"Tian Ma, I always feel like someone's looking down on you." The moment Luo Zhen saw the opposing pick, he perked right up and began dropping frantic hints.
Meiko rolled his eyes at him.
"If you want me to pick it, just say so. But I can't guarantee how my Gragas feels right now. Last year would've been fine, but I really haven't played much of it this year."
"It's fine. As long as it can blow people up."
Back in S12, when Meiko had matched into Karsa on stream, he had personally admitted—and demonstrated—that he had practiced Gragas for an entire season. Though he had barely picked it throughout S12, at least he had trained it. As for S13, Soft Supports were all the rage now, so he naturally played Gragas much less, only occasionally touching it in Ranked Match when the urge struck.
But could he still pick it... that was certainly possible.
Because what EDG needed from Gragas right now was not his engage, but a Gragas ult that could make Kindred miserable.
With their final two picks, EDG directly locked in Malphite and Gragas.
The instant he saw the opposing draft, T1 Coach Benji's mind went completely blank.
A Le could play Gragas?
No, wait, it was Meiko's Gragas. A Le had taken Malphite. A Le could actually play Malphite!?
Two picks, two shocks.
Benji glared darkly at his own Data Team waiting in the backstage area not far away. These two consecutive picks were unquestionably absent from the database. It gave him the same betrayed feeling as when a teammate fed him false information in a game—when there was no feedback, it was merely a trembling hand; once there was feedback, the anger made his whole body shake.
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