Chapter 34 : Rodena Complete

Team chat ignored lololololol

JN is mad lolololol

No, but honestly, it’s understandable why they’re mad lololololol

At this point, it’s basically intentional feeding.

The game ended in a completely one-sided defeat.

After the match was over, we finally had the chance to use all-chat.

As if they had been waiting for this moment, my teammates immediately began pleading to the opposing team.

[All Chat]

[Lee Jia <—- Please report the troll]

[Lee Jia, you fucking bug-ass bastard, please report them]

[Please report them.]

However, the enemy team wasn’t the kind to listen to our complaints so easily.

[Enemy Mid was playing well though?]

[(Hot take) The ADC was the worst. It was an ADC diff.]

[1 kill, 21 deaths LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL. Enemy mid really was a legend.]

[But hey, at least you got 1 kill.]

Yeah.

I got 1 kill.

At the most important moment, too—I caught the enemy mid who overextended under our tower like an idiot.

That alone means I did my part, right?

…Or not?

“Was I really that bad?”

“- Do you really need to ask that, you f*ing brain-dead bch?”

“- Watching you play was so frustrating I wanted to kill myself.”

“- I still don’t get it, why did you use Flash there?”

“- It’s like you’ve picked up bits and pieces of game knowledge, but only the bare minimum.”

“- Please, for the love of god, adjust your mouse sensitivity first.”

“- Just quit playing Loerna already. Just quit playing. Just quit playing. Just quit playing.”

“- Look at these Loerna guys getting mad LOL LOL LOL.”

“- Loerna guys never let anything slide.”

This was the first time.

The first time I had received such raw, unfiltered hate in chat.

I really, truly sucked at this game.

I guess I should give up on Loerna collabs or tournaments.

[Anonymous donated 1,000 KRW.]

“Let’s stop playing this hellish game and do something else.”

[MutbyeolnoonaILoveYou donated 1,000 KRW.]

“Alright, time for confessions. First, the host needs to make their confession to Mutbyeolnoona.”

End it here?

No way.

I received a whole 1 million KRW in donations.

I have to see this through.

“I’ll finish my placement matches. No mic, full focus.”

“- Ah.”

“- AAAAAAAHHHHH, Haejang!”

“- Haejang, please talk some sense into them.”

“- We have to watch 10 more games of this disaster?”

“- GG. The host is getting archived on the Loerna forums today…”**

“- Another entry in the ‘Controversies & Incidents’ list lol.”

“- What’s controversial about this?”

“- Controversies & Incidents / Gameplay Skill Controversy.”

“- Pure mechanical skill issue LOL LOL LOL.”

“- Accept your punishment for being bad at the game.”

“- Let’s gooo, 10-game losing streak incoming!”

“Stop being so dramatic. If I get good teammates, I can at least get two wins.”

After all, this is a team game.

Even if I play ‘a little’ badly, my teammates who are actually good should be able to carry me.

…At least, that’s what I told myself.

I hit a 9-game losing streak.

There was one thing I overlooked.

In a game like Lo**erna, an AOS-style game…

The moment mid loses lane control, the entire game’s flow heavily shifts in favor of the enemy team.

In other words—

The moment I got solo-killed by the enemy mid, the game was already over.

[Anonymous donated 1,000 KRW.]

“9 games in a row… first blood every single time… wow…”

I had achieved a hidden achievement: 9 consecutive first deaths in a row.

It was purely a mechanical skill issue.

I couldn’t land a single skillshot.

I should’ve picked a point-and-click champion instead of a skillshot-based one.

This is all Ayase’s fault.

Ayase was a stubborn mid-lane player who only played non-targeted mage champions.

[RodenaMan donated 1,000 KRW.]

“With your mechanics, why the fuck are you playing a mage? Just play a point-and-click champ, please.”

“But I don’t know the skills of other champions.”

Ah, fuck.

“- Now that I think about it, Ayase always played mage champions.”

“- You’re seriously an Ayase simp…”

“- This is pure devotion.”

“- This is basically an insult to Ayase.”

“- Don’t ever tell people you learned Rodena from watching Ayase’s stream.”

After today, I probably won’t touch Rodena for a while.

So, for the last game, I at least wanted to win.

Humans…

We learn from failure.

We grow from failure.

Let’s watch the replay.

Let’s analyze what I did wrong in the last game.

If I made mistakes, the viewers will definitely point them out.

“- Why did you place that ward like that just now?”

“I was trying to ward off the left brush. The objective spawns at 15 minutes, so I needed to keep track of the enemy jungler’s path. But I misclicked my mouse and placed it wrong.”

“- Your movement is way too reckless, why are you moving like that? And why the hell did you waste your ult?”

“The enemy mid had no mana. I was trying to pressure them so they couldn’t farm CS. But I misclicked my mouse.”

“- Why did you Flash there?”

“It was a kill angle. Not for me—for the enemy. I was trying to use Barrier to survive instead of Flash… but I misclicked my keyboard.”

“- No, but you KNOW all of this LOL LOL LOL.”

“- Why is your theoretical knowledge so good though? LOL LOL LOL.”

“- You actually know everything about the game.”

“- Turns out, you just have dogshit mechanics.”

“- I feel like I just took the red pill…”

“- It’s actually terrifying that you know everything but still suck this bad.”

Even after reviewing the replay, the result was the same.

A pure mechanical skill issue.

What’s the point of knowing the game inside out… if I can’t physically play it?

“Alright, let’s go for the final match… If God has any sense of justice, he’ll let me win this one.”

“- No, YOU’RE the one with no sense of justice.”

“- Your mechanics are unjust LOL.”

“- Are you seriously blaming God for this?”

“- You’re not human…”

And then, the final match began.

The chat exploded.

“- Look at the teammates’ nicknames LOL.”

“- This is straight-up stream sniping LOL.”

“- Did you queue into a 4-man stack?”

“- Damn, they brought out their smurf accounts!”

“- This is literally a set-up to let you win.”

“Wait, my teammates’ nicknames? What’s wrong with my team—”

Bot lane ADC: ‘MutbyeolNoonaVtuberDebut’

Support: ‘LeeJiaFartVibration’

Top: ‘VtuberMidLaneProAspirant’

Jungle: ‘OverwhelmingDivinePowerPouch’

All four teammates were stream snipers.

[MutbyeolNoonaVtuberDebut: Jia noonaaaaaaa]

[LeeJiaFartVibration: We’ll make sure you win.]

[VtuberMidLaneProAspirant: Full tryhard mode.]

[OverwhelmingDivinePowerPouch: I got so frustrated watching the stream that I made a smurf. I’ll carry you.]

This is…

A controversy whether I win or lose.

But if I can’t avoid controversy either way—

Then I’d rather…

Win and deal with the controversy later.

The game has been going for 40 minutes now.

Current kill score: 42-41.

Both teams have lost all their towers.

If we won the team fight, the game would be over immediately.

It goes without saying.

More than half of our team’s death count was because of me.

…Oh god.

I had 0 kills, 0 deaths.

Because of my disastrous placements in the last 9 games, our jungle sniper, who knew my skill level all too well, completely abandoned mid from the start and focused on scaling top and bot.

That’s the only reason we made it this far.

This was the final fight.

I had picked a non-targeted mage champion again.

But this time, my ultimate skill had a hard CC stun—if I landed it properly in a team fight, I could at least do something.

[MutbyeolNoonaVtuberDebut: Hey, mid, you fucking bastard, if you screw up your ult again, I’m reporting you instantly.]

[LeeJiaFartVibration: Not even asking for a 2-man ult. Just hit one person, you bug-ass bitch.]

Chat LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Weren’t they supposed to be snipers? LOL LOL

Why are they so mad though? LMAO

Dark-mode cultist activated LOL

Honestly, considering how the game is going, I get why they’re pissed.

The tone of the snipers had changed.

At the start of the game, they were like, “It’s okay, Jia noona! You got this!”

But now?

Yeah.

Rodena really is a fucking disease of a game.

No time to think about that.

Both teams had grouped up.

The final team fights in mid.

This was the fight that would decide the game.

I had to hit it.

This time, I HAD to land my ult and win the game…!

And then—

BAM-BA-BA-BAM!

A 100,000 KRW donation alert popped up.

[Anonymous donated 100,000 KRW.]

“Bitch is a passionate loser of Mutbyeol (24), Easy Out (24), Easy Run (24), EZ (EASY).”**

I tried to ignore it.

But the TTS voice drilled into my ears.

I—I couldn’t focus…

Still, I held on.

I really tried.

But the second one?

I couldn’t.

[Anonymous donated 100,000 KRW.]

“Team archive, CS-missing archive, Skill-missing archive, MIA archive.”

“Pfft. ‘Team-MIA archive’ is just fucking—”

THUD!

“ACK!”

I banged my forehead into the keyboard.

Because I laughed at the sacrilegious joke about ‘Omnia Archive.’

I paid the price for my blasphemy.

As a result—

My 120-second cooldown hard CC ult whiffed completely.

And the moment I missed, the enemy team rushed in.

Our team got completely wiped.

Defeat.

0 wins in placements.

A disastrous 10-game losing streak.

[MutbyeolNoonaVtuberDebut: Are you fucking serious 121212]

[LeeJiaFartVibration: You play like fucking dogshit.]

[VtuberMidLaneProAspirant: Just quit playing Rodena, for real.]

[OverwhelmingDivinePowerPouch: Please report our mid, absolute troll insect throwing the game.]

On top of my pathetic gameplay, I also got flamed into oblivion by my now-corrupted cult of snipers.

“…I’m done with Rodena.”

Rodena, Complete.

I’m never touching this game again.