Chapter 7: If I’m Grabbed Again, Shame on Me
Book 1: The Return of the Lost King
Chapter 7: If I’m Grabbed Again, Shame on Me
Anyone who’s played Graves before should know that his E ability, ‘Dash,’ is for moving short distances.
Yu Luocheng knew that Zhong Xiaoyun wasn’t very skilled, he barely moved even though he had multiple chances to grab Graves. Until Graves had burned his dash, the golden Blitzcrank controlled by Yu Luocheng finally started moving on Graves, marking him for death!
Yu Luocheng waited till the minion line had disappeared, then decisively used Blitzcrank’s W ability ‘Overdrive’.
This ability increased its speed.
“Zhong Xiaoyun, attack Graves!” Yu Luocheng said.
He didn’t use Blitzcrank’s Q ability ‘Rocket Grab’ to grab the enemy as usual, instead Yu Luocheng aggressively used the increased speed to quickly bear down upon Graves who had made a bad move.
Graves reacted half a step slower and he didn’t have another ability to move away; Blitzcrank used E ‘Power Fist’ directly on Grave and punched him into the sky.
Actually, Miss Fortune was half a step behind as well but she caught up in time. She shot at Graves and used all her abilities. Graves’ health dropped to half.
At this time, the other side’s Garen, who had been hiding in the bush, finally rushed out.
This Garen played smarter, he rushed towards Miss Fortune and used ‘Decisive Strike’ to cut down Miss Fortune.
“Don’t mind him. Keep attacking Graves.” Yu Luocheng said.
Graves’ health dropped to only one third left at the moment and, sensing the danger, he hurriedly used ‘Flash’[1] to run away.
He had jumped away about 800 yards; Miss Fortune couldn’t attack him and even Blitzcrank couldn’t reach Graves now……
It looked like Graves was getting away.
No one had noticed that in the same moment when Graves moved away, Yu Luocheng’s eyes flashed and his finger nimbly clicked the Q key.
The mechanical claw with electricity drew a straight yellow line and accurately latched onto the hips of Graves.
Graves was lifted up and pulled back from 800 yards away, directly under the crotch of Blitzcrank!
“d.a.m.n you!”
“Nice grab!”
Feng Xiaoqin and Zhong Xiaoyun almost yelled out at the same time.
Zhong Xiaoyun wasn’t that lousy as to let Graves get away. He shot a few more times and Graves’ last one third health was gone!
First Blood! !
With one kill in hand, Miss Fortune, controlled by Zhong Xiaoyun, had a golden ‘400!’ floated above her head.
“Haha, bot Feng Xiaoqin drew blood.” Those behind room 3 players cheered.
“Idiot, it’s the other side. Feng Xiaoqin’s Graves got killed!”
“How can that be possible. Zhong Xiaoyun could kill?”
Those from room 3 quickly gathered in front of Feng Xiaoqin’s computer and discovered that his screen was gray. They were all shocked.
“What happened?” Their captain, Lin Xu, frowned and asked displeased.
“I wasn’t careful.” Feng Xiaoqin said with a forced smile.
“Play good.” Lin Xu didn’t say anything more. It’s only one man, one kill, not a big deal.
Lin Xu played mid, the champion he used was ‘The Voidreaver, Kha’Zix’, nicknamed ‘Mantis’.
Up against w.a.n.g Qin’s Annie, Kha’Zix wasn’t in an advantageous position in the beginning, but he had five more last hits than w.a.n.g Qin and he still had health potions. Evidently Lin Xu’s skill was pretty good.
……
On this side, w.a.n.g Qin from room 8 was very happy to see his own men take first blood.
“Zhong Xiaoyun, good job!” w.a.n.g Qin praised him.
“Good kill……” Zhao Kesong also laughed. “d.a.m.n, have to run…...I’m out of health!”
“Heh, heh.” Zhong Xiaoyun also laughed comfortably.
w.a.n.g Qin, Cao Sheng, and Zhao Kesong were all focused on their own jobs and didn’t switch to see the bot until first blood had happened. As they looked down, they just saw Miss Fortune take off Graves’ head..
Therefore, they naturally thought that was the effort of Zhong Xiaoyun.
But Zhong Xiaoyun knew clearly that if it wasn’t for Yu Luocheng’s rocket grab to pull back Graves, he couldn’t possibly have taken first blood.
TL: Ah the life of a support...
He didn’t do any maneuvering, he just desperately shot Graves.
Those cla.s.smates from room 8 behind Zhong Xiaoyun were all at around level 10 and couldn’t appreciate the series of maneuvers Yu Luocheng just did.
Yu Luocheng waited for his enemy to burn his dash ability first, then, at the instant when the enemy was defenseless and the minion line disappeared, he rushed the enemy and wailed away.
Right after that, he was certain that the enemy would use ‘Flash’ and when that happened he used Blitzcrank’s most important ability, ‘Rocket Grab’.
That’s the reason why although Graves had used ‘Flash’ but still couldn’t avoid being killed!
Yu Luocheng had planned out the order of operations the moment he started to move in. His cla.s.smates, at their low levels, couldn’t possibly do this kind of careful calculation.
Those onlookers from room 8 couldn’t understand it all, they only knew that Yu Luocheng could grab Graves back from such a distance was extremely cool. They also knew that first blood was due to Yu Luocheng, but they just didn’t understand the skills involved.
The only one who understood was Yang Qian Qian. Just then, her eyes sparked and stared at Yu Luocheng’s computer screen for quite a while. She then sneakily peeked at Yu Luocheng.
“This guy is pretty good. I remember when my brother used robot, he also use E ability to hit away the enemy then use Q to pull the running away enemy back.” Yang Qian Qian looked at Yu Luocheng and muttered to herself.
“Hum, even if he plays nicely, he’s still a lousy guy. He didn’t even know me!” Yang Qian Qian thought fumingly.
Yu Luocheng didn’t know that the beauty was staring at him. He found out that Garen was still roaming by himself in front of the robot. He decisively went around the minion line and went into the second bush.
He used the same technique, E to knock up, then Q when Garen tried to run away, only to be grabbed right back!
Zhong Xiaoyun was too slow to follow up and let Garen get away with only a little health left. From behind Yu Luocheng’s back came regretful sighs. On the other side, the guy who controlled Garen had cold sweat all over him from the shock; the bot almost got a double kill.
……
Yu Luocheng didn’t blame Zhong Xiaoyun for being so slow. They could at least cripple Garen, then later on Graves would be all by himself again and it would be much easier to kill him.
On the opposite side, Feng Xiaoqin commanded Graves to slowly move towards his line.
“Xiaoqin, I’m waiting for enough money to buy long sword.[2] Be careful, don’t get grabbed.” The boy who controlled Garen reminded him.
Feng Xiaoqin saw Blitzcrank had moved back to the shadowed area. He snorted and said, “He must be hiding in the bush. I won’t go over. I’ll stay under the turret first! If I’m grabbed by him again, then shame on me!”
“Be careful anyway.”
TL: Ooohhhhh, somebody gonna get grabbed.