Chapter 584

The director's commentary was so obvious it might as well have been subtitles.

The crowd's ten thousand cheers turned into roaring laughter; countless VG fans laughed so hard they slumped in their seats, the laughter of over ten thousand people surging like waves, whoosh, rumble.

KT player bench.

Score's left hand remained in the posture of pressing the W key with his middle finger.

Seeing the male gunner disappear from view with less than a hundred health, Score felt extreme regret, hating himself for only running earlier and offering no retaliation.

Even just tapping the floor, this male gunner was already dead.

But there is no regret medicine in the world.

Realizing he would become background fodder in the MSI finals highlights, Score felt a tightness in his chest. Then he also realized that all the resources in his entire upper jungle would fall into the male gunner's hands, and he began to panic.

One kill plus eating an extra jungle camp at the start, this male gunner……

……

"Taking three jungle camps cleanly, then coming out to eat a river crab, Jiao Shen this game is too awesome! I feel like when I get back home I'll have more than just a tier‑2 knife—I'll also get two extra longswords!"

However, that's not the case!

Liang Yan finished clearing the river crab, then went back to clear his own Stone Armor Beetles before returning to base. At the fountain, he didn't combine a tier‑2 jungle knife but instead directly combined a Caulfield's Warhammer plus two longswords!

"What?!"

The LCK commentators' eyes nearly popped out in shock.

"A single Maw of Malmortius?! What kind of build path is this?!"

"I don't get it! In this version, isn't the jungler supposed to always combine a green jungle knife on the first back? What the hell is he doing?!"

That's correct; under normal circumstances, the current version's jungler on the first back will always combine the jungle basic item into Stalker's Blade, i. e., the tier‑2 green jungle knife. This item's effect is similar to the warding totem trinket, allowing two charges of false eye to be replenished each time you return to base. Compared to the other two tier‑2 jungle knives—Stalker's Blade‑Blue and Stalker's Machete‑Red—the green knife's cost‑efficiency is far ahead.

So in this version, the jungler basically must combine a tier‑2 green knife on the first return to base.

Liang Yan not only didn't combine the green knife, he didn't even add a single Hunter's Talisman, instead converting all his gold into attack damage!

What kind of ridiculous build is this?

Not to mention that the commentators have never seen this; even countless pros watching the match have never heard of it!

But there is one thing many people can see.

Guan Zeyuan spoke excitedly and quickly:

"I don't know why Jiao Shen is building like this; after combining a jungle knife in this version you usually go green fork, so even if you want to add damage you should go yellow fork…… but brothers, I know his purpose for building this way!"

"——He wants to catch people!"

"Catch them hard!"

That's exactly right.

Liang Yan went out to the lower half area, cleared the second group of Magic Swamp Frogs that Score had previously taken and which had just respawned, then turned back to clear the second group of three wolves, then went to the upper half area to clear F6.

After clearing F6, the time had approached six minutes.

Liang Yan swaggered up from behind Easyhoon, immediately helped clear the lane, auto-attacked twice the front-line minions, then headed toward the river, looking like he intended to take someone to get the first dragon.

Pawn saw that the male gunner's equipment made him a bit wary, and moreover the Ice Woman had reached level six, holding her ultimate in hand. Pawn cautiously stepped back a bit.

The minions were all low on health; the Marquis pretended his Q was on cooldown, then used an Ice Claw to push forward, killing all the minions, while heading toward the river.

Initially Pawn remained wary and stepped back another step, but he was still confused by the Marquis's motion toward the river, and relaxed his vigilance.

Then, at the moment the Ice Claw was about to disappear after reaching its end, Lissandra, who had already arrived at the river mouth, suddenly dove underground.

The next moment, Lissandra burst from the ground, appearing ghostlike before Pawn.

"Freeze! Seal!!!"

With an icy loud shout, Lissandra unleashed her ultimate, freezing Pawn's Ryze entirely in an ice tomb glowing with blue light.

At the same time, the male gunner slid up from the shadows below the river wall, threw a barrage of smoke and incendiary grenades, then immediately turned and left.

Easyhoon cast a Q, then auto-attacked once, then walked forward unhurriedly, and just before Ryze could break free, he followed up with an Ice Ring to immobilize him.

Liang Yan's mind was like a computer, calculating damage with extreme precision; Pawn had already lost some health in lane, after taking the combined abilities of the two, he was left with only a sliver of health, and Easyhoon raised his hand and landed the final basic attack to secure the kill.

"This! Is the charm of a pure damage build male gunner!"

"Plain and simple damage, focusing on brutality!"

However, when the mid jungle engaged the mid lane, Score's Mang Seng also emerged from behind the crocodile.

The LCK commentators became excited again:

"Go Dong-bin found a perfect opportunity to engage! A very essential move of avoiding vision and flanking from behind to catch! The veteran captain is finally going to exert himself!"

"Oh oh! The opportunity was found pretty well! But can we kill him?"

"Renekton is already level six……"

"Don't be afraid, he just used a Q to clear the wave and drained his fury; a fury-less crocodile is a pitiful worm!"

Fu Lan Duo saw people coming, but actually wasn't very panicked; first, he had already reached level six; second, the opposing Mang Seng was poorly developed, only level four at this point……

So Fu Lan Duo got a bit greedy, thinking that with his ultimate and E he shouldn't die, even wanting to counterattack; at first he didn't use flash or E to dodge the Blue Steel Shadow's hook kick, but instead directly went all-in, taking the hit while building up fury.

However, he underestimated the damage of the two opponents.

"Wow! Although Blue Steel Shadow has been nerfed to near uselessness early game, its double kick true damage still hurts a bit! A full combo from Blue Steel Shadow plus Mang Seng directly shoved Sheng Qiang Ge's health below half!"

"Moreover, Score is very cheap, after unleashing a combo he immediately pulls back! Sheng Qiang Ge's backhand Red Fury Q only grazes Smeb, not restoring much health!"

At this point Fu Lan Duo sensed something was off; he turned and bit the Blue Steel Shadow with his W, then took a sideways step; the first segment of his E scraped past the Blue Steel Shadow's side, then another E aimed toward the river as he tried to flee.

As a result, Blue Steel Shadow's ultimate came down just as he released the second segment of his E; the crocodile slammed headfirst into the Hextech Last Chance wall and was bounced back.

"Sheng Qiang Ge bit Smeb with double E trying to flee, but because it wasn't Red Fury W, the control time was too short! The moment his second E was cast, Blue Steel Shadow's ultimate locked him down and he was forced to sit!"

"Moreover, Score from behind touched Smeb with his Golden Bell Cover!"

"The two of them surrounded Sheng Qiang Ge, continuing to dish out close-range damage!"