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How Dare You Attack My Support! chapter 13
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Chapter 13
Dark clouds loom
over Qiao Yanzhou’s head.
Why didn’t I
take up a decent job after graduation instead of becoming a fucking
streamer? Earning only a few hundred bucks a month, I have sold my
soul and worked like a dog, and soon I might not even be able to
protect my body! Yikes!
It’s one
thing to turn on the webcam during the horror game stream but it’s
another to ask for a crossplay!
“Guys… I,
your most beloved streamer, am one big guy who’s over a hundred and
eighty cm has only one hobby, which is playing games. Where the hell
do I find female costumes for myself?!” Qiao Yanzhou cries at the
computer screen. “Could you guys not make so many requests?”
The audience doesn’t give up despite Qiao Yanzhou’s desperate
pleas. Though he keeps it from his viewers, who are the bosses who
pay his salary, he feels extremely annoyed. The only one he can blame
for is his big mouth for mentioning the idea.
“All right, all
right. Let’s make another deal.” At last, Qiao Yanzhou succumbs
to his viewers who are still flooding the chat window. “If EG loses
the next game, I’ll do it.”
Anonymous452:
DEAL!
Anonymous962:
I’LL BE WAITING!!
Anonymous092:
YES! GOGOGO!
Frankly speaking,
Qiao Yanzhou believes it’s impossible for EG to lose two games in a
row, which is about the same probability in the SPL, same as the
possibility of him crossplaying.
After managing to
appease his audience, he can now finally stream in peace. He
leisurely clicks into a ranked game room while launching WeChat on
his phone. He finds himself receiving a message that was sent just a
few minutes.
Star: I added
you here since I usually don’t make calls
OMG!!
Qiao Yanzhou is
pleasantly surprised – he’s right about the identity of the
sender!
YZ Qiao: oh I
hope that wasn’t too much of a trouble for u senpai
YZ Qiao: and
sry was streaming, didn't see ur message
Star: np
YZ Qiao: wanna
rank?
Star: nope,
not free now
YZ Qiao: ok,
imma stream now. Thx for the tix!
Star: np
Qiao Yanzhou is
even more excited after knowing that the godly player added him.
So this is how
it feels when you are friends with a good player huh!
Although Qiao
Yanzhou has always despised players who try to curry favor with good
players, it dawns on him that it could have been because he had never
found any suitable candidates before!
And now he seems
to be blown away by that godly player’s game skills, even to the
point of losing his sanity.
There’s
nothing wrong to want to climb higher on the ranked ladder right…
Qiao Yanzhou thinks to himself.
What position
should I play today? Mid? Support? Jungle? Qiao Yanzhou hesitates
for a moment before selecting “Jungle”.
Qiao Yanzhou
rarely plays this position, as players tend to blame the jungler for
everything that goes wrong during the game.
Top laners blame
the jungler for not ganking when they get ganked, mid laners blame
the jungler for not helping when they cannot get a kill, and the
bottom laners blame the jungler for not appearing when they are
losing lane. This is why Qiao Yanzhou usually avoids queuing up for
this position, as he is someone who is really bad at arguing with his
teammates.
But, perhaps
because he is now friends with a godly player, Qiao Yanzhou suddenly
feels godly as well and decides to go for the position he is least
familiar with.
After the game is
matched, players go through the usually exciting pick-and-ban phase.
Looking at all the champions that are banned, Qiao Yanzhou is glad
that the enemy team has banned champions that he doesn’t know how
to play.
The players start
picking their champions after the banning phase. Qiao Yanzhou, who
was gleeful a moment ago, starts having trouble with choosing a
champion as he scrolls through his army of heroes.
Hm… Who
should I go for? Elise? Zac? Nidalee? Rek’Sai? Evelynn? Ivern?
Qiao Yanzhou
finally locks in Elise, the Spider Queen, ten seconds before the
countdown timer runs out.
Elise is
considered to be one of the older champions in LoL. She has great
mobility and damage, is quick in clearing jungle camps, and is a
jungler worth buying for her power and balance. However, her health
level is lower, she has a high skill cap and requires good teamwork.
Qiao Yanzhou has
played Elise twice, but gave up because a lot of time is needed to be
good at this champion and he was sprinting down the road to be a
Challenger.
It’s been years
since Qiao Yanzhou has brought Elise out and he is unsure of how he
will fare. To be honest, he’s not very confident.
When the game
starts, Qiao Yanzhou goes straight to the Raptors’ camp instead of
the usual red buff as he intends to gain experience points faster.
His mid laner,
Orianna, understands his intention and helps him out. After clearing
the raptors, he sees that the red buff has been taken to low health
by his bot laners and smites to kill it.
For a jungler,
the early game is always long and lonesome. He has to travel alone in
the vast Summoner’s Rift with unfriendly jungle monsters as his
only company.
Elise is a
typical “carry jungler” who heavily relies on getting kills to
get stronger. The bloodthirsty Qiao Yanzhou walks around the map and
finally finds a good chance for a gank.
The enemy’s top
laner, Rumble, is already ahead by a few CS facing the allied top
laner, Kennen, with his burst damage in the early game. Rumble has
also managed to push the minion wave towards the allied tower.
Rumble is a
ferocious champion who wears a black mechanical gear
that is equipped with a flamethrower. Smoke billows out as it freely
torches Kennen. Although Qiao Yanzhou wants to help him, he has a
feeling that something is off.
Rumble’s health
is already low as he takes damage from Kennen and the minions, and
yet he is still playing so aggressively. Perhaps the enemy jungler
is around? Qiao Yanzhou speculates.
Though Qiao
Yanzhou is unsure, he can sense the enemy jungler lurking around.
Maybe the opponent has already discovered his presence, and they’re
waiting for a good chance to launch an ambush. Kennen’s health
diminishes quickly, and if not for Doran’s shield, he might have
gotten killed already.
Qiao Yanzhou
concludes that Kennen is not going to help even if the enemy jungler
jumps on him and beats the crap out of him.
He considers for
a moment and signals Kennen to be careful before leaving the top
lane. This is Qiao Yanzhou’s jungling style – ever adaptable and
flexible.
Since the enemy
jungler is waiting for an ambush in the top lane, Qiao Yanzhou sneaks
to the enemy’s bottom side of the jungle to see if there’s any
more gold to harvest. Ro his disappointment, he finds nothing but a
scuttle crab. He then turns back to his own jungle after helping the
ADC (?) to hold
the lane as the he recalls to the base to get some items.
Just as Qiao
Yanzhou is becoming bored with roaming in the jungle, he sees the mid
laner, Orianna, asking for assistance.
Shifting his
vision to the mid lane quickly, Qiao Yanzhou notices that the enemy
mid laner, Vladimir, has extremely low health but continues to kill
minions by staying safely under the turret. Qiao Yanzhou is now in a
dilemma: he is afraid that if he appears for a gank but fails the
mission, he may be the one killed instead.
However, Orianna
seems to disagree as she throws the ball, usually floating around her
body, towards Vladimir after sending a signal to attack. The enemy is
now one auto-attack away from death. Orianna quickly gives herself a
shield before flashing under the turret where she intends to bag the
kill with one auto-attack.
Orianna probably
thinks that she has secured the kill as she backs away quickly after
taking one turret shot - but to her surprise, Vladimir suddenly
levels up and regains a sliver of health.
The mid laner
seems to be taken aback, because she suddenly mispositions herself.
This means that
she will be taking three turret shots of damage instead of returning
to the safe zone after taking two. She does not have enough health
for these three shots.
Fortunately, Qiao
Yanzhou reacts quickly. He flashes in and cocoons Vladimir, stunning
him as he turns around to kill Orianna. By doing so, Qiao Yanzhou
manages to take the turret shot instead before transforming into the
spider form with skill R. He then kills Vladimir with an auto-attack
after the spiderlings take away some of his health.
“First
blood!”
Qiao Yanzhou’s
champion, Elise, is now left with flashing red health. But Orianna,
whom he successfully rescued, does not seem to have any intention of
giving him a shield.
He has no choice
but to trigger skill E to ascend into the air and land safely behind
the mid lane minion wave. His audience cheers wildly as he shows off
his smooth and effortless mechanics.
“Phew, that was
close!” Qiao Yanzhou mutters to himself before changing his tone in
a cocky way. “Doesn’t my Elise remind you of Deep’s Elise in
the finals?”
The one Qiao
Yanzhou is referring to is Qi Chen from EG, who chose Elise and won
last year’s championship finals.
“Hey, isn’t
he a big fan of yours? Why is he mentioning me?”
Nobody could have
imagined that Qi Chen himself was actually watching Qiao Yanzhou’s
mechanics, that are as good as Deep’s, from Gu Zixing’s computer
screen.
“There’s
still a skill gap between his Elise and yours in the first three
minutes.” Gu Zixing strokes his chin before giving Qi Chen a smile.
“But he will reach your level at minute five.”
“My dear
Xing-xing, have I just lost your respect?”
“But seems like
it’s true that he did do some research on how to play this
champion.” Qin Xiangnan, sitting right beside them, ignores Qi Chen
and continues while looking at the screen. “His positioning and
game sense are really close to the pro level. I wouldn’t say he is
trying to mimic Qi Chen, but it’s obvious that he did his
homework.”
“Shall we go?
Coach should already be waiting in the practise room.” Qin Xiangnan
pushes his glasses up his nose before packing up his notebook and
says, “I heard we’ve gotten some first-hand info on WG’s last
game.”
Gu Zixing stands
up from the chair and stretches himself.
Then he clicks
the “follow” button at the top right hand corner of the streaming
site before switching off his computer.
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TN: In the next
chapter, Qiao Yanzhou keeps his promise and plays a horror game! XD.
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