"First, InformationBckhole," Sonya started.

  “Alright.” Cato clicked once, advang the presentation by one slide.

  The summary of InformationBckhole’s profile appeared on the projected s. It listed the main roles he pyed and his stats.

  Roles: Top, SupportCss Variety: High

  Meical Skill: 5/10Deaking: 8/10Game Knowledge: 8/10

  Pystyle: Adapts to the oppo. py offense or defense on demand but doesn’t specialize iher.

  “All in all, he es across as a rather standard theory pyer,” Sonya cluded. “His meical skill is average at best but his deaking and game knowledge make up for it.”

  “Man,” Ronald started. “I ’t for the life of me figure how you rate people’s ‘game knowledge’ without knowing them in person.”

  “It’s the least reliable stat, I cede that much. I mostly i from the pyer’s css variety and from their builds. If they know how to py many csses and they know how to build them in different ways to suit the situation, it implies they have extensive game knowledge.”

  “Makes sense, I guess. Still sounds a little dodgy, though.”

  “There are other indicators as well, such as taking advantage of certain eras. If they do that often, it means they’re the type to research things, whiaturally implies they have robust game knowledge.”

  “Hmm. Makes sense, I guess.”

  “If you’re questioning ‘game knowledge’,” Cato said. “Then you might as well question ‘deaking’ too. After all, you ’t know for sure which decisions the pyer is responsible for. Maybe they’re actually dumb as a brid the shot-caller is making all the calls for them.”

  “Hmm. Yeah, that’s kinda sus too.” Ronald nodded.

  “Are you two dohrowing dirt at my analysis?” Sonya made a face.

  “I’m not throwing dirt at anybody, just asking,” Ronald said. “I’m sure you did your researd all, you always do. I’m just trying to assess how seriously I should be taking these stats.”

  “They’re just a rough summary of the pyer’s ability based on the game footage. You’re free to draw your own clusion after we discuss his pys in more detail.”

  “Gotcha. But really, I think we should remove these vague categories and stick with just meical skill. I mean, everybody knows what ‘meical skill’ stands fht? Basically, how good you are at kig ass. Straightforward and to the point.”

  “I have the distinct feeling you’re trying to shoot up the rankings with this ploy.”

  “Heh, maybe.” Ronald rolled his eyes. This wasn’t the first time he expressed protest toward the two “vague” stats. The reasons for it were pretty clear.

  “Sorry, but the stats are saying,” Sonya stated. “If you’re unsatisfied with your scores, then you better spend your energy on improving them, not on bitg about them.”

  “Dang, what a burn.” Ronald smiled wryly. The girl swatted yet another one of his attempts to climb up the ranks. Oh well. One day, he’ll overe that hurdle for sure!

  “Ba topic,” Sonya tinued. “As I said, Bckhole is a pyer who relies mostly on game theory. His game po sist of adapting to whatever is thrown at him by his oppo. He bances offense and defense as needed, but her side left a st impression.”

  They went over pition video the Filmmaking Club prepared at Sonya’s request. The video focused orong and weak sides of Bckhole’s pys.

  Namely, his strong ability to switch gears and adapt to his oppo on demand. But, it also depicted his erforman fights against DragonMaster, a pyer who was just a little above average in terms of meical skill.

  “Holy,” William said. “He looks like a weak link ieam. Everybody else achieved at least a thing or two against Taurus, but this guy just ‘was there’. He didn’t do anything notable.”

  “Yeah, he’s free as heck,” Ronald agreed. “I gonna kill him at least 10 times in Top.”

  “You probably won’t,” Cato said matter-of-factly.

  “Wut?” Ronald raised an eyebrow. “You think this dude match me?”

  “No, he ’t. You’ll probably overpower him easily, but I doubt you’ll actually get many kills on him, if at all.”

  “Why’s that?”

  “As Sonya expined, he’s an adaptive pyer. Once he reizes the differen power between you, I’m sure he’ll shift to defense. So, don’t expect to catch him overextending or anything easy like that.”

  “So, he gonna turtle.” Ronald pouted. “Well, that’s no problem either. Bro gonna help me with some ganks if that happens, right?”

  “Sure,” William said. “But, I’ll be taking the kill too.”

  “Over my dead body! I gon you gank as much as you want, but you’re not taking these kills!”

  “Oh, so you permit me to gank your ne under dition? How kind of you, your majesty.” William sneered. “I’ll be ganking your ne whenever I feel like it, and I’ll be taking all the kills.”

  “Heh, it’s a race then!” Ronald grinned. “I’ll make sure to pick the best css for stealing kills.”

  “Sure, go for it. Let’s see how well that works for you.”

  A discussion about InformationBckhole somehow turned into a talk about sg kills. Leave it to the serial killers to make everything into a killing petition.

  They didn’t even have Bckhole in their sights. They thought of him as nothing more than fodder for boosting their KDA. The question wasn’t “ we defeat him?” but rather “How many times we gonna kill him?” The fidence was through the roof.

  "Moving on," Sonya said. " is... this guy. LegendaryMemer."

  Roles: JunglerCss Variety: ???

  Meical Skill: 8/10Deaking: 8/10Game Knowledge: ???/10

  Pystyle: Has det skill but pys meme..

  Like before, a pyer profile appeared in front of them. Though, this one was missing a few of the details.

  “What are these question marks I’m seeing?” Ronald asked.

  “It’s hard for me to estimate his game knowledge and css variety with the information I have at hand. If it were up to me, I’d peg him as a 1/10 on game knowledge. But, I know that’d be a very biased score.”

  “Dang, 1/10? What do you even have to do to fall so low?”

  “To be a total idiot, basically. And, that’s exactly what Memer is. Maybe I should have written it down as Idiot/10. That summarizes his entire profile quite nicely.”

  "My, such a harsh evaluation," Cato said. "I didn't think the guy was that bad. His stats actually look pretty det too."

  "As an individual pyer existing in a vacuum, Memer really isn’t that bad. But, his css picks were atrocious."

  "That's what’s so cool about it!" Ronald excimed. "My guy picked terrible csses fgling but he still kinda made them work!”

  “Emphasis on kinda.”

  “Yeah yeah, he wasn’t perfeobody is. But, he still performed hel fine. Dude deserves a medal, for real."

  "A gold medal for idiocy, yes.”

  "Daaaamn, Sonya is burning people left and right today." Ronald ughed.

  "I just hate things that are clearly stupid, that's all."

  A fitting response for somebody who named herself TheTheorist. Cato thought to himself.

  For somebody who valued game theory above all else, memers were the bane of Sonya’s existehey were foolish creatures who had all the required information for pig the right csses, yet they chose the weak and unventional, hampering their own performan the process.

  That's probably how Sonya sees it. Cato reasoned. I agree with her for the most part, but I wouldn't go so far as calling Memer an “idiot”. After all, if I start calling unventional tactics "stupid", then I’ll end up pegging myself as one of the greatest fools around~

  Uedly, there was another member here who shared a simir se. Cato and Ronald were usually at odds about every siopi existence, but in this case, they saw eye to eye. At least, to some degree.

  "I dunno," Ronald said. "I got nothing but mad respect for the guy. He picked these low tier csses but still performed pretty dang well."

  "I'll cede on that point," Sonya said. "Despite pig terrible csses for jungling, Memer handled himself surprisingly well. He almost made the csses look viable against mediocre oppos."

  "Bruh be trying to revolutiohe se, I feel it."

  "It could be a trap as well," Sonya pointed out. "Given that Memer is detly skilled in both meical skill and deaking, it would make sense if they didn’t want to expose his full strength.”

  "My, are you saying they pulled a fast one on us?" Cato asked. "That the memer only pretends to be a memer to ceal his real strength?"

  "It's a possibility, isn’t it?" Sonya said. "At the very least, I rather believe that than accept that somebody at his level would choose to py memes."

  “The extra evidence from st year speaks against you, though.”

  “That’s true, I suppose.” Sonya ceded on that point and showed the video iion. “We didn’t want to bore you with this sorry excuse of a match, so I didn’t ask you to watch this one as homework. But, Memer actually pyed in one scrimmage st year.”

  “Whoa! The twists! ” Ronald excimed. “How did my guy do there?”

  “Awful, as you’d expect from a memer.” Sonya briefly summarized that old game, though there wasn’t mumarize in the first pce. In a nutshell, it was a fiesta.

  Stratus had a scrimmage against the Tys st year and LegendaryMemer subbed in for it. The reason was unknown, but it’s likely that the fifth member of the first-string was absent that day and Memer was the best sub they had.

  “That’s sad if true,” Sonya ented. “To think that a memer was the only thing they could rely on in that situation. I would’ve probably quit in their stead.”

  “My, so harsh.” Cato shook his head. “And, that’s despite the fact he was the best pyer oeam.”

  “He was!?” Ronald jumped. “Show us already! I’m telling you, bruh is sick!”

  “Being a little better than a bunch of inpetent fools hardly warrants any praise,” Sonya said. “Anyway, this match is a pitiful sight and there isn’t much to learn from it. But, as I always say, the more data, the better. I piled a quick rundown of Memer’s most notable pys.”

  And so, the fiesta began. Memer pyed a bunemes that year as well. He was in the Jungler role like this year, and he picked every css that was NOT meant to be a Jungler, not even close.

  Knight, ancer, and Pyromancer. Watg these picks had the power to make people lose brain cells, that’s how dumb it was.

  However, to his defense, Memer also picked Rogue twi that scrimmage. It was a meme-level css at the moment, but at least it was iionally designed for jungling. Though, ultimately, it underperformed in that role.

  “As sad as it is,” Sonya said. “Cato is right about ohing: Memer retty much the best pyer on that sorry excuse of a team. As I said, being a little better than absolute trash hardly deserves any pliments, but at least it points toward a certain clusion. Anybody cares to guess what it is?”

  “That this dude is the real thing!” Ronald yelled like a fanboy. “He got the balls t memes on stage and make them work! Mad respect.”

  “... yes, yely on point,” Sonya said through her teeth. “This match from st year further reinforces the notion that Memer is, as his name implies, really a memer.”

  “Yep, he sure is! Dang, that’s so cool.”

  “So,” Sonya tinued. “Even though I rated his skill and deaking as 8/10, in practice he turns both into 1/10 due to his terrible css picks. And, his game knowledge is somewhere around -1000 out of 10.”

  “Suwarranted harshness.” Cato shook his head. “I uand that you dislike the idea of memeing, but you should keep your personal feelings out of this analysis.”

  “My feelings?” Sonya tilted her head. “I didn’t express any feelings oter. These were all straight facts, nothing more.”

  “Sure, sure.” iled meaningfully. “In clusion, Memer is a memer, aually performs quite adequately for o’s clear he put lots of time and effort into mastering his memes.”

  “I ’t believe people waste their time on pointless stuff like that...”

  “Says the one who worked overtime to supply Jenny with ideas for improving her bo pystyle.”

  “That’s... different.” Sonya chewed her lips. “I know that bo is off-meta, but it’s definitely not a meme. There are pros who put it to great use, like DimensionShift.”

  “Ah yes, the guy who only uses bo in like 5% of his games, yet somehow became the face of the entire pystyle. Curious.”

  “He uses it in the right pce at the right time,” Sonya expined. “That’s how bo should be used. It’s a niche pystyle that bring amazis iain situations.”

  “But,” Ronald started. “Didn’t Jenny use it, like, all the time?”

  “... yes, she did.” Sonya sighed. “I’ve told her many times she should only use bo iain situations, but she insisted to make it an all-purpose pystyle. I tried to help her as much as possible with that experiment, but I definitely wasn’t a big fan of the idea.”

  “Well, the’s pretend Memer is like Jenny,” Cato suggested. “Except, instead of bo, this guy is trying to make memes viable.”

  “Absolutely disgusting.”

  “Ahaha, there’s no ging this girl’s mind, is there?”

  “Memes are the devil, pin and simple.”

  “And that’s an objective take?”

  “Yes, 100% facts.”

  “Sure, sure.”

  They moved on to analyze some of Memer’s pys from this year.

  As previously established, the guy was a memer but one who performed quite adequately. A score of 8/10 for both meical skill and deaking was nothing to s.

  I wonder what kind of mental gymnastics Sonya had to do to vince herself to holy rate the guy’s skill like that~ iled to himself.

  No matter how much the girl loathed the idea of memeing on the petitive se, she had no choice but to admit that the guy’s performance was solid against Taurus. His meical skill was rather high and his decisions as a Jungler were on point.

  Though, I wonder how many of these decisions were actually his. Cato g one of the pyers on the s, the supposed shot-caller of the eeam - Chessmaster. Many of Memer’s pys feel like something HE would go for. Iing, iing~

  “Memer or not,” Cato said. “Make sure to exercise caution. He might be memeing right now, but nothing stops him from pig up meta csses ter on. Jenny did exactly that after getting trash st year.”

  “Nobody was trashed,” Sonya decred once more but it fell on deaf ears.

  “Either way," William said. "I’m sure that pying against us will make Memer realize how dumb he’s being by stig with memes. I don’t have anything against memeing, but there is a time and a pce for experimental stuff, and the petitive se isn’t it.”

  "Haha, dang." Ronald chuckled. "Everybody be roasting my guy. He's actually my sed favorite dude from that team, you know? Other than him and Gunz, the others are kinda whatever."

  After everybody dropped their two or three ts oopic, they moved on to watch Memer’s ganking teiques.

  "He seems to prefer pying as a Setup Jungler," Sonya expined. "He did py Pyromancer in the first game and he also pyed it st year, but even then he heavily relied on cooperation. It doesn’t seem like he’s keen on the idea of ganking nes by himself.”

  "He probably doesn't have much choice," Cato said. "If you’re memeing as a Jungler but you’re also seriously trying to win, then you’d most likely go for a Setup Juhe guy uands that mud I respect that."

  “I ’t believe I just heard the word ‘meme’ in oeh ‘win’. These two don’t mesh together.”

  “You’d think so, but Stratus just proved the opposite, didn’t they?”

  “They didn’t win thanks to the meme picks, that’s for sure,” Sonya asserted. “If anything, it only made their performance look kier than it really was. I’m sure they would have won far more vingly if Memer wasn’t an actual memer. It still puzzles me why they subbed him in over VanishingFlower.”

  “Circumstances, probably.” Cated. “We leave the guessing games for ter. Right now, we’re still talking about Memer here.”

  “Right.” Sonya nodded. “Reasons aside, he’s definitely leaning toward being a Setup Jungler. Memer or not, we o be cautious wheeams up with others. Oher hand, if he’s ing toward you all by himself, then he’s usually not much of a threat. We might even be able to ignore solo ganks from him under certain circumstances.”

  "Hmph. Weak." William scoffed. "If you're a Jungler, you have to be able to go for kills. Otherwise, you’re just a roaming Support."

  "True," Cato agreed.

  As a pyer whose two main roles were Jungler and Support, pletely agreed with that analogy. The way Memer pyed resembled the role of a mid-game Support, whose primary job was to travel all around the map a up kills for his allies.

  It was viable to py Juhat way but it was suboptimal. A good Jungler should know how to set up kills AND how to score them by himself if needed. It was a dynamic role that demahe pyer to stantly adapt to the situation at hand. That’s what made it so rewarding to py.

  In clusion, LegendaryMemer was a Setup Jungler who picked meme csses for personal fun. ly the most impressive resume.

  The guy was reasonably skilled so he'd definitely be a threat if he pyed aa csses. But, as it stood, he was a sedary threat at best.

  They watched a few more clips featuring LegendaryMemer, then moved on to the subject. It erhaps the weirdest and most mysterious pyer of them all - VanishingFlower.

  DarkestCymore