Chapter 338

"What the hell! Hey, this Garen is too overboard, hahahaha……"

In the LPL livestream room, Wawa was chirping wildly.

Miller and Guan Zeyuan laughed like honking geese, just like two idiots.

The on‑site audience likewise kept laughing, exclaiming that today's ticket was totally worth it.

In the Infinite Blaze team's internal voice channel, everyone was having a blast.

Uzi: "Is this the tactic of the World's No. 1 Jungler?"

Hino Aya: "I feel Jiao Shen would be really strong even on top lane."

Changzhang: "You're something else, hey Liang Yan, where did you learn these tricks from?"

Weishen remained silent, feeling his limelight stolen, his play became more aggressive, he started desperately abusing the enemy mid laner in lane, trying to snatch back the camera focus from the director.

Liang Yan replied: "I learned it from a Bilibili granny streamer, forgot what her name was."

Everyone thought he was being modest; although Bilibili is still quite popular now, there aren't many streamers with high technical skill.

However, Liang Yan was speaking the truth; he really had seen this Garen playstyle from a Bilibili video creator, though he hadn't deliberately learned it, he did have an impression of it.

As for whether that creator had started posting videos by then, that's unknown.

Anyway, Liang Yan didn't mention the ID either.

Next, Liang Yan took the third wave of minions on the red side high ground, cleared it before going to take the tower; just after being killed by the turret, the red side support Thresh, who had been killed by Uzi, rushed out from the fountain, threw a hook across the big crystal, and the hook finally flew over Garen's corpse.

When Liang Yan respawned, there was still a little time left on the ward in the red jungle.

He directly used a teleport to get there.

He continued to feed.

QTV's Teemo was held up by the minion wave, and there was nothing they could do about it.

Levi knew he couldn't catch this Garen alone, and there was nothing he could do.

Moreover, the bottom lane was being beaten by Uzi into helplessness, the lane was unbearable, and they kept begging Levi for help.

Optimus's mid lane days were just as rough.

Gao Dewei's laning prowess is unquestionable; as the most famous domestic mid laner of this era, although he can't beat top-tier players like Faker, handling foreign mid laners is a breeze for him, especially since he's playing the lane bully Syndra this game.

Optimus's situation was no better than the bottom lane's; likewise being pressured by Gao Dewei to the point of breathlessness, he also kept begging Levi for help, leaving Levi stretched thin, with no time to run all the way to catch a slippery top laner.

Levi had no appetite for the tanky Garen, and kept running to mid and bottom.

Liang Yan just leisurely farmed for nearly ten minutes, occasionally sneaking over when Teemo went back to base to smash the red side's top tower with a B. F. Sword.

Adding the earlier minion wear and tear, that top tower now had only about half its health left.

After ten minutes, Liang Yan missed not a single last hit, whereas QTV missed several tower shots; although they expected Teemo vs. Garen to be a blast, the result was that Liang Yan didn't lane against him at all, the jungle couldn't help, they earned no kills so their gear came together slowly, and without cooldown reduction the support mushrooms wouldn't even grow, leaving them not happy but full of frustration.

Changzhang's Lion Dog hit level six in the bottom lane, took two heads, and came online; Liang Yan didn't want him coming top to cause trouble, but he insisted, went all the way halfway across the map, intercepted Teemo returning home, and killed him in one combo; Liang Yan clicked his tongue, said nothing, and proceeded to destroy Teemo's two towers.

As for the other lanes, the middle tower also fell, and the bottom lane was pushed all the way to the high ground; Uzi was a bit reckless, having saved up almost two thousand gold without going back, he blocked the enemy's bottom/jungle trio showing off their mechanics under the high ground, but was blocked by a resurrected Teemo's teleport from behind, and they ended up trading two for two.

Both kills were taken by Levi, who then equipped his excavator, and after Uzi left lane he teamed up with the female officer to kill Uzi once more.

Uzi was naturally unhappy, still recklessly flying about.

Then both sides kept fighting, with the kill score alternatingly rising.

Changzhang achieved a pentakill twenty minutes in, his grin almost splitting his ears.

Liang Yan, however, never joined the fight; he became a merciless minion‑farming machine—his teammates brawled wildly while he frantically farmed lanes, sweeping every minion wave and jungle monster in his path, and in twenty minutes he notched 250 minion kills, literally turning the PVP match into a monster‑hunting loot single‑player game, simply put.

If you asked him what he was playing, to be honest, Liang Yan himself didn't know what he was playing.

Anyway, it was just fun.

After over thirty minutes, the red side's crystal exploded.

Changzhang's lion dog boasted a 14‑3‑4 record, towering over the competition.

Liang Yan's Garen went 0‑2‑0.

Both of his deaths were caused by enemy turrets.

The live commentator joked:

"Well, if next year is a solo‑lane patch, Firrrrrre switching to top lane would surely be like a fish in water."

Both the venue and the live‑stream chat were filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

……

After the four team‑vs‑team matches ended, the solo tournament began.

Thirty competitors were divided into the upper and lower halves—Shang Ban Qu and the lower half—for head‑to‑head matches; each game decided the winner, who advanced, while the loser was eliminated.

Liang Yan was assigned to the lower half; his luck was explosive—he actually drew a bye, meaning he didn't have to play the first round and advanced straight to the second round.

After the seven solo matches ended, the seven qualifiers from the first round of the upper half—Shang Ban Qu—were finally determined.

Thus the schedule for the first day of the All‑Star event also came to a close.

After nearly four hours of combat, Liang Yan appeared on stage only once; although the show effect was decent, European fans were still dissatisfied, shouting for the LPL team to give Liang Yan more stage time, but it was useless because they had addressed their petition to the wrong target.

The All‑Star match is an exhibition event; many things are scripted in advance.

For example, on the third day's clone mode, the audience marveled that both sides had coincidentally picked Mang Seng, while Liang Yan, seated among the players, had already received the on‑site director's script before going on stage.

As for how to play it, there was no script—the director simply wanted both sides to fight as much as possible and show off their skills.

The battle began.

Ten Mang Seng surged out of Quan Shui in unison.

The director's split screen showed two halves: on the left, five underground boxing champions wearing red gloves; on the right, five bare‑chested Supreme Fists.

Then the talent was ten Thunders.

This scene looked extremely hilarious, making the live audience burst into laughter, and the official streams of all regions were filled with screens of hahaha.

Both sides bunched up and ran toward the lower half.

Unfortunately, there was no collision, the first-tier team couldn't start a fight.

After that, it was normal laning.

Top lane Perkz vs Impact

Jungle Bengi vs Reignover

Zhong Lu Pray vs Firrrrrre

Xia Lu Levi+Mithy vs Clearlove+Ziv

A brutal brawl where fists met flesh slowly unfolded.