[TS] The Return of The Gamer - Chapter 108

ShyPerson190 (4)

It wasn't an action that came from having a grand plan.

It's just that, for some reason, my body moved.

It was that impulsive of an action.

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BAN EZ participated in the lobby.

lIIIIllllIIIlII participated in the lobby.

Outlaw participated in the lobby.

Sharpshooter Kim Jinho participated in the lobby.

Let's Go There participated in the lobby.

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I quickly looked at the team member list, but unfortunately, I wasn't on the same team as Timid Person190.

‘Then?’

My gaze turned to the friend list.

[Timid Person190]

Selecting a champion.

It's the ban-pick screen.

‘This is the same queue.’

In other words, Timid Person190 is on the opposing team.

‘…This is actually good.’

Legend of League is a game of relative strength.

It's not uncommon for a guy who was feeding on our team in the previous game to become a crazy carry machine when we meet him on the opposing team in the next game.

In short, if I show off my skills properly by meeting Timid Person190 on the opposing team, there's a chance, however small, that I can change his mind.

Of course, whether I do that or not, the only thing the viewers are interested in is my teammates.

-Oh, it's EZ

-Lee-ha

-The best top in the world, seriously

-^Mu^ How is he the best in the world, lol

-Next bus-rider

BAN EZ.

The top laner who held the number one ranking until Prisoner reached 2000 points.

Even though his ranking seems to have dropped a bit now, there was no doubt about his skill.

‘The team is pretty good.’

Not to mention BAN EZ, but the other teammates were also all familiar faces.

‘Well… the barcode is bound to be familiar.’

I didn't fail to understand why he uses such a nickname... but it was still uncomfortable to look at.

[Ban List]

Sylas / Sett

K'Sante / Tahm Kench

Shaco / Renekton

Katarina / Ashe

Jarvan IV / Tristana

While I was thinking about various things, the bans were finished.

Our team is the second pick.

In other words, the top side.

[Jix]

The first pick taken by the opponent is Jix.

Come to think of it, in the current ADC meta, long-ranged, utility-type ADCs like Ashe, Zeri, and Jix are the trend again.

Of course, that doesn't mean the power of carry-type ADCs has completely faded, so an ADC who is confident in their skills can pick any other champion.

‘Hmm, but if this happens, then Jason is alive?’

Jason is currently a very good pick in the top meta.

No counter, or in other words, if you can just move your fingers, he can beat anyone, from his strong laning phase to his poke and damage in a standoff.

The opposing team wouldn't know that EZ is on our team, so they would have just let Jason go, but that was a huge mistake.

[Jason]

EZ confidently picked Jason.

It's not that the opposing team is stupid and just let Jason go. Jason is definitely a champion that relies on the player's skill, and there aren't many pros who can handle him properly enough to be used in tournaments.

However, BAN EZ was undoubtedly one of the few pros who stood out.

[Ryze]

Our team's second pick mid is Ryze.

Among the remaining AP champions, the champion with a high tier in the current meta and good to pick first was a naturally derived conclusion.

‘The flow is good.’

We easily picked both Jason and Ryze.

If this were a tournament, the opposing team's coach would have received countless criticisms from the fans after this match.

Of course, since this wasn't a tournament, but a solo rank, that couldn't happen.

-A miracle ban-pick, lol

-They just took Jason and Ryze, lol

-I feel like dodging

-Really??????

The viewers were also talking about this ban-pick.

[Ahri]

The opposing top lane accepted EZ's challenge.

Ahri is often considered one of Jason's few counterpicks.

Even so, the reason Ahri doesn't appear relatively often is that she relies on skill just as much as Jason, and above all, the difficulty of laning phase is very high due to her being a close-range champion.

Of course, to be precise, the conditions were met right now.

Ahri is a champion that, due to her champion characteristics, dies and dies continuously, but at least that was also true for Jason.

-Wow, lol

-Picking Ahri here

-Who's the opposing top??

-If he runs away to the mid lane like a coward, it'll be funny, lol

That was true.

Ahri herself isn't so bad in terms of matchup against Ryze.

‘I think differently, though.’

From the top laner's perspective, the opponent's first-pick top lane picking Jason without even swapping must have seemed very arrogant.

Therefore, this could be seen as a battle of pride between top laners.

And…….

As if to support my thoughts, the ban-pick was completed.

[Ally / Enemy]

Top: Jason / Ahri

Jungle: Lee Sin / Rek'Sai

Mid: Ryze / Azir

ADC: Varus / Jix

Support: Nautilus / Leona

Umm…… Rek'Sai.

In the past, if you picked Lee Sin, it was natural for Rek'Sai to come out as the second pick, but recently, the specs of Lee Sin himself are so insane, and at the same time, the specs of Rek'Sai have decreased, so that setup doesn't come out as often as I thought.

However, the fact that Rek'Sai's skillset certainly has aspects that counter Lee Sin's skillset is also true.

‘Let's see what happens.’

It was a battle of pride different from that of top lane.

[Select a champion!]

[Select a skin!]

Soon the game started.

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3MinuteTopChurchHonorStudent - Ahri

GangGangGangGangGangGang - Rek'Sai

BOQ Private - Azir

YSG JuWon - Jix

TimidPerson190 - Leona

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‘Huh?’

Come to think of it... was 3MinuteTopChurchHonorStudent also in the queue?

All my attention was on TimidPerson190, so I hadn't thought of that.

‘Well, it doesn't matter.’

Who's our team's top right now?

Isn't it BAN EZ, who's also considered the best top laner in the world?

It's a bit of a sad story for 3MinuteTopChurchHonorStudent, but it's true that there's a considerable difference between the two.

‘Top lane is taken care of….’

I expected TimidPerson190 to be here, so this is okay.

The problem is…

[YSG JuWon]

YSG.

I thought I'd meet him someday, but I didn't expect to meet him so soon.

Now that name feels like a kind of reverse scale, or a big wound to me, and just seeing it makes me uneasy.

‘…It's a problem I have to deal with.’

The game started.

-Welcome to the Summoner's Rift!

I examined the invade combination.

‘Jason and Ahri, Lee Sin and Rek'Sai, Ryze and Azir, Varus and Jix, Nautilus and Leona. This is… we're at an advantage.’

I could make that conclusion without deeply examining the combination.

[⬇] [⬇]

[Outlaw(Lee Sin) is on the way]

If the combinations of each side are ambiguous, I wouldn't know, but when the difference is so clear, it's more rude not to go in.

[⬇]

[Outlaw(Lee Sin) is on the way]

Our goal is the bottom tri-bush.

It was the standard route used when invading from the top side to the bottom side.

The only difference is that this is a late-game invasion that will determine the game's outcome.

The reason I made this move was simple.

Because of Rek'Sai's characteristics, if she gets off track on the first red buff route, she will suffer a very big loss on the subsequent routes.

Did the opposing bottom duo not expect a late invasion? They faced our four.

[⨷]

[Outlaw(Lee Sin) points to TimidPerson190(Leona)]

Jix and Leona hastily did a back-move, but Nautilus's grab went to Leona.

Currently, Jix and Leona's forms overlap.

If Leona uses Flash, Jix will be pulled in.

To not be pulled in here, both must use Flash at the same time, but the situation was so ambiguous, that Leona ended up being pulled in.

However, TimidPerson190 was also not an easy opponent.

Leona instantly flashed over the wall and immediately stunned Lee Sin, who was chasing with a Q follow-up, and then gracefully escaped.

[Outlaw(Lee Sin) : Leona Flash]

Of course, if we wanted to, we could have pursued with a matching Flash, but if we were to catch Leona in that way, it would have been a situation where all four of us had to use Flash, so no one did that.

We've already gained a big advantage, and since the opposing bottom lane's Flash is gone, Rek'Sai, who's still level 1, can't even stay on the red buff side.

The bottom lane's Rek'Sai has a very strong advantage in a bottom lane gank.

In other words, with this invade, Rek'Sai has already lost half the meaning of his pick.

‘He probably wants to get the red buff somehow.’

If it were in the past, I would have gone straight home and tried to harass Rek'Sai with an extreme route like red-red, but there was no need to do that in this game.

That's because we had EZ on our top lane.

People often say that top lane has little influence on the game.

That's right. It's true that top lane often has less presence than other lanes.

However, that's only in general cases.

If the opposing top laner is a monster like EZ, the influence is a story of another world.

A player capable of hard carrying.

If there's a monster top laner like BAN EZ, the opposing team's jungler can't help but be distracted by the top lane.

If you leave him alone, you're afraid that BAN EZ, who's beaten our top laner, will become a king in the late game, but if you try to gank him to make him fall behind, he eventually recovers like a ghost and reveals his presence.

They're stuck in the irony of the jungler.

Of course, I could already feel a sense of relief from the mind games.

That should have been the case…….

-First Blood!

The portrait that appeared was Jason's.

It wasn't a strange thing.

EZ was a player who had many solo kills in lane phase, enough to be called the solo kill machine.

-Our team has been defeated!

However, what was different from what I expected was that the one who got the kill this time was Ahri, not Jason.

Huh?

‘…Huh, huh, huh?’

3MinuteTopChurchHonorStudent.

That crazy guy did it.