Chapter 186 – 186. Round 2, VS Hercules Blackforce (3)

The players returned to the waiting room with pretty bright faces.

I greeted them, trying to keep a cool face.

“It was fun?”

Ryu Seo-yoon smiled broadly at my question and nodded his head.

“Whoops… It’s not possible for Ryu Seo-yoon, a genius super-beauty dealer.”
“…It must have been very pleasant.”

Usually, no matter how easily I won the first set, the second set is another game, so I try not to create an exhilarating atmosphere, but this time it was a little different.

Hercules was truly a one-deal carry, a team with only one strategy.
If you don’t deviate from that strategy in the second set, the result won’t be much different from the first set.

In this short moment, if Genius does not achieve at least some awakening, he will not be able to surpass Ryu Seo-yoon.

“Let’s give feedback and prepare for the second set.”

That’s why I spoke to them in a light tone.

Our team climbed slowly step by step.
Now, in the second division, other teams except the Dragon Knights were not even seen as opponents.

It was still in the early stages of the second round, but I wondered if I should prepare for the first division promotion match.

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“……”

The Genius player felt like dying as time passed.

I didn’t know that the time to run again would be such a huge pain.

There was no one else who could do it for him.
Only he had to carry alone and he had to do it.

‘I don’t like it anymore… I mean, it’s hard for me too. Why do I have to do it all the time?’

Genius listened to the coach and manager’s feedback with his mouth shut.
In order not to upset him, most of the criticism went to the other team members except for him, but his feelings did not ease at all.

“Genie.”

Then the director called him.
Genius turned his weak eyes and looked at him.

“Try to be a little more confident in the second set. You have to do it, but you know our team can win.”

Perhaps the intention of the coach’s words was to encourage the genius player to give up a little more strength because he is in charge of a huge mission.

However, Genius’s idea of ​​accepting him was completely different.

Incompetent team members.
Gamkojin’s only strategy is to spin and eat one-deal carry combinations.

Sandbags, which I normally didn’t pay much attention to, only felt heavy today.

It must have been because he was desperate for victory.

“…Why do I have to do it alone?”

Because of this, Genius had to voice his displeasure his uncharacteristically.

With his eyes raised defiantly, he looked at his teammates and Gam Kojin.
A chilly silence descends on the team.

“I can’t do it every time. Wouldn’t it be okay to take a break for one set? Why don’t the other team members do carry-rolls every day?”
“……”

At his point, the team members are still silent.
Partly because he was right, but partly because he had never seen a genius who rushed like this before.

“Uh… Then, shall we focus on other lines for the next set?”

The shock was even greater because he had been thought of only as a genius who had little to do with winning or losing.
In the end, the director came up with an interim plan to appease him.

Instead of grabbing picks that would ease his pressure, he kept playing.

“……”

Genius didn’t seem to have calmed down yet, but he barely nodded, as if realizing that getting more angry would only be a simple way to vent his anger.

“…It’s our team. We have to do it together.”

Everyone nodded at his words, but because he said something that did n’t match Genius ‘personality at all, they didn’t show sympathy at all.
Shouldn’t he have secretly hoped that Genius would continue the one-deal carry combination?

Anyway, they went up to the stadium again without resolving their feelings of regret.

As if the heat of the first set hadn’t subsided, the audience seats were filled with whispers and twinkling eyes.

Suddenly, Hercules players felt a heavy weight on their shoulders.
No one spoke first, but everyone knew.

Genius, who had been playing the role of Carrie so far, collapsed.
Now the time has come for them to do it themselves.

“I’ll go into the capsule!”

A shout from the staff was heard.
The players of Hercules entered the game one by one with stiff faces.

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No matter what happened to Hercules, the 2nd set of bans and picks was very far from the one-deal carry that I had been sticking with so far.

Each of them brought out their own confident tier character.
In particular, the Genius player did not choose a hard physical character, but chose a good poke-type one-deal.

It’s a character I rarely play, so I can’t help but wonder.

‘Could it be a secret weapon?’

Was there something prepared in case the one-deal carry one-tool strategy didn’t work?

I thought about that for a moment, but shook my head.

‘I’ve never seen a hint of that in a scrim.’

It was Hercules Blackforce who had never made an experimental pick in his ranked games or scrims so far.

That’s why I was convinced that their ban-pick was a sudden action.

‘Then it’s easier to deal with.’

There have been cases where I’ve had good results when I improvised a combination I tried for the first time.
That’s what we call a team that can do anything.

When facing a weak team that is already intimidated, an overwhelmingly strong team is okay.

But now the situation was completely opposite.
Rather, Hercules Blackforce was intimidated by our team.

In this case, there is a high probability that it will be a case of self-destruction after trying something that usually does not work.

[BA Battle: Maybe we’re going to have an all-line power struggle?]
[BA Wisdom: It’s amazing. You should know that if you just stick with it, you won’t be able to compete.]
[BA Ryu: I realized that I couldn’t do it the way I used to!]

Even when I talked to the players, most of them said it was offensive.
Now that you dare to think of defeating us with an ordinary combination.

[BA Battle: We have to tell Songchungi that he has to live on pine needles. Go aggressively on all lines.]

I confidently dictated the strategy to the players.

If the genius player had chosen a pick that could deliver sustained damage based on his attack power, the moment he chose a safe poke-type one-deal, his power his in the second half would drop.

If so, I thought it would be okay to push the entire line aggressively.

This time, our team also brought out confident characters from each line rather than AD-oriented combinations.
For some reason, it seemed that cheers could be heard from the audience again.

[BA Ryu: I’ll carry this version as well!]
[BA Wisdom: I am confident in this edition?]
[BA Carrywoman: … Me too. I took out the follicle, but I can’t lose.]

The players made up their minds as if they were going to do it 1v9.
Lastly, I mixed a little bit of oil for their competitive spirit like burning firewood.

[BA Battle: Alright, then I’ll award the MVP of this set.]
[BA Luna: Hot… ]

As soon as those words were over, the atmosphere of the players changed dramatically.
No matter who sees it, the attitude of trying to end this game with a hard game.

Very satisfied, I nodded and came out of the capsule.

Team Battle Angels
Top: BA Carrywoman (Leopo)
Jungle: BA Wisdom (cockatrice)
MID: BA Luna (Gumiho)
AD Carry: BA Ryu (Atalante)
Support : BA White (Palgye Jeo)

Team Hercules Blackforce
Top: HC Solo (Hercules)
Jungle: HC Maple (Fenrir)
MID: HC Bbaaam (Blue Dragon)
AD Carry: HC Genius (Helios)
Support : HC King (Hermes)

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“Waaaaa… !!!”

The audience seats were filled with tremendous cheers.

The narrator and caster were so shocked that they did not even think of sitting up.

“Wow… Wow… What is this, Battle Angels…!!”
“I started to get confused if the pick window I was looking at was the actual game pick window. From Lupo to Atalante to Gumiho… How many characters can be considered a joker card even if only one appears in a game?”
“Is it too much compared to Hercules, who took all the tier 1 characters? Battle Angels feels like they took all the characters they showed with impact!”
“It’s just a jjamppong combination. It is unimaginable in today’s meta.”

A fun game combination that can even feel shame as a professional player.
It’s just a feeling of thinking about synergy after choosing a character that each other wants to play in solo queue.

Yeopo, captured by Kang Yul, was a DLT-type character capable of 1 vs. 5, but he was a sluggish character with no initiation skill.
The cockatrice captured by Lee Ji-hye was a good character to counter the Inish character.

Han Yuna’s nine-tailed fox was an assassin-type mid-character,
Atalanta, captured by Ryu Seo-yoon, is an extreme carry character that produces power that is strong enough to be ignorant, even if it records only one death, but its power drops to less than half.

Lastly, Baek Ha-yan’s Jeo Ba-gye was an offensive support with good initiation, so a confusing combination with no clear concept was born.

‘That combination of Hercules is enough.’

All five players picked picks that could stand out, so it wouldn’t be strange if any of them took the MVP.
I sat back comfortably in my chair and started watching the game.

The excitement of the audience and commentators hardly seemed to subside.
It was only because it mixed characters that a coach with common sense would never put together.

“What kind of confidence is this! Could it be because Hercules didn’t do his usual long-distance carry ability of his?”
“I guess that’s right. The moment Genius grabbed Helios, a poking-type character, he must have wanted this!”
“However, it is such a challenging combination. Battle Angels really picked a character that every player can shine. Comparing food combinations, there should be sweet, salty, salty, but everything is spicy!”

Maybe it’s because our team’s combination is so unique.
Hercules watched her liver her while taking a defensive position during the Invaded Phase.

However, our players put their heads first into the enemy bush without much thought.

“Too, too bold! Is this the enemy jungle?”
“Nature belongs to all of us! Where is your jungle, where is my jungle!”
“Too violent, Battle Angels! I’m a thug, what is it! Why are you coming in like this, burdensome!!”

Thanks to this, the supporter of Hercules, who was noticing in the bush, belatedly fell out and used blink.
Even if it wasn’t, another bad news came from the position of Hercules, who was being pushed back from the momentum.

“I went in believing in one real spirit and came out without blinking.”
“It means that even if you just fight, you have the confidence to win. In fact, the level 1 fights in Battle Angels look pretty strong.”
“First of all, it’s very scary that Atalante and Lupo exist.”

Then, the game enters the laning stage.