Chapter 178: It's starting to taste like eimy

Support taking kills is no longer useful; it's already a thing of the past.

In this patch, taking kills as support is very useful!

Although the director didn't give the damage data for that team fight just now, but actually if you carefully watch the replay you know, Jinx's AOE in the team fight was maxed out, and her ultimate even hit three targets, so there's no doubt she was the highest damage dealer in that team fight.

After the team fight ended, in the official match livestream on YouTube, G2 fans began to speak up.

【Now tell me, what's the score?】

On the live commentary desk, the guest who initially said this match would be 10-0, now also fell silent embarrassedly. Although he thinks ROX can definitely turn the tide, but the current situation is indeed quite embarrassing for him. Even without this G2 big win team fight, it's clear that in the first few minutes of the match, the pace on stage has been led by Firrrrrre, G2 has always held the initiative in the early rounds, while ROX is relatively passive. This shows that G2 absolutely has the strength to fight ROX!

So-called 10-0 now looks like a joke.

After taking the dragon, G2's duo lane directly recalled to base, Perkz went back to mid lane, Liang Yan returned to his own jungle, and after clearing the three monster groups in the lower half of the jungle, he recalled.

Time reached ten minutes.

Liang Yan finished his tier-three green jungle knife, added a trinket ward and a control ward, basically achieving free ward placement.

Leaving base and heading up, after using Smite to clear the F4, he carried the true vision granted by Smite on F4 all the way into the enemy jungle.

Until he entered the deep part of ROX's upper jungle, the true vision effect never triggered, indicating that Liang Yan's intrusion wasn't detected by any of ROX's wards.

But Liang Yan didn't do anything extra; he circled the ROX jungle without touching the two freshly respawned monster groups, placed a ward in the triangular grass behind the blue side's top tower then retreated, didn't approach the upper river mouth, hurried to kill the river crab and then headed to his own jungle toward the Stone Armor Beetle camp.

LPL commentators couldn't understand.

"This is really a huge detour, the monsters didn't even fight back, he just placed a ward to prevent ganks, went all the way just to eat a river crab and a Stone Armor Beetle, why?"

Miller simply said: "I don't know."

Chang Mao then chuckled twice and said: "It looks like it has a bit of eimy's flavor."

Wawa said: "Yeah, Peanut just went home, he totally had time to counter those two monster groups, why didn't he take them?"

They couldn't understand Liang Yan's layout, they just felt this play was hard to comprehend.

In that bottom lane team fight, the timing of Xiao Huasheng's appearance shows he went home and then ran straight down the lane, with no time to jungle; that is, until Xiao Huasheng died, the three monster groups in ROX's lower jungle, including the second red buff, remained untouched, so after respawning Xiao Huasheng would definitely go take them; otherwise, you can't even talk about lane matchup, his level will fall far behind the average level on the field.

But Liang Yan didn't die, so in this rhythm he will still be much faster than Xiao Huasheng, and the initiative on the field remains in his hands.

This ward is a foreshadowing.

Combined with Lao Zhang's respawn, after clearing the first wave he placed a fake ward at the enemy jungle's five-way intersection; once Xiao Huasheng appears in the upper jungle, he will have nowhere to hide.

And when he actually appears, even his timing and equipment situation match Liang Yan's prediction exactly.

After Xiao Huasheng cleared the three monster groups in the lower jungle and recalled again, that's the moment the LPL commentators wondered why Liang Yan didn't counter-jungle.

This time recalling, Xiao Huasheng still didn't have enough gold to combine into a tier-three jungle knife; when he left base, he had a green tier-two jungle knife plus two minor components and a pair of boots.

He didn't bring a control ward, nor did he swap for a sweeping lens.

According to Tang Anna's research, Xiao Huasheng is a jungler who really dislikes buying control wards, especially when at a lane disadvantage; even before combining into a tier-three jungle knife, even if he had leftover gold when leaving base, he wouldn't buy a control ward.

And this situation precisely confirms that point—Xiao Huasheng's spider appeared at the five-way intersection, all information was fully visible to the G2 team.

At that moment, Liang Yan had just finished clearing the Stone Armor Beetles, saw Xiao Huasheng turn a corner heading toward the three wolves camp, and thus pinged a signal to the top lane.

"Lao Zhang, push the lane quickly, get here around 10:30, meanwhile take some damage, but keep your skills to escape."

"No problem!"

Lao Zhang acknowledged and began to accelerate pushing the lane.

Liang Yan then again went from behind his own red buff via the small path, turned into the river, placed a ward in the small grass patch at the river center, then quietly sneaked into the Dragon Pit, standing silently against the wall.

In the enemy jungle, Xiao Huasheng's actions were completely under the surveillance of those two wards.

When he reappeared, he had three more last hits, obviously having cleared the three wolves, then he ran toward the Magic Swamp Frog camp; shortly after reappearing again, he had one more last hit.

Then he crouched down in the triangular grass patch.

Exactly on top of Liang Yan's ward.

At the same time, Liang Yan left the Dragon Pit, entered through the jungle entrance, crouched by the wall, less than a thousand yards away from Xiao Huasheng, but because of the wall, Xiao Huasheng didn't know someone was crouched in the fog on the other side.

This bizarre scene caused a huge commotion on site, with the commentators exclaiming repeatedly.

Lao Zhang cooperated well, not letting the two crouch for too long.

At 10:30, exactly the time Liang Yan requested, Lao Zhang's Kennen successfully pushed the minion wave to just before the blue side's top tower, which was exactly the spot Liang Yan had marked with his signal.

Kennen's health was around two-thirds.

The only shortcoming was that Nali had no rage.

But just as Liang Yan had expected, Xiao Huasheng still couldn't hold back.

He knew there was a G2 ward at the river mouth, so he didn't detour, but came straight out from the triangular grass; Nali then leapt up, threw a boomerang at point-blank range to slow Kennen.

"Kennen turned into lightning and ran back, but because Nali slowed him down he wasn't fast, and none of the three had flash!"

"The two chased relentlessly; although Peanut couldn't keep up with the damage, Nali after landing three hits accelerated and chased with auto-attacks! It feels like just chasing like that could actually kill Kennen outright!"

"Kennen fled into the river, there were wards in the grass on both sides, ROX's upper jungle had no vision and chased in! Kennen was already low on health but still baiting! Turning around AQW to stun Nali also gave the spider the skill distance to directly fly in with its web!"

"But you didn't expect it, did you?! I also have someone behind me!! Jiao Shen from above reached Kennen's body with a Q-R kick, kicking the just-landed spider away and also hitting Nali!! The second Q followed up with a slap that knocked Nali down, and Kennen's basic attack directly took Smeb's head!!"

"It feels like Peanut is totally dumb; I just came from there, how is there still someone crouched above?!"

"Peanut landed and turned back into human form, then threw a cocoon to bind the Blind Monk and tried to run, but being slowed he moved too slow!! The blind monk recovered from the stun and kept chasing!!"

"It's over! Can't escape!"