Shocked was written all over Li Haoran's face. He gave a thumb up in Wei Chen's direction, "As expected of our Captain!"
Yang Yuxuan who was pretty much the captain of their CP covered his lips and spoke meaningfully, "Please spare the single dogs and be merciful with your PDA."
Zhao Fu, who was rather stupid in this department looked at his teammates questioningly, "Little Ran and little Xuan, what are you talking about?"
Both Li Haoran and Yang Yuxuan glanced at their foolish big bear with sympathy in their eyes.
I pity whoever going to be his partner in the future.
Coach He who was standing behind them with a notebook in his hand lightly coughed, "Stop speaking nonsense. The game is starting."
The side assigned to each team was randomly picked and TM was assigned to the red side.
Shadow was the first ban from the enemy side. Coach He was not surprised and calmly spoke the name of one of the Xieyu's mages.
The enemy team banned another two strong Junglers without any hesitation.
TM who has received this treatment countless times remained calm and stuck to their plan.
The commentator excitedly spoke up, "TB first picked Chase. This hero can go either Top or Mid but I think Chase will be put in the Mid Lane. However, Xieyu rarely plays short-range heroes which is rather surprising."
This time, it was TM's turn to pick two heroes. Coach He told Zhao Fu and Wei Chen to lock in Lay and Ilay respectively.
Seeing this, TB responded with Yulu and Hanz, a tank melee support who was good at engaging.
Coach He composedly told Fu Yue to lock in Qiao as their Jungler.
In the second banning phase, TB banned Weiyi and Dark Knight whereas TM banned Knight and Radanh.
TB locked in a meat shield in the Top lane to which TM responded with a tank bruiser hero. For the final pick, TB locked in a hypercarry Jungler, Jazz.
"TB is a pick comp. As long as you get hit by one cc ability, it is game over. Let's see how will TM respon-Sen?! TM actually counter-pick Sen?!"
The commentator was shocked and so do the viewers.
[Is TM crazy? Last pick a squishy and weak champ like Sen against Chase?! Not to mention, there is Jazz who is good at killing squishy, what were they thinking?!]
[It is over. I can't watch it anymore. Brothers and sisters spoil me later on. I am leaving :)]
[Can Sen even farm in this game?]
Of course, the players couldn't hear their questions. At the moment, they were busy swapping their heroes.
Shortly after, the game started.
"TB has a big advantage in the early game. They are likely going to invade the blue."
As expected, everyone except TB's Top Laner rushed to TM's blue buff. They expected TM to let this blue go but who would have thought that they sent three people here to welcome them?
Xieyu unhesitatingly signaled for his team to go in. Although he knew firsthand how strong TM was, their heroes were stronger in the early game.
If not attacking now then when?
Xieyu was the first to go in with his bandage toss successfully connected to Qiao. His Support also followed with a hook onto Silence.
Their goal was obvious. Targeted Silence and made him fall behind.
While all eyes were on Silence, out of nowhere a white binding spell came over the wall, and accurately hit Yulu who was staying behind his teammates.
Ilay immediately jumped on him and knocked Yulu up while Lay also focused on Yulu.
Yulu's health dropped sharply and he immediately flashed into the river. However, right as the fog retreated, the silhouette of the handsome Pope could be seen waiting for him in the river.
Yulu quickly used his ability to root him wanting to buy some time but the other side simply stepped to the side and started attacking him with auto-attack.
A crippled Yulu against the full health Sen, the result was self-evident.
"First Blood!"
"First blood went to 404 but Silence is likely to fa- Wait, he is alive?!"
The moment they saw TM going for Yulu at the back, TB realized that they had fallen into TM's trap.
It turned out that Silence deliberately got hit by their skills and pulled their aggro. Still, despite knowing this, they couldn't retreat, not when Silence was about to die.
However, it was not an easy feat to kill Qiao since both Lay and Ilay joined in the fight soon after.
Lay dealt a lot of damage, good at hitting multiple targets and no one could compete with her in terms of range now that their Yulu was gone.
Xieyu's ability went off cooldown and was about to finish off Qiao when all of a sudden, the latter suddenly got a burst of heal and managed to put down the skill in front of him.
One of Qiao's abilities was to cast a spell in a rectangular area in any direction around him dealing a burst damage to any targets hit and stunning those who dashed in this area.
Xieyu has been wondering why Silence was being so passive. As it turned out, he was waiting for him to use his skill again!
"Retreat!" He hurriedly warned and flashed away with a silver of health but in the next second, he was immediately faced with a similar situation as Yulu.
He flashed into the loving arms of the Pope.
Xieyu: "..." You didn't join in the fight and merrily waited outside to collect the heads?
Fu Yue casually tossed another root onto Chase and finished him off in a similar manner as he previously did to Yulu.
In the meantime, Qiao was left with a single-digit HP. Jazz flashed to kill him but Qiao suddenly got a heal from Ilay's passive. He then got knocked up by Ilay ending up giving a kill to Qiao instead.
Lay was busy chasing the runaway Support and it didn't take her long to finish him off.
TB's invade ended with 0 for 4 kills in favor of TM.
"Oh my goodness! This is a disastrous start for TB! Alphabet and Silence got 1 kill and three assists, BlackLotus got four assists and 404 got a double-kill! Silence only lost his flash and Alphabet used his heal! As for 404, he lost nothing except for his mana! On the other hand, all of TB members flashed during that fight!"
Speaking of the last person, everyone felt a bit complicated.
They have never seen a professional player get a double kill with this kind of operation.
As if his job was simply to tie up any loose ends.
[The Omega doesn't need to do anything. Just wait for his team to do all the job and reap the benefits lmao]
[Am I the only one who thinks that 404 is amazing? He knew that he was useless in the early game but was still able to help his team to the best of his capability. He played around the edge of his range and even predicted where the enemies were going to flash to. Observe carefully, right as he landed his Q on Yulu, he proceeded to move into the river right away and at this time, Yulu hadn't flashed yet. After killing Yulu, instead of joining his teammates, he took another route and was in time to meet Chase who had just flashed over the wall. If not for him, Yulu and Chase would have lived. I don't think this is a coincidence.]
[Even if this was to be the case, it still doesn't show that he is a good player! Even I could guess this much lol]
Silence needed to base due to low health which in turn would delay his clearing time for a bit.
However, Jazz was in a worse situation than him. He exchanged his flash for nothing. Both his Mid lane and Bot lane were also fallen behind!
Xieyu comforted his teammates, "It is fine. Two kills went to Sen instead of Silence and Lay. Ben, just plays around mid."
Although Ben was a bit dissatisfied due to his previous shot call, this seemed to be their only win condition.
Blast through mid and looted the enemy Jungle.
Xieyu quickly came back to the lane with his teleport and didn't lose any farms.
In the previous fight, Sen was lucky to have his teammates but this time, in a 1 vs 1 fight, he couldn't stand a chance against him.
Unsurprisingly, Sen didn't dare to walk too close to his minion wave and could only poke from afar.
As a result, Chase had more CS than him despite dying once not long ago.
Those who were trying to find fault with Fu Yue excitedly scolded him on the barrage.
[What a waste of gold! He shouldn't have taken those two kills! Look at him being pushed around by 0/1/0 even though he is 2/0/0.]
[TM is trying hard to carry this noob Omega lol]
[If even Silence couldn't carry him then I don't think anyone can haha!]
Xieyu was farming comfortably against a helpless Sen. A few moments later, Sen stepped forward to get his canon and Xieyu took this opportunity to combo him taking away half of Sen's health in one go.
Sen had only one ability to damage him and even though his attack range was longer than him, Xieyu didn't lose much health from his poking.
He patiently waited for his ability to come back and mentally calculated the damage.
The moment he had his abilities, he immediately launched a surprise attack on Sen. He successfully landed his bandage but the moment he did, a bunch of rocks suddenly appeared underneath his feet.
After landing his bandages, Chase would pull himself over to his target which counted as a dash. As a result, he was stunned alongside Sen and Qiao unhurriedly walked out from the dark.
Qiao summoned another rock and pushed Chase into the turret range. Sen woke up from the stun and immediately rooted Chase causing Xieyu to be helpless and could only wait for his death under the turret.
The gank was clean and quick.
"404 is on a killing spree!"
Unlike the players, everyone was watching the game from a god's perspective. They all knew beforehand that Silence was making his way over after finished clearing his bot camps.
Those who played the game could tell that Sen was setting up a gank for his Jungler by using his health as bait.
Despite this being the case, some still sow discords in the comment section.
[This is Omega's special treatment. He is being a baby. Can't believe he calls himself a professional player *vomit*]
[Silence happened to be there at the right time to save the damsel in distress.]
[Can't you all shut up and watch the game in peace? 404 hasn't made any mistakes yet but he still got bashed for playing how one is supposed to play Sen? You are all just being hypocrites and calling him out simply due to his gender as an Omega!]
[Don't think that being pushed back in the lane is equal to losing. This all depends on the strategy. Go and study some more before opening your mouth.]
Ben, TB's Jungler finally raised his voice, "Xieyu, you shouldn't have gone in without me!"
Xieyu who was annoyed due to his previous death immediately shot back, "Who told you to finish clearing your jungle so late? Or else, how can Silence arrive before you?"
Ben spoke through grit teeth, "Did you forget that Silence has more items than me due to the previous fight?"
Xieyu immediately shut up.
Ben internally sneered.
Xieyu knew this point very well but he went in simply because he looked down on 404.
He was likely trying to kill 404 in front of Silence's face to show off and regain his face!
Now that things didn't go as planned he was shifting the blame onto him, the Jungler!