Dang, these guys are sick! Ronald grinned as he fled for his life. No idea how the heck they knew I’ll be ing here, but no biggie. I mean, it’s just the DK chasihe Elf is way too far to hit-

  ZAP! A ser beam peed Ronald’s skull. It was a headshot!

  “For real!?” Ronald excimed. From that far!? Did this guy just headshot me from like half a jungle away!?

  There was no time to turn around and firm Gunz’s current position, but surely the guy couldn’t have moved too far away from his previous position, not while using Elven Sight. That first-person mode cut down the pyer’s Movement Speed by like 80%, so Gunz ractically rooted in pce while sniping.

  So yeah, bruh literally sniped me from like 5 kilometers away. Word. Ronald smiled nervously. And of course, my defense is trash right now because I built power items like a real man. So, these damn snipes hurt, dang it!

  Each of the Elf’s ser beams erased nearly 10% of Ronald’s HP. And, bined with the Dark Bst that hit him earlier, Ronald had already lost a whopping 50% of his HP!

  Yes, he lost all that just for setting foot ierritory for half a sed! It was crazy!

  But, I’m okay. No problem. Ronald took a deep breath. I just gonna take that er over there, then it’ll be impossible to snipe me no matter how good Gunz is. Ezpz.

  And so, Ronald moved around the er. This maneuver slowed down his escape a little but it was worth it. Now, the jungle walls were going to shelter him from any further snipes, so he was safe.

  Okay, so that’s that. Ronald sighed in relief. Man, they sure had me for a moment there, but I’ve escaped! Hell yeah!

  The Elf could no longer snipe him, and the Dark Knight couldn’t possibly chase him down sidering how slow that bulky knight was. So, at this rate, Ronald will be back to safety in no time- CLACK. CLACK. CLACK.

  “Excuse me...?” Ronald raised an eyebrow. For some reason, the metalliping of the Dark Knight sounded way closer than it should have been.

  But, it was impossible. That heavyweight bruh should’ve fallen behind a long time ago.

  What gives? I mean, I know my Cryo isn’t the fastest bruh out there, but it sure as hell faster than DK-

  SLASH! A dark bde assaulted Ronald from behind!

  “For real!?!?!!?” Ronald shouted. He caught up!? How?! Did he buy Sprint or something!?

  Ronald quickly pressed TAB and sed the enemy data, all the while running away from the threat breathing down his neck. It was a little dangerous to multitask like this during such a critical moment, but no problem! Ronald ro, so he could focus both on running away and reading data, all at the same time! Yeah, he was definitely ready for the pro se, no doubt about it.

  Wait, did this guy just build Wind Bde? On DK??? I don’t even... Ronald eechless. How is this a build that eveely makes any sense???

  That was nonse its fi. Ahis Memer burh legit built Wind Bde on his Dark Knight. That’s how he was able to keep up with Ronald’s ancer despite his lower base Movement Speed.

  So wait, are you telling me he’s straight-up faster than me right now? Ronald ughed dryly. Fuuuuu! I should’ve shot him then! Well, it’s not too te to do it now!

  He turned around and fired a basic attack at his pursuer. Doing so slowed down his escape immensely, but it was for the greater good.

  Thanks to Frostbite, ancer’s passive, the ice shard Ronald fired was imbued with a slowdown effect. Sure, it wasn’t going to cause a huge slowdown, but it should be enough to get that dang Dark Knight off Ronald’s case.

  But, that’s only provided his shot actually ected. Unfortunately...

  “Not so fast!” Luke rolled forth, passing right uhe ice shard! That kind of feeble terattack wasn’t gonna stop him! I’mma chase ya down to death, man!

  He rolled right past Challehen recovered and delivered an immediate ssh! He was on a roll! The initiative and momentum were both on his side! He was like a monster ering a hapless prey!

  “Oh! There it is!” Vi made noise as he watched the intense se. “Such is the power of the fierce predator that’s aspiring to rival the legendary Storm Chaser of Taurus! At present, he’s a Wind Chaser for sure, but we do not grant him the rank of Storm Chaser. heless, one day, he might rival the greatest!”

  Vi’s hype entary was nonsensical at best, but as usual, it tained a grain of truth in it. The build and teiques Luke was employing right now were indeed very remi of Taurus’s StormMohe chasing expert.

  Heh, what do you think now, Yuel? Luke grinned. Is this “aggressive” enough for ya, man?

  He grinned madly while stig close to his target’s back like glue. Truly, he was like an overwhelming predator that couldn’t be challenged! Luke was in total trol of this situation and Challenger could only flee in terror!

  Man, this feels awesome! Luke nodded. I really don’t mind pying aggressive Junglers for thrills like this. I’m not all about setting things up for others, ya know.

  Even though Luke excelled with Setup Jungelrs and that was the type of jungling he used the most, it wasn’t the only style he could py. It’s just that Yuel frequently rejected Luke’s mgressive picks because these were the spiciest memes. As a result, Luke usually picked the tamer memes, to appease that meta-sve.

  A, despite that, during the review of the Taurus scrimmage, Yuel had the gall to rant about how Luke mostly picked Setup Junglers. It ractically the guy’s own fault, yet he bmed Luke for it.

  But, Luke didn’t lose heart there. He admitted that his “aggressive picks” were somewhat g pared to his Setup Junglers, so he went on a jouro find an aggressive pick that’ll get the tyrant’s approval.

  After sulting the memeing wizards ohe spiciest idea that came up was Dark Knight. Maybe these guys were just trolling Luke, but he didn’t care even if that was the case. After all, the idea of pying Dark Knight Jungler in a petitive match souoo damn cool!

  But, that alone wasn’t enough. Luke k. That dang Yuel won’t be satisfied until he sees results. That’s why I had to go the extra mile.

  Dark Knight Jungler was a very aggressive Jungler pio doubt about it. But, Yuel would immediately shoot it down for being a hel spicy meme

  Therefore, Luke also had to make sure he actually delivered good results in Rahe only thing that could truly vihe meta-sve were cold, hard statistics.

  And so, Luke took the time to practice this Dark Knight spice real gud. He absorbed all the advice he could from fellow expert memers, the wizards whht memes to Challenger ranks games and still got wins.

  There was lots of cool tech to learn, both meically and strategically. It turned out Dark Knight was an iing and dynamic pick with tons of build options, just like every top-tier meme should be!

  But, polishing execution and studying builds weren’t quite enough. It cked that “oomph” Luke needed in order to vince a stubbora-sve like Yuel.

  He had to be stronger, fiercer, and scarier. Luke had to turn into the kind of “dangerous Juhat Yuel cimed the team was missing when Nia was absent.

  But, “stronger”, “fiercer” and “scarier” were just words. They didn’t mean anything without a good example.

  Was there anybody out there who fit the bill for these descriptions? Of course, a bunch of pros did, but these guys felt too distant of a goal to strive toward. Besides, they were the very definition of meta-sves, as they were the ones who defihe meta in the first pce. So, none of the pros seemed like a good example to follow in this case.

  “Nah, pros won’t do. I need something closer to home.” Luke thought. “Was there any Jungler my level that’s like really fierd scary and stuff? Like, the kind of dude who makes his prey sweat real bad?”

  One day, the answer came to him out of the blue as he was rewatg parts of the Taurus scrimmage. There was one Jungler who stood out there, a scary dude whose mere presenstilled terror in its prey. It was StormMonster!

  “Hell yeah! This guy totally fits the bill! It feels like a freakin’ horror movie when he chases ya, word.”

  With that realization, Luke found a very clear inspiration for his “Scary Jungler” project. He rewatched the games from StormMonster’s perspective, paying careful attention to the guy’s movements, builds, and decisions.

  “Dang, this dude is like a veteran hitmas himself equipped real good for chasing anybody in any situation, and he always advances on his prey all effit-like. This is what I call a scary Jungler!”

  Luke took notes and studied the guy’s tech, from builds to juations to fighting teiques. It was clear the guy has been polishing all of this for years, so it wasn’t something Luke could replicate in a few weeks. heless, he still learned a lot from this.

  The most important takeaway was building Movement Speed as early as possible, to be ready to chase down some poor scrubs right in the early-game. StormMonster also utilized that extra speed to rotate around the map very quickly, which pyed a huge role in how many opportunities he got to gank and chase people.

  This was a very important lesson but it was rather difficult to execute in practice. After all, building items with Movement Speed came at the expense of not getting other important stats, mainly Attack Power. So, it required a lot of pnning and preparation to be able to py a speedy build like that correctly.

  Fortunately, Dark Knight happeo be a very dynamigler meme. Thanks to its incredible base power, it delivered big damage in the early-game even without building much power.

  “So, what if I build some speed instead!?” Luke put that idea into motion and tried out various early-game builds.

  In the end, he settled on Wind Bde, which provided Attack Power, Attack Speed, and Movement Speed. Starting with shoes was another viable option, but the overall bination of stats from Wind Bde felt the most oppressive for chasing enemies.

  So, that’s why Luke went with this game as well and it didn’t disappoint! Not only did he catch up to Challenger without effort, but he has already smacked the guy twice during the chase!

  Dude was literally down to like 20% HP already. The guy was legit one Dark Bst away from dying! So, in a few more seds, Luke will be able to finish this ezpz!

  But hey, maybe I just finish him off with two more basic attacks. Luke wondered. He was already this close to his prey and he was faster, so he could go for the kill right here and now without burning his HP on another Dark Bst. Alrighty, here we gooooo-

  Unfortunately, his oppo was no pushover. Challenger had no iion of making this easy for Luke.

  “Nice dodge back there, bruh,” Ronald plimented. “But, that’s enough of you!”

  He turned around and fired a shard of ice right in the Dark Knight’s face! From point-bnk, there was no ce he gonna miss.

  The ice rammed into Memer’s fad shattered to pieces. It didn’t deal much damage but it successfully applied Frostbite, slowing down the guy’s Attack Speed and Movement Speed.

  That was the end. The guy ractically ralized, so he won’t be hitting Ronald anymore here... but that didn’t disce him in the slightest!

  You still ing at me!? Ronald excimed as a sudden sword swing passed right in front of his face. The attack was just a few millimeters short of hitting Ronald’s nose. What a persistent bruh!

  With the predator still hellbent on attag, Ronald had no choice but to run for his life.

  This is getting a little dangerous, haha. Ronald gulped. He won’t be reag me with his basiy time soon, but he still bst me from this range. Is one Dark Bst gonna finish me off? Yeah, I think it will. Dang, DK OP, haha...

  Was Ronald seriously going to die here? Less than a mio the game? That gotta be a world record for petitive games! His name will go down in history as the mest death ever! Nuuuuuuuuuuu!

  But, just then, he saw a ray of light at the end of the tunnel. An angel came to rescue his ass!

  WHISH! A white beam of light passed right through Ronald, aiming at the predator behind him.

  “Crap!” Luke excimed at the ued attack. A white arrow popped out straight from the ancer’s back! Luke didn’t even have the time to react! Damn, the Seraph is already here!? I didn’t even see him!

  There was no denying that Luke’s field of view grew narrower because all his attention was trated on his prey, but that wasn’t all. He erfectly aware of the fact that somebody might e to Challenger's rescue sooner or ter, so he made sure to check his surroundings every now and then.

  A, he failed to spot that Seraph in time. That sneaky dude positioned himself around the er and only peeked the bare minimum in order to pce his shot.

  What’s more, Winner fired that arrow from a spot that Challenger’s body was blog from view. All of this together made it impossible for Luke to see any of this ing.

  How did Vince call this shit again? Something about a “matrix”? Anyway, this dude sure knows how to position himself in the nastiest spots.

  “Luke, that’s enough,” Yuel said. “You should regroup with the others.”

  “But maaaaan! I’m so close to getting this kill!”

  “Yes, you are. But, it’s too risky to tinue and ultimately unnecessary,” Yuel argued. “You did a good job redug Challenger's HP. One Dark Bst will kill him, so he ’t stay in the jungle like this. He’ll have to recall now, which will remove him from the game for about the same amount of time as killing him anyway.”

  Respawn times were short in the early-game, so killing Challenger here won’t keep him dead for long. As such, f the guy to recall was almost as good as killing him.

  “Dang, you and these 200 IQ arguemetns.” Luke smiled wryly areated as ordered. I really wahe kill thoooooo! Welp, but Yuel is right. Kill rewards are meh this early anyway, so I’mma just retreat.

  “Kai, Lars. Group up with Luke,” Yuel instructed. “And, after that...”

  This was a great opening. It started off with a lucky guess that developed into an incredibly favorable opening position. And of course, Yuel had every iion to exploit this advao its utmost.

  The enemy might be thinking that Luke’s retreat dropped the curtain on this early assault, but it was actually only the beginning...

  DarkestCymore