Chapter 564: Who Is the Wild Core?

The moment the system kill announcement appeared on the big screen, the entire audience instantly erupted.

Liang Yan went in and out repeatedly, taking enemy heads as easily as reaching into a bag, and even toyed with the defensive tower!

His elegant and lightning-fast operation completely ignited the atmosphere!

The on-site commentator shouted:

"SOMEONECHECKHISCHAMPION! ITHINKHISKHA'ZIXHASEXTRAWINGS!!"

Another commentator laughed until he hit the table:

"Score wanted to regroup with his teammates; he used everything he had, threw the smoke grenade, quickly drew his gun, tried to break through Fire's interception—every one of his choices was correct, but Fire didn't care at all! He just jumped in, scratched once, then jumped out—thanks for the three hundred, goodbye! —and then he even glanced back at the defensive tower, as if saying, 'You just wanted to hit me, right?' Hahahaha"

"The defensive tower said: 'No, just get lost.'"

"Hahahaha..."

And in the LPL livestream room, Guan Zeyuan couldn't help shouting loudly:

"What kind of person is this? The defensive tower said I've never seen someone this arrogant in my life!"

The bullet barrage said:

"【Has the referee gone blind? This mantis clearly turned on flight mode!】"

"【Deceptive mantis demon!】"

"【Defensive tower: no frame, no attack】"

"【Heckler speaking!!】"

Even the hecklers didn't want to play a losing game; they all went invisible.

KT's jungler died one after another, the bottom lane teamfight ended, Pawn had used up his skills and had nothing left; if it weren't for Deft's precise arrow that pinned down the charging Jes and added a dog chain, Pawn would surely have died here.

Gangzi came around from mid lane and asked whether they should leave someone.

Liang Yan said forget it, destroying the tower is urgent.

Gangzi stood in the river and casually threw two or three bombs into the jungle path, slightly hindering KT's three; when Jinx appeared, he directly threw a timed bomb at his own feet, and in the crisp explosion sound, the bomb-man flew to mid lane.

The remaining three enemies had no means to start a fight; Gangzi alone holding mid was no problem.

Liang Yan stayed in the bottom lane to destroy the tower; after it was done, Fu Lan Duo and Xiao Duan left, leaving Liang Yan alone to continue.

This scene left Changzhang, sitting behind the LPL commentator's desk, bewildered: "No way, the first blood tower is being eaten by the mantis? Shouldn't it be given to the bomb-man?"

Guan Zeyuan laughed: "As the one in a four‑protect‑one setup, Jiao Shen taking the first blood tower is perfectly fine!"

Miller said with a grunt: "I feel the main reason is that the bomb-man is a bit far away, while the wine barrel is just a tool—eating too much economy isn't very meaningful, and Karma is a support; weighing it up, I think giving it to Jiao Shen is the optimal solution."

Changzhang didn't speak, but he felt envy twisting him up; he wished he could burst through the screen, kick Liang Yan aside, and take over the mantis himself.

Why have I never enjoyed such treatment when I play the mantis?

And in KT's internal voice channel, everyone watched VG leave only the mantis to destroy the tower, and they were all bewildered.

"Grinding teeth?"

"They want to give the first blood tower to the jungler to eat?"

"... I can't understand it, but it feels shocking."

Score didn't speak; he was truly jealous to the point his features were twisted.

Can't he not be twisted?

The enemy mantis is a false Wild Core, while his male gun is a true Wild Core! How come the enemy jungler, after killing someone, still gets to eat the first blood tower, while this true Wild Core of mine has to be careful even eating a set of his own jungle monsters? Is this what a Wild Core is? Playing like that and winning is unthinkable!

The director captured Score's psychological activity from his twisted expression, but instead of cutting directly to his camera feed, just played a slick move.

Split-screen shot:

On the right, the mantis happily eats the first blood tower alone, coins clatter into the bag; after destroying the tower, he still has to eat a set of KT's Stone Armor Beetles, then he presses recall in place, and in the bright recall summoning circle, the mantis supports himself on his four legs doing push‑ups, looking delighted.

On the left, after respawning, the male gun stood in the spring water for about half a second, seeming to stare at his empty jungle and fall into a daze; only then did he walk out of the spring water and head toward the upper jungle where a fresh set of Magic Swamp Frogs had just spawned.

Finally, the director deliberately gave a close‑up of the mantis's equipment slot after it returned to the spring water.

In the LCK livestream room, the commentators' silence was deafening.

One mantis suppressed the enemy Wild Core male gun by two full levels, and its equipment was ahead by a whole major item!

How can we still play?

Afterwards it was basically garbage time.

Although no one wants to say it outright, objectively this KT game already has no hope. Such a lineup severely lacking engage tools failed to gain an advantage even before the 20‑minute mark, and is already several thousand gold behind; the later the game goes, the slimmer its win chance becomes.

As for dragging the game into the late game through macro play and relying on the output advantage of a full‑god‑multicore lineup, first the enemy is likewise a multicore lineup, second the enemy has strong engage tools, and with Firrrrrre's terrifying ability to end games, it's basically impossible to let KT drag into the late game.

……

At twenty‑nine minutes and fifty‑plus seconds, KT's crystal exploded.

"Congratulations VG, one‑to‑zero!"

"Jiao Shen said what he did and did what he said: 'If I said I'm coming, I'm coming!'"

Changzhang stared, mouth agape.

That's off the charts—KT didn't even last thirty minutes!?

Backstage, in the KT lounge, the KT manager looked at the grim‑faced FIFAHUN, opening his mouth several times but only managing to utter hesitant words.

Where is the advantage that was supposed to be ours?

The people in the front returned, each with a deputy marshal face, slumped in their chairs.

FIFAHUN looked this way and that, finally fixing his gaze on mata.

"Go on, what do you feel?"

Mata sat up a little straighter, thought for a moment, and said:

"We held up for fifteen minutes, but then things started to fall apart again."

Last month, mata watched the LPL playoffs match between VG and WE and got an idea, feeling he could use a completely new method to study how to beat VG.

For example, first set a small goal: don't die before level 6.

Then, based on this goal, study VG's pre‑level‑6 attack pattern; after fully understanding it, pursue the next goal.

As of now, KT already has the confidence to face VG normally and keep the gold gap under 1,000 for 15 minutes. Actually, if it weren't for that early‑game feed, KT would have a much easier mid‑game and even a decent chance to win.

But that opening invasion tactic was designed by the coach, so mata didn't bring it up; he merely said that the phase‑goal of holding for fifteen minutes without falling behind is fine.

FIFAHUN certainly couldn't bring up that early‑game team fight that put KT behind from the start, thought for a moment, and glanced over everyone:

"You mean we should play the late game against VG? No Ashe?"