Chapter 797
Uzi was obviously not convinced.
As the commentator said, at this moment neither of them had double summon; the female sniper had a displacement but couldn't use it to initiate; the Frost Archer's W skill has long range and wide area but will be blocked by minions; in this situation where neither side has a stable engage, Uzi just needs to hide behind the minions to be invincible, because the female sniper's basic attack range is 75 yards longer than the Frost Archer's.
75 yards, which is just a step away, very short.
But in a high-level matchup, this 75 yards is the most important strategic objective for both sides.
Uzi has never been afraid to duel anyone mechanically.
When Liang Yan pushed the minion wave to the turret, a new wave of red side minions had already arrived at the front line, and he intercepted them one step before the blue side minions' aggro locked onto the turret.
Liang Yan didn't retreat, standing behind the blue side ranged minions, swaying.
Uzi couldn't take it anymore; Liang Yan had already lost the minion wave advantage, yet he dared to stand in front of him and even tried to interfere with his turret last hit—such an obvious provocation was tantamount to slapping a challenge letter on his face.
Thus Uzi stepped forward two steps, came out from behind the red side ranged minion, intending to bait out the Frost Archer's W skill and then go after Liang Yan.
As a result, Liang Yan simply retreated.
Seeing that he didn't fall for it, Uzi had no choice but to pull back, firing a shot at a front-line minion that had been damaged by the turret, but his timing was off by a hair and he missed the last hit.
"Damn..."
Uzi's breathing tightened, feeling a bit stifled.
At the same time, Liang Yan turned his head and pressed forward again.
"You damn..."
Uzi raised his hand to auto-attack him, but as soon as he locked on, Liang Yan stepped out of his auto-attack range. Uzi moved forward to chase, and Liang Yan kept retreating.
Uzi didn't dare to really step out from behind the minions, only sticking out half his butt to bait.
Liang Yan still didn't take the bait, firmly holding his W skill in hand, merely sidestepping to find a better angle to strike.
Uzi regained a few dozen health with Doran's Blade auto-attacks on minions and natural regeneration, bringing him close to 400 HP; he didn't dare overreach, so he had to shrink back behind the minions again.
Then he tried to last-hit the turret-damaged minion again, but was again a hair too slow and missed the hit.
"……"
Uzi felt so stifled he wanted to spit blood.
At this moment, the red side front-line minions were all dead, the blue side minions pushed forward, the siege cannon arrived, and the turret began prioritizing attacks on the siege cannon.
The two front-line minions before had already been missed; this siege cannon is more valuable, and no matter what, it cannot be missed again. Uzi stood motionless behind the ranged minions, determined not to be baited by Liang Yan, and resolved to secure the siege cannon no matter what happened.
As expected, Liang Yan stepped forward two steps, placing himself on the edge of the female sniper's auto-attack range.
The venue was noisy, the commentators shouting in confusion.
"Jiao Shen is suicidally reckless!"
"His guts are huge—doesn't he fear the female sniper landing a headshot on him?"
"Uzi actually just backed off! No way, can he even tolerate this!"
"He wants to last-hit the siege cannon..."
"No way, dude?!"
Uzi stepped back two steps, Liang Yan stepped forward two steps, raised his hand and began auto-attacking the turret.
The female sniper was guarding the turret, yet someone was auto-attacking it right in front of her.
And the person playing the female sniper is Uzi.
This scene is utterly surreal; many felt their worldviews shattering—Is this even Uzi? How did he completely reverse?
In the Cool Team player bench, Uzi breathed heavily, gritted his teeth, one eye fixed on the siege cannon, the other on the Frost Archer who was auto-attacking the turret.
He is revered by countless as the world's number one ADC; when has he ever suffered such humiliation?
For this 'priceless' siege cannon, he endured!
Almost there, just one last shot...
When the turret's shot lands, the siege cannon will be left with low health. Uzi only needs to lightly raise his hand and auto-attack once to claim the delicious...
However, at the same moment, a red side ranged minion in front of Uzi was also low on health.
The turret's projectile was in flight when the Frost Archer suddenly raised his hand and fired an arrow; his basic attack had just been released, and his W skill, Volley, immediately followed.
Uzi instantly broke into a sweat, swept into a mental storm.
At this moment, three options flashed through Uzi's mind: continue last-hitting, use displacement to create distance, or counterattack immediately.
If he continued last-hitting, it would be a loss, possibly even getting killed outright.
If he used the net launch to create distance, he could dodge the skill, but he wouldn't be able to take the siege cannon.
Thus Uzi outright discarded the first two options.
But if he wanted to counterattack, the key factor was how much health the female sniper would have left after taking this Volley, and how many more basic attacks she could withstand thereafter.
The skill damage isn't hard to calculate; for Uzi, he could even estimate the health after the Volley down to the tens digit without needing to compute.
The difficulty lies in calculating basic attack damage.
Even a single basic attack's damage isn't hard to calculate; the real difficulty is that Ashe has Blade of the Ruined King, whose passive adds extra damage on basic attacks based on current health, and it's physical damage, meaning armor reduction must also be factored in...
Given that Blade of the Ruined King's passive damage coefficient is '6% of current health', let Uzi's health after the Volley be 'a', and Ashe's base basic attack damage be 'b'; then the actual damage of Ashe's first basic attack is 'b + a*6%*armor reduction coefficient'. If that hit doesn't kill Uzi, the second basic attack's damage becomes 'b + (a - b + a*6%*armor reduction coefficient)*6%*armor reduction coefficient'; if the second still doesn't kill him, the third basic attack's damage continues the recursion...
Uzi's math is clearly not up to solving this instantly.
Probably no professional League of Legends player worldwide could solve this in one second; Liang Yan couldn't either.
Normally, people estimate damage based on experience and feel.
Liang Yan can, by feel, 'precisely calculate' down to the ones digit—that's his heavenly gift; Uzi's gift, however, only supports him calculating down to the tens digit, which is usually enough—just a glance tells him how many basic attacks he can still survive.
The problem is that Uzi's current health is rather awkward.
Ice gear, broken, with 130+ attack power; female officer, 50 armor, 230+ health—maybe after two hits you die, maybe after two hits you still have a few, or ten to twenty health left.
Uzi can only rely on gambling.
He bets that he won't die after taking two hits.
He bet that he could win.
No need to bet whether the Peace Envoy can hit; his second basic attack is a headshot, which will completely erase Ice's first-move advantage!
A little attack speed need not be quibbled over, because the female police officer has nearly 200 attack power, combined with a headshot, only two basic attacks are needed to kill the Ice with over 400 HP!
No sooner said than done, as the Ice Archer's basic attack began to raise his hand, Uzi simultaneously locked onto Ice and fired a shot.
I don't even need the cannon cart; I'll fight you to the death!
End of Chapter
