[Expired]VKG won EWC2025 《Apex legend》champion

A hundred Qin passes finally belong to Chu, three thousand Yue soldiers can devour Wu. Just recently, VKGaming claimed the championship in the Apex Legends 2025 EWC Esports World Cup·ALGS Mid-Season Tournament. This unsponsored team reached the pinnacle of a game without an official Chinese server, showering a golden rain of CN FPS glory in Riyadh.

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Apex Legends is an FPS game developed by Respawn Entertainment under EA, continuing the universe of the Titanfall series. It combines character ability systems with battle royale gameplay, featuring fast pace, powerful performance, and high satisfaction. To encourage player confrontation, Respawn innovatively implemented the "Evo Shield" in Apex, where shield values increase as players deal damage, and defeated players drop intact armor for the victorious team to quickly equip for new battles. This mechanic is considered "one of the greatest changes in FPS game history," and coupled with the addictive sound of breaking armor, this strong feedback has kept Apex consistently in Steam's top ten most played games despite challenges with hackers, poor anti-cheat systems, optimization issues, and aggressive monetization.

VKGaming is a club established in Chengdu in 2023, belonging to the VeryKuai Group and focusing on the APEX project. Core team members include Wang Yipeng (ID: lqdud), Chen Yinhong (ID: qq), Luo Tianjiao (ID: YouL1ng), and Cai Denglang (ID: Kasssa). In the FPS community, there's a famous meme called "Yi Da San" (a homophone for "one versus three" in Chinese). This meme originated from a classic moment when Kasssa successfully won a 1v3 situation at World's Edge map during an early Star Cup competition and shouted "Yi Da Shan!" After experiencing numerous ups and downs in just a few years due to the game's popularity, frequent roster changes of his former MDY teammates, and his own mentality and condition, having Kasssa as captain embed the team's logo on the EWC championship board is truly moving. This conclusion is well-deserved for their persistent journey.

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Apex is a shooting game with excellent controller compatibility, with many Respawn developers using controllers themselves. The game was first released on console platforms before launching on PC, and after being exclusive to the EA platform for a while, it experienced a renaissance when it arrived on Steam. Ever since the game gained popularity, debates about controller aim assist have never ceased. Keyboard and mouse players believe that Apex's level of aim assist is practically equivalent to cheating, and it has led to the emergence of converters that combine keyboard and mouse flexibility with aim assist, which they consider cheating. Controller players argue that China lacks a console gaming culture, that they grew up playing with controllers, and that keyboard players should practice with controllers if they think they're so powerful—as if simply buying a controller would get you to Predator rank. The editor believes that controllers do have a learning curve, but once mastered, they provide a higher skill floor and more stable close-combat abilities. Keyboard and mouse aiming precision may deteriorate with extended play time, while controllers aren't affected as much. This explains why many professional teams have 1-2 controller players, making our all-keyboard-and-mouse team's success in marathon-like competitions all the more impressive.

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Analyzing public data, we've found that many Apex professional players choose the Logitech G PRO X SUPERLIGHT series wireless mouse, including VKG's LqDuD and YouL1ng, as well as DF (now EDG) team's 3mz shown above. The G PRO X SUPERLIGHT's core advantage lies in its ultra-lightweight design of approximately 62 grams. This allows players to initiate, adjust, and maintain mouse tracking trajectories with less effort when facing enemies who are constantly sliding, jumping, and flying, making reactions quicker and reducing the likelihood of losing targets due to excessive movement. During intense nine-game matches, the reduced weight significantly decreases physical wrist fatigue, helping maintain competitive performance longer.

Additionally, this mouse's "safe" symmetrical design and Logitech's mature LIGHTSPEED wireless technology are crucial. The comfortable grip ensures stability during extended use, while the zero-delay wireless connection ensures players won't be restricted or interrupted by cables when making large arm movements with low DPI settings, which is essential for tracking aim. 

If "lightweight design" is the current development direction for gaming mice, then "rapid triggering" is the core competitive point for gaming keyboards. Whether in FPS games with long TTK (time to kill) and high controllability like Apex and Overwatch, or in traditional FPS games with short TTK where one bullet decides the outcome like CS2 and VALORANT, the operational consistency and responsiveness improvements brought by rapid trigger technology and adjustable trigger travel have accumulated undeniable advantages in professional competitions.

For us average players, although we don't pursue the extreme perfection in peripherals like professionals do, aligning with their choices can prevent our equipment from becoming operational bottlenecks and help us better carry our teams in ranked matches. The editor recommends several keyboard and mouse configurations below, many of which are available at great member's day prices.

Symmetrical Gaming Mice: Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2, Razer Viper V3 Pro, Pulsar Xlite V3 / X2V2, Logitech G305 (best value option)

Ergonomic Gaming Mice: Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro, ZOWIE EC-CW series, VAXEE XE / OUTSET AX Wireless

Hall Effect Keyboards: Wooting 60HE / 80HE, SteelSeries Apex Pro, DrunkDeer A75/G65

Analog Optical Keyboards: Razer Huntsman V3 Pro (TKL/Mini)