Chapter 137 – 137. Round 1, VS Donggwang Anaki (1)

“Let Neto go for the first set.”

Han Yuna and Heo Sook-hee.
He looked at the two women and said.

Heo Sook-hee, who has a tense face for a moment, and Han Yuna, who lets out a sad moan.

He must have wanted to show that he was different from before by going to the starting lineup and winning mercilessly today, when he was playing against his childhood friend Nam Do-yoon.

However, I chose Heo Sook-hee over Han Yuna.

The reason was very simple.
Since it is ambiguous to say which of the two players have better skills, it was to give each of them an even chance.

‘Because Han Yuna went out last time. This time, Heo Suk-hee has to go.’

“Everyone get ready.”

The players nodded.

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“Waaaaa!”

On the right side of the stadium, waiting in the players’ seats where the capsules were gathered, the Battle Angels players came out on stage with the introduction of the caster.

The atmosphere in the audience seats changes in an instant.

There were fans who shouted, and there were fans who responded by vigorously shaking the cheerleading cards they were holding.

Then, as the players of the Battle Angels stood in the center and greeted each other, the shouts reached their climax.

“Kyaaak!”
“Battle Angels!”

It was to the point where I had to cover my ears for a while because I was almost deaf.

As our players approached me after greeting, players from the opposing team, Donggwang Anaki, appeared.
There is much less roar than before.

I looked through the players of Donggwang Anarchy.
To be precise, I watched the jungler, Solar, carefully.

Solar, with a clear expression of nervousness, greets the fans with an awkward gesture and disappears in the formation of Donggwang Anaki.

“Coach.”

I heard the sound of Kang Yul calling, so I looked up and saw the players gathered.

Seeing them holding their hands together, I guessed what they wanted to do.

“Today, do your best and play the game.”

After making eye contact with each of them, I opened her mouth.

“Because if you lose, you will be punished.”
“Yes.”

If you lose, you are punished; if you win, you are praised.

It was obvious, but there is no way to stimulate players more than this.

The players nodded.

And the following Gangyul’s dock.

“Battle Angels!”
“Ascension!”

Now they can shout slogans without shame.

“Players. The game will start soon.”

Since we haven’t entered the capsule yet, a staff member approaches and urges us on.
The players and I followed those words and headed for the capsule.

After waiting for a while, the ban pick starts right away.
Since it was our team that accumulated 1 loss thanks to meeting the emperor of the 2nd division from the beginning, we could not lose to Donggwang Anaki, the 4th place team of the previous season.

‘My grades weren’t bad in scrims either.’

After Han Yuna’s troll incident, I ran scrims a few more times, and the score came out to be almost 5-5.

Since that time, I was predicting that our team would do better, because I had been steadily improving.

But once the ban pick was over, I realized something was going wrong.

[BA Neto: Uh… ]

The opponent’s ban-pick strategy was simple, but very effective.
Targeting Heo Sook-hee, who recently changed positions, and reducing the mid-line character.

The embarrassed voice of Neto was heard as it was.

After banning the characters that Neto had recently practiced and selecting and taking the mid-lane position at the same time, there were no characters left that Neto could play.

[BA Battle: I can’t help it. Let’s take the mid line to a stable character and draw the other lines first.]

If the opponent comes out like this, we don’t have to pick the mid lane first.
When I think of the remaining mid-level characters, there are only characters that fall from Tier 2 to Tier 3.

If he took away this to keep this in check, it would have been better on this side.
It was like ruining their own pick to kill one mid-lane.

Still, we were able to take a couple of tier 1 characters from different lines.

Because I used a lot of ban cards for mid-lane containment, a lot of Tier 1 characters in other lines were released.
Furthermore, since the opponent’s first pick was also a mid character, I had to assume that I could pick up almost all tier 1 characters except for the mid lane.

In this way, the rest of the ban picks became a form of sharing tier 1 characters.

Team Dongkwang Anarchy
Top: DKA Maks (Hercules)
Jungle: DKA Solar (Fenrir)
MID: DKA Uni (Blue Dragon)
AD Carry: DKA Terra (Helios)
Support: DKA Beeam (Hermes)

Team Battle Angels
Top: BA Carrywoman (Thor)
Jungle: BA Wisdom (Baekho)
MID: BA Neto (Hyunmu)
AD Carry: BA Ryu (Artemis)
Support : BA White (Gabriel)

Our team’s composition had solid upper-body tanks at the forefront, so the bot duo had to deal.
On the other hand, the opponent’s combination is a fast-footed character entering with Hermes, a support character who can give a movement speed buff.

In the end, our team’s winning plan is for the tanks to save the bot duo when teamfights occur.

[BA Battle: Take care of the bottom line and do it.]
[BA Carrywoman: Yes. All right.]

As soon as I came out of the capsule, the match started.
Returning to the waiting room, I watched the players play through the monitor.

“A lot of attention is focused on mid laner Neto, who is playing for the first time in Battle Angels right now.”
“Anyway, in the 3rd division, Luna, who was the original mid laner, didn’t have an aggressive style, so many fans are expecting Neto to show a new look.”
“However, the character Neto caught today is Hyeonmu. He said It is a representative defensive character, and it is the character Luna uses the most.”
“Yes. That part is a bit disappointing. I think I had no choice but to take Hyeonmu because Donggwang brought a ban pick that openly sniped Neto.
“You’re right. Of course, if that happened again, I might not have had a mid-lane sniper van.”

The line that commentators pay attention to is the mid.
It must be because Heo Sook-hee, a newcomer to middle school, appeared.

And as they expected, the first line where the incident occurred was also in the middle.

“Oh~! The mid-line pressure is too much! Neto has no stamina.”
“Didn’t you just use teleport? Also, when you go home, the CS difference becomes too big?”
“Even if the character Hyeonmu takes a little less CS, he has enough room to play an active part in teamfights, but he has to do it in moderation!”

Neto was a pretty good player physically.
Because in fact he was called a physical type one-dealer even when he was on the neo-trance team.

However, since he changed his position to mid, that kind of appearance has disappeared a lot.

That’s also true, mid and AD were very different lines even though their play styles were different.

The presence or absence of supporters was the same, but there was also a big difference in skill and attack style.
In order to use a skill in a virtual reality game, it is most important to have an image of the skill to be used in the head.

However, Pyeongta was an act of physical movement.
There is a difference between playing chess in real life and throwing a ball.

Even after that, Neto’s sluggishness continued.

“Hyeonmu! Hyunmu! Is this over the line?”
“No matter how hard the hyeonmu is, you can’t live if you hit it all day! Not to mention, Hyeonmu didn’t grow well, so he’s as soft as tofu!”

Did you end up being alone?

“Neto is entering!”
“Solar! They are completely stirring up the enemy camp!”
“I need someone to look after Fenrir! Even Ryu can’t avoid it if he asks with his targeting skill his!”

In teamfights, he takes odd positions and makes little contribution.
He was showing too much of what he lacked as a mid laner, especially as a tank character.

In the 3rd division, even if one liner was a little short, if the other liner was overwhelming, it would be a carry to some extent.

Thanks to that, it wasn’t once or twice that I managed to drag the game into the second half and win with Ryu Seo-yoon’s carry.
However, from the second division, if even one person fails to do their part, the level of difficulty increases infinitely.

In this game, that aspect was evident.

Because Heo Sook-hee couldn’t do her part properly, the team members who actually played 4-5 had to become more and more difficult.

“Yuna Han.”

I spoke to Hanyu, who was watching her monitor beside her.

“I’m preparing the next edition.”
“Yes…”

Hanyuna nodded her head with her hard face.

In the meantime, the game was gradually running towards the end.

“Fenrir attacks with a sword!”
“This is Fenrir’s ultimate skill, isn’t it?”
“Fenrir keeps eating kills! Double Kill! Triple Kill!”
“Is this, is this going to Pentakill?!”
“Ah…! It’s not a pentakill, but it kills everyone! Will this game end?”

Due to the nature of Fenrir whose skill cooldown resets when it is killed, there is no way to stop it once it starts rampaging.

In the end, the well-grown Fenrir penetrated the middle of the Battle Angels formation and started making kills in an instant.
Fenrir, who received the movement speed of the supporter Hermes, could not avoid it even with Ryu Seo-yoon’s physicality.

“Battle Angels’ core explodes!”
“GG~”
“This is Battle Angels, is this already a crisis?!”
“Yes. I think it was even more disappointing because he was always being pushed back.”
“The last match was the Dragon Knights, the 1st team last season, but the Dongkwang Anarchy were the 4th team! After all, isn’t there an abnormality?”

The commentators making a fuss and the audience showing signs of disappointment.
I didn’t know if I was going to the bathroom or going home, but I saw people getting up from their seats.

I didn’t think it was a pessimistic situation as I had yet to play the first set of the second match of the first round, but I couldn’t be in a good mood when the atmosphere was not so good.

“Yuna Han.”

I called her again.
She looked at me with her puzzled eyes and said in her firm tone.

“This is the time for you to prove it.”

It was a word with many meanings.
Hanyu I just nodded her head, but she replied with a hard look in her eyes.