Chapter 221

Top lane had no teleport.

Three squishies.

No flash.

Was caught by the enemy mid laner and jungler who flanked from behind.

When these conditions combine, the outcome is sealed.

「Xiangguo went into the tower!"

「But Ezreal jumped up!

「One Q!

「Didn't dodge!

「Took Xiangguo's head!"

「It's over, zero for three, this wave... RNG just blew up.

The audience's cheers were deafening.

The three LPL commentators fell silent after commenting on the teamfight, making the originally faint background noise in the livestream become very clear.

The director quickly gave a replay.

The replay deliberately used the RNG perspective.

The director fixed the camera on Zhong Lu until RNG completely lost vision of Zhong Lu; after a few seconds, the director switched back to both sides' view.

The blue side's fog cleared, and Ryze indeed had canceled recall and was walking down.

Miller silently watched the replay on the big screen; the image of RNG's three jungle members being killed one after another carried a brutal tone, stabbing Miller's heart, making him involuntarily speak angrily:

「I really didn't expect that!

「Such a low-level trick, and yet nobody on RNG had even a hint of vigilance!

「Even knowing the enemy had Ryze!

「Even knowing Ryze had reached level six!

「They didn't even place a ward in the Triangular Grass, and just pushed straight over!

「What the hell are you playing, RNG!!!

「Sigh——

Wawa sighed heavily,

「It feels like it's because Ryze has been constantly banned, leading to insufficient experience dealing with him.

「Not that many reasons!!

Miller angrily roared,

「Just three words! Discipline!

「If you don't ward, at least have the jungler come take a look before pushing; you're still a cougar! It doesn't take much time—do you really lack those two or three extra seconds to auto-attack twice and take down this tower? Can't you just put down a ward to check?

「No! Xiangguo didn't come, Mata didn't come either! They probably never imagined they'd be caught!"

「It's truly a lack of discipline to the extreme!

In this era, those three words 'discipline' are still quite fresh.

But as one of the LPL commentators with the strongest professional ability, Miller often watches LCK matches and has had many exchanges with Guan Zeyuan, who understands LCK the best, so he still has some concept of 'discipline'.

「Forget it, Professor Miller, calm down.

Guan Zeyuan advised from the side,

「This wave Ryze didn't recall, his condition was also weakened a bit, so our mid lane Xiaohu has the initiative next round; after Varus hits level six, we can find a chance to help the bottom lane take this tower, and the gold difference actually isn't that big.

When Guan Zeyuan said this, Graves and Blitzcrank were grouped together, wandering in RNG's lower jungle; after the two swept through, RNG's entire lower jungle vision was cleared clean, leaving only G2's wards.

Perkz returned to mid lane.

Xiaohu had revived and returned to lane, but he couldn't confirm the positions of Graves and Blitzcrank, so naturally he didn't dare push the line. However hiding under the tower was also unsafe, so he stood in front of the tower near the red side's F4 camp; as long as he didn't let Ryze push the wave in, if Graves came from the river he'd retreat to the second tower, if they came from the jungle gap he'd retreat to the enemy jungle path; no matter which direction the enemy attacked from, he had enough retreat distance, and Xiaohu knew Ryze had no flash or dash, so as long as he kept his distance, Ryze couldn't use W to lock him down.

Unfortunately he missed a detail.

When Perkz was last-hitting the red side's wave's final minion (cannon minion), he used two Es—Ryze's reworked E has a very short cooldown, only 2.25 seconds.

Xiaohu also didn't click on Ryze to check his detailed status.

So Xiaohu was completely unaware that Ryze, who was currently pushing the wave forward, had two layers of 'runes' on him.

After the rework, Ryze's Q passive works like this: Ryze's W and E reset Q's cooldown and generate a rune that lasts 4 seconds; using Q consumes all runes, and if Ryze consumes two runes, he gains a shield lasting 2 seconds and gains 25%–50% movement speed increase during the shield's duration.

Simply put, Ryze's current Q passive is equivalent to having a shield plus a speed boost.

Under normal circumstances, if we don't consider Ryze's flash and dash, keeping about 900 units distance from him is enough to stay safe. Because Ryze's crowd control skill 【Rune Prison】 has the same range as his basic attack, only 550 units, and his base movement speed is only 335. This means keeping 900 units distance from Ryze gives oneself a 1-second reaction time, whether to disengage or counterattack—enough for a pro player to make an effective response.

But if Ryze is holding two layers of runes, then it's completely different.

For example, right now.

When Ryze pushed the wave forward, Xiaohu also followed the new wave that had just arrived in front of the tower; he saw Ryze intending to keep pressing forward, so he threw a Shadow Flare, but Ryze turned and dodged it; Ryze seemed just trying to fake a skill, so Xiaohu turned back, moved forward to auto-attack minions while staying about 900 units away from Ryze, preparing to control the wave here and prevent it from entering the tower.

However, at the moment the rune duration was about to end, Ryze threw a Q at a front-line minion; suddenly two white shields appeared on his head, and a gust rose under his feet, his movement speed instantly spiking to nearly 500 units per second!

At the same time, G2's jungle and support emerged from the shadows of the lower path!

When Xiaohu reacted and turned to run toward the upper jungle path, Ryze was already less than 700 units away from him; even though Xiaohu had Boots of Speed, his movement speed was still far inferior to Ryze's.

Varus was inevitably caught before Ryze's speed boost faded; Blitzcrank surged forward with overcharge and hooked Varus, who was immobilized for two seconds by Ryze's E-W combo.

Xiaohu, being dragged uncontrollably toward Blitzcrank by the hook, saw Looper's Ekko appear about 1000 units ahead and desperately clicked the mouse.

With a bang, Varus was grabbed and then blasted away by Blitzcrank's energy fist; Graves fired point-blank, a single auto-attack releasing four bullets that the frail Varus absorbed fully, and the two instances of damage from his desperate state were both maximized.

「Xiaohu was instantly killed!

"Looper flashed, EQA unleashed three rings in an instant, beating Ryze down to a sliver of health, and finally a basic attack finally took Perkz's head!"

"But Bo Bi also appeared from the river!"

Nanqiang also quickly drew his gun and stuck up!

Looper hurriedly ran down towards the tower!