Chapter 771: Brother Yan, the crab is cleared!

Thanks to a triple kill with one assist, iboy's Berserker's Greaves took the second kill, and his farm finally surpassed Sima Laozei's.

But Sima Laozei didn't collapse.

Scout's farm, on the other hand, completely collapsed.

After the mid lane wave ended, VG's side core Yasuo became completely unstoppable.

"Kills 5 to 10, gold difference just over three thousand, twelve minutes!"

"The advantage is already big."

"But VG didn't directly destroy the tower, huh? Why didn't they push this wave?"

"Because everyone's level isn't that high, respawning is still fairly quick, so VG might not want to lose the initiative for the next round by taking down a tower."

"They didn't take the dragon or the Rift Herald, after pushing the lane everyone just went back to base—VG's discipline is really strong!"

After respawning, Liang Yan headed straight to the bottom lane, sneaking into the side brush behind the duo, a few seconds later Berserker's Greaves pushed the wave forward, Liang Yan directly unleashed his ultimate from the brush, correctly predicting the direction of iboy's Martial Arts slide, and blasted the opponent back.

In the previous exchange, iboy's Flash used against Sima Laozei was still on cooldown, Meiko's incoming lantern was instantly covered by the two control wards placed down, iboy couldn't reach the lantern, and he quickly melted under VG's three-man focus fire.

However, Changzhang arrived in time; Mouse on top lane had multiple Teleports, Liang Yan weighed it up, still gave up on taking the dragon, left a charging barrel to help push the lane, then turned back to the jungle.

Just after the bottom lane fight ended, mid lane fighting flared up again—Ze Ze Tai, with Berserker's Greaves, Zeal, and Infinity Edge in hand, grew more confident in lane; as the next minion wave arrived, he slid a few steps toward Scout with quick slashes, after dodging the hook with his slippery movement, he immediately EQ'd in and started slashing.

Just a couple of slashes cut off about half of Scout's health.

This was without a crit due to bad luck; otherwise half his health would be gone.

Scout couldn't take the damage, was forced to use W to retreat; Ze Ze Tai slid back a bit, feigning withdrawal, but when Scout's second W brought him back to original position and he tried to last-hit a low-health melee minion, Ze Ze Tai suddenly turned and blew out a gust of wind.

Scout didn't have time to use his ultimate to copy W and dodge, getting blown airborne.

"Ouch!!"

Ze Ze Tai walked over, auto-attacked once, then followed up with his ultimate.

Scout landed low on health, hurriedly used his ultimate to copy W and step back under the tower, scraping by with a sliver of life, but he still had to recall.

The crowd kept gasping.

VG fans' enthusiasm grew ever higher, while EDG fans grew ever quieter.

On the commentator desk, the four commentators fell silent in unison for two seconds.

"Even the attitude is being played now."

"Covering the ID, you say this windy guy is playing attitude? I absolutely don't believe it… and moreover, Ahri is Scout's signature!"

"Compared to last year's attitude, it's indeed changed too much."

"I actually think Scout has performed very well. A 0-3 Ahri versus a 4-1 Yasuo is only off by less than twenty last hits, which is absolutely qualified!"

Guan Zeyuan began playing the moderate, but his wildly twitching mouth corners leaked his true thoughts.

"The good news is Scout has Teleport, so this wave can still be farmed."

"Actually, if Ze Ze Tai had built the crit-increasing Cloak of Agility instead of the attack-increasing Infinity Edge, I think Scout would already be dead this wave."

"That's not necessarily true either; Infinity Edge does add attack damage for more stable output, while the crit chance from Cloak of Agility, although it gives Yasuo double stat scaling, still can't let Yasuo outright cap crit, and luck is something nobody can predict."

"Yeah, Infinity Edge is a bit more expensive…"

Scout teleported back to mid lane and ate the remaining four minions.

Ze Ze Tai stood in the exact center of mid lane, waiting for the next wave to arrive.

Liang Yan was clearing jungle in the nearby F6 camp, pinged his team's upcoming third red buff, and said into the mic: "Ze Ze Tai, you coming over to take the red?"

Ze Ze Tai, who was almost humming with delight, suddenly felt his heart tighten and said nervously: "No... I won't take it, you take it... I... I can just farm the minion line."

Liang Yan encouraged him: "Mainly, I don't need this good farm anyway; you can definitely take it, and if you have time you can also clear the F6 wolves, I'm swamped."

""Swamped"" was just polite talk, but Liang Yan really wanted Ze Ze Tai to clear more jungle."

His barrel had picked up another kill in that previous mid lane clash, now his record is 4-1 with over eighty last hits—this farm, how could it be just good…

The barrel farming so well isn't that meaningful, so Liang Yan wanted to shift the economy.

Ze Ze Tai became even more panicked: "I dare not eat the red on my thigh, I don't want to die!" He repeatedly refused in a hurry: "No no no, I don't need it, you take it, you take it!"

Seeing this, Liang Yan stopped insisting: "Fine, don't take it; I'll just build a bit more damage instead, the effect is about the same."

After clearing the upper jungle, Liang Yan came to the upper river, ready to take the Rift Herald.

At this point the game time was approaching fourteen minutes, and both the Rift Herald and the first dragon were still alive and well.

The laning phase had basically ended, and both sides' supports began roaming more frequently.

After clearing a wave, Ze Ze Tai returned to base again and pulled out a Cloak of Agility.

When Yasuo reappeared in lane, Scout's heart gave a jolt; he saw his Flash just came off cooldown, then silently controlled Ahri to step back two steps.

After Liang Yan's earlier "knocking" talk, Ze Ze Tai also put away his playfulness, cleared a wave in two or three slashes, then headed to the river to contribute his share to vision control.

His Yasuo is already unbeatable in 1v1, and likely to win 1v2; given that EDG's solo and duo lanes have clear positions, he can completely confidently go out alone to ward.

While placing a control ward in the central river grass, a river crab slowly drifted into view; Ze Ze Tai felt a tug, his throat twitched twice, but he ultimately restrained his greed, pinged the river crab twice, and said:

"Brother Yan, the crab is cleared!"

Liang Yan laughed: "Mm-hm, I know. If you want to eat, go ahead."

Ze Ze Tai was startled again, hurriedly denying: "No no, I didn't want to eat!"

Liang Yan was speechless.

In VG's voice channel, the sounds of Fu Lan Duo and Xiao Duan giggling softly echoed.

Actually Liang Yan didn't quite understand either; he thought he was usually easygoing in life, so why did Ze Ze Tai act like a mouse seeing a cat in front of him?

"Then you come take the blue."

Liang Yan was speechless for a moment, then said and pinged.

"My Yasuo..."

Ze Ze Tai instinctively tried to politely decline, saying my Yasuo doesn't need blue, but after glancing at the minimap he saw Liang Yan had pinged the enemy blue, instantly realized Liang Yan wanted him to come help fight, and hurriedly corrected himself:

My Yasuo is unbeatable in fights!