Chapter 58
Chapter 58
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 58
Chapter Title: Joy of Victory
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Bringing a ranged champion top is your choice, but the team has to deal with the fallout.
By creating a laning phase gap and filling Milky Way's lacking damage output, their top laner Bain was finished just like that.
"Secure all the top-side objectives first, then rotate down."
"Don't we need to head home?"
"Ragdoll has to eat that big wave anyway, so it's fine. I'll go down with you."
One reason Bain doesn't transition to ADC is his lack of AoE abilities.
He's critically weak in wave clear, a trade-off for his top-tier carry potential as an ADC later on—unavoidable, but especially glaring early game.
Anyway, dragging Plook along meant we didn't miss a single large monster.
For some reason, the enemy couldn't let it go and poked at us subtly.
Realizing they'd get wrecked if they poked too hard, the enemy scrambled, but Yasho slipped in riding the respawned Twisted Forest monsters and caught their backline.
"Keep hitting them for now!"
As if proving why he took teamfight runes over sustain ones, Strike stuck to the unfinished Orianna and swung his blade wildly.
Finally, while smacking Orianna, Yasho's wind stacks launch her airborne again.
ST True → Milkyway S Inkel
Pushing the enemy out of their Twisted Forest meant we could blatantly take Baron.
"Start with the wolves. Use Smite on the buff monsters."
With everyone's help, Ox gleefully farmed the enemy's Twisted Forest.
Nocturne's biggest strength is undoubtedly his ultimate, especially the one he uses right at level 6.
The enemy can't know if he's level 6 and ready to ult, so they play laning passively, and even players with Teleport struggle to rotate instantly.
But once they confirm Nocturne has ulted in lane, laning becomes much more comfortable.
Plus, ceding all top-side objectives puts Milky Way at too much of a strategic disadvantage, forcing their hand.
With no enemy sighted on lane, they seemed willing to sacrifice CS for solid vision.
But as always, this was nowhere near enough prediction.
Plook, hidden perfectly where I'd directed, unleashed his mechanics.
The moment the enemy threw their bind into the bush, Plook flashed forward to dodge, pulled them in, and ulted them straight into our team center.
Fasting Sna with no damage, thrown into wolves? The ending was obvious.
ST True → Milkyway S VwV
The game's tempo is partly defined by the champions, but ultimately rides on the players controlling them.
And Milky Way, crushed by us twice in a row already, had no room to dictate tempo.
"Push them."
Lategame is only if we want it. Extreme lategame even more so.
And we had no intention of dragging the game that late.
We didn't have time, what with the victory ceremony alone.
Unable to rot on their ults any longer, Milky Way fired off Nocturne, but tanking his full combo plus Orianna's ult head-on left my health bar under a quarter.
"Bell, go die."
With Bain—who'd been pushing top—plus revived Nocturne and Orianna diving deep, trading one support was a bargain.
A Baron pit ping, spammed endlessly without words.
"Plook, keep pushing top. I'll join after eating quick."
ST OX killed Baron Monster!
Tear down the tier 2 top tower, then the inhibitor.
ST True → Milkyway S Ragdoll
Bonus: Nabbed Bain again while he poked under full-HP tower.
Anyway.
With super minions overwhelming from both sides, Milky Way couldn't hope to stop us—buffed minions and all—crashing into their last twin tower.
"Plook, keep hitting. Bell, dive the pit."
"Why?"
"Yasho's ult is up."
Getting it, Bell blew his ult freely. Bain had just revived and Orianna strained to block to her limit before failing and retreating to the pit—Bell launched her airborne.
With flashy ult animations.
Plook and Ox's casual autos chipped away the Nexus's last sliver of health.
I remove the device and rise from the plush chair.
My teammates' roars mix with the crowd's cheers pounding my ears.
'Championship.'
That alone.
Was more than enough reason to celebrate right now.
"Hey! Hey! High five! We did it!"
"We won—let's grab a drink!"
Whatever.
It's fine.