[TS] Obsessed Gamer: The Ultimate Return – Chapter 391

Of course, the opposing jungler, MaBing, wasn’t an easy opponent either, as Vayne made her appearance at top despite Renekton’s aggro.

[“…I think I’m dead.”]

Honor’s K’Sante, conscious of a possible bottom dive, was being aggressively aggressive in top lane, and unfortunately got caught by Vi.

To make matters worse, K’Sante was without spells and fell victim to Ornn and Vayne’s skill combo.

-Our ally has fallen!

Indeed, a sharp gank from MaBing.

It seemed that since Rainbow was doing so well in lane, ironically, Vayne had to turn her path to top.

‘Is being too good a problem?’

No, I couldn’t think that way.

It was more accurate to say that it was a combination of MaBing’s good play and Honor’s somewhat careless play.

Though Honor’s play was, after all, part of the process to execute a perfect bottom dive, I couldn’t really say anything about it.

Even though there was a slight setback at top, since K’Sante had teleport and the incident at bottom was so catastrophic, it didn’t have a huge impact.

If the opposing top champion had been anyone other than Ornn, it might have been different, but since Ornn is effectively a tank, even if he gets a kill, he remains, at his core, a tank, and K’Sante was also a tank in essence, which only reinforced that.

[“I’m going to keep applying pressure at bottom.”]

Waiting for the opposing bottom against Zeri, who had already picked up four kills, was like torment on a whole new level.

[“I can push first this turn.”]

“Then I’ll head straight to bottom.”

If it was just so much as getting behind in the bottom lane, it would end with a loss of experience and a few minions. But diving based on that could blow the game apart.

[“Looks like they went back to base. We should go take Dragon.”]

“Got it.”

Ultimately, unable to withstand any further diving pressure, Lucian and Nami recalled, allowing us to take Dragon and the bottom turret’s shield.

The bottom lane was completely blown apart.

‘Wait a second, if that’s the case…’

The opposing bottom lane gave up on bottom.

Even though it would have made sense to call in the relatively strong mid and jungler to defend around the turret, the reason the opponent made such an extreme choice was unclear.

[“The opposing bottom is coming to top.”]

Then came Honor’s call.

As he said, Lucian and Nami, who seemed to have abandoned bottom, appeared at top and began to pressure K’Sante.

[“They swapped lanes.”]

[“No… not yet. Ornn is also pressuring top right now.”]

Lane swap.

They must have judged that the bottom lane was hopeless and boldly gave up Dragon, which wasn’t theirs from the get-go, and rushed their bottom duo up to top ahead of time.

‘And I assume they plan to carry that momentum into Rift Herald. If not, they think the game is irretrievable.’

From here, a choice had to be made.

Whether to exchange top and bottom turrets or whether to go defend against the opponent, even at a delayed timing.

In fact, the answer was already set.

[“I’ll go back to base.”]

BlackDog and GuineaPig, mining the turret barrier, made the call.

They chose to fully break the turret and claim the first turret gold while opting to stop the opponent’s lane swap, even if it came late.

The reasoning was simple.

Rift Herald was still alive, and considering the nature of our composition, they believed there was no need to trade turrets.

It was believed that it would be more advantageous for both sides not to grow rather than both sides growing well.

However, my thoughts were different.

“We just need the ADC to stay and the Support to come up, and it’ll be fine.”

[“…Huh? Is that doable? Then we have to take a 4:5 fight at Rift Herald.”]

“I’ll hold until the ADC can bring down the turret.”

[“Hmm. Okay.”]

As BlackDog’s Zeri stayed back to clear the bottom turret, Ruler was the first to join top.

A strategy OLZ often employed, forcing the enemy to make choices while gaining a momentary advantage in personnel distribution.

Of course, executing such a strategy gives the enemy an opportunity for a comeback as well.

A chance born from a momentary lapse in personnel.

And I had no intention of permitting that.

Every champion in this game, except for BlackDog’s Zeri, began to converge towards top.

It was for the top pressure and also to prepare for a fight over Rift Herald.

And in that process, as MaBing’s Vi came out to take vision, she was momentarily exposed.

Right in front of Elise and Renekton, who had been waiting with their mouths open.

And the Elise-Renekton combo was optimized to devour that exposed lamb.

“I’ll go first.”

[“Okay.”]

With confidence in landing a cocoon.

Biding her time, Renekton took a slight step, reserving his E ability for the full combo.

And when the cocoon landed, Renekton’s full combo and Elise’s full combo crashed down on Vi.

-Enemy eliminated!

Vi didn’t even have the chance to flash, let alone put up a decent fight, and was just blown apart.

It was only possible because of the instant power created by the Renekton-Elise combo.

[“Oh, what?! Nice!”]

[“Let’s get Rift Herald right away.”]

The opposing jungler was dead.

Even if our ADC was at bottom, it became a 4v4 in numbers.

More importantly, with no meaningful resource used on our side, the opponent now had no choice but to make a decision.

-The Red team’s turret has been destroyed!

Meanwhile, BlackDog’s Zeri finished off the bottom turret.

[“I’ll head back to base and then go up.”]

Now, the Chinese team had even less time left.

Perhaps that’s why.

[“Looks like the opponents are surrendering.”]

The Chinese team’s judgment was quick.

No, before reaching that conclusion, Lucian appeared at bottom.

What did that mean?

It meant that Vi made a swift judgment to retreat to bottom right after dying.

Thanks to that, we secured Rift Herald without issue, but in return, our bottom was left empty due to the momentary personnel gap.

We would have to allow Lucian some free farming and a bit of turret mining.

[“This is…”]

[“This game is really weird.”]

LCKR, due to league tendencies, has a pathological aversion to losing lanes.

Therefore, most teams prefer the so-called organized team fights, wanting to take fights when they are prepared.

But the Chinese team, seemingly unfazed by minor lane losses, pressed top and immediately turned around without hesitation and headed back to bottom.

[“It’s okay.”]

Rainbow said.

As she mentioned, the Chinese team’s flexible play may have slightly flustered us, but nonetheless, it was a fact that the opponent was accruing damage.

We took charge of Rift Herald and that allowed us to seamlessly continue onto mid turret as well.

To be frank, the opponent was merely floundering to minimize the damage to prevent the game from entirely spiraling out of control.

-The Blue team has defeated the Rift Herald!

Now, we had two main choices left.

Either unleash the Rift Herald at top and completely demolish the top turret, or release it at mid and chip at the mid turret.

At least from a gold perspective, it was obvious that the former would draw the largest amount of gold.

It was also a key component of a snowball composition.

But I made another judgment.

“I’m going to save this and release it later at mid.”

Given the opposing and our composition, if we couldn’t quickly push down the crucial mid first turret, the snowballing could get delayed.

Most importantly, the top first turret was mere gold bait that we could take down whenever we wanted.

‘In a situation with Ornn, if the opponent stubbornly defends the mid first turret, it could get bothersome.’

When rolling the snowball, it’s important to stay ahead in gold, but it’s also crucial to lay the foundation for victory in the game.

Among all of these, the mid first turret, directly tied to Baron vision, was extremely important, and I had no intention of letting my guard down there.

Personnel redistribution occurred swiftly.

Our K’Sante covered bottom, while our bottom duo took advantage of the opposing team’s momentary gap at top to mine the top turret.

Although the top turret, given its health, could be finished off if we used the Rift Herald as mentioned earlier, I held back for a moment.

I roamed between top and mid jungle in preparation for any potential traps from the opponent.

And then…

[“Vi’s at mid.”]

With Rainbow’s call, Arin and Vi’s duo appeared, targeting Rainbow’s Renekton.

MaBing’s Vi, without hesitation, slammed her ultimate down on Renekton.

And then Arin charged in.

Had it been another mid champion, she would have burst down in an instant, but with Renekton’s health bump from the ultimate, he managed to hold out against the assault.

A moment’s resistance.

That time was enough to buy me a chance to join the fight.

“I’ll target Vi first.”

[“Got it.”]

With a brief call, the still-battered Renekton partially recovered his health with the Blood-Q combo before charging at Vi with fury.

In the meantime, I drew close with a Spiderling and landed a cocoon right in front of Vi.

As experienced before, few champions can withstand the full combo from Renekton and Elise.

-Enemy eliminated!

Crash, crash.

The sound of the game breaking echoed across Summoner’s Rift.