Chapter 18 – 18. Nucleosphere Debris Guillotine Match (3)

BAN & PICK, the flower of AOS games!

Before entering the main game, it was the process of choosing which characters to ban and which characters to play.
The importance of ban-pick decreased for teams with a large difference in skill, but it was an important step that influenced more than half of the win or loss in the match between the teams in the first division that were leveled up.

Most of the teams with managers and coaches were in charge of ban-picking by Lee Gamko-jin.

Considering the characters the players are good at, the popular characters in the current meta, and the combination of those characters, ban the characters the opponent is good at and bring the characters the team is good at.

There were cases where players suggested a character they wanted to play or asked to ban a difficult character, but in the end, the choice was up to Gamko-jin, so the results of all ban-picks were also the responsibility of Gamko-jin .

In the virtual reality game arena, ban-picking is conducted in a dark space with players gathering in a circle.
When it is your turn to ban and pick, a spotlight descends from the endless sky, and at that moment, you can use the panel in front of your eyes to ban or pick.

Are you watching Battle Angels VS Nuclear Sphere?

The ban-picking of the two teams has just begun.
Ten players standing in a circle are split exactly in half.

You see the nucleus sphere in the blue formation, right? Team.
The Battle Angels players are standing in the red formation.

It is a picture of the top laner, jungler, mid laner, ADD, and support team standing in a semicircle in that order, merging to form a huge circle.

If there is a difference between the two teams, it is that behind the Battle Angels is the coach, Kim Jeong-soo.
Are you looking at the nucleus? In the case of the team, there was no coach or manager in charge of picks and bans, so the back seat was vacant.

When all 10 players showed up, the chat window in the nuclear sphere became lively.
Instantly, the number of viewers increased significantly.

[Eyes aaaaa]
[ㅗㅜㅗㅜㅑ]
[Even if I sell my country, I will always be Battle Angels]
[Breaking News] Forbes’ Best Streamer of the Year ‘Hackgu’]
[This is the value of the license fee]

Haekgu, who sneakily checked the chat window, spoke to Happy Life excitedly.

“All five players in Battle Angels are female. How do you see it as a woman, Happy Life player?”
“Well… It is true that in the past, male gamers played more professionally. These days, a lot of female gamers, like me, are professional players. It is true that there are still prejudices about gender in the world of pro gamers, but now it has nothing to do with being active in the professional scene as long as you have skills.”

[Still, there are still few female players in the first division]
[If the first-generation female pro gamer Happy Life noona says it, it’s acceptable]
[The world of programmers is a cold place. Even a monkey can be a pro if you have the skills. Gender doesn’t matter.]

Viewers hit the chat as if there was nothing wrong with women playing pro gamers.
But it’s just a different word on the outside and inside. They were the ones who had just insulted the Battle Angels as Team Hyeji.

“Ruler! Then I’ll look at the profiles of both teams and go!”

As expected, when the profile of the Battle Angels was revealed, ridiculing words began to pour into the chat window.

Team Battle Angels
Top          :: BA Carrywoman
Jungle: BA Wisdom
MID: BA Luna
AD Carry: BA Ryu
Support: BA White

[What do you think about going to the competition with 5 women?]
[It’s just noise marketing. It’s obvious that the sponsor is a porn company.]
Hahaif you ban 5 supporters?]
[I want to see the nuclear beetles smearing and crying lol]

And then, are you looking at the nuclear sphere? When the profile of the team was revealed, the chat window became a sea of ​​laughter.

Team Are you looking at the nucleus?
Top           : Nuclear alopecia
Jungle : Nuk-gu’s girlfriend
MID       : Hack ball bra
AD Carry: There the nucleus
Support: Knuckle Panties

“Ah~ these dog shit~!”
“Keukkeuk… “

Haek-gu, who pretends to be angry but can’t hide his embarrassing smile.
Happy Life suppressed a laugh and turned its head.

[Nuclear worms came out with a determinationhaha]
[The opposing team’s incompetencehahalosing to this team is a real humiliationhaha]
[What is the nickname of the doggo characterhaha]
[Happy Life laughshahahow can I endure this~~]

“From now on, don’t make nicknames like this~! I’m really serious about holding a tournament~!”

[Gura b]
[Seriously, why is Team Hyeji there?]
[Pursue is nuclear]
[Start quickly, dog shay~]

Haek-gu, who had been fighting with the viewers for a while, reduced the tension again when the ban-pick started in earnest.
Although he was a streamer with a lot of clowning, he was serious only in arena competitions.

The ban/pick method in official competitions is the draft method.
Both teams take turns banning three characters and picking five characters.

According to the bar that was drawn in advance, the ‘Are you looking at the nuclear sphere?’ The team proceeded with the ban first.
The first character to be banned was Artemis, a character you would know if you analyzed the Battle Angels team even a little.

“Ah! As expected, Artemis is banned.”
“Because Ryu, the one-hander of the Battle Angels, is famous for being an Artemis craftsman.”

If it’s good, it’s a craftsman, if it’s bad, it’s a one-character chung!
In the recent history of Ryu Seo-yoon, many other characters have been showing their faces, but the stigma of being a one-character was not easily erased.
In addition, it was true that there was still a considerable difference in win rates between Artemis and other characters.

Then the battle angels ban proceeded.
It was ‘Oni’, a character in the midline assassin position.

“He cuts the oni, one of the representative Chung characters.”
“Solang will be safe today.”

[Looks like you don’t want to be taught lol]
[Onichuk cut]
[The scariest thing for Hyeji is cominghaha]

Even after that, the Battle Angels team bans assassin-type characters. There were characters who had an advantage in tower diving and characters who could give explosive damage.

On the other hand, the ‘Watching Nuclear Sphere’ team used the remaining two ban cards to ban supporters.
They were pretty and cute characters that were mostly used by female gamers.

That was the intent.
It was to make fun of that streamer and that viewer, the Battle Angels team made up of all women.

[No, who uses Hestia in the tournamenthaha]
[Hestia, Tinkerbell vanhaha]
[Let’s do it in moderation, it doesn’t look good]
[Seriously, get out of here. Five Hyeji appearing in the tournament should be punished.]

And the ban pick moved on to the character selection stage.

Are you looking at the nucleus? The team mainly selected picks based on individual performance.
It was a splendid combination that is commonly referred to as a Chung character, starting with Fenrir, an aggressive jungler often used in solo-lang.

On the other hand, Battle Angels took a stable combination.
Except for the top line, all of them were defensive characters.

“Ruler! I’ll show you the van pick configuration! How do you view Happy Life players and the combination of both teams?”

Team Battle Angels
Top: BA Carrywoman (Hercules)
Jungle: BA Wisdom (Basilisk)
MID: BA Luna (Hyunmu)
AD Carry: BA Ryu (Atalante)
Support: BA White (Hermes)

Team Are you looking at the nucleus?
Top        : Nuclear hair loss (Son Wukong)
Jungle: Nuclear Girlfriend (Fenrir)
MID: Hack Bra (Yamata Orochi)
AD Carry: There the nuclear sphere (Hydra)
Support: Knuckle Panties (Brahma)

Happy Life spoke in detail of what they were feeling about the ban-pick.

“The Battle Angels team had a very defensive composition. It seems to be an Atalante carry combination in the second half, but I try not to explode in the early stages while pulling Hyunmu all the way to the mid-lane.”
“Yes? Rather, the top picked Hercules and went aggressive, and the mid laner picked Hyeonmu to protect the bottom.”

Haek-gu also seriously talked about ban-picking.

“In this fight, the early lane battle is very important. Whether or not the nucleus team kills Atalanta early on will decide the difference between victory and defeat. There is Yamata Orochi in the Nuclear Team, but Atalanta’s late-half carry ability, which the Battle Angels took, is the strongest in the arena.”
“No~ What if even the Happy Life players are called the nuclear team? It’s a team that has nothing to do with me.”
“Cuckoo… I’m sorry. Stop shortening…”
“Anyway. Then what should I do with the nuclear team?”
“The nuclear team must bottom dive unconditionally. There is a high probability that the Battle Angels’ Basilisk will only look at the bottom line, but you have to kill Atalanta even after breaking through it.”
“All right! Then, before the game is ready, we will bet points without fail in this game as well! Battle Angels win number 1. No, are you looking at the nuclear sphere? Team wins number two!”

Point betting, which is often used by streamers, has begun.
It was not a real money bet, but a function to gamble with points that would naturally accumulate if you watched the streamer’s broadcast for a long time, but it was perfect for immersing viewers.

Currently recording the largest number of viewers in the history of the nucleus guillotine tournament, the amount of points taken was also unprecedented.

“Ah! 97 to 3! The person who joined the nuclear team is overwhelming!”

[Reverse actors, wake uphahaDoes Atalante make sense in the tournament? Are you sure you won’t die?]
[Let’s go, nuclear worms]
[If you just bet on Jeongbae, the points will be copied?]
[30,000 viewers have grown a lot]
[The chat window is more fun than the game lol The game will explode in 10 minutes anyway]

“They say the game is ready. Then! Let the game begin!”

The players disappeared with the loud cry of the nuclear sphere and the stage of the arena appeared.

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After finishing all the bans and picks, I watched the tournament in spectator mode.

The players had just come out of the ‘well’, the respawn spot, and were moving.
Our team is in a position to defend against the enemy’s early invasion, and the enemy team…

“Ah! Nuclear Team! They are dancing in front of the enemy mid-tower!”
“Fenrir’s dance is cute.”
“Does Happy Life player like dogs?”
“I really like big dogs.”

Laughter was heard from the broadcast screen of the nuclear sphere that had just been launched.
The enemy team was openly dancing in front of our team’s tower.

Allies’ Shia was shared between the teams, so all of our kids will be watching this scene as well.
It’s a situation where you don’t have to see how angry Ryu Seo-yoon must be.

‘Anyway, the things I’m not good at are more noisy.’

The average tier of enemies is about diamonds.
Among the general public, even a high tier is an embarrassing tier to be called a player.

Of course, the average tier of our team is not high.
If you have to compare it, it’s a bit inferior to the opponent.

But we have Ryu Seo-yoon.
Ryu Seo-yoon is at the top of the Master Tier.
As far as physical, it means that they are not behind even compared to the 1st division.
The degree of Dia Tier could be studied.

In fact, even I, who is a diamond 1, was defeated about 99 times out of 100 if I only stuck with pure physical.
It was the reason I was able to have this confidence despite the fact that other players’ tiers were significantly lower.

‘I just don’t have to die in the beginning.’

The game was already in progress.
After dancing for a while, when the creeps arrived on the line, the ‘Are you watching the nuclear sphere?’ Team came back aggressively.
Since the team is made up of only female gamers, it seems that the team is disregarded to the core.

He smiled a little at his attitude towards her.

Whether it was the chat window or the commentators who were broadcasting, everyone was paying attention to the bottom line.

‘Are you looking at the nuclear sphere?’ The bottom duo of the team was putting pressure on Ryu Seo-yoon and Baek Ha-yan without a break.
The girls are so immobilized by that frenzied attack that they have to eat CS (Creep Score) while bowing.

“Ah! After all, the Battle Angels team! The early laning battle is going to shit!”
“Still, since it’s Atalanta, it can be restored as long as it doesn’t die. Rather, ‘Are you looking at the nuclear sphere?’ The team should push harder! We must kill here!”

The aspect of the bottom line became more complicated with the addition of junglers from both teams.
Those who don’t want to die and those who want to kill.
A fierce battle ensued. The fate of this game depends on it.

But Nashia headed to the top line.

‘Kang Yul, it’s time for you to show me.’

And after a while, ‘Are you looking at the nuclear sphere?’ The team’s top laner, ‘Son Oh-gong’,’s stamina began to drop.
At that moment, from the bottom side, I could see the players on the other side diving into our team’s tower.

Complicated situation.
Finally, the message viewers were expecting came to mind.

[First take!]

However, the main character was completely unexpected.