Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Second match, start!
After the astounding first match, the support for the teams was not so one-sided anymore.
Everyone knew that it was impossible for Team Skycrown to win again by using the same tactic, but they were still eager to see what other fantastically unexpected tactic Team Skycrown would use.
“Our vote for the next game is soon, everyone grab your cellphones! Those watching at home can also use the link below to enter the voting site, we have giveaways there as well!”
The outcome of the voting was quickly calculated.
Surprisingly, Team Skycrown only got an incredibly low four percent of the votes in the previous game, but now their votes had increased to twenty percent!
That was a five times increase in popularity that had been wrestled over from the crazy popular Team Revelation!
With the votes casted, the members of Team Skycrown were all smiles.
As expected, only strength can do the talking, anything else about tricks and conspiracies were all pointless.
If winning one game had increased their support from four percent to twenty percent, what would happen if they won another?
***
“Going into the loading screen, let us once again introduce Team Skycrown’s lineup. Their lineup is still a little bit different than the usual meta, they have two ADs!”
“Team Skycrown’s lineup consists of Top Shen, Jungler Aatrox, Mid Ezreal, Support Thresh, and ADC Graves!”
“On Team Revelation’s side, they have Top Renekton, Mid Ahri, Jungler Vi, Support Elise, and ADC Draven.”
“Needless to say, I feel that Team Revelation’s lineup makes more sense. There’s tank, there’s gap closure, there’s engage and disengage, those are some powerful CCs in there!”
Seeing this lineup, Miracle started his ribbing again. “Using normal lineups, Team Skycrown doesn’t have much of a winning chance. I remember that after level six, Vi and Ahri can catch opponents who are standing quite far out with their ulti, and once caught, their opponents will surely die. Using this point to hard engage in early or mid game, and then once Bai Feng gets his items on Draven, Team Skycrown doesn’t stand a chance at all.”
He paused, remembering the events of the previous match.
“Forget it, I better not say too much. What will Team Skycrown bring to the table this round? Let’s anticipate it together!”
Miracle had learnt his lesson and settled down. It was better not to trash talk too much, lest he got another slap to the face later.
***
The match began, and Team Skycrown had changed their usual tactic of not engaging in level one team fights. They bundled together and headed towards Team Revelation’s jungle area.
Team Skycrown was on the red side (top side), and were heading towards Team Revelation’s blue buff.
Four of them were waiting at their opponent’s blue buff area, while Wu Sen was busy planting wards at the other side of their jungle.
They planted a ward on their own blue buff and one at the Wraiths camp.
“Oh, Team Skycrown seems to have something going on for their team fighting strategy. Getting their Support to ward the bottom half of their jungle, and the other four are camping at Team Revelation’s blue buff. Are they intending to steal blue buff or kill some people here?” mused Qi Qiao as they watched the scene.
“If they were to engage in an early team fight, Team Skycrown would hold the advantage with their lineup,” said Miracle.
***
Hao Yue’s view switched to their blue buff and a smile stretched out on his face as he thought, ‘Want to camp us there?’
There was definitely already a ward in place, their Support had done so way earlier. Did they really think that Team Revelation didn’t even grasp the basic understandings of vision control?
“They’ve hidden at wolves,” said Team Revelation’s Mid.
“They think we’ll open at blue buff, wait for our Jungler, Mid, and Top to take blue, then they’ll come at us from a blind spot at wolves to kill us,” Bai Feng deduced.
Camping at your opponent’s buff also involves technique. In a competition you want to camp at the bushes at the river first. It wasn’t realistic to wait until blue buff was almost dying, then rush out to either steal it or kill your opponents, since they would have already warded it earlier.
If you start off with four champions grouped together, then you would be taking a gamble on whether their opponents have warded or not, and camp at wolves as early as possible.
The area around the wolves can severely limit your vision, sometimes even when you come from the side, they still might not see you coming. When your opponent is taking blue buff, you can take their heads unexpectedly by suddenly coming from the wolves area.
It was obvious that Team Skycrown had chosen to use the wolves hideout tactic to camp at Team Revelation’s blue buff.
“Aih, although Team Skycrown’s thought process is good, unfortunately for them blue buff has been warded. Even their hiding in the wolves area has been noticed, and their tactic will definitely fall through this time. Team Revelation could even turn the ambush around on them if they wanted to.”
“However, it looks like Team Revelation doesn’t have the intention of wasting time doing so. Since their blue buff is being camped, then their Jungler will take Team Skycrown’s blue instead, and let them waste time there.”
“This is an exchange of blue buff.”
***
At one minute and forty-nine seconds, Team Revelation’s Jungler Vi, Elise, and Draven appeared at Team Skycrown’s blue buff area.
“Team Skycrown surely didn’t expect that their own blue would be taken while they were camping at their opponent’s blue. Setting up bait for an early team fight is still Team Revelation’s forte,” said Miracle.
As soon as he said that however, an astonishing sight greeted them.
On the big screen above them, the five members of Team Skycrown suddenly appeared at their own blue buff!
At one minute and fifty-seven seconds, when Vi, Elise, and Draven were hitting blue buff, the whole of Team Skycrown appeared.
All five of them!
The entire Team Skycrown was present, and Shen immediately Flashed and Taunt, effectively trapping Elise!
Zhou Yan’s Aatrox lifted his heavy blade, bringing it down on Vi and Elise, who were not able to react at all.
With skills flying all over, Vi and Elise couldn’t even activate their Flash and were blown away in seconds!
Bai Feng’s reaction was the quickest, immediately Flashing away when Shen Flashed and Taunt.
The appearance of Team Skycrown was sudden, and Bai Feng himself had a fright. If it wasn’t for his fast reaction, he would have been hooked by Thresh and dragged in. He almost gave them three kills!
“Oh my god, did the four members of Team Skycrown fall from the sky?!” exclaimed Miracle with awe and surprise in his voice.
When the fight started, everyone’s eyes widened in shock!
Weren’t the four members of Team Skycrown camping at wolves? How the hell did they suddenly appear at their own blue buff and even manage to kill some members of Team Revelation?
“What…what happened?” Qi Qiao was also stunned, not knowing where the members of Team Skycrown came from.
Everyone took note of their Summoner Skills, none of them had Teleport! How the heck did they cross that big span of space in such a short time?!
“Rewind, rewind! Hurry up and replay that miraculous event!” said Miracle somewhat frantically.
The screen was currently displaying two bodies, their dead eyes full of unwillingness and confusion.
At Miracle’s request, the screen now displayed what happened at around the one-minute mark of the game. This was when Team Skycrown had been camping in the bush near blue buff and then headed towards the wolves camp.
This time, there was no Fog of War, hence you can clearly see Team Skycrown walking into the wolves area.
Then suddenly, four blue pillars shone down from the sky and the four members of Team Skycrown shouted out, “I will follow you!”
Recall back to base!
These guys from Team Skycrown actually immediately recalled back to base once they reached their destination!
After landing back at their base, they immediately rushed out towards their blue buff, catching the three members of Team Revelation who wanted to exchange their blue!
“Holy sh*t, Team Skycrown you can just get an Academy Award for this!” exclaimed Miracle.
After watching the replay, everyone was once again stunned silent by Team Skycrown’s astonishing play.
“Team Skycrown really is clever. It was obvious that they knew Team Revelation had a ward at their blue buff, so they made a realistic performance of camping out there, what a blockbuster!”
“If I’m not mistaken, I’m sure that Team Revelation would have been laughing when they saw Team Skycrown camping there. They would have laughed and thought that they were idiots camping there and…ah, they were really completely outsmarted!” said Miracle, laughing slightly.
If you were paying attention, you would realize that Miracle had unconsciously started ribbing Team Revelation.
However, he was simply stating facts.
Team Revelation had been outsmarted and they lost two kills because of that. This would set back their Jungler and bottom lane quite severely.
The only thing that was certain was that Hao Yue, Team Revelation’s Jungler, would be having a difficult time after this. Losing the blue and with it the level gain, he would definitely not be appearing for ganks anytime soon!
Bai Feng’s face was dark, and it couldn’t get anymore blacker than this.
This kind of humiliation and ridicule really frustrated Team Revelation.
They had already lost the first game due to some gangster tactic. They spent thirty minutes just trying to hold back the super minions like they were playing an A.I game for last hit training.
In the second game, their ego was once again bruised.
Angry, Bai Feng was really angry!
But the problem was that he couldn’t even do anything despite being angry. His Support was dead and he didn’t have Flash, how would Draven dare to CS?
And worst of all, Graves had managed to snag one of the kills!
Graves’ damage in early game was higher than Draven’s. With First Blood taken by Graves, Bai Feng would definitely suffer later in the game!
***
Your ally has been slain!
To make matters worse, Hao Yue had just managed to reach level two after killing a jungle creep when Aatrox appeared and solo killed him.
Bai Feng spared a glance at Hao Yue, it was time to change their pacing to do something to save the game.
Hao Yue himself was pissed beyond words!
It hadn’t even been three minutes yet and he had already been consecutively killed twice, yet he still had to continue playing.
So what if he had an individual overall ability of 22 points? His opponent’s champions were of higher levels and had better items. Adding on their two kills, there really was no need to talk about who had the better advantage, was there?!
“Hao Yue, concentrate,” said Bai Feng, his voice remaining calm.
Despite his words, Bai Feng himself was also unable to remain calm at the situation Team Revelation found themselves in since the beginning of the match. Didn’t you notice that he also missed some CS?
***
“Three minutes ago, who would have imagined this at all?” said Miracle excitedly.
“I’m not sure if everyone could feel Team Skycrown’s rhythm… setting traps in the beginning, going one after another, and reeling it all in like a storm!” said Qi Qiao.
The two commentators couldn’t help but shower praises on Team Skycrown!
The problem was that their start was really eye-catching.
Team Skycrown was a new and unique team, while Team Revelation was a rigid veteran team. It really was quite a contrast!
