Chapter 120: Eerie Face-to-Face Stealth! The Deadly Corner!

"In terms of late-game strength, the red side has an overwhelming advantage. If these 'Ultimate-reliant' heroes can pull off a perfect team fight, they'd have a chance even if they were ten thousand gold behind!" Guan Zeyuan was still rattling on at the commentary desk.

"Kennen, Wukong, Fiddlesticks, Amumu—four super AOE ultimates!"

Jide nodded in agreement but offered his own perspective: "However, the downside of heroes who rely too heavily on their ultimates is that their combat effectiveness drops significantly before level six and when their ultimates are on cooldown."

The team-fighting potential of ultimate-reliant heroes leaves a lot to the imagination.

But the scales of balance are designed that way; the price is that the ultimate accounts for too large a share of their combat power.

Looking at the TES lineup, almost every hero possesses decent combat power before level six, and it is a lineup almost certainly intended to dictate the early-game tempo.

As Summoner's Rift descended, another wave of cheers erupted from the stands!

Seeing that the first level passed without incident, the commentary desk began chatting while looking at the data provided by the director below.

"The last time a reworked Fiddlesticks appeared in the mid lane was during the S10 Summer Split. Ever since the efficiency of the W skill's lifesteal against minions was reduced by 10% in patch 10. 5, no one has really used it in the mid lane."

"However, it is worth mentioning that just last month, in patch 12. 3, Fiddlesticks actually received a fairly massive buff! It increased the fear duration of the crucial Q skill and the damage of the ultimate!"

"Could it be that Ye has prepared this as a secret weapon specifically for the finals!?"

Coincidentally, Fiddlesticks had indeed just received a buff in the patch prior to the playoffs that could absolutely be called massive.

The Q skill's fear duration increased by 0. 5 seconds per level, reaching a full 2. 5 seconds at max level, which is effectively a tier-up for a crowd-control skill.

The ultimate even received a 20% increase in base damage and AP scaling!

"Fiddlesticks mid... wow, this streamer really knows his stuff!" Doinb let out a smug, monkey-like screech in his stream: "You guys don't know? The last person they mentioned who played Fiddlesticks mid—that was me, the streamer!"

"Actually, the mid-lane Fiddlesticks nerf only hit minion sustain; his wave-clear and other things weren't touched, so it's actually playable."

"Looks like Ye's understanding is quite similar to the streamer's!"

Doinb took the opportunity to hold forth in his stream about his own understanding, wanting to show off his champion pool.

【The streamer is really trying to gild his own monkey butt. You have the nerve to bring up Fiddlesticks after personally sending yourself home in a do-or-die game? Wasn't he pinned to the ground and beaten by Rookie in that match?】

【Ugh, shameless. Big B builds pure tank with Aftershock; could my Master Ye ever buy such a leech build?】

【Understand, why is Coin Brother so thin? It's because all the tank items are being worn by his heroes!】

【Wrong, actually the streamer just remembered Iceland last year, where he was sent home by a Fiddlesticks in the Round of 16 ^. 】

【Then it's over! After this game, won't Tian directly trigger his Iceland memories and blacken into Demon Xiaoyu in the next match?】

While waiting for the minion waves to spawn, Left Hand was also feeling a bit uncertain.

Let alone mid laners, even junglers were extremely unfamiliar with this thing; they didn't see it a few times a year, leaving them with zero laning experience.

"This thing in the mid lane, it seems like building tank is useless," Tian muttered from the side.

He also remembered that Fiddlesticks who used to sit beside him.

Left Hand was noncommittal and not too worried.

After all, he had already picked a hero like Lissandra; he hadn't intended to focus on laning this game anyway.

The minion waves arrived.

Ye Bo learned E at level one and did not stand with the minions to avoid being hit by Lissandra's Q along with the minions.

Fiddlesticks took the initiative to step forward and slashed out a 【Night Harvest】 from 850 yards away!

Night Harvest is considered an instant cast and is a 【non-projectile】 skill; its coverage area is also a semi-arc with width.

As long as one's aim isn't too terrible, it is quite difficult to dodge.

However, Left Hand's laning details were on point. He seized the brief backswing after Fiddlesticks' E, stepped diagonally to cast 【Ice Shard】, and used the front-line minions to extend the shot for a skill trade.

Since Fiddlesticks had {Comet} + {Scorch}, while Lissandra was carrying {Electrocute}, which is easier to coordinate with a jungler, Fiddlesticks still came out ahead in health.

But despite the seemingly problem-free trade, Ye Bo frowned slightly.

Fiddlesticks' E is not hard to land, and Ye Bo's ability to target skills is not bad, so aiming wasn't too difficult.

However, unlike the old Fiddlesticks' "bouncing" skill.

To trigger the {Silence} effect with the current E skill, one must hit within the small center circle of the casting range; otherwise, it will only slow.

And the difficulty of aiming for that small center circle is much higher than hitting the outer ring of Darius's Q or Camille's W.

It is precisely this difference that is critical to the impact of the trade.

For instance, in this wave, if the E could have triggered the silence effect, Lissandra would have been unable to retaliate simultaneously, and Fiddlesticks could have pulled away to achieve damage-free harassment.

There was no helping it.

After all, in essence, Ye Bo could be considered someone who "hasn't really played" Fiddlesticks, so he couldn't yet achieve intuitive mastery over the feel of this skill's casting.

Originally, based on Ye Bo's understanding combined with the knowledge in his mind, Fiddlesticks mid could absolutely try a max-E + Comet build.

Relying on the E skill's high-efficiency harassment characteristics, plus Fiddlesticks' unique sustain ability.

With one growing and the other waning, the laning phase is actually not weak at all.

Fortunately, a hero has never had only one way to be played.

On the contrary, as long as one has enough mastery, a change in runes, maxed skills, core items, or even just a starting item can potentially derive other playstyles.

Since Ye Bo discovered he wasn't too proficient with his E skill, he quickly shifted his mindset.

"Both sides in the mid lane traded two skills at level one, but this is definitely a win for Fiddlesticks; Lissandra has no sustain!"

"Fiddlesticks learns W at level two to go into the minion wave and clear; Lissandra really has no way to deal with him, though Fiddlesticks probably can't do anything to Lissandra either."

"In the jungle, the two junglers' pathing this game is not the same..."

The commentary desk had assumed the mid lane would be peaceful this game.

But when the camera cut back, everyone suddenly noticed Fiddlesticks' wave-clear speed.

It seemed a bit fast!

Although the W skill 【Bountiful Harvest】 only deals 50% damage to minions, if fully channeled at level one, it can still deal "120 + 12%" of missing health damage.

This means that even halved, it is still higher than the 80 damage of Lissandra's Q skill.

And while it is difficult for Lissandra to hit all six minions with every Q, Fiddlesticks can easily channel W to hit all six minions every wave!

More importantly, with both costing 60 mana.

Lissandra's level one Q has an 8-second cooldown, but Fiddlesticks' level one W is only 4 seconds!

{If Bountiful Harvest's channeling is completed without being interrupted, the cooldown is reduced by 60%}

The way to counter Fiddlesticks' pushing is simple: as long as his W is interrupted, he naturally cannot push quickly.

Unfortunately, Lissandra's W is a {Root} effect.

It cannot interrupt channeled skills!

Furthermore, even if the W's healing against minions is cut to 15%, a fully channeled W can still restore the amount of half a health potion—resulting in Lissandra's auto-attack harassment while Fiddlesticks is draining minions being basically useless, other than drawing aggro and disrupting her own minion wave!

It was very clear.

First of all, in terms of "wave-clearing ability," Lissandra was completely outclassed by Fiddlesticks!

At level two, Fiddlesticks easily sent a large wave into the tower, seized a huge opportunity to roam, turned his head, and stepped into the jungle to scout the opposing jungler's pathing.

"Lee Sin should have started in the top half; the Raptors are still there."

"Jiejie, you can come and invade his jungle!"

Unlike what the commentary desk guessed before the match.

By logic, it should have been TES dictating the offensive tempo in the early game, but at this moment, EDG was the one taking the initiative to attack, thanks to the lane priority in the mid lane!

Wukong, who chose to speed-run to level three in the bottom half, turned directly toward the opponent's jungle.

Meanwhile, Fiddlesticks, having returned to the mid lane, continued to push the wave rapidly.

However, Fiddlesticks' movements seemed a bit strange.

Fiddlesticks appeared to be stuttering; after finishing the W drain, he would stand still, his operation DPI frequency was very low, and he looked slightly stiff.

"Jiejie is sneaking up from the dragon pit to the Red Buff... good heavens, this is the route Kanavi used to invade him before!"

"But Tian here seems to be preparing to gank mid!"

In Tian's view, Fiddlesticks' anti-gank ability was clearly much weaker than Lissandra's; as long as he could force a Flash in the first wave, there was a high probability of finding a kill opportunity in the second.

But because Ye Bo was directing the jungler to invade, he was already consciously guarding against a gank and didn't rush to step forward to use W to push the wave quickly.

However, he wasn't overly cautious either.

The observer perspective revealed the clue.

"Ye seems to be acting to stall for time!"

"Tian hasn't realized his red quadrant is being invaded; he can't camp here!" Guan Zeyuan anxiously broke into a sweat for Tian.

"Both sides are very clear that the TES bottom lane is important this game. Even if Lee Sin goes to trade the opponent's top-side jungle right now, it will lead to the controlled half-map being split top and bottom, which could very likely lead to his own bottom lane being isolated and helpless!"

"It seems he finally realized it; TES is going to force it!"

Tian hadn't intended to kill Fiddlesticks in one go anyway.

But seeing the opponent's positioning always keeping a distance, he suddenly had a vague, bad premonition.

Although Ye Bo's acting was good.

Once one associated it with the direction of trading jungles, it was easy to figure out the intention.

One must know that when EDG faced JDG in the Winners' Finals, they frequently seized the initiative in the early game by relying on the strategy of trading the top-side jungle.

And this was naturally within the scope of TES's pre-match research; they knew the opponent was very skilled at this kind of tactical game theory.

"Forget it, just dump a rotation; Wukong might be in my jungle!"

Lissandra cast E from a distance, and Lee Sin walked out directly.

"Fiddlesticks' positioning is very well-handled! It's clear that Ye sensed someone behind the opponent!"

"Not engaging in a game of wits, he waits for Lissandra's Ice Claw to land while simultaneously casting the E skill with Lissandra's W... wait, how did that trigger a fear!?"

The Ice Claw landed, using the max-range W to root Fiddlesticks, but Lissandra was also struck by the counter-slashing Night Harvest.

What greeted her was not {Silence} or {Slow}—but {Fear}!

The Fiddlesticks had been frequently "standing still" in place during the gaps between last-hitting.

The purpose was very simple.

{As long as Fiddlesticks stands still for 2 seconds, he enters the "Scarecrow" state, and all his skills will carry a Fear effect at this time}!

With this, Fiddlesticks can attach a Fear effect to his E and W at any time, expanding the single-target Fear that originally only came from his Q skill, and increasing his ability to deal with ganks!

It is a very practical laning trick.

And the Lissandra, feared and forced to run away with her back turned for 1. 5 seconds, directly caused the distance between the two sides to widen, making it difficult to follow up with subsequent damage!

"Although Fiddlesticks was also held by Lissandra's W, he still has a Q Fear left to save for the Lee Sin, so this wave definitely poses no threat to him!"

"Haha, but it looks like player Ye is also a little nervous this time; after all, having to cast E in sync with Lissandra's W is an extreme test of timing. Look, he was so fast he even accidentally placed his ward and wasted it~"

Fiddlesticks' passive skill, 【A Harmless Scarecrow】, will fix his trinket slot to "Scarecrow," which can serve the same purpose as a fake ward and a sweeper.

And this time, Ye Bo seemed a bit "clumsy," placing the Scarecrow right there on the spot.

However.

Doinb, who hadn't turned on his pure stream and could vaguely hear the broadcast room's audio.

Sneered at these words from the commentary desk.

"What, what? Have these casters never played Fiddlesticks? What clumsy, he clearly intended to make that play!"

"Oh my, I already told you guys, the streamer knows Fiddlesticks very well! This wave, Ye Bo definitely wanted to..."

"Oh, Karsa seems to have noticed? But unfortunately, the Red Buff is still going to be gone!"

Doinb just wanted to explain this wave to the viewers, but his attention was quickly drawn to Lee Sin's movements.

Because of Fiddlesticks' baiting, Lee Sin had clearly sensed something was wrong.

After landing one kick, he had no intention of chasing further and immediately used W to dash to a minion behind him, hurrying toward his own bottom jungle.

He walked into the F6 camp and found the jungle monsters were still there, letting out a slight sigh of relief.

But as he turned the corner further down... he discovered the empty Red Buff camp!

"Damn it!"

"Mark, help me check the Krugs, if Wukong is there, surround him!"

Because their jungler was away, the TES bottom lane wasn't pushing too far, and the support quickly stepped back to help take a look.

"He's not there, he must have left, right?"

Although Lee Sin was delayed by ganking the mid lane, it wasn't hard to judge the timing; Wukong must have started Blue and rushed to level three before coming over.

Therefore, the opponent's Blue side must be empty, and he couldn't go to counter-jungle, so he had to swallow this bitter pill.

Lee Sin turned his head to start hitting the F6.

But the audience in the spectator view was letting out gasps of surprise.

"Jiejie is very bold this time; it seems he still wants to continue counter-jungling!"

"But Lissandra's support speed should be faster, this position is a bit dangerous..."

Just as Wukong finished stealing the Red, he didn't immediately exit the jungle the way he came.

Instead, he turned back and entered, circling around the wall opposite the Red Buff, sneaking through an extremely deep inner path to hide in the brush behind the F6!

Since Ye Bo was being ganked at the time, this was Jiejie's own idea; after all, relying on the double buff and the element of surprise, there was a full opportunity to try and ambush Lee Sin again!

And that was indeed the case.

When Jiejie successfully circled behind and reached the F6 brush, he happened to see Lee Sin starting to hit the F6!

"Jiejie, Lissandra has no E, we can reach him together!" Seeing that the opponent had already reached that position, Ye Bo could only give his full support.

"Alright!"

Under normal circumstances, Wukong camping Lee Sin in this position would be absolute suicide.

Because in his own jungle, Lissandra only needs one Glacial Path through the wall to reach the battlefield in a second; if it's a contest of support speed, Fiddlesticks definitely can't compare.

But Lissandra's E skill has a full 24-second cooldown at level one!

Having just finished ganking Fiddlesticks in the mid lane, it was impossible for it to be back up, which is why Ye Bo didn't tell him to retreat immediately.

But Karsa has good jungle habits.

Starting with an auto-attack, he subconsciously pulled the jungle monsters toward the brush at the start of the camp.

Furthermore, Rookie had already keenly sensed Fiddlesticks' abnormality.

"Not right, Karsa! The Scarecrow seems to be leaning toward you!"

Hearing the voice from the mid lane, Karsa felt something was wrong and stopped his fingers that were about to press his skills.

And as he stepped into the brush—a mischievous monkey that had been waiting there for a long time had already started with a staff strike!

"Karsa got ambushed!"

However, although he was hit by the first strike, Karsa was, after all, the owner of this skin, and his understanding of Lee Sin was quite profound.

He rapidly assessed the situation and immediately made a response.

He didn't directly use W to ward-hop over the wall to escape, because that would be equivalent to handing over the F6, and the jungle gap would truly explode!

Lee Sin used a short-range ward-hop—dashing behind Wukong!

"Karsa isn't preparing to run, he wants to counter-attack..."

"But the F6 have shifted their target!"

Due to Lee Sin's rapid displacement and swapping positions with Wukong, and also entering the brush's vision occlusion.

This caused the family of Raptors, having lost their target, to suddenly shift their focus, and they actually started attacking Wukong instead!

Wukong also used Warrior Trickster to evade backward.

But the next moment, Lee Sin moved forward with detail, using Tempest to strike the ground, as if using a third eye on his forehead to illuminate the monkey's clone!

At the same time, the second cast of W, 【Iron Will】, gained {Spell Vamp}, and E hit the Raptors behind, combined with the 12% omnivamp from the jungle item.

He frantically leeched health from the six Raptors!

Lee Sin's early-game brawling ability is unquestionable; under this detailed operation, he used Lee Sin's hero mechanics and the interaction with the Raptors to instantly change the situation.

Although Jiejie had the advantage of an extra Red Buff and the first strike, if it were a pure stand-and-fight to the end, Wukong might still have been the final winner.

But don't forget, this is TES's jungle.

"No, Jiejie, retreat for a second, I can save you!" Ye Bo, who was watching by switching screens, had already spoken quickly.

"The opponent's bottom lane is also coming!" Meiko provided information from the bottom lane.

Clearly, Lee Sin still had Flash; if Wukong forced a deep chase, the best result would be a one-for-one trade.

And the greater possibility was that Wukong would send himself into a more dangerous situation and get surrounded by the opponent.

Wukong developed an intention to retreat, auto-attacking while backing away.

Jiejie was also very detailed, deliberately sticking close and moving upward to ensure he could always stay within the encirclement of the Raptors—making it difficult for Lee Sin to land his Q.

Lee Sin's Q has execute damage, so he must wait for Conqueror to be fully stacked; the later it is cast, the higher the damage. In a disadvantageous fight, Karsa naturally wanted to grasp every bit of combat power.

But as he retreated to the corner of the F6, he ran head-on into the arriving Lissandra.

She used QWA at point-blank range to stun him and trigger {Electrocute}!

Karsa decisively flashed to point-blank range and resolutely cast Q in the middle of the bird flock, accurately hitting Wukong!

"Although Fiddlesticks set off early, this is after all the opponent's jungle, and Lissandra still arrived at the battlefield half a step ahead!"

"In this way, Wukong might be the first to be killed! However, Fiddlesticks might consider flashing to trade for a kill!"

Fiddlesticks was only a few steps away from Lissandra.

At this moment, if Fiddlesticks flashed to Q Lee Sin, he might be able to trade kills with Lee Sin, but Wukong would definitely be taken down by Lissandra as well.

This is quite acceptable for TES.

Not to mention the 1-for-1 trade, it's equivalent to Lee Sin forcibly defending his bottom half of the jungle, and he also successfully forced out Fiddlesticks' Flash, achieving the key tactical goal of the previous mid-lane gank!

Afterward, Lissandra has an extra Flash, and Lee Sin goes mid—it can be said to be a guaranteed kill every time!

Ye Bo's eyes narrowed slightly, his thoughts flashing and turning.

Although his practical experience was a bit rusty.

But his complete understanding of the limits of hero mechanics allowed him to quickly find a flaw in the gap at this moment.

The next moment.

Fiddlesticks raised the terrifying scythe in his hand high, and at the same time, golden light flashed beneath his feet!

The deformed figure performed a lateral shift, looking extremely eerie in its angle, and the spot where he landed was almost standing "face-to-face" with Lissandra.

It's just that one was on the left side of the corner.

The other was on the right side of the corner.

Immediately following, the scythe blade of 【Bountiful Harvest】 slashed down violently————the names above Lissandra and Lee Sin's heads actually turned into {Fear} simultaneously!

"Corner Point-Blank Fear E-Flash"!

"Kill Lee Sin!"

Fiddlesticks cast Q and W at the same time; the Q skill deals double {Percent Damage} burst to targets that are already feared!

A bountiful harvest of bones, knocking on bones to suck the marrow!

And the angle of this E skill of Fiddlesticks was tricky, slightly tilted to the right, not hitting or fearing the flock of Raptors that followed.

Lee Sin, who had flashed to point-blank range, was now even closer to the Raptors than Wukong.

This also caused them to start re-attracting aggro.

Wukong turned around and knocked out a full-Conqueror AQA.

The Fear duration ended, and Fiddlesticks' 2-second W drain also reached its final stage, with the last tick carrying an additional 15% {Execute Damage} heavy strike.

Directly extracting Lee Sin's soul from his body!

【First blood!】

"A point-blank double fear! The Blind Monk was actually killed first!?"

"And because the Ice Witch was feared at the same time, she couldn't follow up with damage on the near-dead Monkey King in time! The Monkey King recovered a chunk of health from Triumph, then instantly flashed over the wall!"

"Left Hand quickly flashed to chase hard! But the Ice Witch's skill cooldowns are very long, so she can only rely on basic attacks! How is it that she can't seem to kill him with autos!?"

In the current version, 【Triumph】 restores {10% of missing health}. The near-dead Monkey King got a crucial heal, tanked two of the Ice Witch's light icicles, and successfully escaped.

"And the Fiddlesticks turned around and actually soloed the low-health F6 camp to death! He's going to eat another set of F6s from you!"

"With the addition of the first blood, EDG is feasting on this play!"

The three commentators punched the air in excitement, none of them having anticipated this final result.

Clearly, if Fiddlesticks had simply flashed and Q-feared the Blind Monk, the result would have been the Ice Witch killing the Monkey King with two basic attacks first, at best a 1-for-1 trade.

It might even have resulted in the opponent surviving because the Blind Monk would have gotten a Triumph heal first!

And if first blood had been taken, the Ice Witch wouldn't have needed to flash to chase; the gank mid that Tian intended would have succeeded, and even a 1-for-1 trade would have been completely acceptable.

But, because of Fiddlesticks' bizarre "point-blank double fear."

The result was that not only did EDG counter-take an extra first blood, but the Monkey King also survived thanks to Triumph, and Ye Bo then casually took the F6 camp!

【Cowardly Hand!!! What are you doing!!!】

【Classic case of turning into a stationary ward when playing against a master; he only arrived at his own jungle a few steps faster than Fiddlesticks, this is truly a coward!】

【Wasn't it Yang Jian who wanted to PK with the Monkey King himself? Would it have been so much trouble to just ward-hop away? I didn't expect him to have the face to blame the mid-laner.】

【The fanboys of that heaven-defying player, wasn't it the Ice Witch who was reluctant to flash to instantly kill the Monkey? Why save that flash? Wasn't it because she was afraid of being solo-killed if she went back? The main thing is, she didn't even save it!】

【Indeed, if I were Tian, I'd want to sit right on Left Hand's head right now, to let him know what "Reversing the Heavens" is!】

【One thing to say, did no one notice how that Fiddlesticks was able to "point-blank fear" two people like that? That's the key!】

The chat was still debating whether the Ice Witch should have decisively flashed to help kill the Monkey, or if the Blind Monk should have just warded over the wall and given up the contest.

But clearly, these were all meaningless results-based arguments.

The fact was, at that moment, the Blind Monk couldn't give up the F6s, and the Ice Witch couldn't accept having to burn an extra flash for a Monkey King that was already a guaranteed kill.

Therefore, the problem lay in that bizarre point-blank E-flash.

The director provided the "Replay View."

From the perspective of the victim's Red side, everyone clearly felt the strangeness of this play.

The passive effect of Fiddlesticks' Q skill, besides what was shown earlier when defending against ganks—【when disguised as a 'Scarecrow', all skills apply a fear effect】—

Also has this effect 【when not within the enemy's vision】.

And the position where Fiddlesticks flashed looked to be at a distance almost face-to-face with the Ice Witch.

Yet, it happened to be at the extreme angle of a corner; although the distance wasn't even 150 units, they were mutually invisible.

Fiddlesticks' figure was revealed for only a fleeting moment, and then it was as if he had performed a "point-blank stealth"!

"He was actually able to block vision like that! So extreme!" Guan Zeyuan widened his eyes in surprise.

"This play is too cool! It feels like it has nothing to do with Fiddlesticks' mechanics; the main thing is that he could think of blocking vision at this position. He is too daring!" Wang Duo also clicked his tongue.

Jide nodded in approval: "Tian is really hurting now; this is much worse than the last game!"

Tian's mouth was already turned down, his expression very stiff.

At the thought that someone might already be laughing their head off, he felt an unbearable itch in his head.

Fortunately, JKL quickly spoke up to comfort him and adjust the atmosphere: "It's okay, Brother Tian, it's not a big problem. We'll just go fight in the bot lane later; we have the laning advantage in the bot lane this game!"

"Brother K can hold his own anyway, it doesn't matter!"

Tian didn't reply, but his depression value was alleviated, and his brain gradually cleared.

He was thinking of a countermeasure.

Subsequently, the respawned Blind Monk was seen boldly turning to head toward the opponent's top jungle.

Tian calculated the time; the Monkey King's health from before couldn't possibly allow him to go back to jungling, he definitely had to B to base before coming out again.

So in terms of timing, the Blind Monk could definitely run into the opponent.

And the timing of this play was very clever!

Because Fiddlesticks took the kill, holding the Blue buff meant he naturally wouldn't return to base immediately and waste the buff duration, but that also meant he couldn't update his items.

This meant—if they immediately fought another 2v2 or 3v3 in the jungle, EDG would have no advantage.

"TES's offensive hasn't weakened! Gnar has stacked his rage and is moving toward the jungle! Kennen's combat power is inferior to Gnar's in this situation!"

"A very smart choice, Tian seems to have brought himself back to life! Utilizing his team's early-game offensive capability!"

Ye Bo was also surprised by the opponent's rapid decision-making.

If Fiddlesticks had returned to base and come back out, he might have had a fighting chance based on item advantages.

But both sides now had identical items, and their Summoner spells were not full; Kennen's combat capability before level six was very weak, and they had no advantage in a 3v3.

"Jiejie, just do the F6s. It's best not to take this 3v3; we have an advantage now, there's no need to take risks."

"Once we hit level six, the game will truly begin."

Ye Bo decisively made the wisest decision.

And Tian, seeing the opponent choose to simply hand over the Red buff, was clearly a bit surprised and disappointed.

In two games, he always felt the opponent could think one step further than him, as if they were always suppressing his ideas.

This feeling was incredibly stifling for a jungler like him, yet he was helpless!

Even if he managed to steal the Red buff and Stone Golems now, it would only barely make up for his own jungle being stolen, maintaining his development, but he hadn't gained anything.

But, based on his understanding of the "mid-lane Fiddlesticks" in his impression.

Once Fiddlesticks had an item advantage and went back to buy tank items to play defensively, he might really be unable to gank him!

And with Fiddlesticks using his pushing advantage to shove waves shamelessly and then frequently disappearing to roam, the pressure on them to defend against ganks would be extremely huge.

Not to mention, EDG's lineup was clearly waiting for everyone to hit level six before they started to exert power.

TES's mid and jungle seemed to only be able to focus their vision on the bot lane.

However, just as Tian was getting a headache.

He suddenly discovered—————after Fiddlesticks returned to base and came out, what he bought was actually a {Hextech Alternator}, a pure damage item!

This made it seem like TES had found an opportunity.

(End of chapter)