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Mobilezoid posted...

Yeah I played LoL a lot back in the day and I couldn't tell you what happened there

One guy's life bar went down, then the other guy died for some reason

I can only imagine what my grandmother watching the Olympics would think of it

It's a mirror match, one player is on the ropes (which is pretty easy to see) and then through a really, really fast sequence of smart decisions, manages to outplay an opponent that has a heavy advantage over him. Like the whole thing lasts what, 8-10 seconds? And in the process the other player is baited out of a safe position, attacked, the winning player manages to juke him into using his abilities wrong, and he moves with enough finesse to wait out the timer on one of his abilities to finish the job. This all comes at the very very end of a game, so after seeing how the mechanics work for about half an hour or so, you get to see someone put all the pieces together in breathtaking fashion, in exactly the same way lots of little outplays come together in something like Soccer to make a goal.

(In that particular match, if watched in full, the commentators explain pretty early that the character both players are using has an ability that causes a burst of delayed damage based on the damage dealt, so by the time you get there you realize what happened - by using clever movement, a clear-cut death was turned into a surprise kill, running down one timer after another very precisely. There wasn't any real room for error there, which makes it a play that in context is jump-out-of-your-seat-screaming good, hence the commentators absolutely losing their shit.)
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Shine on, you crazy diamond.