All-round Mid Laner

Chapter 94

 

After the first round, there was a ten-minute break. CYC's coach immediately rushed into his team's soundproofed room and said, “The last game is already over. Everyone, don't give it too much thought. Quickly adjust your mental states.”

Each player wore a different expression; the marksman, who had been carried into traps and killed the most times, had the most unsightly look on his face.

The coach patted him on the shoulder and smiled as he said, “Tianhuan's 'Standing Punishment System' is indeed quite cruel and unusual, but you guys think about it carefully—the Blazing Angel's ability to carry a player across a short distance is actually the same as the Enchained Reaper's hook or the Black Dragon Knight's taunt. These are all displacement skills that reel in distant enemies for a kill.

“At the end of the day, they're just using a support to drag people in and a jungler to control people. It's just your standard seamless crowd control! Tianhuan has definitely been practicing this comp for a long time. It isn't out of the ordinary for us to lose to them. If our marksman had taken a cleanse, and if our support had checked the jungle for traps in advance, then they wouldn't have gotten such a smooth victory.”

Although the coach could only say these things because everything became evident in hindsight, his analysis of the game they'd just played did make the players feel a bit better. When running into a bizarre comp in games, it really was normal to lose to the other side.

The coach added, “Tianhuan had been focusing on strategies that support their mid laner. They've been letting their mid laner take kills and MVP titles. So in the next game, we'll avoid their strengths and target them on the outer lanes!”

CYC's captain asked, “Should we destroy their bottom lane? I think that Fanxing of theirs actually isn't that strong.”

The coach shook his head. “No, Fanxing has Qu Jiang's protection. It won't be easy to kill him. Everyone says top laners are orphans, right? In the next game, we'll focus on the top laner. Obliterate their top lane!”

CYC's coach was right to think that way. Tianhuan was constantly having their top laner leave resources for their mid laner, right? In that case, would they still be able to do that if someone destroyed their top lane? They wouldn't have any extra resources to give to the mid laner at all!

The second game started very quickly.

In this game, Tianhuan was the blue team. They had the first set of bans.

Coach Lin continued to ban strong support heroes in order to take some pressure off Little Xing. When their turn came up, CYC banned the Abyssal Lord again. They also once again banned the Blessed Priest, sealing away his speed buffs.

The picks and bans stage of the second game was unfolding much like the picks and bans of the first game. One commentator couldn't help but remark, “Are they not afraid of Tianhuan taking out the 'Standing Punishment System' again? Or are they saying CYC's coach has found a way to counter that comp?”

“What I'm thinking is… Tianhuan won't take out the same comp twice in a row, right?”

For their first pick in this game, Tianhuan took the Machine Gun Huntsman—the marksman hero that Cheng Xing had gotten pretty good with lately. This hero had a very fast attack speed. He was good at clearing minions with his bullets, and it wasn't easy for him to be suppressed in his lane.