[TS] Obsessed Gamer: The Ultimate Return – Chapter 372

Rainbow’s pressure continues!

MangoMango’s Irelia is bustling around, desperate to grab at least some minions, but each time she does, she faces the desperate wrath of Rainbow’s basic attacks.

– How can I do this? MangoMango? Rainbow’s pressure is relentless! At this rate, you can do nothing and just lose!

– It’s truly incredible! Rainbow! MangoMango is suffering!

I think I could hear the commentators, but naturally, I couldn’t make sense of it.

The only things I barely understood were that the commentators were super hyped and cheering for Rainbow.

Generally, one of the easiest ways to deal with Irelia is to prevent her from stacking her passive to 4 stacks or to avoid trading when she has them.

An Irelia with 4 stacks becomes a formidable powerhouse, even overwhelming champions from the upper tiers, but an Irelia without stacks is pretty mediocre until the minion spawn.

In that sense, Rainbow’s early pressure was quite effective.

Even when Irelia wanted to stack up and seize a kill angle, she couldn’t even use her Q skill on the distant minions under such monstrous pressure.

Players with high Irelia mastery usually use their E skill simultaneously with their Q skill, ensuring their opponents have no time to react.

So, under ordinary circumstances, Irelia might have tried an aggressive play, but Rainbow’s fierce pressure completely blocked such attempts.

“But, you can’t maintain this dominance forever.”

As Irelia gives up on the distant minions and carefully continues to heal, eventually, with the wind of healing effects from the wind’s recovery and regeneration, a chance will come for Irelia sooner or later.

The 1v1 Tournament is a strict 1v1 match, and just because you have momentum doesn’t mean you can call on the jungle to dive!

“The turning point is between levels 5 and 6.”

Of course, since Rainbow’s Tristana is pushing the lane, it’s Rainbow who will hit level 6 first.

However, Irelia might still erase the minions momentarily, catch up in levels, and look for a kill angle.

That moment was slowly approaching.

Of course, Rainbow was also continuing the pressure, leading not just in turret shields but also in CS, so if she plays her first reset well, she can still maintain an advantage.

“But to reset, you need to either kill the enemy or get killed yourself.”

With only two coins, it goes without saying that if you’re resetting, it’s way more advantageous to kill the opponent first.

– Rainbow achieves level 6 first! Now, the moment of the showdown is approaching. How will Mango come out?

– I’m really looking forward to it! That moment is coming!

Still unable to comprehend the commentary was frustrating, but regardless, I focused on the match.

“It’s coming.”

The health of the minions was at a good level, and the lane situation wasn’t bad.

A perfect entry angle for Irelia.

Naturally, both Rainbow and MangoMango would be aware of that.

Irelia starts to farm minions to stack up.

In the process, she subtly overlaps with the champions and lays down her E skill, paying attention to the details.

MangoMango, as a top-tier professional gamer, also understood Irelia perfectly.

Now, Tristana has a few options.

The first is to give up on greed and jump away calmly. In such a case, she wouldn’t be able to maintain pressure during the jump cooldown, potentially giving Irelia the initiative.

The second is to observe Irelia using her E skill and calmly flash to evade. Even though she would use her flash in this scenario, it would allow her to mitigate Irelia’s attack turn and continue the pressure.

The third is to rely on mechanics and dodge the E with movement while flashing to avoid the ultimate. If this works, Irelia’s skills would all miss, spilling her turn and potentially gaining a kill angle.

However, the risk is considerable, making it a tough choice in such a situation.

“And there are other methods, but…”

How will Rainbow decide? The answer would be revealed soon.

Irelia stacked up to 4 stacks and, wanting to secure a kill, used her ultimate first instead of finishing her E skill.

Even though she could’ve easily avoided it with a flash, Rainbow didn’t do that.

Instead, as Irelia dashed in, she used her ultimate, perfectly interrupting Irelia’s Q.

With her Q cut off, Irelia.

Perhaps it would have been different if she had remembered to accelerate the cooldown with some items, but at this moment, it was almost like Q had vanished forever.

– What the?

– Oh my God…!

I could actually understand this.

My feelings weren’t that different either.

“…That’s insane.”

That’s not something you can just react to.

Pure prediction territory.

If she had failed that prediction, she could have been in trouble when Irelia attempted to take a kill in the next turn, but Rainbow gloriously succeeded in her gamble.

– My goodness! Irelia’s ultimate power has been exquisitely cut off! Rainbow’s Super Play!

– Rainbow! What a crazy play! I’m playing with Mango in the palm of my hand!

Irelia, now facing the cooldown on her Q skill, desperately activated her W to survive, but that only gave Tristana more time to stack her bombs.

Soon, Irelia’s fate was all but sealed.

– First Blood!

Irelia tried to escape with a late flash, but Rainbow’s aggressive leap with Tristana made escape impossible.

Tristana, gobbling up that kill, went on to rip apart another turret shield and executed a reinforced recall.

This was a sort of privilege available when you secured a kill in the 1v1 Tournament.

– Look at Rainbow’s items! From MangoMango’s perspective, there seems to be no hope!

I didn’t catch exactly what the commentators said, but it felt like they were saying Rainbow’s items were insane.

And indeed it was.

Rainbow returned to the lane not with a single core item, but with a solid 1.5 core items.

Thanks to the nature of the 1v1 Tournament, where kill gold amounts to 600 gold, and cannons give a bonus of 200 gold, plus a nice chunk from the turret shields, that was all possible.

The item Rainbow chose was the Steel Plating.

Usually, mid Tristana would go for Kraken, but this meant she was fully blocking Irelia’s burst combo.

And it already felt like the outcome was a foregone conclusion.

MangoMango’s turret got steadily whittled down, and in a last-ditch effort, he attempted to land a decisive blow at the next ultimate timing, but ultimately couldn’t break through Rainbow’s Tristana.

– GG!

The commentators declared Rainbow’s victory in unison, wrapping up Rainbow’s round of 32.

*

After Rainbow’s match ended, an awkward atmosphere hung in the air as I found myself faced with Rainbow in the temporary waiting room.

“Uh… great job out there.”

“Ah, yeah.”

Honestly, since Rainbow’s 1v1 Tournament schedule was over, she could go straight to the regular waiting room, but I couldn’t figure out why she was still here. Feeling that lingering awkwardness was enough for me to force myself to speak.

The topic was naturally about the recent 1v1 Tournament match.

“I saw you cut off Irelia’s Q. Was that a prediction?”

“Ah, yes. I thought she might use it around that timing.”

“That’s impressive.”

You can’t just time it perfectly like that to interrupt Q cooldown based on immediate sight.

“What do you think is a good pick for 1v1?”

“Um… I think Tristana from earlier was good, and Irelia isn’t bad either, but she’s got a bit of a learning curve.”

“That’s true.”

Since we were talking about Legends of League, the expected heart-pounding moments didn’t come flooding back.

“What pick will you use in the next match?”

“I’m thinking about it. I’m considering what’s good for 1v1.”

“It could get banned, so you should prepare several options.”

“That’s true.”

Even though talking with Rainbow was still awkward, the very fact that we were having a natural conversation was a huge step forward.

Suddenly, that thought crossed my mind.

Even if I’m not a prisoner, maybe it would be okay.

As I momentarily sank into thought, a voice jolted me back.

“Outlaw! Please prepare for your next match!”

“Ah, yes!”

Finally, it was my turn.

As I stood up, Rainbow, slightly blushing and out of character, said,

“Good luck.”

Her awkward encouragement made me unintentionally smile.