[TS] The Return of The Gamer - Chapter 236

Golden Age.

Every champion has their own golden age.

A champion who shows a strong performance early on, but whose strength fades later.

Conversely, a champion who is strong in the late game but struggles with early growth.

And here, a champion who shows a strong performance not only in the early game but also in the late game is usually classified as the op champion of that meta, and conversely, a champion who is weak not only in the early game but also in the late game is named a pick that does not fit the meta.

In Master Yi's case, he often strikes a precarious balance between a pick that doesn't fit the meta and a late-game hyper-carry champion, but it is generally classified as a pick that doesn't fit the meta.

Why?

Because his early game is just too weak.

He's not strong at ganking, nor does he have strong means to counter the opponent's counter-jungling.

It's true that he's quite strong in a 1-on-1 situation when they're in close proximity, but even that isn't easy because the champion is inherently a "walking" type.

In short, Master Yi has become a pick that is despised by users in team games as well as solo queue.

He has become a so-called "chong" champion.

But, this game is different.

This Master Yi pick is not a pick chosen without any thought.

A combination and strategy chosen and selected only for Master Yi.

"Everyone, you all held up well."

Level 6.

From now on, it's Master Yi's golden age.

["Mayday, Mayday! Help!"]

"Shut up."

Kim Jae-min was making a fuss, but in fact, the bottom lane situation was more than favorable.

The opposing bottom lane combination was Vayne and Leona.

On the other hand, our bottom lane combination was Miss Fortune and Yuumi, so even if they had gone for a leash, it was a structure where they could gradually take the initiative.

Above all, the difference in skills between the bottom lanes of both teams was considerable.

As the saying goes, the support does the bottom lane laning, even if Yuumi has her limits as a champion, Kim Ji-hoon was still Kim Ji-hoon.

["Fall back one step."]

["Eat only the cannon and pull back a bit. An opening is coming."]

["The opponent's jungler is coming. Hold back on the damage trades."]

At this point, wouldn't the term "control" be more appropriate than "parasite"?

For Kim Ji-hoon, Kim Jae-min, a Diamond 1 top rating master, was not even an obstacle to hold him back.

The situation was favorable in all lanes.

In this situation, the jungler's feet couldn't help but be free.

-Your team has slain the Fire Dragon!

The solo dragon was the beginning.

There was no need to go as far as a grand objective fight, you could just eat it based on the vision that was secured.

The opponent couldn't even dare to try anything in this situation.

No, it felt like they were shrinking back from us.

‘Right.’

The countless scrims that have been held until now.

And the exaggerated monster called "expectation" that is placed upon our team right now.

All of those things were gathering to make the OLZ team's body much larger than it originally was.

‘It doesn’t matter.’

If they don't come out, I'll just break down the door and go in.

I said, going home to match the bottom lane's recall timing.

"Get on."

[“……”]

A strange silence hung for a moment.

"Huh? What are you doing?"

[“……Nothing.”]

The delayed time was extremely short.

I naturally carried Yuumi and headed towards the upper river.

The bait had already been set.

I intentionally exposed the respawn time of the Gromp to Graves, who hadn't tasted the jungle camps for a long time.

For Graves, it was a camp like an oasis in the middle of the desert.

I passed the respawning Rift Scuttler and entered the opponent's blue jungle.

After all, it was no different from my own Rift Scuttler, so there was no need to waste time eating it.

‘Then……’

All that remained was to hunt the opponent's jungler who was alone.

[⨷]

[OLZ Outlaw(Master Yi) has targeted BLH SooHyun(Graves)]

As expected, Graves was hunting the Gromp to drink the long-awaited rain for himself.

It's unfortunate for Graves, but I had no intention of just leaving him alone.

"Slow from the start."

Yuumi's Q skill was fired, drawing a divine curve and then hitting Graves directly.

‘Now.’

Graves used his survival skills to jump over the wall, but I had already seen this and followed up with Q.

Master Yi with his ultimate activated.

It was a champion who truly deserved the word "slaughtering tank".

"I got him."

-First Blood!

-An enemy has been slain!

Graves not only had his Gromp taken away, but he also lost his life.

If I were in Graves' position, I would have slammed the keyboard and screamed, as Graves' current situation was the worst.

Of course, I didn't intend to stop here.

As with all snowballing, once the snowball starts rolling, it doesn't stop.

"I'm going top right away."

[“Yes.”]

Top lane had already pushed the lane and prepared the dive line.

Because after the previous ganking failure, Jackson was also taking a considerable hit along with Graves.

["I will go first."]

"Okay."

I immediately got behind and started pressuring Jackson, who was alone with Yuumi.

["Akali's not visible. I think she went up."]

Mid warned.

Of course, it didn't matter much.

"It's alright."

We'll finish before that anyway.

"Go."

Yuumi's Q hit, and as soon as the tower agro was drawn to Yuumi, Yuumi got off me and stood just outside the tower's range.

And with that, Jackson tried to counterattack and prepare for our upcoming attack, but we had no intention of being caught in his scheme.

"Pull back one turn."

There was no need to force it when Jackson was in the middle of his counterattack.

After all, the opponent was no different from a rat in a trap.

Calmly, and yet calmly.

Again, Yuumi got on me, and this time, I attacked Jackson first.

After all, Master Yi's Q skill allows me to take the tower agro off for one turn.

-An enemy has been slain!

We successfully dived without any trouble, and immediately distributed the personnel.

Rulu stayed in top lane to mine, I took the herald, and Yuumi returned to the bottom lane after recalling.

["I'm dying!"]

Kim Jae-min's whining, who had retreated far behind earlier, echoed.

As in action there is a reaction, it was right to lose a little in the bottom lane since we gained excessively in the top lane, but as an ADC, this situation was difficult to bear.

"I'll carry you, so just stay still."

[“Okay.”]

-Your team has slain the Rift Herald!

The win rate of the team that gets the first herald is about 60%.

Of course, this is only a general situation statistic, and when you go to the pro level, where early snowballing and precise operation exist, this probability increases even further.

Above all, we have almost never lost a game where we got the first herald.

So, we could afford this much leeway.

"Herald farm."

["How much?"]

"Priority."

* * *

『“Ah… This is how it ends up.”』

『“In the end, we can't avoid talking about the ban-pick again. It seems that BLH made a ban-pick that was too obsessed with Master Yi.”』

『“Yes. The other OLZ players are not easy players, and they sacrificed too much to counter Master Yi.”』

Beyond the kill score that was simply revealed, the gap between the two teams had widened.

Laning. CS. Jungle camps. BLH was being dominated by OLZ in all of those things.

It was the difference in the so-called "size".

『“At the moment I speak! The OLZ players gathered in mid lane. They seem to be planning to release the herald, right?”』

『“It seems they're trying to break it completely, right? Why is OLZ's speed like this! It's really amazing!”』

With the majestic figure of the herald appearing in the mid lane, the champions of both teams began to gather in mid lane.

BLH judged that if they gave up the mid first tower here, they would also give up the game.

『“Leona, you have to watch Leona!”』

『“Ah!”』

Just before Leona's ultimate fell over Yuumi's head, Yuumi, as if she had induced it, slipped into Morgana.

『“She dodged it! She dodged it!”』

『“It seems like they were trying to cut Yuumi who was outside, but they underestimated the opponent too much, right?!”』

『“Yes! OLZ fell perfectly into the trap they set up!”』

The initiation that started awkwardly.

The gap between the two teams widened.

There was no need to even look at the result of the team fight.

-An enemy has been slain!

-Double kill!

-Triple kill!

Master Yi, transformed into a killing machine, was slaughtering the opposing champions one by one.

Jackson, Akali, Vayne, Leona. None of the picks that appeared as counter-picks to Master Yi could stop Master Yi, who was accompanied by Morgana's shield and Yuumi.

And…….

With that mid-lane team fight as the turning point, the game crossed an irreversible river and ended just like that.

Game time 21 minutes and 41 seconds.

Kill score 9:0.

OLZ wins.

It was a perfect game that didn't give up a single kill, not even a single tower.