Chapter 18... The first time in my life I've seen someone...
In the 2v2v2 mode, all three teams blindly select their classes, and there are no bans. Players who are not on the same team can choose the same class repeatedly.
The selection time was a full minute. Nan Zhiyi clicked on several professions she was familiar with: "What do you want to play? I'll help you choose."
With a "ding," You Xin locked up the thief.
Offstage, the two commentators also expressed their surprise: "Yux chose the Thief, a class that is currently positioned as a utility class, and he has never used it in professional matches. It's also not a popular class choice in Brawl..."
"At first, I thought it was Angel Yi who locked down the Thief," another commentator chimed in. "For those viewers unfamiliar with Yux's duo, Angel Yi is a very... very interesting streamer who has pioneered many novel gameplay styles. The 'money-stealing' strategy that you sometimes encounter in games is one of his signature moves. Besides the Thief, he's also quite good at playing various underhanded support characters... Wait, Angel Yi locked down the Catman!"
The first commentator said, "It seems the two players have agreed to show us a new strategy today?"
Meanwhile, the chat room exploded with comments.
【"interesting"】
[Interesting, it refers to collecting 100 spider eggs in the dungeon, hatching them all, and placing them in the castle to scare all the players into running around the map in terror]
[It feels like they're not treating the opponents like human beings, picking two utility classes.]
[Thief + cat, isn't this the same trick used in that new video posted today?]
[Is Yux really that obedient? How did Angel convince him to cooperate with her in playing this kind of thing at the All-Star game?]
[...This is the first time in my life I've seen someone use "obedient" to describe Yux.]
The game loads and you enter a match.
This time, Nan Zhiyi and her team were assigned to Island 1. Team Milk and Team Wind were assigned to Islands 2 and 3 respectively.
Milk's team clearly picked a random lineup: Milk played the Knight, a champion he wasn't very familiar with, and his partner even pulled out the Blacksmith.
But Wind's team was different—Little Bell picked the Archer, which she was very good at, while Wind picked the Swordsman, who was invincible in one-on-one combat.
Nan Zhiyi exclaimed, "Oh dear! Little Bell's archers are very effective against my tactics. Be careful of him."
Seven minutes later.
The opponents, the commentators, and all the viewers inside and outside the live stream witnessed once again how the mysterious invisible man and the nuke cat outmaneuvered the other four people like dogs: "…………"
But the All-Star tournament is completely different from smurfing in low-elo games. Xiao Lingdang quickly found her breakthrough point in the professional scene:
Based on the thief's movement speed bonus and stealth duration, he accurately calculated the thief's exact location on the bridge.
An arrow was shot out, narrowly missing the thief's body.
—In the last 0.5 seconds, You Xin maneuvered his character to dodge to the left by one body length.
"Wow, that was a brilliant arrow!" the commentator exclaimed. "Luckily, Yux dodged in time. He didn't have much health left, or he would have fallen off the bridge with his cat."
Another commentator said, "This strategy is like walking a tightrope; if you fall, both of you will die. But it does fit my impression of Yux—the Witch Goddess, right? He likes to play lineups that rely on skill."
For the next few minutes, Little Bell continued to shoot arrows at the thief.
As someone who once held the title of the best archer in the Asian server, Xiaolingdang's archery skills are practically unerring.
But each time, just as his arrow was about to hit, the thief would dodge it with lightning speed and perfect positioning.
Finally, the cat-man, wielding his staff, wiped out the entire population of Island 3.
The people on the second island were clearly just coasting along, taking a little damage here and picking up some coins there. In the end, Milk even slipped and fell off the bridge to his death.
Nan Zhiyi: "..." He seriously suspected that Milk had committed suicide because she couldn't outmaneuver this tactic.
The first game has ended, with Yux leading 1-0-0.
[yux hasn't played for three months, but her skills seem as sharp as ever!]
[It seems like that streamer's cat skill level is much higher than Wind's.]
[Compared to that disastrous cat in the fifth game of the finals, who has a higher level of proficiency? = =]
[It was just an exhibition match, why are they making such a fuss about it??]
These days, even platinum-level entertainment streamers can try to piggyback on the world runner-up title. Just kidding.
The entertainment matches have little rest time and no coaching review sessions.
Just ten minutes later, the second match began.
Nan Zhiyi didn't plan to continue the same strategy as the previous game in this round.
After hesitating for a moment, he asked, "Can I play as a witch?"
You Xin responded to his question with a gesture, instantly locking onto the berserker: "I'll protect you."
Another gasp erupted from the commentators: "Wow... Angel Yi chose the Witch this time! It seems like the two players from the Yux team each chose the other's signature class in both games?"
"I carefully studied the streamer Angel Yi before the match." Another commentator was clearly a research-oriented person. "In his usual videos and live streams, he almost never played the Witch class. However, I made a small discovery: although Angel Yi's main account is in the Platinum rank, he has a smurf account that is only ranked in the top 10,000 of the ladder, but has a very high hidden MMR and six Asia server No. 1 titles, one of which is for the Witch."
"You've gone to such great lengths! You even found this out." The first commentator laughed. "Berserker and Witch, a very good tank-and-carry lineup, but actually not very suitable for ARAM maps. I'm curious what kind of items Angel will choose to deal with Witch's squishiness?"
Meanwhile, in the game.
Nan Zhiyi had just moved her character out of the spawn point when she suddenly saw new messages pop up in the public chat in the lower left corner.
[CG.Wind: Brother Pei, how about we try a coordinated tactic this round?]
[CG.Wind: Otherwise, we'll get zero points and be kicked out!]
A moment later.
【HYG.Milk: Sure!】
Nan Zhiyi frowned slightly.
He stood on his island number 2, watching as four enemies approached them simultaneously from islands 1 and 3.
It turns out that the joint tactic Wind mentioned was to have the two teams not attack each other or leave anyone to defend their bases, but instead directly attack the Yux team, which had already gained a point, thus eliminating their possibility of ending the game 2-0.
Because it severely disrupts the experience for casual players, illegal teaming has always been a controversial issue in the game.
However, since there is no "prohibition of illegal team formation" clause in the entertainment competition, Nam Ji-yi could not raise her hand to ask the referee to stop the game.
Oh well, we're already here.
Nan Zhiyi began controlling the character.
The reason why the witch class is fragile is not because her basic stats are lower than other classes, but because of the uniqueness of her skills - making potions.
In the lore, witches imbue potions with powerful magic using their own blood, causing them to continuously lose health when casting spells.
This is why witches are often paired with various healing support characters.
By the time the four enemies arrived, the witch had already lost nearly two-thirds of her health.
Therefore, when she was struck by the swordsman opposite her, she died very quickly...
"The witch fell, and the berserker got the four damage potions she made... The berserker threw out the potions, all four of which were area-of-effect damage, and he also damaged himself... The berserker fell too." The commentator paused for a moment, "These two deaths at the beginning of the game... felt a bit natural, they didn't even move. We were originally wondering if the two players had devised any counter-attack strategies."
"Milk and Wind teams started dismantling the respawn point on Island 2, but due to the opening protection mechanism, they only managed to destroy 10%... Island 2 players are about to respawn, hey, isn't Wind planning to retreat and resupply?"
The four of them stood guard at the respawn point on Island 2, waiting for the witch and berserker to revive before charging forward again, brandishing their iron swords.
Both of them died very quickly afterward.
"Wow..." The commentator laughed a little awkwardly. He didn't dare to point out that this was the "blocking the live point" behavior that was extremely criticized in the game, for fear of offending the fans of popular players milk and wind, and then his Weibo comment section would suffer again.
Most of the time, "blocking and covering out living points" is an act that hurts the enemy a thousand while harming eight hundred of your own.
There are no reliable locations to regenerate health in the game ROE; the only way to recover health is by purchasing potions. If you stay at the spawn point and don't compete for neutral resources, you have no other way to obtain gold to buy new equipment besides kills that drop loot.
However, players whose living spots are blocked will be constantly killed, leaving them with absolutely no equipment and making them even worse off than the enemy.
And eventually, once the resurrection point protection mechanism disappears, their homes will be demolished very quickly.
What grudge or hatred could this be?
Blocking the living point is a bit unethical, huh?
What's the feud between Milk and Yux? Why is he getting involved?
[Isn't this just a fun match? Why is it being blown out of proportion as bad sportsmanship? Haven't you ever tried to catch someone's comeback point when you're playing for fun? It's really interesting to make such a big deal out of nothing.]
However, after the witch and berserker's third remarkably natural death, one of the commentators noticed something: "I don't know if you guys have noticed, but the first thing the witch does after each resurrection is to buy a spell ring and then make a damage potion. This actually makes her health drop faster and she dies even faster."
"But the swordsman's health seems to be steadily decreasing," another commentator noticed. "His health regeneration seems to be lagging behind... Is this some new strategy, a suicide witch?"
The first commentator chuckled: "It seems Angel's Will has never thought about how to solve its problem of being too fragile!"
[As long as I feed fast enough, the enemy won't be able to deal any damage to me, haha]
[Is this really useful? It's just giving the enemy stats boost from start to finish, and the resurrection point protection time is just being dragged out like this.]
I thought there would be some amazing plays, but it turned out there was no time to die.
[If they die again, it's basically game over. It's all about who can win this round, milk or wind.]
Soon, the witch was resurrected for the fourth time.
The swordsman in the wind hesitated for a moment. He didn't have much time to think: stay or go.
Should we stay and continue blocking the survivors, or return to Island 1 to rest and resupply?
The respawn point protection mechanism will disappear after about ten seconds. Although his health is already low, as long as he kills the opponent in this round, he can directly destroy the opponent's base and permanently eliminate the opponent from this game.
Half a second later, Wind made its decision—
He raised his iron sword once more.
The witch came back to life before his eyes.
Wind precisely calculated his health. He still had one health potion left. Even if the witch poisoned him again, as long as he drank the potion beforehand, he could ensure that he would still have about 42 drops of health left after the battle.
The swordsman raised his sword and slashed at the witch, simultaneously using a potion from his inventory.
The witch AngelYi has killed the swordsman CG.Wind!
The entire audience erupted in uproar.
A note from the author:
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Speaking of this book, the protagonist's cheat abilities in the game aspect are pretty powerful! Anyway, it's a fictional game, so let's just enjoy it! [Please!]
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