Chapter 883: The Whole World Only Has One Jungler Who Can Pull This Off

In the G2 player seats, Perkz wore a solemn expression, glanced at the bottom lane, and said: "Wen Xi, can you still hold on?"

Zven remained silent for two seconds, then replied: "No problem, I can hold out."

"Be careful—if there's a chance, quickly place a ward; he'll likely come back to gank you again," Perkz reminded.

"Got it."

The duo responded in unison; Zven decided not to leave the turret, while Mithy pondered how to go out and place a ward.

SSG's duo applied heavy pressure, gradually creating a last-hit gap in the bottom lane, but for the pressure-resistant lane, it was still tolerable. Mithy truly dared not go out, fearing that if he left, the enemy would immediately dive for a kill, so he settled for second best, placing a ward through the wall into the jungle path connecting to the Stone Beetle Camp.

Seeing this, Perkz immediately sacrificed health to aggressively push a wave, left mid lane and entered his own jungle, placing a ward right in the middle of the grass bush at the Red Buff Camp.

Two wards separated by a wall looked a bit odd, but it was actually the perfect defensive ward placement, completely eliminating Ambition's all possibilities of vision control, flanking, and ganking.

Of course, this came at a cost—Perkz's Galio, which could originally pressure Ryze in mid lane, lost his lane advantage after this health-for-push trade. Despite that, it was worth it.

Fortunately, Crown himself was not an overly aggressive player, and moreover, SSG's early-game focus in this match was not on mid lane—Ryze's early-game damage was weak, and Zhu Mei was also an AP hero; two magic damage heroes trying to kill a Galio with over half health would be nearly impossible in this specific situation unless they had Ignite.

As Perkz said, just half a minute after he placed that ward, Ambition indeed reappeared, and chose an extremely strange route—entering the blue side jungle through the gap in front of the F6 Camp, then circling around via the small path in front of the Red Buff Camp.

Diagram: Sect Master An's gank route

Wawa widened his eyes and exclaimed: "Wow, Sect Master An's detour is way too scary! Luckily there's a ward here at Red Buff! Otherwise, G2's bottom lane would have at least one death in this fight!"

Guan Zeyuan nodded: "Indeed, Perkz's ward placement demonstrates this player's extraordinary understanding of defensive vision—it can be said that a single ward completely sealed off SSG's two flanking attack routes, whether Ambition came through the front gap or up from the Dragon Pit, he would definitely be seen by this ward."

"Well, you can't say it's completely sealed off—if he came through the F6 gap, then circled via the small path opposite Red Buff, he could still avoid this ward."

"That's just splitting hairs—under normal circumstances where you can't confirm the enemy's ward placement, no sane person would do that; it's too time-consuming. You said this kind of miraculous vision-flanking maneuver—feels like only one jungler in the whole world could pull it off."

Diagram: Rita's imagined path

Rita covered her mouth and giggled: "You actually can just boldly say his ID out loud."

Guan Zeyuan rolled his eyes so hard they almost popped out, mentally cursing: "Damn you, Rita, you've already completely taken the form of Jiao Shen!"

In the training hotel, VG members all turned their attention to Liang Yanxing.

Liang Yan remained calm, pretending not to understand.

……

In the canyon, sharp signal sounds blared loudly.

G2's duo swiftly retreated from behind the turret.

SSG's duo couldn't quickly flank around the defensive tower; Ambition, alone, dared not recklessly charge up to hold someone, so he could only watch as Zven and Mithy walked past in front of him.

Not taking hits and not retaliating is certainly not G2's style—G2's counterattack came swiftly.

Ambition's Zhu Mei doesn't have high development demands, but it depends on the situation—in this match, his opponent Jankos was playing Leopard Woman.

Jankos's Leopard Woman was trained under Liang Yan.

Although Jankos never received direct personal instruction from Liang Yan, he had repeatedly watched and studied Liang Yan's every Leopard Woman match recording.

Earlier, SSG's mid laner Crown had placed a ward in G2's F6 Camp; Ambition detected Jankos's timing for clearing F6. No calculation needed—Ambition could tell at a glance that Jankos's jungle clear speed as Leopard Woman was nearly 3 seconds faster than that of a typical jungler playing Leopard Woman.

Half the jungle cleared in three seconds, the whole jungle in over six seconds—adding to the time Ambition wasted in the bottom lane, it meant Leopard Woman had already cleared the entire jungle, probably already eating River Crabs, while Ambition still had two jungle camps left uncleared.

Ambition dared not be careless; after realizing he couldn't gain much advantage in the bottom lane, he decisively recalled, while simultaneously having Cuvee's Nal place a ward in the broken wall grass bush behind his own first turret, to prevent an early invade on the Stone Beetles.

Ambition's Zhu Mei doesn't need top-tier development, but he cannot allow Leopard Woman to steal jungle monsters and gain an early development edge—otherwise, the entire SSG team would face immense pressure, because this Leopard Woman is very clearly an Incense Burner Monster.

In this match, Cuvee's Nal laned against Jesse; he was definitely going to be pressured, but he focused solely on last-hitting and developing, refusing to engage with Expect, and his days were passable enough, since Expect's aggression was indeed lackluster—he didn't exert much pressure on Cuvee.

Cuvee placed a ward, then returned to continue last-hitting, noticing that Jesse seemed to want to fast-push the minion wave; Cuvee suspected the enemy intended to send the wave in and then coordinate with Leopard Woman for a jungle invade, so he immediately fired off several pings. He couldn't stop Jesse from fast-pushing, but if the enemy thought they could easily steal a jungle camp that way, that was impossible!

Ambition acknowledged receipt and marched straight out toward the Stone Beetles.

However, Ambition didn't know that G2 had seized upon his cautious mindset and organized a surprising offensive.

Jesse sent the minion wave into the turret but didn't leave—instead, he switched to his cannon and pressed it in front of the turret, occasionally touching the defensive tower.

Ambition had already descended from the high ground, watching Cuvee's fake eye's vision range—completely empty—and a strange feeling welled up in his heart.

What's going on?

Leopard Woman didn't come?

Just then, mid lane suddenly flashed several warning signals:

【MidMiss！】

【MidMiss！】

【MidMiss！】

Perkz disappeared.

Went home?

Impossible!

Galio's condition was still fine—this timing wasn't suitable for recalling in mid lane, because his gold was just stuck at an awkward number; recalling earlier would let him buy a small book and a reusable potion, recalling later would let him directly buy a cooldown book, but recalling now would leave him in an awkward, uncomfortable state.

So, Perkz had no reason to recall at this moment!

Where is he?

In the blink of an eye, Ambition figured out this logic, alarm bells ringing in his mind, and immediately raised his hand to signal the bottom lane.

But it was too late.

Crown confirmed that Perkz leaving mid lane also took time.

G2 moved extremely fast—by the time Crown fired the miss signal, Perkz had already passed the Dragon Pit mouth, accompanied by Jankos's Leopard Woman!

Although SSG's duo had intentionally let the lane push out after Ambition left, this required time, and during this process, minions would inevitably take damage; SSG had a lane advantage, so they couldn't just watch minions die without last-hitting.

Therefore, at this moment, SSG's duo was hiding in front of G2's second turret, in the side bush, waiting to retaliate and push the lane back—their positions were already far beyond the river's midline—and when Perkz's Galio and Jankos's Leopard Woman appeared in the river mouth within SSG's ward vision, they could no longer retreat in time!