[TS] The Return of The Gamer - Chapter 468

To be honest, our team hasn't really favored snowballing-style compositions until now.

There are several reasons, but the main one was that I didn't think it suited our team well enough to make the most of the sophistication unique to snowballing compositions.

We actually tried snowballing compositions quite often during scrims, but in the end, our team always went back to value compositions centered around the top and jungle.

Because we had to win, at least for now.

Because strategies that had already been tested several times were much more comfortable than strategies that hadn't been verified.

However, just because we don't prefer it doesn't mean we can always rely solely on value and play games.

A team with limitations in its playstyle eventually crumbles at crucial moments, and for the sake of the big stage that will be held in the future, we had to hone as many weapons as possible.

Protein and Kim Ji-hoon's Pyke were also among the picks prepared in that context.

I can confidently say that Kim Ji-hoon was the player I trusted the most on our team.

-Welcome to the Summoner's Rift!

The game officially began.

Perhaps because it was a 3-set game in a 1:1 situation, the cheers of the fans coming from outside the booth echoed through the noise-canceling headset.

I focused my mind amidst the cheers of the fans.

[⨷] [⨷] [⨷]

[⬇] [⬇] [⬇]

Pings are marked all over the mini-map.

I marked some of them.

Given the combinations of both teams, the bottom lane match-up itself is almost non-existent, so the invade phase had to be very intense, even for the lane swap.

["Let's wait a moment on the bottom side."]

We all gathered and waited in the bottom bush, but the opponent didn't show up.

Afterwards, we scattered and checked our team's vision, but the opponent also didn't show any particular movements, as if they were being cautious during the invade.

-Minions have spawned!

The lane phase officially began.

We swapped the top-bottom lanes, and the opponent took the standard lane.

Since the opponent had a strong bottom lane composition, including Rumble, they probably thought playing the standard lane would be better for them, and we swapped lanes because it was inconvenient for us.

My initial path was the standard full camp path.

A path that sweeps up from below.

It's a somewhat obvious choice, but unlike the image of a bruiser champion, Kha'Zix is quite weak early on.

However, it's also not a good feeling for Kha'Zix to go with Sejuani normally.

So, even though Kha'Zix is weak early on, he was in a situation where he had to do something.

That was precisely diving the opponent's Rumble, who was left alone at the top, after swapping lanes.

A 3:1 dive, or a 3:2 dive, was a task that had to be performed by the team that initiated the lane swap, and the same was true for the opponent.

"Can you create a lane at the top? Don't answer, Jammin, Ji-hoon, you answer."

["Yes."]

"Okay."

["No, what I mean is……."]

"Shut up."

Jhin and Pyke formed the lane little by little.

The opponent's Rumble didn't even show up instead of taking unnecessary risks.

Since he wouldn't get any CS or experience anyway, he meant to do something else while the lane was being created.

Similarly, our team's K'Sante also helped with jungling during that time, adding momentum to the jungle speed.

[Kha'Zix - Level 4]

So, after I finished the full camp and ate the top scuttle crab, I immediately headed to the top.

3:1 dive situation.

Originally, Rumble also should have pulled back long ago and had to take a big wave of losses.

But instead of pulling back, the opponent's Rumble seemed to be trying to hold on to the turret.

Even though it was clear that a champion like Rumble couldn't survive a dive in a 3:1 situation.

The meaning of that was clear.

"There must be Sejuani here."

When I jumped boldly towards the opponent's golem side bush, sure enough, Sejuani was already waiting.

I met Sejuani and immediately hit her with an isolated Q, putting a little pressure on her health.

They were planning to come and ambush us if we tried to dive Rumble.

["What do we do?"]

I said to Kim Ji-hoon's question.

"Let's do it."

3:2 situation.

The opponent chose to somehow try to survive the dive with the help of Rumble and Sejuani, and that's what I intended.

To make the opponent feel like they could hold on long enough.

In the game called League of Legends, the greater the risk, the greater the return.

Not only us, but the opponent also made that choice.

"Ji-hoon first."

First, the Q angle of Pyke's hit was aimed where Sejuani and Rumble overlapped.

Even if one of them used Flash, one of them would get hit.

Therefore, the opponent's Rumble couldn't even think about dodging it clumsily and was dragged in by Pyke's hook.

On top of that, Jhin's W skill was added.

The reason this kind of combo was possible was very simple.

Because Kim Jae-min's Jhin used W, confident that Pyke's hook would hit the moment it was thrown.

Sejuani hurriedly hit Pyke with a Q skill, but Pyke had a survival skill.

During the short binding, Pyke used the E skill to chain the CC, and at the same time, he drew the turret aggro.

The Sejuani, who tried to cover, was also tied up with Pyke's E skill, and that was a bonus.

And when I dealt the finishing blow to Rumble, Rumble's health was instantly cut down and he fell.

-First Blood!

-You have slain an enemy!

Now, Sejuani was left alone at the opponent's turret.

It would have been enough to take the lead even if we had retreated like this, but I was thinking of being a little more greedy.

"Let's do it again. Seju's aftershock is down right now."

There was no disagreement.

Our team showed a great deal of trust in what I said.

"Jammin first. Use your skills as soon as the cooldown is up. Pyke will apply the CC."

["Okay."]

Starting with Jhin's basic attack and Q, which has the most health, to draw the turret aggro, Pyke's hook did a Flash mind game with the opponent's Sejuani.

Would Sejuani use Flash or not.

Flash!

Sejuani's choice was to use Flash, and Kim Ji-hoon's predicted hook succeeded, and Sejuani was dragged in.

From then on, there was nothing Sejuani could do.

Her aftershock was gone, and she had no Flash.

On top of that, Jhin's W and Pyke's E skill were added on top of that with CC chaining, dealing a large amount of damage.

["I'm out!"]

Kim Jae-min, who was dealing the final damage, barely escaped with Flash, and then the turret aggro was drawn to me.

-You have slain an enemy!

After barely killing Sejuani, I also immediately escaped the turret aggro with Flash.

We killed the opponent 2:0 in a 3:2 dive.

Although two Flashes were used by our team, we were able to cleanly take down one Flash and two people from the opponent as a result.

Not just a big hit, a huge hit.

Considering that the dive lane is currently burning up in the opponent's turret in real-time, it was no exaggeration to say that the game was tilted with this.

["I fell back."]

"Good job, Yeon-woo."

Meanwhile, K'Sante, who was in our bottom lane, fell back, taking some experience losses, but at least he didn't give any kills to the opponent.

We killed the opponent, and the opponent couldn't kill us.

The situation was very good.

Earlier, we formed a snowballing composition, but that didn't mean our team's value was low.

Right now, the lineup of K'Sante, Kha'Zix, and Orianna was a pick that would never lose in value.

Giving the bottom lane time to grow the upper body, and then the upper body does the composition.

In a way, the composition itself could be a composition that is neither this nor that, but to put it another way, it could also mean a composition that doesn't lose in both value and snowballing.

Because the most desperate situation in the game was being pushed from the beginning against a value composition.

After recalling, I immediately ran to the bottom scuttle crab.

Considering the timing of Sejuani's arrival at the top, she must have skipped the bottom scuttle crab and come up.

"Can you give me a moment to trade some damage in the mid-lane?"

["Yeah. Possible."]

While playing against SY so far, I realized that Rainbow always thinks about me.

But now, time has passed.

Now, the teams knew too well that our team was using it, and Kha'Zix, who's an unseen figment of the imagination, wouldn't work anymore.

Of course, in that case, we will punish the opponent.

'Well, what will you do?'

Orianna went forward a little too much and exposed her damage trade angle.

A mistake, or intentional?

In this mind game, what choice will Rainbow make?

It was time to focus on that from now on.