How Dare You Attack My Support! ch4
(Reminder: To read the translator's notes, hover your cursor over the words underlined with dots.)\nChapter 3\n\nMake a guess?\nQiao Yanzhou
feels a twinge of anticipation after reading ThoseStolenBlueBuffs’
reply. But he quickly brushes it off after collecting his thoughts.\nThinking about
it, the SPL Spring Split is now in full swing in S City. At this
crucial moment, if any professional player has the time to climb the
ranks using his smurf account, he is likely someone at the bottom of
the bottom-most level of the team, and a small fry at most. Then
again, this Orianna player’s mechanics and game awareness are so
outstanding that Qiao Yanzhou is having second thoughts about his
maybe… ure nt a pro\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs:
shldnt pro players be practising right now?\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs:
who says so?\nBoatIdlingBy:
c’mon, it’s common sense\nBoatIdlingBy:
SPL has been on for some time\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs:
Qiao Yanzhou is wondering whether he even knows what SPL is.\nBoatIdlingBy:
senpai, can u use ur mic, lazy to keep typing\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs:
……\nAs the game loads
up, five champions from the allied team arrive at the red side of the
Summoner’s Rift.\nThe champion that
ThoseStolenBlueBuffs has chosen, Xayah, is wearing a cape of
beautiful feathers. She flaps it and strides out of the base a few
seconds later. Although some say that Xayah has recently lost the
“God’s favour,” as she has been nerfed multiple times, the
design of this character is still awfully charming.\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs
(Xayah): want a kill?\nBoatIdlingBy
(Rakan): dreamin of it\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs
(Xayah): lets go\nBoatIdlingBy
(Rakan): where to?\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs
(Xayah): get a kill and steal a buff\nBoatIdlingBy
(Rakan): wow so pro\nQiao Yanzhou
initially thinks he is joking. After all, no ADC would be so foolish
as to invade the jungle along with a support. Little did he expect
that his foolish ADC would seriously march straight into the enemy
(Rakan) signals to be careful!\nBoatIdlingBy
(Rakan) signals to be careful!\nYangYangYang
(Pantheon) signals to be careful!\nHowever, he turns
a blind eye to the multiple exclamation marks appearing on the map
and continues striding towards the enemy jungle as if no one else is
on the Rift. He even fearlessly places a ward.\nYangYangYang
(Pantheon): AD what ru doing?\nYangYangYang
(Pantheon) signals to be careful\nIt’s already no
surprise that he chooses to remain silent to the jungler’s
question. Qiao Yanzhou has no choice but to follow along with the ADC
in case he dies as first blood in this reckless move.\nXayah carefully
scouts for the enemy and places a ward on a bush right behind the
enemy jungle creep. But they see no one.\nBoatIdlingBy
(Rakan): we gonna hit it?\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs
(Xayah): make a choice, kill or buff\nBoatIdlingBy
(Rakan): kill\nQiao Yanzhou
replies without any hesitation. He has mentally prepared himself for
a journey of no return.\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs
(Xayah): ok lets go\nXayah moves
towards the bottom side of the creep while Qiao Yanzhou observes his
movement. An ominous feeling grows in his heart.\nSure enough, the
enemy’s ADC and support are hiding at a blind spot nearby. They are
pretending to help the jungler to leash the blue buff, as if the
jungler is there.\nHowever, they do
not manage to deceive Xayah. Before the enemies notice them, Xayah
shoots a feather towards the enemy’s ADC and surprises them. Qiao
Yanzhou follows up with a skill W that deals damage as well as giving
the ADC a knock-up. Xayah immediately throws two basic attacks that
greatly reduce the ADC’s health. When the kill is only one basic
attack away, the enemy’s support, Morgana, is intending to cast an
ability that binds Qiao Yanzhou. But as they have the upper hand in
this fight, he is not worried at all. Even if he is bound, he is sure
the enemy’s ADC dares not attack.\nBut to his
surprise, Xayah burns a flash to take the bind for him. Qiao Yanzhou
is so shocked at his move that he accidentally attacks a nearby
jungle creep.\nThe jungle creep
leaps up and attacks the enemy’s ADC, who is low in health and yet
to take the healing potion.\n“First
is awkward.\nQiao Yanzhou
finds it both funny and embarrassing at the same time.\nBoatIdlingBy
(Rakan): what a powerful creep\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs
(Xayah): if u had attacked the adc, that kill is urs\nBoatIdlingBy
(Rakan): sry sir\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs
(Xayah): what a waste of my flash\nOh. It
struck Qiao Yanzhou that Xayah was trying to give him the first blood
earlier by taking Morgana’s bind for him.\nIsn’t that
overboard…\nBut even if Qiao
Yanzhou practises for another fifty years, he will never reach this
level of mechanics and game awareness. This is especially apparent as
Xayah could flash in so decisively and timely, though it was only for
his support to get the first blood.\nBoatIdlingBy
(Rakan): r u in a pro team?\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs
(Xayah): didnt u just ask this qtn?\nBoatIdlingBy
(Rakan): but u didnt answer\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs
(Xayah): farm first\nXayah continues
to kill the minions one by one after avoiding the question.\nOne kill and one
minion wave are enough for Xayah to become so powerful that the
recent nerfs have no effect on her. And although Xayah is nerfed,
Rakan is still a very strong protector. This makes their laning phase
a breeze, and Rakan’s Ardent Censer is well on its way.\n“An ally has
been slain!”\n“Double
kill!”\nNevertheless, as
the top lane falters, the edge over the enemies at the bottom lane
seems to be insufficient for a certain victory.\nThe enemy’s top
laner happily takes a double kill after a failed gank by the allied
team. Qiao Yanzhou is unaware of what happened as the bottom lane is
in a close fight, but he remembers a phrase that goes: “Kill one
get one free.”\nQiao Yanzhou
shifts his view and sees that the health bar of the enemy’s top
laner is still a third full.\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs
(Xayah): focus\nQiao Yanzhou
knows instantly that prompt is meant for him. His hero obviously
stopped momentarily when he shifted the view to the top lane, but the
fact that this did not escape the Master’s eyes… Qiao Yanzhou
shudders at his sharp observation.\nThe failed gank
costs the jungler a blue buff. Qiao Yanzhou becomes anxious, but the
Master is still unwavering. It’s five minutes in, and he does not
miss hitting any minions. He even manages to harass the enemy’s ADC
to half-life. Qiao Yanzhou thought as much, because Xayah is strong
in the early game after all. If she is unable to pressure her enemies
now, it can still turn against them in the late game.\n[All] FiFiBear
(Garen): Is that adc siler?\nWTF??\nQiao Yanzhou
loses his focus upon reading the message from the enemy’s top
laner. His mind goes blank for a moment before walking into a
position that almost causes his death.\nThis gives the
enemy an opportunity to strike, as the enemy’s support binds him to
the ground and the ADC starts attacking by throwing two long spears
at Qiao Yanzhou. Just as he is about give up and push his keyboard
away, Xayah heals him in time and retracts her feathers that drive
the ADC away. She then side-steps to shoot another two feathers and
stuns the enemy with her skill R.\nThose Stolen
Blue Buffs (Xayah) is asking for assistance!\nQiao Yanzhou
wants to retreat. However, since the enemy’s ADC is dying and Xayah
seems to want the kill, he flashes in with a skill Q and a basic
attack to finish off the easy-to-kill champion. The enemy’s support
wants to attack Qiao Yanzhou as he living with a sliver of health but
backs off after more of Xayah’s feather attacks.\nBut by far the
most shocked in the audience of this thrilling performance of
mechanics is Qiao Yanzhou.\nXayah’s
stunning effect only lasts for 2 seconds, but he somehow managed to
signal him in time to get the kill.\nIs he really
face stiffens as he reads his stream’s chat window.\nCockroachWannabeQiao:
HE IS SILER, u r being carried bruh\nInsaneBee_Fan:
I will stream myself eating 3kgs of shit if he is not\nIHaveBigMelons:
dude use your brain man, siler just finished a match\nThat’s right,
Siler lost so badly. It’s impossible that he would play ranked
games straight after. It just sounds ridiculous. Qiao Yanzhou shakes
his head and laughs at his ignorant viewers.\n“Double
kill!”\nThoseStolenBlueBuffs
(Xayah): rakan, no more kills for u if u dun come nw\nAuthor’s
the enemy’s jungle to steal their jungle creeps, denying them gold
and experience points.\nCrowd-control (CC): Abilities that impair the enemy’s movement, including stuns,
binds, silences, etc.\n\nChapter 5