Chapter 29 – 29. What Was the Result of the First Competition? (One)

Finals of the Nuclear Guillotine League.

A battle between the Battle Angels, who have risen to victory, and the Neo trance team, who came down from the 2nd Division.

Lee Tae-hwan, the coach of the Neo-Trance team, sighed deeply.

‘What kind of new team is so strong.’

Battle Angels started amidst everyone’s ridicule and contempt.
Since all five players are female, coach Lee Tae-hwan did not pay much attention to the team.
Even the teams that will meet in the finals as a bracket table.
He was sure that there was no chance that the Battle Angels would make it to the finals and face their own team.

But there was no such thing as absolute.
The Battle Angels were matched as Neo-Trance’s opposing team, having risen to victory.

‘It would be nice if our team could do as well as I did… ‘

Coach Lee Tae-hwan glanced at the players resting in the practice room.

Even though it was right before the competition, they were flirting while playing games on their phones.
Rest is important for pro gamers too, but why is there such a lack of sense of danger even after being demoted from the 2nd division recently and with a close result in the 3rd division tournament…

Then his gaze gradually moved to the side and landed on a girl.
A small smile bloomed on his face.

‘Yes, there is only you.’

Neo Trans Team’s ADC, Neto
It was a girl with thick eyebrows in her scattered hair. Although her straightforward personality is flawed, she has excellent physical strength that rivals Ryu in Battle Angels.

She was the most trusted player by coach Lee Tae-hwan.

If there is a problem, it is that the team is completely out of line.
As far as I know, it seems that there is also a sneaky bullying.

Coach Lee Tae-hwan let out a low moan and looked at the other team members who were joking with each other.
The violent prank continued until one side got offended.

It is as if his hedgehog has been driven into a box, perhaps because he has gathered boys from high school students to young adults who have just become adults.

What about Neto, the only woman on the team?

Recently, I have been using various methods to promote the team’s friendship, but somehow there was no sign of getting better at all.

Can we beat the Battle Angels in this state?

Coach Lee Tae-hwan looked at the Battle Angels’ player profile and finalized his strategy.

Because that was all he could do.

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“Hello viewers! Buy nuclear! Today is finally the exile guillotine match finals!”

[Fucking hack ball, I missed you!]
[I’ve been waiting for this day. When are the older sisters coming out?]
[Battle Angels! Battle Angels! Battle Angels!]
[So you’re joining the Battle Angels after the finals?]

“These crazy bastards are only interested in merging! Hey, pay attention to the fucking contest!”

[Ah haha ​​it doesn’t matter who wins haha]
[Bring snow out!!]
[If only Ryu is blocked, the trans has the ability to king]
[Did the losing teams lose because they didn’t know that?]

The speed of the chat window was amazing today.
Although it was in the 3rd division, the number of viewers was higher than that of the broadcasting rooms in the 2nd division.

In fact, it was enough.
Division 2 is completely backward compatible with Division 1.

If you want to see the fights of good pros, you can watch the 1st division, but you do not need to watch the 2nd division.

On the other hand, the third division we are active in receives more attention, perhaps because it has its own characteristics that the second division cannot have.
There were elements that could not be seen in the 1st and 2nd leagues, such as broadcasts hosted by famous streamers like this one, or celebrities forming teams to participate.

Thanks to this, Hackgu’s broadcast recorded 50,000 viewers even before the tournament had started.
The build-up that had been steadily built up for several days eventually exploded in the finals.

It’s because the attention was focused on the moves that Battle Angels showed!

It could be said that it was the result of their looks and Ryu Seo-yoon’s butt show.

Perhaps thanks to that, the Nuclear District actually proposed annexation.
As can be seen just by looking at the chat window, the people’s desire for annexation was overwhelming. From the point of view of Haek-gu, he just wanted to pull out the mulberry.

But I flatly refused.
Streamer Haek-gu, who has been making provocative broadcasts, was famous for messing up the merging.
In particular, when a female guest appeared, there were many cases where she demanded bold skinship or talk to attract aggro.

It’s not what I’m saying, but I didn’t want our players to be sexually consumed or appear on provocative broadcasts.

“Both players and coaches, please enter!”

Steph’s cry was heard.
Before entering the game, I looked around the players.

It was the final, but I wasn’t nervous.
Even if it is like this, I went to the international competition and won the runner-up, and my whole body.
There was no reason to be nervous in the 3rd division competition in the practice room.

But the players seemed a little different.
Even from the outside, I saw a player with a stiff body.

“White”
“Yes Yes?!”

Surprised white white turns to me.
As if she had motion sickness, she was making a stern expression.
A normal coach would tell her to make light jokes or not to be pressured to ease her tension, but I was different.

“Are you nervous?”
“Yes…”
“Yeah, you should be nervous. If I lose, I lose because of you.”
“Hey… !”
“Remember. If I lose, I lose because of you. Be sure to do well.”
“Yes, yes… ! I will work hard!”

It gave me a lot of pressure without any hesitation.

What if you really lose?
You can double your sales.
We will grow faster than others by taking advantage of defeat, so in the end, our team will benefit whether we win or lose.

Nodding my head in satisfaction, I gestured to the players.
One by one, they access the game through capsules.
I then lay down in the capsule.

The first set of bans and picks began right away.

The analysis of the opposing team has been sufficiently completed.
The Neo-Trance team was a team with strong one-deal carries like ours.

However, the only difference was that, unlike us, who are really low-level except for AD, all lines do it to some extent.

In a way, it can be said that he is the top-ranking member of our team.
But I think just the opposite.

The Neo Trans team was exactly our backwards compatible team.
The reason for this was the difference in one-deal skills.
Neto, the ADC of the Neo-Trance team, is obviously a great AD, but he is inferior to Ryu Seo-yoon.

This means that we will win the most important battle of carry!

I expected that it would not be difficult in the second half if the other lines would go half-and-half.

‘Since we’re in the blue formation, it must be the first van’s turn.’

We are in the arena banpick stage.
I threw my gaze and looked behind the players gathered in a circle, opposite me.
Standing there was Lee Tae-hwan, the coach of the Neo-Trance team.

As my first ban card, I banned ‘Yamata Orochi’, the opponent’s mid laner’s most pick.
Yamata Orochi is a strong laning player, and it was a fatal pick for our mid laner, Han Yuna, who only knows how to play defensive characters.
If I left her alive, she could see Hanyu me, who started hitting death constantly.

Then it is the opponent’s turn to ban.
And the ban picks proceeded step by step, and 3 characters per team, a total of 6 characters were banned.

After looking at the list of characters the opposing coach had banned, I had my doubts.

‘Are there a lot of assassin-type characters?’

There was a formula for the compatibility of character combinations in Arena.
Assassin-type characters are strong against poke-type characters
The poking-type character was strong against the teamfight-type character.
Teamfight characters are strong against assassin characters.

According to this, the opposing team that bans a lot of assassination-type characters is expected to catch poking-type characters.

I frowned.
It seemed that I met a slightly difficult opponent.
It seemed like he knew exactly what our team’s weaknesses were.

Until now, the Battle Angels have ended the game with one-deal team-fight carries.
Perhaps that’s why most of the characters players know how to handle are teamfight characters.
After enduring reliably in the laning match, it is mainly a play that hits the jackpot with a range-type ultimate.

And the weak point of this combination is the poked characters.

Poking characters who use a long range to attack from a distance avoid team hits and apply normal attacks to constantly eat away at the opponent’s health.

If you fight this in a teamfight combination, you will have no choice but to retreat because your stamina is running out before you even start a fight, unless the opponent opens an irreplaceable forced initiation.

‘If it comes out like that, I have an idea.’

Poking-type combinations must be dealt with with assassination-type characters.
An assassination-type character that instantly approaches and pours combos on poking-type characters who are relatively weak in close-range combat!
There was a player on our team who was good at assassination characters.

[BA Ryu: Coach. What should I pick?]

After I didn’t speak for a while, Ryu Seo-yoon asked.
There were about 10 seconds left in the pick time.

[BA Battle: Pick Hydra first]

Hydra, synonymous with short-range long-range attacks.
If the opponent really has an idea for a poking combination, he will reveal his true intentions while saying right takuna.

And as expected, two characters appeared in the opponent’s pick window.
Zeus and the Blue Dragon.

‘Probably the mid-Zeus and the top blue dragon.’

Both are good forking characters.
With this, the concept of the opponent’s combination became clear.

[BA Battle: Lee Ji-hye]
[BA Wisdom: Yes.]
[BA Battle: Choose Fenrir.]

Fenrir is a typical assassination jungler.
And then he said to Kang Yul.

[BA Battle: Kang Yul is Son Goku.]
[BA Carrywoman: Yes]

Fenrir and Son Goku come up on the pick window in turn.
The opponent’s pick window was unresponsive for a while.
He must have been perplexed.

In the meantime, I explained to my teammates about the intention of the opponent’s ban pick and the blueprint of our combination.
While the players are silently concentrating, a new character appears in the ban/pick window.
It was Demeter and the Three Masters.

Demeter, the goddess of grain and harvest, is a supporter who specializes in buffs, and Xuanzang in Journey to the West is also a defensive jungle character.
I was a little scared, so I could see that I would take care of my survivability.

I finished the ban pick by giving Baek Ha-yan Hermes with a movement speed buff skill and Han Yuna with Frankenstein, who has high health.
Then, the opposing team also chooses the last pick that solidifies the forking concept.

Taking a deep breath, I threw a word at my teammates and went into spectator mode.

[BA Battle: You can lose, so work hard.]

It’s enough to sell if you lose.

When I turned on the broadcast of Hackball, both teams were talking about ban-picks.

Team Battle Angels
Top: BA Carrywoman (Son Goku)
Jungle: BA Wisdom (Fenrir)
MID: BA Luna (Frankenstein)
AD Carry: BA Ryu (Hydra)
Support : BA White (Hermes)

Team Neo Trance
Top: NTR Being (Blue Dragon)
Jungle: NTR IS
MID: NTR Herk (Zeus)
AD Carry: NTR Neto (Helios)
Support : NTR Mine (Demeter)

“In the case of the NTR team, they took a typical poke combination! Blue Dragon, Zeus, and Helios will fire a lot of skills from the mid to late game!”
“How about the Battle Angels combination?”
“Because Battle Angels have been focusing on one-deal carry so far, we often picked tanks or utility-type characters. Surprisingly, this time, he chose an aggressive upper body-oriented pick. As long as we receive Hermes’ movement speed buff, Son Goku and Fenrir dig in, and Hydra can stick to it and hit it, the Battle Angels will win!”

After a long explanation, the game started.

We have to be strong in the beginning.
Instead of uniting, they should scatter and induce one-on-one.

Lee Ji-hye, who has been receiving feedback from me, started to gank her without hesitation.

[First take!]

Lee Ji-hye shines more brightly when catching a character who requires intelligent play than an ignorant character like Fenrir, but her play of Fenrir wasn’t too bad either.

Together with top laner Kang Yul, he bites off the opponent’s blue dragon and quickly creates a first point.

It was a combination of weak opponents until they united, so it was clear that they wanted to finish the laning phase quickly and stick together.
If you match that intention, you will be beaten by poking and your soul will be robbed.
In order to cope with this, a split operation is required.

The split operation refers to a strategy in which all five players are split and placed on different lines rather than one or two players.

If you rush to one person during the split push, you can take advantage of the remaining 4 people by taking the other object or tower.

Conversely, what if the other side tries to team-up with 4 people in the main team?
Excluding one person who runs the split, the main 4 players play defensively, such as arranging only the line while hugging the tower.

Of course, this was not an easy strategy.
Furthermore, since the opponent is a poking combination, it is a confrontation that can be established only when skills are well avoided.

In our team, Kang Yul and Lee Ji-hye skillfully roamed the map and confused the opponent.
The opponent team also came down from the 2nd division, so they started to follow our movements.

However, this is where the worst drawback of forking combinations comes into play.

A very simple but fatal flaw!

It’s just that it’s difficult to deal with.
If you fail to keep a little distance, you will allow initiation.

Kang Yul’s Son Goku and Lee Ji-hye’s Fenrir could be seen burrowing into the opponent’s formation in an instant and stirring them around.
And taking advantage of that gap, Ryu Seo-yoon’s Hydra, which received the white Hermes’ movement speed buff, began sweeping away the opposing characters.

This was the reason why poking-type characters were weak against assassination-type characters.
If you don’t fork enough and allow the distance, it collapses to the point of futility.

“Ah!! Carrie woman player! It went in so well! It falls exactly over the blue dragon and Zeus!”
“This teamfight is over! Hydra Free Deal!”
“NTR team players running away! However, Wisdom player chases and handles it to the end!”

Our team was able to take the first set without difficulty.
I went back into the capsule for the next set.