Chapter 108: This person is utterly unreasonable
Liang Yan came to the river crab, ate the river crab marked with Thresh's seal, and the leftover river crab altar could still grant some vision protection to the laning duo.
Then he returned to his own jungle, ate the F4 and red buff, then directly burrowed into the dragon pit, heading straight for the enemy Thresh's blue buff jungle.
When he reached the jungle entrance, a light orb was stuck in the middle of the choke point.
This is the wolf spirit that appears after the three wolves are killed by Smite; its effect is to grant vision within a certain range.
"It appeared, classic Firrrrrre style—right after eating the red buff he immediately invaded, but Move (UOL jungler) obviously studied his tactics in depth, deliberately giving Smite to the three wolves to strengthen defense against Rek'Sai's invasion!"
"The jungle entrance is blocked by the wolf spirit! Firrrrrre will definitely be detected if he goes in, but G2's bot lane is pushing, so relying on the bot lane advantage Firrrrrre still chooses to forcefully invade Move's jungle!"
After entering, Liang Yan placed a wall‑hugging ward that revealed Thresh fighting the Magic Swamp Frog.
Similarly having cleared only five jungle camps, Liang Yan killed two extra blue buff minions, collected a wave of minions pushing into the tower, and took a longer route, yet still managed to arrive before Thresh could finish the Magic Swamp Frog; the huge difference in jungle‑clear speed stems mainly from Thresh being a naturally slow early‑game jungler, lacking a true AoE skill, making him struggle against groups; furthermore Thresh started from the Stone Armor Beetle camp, which is harder to clear than the Magic Swamp Frog, and his Smite buff "Heavy Hand's Gift" does not boost his damage, whereas Rek'Sai's "Poison Fungi's Gift" taken from the Magic Swamp Frog greatly increases jungle‑clear speed; additionally Rek'Sai has higher base movement speed, reaches level three earlier by laning in mid, possesses a dash that aids travel, and so on; finally there are differences in player execution, and all these factors combined produce the scene we see now.
Everything was within Liang Yan's calculations.
Including this road‑blocking wolf spirit, it was also within Liang Yan's expectations.
The wolf spirit gave UOL vision, letting them see Liang Yan's every move at the entrance clearly, so Move felt confident, did not leave immediately, but dragged the Magic Swamp Frog to a spot near the five‑way junction and kept fighting.
But Liang Yan had made up his mind to deal with him; after waiting for his E ability cooldown, he directly burrowed past, and at the same time Mithy's Lulu began moving toward the river.
"Shit!! This guy makes no sense! What he's doing is totally not worth it!"
After receiving a warning from his bot lane's support Miss, Move cursed angrily, but facing Rek'Sai's burst, he could only choose to retreat.
He had no chance even in a one‑on‑one, let alone with Lulu supporting Rek'Sai.
Move didn't want to keep wasting time with Liang Yan, he muttered and walked away; just then the mark respawned in the upper river, Move felt delighted and hurried upstream.
While eating the Magic Swamp Frog, Liang Yan observed the lane situations; first he looked at mid lane and saw Lak Si's positioning had an opening, then glanced at the top lane minion wave, a plan instantly formed in his mind, he bit the Magic Swamp Frog with Ferocious Bite, then immediately turned and burrowed out, taking the path behind the blue buff to rush into mid lane.
Lak Si's positioning was near the upper river; when Rek'Sai emerged from the shadow of the opposite side path, he could only proceed toward the river.
Seize the mid‑lane line‑up.
After Liang Yan drove Lak Si into the river, he kept pursuing, constantly pinging while communicating over the mic with top laner Lao Zhang:
"Thresh is here too, Lao Zhang come and envelop them!"
Originally the top lane had the advantage of the ship captain, but Vizicsacsi (UOL top laner) was a bit greedy, still not having returned home by this time, whereas Lao Zhang had already gone back at level three to refill a bottle of corrupt potion and then teleported back to lane; altogether they had a huge mana and health advantage, thus achieving a reverse push of the minion wave.
When he saw the signal, Lao Zhang had already pushed the minion wave past the river.
Liang Yan burrowed to follow, taking the small path behind the red side's F6, tracking the Earth Listening signal all the way.
But after pursuing a stretch forward, the signal vanished in the river.
Liang Yan went down the slope; ahead was a small patch of grass standing alone in the middle of the river, and the signal disappeared about four hundred yards from the grass.
The increase of the Earth Listening alert time from 0.75 seconds to 1.5 seconds certainly has a big impact, but an experienced hunter can still judge the enemy's actions 1.5 seconds later by grasping every detail, as seen right here.
Exileh, who controls Lak Si, is smart and understands the recent Rek'Sai patch; knowing that Rek'Sai in burrowed state is like a blind monk, he wanted to pull a dark‑under‑the‑lamp counter‑ambush.
But unfortunately his cleverness is limited.
Liang Yan glanced at his teammates' positions, then without hesitation flashed forward.
"Wow! Although Firrrrrre lost track of Exileh's movements, he guessed Exileh's hiding spot and decisively flashed up to strike! Move, who was hiding with Exileh in the grass planning a sneak attack, was likewise knocked up!"
He unleashed a combo of ruthless burrowing strikes; Lak Si landed with only a sliver of health, using W and heal together to first stabilize his own HP, then he Q‑pressed Rek'Sai in close range, flashed to create distance, and turned to cast E.
"Pekrz couldn't keep up with the damage! Exileh flashed out! Firrrrrre was locked in place! Move was dealing damage without restraint!"
"Why isn't Syndra flashing!"
"But Ekko has already come from above to surround! Exileh has nowhere to retreat and can only turn back! Finally he was killed by Perkz's Dark Sphere followed by Weakling's Retreat!"
"However Move flashed to dodge Weakling's Retreat! He's still outputting! Rek'Sai has lost all mobility skills!"
Liang Yan knew he couldn't escape, so he began moving toward Lao Zhang.
Thresh chased from behind, auto‑attacking twice, then finally used Dance of Arrows to leap forward and claim Rek'Sai's kill.
But Liang Yan's objective had already been achieved; at the moment of his death, Lao Zhang's Ekko finally entered combat range, facing Thresh with a Phase Dive, and with three successive blows knocked Thresh down, successfully taking the kill that Liang Yan had fed to his mouth.
Liang Yan certainly did it on purpose; AP's condition this game was off, so Liang Yan dared not put all his faith in him, and deliberately fed a kill to Lao Zhang.
End of Chapter
