[TS] Obsessed Gamer: The Ultimate Return – Chapter 251

Many positions are like this, but especially in the jungle, there are often champions that remain set in stone despite several seasons changing.

To begin with, there are quite restrictive conditions for utilizing a jungler, and surprisingly, not many champions fit those conditions.

Maybe that’s why.

Lee Sin again.


Nidalee again.


Elise again.


Graves again.


Kindred again.

Again, again, again.

Champions I saw in the jungle a few seasons ago are still performing the same in the jungle today.

Of course, there are occasional cases of champions from the lane like Talon or Sylas making moves in the jungle, but every time, they get mercilessly kicked out of the jungle by patches.

It was the matters that diverged from their intentions that was the problem.

So, circling back, in the jungle, champions like Lee Sin, Elise, and Nidalee are still the mainstream.

Sure, there are champions like Talon who turned into junglers thanks to relatively recent patches, or new champions like Viego and Lillian, but those aren’t champions that can go against the meta and patches.

‘It’s funny that this is probably the best time now.’

Although I’ve been saying negative things up until now, it’s true that the current meta has more champions appearing than any jungle meta that has ever existed.

Regardless of anything, it’s not like champions classified as OP, like Lee Sin, are completely unmanageable or without counters anymore.

‘I wonder how it will go this time…’

If I had to pick about three major changes happening in the jungle, I would mention runes, the crab, and items.

‘Sure, I could just solo queue and figure it out, but… might as well turn on the broadcast since I’m at it, right?’

After all, some viewers might have already gone through the PBE server, so I planned to leverage the power of collective intelligence.

Fortunately, we didn’t have any team matches for the next five days, so I wasn’t completely short on time.

Back in the day, I wasn’t slow to grasp the meta since I was thinking about Legends of League all day, but this time, I had to separate my thoughts between the competitive version and the live version, so it couldn’t be helped.

“Yeon-woo, is it okay if I turn on the broadcast? It might be a bit disruptive.”

“I’m fine. You do whatever you’re comfortable with. I’ll be wearing my headset anyway.”

“Okay.”

I was a bit worried about potential noise complaints from my neighbors, but thankfully, it seemed that wouldn’t be a problem.

‘Let’s see…’

I turned on the broadcast for the first time in a while.

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[ON AIR] [Outlaw111]

-Let’s take a look at the major patch together!

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-OH!

-What the…

-Wow!

-Are we seeing a patch?

-Outlaw! Outlaw! Outlaw! Outlaw! Outlaw! Outlaw! Outlaw! Outlaw! Outlaw! Outlaw! Outlaw!

-Ah…

-Hello, hello, hello, hello!

-Sis, turn on the cam!

-What the heck, turn it on quickly… I’m getting dizzy…

[Current viewer count: 1,531]

Even though it was a sudden broadcast without any prior announcement, over a thousand viewers poured in in an instant.

It seemed I had set my broadcast to send notifications when I went live.

“Ah, everyone, it’s been a while. The camera… wait a second. How do I do this?”

-You want to see me go crazy????????

-Hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry!

After a few minutes of struggling to turn on the cam, the camera finally came on.

-OH!

-Ah – ha (roughly means “Outlaw wow”)

-Sis, hello!

-Looking stunning as always ㄷㄷ

-Sis, I’m seriously dying…

‘Yolehiiy’ gifted 10 balloons.

“Ah, thank you for the ten balloons. It’s been a while. How have you all been?”

-NOOOOOOOO

-I was dying without you!

-For real, lol.

-Get the buffalo out of here…

-You go first, dumbass.

As always, the chat turned chaotic.

If it had been like before, I would have found it quite uncomfortable to look at, but at some point, I had gotten used to it, so it didn’t bother me much.

Unknowingly, I had become somewhat of a broadcasting veteran myself.

“I’m here today because I wanted to take a look at the major patch that happened.”

-SSSS

-Good!

-The magician of public sentiment ㄷㄷㄷㄷ

-Have you seen the patch?


-What looks good?

“Well, first of all, Viktor definitely looks better, but I still think we need to try things out. I’m not too sure about the jungle yet.”

I pulled up the patch notes I had opened earlier on the screen.

“Okay, let’s take a look at the patch notes together.”

I had skimmed through it once, but since it was a major patch, there were definitely some points that couldn’t be understood just by reading the written patch notes.

So, I planned to read through it again with the viewers to catch any details I might have missed or misunderstood.

“Can you see it well? It’s not too big or small, right??”

-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, perfect!

-Good!

-Just right ㅇㅇㅇ

-Let’s keep going like this ㄱㄱ

The first thing that caught my eye was the patch content related to object bounties.

“Um, it seems like now not just champions, but also turrets, Rift Heralds, and Dragons will have bounties attached to the favored team.”

-What the…

-A lot of comebacks will probably happen!

-For sure.

-This feels right!

-There have been too many games where the favored team just steamrolled the game.

-For real.

The object bounty patch could be seen as providing a better foundation for the disadvantaged teams to come back, as the viewers pointed out.

‘Then again…’

In the previous seasons of Legends of League, it was really difficult for a disadvantaged team to turn the tables on a favored team.

Sure, it’s not like we were going back to the ancient era of ward farming, but with the 4-dragon meta, the team that secured four dragons often had a higher chance of solidifying their game.

“Let’s move on.”

The next thing was the jungle changes.

Major patches in Legends of League always come with jungle changes.

One of the reasons many junglers struggle to adapt with each patch.

For laners, the direction of play doesn’t change much with patches, but for junglers, the routes can change drastically.

“So, let’s look at the new dragons added right away.”

Chemtech Dragon and Hextech Dragon.

Just as expected from dragons newly introduced in the patch, they had some pretty interesting effects.

“The Chemtech Dragon is similar to the Last Stand characteristic, while the Hextech Dragon is just about attack speed cooldowns. The important thing is the soul effect… this one’s pretty fun.”

To summarize, the Chemtech Dragon soul effect is similar to Sion’s passive but instead allows skill use.

And the Hextech Dragon soul effect is reminiscent of Static’s effect and comes with both damage and slow.

-For real, this looks fun, haha.

-Zombie Dragon ㄷㄷ

-The Hextech one is pretty standard, while the Chemtech one looks more interesting.

-For sure, haha.

“And the dragon map change effect is also quite different.”

The camouflage effect of the gas zones.


Teleport stations.

All of them were fun effects.

‘Not to mention, the Wind Dragon changes too…’

As I confirmed earlier, none of these changes were small ones.


They just seemed relatively lesser compared to the changes that were about to happen.

“The value of the crab has significantly decreased. This looks pretty important. Just this alone makes it hard to predict… we’ll have to see.”

The timing and value of the crab’s appearance might seem to only affect junglers at first glance, but in reality, it affects the mid lane just as much.

As an extreme example, back when the crab used to come out early, the tier of strong champions for mid-lane would rise.

On the contrary, the fact that the value of the crab, one of the jungle monsters that induces skirmishes, has decreased means that champions who might be weak in the early game but can shine in the late game will rise in tier.

-Crab coins crashing ㄷㄷ

-Can it now be played in tournaments?

-Nah, that’s a bit…

-Info: Someone already used Master Yi in the jungle in a tournament.

-It’s been done already, so what’s the big deal? Haha.

-For real, lol.

“Next up… oh, this is seriously important.”

-Was there anything unimportant?

-For sure.

-They all say it’s important, haha.

-Info: It’s all important, that’s right.

“This time it’s real.”

I scrolled down to the item patch notes.

In a sense, changes to new items and item patches can have even a bigger impact than changes to each champion.

And, the item that had been widely rumored since the PBE server was right in front of me.

Queen’s Crown.

An item that has been evaluated to make Viktor a broken champion alongside the Ambush rune.

-They say it’s super broken.

-Yeah, Viktor rose because of this.

-I’ve tried it and it’s for real, it’s super ridiculously broken; the champion doesn’t die.

At that moment.

“Sis, wanna duo after seeing that?”

Seo Yeon-woo, who was beside me, suddenly popped her face into the cam.

-??

-Whoa…

-Wow.

-Hello, hello!

-Honor! Honor! Honor! Honor! Honor! Honor! Honor! Honor! Honor! Honor! Honor! Honor! Honor! Honor! Honor! Honor!

-Little sis, I’m dying!

-Haha, you called her little sis, dumbass.

-Hahahahahaha.

-Bro… my clone is weird…

-Gay, gay, gay people…

-Is this… a guy?

-No way, I don’t believe it.

-For real, haha, how can this be a guy.

The chat exploded.