Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 228

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 228
78. Capsule Adaptation (2)
King Gul still hadn’t grasped the situation and asked in confusion.
“Balloon Gum! Did he end up getting solo killed!?”
The Caster hastily corrected him.
“Oh, no! That’s not it! He got the solo kill! King Gul!”
“What’s up with saying you suffered something without even looking at it?”
Bubble gum crying lol
-Honestly, fair enough
The crowd erupted in cheers a moment late.
-…Ohhhhh!
-Gum! Gum! Gum!
-This is nothing for our guy!
Balloon Gum himself seemed flustered, awkwardly raising one arm.
“Ha, ha, hahaha!”
The crowd erupted in cheers once more.
-Ohhhhh! Balloon Gum! Balloon Gum!
-0.04! 0.04! 0.04! 0.04!
As the replay passed by, King Gul quickly added his explanation.
“Ah… Jam. He attempted a reckless tower dive. Iron Ball is tougher than expected to kill.”
When Balloon Gum was barely clinging to life at the tower with such low health.
The opponent recklessly rushed to finish him off, only to be turned on instead.
It was a kill where tower damage accounted for over 80%.
“Either way, a solo kill is a solo kill! Red Carpets is in trouble! The game has tilted from an unexpected direction?”
-Info) He didn’t expect it either
-Hahaha, that’s about me
Honestly, nobody knew ㅋㅋㅋ
“Yes! That’s right! You said earlier that top lane was the key, King Gul… That’s because top was the only lane that was evenly matched, right?”
“Yes. So I predicted that Bottom would roam to support top….”
Mid and Jungle favor Balloon Stars, while Bottom favors Red Carpets.
Top lane was the only place where the balance held.
Actually, top lane should have been slightly more favorable for Red Carpets.
Because Jam plays better than Balloon Gum.
“If the balance breaks here, the game could collapse completely!”
“Ah. But what happened with that intense fight at the bottom?”
“Ah, yes. One moment… Huh?! Oh, they’re still fighting!?”
Remarkably, Almond’s healing output and Hong-cha Lemon’s damage were in perfect balance, still locked in a standoff.
About 2 minutes.
In reality, not that much time had passed, but from a game perspective.
The fact that a single battle had lasted over 2 minutes was extraordinary.
“Now that’s what I call true self-strengthening!”
“Uh… but wait?”
The Analyst seemed to have noticed something.
“The positioning keeps changing, you see?”
“Oh, you’re right! Almond is gradually pushing forward!”
“It’s because of the level! Almond’s level is higher!!”
I had been consistently eliminating the opponent’s minions, while Hong-cha and Lemon only attacked Taco due to their interference.
The difference in experience gain was inevitable.
Level difference was a harder factor to overcome in Reel than even gold difference.
And on top of that…
“Ah! Almond! The arrows! You’re no longer firing shadow arrows at the minions!?”
My shadow arrows had shifted their targets away from minions toward Hong-cha and Lemon.
I was destroying the targets hovering above their bodies.
Whoosh!
Bang!
And then, the newly generated light arrows continued striking Taco’s head.
“While they’re shooting at each other without a moment to breathe! How is this even possible!?”
I shot Hong-cha, then Lemon, then fired two arrows simultaneously at Taco.
This entire sequence happened while Hong-cha fired three shots from her dual pistols and Lemon’s Toad spat slime once.
My hands nocking and releasing the bow moved at a speed that made the frames appear to skip.
“Almond alone! Pushing both of them back! Purely through direct confrontation!”
“Sana’s damage isn’t that high, so the two players are just holding on… but there’s something called the Saint’s Curse!?”
“Ah, that’s right!”
The Saint’s Curse.
A passive attached to shadow arrows.
When hit repeatedly by shadow arrows, a curse stacks like layers.
[Saint’s Curse ×3]
Hong-cha already had three stacks.
[Movement speed is reduced.]
At three stacks, movement speed decreases.
Hong-cha could ignore this level of debuff and continue firing her dual pistols. It had nothing to do with her attacks anyway.
“Instead, Taco’s health right now! Is steadily dropping!?”
“The barrage is paying off!”
Just a bit more damage and Taco would die, leaving Sana alone and helpless.
But what if the Saint’s Curse stacked even higher before that?
Whoosh!
[Saint’s Curse ×5]
Hong-cha now had five stacks.
[Vision is reduced.]
The surroundings darkened into shadow. From here on, her attacks faced restrictions.
“Five stacks accumulated! He’s taken five hits in total! And they just keep pounding away at each other!”
“Ah, this is dangerous now! If it reaches seven stacks, he’ll be stunned momentarily!?”
Hong-cha bit her lip hard.
It was difficult to understand why she was being pushed back.
Even if she wanted to target Almond, the positioning made it far too risky.
Taking down Taco first was the right call, but….
Whoosh!
Another arrow flew in, bringing it to six stacks.
And then, one more.
Whoosh!
A shadow arrow curved through the air.
‘Seven stacks—I can’t let that happen.’
Hong-cha’s eyes flashed with intensity.
One of her gun barrels spun sharply.
──Bang!
The arrow fell.
“Wow! Hong-cha Player! She blocked the seven stacks by deflecting the arrow with just one pistol!?”
“And she’s still landing hits on Taco with the other one!”
“Her vision must be almost completely obscured! That’s incredible!?”
With Hong-cha’s recent play, Almond’s stack combo was broken. Taco’s health continued to drop.
“Now the light arrows are running short! Taco’s health is falling! The match will be decided soon!”
Almond’s position grew increasingly disadvantageous. When there were many enemy minions, charging the light arrows had been easy.
Now there was only Hong-cha and Lemon to hit. But Hong-cha kept dodging or deflecting the arrows, and Lemon had completely hidden behind Hong-cha.
[Almond! Stop healing now! Just push them back!]
That was right.
All the minions were cleared. Almond began drawing his bowstring more frequently, aiming directly at Hong-cha.
Once the healing stopped, Taco’s health plummeted in chunks.
Taco quietly retreated backward.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two to three shadow arrows flew consecutively toward Hong-cha.
Bang! Bang!
She fired her dual pistols in a sweeping motion, deflecting two of them….
“Wow! She deflected them again!?”
“Now Hong-cha is aiming at Almond!”
Click!
Now she was targeting Almond.
[Explosive Round]
An explosive bullet flew toward Almond.
However, a shadow arrow pierced straight through the bullet, detonating it mid-air.
Boom!!
Dark smoke obscures my vision.
“Almond!! You’re detonating the explosives in mid-air!”
“This is true self-reliance! What an intense clash!”
“Lemon joins the fight too!! We need to watch out for Toad!”
──Whoosh!
Toad emerges from the black smoke and spits filth.
I throw my body to the side, dodging the filth.
But the exploding projectile strikes me.
Boom!
“Ah! Hong-cha Player! When you use the explosive skill, both projectiles are loaded, right? You’re using the remaining one now!”
“So you fired one earlier and saved one, then coordinated with Lemon to land the hit on Almond!”
“But Taco isn’t just standing around! He charges in! His health is so low, but is he really trying to die?!”
──Crash!
Taco rushes over in an instant and shoves Hong-cha back. It was a dash skill.
Hong-cha gets pushed back.
“The formation has fallen apart! Chaotic brawl! A muddy fight!”
“This is what Almond does best, right? Muddy fighting!”
“Exactly! Lemon is left completely exposed behind!”
I draw my bowstring toward Hong-cha and fire three arrows in rapid succession.
Bang bang bang!
Hong-cha aims to deflect my arrows.
But the arrows I fired weren’t heading toward Hong-cha.
Whoosh──
They curve.
“The arrows…! They’re bending!!”
The arrows pierce Lemon, who is left defenseless while being pushed back by Taco.
──Thud thud!
Three stacks of Saint’s Curse accumulate instantly.
Lemon’s movement speed slows.
“Ah! All arrows hit the Lemon Player!!”
“This is lethal!”
Thud thud thud!
My shadow arrows mercilessly embed themselves into Lemon, and seven stacks accumulate in an instant.
[Stun]
This causes a brief stun.
No matter how much Sana isn’t a high-damage ADC, an ADC is still an ADC.
Once I start firing at the stunned Necromancer, eliminating them is instantaneous.
[Enemy eliminated!]
[Reckless Warrior → Lemon]
I successfully eliminate Lemon.
“Nooooo! Lemon got caught!”
“Hey! Shadow Arrows are infinite, right?! That’s what it’s like, isn’t it?!”
[Allied unit has fallen.]
[Hong-cha → Taco]
But in the end, Taco died too.
“No! What kind of battle is this!!!”
“Taco’s dead! Hong-cha killed him in that brief moment!”
King Gul shot to his feet, veins bulging in his neck.
“Is this a martial arts novel!? An impossible battle is unfolding!”
A one-on-one duel where dozens of projectiles exchanged hands in an instant.
The casters couldn’t hide their excitement at the spectacle. But it was short-lived.
“Ah… but the Hong-cha Player is dying and running away!?”
Hong-cha was making a hasty retreat.
“Ah, yes. His health had dropped quite a bit, you see?”
Haha, Hong Haengrang
-Hong-cha’s specialty) absolutely hates dying
-This is what a carry should be
Hong-cha had been running for quite some time now, long out of Almond’s range.
Still, Taco and Almond had accomplished what they set out to do.
The lane was pushed all the way toward the enemy’s side.

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“Balloon Stars. It’s a shame we didn’t catch Lemon, but this is really good, isn’t it?”
“Yes. Now we’ll stop by the sanctuary and head straight to the top lane for support! Even doing that, there’s almost no loss! We’ve pushed the entire lane!”
Almond and Taco headed to the top lane as the casters said.
Since Balloon Gum had already secured a kill, they could push the opponent back even more smoothly than originally planned.
“Ah! Jam Player! Finally caught!”
“Balloon Gum Player with 2 kills!? Incredible!”
In the ensuing battle, Balloon Gum’s well-developed Iron Ball and Sana’s stellar performance began to turn the tide in Balloon Stars’ favor.
“No!! What is this! He won’t die! When will he ever die!”
With each teamfight, the casters let out these cries of exasperation.
“Ahhhhh! Iron Ball! He keeps getting hit like that but won’t die!”
Iron Ball won’t die.
He’s immortal… and so on.
“He won’t die! He just won’t die! Sana’s healing output is absolutely massive!”
“How can he not die even with all that damage! I’m jealous! I want to play a game like that too!”
A solid tank paired with an excellent healer.
The game was flowing exactly as drawn in the initial draft picks.
Bubble gum seems like it’s so tough that it can’t die even if it wanted to lol
-Balloon Gum is so cool~!
I’m about to cry with gum ㅠㅠㅠ I think I’m going to cry ㅠㅠㅠ
“Are we just going to keep going like this?”
His Iron Ball rolled into enemy territory without knowing death, burrowing deeper and deeper.
“Deguruuuuuuuuuu!”
King Gul shouted that one phrase alone for about ten minutes straight from the commentary desk.
And for good reason—most situations ended with just that one word.
“Rolling rolling! Crash!”
“Deguruuuu! Crash!”
“Deguruuuuuuuuu! I won’t die!”
We finally reached the final battle unfolding before the Sanctuary.
“Balloon Stars! Are you going all the way!?”
“Final showdown before the Sanctuary!”
“Hong-cha! Dual pistols are blazing! Firing like crazy… but the Iron Ball won’t die!”
“At this point, it seems like it can’t die even if it wanted to!”
Boom!
Red Carpets’ Sanctuary exploded.
Game time: 35 minutes.
It wasn’t a short duration, but the content was quite one-sided.
It simply took longer to push the opponent because the composition was a tank-healer combination.
“Jiiiii~~~!”
Shortly after the match ended.
The damage graph appeared.
Hong-cha’s damage output stood out prominently.
“Wow… you can really see how brutal the battle was, right?”
“The Hong-cha Player is overwhelming on the damage graph?”
“It’s probably because we beat Taco down from the laning phase.”
“For this game, we need to look at that. The damage taken graph.”
Hearing that, the observer brings up a different graph.
“Wow~”
“This is tank carrying! Balloon Gum Player, do you have anything to say?”
The next moment, as if hearing those words, the healing graph immediately appears.
“Wow! 50,000 healing!?”
“The graph looks like it’s about to go off the chart!”
The healing amount was so overwhelming compared to Balloon Gum’s damage taken.
The caster quickly wrapped up the commentary.
“Alright everyone. Let’s take a brief break and move on to set two.”

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The first set’s ban-pick phase had been quite unusual, but the second set was no less peculiar.
“Wait? Reina is open?”
Reina was actually open.
“And ‘Terrorist – Boni’ is open too! This means they’re ready for a real match!!!”
“Is this Hong-cha avenging Greentea? Is that what this is?”
“We didn’t play well last time, right? Let’s do this properly! That’s what she’s saying!”
With Hong-cha opening Reina, a main character matchup was established.
And lol main character battle
-Hong-cha noona really knows how to stream
-Reina versus Boni! Insane!
-Hong-cha never even used Boni in the scrim
The challenger’s main character…wow.
-Could that be the one Almond said was the most thrilling?!
People anticipated another fierce bottom lane showdown like the first set.
But the match unfolded in a completely different way than their expectations.

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