Legend of War (3)
<Top gap is too much. We can’t win this. Just cut losses and surrender.>
<No way, that guy is ridiculously good. He’s at least a Master smurf!>
<Yeah, sure, next thing you’ll say is some scrub from the bottom of the Bronze-hell ladder. Even if you’re about to die, you’ll never admit you’re the one who messed up, huh?>
<What the hell are you on about? Where’s your tier, then? This is absurd.>
<Guys, stop fighting and let’s calm down. Mid is looking good.>
<Bot’s winning too. I’ll carry, so just play safe up top.>
Top lane had already gone to hell, and the jungler who’d tried to salvage it had gotten dragged down with it.
As the two players bickered back and forth in team chat, the atmosphere across the whole team soured with every passing second.
Still, the other laners kept trying to smooth things over, telling them to stop fighting and just make the best of it.
The support, who’d been focused on the bot lane fight, glanced at the minimap and decided to step in to change the flow of the game.
“ADC, I think I need to roam top for a bit. You can play safe for a moment, right?”
“Yep, go ahead.”
After recalling from the brush without the enemy noticing, the support bought an oracle lens to clear wards and headed up toward top lane.
Placed wards became invisible once set, so the enemy couldn’t see them.
That made the sweeper lens indispensable for a support, especially one whose job revolved around vision control, because you could only reveal and destroy hidden wards with it.
As they moved, they checked the battlefield status board and saw that the enemy top laner had already reached level 5, while their own top had only barely scraped up to level 3.
At that point, the gap was already so huge that the lane could no longer be stabilized by one player alone.
The support, who’d come up from bot at level 3, hesitated for a moment and then called for the jungler.
Their ruined top laner alone, plus the support—just the two of them—wouldn’t be enough to secure a kill without taking a bad trade.
<Jungler, come with me! We need to catch top once!>
<Ugh, I’m not supposed to visit a doomed lane.>
Grumbling all the while, the jungler answered the support’s call and shifted his path upward.
Even so, if they had three people, they still had a decent shot.
It was a little overinvested, sure, but the enemy top laner was growing too quickly for comfort, and if they didn’t cut him down now, they might never slow him back down.
Once the jungler finally arrived nearby, the support swept his lens and moved into the tri-brush below top lane.
He’d assumed there would be wards there and moved quickly, but not a single one was detected.
<No wards! Jungler, break through from here!>
<Take him down fast, and just watch me steal his jungle for a second after that. We need to make up the losses from top dragging us all down.>
<Got it!>
<Heh... I’ll wiggle my tail a bit.>
The allied top laner, who’d been cautiously watching his own ruined lane, slowly stepped forward to follow up on the gank.
The jungler and support moved to get behind the enemy.
A three-man gank, now boosted by the support’s roam.
The enemy seemed completely unaware, and not a single person there even considered the possibility of failure.
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<Enemy support is missing! Be careful up top!>
<Roger. Mid’s been shoved all the way in, so I think it’s fine.>
<Top, be careful. Three of them might come your way.>
At his teammate’s friendly warning, Yeongho nodded and sent his thanks.
“Got it.”
Then, following the wave that had already been pushed up near the enemy tower, he charged forward without a moment’s hesitation.
In truth, he’d already identified the three enemies through his detection network.
While everyone else was straining to hold vision, Yeongho possessed a power not unlike turning on map hacks by himself.
And yet, instead of backing off, he’d stepped forward.
Don’t I win this?
He had a gut-level certainty that he could win.
Of course, it wasn’t the result of some careful calculation of levels, items, or skill matchups.
It was simply that the special ability that had made Yeongho into who he was—something he called Battle Sense—was telling him, through wild, instinctive intuition that defied common sense, that this wasn’t really a crisis.
- ??????? What’s this old man doing??
- They said a gank could come and he said okay, so why is he going in lol
- As expected of the Korean cowboy. The essence doesn’t change even in Legend of War. It’s deeply moving how he never shows his back to the enemy.
- If he gets killed here, the mood is gonna get so awkward.
- No, he should be showing his back here lol What is he, some manga character who’d rather die of shame than let anyone see the scratch on his back?
As the viewers worried in chat, enemies came crashing in on Yeongho’s position from the front and the flank.
- Ah... he’s getting pincered after all.
- No survival skill on Raoul Fang, so this is basically over.
- A three-man gank is brutal.
- Why didn’t you just back off?? Why’d you go in??
Ignoring the chaos in chat, Yeongho silently kept moving and swung his axe at the Garen in front of him.
Thunk! Thunk! CRACK!
“W-whoa!?”
With the gap in growth already far too wide, Garen’s health bar vanished in an instant, and he scrambled back into the tower in panic.
Raoul Fang pretended to chase, then spun on his heel and hurled a throwing axe.
The axe tore straight through the minion wave that had been drawn in by the aggro, clipping the enemy jungler Kain as he moved to cut off the retreat.
“Ghk?”
Slow and armor-break debuff.
Raoul Fang changed targets and rushed Kain, hurling savage attacks with the axes in both hands.
Thunk! Crack! TZZT!
Kain swung his own signature weapon, the great scythe, trying to create distance, but at his slowed speed he couldn’t escape Raoul Fang.
Yeongho’s Raoul Fang weaved in and out of the scythe’s range, chaining rapid axe strikes into a short, brutal combo.
To stop him, the enemy support hurled a massive anchor his way.
Anchoring Tether, the main skill of Lotus, the Giant of the Deep.
This champion, with his bulky armor and massive anchor, was a support built around creating variables through grab-type skills—throwing his anchor at distant enemies and yanking them toward him.
On top of that, he had Backwash Phenomenon, an area skill that dealt explosion damage and slow to nearby enemies, and a passive called Heavy Strike that inflicted bonus damage and a root status effect on the first basic attack against a target.
He was the kind of champion designed purely for support, able to pin enemies down with a mountain of crowd-control effects, which was why he was always near the top in pick rate and popularity.
But without even glancing at the incoming anchor, Yeongho hurled another axe.
The skill Savage Throw would travel a fixed distance before automatically sticking into the ground.
If Raoul Fang moved to that spot, the thrown axe would be retrieved and the skill’s cooldown would be drastically reduced.
That was why, even though he’d just used it a moment ago, the cooldown had already come back around.
Only this time, the thrown axe wasn’t aimed toward an enemy champion.
The axe that had already cut through the minions once went through them again, sweeping the wave clean.
At the same time, Raoul Fang hit level 6.
Lotus’s flying anchor slammed into him and pulled with tremendous force, but—
As the champion line rang out and Raoul Fang’s eyes flared red, he ignored Lotus’s grab and lunged straight at Kain.
Every champion learned a powerful ultimate skill at level 6.
Raoul Fang’s ultimate, Berserker’s Rage, was a self-buff that, for a set duration, ignored all forms of crowd control.
It rendered Lotus’s grab-and-lockdown kit utterly useless.
And it didn’t just grant CC immunity—it also increased movement speed and attack power whenever he moved toward enemy champions.
With that, the enemy jungler Kain didn’t even manage to run very far before an axe split his skull and ended him.
Enemy slain!
“Ah, no way...”
At the sight of Raoul Fang turning around with those blazing eyes, Lotus stumbled backward, then whirled around and started running for the tower.
Raoul Fang gave chase and closed the gap in no time, whipping both axes around with merciless force.
He looked like a monstrous axe-murderer in the flesh.
Lotus, still only level 3 and with hardly any defensive items, watched his health plunge in chunks.
He did manage to stagger into tower range, somehow, but—
Flash!
Yeongho burned the Flash he’d been saving all lane, then hurled another axe straight ahead.
The axe flew in a line through Lotus’s body and then buried itself in Garen’s forehead behind the tower.
“Ghhhk!?”
A single skill, used in a piercing, long-range line to clip two enemies at once.
Garen, who’d been hanging back instead of recalling because he wanted to wait and see how things developed even after his health had hit rock bottom, couldn’t react properly to the Flash-plus-axe combo and was sent to his death.
The last remaining Lotus was also reduced to scrap metal in a blaze of glory by Raoul Fang’s basic attacks and Skullbreaker skill after he flashed closer.
The string of kill announcements finally came to an end.
The teammates who’d warned that the enemies might rotate all burst into cheers in team chat at the unexpected result.
<Wow... you’re insane.>
<What tier are you, anyway? Want to party up?>
<Damn, this bus ride is delicious lol>
- Is this a real 3v1 gank win? Whoa.
- Just a second ago they were all spamming question-mark pings and telling him to back out, and now the whole team’s getting all awkward...
- Damn it! To think I’d find a descendant of the Vikings here!
- Is Korea somehow culturally or regionally connected to the Germanic peoples?
- What are these foreigners on about just because one champ got used well lol
- Godfather is the people’s own-born ADC, you fools!!
In the face of all this.
Looking back and forth between the broadcast chat and the in-game chat, Yeongho found himself at a loss for what to say.
Should he say the support was done for too?
But support didn’t really feel like a lane role in the first place, so maybe there wasn’t even anything to say about being done or not.
Of course, it wasn’t a very meaningful concern.
The enemy team had completely lost the will to keep playing, and a little later they surrendered through a vote.
This match was, for all practical purposes, over because of Yeongho alone.
After staring at the victory message and returning to the lobby, Yeongho addressed the viewers with a bit of consideration in his voice.
“You said I had to reach player level 30 to play ranked, right? So, uh, who wants to join the stream?”
It was as if he’d poured water onto boiling oil—the chat exploded all at once.
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