Chapter 383 – 383. World Championship Tournament Stage Round of 16 (3)

The round of 16 match of the World Championship has begun.
Unlike the scrim match, I entered the capsule with Hwang Ji-yeon and prepared a strategy against Extreme Korea Telecom.

The battle format is BO5.
It was a best-of-five match.

In a multi-premise game, it is common to check the opponent’s style and skill with careful ban-picking in the first round.
This time, we also intended to follow the general case and bring a stable combination.

[BA Peace: It’s not difficult if you don’t make mistakes, so do it while being nervous!]

With Hwang Ji-yeon’s fighting, the first set of ban picks began.

The first thing the opponent who caught blue banned was blue dragon, which is known as a mandatory cut in the Korean league.
It was a characteristic of the Korean league to fight up and down while roaming frequently, so it’s best to ban if you don’t want to be bothered.

Our van followed the van pattern seen a lot in the ACK as the Hercules.
After that, we finished the ban by banning each other’s tier characters and looking at the liver.

When the character pick order came, the opponent immediately took the remaining tier characters.
It was the mid-Zeus.

[BA Peace: Let’s go with Basilisk and Hydra.]
[BA Wisdom: Yes.]

Our picks against him were the Basilisk, which had entry and initiation and an AoE CC ultimate, and the Hydra, which had a short range but could deal AoE burst damage.

When our 1st and 2nd picks were completed, the right to pick passed to Extreme Korea.
They also took characters that are good for shooting from a long distance, following Zeus.

It was support Gabriel and one dealer Helios.
It is a frequently used bot combination due to its strong early damage.

[BA Battle: We have to fight back with the character entering.]
[BA Peace: Then let’s go to the top Son Goku.]
[BA Battle: Okay.]

I thought about it for a while after inserting Son Goku, who was good at opening Inishi, in the tower.
It’s because when I thought about the opponent’s combination, I came up with a character that was completely effective.

[BA Battle: Let’s go to Frankenstein for the fourth character.]

Frankenstein, a strong tank with high stamina regeneration, was an appropriate character to fill the front line.
Furthermore, the opponent’s one-deal and mid-characters were dealers who used the range to deliver continuous deals.

There was a high probability that the deal would not be enough to melt Frankenstein.
The opponent’s remaining lines are top and jungle.

If I were to pick a sword character from the top, I would turn Frankenstein into mid, and if I were to pick a tank, I would send him up to the top so that he could grow without difficulty.

And at the end of the django, the opponent’s choice is.

[BA Peace: They must be thinking of sending Hades to the tower.]
[BA Battle: And Jungle Fenrir.]

Hades, a character who can go into the underworld with one opponent character and fight one-on-one with his ultimate skill, ‘Invitation to the Underworld’.
Moreover, it has a passive effect of reducing life regeneration, so it was an appropriate character to face Frankenstein.

However, if there is a downside, Hades is also an AP character.

Fenrir, who was selected as a jungler, seemed to be a choice to fill the lack of AD damage.

This leaves us with only one final pick.

The wall the opponent had built seemed thicker than expected.
There were many characters pushing forward on our side as well, but it can’t be helped that Hades’ invitation to the underworld, which can definitely mark one, is stepped on in the eyes.

[BA Peace: … What about the last character? Hermes?]

Hwang Ji-yeon also looked at me and asked if I hadn’t seen a sharp way to overcome this situation.
At that moment, a character passed through my mind like a fire.

[BA Battle: White Ah.]
[BA White: Yes!]
[BA Battle: I think you will be important in this edition.]
[BA White: Leave it to me!]

Since the last remaining position was support, Baek Ha-yan has to do something.
I took out the character I had in mind.

[BA Battle: Let’s do Aphrodite.]
[BA White: Yes!]

Enchant, Purify, Heal.
A utility type support character with three supporting skills.

I could have felt it was out of the blue given the combination of us who had to break through the opponent, but the angle I saw was a little different.
If only Hades could properly keep in check, he thought that no matter how much the opponent locked the door and poured out deals, he would not nod.

Team Battle Angels
Top: BA Battlewoman (Frankenstein)
Jungle : BA Wisdom (Basilisk)
MID: BA Sia (Son Goku)
AD Carry: BA Ryu (Hydra)
Support   : BA White (Aphrodite)

Team Extreme Korea Telecom
Top: XKT Rendezvous (Hades)
Jungle : XKT Finale (Fenrir)
MID : XKT Circle (Zeus)
AD Carry: XKT Rose’ (Helios)
Support : XKT Savior (Gabriel)

The ban picks were all completed and the game started.

The initial situation went smoothly without any major variables.

Our bot had no choice but to crouch thanks to the strong bot composition of the opponent, but it didn’t matter as Frankenstein was steadily growing as planned.

‘If we go into the second half, we are bound to win unconditionally.’

For almost 10 minutes, time passes without much engagement.
Then the first battle finally took place in front of the first Buddha.

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When the Battle Angels picked up Aphrodite, the Korean broadcasters forgot their comment for a moment.

It was because he hadn’t guessed what kind of picture he saw and chose Aphrodite.

“Ah… “

Then commentator Park Jin-woo let out a short sigh.

“Aphrodite has a single target purification skill. I think you’re trying to keep Hades in check with that?”
“I don’t think that would be easy… “

However, it was Kim Nam-jin, the same commentator, who raised questions about his interpretation.

“As Park Jin-woo said in the commentary, it is true that Hades’ ultimate skill, ‘Invitation to the Underworld’, is solved by purification. However, it is useless after the ultimate has already been cast, and I know that it is only possible during the brief moment when Hades casts the ultimate.”

In the arena, there was also an item with a purification skill that dispels harmful effects on you.
However, the purification obtained as an item could not solve Hades’ ultimate ability.

On the other hand, Aphrodite’s Purification was able to cancel the invitation to the Underworld, but allies who have already been hit by the ultimate cannot use the skill.

In other words, it means that you can hit the counter only when Hades uses the ultimate skill and aims for the timing to take the ally.

“Reaction speed is also reaction speed, but it can be seen as more difficult because you have to aim only when using the ultimate near Hades.”
“It seems like a bold choice. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if it works the way we think.”

The game started with commentators’ explanations.
The beginning passed without incident.

After that, the engagement took place after 10 minutes by Extreme Korea, who tried the late Buddha.

“Extreme is trying to attack Buddha based on bot initiative.”
“Good timing caught off guard. It seems that the Battle Angels are only going to keep you in check?”

Since Extreme Korea called in Hades from the top to watch the teamfight, the Battle Angels without the teleportation of the top laners were unable to actively fight Shia and were hanging around on the sidelines.
The extreme that bursts the Buddha boldly just in time.

The Battle Angels tried to block the raid by hastily closing the distance, but thanks to the skills that Extreme’s dealers threw at them, their stamina went down a lot.
Because he couldn’t conquer the bush step by step and tried to enter all at once, he had no choice but to get hit by the skill to avoid normally.

Wisdom, who managed to narrow the distance, put a ward into the Buddha’s lair, but at that moment, a message came to mind that the Buddha had been eliminated.

“Retreat! Retreat! Extreme’s burst was faster than I thought!”

The Battle Angels scatter and run away with the urgent cries of commentators.
Extreme with momentum wanted everything at this time, so they spurred the pursuit.

But that was Extreme’s misjudgment.
Basically, Extreme took a defensive combination, and Battle Angels was full of characters with good initiation and entry, so it was easy to counterattack even after running away.

“Basilisk is in!”
“Hydra fluidization!”
“Here is Son Goku’s ultimate skill!”
“Extreme! We have to run away! I chased it because it was too much!”

Somehow, he succeeded in catching Aphrodite of the fallen player White, but thanks to that, the formation was broken and he was defeated by the Battle Angels who entered a beat late.

Frankenstein was still pushing the tower, and considering that Aphrodite was caught first, it was actually a 3 vs. 5 match, but he succeeded in realizing the exchange of benefits with an amazing ultimate link and Ryu’s free deal.

“It was a big deal… It’s a big deal! Frankenstein is growing so free!”
“Ah… There is no deal on the extreme side to catch Frankenstein! When you grow up like this, even if you beat me all day, I won’t be able to kill you!”
“Then, just as we planned in the first place! We have no choice but to take Frankenstein as Hades invites us to the underworld, and block the incoming Battle Angels well!”
“But… That’s why you have Aphrodite’s purification skill!”

Hades counter hit with Aphrodite, which seemed too difficult to use according to the conditions.
However, as the situation progressed, the mood was completely reversed.

For fear that Aphrodite would block the invitation to the underworld, he was not allowed to use his ultimate skill recklessly.