As a mobile game, Honor of Kings uses historical figures as blueprints to create a series of heroes.
Among them, the poet Li Bai, who should have been an elegant scholar in our minds, was actually an assassin. Part of the reason for this is that Tianmei Company printed on the game interface that "the background story is purely fictitious and not a real historical story." When they created the characters, they combined the characteristics of their own games to give the characters a fictional setting.
However, if we explore the similarities between Li Bai and the assassins, we can also understand one or two. Although Li Bai was a scholar, he loved learning swordsmanship since he was a child, practicing both civil and military skills. Related discussions are often seen in his poems, such as "Killing one person in ten steps, leaving no trace for a thousand miles" in "Xia Ke Xing", "Holding one's body in the white blade, killing people in the world of mortals" in "Gift to Brother Xiangyang Shaofu", etc. wait. From some of these poems, we can feel Li Bai's own yearning for knights.
In addition, Li Bai's poetry style is unrestrained, bold, fresh and elegant, from which we can see that his character must be unrestrained and unconstrained. And such an image is very similar to the feeling given to us by the assassin. He wields a sword, has strong martial arts skills, and has an elegant body. Entering the characters to fight is like entering a deserted land, and retreating completely, at ease and calmly.
All in all, setting Li Bai as an assassin is more appropriate and well-founded. However, the settings of some other heroes are very strange. For example, Cai Wenji is a little baby riding a stroller.