[TS] The Return of The Gamer - Chapter 17

After a small commotion in the pick phase.

Finally, the game began.

[The game is starting!]

As soon as the screen switched to the loading screen, I habitually checked the opponents’ tiers through the match history search site.

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(D3) IlIIIIIIIIllllll - Renekton

(D2) Diamond or Die - Rissin

(D2) Master Jedu Kim Jedu - Jedu

(D4) 2021.06.07 - Samira

(P2) Haileidat - Nyamie

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‘To put it roughly… Diamond mid-tier, roughly.’

The highest tier was Diamond 2, and the lowest was Platinum 2, so it seemed about right.

On the other hand, our team’s tiers were relatively low, except for me.

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(P2) Diamond Gatekeeper11 - Sayan

(C1) Prisoner - Sylas

(D4) Triangle Mid Liner - Talun

(P4) Jaehyuk Master 123 - Kaisa

(G3) Dahye is Thumb Kongju - Lulo

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‘Platinum, Diamond, Platinum, Gold.’

In a way, it was natural.

Even though the MMR in normal games was detached from the rank games, experience showed that the probability of normal game MMR and rank game MMR being proportional was high.

‘Well, it doesn’t matter.’

Whatever the case, I just had to test the performance of the new equipment.

[Loading…….]

The loading was quite long.

Perhaps because they were people who didn’t care much about the game environment compared to the section I was playing in, this was also a natural consequence.

-Welcome to Summoner's Rift.

And so, after waiting for the loading for about 3 minutes, the game officially began.

I don’t know if it was because it was a normal game, but even though it had been more than 20 seconds since the game started, only I was moving in the well.

[!] [!] [!]

I pinged just in case, but no answer.

Cigarettes, bathroom, and other various reasons, but the fact that it wasn't a pleasant situation as a jungler was certain.

If I was invaded, the vision of my ally’s jungle would be eaten, which meant that my movement would be restricted.

‘This is… This neighborhood is still the same.’

It's been so long since I played a normal game, I even felt a strange feeling of longing.

If this kind of thing happened in a rank game, I would have wanted to quit the game, but this is a normal game.

I could say that I was already within the scope of what I had expected.

‘Let’s see…….’

I examined the matchup of the invasion.

[Ally / Enemy]

Top: Sayan / Renekton

Jungle: Sylas / Rissin

Mid: Talun / Jedu

ADC: Kaisa / Samira

Support: Lulo / Nyamie

If a stranger were to see it, they might wonder what the point of examining the invasion matchup was when our team wasn't moving at all, but in fact, it's not like that at all.

Only our team knows that our team is not participating in the invasion defense because they are taking a cigarette break or a short break.

In other words, regardless of whether our team defends the invasion, how the opposing team moves in the invasion situation depends entirely on the initial combat matchup of our ally and the opposing champion.

Therefore, I made a decision.

‘For now, the matchup itself is likely that they will come in first.’

Our team’s formation is the bottom formation.

I placed a ward in my red buff bush and then fell back.

In a situation where my teammates couldn’t protect me, I would only have to take on more risks by trying to protect my red buff alone.

That was the moment when it was the 1st minute since the game started.

[All][Master Jedu Kim Jedu (Jedu) : ?]

[All][Master Jedu Kim Jedu (Jedu) : Is it real?]

The opponent finally showed a strange reaction, having finished searching the match history.

And now, our teammates, who were starting to move one by one, also started chatting.

[All][Triangle Mid Liner (Talun) : ㅇㅇㅋ]

[All][Triangle Mid Liner (Talun) : You guys are screwed now]

[All][Triangle Mid Liner (Talun) : 15 surrender gg]

[All][Master Jedu Kim Jedu (Jedu) : What, a challenger appears in normal game ㅋㅋ]

[All][2021.06.07 (Samira) : No... a humble person in such a valuable place...]

[All][2021.06.07 (Samira) : Just kidding]

[All][Diamond or Die (Rissin) : I’m a real fan. Please take care of me]

Various chats came up, and it was only after 1 minute and 10 seconds since the game started that our ally bot duo started to move.

It was already too late to leash, and the vision of our ally red buff was extremely dangerous, so I pinged to retreat.

[!] [!] [!]

Even though I pinged to retreat, Lulo's movements were ominous, whether he pressed the move button and then left his spot again.

-First Blood!

Sure enough.

The ally support was sacrificed by the opposing team, who began to appear outside the ward vision.

[Dahye is Thumb Kongju (Lulo) : Ah]

[Dahye is Thumb Kongju (Lulo) : Sorry]

[Jaehyuk Master 123 (Kaisa) : It’s okay, fighting]

It was a familiar scene, so I just let it go.

It was when I was hitting the ally blue buff for my blue buff.

‘Hmm?’

Suddenly, the opponent Renekton and Jedu appeared near my blue buff.

They seemed to have placed a ward in advance and waited.

‘Look at this?’

The opponent jungler and bot duo are eating my red buff right now.

In other words, they are only two people right now.

If my allies had watched the invasion, a 2:3 situation would have naturally occurred and I would have caught them, but unfortunately, our team's top and mid were already stuck in their lanes.

‘It's coming out interesting.’

I can feel their will to hinder me even if it means taking a little line loss.

Well, this was a very effective strategy considering that the tier difference between each position was very clear in normal games.

After all, the opposing laners, except for the jungler, were all relatively higher in tier than our team.

Moreover, the players, who are indeed Diamond-level players, didn't just blindly push their heads in and come to me.

They were also considering the possibility of becoming more dangerous if allies joined.

‘They’re keeping a proper distance and harassing me.’

In other words, their goal is not to take the blue buff, but only to interfere with my jungling time as much as possible.

‘In this case, it would be right for allies to come and help even if they take a little loss… but I can't expect that.’

In this situation, I couldn't stay and hit the blue buff until the end, so I had no choice but to stop jungling and leave for a moment.

-Hahaha!

-Kakakakaka!!

The opponent Renekton and Jedu took the laughing emotion as they saw me retreating.

I’m getting annoyed.

After the blue buff reset.

The ally laners, who ate one line late, hurriedly moved.

Of course, the blue buff had already reset and the opponents' top and mid had already gone back.

In the end, the two opposing laners took a little line loss, and my jungling was very stunted.

‘It’s going to be hard.’

It's a Sylas jungle where I can’t jungle without a leash anyway.

In addition to that, even the blue buff that I was hitting was reset once, so my options had to be extremely narrowed.

‘I’m not just using him as a jungler for no reason.’

Who would have thought the opponent would do this in normal games…….

In a way, it was the price for choosing a trash champion.

‘I’ll have to eat the wolves first.’

My health was already quite low, so even if I used Smite, I couldn’t catch the buff mobs alone.

In the end, when I ate the wolves and I was late to level 2, the opponent Rissin, who had already reached level 3 one step ahead, appeared in the ally bot.

-Ally has been killed!

-Enemy, Double Kill!

The bot duo was defeated in an instant.

Block the opponent’s strengths, and dig at their weaknesses.

I thought I couldn’t see such a scene in normal games, but maybe it’s because it’s a normal game that I can play the game like this.

The fact that there is no price for losing means that you can throw all sorts of gambles without any burden.

‘It’s going well.’

Often, when playing Legends of League, there are some games where you can’t win no matter what you do as an individual.

For me, this game is probably one of those games.

There was no reason to win.

It was only a normal game where no score was at stake, and it was even just a game to test the new equipment.

But…….

[All][2021.06.07 (Samira) : Don't be too discouraged. The opponent is me~]

[All][IlIIIIIIIIllllll (Renekton) : This is... Challenger No. 2?]

[All][Diamond or Die (Rissin) : Teacher, will I be able to go to Master at this rate?]

I wanted to win this game.