Chapter 580: Who else can restrain him?
Galio is slow at pushing towers, but super minions are good at destroying the base.
All five KT members are dead, and the high ground is wide open.
Fu Lan Duo deliberately selected the super minion as the teleport target to lock it down; upon landing, the cheap but tanky cannon fodder—the front-line minions and siege cannons had already rushed ahead, while the super minion followed behind, starting to chip away at the tower one hit at a time.
When the lowest-level Mata respawned, both outer towers had already fallen, and behind the Prince, the rest of VG followed the next wave of super minions onto the high ground.
Finally, at the moment Deft respawned, the Nexus blew up with a boom.
The five KT members all sighed in relief, stood up, lowered their heads, and walked backstage.
"2-1! VG took the match point! Only one point away from the championship!!"
"Two match points in hand! It feels like VG is really going to win the championship!!"
"——"
Guan Zeyuan exhaled, his face flushed, smiling as he turned to look at Changzhang:
"How is it, Changzhang? How do you feel right now?"
Miller also came over to watch.
Changzhang pressed his lips: "VG feels strong; after going back I need to study it well."
Guan Zeyuan laughed, turned to face the camera: "As expected of Changzhang, far-sighted, already started researching the summer split in advance!"
Changzhang could tell Guan Zeyuan was teasing him, alluding to his remarks about researching MSI at the press conference after losing the spring final, but Changzhang just chuckled twice, seeming not to mind the teasing at all.
Guan Zeyuan didn't get the expected reaction, and was quite surprised, but kept a straight face, quickly moving past the topic:
"Alright, after watching such an exciting game, I believe our audience friends also need some time to calm their excited feelings, so let's take a short break—don't go anywhere, the excitement will return shortly!"
……
KT lounge.
What they feared most was the atmosphere becoming silent again.
FIFAHUN's gaze swept over the faces of the five starters; their expressions varied, but they shared one thing: their eyes were lifeless.
FIFAHUN took a deep breath:
"There is still one game."
"Think about how we got our tickets to this match."
"We are the LCK spring champions! In the final we faced a similar situation of being behind in score, but we beat SKT!"
FIFAHUN started brewing chicken soup, hoping to rekindle the players' fighting spirit.
However, the effect was not obvious.
Because the players knew the situations of the two finals were not the same.
During the spring final against SKT, everyone on KT was full of confidence; even when behind in score, nobody thought they would lose.
Because back then they had a trump card.
But today, in the MSI final against VG, they knew from the start that their win rate was no more than fifty percent, and in reality nobody had much confidence.
Because KT had no trump card against VG.
Everything KT knew, VG knew inside out; but what VG knew, KT did not fully know.
Although nobody said it out loud, everyone in KT actually realized that, strictly speaking, KT could be considered VG's disciple.
Well, the second disciple.
In the semifinals, the second disciple beat senior brother G2—quite promising.
But today they are facing the master himself.
This feeling has actually always been in everyone's hearts in KT—how can a disciple defeat the master?
So, regarding the chicken soup FIFAHUN forced down their throats, KT had no reaction; each remained silent.
Faced with this situation, FIFAHUN was also at a loss.
In the silence, Deft suddenly spoke up:
"Coach, I have something I'd like to ask you to explain."
FIFAHUN quickly turned his head—having a problem is a good thing; wanting to get it solved means they haven't completely lost their fighting spirit!
"Go ahead." FIFAHUN nodded.
"Well..."
Deft hesitated a bit,
"When the Prince first came to the bottom lane to gank me, how exactly did he bypass our vision and appear behind us?"
FIFAHUN froze for a moment:
"You don't know?"
Deft shook his head blankly:
"I don't know."
FIFAHUN looked at the others, seeing that they too had clear, clueless eyes:
"You also don't know."
Everyone shook their heads.
FIFAHUN was completely stunned, realizing the matter wasn't simple.
He was watching from a god's-eye view, so it was perfectly clear to him how the Prince got around KT's vision to appear behind their bottom lane duo; he assumed the players could figure it out, but now it seemed everyone was totally clueless.
Even Mata hadn't thought of it?
At this point FIFAHUN realized that, in terms of vision, his team actually had a serious flaw, with severely insufficient sensitivity.
He fell silent for a few seconds, then looked at Deft and said:
"At that time Yuan Shi was beaten back to base, and Gao Dongbin came to mid lane to help clear the wave; that's when he went through their jungle, wall‑jumping into the grass patch at the right‑side river entrance of mid lane, then after his second ability cooldown ended he wall‑jumped again into our jungle. We had vision over the whole river, but that grass patch happened to be blind to us—your arrow lit up the entire jungle but didn't reach the river……"
Everyone listened, eyes wide, mouths agape.
FIFAHUN explained it clearly; they finally reconstructed in their minds the route the prince took around behind.
Figure: Prince's route around behind.
In the KT lounge, it was so quiet that even the sound of swallowing saliva could be clearly heard.
Everyone was completely stunned.
What kind of vision and insight ability is this?
Is there anyone who can restrain him?
Almost the entire lower half is lit up!
But he slipped in through that tiny little loophole!
This is basically opening the map, right!!!
Is picking Frost useful?
Yes, but not much.
FIFAHUN obviously also realized this problem, he sighed:
"Cheer up, guys. Next game I'll adjust my BP strategy; we won't contest the frost archer..."
But the crowd didn't really take it in, only feeling a chill in their hearts.
That ever-present cold feeling crept up along the spine again.
……
Game 4 BP, KT returned to the blue side.
FIFAHUN made some adjustments, picking a lineup that looked very good. However, the opposing lineup was equally fierce, and VG also pulled out something KT hadn't seen this season.
At the moment both sides' lineups were locked, FIFAHUN breathed a sigh of relief and patted Mata's shoulder:
"This game is yours."
"If we can win this match, I believe nothing will stop you from winning the championship ahead."
"Come on, Sehyung."
End of Chapter
