After tless failed attempts, Yuel and the team finally toppled the “ungankable” Viking and scored a kill. However, fog this hard on ganking Top Lane had a price...

  An ally has been killed!

  The enemy Raook Kai out. Last time Yuel checked on her, Kai was doing just fine in Bot. As, it seemed she overexte some point and that was her undoing.

  And, these weren’t the only bad news. The flood kept ing.

  The enemy Sorcerer joined hands with the Lao chase Lars out of Mid. They nearly killed Lars but he somehow got out of the ne alive. Unfortunately, with the remainder of the team gathered op, Lars’s retreat from Mid left the ne pletely unprotected.

  An allied Turret has beeroyed!

  Mid Turret fell but the Sorcerer and Lancer didn’t stop there. They cooperated to maximize their wave clearing speed and pushed onward toward the Mid Golem. The Sorcerer pulled minions into one area with Dimensional Colpse and the Lancer swept through them.

  As Vi said, these two have solid teamwork. Yuel o himself.

  Vi called these two the “Silver Duo” and cimed they were a pair to watch out for. In other words, long before anybody else, that realized the danger of the Sorcerer & Lancer duo. Yuel got this information a long time ago from Vi but he didn’t have a ce to verify it, so he didn’t prepare any termeasures.

  If Yuel were warier of letting these two join hands, he could’ve prevehis strong push. As, it was too te now. The Sorcerer and Lancer were busting their way through Mid and that put the entire game at danger.

  By the time the team regrouped to defend Mid, the enemy already pushed all the way to Mid Golem. The Sorcerer and Lancer retreated after running into the defenders but it was too early to celebrate. Instead of giving up on the offehey rotated to Bot and joined hands with the Elf in order to push the Bot Turret.

  So, while Yuel and the rest were busy clearing Mid, the enemy iheir territory through Bot. This was a losing position. The Sorcerer and Lancer were on a roll and there was no good way to shut them down.

  Yuel's team still held an overwhelming advantage in Top thanks to all the pressure they’ve been applying there against the “ungankable” Viking. However, in exge, they pletely lost their positions in Mid and Bot. Eventually, the pressure from both nes overwhelmed them.

  DEFEAT

  “My bad,” Yuel apologized. “I shouldn’t have focused on their Viking so much. I even dragged Luke into it.”

  “No problemo, man,” Luke waved his hand. “I also wao challehe almighty Ungankable. I wao take the guy out with my meme force but, lemme tell ya, dude was oough nut to crack.”

  “, dude,” Lars pouted. “You should've helped me out a little over here. That Sorcerer dude sure knows how to py Mid. I’m telling ya, dude gave me a real hard time. He must have been maining the css from birth, haha.”

  “Heh, got it,” Luke said. “ game, I won't let Yuel drag me into silly stuff”

  “So, Chessmaster,” Vi smiled meaningfully. “I take it you're satisfied with your futile struggle against the Ungankable? You may have lost the fight but you earned something of irrepceable value.”

  “Like what?” Yuel asked.

  “You have learned about my absolute accuracy as the Arbiter of Talents! If I say somebody got a special power, you better believe they do. I'm not just goofing around giving people random abilities on a whim.”

  You kinda do, though. Yuel retorted silently. With that said, there was no denying Vi was right on the money with both about the “Ungankable” and the “Silver Duo”. Even though that always made noise and blew everything out of proportion, there was some value in his analysis. Perhaps, the same way Yuel had a knack for disc the enemy's weaknesses, Vi had a talent furing the enemy's strong points.

  Nah, I'm probably giving him too much credit. Yuel shook his head. For now, I'll listen to what he has to say about the oppos we meet so I gather statistics about the accuracy of his analyses.

  In the game, Vi dubbed the enemy ancer as the “Ultimate Rotator”.

  “He is here! He is there! He is everywhere!” Vi made he Ultimate Rotator always strikes the right the right time! If you ever feel like gambling on the possibility that no enemy will rotate to your ne, perish that thought at once. You’ll lose your entire life in that gamble!”

  “True story, dude,” Lars nodded. “That o dude always es over here at the worst timing possible. I could've gotten like two kills by now if not for him. Instead, I almost died twice from his ganks. Dude is wild.”

  “Yeah,” Luke tuned in. “He also always rotates faster thao the iis. The guy is running on nitro, I'm tellin’ ya.”

  “Ultimate Rotator”, was it. Yuel wondered. On paper, there was nothing unusual about a ancer being able to pop up all over the map to gank on-demand. That was one of the css's main strengths because it could greatly boost its movement speed with Haste.

  With that said, this particur ancer was indeed persistent with his rotations. Every time the team started gaining an advantage in a partie, the ancer showed up and shut down that momentum. He truly had the worst timing imaginable.

  Okay, let's assume for a moment this o pyer is really an “Ultimate Rotator”. Yuel's body jerked in respoo using that silly title. heless, he pressed on with that line of thought. It was all for sd victory.

  Acc to Vi’s description, the “Ultimate Rotator” was good at rotating to the most relevant ne in a timely fashion. Then, how will that “Ultimate Rotator” deal with a sario where two nes were attacked simultaneously?

  “Luke, wait,” Yuel called out. “Don't gank Top yet.”

  “Hm? But I'm right around the er.”

  “I know but please stay over there for a moment. I pn to gank Mid and I want to synize anks. This way, we get to pressure two the same time.”

  “Oh, how brilliant!” Vi excimed. “No matter how godlike are the rotating skills of the Ultimate Rotator, one man 't possibly be in two pces at the same time. Ergo, a double gank across two nes shall break dowimate Rotator!”

  “W aside, yes, that's the gist of it.”

  “Absolutely brilliant! As expected from Chessmaster, the man who holds the Mystic Eyes of Weakness Perceptioore apart the Ultimate Rotator like it was nothing!”

  “We haven't eveed the py yet.”

  “Oh, that's right. My bad. I was running ahead with the script, haha.”

  “Heh,” Luke smirked. “This sounds like a pn so t me in! I’ll wait with my gank. Give me the sign when I should go all in.”

  Yuel rotated to Mid and gave Luke the green light. The simultaneous gank began. Luke gahe Monk in Top whereas Yuel gahe Sage in Mid.

  The ancer could only defend one of the nes and he chose Top. So, he thwarted Luke's gank. Meanwhile, Yuel successfully trapped the enemy Sage with Ice Wall and stuhe target with Ice Coffin. From there, Lars swiftly executed the Sage. The double gank was a success.

  Okay, this is how we’ll attack while that o is alive. Yuel cluded. Deying a gank on purpose had its downsides but it boosted the surprise element. Striking two exactly the same time was bound to take the enemy off-guard and hiheir deaking.

  Even though it was assured this ancer will rotate to one of the two ganked nes, he might hesitate for a moment while making the decision. That'll dey his arrival no matter whie he picks and that might prove fatal.

  An enemy has been killed!

  “Phew, I got him.” Vi exhaled. By the time the ancer showed up on the ne, Vi was already delivering the killing blow to the enemy Dragonborn. If the ancer showed up just a few seds earlier, he would have stopped this kill. But, apparently, the Ultimate Rotator was crag uhe pressure from the frequent double ganks.

  We got him. Yuel smirked. No matter what “special abilities” Vi cimed these pyers had, everything boiled down to pystyle and skill. As long as Yuel knew what to look out for, he could find a way to ter it.

  As such, Vi’s information was very useful. Everybody noticed the ancer was on point with his ganks but Vi was the only one who hammed it up as an “ultimate ability”. It was silly but, if not for this grandiose setup, Yuel wouldn’t have taken enough i in how the effitly ancer rotated.

  Of course, Yuel would have eventually caught on and figured that himself. But, thanks to Vi's shenanigans, Yuel began tering the ancer much earlier into the game. It pyed a big role in making the path to victory smoother.

  “Say, Vi,” Yuel called. “Are there any other special abilities the enemy got?”

  “Oh? Oho? What's that? Is the ever doubting Chessmaster seeking the advice of the Arbiter of Talents!?”

  “N-Not really,” Yuel shifted his eyes away. “I was just w what else you think about this team. Even though your information is total fantasy, it's still information.”

  “You hurt my feelings. Sob.” Vi preteo wipe a tear. “Alright, other abilities, you ask? Let me activate my third eye. By eg my brain to the records of Akasha - all shall be revealed before me!”

  Is it too te tret my as?

  “I see, I see it!” Vi waved an arm theatrically. “It's faint but there's a glimmer of potential there. You may think BacksideSniper is just your typical Ranger, but nay! He is her thainum Split-Pusher!”

  “So, you're saying that Ranger is good at split pushing.”

  “Indeed. At nightfall, when a ne is deserted, the Ptinum Split-Pusher strikes from shadows!”

  “Why is he only ‘ptinum’? Does it mean he's not good enough to be ‘ultimate’?”

  “Ihat youngling still has a long way to go before he masters the art of split-pushing. Will there e a day when his potential reaches ultimate levels? Will he terrorize the pro se with his relentless split pushes!? Only time will tell.”

  "I see," Yuel filtered out the nonsensical entary and only focused on the meat of the analysis. Long story short, the enemy Ranger was good at split-pushing. Or, at least, he had a habit of doing that often enough to leave a sting impression on Vi.

  I wonder, how did Vi clude this Ranger is good at split-pushing? From what Yuel could recall, that Ranger has only split-pushed twice so far aher occasio any particur impressions on Yuel. It was true that the Ranger‘s split-pushes were quite effective but that's about all Yuel had to say about them. It didn’t feel like they deserved a title like “Ptinum Split-Pusher”.

  But, maybe the exact reasoning didn't matter. Yuel was ner to drawing quick clusions from minimal observation. Often times, his teammates were left unvinced even after he expined his reasoning to them.

  So, that's how it feels to be on this side. Yuel smiled wryly. Truly, it was difficult to force himself to act upon dubious information he couldn’t fully prehend. Not to mention, the information came from a who spouted nonsense like "Ultimate Rotator" and "Ptinum Split-Pusher" with a straight face.

  Remember, this is just a test. Yuel tried to vince himself. This wasn't a life-ah match he had to win no matter what. Right now, his top priority was to test Vi's mettle and judge who deserved to py Top for the team.

  So, all that mattered right nohether Vi’s read was correct. If that Ranger was truly all about split-pushing, then he should have certain habits associated with that. For example, a pyer like that might jump on any inviting opportunity to split-push. After all, everybody liked pying to their strengths.

  Lars was defending Bot alone in Kai's pce at the moment so this was the perfect opportunity to test Vi's analysis.

  "Lars, retreat into the Jungle."

  "Why, tho?"

  "I want to see how the Ranger reacts," Yuel expined. "Don't go too far away, though. Pretend you're rotating to Mid but stop around here." He drew a route on the mini-map.

  "Okey-dokey." Lars finished clearing the minion wave and ran into the juhings were about to get iing.

  From the Ranger's point of view, this was most likely a rotation toward Mid. On top of that, such a rotation would leave Bot pletely undefeherefore, this was a golden opportunity to push Bot while everybody else was busy elsewhere. So, if that Ranger was truly su amazing split-pusher, he should take the bait.

  At the very least, the Ranger had already arrived on the o defend against the ining minion wave. It wasn’t proof the Ranger will go on to push the it was a start.

  "So, how long do I wait?" Lars moved in circles while waiting behind a jungle wall.

  "Depends on the Ranger," Yuel said. "If he overextended after clearing the wave, go for him."

  "Okay, sounds like a pn," Lars moved around in even faster circles. This beast was clearly hungry for some meat.

  While Lars was waiting for the Ranger’s move, the Lancer and Sage in Mid begareating. The Ranger must have filled them in about Lars's "ining rotation" to Mid so they were brag themselves fank.

  That’s a nice bonus. Yuel o himself. F the enemy in Mid to retreat was going to help the team big time, regardless of how the situation with the Ranger will turn out. Unlike in the previous game, when he was too focused on toppling the “Ungankable”, Yuel didn’t let himself get caught up in trivial stuff this time. Winning came first aing Vi was sed.

  "Oh, dude is going for it!" Lars licked his lips. He sensed a tasty prey. The Ranger assumed the area was clear and pushed onward after he cleared the minion wave.

  He took the bait. Yuel smiled meaningfully. "Gank him as you see fit."

  "You bet I will!" Lars has pletely shifted into predator mode. All that mattered to him now was to tear that Ranger apart.

  Ohe Ranger approached the Turret's area, Lars jumped out of the jungle and opened an attack with Thuorm. The battle ended in just a couple of seds.

  An enemy has been killed!

  At this point, I 't call Vi a anymore, I? Yuel smiled wryly. Well, the guy sure acted like a but his ability to analyze enemies was serious business. To be ho, now it was hard to tell who was better at analyzing oppos: Yuel or Vi?

  No wohey sent him to spy on the Leopards and StormBlitz’s scrimmage st year. In fact, even back when Yuel first met Vi, that already said a bunch of iing things.

  For example, Vi said Yuel had the "Mystic Eyes of Weakness Perception". It sounded so dumb that Yuel immediately wrote it off on the spot. But, now that Yuel better uood what that title implied, it was kinda scary. This implied that, just by watg Yuel py in the scrimmage against the Leopards, Vi somehow figured that Yuel was good at spotting enemy weaknesses.

  Is that guy for real? A shiver jolted through Yuel. It was the kind of information no observer could possibly get. Even pyers from the Leopards probably didn't uand the true nature behind Yuel's tactics. Yet, Vi figured it out with ease.

  What other types of information did that have up his sleeve? This was getting iing.

  "Say," Yuel addressed Vi. "Are there any other weaknesses you spotted ieam?"

  "Weakhat's your field. After all, you're the one and only heir to the Mystic Eyes of Weakness Perception!"

  "Then, you got any other iing information you'd like to share? More silly names you got in mind?"

  "Hmm, not really," Vi shrugged. "The rest of that team feels normal. They're det but nothing stands out about them. Maybe they haven't solidified their pystyle yet."

  Weird. Yuel thought. I list at least two weaknesses for each of the remaining oppos but Vi got nothing?

  For example, the enemy Sage had a slow rea time. That became apparent when he and the Lancer began their retreat from Mid to dodge Lars's “gank”. The Sage was so slow with the retreat that Lars could’ve actually catch him if there was a real gank on Mid.

  On top of that, the Sage didn't pay much attention to the camps around Mid. That made it easy to steal the Griffin Camps, which were supposed to be heavily tested by both teams for extra exp and gold. So, Yuel has been advising Luke to steal the Griffin camps every time they spawhanks to that, Luke maintaihe same level as the rest of the pyers despite being a meme Jungler with a slo clear.

  In addition to these faults, the Sage also seemed rather panicky. He was the type to press all the buttons when somebody unched a surprise atta him. That has already happewice this game and Yuel firmed it was a recurring pattern by arranging a few more surprise ganks on Mid.

  So, there were at least three gring fws with the Sage. Yuel had a simir list for the rest of the eeam, save for the Ranger who came across as a rather high ranked pyer. But, even though there were so many visible fws all over the pce, Vi's amazing analysis skills didn't pick up any of them.

  Did I give him too much credit? Yuel couldn't his head around it.

  Vi was capable enough to make observations that even escaped Yuel. And, Vi drew clusions that Yuel hasn’t reached yet. Yet, at the same time, Vi failed to notice basidehat even Lars figured out.

  "I’mma gank that Sage," Lars grinned. "Betcha he gonna mash buttons again. Just gotta dodge that stuff and kick his butt. Gonna be ez."

  "You do you," Yuel approved.

  Yes, even Lars noticed the Sage’s tendency to unleash the e when in danger. Yet, Vi didn't give that tendency a name or even half a name. Why not call it something like "Panic Masher"? Anything, really. This was a mystery.

  heless, the fact remained Vi had a good observation, even if it worked in mysterious ways. It’ll surely bee an asset for the team during tour matches so it gave Vi a lot of points as a Top Laner pared to Ben.

  On top of that, Vi's skill seemed more refihan Ben’s overall. He didn't e across as exceptionally skilled but his pys were more polished than Ben’s, probably because he was one year older.

  With all that sidered, the winner was obvious. Vi should be the oo py Top for the team after Yuel returns to his rightful spot as the Support. Of course, that's provided the moody captain will eve him py Support after today.

  Still radio silence, huh. Yuel threw a g Kai. She was silent like a wall and her huge headphones seemed to pletely isote her from the enviro. It's like she was in airely different dimension.

  Pying Support for su uncooperative Carry was a huge pain in the neck. Yuel has been doing everything in his power to set up favorable situations and reach out to her with a helping hand, but Kai just spped it away. Yuel thought they’ll patch things up by pying together enough but Kai was stubborn.

  Getting on the captain's bad side is the st thing I want. Yuel sighed. This endangered his pns of taking over Bot with Lars. If this dictator starts hating them, she might insist on log them away from Bot for the rest of the year. Not only that, but she might even refuse to accept them into the club at all. After all, club recruitments haven't even officially started yet; Yuel and Lars have just been freeloading here, pretending to be official members.

  I'll have to think up a solution by tomorrow. Yuel o himself. Hopefully, Kai will cool down after a good night’s sleep and they'll be able to talk this out. Though, did Yuel even have the necessary unication skills to mend things? The st time he tried to be friendly with a girl... yeah.

  heless, he had to do something about this situation. He couldn't let misunicati him and Lars down. They had to fit into this eam and be accepted as the official Bot duo. To that end, being on good terms with the captain was absolutely necessary.

  So, Yuel will do something about it. He had to. He’ll talk to Kai tomorrow and sort things out. Hopefully...