Chapter 39: Canyon Lab Opening

Large stadiums are nice, but this small arena always evokes nostalgia.

Of course, that didn’t mean I had any intention of staying in the Master League for long.

[Hello everyone! Here’s the Master League Round 2, the match between ST and KTT will begin soon!]

[The players enter with cheers! It’s a traditional sponsor derby, so the atmosphere is very heated!]

I put on the now-familiar device, closed my eyes, and opened them.

[Okay! Let the ban-picks begin!]

“First, cut off both bottom.”

In the first ban turn, rather than sharing or whatever, we just cut off the bottom OP picks and banned Akila, the magic-based assassin champion who was already OP but became even more so with the coefficient buff.

Then, the opponent responded by banning a bunch of hunter champions.

“Should we pick a hunter first?”
“No, just leave it, I’ll pick mid.”

Thus, in the first turn of the ban-pick, both teams’ mid and bottom were completed.

And soon the second turn began.

[Ah, this is a blatant snipe at player Ox.]

[This player is good at aggressive hunters, but the herbivore ones haven’t been proven yet!]

[Actually, the position name of hunter is meant to be good at catching monsters and fighting, but in pro play, it’s also called the player cutter position, so what choice will Ox make?]

[For now, KTT has made the best move they can.]

“What should I do?”
“Do Maoika.”

A sweaty top lane fight between men.

And the hunter’s carry.

Things you shouldn’t believe in solo queue, and illusions themselves in team games.

“You play games to win.”

It was time for the traditional and historical click champion to sortie.

One click.

One kill.

[Who says I can’t handle herbivores!]

[Player Ox is excited, and player True is just flying!]

[Can player True see the opponent’s vision? She just walks up, gives instructions, and gets kills!]

I don’t know how the opponent planned their strategy, but when I gave instructions in advance and Bell forcibly secured the river vision between the camps, the opponent’s hunter came to counter-jungle.

I didn’t bother pushing the lane and immediately entered the Twisted Forest to catch the opponent with Ox, and the game became one-sided.

[Actually, KTT chose a champion with good lane clear to prevent True from roaming, but after the accident in the forest, True can just scratch the lane and eat minions and experience moderately, and rather, the KTT mid is becoming a lane eraser.]

[And KTT’s roaming isn’t that good. What do they do?]

[They’re screwed. Honestly, they usually try, but the combination is too difficult. ST just needs to click and kills are copied, and KTT has to work hard.]

Unfortunately, effort doesn’t guarantee the best outcome.

Actually, it’s not about countering the opponent’s composition, and there are always flaws in tactics aimed at drying out an individual.

This game clearly showed those shortcomings.

[Except for the top lane that was picked later, KTT has no initiative.]

[And even Fluke is getting tougher, so KTT can’t penetrate the top and hunter!]

The two of us firmly hold the front position, and when the opponent is caught in CC, I, who picked Miho, chain it with a charm and unleash a full combo.

And just with that, most champions melted and the place where they were bound became their grave.

This was especially evident in the final team fight held in the mid lane.

[Biiind! Stand at attention!]

[KTT fails to respond to Maoika suddenly appearing from behind!]

[This is a flanking angle!]

[Being flanked—!]

When I scratched the opponent’s AD Carry with a fox orb, all of KTT’s portraits turned black and white.

[ST advances straight to the mid lane!]

[Like this! ST takes the lead as the Nexus is destroyed!]

[ST doesn’t stop. They already reign in the league, but they constantly refine and develop new picks! How do you stop this team!]

[Ah, KTT. They quickly modified their strategy for the second ban-pick.]

[We can’t stop them anyway. So just more attack, more cannons! If we just shoot, someone will get hit!]

There was only one herbivore champion that Ox had crafted—it’s an understatement to say he crafted it—but the opponent didn’t know that, so the tone of the ban-pick changed.

“It’s really worth bringing out in this case, right?”

I just said this, and Fluke had already put Teemo’s portrait in the pick window.

[Ooooh…Ooooaaak!]

[Is this real?]

[Why is this coming up in the pick window!]

“For now, I think it’s okay to try it once, looking at the current ban-pick, but putting aside choosing it, which position would be good?”

The coach takes it seriously.

“Eun Seol, do you want to try it?”
“…Me?”
“Yeah. I feel like whatever you do, the result will be good. And you were good at other AD Carry champions. Can you kite?”

From thinking about picking that champion and also thinking about dumping it on me, it seems that the coach is about one hundred and fifty-seven million light-years away from being ordinary.

“No, why is picking Teemo a given in the first place?”

We can win more easily if we pick another champion. It’s not a champion that’s ignored even in solo queue for no reason.

“We have to win with something strange like this in the regular season to make the playoff ban-picks easier.”
“……”

Scrims and games.

So-called ‘trolling’.

It’s not strange to win with all sorts of strange picks, and when the opponent prepares for it, pick a standard pick, look serious, and beat them.

The only problem is why a game with all sorts of strange picks should be now.

‘Or is it?’

Come to think of it, even if we lose 7 games in a row from now on, playoff qualification is confirmed, so the coach’s excessive experimental spirit wasn’t strange.

And it seems that this time, he intends to intentionally block my roaming and develop the bottom lane’s independence.

“Then I’ll just pick since there’s almost no time left.”

Thus, Pandora’s Box was opened.

I don’t know.

[Uwaaaa! It’s really out!]

[The cute raccoon of the canyon! The honorary Teemo, ranked number one in champions you want to tear to death, emerges from the bush and finally shows his face in the Master League!]

[This friend has no record! Zero ban-pick rate in the Master League! Even if you go up to LOCK, you have to dig through ancient records to find one or two instances!]

[ST3’s canyon laboratory is open! Coach, no, Director Ahn Jaehoon has always liked experimental picks, but this is truly out of the standard.]

After that, we completed all the line combinations by picking Thresh and Kai’Sa.

“But Ox, do Sejuani.”
“…I brought it up, but why is Eun Seol having fun?”

I’m curious about that too.

The first laning phase was surprisingly uneventful.

The laning phase against our Tristana, who kept coming out, was surprisingly simple.

Just stay far apart and eat minions, and if the opponent jumps in with a skill, just put a blind on them and hit them hard with basic attacks.

[Wait, why is Tristana losing this trade?]

[Anyway, this Teemo is a friend who used to play in the top lane, right? So he’s always getting torn apart in the top lane, but in the mid lane, it’s a bit different.]

[And actually, aside from everything else, True’s distance control is an art.]

[This friend would have been pretty good even if she played AD Carry. Tristana can’t get her head straight.]

With blind and the movement speed increase from the W skill, I could see that the opponent was angry.

It seemed that the saying that the best CC in Lock is low HP, and the second is Teemo, was true.

So it was 6 levels and I could use the ultimate, but the mid was peaceful.

Of course, as a rebound, the bottom was destroyed.

[The top side is peaceful, but why is the bottom lane like this!]

[Double kill again! KTT bottom’s growth is scary!]

Whether they didn’t consider that Kai’Sa is relatively weak in the early game against strong champions, or whether they got excited because Thresh’s grab hit.

Strike and Bell, who rushed in, died after getting ganked, and after repeating that once more, the difference in strength in the bottom lane became serious.

“We have to look at the late game.”

Ox said the right thing for once.

“We win if we go to the late game anyway. Take it slow. Slowly.”

Fluke said that and fought with the opponent’s top, and died after getting ganked just like the bottom.

“Chang Hyun, isn’t the top gank coming?”
“Ah. Right.”
“……”

Since I haven’t played Teemo much, the orders inevitably decreased, and things started to go wrong one by one.

Instead of doing anything else, KTT should have a drink with the coach and spread rumors about which champion is good, which would be more effective than the 5 hunter bans in the previous game.

Because the game is actually getting weird.

[How dare you bring out Teemo in mid?]

[You guys need to be hit! Unlike the previous game, KTT pushes the opponent and takes all kinds of spoils!]

[On the other hand, Teemo and Kai’Sa seem to need more time to grow!]

So we sucked the blood of the top and hunter.

[Uwaaa! You live!]

[Fluke gets hit in front and explodes!]

[But Teemo doesn’t care about that. He just turns on W and goes back to the fountain!]

[Meanwhile, Ox’s Sejuani, who hit from the side, immediately followed Fluke.]

[But even though they’re at a disadvantage, they’re defending all the second towers. Even if the champion is strange, the operational skill doesn’t go anywhere!]

I know how difficult line management is in a disadvantageous situation.

I’ve forced it on my opponents, and I’ve done it myself.

So, I could do anything, not just hold on.

If you do that, the opportunity will come.

[Hold on tight!]

[KTT’s Baron buff is about to end!]

[Now is the time when Kai’Sa and Teemo’s mushrooms hurt! In the end, the opponent retreats and minimizes the damage with one mid inhibitor and one second tower!]

[KTT can’t finish and falls back. Everyone is preparing to return!]

And at that moment.

The opponent’s AD Carry exploded.

“…I didn’t do anything?”

Suddenly, I remembered the mushroom I had hidden in the C-shaped bush.

[Uwaaaa! What is this!]

[The bounty gold goes over so vainly!]

[I went into the bush to go home safely, but there was a poisonous mushroom!]

[What are you doing, support! What were you doing without taking vision!]

[The AD Carry shouts, but the support is already gone home.]

[This is Teemo! True stops at the fountain and suddenly dances with Teemo!]

The AD Carry’s bounty was always delicious.