Chapter 378 – 378. Special Training (7)

When Aphrodite first became a ban, Coach Mesa put on a puzzled look.

“Why?”

Aphrodite, who is used as a support in most cases, has not been in the limelight lately.
As a utility supporter, she was a versatile character that was useful in various situations thanks to her purifying skill that dispels allies’ debuffs and a skill that restores a small amount of physical strength during the CC period that casts enchantment.

In addition, the ultimate is a wide-area CC skill that charms nearby enemies in large quantities!

Thanks to these skills, it was possible to make a super play and a super save.
However, due to his low physical strength, he was vulnerable to assassin characters, and his ability to deal was at the lowest level, so his ability to engage in laning battles was also very poor.

What we can expect is the ability to respond when an ally gangs up and one-deal support in teamfights, plus the ultimate hit or single-target mads ability.

Even that, if the enemy was the first to target Aphrodite, she had no choice but to die without doing anything with a high probability.

Therefore, banning Aphrodite, which does not suit the current meta, is not possible from a common sense point of view.
However, I noticed Hwang Ji-yeon’s intentions and explained briefly.

“I didn’t ban because of the charm.”

Coach Mesa and head coach Seong-Pil Park focused their eyes on me.

“I got banned because of the purification skill.”

Aphrodite’s abilities are mostly focused on how well she uses her charm skills, but so-called artisans used to tell a completely different story.
The most important skill in playing Aphrodite is purification.

He was also the only one who had a purification skill that canceled single-target debuffs among all the characters in the arena as a normal skill.

Coach Mesa asked in succession.

“Then, is the CC machine going to make a strong combination?”
“It won’t be either.”

There is no need to ban Aphrodite if you choose a combination that considers CC linking.
I would pick a lot of characters with CC skills, so why ban a character who can only unlock one CC skill?
Rather, it was right to ban a tanker character with resistance to CC.

I have told you what I guess.

“I’m trying to do a character whose CC is very important.”
“Ah… Then it must be Loki.”
“I guess so.”

Loki, the god of mischief in Norse mythology.
His ability in the arena was none other than mutation.
Whether it’s an ally character or an enemy character, you can transform it to hide your true face or turn it into a small creature and make it a fool.

“I wonder how quickly Mad Tiger will find out.”

Coach Mesa looked at coach Seongpil Park and said.
Director Park Seong-pil, who was watching the monitor, had his arms crossed and a serious expression on his face.

Then it was Mad Tiger Gaming’s turn to ban.
As expected, Ryu Seo-yoon’s Artemis, which can be said to be our team’s most pick, is cut.

“Didn’t I notice, or is it that I’m confident that I can use Loki?”
“Well… Maybe he thinks Loki is worth a try.”

As we share our opinions, the next van from Battle Angels follows.
Prometheus with the Detect skill becomes a ban.

“And… If this is enough, is it openly Loki angle? I used two ban cards to use Loki, isn’t it better to just ban Loki?”

I also agreed with coach Mesa, but the spare coach at Mad Tiger Gaming didn’t seem to think so.
Mad Tiger Gaming also used the last ban card on Hong Gil-dong, one of Battle Angels’ most picks.

“Hmm… “

Director Park Seong-pil’s silence continued.
I didn’t seem to like Mad Tiger Gaming’s ban-picking attitude, which seemed to ask me to try it if there was something prepared.

Meanwhile, the Battle Angels’ final ban follows.
Mad Tiger Gaming often uses it, and Zeus, which is good in the current meta, ends up being banned.

Next comes the pick order.
Early picks for both teams starting with decent mid and jungle characters.

It was when I picked the 4th character that my true color was revealed.

Battle Angels’ 3rd and 4th picks.
They really pulled out Rocky with the 4th pick.

“Supporter Lokira… Are you saying you want to give up on the line?”
“Since I caught the Hydra with one deal, I’m just going to hold on.”

I answered coach Mesa’s questions and waited for the next pick.
Mad Tiger Gaming also brought out characters that were not usually taken out only for the last 4 and 5 picks.

In the tower, Yeo Bu appeared, and in the AD, Chiron was selected.
Chiron is a half-human, half-animal monster with the lower half of a horse and the upper half of a human. In addition to his fast movement speed, he is specialized in fighting by fooling opponents with long-range attacks such as bows and javelins.

As a character that has been in the limelight lately, it seemed that he could be used sufficiently in the World Championship.

The last character of Battle Angels that followed was a bit shocking.
This was probably a character I never thought of in Mad Tiger Gaming.

“Do you play Beelzebub?”

Coach Mesa also said something absurd.
Beelzebub, known as the king of Paris and the demon of disease, was a character that could only be seen occasionally in Solange, but would never appear in tournaments.

The reason was because of Beelzebub’s unique skills.
In the tournament, no matter what, the team that overpowers the opponent through teamfights and grows steadily has the upper hand.
Various objects and high-value jungle monsters make it difficult to win the game except for teamfights.

However, Beelzebub is one of the few installable characters in Arena.
It was also a character that set disease traps and gave dot damage to enemies that stepped on them.

The reason why it was not used well in the competition was because of the passive nature of the installation type character and the big disadvantage of requiring some time to prepare in advance.

For example, assuming that an object teamfight is taking place, you have to go to the place in advance and set up traps and wait for the opponent to step on it.

So, in fact, the way installation type characters are often used is often operated through split push.
It was a form of setting up lots of traps on the top line and sucking in opponents, while the rest of the team benefited.

“Aren’t you ignoring us too much?”

Director Park Seong-pil smiled and asked.
Coach Mesa also had a worried face, thinking that our combination was a fun game pick to fool the opponent.

But I trusted Hwang Ji-yeon and our players.

I looked at director Park Seong-pil and said.

“You know Jiyeon’s personality.”
“…”
“He’s a guy who can’t even sleep because he gets angry if he doesn’t win. Would a kid like that pick a fun game?”
“…Hmm… “

Director Park Seong-pil nodded slowly, as if he couldn’t deny my words.

Soon after, the game started.
Our team’s early strength fight, which included Loki and Beelzebub, was at a lower level that could not be expressed in words as the worst, so we settled down as a position to thoroughly defend against invaders.

Mad Tiger Gaming shoved his head in and entered the friendly jungle as if it were natural, but he had no choice but to compromise and retreat to the point where he only hit his ward.

In the laning match, Battle Angels dominates the top, mid is half and half, and Mad Tiger Gaming dominates the bottom.
Beelzebub was a stronger laning character than I thought.
In particular, if the opponent is a melee AD character, you can make them breathless with blinding attacks and long-distance kiting.

Mad Tiger Gaming’s top laner, Carrieman, was full of spirit and good until he chose Yeopo, but he was hit by Beelzebub before the line and fell all the way to the tower.

Jungler Beyond, who saw that, started slowly moving up to the top line while catching the upper line.
He seemed to be thinking of simply skimming through the main objects and going for a gank that stabbed him in the top line.

However, as Carrie Man’s physical strength dropped significantly before that, she had no choice but to stop with line cover play, and Battle Angels got a chance by stealing the opponent’s ganking timing once.

Lee Ji-hye used the opportunity to cover the bottom line.
It made a little bit of breathing space in a situation where I was under pressure because of Loki, who couldn’t do anything in the laning match.

Even after that, the sight of Mad Tiger Gaming attacking and the Battle Angels covering continued to unfold.
When Mad Tiger’s mid and jungle attacked the bottom one after another, Battle Angels’ mid and jungle came down and blocked the dive.

And as time passed, the kill score was the same, 3 to 3.
Finally, Baek Ha-yan, who had been growing by receiving lines from the bottom line, began to move.

Loki’s transformation skill allows him to use it not only on himself or his enemies, but also on his allies.
So what she chose was to transform Lee Ji-hye into her creep.

When you see Loki on the other side, the first thing you suspect is the enemy team who has transformed into a creep!
However, when you play the game, there are situations where you know and get hit.

Han Yu-na presses her opponent’s mid laner and pushes her into her tower.
Afterwards, she rushes into a dive with Baek Ha-yeon.

It was a tower dive between mid and support, so it wasn’t as neat as I thought.
Perhaps thanks to Mad Tiger Gaming’s midfielder, Major, who handled it calmly, Han Yu-na, who was targeted by the tower, was in danger.

When Yuna Han, who failed to kill her opponent’s mid laner, runs away with her daughter blood, the only one left to attack him is Baek Ha-yeon, her support.

It is a double kill angle.
Perhaps a major player would have thought so.

It was at that time that Lee Ji-hye, who had transformed into a creep, appeared.
The situation quickly changed from a two-person dive to a three-person dive.
The important thing was that the major player, who was excited about the counterattack, caught up with Yuna Han, who was running away, even using flash.

[First take place]

The first response was very good, but Major, who was restless until the end, collapsed.
It was fishing that I had no choice but to be aware of.

The fishing play using Loki continued even after that.
The ability to transform allies went well with the jungle.

Lee Ji-hye of the jungle always appears when you think you are outnumbered.
She even came down to Sook-Hee Heo, who she thought was in the tower, to fish.

“And… Isn’t this a bit dirty?”

Coach Mesa muttered in disbelief.
She was really good at watching her non-stop fishing, so she got tired of even me, who was on the same team.

Simply making a fishing jackpot was not the purpose of the transformation.
She was just pretending to be a harmless supporter, and then it turned out that she was a mid laner.

But the true catastrophe has not yet begun.

A message popped up in-game.
It was the message that the first turret on the top line had collapsed.

“Uh… ? When did the top gap become so large?”

While Mad Tiger Gaming was not paying attention to the top line, Beelzebub, who had grown up by constantly harassing Yeo Bu, was fortifying the top line without realizing it.