Chapter 573: Qin Wang Circles the Pillar!

From the god's-eye view, Smeb did not place a ward in the Triangular Grass, but directly entered the grass patch, then from the river looped back to block Garen on the top lane.

At the same time, the Prince who had cleared the blue buff and reached level three was rushing up the lane.

Without surprise, the Explosive Fruit should have already been taken by Rek'Sai, so Liang Yan didn't go to our side's top lane Triangular Grass, but directly entered the river, then estimated the distance and stood outside the detection range of Rek'Sai's seismic sense.

He had only stood for less than two seconds when KT made a move.

It looked like Garen was about to place a ward near the river mouth grass patch, and when he was only five or six hundred yards from the grass, a blue-backed, red-finned Void burrowing beast sprang from the grass and quickly burrowed underground toward Garen's face.

"Damn, it's really there!"

Fu Lan Duo shouted loudly and turned to run.

Liang Yan immediately set off to catch up.

Smeb, who had already picked up a Yellow Card in hand, flashed forward the instant Garen turned, and threw a card.

Fu Lan Duo already had a contingency plan in mind, knowing that if she were caught she would suffer a combo; even if Liang Yan came over, a 2v2 would be unwinnable, so when Smeb flashed and acted she flashed along, but her escape direction seemed off—it was toward the enemy's top turret.

"I'll loop around, you blast their ass!"

Fu Lan Duo shouted into the headset.

Liang Yan said nothing, just kept rushing.

In the LPL livestream, Guan Zeyuan's words came out like a machine gun, bursting out:

"Smeb used flash and played Yellow Card to try to pin the person, Sheng Qiang Ge followed with flash to pull distance, although ultimately still was stunned by the Yellow Card follow-up, but successfully prevented Score from keeping up with control! After the stun, immediately followed by a Justice Rush punch that opened even greater distance!"

"Jiao Shen is rushing!"

"Sheng Qiang Ge is circling this wall with two people!"

"Jiao Shen is blocking vision, hiding beneath the river!"

"Sheng Qiang Ge has come down with the two people!!"

"This wave! There's a chance!!!"

Figure: Qin Wang Circles the Pillar

This is a classic blind spot under the lamp, because Smeb's ward placed at the river mouth grass at the start had already timed out, and just now Score was crouching in the grass providing vision, so Smeb didn't even think to re-ward; the KT jungle duo thought this was a sure kill, Smeb's plan was to take the head, push the lane, go home, then re-place wards, which led to the two of them being completely unprepared for the Demacian Prince hiding in the river.

Just as the two followed Garen out of the Triangular Grass downhill and entered the narrow choke point, the Prince suddenly struck!

"A Royal Flag came first, then the spear flew like a dragon!! KT's two members were tightly together, giving Jiao Shen a perfect opening!! EQ successfully launched both of them!!"

"Sheng Qiang Ge simultaneously activated Duran Shield and charged at the moment Jiao Shen acted, then perfectly followed up with control as the two landed!!"

"Sheng Qiang Ge swept out a war gust, punched once, then ran!"

"Jiao Shen auto-attacked each of them once to proc his passive, then focused fire on Score! Jiao Shen wanted to kill Rek'Sai first because he had the highest damage!"

"Score broke free of control, flashed and knocked Sheng Qiang Ge airborne; he wasn't resigned, he even still wanted to kill—if he could land a full QQQE combo he could indeed kill, but Jiao Shen didn't give him the chance, flashing twice and auto-attacking to take his head!!"

"Sheng Qiang Ge still had over two hundred health! Smeb had no abilities left! Even if his W passive triggered, he'd need at least three auto-attacks to kill Sheng Qiang Ge!"

"Smeb didn't dare chase! Seeing the Prince charge at him again, Smeb flashed, jumped over the wall, and ran back to the turret!!"

"Jiao Shen's E skill still had nearly ten seconds cooldown; knowing he couldn't kill Smeb, he stopped chasing and came back to help Sheng Qiang Ge clear the lane!"

"Jiao Shen's counter-gank this wave was too cool! It successfully smashed KT's first wave rhythm!!"

"The card didn't flash, so from now on Sheng Qiang Ge's lane will be much more comfortable."

"I can only say this wave was too classic! Whether it was Sheng Qiang Ge's bait or Jiao Shen's vision block, the VG jungle duo's coordination was completely textbook-level!"

"Gee gee gee~ Sheng Qiang Ge's fake ward-placing move was so sneaky!"

"Mr. Miller is right, this wave VG managed to kill Score purely through detail… Speaking of which, does Changzhang usually coordinate with the top lane like this?"

"Uh, about the same—I usually let A Guang go up first to buy a wave when I go gank top, makes it easier to catch… However, I might not be as detail-oriented as Jiao Shen; his damage calculations are very accurate. Just now Score actually intended to flash, kill the person, then burrow and run; if Jiao Shen were a bit slower, letting Rek'Sai fire his final E, he'd recover a bit of health, take one step forward, and dive into the grass."

"As expected, Changzhang is the pro—we can't even see these detail battles!"

Just as they were speaking, the camera suddenly cut to the bottom lane.

The two-side duos also started fighting, but it was the VG duo who made the first move.

The KT duo pushed the minion wave to the turret; after the wave entered the turret, Deft stepped forward to touch the turret, but a blue-side minion wave just happened to push up.

Xiao Duan Bu Long suddenly lunged forward, jumped onto the front-line minion, and landed a punch followed by Frostbite that hit Deft's Ashe.

Mata reacted extremely quickly, landing a Giant Tongue Lash on Xiao Duan, slowing him, then stepped forward and applied Weakness on Sima Laozei's Big Mouth.

At the same time, Deft quickly used Heal to create distance.

Xiao Duan's final punch didn't land, and Sima Laozei couldn't get close enough to auto-attack Deft, so he couldn't trigger Bu Long's stun passive.

Sima Laozei chased after Thresh and unleashed a barrage, but Deft retaliated with a volley of arrows that slowed him, then activated Q to counterattack.

Sima Laozei turned and ran, eventually being reduced to under two hundred health; after Xiao Duan helped block Thresh's second Giant Tongue Lash, he successfully made it back under the turret.

This trade was originally a big gain for VG, but Sima Laozei's aggressive pursuit exposed a flaw, and the enemy instead countered and took even more health.

Immediately after, the camera switched to mid lane, where Easyhoon actually went past the turret chasing Pawn's fox, and Pawn kept being driven into the Ye Qu!

"Whoa, what's going on, how did the Marquis suddenly get so strong?!"

"This is the case where pulling one thread moves the whole body—one jungler on each side started at the top lane, the other two lanes also started fighting; can the director give us a replay?!"

"The director isn't one of ours and can't hear you speaking."

"Uh..."

But the director probably also wondered what was happening in mid lane, so while giving the top lane kill replay, he also cut in a small window replay of mid lane.

As it turned out, Pawn was the one who initiated.