Playing Support Without Ever Picking a Support Champion

The two hit it off at once, leaving their teammates dumbfounded. Lin Heng immediately began laying out a plan.

"They warded our raptors. They're playing for bot, so their jungler will definitely clear from top to bot. Flash over from the dragon pit and take their Red Buff, then come straight over at level two."

"Sure! I'm with you! Let's just go for it!" Ning looked ready to throw caution to the wind.

After that, Lin Heng turned to Uzi beside him. "Dog Bro, make it convincing."

The minion waves met, and Caitlyn used her range advantage to poke Ezreal. Uzi also looked for a chance to land a Q on Elise, who had already taken control of the middle brush.

Camille would normally take W at level one to trade and poke, so Lin Heng kept weaving back and forth in the first brush on his side, as if looking for a chance to step forward and trade with Elise using W.

But ON remained calm in the brush. He suddenly threw out a predictive E and landed it on Lin Heng's Camille.

Caitlyn followed up with a Q, and Elise added two auto attacks to proc Electrocute. Camille instantly lost almost half her health.

"This guy's so clueless!" At the BLG club, ON laughed when he saw how awkwardly Camille was moving.

But just as he finished laughing and speaking, Xin Zhao came around through the blue-side bot-lane tri-brush to flank them.

"Holy crap!"

The BLG bot-lane duo hurried back toward their turret.

"Kill Elise!" Lin Heng called.

Camille E'd onto the wall. Seeing that she had actually taken E at level one and was coming straight for her, Elise hurriedly Flashed forward to dodge the stun.

The minion wave was near the river, so if she could dodge Camille's E kick, she had a chance of escaping.

But just as Elise landed from her Flash, Camille, whose E was already nearing its maximum range, followed with a Flash of her own. She had perfectly predicted where Elise would land and stunned her with E.

Xin Zhao caught up and lunged in with E-Q.

Camille had Hail of Blades. After the stun, she applied Ignite and quickly dealt a burst of damage. Xin Zhao also had Red Buff. With nowhere to escape, Elise was killed beside the wall in front of the turret, and Xin Zhao took the kill.

"Nice! That E-Flash was sick!"

Uzi and Ning both praised the E-Flash. ON had pressed Flash almost at the very instant Camille's E was about to stun him.

If that last-second follow Flash was a prediction, then the player had nerves of steel and dared to make the play.

If it was a reaction... no, no, no, there was no way it was a reaction. That was too scary.

"Push the wave, quick! We can dive. I'll tank it till I die."

In fact, the moment Elise went down, Uzi had already started using his passive to push the wave quickly.

Xin Zhao, meanwhile, went around behind the turret to cut off Caitlyn's escape.

Seeing how quickly the two reacted, Lin Heng smiled with satisfaction. The LPL really was different. As for his LDL teammates, some of them had decent enough mechanics, but sometimes they didn't dare fight, and other times they were slow to react.

Most importantly, the fuckers had no professional integrity. A whole bunch of them threw matches.

Caitlyn, trembling under her turret, had no chance of waiting for her jungler and her respawned support to arrive. The three of them dived her.

Even though she had Flash, with Xin Zhao's third spear strike primed and Camille's E available, she still had no room to make a play.

To be safe, Camille chose to tank the turret until she died. They were utterly decisive in going for the kill.

Really, the moment Wukong saw Xin Zhao appear in bot lane with red, he should have invaded Xin Zhao's jungle. That way, he could have avoided making their losses as bad as possible.

But Xun really liked ganking bot, so he chose to head straight down there anyway. Clearly, though, he wasn't going to make it in time.

By the time Elise and the jungler Wukong arrived, Ezreal and Xin Zhao had already gotten away.

A one-for-one trade wasn't a huge problem.

But two waves of minions had been lost under the turret, and they were playing Caitlyn and Elise.

Ezreal and Xin Zhao each had a kill, and Camille had an almost foolproof way to engage on the two carries in the midgame. This game was basically going to be very hard.

After that play, BLG, who had agreed to simulate a real match in full, typed "AG" in all chat.

There really was no need to continue. They had picked this composition to practice their bot-lane pairing, and after that play, Caitlyn had fallen disastrously behind in experience.

If she dared step up to poke, Camille and Ezreal would dare jump straight on her. Continuing would only affect the players' mental state.

But a surprise trick like this wasn't really all that interesting. It was interesting to use one in an official or important match, where it could score a win, but people would basically only fall for it once. They would definitely be on guard afterward.

Scrims were meant for practicing compositions. Winning with a surprise trick like this wasn't really all that meaningful.

But today's scrim was different. They were here to test the jungler and support in the first place, so Lin Heng had to show some imagination as a support.

When it was time to make things happen, he would make them happen. What was the fun in playing support by the book?

Besides, that E following Elise's Flash had shown off his mechanics and his nerves of steel.

The club could see those strengths too.

But someone on BLG didn't see it that way. Knight chuckled and said, "Doesn't this guy get bored pulling little tricks like that in a scrim?"

Viper, who clearly hadn't understood what he said, turned to him in confusion. "Did you just swear?"

The other teammates immediately burst into laughter.

"Should I try a level-two gank bot this game too?" Xun grinned, baring his teeth.

"Hold on, let's see the comp first," Knight directed.

The second game's Ban and Pick phase began quickly.

This time, BLG chose blue side again, then used their first three bans on Sivir, Varus, and Poppy.

Invictus Gaming banned Dr. Mundo, Trundle, and Azir, evidently planning to keep picking tanks.

BLG opened by locking in Neeko, apparently intending to focus on bot lane again.

Invictus Gaming then took the classic mid-jungle pairing of Jarvan IV and Orianna with their first two picks.

BLG picked Corki and Akali with their second and third picks.

Neeko and Corki were strong in bot-lane matchups, while Akali could also put a lot of kill pressure on Orianna when pushing side lanes.

Yunara was a fairly strong champion in the current patch, but BLG hadn't first-picked her on blue side. Evidently, they didn't mind giving her to the other team.

They even believed that with Akali for their mid laner and Neeko for their support, Yunara would be able to do very little, from the laning phase through teamfights.

"Damn, Dog Bro, they're looking down on you right to your face." Lin Heng was being a little dramatic.

"No, no, no. They probably just think Corki works better with Neeko." Uzi seemed more like a rookie than Lin Heng.

Rather, he seemed a little afraid: afraid of making yet another comeback, and afraid that his teammates would be affected by the fans because of him, especially this rookie support.

He could already imagine what those fans would do to the rookie support if he made some mistakes or played badly once they were actually competing.

Even now, he still couldn't put the words "I'm guilty" behind him.

But he couldn't help it. He still wanted to compete. After years away from the stage, he always felt that the person on that stage was the real him.

Thinking of this, Uzi turned and glanced apologetically at Lin Heng, only to see that the kid was still fanning the flames.

"These guys are terrible. They must think that after all those years away, my Dog Bro can't play these new champions. That's an insult! We have to crush them!"

Uzi put away his apologetic look and turned his gaze back, thinking, I was way too naive. Would a guy like this be affected by that kind of gossip?

Yunara had been picked in the third slot, and he had been a little distracted, so he hadn't paid attention to the subsequent champion selections.

When he saw Xerath picked in the fifth slot, he completely lost it.

I felt sorry for this guy? He deserves every bit of flame he gets, all right? Classic support player who refuses to pick an actual support champion, huh?