Chapter 108: 45-Degree Flank! Stealth Barrel! Body Slam!

"Looking at the team compositions alone, this match is perfectly suited to the strengths of both sides!" Wawa was still chattering away at the commentary desk.

"EDG is relying on Gragas, Vi, and Amumu—three champions with strong engage potential. They are picks that the opponent's carries will be extremely wary of in teamfights. Meanwhile, JDG's mid-jungle duo should enjoy an advantage, and with the Kindred and Aphelios-Renata combination, they will definitely be much stronger than the opponent if they drag it into the late game!"

Miller nodded in agreement: "Exactly. JDG should only focus on the top half of the map in the early-to-mid game; their bot lane duo will have a harder time during the laning phase."

Summoner's Rift descended, and everyone quickly bought their items and headed out.

"The second game of the series officially begins!"

As soon as they entered the game, the commentary desk was also synchronizing broadcast information with the audience.

"Player Ye Bo is using Gragas mid this game. In patch 12. 1, he received double buffs to his Q and E. During the regular season, our region's Doinb and the neighbor region's Faker both had records of picking him!"

Veteran commentator Wawa reminisced: "Come to think of it, this hero Gragas was originally a mid-laner back in Season 3. I remember he only moved into the jungle after his rework in Season 5."

"Hey, look at EDG's movements!"

The commentary desk had intended to chat, but suddenly noticed something unusual about the five EDG members at level one.

There wasn't much difference in the level-one teamfight compositions between the two sides.

EDG had the advantage of having two crowd-control champions in Gragas and Amumu, while JDG had the advantage of having five ranged heroes!

If a head-on invasion of the level-one jungle were to break out, the outcome would be anyone's guess.

JDG was in a standard horizontal formation.

The top laner met the opponent's top laner at the river entrance, while the mid laner stood in front of his own Raptors.

The jungler and the bot lane duo were guarding the two entrances to their own blue buff area respectively.

At the same time, both bot lanes also met each other at the river entrance.

"You two be careful. There's no need to force a level-one fight. If they want to force an entry, give up your position and we can fight when we get there," Kanavi commanded, watching the positions of the bot lane duo.

"Hope, as long as we don't get hit by Amumu's Q, we'll just play for steady farm in the bot lane," Missing was still cautioning his AD carry.

But suddenly, there was a change in the vision!

Vi walked out from the blue side's river entrance, not caring at all about exposing her position, and headed straight toward the bottom to flank them.

At the same time, the opponent's bot lane duo suddenly pressed forward!

"It looks like they want to go in!"

Fortunately, the JDG bot lane duo had been keeping an eye on their positioning; after all, there was no reason for this composition to act tough against Kalista and Amumu.

Unless Amumu flashed for a Q, they were still a significant distance away.

However, just as the two were about to step into the entrance of their own blue buff area...

A bright, shiny beer belly suddenly flew out—from behind the wall of their own jungle!

Body Slam!

"Holy crap! How did he pop out from there!"

It was impossible for the two to have any defense against this angle, and they were knocked airborne head-on.

【Body Slam】 not only has a 1-second {knock-up} control but also a 225-unit {knock-back} effect.

This collision from directly behind them knocked them straight back.

Amumu's control range was indeed still a bit short, but with the combined distance of the knock-back and knock-up, he landed a stress-free 【Bandage Toss】 on the support, following up with another 1-second stun!

The ground erupted with a {Glacial Augment} zone!

At the same time, Vi from the other direction was already charging in with her Q.

Kindred had originally followed along, wanting to join the fight, but hesitated when seeing the situation on the other side.

"Go, go, go! Sell me, sell me!" Missing shouted decisively.

Renata was chain-controlled for a full two seconds, with the Glacial slow at her feet. Seeing Vi's fist coming, she knew her life was over and didn't bother using any extra abilities.

And Aphelios didn't look back once he broke free from the control, running for his life.

But EDG wasn't prepared to let him go so easily.

"Renata uses Q to pull back Amumu, trying to save the AD, but Kalista is still jumping forward!"

"Rend kills the Renata behind her; Kalista gets First Blood!"

"Amumu's second Q follows up, Hope is forced to use Cleanse to escape—wow, JDG is losing their minds!"

Ye Chujun shouted eagerly: "JDG's bot lane is finished; how are they supposed to lane now!"

"Master Ye's Gragas infiltration! I knew they definitely had a design the moment I saw him pick that thing!"

Everything in the vision just now had been normal, including the red side's positioning; it was the most standard and necessary setup, with no overextension at all.

So how did Gragas manage to get into that position?

The answer was simple.

He had actually gone to the bot lane alone at the start, and by using the pressure from his own bot lane's positioning, he successfully reached the red side's bot lane river bush and E'd in!

Gragas's E ability cooldown was buffed from 16 seconds to 14 seconds, and both sides reached their normal positions at around 0: 0.

He was already prepared to make a move at 0: 5.

And in fact, when Gragas went up, the JDG bot lane duo had just walked out from a nearby jungle path—it was just a "false blind spot in vision"!

Ye Bo howled excitedly: "Body Slam!"

"Nice belly, Master Ye!" Meiko gave a timely thumbs up.

"I'm truly invincible now," Viper added with a laugh, using a popular catchphrase.

This design was an "inspiration" Ye Bo had gained from watching match replays while trying to practice Gragas earlier.

Since Gragas was a niche mid-laner, Ye Bo could only look for match replays from the new patch where the hero had been used.

In one of those matches, T1 had also executed a level-one design when Faker picked Gragas.

It was just that in that match, they were on the red side and chose to attack the top lane.

And that time, Li Guapi (Faker) had performed an ultimate "feeding" play; despite successfully infiltrating and flanking, he "E'd into their faces and missed," letting them go for nothing.

But although it hadn't succeeded, Ye Bo was instantly inspired and made improvements.

Through experimentation, he discovered a blind spot in the bot lane bush. As long as his team's bot lane was a strong duo, they could press forward immediately and gain the position of the opponent's bot lane duo—helping Gragas complete the "Infiltration" without risk!

The reason Ye Bo could constantly come up with so many "designs" naturally wasn't just relying on sudden flashes of inspiration.

More importantly, he spent a massive amount of time studying replay reviews, delving into the core points and keys of every design, and then "drawing inferences about other cases" by taking the essence.

Some "instinct-based" players were probably like this too.

"Ya shibal!"

Redmi had barely sat down in the back room when he saw this turn of events and jumped up in a panic.

Their bot lane's situation this game was already not optimistic.

Although Aphelios-Renata was a popular combination in the current patch, everyone knew this duo wasn't for laning, but for their strength in the mid-to-late game!

Aphelios was arguably the strongest hyper-carry in the current patch, with terrifying burst AOE, but his only flaw was that he was hard to keep alive, which was why Renata was created—her ultimate could also create synergy.

And EDG's bot lane was famous for their laning ability; they had even picked heroes specifically for laning this game.

And yet, they had let the opponent take First Blood!

Redmi could only pin his hopes on Kanavi now, hoping he could find a way to break the deadlock.

Kanavi was indeed spinning his brain at high speed at this moment.

"Ya-Gao, come with me. Let's go into our blue buff area together after leaving base. I'm still starting blue."

"Top laner, help me ward the red buff. Support, switch to Sweeper and clear the vision in the blue buff area."

"We can't gank bot early; a 3v3 is a guaranteed loss. It'll be much easier to fight once Taliyah hits level six. You guys must stay steady in the early game!"

Kanavi's train of thought was very clear; he chose to sacrifice his own bot lane.

They couldn't attack the enemy's strength with their own weakness; this game, he had to leverage his advantage in counter-jungling.

The jungle monsters respawned.

Both junglers started in the bottom half of the map, and both bot lanes went to their lanes normally, not exposing the junglers' movements.

But the difference was that after clearing the blue buff, Kindred didn't continue to clear the Gromp as usual.

Instead, he headed toward the river!

"It looks like Kanavi wants to counter-jungle!"

Vi was another one of Kanavi's signature heroes; he understood this hero too well.

Because Vi had leveled Q at level one for the teamfight.

This would at least cause Vi's jungle clear speed to be more than 5 seconds slower than the normal level-one W start, and she would lose at least 20% more health!

Kanavi was the jungler with the highest counter-jungling stats in the Summer Split; his key characteristics, besides being a jungle carry, were counter-jungling. He couldn't possibly let this opportunity pass.

Kindred dove into the Dragon pit from the river, then used a Q to jump over the wall from the Dragon pit, heading straight toward the opponent's Raptors.

There would be three outcomes for this play.

First, if the Raptors were still there, it meant Vi either started in the top half or was doing a single-jungle start on Krugs, so Kindred could directly steal the camp.

Second, if Vi was currently doing the Raptors, Kindred could directly contest the camp because Vi's health would definitely be lower, and she would have already used her Q to clear the camp!

There was no chance of winning a 1v1, and the mid laners were only level one at this time!

Third, if the Raptors were gone, it meant Vi started on Raptors, and Kindred could directly counter-jungle the red buff at level two!

Kindred and Vi were both traditionally considered "level-three heroes"—that is, heroes who only possess their full combat capability at level three.

Therefore, no one would think Kindred would come to counter-jungle at level two, especially a Kindred who started blue.

But Kanavi, combining his experience and understanding of Vi's jungle, made this bold counter-jungle invasion just because the opponent had learned Q at level one!

"Kindred sneaks up from the Dragon pit, bypassing the vision in the river bush; he hasn't been spotted!"

"Jiejie is currently clearing Krugs, and his efficiency isn't very high—it looks like he's going to have a camp stolen!"

Kanavi meticulously placed the center of his W 【Wolf's Frenzy】 zone inside the red buff pit from over the wall.

Seeing that the Wolf Spirit, which covered two jungle quadrants simultaneously, did not bypass the wall to "automatically seek enemies," it was easy to judge that the Red Buff had already been taken, which also instantly informed Kanavi of Vi's whereabouts.

Vi must level up W at level two; without the E skill, her speed at clearing Krugs would be even slower!

While shooting at the Raptors to draw aggro and pulling them into the Wolf Spirit's domain to ensure no damage was lost, Kindred communicated the intel to teammates: "Vi is at Krugs, level two, she likely can't gank bottom."

After clearing the Raptors, Kindred then snuck behind the mid lane, wanting to touch Gragas on the way.

But fortunately, Gragas had learned the E skill at level one and couldn't push the wave anyway, so Ye Bo naturally couldn't use E to last-hit minions.

Seeing someone appear behind him, although a bit surprised, he slid directly under the tower with one E.

"A level two gank?"

Ye Bo looked at the vision in the river bush and quickly guessed that the opponent had come up from the Dragon Pit, but ganking him like this clearly had no meaning.

But immediately after, Jiejie's shout came through.

"Damn it! The Raptors were stolen!"

Kindred's path was not hard to guess, but Vi had no way to deal with it.

Because the two sides' jungle paths were opposite, Kindred's blue quadrant only had two camps, and it was impossible for Vi to run to the opponent's blue quadrant to trade; she almost had to swallow this bitter pill.

After all, Ye Bo was not a jungler, so he couldn't have a deep study of jungle strategies, and at this moment, it wasn't easy to make a definitive judgment or rashly give commands.

Jiejie headed toward his own upper quadrant, cautiously placing a defensive ward in the bush at the entrance of the blue quadrant, and only then did he Q into the blue pit to start the Blue Buff.

But this cautious ward still exposed him.

Because Kindred, who was currently clearing his own Raptors, had also specifically detoured here earlier to place a ward.

Why didn't Kindred's ward go directly into the Blue Buff pit?

The reason is simple—because Kindred wanted to use this ward to confirm the information on Vi's ward!

"Kindred finished the Raptors quickly and reached level three without even clearing the small birds! He is going to the blue quadrant to find Vi again!"

"Knowing there is vision in that bush, Kindred hugged the river wall and successfully bypassed the vision to enter from the upper entrance!"

"Kanavi's intention to invade the jungle in this game is extremely strong!"

Kindred walked into the jungle and saw the pit was empty, but there were still jungle camp markers on the mini-map, instantly making Vi's position clear.

Because he knew Vi was only level two and her state definitely wouldn't be good, Kindred pushed forward unscrupulously.

"Saint Gun Brother, come protect the jungle!" Ye Bo abandoned the minion wave and moved out at the first opportunity.

Kanavi issued a command almost simultaneously: "You guys follow me! They can't win this 3v3!"

The two sides gathered almost at the same time.

Jiejie was calm and collected, with eyes only for the Blue Buff; he made no cowardly moves, ignoring Kindred approaching the bush and burying his head into hitting the Blue.

Kindred walked into the bush, saw the low-health Blue Buff and Vi, and likewise ignored the Blue Buff to draw his bow and shoot Vi directly!

Jiejie steadily used Smite to take the Blue Buff and reached level three.

He instantly leveled up E, turned around to land a punch to trigger his passive shield, and then decisively used Flash to the side to escape.

"Jiejie snatched the jungle monster and reached level three!" Jiejie shouted urgently: "But Vi's state is too poor, she chose to use Flash to run away, Kindred is in hot pursuit and applied the E skill to continue the chase, it's still close!"

"Wow, fortunately Kindred doesn't have the Red Buff, Vi used the refreshed punch to go over the wall and barely escaped!" Wawa felt fortunate for this.

But his partner Miller thought the situation was not optimistic: "She ran, but Kindred still has Flash. Now the entire upper jungle quadrant has to be handed over, plus the set of Raptors stolen in the lower quadrant—this means Jiejie is effectively losing an entire jungle quadrant!"

"If this jungle is given up, the early game disadvantage will be infinitely large!"

The facts were indeed so.

Although Kindred lacked some damage and chasing ability due to not having the Red Buff.

But in fact, as long as Vi was beaten to low health and driven away, the effect had already been achieved.

Even if the opponent's mid and top laners came to support, the states of the two junglers were worlds apart, and no matter how you looked at it, it was hard to defend this jungle quadrant.

And in this way, after Vi returned to the field, she would face the awkward situation of having no camps to clear in either of her own jungle quadrants!

If Kindred could create such a jungle advantage in 3 minutes, he could almost dominate the upper quadrant for the rest of the time, thereby taking over the laning advantage in mid and top, making the two sides' offensives reach a balance, or even surpass it!

Ye Bo clearly saw the chain reaction that would follow, which is why he didn't want to hand it over so easily even while knowing it was hard to fight.

He quickly analyzed the situation.

"Jie, don't recall yet, we have to try to hold this jungle."

"Our mid and top minion waves are both fine, try to beat Kindred to low health or trade him out, I will find an opportunity."

Jiejie, who was recalling at the second tower, canceled the recall upon hearing this, drank a potion, and the Red Buff's buff was also accelerating his health recovery.

Kanavi, who had turned to start clearing the Gromp, suddenly saw that the vision at the entrance didn't show Gragas returning, so he immediately stopped and commanded the mid and top laners.

"They seem to want to come!"

"You guys come protect me and let me eat this jungle quadrant; if I eat it, Vi can't play this game, and I'll be able to play on top of his head later!"

Kindred stopped and retreated to the entrance of the blue quadrant, waiting for his mid and top teammates to get into position before pushing forward again.

"Neither side wants to give up the fight for this jungle quadrant! This jungle defense battle seems to be about to break out into a 3v3!"

"But the EDG jungler's state is too poor, unless they can coordinate to initiate and kill one instantly... but with the deterrence of the Taliyah's Unraveled Earth, Gragas, Jayce, and Vi—all three of them are very hard to initiate with!"

The two sides were in a slight stalemate.

Gragas stood alone near the Blue Buff bush, while Jayce and Vi were positioned to the side and behind.

Both JDG's top and mid lanes were pushing back, creating pressure from the minion waves.

But everyone also saw Gragas's restless movements.

The only threat the opponent had was Gragas's E-Flash initiation, which could potentially cause a kill, but as long as they could force Gragas's E out, they could win without a fight!

"Vi is charging her Q! Yagao's Unraveled Earth!"

"69, you and I go straight for Gragas!"

With a clear mind, Kanavi seized the opportunity. Seeing Vi charging her Q and advancing instead of retreating, he immediately stepped forward with QW, threw out his E skill on Gragas, and caused a high amount of slow!

Little Gnar jumped over from behind and threw a boomerang at Gragas.

At the same time, Taliyah followed up with Threaded Volley and directly threw out 【Unraveled Earth】—laying it down right under the feet of the three allies!

This was undoubtedly an extremely smart response.

Gragas's close-range E-Flash had no reaction time, and Taliyah's Unraveled Earth could not be placed afterward.

This was also why the three of them hadn't dared to move forward earlier; they couldn't give Gragas a position for an E-Flash.

And at this moment, seeing Vi charging her Q and the opponent having already initiated, Taliyah directly used Unraveled Earth to protect her teammates, while also covering the area in front of Gragas.

With Unraveled Earth protecting his feet, Gragas couldn't turn back to E-dash!

Gragas pulled back while slowed, activated W to chug a mouthful of Erguotou, and gained the {Damage Reduction} status.

Kindred's three-ring mark had already been triggered twice.

Kanavi was extremely cautious. Seeing Vi charging behind him, he kept an eye on the range of the Unraveled Earth while chasing, not letting himself exceed the protection distance, while also clutching his Flash.

As long as Gragas used his E skill to escape, Vi and Jayce would never be able to kill him.

A Flash to create distance might even result in a total kill!

Gragas seemed to finally be unable to resist.

Just before Kindred was about to shoot the final part of his E, he thrust his big belly backward, preparing to go over the wall and escape.

"That's enough, don't chase! Just forcing the E is..."

"HOLY!!! SHIT!!!"

The three JDG members were just about to shout when they immediately saw a terrifying scene.

I saw that the belly, which clearly looked like it was bumping in the opposite direction and diving straight into the bush—actually appeared right before their eyes in the next moment!

Gragas, with an incredibly bizarre "wave-hand-scoop" motion, EQ-rotated to bump into them.

"45° Back-turned E-Flash"!

If it were a normal E-Flash, not to mention that Gragas himself would step into the Unraveled Earth, it would also knock the three of them backward, making them go deeper into the protection of the Unraveled Earth.

Then Jayce and Vi wouldn't be able to join the battlefield immediately, and thus wouldn't be able to instantly kill Kindred, who had the least healthy health.

This was also why the three of them dared to chase; they relied on the Unraveled Earth and were fearless!

But Gragas's uniquely angled belly not only caused the three of them to be knocked up for 1 second at this moment—it actually knocked them "outward" by 225 yards in the opposite direction!

This caused the three of them to "stack-fly" to the edge of the Unraveled Earth.

Jayce immediately rolled his face across the keyboard with a Q-E-W-R-Q-W-E combo!

Vi even more fearlessly charged her punch, aiming at Kindred's head!

Gragas detonated the damage-increasing explosive barrel he had planted during the previous EQ.

The AOE of the three people was instantly maxed out!

The instant burst of these three heroes needs no words; without the protection of the Unraveled Earth, Kindred, who was being focused individually and wasn't at full health to begin with, fell almost instantly.

He didn't even survive the 1-second knock-up time!

"Sibal, what is this!" Kanavi, who was anxious, blurted out his mother tongue.

"Trade Vi! Trade Vi!"

Amidst Kanavi's urgent shouts, the freed Taliyah used Seismic Shove to lift her back, and Gnar followed up with a boomerang to successfully kill Vi.

But the full skills of Jayce, Vi, and Gragas were basically all AOE.

And since the opponent's Kindred was killed instantly, Taliyah's early-game damage wasn't high to begin with.

Just from that set of three bumps, the health of the two remaining JDG members was even lower!

The two who killed Vi could only quickly cover each other and flee in a panic; Gnar even had to use an extra Flash because he had used his E to enter the fight and was kept there!

Having achieved their goal, EDG was already satisfied.

"Wow wow wow, EDG actually won this jungle defense battle! They directly resolved the crisis in the jungle!" Wawa's expression was excited.

"Although it looks like a 1-for-1, Vi didn't lose the upper jungle camps, and JDG's mid and top laners also lost minion waves; you could even say they won back the jungle deficit all at once!"

Remembering he was still thinking about the scene just now in his head: "That Gragas... how did he cross the three people controlled by the Unraveled Earth, and at the same time knock all three out of the Unraveled Earth's range! He's simply Mr. Clutch!"

"Let's take a look at the replay!"

More details appeared in the replay.

After Taliyah's rework, the "length" of Unraveled Earth increased, but the "width" was greatly reduced.

Ye Bo understood Taliyah far too well.

Gragas had previously specifically stood on the side of the Blue Buff, while the other two stood at the intersection on the left, directly causing the Unraveled Earth to only be able to aim in one direction, giving the two teammates below space to follow up.

Although Vi had low health, as long as she didn't step on the Unraveled Earth and get controlled and killed instantly, it clearly wouldn't affect her finishing her burst damage.

【Holy crap, square toes!】

【Turtle belly turn-around!】

【Master Ye's belly can turn! Damn, he's bumping people with his butt!】

【Well played, Beer Man, he's really kiting now!】

【It's hard to imagine that in a game where magic, gods, Void energy, Hextech, ninjutsu, and high-energy machinery coexist, someone's method of attack is actually bumping into people with their belly after getting drunk, right, Gragas?】

【That Gragas is playing like a god! Meanwhile (】

Kanavi was in a terrible mood.

Everything he had meticulously arranged had actually been dismantled in one wave so "easily"!

Kindred dying in this wave was equivalent to JDG making a huge fuss for an attack, yet it could almost be called a total failure!

Vi still got the Blue Buff, the kills were just a trade, and the upper half of the jungle was also defended.

Although a set of F6s was still stolen, the supplement of kill experience meant it no longer affected reaching level four, and the rhythm of the jungle would almost not be affected; both sides basically returned to a parallel line.

The bad news is—there are two even worse pieces of news.

"A fight also just broke out in the bottom lane!" Remember looked at the replay screen provided by the director.

"Confirming the jungler's position, Amumu found an opportunity to force an engage, Q-ing into the bottom lane, and with the lead in items from Kalista, they immediately forced out the support's Flash... The bottom lane laning phase has already been pressured by over ten minions, the pressure is so high!"

Wa Wa looked at the mid lane and said happily: "After this wave, Gragas is so comfortable, he got Kindred's Blue Buff, laning is sweet!"

Remember nodded in agreement: "Indeed, although Gragas has no Flash, this hero feels like as long as he holds onto his E skill, he's actually quite hard to gank!"

Why AP Gragas mid can be played.

First, QWER are four whole AoE skills, and all of them have decent AP scaling.

This means this hero possesses the ability to produce damage with a very high ceiling.

Furthermore, Gragas's W skill has a {damage reduction} effect, his E skill is a long-distance displacement, and his passive has a high amount of healing ability, so he is actually very hard to catch in lane.

The only drawback is that the "skill stability" is very poor.

For example, it's very hard for the Q skill to deal the full "brewed" damage, it's hard for the E skill to hit without E-Flash, and if you cast R raw, anyone can react to it; this is why it hasn't become a mainstream playstyle.

But relying on kills and the Blue Buff, Gragas can recklessly trigger his passive 【Happy Hour】 once every 12 seconds, and each trigger restores 50 health!

You have to know that a Health Potion only restores 120 health within 15 seconds.

Taliyah's early damage is insufficient, she completely couldn't wear Gragas down, and Kindred also tried and found it really hard to find an opportunity after, so he could only helplessly enter a period of peaceful farming.

5 minutes.

"Zhao Lijie launched an attack on the bottom lane, cooperating with Amumu's Flash-Q to kill the support who had no Flash!"

"At the same time, Kanavi is also making a breakthrough in the top lane, tower-diving to forcibly help kill Jayce, but because Gnar used his Flash in the previous jungle skirmish, he was finally finished off by Jayce's Flash-supplemented damage, successfully trading one-for-one with the help of the defensive tower!"

"Both sides have had offense and defense in the top and bottom lanes, but it's very clear that JDG's bottom lane is already a bit precarious!"

"If the mid and jungle can't provide support again, this will very likely become the starting point of their collapse!"

"Speaking of which, it's still because of that previous wave in the jungle, JDG's jungle confrontation rhythm was broken, leading to them failing to complete the situation of mutual attacks in the upper and lower halves of the map..."

The commentary desk was analyzing the battle situation.

"As for the mid lane, Ye's Gragas bought a Lost Chapter, isn't Gragas supposed to buy Everfrost?"

The mid lane Gragas that appeared on the field before was basically the same as the top lane, all exclusively Everfrost.

But Ye Bo wasn't planning to buy it this game.

Because in his understanding, the opponents this game were five ranged heroes, the probability of Everfrost hitting was too low, it was better to go for burst damage with maxed-out damage.

And at this moment, after Gragas's level rose, the situation of the mid lane laning phase had already begun to reverse.

Relying on healing and damage reduction, Taliyah's Q really didn't hurt Gragas.

But Gragas's Q hitting Taliyah was a solid 200!

And that was just the "instant explosion" health!

The buffs to Gragas in this version were truly not small, the most critical Q and E both received huge enhancements.

The Q skill, while reducing cooldown, gained an extra 10%-20% super high AP scaling enhancement!

Now, a fully "brewed" Barrel Roll has a full 120% AP scaling; with just a little ability power, it can deal nearly double the damage of an instant-exploded barrel.

Now a fully brewed Q barrel plus {Arcane Comet} can deal nearly 400 points of panel damage!

A level 5 Taliyah only has a total of 900 health!

Of course~

As long as one isn't an idiot, it's impossible to get hit by a fully brewed Q.

"Yagao, how long until you're level six?" Kanavi asked in a deep voice.

"Just the next wave, Gragas will be half a wave faster than me, I pushed the lane back during that level three wave." Yagao glanced at the experience bar and explained.

"Let's make a play on the bottom lane at level six, we can't let them keep playing like this, if we play like this, we won't be able to deal with Kalista later." Kanavi had already realized that the bottom lane was a problem that couldn't be ignored: "369, play safe for a wave, you have no Flash, be careful."

"OK OK, this Jayce can't kite me!" 369 was still full of confidence.

And Ye Bo, looking at his own experience bar, also had some ideas.

Although Gragas's Q skill can be thrown up to 850 yards, because the rolling speed is really a bit slow, it's not very easy to hit against long-range heroes like Taliyah.

Yagao was playing very safely.

However, Ye Bo could say "No one understands Taliyah better than him!", knowing that the opponent's current level couldn't yet rely entirely on skills to clear the wave.

So he could still frequently successfully Q-poke the opponent by blocking the position of the "Worked Ground".

However, Yagao knew Gragas was about to be level six, and also knew that Gragas at level six was a significant threat to him, so he immediately shrank his neck and stood under the tower, honestly waiting for the minion wave to enter.

But Ye Bo didn't give up the idea.

"Zhao Lijie, come stand guard behind me, he seems to have entered my kill range."

"Then I'll circle around, but I don't know if they have wards at their jungle entrance, I feel like Kindred might also be nearby." Zhao Lijie set off without questioning.

"You don't need to circle, I'll dive him myself." Ye Bo's tone seemed very confident.

"What the hell?"

Zhao Lijie switched his screen to look at Taliyah's health—at least 85% left!

No matter how you looked at it, there was no sign of death.

Gragas had no Flash, but Taliyah had Flash, and also had Unraveled Earth to counter the double displacement of the mid and jungle, so the room for outplay was extremely large.

Not to mention Gragas diving alone, even Vi circling behind was quite dangerous.

Ye Bo certainly knew this, which was exactly why he didn't let Vi circle behind and expose himself, so as not to raise the opponent's vigilance.

Doing it himself actually had a better chance.

Gragas pushed the minion wave in.

Taliyah stood very cautiously behind the tower, waiting for the minion wave to enter.

And when Gragas walked to the front of the tower, as if realizing there was no opportunity, he walked directly into the small path to the right of the tower and drilled into the opponent's jungle.

"Gragas entered the jungle, he might be going bottom!"

"I'm almost six... never mind, he's back."

Yagao issued a warning at the first moment, while cautiously staying away from the wall on the right to prevent anyone from wanting to ambush.

However, he wasn't very worried—after all, his health looked very healthy, and Gragas didn't have Flash, so he couldn't see any danger at all.

But just after he finished speaking, Gragas appeared, having returned the same way almost immediately.

Taliyah subconsciously increased the distance again.

But just at this moment.

Only to see Gragas violently pop the cap of the 【Explosive Cask】 in his hand, suddenly and unexpectedly throwing the beer barrel in his hand high forward with all his might!

The full 1000-yard ultimate spell range was almost at the edge of the cast!

Yagao could certainly react at the first moment.

But the problem was that he was damn near full health!

Even if he reacted to this ultimate, who would burn Flash at full health to dodge an ultimate?

It was just this moment of hesitation; the Explosive Cask, whose target location was parallel to Taliyah's side, had already blasted her off the ground in place.

The beer foam drifting across the sky permeated under the tower.

But the direction of the explosive displacement wasn't towards Gragas, but towards the wall on the right.

Gragas, having downed his Erguotou, charged forward with 【Body Slam】 straight into the tower, collided intimately upon landing, and raised his hand to slam down 【Drunken Rage】!

But after E-R-W smashed down, Taliyah still had three whole bars of health!

It wasn't like Yagao hadn't been hit by a Q before.

The remaining Q couldn't possibly kill him!

His fingers tapped frantically on the keyboard; as soon as the 1-second stun of Body Slam ended, Taliyah could immediately cast Flash-E-W-Q to complete a counter-kill on the Gragas who was tanking the tower!

From Yagao's perspective, he only felt that the opponent had gone crazy, that an extremely outrageous damage calculation error had occurred!

Only, there was one small doubt.

Why hasn't Gragas used his Q yet?

And, the next moment.

Yagao's eyes, which had been nearly squinted shut, suddenly widened as if he had just smoked two packs of Furong Wang cigarettes!

Because that beer barrel, hidden within the wall's mud and clearly fully exposed outside the wall from the spectator's perspective, was practically pressed against Taliyah's face.

It was detonated "without a sound"!

Detonated along with it were sprays of blood and bird feathers filling the sky.

"Invisible Barrel"!

Everyone in front of the screens and behind the scenes was extremely shocked, yet their eyes were filled with confusion!

(End of this chapter)