Chapter 714: So disgusting, guys

A cow covered in black-and-white patches, looking somewhat cute, stood at the top of the slope, holding a basin in its left hand and a stick in its right, the bang-bang-bang of drumming the basin echoing across the venue, making the audience laugh nonstop.

Wawa took the opportunity to start selling skins: 'How about it, everyone, this cow is pretty cute, right? Exactly! This is a new skin launched on this year's April Fools' Day—Moolista! He's not only extremely cute, but also has the game's most unique exclusive interaction moves and sound effects! Not 998, not even 98—just 45 dollars! For 45 dollars you can take home this adorable little cow skin! Oh right, alongside this cow head skin launching at the same time are several other equally fun skins, such as the Bulldog Big Mouth, and……'

Blah blah blah, nonstop, Wang Duo Duo beside her watched the skilled Wawa, showing shock and admiration—truly a professional caster!

Ahem, getting off track, back to the match.

The bang-bang-bang of the basin made Rookie's head spin, his face darkened: 'Let's go……'

The three IG members retreated dejectedly along the same path.

In the Shang Ban Qu area, Liang Yan, after placing his ward, retreated back, taking the Ye Qu path and looping behind Zhong Lu to reach the bottom lane.

Fu Lan Duo, however, had been stationed at the blue side's bottom lane F6 camp from the start, tossing saplings into the red buff camp.

Gangzi and Xiao Duan, however, had already gone online early.

'Whoa, VG's opening has a plan!'

'Yes, Jiao Shen clearly started with the red buff in the bottom lane, yet he had the top lane treant come over to toss saplings to help invade the jungle, while the bottom lane went straight online!'

'This will give IG a very deceptive illusion……'

Lane minions began to clash.

Because the early invasion was repelled by the cow-head's knock, IG didn't know which side Liang Yan started his jungle from; seeing VG's top lane treant come online with low blue mana, while the bottom lane had already begun laning, they naturally assumed Liang Yan was clearing from the blue side's Shang Ban Qu blue buff.

After deducing that Liang Yan's EZ started from the Shang Ban Qu jungle, Rookie in Zhong Lu naturally would position himself toward the bottom lane during laning to ensure his safety.

Although Rookie didn't know what kind of playstyle EZ jungling was, he sensed from instinct and experience that it must be a disgusting tactic; even if he weren't afraid of being caught dead, an enemy long-range AD jungler jumping up to auto-attack him a few times would still be quite disgusting.

As expected, Rookie fell for the trap.

'What? Second Level Mid Grab?!'

While EZ was clearing the red buff, he kept pulling toward the back of the dragon pit; after his final Q took the red buff, he stepped forward twice onto the Explosive Fruit behind the dragon pit, detonating it with a pop—EZ was bounced into the dragon pit by the blast, then he crept all the way to Zhong Lu.

IG jungler Ning's starting jungle spot was known, the ward Liang Yan placed in the red side's blue buff camp made it crystal clear, but whether Ning's second jungle clear was Magic Swamp Frog or Three Wolves couldn't be determined, because when Ning took the blue buff he pulled into the nearby grass patch to finish it, after which his subsequent direction was unknown.

Therefore, to avoid colliding with Ning's Kai'Sa, Liang Yan chose not to enter the red side jungle for a big flank from behind to catch Rookie, but instead moved straight along the river to the grass patch on the right side of the river near Zhong Lu.

'Here he comes, Rookie's position feels like it's about to suffer!'

'The judgment was wrong; Rookie might have thought Jiao Shen started from the Shang Ban Qu, so his positioning happened to be close to this side!'

When Liang Yan entered the grass patch, Rookie had just cleared the front-line melee minions of the second wave; from his perspective he thought his position was safe, and a level‑1 Orianna versus Ahri was an absolute advantage, and he had chosen an early‑pressure laning strategy—by now his Orianna was level 2, while the trickster Ahri, having not killed any second‑wave minion, was still level 1, but a red‑side front‑line minion was already low on health, and Ahri last‑hitting it would level up.

Rookie wanted to deny the trickster Ahri's last hit, taking an aggressive stance, clearly not wanting Ahri to come up and auto‑attack that low‑health minion.

But the moment he stepped forward, a blond burst from the river‑side grass and leapt onto him.

Figure: Level‑2 mid‑lane gank

That leap almost directly slammed into Rookie's face!

'Holy shit!!!'

Rookie shuddered all over, the sudden face‑hit from the little blond scared him nearly out of his wits, a proper Mandarin curse burst out, and he almost flung his mouse away.

At the same moment, the trickster Ahri auto‑attacked the dying low‑health minion, hit level 2, and stepped forward!

'Jiao Shen's leap almost landed on Rookie's face! E‑Q‑A‑A in an instant took off half of Rookie's health bar!'

'Ahri hit level 2! She stepped forward with a Q! It scared out Rookie's flash! Rookie flashed away, gave himself a W speed boost, and ran down to the tower!'

'Can't shake her off! Jiao Shen has red buff slow—he keeps chasing and auto‑attacking!'

'With the passive attack speed from stacked Q, EZ's attack speed is a bit fast! Moreover, Jiao Shen's walk‑auto is as smooth as flowing clouds, looking like it doesn't hurt much per hit, but the hits stack up and still leave Rookie low on health!'

'As for the next Q—if it feels like it'll hit, we just have to kill him!!'

'Nice dodge! Rookie avoided it!! Should Jiao Shen follow flash with two more auto‑attacks? He didn't, just withdrew.'

'But…… although Rookie survived, feeling like returning to base at level 2 is worse than dying.'

Rookie's play had been solid all along; although Liang Yan's Q already had lead‑aim, Rookie relied on astonishing reflexes to brake, turn, and dodge that deadly shot, eventually making it back under the tower with a little over 100 health.

Liang Yan didn't follow flash into the tower for a hard kill; instead he chose to preserve his health and flash, saving the option for a later engage or invade.

The trickster Ahri sheepishly apologized in the team voice chat: 'My bad, I instinctively just learned Q, learning E and I killed him.'

'Yeah, pay attention next time.'

Liang Yan didn't say much, just auto‑attacked a few minions to help the trickster Ahri push the lane faster, walking up the river while doing so.

Rookie was low on health, afraid of being flanked and ambushed, so he didn't dare recall at the first tower; he retreated all the way to the second tower, cautiously placed a ward in his own F6 camp grass, then returned to the base of the middle second tower, pressed recall, and then vented on mic to his teammates:

'I'm chovy, this thing does insane damage, it's disgusting, guys.'