by Panacea, when he first changed to Drug, but there were not enough characters available after the sponsor tag. He also went by "Carrsy" in the recent offseason for one tournament. I'm told it was supposed to be a slight riff on "carry San."
My understanding is that "Emperor San" came from people speculating San was some kind of royalty because they wanted him to be replaced, but instead OMG would keep replacing the supports. As a result, a lot of people referred to OMG's supports as San's concubines. At one point, Cloud even got a Chinese fan and some hair clips for a costume.
Cloud - 电竞林黛玉 (Esports Lin Dai-Yu) based off a heroine from Dream of the Red Chamber from Chinese literature. I guess people initially thought Cloud was very sensitive like she was. He quoted poetry on his weibo.
Clearlove - There was a period where EDG weren't speaking on stream because of fan backlash from the WE breakup, so Clearlove would play a lot of music. He played many sad love songs, so fans would ask him to play something happy, and he googled "happy song" and came up with Ode to Joy, which he played for some time. For a while, people would call him Esports love song prince and Esports Beethoven.
NaMei is very rarely referred to as Lord Voldemort because of an unfortunate picture of him that makes him look Voldemorty.
U is short for Unstoppable, and he's been called U Daddy, or 100% for once saying that he thinks they will "beat WE 100%" when they lost to WE. Also USB because of SB... Not really a nice nickname.
A long time ago, people called Zzitai 天才少年 or Talented Teen. I guess it's been a while, so he isn't called that. Since he's from a rich family in Beijing, his teammates called him 京城富少 (Master from Beijing), and once PDD made an error and called him 京城少妇 (young woman from Beijing). He was also called MC for a while, and changed his name to MCGodZzitai during spring last year.
Kid was called "take order Kid" for a while when iG went to a restaurant to discuss strategy, but he was too hungry and wanted PDD to take the order first. If he plays poorly, sometimes fans would say he was hungry. For a period last year, he also ate a lot of skillshots, so people called him "MagnetoKid."
Ninja was also called Rabbit when he came over, for the people who liked Ninja. But it was specifically a pink rabbit from I believe a Russian cartoon. At the moment I can't remember the name. Apparently there was a slight resemblance, but I didn't see it when I looked it up :p.
EDIT: He's not playing now, but one of my favorites was always "facial paralysis" for WeiXiao. WeiXiao literally means "little smile," but he didn't smile a whole lot, and there's a famous picture of him where he has :| face. So people called him "facial paralysis" instead.
Americans don't like to use unblockables, it is considered not honest. You press a button at the wrong time and hit the other person, you are random, not a top player. You DP Sim's far fierce, it is random and not honest.
HyperST
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
Canada279 Posts
April 28 2015 15:21 GMT
#9
On April 28 2015 18:28 manisier wrote:
Disappointed at the exclusion of TBQ's greatest nickname, Rich Homie Quan.


you mean bitch homie quan :d
Twitter: @HyperST | @Esportsheaven
calmx
Profile Joined December 2011
14 Posts
April 28 2015 15:54 GMT
#10
On April 28 2015 13:21 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
Cool – 无状态 (WuZhuangTai), roughly meaning “not in form,” or “not in good condition.”


Instead of "not in good condition," this should mean more of a lack of a transient "condition" or "form," connoting that he's always cool, collected and always plays at the same level, which ties into the meaning of his english ID Cool, which he has said means cool in the sense that I've just described.
loltribble
Profile Joined April 2015
Netherlands80 Posts
April 28 2015 16:01 GMT
#11
time for a namechange xD
Faker_Fanboy
Profile Joined January 2015
70 Posts
April 28 2015 16:11 GMT
#12
So that's why they keep San in the team all this years. They want to end with the asian dick stereotype
Apdo = evil Faker
ibicdlcod
Profile Joined January 2015
China5 Posts
April 28 2015 19:21 GMT
#13
WE.Aluka: 卡帝Ka the Emperor after IEM
老司机Old driver In-game: referring to his Sion's ult. This phase out side of league also refers to an old taxi driver (meaning someone familiar with the local community) (extended meaning: have a lot of sexual experience?)
Also, whoever isn't Aluka and fail at Sion's ult may be referred as "new driver".

EDG.Fireloli: Original ID "爱萝莉真是太好了” (loving loli is so good) and referred to as the first three character "爱萝莉”. Upon went to pro changed ID to fireloli (referring to Annie?) presumably to avoid pedo accusations by Riot. Now simply referred as "loli".

Also, LGD used fun nicknames at IET 2015: Acorn->God Brother A, Flame->大公主Big Princess, Weiless->小公主Little Princess, Imp->xiaobiozi (all caster given nicknames above), Pyl->小平菇Little Ping Mushroom, however TBQ reverted to original Quan.

QG.TnT&TcT: 天灾末日&爱射佳宜, both original IDs.
ibicdlcod
Profile Joined January 2015
China5 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-28 19:28:41
April 28 2015 19:27 GMT
#14
EDG.U: sarcastically adopted anti-fan nickname USB (SB being an insult) after EDG v WE 2015 Spring playoff:
"after not being able to practice with my team for half a year, I was ultimately not as carry as PawN, I the USB really accepted that."
Real meaning: went 2-2 with WE after not being able to practice with my team for half a year does not mean himself is inherently a bed player as his anti-fans accuses. Also "I the USB really accepted that" (这一次我USB服了) is another sarcasm at WE.Misaya in WCG 2013 China Qualifier loss to OMG: "Huge packet loss, only this time I'm not accepting my loss"(就这一次我不服)
ibicdlcod
Profile Joined January 2015
China5 Posts
April 28 2015 21:30 GMT
#15
Team nicknames and their general image:

WE: The Cosmic Team (same as FC Barcelona being called in China). Associate themselves with color red and establishment. But now generally regarded as a completely different team with that in S2. Massive fanbase back in S2/S3, this fanbase being sarcastically exaggerated as 60E (meaning 6 billion). "60E" sometimes only refers to the most toxic part of WE fanbase, and in this sense are derogatory (59E, 61E have similar usages)

OMG: The Dark Forces (in 2012~early 13 their dark horse years), then The Milky Way Battleship (same as Real Madrid being called in China). Being representing China in S3WC, WCG2013, MSI2014, WC2014, battled more foreign teams than Royal (let alone others) in S3-S4, and retaining an all-Chinese roster, OMG is commonly regarded as China's best hope (well, until precisely before that 2015 Spring Playoffs match). Fans are referred as 59E. Recently people are debating OMG's roster choice, whether OMG had hurt themselves by maintaining an all-Chinese roster, or specifically does Uzi hurt OMG, etc.

EDG: Directly involved with old WE's breakup, controversial from inception. Unfortunately after domestically proven themselves, choked at S4WC (Namei reportedly being ill), and in the eyes of critics, EDG is only good at bullying domestic teams (in this sense domestic not even counting AHQ).

iG: Arch-enemy of WE, WE v iG being referred as El Clasico of Chinese LOL. (OMG having the same nickname as Real Madrid notwithstanding)(2015 LPL Spring first match was deliberately WE and iG, many people lamented that two teams are now a shadow of their former selves) After repeatedly fail to qualify for worlds, spotlight on them declined, until KAKAO joined (Kakao is well-known in China even in OGN times)

Royal: Former arch-enemy of OMG, Tabe drew OMG at S3WC, resulting Royal knocking out OMG in its prime (S3WC format is rather skewed, NA/EU getting +1 spots resulting China artificially get 1 spot less, and both Chinese team is capable to beat non-Korean teams). OMG fans feel OMG will perform better than Royal when facing SKT (group stage 1-1) and extremely salty about it ("Royal owe OMG a champion!"), resulting in Royal gaining more anti-fans than fans (happened again at S4WC, but rational people won't blame them). Still many people liked Royal and carried on their hope with Uzi, but after Uzi transfer, a small fanbase remained with Royal.

Many players and former players on the about teams have famous and/or controversial history, resulting in large amount of memes, the above nicknames are only a small part of them.

Snake: New team less drama. kRYSTAL's bromance with EP.Kane. BAKA is sometimes criticized as a weak point.

LGD: Narrowly missed out everything, less ttention before 2015. Lost 3rd Hero of Cities (TGA Winter 2012) in semifinals; lost LPL first season qualifier by one place; lost 4th Hero of Cities (TGA Summer 2013) by one place in group stage (hence denied LPL promotion); finally winning 5th Hero of Cities promoted to LPL 2014, struggles with relegation; lost in 2014 China Regionals by one match; and now lose LPL final. Pyl endured all of this for 3 years, hence he is one of the least hated players. Now nicknamed L-Gay-D and Oscar team(last weeks of LPL regulars, Snake and OMG are falling together with a resurgent WE means 1458 side of playoffs are extremely harder than 2367 side. In fact, no 1458 side have lost to 2367 side in the subsequent IET 2015. This led to observance of iG/LGD throwing games to get 6th, LGD throwing particularly hard v iG).

VG: Mata's attitude incident becomes major drama at that time.

King: 14-15 offseason dark horse. Did not participate in Korean exodus nor import Chinese superstars, become a mediocre image. IET qualifier D semifinal incident vs YG (3rd party tournament Viktor disable dispute, alleges YG of cheating, and King.mlxg personally confronting pro-YG skeptical fans on forum)

M3(former WE Academy): less attention because second team of WE. since 2015 independence and dismisal performance, rumor of lovecd-Dade internal conflict came out, and has been denied.

EP: Originally a Hong Kong Club, constantly struggles between LPL and LSPL. AmazingJ is regarded as a good top, people are lamenting he seems to stick with his home team.

GT: New team no drama. All-Chinese.

QG(SPG.II): Suddenly became famous in Demacia Cup by getting 3rd defeating OMG then Snake then WE. In fact 3/5 LPL/LCS/LCK veterans. Second team of SPG while SPG itself lost LSPL spot, much like SKT2 getting 13 OGN Spring 3rd while original SKT1 disbanded. Unsurprisingly went on to win LSPL.

VGP(VG.II): Heart's team. After a shock loss to Legend Dragon, went all the way from loser's bracket to 2nd LPL promotion spot, only to lose to QG in the LSPL final.

ADG(EDG.II): Newly promoted from 7th Hero of Cities to LSPL. Known for top full-damage Jarvan play.

Legend Dragon: Newly promoted to LSPL, nobody knows it should be abbreviated as LDG or LD.

YG(iG.II): Seems to be regarded as a scrappy team.

OMD(OMG.II): Apparently toxic (to their enemies) team chat during LSPL matches. Was a favorite but choke during LSPL playoffs (along with WE.Future).

PE: Former WE.iRocks before 2013, changed to PE (Riot not permitting sister team in China Regional Finals as early as 2013, don't know why Korea got through. YG changed name similarly), with Namei won 2013 LPL Summer Playoffs after S3WC (Royal forfeit that playoff because tabe & white left). Sold by WE and briefly sister team with OMG. Royal.white during a toxic soloq incident (when PE.Namei and his support, Royal.White & Uzi personally attacking each other side) revealed Jing's departure is because other 4 team members point to Jing called him noob after some loss, ruining PE's image. Namei etc. departed and PE becomes a complete different team to its former self--now a irrelevant club in LSPL.

AcFun: The team promised 400,000 CNY to poach styz by let him troll on LGD and was subsequently fined 400,000 CNY. Seems too ashamed to continue and roster taken over by 2144 Gaming, which didn't carry the negativity of AcFun.

DK: in 2013 used a player from then-LPL Wayi Spider in 4th Hero of Cities Regional Finals and disqualified. Again participated in 5th Hero of Cities, failed into LPL but qualified to LSPL. Did well in 14 Summer before failing LPL promotion at the finest opportunity, import Koreans but didn't use them correctly, lost LSPL spot this season. On the other hand, DK.II becomes provincial champion again and will compete in 8th Hero of Cities National Finals for a LSPL 15 Summer spot.

Wings of Aurora: Inaugural member of LPL, relegated, tried qualify again, failed LPL but into LSPL, finally lost spot this season by an unwinning record like DK
INkedVinny
Profile Joined July 2015
Portugal2 Posts
July 01 2015 21:30 GMT
#16
da alpaca 8^)
The eccentric LPL fan
lee jeson
Profile Joined October 2017
Malaysia1 Post
October 24 2017 23:40 GMT
#17
那美 XD

User was temp banned for this post.
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 3h 4m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
mouzHeroMarine 728
ProTech69
JuggernautJason57
MindelVK 35
StarCraft: Brood War
Sea 2849
Rain 1423
Hyuk 797
Soulkey 139
HiyA 38
hero 35
TY 29
scan(afreeca) 20
Yoon 19
Nal_rA 11
[ Show more ]
IntoTheRainbow 10
Noble 8
zelot 5
Dota 2
Gorgc6661
qojqva3162
League of Legends
Dendi1462
Counter-Strike
fl0m6404
olofmeister2843
Foxcn314
rGuardiaN78
Heroes of the Storm
Khaldor151
Other Games
FrodaN838
C9.Mang0774
Mlord634
crisheroes392
Fuzer 144
ArmadaUGS131
elazer123
Mew2King116
Trikslyr85
XaKoH 82
KnowMe79
Organizations
Dota 2
PGL Dota 2 - Main Stream1602
Other Games
BasetradeTV42
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 21 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Adnapsc2 12
• Kozan
• sooper7s
• Migwel
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• IndyKCrew
• intothetv
StarCraft: Brood War
• HerbMon 32
• Rasowy 3
• ZZZeroYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• BSLYoutube
Dota 2
• C_a_k_e 3109
• masondota2461
• lizZardDota264
League of Legends
• Nemesis5502
• Jankos3357
• TFBlade1154
Other Games
• Shiphtur214
• imaqtpie146
Upcoming Events
OSC
3h 4m
ArT vs ReBellioN
HonMonO vs Ziomek
Shameless vs LunaSea
MilkiCow vs GgMaChine
Moja vs HiGhDrA
Jumy vs TBD
Demi vs NightPhoenix
Solar vs Cham
Replay Cast
6h 4m
OSC
6h 4m
WardiTV Invitational
17h 4m
HiGhDrA vs Nicoract
MaNa vs HiGhDrA
HiGhDrA vs Reynor
Nicoract vs Reynor
MaNa vs Nicoract
MaNa vs Reynor
MaxPax vs Spirit
Krystianer vs Spirit
OSC
19h 4m
Korean StarCraft League
1d 9h
SOOP
1d 15h
sOs vs Percival
CranKy Ducklings
1d 16h
WardiTV Invitational
1d 17h
Cheesadelphia
1d 21h
[ Show More ]
CSO Cup
1d 23h
GSL Code S
2 days
Rogue vs herO
Classic vs GuMiho
Sparkling Tuna Cup
2 days
Replay Cast
3 days
Wardi Open
3 days
Replay Cast
4 days
Replay Cast
4 days
RSL Revival
4 days
Cure vs Percival
ByuN vs Spirit
RSL Revival
5 days
herO vs sOs
Zoun vs Clem
Replay Cast
6 days
The PondCast
6 days
RSL Revival
6 days
Serral vs SHIN
Solar vs Cham
Liquipedia Results

Completed

CSL Season 17: Qualifier 2
BGE Stara Zagora 2025
Heroes 10 EU

Ongoing

JPL Season 2
BSL 2v2 Season 3
BSL Season 20
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 2
NPSL S3
Rose Open S1
CSL 17: 2025 SUMMER
2025 GSL S2
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 7
IEM Dallas 2025
PGL Astana 2025
Asian Champions League '25
BLAST Rivals Spring 2025
MESA Nomadic Masters
CCT Season 2 Global Finals
IEM Melbourne 2025
YaLLa Compass Qatar 2025
PGL Bucharest 2025
BLAST Open Spring 2025

Upcoming

Copa Latinoamericana 4
CSLPRO Last Chance 2025
CSLPRO Chat StarLAN 3
K-Championship
SEL Season 2 Championship
Esports World Cup 2025
HSC XXVII
Championship of Russia 2025
Murky Cup #2
Esports World Cup 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall Qual
IEM Cologne 2025
FISSURE Playground #1
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.