Chapter 356 – 356. World Championship Group Stage (4)

ARENA E-SPORT US channel, the official relay broadcaster in the United States

The moment Hong Gil-dong appeared, the channel’s commentators and casters couldn’t hide their excitement.

“Hong Gil Dong? It’s a character I don’t remember seeing when.”
“It’s a character that appears occasionally in Korea, but will it work on the world stage?!”
“Cyber ​​Akuma needs to keep a close eye on Hong Gil-dong’s movements. If you don’t get swayed by Hong Gil-dong’s moves, it’s rather a ban pick in favor of Cyber ​​Akuma.”

It wasn’t a difficult character to simply face off against, but that wasn’t Hong Gil-dong’s strength.

The ability to jump over terrain features.
An alter ego skill that confuses opponents.
Even a stealth skill that allows you to hide for a while.

The key point of Hong Gil-dong was to constantly deceive and harass the opponent.

As soon as the game started, the Battle Angels’ players ran into the opponent’s jungle.
It wasn’t a combination that was strong against invasion, but it was to check the starting position of the opponent’s jungle and ward it.

Cyber ​​Akuma, who did not want to see the match from the beginning, took a step back from his jungle and gave up the advantage.
In the beginning of the game, after grasping everything in the opponent’s jungle, the Battle Angels had the upper hand.

A Wisdom player who enters the opponent’s jungle based on his sight.
Cyber ​​Akuma, who started with a buff control in the early game, had no choice but to call in a liner and try to drive Wisdom away.

It was at this moment that the early gains shined through.

Thanks to the ward planted in the center of the valley, he could easily escape because he could see the movement of the enemy liners pursuing him.

The ganking of the opponent’s jungler was obviously annoying and annoying, but what was even more annoying and annoying was the constant request for help from our jungler.
Ganking can be said to be beneficial because you can eat at least experience points, and surviving the opponent’s jungler’s time is taken away. Will be.

Even so, he couldn’t even ignore the friendly jungler’s request for help.
If the opponent’s jungler continues to run around like this, not only will your teammates not be able to develop properly, but it will also be difficult to fight with Shia, making them more vulnerable to roaming and ganking.
Of course, the scariest thing among them was the opponent’s jungler’s monstrous growth.

Obviously, we were spending the same time, but the difference in level was widening before we knew it.

Then, the division broke out again when we were chasing Wisdom players who had entered Cyber ​​Akuma’s jungle.

With the determination not to miss this time, Cyber ​​Akuma’s mid laner and top laner rushed in unison.

From Wisdom’s point of view, it was already too late to receive support from allies, and her death seemed certain.
Her problem, then, was how to get her out without her loss.

The mid and top of the Battle Angels were already pushing the line like crazy.

The players of Cyber ​​Akuma had no choice but to chase after Hong Gil-dong, but the guy who climbed over the wall and sprayed his alter ego was not easily caught.
Fortunately, I was able to break down Hong Gil-dong’s fishing play well and finally get 1 kill, but the lines were already robbed.

“Cyber ​​Akuma got the lead, but he lost a lot in the line.”
“Battle Angels are rocking opponents with a steady run. Cyber ​​Akuma seems to need to be selective and focused in order not to lose any more.”
“Battle Angels’ counter-jungling was a high-risk, low-turn play, but as they continued to succeed, it snowballed this much without realizing it! But on the teamfight page, can you overpower Cyber ​​Akuma?”
“Akuma, as the name suggests, is a team with devilish teamfighting power. I don’t know if it would have been easily shaken by operation, but… “

Casters and commentators chatted feverishly about the match between the two teams, shouting frantically.
It was in the very next scene that their words were cut off.

It was a time when Cyber ​​Akuma’s jungler, who had barely gone through jungle camps, was hurriedly farming in the upper jungle.
Heading down to the jungle below, Wisdom, who confirmed that no one was there by putting a ward in the opponent’s jungle, boldly raided the Buddha.

Gildong Hong was a character not suitable for a solo raid, so it took quite a while to catch him.
In the meantime, Cyber ​​Akuma’s players notice the raid and slowly gather in front of Buddha.

Although the Battle Angels succeeded in capturing the Buddha, they could not stop the enemies coming from all directions.
It was a moment when anyone predicted Cyber ​​Akuma’s advantage because the Battle Angels’ formation was collapsing just by looking at it.

2-on-2 battles between mid laners and top laners, between AD dealers and supports, occur simultaneously.

For a moment, the camera went back and forth, not knowing which scene to capture.

The first place where the kill news popped up was a fight between bot duos.
The white player bites off the Cyber ​​Akuma supporter who went to support ahead of him.
I had no choice but to face off against them, but I couldn’t survive against the Battle Angels’ bot duo, who were already accurately targeting and dealing extreme damage.

After Cyber ​​Akuma’s support fell, the AD had no choice but to use Blink to run away.

The upper body was not an easy fight as the upper body progressed.
Two mid laners with classic mage characters and two top laners with tanks.

It was a structure where the tanks charged and the mages supported them from behind, but all of the Battle Angels players boldly stepped forward and aimed at Cyber ​​Akuma’s mid laner.

Again, the reason why the victory trended toward the Battle Angels was because of the difference in targeting.

Cyber ​​Akuma was busy trying to get away from the GODOG players who were chasing them in the lead, but the Battle Angels were able to attack one-sidedly, like defeating a defeated soldier.
In the end, Cyber ​​Akuma’s mid laner was knocked down by Sia’s full combo from Blink, and the fight was over.

With the situation going like this, it was Cyber ​​Akuma’s jungler who was putting pressure on Wisdom.
When he came to his senses, it was he who had been besieged.

If you think rationally, it was the right choice to fold here, but it seemed impossible to let go of Wisdom, who had low health, as Buddha had a double kill and an extreme jungle difference.
So he dared to enter the Buddha’s lair and attack his opponent.

The problem was that it took a considerable amount of time to perfectly capture even Hong Gil-dong, who had low physical strength.

Still, in the end, I had to leave the last hit after chasing the guy who performed tricks such as stealth, clones, and jumping over the wall.
It was just when I thought that my opponent had enough stamina to die in one hit, so I only made up for one point with this.

Three players from both sides came out and killed Cyber ​​Akuma’s jungler in an instant.
CC skills were linked and all sorts of deals were included, so I couldn’t hit even a single normal hit.

“Battle Angels!”

Commentators and casters could not help but admire.
It was a play that was not lacking even if I gave 120 points out of 100 points.

It was a situation so complex that it was difficult for even a pro gamer to understand the situation, but he calmly won the main character of the opponent and brought the flow completely.

In the meantime, the phenomenal physicality and teamwork shown in between made me feel that the Battle Angels did not conquer ACK by joking around.

When the Battle Angels, who picked up Buddha and three kills, went home as a group and came back, they were stronger than before.
In the meantime, Cyber ​​Akuma tried to raid Maria quickly by reorganizing the battle lines, but White, who had gone home quickly alone, was playing around next to him, so he had no choice but to retreat.

It was only a move by one supporter, but it would not have been easy for Cyber ​​Akuma, whose confidence had already been castrated, to make a decision for fear of another accident.

And Wisdom’s jungle harassing continued until the tower collapsed after the laning match.
Due to the players of Battle Angels who kept entering the opponent’s jungle based on the difference in gold and putting wards on them, the jungler of Cyber ​​Akuma, who knew all the movements, had to taste helplessness, which was not easy to jungle or gank.

Meanwhile.
In Korea, on the other side of the water from China, where the World Championship group stage is being held, there was an uproar.

[It’s finally done… ]
[Flutter—- Jumo!! Get down today!]
[Kya… This is the Battle Angels that MTG also beat hahaI want you guys to try it haha]
[It’s only a Japanese 3 seed team, but… It’s refreshing though.]
[No matter how 3 seeds are, they are losing overwhelmingly? You’re no match for both fighting and management.]
[It’s not fun in Japan. Go home.]
[Look at the jungler dying hahathis is the real Akuma haha]

Since it is a competition that has the characteristics of a national competition, I have no choice but to be more immersed than when I watch my own country competition.
Even more so, the interest of Korean users was higher than ever because it was the first group match in the confrontation between the two countries, which had a rival character.

“The Battle Angels are on their last breath!”
“GODOG entering! Sia hits in from the side, and Ryu pushes up from below! Where should Cyber ​​Akuma run?!”
“This teamfight was a decisive one! Cyber ​​Akuma is groggy!”

The commentators and casters also gave their comments with excitement.

The current structure of the World Championship felt like Crystal Snake from the US and Tintin Chimera from China.
In this situation, if a new force appeared, there was nothing more helpful to the box office than this.

The moment it was confirmed that the Battle Angels, who had been hoping for, were indeed a strong team, they were the ones who were more than happy.

“Battle Angels… Isn’t this enough to create a new championship candidate?!”
“I don’t know if they will be able to make it to the final stage, but one thing is for sure. It is not easy to lift the trophy this World Championship season!”

The gap in growth had already widened, and thanks to the weakening of Cyber ​​Akuma, the teamfights that followed ended very quickly.

Cyber ​​Akuma’s dealers fall back after fighting moderately because it doesn’t seem like it’s going to work.
On the other hand, the front line disappeared as a handful of ashes after throwing inish with all their might.

After winning the teamfight, the Battle Angels regrouped and entered Cyber ​​Akuma’s base.
In an instant, the suppressor tower collapsed, and the rotation and mowing began naturally.

Defeating an enemy you think has already lost the game is easier than twisting a child’s wrist.

Then it was too late to give up inhibitors and stop the million creeps pushing into the core.
In the end, Cyber ​​Akuma’s core explodes and Group A’s second match comes to an end.

Some of the commentators from each country were at a loss for words due to the shocking results of the match.

It was because of the content that I could feel the difference in level even just by looking at it.