Chapter 171 – 171. Round 1, VS Nami Marines (4)

The second set match between Battle Angels and Nami Marines has begun.

The combination to be given to the team members this time is a combination that focuses on support characters.

I’m thinking of picking a so-called grab-type character.

In fact, it was not easy to come up with a combination that suits the Grab character.

When it comes to combinations, it’s about having a skill that catches sight, or making grabs easier through easy-to-hit CC skills.

‘It’s more helpful to just pick a Tier 1 character to increase the grab success rate by pushing yourself like that.’

What is Grab Skill?
It means a skill that can grab and drag the opponent character.

The strongest high-return skill that can bring the opponent character to the friendly formation with just one skill!

However, you also have to take that risk.

First of all, most grab-type skills are difficult to hit.

Users know that most of them are characters with grab skills, so if you pay attention to the grab motion as well as act carefully throughout the game, it is not too difficult to avoid it by moving.

If so, if you somehow manage to succeed in Grab through the difficult conditions, you will benefit unconditionally, in fact, that is not the case either.
If the grab skill was used to drag a tanker type character or an initial character from the opponent side, there was a high probability that it would be a death grab.

Unless you know if it’s an isolated character, if there are enemies nearby who can come to support, it’s like giving the enemy a mobile device for no reason.

In the end, grab-type characters can become heroes if used well, but become allies worse than enemies if used poorly.

Even if you look at Baek Ha-yan’s history, it was an impossible story to have a grab-type character.
However,

‘Grab characters do not require special skills.’

In fact, as long as you pull well, the rest doesn’t matter.

After replaying the ban-pick scenario in my head a few times, I opened my mouth.

[BA Battle: Let’s bring a decent tier character first.]

Ban-picking, which is not very different from the first set, was carried out.
However, the opposing team seemed to ban Raphael, the central character of the combination, as if they were afraid of the Basilisk and Raphael combination in the first set.

There were a few more variations by using an entering character instead of a basilisk, but there was no character who put a wide area CC around the entering character like Raphael.

Anyway, thanks to that, I had more room for banpicking.
Moreover, I realized that the opposing team was afraid of us unlike in the first set.
When playing the Grab character, momentum was also an important factor, so it was a positive aspect.

[BA Battle: Let’s pick four o’clock.]

It was in our last pick that the Joker pick, Grab, came out.

Thanks to the selection of Nami Marines, who took the blue formation after losing the first set, we were able to take the last pick from our side, and Sao-jung of white white, who had no intention of using him to hide it, appeared.

The moment I picked Sao-jung, I couldn’t hear it, but it seemed that cheers poured from the audience and commentators.

[BA Battle: white white.]
[BA White: Yes, yes!]
[BA Battle: I trusted you and picked Saohjeong. If I don’t grab it properly, I know I’ll get really scolded.]
[BA White: It’s so… Yes… ]

I came out of the capsule listening to the faint sound of white white.

Then, as expected, the voices of the commentators were heard talking excitedly.

“It finally appears! Four o’clock!”
“I thought he would appear at least once this season. Grab must be shown! We need to issue a solo-lang warning!”

As a water ghost, Saojeong possessed the skill of hitting and pulling enemies with the trident she was holding.
Furthermore, she has some physical strength, and she also has stealth skills, so even if the grab fails, she remains a useful character.

She is not at the level of going all-in only for full grabs.

However, it is true that if Grab fails, it is less useful than other supporters.

“Has White ever shown a grab-type character in a competition?”
“Probably not. As far as I know, even the solo rank data doesn’t have a very high record.”
“I’m looking forward to it. Is it really a character that has been raised as a secret weapon!”

The game started with a fuss from the commentator.

As soon as the players of Battle Angels respawned at the well, they immediately ran towards the opponent’s jungle.
Things that cannot be left out when choosing a Grab character.
It was Invade.

After going deep into the opponent’s jungle, the players settled in the bush next to the jungle camp where the buff sentinel was located.

A ward was set up on the other side of the wall, so sight was shared.

“It’s an early invasion situation. It is likely that Nami Marines players will not recklessly enter the jungle because they are aware of the invasion, but if they wait until the buff sentinel respawns, the situation will be different.”
“Yes, it is. It seems that the Battle Angels are planning to quickly take control of the bush and control the 3 buffs. Ah… The moment I speak, it seems that the Nami Marines players will also notice that the Battle Angels have entered the bush and intend to drive them out, right?”

A war of nerves began over the buff sentinels of the Nami Marines formation.

A match between a team that doesn’t want to be taken away and a team that wants to steal it.
Even though creeps were created and pushed into the lane, he kept his position until the top laner, predicting that it would be a large-scale teamfight.

“Grab!!”
“Ah…! It’s a pity, the grab missed.”

In the meantime, Saohjeong in white white throws a trident.
Unfortunately, however, the Nami Marines players, who were already conscious, had to avoid it with a light move.

“Battle Angels players attack Buff Sentinels first.”

Then, the Nami Marines players also started to push in, putting their wards on the bushes in formation.

It was just one sentinel that gave buffs, but it was an object that had a lot of meaning for early junglers.

If you eat it, you can take level 2 right away, and you will be given a buff that will make your jungling comfortable afterwards.
It was not something to simply ignore as a single monster.

“The Sentinel’s stamina is insignificant! Is this going to be a slug fight?!”
“The Nami Marines can’t even enter beyond this, right? Because it’s not a strong combination against invasion…”
“Now neither team can back down! The top line has already come back a long time ago!”

Players from both teams tap the buff sentinel and watch the liver.

Junglers usually have a strong attack spell that deals great damage to jungle monsters, but there was no stronger skill than that among the skills that could be given to monsters in the early stages.

In the end, it became a situation where both teams were overinvested and somehow had to eat the buff sentinel, and the slug fight between the two junglers became very, very important.

After a suffocating battle of nerves, the buff sentinel’s stamina gradually decreases.
On the verge of becoming strong enough to kill with a level 1 hit.
Nami Marines’ jungler used a powerful spell along with a skill with terrifying momentum.

No, I think I was trying to use it.

The other players of Nami Marines also used the skill together, and the buff sentinel’s stamina decreased faster than expected.

Thanks to that, it was already too late for Nami Marines’ jungler to think about using Smite along with his skill.

Flash!

A buff sentinel that turns to dust and disappears with a short flash of light.
A red light came out from the dead spot and was absorbed into Lee Ji-hye’s body.

“Ate! Wisdom ate it!”
“Can you chase?! I don’t think it’s going to work because I just used a lot of skills?!”

Afterwards, the Battle Angels leisurely escape the jungle of Nami Marines.

Since it was a level 1 with only one skill learned yet, Nami Marines, who had used that valuable skill to exterminate the Sentinel, couldn’t move recklessly.

‘It was a dangerous situation.’

Ji-hye Lee won the slug fight, so she’s out of luck. She almost went all the way to her opponent’s jungle and completely fooled her.

Anyway, the results were good, so it didn’t matter.

If you don’t take the risk, the return is small.
Through this steal, she was able to completely dry her opponent’s jungle.

The Battle Angels, starting the laning battle a little ahead of the Nami Marines.

I, the commentators, and the audience all focused on the bottom line.

How active the white four o’clock can be!

However, contrary to her expectations, she was playing a boring game.

“Isn’t it a structure where you can farm safely until teamfights?”
“The Nami Marines and the Battle Angels are wary of each other, so I don’t think there will be any bold play.”

The match then enters into a teamfight composition in front of the object.
Because the Battle Angels players were more diligent, there were wards that could not be erased in the formation of Nami Marines.

A perfect composition for Grab-type characters to succeed in Grab!

But her trident her, thrown by the white-haired Sao-jeong, missed again in vain.

“If the grab had hit, it would have been a mortal wound, but it’s a pity!”
“But we still have to teamfight! Now is the chance for Nami Marines!”

A 5-on-5 large-scale teamfight in which both teams are dispatched furiously.
The 10 players mixed in an instant and the formation collapsed.

A fleeting confrontation to see whose physical strength is better.
Which team’s dealer can position and deal more quickly determines the outcome of the match.

However, the result of this teamfight was ambiguous to say whose victory it was.

The teamfight ended with 3 players from both teams dying.

“Ryu’s position was very good, but it’s a pity.”
“This is the biggest weakness of the Grab character. In the end, if the grab skill misses, the room to be active in teamfights is greatly reduced compared to other support characters.”

As the commentator explained, Baek White was the biggest cause of this teamfight.
It’s because he just went back and forth throughout the teamfight with Sao-Jung, who lacked the Grab skill, and didn’t play a proper role.

‘Still, the Grab character has one shot. Dragging the dealer just once could turn the game around.’

I swallowed some regret and watched the game a little longer.