How can we win with one less person?

Chapter 14: How Do You Win With One Less Person?

Insult.

A naked insult.

And it was a critical hit, right to the face.

As Letme became enraged, he even started to resent the game's version updates, hating the League of Legends version designers with all his heart.

If it weren't for the emote system introduced in League of Legends patch 7.20, which even included bizarre yet incredibly insulting emotes like the Robot Question Mark face, why would he be so heated right now?

Shame and anger!

His face felt like it was burning.

Letme cursed inwardly, cursing [minnaaQAQ], cursing Camille, cursing the League of Legends designers, and so on.

Anyone with eyes could tell this game was already lost.

Their top lane was completely crushed, their jungler was also in a bad state after the previous gank attempt, and in the mid lane, Xiaohu was so far behind in CS that he was also in a precarious position.

The only advantage they had was in the bot lane, but even that wasn't very significant. If Sejuani had continued to camp the bot lane with their three-person lane, they might have been able to press that advantage further, but Sejuani had only helped twice before Letme and Xiaohu frantically directed her elsewhere.

The two RNG fanboys in the bot lane, [Da Meng Yi Chang] and [aqcft], could only express their anger in their hearts, not daring to speak it aloud. After all, these were the RNG players they had been desperately cheering for. How could they possibly be wrong? It must be their own fault for not performing well.

A different voice finally appeared in Letme's stream, likely a passerby who had stumbled into the stream and posted a surprised comment.

"Is Letme getting stomped that hard? Who is that on the enemy team? That Camille seems pretty good."

As soon as this comment appeared, countless replies flooded in, all of them angrily rebuking the user.

"You don't know anything! Can you even play the game?"

"Anyone who knows how to play wouldn't say something like that, would they? Hilarious. A support Ignite + jungler constantly ganking + your own jungler is an inting bot, you think you can do better?"

"To say that Junze is getting stomped by the enemy is enough to tell your rank, bronze at best."

"Bronze and silver dogs coming to seek attention again? /sweating emoji"

"..."

The RNG fanboys were as loyal as ever.

And at this very moment, new comments simultaneously appeared in both Letme's and Xiaohu's streams.

"Holy shit, haha! That Rek'Sai's account got reported too many times and got banned, hilarious, turns out he was an inting bot!"

As soon as Xiaohu joined the first game and requested a position in the all-chat, many die-hard RNG fans had already tried to report [minnaaQAQ] and [want to breathe], but they hadn't gotten the results they wanted.

After this game started, when Letme was solo-killed and constantly cursing, fabricating that Camille, Rek'Sai, and Sejuani were all inting bots, these brainless fanboys went to report them again.

The reports against Sejuani and Camille were unsuccessful, but the enemy jungler, Rek'Sai, for some reason, actually got banned for being reported!

Of course, this kind of ban might only be temporary; you could log back in by simply verifying your account with a captcha. However, the person playing Rek'Sai clearly wasn't in a hurry to verify, as they didn't show up for a long time afterward, clearly intending to take a break from playing.

As a result, the game suddenly became a 5v4, and the absolute advantage that the enemy team had suddenly reversed!

League of Legends is a team game, a game for five people. To win, team coordination is especially important, and this is more evident in higher-ranked games.

Letme and Xiaohu had already seen the schadenfreude comments on the stream, but as professional players, they didn't show any reaction or any intention to restrain their rampant fans. Instead, they were also gloating in their hearts, pretending not to see the comments, and continued to play the game, their hearts filled with joy.

"Show off! Keep showing off! You like flashing emotes, huh? How are you going to win with one less person? If you win, I'll eat shit!"

Letme was almost hating Camille to death, cursing her venomously in his mind. Of course, in the game, even after being solo-killed by Camille and having emotes flashed at him again, his reaction was no longer as uncontrollable as before.

Because he had a trump card now.

The disadvantage of lacking a jungler in their team quickly became apparent. With Rek'Sai going AFK, Sejuani began to focus on helping the bot lane again, completely feeding the two players there. She also paid more attention to the mid lane, making Xiaohu's life a little more comfortable.

As for the top lane, Letme was still being solo-killed repeatedly, but Letme, now with confidence, was no longer angry. Every time Camille solo-killed him and flashed an emote, he would even laugh and mockingly say, "Seriously, does he really think he can win?"

This laughter continued until the 20-minute mark, where they were turtling under their high ground tower, unable to move against Camille's split push.

However, they also began to take map resources with their one-man advantage, securing dragons and forcing team fights.

In a mid-lane team fight, they traded 2 for 2, allowing Camille and Ryze to escape. They then proceeded to take the red side's mid-lane inner tower and smashed the outer tower to half HP.

Letme and Xiaohu, who had been making ugly faces for over 20 minutes, finally felt a sense of relief. They became smug again, each saying, "These guys on the enemy team really are like clowns."

The legions of fanboys in their respective streams also burst into laughter, with all sorts of cursing, smug, and mocking comments.

Obviously, like Letme and Xiaohu, they felt like they had gotten their revenge and were thoroughly enjoying it. Many even jokingly urged in the comments, "Hurry up and ask those two idiots on the enemy team if they're still flashing emotes, this is hilarious."

Letme and Xiaohu didn't have time to type in all-chat because Camille and Ryze suddenly coordinated.

These two players seemed to have suddenly leveled up their skills, activating a God's-eye view. With Ryze's ultimate, they accurately predicted and locked onto the positions of their bot lane duo.

The teleport landed, and Camille initiated aggressively. With Ryze's cooperation, the two of them instantly killed Caitlyn and Janna, who had the biggest advantage on their team.

Letme and Xiaohu's expressions froze. The momentum was broken, and they could only turtle for the time being. However, the development of the story became increasingly bizarre.

Camille and Ryze were like a divine duo. One pushed towers while the other provided support; one retreated, and the other covered; one initiated, and the other responded; one lured them in, and the other quickly cleared waves and pushed towers in another direction! They were like the two horses in the Chu-Han contention, once linked, they displayed a suffocating and invincible momentum.

This was supposed to be a five-person game, but these two players were completely dictating the tempo, leaving Letme and Xiaohu overwhelmed.

They were playing 5v4 and should have won by simply forcing team fights, but the minion waves in all three lanes were always inexplicably cut off and cleared by Camille or Ryze, preventing them from forcing team fights.

In the blink of an eye, it was 30 minutes. Despite being a 5v4 game, their high ground in both lanes was being systematically dismantled by the coordinated efforts of Camille and Ryze!