Chapter 863: Consecutive Upsets

Bang tried to flash back but couldn't escape! Xiao Ming used his flash! It was so close! Bang's final basic attack didn't land! Xiao Ming didn't die! Uzi kept dealing crazy damage! Bang used his heal! Uzi kept chasing and attacking! Dead! First blood secured by Uzi!

Wolf's Syndra couldn't get away either!

Uzi! Double kill!! Who said Uzi isn't as good as Bang! Today Uzi used this dominant lane performance to secure kills and tell everyone: I am the world's number one ADC!

Wow wow wow wow wow! Uzi took off!

The playstyle of Malaxiangguo is to strike when you're weak and take your life—seeing the bottom lane push and get kills, even jungle monsters are ignored as they begin a starvation-style boot camp in the bottom lane...

In less than ten minutes, Bang died three times, indirectly causing Faker's death once.

At ten minutes, the kill score was 6:1 in favor of one side.

Although Xiaohu's Ahri felt a bit off, even with item advantage he was still dominated in lane by Faker's Syndra, who shoved him off the wave—but it doesn't matter, as RNG's core player Uzi already had four kills, fat and dripping with oil.

SKT was on the verge of collapse, shifting to defense, but the bottom lane gap was too wide, and Malaxiangguo's starvation-style Prince kept poking them with spear after spear, tearing through their defenses.

At fifteen minutes, RNG's economic lead expanded to 4,000 gold.

At twenty minutes, RNG's economic lead reached 6,000 gold.

At twenty-seven minutes... RNG led by 10,000 gold, simultaneously taking three small dragons and one elder dragon, while SKT lost their high ground in one lane.

LPL fans were delighted, yet a faint unease lingered.

This RNG game was eerily similar to yesterday's EDG match, and SKT put up just as strong a resistance... No way, no way, no way...

The RNG fans in the arena were both excited and anxious, only able to release their turbulent emotions through the loudest cheers.

Fortunately, RNG did not repeat EDG's disaster.

At twenty-nine minutes, RNG advanced in full force, pushing from the already-lost bottom lane turret into SKT's high ground. SKT desperately defended their exposed nexus, Malaxiangguo burst out from beneath the high ground wall, landing a triangle EQ flash to knock back Wind Girl Jinx, Letme's Olaf immediately followed up with his ultimate, Uzi's Tristana unleashed a furious barrage of rapid fire and Gatling gun shots, dazzling the eye, and SKT collapsed instantly as two players fell.

At thirty-one minutes, RNG destroyed SKT's base and secured the win.

"Congratulations, RNG!!"

The LPL commentators were overcome with excitement, shouting amid the crowd's roar the long-awaited phrase that RNG fans had been waiting to hear.

"Yes, congratulations RNG! Today's victory, for the LPL, can be described as rain after a long drought! It gave the entire region's supporters a massive boost in confidence!"

"Haha, this is truly great—I lost two games yesterday and felt so awful I couldn't sleep all night! I even thought LPL, aside from VG, the other two teams were doomed! But today! We beat LCK! Thank you, RNG! I believe I'll finally get a good night's sleep tonight!"

The commentators' passionate voices echoed through the arena, the dog fans' hearts, which had been suspended for tens of minutes, finally settled—many eyes glistened with tears.

RNG members chatted and laughed as they left the stage, and in the backstage corridor, they happened to run into VG's delegation coming in from outside. Malaxiangguo, beaming with pride, boasted to Liang Yan: "How to say it, foot god? That EQ flash I just pulled off had the same flair as your blind monk kick from last year~"

Liang Yan replied: "Still a bit short, but it's comparable to yesterday's SSG flip on EDG—we could put that clip in the same highlight reel."

Actually, there's still a significant gap—whether it's Liang Yan's kick or yesterday's SSG flip on EDG, the difficulty and pressure back then were incomparable to today. Malaxiangguo's final triangle EQ flash engage, though impressive and stylish, came from a position of overwhelming advantage, so the pressure on the player was clearly much less than in those two iconic moments.

Also, SKT's pick today clearly showed they were holding back, while RNG truly laid all their cards on the table—before the match, no one expected Letme to pick Olaf, a player who usually plays the top lane like EDG's, mainly a tanky, pressure-absorbing role.

But hey, all boats rise with the tide—we're all from the same region, so Liang Yan wouldn't pour cold water on RNG at a time like this.

Uzi stood nearby, face slightly red, grinning foolishly, eyes fixed on the VG players, clearly hoping for a few words of praise.

Liang Yan was tactful, giving a thumbs-up. Xiao Duan was more direct: "My dog brother today is truly a beast—that bottom lane double kill was insanely cool and spicy!"

Others also offered a few compliments, then the two groups parted ways, each heading back to their respective rest rooms.

VG had just arrived, while RNG had already finished their match, packed up, and were preparing to leave. In another rest room, EDG members listened to the noisy celebrations outside, their expressions slightly awkward, their hearts inexplicably sour.

Abu frowned: "Don't worry about how they celebrate—they beat SKT, so any celebration is justified. We just need to focus on ourselves; as long as we take down G2 today, yesterday's loss was just a fluke."

But just thinking about having to face G2 later, EDG members couldn't help but tense up, their stomachs twisting—seven ups, eight downs...

Next up was the second match: LMS's first seed FW versus Europe's third seed FNC. Unexpectedly, another upset occurred—Europe's second mid laner Caps finally exploded, killing FW's mid laner Maple at level three, shortly after Broxah secured a kill in the bottom lane, enabling Rekkles' Ezreal to take down Betty Varus, followed by claiming the first tower.

FNC started strong, leading by nearly 4,000 gold at ten minutes.

FW fought back fiercely, Karsa relentlessly seeking opportunities to turn the tide, and in mid-game they managed two decent counterattacks, but only gained small advantages, insufficient to shift the overall momentum.

Still, FNC played overly cautiously, amassing nearly 8,000 gold lead by thirty minutes, yet the game dragged on to nearly fifty minutes before FNC finally won, relying on their lategame composition's massive advantage.

This was also FNC's first win in S7. After the match, Ou Cheng accepted an interview on the main stage. When Yu Shuang asked, "What is FNC's goal for this event?" Rekkles' eyes reddened, he wiped away tears, stayed silent for a long time, then replied:

"Our roster still has many issues to work through. Just making it to Worlds this year already exceeded our own expectations, so if you're asking about our goal, I believe every win, every point earned, every step forward—each is a tremendous victory."

Meaning: there's no fixed target—winning one game counts as one victory.

Said with genuine sincerity, combined with his good looks, he naturally attracted many female fans, and his Weibo gained a large wave of new followers after the match.

—As early as last year, FNC and several of their high-popularity players had learned from G2 and created their own accounts on Weibo.

After the Group A matches ended, the third game was Group C's showdown.

EDG versus G2.

Another LPL versus strong team clash, drawing countless eyes.

After RNG's dominant performance against SKT, LPL fans couldn't help but hope EDG might also win—thinking, if EDG beats G2 today, then we could forgive them.

The result proved, we were hoping too much.