How TheBausffs Became League's Highest Ranked Pest

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There is one golden rule that applies to all video games: don’t die.
From the filthy casual to the seasoned pro -- everybody knows the importance of staying alive.
But what if there was an exception to the rule? What if it was possible to die over and over again and still come out on top?
Well, that’s a concept upon which Simon “thebausffs" Hofverberg has built his entire League of Legends streaming career.
You see, for thebaus, not all deaths are bad. In fact, for him, a good death is actually his most powerful weapon.
Special thanks to theBausffs for taking the time to talk to us, you can find him here!: / thebausffs
Written by: Danny Burke (@lurkeyburke)
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[@DerDrohn]

WP to this Sion he played safe during laningphase, minimized deaths and yea he let some cs go but now hes scaled and is working with his team to win the game! Well playes to this Sion

[@hardcoresizzen]

cs go as in counter strike: global offensive?

[@thock_enjoyer]

@@hardcoresizzen "let some cs go" -> let some minions die without last hitting for gold

[@andrewchan4531]

@@thock_enjoyer he’s being sarcastic

[@Deox0386]

We shilling

[@jym2r]

@@hardcoresizzen yes!

[@c3st0fd3rk]

He's one of the few league streamers that actually likes playing the game, most of the others just torment themselves for lp as they lose what sanity they have left.

[@Weijierr]

big comment man, gj!

[@TPixelAdventures]

SivHD let's gooooooo

[@stormdragon2529]

no he dosent lul. Babus just has strong mental for not snapping in rage and anger. just cause he dosent show it , dosent mean he ain't felling it

[@samuelshigueohara2957]

Thata because he is the tormenter

[@arrivals1]

That's because he plays with ARAM mentality: Int it to win it

[@Rekken200]

Baus is one of the only actually fun streamers to watch. He might not have the best KDA, but he has the best mindset. I would take him as my toplaner any day of the week

[@moriyasanae8130]

he is my idol since i am a sion player aswell, i can just learn so damn much from him, yet i am yoking and shilling around too XD

[@weebassasin1095]

Its untill you get him in your promotion game for grandmasters and he picks illaoi proceeds to go 0/10 and solo lose the game :D thank you baus!

[@interesting4964]

KDA doesnt matter if u win

[@kakawmastergame5619]

For real, he shows how league should be and not for what it is

[@Agent_Alpha_SLV]

@@interesting4964 yeah it doesn't matter if you're 0/10 when you have a 100cs lead and 10k dmg to towers lmao

[@christianzwettler3899]

Not including the time Showmaker called him a Sion god is a huge oversight

[@totaspinn]

Didnt he play showmakers sup

[@kappachino3431]

@@totaspinn Some plat trash supp called him griefer, but god himself give him a throne

[@kfpemployeeno.568]

His tempo management is extraordinary. He could go 4 deaths more against his lane opponents yet he would still be ahead of gold and cs against that opponent. His map pressure and presence is massive as if you don't pay attention to him, you're gonna lose your base and your sanity thinking how a Sion with negative KDA won a game. And I love it. WP YIYI WE SHILLING

[@anjajd]

The perk of this tactic is that he is never big enough to grant huge amounts of shutdown gold when compared to other laners who will literally refuse to die as much as possible and then give the other team a chance at closing the gold gap through farm/shut down bounty.

[@jaspervermeer659]

I read "temper" instead of "tempo" and still agreed

[@AJ-MT]

that's what they don't see in what he does. he goes 0-5 but he is 10 CS per minute. his laning phase is actually insanse. then when he shuts down his opponent, he is way over ahead.

[@mcrdoestoedward]

@@AJ-MT not included the plates and cull gold income yet. He never get gapped in gold, he is so fucking good

[@AJ-MT]

@@mcrdoestoedward plus the 2nd tier tower on top and bot lane. imagine he is 0-6 or 0-10 but mid game he has more items than the rest. also he is insanely mechanically genius. I watched his game where he was using gragas and he did 1v5 them without dying. people hating on him without analyzing his play style.

[@oguz091]

For me the players that develop an unique game style are the most interesting to watch. And for some reason watching sion gameplay is satisfying especially when he gets kills in his passive.

[@anjajd]

Exactly. It's why I loved SivHD back in the day. AP Shen, AP Rengar, the Hungry Ashe games... All a treat to watch back then.

[@Ahrone1586]

@@anjajd the hungry ashe?

[@haoye2413]

People who hate, are usually the ones have no idea why others are better.

[@Cewu]

The BIG Qs too xD

[@duyvan247]

The thing we get watching his Sion passive is the thrill, like we hope he gets a kill, and we feel so thrilled, just the same way as watching T1 ADC potential pentakill

[@Speedy-Rabbit]

the baus at a job interview: interviewer: so what did you do the past 3 years baus: i went to yale interviewer: impressive, you're hired baus: thanks, i really need this yob

[@yaseenyahya]

For those who didn't get it: "jail" = "yale", since Baus can't pronounce J because of his mother tongue language.

[@raffaG59]

@@yaseenyahya i think ur explanation is not needed

[@yaseenyahya]

@@raffaG59 your thought has been put into consideration, thanks for your feedback!

[@envyXzor]

@@yaseenyahya i needed your explanation

[@yaseenyahya]

@@envyXzor you're welcome fellow snow golem

[@RodrigoTakehara]

Banning someone for abusing a game mechanic is the epitome of “hate the game, not the player”

[@biacsviktor3466]

It was an automatic ban, which would be 99% deserved unless you play Sion, and even then, it's hard to tell if you really are just feeding or not. Nobody will actually sit down and watch all your Sion games. It's an exception in the game's mechanics that generates false positives and needs to be reviewed.

[@wladynoszkapitany8277]

@@biacsviktor3466 Well if I have 30.000 tower damage it´s most likely not just intentional inting :D

[@MrShroomed]

@@biacsviktor3466 Bad algorithm still though, would there even be an Iron elo if feeders were banned just from # deaths detected.

[@nikolaosaalto2311]

​yeah, extremely bad algorithm. dying is not the only way to intentionally lose the game. just wander around the map when your team is about to contest for objectives and congratulations you solo lose the game without getting banned

[@wladynoszkapitany8277]

@@nikolaosaalto2311 Splitpushing and catching waves is often better than joining stupid fights tho, but the team still flames him for "afk farming" n bullshit.

[@KingJerbear]

It's just weird to me people even try to consider this intentionally feeding, he literally focuses farming minions and objectives over everything else on the map. This weird trend of having to go 10/0 to make an impact on the game has to go. The ONLY way to win a game is the destroy the enemy's structures, whether you have 0 or 30 kills is completely irrelevant.

[@guestofearth]

shadap

[@stormdragon2529]

but, but the kda bro lul

[@anjajd]

Precisely. It was the tactic I used playing Nazeebo in HOTS before they removed the specialist role. Farm in lane, when map objectives pop and both teams are fighting for objective, crush their base to win.

[@guifdcanalli]

also, the more you die the less you have value over kill so 0/all its good on sion, there is a point you will worth less than a canon minion while destroying an entire turret in passivr

[@PANICWORKS]

This is the one thing I love about the offlane position in dota (and to an extent soft support), sometimes "feeding" (or really just dying) is a play in and of itself to make space around the map while putting pressure on objectives. You force rotations for your low value ass (or if you're a tanky offlaner your unkillable ass) while your other teammates are free to do as they want with the pressure off of them. You may be down 10 deaths but you've taken objectives and wasted enough time from the enemy team for your carry to do the carrying. It's like the meme from Thor, you can't kill them, but he can.

[@lmao1711]

Baus is honestly one of the coolest league players out there. Creating your own play style and fighting against the META is just so appealing to me because things get boring so fast.

[@agoniavr]

The guy isn't even trolling, it's just his strategy and in a game as meta-oriented as League it's a breath of fresh air and honestly interesting. He also seems likeable and genuinely having fun playing his own way while winning games. If people don't like stuff like this they probably reached the point where they don't even truly enjoy gaming anymore and at that point the problem is them, not guys like him.

[@Exxyld]

unique af

[@agoniavr]

@@Exxyld right? Plus he's actually trying to win the game, not ruin it, and it works most of the time to the point he reached peak ranks in solo queue. Can't imagine disliking those that actually try to innovate a stagnant game.

[@Exxyld]

@@agoniavr yeah hes doing his own thing and it works wonders

[@agoniavr]

@@Exxyld exactly, and most importantly he's having tons of fun. I'd rather have guys like him streaming rather than the usual tryharders screaming, shouting and doing whatever everyone else is doing and what the current meta requires

[@eirikthenord3210]

There already were several others doing the whole feeding sion thing before him... but he's very entertaining and likeable

[@Maxoule22]

By far the most entertaining LoL streamer out there.

[@pawbulhed5558]

Nah, T1 has that title.

[@agyeyanegi2674]

@@pawbulhed5558 no

[@hasnihassib]

Drututt, Trick2g, and baus for me

[@agyeyanegi2674]

@@hasnihassib Add tobias fate to that list and perfection will be achieved

[@webarevolibear8944]

@@hasnihassib Yes, the big 3

[@noided583]

WP to this Sion he played safe during landing phase, minimized deaths an yea he let some cs go but now hes scaled and is working with his team to win the game! Well played to this Sion

[@hardcoresizzen]

cs go as in counter strike: global offensive?

[@rashanking4171]

@@hardcoresizzen creep score ( i hope i didnt miss the game )

[@hardcoresizzen]

@@rashanking4171 that was the joke smh..

[@rashanking4171]

@@hardcoresizzen I’m an idiot mbe

[@darinrhoton4919]

I fuckin love it when "professional" analysts think they have more game insight than literal challenger players. Some peoples egos just cant handle the fact that the streamer knows more about league, can do your job better than you can, and on top of that is already massively popular, ofc hes gonna get picked over you buddy!

[@matte9076]

His strategy of dying a "good death" sounds very reminiscent to the vikings of old. Love the guy!

[@MrTiinytiim]

So glad Simon is getting some recognition! I am a Sion main and and happened to stumble across his videos way quite some time ago and now I watch him daily. He’s a goofy guy and I love watching his vids because he’s one of the few players who doesn’t put such high priority on KDA. What makes it even more enjoyable is he’s a super laid back dude who is passionate about the game and what he does no matter what people think or say about him.

[@jackburton9035]

His wave management is unironically one of the best, to die but set up the wave exactly how he wants it pays massively in the long run and sion by chance is a champ that can allow that to happen.

[@dunpeal1923]

You forgot to mention one very important thing why he as a streamer is so succesfull. People enjoy it a lot that he enjoys himself playing league so so much. You can see that he truly loves what he is doing.

[@adisonnanet]

That's what I love to see, someone playing their way and having fun.

[@wtfelixd257]

Hey! My twitch channel appears on the video haha at 5:33 ... Nice :D

[@karsonkammerzell6955]

Something I think that might get overlooked is that buying time on the map works so much better at higher ranks as the team is much more likely to see the opening and act on it. It could be argue that TheBausffs's approach is MORE effective in higher elo, lol.

[@fhsdXDD]

Upcoming video titled "How the Highest Ranked Inter Bausy Solo Bolo'd the Unkillable Demon King Faker!"

[@CandyChungus]

I tried playing like him, it actually worked and it was really fun!

[@Braydaddy]

This dude is my hero!!!! I have followed his guides for 4 years now!!!

[@JBXyooj]

It's like when the Gravyard became resources in MTG. "You think you killed my creatures... NOOO YOU COMPLETE ME!!!" lol

[@qs3497]

No baus special in this whole video? This is criminal

[@Smol_Hamster]

I'm so happy he's being featured!!!

[@RandomPerson-ul9hz]

WP to Sion for playing safe during the laning phase, minimizing deaths, and letting some cs go, but now he's scaled and working with his team to win the game!

[@kindacolt]

WP to Sion for playing safe during the laning phase, minimizing deaths, and letting some cs go, but now he's scaled and working with his team to win the game

[@trippin5619]

Hes that guy who always bolts it with the flag in capture the flag

[@bryanandersson5274]

He the epitome of “you won the fight but i won war”

[@andy-xz2uk]

he's an incel

[@StrangelyIronic]

It's worth stressing that even with all Babus' deaths, he still averages like 12 cs per minute a good amount of the time; Under 10 cs per minute is rare. That alone would give him more gold than nearly every person watching this in an average game regardless of what they did.

[@Krunschy]

His playstyle is basically a modern day Darien and that's saying a lot, cause Darien is a legend.

[@flaechejuwel]

already know this the best they ever did

[@ulrichfuhring9170]

Ik it’s late but my god I would love a spear shot feature episode on the score 🙏

[@krysternion9113]

tactical feeding has been a thing in dota for many years ,I though it would not work in lol due to different kill bounty system

[@DeletedTaters001]

It's nice to see and actually interesting and high quality video rather than "this team won a valorant tournament last week"

[@erebuskaslana1583]

“Dirty tricks?” Nah man that’s using game mechanics. You win the game by destroying the enemy nexus. That has never changed.

[@drogerflav6350]

When going after the objective actually makes you win

[@HardPlaysHD]

good video but you forgot to mention his special technique called "Baus Special" where he ults the enemies nexus towers and one shots them. Lack of knownledge right there

[@martinfreemon7134]

He has a mindset and playstyle that can only be used by him and him alone. I'm seriously convinced only he can think and play like that.

[@JcoolV]

His greatest trick was convincing the world that he wasn't exceptional at the game.

[@flattie2107]

WP to this Sion he played safe during laning phase, minimized deaths and yea he let some cs go but now hes scaled and is working with his team to win the game! Well played to this Sion.

[@WombatGamesChannel]

Shoutout to the bossman Midbeast himself

[@samnoel9203]

The answer is simple. Most of those high rank players are so focused on "well, I didn't die so therefore I am better", rather than remembering killing champs doesn't mean shit when the name of the game is taking objectives.

[@nicholaswilliam7847]

WP YIYI YOKIN WE SHILLIN' SOLO BOLO

[@Transforsen]

wp gg 😃 joking 😂 we shilling 😎 solo bolo 😱

[@awhopper3241]

wp gg 😃 joking 😂 we shilling 😎 solo bolo 😱

[@MrBlueSleeves]

wp yiyi* yoking*

[@jamescretney5730]

Wp yiyi 😃 YOKING 😂 we shilling 😎 SOLOBOLO 😱

[@rbitte129]

I actually started taking a different aproach to the game when i started watching this guy, he is so wholesome and his laugh is so contagious c:

[@League____]

how a perma-dead feeder became league's highest ranked pest

[@imoj]

Nice detail on Pieliedie at the end, tactical feeding at it's finest.

[@titocristobal5573]

I quit league quite a long time ago but what the Bausffs does is honestly what made me play it for so long, all those janky but functional "it's not stupid if it works" plays. I'm really glad there is still an audience for that kind of gameplay in league. I'm not coming back to the game, but you know, at least it's not as dead as I thought it was.

[@0Diva_P0]

i think the funniest part is that famous figures despise him for playing creatively while still playing by the objectives by destroying turrets instead of learning how to counter his playstyle

[@DKtrek21]

Today is a good day to die -Jarvan IV This guy:Today is a good day to die 20x

[@Fut_re]

Baus doesn’t treat Sion passive as a clutch, he treats it like an ability to abuse, and BOY does he abuse it.

[@saitoisana8156]

The man going to Valhalla for the amount of “good deaths” he has

[@Hydrodictyon]

I gotta say, winning games with 0/20 requires some deep knowledge of the game.

[@kverreet]

Rule 1 of a successful business : find yourself a niche and corner it. Even better when you manage to add a catchphrase on top. Genius, which always draws out the haters.

[@leonhogner9314]

gg nice video, i just missed thebaus special

[@turtlesploodgegaming3123]

Watching it live is an experience. Nice seeing midbeast make it into the video

[@ForceM1782]

"From the filthy casual..." *shows picture of Pokimane. I like what you did there! I do!

[@nzjpzh]

He's honestly amazing. He really looks like enjoying the game also and that makes it a thousand times better.

[@ryousunohara7620]

"its not stupid, if it works" - sun tzu art of war -

[@X33Ultras0und]

League of legends and moba's in general are not balanced around indefinite pushing. They have countermeasures against constant pushing, (like in league of legends, the minions can meet at the perfect spot for the enemy team to flank you) but not indefinite pushing. So a long as your ally minions are the ones pushing, you're winning. If you're about to die, try and damage and kill the enemy minion wave, as even if you're dead, nobody before 20 minutes can tank enough tower damage and deal enough damage to take a tower above even 30% HP. Another thing is that if you die once, you're worth 300 gold. However, a second time and now you're worth 279. And this keeps going lower and lower, not until 0 but definitely lower than the krugs camp which is 131 gold. So as long as you keep killing the enemy minions before you die, yes the enemy will have gold, but soon, they won't, and you'll actually be a "pest" as they describe the Sion playstyle because you're not worth much of anything, but also applying so much pressure, and forcing them to respond. Like, imagine if every 60 seconds, there was a rift herald that spawns and runs at your towers, and when you kill it, you only get 150 gold. It would be so annoying, yet something you can't ignore, and then sometimes, more often than not, this rift herald solo kills your adc and sometimes nearly 2v1's the mid and jungler, who are supposed to be your stronger of your allies.

[@KungFuTze]

someone that can maintain that smile and that sense of humor on one of the most toxic game communities is worth praising.

[@DuyNguyen-nn8xi]

how can baus stand a low-ranked player such as midbeast referring to him as 'pest'

[@zzasserzz]

It’s so late in Singapore that theScore Esports has posted. Gg

[@tencive5749]

I knew this video had to come at some point Babus is just too entertaining

[@PatrickSlingshotGuy]

Int Sion was my favorite build in URF. Was basically unlikable and could solo towers unless they sent in like 3 champs to stop you.

[@Furetchen]

"I am bleeding... making me the victor."

[@efancy101]

About time thebausffs got featured

[@OMEGATHROWAWAY]

i fucking love thebauffs. deaths arent always a bad thing and i hope he makes more people realise

[@fatguy4137]

He Enjoys the Game, something I lost while Playing it's nice to see someone actually Giving a Hoot on having Fun while Climbing.

[@siegfriedyvojcic8294]

That is the main problem of games like this, most of the people are being what we call "Meta Slaves", I have done this int strategy a lot and my recent on was 20 deaths on sion and still managed to win the game and my teammate did not trust me for 20 minutes not until I started to demolish the whole base in 30 minutes and managed to end the game at 50 mins cuz it is low elo, another thing I wanted to point out is if you saw Happy Chimes YT channel, there are a lot of people that are high elo that does not depend on the meta like a girl who is a tank veigar main, some guy who plays AP rengar and other "weird" stuff that other player might think of but it actually worked, you just gotta explore the game

[@sombd133]

Tldr:Overall the video just said: he dies a lot, there. are haters and lovers and he is popular. In reality, he is usually high in CS no, high in health and damage and understands gold income, wave management and pressure. Sure there are sion tricks and dos and donts but this video doesn't do much justice to his game play.

[@xtrocty5086]

basically his quote is Slay the Strong and Trample the weak literally what Babus does every single sion gameplay

[@BronzeCactusorBronzeCaktus]

I love watching the bausffs, but I have to say that I feel bad for Tilterella, the og Sion streamer/ad-sion main being forgotten about, because he was the first challenger ad Sion (that I know of at least)

[@peperoni9757]

Tilt played AD sion but not in the inting sion way that baus invented.

[@PrhymeScheme]

Sure , he is intelligent and openminded enough to realize that dying doesn't necessarily equal a bad trade of resources or structures. BUT there are countless times he pops of in teamfights or just splitpushes without dying. Also WHERE IS THE BAUS SPECIAL MENTION? LIKE HELLO ?

[@Malam_NightYoru]

nobody actually writed something about "Before we dive into the baulz" funniest shit ever

[@Pavidota]

Only league player on earth to understand the concept of space

[@connorboycan9735]

thx for the strat. Just went 2/14 destroyed 1 tower and got reported by everyone in the game.

[@9a3w4adfh39]

Ad ends at 4:38

[@hiimmijk]

I get why people are upset getting him in your game, on the other hand. He isnt throwing the game, he just perceives the game differently and ends up in his and his teams advantage. 1/14/3 - Victory.

[@goodnighthok]

WE MADE IT! WE SHILLING 👏👏👏👏

[@Tsuraga21]

I love how when you said "filthy casual" the background was a pokimane clip. What a beautiful edit

[@Andmau2552]

He really is a lesson. It's not always about the kills, Spiderman.

[@treebush]

People fail to realize theres more to just K D especially a game with multiple objectives and win conditions glad ppl like him exist in this game

[@AlibabaAF]

he's literally my neighbor and I love it

[@sandshrew1]

Finally a video on the best toplaner world

[@kevjumbanigahigafan1]

His smile is so contagious.

[@MrFurmos]

Its actually crazy that you can put "Got his first pc at the age of 6 and started playing League of Legends" into the same sentence :D When I was 6, computers were common in business but almost nobody had one at home :D

[@MrFurmos]

Also extremely pathetic to call for his permaban when all his does is simply not play by your rules.

[@Deanbeyers1984]

Thebausffs is a LEGEND and is always in an upbeat mood, doesn’t flame or harass others. We shilling

[@CozyHumanoid]

its sion's playstyle to die ressurect and wreck mayhem so him dying always make sense.

[@tomoyoo6179]

People in Silver are flaming baus to get him banned for trolling when he literally manages to play on the highest level possible over years and still win xD Like bro, if its so easy to int and still win then why you are losing your game and still be silver

[@ervinmontemayor6716]

Since I play in mid season in 2014, I main Top lane, accidentally I watched one of his streams playing Sion which is I am not interested to play on since his rework. I tried to adopt his style but in a Tank wat and for just weeks I mastered Sion because if him. Thanks BaUSFFS

[@lifecycles9861]

He is fun to watch and his playstyle is hilarious.

[@1mtoxicyt708]

Bausffs is the living breathing definition of a 0/10 power spike.

[@adnanyeasir7965]

WP to this Sion he played safe during laningphase, minimized deaths and yea he let some cs go but now hes scaled and is working with his team to win the game! Well playes to this Sion\

[@BobbyCorwen42]

People saying he's an inter just don't know the meaning of the word. He is actively trying to win, and that quite simply means that he's not an inter.

[@Skaypegote]

Let's not forget, he hit challenger in Korea as well

[@chopinyt]

Reducing League of Legends to Kills Deaths Assists is such a Gold thing to do. What TheBaus is truly a Master at is playing around minion waves and that may sound lame, but it is one of the most important aspects of league. Just watch this legend go 0 6 and get 150 Farm at 15 - This is what sets you up to even try a play.