Chapter 251

Around fifteen minutes later, both sides erupted in a 5v5 teamfight in the top lane.

After SKT took position, they were the first to engage; Jayce teleported in and, in that instant, Jinx unleashed her ultimate to hold enemies. Rek'Sai, accompanied by Ziggs, surged out of the river and first forced Ezreal to use Arcane Shift. Bang's shots were on fire—his two shots made Ezreal blink, and his third shot hit Janna who hadn't blinked. If not for Poppy teleporting down, flashing, and hammering Jinx away, Bang's fourth shot might have outright killed Janna.

But Mithy ultimately couldn't survive; Faker rushed in with a burst of speed and killed him, while the rest of SKT turned around to deal with the Blind Monk who had dove into the backline and Poppy who had landed after teleporting.

The battlefield was split.

One side saw Faker alone holding off G2's mid and bot laners, wildly outplaying them two versus one.

On the other side, four SKT members surrounded G2's top laner and jungler.

Poppy's ultimate also missed, failing to reduce SKT's numbers on the battlefield.

Liang Yan, seeing the situation and knowing the tide had turned, followed up with his second Q, then flashed with a kick R to send Jinx flying toward his teammate, added a basic attack in midair to secure Bang's kill, then slipped away, retreating from the red side jungle toward the mid lane.

Lao Zhang was deeply trapped in a siege and could not survive.

On the other side, Faker successfully pulled away after losing less than half a health bar.

"Wow! This Faker!"

"A true demon king, so daring in his plays!"

After killing Bo Bi, the SKT members split into three lanes.

Faker turned back to push the lane.

Jess chased Mang Seng toward mid lane.

Liang Yan's equipment was mediocre; he had only just crafted tier‑2 boots and a green sword less than two minutes ago. Facing a Jess equipped with Black Cleaver and a serrated short dagger, and in better shape, he had no chance to win.

Jess's only dodgeable skill is his cannon shot; his other abilities are either skillshots that lock on or AoE, which cannot be compensated by mechanics, therefore Liang Yan could neither counter‑attack nor retreat.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Rek'Sai dug a tunnel from the river into the blue side's jungle, circled around behind to block G2's mid‑bottom retreat.

Due to the lack of river vision, Perkz and Zven were a step slower.

When Rek'Sai appeared from behind, the two grouped up, hoping to brute‑force through Rek'Sai and rush back to the second tower.

Bengi came through the tunnel and directly knocked up Ezreal, who had already exhausted his blue mana.

Jinx emerged from the Triangular Grass and followed up her E with crowd control.

Faker shielded himself, hugged the wall to dash past the turret, and used Q‑W to finish off Ezreal.

Afterward, the three continued the chase and finally killed Viktor in front of the upper second tower.

"One for four!"

"Oh my god, this fight… G2 completely blew up."

"Faker is too crazy! One person holding off two people there, wildly showing off mechanics, G2 itself was already at a numbers disadvantage because the fan mom was killed first, then the battlefield was split, the top and jungle duo were completely isolated and helpless!"

"Jiao Shen also went crazy this fight, but his damage was truly limited; in the end he only killed one Jinx and then fell silent, Bo Bi was eventually swapped out, and in the lingering 3v4 situation with health and summoner‑spell disadvantages, there was really no way to keep fighting."

"Jiao Shen did his best, but there really was nothing he could do."

After the teamfight ended, SKT smoothly took down G2's top tower.

When this round was completely over, SKT opened up an economic lead of over two thousand.

"With a gold difference of over four thousand at fifteen minutes, it feels impossible to keep playing."

"Jiao Shen single‑handedly stole a dragon, but it was useless; the tiny buff from a small earth dragon is just a drop in the bucket, completely unable to make up for the huge economic deficit."

"Unless they keep spawning three earth dragons and G2 gets all of them."

"That's impossible; even in extreme cases, seeing one such dragon in a Bo5 is already very rare, and getting it twice in a row is less likely than winning the lottery."

"Moreover, even if they really did appear, SKT would never actually let you take three of them; after all, judging by the current situation, G2 basically can't teamfight with SKT anymore."

"That's right, Jess and Jinx have both entered their power spikes; the next ten minutes will be SKT's peak strength. Of course, G2's Ezreal is likewise a mid‑game power spike, but due to the equipment gap, his damage and utility fall far short of Jinx's."

"Yes, objectively speaking, G2 has already fallen far behind in this game."

"The good news is that the middle tower hasn't fallen yet; otherwise, when the elder dragon respawns, the pressure would… feel like a repeat of the first game where G2 used dragon vision to force SKT into mistakes."

"Actually, even without pressure, G2 made many mistakes in the early game of this match."

"Yes, it all started with being solo‑killed in the top lane; after that fight, Island's whole condition seemed off."

"Just now in the teamfight it seemed like we also missed a big skill."

When both the top and bottom towers fell, the jungle camps near the top and bottom lanes on both sides became dangerous, but SKT played very patiently, applying pressure to both sides' vision to stress the mid lane, slowly whittling down G2's middle tower HP.

In the following minutes, both sides fought two more small‑scale teamfights.

In short, G2 still lost.

Although the kill difference didn't keep widening, because after each teamfight SKT's condition was always better, G2 remained at a disadvantage in the subsequent back‑and‑forth over the middle tower.

After the second small‑scale teamfight ended, G2's middle tower finally collapsed.

Although G2 also seized the chance when SKT members pushed the tower, returned to base to resupply, and took down one of SKT's bottom towers, it actually did nothing to improve the current situation.

From then on, for G2 it was endless torment.

Just as G2 treated SKT in the first game, SKT also began to exploit vision around the dragon pit; although G2 has many long‑range vision tools, the opposing Jess is extremely well‑fed, and in the twenty‑plus‑minute window, any squishy hit by his cannon shot loses a small half of its health bar instantly.

After repeated exchanges, once everyone capable of scouting vision was worn down to low health, the vision of the entire upper half of the map fell completely into SKT's hands.

But SKT remained steady, using their vision advantage to poke and drive G2's players back to base; because they feared Firrrrrre's Blind Monk stealing the dragon, they did not go for the elder dragon, instead grouping up to keep pushing towers—after taking the middle second tower they moved straight to the top, seizing the weakness of G2's players struggling to rotate due to their vision disadvantage, and in one push drove down G2's bottom second tower.

After leaving a mess everywhere, the SKT players retreated like a tide.

The feeling of suffocation lingered in every G2 member's heart, the voice chat often fell silent, and under the pressure even Liang Yan inevitably became less talkative.

Liang Yan also really had no way.

The only response to the current situation is to hard‑hold and then wait for SKT to make a mistake.

But he had not given up on the belief of victory; when teammates' morale was low, Liang Yan tirelessly encouraged them:

"Hold on, brothers; holding on brings a chance."

"Our teamfight damage is enough; don't give up, it's just a matter of one teamfight."

"Leave the engage to me; you just need to follow up with damage in time."

However, SKT remains terrifyingly stable.