During the fourth Ranked match of the day, Kai dialed up her independence up to eleven. She blocked out everybody in the room by wearing gigantic headphones and hasn’t exged a single word with Yuel ever sihe match started.

  If this were a serious tour match, Yuel would do everything in his power to fix such a situation. However, this was just a Ranked matd, at this point, he was fed up with Kai's attitude. They won't be pying as a Bot duo in official matches anyway, so there was no reason to bother doing anything special.

  Yuel simply pyed his part as the Support and aided Kai to the best of his ability. He saved her from sticky situations with Aegis and Divine Shield way too often to his taste. Kai wasn’t just ign Yuel, she also dialed up her aggression. Until now, she was a banced and calcuted pyer. But, ever since she put these big headphones on, she has been aggressing on her oppos left and right and has been putting herself in danger every time.

  Fortunately, most of the time, Kai knew when to retreat. With a little help from Yuel, most of her retreats were successful. However, with su aggressive pystyle, it was just a matter of time before a disaster strikes...

  An ally has been killed!

  Here it es. Yuel braced for impact. Even though this was a result of Kai’s reckless aggression, she'll definitely pin the bme on him. After all, he was the Support. How the hell he didn't perform a miracle to save her, right?

  It's ing. Any moment now. Yuel kept waiting. And waiting. And waiting. But, Kai didn't even g him. She entirely filtered out of his existence.

  So fun. Yuel rolled his eyes. He couldn't even tell whether being ignored like this felt better than being unjustly bmed for Kai’s death. At the very least, not bming Yuel right away gave Kai some dignity points. But, due to her radio sile was unclear what she was really thinking. Maybe she was ranting about Yuel in her head.

  Either way, the silence kept Yuel more motivated to keep supp Kai than insults ever could. So, on top of doing his best to keep Kai alive, Yuel also tried initiating some attacks with Justice Strike but Kai ignored all of them. She turned out to be one heck of a moody brat.

  This gave Yuel all the more iive to not focus too hard on Bot. Instead, he followed the unfoldis in Top. It was more iing to see how Vi fared as a Top Laner. Will that be able to put on a more impressive performahan Ben? It wasn't a high bar to pass but also not a particurly low one.

  Some aspects of Ben's pystyle were great, such as his ability to freeze nes and his willio sacrifice himself for the DPS csses. Did Vi bring anything to the table that’ll surpass that?

  Vi pyed Spellbde this game, a css he personally requested. For Ranked, Spellbde's versatility was a good tool so Yuel saw no issues with that pick. It seemed that, unlike Ben's defensive pystyle, Vi leaoward a banced pystyle, simirly to how Gilbert pyed Mid.

  Viook full advantage of Spellbde’s versatility by switg bad forth between the Spell and Bde stances depending ouatioayed in the bae and fired from afar in Spell stance whehe Viking showed signs of aggression or when there were signs of an ining gank. Oher hand, when things were quiet, Vi didn't hesitate to switch to Bde mode and advao the frontline. His situational awareness and deaking were polished.

  However, with just this type of adaptation, Vi couldn't gain any advantage in the ne. He pyed safer when the oppo aggresses and he pyed mgressively when the oppo was ral or defending. Unfortunately, it didn't seem like Vi was going to win any substantial ne advantage any time soon.

  Should I say something? Yuel wohere were many things Vi could try to turn this situation in his favor. But, this was supposed to be a test of Vi's skill so, for now, it was better to stay quiet and watch how Vi hahe situation.

  An iing development came up. The enemy Viking booted his ult in the middle of the ne in order to catch Vi off guard on the frontline. However, Vi must have sehe danger ahead of time and that’s why he maintained his distahat put the Viking's ult to waste. At least, in part.

  The ult summoned a crew of strong viking warriors who attacked the closest enemies in rahese warriors prioritized attag pyers over minions, but Vi was out of their range, so the warriors opted to fight Vi's minions instead. These vikings were tougher than the average minion, so they took out Vi's entire minion wave.

  Thanks to that, the Viking seized ne advantage. His attempt on Vi’s life ended in failure, but he still won something from this exge: his minion wave was healthy while Vi’s wave was gone. So, the Viking decided to ride this momentum and push along with his minions.

  This was a great opportunity for Vio mount a terattack. The Viking was overextending and Luke was nearby in the jungle. So, it ossible to kill the Viking with a gank.

  “Hey, Vince,” Luke called out. “I'mma gank. Let's get that guy.”

  “It's okay, don't bother,” Vi said. “It might look like he’s just overextending but don’t be fooled. This pyer got the Ungankable ability! Not a single gank will catch him off-guard! It's an Anti-World personal skill that overwrites reality every time somebody tries to gank him. It makes every gank fail against him!”

  “Wow, sounds like a tough nut to crack,” Luke nodded as if Vi's words made perfect sense.

  Is he really buying this? Yuel rubbed his eyes to make sure this was real but nothing ged. Darn it, his attempt to “overwrite reality” with his Eye Rubbing personal skill ended in failure.

  “Wait,” Yuel said. “Are you really giving up the gank because of this?”

  “Yeah,” Luke answered nontly. “Didn't you hear? That guy is the Ungankable! Ain't nobody gonna gank him to death.”

  “And you base that off what?”

  “On Vince.”

  “In other words, on a load of nonsense,” Yuel narrowed his eyes. That was some impressive blind faith right there. Yuel could only dream about people following some of his less straightforward tactics like that.

  “I see how it is,” Vi said. “Chessmaster, you're doubting my capabilities as the Arbiter of Talents, do you not?”

  “There's not a sihing I don't doubt when it es to you.”

  “Haha, that's a little mean,” Vi chuckled but then shifted his expression into a dramatie. “Then, a demonstration is in order. Meme Jedi, I summon thee! Rain your terror upon this nd!”

  “You wao gank, after all?” Luke asked.

  “Indeed, my friend. Let us partake in futileness so rove this oppo’s might.”

  “Alrighty then,” Luke advaoward Top Lane.

  The enemy Viking responded right away. He rolled toward his side of the ne and sprinted into the distance. By the time Luke arrived, there was nobody to gank anymore.

  “Well, crap,” Luke clicked his tongue. “Ain't gonna catch up to that dude from here.”

  “As I said,” Vi smiled in satisfa. “He is the Ungankable! Even though it looked like you'll be able to catch him, his Anit-World skill overwrote reality into one in which the gank fails.”

  “Yeah,” Luke nodded. “Sure felt that way.”

  “So?” Vihrew a g Yuel. “How do you find this demonstration of the Ungankable skill? As I said, this fellow will not lose to half-baked assaults like these. We 't catch him with simple ganks.”

  “It was really a timely retreat, I'll give him that,” Yuel had no choice but to admit. “But, this was just oempt. So far, I've only seen you fail oher gank before that. Two failed ganks don't say much.”

  “That's where you're mistaken, Chessmaster,” Vi cimed. “It’s not just two ganks that failed. From the moment the game began, the Ungankable created an invisible barrier around the hat denies all ining ganks. The two is you refer to are merely the ones in whieme Jedi itted to a gank.”

  “A barrier?” Yuel raised an eyebrow. “This makes less and less seh every passing moment.”

  “Actually,” Luke started. “I kinda see it now.”

  “Oh, you do? Please expin.”

  “You've been seeing me hang a lot around Tht? Well, I’ve actually been trying to gank, but it always felt like I won't get that Viking. As soon as I started getting closer to the ne, he started retreating as if he saw me ing from a mile away. It’s as if dude got a camera installed here aches my every move!”

  “I see,” Yuel nodded. “Their team must be warding well. Or, maybe that Viking is just cautious by nature and always retreats at the first sign of danger.”

  “No, no, no,” Vi insisted. “It's the Ungankable! The Anti-World personal skill!”

  “Of course it is,” Yuel rolled his eyes. “Anyway, if he's being so cautious, you just o pn the gank in advance.”

  “You're wasting your time, Chessmaster,” Vi cimed. “You won't get a prank on the Ungankable no matter how many times you try.”

  “You really believe that?

  “No, but it sounds cool so I’m saying it.”

  This guy... Yuel sighed. “Anyway, let's try again. I'll help you pn the gank ahead of time.”

  “It’s futile, Chessmaster. Not even your Mystic Eyes will be able to crack the Ungankable.”

  “Doesn’t matter,” Yuel said. “Even if the gank fails, it's not a total waste. It still makes the enemy retreat, so that allows you tain ne trol.”

  “True, but it also makes the Jungler waste his precious time,” Vi said. “Instead of rotating here, the Meme Jedi could've ganked Mid instead. There he got a real ce of getting a kill.”

  “That's... true, I suppose,” Yuel didn't have a terargument at hand. The enemy Sorcerer has been pushing Lars around in Mid, so a gank over there might be the better choice.

  “Anyway, now you know,” Vi said matter-of-factly. “The Ungankable ever be ganked!”

  “We'll see about that.” There was no such thing as an ungankable oppo. Superpowers or special talents like that did. Everything could be expined with logid reasoning.

  The Viking was difficult to catch off guard with a gank? Theher he or his teammates were warding well. Or, maybe he had a habit of pying defensively when he sensed even the slightest hint of danger. Julia often disced ganks by employing such tactics. If Vi pyed against her, he’d probably dub her “Super Ungankable”.

  But, that didn’t mean Julia was immuo ganks and the same applied to this Viking. Yuel just had te an advanced sario that’d catch the Viking off-guard.

  For starters, they had to decrease the number of wards around Top Jungle. When he recalled to base in order to recover, Yuel bought two Sentry Wards and headed toward Top Jungle first instead of returning to Bot. It wasn’t like he was tributing much when he ying with a partner who refused to cooperate, so he might as well rotate around the map to help others.

  As I thought. Yuel took down two enemy wards. The fact he hit the jackpot with both his Sentry Wards attested to how heavily warded this area was. There were probably other wards around as well but, at least, Yuel now secured one safe route fanking.

  Of course, the Viking was aware of Yuel taking the wards. So, how will the “ungankable” pyer react to this development? More or less how Yuel expected. The Vikireated from the frontline and shortly vanished from the ne.

  “Did the Viking recall?” Yuel asked.

  “Not sure,” Vi answered. “He went around a wall, so I couldn’t see him. He had around half HP, though.”

  “Okay,” Yuel heard what he wao hear. The Viking assuredly recalled to base to heal up and purchase Sentry Wards. The almighty “ungankable” pyer must have deemed it too dangerous to remain on the h just 50% HP while he doesn’t have enough jungle vision.

  “Luke, you rotate to Top?” Yuel asked. “I want all three of us to push the ne while the Viking is gone.”

  “Sure thing,” Luke finished off the Hyena Camp he was farming and joined Yuel and Vi in Top Lane.

  In terms of raw damage, a Druid wasn’t going to help much with pushing. Even with the power items Luke built for jungling, Druid’s attacks were slow and didn’t speed up the push by much. However, when Druid used his ult, it became a pletely different story.

  Luke activated Awakes, which summoned giant tree minions on the hey prioritized the eurret above everything and smacked it hard. Their damage scaled with Luke’s, so they were mgressive than one would normally expect thanks to the power items in his build. They were trashing the Turret pretty bad.

  The enemy Lancer rotated toward the o stop this hard push, but Yuel’s wards exposed him. The guy was about to walk into a big surprise.

  “Make sure you pull him outside the Turret’s range,” Yuel said.

  “Sure thing,” Luke gave a thumbs up. “I may be memeing but I know what I’m doing.”

  Luke positioned himself he jungle wall and waited for the Lao approach. As soon as the Laepped within range, Luke fired Nature’s Grasp through the wall. The branches assaulted the Lancer and grabbed him toward Luke through the wall.

  hit. Yuel nodded. Memer or not, Luke sure knew how to pilot his Druid. In fact, Luke robably more skilled with Nature’s Grasp than Yuel will ever be. Sad, but true.

  Right as Luke finished pulling the Lancer, Yuel struck the puy with Justice Strike. It silenced, slowed down and lowered the Lancer’s defehe Lancer hasn’t dealt enough damage yet to warrant a stun from justice Strike, but this heless tied his hands.

  Vi followed up on that by activating Aere, firing three wind bsts in a row. Each hit had a small knockback effed Vi hem all, so the bsts pushed the Lancer far away from the Turret’s area.

  The Lancer found himself in a 1v3 situation, silenced, slowed down, and far from any safe area. It was over for him.

  Unfortunately, Vi was the only one here who could deliver any sizeable damage. So it to him to this up. Yuel and Luke just delivered some basic attacks on the Lao pretend like they were tributing to the process.

  To do this quickly, Vi activated Pyro Trail from his Spell sta set his body abze and spread fmes around him. Then, he used his ult, Paradigm Shift, to switch to Bde stance. From there, he used the skill Pyro Bde, which set his sword abze.

  Covered in fmes from head to toe, Vi now had the ideal Spellbde setup for close-quarters bat. He closed onto the helpless Lancer and burhe puy to ashes.

  An enemy has been killed!

  Yuel and Luke made sure Vi got the kill because, uhem, Vi was a damage dealer.

  “There goes one half of the Silver Duo,” Vi announced. “What a tragiale.”

  “Silver Duo?” Yuel asked.

  “Indeed. Laex and LaneSnapper are two halves of a whole,” Vi expined. “You even tell by their hey might evewins! Yes, that has to be the case.”

  “So, you’re saying the Lancer and Sorcerer are a pair?”

  “Ihey haven't impressed me as much as you and Gunz, but their cooperation is heless something to behold. Therefore, they’re the Silver Duo!”

  Iing observation. Yuel thought. He hasn’t seen the Lancer and Sorcerer cooperate too much this game but they did seem to synize some of their pys. That fact, bined with their simir names, probably led Vio believe there was some sort of special e between them.

  I’d gdly iigate that angle in more depth but the “Ungankable” es first. Yuel shifted his attention back to Top Lane.

  After trio killed the Lahey kept pushing the Turret along with Luke’s Ents.

  Aurret has beeroyed!

  They took dowower and gained momentum but Yuel hasn’t achieved his main goal yet. He wao force the Viking into ing to defend the ne and then gank this “ungankable” pyer. However, the Viking didn’t take the bait.

  While the trio ushing, the Viking refused to e bad defend. Instead, he went around and plucked out Yuel’s Sentry Wards. After that, he returo defend the ne, but he did so from the Golem’s area.

  “Man, what a tger,” Luke shook his head. “He’s the type of dude who sees you taking his stuff and just waits until you’re done. Seriously.”

  “So it seems,” Yuel nodded.

  The enemy Knight traveled all the way from Bot to join the defense effort in Top. So, Yuel, Vi, and Luke had no choice but to give up on this offense now.

  So, this Viking rather let us push his han put himself in danger. Iing. Yuel had to e up with more advanced ways to lure that elusive Viking. It was like solving an iing chess puzzle. The enemy piece he wao get was guarded by multiple lines of defense and Yuel had to find a sequenoves that’ll break through that formation.

  To that end, Yuel tinued pressuring Top. He bought more Sentry Wards to keep up the warding war and he repeatedly borrowed Luke’s help fanking the ne. As, killing the Viking proved more difficult than expected.

  “I’ll grab him,” Luke fired Nature’s Grasp and it ot on... but the Viking rolled away!

  “I’ll cut him off,” Yuel appeared from the other side of the jungle and hammered with Justice Strike. However, right before the attack ected, the Viking activated his ult and summoned a brigade of strong mobs.

  “This is awkward,” Vi said. The trio surrouhe Viking but they couldn’t approach him carelessly. Whoever steps into the range of these vikings will be mobbed to death.

  “I’ll tank them,” Yuel ran in and aggroed all the enemies onto himself. Meanwhile, Vi and Luke closed in on the Viking.

  However, this Viking was quite the artist. He blended with the crowd of vikings and used them as cover. As a result, Vi’s Aere struck against the mobs instead of the intearget.

  In the end, they somehht the Viking down to 20% HP but the silence from Justice Strike wore off. As soon as he was free to use his skills, the Viking threw his axe as far as humanly possible and blio it. Yet again, the “Ungankable” escaped a gank alive.

  heless, Yuel kept trying various gank variations on this Viking. He even made sure Luke bought Blink for a Blink + Nature’s Grasp initiation.

  Luke cast Gaia’s Prote on himself and blinked into the enemy Golem’s area. He fired Nature’s Grasp at the fleeing Viking and pulled the target to the edge of the Golem’s area. Vi fihe job from there.

  An enemy has been killed!

  Finally, they toppled the “ungankable”! So, turned out this Viking wasn’t so “ungankable” after all.

  “You see?” Yuel said. “There’s no such thing as an ‘ungankable’ pyer. Everybody be gao death.”

  “Indeed,” Vi nodded. “If you keep ganking the same pyer the entire game, of course you’d kill them eventually. But, what did it cost you? Everything.”

  “Did it?” Just as Yuel asked, bad news popped up on the s.

  An ally has been killed!

  This was just the beginning. A flood of bad news followed...