Famous esports streamer Xingye was tired of playing ranked at the top level, so he created a new account to relive his youth. Everything went smoothly, and he quickly climbed the ranks, winning game after game until he reached Eternal Diamond. Then he suddenly realized that everything here had changed from how he remembered it.
His teammates in all three lanes took turns flaming him, and the enemy team even cleared out his entire jungle.
Xingye: I'm done.
His livestream viewers cursed at him and told him to go back to playing at the top level. He shouldn't linger in the Eternal ranks, or bad luck would follow.
Xingye didn't believe in that nonsense. He thought it was because he had picked a jungler, so he decided to try heroes in every other position.
After playing top, mid, and bottom and getting flamed by his teammates every time, the good-natured jungle king finally hit rock bottom for the first time. He fought the urge to turn on his mic and kept typing into the chat box... then deleted it all.
Viewers: Go on, flame them! Show them the same attitude you have in top-level ranked!
Xingye: ...I still haven't played support.
At the start of the game, he picked Yao and her brand-new purple Starry skin, eagerly preparing to help the midlaner clear the minion wave.
Mage: Support, why are you in my lane? Trying to steal my farm and cut into my gold? Get down to bottom lane.
Xingye: ???
He finally couldn't take it anymore. His finger was almost on the mic button, and the viewers' eyes lit up. Their familiar trash-talking streamer was back!
Marksman: Support, come down here.
Xingye: Coming, coming.
Viewers: ????
Professional player Yueyin was practicing heroes at his teammates' insistence when he ran into a support with incredible game sense.
They could play every support hero and stuck close to protect him. For the first time, Yueyin felt safe playing marksman.
After they played a few games together, the support suddenly went offline. Just as Yueyin was feeling bereft, his team's support held a tablet out to him. "Bro, look. Isn't that your alt account on this livestream?"
The image flashed by, but Yueyin still recognized his own alt account... and the support's ID.
As he wondered what was going on, the streamer's voice came clearly through the speaker.
"That marksman plays like a jungler. He dragged me all over the map, through every jungle. Is he implying I can't jungle?"
Yueyin: ?
Watching a jungler rack up kills at the top level, while hearing the streamer politely flame him without using a single swear word...
Yueyin: ?
A short, lighthearted story + one-sided exposure of secret identities = w=
The game is Honor of Kings. The setting is fictional, with no real-life inspirations.
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