[TS] The Return of The Gamer - Chapter 228

First encounter.

That's a special word for everyone.

And that was also the case with my first encounter with Yoon-gi.

When I first met Yoon-gi, I had no choice but to be helpless against his bizarre plays.

I couldn't understand the plays that I couldn't comprehend at all, being forcibly established based on the absurd premise of brute force.

「‘……He's coming in like this?’」

「‘We still lose even fighting like this?’」

「‘What is this.’」

Unreasonable(不合理).

That was the feeling I felt when I first met Yoon-gi.

At the time, even though my physical abilities weren't great, I had a sense of pride as the number one ranked player every season.

However, that pride was also shattered terribly after meeting Yoon-gi.

Maybe it was from then.

I felt that I was falling behind the times.

Even in the jungler position, which is relatively less dependent on physical abilities, the era where reading and using your head alone is no longer applicable had come.

Even the position I believed I could be the best at had eventually betrayed me.

I thought it was all over.

I even thought about giving up.

But, I didn't want to.

「‘…….’」

The beginning was from admitting it.

Fortunately, that was something I could say I was quite good at.

Acknowledging, accepting.

I acknowledged Yoon-gi.

It wasn't an easy thing to do.

After that, I studied.

Even though there was no basis at all, I analyzed and reanalyzed Yoon-gi's plays, which he managed to pull off nonetheless.

「‘……He's really just doing whatever he wants.’」

The more I analyzed, the more I felt like I was falling into a maze, but even so, I didn't give up and kept analyzing diligently.

Perhaps thanks to that, Yoon-gi's seemingly chaotic movements also began to be grasped one by one.

「‘He prioritizes the situation itself where he can get kills rather than the overall flow of the game.’」

「‘The basis for that must be his overwhelming engagement ability. It's actually working well.’」

「‘Then…….’」

Little by little, little by little.

Based on what I analyzed, I changed my countermeasure against Yoon-gi.

At first, maybe because of the clumsy countermeasures, my win rate actually went down further.

But I didn't stop.

「‘Yoon-gi comes in for a counter jungle almost every time at the level 3 timing after eating the first red in the blue side. The matchup between champions doesn't really matter here…….’」

Perhaps thanks to that, my terrible head-to-head record, even though it was only slightly, began to gradually change.

If I had lost four out of five games before, then I lost three, and then I even turned it around and lost two.

[Victory]

My head-to-head record against Yoon-gi gradually narrowed, and I eventually took the lead.

It wasn't just because I had completely analyzed Yoon-gi.

Yoon-gi, who had been making plays that I couldn't understand at all, was now fitting into the framework of the team, and his plays, which were close to throwing, were becoming rational, bit by bit.

Plays that I couldn't understand at all had now descended into the realm of plays that I could understand.

Of course, it's not like Yoon-gi has become worse.

No need to look far; he achieved Royalroader that year.

‘This is… What should I say.’

And, now I was seeing the shadow of such a Yoon-gi in an unfamiliar player.

A player who retains what is commonly called wildness in its entirety.

As Yoon-gi once was, or as other promising players were, Ma-bing possessed the ferocity unique to a rookie jungler.

However, if there's something that sets Ma-bing apart from other promising players, it's the fact that he has the teeth and claws to bite into his opponent with that ferocity.

‘Hmm.’

In Legend of League, experience doesn't always mean only advantages.

Memories of defeat.

The pain of failing the gamble.

All of that is also one of the disadvantages of the poison called experience.

Rookie junglers have relatively less of such experience compared to veteran junglers.

That's why they can push forward in the direction they feel is right without a shadow of a doubt.

This can be a disadvantage, but conversely, it can be an incredibly powerful weapon.

As Yoon-gi was in the past,

as Ma-bing is now.

But…….

‘You met the wrong opponent.’

If it had been the old me, I would have been very flustered.

But not anymore.

Now, there was no need to do that.

As I said before, the current situation was strictly speaking, our team was more advantageous.

We got the first blood, and we won the Smite battle.

We had relatively easily overcome the early game, which was one of Kean's weaknesses.

It wasn't just that that was positive.

‘My transformation gauge is quite full.’

We followed up on the 3:3 teamfight and got the kill.

Although the timing was what it was, I couldn't transform completely with this, but it was clear that the transformation timing was at least one timing earlier.

‘I've filled up more of the red gauge for the time being… I need to think about going for Shadow Assassin too.’

Of course, in the current team and enemy composition, Darkin wasn't bad.

There are three melee champions, and especially for someone like Aurelion, it's impossible to even engage with Darkin.

But in the current meta, Shadow Assassin is higher tier than Darkin, and above all, for this game, I wanted to pay more attention to the enemy jungle.

‘Kean vs. Graves matchup flips while transforming.’

Of course, Kean doesn't just get ahead of Graves just because he transforms.

Rather, if he transforms into Darkin, he could be thoroughly toyed with and kited by Graves.

Kean's transformation into a Graves counter is only limited to Shadow Assassin.

‘Then…….’

Shall I provoke a little?

Currently, the transformation gauge was leaning towards red, so to transform into Shadow Assassin, I inevitably had to target Graves or Ezreal.

‘There's a way to wait… but it's better not to do that unless it's necessary.’

Sometimes, there are cases where they wait for time, claiming to transform into something other than their original transformation, but in such cases, it's usually one of two things.

The game is too advantageous, so Kean's transformation doesn't matter,

or conversely, the game has gone too far, so you have to force a combination or something.

Of course, the current situation was neither of those, so there was no time to wait.

After a teamfight, after taking the river Crab, I returned home and immediately headed back to the bottom jungle.

Because it was time for the bottom jungle to respawn.

While taking the bottom jungle, I looked at the lane situation.

‘The mid lane angle isn't completely out of the question… but I can't go for a gank in the current state.’

Why doesn't Kean come out often?

To know this, you need to know about the unique transformation system that Kean alone possesses.

Kean needs to transform in order to go for a gank.

Because the ganking performance is very poor in the general state before transformation.

However, Kean needs to gank in order to transform.

Because he needs to fill the transformation gauge in order to gank.

Contradiction and contradiction.

That's the contradiction and limitation that Kean, as a champion, has right now.

‘Then…….’

I immediately headed to the bottom lane.

The bottom river crab has been taken.

‘Soon, they're coming.’

As soon as I sensed that fact, the enemy Blitzcrank began to appear, crossing the barrage of attacks from our bottom lane.

The reason why Blitzcrank suddenly shows such behavior was obvious.

[⨷]

[OLZ Outlaw(Kean) has targeted MaBing777(Graves)]

Graves, who was looking for an angle after taking the river crab, appeared in the bottom lane.

My current position is crossing the bottom triple brush.

‘The opponent is a bit faster.’

In this situation, if even one of our bottom lane laners is pulled, the situation itself collapses, whether it's a counter-gank or anything else.

In other words, I must avoid the grab.

‘Zeras's stun hit. At this distance… Blitz won't be able to use the grab up close.’

That means that there's a chance for the person avoiding it to avoid Blitzcrank's grab.

‘Now!’

Blitzcrank's hand flashed, and our Zeras used Flash without hesitation.

It was a wise choice.

‘Then, it's my turn now.’

[⬇] [⬇]

[OLZ Outlaw(Kean) is on the way]

[OLZ Outlaw(Kean) is on the way]

Ma-bing's Graves tried to stick to our bottom lane, who was trying to escape somehow, but the situation changed the moment I appeared.

The slightly late timing for joining the teamfight became a counter-gank.

‘Hello?’

As in the blue jungle in the early game, another 3:3 teamfight occurred in the bottom lane.

Ma-bing will find out today.

That the ferocity of biting into anything isn't his own exclusive property.