Chapter 475: How so? What can be done!

After taking the dragon, Liang Yan ate a river crab, then returned to the lower half area and cleared two jungle camps; the hourglass icon in the blue buff camp behind him turned gold, but Liang Yan no longer needed to exert much effort, as Easyhoon's equipment was already very luxurious—even with a half‑damage, half‑support build, taking a blue buff posed no problem.

After leaving, he continued walking up.

As expected, WE still sent Nar to the top lane, making this lane their main attack route, aiming to catch the relatively underdeveloped Qing Gang Ying as a breakthrough point.

Liang Yan resolved to let Fu Lan Duo hold the lane to the end; unless she ran into trouble that would create a major swing affecting the whole game, he would not come to her aid lightly.

Liang Yan went to the upper half area, cleared the monsters, then moved to the lower half area.

But Liang Yan ignoring Fu Lan Duo doesn't mean VG's other teammates would overlook every opportunity on his lane.

Around 22 minutes, the sides swapped lanes again; the top laner moved to the bottom lane and the mid laner to the top lane. On the bottom lane, 957 had pushed the line too far, and Sima Laozei took advantage of the moment when his rage bar had just cleared to become little Nar, went invisible and killed him, cooperating with Fu Lan Duo to secure the kill, which Sima Laozei claimed.

At that moment, WE lost a key player; it would have been a major issue, but fortunately the mid‑jungle‑support trio, while on their way to help, unexpectedly caught Xiao Duan.

Xiao Duan was originally a lane‑type support, extremely strong in lane but somewhat lacking elsewhere; after a season of learning from Liang Yan, he greatly improved his weak points, though he still occasionally shows flaws.

He was caught because, while placing vision in the lower half area, he became somewhat detached from the team; standing in his own lower‑half jungle's blue buff camp, he used wall‑clipping to put a fake eye into the river—a warding trick he learned from Liang Yan.

But he overlooked that the enemy LeBlanc could cross long terrain to grab people; despite receiving a teammate's warning half a minute earlier that LeBlanc had missed and retreated, and realizing Sima Laozei was coming to catch Nar while the enemy main force would likely rush to assist, he failed to notice the danger of his own detachment from the team.

The ward landed right in front of the enemy mid‑jungle support; Xi Ye acted decisively, stepped forward twice, saw only a Lulu, and immediately threw a chain.

Xiao Duan had already used Flash in the previous mid‑lane fight, lacked any mobility, and had used his key control skill W to speed himself up; after being chained he had no escape, the WE jungle support rushed in from the river, and he was instantly killed by three‑person focus fire.

"My……"

Xiao Duan realized his death had cost the team a great opportunity, and shamefully admitted the mistake over the mic.

Liang Yan said nothing. Xiao Duan's play wasn't a mistake but a slip—an awareness issue that the coach would naturally point out in review.

The sides traded a kill, nothing else occurred, and Liang Yan continued to focus attack and defense on the mid lane, where both sides still had a tower.

WE's main force was forced to shift its defensive focus over.

In the bottom lane, Fu Lan Duo didn't get a kill but gained a stable farming period; after confirming the enemy mid and jungle were held in mid lane, he kept pushing the wave to before the enemy's second bottom tower, even using Qing Gang Ying's super‑flexible mobility to slip past the tower and reach the enemy bottom high ground, picking up an extra wave.

Fu Lan Duo's development lags behind his teammates, but measured against regional averages, at 22 minutes his Qing Gang Ying with Trinity Force, Titanic Hydra and Tier 2 boots is considered adequate.

At this point his wave‑clear is excellent; a minion wave without a cannon cart takes only six or seven seconds.

After clearing the wave under the tower, the revived Nar also came down from high ground.

Fu Lan Duo didn't engage him, turned and flung a hook toward the defense tower, then flew away gracefully.

The three commentators watched Qing Gang Ying slip into the broken‑wall bushes and return to base, fell silent for a moment, then Wawa softly said:

"He's been farming lanes all the way down to below high ground—this scene…… feels a bit off. It shouldn't be like this, right?"

Miller replied in a low voice: "Qing Gang Ying is VG's worst‑developed lane, yet now he can farm this easily—it really feels off."

Long Hair grunted twice: "22 minutes, over 180 gold—completely OK."

As they spoke, the camera cut back to mid lane.

Since a new wave of jungle monsters was about to spawn, both junglers had to return to the jungle to clear them, so the mid‑lane offense‑defense for this round temporarily ended.

Just as the sides pulled apart, a new minion wave arrived; Sima Laozei's rat came from behind, went invisible, and from a safety distance of six‑seven hundred units unleashed his ultimate sweep—just a few piapia blasts turned Ben's locust into low health.

After one spray, the WE duo desperately tried to retreat.

Mystic still dared not retaliate.

"Damn, Ma Ge, this is like riding onto the enemy's head—"

Wawa shouted loudly.

Miller shouted passionately:

"How so? What can be done! With good gear you can do as you please!"

"But it feels unreasonable; the locust has an ultimate, why doesn't Mystic dare to fight back at all?"

"One is that the rat's development far outstrips Mystic's—he even has two items with Mercury's Treads, so the locust's ultimate can't control him! His gear at this point is somewhat terrifying. Another reason is likely the aftermath of the previous mid‑lane fight: three of them attacked but couldn't kill him instantly, and he still dragged it out until Lulu returned; WE probably no longer have confidence in taking him on."

"Um, that makes sense. But facing a rat that can go invisible and steal people at any time, the more you fear him the fiercer he gets; going forward it will only become more unpleasant."

There was no need for Xiao Duan to intervene; Sima Laozei alone easily pushed the wave past, placed a ward in front of WE's first tower right before the enemy duo, then retreated, disappearing from WE's vision.

Dense, shrill warning signals sounded in the ears of all WE members.

"Lao Shu Miss Lao Shu Miss!"

Ben nervously sent an alert to his teammates, so the players on both side lanes felt their hearts tighten.

With this 22‑minute Blade of the Ruined King + Hurricane + Mercury's Treads + Plated Steelcaps rat, even in a 1v1, if he strikes first, even Xi Ye's LeBlanc can't beat him—who wouldn't be wary?

"Do assassins counter AD?"

"That also requires paying attention to equipment fundamentals; the enemy is ahead of you by almost a full item—fighting head‑on?"