The Night of the Drink Promise
[Top is truly just team luck lol] - SalvationSora
My words are correct, right?
A top laner who just farms ten waves, avoids stealing the kill, pulls SalvationSora, and carries the game is enough to win, right?
It doesn't even matter if the enemy picks a side champion.
I just tank the lane, take the farm when they push, eat the experience when they don't, and when the main fight breaks out I only need to drop my ultimate on the ADC and we win lol
- InfiFanDaraWi : Then if team luck is bad you just lose, right?
ㄴ SalvationSora : Yeah, that's how little top laner influence matters right now
- Lenkaw : Isn't it just because you can't do it and keep getting stomped?
ㄴ SalvationSora : No, I'm a Master lol look up my records
ㄴ SalvationSora : And honestly, if I drop someone from Flare-Dia level here and tell them to copy my play, I think I'd hit at least 50% win rate yeah
ㄴ SalvationSora : Like how the guy who was at 300+ on Madaek is grinding 10 straight wins and breaking 500 points today because team luck is good, that's what he's saying lol
ㄴ Lenkaw : What are you even talking about? Noel, you just smashed everything and climbed up
ㄴ Nowone : Lmao if you don't even watch the stream you can tell from the records lol noobs like you were
ㄴ SalvationSora : I cheated and climbed, but when I hit 300 and swing between wins and losses at 50% win rate you can guess lol exactly like that, but suddenly good win rate and hitting 500 because team luck is good
ㄴ SalvationSora : Look at the records, I just carried with Kal-chaem, right? If our jungler plays like that I'm confident I can play Aatrox and Irelia yeah
ㄴ Sistato : Lol other people's scores are just games they got gangbanged and carried by themselves
ㄴ AlmondManduBoardKa : Ammanbo
ㄴ Iakes : Lmao even if I look at Bronze records I get it lol
[Did someone climb from Silver to Master in just a month lol] - Sentry
So you weren't a sub, you got suspected of hacking lol?
But it wasn't hacking lol?
A guy who lost half his foot and one eye because his dad beat him senseless...
If that's the case, you can keep going...
Go past Grandmaster...
Allow me to take you to Challenger...
- Tti-hwak-jjit : What the hell do you mean "allow" and "not allow"
ㄴ Sentry : Me? Gold gatekeeper.
ㄴ Tti-hwak-jjit : Then if you're the Gold gatekeeper, what can I do...
ㄴ Pawpawfur : Lmao the Gold gatekeeper is challenging it?
- LoveNiiNeiGae : This is seriously like a human victory story... the novel protagonist wouldn't even set it up like this lol so artificial
ㄴ Sentry : That? With Noe's level it's still optimistic... when Celesty was donating she looked into it and it was pretty healthy
ㄴ LoveNiiNeiGae : Yeah, even with two wisdom teeth I would be grateful just to have two eyes and limbs intact and live with no regrets
ㄴ MAPYM : I think you should be angry at the gods lol
[But not just any part, but at the very beginning of Grandmaster there was team luck?] - 4DroneBaengTe
Can you 10-win streak with team luck?
Even with good team luck, what's the probability?
- Tti-hwak-jjit : Probability always exists
ㄴ Tti-hwak-jjit : But the champion pool just doesn't give you that
ㄴ 4DroneBaengTe : Yeah, of course lol
ㄴ GeumNiBbaegiMoJolHui : Top can hit 50%+ with that, but 10 wins? I don't know lol
[Team luck works in Grandmaster range yeah] - NorthDuke
(photo)
Losing streak of 10 in a row, every single game with an ace
No questions asked
- ReksiaYeowangnim : Lol what the hell why did you lose lol
ㄴ NorthDuke : Even if I lost honestly this double-N game, six losses is ridiculous, matching is 100% rigged
ㄴ TTKOS : You lost because 10 kills 0 deaths, but you didn't just take kills and do nothing?
ㄴ NorthDuke : I lose when I give up Supression Gold, of course if it's not a situation I can make then I should dodge, otherwise it's "dajun" (something)?
ㄴ NorthDuke : If I die and take a few kills how much gold comes out, the math means I can't die lol
“Oh, this is really tough.”
I felt like I was finally grasping the thread of how to actually win.
As I kept playing like someone who had been drinking, the sun set even though it was still summer.
Realizing that, the fatigue I had been forgetting rushed in.
It wasn't that I had forced wins on losing games.
There had been countless such games.
Instead, I didn't think as much as before.
I only kept the important points in my head and mostly relied on instinct.
After all, the information I had learned was now at muscle-memory level—the body was already reacting on its own.
The mental fatigue was less.
But because I was constantly on edge,
the flip side was that when the game ended the tension released and I felt twice as drained.
- ReksiaYeowangnim : Wasn't it because you woke up really early this morning?
- Tti-hwak-jjit : Yeah, Noe's said he woke up at dawn today
“Oh, that's right.”
But according to the viewers, waking up too early this morning might already be making me tired.
Anyway, if I wake up early I should go to bed early.
Otherwise my body won't hold up.
Unlike before when I would roll around in bed until I passed out.
Now that I'm preparing to be a pro gamer I need to manage my body somehow.
So I should sleep soon...
But it's only 8 PM.
Until now I would go to bed when I felt like sleeping and get up when I felt like waking up.
But when I actually tried to set a proper sleep schedule this felt like a problem.
If I tried to game more with this condition I wouldn't be able to focus like I have in the past.
After thinking for a moment I turned my head to the phone.
“Everyone. Since I hit 500 points, does that mean I can drink?”
- Tti-hwak-jjit : ??? You turned in points just to drink?
- NoeulGangdeungDudu : Noe's is an alcoholic... he was working hard for the reward of drinking...
- ReksiaYeowangnim : Lmao if it's this much is he really an alcoholic lol is the self-alcohol test reliable lol
“No, once in a while is fine. It's not like I drink every day. And I don't even feel like drinking now. Maybe because I ate too much this morning I'm still full.”
- MiunOriSikki : When did you eat this morning and you're still saying you're full? What's wrong with your stomach?
- Tti-hwak-jjit : That kid's been starving his whole life, what else can I do... if I overfeed him he'll just throw up
Something like the viewers kept misunderstanding.
But anyone could see why they would think that from my position.
I just stayed quiet.
Only Gabi would believe the truth, and hiding it wouldn't change anything.
It was better not to get worked up over it.
Instead I continued with what I had wanted to say.
While holding the phone.
“Anyway. I was thinking maybe I should set up a drink promise for tomorrow.”
- Tti-hwak-jjit : Drink promise? With who?
- Nappeuri : Nappeuri is sick ㅠㅠ
- BornySugar : You said you'd drink and now making a promise...? Noe's got friends...?
Viewers showing strange reactions when I suddenly said I'd drink with someone else.
But I knew nothing about this culture.
Whenever I got info I would look into the League of Champions community and witness it.
People making exaggerated angry faces when others looked like they were having fun together.
It was a kind of meme.
Still, because gamers are usually more familiar with online culture than offline,
they would poke at the outgoing people in real life.
There was a way to poke back at the viewers too.
But I didn't want to say bad things to the viewers who had cheered for me without fail while I reached stable Grandmaster scores.
“Friend. Jaemin... ah, the friend I met when I had lunch with Celesty. We've been friends since I was little. It's a good occasion, so I'm drinking. Wouldn't it be better to drink together? Ah, should I invite Celesty too and turn it into a broadcast content?”
- Tti-hwak-jjit : Ah yeah if Noe's childhood friend with Celesty then it's fine
- ReksiaYeowangnim : Yeah inviting two people is okay
- BukgeulGom : BukgeulGom Raid activate... is it melting ice?
- BTC0147 : Jaemin is a guy so he won't melt?
- BukgeulGom : Really?
- Tti-hwak-jjit : Really? ㅇㅈㄹ lol
- BaekgwanBaekgi : But Jaemin is super careful about rumors... still, is it okay to let a guy drink with a girl?
- ReksiaYeowangnim : What, neither Jaemin nor Noe's is the type to boil with male and female co-streamers, they're just gamers
- BB14 : One guy and two girls, isn't that safe? With that gender ratio the guy would probably retire because he's overwhelmed
For a moment someone felt uneasy that Jaemin was a guy, but Jaemin was a famous ranged ADC streamer, so maybe that's why.
Most viewers seemed to know Jaemin acted like a guy even though he was a girl, and they talked about it that way.
So the idea of a drinking date with Jaemin didn't seem strange at all.
Because that kind of atmosphere was the norm,
if anyone questioned guys and girls drinking together it would just get buried right away.
Maybe because there was no energy.
Even while reading the funny chat I only lifted the corner of my mouth.
Well, anyway.
I had received the okay from the viewers.
Now it was time to get permission from the actual people.
I sent separate KakaoTalk messages to Jaemin and Gabi.
- YoonNoeul : Do you have time tomorrow?
- YoonNoeul : I was thinking of having a drink to celebrate hitting Grandmaster. I want to drink with Gabi and you
- YoonNoeul : Do you have time tomorrow?
- YoonNoeul : Since I've climbed my game tier a lot, I was thinking of having a drink. I want to drink with Jaemin and you
The reply came immediately from both.
- Celesty : Completely good!
- Celesty : Gabi is Noe's childhood friend, right? I'm looking forward to it!
- Celesty : Then what should we eat?
- Celesty : Since Noe's hit Grandmaster Noe's treat!
- JuGabi : Yeah good
- JuGabi : What do you want to eat?
When it came to deciding what to eat I had nothing planned so I hesitated a little then finally decided chicken would be the safest.
I had received gift coupons.
And tteokbokki that girls like could be ordered as a side.
- YoonNoeul : Chicken and tteokbokki okay?
- Celesty : Completely good!
- JuGabi : Lol I want to fulfill the wish I said I wanted to eat chicken with tteokbokki in the past! I like it
After setting the drink promise for tomorrow.
Until I went to bed I kept chatting with the viewers about the sudden heated discussion.
When ordering chicken and tteokbokki, whether the chicken was a topping or the tteokbokki was the side dish...