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Season 5: Chapter 185. The Enemy Strikes Back (3)
Paprika's streamer, Fry Guy, had once been humiliated by Almond at G-Star.
'Revenge...'
He always dreamt of the day he'd take revenge on Almond.
'That day might be today.'
Click.
Fry Guy loaded his gun with a resolute expression.
'I can hold my own as a carry.'
Was this fate? He was also a carry and assigned to the same Group B. Earlier, he hadn't even properly encountered Almond before losing. This time would be different. Their side also had a plan.
"Now! Let's go! Intercept!!"
With Fry Guy's battle cry, the team members swarmed together.
"YEAAAAAAAAA!"
They spotted a Cheese team with six players. Their side was one short, but that didn't matter. They had no intention of fighting all six anyway.
"Do you see who it is!?"
"Yes! Acorn Jelly!"
"Acorn Jelly! Everyone remember!"
Who to kill was perfectly clear. Their priority was simple.
"Move in!"
"YEAAAAAAA!"
First, the shield and spear players charged in recklessly. They were reckless enough to risk death.
"What are you doing? Kill them!"
"Thanks for the free kill~!"
The Nonghyup members thought they were lucky and started attacking. However, the Paprika players completely ignored everyone else and just pounded one person.
Thud!
Ugh!?
One hit was fine.
Thud!
"What...?"
Two hits landed.
'I'm a tank, though?'
Acorn Jelly felt something was off. With a shield in the early game, one normally didn't die easily to just anything. They were going out of their way to target him.
'This is...'
The enemy's recklessness exceeded common sense.
"Open fire!"
Tap tap!
Two guns fired continuously at Acorn Jelly.
[Headshot!]
It wasn’t just the headshot passive. At level three, skills also became available.
[Snipe]
[At maximum distance, hitting an opponent's vital points grants +30 physical penetration and 2x damage. Cooldown: 7 seconds.]
It was somewhat tricky to activate, but a different story if the target was stopped with a stun skill.
"Hold him!"
[Shield Slam]
Thud!
"Damn! Shake them off!"
Acorn Jelly grasped the situation, but it was too late. Team Sett Additional's tank had completely locked onto Acorn Jelly.
"You want to die too!?"
Paprika’s tanker would die too.
"Yeah!"
It didn't matter.
The tanker rolled his eyes and shouted, "PAPRIIIKAAAA! THIS IS YOUTH!!"
His team spirit was tremendous.
— Paprika's youth lmaooo
— lmaooooooooooo
— What the
— Is that the rallying cry when Mad Max guys die?
— What
"Zelo! Zelo! Can you hear!?"
Acorn Jelly thought he needed to relay this situation fast. Once dead, communication was impossible.
Fry Guy closed one eye and squeezed the trigger. "Your sacrifice... was not in vain."
Bang!
The bullet landed at the extreme edge of the Snipe condition.
[Fry Guy → Acorn Jelly]
Acorn Jelly became a rune spirit.
"Oh, damn! What do we do now!?"
— I see
— These guys are deliberately targeting walkie-talkies
— What
— What now
— Wow Acorn Jelly died??
The Nonghyup found themselves in an emergency.
"No no no! Acorn Jelly! Wake up! You were an excellent walkie-talkie!"
Donuts quickly swung his shield and crushed the enemy tanker who'd killed Acorn Jelly.
Crash!
"Die! This is revenge for Acorn Jelly!"
[Donuts → Calamari]
Pop!
Calamari became a rune spirit and frantically ran toward his allies.
Hop! Hop!
The spear user, CheeseStick, had charged in with him and carried him away.
"Sir Calamari! How did only your head arrive!"
— lmaooooooooooooooooo
— LOL
— fr looks like only a head running around
The round rune spirit vaguely reflected the user's face, making it look like just a head bouncing around.
[Charge]
CheeseStick reversed his charge skill to escape.
Whoooosh!
From behind, Horn Ramen fumed. "You damn people, chase them!"
"Oh, don't!" Donuts held him back. "The formation there is bad."
"What...?"
"Their teamfight positioning is completely counter to ours! Two carries are hiding behind a rock and aiming at this side. If we go in first, even with one more person, the damage will be devastating."
"Th-then!? We outnumber them! Does that make sense, hyung!?"
"Can't be helped. They’re level three."
The formation was disadvantageous and compounded by a level gap. The tanker who just died and the spear user were level three. That was why Acorn Jelly died far faster, and the spear user got away alive.
"Then, what do we do? Now...? We can't communicate either."
Even Donuts had no idea what to do. At this point, all they could do was fend for themselves.
"We'll probably have to abandon the Turtle and shift to Octopus... For now, the living need to live."
At those words, the rune spirit below jumped.
'Me!? Take me too! Me too!'
The Nonghyup couldn't hear these words.
The caster was surprised at the kill log. "
Hm hm hm!?
B-Bubblegum is dead! Acorn Jelly is dead too!? And Paprika's Calamari has also become a rune spirit."
The camera missed the fast exchange, so a replay came.
"Oh, it looks like they fought?"
OrangeKing's eyes quivered.
"This is an exchange, but..."
It wasn’t a fair exchange.
"Acorn Jelly currently can't be revived! Paprika’s side can revived! It’s tilted to one side!"
— Wow
— I see
— Right
— fr they’re right
— Wow true
— What the!
— That's why they went in ready to die?!
"Acorn Jelly's value is far higher! It’s a loss for Cheese! Paprika, meanwhile, is fighting incredibly smart!"
The feed suddenly cut back to the live scene. It was the Magical Girls this time.
"While OrangeKing is in the middle of commentary! ChocoShroom is also being chased!"
The enemies were targeting ChocoShroom in succession.
"ChocoShroom is also from Can't Can't Can't, right!? She’s a walkie-talkie!"
— Wow
— What the?!
— We're done for...
— They're specifically targeting them!
"Before, it was one staff and two guns! This time, it’s one gun and two staves! Plus an assassin!"
It would vary depending on what contracts were made. For now, it was an extremely carry-heavy composition and mostly ranged at that.
"Looks like they're fine dying themselves! Because the life values aren't equal!"
"The assassin just now looked like they went in fully intending to die. Yes, but they survived because their base size was just good."
"ChocoShroom too..."
ChocoShroom frantically turned and fled.
"For now, she survived!"
"Oh, looks like she survived because she wasn't a tank like the earlier deaths!"
ChocoShroom was in the back-line position to begin with and had pushed the enemies away with wind magic. After that, Magical Girls' other members covered for her well.
"Magical Girls protected her! For now!"
"For now, she survived, but! Paprika has one more here! Another Paprika team is blocking their retreat!?"
Surviving was short-lived. Another team was targeting ChocoShroom from behind.
— What the
— Relentless
— Wow cornered here
— Wow
— Something feels really off this time
— ChocoShroom startled lmaooo
"Paprika! We thought they were avoiding raw combat this time!?"
Paprika had avoided raw combat in the early game, but wasn't averse to raw combat itself.
"At level three, they’re pushing in aggressively!"
They were simply watching for the right timing.
"Oh... Cheese is being completely dragged around here. Cheese couldn't fight when they wanted, and Paprika fights when they want."
The analyst pushed up his red glasses.
"Why!? Why couldn't Cheese fight when they wanted, and Paprika can!?"
Choosing to fight at the right time and initiating appropriately was extremely important in
LIL
. This match, Paprika was strategically excellent in that regard.
"This is a tactic utilizing objectives... It's because of the Turtle."
"OHHHHHH...!"
If they shared targets, they had no choice but to meet. Even in Survival mode, where finding enemies was difficult, going to the objective was essentially a group gathering of all the players. Paprika would inevitably grow faster and reap massive advantages.
"At this point, meeting is unavoidable. Almost all of Paprika has the advantage at level three."
This was why the expression of having a ladder kicked away was used for the Turtle timing. Level three players could do overwhelmingly more than level two players.
"Ohhhh! As you said, Paprika! Actually has no interest in the Turtle itself! They’re using the Turtle to pressure the opponent again!"
"The Turtle is just a hostage!?"
Paprika was running guerrilla operations everywhere. Cheese was shaken. Even with communication, it was hard to read the situation when combat erupted in all directions.
"Even now, Hambugeez and Nonghyup & Partners have no walkie-talkies!"
Two of the four Cheese teams had lost their walkie-talkies.
"If this is how it is, Cheese should also take out Paprika's walkie-talkies..." OrangeKing suggested a solution from the losing team's perspective, but suddenly smacked his forehead. "No wait, how is this even possible!?"
"What is it!?"
"Why... now I understand why they insisted on five."
Now he understood why Paprika had built their walkie-talkie team with five players.
"Hm? The five players level up first for first-turn advantage, right?"
Getting the first turn meant leading combat initiation. If levels rose even slightly faster, players could keep moving ahead of the opponent with that slight time gap and harass them. This was called getting first-turn advantage.
"The first turn isn't all of it."
Paprika's reason for the five-player strategy wasn't just for the first turn.
"It's hiding their walkie-talkies."
They had hidden their walkie-talkie strategy.
"Cheese doesn't even know right now that Paprika is using walkie-talkies!"
— I see
— Wow
— What the
— Wow...
— Really??
— Right;
— Insane. That would be the case
It was understandable that Cheese wouldn't know. The Paprika teams still had the same number of five players. Unless they got close, they couldn't even see the players’ nicknames.
"N-now that I think about it, there's no way they'd know!"
The caster was also surprised. Even the commentators watching from above had initially been tricked. How would the players seeing from first person know?
"Yes. That's why Cheese can't help but be caught off guard! They don't even know the opponent has walkie-talkies! And the opponent only targets their walkie-talkies!"
"Oh, it’s completely one-sided! And now, Paprika is even going to the Sanctuary of Resurrection to contest and prevent them from reviving!"
Can't Can't Can't's rune spirits needed the Sanctuary of Resurrection. Cheese couldn't go around picking up rune spirits scattered across every team. Paprika was contesting this.
— Wow ruthless
— lmaooooo scummy mold types
— God Tortilla
— This is it LOL
— Oh this is rough
— Are we losing???
In the end, it seemed like no team would properly take the Turtle.
[Shadow of the Abyss descends!]
Time passed, and the shadow spread. The Turtle disappeared into shadow too.
"Ohhhh! The shadow is covering everything...! Two Turtles just disappeared into the abyss!"
Only two of the spawned Turtles remained. At that moment, the screen cut.
Hm hm hm!?
One spot had been completely missed. Someone was hunting the Turtle there. They zoomed in on the ID.
[Dumb Young Man]
It was Almond.
"The Dumb Young Man! Is in the middle of hunting a Turtle!"
— Dumb Young Man LOL
— Our hope, Dumb Young Man...
— The ID LOL
— Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!
Along with Almond, ForeverAlone and Lemon were also struggling. ForeverAlone wasn't using a shield but a sword, standing at the front and kiting the Turtle as much as possible.
"Th-three people are doing this!?"
"Wow, ForeverAlone! He’s completely controlling the Turtle's aggro!? As expected, he’s a master of utility skills!"
ForeverAlone went back and forth exactly on the line where the Turtle was deciding whether or not to hit him. This continuously kept the Turtle in a combat state while giving the allied carries a good angle for safe damage. This was called a leash.
"ForeverAlone is hard-leashing!"
— Wow
— He is genuinely good
— Barely getting hit
— Look at that leash control
— With this technique and he's ForeverAlone...
"The other Split Strategy team is also coming! But they’re a bit far!"
Sweet Radish's team was a distance away, but kept running.
"Ohhh!? Paprika! A Paprika team is approaching!?"
"But they have absolutely no idea! That the Knights is here! Just one team is coming!"
Paprika was approaching with only one team, whether for scouting or something else.
"But a team is coming! Will they be faster than Sweet Radish's side!?"
This one team had five players, and Almond's side had just three still preoccupied with the Turtle.

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