Reinanda Rea Plays Mobile Legends With Viewers While Holding Her Young Child

AKA VIRTUAL — Reinanda Rea played Mobile Legends: Bang Bang with viewers on Sunday in a stream of just over two hours, working one-handed because her young child was awake and needed to be held. “No hands, folks,” she said at one point. “One is holding the kid, the other is playing Mobile Legends.”

The stream, titled as the 38th in her series of relaxed chats over matches, was a *mabar*, short for *main bareng*, or playing together. She opened with a roll call of the viewers who had arrived and posted lobby IDs for anyone who wanted to join for free. She said she was streaming on YouTube and TikTok at once under the same channel name, and asked YouTube viewers to stop by the TikTok stream too.

“One hand is holding the kid, the other is playing Mobile Legends.” — Reinanda Rea, midway through a match

She picked the hero Marcel in nearly every match and was pleased whenever the enemy team left him unbanned. The first match was lost; she said the child’s crying had broken her focus and that she had muted it, and she later put the loss down in part to a run of tough opponents on a Sunday. Another defeat followed in the second half of the stream. Against Lesley, whose attacks deal true damage, Marcel fell quickly, and chat pointed out that the extra health from items such as Guardian Helmet does not work for him.

In the last match she used Marcel’s camera-snap skill on opposing players (“One, two, three, click”) and finished with one kill, two deaths and many assists. The team won, and she thanked the players who had joined her for helping her rank up, saying she had reached the Epic rank. She also said her lobbies stay free: players who treat her are given priority for slots, but there are no paid lobbies.

She ended the stream when her phone battery ran out and said she would try to stream again on Monday night, when the child is less likely to interrupt.