"Their Jungler entered Bot Jungle," Sonya made aimely report. She has been doing this regurly ever sihe game started.

  Every time Vanishing showed up somewhere, Sonya made sure to report the event. And, if Vanishing hasn't shown up anywhere for lohan 20 seds, then Sonya reported as much as well. This might’ve seemed excessive, but it was a necessary part of the anti-Vanishing terpn.

  Better safe than sorry. Sonya thought. The others might fet about her if I don't mention her regurly, at least that's what Cato insists. Holy, I'm still 50-50 on all of this.

  VanishingFlower was supposedly an elusive phantom with the ability to erase herself from people’s minds, or so the previous scrimmage implied. It was an absurd idea, holy.

  No petitive pyer who’s worth his salt would ever fet about the existence of an enemy pyer, especially not the Juhat was Sonya's firm stan the matter.

  With that said, as a hyper-defensive pyer, it was in her nature to prepare for anything, no matter how unlikely it seemed. That's why she went along with Cato's terpn and subjected herself to this rather tedious job.

  If by any ce Vanishing really does possess the ability to slip out of people’s minds, then I'll gdly shut it down. Sonya asserted. With that said, this is really a rather demanding job. I sort of uand what make Vanishing so "fettable".

  There was something very off about the way Vanishing pyed Jungler. Her rotations across jungle camps seemed to follow the meta by the book, which was surprisingly well done. However, on the ganking front, things were weird. Namely, there was an absolute absence of any ganks despite the fact that Vanishing ying an assassin.

  She also doesn't apply that much pressure on nes, at least not in any obvious way. Sonya knotted her brows. If not for my reports, then I think nobody would have ever retreated because of Vanishing’s rotations. It's a little curious.

  In a sense, Sonya's reports felt almost unnecessary. Even without them, Vanishing never seemed ied in ganking ahus far.

  That’s extremely odd for an assassin. Kills are supposed to be her bread and butter.

  Yet, Vanishing ignored such ventions. She focused on farming camps as methodically as possible, but nothing more.

  I somewhat imagine why certain pyers would stop paying attention to her at some point. Sonya thought. She doesn't apply much pressure and wards rarely spot her. Basically, her “presence” is very weak all around.

  In fact, Sonya had to go out of her way to beef up the wards around Mid in order to have an actual ce of ever seeing Vanishing's movements. In addition, Cato and William lent her a hand and spread extra wards throughout the jungle, all for the purpose of keeping track of this one phantom.

  Holy, I suspect we wasted too much gold on this. Sonya sighed. But, data is invaluable. If extra wards help us keep better track of Vanishing, then I say they’re worth it. Except, I see it’s not always enough…

  More than 20 seds have passed sihe st time Sonya saw the phantom entering Bot Jungle. Yet, despite the numerous wards there, not a single one of them has caught anlimpse of the elusive assassin. So, it was time to make ay report. Sigh.

  "I haven't seen their Jungler for a while now," Sonya said. "She was st seeering Bot Jungle."

  It was a rather uninformative report, arguably even a pointless os main purpose was to remind the team that Vanishied and that Bot should probably be a little more careful right now.

  heless, Sonya made sure to report eveful things like this. It was necessary for her to maintain this sistent routio make sure she won’t start ing the job.

  The moment I start sg - it'll be game over. I won't be able to get ba track. Sonya thought. I already find myself questioning whether all of this is really neccessary, so...

  Seriously, there was nothing remarkable about Vanishing’s as thus far. As a result, it was being increasingly harder to stay motivated about this job.

  No, stop thinking like that! Sonya shook her head. This is exactly the “trap”, isn't it? If I start takioo lightly, then it'll be over. I'll lose sight of her.

  The lohis went on, the harder Sonya had to wrestle with her own brain to maintaiivation for this routi was quite an exhausting experience, and funnily enough, the one responsible for causing the trouble didn't even have to lift a fio make any of this happen. Thus far, Vanishing was just minding her own business in a very passive manner, yet her mere existence caused Sonya so much trouble.

  It's not like I have all the time in the world for this. I have my own problems to deal with, too. Sonya ranted as she unleashed Whirlwind on the new minion wave that arrived. I have a o farm, and I have to position myself correctly against the Sorcerer. Seriously, I almost have my hands full with just this.

  In order to safely cast her Whirlwind, Sonya first had to carefully position herself far enough from the Sorcerer’s reach. And, after she cast the spell, Sonya had to adjust her positio again, to make sure she was outside the sniping range of Repelling Force.

  I should be fine here. Sonya o herself and resumed her side job of monit the jungle. So, where did Vanishing disappear to? I feel like I haven’t seen her for a very long time now.

  Sonya sed the map from top to bottom again, but there were no signs of the phantom anywhere. At this rate, Sonya might end up delivering a sed empty report in a row.

  Tch, what a waste of my attention span. Sonya shook her head. All I have to repht now is that Vanishing is still missing. And, sidering how much time has passed since we’ve seehis report is pretty much useless.

  At this point, Vanishing could be literally anywhere on the map. The wards have failed to reveal the girl during all this time, so it meant Vanishing could’ve easily rotated to any part of the map by now. As such, there was nothing to really report here.

  heless, it was Sonya’s job to monitor Vanishing, so she made sure to deliver the regur report in a timely fashion.

  “I haven’t seen their Jungler for quite some time now,” Sonya reported. “She might’ve recalled at some point, but we ’t be sure. She was st seen in Bot Jungle, but sidering how much time has passed, she could be anywhere right now.”

  That was the extent of what Sonya could report about the current state of affairs. In short, she had no idea where Vanishing was or whether that fettable Jungler nning to cause trouble anytime soon.

  Now, back to fog on the ne. Sonya shifted her eyes from the mini-map to the ne in front of her. She had no choice but to keep going bad forth betweewo ever sihe game started.

  Fortunately, Sonya was an Aeromancer, so things were a little easier for her in that regard. As far as the uation was ed, Sonya simply had to cast Whirlwind and then distance herself away from the se.

  In fact, this was one of the major siderations for pig Aeromancer for this game. Sonya had already discussed this topic with Cato a week ago, and they agreed that Aeromancer was one of the best csses to pick whenever Sonya had to work part-time as Vanishing’s supervisor.

  All the Aeromancer had to do on the ne was to summon a whirlwind that tinuously draihe minions’ HP. Right after pg it, Sonya was free to retreat as far as it was necessary.

  With that said, she couldn’t retreat too far from the area, because it was necessary to supplement her Whirlwind with additional attacks in order to fully wipe out the enemy squad. Therefore, Sonya retreated far enough to be outside the enemy’s immediate attack range and then waited for the minions to approach.

  As usual, Beat unleashed her Dimensional Colpse on the minion wave, making her bck Magia Orb implode. This created a mini bck hole that sucked in all the enemies in the area.

  Beat could’ve further assaulted the minions with Repelling Force, but she opted to not do so. Instead, she used basic attacks to finish off what was left of the minions.

  As a result, it took her a while to finish off the minion wave, and during this time the majority of her army perished as well. From this position, she couldn’t really push much.

  It’s curious that Beat is pying so passively against me. Sonya thought. Most oppos get irritated by my defense and start pying mgressively as time goes on. And, Beat is definitely a pyer who leans more tgression, a...

  Based on the avaible data, Beat was a flexible pyer who could py both offense and defense, but she definitely leaned more toward offeherefore, it was rather bizarre to see her take such a passive approach against Sonya.

  Maybe she thinks my defense has no openings for her to exploit. If so, I’m fttered.

  A defehat blocked all ining attacks was great. However, a defehat disced all attacks from ever ing in the first pce was eveer. Preventing attacks from happening was that much better than defleg them as they came.

  As such, Sonya’s turtly pystyle always strived toward that kind of “discing” defehe type that made attackers give up before even trying.

  Admittedly, it wasn’t often that Sonya actually ran into situations where her oppo submitted to this psychological pressure. However, it seemed that Beat successfully fell prey to it.

  This is an ued oute but a very wele one. Sonya thought. It gives me more leeway to analyze the rest of the map without w too much about the uation.

  Keeping traid Lane and Vanishing were just two of the many things that Sonya reoccupied with. The game as a whole was much rger thawo specific subjects. For o was imperative to know what was going on iher nes.

  As such, Sonya was naturally well aware of the situation in Bot as well, where Cato and Matthew were fending off the ex-StormBlitz duo, Chessmaster and Gunz. This pair was formidable enough to give even William and Ronald a run for their money, but Cato and Matthew had been fending off the threat very well so far.

  It's unfortuhat I don't have the luxury to analyze their pys iail right now. Sonya thought. It looks like many iing tactics take pce there on a regur basis, but I have no choice but to miss out oails. A shame.

  Cato was the Leopards’ shot-caller in all but name, so the battle in Bot was a direct csh betweeeams' shot-callers. As such, it was bound to be a plicated battlefield with many yers of tactics. It was something Sonya was very ied in destrug, but unfortunately, she didn’t have the time for it at the moment.

  As such, all she knew was that Cato and Matthew were somehow holding their ground without any apparent trouble. They successfully stifled the enemy's progression, which was a huge achievement.

  But, then there's also Top Lane where the situation is very different. Sonya naturally paid very close attention to Top because it featured a never-before-seen oppo: EnduringPhoenix.

  It seems that everybody came to a silent agreement that we'll call him 'Phoenix' and not 'Enduring'. Sonya thought. It's a little off-putting sidering we call their Jungler 'Vanishing' and not 'Flower'...

  Small insistencies like that drew her crazy sometimes.

  But, I get it. 'Phoenix' is much easier to say and it’s not as generic as ‘Flower’, so that’s why it stuck. Yes, I get it, but that doesn't ge the fact it's mildly irritating.

  With that said, there was nothing to be done about it at this point. The majority vote chose the name “Phoenix”, therefore Sonya had no choice but to follow the decision.

  I don't knoart of him resembles a “phoenix”, but he is sure “enduring” very well in the ne.

  Phoenix was an ued addition to Stratus' lineup. Uhe ressive pyers the team ag, Phoenix was the epitome of a defensive pyer. So much, so that his pystyle reminded Sonya of her own.

  He's doing a good job sacrifig a bit of farm in exge for safety. I uand why they subbed him in only now.

  To deal with Ronald's aggression in Top, it was necessary to either bring somebody who was just as strong or somebody who could deflect the aggression with strong defense. But, unfortunately for Stratus, InformationBckhole was a banced pyer who didn’t specialize enough at either task, therefore they subbed him for somebody who was very good at defense.

  And, he's doing a good job so far. Sonya thought. Even though Ronald overall maintains ne trol, he 't seem to push forward. That’s a very well-executed defense.

  I game, most of the a started off in Top. Ronald and William got multiple kills there, whiabled the Leopards to start pushing toward victory.

  As, the brothers didn’t have the same lu this game. Phoenix pletely sealed off the ne, denying William any gank opportunities.

  In fact, as it stood, all three nes were currently frozeo somebody employing airtight defense on every ne. In short, the teams were stu a deadlock, ohat only a Jungler’s intervention could resolve.

  Of course, William was very much aware of the fact, therefore he tried to gank various nes on multiple occasions. As, none of the ne oppos ever gave him a good opening to strike.

  Oher hand, the enemy Jungler was lying low the eime. She didn't lift a fio help resolve the deadlock even though that should have been ieam’s best is.

  And, even if she tries, I’ll make sure she fails. Sonya asserted. The moment she makes a move - I'll know. Speaking of which, I have to make another report. It nearly slipped my mind.

  "I still haven't seen their Jungler ever since she entered Bot Jungle,” Sonya reported for the third time in a row. “She probably slipped into Top Jungle by now. We ran out of 2 wards there, so we o refresh them."

  "Noted," William responded. As the Jungler, he had the most freedom to travel to the indicated spots in order to replenish the wards there, so he promised to do so in the near future.

  Good, that’s it for the report. Sonya nodded in satisfa. Now, I’ve bought myself another 20 or so seds to analyze other more iing things.

  Keeping track of Vanishing was quickly being a chore, for there was no iing information ao be had there. The girl only farmed camps without doing anything that stood out. Even as the game was in a deadlock, the girl didn’t bother to lift a fio ge anything about the situation. It ure amateurism.

  heless, this amateur had a history of delivering ued ganks in previous games, therefore some degree of caution was still necessary for now. Thus, Sonya tinued dividitentioween Vanishing, the ne, and the rest of the map.

  It was a juggling act, but ohat Sonya found easy enough at the moment. After all, both Vanishing and Mid Lane didn’t require much attention, seeing as they were both very uful so far.

  Or, at least, that’s what Sonya thought. Little did she realize that she only had so much free time thanks to Beat's negligehe situation will ge drastically if Beat suddenly decides to take better care of the ne…

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