[TS] The Return of The Gamer - Chapter 99
First Broadcast (2)My thoughts stop.
I had already anticipated that this would happen, but the visit from a stranger at an unexpected timing made me extremely flustered.
“Uh… that….”
-?
-Hey, is the streamer's cam real?
“…What?”
Is the cam real?
I don't know what that means.
-Whoa, it's a real face
……Uh?
In a feeling that the point of the conversation wasn't quite right, the game officially began.
-Welcome to the Summoner's Rift!
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My ping goes all over the place.
If it were usual, it would be right to determine the direction, considering the current ally and enemy invade combination among the countless pings.
But why?
What actually caught my eye wasn't the in-game content but a new line of chat.
-Are you really going no-stream until you get 1st place?
“Ah… yeah, yeah. Of course.”
-Wow... awesome
The reaction was refreshing, a very different feeling from the spicy viewers of RedTV that I usually see.
‘Well… it's not like there are only one or two viewers, so there must be people like this.’
While I was lost in some unnecessary thoughts, the opponent invaded.
‘Ah.’
Is it because my gaze was scattered?
My reaction was a beat late.
I made a mistake I would never make usually.
-Thud!
Fortunately, I didn’t show the embarrassing sight of giving up the first blood in front of my first viewers, but as a result, Flash was used.
And not just Flash, but even Rek'Sai's Flash, too.
‘…Should I have just died?’
Rek'Sai's Flash ganking is so powerful that it can be called a sure kill.
That's why when I play Rek'Sai, I sometimes think whether I should just die instead of using Flash, and now was exactly the time.
Of course, there aren’t many situations where it’s better to save Flash and die, but that’s how important Rek'Sai's Flash is to the point that such thoughts come to mind.
‘If you compare the snowballing from first blood and the value of snowballing when a top dive is successful….’
Just when the calculator was running in my head, another line of chat came up.
-ㅋㅋ
The viewer laughed.
‘What does it mean?’
Doesn't it mean anything?
Then why did he laugh now? Did I just make him laugh? Did he sneer?
Unfortunately, before I could even know the answer to that, the jungle monster respawned.
My current route was forced to be a red buff start.
If I were to clumsily try to get a blue buff start, the bottom lane would have a hard time, and I could be ambushed or ambushed by Nasus at the ally's red buff.
In the upper side of the map, in this structure and situation, a red buff start was not a choice but an obligation.
‘The problem is that Nasus knows this fact, too.’
Of course, Nasus would also take the red buff route, but the problem was that I couldn’t know his route after that.
Whether he will smoothly clear his full camp,
or whether he will take my blue buff after the red buff and go for a fifty-fifty split,
or whether he will make a bold move, targeting me without Flash.
‘I can't… concentrate well.’
If it were before, I would have been able to predict Nasus’s route with the given fragmentary information, but it didn’t work for some reason.
My head is complicated.
The biggest cause was the chat window, which was going up chaotically.
-How can you eat jungle monsters so precariously and then reset? I do.
“Uh, well… you have to practice a lot.”
For a jungler, shortening the jungle clearing time by even a second is very important.
Because that difference of a few seconds determines whether or not to intervene in the lane.
Therefore, when they reach a certain level, they will clear the jungle monsters while drawing the extreme aggro, which is a basic but not easy part, to the extent that even professionals sometimes make mistakes in this area.
-I see. Then, can I get that gold?
“……I wonder?”
How would I know?
While jungling and continuing this strange communication with my only viewer, I cleared all three camps on the red side.
‘Okay, then…….’
I checked the top situation.
Kennen and Gnar.
It's not easy to get a ganking angle as it's a ranged-versus-ranged structure, and both champions have very excellent survival skills.
If I had Flash, I could have tried to get a ganking angle even so, but unfortunately, my Flash wasn't up right now.
‘…I really regret not having Flash.’
However, that doesn’t mean a ganking angle wouldn’t appear at all.
I walked back to the top side to avoid the opponent's ward vision and went over to the Baron's nest on the Sol Blast.
And then, I immediately checked the vision of the opponent's blue-side jungle.
‘Blue buff is alive.’
Considering the time delayed by me eating the golems and going back to the Sol Blast, and the jungling speed of a Grandmaster tier-level Nasus user, if Nasus was taking a full camp route, he should be hitting the blue buff around this time.
In other words, Nasus chose a fifty-fifty split.
Considering the current bottom lane structure, it was not a bad decision.
‘He must have judged that the Flash-less Rek'Sai is not a big threat to the lane.’
Or, he might think that top is worth giving up to some extent.
As the latter thought appealed to me, I must be a jungler, no matter what.
‘Well, I don't care.’
Just because I don’t have Flash doesn’t mean I have to back down.
There’s always a way.
Rek'Sai has a unique ganking angle where she enters from the top side, and the tri-bush inside the opponent's turret on the bottom side.
This is one of Rek'Sai's signature ganking routes because it completely blocks the opponent's retreat route and is not caught in ward vision.
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[Outlaw(Rek'Sai) pointed to IIIIIIIIlII(Gnar)]
[Outlaw(Rek'Sai) pointed to IIIIIIIIlII(Gnar)]
As I appeared by going through the tri-bush inside the top turret, a sense of embarrassment was felt in Gnar’s movements.
Gnar’s E skill allows him to jump again if he steps on the opponent.
The opponent’s head can be used as a kind of stepping stone.
The problem is that the target that Gnar is trying to step on and escape from is Rek'Sai, who is lying in ambush.
‘…Isn’t this underestimating me too much?’
Of course, it was true that Gnar had no other way, but I had no intention of letting Gnar step on my head and pass by in front of me.
-Kooong!
Gnar, who was trying to step on Rek'Sai's head and pass by, went up into the air.
And with the ensuing combo, Gnar's HP dropped below 30% in an instant.
Of course, as the distance from the turret was so close, Gnar walked into the turret without even using spells.
Although it was a ganking that didn't even take Gnar's Flash, it was successful in putting strong pressure on his HP.
‘Recall. If you don't recall, I'll dive.’
Gnar, perhaps realizing that unspoken threat, immediately pressed the recall button.
Of course, I didn’t intend to just let him go.
‘5, 4, 3…….’
I quietly measured the recall time and cut off Gnar's recall with an ambush Q skill right before he recalled.
Once he failed to recall, Kennen, who was pushing the lane, arrived at the turret's doorstep, leading a great army of minions.
A dive angle was formed.
‘Okay, what will you do?’
Now, Gnar only had two choices left.
Whether to fight to the death and wait for the team's support.
Or whether to fall back all the way, sacrificing the minion loss, and return by teleporting.
Gnar chose the latter.
『👍』
Kennen, the Top 3 Minute Top High Schooler, was so satisfied with this situation that he even gave me a thumbs-up, which he didn't usually do.
Although the opposing Gnar was very hard pressed, I was the same.
Because I had invested too much time in top and I couldn’t even jungle properly.
‘But I didn't catch Gnar, and I didn't even take Flash. The only thing I took was Teleport at best.’
Because Flash was used during the early invade, it could be said that the snowballing rolled very big.
While I was messing around at the top, the opponent Nasus wasn’t just standing still either.
‘Nasus is putting dive pressure on the bottom.’
Then what I have to do isn't to run to the bottom, which is on the opposite side of the map, but to clear the opponent's blue-side jungle.
That way, I could at least keep up with the growth.
It was when I was clearing the opponent's blue-side jungle.
-Streamer
-Can't you see what I'm saying?
-Streamer!
“Oh, uh… yes? What's going on?”
-Please communicate. You haven't looked at the chat window since earlier ㅜㅜ
“Ah……. I’m sorry.”
It seemed I hadn’t seen the chat window because I was too focused on designing the top ganking.
‘…It's not easy.’
Communicating with viewers while playing the game.
It’s something that a BJ, streamer, or other internet broadcaster should do, but it felt too difficult for me.
“I’ll pay attention from now on. This is my first broadcast….”
-Okay! But why didn't the opponent eat his blue?
“Ah, that's…….”
The game continued while communicating with my only viewer, but unfortunately, the number of viewers did not increase.
[Number of viewers: 1]
The broadcast continued only for one person.
* * *
SY's dorm.
Recently, strange rumors started to be heard in Rainbow Ryu Jin-hyeok's ears.
In the scrim, a fake Prisoner appeared, or a 'Prisoner-impersonator'?
It was an incomprehensible rumor.
Of course, Ryu Jin-hyeok didn't intend to just pass it over, so he nagged Yu Sang-hyeon, who can be called the team's jack-of-all-trades.
“……What does that mean, exactly? Why a fake Prisoner?”
“Ah, it’s not that he's actually pretending to be Prisoner, but there's a jungler who's as good as Prisoner. I heard he's undefeated in scrims?”
“Undefeated in scrims?”
It's amazing up to this point, but that's not enough to say that Prisoner has appeared.
In fact, Ryu Jin-hyeok himself also had experience of being undefeated in scrims for a certain period of time.
“What’s his ID?”
“Out… what was it? Anyway, that’s the ID I heard.”
Ryu Jin-hyeok recalled, but he had no memory of seeing such a nickname in solo queue.
‘…Solo queue nicknames and pro nicknames are completely different.’
Rather, there were far more people who casually used a solo queue nickname and then hurriedly decided on an ID around the time they debuted as pros.
“What team?”
“YSG.”
Ryu Jin-hyeok would have turned off his interest at this point, but the moment he heard the team name, he stopped walking backward.
…Undefeated in YSG?
Ryu Jin-hyeok knew that YSG was a typical mid- to lower-ranked team.
Moreover, in this season, there was a forecast that it wouldn't be strange to go even to the bottom rank, but to record an undefeated scrim in such a team?
‘…If that’s the case, it’s not strange that the rumor of a fake Prisoner came out.’
Then, all of a sudden, Ryu Jin-hyeok felt a sense of doubt and said,
“We won when we scrimmed with them back then.”
“At that time, the jungler was 'Daigut'. Not the Out whatchamacallit.”
“…That’s right.”
The main players participating in the scrim.
This was not a strange thing at all, but rather a natural thing, so it was more strange to feel a sense of incongruity.
“When do we scrim with YSG next?”
“It’s tomorrow… but you probably won’t be able to meet that Prisoner-impersonator?”
“Why?”
“I heard he left the team.”
“……What?”
No, what does that mean?
He was even participating in scrims, but he left the team before the season was over?
Moreover, if the scrim scores of the real fake Prisoner were that good, he might even be able to come out as a starting player from the second round?
“What do you mean?”
“I don't know either. Min-su said that he suddenly disappeared one day? So YSG’s trainee kids call him the legendary deserter.”
The legendary deserter…….
Of course, it was natural that such a modifier was attached because he suddenly left the team during the season, but it was somehow a… dishonorable title to be attached to a skilled person who makes one think of Prisoner.
“Did he go to another team?”
“I don't know that.”
“…Is that so?”
Unfortunately, the information Yu Sang-hyeon knew was up to this point.
After all, no matter how well-connected he was, he could only scrape up rumors between players and trainees.
It was impossible to know detailed contract details.
“Oh, that’s right. And this is the most important thing, but that Out whatchamacallit─”
“No. You don't have to tell me more.”
“…Huh? This is the most important part?”
“It's okay. I'm not very curious.”
“No, this part is really important, you know? That person─”
Ryu Jin-hyeok, who was unusually angry, showed anger at Yu Sang-hyeon’s persistent words.
It was because it was uncomfortable for him to hear that name anymore.
“It’s okay.”
“…Uh, okay.”
It was true that I became interested because Prisoner's name came out of nowhere, but that was it.
‘…I don't need to care.’
Prisoner is dead.
I have to stop chasing the shadow that no longer exists.
‘Let's practice.’
Ryu Jin-hyeok looked through the ranking list for a moment and then shook his head and immediately turned on the queue.