Chapter 16
Chapter 16
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 16
Chapter Title: This Isn't How It's Done... Right?
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Once I got the hang of it, things started feeling more familiar step by step.
About seven minutes into the game, I dumped money into an item that boosted my movement speed. Using that speed, I dodged all the enemy skills in first-person view while weaving around.
In first-person view, movement and skill casts read brainwaves directly from the device, but normally, there's still time needed to perceive and judge.
But for her, that delay was practically nonexistent.
"That was a bit emotional just now, right? Kill secured."
Once both sides hit level 6 and unlocked their ultimates, the mage was the one who needed to play safe.
With the ultimate active, distance or CC skills were the only real threats—enemy skill damage or turret shots were nothing.
But since her skill had missed, she panicked and dumped her stun on the ground. Until its cooldown was up, the enemy was basically defenseless.
I closed the gap instantly with movement skills and items, then just wailed on her.
She tried weaving through minions somehow, but in first-person, picking the wrong target to hit was unforgivable, so it didn't matter.
"Auto-attack, auto-attack, auto-attack!"
I chased her all the way under the turret, ultimate blazing, landing auto-attacks nonstop.
The enemy's stun on cooldown—she spotted the cast animation and I Flashed right behind her.
And perfectly timed crit to boot.
The enemy dropped dead on the spot.
"If the crits had popped more, I could've skipped the turret. What a shame."
Thankfully, the quick actions of the other streaming Challengers kept things from blowing up.
"Hm. That's pretty tame, all things considered."
Honestly, nothing wrong with what I said.
Considering where I picked up that tone, everyone's about the same.
Proud doesn't flame trolls in solo queue, but he has the power to perma-ban accounts via direct line to game HQ afterward.
Honestly, if I had that authority, I'd play nice without flaming too.
"Come on, no trolls in official matches."
Hm.
Is that how it is?
Judging by the ST-related nicknames in chat, ST3's situation looks pretty rough.
I hadn't looked into the team much, just thinking I'd join ST. Maybe I should dig deeper later.
"Alright, ult cooldown's back up, so one more..."
The moment I boldly pushed past our side into enemy territory, four enemies showed up in mid lane for some reason.
"Huh?"
I lasted five seconds before the cold black-and-white screen hit.
If our team had just been poking at their side, fine—but ult-believing dive with that many? Only polite to die.
"......This much?"
Anyway.
First-person's lack of minimap really limits vision—definitely felt that.
I hear pings, but narrow FOV mixes team pings/voices with enemy skills and minion autos—too chaotic.
Hearing was restricted too.
"Feels like voice chat is muffled in first-person. Bug?"
Come to think of it, at the PC bang with friends in free rank, we used external voice chat. Here, private room used in-game voice.
"Kinda fascinating."
"After the game, I'll ask if any of you wanna coach."
No sooner said than illegal coaching ads flooded the canyon.
The game ended in a smooth win.
They dove mid—Twisted Forest with main monsters still up, even leaving tower empty—to catch me. Snowball inevitable.
Plus, artisans' macro sloppy compared to our Challenger-tagged team multitasking.
Did another mixed game; viewers loved it.
Per viewer votes, post-game I booked a lesson with one Challenger I met today.
"Hi! Challenger ADC Agni here!"
To avoid weird drama, I asked her—the only other female Challenger besides me, top-tier physical ADC.
"I'm no master to True here. Just some tips from what I saw."
"Anyone who teaches is a master."
"For real?"
"If I use it in real league games later, I'll shout you out."
"By the way, playing Rock, you had a master?"
"Hm... If anything, Coach An Jae-hoon and Proud?"
Coach taught concepts from academy days; Proud straight-up trained me directly.
"Huh? Proud?"
"Ah, not like lessons."
"Aha, watched his vids a lot!"
Nope.
He taught me right beside me.
Felt unfair, but couldn't say it anywhere, so brushed it off.
"Alright, basics first?"
In practice canyon, switched to first-person. Separate voice program on for chat.
"See the bot?"
Advanced AI bot appeared before us.
"What I'll show is basic, but might take time to get the feel."
She entered aggro range and showed evasion.
"Common first-person mistake: over-moving."
Bad example: Rolled normally to dodge skill.
"Base correction makes rolling easy, not wrong—but details suffer. Can't skill during evade."
Reset, showed proper.
"Don't think full-body move. Just twist body like this."
Enemy first-person skill hitbox advantage smaller than evade correction.
Research later, but looked simple.
"Like this?"
Did exactly on advanced bot.
"......First try. Right?"
"That hard?"
"Usually reaction speed makes body-twist harder than roll."
Less movement = less move correction, more evade judgment.
So better you get, less move to dodge and counterattack.
"Even like this?"
"How?"
No twist needed—just turn view to slip past incoming skill.
Agni's reaction was weird.
"......I'm out."
Everyone was in tears.