Chapter 179 (3)
Ming god sighed and patted Tong Yao’s shoulder: “Think about how you’re going to play the next round. This round our mid endure the pressure well, you have to learn from Lu Yue how to take the pressure well. Then you have to figure out how to look for a chance to fight back while enduring the pressure– –Damn, just don’t be like Lu Yue who just stands there like a vegetable, as if there’s no one at the ZGDX side…… We can’t always let OP lead us by the nose.”
Tong Yao nodded.
She fixed her eyes on the mid lane, on every detail on Lu Yue’s and Jin Yuguang’s movements. She was afraid that she’d miss something– —
She was quite nervous.
She was even more hard working than if she was playing the match on stage. When she was on stage, all she focused on was Jin Yuguang, but while watching the match off stage, she could see more things– —
Lu Yue took the pressure and didn’t die but he was totally trapped in the mid lane. As a mid with some support power, he had been constantly using his ultimate, after level 6, running away. He didn’t have a single chance to use Karma’s high mobility to support his teammates.
In comparison, Jin Yuguang could always find new opportunities; he’ll find chances, when Corki has missile ammo, to go top or bot to get kills or help his teammates grow the team’s advantage……
Because she was watching the match as an onlooker, she could clearly see how the proactiveness or passiveness of the mid player could affect the whole game……
……
The second round lasted for almost 50 minutes. When ZGDX’s nexus exploded, the break room was momentarily silent– –Now the score was 2 : 0; ZGDX had been pushed to the edge of the cliff.
Ming god sighed: “S series’ quarter-finals are always different from skirmishes or even group matches. I don’t even know at this moment whether using this sort of on the spot teaching method would even work for you guys or not……”
Tong Yao lowered her head and pulled some stray hair behind her ears. She thought about it but only said: “En.” The cell phone in her hand was on a stream site. The bullet comments were saying things like “3 : 0” “GGGGGGGG” “Congrats to ZGDX for qualifying for the quarter-finals”, filling the cell phone screen, covering the faces of the players……
Tong Yao couldn’t even see the expressions on her teammates’ faces.
After a while, footsteps could be heard outside the break room– —
The one who came in first was Lu Yue with tightly knit eyebrows. When he walked in and looked up to see Tong Yao’s face, his expression froze. Tong Yao couldn’t tell whether it was out of dejection or embarrassment.
Before Lu Yue came into the room, Tong Yao was also debating how she should face her depressed teammates. She figured it could be an awkward moment or she could be depressed with them or she should keep encouraging them not to give up…… But what happened was that when she met Lu Yue’s eyes, she found her flustered heart suddenly settle down– —
The rest of the team came in after Lu Yue. Little Fatty mumbled while pounding his waist: “Shit, OP didn’t play this way against CK at the group matches.”
Old Cat and Old K were discussing the failure of their first attempt to tower dive which was due to bad ward placement.
Lu Sicheng was the last one to come in. He walked in the room and took a look at Tong Yao, then walked straight over to Tong Yao’s side……
He looked down and figured that since Tong Yao was easily discouraged after defeats, he wanted to say something to calm her down. But before he could say a single word of comfort, he saw the person sitting on the chair suddenly gave me a big smile.
Lu Sicheng was surprised.
Tong Yao took his hand while he was still trying to understand what had happened and rubbed his somewhat cold finger tips.
“It’s alright. We can win the next round.”
It wasn’t simply some word of comfort– —
With the setbacks she and Lu Yue had experienced, she felt that she probably knew how to go against OP now.
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