On 5/0, Doinb, a well-known e-sports player, broke the news in the live broadcast that the salary level of a single coach of TES (Taobo E-sports Club) has exceeded the total number of players and staff of the NIP (formerly V0 team), and bluntly said that "League of Legends has completely become a kryptonite game, and whoever invests more will win".

　　TES coaching staff salaries are controversial

According to Doinb, TES has continued to attract top talent with high salaries in recent years, and its coaching team has a "fault line" in the league. For example, NIP, as the lowest team in the top eight teams in the LPL, has a team cost that is not even as high as the salary of a coach at TES. Previously, it was also reported that the value of the whole team of traditional giants such as EDG far exceeded that of NIP, but NIP still achieved cost-effective results with low-cost operation.

　　NIP's operating model is regarded as a typical case of "small to big" in the industry:

The salary of the players is strictly controlled, Doinb himself joins with a basic salary, and the total budget of the club is much lower than that of other teams;

Through precise recruitment and tactical optimization, the team successfully advanced to the quarterfinals in Season 2025, becoming a representative of low investment and high return.

It is worth noting that Doinb has previously mentioned the salary chaos in the transfer market several times before. For example, he revealed that he chose to join NIP with a base salary because of "team development considerations", and stressed that the value of players should not be measured by salary alone. In addition, he also joked in the live broadcast that although he wanted to ridicule TES's tactical mistakes, NIP "really couldn't beat it", which confirmed the crushing advantage of TES's hard power.

At present, neither TES nor NIP has provided an official response to the salary issue.