Chapter 47: LCK(1)

“Hello, viewers. It’s been a while.”

“Caster Kim Dongjin.”

“Commentator Yoo Seunghwan here.”

“Today is the day everyone has been waiting for, the opening of the LCK Spring Split!”

“That’s right. The LCK, which is always said to be legendary. It seems that many people think this season is really different.”

“Then let’s show you today’s matchups.”

{Match 1: ARK vs AX}

{Match 2: YK vs RG}

[Is today’s match-up for real? My heart is pounding…]

[Is Para coming out right from the 1st match?]

[Is Para starting today?]

[AX has experience, but they’ll beat ARK]

[I think RG will win today. YK’s level was shown when they played king in the league and then got wrecked at Worlds ㅇ]

“Also, many people are looking forward to today!”

“ARK, which was just promoted, is preparing from the 1st match.”

“The players of ARK are saying that today’s match is their LCK debut.”

“Then let’s meet the players who are preparing for the 1st match!”

[Is Para coming out today? (Asked for the 5th time)]

[Para’s skills will be exposed today and her level will be revealed ㅇ]

[What kind of opening match is this for a 4th-tier league like LCK…Just decide the winner with rock-paper-scissors]

[ᄅᄋ MSI was taken by LCE, Worlds was taken by LPL, let’s just close the league?]

ARK

Caster, Lesser, para, Plea, KAI

AX

Lena, gather, Persia, rex, symbol

[It’s nice that there’s no one here]

[010]

[ARK is just 2nd division level, Para is just all about her face, what skills does she have ㅉㅉ]

[AX went to the promotion match and filled up their roster ᄃᄃ]

[ᄅᄋ This season, even the lower-ranked teams spent money, so you really don’t know]

“First, let’s show you AX’s roster. They had a successful stove league centered around Lena and Persia, who were already there.”

“Certainly, Gather and Rex who played in LPL. And Symbol, who went to study abroad in the league of geniuses, LCS, proved himself, and returned. It looks like a sufficiently competitive roster.”

[The support is a bit lacking]

[Are you ignoring Symbol? He’s the genius of geniuses who led LCS to the Worlds semifinals]

[ᄅᄋ It was a touching true story]

[Isn’t there a champion pool issue with ARK’s top?]

[AX’s top is a real monster, so you don’t know]

“Next is ARK!”

“It’s a team where the members who were together in CK are playing in the LCK as they are. They are all players who have the weight to be accepted in the LCK.”

[Caster is a madman in solo queue these days]

[Plea also cracked his egg during the promotion match]

[Kai is just beyond CK level]

“Nevertheless, isn’t there a separate player to pay attention to in ARK?”

“Really, a monster, a genius, Para, who is not strange no matter what modifier you bring.”

[Wow, even if it’s CK, are those stats real?]

[Top-tier KDA, damage, survivability, she just does it all]

[It’s crazy]

“In addition, she is attracting a lot of attention because she is the first female player to officially debut in the 1st division, not only in the LCK, but in all international leagues.”

“I know that many female gamers are cheering for Para and are growing their desire to become like her.”

“I hope that other great female players can come out, starting with Para.”

“Then let’s meet the players!”

“Everyone, don’t be nervous. Just do as you usually do.”

“I feel good today.”

“Let’s try not to be nervous.”

“I’ll show you the basics of an ADC.”

“If we go smoothly, we’ll win with our weight class.”

Finally, today is my LCK debut.

To be precise, it was the day of my comeback match.

‘Let’s do it without regrets.’

To focus on pro, I persuaded my parents and didn’t go to high school.

I bet everything on pro in this life too.

“Seoha, can you do well today?”

The coach, who was wearing a uniform today as well, asked with a smile.

I don’t know about CK, but in the LCK, it was common to wear a suit, but it was just like the coach.

“Players, please prepare to enter.”

At the staff’s words, I left the waiting room and entered the stadium.

The place I headed to was not the usual entrance, but the back of the stadium seats.

It was the opening match entrance, which can be said to be the signature of the LCK.

“Then let’s meet the players from now on!”

At the same time as the atmosphere was raised at the commentary desk right next to it, magnificent BGM was played.

“It’s AX!”

The players of AX went down the stairs first from the other side.

“Lena, Gather, Persia, Rex, Symbol!”

They naturally gave high-fives to the fans and threw the props they were holding, as expected of veterans.

When all the AX players were seated, our turn came.

“Next, let’s meet ARK!”

“Really, how much this team will show. There is a lot of attention.”

“Caster, Lesser, Para, Plea, Kai!”

Led by Park Jin-hwan, the team members went down the stairs.

This was our team’s seat, so the cheers and applause of the fans were directly conveyed.

I could feel that the team members were very nervous in an atmosphere quite different from CK.

‘Everyone is doing what they have to do.’

Still, I felt that everyone had grown from the way they didn’t forget to give high-fives to the fans.

I came down to the center of the stadium, greeted the fans, went to my seat, and prepared for the match.

I put on the headset prepared on the seat.

“Can everyone hear me?”

The voice of the coach, who was preparing for the draft by unfolding his notebook from behind, was heard.

“But coach, aren’t we hiring a coach?”

“What coach? We don’t even have money.”

“We’re a team that receives sponsorship from a large corporation now, what do you mean we don’t have money?”

I looked at the newly created sponsor patch this season at Lee Yoochan’s story.

Hansan Food. I heard that we received sponsorship under pretty good conditions, according to the coach.

It was amazing because it was a sponsor that didn’t exist in my past life.

“I’m sorry everyone, I lost the coin toss.”

“You’ve never won, so I didn’t expect it.”

“Instead, let’s go to red and pick the top 5th pick to set up a carry board for Jin-hwan hyung?”

“Good.”

Due to the coin toss loss issue, the right to choose the side for the 1st set was passed to the opponent.

Of course, the opponent chose blue, and we were on the red side.

But for our team, which overcame the champion pool even in the top lane, the red side was rather good.

“Should we pick Yone in mid and unconditionally eat the Voidgrubs?”

“That’s also okay.”

The coach’s strategy of picking the AD champion Yone and unconditionally eating the Voidgrubs at the 6-minute timing was quite good.

Yone, a no-cost AD champion, was good in early fights against mages who didn’t have Lost Chapter if he could manage his health well.

If you attached a strong jungler to that, you could take the early game.

“The opponent picked K’Sante first.”

“But is it right to first pick K’sante without cutting Gwen?”

“They think they can win because their weight class is crazy now, and there’s no ban slot to enter Gwen.”

K’Sante in the current patch version had an insane weight class due to the skin sales issue.

If the weight class was even better in the pro scene, where the versatile K’Sante was originally preferred, the phenomenon of first-picking him every game like that appeared.

But no matter how good the weight class is, a tank is a tank.

It was a pick that could be cut if you cut it.

“Let’s pick Gwen.”

If we were in CK, we would have picked a tank and farmed half-half, but Park Jin-hwan now was different.

ARK

TOP: Gwen

JG: Xin Zhao

MID: Yone

AD: Zeri

SUP: Lulu

VS

AX

TOP: K’Sante

JG: Viego

MID: Ahri

AD: Lucian

SUP: Nami

“Please give us an overall draft pick review.”

“First of all, I think they both picked good champions with good fighting ability in the top side.”

“Is that so? Compared to ARK, AX doesn’t feel that strong in the early game.”

“That’s right. But the moment they learn their ultimate, K’Sante and Ahri’s explosive power can come out.”

“Then how do you see the bottom lane?”

“First of all, AX picked Lucian-Nami, which was buffed again this season, and ARK picked Zeri-Lulu against it. In this case, it will be important who plays more sharply in-game.”
[Lucian Nami again?]
[Riot buffed it this season]

[ᄉᄇ I don’t want to see that thing pushed around with ult anymore]

[It’s ridiculous that they buffed Lucian because only Jinx and Aphelios come out when they buff critical items]

“And the pick to watch out for is none other than Yone, isn’t it?”

“That’s right. Para is a player who really handles the Yasuo-Yone brothers really well.”

[Now that he debuted in LCK, we need to issue a solo queue warning]

[ᄅᄋ On ARK game days? If you meet Yone or Yasuo while playing solo queue, that’s natural death]

[But it’s even worse because there aren’t many pros who play Yone spectacularly]

[ᄅᄋ I thought the pre-input ultimate in the promotion match was crazy]

“Then it seems that all the preparations are finished. Let’s meet the game!”

[ARK fighting]

[Para’s mid difference will be huge today and her skills will be exposed ᄅ]

[Stop the flame war]

[Please AX win!!!!]

[If Para wins today and doesn’t do finger hearts, I’ll commit extreme choice]

[ㄴPara’s finger hearts are ㅇㅈ ᄏᄏ]