Rise

darkened.
Gang Zi’s eyes turned cold as he looked deeply at Lin Feng. Garen Support? Seriously… He could hardly believe that he, a Diamond 1 Ad-Carry, was being looked down on with so much contempt.

The Support player on the Lads’ team was sitting next to Gang Zi, and he was fuming.
“Gang Zi, we gotta stomp on their balls in Bot lane.
Are you seeing this? They’re looking down on us! I’m going to show him exactly how wrong he is!”

Gang Zi nodded, his lips curving into a cold smile.
“Don’t sweat it at all, brother.
We’ll show them the meaning of real pain.”

 《Welcome to Summoner’s Rift!》

In the private room in the NetCow Cafe, the members of both teams started focusing their attention on the game.
The only spectator, Qian Lu, was standing behind Team Shanghai’s members.
His interest was in watching the team he had just hired, and he could always walk over to the other side to see how things were going from the Lads’ perspective.
Qian Lu was still wearing a friendly smile on his face, but his eyes watched the game with intensity, and flickered with the shrewd calculations running through his mind.
He knew that Lin Feng and the others from Team Shanghai were better players.
But he refrained from telling Gang Zi and the lads about Team Shanghai’s accomplishments for multiple reasons.
First, he wanted Gang Zi to stop hassling him, and this was the easiest way to do it.
But he also had an idea of how skilled Gang Zi and his lads were.
Even though they were pretty mediocre amatuer players, they were still decent as far as internet cafe players went.
Using them to test out Team Shanghai’s skills was the perfect silver lining.

Qian Lu was feeling quite pleased with himself and how beautifully his genius plan unfolded.
Until Team Shanghai suddenly decided to swap their Midlaner to Support. Why is Lin Feng playing Support now? Isn’t he supposed to be their star Midlaner? What was the point of this move? If I’m being honest, I never actually watched any of their games in the Collegigate Cup.
But I heard about how incredible they were, and Lin Feng was always playing Mid… There’s also this whole futzing about with Support Garen.
That’s not something I’ve seen before either.
I wonder… is this some special tactic of theirs that they decided to use so they could go all out against Gang Zi? Is Lin Feng actually a Support main?

In the end, Qian Lu shook his head.
He would figure the truth out soon enough.

2 minutes after the game started, Lin Feng’s Garen and Tang Bingyao’s Kalista walked into the Bot lane.

“Tang Tang, shove the lane out,” Lin Feng said in voice chat while wearing a noise isolating headset.
“We’ll hit Level 2 first and go in on them!”

Tang Bingyao nodded earnestly, her eyes blazing.
“Mhm!” 

The early game in bot was fairly standard, with both Ad-carries farming minions and the Supports helping to clear the minions or poke the opponent.

But before long, Gang Zi was starting to feel beads of sweat forming on his forehead. This Kalista… I thought she’d be a pushover because she’s so cute and small.
But she’s way better than I expected her to be.
She’s hyper aggressive in lane and she’s planning on getting to Level 2 first… she’s also got amazing mechanics.
Her ability to dish out poke and farm at the same time is beautiful!

Gang Zi’s eyelids twitched. Alright! Playtime is over! I was going to take it easy on her, I’d feel bad if I pummel such a cute girl.
But I can’t toy around with Kalista at all, not now.
It feels like I’m playing against another Diamond 1 or higher Ad-carry, and my Jinx is at a disadvantage at Level 1! Hm… if not Kalista… well, her Support is a Garen.

Gang Zi glared at the opposing Garen, his eyes flickering with disdain. 

Garen had just tried to rush him with Decisive Strike, but his Jinx was already in the process of backing away.
His ally Morgan then rooted Garen with Dark Binding, and the two of them turned around and hacked away at a significant amount of Garen’s health.

Gang Zi smirked. This guy doesn’t even know how to play Support at all…