Chapter 66

Flash didn't hit a wall! Jankos timely dodged the two-stage explosion damage of Desperate End and escaped successfully!

Wow, I was scared to death, Firrrrrre's Graves is playing too aggressively!

Level 2 invasion, his Graves plays like a spider!

Yes, this fits everyone's stereotype of this player: violence!

Watching Thresh with only single-digit HP left, Jankos, still shaken, breathed a sigh of relief, walked a few steps and pressed recall, then released the mouse with his right hand and drew a cross on his chest.

Liang Yan didn't chase the flash; when Thresh flashed through the wall, he turned back.

This result was expected.

After all, Graves' Q ability has been nerfed by the fist.

When Graves was just reworked, the Q ability's mechanic was to explode instantly upon hitting a wall, with no delay on the second-stage damage; at level 1, the two instances of output are 【60+75% bonus attack damage】 + 【90+40% bonus attack damage】; it's an AoE ability, yet its values are terrifyingly higher than most single-target abilities, so many people's first pentakill came from a simple brainless EAQR combo with Graves.

However, the fun didn't last long before it was nerfed.

In patch 6.3, the fist added a 0.25-second delay to the wall-burst explosion damage of Desperate End, and also removed the mechanic where QR could interrupt the attack's aftercast; of course the damage was also cut.

A 0.25-second delay is enough for experts to dodge the damage with a flash.

Liang Yan merely wanted to gamble on Jankos's chance of flashing into a wall; after all, this wall is pretty thick—even Faker has stumbled here before.

If he couldn't win the bet, that's fine.

This trip has already earned enough.

Thresh's HP is low, so he must recall; top lane Odoamne's cavalry can't spare the time to come, mid lane Yue Lun's Viktor can push the wave but he dares not come alone, so Liang Yan impolitely ate Thresh's three wolves as well, then cleared the remaining blue buff monster, and pressed recall on the spot.

The time just passed two and a half minutes.

As the river crab spawned, a white "Wolf Spirit Mark" simultaneously appeared in the center of the upper river—Thresh's first mark had refreshed.

But Liang Yan did not cancel recall.

After arriving home, he bought a pair of shoes and headed straight for his own lower jungle.

Entering the jungle from the high ground gap, he followed the small path, placed a ward through the wall into the brush beside the blue buff camp; Thresh never showed up, so Liang Yan turned back and started clearing from the three wolves, but the blue buff did not move.

Not taking blue buff is to save time.

First, of course, to prevent Thresh from stealing red; second, because the second group of Stone Armor Beetles is about to spawn—any group of monsters in the second wave gives far more experience than the first wave's blue buff, so the slight bonus from blue buff isn't as important compared to experience.

Of course, our own Magic Swamp Frog is about to respawn as well.

However, the bottom lane lacks lane priority, and teammates have no immediate hard CC to follow up, so Liang Yan finds it hard to secure a kill on Zyra and Bard, and naturally doesn't want to waste time bottom lane.

Moreover, Thresh hasn't appeared yet; there's a certain probability he gave up jungling to lane instead—if it were Liang Yan himself, the chance of making that choice could even reach 90%, since his development has collapsed, farming the jungle won't bring him back; he must go for lane.

Maybe he took the river crab's mark?

The likelihood is low.

If Jankos really played like that, he'd be the Jungle King.

Although European junglers are mostly trash, Jankos of this caliber shouldn't be, and based on Liang Yan's impression of Jankos, he's certainly not that kind of noob.

There are two possibilities: Jankos is either ganking top or staying in the lower half; the latter is more likely because top lane's cavalry has somewhat unhealthy HP, and Thresh's development is poor, making it hard to grab Renekton, while the H2K duo bottom lane has lane push advantage, allowing Jankos to invade and counter-jungle by leveraging that, and if the chance arises he could try to gank G2's bottom lane.

Accordingly, Liang Yan also has two options: go up to clear while protecting Renekton, or stay in the lower half to camp someone.

Choosing correctly is no trouble for Liang Yan.

Staying in the lower half would at most be a protective role, and this protection is very likely unnecessary, because the enemy's three jungle champions also lack reliable crowd control, and they're all squishy; trying to dive tower to kill Lu Xi An + Bu Long's combo isn't easy, and if they fail to tank the tower, they'd instead give Lu Xi An a kill.

But likewise, Liang Yan finding a catch in the lower half is also difficult; going up offers more opportunities, and the upper half's jungle resources are also richer.

So Liang Yan, after finishing the three wolves, went straight to the upper half without stopping.

His judgment was quickly verified.

When Liang Yan started clearing the red buff, Jankos appeared.

On the minimap, Thresh's icon suddenly appeared in G2's lower jungle; he had wall-jumped over, and Liang Yan spotted him from the ward he placed in his own blue buff camp.

Seeing this, Liang Yan mischievously thought: Surprised or not? Expected or not? This blue buff is specially saved for you, oh, thank me, little sheep!

However, little sheep's development……

Level 3, 9 kills.

It's useless.

Liang Yan stopped worrying about Jankos, occasionally switching screens to glance at top lane, then silently adjusting his own action plan.

Lao Zhang's laning exceeded Liang Yan's expectations, so Liang Yan gave up the plan to clear Stone Armor Beetles; after finishing the red buff, he wall-jumped into the Dragon Pit and spearheaded straight into the enemy jungle.

While crossing the river, the river crab bearing Thresh's Wolf Spirit Mark crawled leisurely past Liang Yan's face, but Liang Yan ignored it, entered the blue side's upper jungle, ate the freshly respawned second group of Magic Swamp Frogs, then cleared the second group of three wolves, placed a ward at the five-way junction, finally exited the jungle via the entrance before the second turret, and flanked from behind to the first turret.

Both sides' junglers' second-wave movement paths

The wave had just gone under the tower; the cavalry forcibly topped Renekton's fireball + lightning fork to clear the wave under the tower, and is now hiding in the turret crevice recalling, with HP around three hundred.

Seeing Graves appear, Odoamne immediately canceled recall, twisting left and right in the turret crevice, trying to save himself.

Liang Yan didn't care about that, went up and directly used Q-flash-A—

The first kill was secured easily, and he helped Lao Zhang clear half a wave of minions by the enemy turret, then pressed recall.

Leaving again, he still ran toward the lower half.

Firrrrrre effortlessly harvested Odoamne's head! Jankos's upper half of Ye Qu is practically his backyard, letting him come and go as he pleases.

My goodness, his thought process is really too clear! Normally speaking, no matter who, seeing a river crab marked with Thresh's insignia swaying before their eyes would surely just eat it on impulse! But Firrrrrre actually managed to resist such temptation!!

Yes, he's just like a cold, heartless robot, his mind loaded with an action plan constructed from icy code. Oh right, PiraTechnics……

How so?

At this very moment, I cannot help but believe what Quickshot said on this commentary desk half a month ago.

Please speak.

FIrrrrrre, this rookie who burst onto the scene, might truly be able to change the entire jungle landscape of Europe, stirring up everyone's Ye Qu into chaos.

Wow, quite a high praise!

However, the pressure on G2's duo was huge; Zven had just been harassed from behind by Jankos, losing a lot of HP, forcing him to recall to base and lose an entire wave of minions. Now, upon returning to lane, whether it's level experience or gold income, he can no longer compete with H2K's duo.

Fortunately, Firrrrrre finally remembered them, and he arrived at the lower half area!

But Liang Yan, after clearing the three wolves, turned around and headed back to the upper half area.