Chapter 387 – 387. World Championship Tournament Stage Round of 16 (7)

In order to shoot an arrow at a high angle, it was necessary to have a field of view in the area.
And, of course, the positions that play the most important role in vision are support and jungle.

In addition, if you limit this to the early game, the role of the jungler is very large.
This means that if you can control only the opponent’s jungle, you don’t have to be afraid of arrows flying from nowhere, at least in the beginning.

Coincidentally, our jungle and mid duo were the sister duo of Lee Ji-hye and Lee Ji-ah, who were famous for their good compatibility within the team.
One was physically good enough to take diamonds only physically, even when he had no knowledge of the game at all, and the other was a top-notch among intelligent junglers.

I first picked a mid character.

[BA Battle: Mid, let’s go to Heimdall.]

After level 6, Bifrost was a Heimdall with high control over the entire map with his global ultimate.
Then, pick the top line character and leave the jungle side as the last pick.

[BA Battle: Top is Guan-Woo.]

Unlike Yeo Po, the tower also firmly takes the lead by putting Kwan Woo, not just a sword character.
The next opponent’s last pick.

With Mid and Jungle remaining, Extreme Korea selected Blue Dragon as Mid, which could follow Heimdall’s roaming, and chose Cockatrice as Jungle, probably thinking that Inish was lacking.

Now only our final jungle pick remains.
The opposing mid-jungle was not a very good combination for a 2v2 fight.

If so, it became easier to sweep the opponent’s jungle by picking a character like a gangster from the jungle.

‘Then… ‘

The character to be drawn from the jungle has been decided.

[BA Battle: Let’s go to Thanatos.]

Thanatos, the god of death.
It was a character that could build up stats if you succeeded in killing a sentinel or character you wrote down in your list.

As those stats pile up one by one, Thanatos gets stronger.
His passive skills were very good, so he had to never give stats to the opponent’s jungle.

‘That’s why, if there is no line leadership, it will be impossible to stop Thanatos from growing.’

Team Battle Angels
Top       : BA Battlewoman (Gwan Woo)
Jungle : BA Wisdom (Thanatos)
MID: BA Sia (Heimdall)
AD Carry: BA Ryu (Hydra)
Support   : BA White (Hermes)

Team Extreme Korea Telecom
Top: XKT Rendezvous (Surt)
Jungle : XKT Finale (Cockatrice)
MID : XKT Circle (Blue Dragon)
AD Carry : XKT Rose’ (Hwangchung)
Support : XKT Savior (Demeter)

After all bans and picks were completed, we left the game with only the players left.

And the match that could be the last of 16 started soon after.

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When both teams’ picks were finalized, the commentators couldn’t hide their excitement.

“A lot of characters came out that were too important. Bottom is important, jungle is important, top and mid are important!”
“In the end, everything matters!”
“To sum up, yes! But!! Among them, the most important position would be the jungle, right?!”
“How much can you hold Jungle Thanatos in check on the extreme side? It looks like that fight!”

Unusual picks came out one by one in all lines, and Jungle Thanatos in particular was a very challenging pick.

It was even said that if both teams lost, it was because of the ban pick.

Soon after, the game begins.

As soon as Extreme Korea Telecom came out of the base, it immediately moved towards the opponent’s jungle.
The early fight was not weak, so it seemed that he was probably thinking of getting out of the ward.

Extreme Korea players digging into the jungle under the red formation.
Player White, who was guarding the place, saw them appearing in the dark and quickly fell back.

After patrolling the lower jungle once, Extreme Korea set up wards in the camp where the buff sentinels were regenerated and started to come out individually.
The four players fell into the jungle on the blue side and scattered, and only the top laner, who had a long way to go, hid in a bush near the river in the center and boarded the return.

It was at that time that the hydra’s poison was brought to the rendezvous player who was returning alone.

[XKT Rendezvous: Huh?!]

With his brief, embarrassing scream, the Battle Angels players piled outside the bush.
Being on top of the hydra’s poison, he fell under the silence debuff, so he couldn’t blink or use his skills.

CC and pursuit skills linked in an instant.

Battle Woman’s Guan Yu, who received the movement speed buff from Hermes, brandished the blue dragon sword like mad.

[First take place]

And that last hit was exactly taken by Thanatos.

A deep silence hung over Extreme Korea Telecom.
It felt like cold water was splashed into the atmosphere full of fighting spirit to do something properly.

[XKT Rose’: … Are you okay. Let’s unwind slowly. If you take the initiative in the jungle and put pressure on it, you will be able to suppress growth.]
[XKT Rendezvous: Ah… Sorry sorry. I’ll definitely do a solo kill at the real tower.]
[XKT Rose’: Don’t push yourself too hard.]

Still, Rosé encouraged his teammates to prevent the atmosphere from getting low and enter before the line.
He was a rendezvous player who spoke with great spirit, but thanks to being taken first, he was late in returning to the top line, and thanks to that, he had no choice but to use teleport.

It was not an easy start no matter who saw it, and it was a situation where someone had to do it.
The one who rolled up his sleeves was the jungle finale player.

Before building his stats, he planned to retaliate economically by punishing Thanatos, who was on the weak side.

The problem was that Thanatos, who had already eaten 1 kill and accumulated 1 stat, quickly passed Thanatos in a generally weak state.

[XKT Finale: Huh?!]

This time, the embarrassing voice of the finale player was heard.
After making a round that only covered the main camp in our jungle, I was in a situation where I headed towards the opponent’s Buff Sentinel.

The rationale was that Thanatos’ slow jungle ring speed and speculation that he would run full cam, he thought he would not have reached the first camp that had just been regenerated.
But is it because Thanatos ate 1 kill?

When the finale player was eating the opponent’s jungle monster that had just been regenerated, Thanatos jumped out from the bush and attacked.
It was much faster than expected, and the difference between items was wide.

[XKT Circle: Huh? No opponent mid!]

After hearing the finale player’s voice, the midfield circle player finally informed them that Battle Angels’ Shia had disappeared.
Still, considering he was in the mid lane just a moment ago, he must have left the line not too long ago.

It seemed that the intended purpose could be achieved if only the jungle monsters were quickly removed and escaped.
However, Thanatos’ scythe was busy directly attacking the finale player whether he ate the jungle monster or not.

Something went wrong.
After getting hit by the scythe a few times and seeing the unusual damage, the finale player realized that he had to get out of there quickly.

His health bar dropped to less than half because he was attacked one-sidedly by the opponent.
He hurriedly ran away, but it seemed that he could not run away smoothly because of the player Shia who was blocking his retreat.

The finale player used Blink without delay.
He decided to take a good route to escape quickly rather than wasting time saving blinking.

But at that moment, he discovers that the escape route is cut off by Heimdall’s skill.
Heimdall was able to set up an imaginary wall that only he could pass through, and he had set it up in advance, anticipating his escape route before sending reinforcements into the jungle.

‘Ah… ‘

I was totally blown away by the design.
It was a super play by the opponent who could feel the wall.

In the same way, Heimdall, who jumped over using blink, and Thanatos, who could pass through walls, came close.
The finale player tried to resist to the end, but there was nothing he could do.

In the end, he unexpectedly allowed the second stat to Thanatos.

Usually Thanatos surpasses the power of other ordinary jungle characters from the moment he accumulates 3 stats.
Of course, he was also talking about after at least 20 minutes had passed.

If 2 stats are accumulated in less than 10 minutes, it is said that the game has exploded.

“…”

No words could be heard in Extreme Korea’s voice.
Rosé, who encouraged the team until the 1st kill, couldn’t say that it was okay anymore.

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In the official relay broadcast of the league, replays were coming out for a while.

[BA Wisdom: Even if you come back, stop here.]
[BA Sia: Yes.]

The design started from the order of Wisdom player.

She went in and worked out her deal exchange as if she knew her opponent would enter her own jungle.
And the moment the opponent saw Heimdall returning, they locked themselves in the blink of an eye to the point she had predicted exactly.

“Wiz the oh oh oh oh!!”

Two stats of Thanatos that were accumulated in an instant.
Known as fear itself in the ACK League, the two mid and jungle sister duos are also showing their strength on the international stage.

After that, Thanatos, who had become a monster, began to enter his opponent’s jungle like mad.

Since the Battle Angels dominated all lines from mid to top and bottom, there was no pressure to enter the jungle of Extreme Korea.
And the moment Heimdall hits level 6.

[Heimdall → Surt]

Another incident occurred at the tower.
Heimdall quickly appeared behind Surtur using his level 6 ultimate skill, and in conjunction with Battle Woman’s Guan Yu, he succeeded in adding 1 kill without difficulty.

Not only that.
The finale player who had been eating buff sentinels for a while.
Sure enough, a Wisdom player who was impatient to play car games appeared, and at the moment, he was furious and exchanged deals.

However, after being beaten several times by Thanatos, a monster with 2 kills and 2 stats, he had no choice but to roll his tail.

“Wait… ! Killing this?!”

I tried to escape even belatedly, but I couldn’t escape from Thanatos, who was able to pass through the wall and still had the ability to blink, and even took the ultimate skill.
With this, he accumulated 3 stats.

“Ahh… What to do with this… !!”
“Is that too cruel? The entire line is being smashed!”
“The level difference between jungles is ridiculous. Wisdom player is level 6, but Finale player is still level 4!”
“The really scary thing is that the current Thanatos is much stronger than the previous Thanatos. Now, Finale players won’t even be able to meet Wisdom players’ eyes.”

The game, in which anyone could see the outcome, was running toward the end.