Finals (1)

“Now, we will sta-a-a-art… the League of Legends Ladies Cup finals!”

Wooooah-!

The thunderous cheers of people can be heard.

Although it can’t be compared to LCK or the World Series, nearly 1000 people gathered in the arena where the finals are being held, looking at us on stage.

“No, we haven’t even properly introduced yet, what’s with the game start announcement?”

“Ahaha, I was so impressed by commentator Jeon Yong-jin’s legendary line that I wanted to try imitating it once in the finals.”

The finals begin with the hosts’ banter.

The semifinals had already taken place before this.

“It’s really been 2 weeks… no, if we include the team selection ceremony, it’s been an even longer journey. Anyway, we’ve rushed breathlessly through that long time. Now for the long-awaited finals!”

“These two teams have truly risen to this place after fierce battles. Fighting Girls team! And We Won The Championship team! Which team will get their hands on the championship cup!”

-Yeah, Fighting Girls will win. 19girl and Hani’s form is insane. Bronze tier if you refute.

-Your tier seems like Iron though ㅋ

-Honestly, Fighting Girls’ form is good, but the finals are a best-of series. The stability is still We Won The Championship team. Their teamwork is amazing as fixed members.

-Honestly, it wouldn’t be strange whoever wins ㅋ

-More than that, I want to see Hani’s cam broadcast soon. How can she take a week off from broadcasting?

-Cam broadcast perverts get lost!

After briefly expressing confident comments, we enter the booth specially made for the tournament.

They say it’s to prevent stream sniping by hearing people shouting, and the soundproofing seemed quite good.

“Everyone can do well, right?”

“Of course.”

“I’ll aim for a pentakill.”

“Yeah.”

“Definitely.”

I relieve tension while chatting with team members.

We can see the hosts raising the atmosphere outside.

And the audience waving cheer sticks and raising handmade placards above their heads below the stage.

‘Let’s show them.’

My skills… and our teamwork we practiced all week.

The screen changes and the main game begins.

After an intense battle of wits, the final bans and picks are completed.

Blue Team / Fighting Girls

Top – Jayce

Jungle – Evelynn

Mid – Xerath

ADC – Ezreal

Support – Yuumi

Red Team / We Won The Championship

Top – Camille

Jungle – Karthus

Mid – Fizz

ADC – Jinx

Support – Lulu

It was the start of the first game of the finals.

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Our team had a typical long-range composition.

A powerful poking composition with not just Jayce and Ezreal, but Xerath mixed in too.

On the other hand, the opponents had a composition where Camille and Fizz initiate and Karthus and Jinx clean up.

In the end, the game structure was simple.

A battle between initiation and poking.

That’s why my role was important here.

Evelynn.

A special champion with stealth ability as passive from level 6.

She has tremendous burst damage but the disadvantage of having no survival skills except for her ultimate.

To add one more thing, she’s slow with no mobility skills.

For that reason, she almost never appears in the pro scene.

A champion evaluated as typical for stomping lower tiers.

But she was perfectly usable in the current situation.

The remaining team members staying in Platinum tier except for Levia the support and the mid laner.

Moreover, Karthus was a champion very easy for Evelynn to eat up in terms of matchup.

The enemy Karthus probably realized his mistake when he saw me pick Evelynn.

Well, this was also the result of the team pushing for me in pick/ban.

“I’ll definitely fight at level 3.”

“Okay!”

The opponent is Karthus, so it’s too obvious he’ll start blue buff, so I also started with reverse buff while receiving a leash from 19girl.

And I immediately run towards the enemy Raptors.

I place a ward in the bush next to Raptors to check vision and steal the enemy’s Red buff monster.

The opponent probably didn’t think I would do this.

They must have thought I’d be jungling stably since fast level 6 is important for Evelynn to secure stealth ability.

But this is a tournament.

A place that needs extraordinary plays, not ordinary ones.

As I’m clearing Krugs, Karthus’s figure is seen on the ward.

“Now!”

“Okay, I’m coming!”

As discussed beforehand, 19girl who was pushing the lane quickly joins.

Camille will ping MIA hard, but the enemy team won’t think much of it.

They’ll just think it’s for Scuttle Crab timing, expecting that level of joining.

They probably think I’m clearing the bottom side jungle.

But such naive thoughts will change the moment they see the Raptors killed and empty Red buff.

And timed with that moment, 19girl and I revealed ourselves from the bush simultaneously.

Boom-!

A powerful electric blast shot from Jayce’s hammer!

It instantly drove Karthus, whose energy was chipped away fighting Raptors, into a dangerous situation.

At the same time, I went around to the opposite side and stuck to him from behind, casting Charm.

Karthus frantically uses Flash to escape to the bush next to Raptors.

But that place has had vision secured by a ward from earlier.

“I’ll use Flash.”

“Okay.”

I close the distance with counter-Flash and pop the heart mark rising above Karthus’s head with Q skill.

Then Karthus, fallen under Evelynn’s magic, forgets to run away and comes towards me instead.

Jayce’s and my attacks fiercely stabbed into that spot.

[First Blood!]

[Evelynn has slain Karthus.]

“Nice!”

“Good good! Our team is the best!”

Our momentum rises with the victory cry sounding from the start.

Fizz tried to come for backup, but in the early stages, Fizz was in a situation where he was busy taking the lane Xerath was pressuring.

After hitting level 6 and getting ultimate, the situation changes and Fizz gets solo kill angles instead… but anyway, that was the case for now.

After dealing with Karthus, 19girl returns to lane and I leisurely secure the top Scuttle Crab before returning to our jungle.

I clear Gromp and Wolves, then clear all of bottom jungle, and I’m already level 5.

Is Karthus, who lost Blue buff, jungling well?

While I’m recalling to buy items, pings are frantically marked from bottom.

“Karthus is here. He’s still level 4.”

“Good good! He’s completely dried up.”

He was seen taking the bottom Scuttle Crab by our bottom lane.

Then I can’t resist this.

I set out on another expedition to the enemy Red side jungle.

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“Ah! This is really terrible. What can be done about this? Karthus can’t hit level 6. This way, the meaning of the pick can’t be utilized at all.”

“The level difference has already widened to 2. The second death was too big. It seemed he barely survived, but Xerath’s ultimate finishing blow grazed him slightly… Well, it’s hindsight, but that had a huge impact.”

-Is this really the finals? ㅋ

-For real, the skill difference is too big. Especially the top and jungle difference, is this for real?

-Isn’t this the obvious result? Do 19girl and Hani look like ‘balls’ to you? They reached Master tier in top and jungle.

-They look like ‘gods’ to me? ㅋ

-You crazy guys, look at the level of these jokes ㅋ

The game was flowing quite one-sidedly.

We Won The Championship team’s bottom lane was ahead, even getting a kill based on Levia’s advantage, but the Jinx+Lulu combination still needed more time to grow before its power could be fully displayed.

On the other hand, Fighting Girls team’s top and jungle’s prime time was right now.

19girl, who got her core item, seemed to have completely erased Karthus’s existence from her mind and was mindlessly pressuring the lane, while the invisible Evelynn was instilling tension across all lanes with her presence alone.

The fear of Evelynn who could pop out anytime, anywhere.

In the end, We Won The Championship team, unable to endure, drew their sword first.

“Huh? Is this right? Starting Rift Herald first…”

“I understand. They just confirmed Jayce recalling and pre-called bottom to come up too. There’s basis for it. But will Fighting Girls team really give up this chance for reversal so easily?”

The eyes of Redback, a former pro, sparkle sharply.

It was as he predicted.

Pings are busily marked across all lanes as Fighting Girls team also starts moving to Rift Herald all at once.

And the standoff begins.

Led by Jayce’s electric blast, Fighting Girls team’s one-sided poking attacks begin.

“Ah! They shouldn’t stand off like this. Their energy is getting chunked hard with each poke hit. They need to quickly execute Rift Herald, or transition into an all-out fight and maul the opponent!”

“It’s already too late. It seems the start of the fight is…”

Redback’s gaze was following Evelynn, who was moving separately from the main force, going around far away.

The belt raised as the first core item.

And the exquisite position aiming for Lulu who has CC that interferes with entry!

The former pro’s sharp sense was shouting.

That the one ringing the bell signaling the start of this fight is none other than Evelynn.

“Ah! Jayce’s poke!”

“Now!”

The moment Jayce’s poke tears away a chunk of Lulu’s energy, Evelynn’s ambush begins.