Chapter 402 – 402. Being a Pro (1)

The main line in AOS games for gamers who are known to have good physicality is the mid.
One deal was also a position often chosen by physical users, but there was another difference from the mid-line.

In the case of characters used as one-handed players, most of them have poor survivability.
There were a lot of characters with no mobility, and even if they had survival skills, there were many cases where they were conditional or unable to cross the wall.

That’s why there were many cases where positions that could protect or sacrifice like a supporter were supported, and the main role in teamfights was to survive and pour deals.
If you think about it a little differently, there are cases where teammates in other positions can win even if they literally deal stakes if they do initiation, tanking, and support properly.

Obviously, physical was an important position, but thanks to this, the stigma of getting only spoons from the table is attached.

But the mid lane is obviously different.
The characters that can be used are endless.
As a result, the role within the team changes in various ways.

If you catch an assassin character, your role is to cut the opponent’s dealer,
If you catch a poking character, you have to hit the skills well to succeed in overpowering the baseline.

If you catch a mage-type character, you have to tow the team so that it doesn’t fall behind in the power struggle of the early and mid-levels.
You can also choose a tank or support character to secure the tanking power and utility that your team lacks.

This means that depending on the character you choose, there are times when you need to show extreme physical strength.

The opponent’s first pick follows.
Artemis, one of the good picks in AD, comes out.

No matter how much effort was put into keeping the midfielder in check, it seems burdensome until the first pick.

Our first and second picks continued.

I asked Lee Ji-ah for a carry-type mid laner for this set.

[BA Battle: Let’s go to Uriel.]
[BA GODOG: I’ll pick Uriel.]

Uriel, who can be called Mage’s standard pick, came out.
As a character who wields a flashy sword of fire and pushes for powerful combos, he became tanky in the middle and had the strength to carry.

Moreover, it doesn’t have a lot of compatibility, so there’s not much pressure even if it’s a mid-pick.
The second one was the one-hander Helios.

It was a good pick because of its long range and strong laning.
Moreover, his survivability is good, so he is resistant to the opponent’s midfielder’s assassin pick.

[BA Peace: I think we should think about making the game longer.]
[BA Battle: Yes. Let’s pick a pick with a little higher value in the top.]

Opponent’s second and third picks begin.
And their mid-characters who appear without hesitation.

As expected, the opponent picked mid Susanoo.
Among gamers, it was an important character to play brilliantly enough to have a proper noun called ‘Susanoo Chung’.

Of course, no character was as powerful as Susanoo if he fought properly.
CC is great too, dildo is powerful.
In addition to that, the character of all-round beauty with survival skills, wide-area ultimate skills, and even combos.

The split push is strong, the assassination is strong, and the teamfight is also strong.

Of course, all of this was only if the player did well.
If you don’t play it properly, it turns into a character that is useless to anyone and requires a lot of work.

The opponent then pulls out the Tower Jormungand.
When I saw that pick, I couldn’t help but put on a bitter expression.

It was because when the opponent picked Susanoo, the character I tried to pick to counter him was Jormungandr.
Jormungandr, a giant snake, is easy to control a specific character with his unique skill, ‘Swallow’.

The swallowed enemy had to be confined in Jormungandr’s stomach for a certain amount of time, and in the meantime, ending the teamfight was a plan that worked quite well.

[BA Battle: I can’t help it. Let’s pick Loki as a supporter.]

I kept Susanoo in check by choosing Loki who could play a similar role to Jormungand.
And for the top line, as I thought earlier, I chose Goblin, a character with high value in the second half.

The goblin, who gets stronger by stacking up, may be weak at first, but later on, it was a character that grew into a great dexterity.
Its strong damage tang is also a good counter to Assassins.

No matter how splendidly Susanoo cuts, there were many cases where he was in a dying state with just one stroke of a well-stacked goblin’s bat.

Opponents who see him pick Fenrir and Demeter for the last 4 or 5 picks.
It was Fenrir, an aggressive jungler, and Demeter, a supportive supporter who could make allies stronger with buffs.

With this, we only have a jungle character who can match the breath with mid laner Lee Ji-ah.
Looking at the overall composition of the opponent, it felt like the lower body was stable and the upper body overturned the teamfight.

Then, this side also needed to choose a character that has been used frequently recently, is good for teamfights, and is good at countering incoming opponents.
Cockatrice, which Jihye Lee often uses, appeared as the last character in the first set.

[BA Peace: Since there are goblins, I think I can go to the second half without overdoing it.]
[BA Battle: It won’t be difficult if you take the initiative in the mid early. Wisdom does a good mid-cover.]
[BA Wisdom: Yes.]

I came out of the capsule while listening to the voices of the nervous girls.
Then, an eardrum-paining shout came from the surroundings.

Fans seemed to have high expectations for the first match of the quarterfinals.

But from my point of view, I’ve already done everything I can.
Now, just like the audience, all that remains is to watch until the end of the game.

Team Battle Angels
Top: BA GODOG (Goblin)
Jungle : BA Wisdom (cockatrice)
MID: BA Sia (Uriel)
AD Carry: BA Ryu (Helios)
Support   : BA White (Loki)

Team Best E-Sports
Top: BES 7890 (Jormungand)
Jungle : BES Xian (Fenrir)
MID: BES Hua (Susanoo)
AD Carry: BES Chan9 (Artemis)
Support : BES 30Jc (Demeter)

I went to the center of the field to represent the team.
An old man was slowly walking out from the BES side as well.

It seems that he is probably the director of BES.
I heard that he was a very famous gamer in China.
I didn’t know who it was because I wasn’t interested in the genre.

“…”

The two of us faced each other in the center of the stage.
I first reached out and asked for a handshake.

Then he slowly reached out his hand and held my hand.

‘Huh?’

But then I felt something being sucked into my hand.
In terms of texture, it was like a piece of paper.

At the same time, his serious eyes enter his gaze.
It was a look that signaled that something serious was going on.

I turned around casually and headed for the waiting room.

She didn’t know what it was, but she tried not to show it because it seemed like she meant to secretly open the note.

And finally, the first set match of the quarterfinals began.

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Battle Angels’ second mid laner, Sia, was in the same daze this match as before.
Every match so far had been the same, but she didn’t know the feeling of tension.

She was never more nervous because she used to win easily even if she didn’t have a desperate mindset, but it was also because she had a personality with very little emotional change.

And it was the same this time that she felt like she was never going to lose.

As she feels, her own older sister, Lee Ji-hye, is invincible.
Also, her teammates were taking off the myth of undefeated invincibility.

‘I’ll win again… I should be praised.’

She had no particular obsession with winning like this, but there was at least one driving force behind her that made her game immersive.
It was the coach’s praise after winning the match.

Her heart skipped a beat when he acknowledged her at once, more than the words she said about her on the Internet or the sentences that praised herself in her various media.
So, if she was looking for a reason to win in this match, she was to be praised by him.

[BA Wisdom: In the beginning, we will focus on the mid lane, so consider the other side.]
[BA Ryu: Oki!]

With the order from Jihye Lee, her older sister, a full-fledged line war begins.

Hua stealthily appears in the opponent’s midfield.
In fact, during her professional career, Lee Ji-ah had only one hand to memorize the names of her opponents.

She wasn’t interested in anyone but the people around her.

Her opponent’s character is Susanoo, who she also handles quite well.
Thanks to her, she also knew how to deal with it.

As Uriel, who had a long-distance attack, it was necessary to keep Susanoo in check as much as possible.
As planned, she fired a flat attack whenever an opponent came within range.

In the arena, the early normal attacks were enough for her to avoid if she concentrated.
Her Hua player started to disturb her by going back and forth between her creeps.

Thanks to that, her average hit rate dropped terribly.
Rather, attacking the opponent with a combination of skills and normal hits, it becomes like pushing only the line, which makes the opponent’s line battle easier.

In order to pressure the line, it was necessary to slowly push the line, gather creeps and drive them into the opponent’s tower, but now there are only a few creeps left that are good enough to eat.

‘I don’t think we should do it this way… ‘

She had always played her games sensibly, so she felt something out of place in her current situation.
And just then, her opponent came at her, crossing between her lines at breakneck speed.

‘Huh?’

Did the jungler come?
She tried to exchange deals with her opponent while moving as much as possible.

However, her stamina began to dwindle in comparison to her opponent’s splendid physicality.
Her opponent’s jungler could appear at any time, so she had to pay her attention to it, which made her intimidated.

[BA Wisdom: I’m going mid. Opponent jungle can come too.]

Because she was nervous about her opponent’s overwhelming physicality, she couldn’t even hear her sister’s free ping.
She unleashes skill combos on her opponents with intense focus to the point where hairs all over her body stand out.

At that moment, Hua flashes over the skill and counterattacks.
At the same time, the opponent’s 6th level is taken.

‘Uh… ’

Along with the feeling of floating, Susanoo’s blades came in succession.
And the first kill in the quarterfinals comes out.

[An ally has been attacked. Susanoo → Uriel]