Chapter 61

Odoamne actually means 'Ohmygod' in Romanian, so many spectators at the venue were shouting 'OMG'; those who didn't know even thought this player had played in the LPL before.

Odoamne

Odoamne's professional career began in the S3 season; initially he participated in some semi‑professional matches, and later Riot established a complete European league system in Europe, after which Odoamne joined C9's European subsidiary team C9E in the European secondary league.

Later, H2K acquired C9E, and Odoamne and the other players were sold together as a package; after being renamed and reorganized, they finally made it into the European top league by the end of that year.

In other words, Odoamne is a founding member of H2K, and he is the only founding member still with H2K to this day.

However, among H2K's five starting players, the one with the highest popularity is not Odoamne but Jankos.

Jankos

When Jankos entered the stage, the venue immediately erupted with thunderous cheers.

With fewer than a thousand spectators, the sound they produced still carried a semblance of a mountain‑moving, sea‑overturning momentum, showing just how popular Jankos is in Europe.

Jankos and his team's support VandeR are together called the 'Bo Lan Twin Stars'; just looking at their faces tells you they are natural comedians, and Europeans call him a 'live‑streaming genius'.

But if anyone truly thinks Jankos only does live‑streaming antics, they are dead wrong; he certainly knows how to stir up fun, but he is even better known by another title:

Europe's First Blood King!

Speaking in hindsight, H2K's ability to reach S6 and even make it to the semifinals truly tm relies entirely on the little goat's proxy practice.

Forg1ven also contributed significantly, but Forg1ven has not yet returned to the team.

Due to his military service obligation, Forg1ven did not immediately renew his contract with H2K during the transfer window; after he resolved his service issue, H2K had already brought in Freeze from North America and signed a contract. As the MVP of last spring's split, Forg1ven certainly wouldn't be unemployed—OG, the duo poached by G2, simply picked him up.

In short, although losing Forg1ven has weakened H2K's apparent strength, as long as Jankos, this core damage dealer, remains, H2K is still a strong team and even retains the capability to contend for the championship.

Today's match is a genuine hard fight for G2, and it is the toughest game they have faced since the start of the summer split.

According to pre‑match netizen predictions, G2's win rate is only about thirty percent; the mainstream opinion is a seventy percent chance of a draw, and a thirty percent chance that G2 loses two games in a row.

Almost no one predicted that G2 would win two games in a row.

Liang Yan went on stage prepared mentally for having mineral water bottles thrown at him.

But what he didn't expect was that the greeting he received was even more enthusiastic than that given to several veteran legends.

"Jungler, Firrrrrre!"

When the host shouted this ID, Liang Yan turned and took a step, appearing at the tunnel exit. The venue immediately showed a strong reaction; at first it was chaotic shouting, but as Liang Yan walked step by step to the front stage, the chaos eventually unified into a neat sound wave:

"Monster!"

"Monster!"

"Monster!"

Liang Yan was completely dazed, thinking, "When did I become this popular?"

He really doesn't understand European fun‑loving people at all.

——It's hard to say whether this can really be considered a welcome.

But the popularity is genuine.

The on‑camera shot almost hit Liang Yan's face, and the captured expression looked a bit dazed.

In the livestream chat, the vast majority of the barrage consisted of the same words shouted at the venue, interspersed with a few 'European Electric spokespersons'.

Now, the nickname 'Monster Brother' is something Liang Yan can't shake off at all, and it might even become his alias among Europeans for the rest of his career.

Only after Liang Yan returned to the players' bench and sat down did the venue's sound gradually subside.

AP turned his head over and said, full of envy:

"Looks like your livestream debut is going to blow up."

Liang Yan let out a dazed 'oh', thinking, 'Will it really?'

After both sides' players had taken their seats, each checked their equipment and then proceeded into the game rooms one after another.

The ban‑pick phase started quickly.

BP interface (please ignore hero selection)

The commentary voice of PiraTechnics sounded:

"Come on! Let's see how the two teams will have different understandings of this new patch; the blue side H2K bans and picks first, and with their first hand they directly banned the Spider Queen Elise, the champion on which Monster Brother made his name."

The poetic commentator Drakos laughed and continued:

"It seems H2K values their evaluation of Doublelift highly; otherwise they wouldn't have banned the jungler right off the bat. I'll make an irresponsible guess: if G2 doesn't ban the leopard woman on their first pick, H2K will probably ban her on their second hand."

"Isn't that impossible?"

PiraTechnics said full of doubt,

After all, H2K's core is also jungling; Jankos also used Leopard Girl in the spring split; statistically, his Leopard Girl wasn't bad; as the blue side, H2K has the advantage of first pick, so why would they self-ban Leopard Girl?

Drakos smiled without saying a word.

On the big screen, G2 had just locked Ryze into the first ban slot.

When it was H2K's turn to ban again, they almost instantly locked in another!

Wow!

PiraTechnics stared in shock at the BP screen, where Leopard Girl's icon was locked into H2K's second ban slot, his eyes filled with disbelief:

They actually banned Leopard Girl!

Drakos then slowly said:

Using data and experience to predict H2K's bans/picks won't work; I personally think that studying more about pr0lly's experience as a pro player would help accurately judge what choices H2K will make in bans/picks; if G2 doesn't realize this, they are likely to suffer in this match, even face a big defeat—two jungle champions have already been banned.

I strongly agree with this view; Firrrrrre is after all a rookie player, and the common problem with rookies is that their champion pool isn't very deep! Let's keep watching...

pr0lly is H2K's coach, a former professional mid laner; as a player, what left the deepest impression was his fondness for picking off‑meta champions, such as Zac and Malphite…… In short, his thinking cannot be measured by common sense, and this style continued into his bans/picks after he became a coach.

At this moment, Tang Anna backstage had seriously studied this person; after looking at a large amount of pr0lly's ban/pick data, Tang Anna formed an intuition:

pr0lly might target Liang Yan in the bans/picks.

Although there is no objective condition to support this conclusion, Tang Anna just feels that way.

Now, her prediction has been verified.