Chapter 263: Shadowless Kick, Wing Chun Fist!

Blank came over, placed a ward across the wall, saw the half-health blue buff being dragged by Olaf in the mist towards the river, gritted his teeth, suppressed the impulse to go up with a two-segment Q kick to trade, turned back, after killing the three wolves, went down.

When Blank had just placed a ward across the wall and confirmed Olaf was invading the blue buff in the top lane, the bottom lane, which had only just left base, erupted in a fierce clash; SKT's duo struck first, each side exchanged a full set of ultimates, and in the end both were left with roughly half health, pulling apart.

Fan Mother's health was a little low, only just over one third.

Dense signals kept flashing, centered on the bottom lane.

Blank rushed straight to the bottom lane, entering the river from the blue side's bottom lane triangular brush, directly clearing the ward and climbing over the wall to the high ground of the red side's bottom jungle.

At this time the minion wave had not yet reached the tower, but there was vision from the under tower; Blank didn't see G2's duo hiding in the tower, knowing they would flee, he thus sprang from the triangular brush behind the red side's bottom tower, taking the tower's flash and delivering a kick that sent the retreating Fan Mother, who was recalling behind the tower, into the wall, then followed up with two Qs to secure the kill.

The slightly over half-health Jinx fired shot after shot; Mang Seng had taken three tower shots and his health was also precarious, but Blank aimed for a strong kill trade to let his duo push the tower, knowing he couldn't escape, he instead went toe-to-toe with Jinx, doing his best to lower her health, and was finally taken down by her fourth shot followed by a Q.

The minion wave entered the tower, and the low-health Jinx pulled away toward the second tower.

SKT's duo crossed the tower to pursue, but Olaf burst out with Ghost from the nearby brush.

Wolf was stunned. Olaf had been invading the blue buff in the top lane just twenty seconds ago—how did he end up down here in an instant!

Bang muttered 'I'm out, I'm out' and instantly used Arcane Shift to jump back.

Wolf, to save Bang's life, could only sacrifice himself.

"SKT's attack rhythm on the bottom lane was once again anticipated; Jiao Shen took another kill! A two-for-one exchange, yet SKT still cannot recover its disadvantage."

"The disadvantage isn't huge, but it feels like every SKT advance is being interrupted by Olaf—extremely frustrating."

Liang Yan casually cleared the lane under the tower, then came over to clear the river's true vision, returned to the jungle to help Perkz take the blue buff, cleared the remaining two jungle camps in the lower half, and then recalled again.

At that moment, Blind Monk Mang Seng appeared again in mid lane, dodged Perkz's Flash; Faker pursued to the tower front, flashing to try to finish off the low-health Viktor, but after landing a Q Viktor didn't die; Faker then tried to finish with a basic attack, but Viktor had already walked out of auto‑attack range.

"7 health! Wow, that was close!"

"Perkz also has guts—he managed to hold back without using Ghost."

"That's just the mid laners flashing back and forth; Perkz originally intended to clear the wave and go home, so he wouldn't lose CS, and as a result it was Mang Seng who wasted his ultimate."

"Hmm, though Mang Seng's ultimate comes back quickly, so it's not really a loss."

"Having said that, Blank has been working hard this game, wave after wave, like Foshan's Shadowless Kick, trying to overwhelm G2 with relentless offense, but he didn't expect Jiao Shen to also be a Wing Chun master—one punch against one kick completely nullifies his advance, and can even throw a punch back at him from time to time!"

"……Quite vivid."

"Isn't that right? And as the game goes on Blank himself can't take it anymore—look at the CS gap: Olaf is nearing eighty last hits, while Mang Seng is still under fifty!"

"Hmm, in terms of items they're directly off by a big belt, and the gap is still quite large."

Both sides' mid laners recalled.

At 13 minutes, Olaf, having upgraded to a tier‑3 jungle knife and picked up an extra big belt, headed out upward, starting to clear the long‑neglected Stone Armor Beetles.

When he finished clearing F4, the canyon echoed with the dragon's dying roar; at that moment all of SKT's laners were within G2's vision, clearly Mang Seng had solo‑stolen the dragon.

A little wind dragon—irrelevant to the big picture; gone is gone.

Liang Yan, unfazed, pinged the blue side's F4 camp, brought the F4 smite effect to mid lane, tossed an axe at a cluster of ranged minions, and ran straight across mid to the enemy river.

Perkz landed a Q to finish off the low‑health minion, then followed Liang Yan toward the river.

Faker, seeing that, directly threw his ultimate at the oncoming minion wave pushed by Viktor, then turned and ran back behind the tower.

It must be said, Faker's intuition is incredibly sharp. Indeed, after Olaf cleared the ward in the right‑side river brush of mid lane, he proceeded to bring Viktor into the jungle.

After stealing the dragon and coming to clear F4, Mang Seng, seeing the situation, dragged the lone remaining big bird into the brush, trying to forcibly eat it under Viktor's cover.

Liang Yan relentlessly pursued, dual axes in hand, while spamming attack pings at the narrow choke point before the mid second tower:

"Neither of them has flash!"

Perkz understood, immediately activated Ghost and rushed up via the shortest path.

Liang Yan placed a ward in the brush to grant vision.

At this time, the true sight effect triggered when Olaf earlier entered the river brush had not yet faded; the brush ahead was empty, meaning there were no enemy wards.

That is to say, SKT's mid‑lane and jungle players lack vision on that side of the brush.

Viktor, with Ghost active, sped past Perkz's side at max range, using the wall‑bounce to fling his sphere behind the SKT duo as they were about to exit the jungle choke.

Centering on Viktor's Magic Orb, a terrifying ripple of space spread out like a vortex, suddenly sucking everything in!

"Nailed it!!!"

"Viktor's ultimate dragged Faker and Blank back!"

The arena instantly erupted with an astonishing roar.

Neither was at full health. Mang Seng had taken a dragon, even after consuming two layers of potions his health had dropped considerably; Viktor had only just left base, but upon laning he had already traded damage with Viktor, losing roughly a third of his health.

"If Viktor detonates another orb, Mang Seng will be instantly killed!"

"Faker pops Ghost to flee! Olaf smashes down with an axe! Viktor's movement speed instantly drops to that of a snail!"

"Faker immediately drops a gravity field behind him! Olaf rushes forward with Gods' Will, landing two basic attacks followed by a reckless swing that outright kills Faker!!"

After killing both, Liang Yan signaled Perkz to return to mid to clear the lane and push the tower, while he himself turned and ran down to the bottom lane, emerging from the jungle gap before the blue side's second tower, successfully trapping the SKT duo back inside their tower.

"G2's offense is a chain of links! Bang and Wolf are again trapped in the tower!"

Both have flash, plus Janna has her ultimate, and Olaf lacks his ultimate, so this wave actually isn't that easy to catch.

But Liang Yan's intention in covering this play wasn't to kill; he had another goal in mind.