Serena Starstruck Wins a League of Legends Game on a Yuumi-Top Comeback

STELLAR VERSE — Serena Starstruck of Stellar Verse won a League of Legends game on Tuesday after a teammate’s Yuumi top lane pick, one that looked doomed early, turned around late. The win came in a stream in which she took one of three games while working toward Gold.

The first game slipped away while she was still talking about other things. She said she had been “yapping a little too hard” and promised to lock in, because League of Legends is the one game where she cares about her rank. In the second, her team’s top laner insisted the Yuumi pick was intentional and said he had a 75 percent win rate on the champion. Serena, playing support, said she would ignore the lane. The team fell behind, then won fights and closed the game out. Afterward she said she would not hand the credit to the Yuumi even though that player had out-damaged her, and she filed a report on him for his attitude, asking for a warning or chat restriction rather than a ban because he had carried the game. Viewers noted that everyone reacted to the Yuumi the same way.

“If we’re polite about our feedback, we can all improve at League of Legends together.” — Serena Starstruck, near the end of the stream

In the third game she played Seraphine alongside a Caitlyn who was farming passively. Serena said she gave the Caitlyn encouraging, specific feedback and that the player took it well. The team still lost, but she said she was content with how she played. She tied it back to a theme from earlier, that being nice in a League chat goes a long way, and said she had improved faster playing with higher-ranked friends who explained their reasoning calmly. She closed on the line about polite feedback, and chat joined in with a chant of “We are Faker.”

The stream opened with Serena saying she had come from a serious but not bad conversation with friends about finding games everyone enjoys and reading the room in group chats. She said she did not enjoy Deadlock and preferred League’s top-down view, and said she was still sad about T1’s loss at the League of Legends world championship the previous weekend.