[TS] The Return of The Gamer - Chapter 167

Silence fell for a moment.

[“……Uh, yeah.”]

Baek Seong-an, who could be called the only person with normal social skills, was the only one to respond, while the rest just gave out laughs as if they were dumbfounded.

[“Ahahaha……”]

[“…Hmm.”]

‘Ugh.’

Well, if they experience it directly, that would have to be corrected.

In the meantime, Seo Yeon-woo, who couldn't wait, spoke. It seemed he couldn't help but show his impatience as time was approaching.

[“What should we pick for the first pick?”]

Currently, the ADC has been banned quite a lot. It was generally considered good to take the ADC side if possible.

[“I think it would be better to take the ADC side. I think Jhin or Xayah would be good?”]

Baek Seong-an also had a similar thought as me, and suggested Jhin or Xayah.

Among the remaining ADCs, the ADC picks that are somewhat usable in the current meta are roughly that.

Of course, if you look for them, there are picks that are usable like Kai'Sa, Draven, or Aphelios... but compared to the previous champions, they require more resources within the team and rely heavily on the ADC's capabilities.

No matter how you put it, since the ADC wasn't the core for our team currently, picking those was utter nonsense.

It definitely should be like that…….

[“Give me Jinx.”]

Reality always surpasses expectations.

[“…I think other picks would be better? Rather something like Aphelios……”]

[“I'm confident. Give me Jinx.”]

Baek Seong-an hurriedly tried to persuade him, but the ADC prince's opinion was already firm.

-What should we do?

Baek Seong-an turned his gaze slightly to me, sitting next to him, and asked with his mouth.

The mid and jungle positions are next to each other.

Of course, the mid and ADC positions were also next to each other, but that wasn't important right now.

-Hmm. Just let him do what he wants.

-…Are you sure?

-Yes. It's just a scrim anyway.

Classifying cards that can be used and those that cannot be used is also the role of a scrim.

Above all… I also felt the need to grab the reins of that ADC prince.

In the end, Baek Seong-an said in a voice of resignation.

[“……Pick Jinx.”]

[“Yes.”]

Seo Yeon-woo, as always, picked without any suspicion.

[Jinx]

Jinx is virtually an ADC with no survival skills, the so-called "walking" ADC.

Soon, picking Jinx means that if you lose lane dominance, you lose the game as well.

Giving that kind of ADC to a diamond 1 rookie who just joined, not even a proven ADC?

It wasn't a normal judgment in many ways, but it was still a worthwhile thing to do.

‘It’s good if it goes well, if not, whatever.’

It might not be considered a good attitude for a scrim, but it was a necessary process for our team right now.

And, it was the opponent's turn to pick.

[Xayah]

From a statistical point of view, Xayah is one of Jinx's hard counters.

Putting pressure on the opponent with an ADC ban, and then a counter-pick as if waiting for it.

It was a truly textbook ban-pick.

‘We should consider them experienced.’

Even though it was a new team that hadn't even debuted yet, but the opponent's ban-pick felt as if they were taking it quite seriously.

And…….

Soon the ban-pick was completed.

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[Allies / Enemies]

Top: Jason / Graves

Jungle: Jarvan IV / Rek'Sai

Mid: Galio / LeBlanc

ADC: Jinx / Xayah

Support: Lulu / Yummi

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Our team's composition is a typical ADC carry composition.

When we set it up, there was a feeling that the AP ratio was a little lacking, but it didn't matter this far because there was no hard tank in the enemy's composition.

Yes, up to here.

The problem was elsewhere.

Our team's composition has the advantage of strong initiation and teamfight destruction of Galio Jarvan, but the opponent's composition is a combination with overall long range and very excellent survival skills.

Especially in the case of top and mid, it can be said that they are losing in lane matchups, so they were countered in many ways.

I didn't intend to build this composition from the beginning... Somehow, through the ban-pick, this composition came out naturally.

Should I say it was like being naturally caught up in the opponent's flow?

[“Umm, it won't be easy. Let's all do our best.”]

“Fighting.”

[“Fighting!”]

In the silence that followed, Seo Yeon-woo alone responded to my voice.

…You're the only one who follows me.

‘Anyway, the bottom guys.’

They should catch me and fight.

When dividing the positions in League of Legends, the most common way to divide them is the top and bottom.

There was an invisible distance between the top, jungle, mid and ADC, support, to the point where there was such a classification.

Of course, it's generally normal for communication between the bottom lanes in those cases, but unfortunately, there was a feeling that even our team couldn't communicate between the bottom lanes.

-Welcome to the Summoner's Rift!

The real game began.

[⬇] [⬇] [⬇]

The invade route chosen by our team was the bottom bush side.

Because, even with the Jinx pick, you have to firmly grasp the early lane dominance.

[❕] [❕] [❕]

The early invade nerve war went by without any accidents, only eating each other's vision.

Considering that aggressive operations are bound to happen in scrims, unlike competitions, it was a fairly smooth start.

“I'll start with red.”

My jungle starting route also had a smooth start.

However, it was smooth in a different sense from the full camp route.

“I'll look for a level 2 gank in mid.”

[“Is it going to work?”]

“Try it.”

Usually, players who play LeBlanc make reckless plays, trusting in LeBlanc's powerful survival skills.

No, it was even more so because that was the pick that gave the pick its meaning in the first place.

In other words, it becomes a flaw.

Jarvan IV's level 2 gank route in mid can be considered a classic route boasting a long tradition, but in the current meta, where growth is important, it is not used because of the risk.

This also provides the basis for creating flaws.

“Now.”

LeBlanc's w is already gone.

-Tung!

In the perfect gank that caught her from behind, LeBlanc's flash was taken.

[“Nice.”]

With this, our mid will be relatively less pressured compared to the lane matchup.

‘I lost out a bit on the jungle route, but it's manageable.’

Sure enough, the opponent Rek'Sai, who knew my location, showed up to come into our jungle.

“Watch this.”

[“Confirmed.”]

Thanks to Galio, who took the initiative for a moment, the opponent Rek'Sai was prevented from entering our jungle.

It was a good start.

*

It had been 20 minutes since the game started. Despite the good start, the situation was not very good.

Certainly, the early atmosphere itself wasn't bad.

-First Blood!

-You have slain an enemy!

Took the mid dominance, and the top also reversed the matchup by succeeding in a gank despite the unfavorable matchup.

The bottom was also going even thanks to the performance of sosiminhan190, even though they were at a relative tier disadvantage, and a typical game in which you win by taking the herald without issue, based on the top dominance.

I thought it was that kind of game.

-An ally has been slain!

-Double kill!

Yes, that's what it was, until a major accident suddenly happened at the bottom lane.

[“…I told you to back off.”]

sosiminhan190 Kim Ji-hoon's growl echoed.

[“I'm, I'm sorry……”]

The cause of the accident was that the ADC missed the timing to go home due to greed for CS, and the failure to manage health as a result gave the enemy an opening.

The difference between Agaeyeolreoboseyo, who showed a performance that didn't fall behind in basic health against a Challenger ADC, and the opponent's ADC, began to widen from that incident.

A typical top vs. bottom fight structure had occurred.

If this game was a solo queue, our team, who had the dominance on the top lane, could still be considered at an advantage.

The problem was that this game was a team game, and the opponent's bottom lane started to give Graves and LeBlanc, who were somewhat behind, time to grow, based on their growth and lane clearing ability.

Because of that, our team, who seemed to be at an advantage in the early stages, could no longer snowball, and was blocked in front of the opponent mid tier 1 turret.

Usually, even then, we would have found a way out.

However, the composition difference was too severe.

Our team's composition certainly has strengths in forced initiation and teamfights, but the opponent is composed of champions with outstanding survival skills to the extent that they can even avoid such forced initiation.

“Push the lane now… no, fall back now!”

No matter how hard I and Getback gave orders, the damage accumulates depending on the difference in the moment of giving and following those orders.

Spread your wings, fold them.

BOQ is the team that even gave 1 loss to SY with their unique teamwork and agile operation.

It was impossible for our team, which had just been created and hadn't even practiced properly, to compete with operations.

Little by little.

The damage accumulates.

As time passed, with 10 minutes, 20 minutes passing by being swayed by the opponent's agile movements, our team naturally had to become increasingly disadvantaged.

If the opponent seemed to take action, we would flinch and have to huddle together, and in the meantime, damage occurred to the lane and jungle side, as intended by the opponent.

“We have to take this fight.”

The strength of our team's composition is teamfight.

Therefore, even in the situation that was as dark as could be, there was a last chance.

[“…Can you do it?”]

Despite Baek Seong-an's worry, I answered without hesitation.

“I can do it.”

Why is it difficult for Jarvan IV to perform properly in pro matches?

The skill set itself is so intuitive, and it's too easy to react to it.

Once the flag is planted, even a player who is not at the level of a pro gamer can easily predict Jarvan's actions.

Therefore, in order to get effective hits with Jarvan, you have to surpass even those predictions of the opponent.

And the flag and dash flash is one of the most effective techniques for stabbing the opponent's prediction.

Of course, the judgment of flag and dash flash is, frankly speaking, not very good.

It's the realm of prediction, not reaction.

It's familiar to me.

“He's been caught.”

As soon as the flag fell, the opponent's Xayah seemed to flash to avoid it.

But that, too, was within my prediction range, and I used a matching flash almost at the same time as Xayah used flash.

Xayah was in the air, and as the opponent's people gathered to protect Xayah, Jarvan's ultimate and Galio's ultimate fell on top of it.

[“LeBlanc, LeBlanc, LeBlanc!”]

LeBlanc, who was stalling time with Baek Seong-an's desperate cry, was blown up.

-You have slain an enemy!

-They have been slain!

-Finish!

Since the game was already in the late stages, the game could be ended as it was with a single teamfight victory.

[Victory]

The first scrim resulted in a game of 47 minutes.

It was a great comeback victory.

“Ha……”

The teammates took off their headsets in the heat that had risen inside the practice room.

“We win this.”

“Hoo.”

“As expected……”

A strange gaze of admiration was felt from the top lane, but I tried to ignore it.

It’s a bit of a burden when the guy who looks pretty is sending those kinds of gazes.

“You worked hard, Yujin. Really, we won thanks to you.”

“No. We all did well together.”

“No, not all.”

With that, Baek Seong-an's gaze slowly turned to the right.

The ADC position, precisely towards the ADC, Agaeyeolreoboseyo Kim Jae-min.

“Jae-min.”

As soon as Baek Seong-an's cold voice came out, Kim Jae-min's shoulders flinched.

“……Yes.”

It couldn't be helped.

Although we won as a result, it was no exaggeration to say that the ADC was responsible for more than 80% of the reason this game went on like this.

In fact, Kim Jae-min, who was constantly chattering until 10 minutes after the game started, drastically reduced the number of his words as the game progressed.

“How did you think of this game, in your opinion?”

“……I think I made a mistake.”

“What?”

Kim Jae-min couldn't answer.

Even though he did something wrong, he looked discouraged to the point of being pitiful.

However, despite that appearance, Baek Seong-an spoke in a cold voice, as if he had no emotions.

“You, do what I tell you to do in today's scrim.”

The status of the prince was demoted to a spoon.