[TS] The Return of The Gamer - Chapter 230

It's impossible.

No, it shouldn't be possible.

Who is Ma Bing?

LPLC (Legends of League Professional League China) Finals Overall MVP.

MSL (Mid-Season Legends of League) Finals Overall MVP.

Above all, isn't he a jungler who has been on the best path as a true royal roader since his debut without a single setback?

The best jungler in China, discovered by Li Zixuan himself, and supported wholeheartedly so that his talent could bloom.

That jungler was getting utterly defeated by someone who was just doing internet broadcasting until recently.

Helpless.

Is there a better idiom for the current situation?

'I knew he was good, but...'

The very fact that he reminds people of Prisoner is the highest praise one can give to a jungler.

But Li Zixuan had secretly thought that Ma Bing was no less than him.

It was a misconception.

Also, he was arrogant.

The game continued.

Outlaw's Kayn, who succeeded in transforming one timing faster than usual, began to run rampant across the entire map.

[❕] [❕] [❕]

Even a deadly gank wasn't necessary.

The entire team flinched whenever Kayn's shadow was glimpsed behind the walls.

[❗] [❗] [❗]

[❔] [❔] [❔]

The losses accumulated.

Ma Bing's Graves' growth stopped completely from the point he was solo-killed by Kayn.

It was because the jungle monsters that Ma Bing should have eaten were all counter-jungled one step faster, as if Kayn knew the entire map.

It was only possible if he knew where Ma Bing was going, and when the jungle monsters would respawn.

["What the hell is this!"]

Ma Bing's annoyed voice was heard in his ear.

Of course, Ma Bing didn't always win. It wasn't uncommon for him to overextend and fall flat on his face.

Even this time, Li Zixuan could tell.

That this time was different.

'I have to do it.'

The responsibility weighs on his shoulders.

The Katarina versus Irelia matchup is quite a peculiar one.

Irelia was overwhelmingly favored in lane, but regardless of the lane matchup, Katarina had a better record statistically.

In other words, if Irelia couldn't snowball properly based on her advantage in lane, Katarina would gradually become more advantageous as the game went on.

'Kayn's location... I can't see it.'

Nevertheless, he had to do it now.

Normally, even if he was going for a solo kill, he would have done so based on solid evidence.

But, unfortunately for Li Zixuan, he didn't have that luxury now.

A gamble.

Or a bet.

It wouldn't be an overstatement to call it that, but Li Zixuan was quite strong in those kinds of gambles.

'You dare come in?'

The moment Katarina approached to eat the cannon minion was the signal.

Irelia's ultimate struck Katarina, and Irelia stuck to Katarina.

In a normal game, Katarina wouldn't have given Irelia such an opportunity, but since Irelia had shown overly timid behavior so far, she had let her guard down.

Li Zixuan didn't carelessly spam his E skill.

He waited patiently, hitting basic attacks and waiting for Katarina's escape skill to be used.

'Not using it?'

Katarina also tried to use her escape skill, watching Irelia's skills until the end, but she had no choice but to use her escape skill after Irelia relentlessly hit her with basic attacks.

Of course, Katarina wasn't a pushover either.

She didn't miss the moment Irelia's stun hit her and used her Flash, narrowly dodging Irelia's stun.

'I knew it.'

This was also what Li Zixuan had expected.

Li Zixuan followed Katarina with a fearless forward Flash.

As Irelia pushed in this far, Katarina had no choice but to respond strongly.

Since Irelia's stun was already gone, she engaged in trading blows, using her own ultimate.

Swish, swish, swish!

'Where are you going.'

Li Zixuan was experienced.

He escaped by riding a minion with his Q, which he had saved, and then returned with Q when Katarina's ultimate was about to end.

- You have slain an enemy!

Mid solo kill.

It was a solo kill like a drop of rain in the middle of a dry desert.

But, unfortunately, he had taken too long.

[❕] [❕] [❕]

Warning pings echoing from all directions.

Even if there weren't, Li Zixuan could tell.

That death was approaching.

The shadow, a signal of Kayn, riding the walls, was starting to crawl in.

'Outlaw…!'

Unlike the original Darkin Kayn, Shadow Assassin Kayn isn't a very good matchup against Irelia.

But that's only when both are at full condition, and Irelia's health was below half.

'This…is wrong.'

It felt as if he was trapped in an invisible spiderweb.

'I can't avoid this.'

Outlaw's Kayn was composed.

No matter how much Li Zixuan's Irelia tried to escape, she couldn't get away.

Li Zixuan didn't have the ability to resist an unavoidable death.

- You have been slain by an enemy!

- You cannot stop the enemy!

He succeeded in solo-killing the enemy mid laner, but in return, he lost his spells and even gave a kill to the enemy jungler.

It became a situation that couldn't be considered an advantage at all.

'What is our jungler doing?'

When there's a fierce skirmish like a kill, it's right for the jungler to come.

But the jungler only showed the enemy jungler, and their own Graves wasn't even in sight.

“……”

Soon, Li Zixuan, after checking the minimap, lost all words.

Because Ma Bing was enjoying farming after Kayn had briefly left.

["It's a shame."]

Perhaps that's why, Ma Bing's voice sounded like mockery.

Although Graves did recover a little while Kayn was using his turn in mid, the situation was still not good.

He was completely ruined.

'He shouldn't have sent the early game like that.'

Where did all this snowballing start? If asked, Li Zixuan would unhesitatingly point to Graves' blue buff counter-jungling in the early game.

It was an ignorant counter-jungling without regard for the lane situation, and he even lost the Smite battle, only ending up filling the transformation gauge for Kayn, who was just sitting there.

["Ah, this is a dirty game."]

Ma Bing grumbled.

Looking at Ma Bing like that, Li Zixuan somehow saw Haoran, who was benched, overlapping with the current Ma Bing.

“……”

The snowballing that had already started was not stopping and kept rolling.

The Shadow Assassin Kayn had an outstanding advantage in this situation.

From some point on, the jungle had become an inviolable territory that couldn't be entered.

The right to make the first move.

That is, the right to attack first, had become the exclusive property of the opponent.

- The enemy has slain the Wind Dragon!

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- The enemy has slain the Rift Herald!

As a result, the objectives naturally became the blue team's possession.

Since they couldn't even leave the river, there was no room to intervene whether the opponent hit the objectives or not.

'Is this a game that the jungler can make alone?'

Of course, strictly speaking, Li Zixuan's team's top and bottom lane matchups weren't very favorable.

No, rather, they were unfavorable.

But even considering that, it was incomprehensible that Ma Bing was being pushed back so helplessly.

'…It's already impossible to win with ordinary methods.'

Li Zixuan, the former MSL champion mid laner and also the team's commander, made that judgment.

It was time to make a gamble again.

However, the difference from the previous gamble was that this time, it wasn't just a slight loss, but the game was on the line.

The place he chose for the battle was the second dragon.

He stored up his power for that, and stored up again.

And, he lost.

It was a complete disaster.

- Our team has been slain!

- Finish!

The price of losing in the teamfight, where he had put everything on the line, was terrible.

The opponent, the Outlaw, did not stop.

The bottom inhibitor was lost in an instant, and the following operation saw the mid inhibitor go down as well.

The subsequent battles were, in fact, nothing more than a one-sided slaughter that couldn't even be called a battle.

- Our team has been slain!

- Finish!

All the champions fell again, and the nexus was finally destroyed by the opponent's relentless advance.

[Defeat]

Seeing the game end so easily and meaninglessly, Li Zixuan felt a burning thirst.

'It's not enough.'

Did he really think he could win the Red Cup with just this?

'It's not enough.'

Not enough, not enough, not enough, not enough, not enough, not enough, not enough, not enough, not enough, not enough, not enough, not enough, not enough, not enough, not enough, not enough.

Li Zixuan knew who could solve this terrible thirst.

'Outlaw.'

Li Zixuan's eyes contained the image of Outlaw.