Chapter 115: Combo Meal!

Nowadays, Jhin's build is always Youmuu's Ghostblade plus Edge of Night.

This build for Jhin comes together very quickly; as long as development is normal, it usually reaches peak power before twenty minutes, with development time greatly shortened. Combined with armor-piercing runes and the Thunderlord's Decree talent, you don't even need two items; in the early game, just a serrated short dagger is enough to have respectable combat power.

The person who developed this playstyle is simply a genius.

When the version discussion meeting was first held, Liang Yan immediately thought of the crocodile— the power spike of armor-piercing Jhin lines up exactly with the crocodile's; in team fights, the crocodile rushes in to deal damage while Jhin follows up to clean up, making them a perfect match.

So at that time Liang Yan proposed the idea of a system combining crocodile and Jhin.

Tang Anna instantly understood his intention, raised her hand in approval on the spot, and later in the research applied the concept broadly, eventually coming up with several lineups that could fit the crocodile in.

Now G2 is bringing out this crocodile-plus-Jhin lineup, and they're not afraid of others copying it.

This system isn't something you can just copy a lineup and have it work; you need to practice, you need understanding, you need to be able to adapt on the fly, mainly relying on the jungler to drive it. If you lack understanding and aren't that skilled a jungler yet still force-copy the lineup, that's just copying the ugly.

They might not even understand how to copy the lineup.

Just like UOL's lineup that they slapped together on a whim.

Liang Yan's spider normally starts at the Stone Armor Beetle, with Lao Zhang's crocodile helping to clear.

The bottom lane duo finished the Magic Swamp Frog before heading back to lane; judging by the enemy duo's lane entry time and condition, they had also cleared a jungle camp before laning, so the bottom lane executed plan B, playing aggressively from the moment they entered lane and frequently trading hits with the enemy.

Before reaching level 2, both ADs were down to half health.

Mithy had already warded the brush, Zven deliberately saved two bullets, and upon hitting level 2 they flashed in and went all-in, blowing Veritas's big mouth's flash heal, and big mouth was in terrible shape; Bu Long is a melee support who can't restore an AD's condition, so Veritas had no choice but to recall to replenish.

Deficio exclaimed on the spot:

"Oh my god! They forced the enemy back to base at level 2! Zven is so fierce!"

Sjokz laughed:

"This is Jhin; UOL paid the price for choosing such a weak bottom lane for themselves."

Quickshot, who was optimistic about UOL, muttered twice without saying anything.

Zven and Mithy quickly pushed the second wave into the tower, likewise went back to base to change gear, picking up a longsword, striving to maximize their real-time combat power.

Meanwhile, Liang Yan had already cleared the F4 and leveled up to level three.

Just as the opening plan had intended, he didn't go bottom, but crossed the river straight to the blue side's upper jungle, glanced at the Magic Swamp Frog— as expected it had already been cleared— formed a judgment on Rek'Sai's jungle route, and immediately crouched in the triangular grass behind the blue side's first tower, waiting for Lao Zhang to push the lane into the tower.

The director switched the camera over.

Quickshot exclaimed:

"No, what is this guy doing? Does he intend to dive that full-health Shen? Tower diving at level three— are you sure?"

"The early-game burst of crocodile plus spider is extremely terrifying; as long as the crocodile's W isn't blocked, the damage is definitely enough!"

"Island is auto-attacking minions, he's building up rage!"

"Are we really going to tower dive, my goodness!"

Vizicsacsi realized something, knowing he couldn't both maintain his condition and reach level three, so he directly retreated into the tower to avoid having his health chipped away by the crocodile.

Liang Yan's crouch lasted just over ten seconds.

Lao Zhang finally pushed this wave with the cannon minion into the tower.

Liang Yan simply walked out.

Then Lao Zhang walked straight toward Shen's face.

Vizicsacsi pulled his sword back to put a shield on himself, gripping his W, anxiously guessing when the crocodile would unleash its W.

Lao Zhang didn't engage in a duel with him, simply walking up to Vizicsacsi's face and unleashing three quick strikes.

At this point the crocodile's W wasn't the later ridiculous skill that stuns the user as well; its execution was clean and decisive.

"It's over! The W wasn't blocked!"

"Firrrrrre followed up with crowd control! Feels like an instant kill!"

The crocodile's red-anger W bit Shen, stunning him, then an auto-attack followed by Q, adjusting position, the first segment of E struck Shen while charging out of tower range; the second segment of E immediately left the tower's attack range, the whole process only taking two tower shots, without any hesitation.

Liang Yan first unleashed a combo in human form, then when Shen was about to break free of control, he followed up with Cocoon to keep him stunned, finally transforming into spider form and lunging at him.

Shen at level two with seven hundred health and a shield was killed instantly without even getting to flash.

At the moment the defensive tower locked onto him, Liang Yan's spider leapt into the air and immediately landed, causing the tower to foolishly retarget its aggression onto a minion.

"Killed... killed?"

Quickshot stared wide-eyed at the big screen showing the spider securing first blood, his pupils filled with disbelief, then he almost broke down:

"No, where is his sword formation?!"

"Why didn't he activate his sword formation?!"

"Vizicsacsi, do you even know how to play Shen?!"

Sjokz held back laughter:

"He didn't dare activate it early, because the skill lasts only two seconds; if he had turned it on beforehand, Island could simply wait for it to expire then strike, so he could only gamble, activating the sword formation at the exact moment the crocodile's W went off, in order to block the skill."

"That's right."

Deficio nodded in agreement,

"But Island's strike was too clean, Vizicsacsi had no time to react. That said, the crocodile-plus-spider top-jungle combination seems……"

"Extremely violent and brainless."

"Wow, that's a spot‑on description!"

Quickshot's face darkened, he said irritably:

"Then I ask you, where's Rek'Sai? Before the engage, the crocodile's movements already showed a very clear tower‑dive signal— why didn't he come?! What is Move doing?!"

"That's because we have the god's‑eye view, so it seems obvious; but from UOL's perspective it's not certain, since G2's bottom lane was playing so aggressively that it might have given Move a wrong signal, making him think Firrrrrre's target was the bottom lane."

"That's right."

Deficio nodded again in agreement,

"Besides, at that time Move was already hitting the red buff."

"Then he goes to counter-jungle!"

"Brother, Big Mouth hasn't returned to lane yet, and Zhong Lu was also pushed..."

"..."

"Quickshot couldn't bring himself to say anything."

"And Vizicsacsi, at the moment he was instantly killed, realized his fate in this game, and his face turned pale instantly."

"But we have to kill this wave of minions..."

"With the siege minion helping to tank, there are still many red-side minions left pushing into the tower."

"Should we use Teleport or not?"

"For Vizicsacsi, this is a question that doesn't require much thought."