Chapter 663: Feeling like it

LPL livestream room.

"Jiao Shen, you're so thick‑skinned—you don't even admit you invaded their jungle, and you deliberately mess with their head. That's awful."

"This escape route has a hint of Changzhang's essence."

"Hit an Explosive Fruit flying over, then eat a set of Stone Armor Beetles, two river crabs plus a counter‑set of toads, then completely clear our own jungle—Jiao Shen's opening this game is so comfortable!"

"Not just comfortable—it's downright too comfortable!"

"Hey?"

Wawa suddenly looked puzzled,

"No way—two river crabs and one Magic Swamp Frog, Jiao Shen only ate three more monsters than the enemy, so why are there four extra last hits? Is it showing a bug?"

"Pfft…"

Guan Zeyuan couldn't help bursting out laughing, a belly full of mischief, he said:

"Maybe it's because this Magic Swamp Frog is too fat—count it as two last hits."

Bullet comments:

【hahahahaha】

【excavator -1, spider +1】

【I laughed to death, who taught Wawa math hahaha】

【uh…… I also didn't react just now, got led into a ditch by Wawa】

【Those who thought it was a bug, go back to kindergarten to retake……】

Miller couldn't stand it anymore, gave a reminder, Wawa finally reacted, awkwardly laughed a few times, and seized the chance to change the topic as the director switched the camera:

"Well, Jiao Shen went home, Lan Bo finally dared to push the lane, but…… how come 3z's last‑hitting is like this?"

Under the camera, Lan Bo sent a wave of minions to the blue side's top turret, then retreated to the river brush to recall. In theory Lan Bo has a pure early advantage against Jax, and even if jungle pressure stops him from pushing, he shouldn't be missing many last hits.

However, the reality everyone saw was that time was almost 5 minutes, and Lan Bo's last‑hit count had only just reached 25!

And Jax was already close to 40 last hits!

After Wawa's reminder, Miller and Guan Zeyuan also noticed this abnormality.

"Huh? Really, Lan Bo only has twenty‑something last hits?!"

"What's going on? He's doing fine, shouldn't have taken much damage, Jiao Shen hasn't bothered him, so why is 3z missing so many last hits?"

In the current patch, the first wave clash in top lane occurs at about 1:48, then a wave arrives every 30 seconds. Calculating to 5 minutes, Lan Bo has eaten seven waves, two of which are cannon waves; assuming no missed last hits, his total should be: 6×5+7×2=44 last hits.

44‑25=19…… over seven waves, 3z has missed nearly half of his last hits!

Fu Lan Duo finished collecting the minion wave Lan Bo pushed, then recalled right there, and pressed TAB to send Lan Bo's last‑hit count to the team channel in the game.

Liang Yan hadn't noticed this detail before; Fu Lan Duo deliberately sent it out, and only then did Liang Yan see it, and he was instantly shocked.

Liang Yan knew the top‑lane situation: both sides had hardly fought, they were just farming lanes, and Lan Bo had hardly received any threat……

That's why this result is all the more surprising.

Liang Yan couldn't help asking: "Why is his last‑hit count so low?"

Fu Lan Duo chuckled smugly: "I told you, Lan Bo was reworked—the flamethrower's damage to minions is different now; you need dozens of games to get used to it."

Liang Yan felt amazed but couldn't understand; if it were him, no matter how much an hero is changed, even if he'd never played that hero, with little lane pressure he wouldn't miss that many last hits—if skill damage is hard to control, wouldn't he just use basic attacks to last‑hit?

Both top laners went home and then teleported back to lane.

To observe how the patch affects top‑lane matchups, Liang Yan didn't want to interfere early, so he hadn't come up there at all.

Mid lane was a level‑six Ahri who played Apex very timidly; no matter the lane, she always kept either W or R on cooldown to guard against ganks, and Easyhoon's Rock Sparrow lacked reliable hard CC, making it nearly impossible to combo with the spider to kill the enemy.

On bot lane, M17's Ashe played averagely, but as a vision tool she did well—each Eagle Strike was used sensibly, combined with wards lining the lower river, it almost completely blocked Liang Yan's bot‑lane gank routes, so Liang Yan also refrained from forcing engages, his few bot‑lane visits were mainly protective.

In the first ten minutes of the game, Liang Yan never engaged; he just kept farming the jungle and controlling river crabs, occasionally invading a monster camp.

The enemy seemed happy to just slowly grind against VG; Rek'Sai only made two moves on mid lane—but caught nothing—and otherwise spent time counter‑jungling and defending his own jungle; despite his best effort he still couldn't stop the elusive spider from stealing monsters, but compared to the LPL junglers obliterated by Firrrrrre, Taizan felt he was already doing great, which led him to entertain some unrealistic thoughts——

After Kled's Lady Dance 7 retired, does LPL have no good junglers left? If I went to LPL…… could I join a top‑tier team to make money and pad my résumé?

Such thoughts kept popping up in Taizan's mind, making him restless.

……

The top‑lane last‑hit gap kept widening, and the jungler's monster‑kill count kept growing.

By a little past 8 minutes, VG had amassed a thousand‑gold economic lead just from the lane‑last‑hit gaps on all three lanes.

Moreover, after Fu Lan Duo's Jax went home and built a Spirit Visage, he returned to lane and began occasionally jumping in to trade blows with Lan Bo, clearly showing some kill intent; 3z traded with him twice, and even when he played perfectly against Jax he still lost health, indicating a clear equipment gap, so 3z had to give up and let the lane push.

Thus, M17 ended up in the awkward situation of having no lane priority on any of the three lanes.

In the LMS livestream, the two commentators who had said at the start that they didn't care about winning or losing when a low‑tier horse faced a high‑tier one began to feel tense.

"It's awful—no kills have appeared yet, but M17 already shows a clear equipment gap; if we keep dragging this out, it feels like it'll be a suffocating game."

"Jing Jia needs to hurry up—with top lane like this, if we keep dragging it out, 3z will surely get solo‑killed; we can't hold out any longer."

"His earlier attempts were all rather strained……"

"But we really have to act now, otherwise 3z's lane is truly unplayable."

M17 team channel.

After yet another combo from Jax jumping in, 3z's health had dropped below half and he'd used up all his potions, finally he couldn't help calling for help:

"Can the jungler come help? I feel like I'm about to break……"

……

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Reality is too absurd, to the extent that I can't help but suspect whether Quan Toukan saw the game's popularity decline and therefore deliberately had Taobo cooperate to put on such a show……