Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 481

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 201
69. Got You, You Thug (3)
A 5v5 match always starts with gathering people.
“Alright everyone. I’m revealing the password. Come on~ in!”
Since King Gul, Almond, and Popcorn only made three people total, we needed seven more. We filled the remaining spots by recruiting from the viewers watching the live stream.
The viewers just had to enter the password in order and join, but getting in didn’t guarantee they’d be selected.
The team leaders of each team, King Gul and Popcorn, reviewed their records one by one before accepting them.
“Alright, please balance the tiers well.”
Of course, both teams’ tiers had to be balanced as well.
If there was a difference of two tiers or more when averaging, one side would be clearly disadvantaged.
“So, Popcorn, King Gul—I think we should send this Grandmaster viewer who just joined to your team?”
The host usually handled this tier adjustment. It was easier since they could see the entire situation at a glance. The way players moved back and forth between teams to balance things out felt just like dividing teams for games like tin-can kicking back in the neighborhood as kids.
“Alright, is the balance good like this? Should we go with this?”
That’s when Popcorn noticed something odd and started complaining.
“Wait, hold on. Everyone? Our team’s tier is way lower, isn’t it? What’s going on?”
From his perspective, he’d been measured as significantly disadvantaged.
The host then explained.
“Ah, Almond’s actual tier is Diamond 4.”
The tier of the account Almond currently uses is Master tier. However, his actual main account, the ‘Reckless Warrior,’ is Diamond 4—the lowest rank in Diamond.
“…?”
Popcorn stared blankly as if dumbfounded.
Hahaha, how is that even Diamond 4??
This rule is being used like this lol
-His eye twitching is hilarious
The rule about measuring by actual tier in the first place existed because the Master tier guest accounts provided here were usually lower than the tiers of players who normally came as guests.
In other words, the rule was created to prevent things from flowing too favorably toward the guests.
But in Almond’s case, it worked the opposite way.
“Alright, no complaints, right?”
“….”
Popcorn answered with silence instead.
A facial expression that looks like there’s a lot to say lol
That’s pretty bold of you, lol
-Wait, so Almond’s win rate is pretty high then??
-Hey guys, wake up! Hey guys, wake up…
And then the pick phase began.
King Gul’s team naturally completed their go-to composition even if they couldn’t get everything they wanted. Popcorn avoided what King Gul had banned and put together the most plausible composition he could.
Of course, since they were building a composition with complete strangers from the viewers, it was essentially solo queue level composition building. Still, a decent composition without any major issues came together.
“We’re going in!”
Soon after, all ten contractors were summoned onto the battlefield.

* * *
“Alright. Popcorn has selected Jecheon Daeseong. The viewer facing Popcorn in the top lane is a Grandmaster? They’ve put their best player in the top lane. They must be conscious of Popcorn!”
The host continued the commentary alone without King Gul.
Instead, the audio density in Almond’s team comms had increased several times over from before.
[Ah. Ah. Support. Early laning phase, you absolutely have to play safe. Absolutely. We’re going to scale, got it? Chronoji.]
[The Dragon Trainer jungler isn’t actually that good, so for now we’re focusing on farming rather than ganking.]
[Once we hit level 6, we’re going all in! We’ll catch the reverse roam rotation and take them down!]
All from one person. Everything King Gul had said.
-He’s even doing commentary from inside the game lol
-His teammates’ ears must be bleeding!
-???: My eardrums… they’re severed…
After hearing King Gul’s briefing(?), Almond headed to the bottom lane.
[The opponent is a Ppokjujok who’s equally strong in close combat, so if Almond uses rope movement carelessly at the front, he could get riddled with shotgun pellets!]
I see.
Almond briefly recalled the Ppokjujok’s skill structure.
First, the basic weapon itself is a shotgun, so damage doubles when hit up close. On top of that, there’s a skill called “Buckshot Barrage.” If you get hit by that up close, the damage triples. The ADC basically dies.
If I carelessly used rope movement against him, I’d get riddled with holes and die.
‘Then I’ll take it slow.’
Following King Gul’s advice, Almond proceeded through the laning phase calmly.
Of course, as if to trample on his composure, the enemy made a ruckus.
“Eehehehe~! I’ll dirty you with this disgusting Toad! Almond~~!”
The loudest was the enemy support, this Necromancer.
-lmao this guy
-Toad villain lol
-Why do all characters end up like this lol
Like most Necromancer players, he didn’t forget to harass with his voice as well.
Every time Almond stepped forward slightly to farm minions,
“Croooooak!”
He summoned a Toad while making this sound.
Crrrribbit…!
The Toad leaped up from the sticky swamp and spat out something indescribable from its mouth.
Splurt!
Getting hit by it not only slowed movement speed but also dealt damage over time.
Almond actually had plenty of experience fighting Necromancers, so he could dodge without much trouble.
“Ugh…! Hack!”
The problem was the support next to him.
Chronoji had very slow movement speed before using skills, so it seemed difficult for him to dodge each attack individually.
[First Blood!]
To make matters worse,
Suddenly, this announcement came through.
[Popcorn → Yo-Yo Face]
“Aaaah! A kill already!? Popcorn’s solo kill! He completely takes control of the level 2 fight!”
The top laner, who was farming experience alone, had already reached level 2. Usually intense exchanges happen around the timing of reaching level 2, and Popcorn connected a kill right there.
Haha, popcorn as expected.
-Reverse bettors, are you coming to your senses!? Reverse bettors, are you coming to your senses!?
-2222
-Sori screaming twice ahhhhhhh
“The viewers are absolutely loving this right now! Most of them bet on Popcorn’s victory!?”
[It’s fine. It’s fine. Iron Ball can die. He’s just meat shield.]
King Gul reassured the team, but everyone knew.
That kills breaking out from the early game like this wasn’t naturally a good thing.
“Ah. But the person who got the kill is Popcorn, right? Popcorn is top-tier among pros! He can turn tiny differences into massive ones!? It’s equivalent to 2 kills from an average player!”
Most importantly, the person who created the kill was the problem.
There are players who throw games even after getting 10 kills, while there are players who shake the entire game with just 1 kill.
Popcorn was naturally the latter type of player.
‘Something needs to happen in the bottom lane.’
Thanks to the education I’d received from Taco, this thought came to me automatically.
When an incident happens in the top lane, an incident that can cover it needs to happen in the opposite bottom lane. That’s how balance is maintained.
‘King Gul needs to be able to look at the top.’
King Gul is currently controlling the bottom lane rotation. He’s trying to pay attention to the bottom lane first. But what if a kill happens in the bottom lane?
There’s no need to pay attention to this place again. With the time meant for the bottom lane, he’d go into the enemy jungle and steal monsters to kill them. Then the enemy jungler would be relatively starved, and King Gul would grow stronger.
In other words, he’d have the leeway to attempt a top gank.
[Level Up!]
I’d just reached level 2.
“!”
The problem was that the enemy leveled up, not us.
Like all lane fights, the side that levels up first has the advantage.
But in the 2v2 bottom lane fight, it was much more severe.
Other lanes have 1 skill vs 2 skills.
This is 2 skills vs 4 skills. A difference of 2, a 2x difference.
An overwhelming difference in firepower.
“Ah. We lost first level 2. Let’s back off completely.”
Chronoji gave the textbook order.
The enemy deliberately provoked further.
“You cowardly bastards! Come on….”
‘They’ve crossed the line.’
That’s when it happened.
I tapped Chronoji and quickly conveyed something to him.
“N-Now!?”
Chronoji couldn’t hear the response.
Twang!
In the blink of an eye, Sori’s arrows began to fly.
“Oh no! The Necromancer! It looks like he just gave up his range right now!?”
The enemy had miscalculated Sori’s attack range.
It was a beginner’s mistake.
A newly manifested incarnation, so the enemy hadn’t adapted yet—the kind of error that naturally occurs.
However, the Necromancer only lingered within my range for an incredibly brief moment. Even being generous, it was less than 0.5 seconds.
Most players wouldn’t have had time to react and would have let it pass.
But I caught it.
-Wow, catching that immediately
-Insane reaction
-Was that even an angle?
Thwack!
The Necromancer’s snout was pierced by an arrow.
“Ugh!?”
[Voodoo Shaman – Kuipan]
[Health 82%]
A single shot dealt considerable damage.
That’s Sori’s characteristic.
The moment the Necromancer’s eyes widened and he tried to flee.
As if I’d fired a piercing shot, his face was suddenly riddled with holes.
Thwack!
Thwack!
-Kya
-Mind blown!
-Face blown!
When the third arrow struck.
Whoosh…!
An elemental arrow was already nocked on my bowstring.
[Frost Arrow]
An arrow imbued with blue energy flew and lodged squarely in the center of his face.
Twang—
White ice spread outward, and the Necromancer’s movement froze completely.
He would remain in this state for the next 1 second.
[Voodoo Shaman – Kuipan]
[Health 21%]
His health was critically low, but my arrows were reloading.
It would take 2 seconds.
So the Necromancer thought he would survive.
But it was a miscalculation.
[Time Freeze]
[Cast a time freeze spell on the desired area. After approximately 1 second, the time freeze activates. The time in that area freezes for 1.5 seconds along with minor damage.]
Boom──
The time freeze spell was already being cast.
[Voodoo Shaman – Kuipan]
[Health 11%]
It was a perfectly coordinated crowd control combo. Only possible because I had signaled Chronoji in advance.
“Ah! Artistic coordination!”
-Real talk
Chaos-tier CC combo is insane
-That’s why he used freeze
The Ppokjujok realized the situation had become critical and attempted to resist by throwing smoke grenades.
“Ah. Why did you give him that distance!”
Boom!
With increased movement speed, I moved swiftly and gracefully evaded the smoke grenades. The shotgun blast was no different.
[Health 97%]
Most of the buckshot missed, dealing almost no damage.
I even cut off the Voodoo Shaman’s escape route.
And then, click!
My quiver was filled with arrows again.
Only then did the Voodoo Shaman, finally freed from time freeze, hastily summon a Toad. There were occasional cases where the Toad would take hits meant for the ADC.
Boom──
Such tricks wouldn’t work on me.
My arrow gracefully curved around the Toad, piercing through the Voodoo Shaman’s ear and skull.
Splat!
[Enemy defeated!]
The Voodoo Shaman fell.
It wasn’t over yet. I still had three arrows remaining.
[Level Up!]
I was now level 2.
“One more time, go!”
I shouted while aiming at the Ppokjujok.
“Even if we don’t get it, go!”
The Support, excited, echoed my words and stepped forward.
He had also reached level 2.
He first cast the [Fast Rewind] skill on me.
[Movement speed increased!]
[Attack speed increased!]
With all my speeds increased, I reached out toward the Minion next to the Ppokjujok.
[Rope Movement]
Whoooosh!
“Almond! Move to an awkward position where the Ppokjujok can’t fire the shotgun properly!”
If I flew directly at the Ppokjujok, I’d take massive shotgun damage. But moving to an awkward nearby point was different.
“Then what are you doing! I can see your entire approach!”
The Ppokjujok wasn’t stupid either, so he aimed his shotgun at my rope movement trajectory.
[Spray Fire]
He fired spray shots at my predicted path.
Or rather, he tried to.
[Frost Arrow]
A frost arrow flew out the moment I started the rope movement, preventing him from firing.
Bang!
[Ppokjujok – Paul]
[Health 79%]
“No way! Almond! You hit the enemy the moment you started the rope movement!”
That’s right. I didn’t use the rope movement as a mobility skill—I used it to gain elemental arrows instead.
-Skill utilization what
and lol
lol
-The fact that he hits while flying is insane
In the meantime, I fired off my remaining arrows.
Boom!
[Ppokjujok – Paul]
[Health 43%]
One was just a regular arrow, and the last one was an elemental arrow as expected.
[Frost Arrow]
Another frost arrow.
“Ah! Another frost arrow!”
Pow!
The Ppokjujok had to freeze for another second.
[Ppokjujok – Paul]
[Health 10%]
-Damn frost arrows are so broken
-Wow
-This isn’t broken or what???
-Why is the damage like that
“Paul froze again! And now Chronoji’s time freeze combo!”
Chronoji activated time freeze once more.
Paul had to freeze again.
“Anyone watching would think the game is lagging! And the damage is absolutely insane! The attack speed buff is calculated as a damage multiplier!!”
-This is definitely a bug lol
-Why does he synergize so well with Chronoji lol
-Lol seriously
While Paul was frozen, I had generated a new arrow.
Paul tried to whittle down my health to half with rapid fire.
[Double Kill!]
But he ended up dead.
The chat exploded again.
No, ugh… (or: No, dammit…)
-11111
-The guys who picked second are getting destroyed lol
-Pros, snap out of it!? Pros, snap out of it!?
-Ugh…
-So who’s the pro now?
-This combo is insane, is this a bug??
-Average player level 2 kills? I’m actually getting 2 kills!? Average player level 2 kills? I’m actually getting 2 kills!?
-Average player level 2 kills? I’m actually getting 2 kills!? Average player level 2 kills? I’m actually getting 2 kills!?
-This is crazy lol
-Popcorn! Become Almond next time! Popcorn! Become Almond next time! Popcorn! Become Almond next time?

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