Chapter 164: Shatters at a Touch!

Xia Lu, the positions of the two side duos are both near the river midline.

Ding ding ding ding ding……

Dense signal sounds suddenly rang out, yellow and red marker symbols rained down onto Xia Lu like raindrops, there were blue side mid-jungle attack signals and also red side danger alert signals.

Pantheon, who had respawned and left base, didn't return to lane, but likewise ran toward Xia Lu.

Both sides could feel the atmosphere of an imminent big battle.

CLG couldn't hold back first; the Card turned on its light, revealing the G2 mid-jungle rushing from the river toward Xia Lu and Pantheon who had already run down from high ground.

After being revealed, G2 immediately showed their hand; Pantheon raised his spear to the sky, and behind the CLG duo on Xia Lu a huge red circle appeared.

"Rek'Sai just came down from high ground; he has no ultimate, but if we fight now G2 has a numerical advantage, yet the arrow is on the bow and must be released. Seeing Pantheon jump in with his ultimate, Ryze immediately placed his teleport on the Xia Lu minion wave and the Card flew straight in!"

"The Card landed first but the CLG duo had no hard CC to keep anyone, Sivir had already unleashed her ultimate and ran with Bard over a thousand yards away! Pantheon descended from the sky, similarly not hitting anyone, but Ryze happened to teleport down just as Pantheon sat on his face with his butt!"

"Ahri's Soul Assault rushed from the river mouth! The spider also followed up with a cocoon after Bard's Q ability! Ryze didn't use any skills and was almost instantly killed!"

"The remaining three CLG members all flashed and ran toward the tower! Ahri's second Soul Assault forced out Ezreal's last flash! G2 ignored the minion wave and charged straight for the tower! The spider led the tower dive! But the tower only fired one shot before being frozen by Bard's ultimate! Also frozen along with it was the troll!!"

"After the troll thawed, it also instantly melted under G2's five-man focus fire! Sivir took two tower hits and started to run out of the tower range! She deliberately stood on the edge of the tower's attack range to tank the third shot before leaving with a sliver of health!"

"Seeing the situation turn bad, the Card ran toward the second tower but was caught by the spider's flash and cocoon!"

"The excavator finally arrived, digging out from the side triangular grass! But the tower now only has Ezreal left—are you coming over just to give yourself up?!"

"After G2 killed the Card, they turned to deal with the two trapped in the tower; Bard auto-attacked Rek'Sai once to draw the tower's aggro, took a hit, then rode the second shot down the slide and slipped away! Switching to Hu li to start tanking the tower!"

"My goodness, G2's rotating tower tanking coordination is too seamless!"

"Ezreal has already fallen! Sivir landed a long-range boomerang blade to take his head! After pulling back, G2 again went for the lone Rek'Sai; Pantheon's spear strike took the tower aggro and, following up with a face‑jump, knocked Rek'Sai unconscious!!"

"No suspense!"

"G2 focuses fire again!"

"Rek'Sai goes down!!"

"Aced!!!"

"After two tower shots, Pantheon felt neither pain nor itch, having taken only one instance of effective damage before safely leaving the tower's attack range!!"

"Heavens, a zero-for-five exchange!!"

"What's going on, CLG?!"

"Although we started short‑handed, the enemy was nevertheless diving the tower for a team fight! It's only nine minutes in, and G2's highest level is just the level‑8 Hu li! How did it turn out like this!!"

"Yes, G2 actually doesn't have a very tanky front line; logically at this point they shouldn't be able to withstand many tower hits, yet in the end not a single one died!!"

"This feels off, I really think—CLG had been playing brightly earlier, with no gap in kills or economy against G2, but as soon as we team‑fought we fell apart like paper!"

"After an even game, one big team fight ended and we didn't even manage to trade a single enemy kill!"

"It's indeed too exaggerated; watching G2's team‑fight coordination leaves me……"

"Like the LPL, don't you feel that G2's team‑fighting style really resembles those top‑tier LPL squads known for their fighting prowess!"

"Hmm."

Su Xiao Yan responded instinctively, but upon further reflection she couldn't find any matching LPL team‑fight impression in her memory.

The ferocity is the same ferocity.

But aside from that, G2 seems to have more delicacy.

I can't pinpoint the exact difference, but in Su Xiao Yan's feeling, G2's handling of team‑fight details is indeed better than even the LPL's best‑fighting teams!

At least Su Xiao Yan truly hasn't seen such delicate rotation‑tanking coordination in any LPL team, as if G2 has practiced this kind of combat countless times!

The venue was silent as a library.

The North American commentators at the venue, after howling in despair, also fell into silence.

They also couldn't figure out the same problem.

Clearly there had been back‑and‑forth action before!

Yet as soon as the team fight began, they were utterly unable to fight back!

One wave and they were smashed to pieces!!

Why!!!

"After the team fight, the spider still had to eat CLG's jungle monsters—blue buff, Magic Swamp Frog, river crab, a whole dragon clear‑cut, devouring everything clean!"

"The good news is they didn't engage the small dragon."

"Uh... maybe they just had no appetite?"

"Well, a wind dragon indeed makes it hard to have any appetite."

"Furthermore, G2 is a front‑to‑mid‑game lineup; taking on the small dragon would actually slow their tempo, so not doing it makes sense."

"To be honest, although Riot has made several adjustments, for now the small dragon buff truly has little effect."

"Yes."

When the momentum from that big team fight had completely subsided, the total gold difference between the two sides had already opened up to over three thousand.

The time hadn't even reached ten minutes yet.

After a stable situation lasting over eight minutes, a wave suddenly split apart; the three on‑site commentators could barely hold on, began to look for reasons behind CLG's team‑fight collapse, but no matter how they talked, the only thing they could discern with their level was a single disconnected issue.

In the official YouTube match livestream, European viewers' voices grew louder while North American viewers remained silent.

Meanwhile, in the Chinese livestreams on all major platforms, LPL viewers happily flooded the chat with danmu like "EU > NA" and "Western feast", making it lively.

The match continued, with each side's players returning to their lanes; G2 Zhong Ren's equipment received various updates.

In that recent team fight, the biggest gain was AP's Hu li, who secured a triple kill, went home and directly crafted a Rocket Belt, and even had two or three hundred gold left when heading out.

Next were Liang Yan's spider and Zven's wheel mom, each getting a kill.

Lao Zhang's Pantheon and Mithy's Bard each racked up four or five assists; although they didn't get any kill gold, they still drank that big bowl of soup till they were full and bloated.

Back in lane, Huhi's Card didn't even dare show its face before AP's Hu li, because in that recent team fight he had used both of his summons; now Hu li not only has the belt, its ultimate will soon be ready—if he dares appear within 1,500 yards of Hu li, any charm will instantly kill him, even if he's wearing a big skirt.

Just over ten minutes later, Liang Yan went home to resupply and then headed straight to the bottom lane.

He crouched in the side brush for over ten seconds, then landed a Cocoon on EZ, and proceeded to feed Zven a kill.

He then kept pushing into the enemy jungle, treating their monsters as his own farm.