Chapter 222: What's even more painful is

The mid lane scene made all RNG supporters feel anguished.

Looper securing Ryze's kill for the team did nothing to ease their anxiety, because Looper was also about to meet the same fate.

「The slow from the smoke bomb makes Looper's movement difficult! And it really hurts! After Graves fired two bullets, Looper has less than half health left! 」

「Bo Bi charges forward with Confident Wind, slams into the wall! Looper, forced, has to use his ultimate! 」

「But the position he returns to is still terrible! Graves doesn't even dodge, just tanks the ultimate and keeps spraying in your face! 」

「Looper knows he can't escape, desperately trying to trade with Graves, but in the end two fists can't beat six hands, and he's finally killed by Graves' ultimate explosive. 」

RNG team voice channel.

Uzi's voice, on the verge of breaking, sounded in everyone's headset:

「Damn it, can you stop feeding Graves?! If this continues we'll really be 0-2! Damn, I feel like even if I had a ten‑thousand advantage in bot lane, you'd still send me back! 」

Everyone fell silent.

Malaxiangguo silently followed the duo out, dove into the lower jungle, and without clearing any monsters began placing wards.

On the LPL commentary desk, Miller's voice carried a sense of panic:

「Another 2‑for‑1 trade! Although we got Ryze's kill, that little gold is just a drop in the bucket! RNG is still losing! 」

「What's worse is that RNG lost top and mid, what are we to do with this middle tower…」

「Painful. 」

「Indeed painful, it feels like…」

「Don't! 」

Wawa startled, raised a hand to stop, preventing Guan Zeyuan from saying that word,

「It hasn't come to that, a gold deficit of over a thousand at nine minutes isn't a huge disadvantage; I think we still have a chance to fight. 」

「But if this tower falls…」

「Hasn't it not fallen yet? Look, bot lane has come over, this tower can definitely be held! 」

「What about bot lane? 」

「Bot lane Ezreal pushed the wave then went back to buy items; Uzi can clear mid lane and return to defend in time, it's just a matter of clearing a few minions! 」

Guan Zeyuan laughed helplessly, completely won over by Wawa's nonsensical fuss, thinking if you're going to say that, I have nothing more to say.

Just as Wawa finished speaking, the venue suddenly erupted with a commotion.

Guan Zeyuan immediately looked up at the big screen.

The replay hadn't ended yet when the picture suddenly cut back to live broadcast.

Having just respawned, Malaxiangguo hurriedly rushed into the lower jungle to set up vision, while acting as a bodyguard for the duo on the right side of mid lane and placing wards, was hooked past by the robot through a thick mountain wall.

「Wow! Is this hook really that long?! 」

Figure: Nidalee's capture position

Malaxiangguo was actually wary, but this ward was a true sight in the brush; Malaxiangguo had no other wards left, and his trinket had been swapped for a sweep, so to place this ward he needed vision of the brush, and to get brush vision he had to enter the brush.

Mithy seized the moment when Nidalee went in and out to throw his hook, catching her at max range and pulling her over.

This move was actually commanded by Liang Yan, so Liang Yan had prepared in advance; at the moment Nidalee was pulled over, he cast a wall‑collision Q, then a wall‑crouch AEA, reenacting the one‑second four‑shots scene from the previous game……

「Mata, can you save him? The lantern's been thrown! If Malaxiangguo could hop he could pick up the lantern and escape, but he can't hold on! 」

「Graves' burst is too high!! 」

「Malaxiangguo was killed outright before he even landed! 」

「It's over, completely fallen apart. 」

After the kill, Liang Yan led Mithy straight into the jungle, counter‑jungling while also completely cutting off RNG's mid and bot lanes.

Now the two mid laners wanting to return to bot lane have to detour via the high ground, and it's not completely safe either.

Guan Zeyuan said:

「With this much time, Ezreal should be able to take down the next tower. 」

「What's even more painful is……」

Miller said weakly:

「RNG probably doesn't even dare to take the mid lane minion wave; and the most painful part is, even if he's farming the jungle and not coming to gank you, you still don't dare to go back and take the wave. 」

「Yes, because RNG has no vision. 」

「Not only is there no vision, but with the robot around you don't dare to place vision either! Why is the robot in an advantageous game so terrifying? Because you're in the light while it's in the dark; it hooks you out of vision not by luck but almost guaranteed to hit the head, and paired with a Graves whose close‑range burst is extremely high, it's a hook‑and‑kill every time! This is just too scary! 」

After Malaxiangguo's Nidalee fell, RNG's duo cleared the minion wave before the tower, then quickly left from beneath the middle tower, dove into the upper jungle heading for top lane, and while passing the red buff camp they also took the red buff.

Now it truly became one person taking on four lanes.

Xiaohu's Varus had just respawned and walked out of the fountain.

At that moment, a blue‑side false ward appeared behind RNG's middle tower; presumably the robot placed it through the wall, and although true sight can reveal the ward, it does not attack it.

So the ward just stands there, blatantly showing off.

Xiaohu stepped down from the high ground, but still dared not move forward.

The director gave a close‑up: Varus stood beside the second tower, far from the lower jungle, daring neither to approach and destroy the ward, nor to come forward to farm the lane, nor to place vision.

The director, worried viewers wouldn't understand why Xiaohu was AFK there, switched to RNG's perspective; the map was instantly shrouded in fog over most areas, and from the viewpoint of Xiaohu's Varus hiding in the second tower, everything around was darkness, dangers all around, while the ward standing behind the middle tower looked like a glowing bait, so conspicuous.

The robot and Graves never appeared in RNG's vision; no one knew if they were just hiding behind some wall in the lower jungle's mist, waiting for a chance to strike.

So Xiaohu simply dared not come forward.

Ryze then appeared before the tower, bringing the minion wave to start tearing it down.

And Ekko, who respawned a bit later, ran straight to bot lane; because the lower jungle's vision was completely lost, Looper likewise dared not leave, only able to stand beside the second tower waiting to catch the minion wave after Ezreal finishes taking down the tower and pushes forward.

Until Uzi and Mata came down from top lane, joined with Xiaohu's Varus, the three grouped up and finally dared to come forward to defend the middle tower. By then, the tower had already been whittled down to half health by Ryze, who is famed for having the game's most painful projectile trajectory.

As for how many waves of minions this defensive tower has consumed since the duo left, nobody knows exactly, but a rough estimate based on time suggests at least three waves.

And the bottom lane was also burning.

Zven even deliberately left a bit of health unbroken, letting the defensive tower kill more minions.

To RNG supporters, this scene brought a heavy sense of suffocation.