“Ah, it’s so easy! Everyone, is this all you got? You guys have just been backseat gaming in my room all this time? I even prepared several Chicken Gifticons today; at this rate, I’m going to gain weight! If I don’t win this Spring, you’ll all be held responsible!”
At TK Pathos’s streaming room, a one-on-one battle with the viewers was in full swing.
Paysoos was a pro gamer who had been shifting between the second-tier teams in China since childhood and joined TK early last year.
There were once suspicious gazes and criticisms about why they recruited a complete rookie with no career record, but that was now just a thing of the past.
Last year’s Spring performance placed him 5th, and he faced a potential release but suddenly exploded in skill during the Summer, securing the runner-up and even being named the Final MVP at the World Championship, effectively proving himself.
With his price skyrocketing, Paysoos quickly declared a re-signing with TK, enjoying immense popularity among fans.
Wondering if his form from the World Championship was still intact, he smoothly advanced to the Spring playoffs through the winners’ bracket.
And among the pro gamers advancing to the playoffs, he uniquely decided to stream and plan one-on-one battles with viewers.
His mechanics are just insane, lol
How does he get solo kills on Yuumi, lol?
Paysoos would have done great even if he played top lane.
“Shall we do the final match now? I’ll take one more challenger. Maybe I’ll just give out gifticons to whoever wins?”
Once again, without expecting much, he created a room. One thing that was characteristic of Paysoos was that he never muted the audio while setting things up.
“Top lane? When I started playing League, I only played top. But I had no influence, so after I managed to climb to Challenger in my amateur days, I got pushed to ADC. The problem is that League has such an imbalance in position every season. Sometimes it’s a jungle meta, and this year, it’s clearly bottom meta, right? There’s never been a top meta. You all know from when Seongjae-hyung got solo kills but still lost.”
Top lane has zero influence, so he plays like it’s solo queue, lol
Look at Hades’s stats, solo kills first, follow-up kills first, just headbutting things
Darn, didn’t break through again
What was the password again?
Top is a trash lane for real.
“Ah, I see you’ve entered. The password was 77. Let’s see if we can uncover our cute viewer’s skill!”
Paysoos lightly checked the opponent’s tier.
“Diamond 1? Cute.”
Still, for the final battle, it looked like there might be a decent match, unlike the previous one.
However, judging by the atmosphere, this viewer felt a bit off as a fan. Typically, fans would ask for a handshake, but this person showed no interest at all.
[…? Should I call you mustard then?]
“Wow, can you believe this? This person is probably just here for the one-on-one!”
How did they crack the password, lol?
Chills
How can anyone not know Paysoos while playing League?
Could it be a nickname change?
This streamer is hilarious, lol
Oh, facing Fiora against Irelia?
Paysoos didn’t dislike this funny situation; he actually enjoyed it.
So, he kept provoking. He couldn’t wait to see the reaction when he eventually defeated this one-on-one opponent and revealed his identity.
[This is why long-range dealers like Mustard can’t escape the nickname “spoon.”]
Ultimately, with a big catch, Paysoos was struggling to hold back his laughter.
LOL, calling the World Championship winner a spoon, lol
It’s not a spoon, more like a big fork, lol
Isn’t this kid just going for a “meme” concept?
The opponent is the embodiment of top lane itself.
Come on, let’s go teach him a lesson~ Let’s go teach him a lesson~ Let’s go teach him a lesson~ Let’s go teach him a lesson~
Wait, isn’t he NoName?
“This guy has a foul mouth. Come on, just regular hits! Does it hurt? Oh, missed the weakness!”
Like a true Diamond, the laning phase showed him to be somewhat skilled. It was only right to treat such players with full power.
“You’re probably going to drop your E here, right? So, I’ll respond! So predictable.”
The opponent is almost at death’s door; it’s over.
Irelia is hitting hard.
Fiora is definitely in the lead here.
If he can hold out until level 6, it might be doable.
“Wow, this Wind of Regeneration rune is broken, huh? When I’m trying to play it safe, no kills are coming through?”
While Irelia was sticking tight and gathering Runes, Paysoos decided to head back home right in front of her.
“Are you really going to let me base? You still think you’re top lane after this?”
Whether it was a gain or a cut-off, it was advantageous either way.
He made sure to utilize the psychological aspect that 99% of top laners would feel the need to interrupt the base.
The moment Irelia dashed at him with her Q spell, Paysoos’s eyes lit up, and he charged in like a bolt.
“Didn’t see this kill angle, did you, kid?”
The Bone Shield Rune activated as well.
He deemed it impossible to lose and continued to chase the fleeing Irelia.
The distance to her turret was still plenty. When the health difference had reached over double, he used the W ability he had saved up to slow her down.
The last weakness appeared in the opposite direction. He calculated that with Fiora’s combo of basic hit and flash, he would definitely catch her, then turned back as if he was about to give up before using Flash for a surprise attack.
Flash—
Flash—
“Oh?”
However, just at that precise moment, Irelia used her Flash, narrowly avoiding Fiora’s attack.
With a sliver of health left, instead of running away, Irelia used her extended auto-attack range to hit Fiora just once and, in that split second, landed her E skill.
Just one more hit would take him down; this was not something someone with a steel heart could manage.
Paysoos stretched out his hand, but the rapier simply couldn’t reach Irelia.
Close-range kiting.
Even among close-range champions, there’s a difference in range. With Irelia stacking her passive to 4 stacks, she had slightly more range than Fiora.
Watching as the opponent forced in two more hits, Paysoos could only admire.
But still, Irelia couldn’t win against Fiora. The health difference that had already developed couldn’t be reversed. He was confident that even if he entered with the mark created by the E skill, he would win—100%.
Just as he thought that, Irelia used her W to the opposite side.
“What?”
The moment his gaze turned, an allied soldier met the skill and lost his life.
“Crazy level 6!”
Level ups increase health and growth stats. From level 6 onwards, you could learn your ultimate ability.
Neither had Flash anymore, so getting hit by the ultimate here was a given. No matter how great Fiora is, she couldn’t stop Irelia using her Q three times.
A shower of blades blasted in front of Paysoos, freezing his body.
He finally managed to catch a glimpse of the nickname hovering above the Irelia champion.
[NoName]
It was a name that surfaced from the depths of distant memories.
—
“When will you actually stop?”
“Just one more game… Could I beg you for just one more game?”
Paysoos clung to Na-me.
He had already lost all three of their previous matches.
Each time he looked at him with desperate eyes, but this time it seemed that Na-me’s heart wouldn’t be easily swayed.
The mystery Irelia master disappeared like smoke, and Paysoos found himself in the position of needing to tend to the chaotic chat.
LOL, 3-0
Was he beaten by Dat-daki? 77-ho
Irelia is a top-tier master, huh? Just as fast as her skill, I can only admire.
Paysoos should just stick to ADC…
Is NoName for real? I always thought she had sick mechanics.
Goddess name! Goddess name! Goddess name! Goddess name! Goddess name!
Come on, send those Chicken Gifticons, already!
“This doesn’t make any sense!”
It really doesn’t make sense!
LOL
“They won’t let me win at all, lol!”
Are we seriously reaching the point where a guy has to kneel?!
“What is this? Has the patch changed so it’s more favorable for Irelia now?”
Both of them had their last patch a year ago, right?
Forgotten by Riot, the tier 5 champions are left behind, ugh!
Let’s just accept that he can’t play top lane.
That was a visual feast!
True that, true that.
With a nail bitten down to the quick, Paysoos slowly reflected on NoName.
Then, he accessed the tracking site and typed in her six-character nickname.
[NoName – Diamond 1]
With countless records of playing Asteria, suspicion turned into conviction.
“I remember now! She was the one who popularized top lane Asteria! That one thing made me dread solo queue! Top Asteria, Mid Asteria, Support Asteria; when our jungle was playing jungle Asteria, I nearly rage quit, aaah!”
LOL, was she the one?
I never imagined her true identity would be like this!
What the heck is top Asteria?
In the beginning of the season, Asteria montage videos went viral!
Just stick to ADC, please!
“Wow, what is this? 10, 20… 50 wins?”
????
Is she even human?
For real, she did play a match as top Asteria, lol.
Finding games where her kills don’t exceed 10 is almost impossible!
Why in the world is such a person stuck in Diamond…?
[‘lightandreft’ donated 10,000 won!]
NoName is currently streaming!
“Thank you. Ah, I see you were a streamer all along. It’d be a waste to have such talent rot in this industry. Oh no, am I going to get featured on V-tube again?”
NoName doesn’t have a V-tube.
Even if she doesn’t, other clips will spread it, right?
Already imagining the joy in the League Gallery—golden comment!
A feature more valuable than chicken!
“Speaking of which, she didn’t even add me and just left.”
“You aren’t going to gobble up the chicken like that, right?”
“I won’t gobble it up. What do you take people for? But whoops, looks like you logged out of League? What do we do now?”
[KetchupSource donated 3,000 won!]
-ipfs://www.twish.ch/noname Send it there, go go!
“Oh, originally you aren’t supposed to invade another streamer’s broadcast like this. But since the manager’s gone, I’ll just hop in briefly, so don’t tell anyone.”
Since they were registered on the same platform, all they needed was to accept the friend request for the gifting feature.
Paysoos tried to comment that he wanted to add NoName as a friend but that soon fell through.
[Chatting is disabled in this broadcast.]
“What?”
LOL
LOL
“Today’s a legendary day, huh?*
Isn’t Paysoos fully aware that I’m coming?
Then that’d be totally creepy, lol!
LOL, title: ‘The One Who Misses Warmth.’
Did he change everyone he met into cold corpses?
What a total creep!
Cold Mustard Sauce, lol.
Fortunately, donations were not blocked in NoName’s broadcast.
Fans of Paysoos headed over to her broadcast one after another, bringing up the donation messages that requested to unlock the chat.
At first, the donations were lightly ignored, but once they piled up to three or four, it became hard to brush off.
Na-me had no choice but to unlock the chat.
“Why come to someone else’s broadcast and cause a scene? You were the one who had a one-on-one with me earlier, right?”
“Uh? Ahem… that…”
“At the end of the day, even if we faced each other a few times, you’ll still lose. The skill gap between us is just too wide.”
LOL, seeing him genuinely flustered!
Watching him seriously panicking, lol!
LOL
So funny, oh my god, haha!
“You beat me, so I promised to give you a Chicken Gifticon! I want to give you all ten, so could you possibly accept a friend request?”
“Why do you need to add me as a friend?”
“I need to send it through whispers, you know…”
LOL, how did the situation get reversed?
You’re the first to treat me like this; what a strategy?
Even Paysoos would find it hard to add NoName!
“Maybe instead, you could just give me money for it?”
“Uh…?”
“Since one is 30,000 won, I’d make it 300,000 won total.”
“Ah… the thing is, being a public figure means I can’t donate with this account…”
“Then I’ll politely decline. I need to start my broadcast, so please leave quickly.”
Na-me resolutely expressed her refusal, but Paysoos couldn’t just forget about the Chicken Gifticons.
The chat was rapidly climbing, and with nails bitten down to the quick and a contemplative look on his face, it seemed he suddenly got a bright idea and his face lit up.
“Wait, I just thought of a brilliant method! If you convince her just right, you could easily profit around 300,000 won.”
“…?”
With that, Paysoos vanished from Na-me’s broadcast.
A little while later, a notification chimed in Na-me’s quiet virtual space.
[TK Pathos has hosted 22,851 viewers!]
What he sent back in return was nothing less than around ten thousand viewers.
