ADC vs Top
“But sis, isn’t this a massive mismatch in weight class?”
Lee Siwoo, clinging to my left side, had even stopped his usual grinding to stare at my screen with me.
“Weight class? What are you talking about? You only ever grind all day—do you even know how to read the meta?”
“No, not in-game! I mean streamer weight class!”
“Don’t you know? Daydream’s pulling twenty thousand viewers even right now. He’s the biggest name in the RezoKu scene.”
“Twenty thousand? For real? Why would anyone watch a guy like that?!”
“Because his streams are actually entertaining, and he’s an ADC, duh. He’s good. It’s not like he got famous for sniping people for no reason.”
“Good my ass! He’s absolute trash! I’m serious! I don’t get it at all!!!”
Im Harin, who clearly had a mountain of grudges against Daydream, was huffing so hard I could feel the heat radiating against my right arm.
“Well… I don’t really get why he’s so popular either, but he does have a ton of fans.”
Despite Im Harin screaming about how much she hated him, Daydream was undeniably a streamer in a completely different league.
On the other hand, 5-Second Real Man was only pulling around a thousand viewers.
“But sis… are you really sure you can win this? I got flamed because of that jerk! You have to win—I need to see this! And what did you mean earlier about ‘scripting’ the fight?”
“It’s nothing complicated…”
The streamer chat had already decided the narrative: Daydream and 5-Second Real Man were going to 1v1 in PvP, and whoever won would get showered with praise.
Anyway, I sent a trade request to 5-Second Real Man.
[5-Second Real Man]
「?」
I listed three items without any explanation and hit the confirm trade button.
《Nomugo Rocket Boots》
《Potion of Limited Perfect Resistance》
《Potion of Perfect Free Action》
[5-Second Real Man]
「oh」
「Thank you very much」
“Um, sis? What did you just give him? Didn’t Lee Siwoo make those Rocket Boots? They looked like complete garbage with terrible combat power. What are they even good for?”
“It’s fine because he can item-swap. The guy used to play Kratos in the top lane, so he should be able to handle it. He’s really good at using Mortal Rage on point.”
Kratos was one of the heroes in Legend of League, and Mortal Rage was his ultimate that made him unkillable for five seconds no matter what crazy stuff happened.
“Let me put it simply. Normally, it’s really hard for a Shaman to beat a Gunner. Unless the Gunner is complete garbage, that is.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Gunners don’t have to stand still and cast like Mages or Warlocks, and they have traps and other CC. So they can just toy with melee classes that have to get in close.”
When Lost of Fantasy first came out, everyone thought that way.
“Alright then, planting the flag. 5-Second Real Man?”
“OK, COME HERE!!!!”
While we were talking, the streamers had moved back a good distance and were now watching as Daydream and 5-Second Real Man actually planted the flag and started their ‘duel.’
“By the way, what was that scripting thing you mentioned earlier? There’s more to it than just the items you gave him, right?”
“There is. Go click on 5-Second Real Man’s buff bar.”
Im Harin grabbed the mouse and clicked a few times, but when she couldn’t see the difference she just shrugged.
“What’s the difference?”
“There should be a buff on him with one minute and ten seconds left.”
“…Huh? There really is! Here! Blessing of Kings! Increases all stats of the target party member by 10%?!”
“Wait, Daydream doesn’t have it? And the caster is…”
She immediately pointed her thumb at me.
“This noona right here.”
“Sis! What is this? You had a buff this insane the whole time?”
“I did.”
“I had no idea!”
“Because I never told you the history behind it.”
There was never any need to explain it in the first place. Blessing of Kings was a Paladin buff, so I could just cast it myself whenever I wanted.
“Of course, I didn’t give it to Daydream earlier when we were killing Duroki because I just didn’t feel like looking at his ugly face.”
“Then… doesn’t that mean they started the fight with a 10% base stat difference already?”
“Even so, the opponent is a Gunner—an ADC. And a High Priest Shaman is basically just a slow melee damage dealer.”
Lee Siwoo stroked his chin, frowning.
“Even though my tier is lower than Harin’s, I can already see the future where the ADC kites properly and completely destroys him.”
I didn’t answer and just shrugged my shoulders.
“Then… let’s begin!!!”
“5-Second Real Man, fighting…!!!!”
“Daydream! Please don’t beat him up too badly!”
With Kang Minseo’s cheer and the other streamers’ shouts, the flag duel between Daydream and 5-Second Real Man officially began.
“This match is already decided.”
Daydream was famous for his crude swearing, fragile mentality, and terrible personality, but he actually had the skills to back it up.
True to his Master 1,000-point Legend of League rank, he quickly dropped an Ice Thorn Trap on the ground.
He then naturally created distance, found his maximum range, and began attacking 5-Second Real Man.
“Bang! Bang! Bang! Boom!!!!”
Along with Daydream’s frivolous laughter, a barrage of bullets poured out and 5-Second Real Man’s health dropped rapidly.
“S-Sis, isn’t he going to lose? He’s getting pounded from range and there’s nothing a melee can do about it, right?”
“Ah… he stepped on the trap.”
With a loud boom!, the Ice Thorn Trap exploded and 5-Second Real Man’s Shaman movement speed became disgustingly slow.
“This is nothing. Total dogsh—”
“Cleanse!”
5-Second Real Man drank the Potion of Perfect Free Action I had given him.
“Huh? What? The CC just got removed?”
“Wait, what the hell? Why isn’t he slowing down?”
Daydream urgently tried to use another CC skill to push him away, but it was meaningless.
“Drinking that gives complete immunity to all crowd control for five seconds. It even removes whatever was already on him—”
“HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!”
Before I could even finish explaining, 5-Second Real Man let out his trademark bizarre war cry and started charging.
His character was moving so ridiculously fast it looked like it was bugged.
“Whoa, what the? Is this a ghost? Why is he so fast?”
“Wait, what is this?! Only 5-Second Real Man is using spells?”
“Oh! Oh! He’s ripping him apart! His skull’s gonna crack! It’s cracking! He’s on him!!! Wow!!!”
Even Lee Ji-ye, who had been a bit down earlier, started clapping. In the blink of an eye, 5-Second Real Man had closed the distance.
“H-How did he do that? Does a Shaman have a skill like that?”
“No, it’s because of the boots I gave him. They give a temporary massive speed boost, though there’s a chance they’ll fail. Looks like they didn’t this time.”
Even though 5-Second Real Man had closed the distance to practically breathing range, there was still a problem.
“Still, my fucking gear is better…!”
Daydream hadn’t used his cooldowns yet.
If 5-Second Real Man really was a good top laner, he would have already calculated this…
“Die, you fucking son of a bitch…!! Deckard Genocide!”
In the end, Daydream used Rapid Fire, a skill with a five-minute cooldown.
In Lost of Fantasy, skills with powerful effects but long cooldowns were called ‘cool skills.’
Rapid Fire, which increased attack speed by 50% for fifteen seconds, was definitely a threatening ability.
“Hey! ADC!”
But 5-Second Real Man had good instincts.
“Tectonic…!”
“Huh?!”
Even though Daydream had declared he would slaughter his opponent within fifteen seconds, the moment 5-Second Real Man drank the Potion of Limited Perfect Resistance, it became meaningless.
Immune to all physical attacks for five seconds, he closed the distance in an instant—close enough to smash the mace in his hand straight into Daydream’s skull.
“Breath of the Storm—! First Form—!”
Having closed the gap completely, 5-Second Real Man planted a Storm Totem right beside himself.
Then he brought the mace down on Daydream’s head.
“Critical!!!”
With a savage war cry, the mace strike actually crit.
“Ice…”
“Storm!!!”
Before the panicked Daydream could land another CC, 5-Second Real Man’s weapon erupted with blue storm energy and immediately dealt three additional hits.
Storm Weapon and Storm Totem.
This storm series had the power to trigger three additional attacks with combat power bonuses on every basic attack.
“What the fuck is this damage from one auto-at—”
“Critical!!!”
The moment another barbaric shout rang out, the additional damage crit as well.
The first auto-attack crit.
The first storm crit.
“Storm!! Critical!!!”
Maybe 5-Second Real Man’s desperate cries had reached the gods.
Along with his savage roar, the ‘first storm’ triggered a ‘second storm.’
Amazingly, before the nerf, the additional attacks triggered by ‘Storm’ counted as attacks, so they could proc the Storm effect again.
“What the fuck is this?!”
“Critical!! Criticaaal!! Criticaaaal!!!! Storm!!!!”
Along with his maniacal laughter, bright red damage numbers exploded above Daydream’s head like a receipt printing out.
First auto-attack: critical.
First storm: critical.
Second storm: critical.
Third storm: critical.
With every single swing of 5-Second Real Man’s two-handed mace, three storms went off—and every single one of them crit.
“Huh…?”
“Whoa…”
“Wait, what? Did he just die from one auto-attack to the head?!”
One auto-attack.
Criticals and storms.
That was all it took.
“H-He’s dead, sis? He just died from one auto-attack?! It crit and he died instantly! That idiot!!!!”
Im Harin, who had taken a second to process what happened, immediately burst out laughing and pointed at the monitor.
“No way… getting hit by one auto and this happens… it’s not even a bug…”
“ADC gap! ADC gap! ADC gap! ADC gap! ADC gap! ADC gap! ADC gap!”
5-Second Real Man immediately started howling like a wild beast.
“Hey! ADC!! Let’s have a battle of spirit! Let’s have a battle of spirit!!”
“Ugh, fuck! Stop!!”
“Top carry! Top carry! Top carry! Top carry! Top carry! Let’s have a battle of spirit! Let’s have a battle of spirit!!!”
In front of 5-Second Real Man, who was endlessly spamming his annoying TTS voice lines, Daydream had no excuses left.
“I’m sorry for acting like a crazy fanboy… brothers and sisters, I was wrong…”
Even though he got absolutely destroyed in the flag duel, Daydream still acted like a proper streamer and bowed his head.
“Ji-ye, I’ll… properly apologize to you later.”
“Aww~ It’s fine. Things get heated when you’re playing. I’m sorry for getting so worked up too!”
“Phew, thank goodness… I really thought I wouldn’t be able to play with Daydream starting tomorrow!”
The streamers seemed eager to wrap up the whole thing in a ‘heartwarming’ WWE-style ending.
“This is ridiculous…”
On the other hand, Im Harin—who was pressing her chest firmly against my right arm while pouting—still didn’t seem satisfied.
“What now? Daydream got destroyed in PvP, got ridiculed with donations, and even properly apologized. It’s over.”
“He didn’t apologize to me! To me! I was the one who suffered the most! I’m not even included in the ‘brothers and sisters’ he’s talking about!”
“Aww, is our little Harin throwing a tantrum?”
“Ugh!”
When I scratched under her chin, Im Harin trembled and shook all over.
“Don’t get too worked up. If the streamer party is too much of a hassle, starting tomorrow we can just gather people in the wild—”
“Huh?”
[Dream Gunner]
「Are you there, Black Mage-nim?」
“Th-This… son of a bitch! Why is he whispering me?!”
Im Harin immediately grabbed the keyboard like she was about to curse him out.
[Dream Gunner]
「I’m really sorry for picking a fight and swearing at you earlier.」
「My fans probably sent you weird whispers too…」
Im Harin wasn’t mad for no reason.
There really had been people harassing her, saying that because she was so good at dribbling, Daydream had gotten flamed and she should apologize.
[Dream Gunner]
「I hope this helps you feel better.」
「Ji-ye said it was okay, so please accept it.」
“…Huh?”
While apologizing, Daydream had sent a trade request and put up the Ring of Pain that Lee Ji-ye had won earlier on the dice roll.
“Can you even trade this?”
“Yeah. It’s designed so that before you equip it, people with bidding rights can trade it in case someone accidentally rolls on it.”
This was exactly why Gold Pot raids were even possible.
“W-Well… ahem. How much combat power does this give? Hehe, it must be almost a ten-point increase!”
Im Harin immediately broke into a bright smile and snatched the Ring of Pain.
[Fire Frog]
「Thank you for the item.」
「The rude whispers weren’t that bad, so please don’t worry about it too much!」
“Yesss~ Combat power~!! Almost a ten-point increase!!!!”
“Weren’t you going to kill him?”
“He gave me an item, so it’s fine! Duh!”
Im Harin made a V sign with her fingers, looking like she owned the entire world.
“Honestly, 5-Second Real Man even smashed his skull for me. There’s no reason for me to stay mad, right?”
I didn’t know it at the time…
But the sight of Im Harin forgiving all of Daydream’s sins would soon lead to her getting so tilted that she’d cause an accident with her damage dealing in the near future.