As the discussion about the sandwiches died down and everybody fiheir portions, it was time to discuss their pns for the uping game. They still had about 5 miize.

  I normally try to pn out most things by myself, but I'm a little lost on this one. Yuel frowned. I didn't expect us to actually win that game, especially not that easily.

  Even though he extensively studied the Jungler Dark Knight meme and learned how to build a strong team around it, Yuel didn't expect it to actually work in the petitive se, especially not against the Leopards. It was truly an absurd game.

  It was no wohat the audience saw fit to appud Stratus for the result. Most of them probably came here to study the two teams in a businesslike manner, but thanks to the memes they got a fair share of eai as well.

  But, I doubt it’ll work for us again. Yuel frowhe DK meme only worked the first time because we had the element of surprise. I mao mislead Cat the drafting phase and that gave us the edge. But, game, they'll be ready for us.

  The Leopards weren't the kind of easy oppo who’ll get stumped by an unventional p. They'll surely adapt for sure.

  Most certainly, the Leopards nistered Stratus as a potential “threat”. As such, they'll take the game far more seriously than the previous two.

  So, how do we proceed from here? Yuel g the log that was lying on the sofa. Nia was still fast asleep.

  She wasn’t making any breathing sounds, so it was easy to mistake her for a corpse. This used to give Yuel a fright in the past but he got used to it by now.

  She won't be waking up any time soon. Yuel could tell that much at a gnce based on past experiences. At best, she might be ready to join us for the 4th game. But, knowing this girl, anything happen.

  There was no telling for sure when this sleepyhead will decide to return from the realm of slumber. Even ba the club, she sometimes knocked herself out for a few good hours iernoons. Truly, this girl was as unreliable as it could possibly get.

  So, Luke has to be the Jungler game, too. Or, does he?

  Ben tion too. His jungling skills paled in parison to Nia and Luke’s, but at least Ben was awake right now and he wasn't a memer. So, he was avaible to py and he should be able to use a solid Jungler css that’ll fit the matchup.

  There wasn't enough time to train him into a proper Jungler sub, but I made sure he gained a fair share of jungling experience over the past few weeks.

  This was a side project that Yuel had been w on ever since Beuro the club full-time.

  Once Ben started attending every training session like the others, it became clear once again that he was a hard-w member. He followed instrus to a T and didn't pin about staying overtime. Truly, an exempry petitive pyer.

  Since Ben was so willing to cooperate with whatever training regime Yuel came up with, Yuel decided to run a few experiments by pg Ben in various different roles. This revealed that Ben was a rather well-rounded pyer.

  The guy had the most experience pying Top and Support, but his solid defensive pystyle also extended o Mid and Jungler as well.

  The only role he stumbled in was Carry. Ben wasn't proactive enough to lead the team’s offense, and he didn’t have any outstanding meical skill to make him a serious threat.

  heless, the guy adequately handled 4 out of 5 roles. On top of that, he was a hard worker who went along with any instrus Yuel gave him. So, it was a waste to keep him as nothing more than a sub for Top.

  Thus, in the short time the team had to prepare for today's scrimmage, Yuel made Ben gain some experience as a Juhe guy’s performance was still rough around the ers, but there otential there.

  In time, Ben might bee good enough to bee a perma rept for Luke.

  But, is he ready to take the stage today as a Jungler? Yuel knotted his brows. No, probably not. Is it worth subbing him in anyway so he gains some experience? I doubt it. That’s like throwing him to the lions.

  Making a debut on the petitive se was already stressful. And, debuting with a role that wasn't Ben’s main would only make the experiehat much more traumatizing.

  Ben already had more than enough fidence issues, so Yuel didn’t want to add any more to the list.

  I should avoid traumatizing him. Yuel cluded. It's best to eventually sub him in as Top, a role he's more fident with. Well, at least as "fident" as you call ever Ben...

  There was another option: sub Ben as Top a Vi py Jungler. Yuel had already tried this formation a couple of times during club practice but the results were a little ckluster to his taste.

  Vi was a knowledgeable pyer with great versatility, capable of pying offensively, defensively, and anywhere iween. These all sounded like great traits for a Jungler but they were also his downfall.

  Basically, Vi was too versatile for his own good. He had robust game knowledge about dealing with all enemy csses and he had the ability to adjust his pns on the fly based on how the game developed.

  This all sounded very promising on paper, but it sometimes proved disastrous in practice.

  As a Jungler, Vi built items that tered the builds of other pyers, and he made pys that tried to sabotage predictable enemy pns. As such, his deaking seemed very solid on a py-by-py basis.

  As, things became a mess in the long run. His game pn cked any sense of coherence because he stantly tried to respond to the test iing developments. It rime example to achieve too many things at once, only to fail at everything in the end.

  The only games in which Vi performed well were the uful ohat had little to no iing developments from the enemy side. In those games, Vi could maintain a rgely sistent game pn from start to end.

  As, most games weren’t like that, especially not against Diamond and Challenger ranks. The oppos there frequently ed strong pys oer another, so Vi found himself chasing his own tail as he tried to respond to everything the ehrew his way.

  These games were such a disaster. Yuel sighed. I had to stantly keep him in line so he doesn’t lose sight of what was important.

  He had to frequently advise Vi about which items and pys to prioritize among the endless options that occupied Vi’s mind. As long as Yuel did that, Vi followed the orders like a good soldier and performed adequately as a Jungler.

  But in the end, even after all that trouble, there wasn’t anything too outstanding about Vi’s performahe guy did his job well for the most part, but that’s all.

  It was very exhausting for me, though. Yuel sighed. It’s almost as if I had to py both Support and Ju the same time.

  In those games, Yuel wasn’t allowed to take his eyes off Vi for even a moment. At any given point in time, Vi was capable of making an ued decision that seemed “good” on the micro-scale but proved to be a terrible waste of time on the macro-scale.

  In clusion, it will prove difficult to utilize Vi as a Jungler in real matches, especially against the regional champions.

  I already have my hands full dealing with so many things during these games. Yuel thought. I don’t have time to babysit Vi.

  No matter how many times Yuel sidered this idea, he always came to the clusion that putting Vi as the Jungler was off the table for today. In short, her Ben nor Vi could repce Luke at the moment, especially not against the Leopards.

  So, we're stuck with Luke again, huh. Yuel sighed deeply. I feel like we've spent so much time w on our problems after the previous scrim, yet we still haven’t resolved many of the team’s core issues. Sigh.

  They had about a month to work on all the issues they discovered in the previous scrimmage. Yuel held aech revieresented everybody’s problems, and Vi eveed clips of all the important pys.

  So, they certainly put a lot of effort into studying their problems and discussing how to work on them. And, these discussions bore some fruit, but not nearly as much as Yuel hoped.

  For one, our Junglers didn't take the criticism to heart. Yuel sighed once again as he g the sleepyhead on the sofa. No matter how maures Yuel gave the girl about her problematic sleeping schedule, the troublemaker did little to nothing about it.

  Likewise, Luke remaihe same memer he was before. He apparently did some secret training with Dark Knight in order to "surprise" the team today, but in the end, it was just another meme. No matter how much blood, sweat, and tears Luke put into perfeg this meme, it'll forever remain unusable at the petitive level outside of surprise attacks.

  Maybe I should have allocated more practice hours to preparing a third Jungler. Yuel criticized himself. Anyway, it's too te now. We're already here and about to head into the third game, so we have to decide on our lineup now. Ugh, tions do we even have here!?

  It seemed that another round of Luke’s memeing was iable. Were there really no alternatives at all…?

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