Aatrox wiped the tears from his face and with renewed motivation to improve himself, he went to his bedroom to prepare for the championship that would begin in a few hours.
Turning on the computer, Aatrox saw the OBS icon and missed doing his live streams. So, he opened the program and decided to broadcast.
Shortly after he started the transmission, a comment from someone familiar appeared.
[Pandamonium: Hello God Aatrox, how long have you been here, 3, 4 days without streaming?]
[hautar: Finally! How long without seeing you God Aatrox.]
[Kry0genic_: Hello, will you play Clash today, God Aatrox?]
Seeing all these comments Aatrox was pleased. He didn't know how many people were watching him, but he liked the feeling of chatting while playing.
"Yes, some friends called me to play Clash today, it will be the first time of almost everyone to try for the championship." Aatrox responded while opening the program.
[hautar: no team wanted to call me since my ranking is iron... I'll watch while you play to see how it is.]
[FraulCruz22: I'm Challenger but I don't want to participate because I'm too good for that. U.U.]
[AboveHeaven: F**k off, if you were that good, you'd have a team for sure, what's your nickname? Let me see if you really are Challenger.]
[FraulCruz22: My nickname is Sneaky; you can look it up.]
[AboveHeaven: Sneaky is streaming live now, not even trying to use a different name to lie.]
[FraulCruz22: Get out of here silver, I don't speak with low links.]
...
Aatrox seeing the discussion occurring in the comments started to laugh, this kind of fight in the chat was something common, there was always some fighting but at the end of the stream everyone was laughing and trying to play together.
He logged into his account and saw that there were some unread messages. They were all from Annie asking why he wasn't coming in, but since he had already talked to her yesterday, he didn't answer.
Seeing that there was enough time, Aatrox entered a ranked match to be able to practice and caught the only character he had played, Aatrox.
He took the time to play three games until Annie called him up to join their team at Clash. When he entered, he saw that everyone on the team were the girls he'd already played with. Shiny Berry (Xayane), Kami (The Shy Girl), Fire Fairy (The Outgoing Girl) and Annie.
When he entered the voice flame, Aatrox already heard the girls complaining.
[Fire Fairy: Why did you stay so long without playing? Every day when we were going to call you to play some game you weren't online.]
[Shiny Berry: Annie kept talking about you.]
[Annie is My Main: Lies... don't say that...]
Aatrox thought it was fun to see the reaction of the girls and was talking until the time of the championship arrived. Everyone prepared for the match and for Aatrox's surprise, when the championship keys were released, it was possible to see which characters the enemy team was playing.
[Fire Fairy: Damn, you can see the character that the player played the most to ban later.] You probably won't be able to play with Aatrox or Annie since you play a lot with these characters.]
[Annie is My Main: I can't believe... you'll have to carry me, since I only play Annie well.]
[Shiny Barry: It's okay, let's give it our best shot that we can win.]
Although Xayane said this, Aatrox could say that she was also not very confident right now, since she knew that people who climb the ranking usually play only one character, if they can't play with them, they'll have a much worse performance in the match.
When the match started, it was exactly as they had guessed. The enemy team banned Annie and Aatrox, now they would have to use another character.
Annie picked Shine, a magician of light, while Aatrox chose Leonidas on the Jungle route. Leonidas was a famous Spartan in the game for having a reputation for dreaming of being a baker.
[Padamonium: Hmm, I think this game will be difficult. I've been following God Aatrox for so long and I've never seen him play with anything else.]
[Zhanye: I've reached Challenger just playing Nunu. When someone banishes Nunu I am forced to leave the match so as not to lose so many points... it is tragic to be mono...]
[WilliamER: I trust you God Aatrox, show that you are also a God Leonidas!]
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When the match began, Aatrox went into the jungle while keeping the camera alternating between all the others. With his heightened senses and agility, he was able to understand what was happening on the route, leaving the camera only a very short time on the route.
The viewers were beginning to complain that they were getting dizzy from seeing him change the camera. Normally he could hear them, but now he was in a championship. His teammates wanted to win and he would feel guilty if they lost because he didn't give his all.
In the middle of the pile of comments complaining about the camera, a single isolated comment said otherwise. [Pandamonium: God Aatrox, God Aatrox, you don't stop surprising me. Not even some of the Challenger players can understand what's going on on this screen and you who haven't even picked up the Gold ranking yet, can process it all quickly. Maybe I'll see you in the future at my matches.]
While Aatrox was farming the team's blue monster, the enemy jungler appeared on the lower route with only his blue effect. Aatrox quickly warned them to retreat and started running towards the enemy jungle to steal their red effect.
While Aatrox did, he always kept the camera alternating between routes to get a sense of the enemy team's positioning. When the enemy mid laner disappeared for more than 3 seconds, he imagined that he would be going to check if Aatrox was stealing their jungle.
Aatrox took advantage that he was on call with his team and asked for help from Annie who was in the mid and Kami who was on the top route. The two pulled up as quickly as possible and headed for the enemy team's red monster to support Aatrox.
When they left, the enemy team was alerted and the enemy top laner was also trying to help. The way it was happening, very probably the fight would be 1x1 between Aatrox and the enemy mid laner until the enemy jungler arrived, but with Annie and Kami arriving together, the fight would be 3x2 for the Aatrox team for about 7 seconds until the enemy top laner arrived to give reinforcement.
"Prepare yourselves, it will be a fight of no more than 20 seconds. We'll need to eliminate Zyre as soon as possible to maintain the numerical advantage when the enemy top laner arrives. I'll hold on as long as I can while you guys come." Aatrox said.