Lars scored three headshots in a row with Fan the Hammer after doing a bat Roll. The third shot sturever in pce.

  I khis won't end well. Alex sighed. Time to rescue the idiot.

  He returo the ne from the jungle and booted Eldritightmare. The dark magic paihe entire area pitch bck.

  "Wha-!?" Lars excimed as the target in front of him vanished. He couldn't see shit in this darkness, yo! "I thought the Warlock wasn't i. What gives!?"

  "He shouldn't be here yet," Yuel frowned and checked the Warlock's status. There was no sign of Teleport, so the Warlock didn't cheat his way back to ne by telep to a Checkpoint Ward. Then, how did he make it back so fast?

  Did he hide in the juhis eime? Yuel g the Warlock's remaining HP. Or rather, the value Lars saw moments before his s went bck. The Warloly had measly 22% HP, which meant he never recalled. In order words, Freezer was ying in wait for nearly a minute, waiting for an opportunity to strike.

  Were we too obvious for him? Yuel couldn't believe it. Nobody on the eeam should've been aware of Lars's Gunslinger skills, yet Freezer repared for it. Somehow.

  ht. Aron watched the repys of the seleatch. Yuel smacked his forehead. He pletely fot that critical detail. Good thing Trever still uimated Lars’s Gunslinger, or else this entire pn would have blown up in their faces.

  "Retr- Yeah, good," Yuel didn't eveo say anything. Lars celed Fan the Hammer and pulled out of there as soon as the darkness coated the area. The goof's defensive pys were beier by the day.

  With that, the two sides disehe three hits Lars nded brought Trever all the way down to 30% HP, so he had to sider recalling. Meanwhile, Lars was still at 60% after eating damage from Trever's shots, so he could still remain on ne and keep pushing. In the end, despite the ued developments, the ne advailted in Lars's favor after this exge.

  "Damn, the hell was that shit?" Trever ranted. "You saw that shit? Three headshots in a row! Three! I was moving, too! What's wrong with this kid?"

  “I told you,” Aron said.

  “Hey, you didn’t tell me he could literally triple headshot me in a 1v1!” Trever ranted.

  "I also warned you things seemed fishy," Alex added.

  "Heh, you and your sixth sense shenanigans. Thanks for the save, bro."

  "You're wele,” Alex nodded. “I say you better recall."

  "What, and hand the ne over on a silver ptter? Uh-uh, not happening."

  "Well, I'm recalling," Alex started up the effect. "If you want to stay a headshot to death, that's your thing."

  "Damn, guess I have to recall?"

  "Yes, you have to," Aron said matter-of-factly. "I'll defend against the wave."

  "Thanks, bro."

  The Bot ners left and Aron came in to repce them. It was good fortuhat Lancer was a jungler who was rather adept at clearing minion waves. Also, Gunslinger's clearing speed was on the slower side during the early-game, so Aron successfully minimized the enemy’s advance.

  "Dang, sorry," Lars apologized. "Didn't get to push much."

  "It's fine," Yuel said. "I'm about to get there, so we start pushing together before the enemy regroup.”

  "Okey-dokey."

  The ued Gunslinger py caught the enemy off guard and almost made them lose ne advantage, but it also exposed Lars's secret on. Even the ever-proud Trever had to admit that Lar had some mad headshooting skills. Trever will definitely py more cautiously from now on.

  "This is Shooter all ain," Trever shook his head. "This kid picks random ass csses and turns them into S tier. What's ? He gonna make Archer look broken? Jesus."

  It was annoying, but Lars's Gunslinger required the same amount of caution as his Trickshht now. In other words, pying the patience game and avoiding frontations without a life lead or advantages.

  With Alex already pying safe before any of this even started, the ne became frozen. No matter how hard Yuel tried te a fight, the enemy duo rejected the baits.

  Damn, the hell are these guys doing over there? Kai ranted internally. Yuel and Lars had such a great opportunity to pay back these high-schoolers for the embarrassing 3v3, yet they weren’t making any progress.

  There was that one impressive barrage of headshots from Lars which seemed promising at first, but Freezer shut it down at the st moment. Nothing of note happened ever since.

  As it stood, Yuel and Lars couldn’t gain the upper hand in the ne by themselves. To make things worse, the enemy Jungler closely cooperated with Bot. Meanwhile, the random Jungler on Kai’s team wasn’t paying much attention to Bot.

  Looks like it’s up to me to go over there and trash these guys. Kai cluded. Especially, that Freezer bastard. Gonna wreck him good.

  Her ne oppo, an Aeromancer, was just a b turtle. The guy didn’t dare to test her and only farmed from afar. He robably waiting for Kai to get angsty and overextend.

  Sorry to break it to you, but I’m not that kind of scrub. Kai retorted. As aromancer, she had the upper hand in terms of farming speed, so she held the ne advahe eime. There was no reason for her to be frustrated by the situation.

  Sure, it was a little annoying that she couldn’t find any opportuo strike down that damn turtle, but it was alright. If the Aeromancer keeps pying passively like this, Kai will eventually out-farm him and steamroll his ass. So, o push it.

  Instead, Kai could make use of her ne advao rotate to other nes. Namely, rotate to Bot. She’ll go in there and gank these bastards! They’ll never see it ing!

  Alright, this is a good opportunity. She wiped out the minion wave before the Aeromancer even batted an eye. Now, she had the luxury of rotating to Bot and ganking the guys over there.

  “You pn to rotate over here?” Yuel asked.

  “Yeah, that’s the idea,” Kai said. “Somebody gotta help you out with a gank or two, seeing as you’re making zerress.”

  “It would’ve bee if you discussed it with us first.”

  “Well, I am now.”

  Will she ever learn to not make solo pys without warning? Yuel made a face. Then again, the mere fact she was sidering ganking of her own volition was a big step forward. It meant she trusted Yuel and Lars to seal the deal with the help of her gank. She trusted her teammates to do a thing! Woohooo!

  Seriously, good thing I got used to keeping tabs on her. Yuel returo earth. If he didn’t catch this rotation in time, it would’ve ended in a disaster. It would have been a repeat of Kai’s reckless py from the 3v3, a py Yuel should’ve stopped before it was ceived.

  “I appreciate your iion to help,” Yuel said. “But, don’t do it now. Their Lancer is still l nearby. I think he’s waiting for this rotation.”

  “Seriously?” Kai backed away from the jungle. “What’s with these guys? Sometimes, it feels like their reads are straight from the pro league.”

  “Actually, the skill gap between the best high-schoolers and C-League pros isn’t that big. And, there’s no question we’re fag some of the best high schoolers from ion, even though they’re just freshmen. That’s the level we’ll have to be able to beat if we want to take the regionals.”

  “So, what do we do?” Kai asked. “You guys are pretty much stuck over there.”

  “As much as I’d like to beat them head-on, I don’t think that’s happening this game. We’ll have to py around them and strike the weaker links of their team. Namely, the Aeromancer and the Viking.”

  “Feeding on the weaker prey, huh,” Kai smiled wryly. “Sure, that works. So, do I start pressuring this Aero?”

  “Actually, I was thinking of making you gank Top.”

  “Really? We practically got two pyers sitting on that ne. You wao go there too? Sounds like a waste.”

  “Yes, it’s precisely because it’s a waste that I want you to go over there,” Yuel expined. “Our Top and Jungler are stalling the Viking, but they’re not gaining much from this stalemate. So, our Jungler is just wasting time over there.”

  “You say that again,” Kai nodded. “I’m surprised you haven’t told him to rotate outta there.”

  “I’d gdly do so, but our Vanguard is struggling against that Viking by himself. He needs somebody to help him out and the Vampire is doing a passable work, but it’s not going anywhere. That’s why, it’d be great if you rotate over there ahem score a kill.”

  “I see how you think,” Kai nodded. “You want to ‘waste’ even more manpower on Top to finally get things moving and free the Vampire from babysitting the ne.”

  “Yes, exactly.”

  “Okay, I’m game.”

  And so, Kai headed toward Top.

  The girl is rotating to Top in the end? Aron frowned when a ward exposed the enemy Eleancer passing through Top Juhis wasn’t quite how he envisiohings going down.

  For a while now, it was looking as if the Eleancer has been meaning to rotate to Bot. Given how she recklessly charged at Alex ba the 3v3, Aron assumed she was going to do something dumb like that again. After all, the ditions were quite simir.

  In fact, at one point, the girl iarted rotating toward Bot. Aron was vinced he scored jackpot at that point and prepared to intercept the fool. However, the girl aborted her rotation midway auro base instead. What a shame.

  heless, it was a good sign. It meant Aron's analysis was on point: the girl was burning with revenge and wao shake things up in Bot. And so, fident in his analysis, Aron hanged around Bot Juo intercept the Eleancer’s attempt.

  Yet, instead of rotating to Bot, the Eleancer suddenly decided to head to Top. Why? Nothing of note was happening in Top. The uatiohere remained as stale as before.

  Did Yuel make her ge her priorities? Aron wondered. Knowing that smarty pants, it’s possible all of the Eleancer’s previous "rotation attempts" toward Bot were just for show. They pnted a false idea in Aron's mind and made him stick with a bad py.

  They got me. Aron admitted silently.

  The Viking in Top has been holding his ground against the enemy Vanguard and Vampire, but he won't st if the Eleancer is added into the mix. So, retreat was the only option.

  Retreat top ne! Aron ordered via a macro.

  "Go around their Wolf Camp," Yuel advised. "He has already realized you're ing, so you have to catch him during his retreat."

  "Already way ahead of you," Kai shifted her destination as soon as the Viking showed signs of bag away. She won't be able to catch him before he gets to the tower, but she might catch him behind the tower, provided the Vanguard and Vampire do their job and pressure the Viking hard enough to scare him away.

  I don't trust them for shit, though. Kai thought. She'll probably have to spook the Viking from behind and nd some damaging hits on him. Thereat as fast as possible. That’s probably the best she’ll get out of that situation. After all, there was no way the Vanguard and Vampire will properly pressure the Viking out of the tower the way Kai hem to do. Oh well.

  Attack top ne! Yuel pihe map multiple times in succession in order to draath from the Vanguard and Vampire to the eower.

  Okay!I’ll attack!Two macros came in response. Following on their promise, the Vanguard and Vampire advao pressure the Viking uower. They seemed to ualy what Yuel was asking them to do, even though they haven't exged a single real word.

  Did he really just make some randoms do his bidding? Kai blihen again, these are high ranked matches. So, of course, pyers here would be more reasohan usual. Still, I feel like Yuel has beeier at making people do his biddily. Maybe just my imagination.

  The Vanguard ihe tower and tahe shots. Meanwhile, the Vampire dived uower and assaulted the Viking. This y those two could've executed ages ago, but it wouldn't have borne much fruit by itself. It was too easy for the Viking to leave the tower areat deeper into his territory.

  However, this time, somebody was there to intercept the Viking behind the tower. Kai was lying in wait at the jurance behind Top Tower, waiting for the prey to arrive. It incer!

  The Viking has already spent his Axe Blitz earlier to get away from the Vampire, so he couldn't blink past her. Kai unleashed Thuorm and the rest of her kit on the fleeing foe. It was over in a matter of seds.

  An enemy has been killed!

  From there, they were in a great position to push Top together.

  Aurret has beeroyed!

  They had to end the attack there, but this opening they created in Top was huge.

  Kai also eventually outfarmed the Aeromancer in Mid and sized ne advantage, further boosting the team’s momentum. By that point, the team held the upper hand in 2/3 of the map. Even though Yuel and Lars couldn't quite win against Trever and Alex, the rest of the team geed an advantage on other nes. In the end, that's what ted more.

  VICTORY

  "Yes!" Kai pumped a fist, a rare occurrence. "We showed them."

  "Yeah, we rekt 'em, yo!" Lars gave thumbs up. "Even though I didn't really get to rek Trever."

  "He was very cautious of yunslihat's a win in its ht," Yuel said. "It stopped him from pying wild and forced him to be too defensive even when he had to push. I took advantage of that multiple times throughout the match, in case you haven't noticed."

  "Oh yeah, of course I saw it!" Lars nodded. "Stuff was wild!"

  "You really saw it?” Yuel blinked. “ you give an example of where I took advantage of Trever's passiveness?"

  "Sure ! So, like, there was that oime when... No idea! Haha."

  "Figured," Yuel sighed. This topic was still too advanced for the goof. Well, at least Yuel knew what he did and it paid off in the end. How's my team ma now, Aron?

  "Dang, they got us good," Trever smacked his kheir team felt sanized. Are they a party?"

  "No, they're not," Alex said after running a quick check. "Only the three familiar faces were in a party."

  "Really? So, we were stuck with the worse randoms, huh. That blows."

  "It’s a little more plicated than that," Aron said. The random pyers on both sides were slightly weaker tharios. However, Yuel utilized his teammates to great effect this match, more so than usual.

  He didn't go for any of his usual big risk pys, but he still went on the offensive when he had a good opportunity. He’s already lookier than the overly defensive Yuel we fought two weeks ago Aron nodded in approval. It seemed like the 3v3 served as a good wake up call.

  Also, seems like Yuel got the girl under trol. She's hasn't done anything reckless this time around. Aron smiled dangerously. I feel our rematch might turn out to be iing, after all.

  GG Chessmaster Aron wrote ier-match lobby.

  GG Yuel smiled meaningfully. Aron gave his stamp of approval on this match. This meant Yuel was heading in the right dire. If keeping the team under trol and utilizing teammates better was what stood between him aing Howard, Yuel shall polish those skills to perfe.

  After he reviewed the seleatch yet again, Yuel realized he owned much of their defeat to how unahe team was. On the surface, everything was well-pnned and they operated smoothly. However, underh this illusion, there were numerous cracks he didn’t notice at the time

  To prevent such a disaster from striking ever again, Yuel had to get rid of this weakness and improve his team ma skills. He had to go beyond merely supplying his teammates with good shot-calls. He had to carefully pay attention to them, figure their quirks, and instruct them effitly based on all these additional factors.

  It was easier said than done, but it had to be done. Howard was superior in this area at the moment, but that had to ge.

  I'll use the uping scrimmages to master this. By the time I get to the regionals, I'll be on a whole different level!

  DarkestCymore