FBPP C30

Chapter 30

Party invite, party invite, party invite, party invite, party invite, party invite.
Fuck. What the hell is he even doing with the game on? Why the fuck is this guy still stuck in that tier?

Ji-han opened his calendar. Less than a week remained until Han Ji-hanjang’s suspension would be lifted. He’d already collected all the keys… Should he just abandon this account? But still, the idea of shelving JiniHaniJihani for Siege Wars alone while returning to Han Ji-hanjang left him feeling uneasy.

It was that Jamie bastard and HalmiFlower’s comments about “Han Ji-something” that bothered him. HalmiFlower had mentioned being on stream at the time…

Ji-han knew Han Ji-hanjang was famous — for better or worse. He wasn’t obsessive enough to search his own nickname on forums or MeTube, but he couldn’t ignore it either. Too many players he encountered in-game asked if he’d seen the videos, or how he pulled off those chains.

But if Han Ji-hanjang, who hadn’t logged in for a month, suddenly reappeared while Ji-han had been grinding on an alt? That was basically confirming the rumors: Yeah, I got suspended, so I was playing on a sub-account.

There was a big difference between people suspecting you were suspended and people saying with certainty that you were suspended.

And then what — after joining a guild on that sub-account, he’d abandon it once the suspension ended and only play on the main again? That would make it look exactly like he’d leeched off the guild for the Siege War avatar, hogged a slot in the top guild, and exploited them for rewards.

And that — that kind of misunderstanding — was the thing Seo Ji-han despised the most.
It was just a game, so he didn’t care if people cursed him for being toxic or foul-mouthed. But being accused of selfishly exploiting others, of dragging down the group he belonged to — that was an unforgivable sin in his book. And now he risked being cast in that very role?

Ji-han opened MeTube’s search bar. He typed “Zenox RoseFlower.” A channel popped up: BJ RoseFlower.

“This fucking bastard…”

He glared at the channel’s profile picture — a black background with a red rose. Entering the channel, he saw it had a staggering 441 videos.

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Does this comp even work lol (No Tank, No Heals, No DPS)

A viewer asked me to duo, so we queued ranked… the result was tragic.

Top 3 beginner-friendly champs (solid picks regardless of meta)

What to do when your team has no ADC (ft. how to carry with hell comps)

The thumbnails combined a half-baked young man’s weird facial expressions with game footage, making it clear he streamed with his face cam on.

This was fucking pathetic. And he had to sit here watching it? The wave of existential dread hit him hard.

As his lifeless eyes scrolled down video after video, one caught his attention — uploaded just two days ago, already sitting at 170,000 views. The thumbnail screamed in bold font: “Platinum-tier Monster Appears” and the title read: “This is Plat? Playing Nasarun had me in tears…”

“Rose~!” The grating intro blared, exactly the kind of shit Ji-han hated — loud, obnoxious.

<“Guys, remember yesterday I got wrecked by Arhen while playing Nasarun? That shit made no sense, I couldn’t sleep all night. So today I’m reviewing the replay and breaking it down. I never save replays usually, but I had to for this one. If you missed it yesterday, watch this. I’ll edit and upload it later.”>

The live chat window scrolled beside it.

Being called a hacker

What is it, let’s see—are they talking about that guy who caused an uproar on Outven?

They mean that guy? Using Arhen in Platinum????”

“Ah, fuck.”

The viewer count was a staggering 1,200.

<This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this guy. A little while ago, I was playing Catherine and duoing with a viewer who locked in Dennis, and the Nasarun on the enemy team back then was the same guy. I’m sure of it because I had a record of spamming him with a bunch of mails.
Look, the nicknames match, right? Even back then I thought, no way this guy’s just Platinum, this has to be a smurf. But after reviewing yesterday’s match, I’m convinced. Back then maybe his team didn’t support him enough so he played it safe, but yesterday—that was his real skill. I even pulled the Dennis POV from that viewer’s perspective. Anyway, let’s watch from the first match where I ran into this guy.>

RoseFlower pulled up the video and dragged the play bar forward in long skips, stopping only at the parts he wanted, pausing almost frame by frame as he broke things down like some kind of lunatic.

Ah. This looked like trouble. Ji-han paused the video and shut his eyes tightly, taking a deep breath.

<No, look here. See how Nasarun doesn’t appear on the map? From this point on, he’s already gone dark. But I thought he’d still be with his support, right? Because that’s how the character works—no gap closers, and if the support doesn’t peel for him, he can’t go in. Now, see here, our main tank and ADC are getting engaged up top by the enemy sub-tank. Juno could lock them both down at first, but because of combo limitations, he can’t hold them both for long.

So normally, if Nasarun goes in here, that’s suicide. If Juno lets one of them slip, they’ll get back up with invulnerability and collapse on Nasarun. And staying back near the ADC would make no sense either, because from this angle, Nasarun wouldn’t be able to enter the fight.

The guy doesn’t have any terrain-crossing skills. He either has to walk straight in like an idiot or poke his way forward with autos. But would you just stand there and let Nasarun walk at you from the front? No way. Plus, they didn’t know where me and Dennis were, right? So of course he should’ve been playing safe.>

An ally has been slain.
An ally has been slain.

<But here’s the ridiculous part: Nasarun came in from the top. Which means he’d been holding position there the whole time. I don’t know how he managed to cut those two down, but since Nasarun was up there, naturally we assumed his support was with him. Why? Because Nasarun is a baby who can’t even eat on his own.

So me and Dennis dove to kill Inegr, and—ta-da! Why is the support popping out from here? And he even ults immediately! That guy’s no joke either. Catherine’s chain latch to terrain has a small recovery window after landing, right? Well, this guy timed his Chaplain ult perfectly to cover that, so I got bound instantly, unable to do a damn thing. Then Nasarun comes in. But why the fuck is his HP still full? I was so dumbfounded I even spammed the hook ping in team chat. Our tank and ADC just kept making excuses—‘We couldn’t react,’ ‘It was unavoidable.’ Honestly, up until that point I just thought, hah, typical Plat dogs, useless as ever. But the real answer was in the final teamfight.>

The clip jumped to the last teamfight. It showed the moment RoseFlower realized that Dennis had gone for a clown build and Catherine had picked up a melee Super Armor item.

<Look, I was fooling around and forgot to swap out my Super Armor item before going in. Don’t ask me why my build looks like shit. Anyway, the only reason I didn’t get one-shot was because of that Super Armor. See here—I chain out to escape? The plan was: Inegr holds them, they scramble, then Dennis comes in to cut down either the ADC or Nasarun.

But again, that damned Chaplain! He ults the moment he sees me. So yeah, I admit it—that was my mistake. I didn’t account for Chaplain. Nasarun immediately dives and starts slashing, and holy fuck, the damage was insane. Two more hits and I would’ve died right there.

So I pop Super Armor and try to bail, but Chaplain lands a predictive right-click shot to bind me again. So I’m stuck eating damage. Still, I thought as long as Dennis came in, if we could just delete Nasarun, we’d have a chance. But then Chaplain binds Dennis too—who was running an attack speed all-in build. That meant Chaplain had read the Dennis build like a book.

And guys, think about this. This isn’t a 1v1 duel, it’s ranked teamplay. Teamfights are exploding all over, and in the middle of that chaos, he’s analyzing the enemy’s itemization? Sure, Masters or Legends players do that. But this was Plat.

To analyze enemy builds, you need two sets of data: how they usually look, and how it feels when they switch to a specific setup. How the hell would anyone know that in Plat? Whoever this was, it felt like someone who’s studied Dennis in depth. And now watch closely—this is the really important part.>

RoseFlower zoomed the screen in tight on Nasarun stabbing Catherine.

<He stabs, right? Dennis arrives. Now look at Nasarun’s crosshair—see how it instantly snaps the other way? That’s him autoing in the opposite direction to poke his way out. Then it whips back again—this time he uses Q to shove Dennis back and overlaps with me, unleashing a barrage. But did anyone notice?

He never finished his three-hit auto combo. Not once. He never knocked me down. He skipped the knockdown finisher entirely, just using auto staggers and normal skills to bleed me out. Catherine can break free with Space if she gets knocked down, right? I was counting on that. But he never let her fall.

You think skipping the third hit is as easy as clicking one less time? Don’t expose yourself as a Nasarun noob. The first and second swings are manual clicks, yes—but the final strike is automatically tied to the second click. It’s a three-tick combo from just two clicks, okay?

So what did this guy do? He landed the first two hits, then during the third tick he nudged his aim just enough to whiff the blow to the side. That’s how he canceled the knockdown. Want to know why that’s hard? Go try it in practice. Adjusting your aim is fine, but then re-locking your target to chain the ticks again is insanely tight on timing. Too early, and you trigger the third strike, knock them down, and let them escape. Too late, and the stagger ends, they counter, and you die.>