[TS] The Return of The Gamer - Chapter 196

Promotion Tournament Preliminaries (5)

The game began.

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As always, pings are noisily displayed.

Within them, Baek Seong-an spoke.

["Top?"]

"Yes."

["Okay."]

It was a short conversation, but the content exchanged was clear.

The early invade objective we've chosen right now is top.

Of course, it's not a combination that puts us at a disadvantage even if we go late game.

No, the potential of our team's champions is so high that time is on our side, you could say.

Nevertheless, the reason we're attempting an early invade is that our team's composition is strong in early invades, and if we can take Kennen's Flash during the invade process, the top lane setup itself could change completely.

["I'll go first."]

Kim Ji-hoon's Morgana, leading the charge, circled the bush.

As our allies appeared, as if unfolding a siege, Kennen, who had jumped out of the bush in a straight line, seemed flustered and ran down.

Along with that, Morgana's Q, which had been cast like flowing water, flew towards Kennen.

Can he dodge it, or can't he?

-Flash!

In the end, Kennen, unable to withstand the pressure, crossed the hill with Flash.

As planned, we succeeded in taking Kennen's Flash through the early invade.

["Nice."]

"Good."

["Oh, damn good."]

Of course, there's a price for the early design.

We can't know what happened to the jungle vision on our blue side.

"Can you take a quick look at the blue vision while going for the bot lane?"

["Yes."]

"Okay."

This way, we'll know the starting position of the enemy jungler, but the same applies to the enemy.

In short, it was like we were sharing the jungle positions and starting the game.

'Taking top's Flash and the price is only this much is very good.'

No, to be precise, it's an embarrassing level to even call it a price.

It was essentially a one-sided gain.

-Minions have spawned!

After the early invade struggle, according to what we confirmed with wards, both sides' jungle starts were red buff.

A very ordinary and uneventful start.

'Hmm.'

Even while jungling, the jungler has to constantly check the lane situations.

That's because you can make a judgment on where to move in the future.

Of course, in team games, this difficulty becomes a little easier.

Because you can just ask.

"How's top?"

["...Uneventful."]

Because it wasn't the answer I wanted, I looked at the top lane myself.

Soon, I could also understand why Seo Yeon-woo had spoken so vaguely.

'Hmm...no angle.'

Was it because the Flash was gone?

Kennen, who should be pressuring Kamal by taking advantage of the ranged champion's advantages from the start, was openly saving himself and only getting CS.

As the situation was like that, naturally, the lane situation was also pulled toward Kennen, and a ganking angle didn't appear.

And does a dive angle appear? That was also negative.

Because Kennen was managing from the beginning, paying attention to his health, the dive angle was also ambiguous.

'Well, it's not bad.'

No matter how the Flash is gone right now, it's fundamentally a ranged champion versus melee champion situation, so Kennen would be at an advantage early on.

The fact that Kennen gave up even those early advantages means that our top laner can gain the upper hand when the next timing comes.

'Then...'

The remaining choices are roughly one of three.

Using top's initiative to boldly go to the enemy's blue side,

Or, as usual, go to eat my bottom camp,

Lastly, outright pressure mid and naturally go down.

I didn't have to make a difficult choice, thankfully.

["Yujin, can you watch mid for this?"]

"Ah, yes."

Galio versus Sylas situation.

This situation can be seen as Sylas having a clear advantage in the matchup, but it's not always the case.

Because Galio also has the characteristic of being an AP counter, he can take the initiative in the lane against Sylas for a limited time up to level 3.

Of course, as time goes on, Sylas's damage exchange doesn't work, and it's difficult to take advantage of the global ultimate, but anyway, that was the case.

"You have to consider Jarvan too."

["He'll probably be there."]

"I'll watch."

There was no question of who went first.

Galio and Sylas.

The two mid champions charged towards each other almost simultaneously.

And Kindred and Jarvan IV, who jumped out of the bushes on both sides at almost the same time.

A 2v2 skirmish situation.

Galio and Sylas both have their E skills used up.

In other words, they can't get away.

All that remains is combat.

From here, it was the realm of tactics and physical ability, not strategy.

["I'll dodge this flag and focus on Jarvan first."]

"Roger that."

Jarvan's flag was planted on Sylas's head, who was taunted,

And before Jarvan's spear reached Sylas, Sylas narrowly dodged the flag spear with Flash.

'If it were me, I would have Flashed onto the flag spear.'

Well... I'm not TBW's coach, so I don't need to worry about that.

'What's important isn't that.'

What's important is that I've gained enough leeway in this situation to even have such unnecessary thoughts.

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[OLZ Outlaw(Kindred) has targeted TBW Kim Baek-soo(Jarvan IV)]

Galio and Jarvan IV are not champions with strong sustained damage.

Therefore, from the moment the flag spear missed, the outcome of this skirmish was already decided.

"Jarvan first."

Sylas's skills are all used up, but two passive basic attacks remained.

One shot,

One shot.

Sylas's whip, swung clumsily, struck Jarvan, and soon after, I landed a slow and a full combo on Jarvan.

Jarvan IV, whose health dropped in an instant, escaped with Flash, but I finished off Jarvan with a matching Flash.

-First Blood!

-An enemy has been slain!

When Jarvan died, Galio, who couldn't withstand the health pressure, also used Flash to escape.

["Good."]

Not only did we catch Jarvan, but both the enemy Jarvan and Galio's Flashes were gone.

["Push mid with me."]

"Yes."

We shoved the mid lane together, and Sylas, who wasn't in good health and mana, immediately recalled.

I immediately ran to the bottom scuttle crab to continue jungling.

["Galio no tell."]

The moment Galio used the return telecast to mid.

["Watch this."]

["Go!"]

Starting with Kim Ji-hoon's initiation, a damage exchange occurred in the bottom lane.

Thanks to the sharp damage exchange, the enemy Miss Fortune's Flash and Heal were both used.

'Dive angle.'

The bottom lane is slowly forming.

["We need to create a big wave. Wait until the lane arrives and push."]

["Ah, yes!"]

Kim Ji-hoon also knew well that it was a dive angle, so he asked Kim Jae-min to slowly push the lane, waiting for the lane to arrive and creating a big wave.

["...Can you come top on the next turn?"]

"Ah, sorry. I don't think it'll work right away."

In the current situation, top has to be a low priority.

If we succeed in this bottom dive, we can win the game regardless of the top lane.

There was absolutely no need to take a difficult path when an easy path was available.

'We'll win without a problem.'

The game was already tilting in our favor.

I dare say, our team doesn't have many games that we've lost in this kind of advantageous situation.

If the lane level became a problem, then it was a problem, but at least in terms of operations when we have the advantage, our team was already not significantly behind any other team.

At that moment.

["...Ah."]

Jarvan IV, who had been resurrected from death, appeared on top.

The law of the diagonal.

From Jarvan's perspective, since he's already suffered a big loss and is also being dived on the bottom, there's nothing he can do, so he has no choice but to judge that he has to make up for the loss somehow.

In other words, Jarvan's top ganking is a forced choice due to the situation, not a proactive one.

'...It's better this way.'

It's a sad story for our top laner, but the truth is, we didn't know what would happen to the dive setup if Kennen, who has Teleport, took a cover Teleport to the bottom.

However, if Jarvan shows up on top, and if we decide to top dive, it's not bad for us.

"Calmly. Morgana first."

The bottom dive angle is slowly closing in.

Of course, the same was true for top.

'He could have pulled out...then he could have pulled out.'

For some reason, Seo Yeon-woo made the choice to stick to the turret, unlike usual.

Sadly, we didn't have the capacity to care about that right now. The bottom dive was about to start.

["MF, MF first!"]

Miss Fortune, without Flash, fell, and soon after, Leona also fell.

-An enemy has been slain!

-Double Kill!

["Nice!"]

["Oh yeah!"]

With the success of the bottom dive following the 2v2 skirmish victory in mid, the game essentially exploded.

What's left is top...

["Ah..."]

The opponent is openly harassing top.

Since they've already suffered a big loss on the bottom, they're trying to harass Kamal so he can't even get experience.

It'll be distressing and annoying from Seo Yeon-woo's perspective, but from a team perspective, the opponent's play is only enough to make up for a small loss.

The situation has already become more favorable for our team, and even if top gets dived, the outcome of the game was already decided.

Surely, it will be like that...

[OLZ Honor(Kamal) : Kindred - Survival]

The portrait of my champion is repeatedly displayed,

["Can't you hear me?"]

Like a beast growling,

["Come top."]

The top laner cried out to the jungler.