Humiliation.
Naked, blatant humiliation.
And it was a goddamn point-blank critical hit.
Letme was furious and embarrassed, and he even found himself blaming League of Legends' patch updates, harboring intense hatred for the game's designers.
If League of Legends patch 7.20 had not introduced the emote system—and if it had not included such a baffling yet deeply insulting emote as the Robot Question Mark emote—how could he have been this enraged?
Humiliation!
His face burned with pain.
Letme kept cursing in his heart, cursing minnaaQAQ, cursing Camille, cursing the League of Legends designers, and everything else.
Anyone with eyes could tell that this game was already slipping away.
Their top lane had been completely blown apart. Their jungler had also been ruined by that earlier attempted gank, while in Mid Lane, Xiaohu had fallen so far behind in CS that his situation was equally precarious.
Their only advantage was in bottom lane, but it was not all that significant. If Sejuani kept camping bottom lane and turned it into a three-man lane, perhaps they could build that lead further, but after helping twice, Sejuani had been relentlessly directed around by Letme and Xiaohu.
Da Meng Yi Chang and aqcft, the two RNG bootlicker fans in bottom lane, could only swallow their anger. After all, these were RNG players they had been desperately trying to suck up to—how could their judgment possibly be wrong? It had to be those two themselves who were incompetent.
At last, a different kind of comment appeared in Letme's stream. It was probably some random viewer who had wandered in and sent a surprised message.
"Letme got smashed that badly? Who's on the other side? This Camille seems pretty good."
The moment that comment appeared, countless replies immediately followed, all angrily tearing into the poster.
"What the hell do you know? Do you even know how to play?"
"Anyone who knows even a little about the game wouldn't say something like that, right? Lmao, Ignite dog plus endless jungle ganks plus a jungler on his own team throwing the game. If you're so good, go play!"
"If you can say Junze got smashed by the enemy, I can tell your rank at a glance. At best, Bronze."
"Bronze and Silver dogs are here looking for attention again? /Sweating Bean"
"..."
RNG's bootlicker fans remained as loyal as ever.
And right at that moment, a new comment appeared simultaneously in both Letme's and Xiaohu's streams.
"Holy shit, hahaha! That Rek'Sai account got banned for too many reports. Lmao, he really was a griefer!"
Back when Xiaohu had entered the first game and asked for a role in all chat, quite a few diehard RNG fans had already tried reporting minnaaQAQ and want to breathe, but they had not gotten the result they wanted.
After this game began, when Letme got solo-killed and kept cursing, making things up out of thin air and claiming that Camille, Rek'Sai, and Sejuani were all griefers, those brainless Royal Hooligans went to report them again.
Their reports against Sejuani and Camille did nothing, but for some reason, the enemy jungler playing Rek'Sai actually got banned!
Of course, this sort of ban might only have been temporary. All he needed to do was enter a verification code and log back in, but the player on Rek'Sai clearly was not in any hurry to verify it. He did not show up again for a long time afterward, evidently planning to stop playing for the moment.
Just like that, the game abruptly became a 5v4. What had been the enemy's overwhelming advantage suddenly reversed!
League of Legends was a team game, a game for five people. If you wanted to win, coordination between teammates was especially important, and the higher the level of play, the more obvious that became.
Letme and Xiaohu had both seen the gleeful comments long ago, but as professional players, they had no intention whatsoever of stopping their rabid fans. Instead, they secretly took pleasure in it as well, pretending not to see the chat while continuing to play, their hearts bursting with joy.
"Keep acting! Go on, keep acting! You like spamming emotes, huh? How are you going to win down one player? If you win, I'll eat shit!"
Letme practically hated Camille to death. He viciously cursed her several times in his heart. Naturally, even when Camille solo-killed him again and flashed an emote, he no longer lost control like before.
Because now, he had confidence.
The drawbacks of having no jungler quickly became apparent. With Rek'Sai AFK, Sejuani began focusing on bottom lane again, feeding the two bottom lane players until they were completely fat. She also gave Mid Lane plenty of attention, finally making Xiaohu's life a little easier.
As for top lane, Letme continued getting solo-killed over and over, but now that he had confidence, he was no longer angry. Whenever Camille solo-killed him and flashed an emote, he would even laugh and mock her, saying, "No way, does he really think he can win?"
That laughter lasted all the way until the twenty-minute mark, when he was cowering beneath the inhibitor turret, not daring to move against Camille's split push.
However, they also began using their one-man advantage to steadily claim objectives, take dragons, and force the enemy into teamfights.
In one Mid Lane teamfight, they traded two for two and let Camille and Ryze escape, then took the Red side's first Mid Lane turret and smashed the second one down to half health.
After looking miserable for more than twenty minutes, Letme and Xiaohu finally felt completely relieved. Their smugness returned as they mocked the other side aloud, one after the other. "Those guys really do look like clowns."
The army of Royal Hooligans in their streams burst into laughter as well, posting all kinds of curses, smug remarks, and taunts.
Clearly, just like Letme and Xiaohu, they felt that they had finally vented their anger and were thrilled beyond measure. Quite a few even jokingly urged in chat, "Hurry up and ask those two idiots on the other side if they still dare to spam emotes. This is killing me."
Letme and Xiaohu did not have time to type in all chat, because Camille and Ryze suddenly began moving together.
It was as though both of them had suddenly evolved, gaining a god's-eye view. Even with Ryze using his ultimate, they accurately predicted and locked onto the position of their bot-lane duo.
The teleport landed. Camille forcefully engaged, Ryze followed up, and the two of them almost instantly slaughtered Caitlyn and Janna, their team's biggest advantages.
Letme and Xiaohu's expressions stiffened. Their momentum had been broken, and they could only retreat into defense for the time being. Yet what happened afterward grew increasingly bizarre.
Camille and Ryze were like godly partners. You pushed towers, I covered you; you fell back, I supported you; you engaged, I answered; you baited, and I quickly cleared waves and pushed towers from another direction! Like two connected knights on a chessboard, once their movements linked together, they displayed an invincible force that left people breathless.
It was clearly a five-man game, yet these two had completely taken control of the tempo. Letme and Xiaohu simply could not keep up.
They were playing 5v4. They should have been able to win simply by repeatedly forcing teamfights, but the waves in all three lanes kept getting inexplicably intercepted and cleared by Camille or Ryze, leaving them unable to force the other side into a fight at all.
In the blink of an eye, thirty minutes had passed. Despite it being a 5v4 game, their top- and bot-lane inhibitors were instead broken one after another through Camille and Ryze's coordination!
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