Chapter 137: What is the principle?

The director finally satisfied the commentators' curiosity, and after both lane battles ended, he gave a skill text explanation in the lower-left corner:

【Challenge Punishment: The upgraded punishment obtained by crafting the "Guerrilla's Blade" can be cast on enemies, marking the target for 4 seconds; attacks on the target deal 60~162 points of continuous true damage, and damage the target deals to you is reduced by 20%; the effect can be refreshed.】

「This...... 」

「At level 4 it already has 80 damage, and it's true damage, and it can be refreshed…… Is this skill too over the top? 」

「It can also apply Vulnerable. But what I'm more concerned about is that Firrrrrre's damage calculation is too precise! And he really doesn't want to waste any extra skill, waiting very patiently for the troll to get close before striking! 」

「A big-hearted player. 」

The bullet comments started scrolling again.

【Professional】

Liang Yan didn't help Lao Zhang clear the lane, glanced at the wine barrel's jungle count, confirmed the enemy Magic Swamp Frog hadn't spawned yet, and then turned and ran toward the river.

Entering the grass patch at the river entrance where Lao Zhang had placed a ward, Liang Yan saw through the vision provided by the minions before the tower that the wine barrel had disappeared behind the tower; the leopard woman leapt onto the riverside high ground, and upon landing she immediately planted her ward into the triangular grass, taking human form and standing by the wall.

Trashy was actually wary, approaching to place a ward.

But just as he entered the range to place a ward, a spear flew out of the grass.

The spear reached his face in the blink of an eye.

「Holyshit! 」

Trashy's startled cry escaped his lips; his reaction was half a beat slow, and although he immediately flashed sideways with E, the spear still pierced him, instantly reducing his health by nearly two hundred.

With only a little over three hundred health left, Trashy knew returning to the tower would be waiting to die, because Ekko was already pushing the lane into the tower, and the troll's respawn was still nearly ten seconds away; even with a teleport he couldn't land in time, so Trashy could only run toward the second tower.

The leopard woman burst out of the grass, with the hunt effect on her, her feet moving like the wind.

Although Trashy had never played the leopard woman, he knew her burst combo; his eyes locked onto her movements, nerves taut, his right hand controlled movement with the mouse, his left index finger hovered over the D key, ready to flash at any moment.

However, Liang Yan now focuses on being practical; he doesn't play those flashy tricks with him—after his W pounce was dodged by flash, he immediately followed with flash, then A-Q-E.

【DoubleKill!】

A plain, unflashy combo, full of damage, securely taken down.

He even followed up with a double kill.

「Jeez! Firrrrrre got another kill! It feels like he's about to take off again! 」

「Trashy is also too careless! 」

The commentary table fell silent for two seconds, then PiraTechnics said doubtfully:

「I don't know if everyone feels this way, but when watching Firrrrrre's matches, it seems he always gets into a killing spree easily, and then I get the feeling that I could do it too. 」

「Ah, I noticed that too when you said it; indeed, that's the case. 」

「Why is that? 」

「I don't know…… 」

After killing the wine barrel, Liang Yan did not continue to wait for the troll's teleport.

Because Lao Zhang hadn't yet reached level six quickly enough, Liang Yan himself lacked flash, while the troll had flash; forcefully diving the tower would be too prone to mishap.

But counter-jungling was pressure-free.

Liang Yan turned back to the blue buff jungle area, cleared the Magic Swamp Frog and then went to counter the three wolves; fearing the enemy jungler would have nothing to do after respawning, he deliberately left a small wolf for them.

Then he hid in the grass behind the blue side Zhong Lu first tower and recalled.

Midway through the recall channel, Mikyx's Thresh appeared from the right side of the river in Zhong Lu.

Xia Lu had already warned the support Miss; AP was prepared.

But astonishingly, Mikyx simply flashed up with no fanfare and then landed a hook straight on——

「What?! Actually landed!! 」

「Why didn't he dodge?! 」

「Perkz has no flash! He's dead! 」

Liang Yan hurriedly canceled his recall, jumped out of the grass, and went to support.

In the previous hair-pulling exchange, both mid laners had used their flash, their health was low, AP was at about half health, and the Fan Mom had less than one-third.

After AP gets hooked, he's doomed; Liang Yan isn't going to save him, he just wants to see if he can find an opportunity to take the Fan Mom's head.

「Mikyx dragged himself along the chain and steadily applied Ignite; Perkz twisted left and right trying to run, but was pulled back by the 【Misfortune】! 」

「Sencux shielded himself and sped forward, unleashing an RQ! Finally he took SPY's first kill in this match! 」

「……Why didn't Perkz dodge the hook? 」

「Yeah, it's really strange this wave; Mikyx obviously threw the hook straight on. 」

「He couldn't have bought it, haha... 」

Actually, it was unavoidable.

From Perkz's perspective, the angle of Mikyx's hook was extremely weird, making Perkz feel extremely awkward, as if no matter whether he moved forward or backward he couldn't dodge; and the projectile speed of Thresh's hook is actually very fast— in that brief moment of hesitation, the hook had already reached his face, leaving no time to dodge.

「Firrrrre is here too! 」

「Run, Sencux! Can't let him get another kill! 」

「One standard shot fired! Missed! Sencux ran off with the lantern! 」

「That should be the end of it... 」

「No! That standard shot hit a minion! Nidalee used the minion as a springboard to pounce over and quickly close in! Another pounce in mid-air, using Punish to execute the minion and continue the chase! In an instant she closed the gap by over a thousand yards and caught up to Sencux! 」

「What?! 」

「Sencux turned around and wrapped the chain, but Firrrrrre pounced again! Mikyx's abilities were all on cooldown and couldn't help! Landing, he QE'd and instantly killed! 」

「……What is the principle? 」

「The mechanism of Nidalee's W in cougar form: if the target of her W has been marked, the ability returns a certain proportion of its cooldown. 」

「And what about Punishing the minion…… 」

When the target of the W skill is killed, its cooldown is also refunded. Two minions, two jumps, and finally he caught up to the seemingly unattainable Sencux!

The gasps at the scene sounded like thunder.

In the official livestream room, bilingual Chinese-English comments piled up layer upon layer, covering the entire screen.

【？？？】

【Awesome, too detailed！！】

【How about you change your name to Show God!】

【Coach, I want to learn this too!】

SPY player seats, Sencux stared at the black-and-white image on the screen, completely dazed.

His teammates also fell silent.

In the headset there was only white noise and the faint din of the audience.

At this range he can kill, so the whole map is safe only at home's Quan Shui.

After a long while, Sencux couldn't help but ask:

"Trashy, the leopard woman is this strong—why don't you play her?"

"……I don't want to play!"