Chapter 220: Damn it!

Perkz is just openly freezing the lane this wave.

Although Xiaohu has vision of the lower river, the upper river has none.

To eat or not to eat?

Xiaohu's playstyle is fairly steady; at first he could hold back and not advance, just using charged Q to last‑hit, missing two or three minions per wave—barely acceptable in the short term.

But when he saw that Perkz, after controlling two waves, still had no intention of pushing the lane, and Malaxiangguo couldn't come over to help clear it, Xiaohu finally couldn't hold back.

He thought, since the enemy doesn't want to push out, he'd just walk in himself, actively creating a counter‑push so the enemy can't control it!

The Q can be charged from a distance; it's just a matter of walking up and tossing an E.

It's only two or three seconds—should be fine.

With such a hopeful mindset, after firing a charged Q, Xiaohu started walking forward, wanting to use his E skill, Shadow Arrow Rain, on the minion wave that had stacked up.

As expected, the unexpected happened.

As soon as he got close, Perkz swooped in with a burst of speed and immobilized him.

At the same time, Graves burst out from the small path behind the blue side's F4 camp.

"Damn it, I knew it!"

Xiaohu shouted angrily in RNG's internal channel.

Malaxiangguo switched over, took a glance, knew Xiaohu was done for, abandoned the idea of helping, and couldn't help but complain:

"You know jack shit—knowing full well you still went up, are you intentionally feeding? Can you even eat this wave, LiYuanhao? Damn it, didn't you know to wait for me?!"

"Wait for your mother, wait!"

"I've told you twice, and you keep saying 'wait a moment'!"

However, although the caster's salary is higher than Malaxiangguo's, RNG emphasizes a strict internal hierarchy—Malaxiangguo is the second‑in‑command, the big brother whose authority is second only to Uzi's—so Xiaohu dare not talk back; otherwise he'd surely be met with a torrent of rage. Thus he only curses in his mind, saying nothing aloud.

But still fuming inside, at the moment he lost control he flashed and sprinted together, trying to seize a sliver of life for himself and slap Malaxiangguo in the face.

Although Ryze's W crowd‑control is brief, it's enough for Ryze to unleash a full combo, and with Graves' WQEA burst, by the time Xiaohu lost control he was already low on health.

Ryze flashed to follow up.

Xiaohu couldn't dodge the Q, and Perkz took him down with an E‑Q‑A combo.

"Perkz got another kill! The mid lane gap is getting pretty big now!"

"Oh dear, Xiaohu was too careless this wave—Graves still found an opportunity."

In the LPL commentator's desk, Wawa Miller was heartbroken.

The barrage began to flame Xiaohu:

【If you don't come to fight, you're top‑tier at feeding】

【Heh, I've said it before—Xiaohu is just like Changzhang, a home‑turf tyrant who turns into a weakling as soon as a big tournament starts!】

【I don't need you to carry, but can you at least stop feeding? Hold the lane, wait for the little dog to get items and then team‑fight—why does something always go wrong in top or mid? I'm drunk!】

But not everyone in this live stream is an RNG fan—there are plenty of EDG fans too. Although after EDG's elimination the little pigs seem to have lost their voice in the LPL, now that RNG was first crushed by G2 to take a game, and the second game got off to a bad start—trailing by two kills, with RNG's chances of collapsing looking high—the little pigs jumped out to refute the dog fans' absurd claims point by point.

【What does 'feeding' mean? Since the jungler isn't helping, the mid lane can't even hear experience, right? Then let the jungler and bottom lane carry, what else does mid need to do?】

【Ah, right, right, right—Changzhang is a weakling in big tournaments, but that doesn't stop EDG from beating RNG like a son.】

【Laughable—if you can't even eat the lane, how do you hold it? The jungler's always camping bot, never even glancing at top or mid—if nothing happened, that'd be weird!】

【Like this, I suggest for RNG next game: top lane Shen with jungler, mid lane Sivir, bottom lane Vayne + Lulu—what do you all think?】

【Shen just came out two days ago, can't be picked in the match—should swap in Piglet, and it also nicely fills an engage tool and front line—don't say this comp is great!】

【Haha, RNG, stop showing off your understanding—mid lane Varus, you can't handle it, just stick to the classic protect‑the‑ADC composition!】

【Looks like you're gonna lose, RNG's gonna lose again—going to be 2‑0!】

Although they know the little pigs are deliberately posting that to disgust themselves, when the dog fans see the words '2‑0' drifting by in the live stream, chills run down their spines; they frantically tell themselves 'No way, impossible—RNG this strong couldn't possibly lose to a European scrub!', yet at the same time they can't help but think:

What if?

Some people can't stand this torment and go crazy saying:

【Heh, even if it's 2‑0, is it really that hard to make it 3‑2?】

When that maniacal comment drifted across the LPL live stream, Graves was pushing the mid lane, and not far behind him, Perkz's Ryze, who had just hit level six, was recalling.

When the last red‑side minion died, Ryze's recall bar was nearing completion, and at the same moment RNG completely lost vision of the mid lane.

Malaxiangguo immediately sent a signal to the bottom lane:

"Push fast, Ryze has recalled—we'll push the lane and take the tower!"

The minion wave was already near the river midline; with a burst of force, Uzi's Caitlyn quickly pushed it past, and at the same moment Malaxiangguo's Nidalee appeared from behind the two.

RNG of course knows that with these three they can't easily dive the tower to kill Ezreal and Blitzcrank, but applying a little pressure so Uzi's Caitlyn can safely hit the tower is still doable.

So Malaxiangguo didn't hide either, but came forward, intending to help by using her human form's ranged auto‑attack to chip the tower.

However, the enemy duo did not retreat behind the tower.

Instead, Blitzcrank burst out with a dash from under the tower.

Malaxiangguo sensed something was off, quickly glanced behind—sure enough, a massive teleport vortex had appeared not far behind her.

Malaxiangguo was so startled her soul left her body:

"Damn it!"

"You're playing dirty on me!"

"Go! Hurry!"

"Sell a mata!"

By now the RNG team had realized—Ryze's hurried recall was a fake, Graves' supposed lane‑push help was also a fake; in fact, when RNG lost vision, the two had simply gone downstream.

If nothing unexpected, at this moment Ryze was exactly behind the dragon pit in the Triangular Grass, driving around with Graves to flank.

Malaxiangguo figured it all out, feeling immense regret and hating herself for falling for such a low‑level trick.

But everything was too late.

In the LPL commentary booth, Wawa wailed as if the sky had fallen, lamenting heaven and earth:

"Ryze drove around behind with the male gunner!"

"It's over!!!"

"All three RNG members didn't flash!"