Let’s Swap Lanes

 

Ara’s team’s first scrim.

The expectations for them were very high, as they were considered one of the three championship contenders. No, to be more precise, the expectations were high for Lucy, not for them.

Because Lucy’s physical talent was so outstanding that they were called championship contenders even with four failed bid Masters.

But as they say, the bigger the expectations, the bigger the disappointment.

─ ?

─ Is this for real?

─ Crazy;;

─ Fuck, what the hell is this!!

[Defeat]

As Lucy’s team was defeated, viewers fell into confusion.

Isn’t Lucy, who is solo rank 1, on a team that’s a strong championship contender?

But defeat?

─ …This is pretty bad

─ It’ll be fine once they get their team rhythm

─ Lucy played so well though lolol;;

─ Fuck, this is the power of failed bids!

Looking at the in-game performance, Lucy hadn’t done anything wrong. Rather, her play was excellent, doing more than her fair share, even up to three people’s worth.

However, the jungle and mid had no coordination at all, and the bottom lane was just as uncoordinated as those two.

─ It’s okay since it’s the first game…

─ The opponents are also playing their first game, fuck

─ The opponent team was all pros though;;

─ Lucy finally realizes things have gone wrong lolol

As the chat said, it was the first game for <Luwingman>, but it was also the first for the opponent team.

Rather than seeing it as a coordination issue, it would be more accurate to say that the skill level of the other lanes, excluding Lucy, was severely lacking.

After sustaining the game alone for 33 minutes before losing, and with Lucy saying nothing, the team atmosphere began to darken.

[“…It’s okay. It’s the first game, yes.. We can give feedback after the scrims are over. Don’t be too down.”]

Coach Kim Ma-gyun worked hard to comfort the team members to refresh the atmosphere, and they started the scrim again.

Nevertheless, the result of the consecutive scrim was

[Defeat]

“…Tsk.”

The game ended with the word defeat and the sound of Ara clicking her tongue.

─ No, what the fuck are you doing, you bastards, seriously!!

─ How could they lose this?

─ Did someone open Toto? They’re throwing the last teamfight lololol

─ Lucy seems really pissed;

The atmosphere instantly darkened after consecutive losses.

[“”…….””]

The voices that had been active in-game instantly quieted down as Ara clicked her tongue.

However, the reason Ara clicked her tongue wasn’t because of her teammates.

‘…You fucking bastards..!’

Even Ara didn’t mind much about the first game since it felt like they were trying to coordinate.

The problem was the second game.

Not only did the opposing team not fight with her, but they abandoned the top lane and kept running away downward.

Ara was quite angry due to the strategy of those fucking bastards treating her like an invisible person.

So the angry Ara.

[“…Don’t be too down first. The coordination was better than the previous game─”]

“MK”

Interrupting Coach Kim Ma-gyun’s words.

“Let’s swap lanes just once.”

With a voice full of anger.

“I’ll kill all those sneaky bastards. Let’s swap lanes.”

She didn’t hide her hostility toward the opposing team.

♦♦♦

The scrim opponents who had devised the strategy that angered Ara were a team called [Former Pro Alumni Association].

As their name suggested, they were all people who had touched pro gaming and retired.

(TOP ─ 6794)

(JG ─ Beondegi)

(MID ─ Dogbig)

(AD ─ 123123)

(SUP ─ Jipgeria)

A team composition of people who mainly played MOL even after retirement and some who played occasionally.

Jungle and mid were Challengers, top was Master, and ADC and support were Grandmasters.

With a high average tier and high intelligence for team games as former pros, they were quite a strong team.

“Wow… Lucy is so intense…”

“Yeah… she carried it this far?”

“If the opposing team had just one Grandmaster, we would have lost? Seriously..”

“I’m telling you, it’s really creepy when Lucy is watching me? I can’t deal damage”

Even such a strong team didn’t spare words of admiration watching Lucy leading the game by herself.

If there had been even one more Grandmaster or Challenger on Lucy’s team?

If there had been even one pillar to support her, the game result would have flipped instantly. Lucy was amazing.

In the first game, they faced her in the same lane and played standard to gauge her skills, and almost got severely punished.

But they were pros.

Even though they won the first game, they didn’t let their guard down and devised a new strategy, resulting in.

“But, well, the game isn’t played alone.”

“Hehe. That’s right”

“Are we going with the same strategy as the previous game?”

“… Let’s try that for now.”

They were able to win more easily than the first game with a strategy that excluded Ara.

However, that strategy provoked Ara’s anger, and.

They couldn’t help but cause great confusion as soon as the third scrim started.

“…Mid?”

Since Lucy, who should have been in top lane, stuck her face into mid lane. Moreover, although they couldn’t see Ara’s expression as she was sticking to the mid tower due to the distance

Her momentum was so eerie that the pressure from Ara could be felt even from that far distance.

Feeling that momentum, Dogbig

“Fuck..”

Quietly cursed while breaking into a cold sweat.

♦♦♦

I don’t really believe in strategies.

Strategy is just strategy. In the end, it’s people who carry it out.

Even in the otherworld, the Demon King’s army and the Demon Church deployed all kinds of strategies to stop me, but in the end, they all knelt before my force.

But I must have been too arrogant, immersed in my own power.

In the otherworld, there was no limit to power, but in games, there was a limit to what plays could be made.

Moreover.

‘Those fucking bastards… dare to exclude me?’

Unlike the Demon King and Heavenly Demon, who had to kill me, the Hero, I realized too late that in the game, they didn’t need to kill me.

“Whew─ You’re all dead..”

Realizing didn’t make me feel better. Rather, I was left with deep anger because of the opponents who abandoned me alone in top lane and ran away without even fighting.

Defeat? That can happen.

People don’t always win, right?

But only a defeat with a process that Ara herself could accept was okay.

[First Blood]

“You’re all dead! You all..”

A defeat suffered in a shitty way is not a defeat.

Ara stood in the mid lane, which could directly or indirectly influence engagements so that the opposing team couldn’t exclude her.

[YongYongLion is on a rampage!]

[Double Kill!]

[Triple Kill!]

Ara’s influence began to dominate the game.

─ Crazy girl;;

─ But the second game was too cowardly

─ Cowardly, but I understand the feeling..

─ She’s a beast

Ara thought to herself as she mercilessly killed the opposing team.

‘Maybe this is for the best’ was her thought.

It was obvious that all teams would dig into our team’s fundamental weaknesses and fight sneakily.

If there were teams planning to fight like that, I’d like to tell them.

[Quadra Kill!]

No matter how much you bugs struggle.

[Penta Kill!!]

You won’t be able to stop me, Hero Kang Ara.

[Ace.]

That’s what I’d say.

“Phew-Now I feel a bit alive.”

─ Crazy girl crazy girl!

─ Lucy! Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!

─ Fuck, isn’t this girl breaking the balance? Who can stop a girl like that;;

─ Can you just swap lanes? Shouldn’t you play in predetermined lanes?

In the end, the game ended in 15 minutes and 29 seconds.

“Good work.”

The game was, of course, my victory. It would be correct to say it was my victory, not a team victory, as I ended it with my individual skill alone, not as a team.

[“…Crazy”]

[“No, fuck, Lucy, you’re really fucking good!”]

[“..Huh-does this make sense..?”]

[“Wow… rank 1 is different.”]

There were some swear words mixed in with the team members’ words, but I knew that unlike their expressions, inside was admiration and awe, so I didn’t say anything.

But

‘Hmm.’

[“Ha,ha wow, with Lucy, it’s just a confirmed win?”]

[“…I admit it”]

[“The damage output…ha-“]

[“A win is a win..well-“]

Since they hadn’t contributed anything to the game, it was obvious that powerlessness was permeating their tone.

The game content was no different from a one-person feat show.

The 1st and 2nd games. Games they could have won if they had just done a little better.

They all must be feeling inside. ‘What did I… do today?’ that’s what.

While all the Luwingman team members, excluding Ara, were feeling powerless.

[“Let’s go scrim with the next team.”]

Kim Ma-gyun entered the Discord room, said that, and left again.

As a result of finishing all the scrims scheduled for the day

A total of 6 wins and 3 losses.

It could be seen as a not bad result.

Still

Ara had contributed greatly to the 6 wins, and the team members excluding Ara had a very high stake in the 3 losses.

[[“”…….””]

Knowing this, the team members said nothing while waiting for feedback after the scrims ended.

“Sigh..”

Ara, feeling that atmosphere, let out a stifling sigh and thought to herself.

‘F, uck…’

Something like a tournament

‘Is so fucking annoying…ha-‘

I shouldn’t have participated.

Now she finally understood why viewers trembled with anxiety when the members who would be on her team were determined.

In solo queue, there was at least one person to support her. But in this team, there were no pillars to support her, but

‘I’m so tired I feel like I’m going to die…’

Ara was running out of energy due to teammates who just grabbed her ankles and dragged her down.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say she fought 1 against 9.

[“..I’ll give feedback now.”]

The performance of the team members, excluding Ara, was

[“Ground Duck ─”]

[“MK, if you do this here─”]

[“…Ha-. Ret, if you go in like that when your damage timing comes─”]

[“Hello Hello. Think about who’s doing the best here and support them a bit ─”]

Enough for Kim Ma-gyun to give a storm of feedback.

[“Instead of helping a teammate, how can you make things harder!”]

Really garbage.