Classmancers - A MOBA Esport Story

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Imagine a shonen sports story. But, it’s not about baseball or soccer. No, this one is about playing a MOBA video game!

And no, it’s neither League of Legends nor DotA. A BRAND NEW ORIGINAL MOBA, the one MOBA to rule them all - Classmancers!

The game has become so big, that even schools recognize it as a sport. They even allow students to participate in Classmancers clubs and compete against other schools!Who will be the one going to nationals!?

For Yuel, a team sport is like a chessboard that comes to life. There’s no greater fun than deconstructing every opponent and predicting twenty of their moves in advance.

And, Classmancers is the ideal stage for such psychological warfare, for it’s a sport in which game theory reigns supreme. At least, usually, it does.

There are also goofs like Lars, who got -200 IQ, yet boast godlike mechanical skill that triumphs against all odds. He’s like your typical OPMC which a cheat, except the cheat does nothing for his intellect.

Yuel and Lars are like water and fire. In other words, 100% compatible! That’s why they form an unlikely duo and set out to dominate Classmancers’ competitive scene!

However, to challenge their OPness, the two will run into rivals who are just as OP! Some of them will turn their teammates immune to Yuel’s psychological attacks, while others will redirect Lars’s almighty strength against himself.

In this harsh environment, the two will keep struggling, struggling, and struggling some more, following their promise to reach the pro scene.

Information

Status
Ongoing
Year
2018
Author
DarkClaymore

Tags

LITRPGACTIONCOMEDYDRAMASLICE OF LIFESCHOOL LIFESTRONG LEADGAMELITPSYCHOLOGICALMALE LEADSPORTSSTRATEGY

Royal Road Stats

Rating
4.3/ 5.0
Followers
468
Views
1,748,916

Chapters(675 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

  • sugouxxxRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Uh yeah, so, solid 5
    I mean, look, just read it, you're not gonna dissapointed
    Chinese Author LN should learn from you.
  • BlueBugRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Classmancer is a story about how Yuel and Lars as they aim for the competitive scene in the MOBA classmancer. The author executes this story well - and it makes me wonder why it has the current bad rating. This novel is definitely something I think a lot more people would enjoy reading than what the overall score might present.
    Style: Everything he tells of the happening has a purpose, and executes it faithfully. The narrator is to be understood as the character telling of this experience, and allows for an easy way of understanding what's happening, and furthermore makes me feel. No sentence struck me as out of place, and the pacing is quite nice as well. I just wish sometimes that you would have connected more happenings together, for example when Gregory and Taison  appeared for the Junior exam, a single reminder that they were the same Yuel and Lars played against would have given the encounter more meaning (at the beginning, when it wasn't clear yet that they were the ones from when Yuel met Lars). This, however, pales to the quite aggressive way the author uses words to convey this story.
    Story: For the purposes of this review, I will divide story into two different categories, world and plot. The world is believable, and told of in an interesting way. The plot is also believable within this world, and also told of in an interesting way. One can clearly tell that the author quite wants to write about this - or at least is invested in this world.
    Grammar: No outstanding grammar issues found. A couple of times a sleight of hand, but having 3 or 4 mistakes in 183 pages is no reason to not read this story. (Btw, to the ones reading, double negatives actually violate no grammar rule.)
    Character: Quite believable characters, along with interesting ways of conveying their thoughts, their intentions and their actions. Expect good character growth. Also, each character has an unique voice, and you'll likely find yourself smiling at Lars' and Yuel's almost polarizing at
  • The IrregularRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    This is some good stuff. A niche genre that may PERHAPS not be to everyones liking but more than good enough to trump the average royalroad fic in my personal opinion. I had the oppurtunity to read ahead some. And i can say it only gets better!
  • edwardcastleRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    I read up to chapter 8 before leaving this review.
    I wasn't expecting much from an esports novel, much less one about a kid playing a MOBA.
    And yet, this was great.
    It's lighthearted, funny at times, the characters are believable, has a good progression.
    It was also great remembering my times playing MOBA, remembering my naive beliefs and how they were crushed (SPOILERS, ranked mode isn't Heaven).
    A great novel overall, one I'm glad I took my time to read.
  • 13lack12oseRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Something that, at least to my knowledge, hasn't been done before.
    Reads like an anime. Very typical teenage characters who attend a school simply to play their chosen game. The 'inbody' writing of the fights is well done although our MC spends a significant portion of the novel thinking through possible options/strategies, which can be off-putting at times.
    Overall a well-written novel, in a different genre from the norm of RR.
    Give it a chance and see what you think!
  • steamedbunRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    keep writing! I'm anxious to keep reading! I love teamwork pro gamer stories that also implement strategy and humor
    Yuel has good enemy prediction and is great at finding the enemy's weakness in order to use against them, he plays support on the team. Lars plays an amazing Trickster bouncing those bullets and hitting seemingly impossible shots. Julia kinda annoys me a bit just cause she just seems to be there in order to get Lars as a boyfriend smh.
  • ThinkerbellRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    The story is cool and there is no other story like it on the site, it has good charachters and the game and takes inspiration from smaller mobas like SMITE aswell. The major issue is the lenght and duration of arcs. until today is almost 3 months of a small joust (3v3) side arc that would be fine if it was written 3 years ago but because I have to wait for every update and the lenght of the updates is only 50 sentences or something it takes away all of the hype for the main story. I would wait for the story to finish or atleast this arc.
  • DmunicRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    Classmancers is pure sports anime. It's essentially a light novel, written about mobas. Expect all the attendant tropes, including middle schoolers who only nominally take academic courses.
    I recommend this series on the tone alone: no high stakes, no end of the world, no slaughter of the innocence. Come for the anime tropes, stay for the anime tropes and go about your day.
    The dialogue can be cringey in that it's written for teens who spend too much time in Twitch chat-- and the constant use of onomonopeia anime exclamations can be grating depending on your taste.
    And characters are essentially anime trope delivery devices: spunky girl who was late to receiving an honest to goodness personality (I suspect the author has some difficulty writing female characters outside of, of course, tsundere and other tropes), Naruto the Carry and our hero, Blue Oni Who Likely Pushes His Glasses Up The Bridge Of His Nose As He Explains His Grand Plan.
    It's better than the sum of its part, though.
    Given time, Classmancer's could move from aping tropes to elevating them. I'm guessing we'll find out some time around the Tournament arc.
  • HappyHavakRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    Pretty good start. I'm looking forward to how this turns out, I've been wanting a good MOBA novel for a while now. Can't say much about story or characters so far, but they seem promising. No blatant grammar errors either. So all in all its worth me paying attention to. The only question I have is; is it a VRMOBA? Because I don't recall the chapter mentioning it specifically and if it's not, then will his lack of coordination affect his gameplay?
  • NingTheDragonRoyal Road
    ★★ 2.0
    I'm a big fan of this type of esport story and sadly they are hard to find, so when I found out about classmancers I had to give it a read specially when I saw the huge 5000 pages released, I so excited.
    Now the story starts up with alot of potential, it has good characters, it has a simple but interesting plot, theres some hiccups specially with all the anime tropes but I don't really count it very negatively since thats clearly what the author was going for.
    Now the real problem with this story is that pretty much nothing happens, see that 5000 pages? atleast 4000 could be straight cut out of the story without even changing the rest and you wouldn't notice a difference. It's actually ridiculous, the story is this long spanning years of wiriting and it has like what 5 matches? I kept reading thinking it would improve over time as the author got more experience writing but it gets worse and worse over time.
    I don't really have much else to say, story got potential but I see no interest on the part of the author to improve so I guess this is it.
    First couple volumes is 4 stars
    3 stars until like volume 6-7ish
    everything else prob non even 1, theres still nuggets of a decent story buried in all the filler but theres no point even looking for it