Chapter 90
The gameplay of Sky Spirit was both simple and not simple. This character had two forms: Sunny Day and Rainy Day.
In Sunny Day, friendly characters around him gained 10% movement speed and 5% damage reduction, while skill cooldowns sped up by 3%. In this state, crowd control duration taken was reduced.
In Rainy Day, enemy characters around him lost 10% movement speed, and all enemy shields and damage reduction became invalid. In this state, skill range increased.
At the same time, the skills Sky Spirit could use in the two weather conditions were completely different. In Sunny Day state, most of his skills were for supporting teammates, such as sharing equal experience when killing minions or jungle monsters to speed up leveling, accelerating skill CD recovery, speeding up movement, and so on.
Rainy Day had skills that weakened the enemy’s state, such as slowing attack speed and increasing damage taken.
The ultimate move was “Sky Rift.” The two skies would reflect together, then a rift would open, locking one random skill of all characters within the range and applying a 60% slow effect to enemy characters for eight seconds.
As long as they were in this range, the locked skill couldn’t be used, and the slow status couldn’t be removed by dispel equipment, only by Cleanse.
This was also why he was said to pit teammates.
If lucky, the enemy’s key skills were locked, and they were slowedâwin the team fight in one wave.
If unlucky, the ally’s key skills were locked, the enemy’s weren’t, and then they popped Cleanse and chasedâdirectly burying the entire team fight.
And saying Mechanical Inventor countered him was because the small inventions and robots summoned by the Inventor, as well as the self-destruct effect after HP dropped to a certain level, wouldn’t have their CDs locked. So even in the Sky Rift, this character could play recklessly and provide control against the Sky Spirit.
Moreover, the Inventor had a skill called “Eye for an Eye.” simply put, whatever skill effect you gave me, I would return to you in fullâbut only returning effects like slows; damage skills and character spells like Cleanse, Ignite, Exhaust, etc., wouldn’t be returned.
This was simply a father among fathers to the Sky Spirit who relied purely on debuffs for support.
However, it was a pity that normal people wouldn’t touch these two things.
Therefore, Sky Spirit would hardly ever meet an Inventor. From a certain angle, he wouldn’t be hard-countered.
Shen Yanjin proposing Tata and Bell wasn’t to hard-counter, just to play a strategy. He briefly explained his idea, but in his heart, he still felt that such a wicked thing shouldn’t appear in an official competition arena…
However, the fact was, after the break ended, in the second game, SYG on the Blue Side picked Sky Spirit first.
Commentator A remained passionate: “Wow, SYG’s move is a surprise attack~ The last time Sky Spirit appeared in a professional match should be… four years ago, right? Brought out by WOF’s substitute support player Try back then. I didn’t expect to see his debut again today in the Jungle-Support roam versionâCommentator B~ what’s your take?”
Commentator B looked at the data calmly: “Sky Spirit is the signature hero of SYG’s support player Zeii. Currently, twenty-three games in solo queue Challenger lobby with a ninety percent win rate. And since basically no one else plays this character… after the current APP update, Sky Spirit has become the number one ranked support character on the win rate chart.”
“A one-trick pony.” Commentator A revealed curiosity and interest in his voice very appropriately. “Then, let’s see how KW plans to deal with this surprise move… Eh, eh, eh? Tata plus Bell Spirit? Locked in?!”
Commentator B was also a bit confused. “As a protective support, Bell Spirit’s main support skill is the shield. But, as everyone knows, Sky Spirit can nullify all shields within range while in the Rainy Day state.”
The livestream bullet comments started scrolling madly because of this sudden move; popularity had already broken through twenty million.
[Great-great-great-great-grandfather, your favorite support Sky Spirit has returned to the arena!]
[Bell Spirit against Sky Spirit, shield character against shield nullification? What the hell, am I unable to keep up with the times?]
[Hiss, Moon-U party assemble, temporary question: What was the Jungle-Support combo used by Moon God and UOOW to punish Kai in that game?]
[Wasn’t it Tata and Bell Spirit?]
[Remembering UOOW’s Bell gave Kai trauma about this character for more than half a month.]
[That god-level positioning plus prediction, anyone would have trauma, okay?]
[So what? What does the person above want to say? Sliver stealing the nest? That’s enough. Why don’t you just make a rule that anyone playing Bell in the future has to submit an application to UOOW?]
[Don’t KY [bring up unrelated topics/kill the vibe]. And let me be blunt, the current starting support of KW, and the one closest to Moon God, is not your U, but Sliver, OK?]
[The livestream in Moon God’s room before really made my heart flutter!! I don’t believe there’s no JQ [affair/passion] between these two.]
[Sisters, stop fantasizing all day, watch the match OK?]
[I have a premonition, there will be a war between the Moon-U and Moon-S parties…]
Song Yuan said he would be a blue-collar worker, so he was a blue-collar worker. Without any ambiguity, he directly had Kai pick him a tank character that survived under the tower, farmed, and engaged in the late game.
KW’s first three picks were simply weirder than SYG’s first-pick Sky Spirit.
Leaving aside the characters, picking Jungle-Support first was understandable, but what did it mean not to pick a good character for the dual carries and instead pick a tank Top Laner first?
And this support pick was too weird… So far, protective supports in the Jungle-Support roam meta couldn’t compare to control-type supports in utility. If Sliver was someone who couldn’t play control, that would be one thing, but he played it more brilliantly than anyone. What was this… what kind of play was this today?
A weirdness competition?
SYG was obviously also a bit confused, but their hands didn’t soften when banning. They quickly snatched powerful dual carries, then banned the remaining two “Sons of the Version” [meta-defining champs].
The result…
Kai picked Shadow Baby, a support character played Mid to supplement control. Tans picked Eagle, a hook ADC.
Combined with the Tata selected by Duan Mingyue, you couldn’t say they were completely unrelated, only that they had absolutely no connection.
It made people unable to imagine the scene of these three characters in the same team.
But they all had one commonalityâControl with Displacement.
Shadow Baby: Ultimate allows materialization, can drag and throw people to the other side.
Eagle: His hook can pull people back a certain distance.
Tata: Like Eagle, also has a hook chain to pull people back a distance, and also has a knock-up that kicks people backward causing stiffness.
Commentator B understood. “So that’s it.”
Commentator A said “Huh?” and asked, “You understand again?”
Commentator B nodded. “KW intends to rely on ‘selling their ass’ [baiting] to make SYG ask for trouble.”
Commentator A was surprised. “You even know how to use the term ‘selling ass’?”
Commentator B ignored him and continued to explain to the audience in the livestream: “Although Sky Spirit’s ability can nullify enemy character shields, the precondition is that he must be in the Rainy Day state. I don’t know if there are players who also like playing Sky Spirit, but if you check the APP, you’ll know that Sky Spirit has a dispel skill, which isâswitching Sunny/Rainy states.”
Commentator A said, “You mean, KW wants to use the advantage of having many control skills to force SYG to switch from Rainy to Sunny? Is this a bit unnecessary?” Wouldn’t just not picking a shield character solve it?
Commentator B said, “Quite the opposite. This is just my speculation, but I think KW picked Bell Spirit because they want Sky Spirit to stay in the Rainy Day state.”
Shen Yanjin liked playing Sky Spirit for a period of time.
But back then he hadn’t entered the professional circle, nor was he even a high-ELO player. He was just a purely trolling support player. his luck was terrible; every time he picked Sky, he would inevitably use his ultimate to cost his teammates the team fight.
Over time, many people knew that this ID, despite being a troll, really liked picking Sky. So as soon as they matched with him, they wouldn’t ban the opponent’s characters but would pin Sky Spirit to the BAN slot first.
Later he stopped playing it, not because it was always banned, but because his mentality was destroyed by a shield support and a hook carry on the opposite side.
In order to nullify the opposite side’s shields, Shen Yanjin basically kept the Rainy Day state the whole time.
But this also meant that Sky Spirit gave up his protection ability, and the only remaining offensive spear was far from sharpâit was blunt.
And he had a fatal weakness.
The ultimate move, Sky Rift, was instant and allowed having status skills of both Sunny and Rainy weather simultaneously. It could be said to be Sky Spirit’s strongest wave.
However, it had a limited range. Once leaving this range, the skill lock and slow effects would cease to exist.
And this range moved with Sky Spirit as the center. When Sky Spirit moved, the ultimate’s range moved with him.
In Rainy Day state, skill distance could be increased, but in this state, there was no crowd control duration reduction. Sky Spirit would be very afraid of control.
Shen Yanjin was too young back then, fearlessly keeping the Rainy Day state and activating his ultimate.
Then… he was kited like a fool.
The opposing hook character wasn’t ambiguous at all. When they said bait, they baited. He grabbed him and pulled him to a wide, uninhabited place, making his ultimate only affect himself and that one person.
If he wanted to dispel the control, he had to switch states.
Switching states would lose the ability to nullify shields.
Shen Yanjin was forced to switch states, and the opposing support immediately plastered his face with shields.
The role a protective support could play in a team fight was still quite formidable.
And switching back to Rainy Day required waiting for the CD.
By the time his CD was ready… the team fight was pretty much over.
The subsequent waves were the same: caught, controlled, caught, controlled.
But he couldn’t not switch to Rainy. If he switched, he got controlled.
Later Shen Yanjin thought, I’ll switch to Sunny first, wait for people to come, then switch to Rain.
The result was, seeing he didn’t switch to Rain, they couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to him, turning to catch his teammates instead. When he switched to Rain, they started repeating the previous method.
It could be described as inhumane.
Shen Yanjin was ruthlessly educated for a whole game, and from then on, he heartlessly abandoned Sky Spirit.
Now, time had passed and circumstances had changed.
He was no longer that weak, helpless Sky Spirit who was pulled, dragged, and controlled into a fool. He was now one of that inhumane push-pull Jungle-Support duo.
Too many control charactersâwould that lead to insufficient damage?
Shen Yanjin expressed that they weren’t aiming for damage, but purely for containment. They didn’t even need macro anymore; they entered torture mode directly.
Besides, Bell Spirit and Tata had other routine combos.
Kaiâs evaluation of this was: The dragon slayer eventually becomes the dragon. Alas!
Then he happily selected Shadow Baby, joining the queue to torture the Sky Spirit.
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