Lee Ye-chan

League of Legends in South Korea pro gamer .A mid laner belonging to Nongshim Red Force of the current LCK .

If Rookie is mainly mentioned for his overwhelming line play and ability to create variables with solid fundamentals, Doinb for roaming and late-order play, and Athena for stability and carrying ability in teamfights, Scout can be summarized as versatility. The laning battle is not overwhelming, but it is solid enough, the roaming and joining battles are also good, and the teamfight ability and variable creation are also good. If converted to stats, he is a hexagonal all-rounder .[10] Clem evaluated that having no weaknesses was an advantage .

In addition to this versatility, Scout's greatest strength is that he has no obvious weaknesses, and this has been valid from his rookie days to 2021, the 7th year since his debut.[11] He makes a super play at the moment when the team seems to be trying to stop him, and even if you give him Viktor, Vladi, or Rise, who need time, and throw him away without support, he grows well in the lane on his own, and when he catches Azir or Karma, his ability to pressure the opponent and open up CS is also decent. However, she is not a lane breaker like Baemi or Athena who failed to adapt to EDG, so roaming and teleport use are highly regarded.

At the beginning of his career, his teamfight ability was a bit disappointing due to his lack of experience, but since Deft was so prominent in EDG's teamfights, it was difficult to find games he lost due to Scout's hard throws, although his popularity and MVP frequency were somewhat low. Compared to Crown , Kuzan , and BDD , who were promising solo queue players but suffered a long slump due to their inability to adapt to team games, they adapt quite quickly, although it may be due to the difference in league level. In particular, considering the difference in operational level, his overall map reading, roaming, and understanding of team games are much better than the so-called 'forceless' mid laners mentioned above, so it is presumed that his experience in various positions such as the jungle during his trainee career was actually beneficial. In other words, he wasn't able to clearly show his own colors during his debut season. However, in a situation where there were already Deft and Clearlove, who could play the role of ace, the presence of Scout, who could flexibly adapt to the champion's characteristics and team tactics, was quite helpful. In addition, it was evaluated that the future was even more anticipated because it showed a very high class even without a clear color.

There is an opinion that he showed little initiative, but because his teammates were so good, he was able to play the game easily and build his career easily. The basis for this is that Scout and Mouse were unable to use their strength when Clear Love stopped them in the LPL semifinals, which often serves as a basis for this opinion.[12] However, this was the same criticism that his predecessor, Pawn, had heard throughout his career, so it was a somewhat unfair criticism from the perspective of a scout who had just played his first season at the time.

During his amateur days and as a trainee who achieved first place in Season 5 Solo Queue, he was typically a mid laner with flashy super play highlight videos going around. So, when he picked Gangplank and Lulu in the tournament and recorded only 2 losses, there was a hasty assessment that he was going down the path of a so-called solo queue warrior, but after moving to EDG, he showed a very good performance with static AP champs, dispelling concerns. The best 2 players in the regular season were Azir and Viktor, and only these two champions Tozir and Viktor swept the victory. In addition, I picked various champs little by little, including Ryze, Vladimir, Karma, and Tpe. At that time, the range of champions was not very wide, but it was not at the level where it could be said that he was vulnerable to sniper bans like RNG's Xiaohu .[13]

As of Season 6, among Korean mid laners, he is an all-rounder with the most similar style to Crown. Despite being a fresh new player, Scout's advantage is that the champ width is wider than that of the crown. However, while Samsung was outstanding in Worlds, EDG was isolated and could not use its full strength as the top and jungle showed poor performance.

However, in Season 7, the champion range was much wider than that of Crown, the growth rate was fast, and the carry power was fully developed. Considering his relative status in the Chinese league at the time of winning the Season 7 Summer, it is not unreasonable to call him Faker rather than China's Crown. While the rookie, who was previously close to China's Faker, and OMG's icon , who can be considered a Chinese Faker, was swept away by the team, he showed off the dignity of an all-round mid laner by not only possessing individual skills to compete with them, but also possessing a wide perspective and mature judgment.[14]

In Season 7, he shows several times grabbing the hair of sluggish team members and carrying them, continuing the move worthy of Faker's successor. Unlike Season 6 Summer, where Vladimir's skills were also Faker's level, he sacrificed himself for the secret Clearlove and Deft . EDG, which is in danger of collapsing, is being supported by responding to it. It is safe to say that the carry power controversy has been virtually eliminated, and of course, it is showing a smooth growth trend.

Even in the 2017 Worlds, cutting or throwing during teamfights was criticized. However, as C9 and many other ace midfield teams did in the 2017 season, they originally took too many high-risk picks or early picks, and there were many cases where the game dragged on or the opponent was too good and failed, so it is somewhat unclear whether they can be seen as solely responsible. In particular, the pick ban was a bit disappointing because Iboy 's skills were good compared to other teams that had ace mids but were not good at it . However, it feels like Eyeboy also relied heavily on Scout's super play, such as raising Randuin with Kog'Maw. Since the upper body explodes from the beginning, wouldn't it be impossible to lie down even if you trust all the ADC mids?

In Season 8, his presence was weakened by Rookie, who became a mid laner with reinforced teammates, and Xiaohu, who swept the championship cup while assisting Uzi , but his individual skills are still one of the best mid laners in the LPL. In particular, he won a landslide victory over Yagao and Doinb in the preliminary round, and successfully advanced to Worlds by proving his solid skills among his dice-rolling teammates.

Despite being underrated, the great thing about this player's career is that he has never failed to advance to the playoffs until the spring of 2020. In LPL history, the only mid laners who have shown consistency equal to or better than Scout are Rookie, Doinb, and Xiaohu. In the beginning, there was a solid carry line like Clearlove and Deft, and even after Deft left, it was a time when iBoy's stock price was rising, so Scout's contribution felt forgotten. However, Clear Love and I-Boy fell into a slump, and Meiko, who had been another supporter, also suffered a sharp decline in form, and she often ended up supporting the team alone.

The situation is similar in Seasons 9 and 10, but the scout's performance and status in the league are also shaking due to the team members becoming increasingly unfavorable and the resulting overload. Ahead of Season 11, EDG made a gesture to reduce the burden on scouts by recruiting Flanders and Viper , a situation that is drawing attention.

As of Season 11, it is difficult to find the overwhelming power and explosive carry power of Season 8, but it has reached a new peak by supporting Ace Viper and turning it into a 2nd option that can sometimes be converted into a carry role. The performance of Tpe, Ryze, and Silas in the 21 Summer finals was truly destructive, from operation to variable creation. Although they are currently positioned somewhere between Faker and Doinb, they have the advantage of having significantly fewer brain breaks than the two. 19 It is also worth noting that, like Faker, he is very strong in multi-game play.

In Season 12, he rolls the dice quite a bit in the regular league, but in the playoffs, he shows the ability to do it once in a while when it matters, leading the team to the World Cup quarterfinals, but falling in the quarterfinals.

In the new 13th season after transferring to LNG, he is showing a very good form with Tarzan, to the point where you might wonder if he is a player who has had ups and downs in the past, and in the summer when Gala was recruited, he showed a very explosive performance and enjoyed the honor of being selected as the first All-Pro along with the season MVP.[15] However, in the second season, season 14, the season again shows ups and downs and ends unfortunately.

In the 15th season after moving to JDG, he showed an over-the-top roller coaster ride, but his form revived at least once he made the playoffs, which was encouraging, but he showed reverse carry by sending the team to the starting game by falling to Charis in Split 2 and Knight and Shanks in Split 3, respectively. He beat Xiaohu in the starting match and met Rookie in the final match, but showed no presence in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th sets except for the 1st set, failing to advance to Worlds and advancing to ASI. However, the team suffered the humiliation of being eliminated from the group due to not showing very good form in ASI. In many ways, it can be safely called the worst season in the history of his career. He showed a dicey performance in the regular league, and although he was better than the regular league in the playoffs, he showed an ambiguous performance.

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On July 11, 2023, there was a shocking news that EDG sued the scout . #

There is no official statement as to why, but according to a Chinese fan's comment, Scout has consistently expressed his desire to return to the LCK throughout the 2022 season.[19] After the 2022 season, when Scout's contract ends, EDG respects Scout's wishes and forgoes renewing the contract, and at the same time, it is said that Scout will not apply to the image rights contract under the promise that Scout will return to the LCK. At the time, it was common for the LPL to sign a separate contract for image rights in addition to the player contract, and the term for this image rights contract was usually longer than the player contract period, so it was advantageous for the club.[20] It has been decided not to apply this clause if the LCK returns or takes a one-year break.

At the time, Scout's number one goal was to return to his former team, T1 . In fact, at the time, there were rumors that T1 was having trouble renewing a contract with Faker, so T1 also considered recruiting Scout, but it was canceled after they succeeded in renewing a contract with Faker. The second priority goal was to transfer to Hanwha Life Insurance together with Viper , but Hanwha Life Insurance wanted Jeka as the first choice , and eventually, when Jeka joined, the transfer to Hanwha Life Insurance also came to nothing. Afterwards, he received an offer from DRX , but the scout himself reportedly declined it.[21] In the end, Scout, who had nowhere else to go within the LCK, returned to the LPL and signed with LNG . EDG, who released Scout knowing that he was leaving for the LCK, was dissatisfied with his transfer to LNG, a rival team in the same league, and the image rights contract, which was supposed to be canceled on the condition of his return to the LCK, was still valid because the conditions were not met, so he stumbled and filed a lawsuit.

About four months later, in November 2023, the first trial was reported that EDG won against Scouts. However, EDG, which is not satisfied with the result, appeals to the second trial.

About 10 months later, on September 12, 2024, LNG's scouts, who entered Walls with three seeds, reported that EDG applied for a ban on departure . # However, it was revealed on September 12th and the prohibition of departure was before.

Even in the Korean LoL community, where anti-Chinese sentiment has become very strong, there are many reactions that do not blindly criticize EDG , but rather that EDG's image as a club is negative due to its original contract with a black company . However, there are many reactions that say that the scout's mistake, which started with tampering , was also large enough to end up like this. # Above all, it may be that EDG treated all players who left their team harshly, but not only were there some players who were sent away with ease, but Meiko , who had been working at EDG for a long time with a scout, was sent to TES without saying anything and did not even receive a transfer fee. In short, Scout is the first case of EDG persistently attacking a player with this level of evil, so it is difficult for even outsiders to make a hasty conclusion.

In particular, it is clear that EDG, which has been the worst since its founding in the 2024 season, is forming a consensus in the fact that it is clear that it is clear that it is clear that it is a lawsuit for the scout, but this sensitive contract is not good about this sensitive contract . There is also a claim that he wrote the article through Kim Yong -woo.

Even in Korea, “I am angry that a Korean player has been unfairly treated!” There is virtually no such reaction. It is also mentioned in the 'Everyone's mid laner' paragraph, but with the press play starting with the return to Korea every year, trust in Scout has fallen a lot in the domestic game, and Hanwha Life Insurance fans, who have always been victims of unplay just because they were teams like DRX, which had a record of ruining the Stove League miserably because of Scout, and Viper in the 2020s, are also not happy about Scout.

On the contrary, the top six team athletes were attracting more attention because of the fact that LNG decided to rent another team because of the league regulations that it was impossible to rent.[22] The 2024 Weles Regulations are not available at all because there is no rental regulations. # So LNG must call up the mid -twos in the second group or swap one of the two Jungles in the mid -group when the scouts fail to leave the country.

In this situation, however, EDG officials broke another revelation. It is not a scout, but his agency poet Supertet has a fault. According to the revelation, Supertent was in charge of Scout's legal workshop, and the EDG was prohibited from leaving the scout until the second trial, and in court, it was actually banned from July. However, Supertet did not inform the LNG as well as the party, Scout. Furthermore, Supertet threatened EDG to drag to public opinion if the negotiations were not good, and when it didn't go well, the media sprayed this fact. It wasn't until the issue of departure only after the departure issue was revealed above the surface.[source]

However, it is very unlikely that the Super Sent did not inform it until the Scout and LNG won the Walls. The Scout was banned from departure between April and July, and I learned to go to Korea for a vacation. In other words, it is reasonable to see that Scouts and LNG knew this already when they failed to leave. For this reason, LNG already knew the above, but appealed that it was a force for Riot Games , and pretended to be falsely knowing nothing to lease the mid -player, and Riot was also tolerated to avoid ruining Walls .

However, it was reported that Scout's ban on leaving the country was applied in early July, and if this is true, the above suspicions are close to unreasonable. LPL Summer started on June 1st, so if Scout found out about it while on vacation, there is no way he would have found out about it while on vacation after the spring ended. In other words, if it is true that the ban on leaving the country has been in effect since early July, it is correct to consider the vacation that Scout is talking about after the end of the summer season.

The Worlds rule book states that the rules can be modified if necessary to ensure smooth competition . This means that Riot can create rules that do not exist or remove existing rules at will, so it was virtually confirmed that LNG would rent a mid laner from another team even if it was not Yagao. In the reality that more than 95% of the World's viewership is Chinese, Riot should have given preferential treatment to LPL teams , because there is no way they would commit a suicidal act by effectively banning one team from appearing. Also, an article appeared saying that Riot had allowed the leasing of LNG Yagao .

Later, Riot's officials were confirmed to be leased. However, even during the competition, if the ban on the departure of the scout is lifted, the lease of Yagao must be canceled and the scout must be excellent.

As additional questions continue to be raised, the situation is reaching a critical point. The suspicion is that it was not Scout who stabbed EDG, but rather EDG who stabbed Scout . # To be precise, the contract renewal between Scout and EDG was in trouble due to salary issues.[24] , It is said that EDG secretly signed a dual contract with Popo while it was still under contract with Scout . Scout tried to renew his contract with EDG after failing to find a position on another team, but of course EDG, which had already found midfielder, slapped Scout's salary, so Scout managed to transfer to LNG on the last train of the Stove League. #

However, in response to this, EDG official Lao Yue said, “I did not intend to sue Scout because he moved to LNG,” making me confused as to why they sued Scout. The rumor that arose about this was that Scout asked EDG for payment for the Worlds winning skin.[25] EDG chewed this up, and it later escalated into a legal dispute between Scout and EDG.

However, on the same day, a rumor was heard that the scout's ban on leaving the country had been lifted, and the next day, the player himself posted a post that seemed to hint at his participation in the Worlds, giving rise to rumors that the ban on leaving the country had been lifted.

According to a story shared by a large Chinese streamer and the LPL team manager, EDG demanded compensation if the scout wanted to lift the ban on leaving the country, but he actually raised the money by borrowing money from players close to the team, and the ban on leaving the country was lifted. # # The specific amount requested by EDG fluctuated from 700 million won to 2 billion won, and there were rumors that the player who lent the money was Gala . According to Han - i, a famous LPL slanger, Gala said that he lent a lot of money to the scout, making it an established fact that it was Gala who lent the scout a lot of money. For this reason, they are called by the same terms as debt game hunters and debt collectors in the upper paragraph. See paragraph 4.1 of this document for further details .

In the end , LNG's official statement was posted on September 27, 2024 , confirming its participation in the Worlds. However, the season ended with a loss in the quarterfinals, and at the same time, the contract period between Scout and LNG ended. During the contract renewal negotiation stage, LNG supported us in both material and material ways, even providing a deposit, and we were on the verge of renewing our contract with LNG. However, our agency, Supergent, sent Phase and Scout to JD as a set, so we did not part with LNG on a happy note.

In June 2025, the lawsuit against EDG ended up being lost .[26] As a result of this loss, Scout is said to have to pay compensation to EDG of 33 million yuan , or approximately 6.4 billion won in Hanwha . The amount itself is also a problem.[27] Since this happened by attacking EDG and LNG, there is a high possibility that it will become a moral problem in the future.

Naturally, there is little sympathy for Scout. In fact, it can be seen as a self-sufficiency, because EDG said they really wanted the LCK, so they showed favor and released him, so even if there is no team he likes, he can return to the LCK , or if it doesn't work out, he can take a one-year break.[28] The response is that there is nothing they can do because they went to LNG, another team in the LPL, in a way that was not easy. In addition, Scout's process of waiting for a return to the LCK was very long, and there have been several instances of unplay with LCK teams to raise the player's price, so there are many fans who are upset about it, and even the news that the 700 million won in deposits paid by LNG and Gala has not yet been repaid, public sentiment is at its worst. The main opinion of EDG is that although it may be possible, it is disappointing that even LNG and Gala, which supported it by paying deposits, were taken over.

Scout's agent, Supergent, is also being criticized because the main purpose of sports players using agents is to prevent such legal contract disputes from occurring, but they failed to properly resolve such contract issues, causing the player to become embroiled in a huge dispute worth 6.4 billion won. They are also being criticized for making the situation worse by only focusing on player sales, and some voices are saying things like, "Supergent is more responsible for encouraging scouts," and "Supergent should also pay compensation."

Fortunately, news came out that Jingdong helped Scout repay his debt by paying him one year's salary in advance. According to the slanderers, all compensation was eventually paid. # However, although it may have been an aftereffect of losing the lawsuit, his performance sank significantly throughout the season, and he ended the season without even being able to advance to the Worlds. After the season ended, he left the LPL and returned to the LCK, parting ways with JD. Fortunately, in the relationship with Jingdong, the problem was that they were underperforming due to pure performance issues and they did not do anything wrong, so unlike EDG, which went through a legal dispute, and LNG, which broke up without any legal problems but was morally uncomfortable, they were able to break up amicably.

Due to this incident, the LPL has decided to allow only agencies that have passed their review to work in the LPL starting from the 2025 Stove League. In addition, the existing contract system, where players freely negotiate with clubs and sign contracts, has been abolished and an auction system has been introduced where players are required to sign with the club that bids the highest contract through an auction. And Supergent, who earned the hate of the clubs due to legal disputes with the clubs, was naturally eliminated from the LPL screening and was unable to play in the LPL. However, Scout, who was the one who created the opportunity to introduce this system, signed a contract with Nongshim at the end of the 2025 season and returned to the LCK, making it a completely irrelevant system for scouts, and the LPL has become no different from a large-scale shovel, with many key players bypassing this system by declaring a break.