Chapter 480: Entertainment Match

BP is in progress, the two sides of the screen show each side's BP interface, and the large block in the middle is a live close-up of the players' seats.

Homme strolls with his hands behind his back behind the WE players, unhurried, his expression looks relaxed.

This time, Homme bears no mental burden and hasn't even opened his notebook.

Although the fans' unwavering support is indeed moving, even boss Sky didn't add too much pressure on them. Perhaps, when Sky first heard those cheers, he really intended to say something to boost morale, but after being interrupted, he ultimately chose to let the players go in lightly equipped again.

When everyone left the lounge, Sky just said two words:

"Go!"

You see, the boss actually knows the outcome of this match better than anyone.

Homme just went along with it.

As for how this BP should be done, Homme handed the final decision to the players; as coach, he only gives the final approval.

Though called final approval, in practice Homme will agree as long as it's not excessive.

Even when Xi Ye said he wanted to play male blade, Homme readily nodded.

Once male blade was picked, the opposing side understood.

Thus the final lineups chosen by both sides are full of the flavor of an entertainment match.

VG: top lane Nuo Shou, jungle Mantis, mid lane Katarina, bottom lane Jin + Jie La.

WE: top lane Lan Bo, jungle male gun, mid lane male blade, bottom lane bomb champion + female gun.

When the final picks were locked, the on-site atmosphere was extremely heated.

"What?!"

Wawa exclaimed loudly,

"How does the Marquis even have something like this in his hero pool?!"

"It's too surprising; indeed, Sheng Qiang Ge pulling out a Nuo Shou would be enough, his hero pool is already diverse, but I never expected even Easyhoon to have something like this!"

"Never mind, the opposing side is just as strange—Mystic actually playing bomb champion, you dare believe it? Back then I couldn't even imagine it. And Xi Ye with male blade…"

"It feels like both sides have let loose!"

In the WE players' bench, Homme lightly patted Xi Ye's shoulder twice:

"Have fun."

After saying that, he took off his headset, handed it together with the communication equipment to the nearby staff, left the players' bench and walked to the center of the stage, shaking hands with VG coach Zhu Xiaolong.

"Congratulations."

Homme said so, although his tone was stiff and strange, still understandable.

Zhu Xiaolong blinked, then understood Homme's meaning, and broke into a smile:

"Thank you."

The two walked side by side toward the backstage, separated by about twenty to thirty centimeters, chatting a bit more.

"MSI, what's the plan?"

"Haha, the final hasn't been played yet; it's too early to talk about this now."

"Humble, and we've done our research."

"Haha."

"From now on, practice matches."

"Oh oh, no problem, we two teams can schedule more."

"It's settled!"

"Definitely, definitely."

Who says a coach just needs to know how to order takeout? Even if he doesn't understand BP, at least he must be a coach who can arrange practice matches with strong teams to be considered qualified. In this regard, Homme is not only conscientious but also fully qualified; at least since he took office, WE's practice match resources have never been lacking compared to other teams.

Of course, comparing with VG is another matter.

VG has become an experience treasure that all strong teams worldwide vie for; only some regions, due to excessively high latency, really can't schedule too many, but a few cross-server exchanges do exist.

Both sides swapped their hero positions, and shortly thereafter the battle kicked off amid the noisy on-site atmosphere.

Liang Yan this game picked a Mantis, suspected of stealing kills from teammates.

But nobody would object; even Fu Lan Duo, after getting her beloved Nuo Shou, obediently shut up and didn't make a single teasing remark.

Actually both sides know full well that WE has given up struggling; this game is basically just an entertainment match.

At the start both sides grouped up, looking like they were about to have a big fight, but in the end they didn't engage, and WE's side still seemed a bit restrained.

Then the laning phase began, with all three lanes fiercely contested; the first wave wasn't cleared, and both sides lost considerable health on each lane.

Contesting the second buff is even a key timing point.

The bottom lane almost saw a kill explosion; Xiao Duan, on the brink of death, was healed back by Sima Laozei, his own weakness also used, he luckily snatched back a small life—must say the opposing lane's strength is indeed slightly stronger than ours.

The top lane likewise erupted in a fierce clash, at one point both top laners' health dropped below two hundred, but 957 is still veteran; a spear thrust slowed the chasing Nuo Shou after its flash, then he flashed away to increase distance, ending with over a hundred health and surviving.

Fu Lan Duo shouted in the team channel: "Damn, just bring Swiftness and kill him!"

Liang Yan said: "Then why don't you bring it?"

Fu Lan Duo: "After all, I'm a team-oriented top laner."

Liang Yan clicked his tongue, "A team-oriented top laner playing Nuo Shou?"

Lan Bo's health was too low, his potions were gone, and relying solely on Doran's Shield's little heal was hopeless; he could only recall. When Fu Lan Duo pushed the minion wave into the tower, 957 also used his TP; it looked like he wouldn't miss any minions, only that a TP difference had been created.

Miller, seeing the top lane situation, praised Fu Lan Duo a few times:

"Sheng Qiang Ge's laning is still strong; last game it was only because Blue Steel Shadow was too weak to be suppressed; this game counts as a comeback."

But nobody expected that the Nuo Shou, already walking near our top lane crystal, would suddenly turn around and run back to the fountain.

All we saw was him returning to the fountain, selling a red potion, and then gaining a mining knife on his person.

"Huh?!"

This is…… a pickaxe?

Emm, quite a unique understanding of item builds. No, should say it's an understanding of laning.

Fu Lan Duo's timing to head home was really too early; he only had a few hundred gold on him, and his starting gear was cloth shoes and three red potions. By the time he got home he still had two bottles of red potion. At first it seemed he planned to go out with nothing equipped, walking to lane, but for some reason he walked a considerable distance, then turned back, sold the potion and exchanged it for a pickaxe, and naturally he couldn't keep his TP.

Liang Yan couldn't help but retort:

"Haha, a team‑oriented top laner."

Fu Lan Duo's face flushed, and he was too embarrassed to retort.

Actually, Fu Lan Duo had indeed initially planned to keep a TP, but after Lan Bo used TP to come down, he saw that the opponent had an extra pair of cloth shoes; if he went out without buying anything, he would have a 400‑gold equipment disadvantage against Lan Bo, and in a duel between experts this few‑hundred‑gold equipment gap would very likely affect the outcome of the next skirmish, moreover neither of them had Flash available, so the next skirmish would mean deciding not just victory or defeat, but life or death.

So Fu Lan Duo, having a sudden inspiration, still came back to buy a pickaxe, and then used his TP to return to lane.