 What's up everybody, I'm the Mangoes, you are awesome and welcome back to another edition of Paragon Storytime. Stories from you about Paragon or its mini-successors. If you have a story you'd like to tell, please use the E-Form link below. Today we have a story about a competitive Paragon, surprising people with Kuang and a Wukong Muriel 1-2 punch. Let's start off with a competitive story from Errolorn Wolf. Snatching from the Jaws of Victory, Defeat! On November December of 2017, I was convinced by SoccerFan55 to join his competitive team. He then decided to have a junior team and I was placed on it, with me support, or Teenage Killer 1 Offlane, Mama Luigi 117 Jungle, Fluffapuff TKC Carry, and Mayo 271 Midlane. Now as part of our agreement with SoccerFan55, we were participating in a Paragon Competitive League. I was the only person to have Platinum according to a GoraGG and I was constantly high gold since version 42, New Dawn. Mama Luigi was the second highest skilled player, the rest were low gold. In this league, the second worst team was comprised solely of Platinum tier players. The best teams had a mixture of high plat, diamond, and rank players, occasionally with one master rank player. To say we lost every single game would be an understatement. A good game for us was when we had more than 5 kills or so. Raffle. This game started off like usual. We draft our heroes, get into the game, lose our lanes in the first 5 minutes, then, surprisingly, we won a teamfight and got Fangtooth. We were able to take the advantage to push and push them we did, right to their left inhibitor. Another surprise, we took it. Then once everyone was back up, we were pushing the right lane, and it was a showdown for over 30 seconds as neither side wanted to initiate. I saw the minions approaching their core and I was about to mention to our shot caller to wait, but he went in, followed by the carry. I was keeping distance from the enemy team because I didn't want to get caught in the Gideon teleport plus Black Hole, the 2.5 second AoE stun plus pull ultimate that Epic said was balanced. So Gideon was successful in ruining the engage and he was able to catch the carry Black Hole as well. I attempted to help with Zinx's stun, but it was too late. They were melted by the time my stun landed. I was the last to die. That ill-advised engagement resulted in a team wipe, and then they took our core before our death timers ran out. All we had to do was wait for one of them to go deal with the minions to engage, but no. From the jaws of victory, we were defeated. Note, I don't have any good stories from that period of Paragon. Paragon I liked was mutilated by version 42. When Epic announced that they were shutting down Paragon, I mean launching Paragon into a volcano in the spring, I quit Paragon entirely. Epic's decisions routinely fucked the support heroes over. Their items were cheap because they had to be cheap, as supports were entirely dependent on getting Kill's Assist to buy gems. And making the wards of 300 GP to buy hurts us just as much. Sure top tier players had no problem, but that's because they could rely on getting gold from their carry's last hits and get Kill's Assist consistently. The average supports… well, no. I'm not going to say Laysaw. That was a heartbreaker. I kind of sympathize with the shotcaller, though. I absolutely hate doing the Ugo first dance in front of a tower. I probably would have just charged in, too. Next up is a story about a well-placed Kwan sword from Kwan Bomb 23. This was in the good old Legacy days. I think it was the day Kwan was released, maybe the day after. I was playing him in jungle, but ended up stuck in mid lane helping my teammate Gideon. I covered for him until he returned and laid down my sword in lane and backed myself. I hit him with the Be Right Back ping, but I don't think he was expecting me to teleport right back on top of the enemy mid laner. It was epic and you could just feel the vibe of the enemy mid laner change for the rest of the match. Truly intimidating. Good times. You know it took the community a bit of time, but we all soon realized that a lone Kwan sword in the middle of the lane was just nothing to be trifled with. Our last story is about Wukong and Muriel working together from MikeGC. I used to play with my cousin. He always used Gadget and I would choose different heroes. This time he decided he wanted to play Muriel and I played Wukong with my Emmerich ready. We were like one hour into the game and we had taken mid in him and lost both side in him. I saw an opportunity and told my cousin I would sneak into their core and convert a wave, and he should pay attention to ult me. Didn't tell the rest of the team, but they got it right away. They defended the core like crazy and I managed to get to their core while two siege, two were in prime and one was dead. When I got to their core they immediately backed, but my cousin timed his ult perfectly and we were able to win that match with lots of good game pings from the rest of the team. One of my fondest memories I was literally shaking from the excitement and adrenaline. Those games where your hands are shaking too bad to play another are the absolute best. That's it for this episode of Paragon Storytime. I appreciate you watching and I appreciate all the stories you guys have submitted, but for now this is the Magoo signing off. You guys have a good one. Mangoo! Special shout out to Foolish Bloodhunter, Jelly Knees, Meowmix4Men, Stunt, Farenth, and Raven.