Chapter 31: Circus Aspirants

It’s obvious, but the most dangerous thing in-game is getting excited.

Pings keep being placed on the large monster, Baron, but I continued to give instructions calmly.

“First, everyone who respawned, go and get vision, and eat the opponent’s buff monster.”

The indication that the opponent had killed the large monster came up just before, so they must be slower at getting vision than we are, who are going straight out.

“We’re not hitting Baron?”
“Why would we hit that now?”

I rebuked Strike, who was eating minions in the mid lane, and pushed the bottom lane and recalled.

A double cannon is a double cannon for a reason.

The opponent’s mid laner was cut, but the rest, including the opponent’s AD Carry, are intact, and the support will respawn soon, and the skill that started the engagement earlier was the opponent’s support’s ultimate, so the cooldown must have been back long ago.

It means the opponent also has something to say.

[They’re not hitting Baron right away here!]

[The first thing that changed after True came to ST3 is the clear concept of turns, you know? Now ST is clearly gaining an advantage by demolishing the opponent’s tower, and by the way, they’re trying to give the opponent an OX quiz!]

[Isn’t this what ST1 is good at?]

[Will we hit this now or not? They checked the vision once using a ward, but that’s a consumable item! It’s not infinite!]

The opponent’s tower dismantling is over, and now all that’s left is to force the opponent to check whether we’re hitting Baron or not.

[With this, Milky Way’s macro becomes painful.]

[Now they’re pushing the minions from the inside, but if they go over halfway, they don’t know where ST will suddenly pop out!]

[Especially, Bell already did vision work in the bottom Twisted Treeline while watching True? So now the Twisted Treeline is just horror for Milky Way! They don’t know who will die if they go in!]

[And to say to the support, go and die! There’s no one to initiate except the support and top! Moreover, except for True, ST has all Flashes on, and Malphite doesn’t even have Flash, so it’s a bit lacking to force an initiation!]

The only consolation we got thanks to Strike standing at attention and exploding is that we didn’t even have time to react, so Flash is still alive.

And with our AD Carry’s physicals, he can react to Malphite’s ultimate coming from dark vision.

[All combinations have weaknesses, and usually, in a losing situation, that’s highlighted, right?]

[It’s the moment when the weakness of the Milky Way combination is highlighted.]

[Compared to that, ST can block forced entry with Bell’s 1++ grade Korean beef, and if they don’t come in, they can just engage, right?]

[The situation will be very frustrating for Milky Way now.]

Now, what we do from now on is very simple.

The opponent pushed the lane more than halfway?

Fluke, the top laner, goes and quickly clears the lane and disappears.

In the current situation, Milky Way controlling all three lanes of minions is the same as saying kill me.

At best, they can only manage the mid and top, that is, the area near the upper Twisted Treeline where the Baron monster is.

Then, due to the nature of the champion Fluke picked, he can easily clear two lanes using his movement speed, and the rest of our team, including me, become invisible.

[Are they hitting it this time!]

[Ah! Not this time either!]

[Milky Way fleeing to avoid the chasing bear! From the moment they fail to hunt the bear and become the prey, the injuries only pile up!]

[They have to go home again!]

So, in a situation where we quiz the opponent several times about whether we’re hitting the Baron monster.

“Now hit it.”
“But where are you going?”
“I’ll go to the bottom and draw some aggro.”

If they don’t come, I’ll push one inhibitor, if only one opponent comes, no matter which champion it is, I’ll win, and if two come, we can just burst the Baron monster.

And at this point, the fatigue accumulated by the opponent cannot be ignored.

When I, who was always invisible, appeared, the opponent had no choice but to make a complacent judgment.

[Huh? True is going down and Fluke showed up pushing the lane in the top?]

[Milky Way is turning around from Baron and going for a side split!]

[Argh! They were fooled! Even if only Strike is there, they can burst this, you know? Of course, it’s faster if Fluke or True is there, but it’s not that slow either!]

[It’s already at half health! Milky Way’s hunter is diligently farming monsters below! With this, they definitely got it!]

The sight of Zhao Xin, the opponent’s hunter, coming down is visible on the ward that Bell had deeply hidden.

Since I absolutely won’t lose in a one-on-one with this much item difference, that appearance itself is proof that he’s not alone.

“I’ll shake my tail a bit and go back, so burst it and gather in mid.”

So I said that and pushed the lane first, leaving some minions in the rear.

Then the opponent appeared in masse.

[This is crossing the line! That’s what Milky Way seems to be saying!]

[They saw everyone gathered in mid, so where are you pushing bottom!]

The auto-attacks of Tristana, who first rushed in and started kiting at an appropriate distance from me, block two or three using the passive shield, and I escape from the range of the opponent’s support’s stun skill by riding a minion.

[Why is this guy so sturdy?]

[It’s not the extreme damage Yasuo that we saw in solo queue, that is, a simple champion that lives by the sword and dies by the sword.]

[Ah! This guy built defense items! How do you catch this in that combination where there’s only AD!]

[And even the damage…wow! As soon as Tristana gave distance, she was instantly at half health!]

[There’s no conversation! She rushed in first, but why is Tristana’s Flash out!]

Now it’s time for the opponent’s skill cooldown to come back.

This time, I use the wall to minimize movement, and just mindlessly rush in and slash with auto-attacks and Q.

[Not to mention Tristana, even Milky Way’s support is just too soft for this guy now!]

[Zhao Xin tries to lift him up for a moment, but it’s meaningless!]

[Why is there no Yasuo on our team! Zhao Xin is frustrated!]

In a chaotic situation, I stir up the opponent’s three and hit them, and when the kill angle comes out, I throw the wind.

There was no Flash, and the wind that flew to Tristana, who couldn’t kill me and whose movement skill was on cooldown, hit accurately.

Now, from now on, it’s not the opponent hunting me, it’s me choosing any one of the two.

[Argh! Another solo kill!]

[With this, Bisaaaaang! No, not even an emergency, what more can Milky Way do here!]

[The main force is also helplessly pushed!]

[Milky Way, Jinx tries to deal damage diligently, but Sejuani is just ticklish!]

[Why is ST so fat!]

The next was one-sided.

While I was playing with two people without damage in the bottom and catching the support, the other four pushed through the mid.

[Twin towers! At least the last struggle at the tower!]

Jinx, who was dealing damage from between the towers, believing in the towers, was immediately hit by the bear’s ultimate and torn apart.

[Argh! The bear that shows its presence in the last teamfight!]

[This bear tears people apart!]

[ST was asking OX quizzes earlier, saying that it wasn’t the AD Carry but the top laner who was controlling the minions, and they show the reason why at least once before the game ends!]

[Malphite belatedly lands the ultimate exactly in the middle of the opponent! But this time, Strike reacts in time!]

[It’s not a rock, it’s a pebble! This guy is too soft!]

Eventually, in a situation where even the twin towers were demolished, I said goodbye to Zhao Xin, went home, and then arrived in front of the opponent’s Nexus using teleport.

[True has arrived too! Hitting the opponent’s Nexus all together—!]

[GG!]

[The game is over! In the first set, all of ST’s unexpected picks were effective, proving why they are the absolute rulers of the Master League without even a set loss!]

—Top : Bear / Hunter : Boar / Mid : Bug
AD Carry : Larval byproduct / Support : Korean Beef
└Is this a zoo?
└lololol
└What’s with the mid bug
└Yasuo players aren’t human
└Do you think True will play the same as you
└But it’s not bad
└Honestly, the opponent’s pick is also a bit bad
└lololol
└The good guy will just win

—Even when climbing the ranks, she often picked that when there were two or more ranged opponents

└????
└Shocked…
└No, but she doesn’t know that skill combo
└She never used the combo of switching to first-person and stacking wind quickly
└It was the keyboard era at that time
└Ah
└Shackles…
└I admit it
└But even without using first-person tricks, it’s this much?
└Crazy

—Milky Way mid Envy solo kill.
└f*ck
└Milky Way fans, are you conscious?
└True! True! True! True! True!
└Worship the middle school girl GOAT
└No, but she said she didn’t know the combo!
└?? : I didn’t use it
└lololol
└There were a lot of masters called to ST recently
└Did they give True intensive lectures?
└sigh They’re already so good, what are they trying to make
└ST fans are just happy
└lololol

└?????
└No, you f*cker!
└Why did you fire that there
└If you just held on behind Sejuani, you would definitely win, but this?
└True, who was carrying the game, is crying
└ST3 fans who also saw last season are familiar with that taste
└I thought there was no shit smell this season
└lololol
└True…you came all the way here, what can you do

└???????
└This is more unbelievable than the mid solo kill earlier
└Do you go in here?
└Did you finish identifying where the opponent was
└Crazy
└So amazing
└She intentionally left some minions and drew aggro to avoid and then immediately put in the damage to send Tristana away
└Is that the same champion as the Yasuo I play?
└lololol
└Oh Noona’s Q is always wind-charged~

—The opening of the Baron fishing ground in the upper Twisted Treeline
└lololol
└Ah lol So familiar
└?? : You’re not coming? Then we’re hitting it?
└She learned that
└Who would have given the order
└It must be True
└Fraud must have taught her
└Was that something you could learn
└Surprise, but it works
└(Really don’t know why it works)
└lololol

—ST wins. ST match point.
└Great Emperor ST
└Milky Way, are you conscious?
└Honestly, the teamfights were occasionally not bad for Milky Way and they did well, but the difference in mid and macro is too big
└True<–This girl is really something
└Just a difference in caliber
└A bullfrog girl…
└Hurry up and raise her to the Grand League!
└The 3rd division league hates ST…
└lololol