The second advance slot had opened!
Yang Yu had been looking forward to the opening of this advance slot for a long time.
“Let me see mine.”
With a thought, the system panel quickly appeared the next second.
【Host: Yang Yu】
【Age: 18】
【Current Rank: Perfect S】
【Firepower: 77】
【Aim: 78】
【Sniping: 68】
【Trading: 67】
【Awareness: 67】
【Clutching: 60】
【Map Understanding: 49】
【Mentality: 78】
【Utility Usage: 50】
【Credit Score Rating: C】
【Advance Points: 3689】
【Current Advanced Abilities: 1. B1T’s Headshot Talent (16/30) 2. Unused】
The first advance slot had been used to advance “B1T’s Headshot Talent.” Although training every day was a little tiring, his strength truly had undergone a qualitative change.
Moreover, Yang Yu could feel that he was, after all, from an unorthodox background. Unlike B1T, an academy-type player from youth training, his fundamentals were still not solid enough, so there was no way for him to bring this talent to its absolute limit.
But at eighteen, he also had no way to start from youth training now and slowly learn, slowly practice.
Eighteen was an age to be in one’s prime for a CSGO pro, but it was not an age to still be cultivated.
So what he could rely on was only his own hard training, as well as the help granted by the system.
As for the second advance slot, Yang Yu actually already had some ideas.
At the very beginning, Yang Yu had thought of focusing on one point and pushing it to the peak.
He would just stack his aim directly to the extreme.
But the recent ladder matches, as well as the inspiration that came during training, had changed his thinking.
Even in that match just now, his aim had already been sufficient.
So compared to strengthening his advantages, what he should do now was fill in his shortcomings.
And right now, his shortcoming was map understanding, with a value of only a mere 49.
Aim was something where knowledge in one area could be applied to others; there were many things Yang Yu would suddenly comprehend on his own as he kept playing.
But map understanding was something that required a huge amount of time to accumulate.
And what Yang Yu lacked most was precisely time.
So after thinking it through clearly, Yang Yu planned to place the second advance slot on map understanding.
As for players renowned for map understanding, the ones Yang Yu knew included S1mple, ZywOo, olof, ropz, Perfert0, Sh1r0…
After careful consideration, Yang Yu chose ropz.
Because the moment he thought of map understanding, what flashed through Yang Yu’s mind were all images of ropz lurking in all sorts of bizarre places to cut off rotations.
Lurking was something that placed great emphasis on intuition and map understanding.
And ropz, as the current world’s number one lurker, absolutely had more than enough map understanding.
【Advancing ropz’s map understanding…】
【Current credit score level insufficient. Please complete missions to raise your credit score…】
Yang Yu: “…”
So it still wasn’t enough!
It seemed that the price required for ropz’s map understanding was higher than he had imagined.
At this moment, Yang Yu suddenly understood what “consumption downgrade” meant.
Since he couldn’t advance all of ropz’s map understanding, then he would advance part of it first.
As the world’s number one lurker, ropz was known as the landlord of A Apartments; his A Apartments was truly terrifying.
【Advancing ropz’s Inferno map understanding…】
This time, the scene before his eyes changed.
【ropz’s Inferno map understanding has been advanced…】
【Advance Cost: Review 91 of ropz’s Inferno demos within 30 days…】
Unlike advancing “B1T’s Headshot Talent” before, which hadn’t felt like anything, the instant he finished advancing “ropz’s Inferno map understanding,” his vision went black.
Then he saw ropz, his face dark and gloomy, whispering to him like a demon:
“You mentioned my 911… didn’t you!”
Yang Yu trembled all over, inexplicably growing nervous.
Immediately afterward, many scenes of Inferno flashed through his mind.
For example, when crouching at the head-hide position in Graveyard on A site, which positions he should guard against.
What timing was most reasonable for pushing forward in A Apartments, what the pre-aim logic for A Apartments was, which position on the side lane was most suitable for cutting people off, where in A Apartments he should play with a Zeus…
There were also quite a few match scenes appearing in his mind. If it had been before, Yang Yu would only have thought, holy shit, that’s insane. But now, he could understand why ropz did those things.
For example, there was one match round that left a particularly deep impression on Yang Yu.
At the start, ropz threw a VIP molotov from the side lane on Inferno. After throwing the fire, ropz did not rush to advance, but instead held for a moment behind the cover beside white door, preventing anyone from stepping through the fire to counter-clear.
Immediately afterward, ropz moved inside white door and held the side-lane stairs, preventing anyone from stepping through the fire to look for the earliest timing.
Several consecutive strategies were all defensive plays, extremely conservative.
After confirming that the opponent had not pushed forward, ropz advanced while staying alert, then relied on his outstanding fundamentals to clear the close angle at the stairs.
Once his teammates came up, ropz then cooperated with them to take control of A Apartments.
After using a series of beautiful operations to control A Apartments, the team also launched a full attack on the A site at this time.
As a decision for a solo lurk and support play, the team chose to speed up through connector.
Ropz, meanwhile, threw a flash deep into A1, eliminating the possible hidden danger of an A1 counter-clear from the opponent, while he himself also slipped into A Apartments.
By himself, he applied pressure to the opponent from two places.
Inside A Apartments, ropz was still extremely cautious, constantly guarding against the opponent’s counter-clear.
Because he understood very clearly that when his teammates attacked the bombsite from connector, if the opponent had someone in A Apartments, they would either jump into pit or burrow back into A Apartments.
Ropz crouched in an off-angle inside A Apartments and held it directly. Very quickly, he caught the timing of the opponent burrowing into A Apartments.
After getting this kill, he also obtained the information that there was someone in pit.
Ropz still didn’t rush at this time. First, he used the high ground to spray a burst down into pit, applying pressure, then circled behind and used the height difference to finish the opponent off.
After this sequence of plays, ropz took two kills without losing a sliver of HP, coordinating with the main force to directly take control of A site.
Most professional players at this time might have followed the momentum down into the bombsite, cooperating with their teammates to seize full control of the site, but ropz did not.
The moment he got the kill, he immediately turned around and glanced back into A Apartments.
In ropz’s mind, the position of A Apartments was all about timing and fundamentals.
If there was a timing he had missed, then the opponent could only have slipped from A1 into boiler room and then toward A Apartments, or else pushed up early from banana.
No matter where the missed timing had come from, the opponent could only find an opportunity from the angle of A Apartments.
Ropz turned back and checked once, eliminating the hidden danger of a missed timing, then turned back again to help his teammates cover the defensive smoke.
Solidly and steadily, they successfully secured the round.
After replenishing the smoke, ropz then used intermittent peeks to watch the interior of A Apartments.
The entire round’s operation left Yang Yu amazed. After advancing ropz’s Inferno map understanding, and after knowing why ropz did those things, he sucked in a breath of cold air even more.
He could imagine that if his fundamentals were solid, and if he were to face ropz himself, what awaited him might also be the agony of being shot in the back and killed before he could even fire his gun.
Fortunately, now he had successfully advanced ropz’s Inferno map understanding.
This was already power that belonged to him!
At this moment, Yang Yu couldn’t help but begin to daydream.
In the future, he would crouch behind the opponents every day and pick people off. The opponents would know he was there but be unable to find him.
After finally managing to locate him, they wouldn’t be able to beat him in a frontal duel either.
Just thinking of this, Yang Yu couldn’t help but let out a soft hum.
【Please pay the advance cost as soon as possible. Failure to pay the advance cost will result in the ability being reclaimed and affect your credit score rating…】
All right, fantasy time was over.
He should watch match demos and pay off his debt first.
…
I specifically went to watch a few of the Landlord’s demos. The Landlord really does play in a way that’s cautious to the point of death. He’s way too damn meticulous…