Chapter 25
Chapter 25
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 25
Chapter Title: Why Does It End So Fast?
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The match began.
The first thing to do was defend our side.
If the enemy sneaks into the Twisted Forest on our side, we could take a fatal blow early on. More importantly, if the enemy's jungler pathing gets read, it makes life hell for the laners.
Because the enemy no longer needs to distinguish bluffs from real moves.
"Let's go. All in."
But despite that, we abandoned defense and boldly pushed into the upper part of the enemy's Twisted Forest.
It was the first match of the season—the opener, no less.
Both sides were bound to pull out meta champions they were confident in, and the ban/pick went exactly as expected, so predicting the enemy jungler's pathing wasn't hard.
No need to wait for the enemy to stop moving.
"Now!"
Starting with our support Bell's first stun, the enemy just stood there and died.
Of course, I got the finishing blow.
I immediately recalled.
I'll yield first blood level 2 at this timing, but no issue with missing EXP or minion gold.
Not a tactic that works twice, but what matters is winning now.
I recalled to our Nexus, bought items, and dashed back to lane.
Mid lane was both of us picking recent meta mobility magic damage champs with movement skills.
I first-picked a well-rated assassin among them.
Dart for basic ranged response, and stealth via smoke makes it viable for aggro ping-pong even late game.
Enemy throws barrels as main attack skill.
Matchup favors me if I dodge ground barrels with smoke's move speed buff; bad if smoke CD longer than their main skill, so 50/50 1v1.
But once items come online, unless they build tank, I shred them.
That's pure 1v1 or sidelane; in teamfights, perfect for enemy since they protect ADC from me.
Plus jungler ganks exist, so pure 1v1 time is short anyway.
—Like now.
Smoke blatantly baited gank, so only move left is dart and backpedal.
"From now on, just farm their jungler dry."
"Support?"
"No chance of dying."
"OK."
Order given. Switch to first-person, watch him charge punch while pulling back, casually dodge incoming barrel with dart.
Don't miss the window without their mobility. Confirm enemy jungler thrusting punch, reuse dart to fly to marked mid laner.
No need for first-person anymore.
Switch mid-flight.
Body-memory combo into enemy mid, final auto.
Not tanky or bursty yet, but if it lands, you die.
Killed their mid, leisurely returned under tower, smoke back up to dodge jungler follow-up.
After that, whatever.
Casually push mid, level 6 ult + item advantage for another solo kill.
Then straight to bot with Ox for gank.
BTW, top was already ahead with Plook farming CS solo.
No need to invest resources in top.
He farms it himself.
Anyway, with all lanes collapsing and mid T2 pressured, DS Gaming prepped final teamfight—
Already ahead, plus their support long gone.
No way to lose even fighting sloppy.
0 for 5.
Disastrous kill exchange ratio, we marched mid with minions.
Their tower, inhibitor, another tower.
We pushed relentlessly, ignoring their support and smashed exposed Nexus.
ST logo over champions, I landed final auto on Nexus.
This is gaming.
ST3's last-season basement performance.
ST, legacy name in pro scene regardless.
And True herself.
These three fused, flooding community galleries with Master League opener viewers.
Post-match fallout was huge.