Chapter 143: Quarterfinal melee, the only seedling of the region

October 20, 2022, the S12 World Championship quarterfinals begin.

And the first match is one of the most watched matchups in the quarterfinals.

RNG vs. T1.

"Welcome to the quarterfinal duel. I believe this is also a 'rival' battle that all our LPL viewers are very much looking forward to!"

"Previously, both sides have played against each other many times in the World Championship, and even the S6 quarterfinals were right here, right under our feet, where the two teams played their quarterfinal match!"

"This is also Xiaohu sitting in the same position to play against Faker after 6 years. The mid-lane battle between the two sides will undoubtedly be the focus of most attention!"

"In the group stage, our EDG team double-killed T1, and the RNG team also took the lead in the group stage. Looking forward to them winning against their opponent today and creating a new record!"

After a passionate speech from the commentary desk, the players from both sides have stepped onto the stage.

From the trash talk in the pre-match promotional videos of both sides,

It is clear that whether it is the commentators or the audience, many people are full of "expectations of victory" for this match.

After all, T1 just lost and has been proven not to be invincible.

And RNG did indeed defeat T1 at this year's MSI Mid-Season Invitational, achieving their first victory over T1 in the team's ten-year history.

Just looking at it this way, it's hard not to say "the advantage is with us!"

If RNG can create history like EDG today.

It is conceivable that for the LPL, it will definitely be a day of gongs, drums, and firecrackers for the New Year!

Ye Bo sits in the hotel room, staring at the BP screen.

Behind him is Mingkai, who is brewing ginger tea for him.

Facts have proven that infection is indeed dependent on physique.

Not only did Ye Bo not get infected, but the team manager Mingkai, who stays with everyone every day, also didn't get infected.

Unfortunately, Mingkai did not register as a player, and the World Championship does not allow temporary changes to the roster.

Otherwise, given Barrier's current worst physical state, he might really have to come to the scene to stage a "Head Coach is warming up" show.

"Why are they still banning Caitlyn on the blue side? Can't they practice it?" Ye Bo mutters about RNG's BP.

"Come, come, drink while it's hot, be careful it's hot," Mingkai carefully brings the ginger tea: "How about it, little Ye Bo, who do you favor more?"

With only Ye Bo left as the pillar in the team, and he is the absolute core of the team,

Mingkai naturally has to take good care of him.

The good news is that he has a lot of experience in taking care of mid laners!

"It's hard to say, the first game is very critical. Because RNG is the group winner, the biggest advantage is being able to get the blue side one more time, which has a big impact in this version of Bo5." Ye Bo takes a sip of tea: "Add some sugar, Coach, it's a bit bitter..."

"Coming~ Do you want me to massage your waist? Brother tells you, Brother's massage technique is top-notch..."

Because RNG must self-ban Caitlyn, even on the blue side, it just levels the BP advantage.

And RNG chose the combination they are most proficient in.

Mid-lane Lissandra + Graves, bot-lane Aphelios + Thresh, and then picking a Renekton for the top lane to stabilize the mid-game. It is a very standard LPL system, and they are all RNG's little specialties.

However, Ye Bo is a bit puzzled.

Although RNG is on the blue side, under the hero pool restrictions, there is actually not much BP advantage. Why would T1 let them take it so comfortably?

Soon, T1's fifth pick surprised him.

"Soraka!?"

Ye Bo looks at his notebook.

Among the information about supports, there is no name 【Starchild】.

This hero has been in the "sewer" for many consecutive years, especially in this year's durability version, almost extinct—because Soraka's W heal is a "fixed value," but she deducts her own health as a "percentage."

With everyone's health increasing, in a sense, it is equivalent to a big nerf to Soraka's healing amount for all teammates!

And the appearance of this kind of hero means—this is likely T1's secret weapon!

"It's bad! RNG seems to have been tricked!"

Ye Bo reconstructs the laning situation in his mind and instantly understands the reason.

Mingkai is still full of confusion: "What do you mean?"

"Coach, let me test you. What kind of counter relationship do you think there is between Soraka and Thresh."

Mingkai thinks for a while and mentions aspects like range, poke, and trading health.

But he didn't guess it right.

Counter-intuitively, these two are actually ancient heroes, but if anyone checks the matchup records, they will find—these two heroes have never had even one support matchup on any stage before!

So no one would combine the two after seeing these two heroes.

Ye Bo also vaguely guessed something based on his understanding of the mechanics.

"If I'm not mistaken, Soraka should be a natural counter to Thresh, and also very counter to Xiaohu's Lissandra."

"Because Soraka's E can waste Thresh's two most important skills."

Mingkai listens to Ye Bo's explanation in a daze.

It wasn't until shortly after entering the game that he witnessed what a counter is.

"Oner comes to gank bot at level 3!"

"Ming's Thresh first uses his body to help the ADC block Sejuani's charge, then immediately flashes backward and throws the lantern. The operation is smooth! Fully showing his understanding of the duties of a hard support!"

Thresh is strong because he has both the "hook" skill iconic to hard supports and the "displace teammate" skill that is a divine skill for soft supports.

It can be said that he has the functions of two types of supports at the same time.

But just as Gala turns back to frantically click that lantern to pick it up, it's as if he's possessed by some soul.

He just can't pick up that lantern!

Only because under his feet, there is a purple 【Starcall】 field continuously applying {Silence} to him.

Gala has no reason to bring Cleanse against Soraka.

Not to mention that even if he brought Cleanse, Soraka's silence is a rare "continuous repeated application" effect, so it's useless even if he brought it.

And in fact,

A teammate picking up Thresh's lantern also counts as the teammate "using a skill."

So someone who is {Silenced} cannot pick up the lantern.

And Soraka's E skill is a true instant cast, with a casting distance of up to 925 yards.

That is to say, Thresh has no qualification to save any teammate from her eyes!

Gala is thus approached and slowed by Sejuani, then imprisoned in the Starcall field, and then frozen.

Finally, he is pierced into a hedgehog by Kalista's spears!

"Ah this... Gala has fallen!"

The audience in the chat who don't know the principle type 【Worthy of being called the successor of God】!

Of course, if it were just a lantern, it wouldn't be called a "counter."

At eight minutes, RNG tries their best to perform a 4-man gank bot.

At the cost of sacrificing the top lane + giving away the Rift Herald, they want to snipe the bot lane.

Graves uses a smoke screen to block Soraka's vision, Xiaohu's Lissandra tacitly flashes in mid-range, flashes W, and then follows up with R!

Successfully catching the moment when Gumayusi's Cleanse is on CD and imprisoning him!

Thresh also uses Hexflash to suddenly flash out, perfectly connecting the hook, hitting Kalista!

Although {Cleanse} has the effect of {reducing subsequent control effects}, as long as Thresh uses Q2 to fly close, uses 【Flay】 to swing him back, and then turns to throw the lantern to bring the ADC over.

With four people rushing, the opponent's bot lane is clearly doomed!

But just then,

Soraka, who forcibly walked out of the smoke screen, instantly throws the Starcall field under Thresh's feet.

Immediately, Thresh's Q2 skill icon suddenly turns gray!

That's right, Thresh's Q2 also counts as an independent skill cast, so naturally, it cannot break through the silence limit.

Thresh not only fails to reach the battlefield but also fails to bring the AD over.

Lissandra and Viego have already chased into the tower.

Soraka and Kalista fire with full power, maneuvering and counter-attacking under the tower, while Thresh is still silenced and fails to throw the lantern in time!

"RNG's 4-man gank bot actually resulted in two people being counter-killed!!"

"In the top lane, Faker has already helped Zeus dive Breathe, Oner has finished the Rift Herald alone and is heading straight to the top lane. This is a full-plate first tower! Breathe is going to suffocate!"

"It's over!"

The bot lane laning phase is completely unplayable.

Thresh wants to step forward to E, but is slowed by Soraka's Q and consumed for nothing, and long-range hooks are extremely hard to hit.

Almost can only take a beating!

The bot lane first tower is naturally pushed down in just 10 minutes.

"T1 is threatening the high ground, Xiaohu still wants to fight to the death and flank, but the moment the claw lands, he eats Soraka's predicted silence! Xiaohu is insta-killed!"

"In this case, we should congratulate T1 on winning the first game on the red side..."

T1 completed a red-breaking-blue in the first game.

Ye Bo doesn't have time to worry for RNG.

What surprises him more is T1's preparation, which is completely unexpected.

With over 160 heroes, Ye Bo can't possibly know all the counter relationships and obscure mechanics between them—unless he has mastered the proficiency of those heroes.

For example, the Gragas predicted R from before, blowing away Renata who wanted to R-flash.

In fact,

This is the hero Keria finally found after a series of searches and developments after T1 lost to EDG using Thresh in the first round.

It is such a "sewer" hero that no one cares about, which undoubtedly became the key to T1's victory in the first game.

Being red-broken-blue in the first game is fatal for RNG.

In the second game, the red-side RNG has to fix-ban Yuumi + Caitlyn, leaving only a mere one ban spot!

T1, through the BP advantage on the blue side, also chose their most proficient 5-man specialty lineup, creating laning advantages in all three lanes during the laning phase.

Facing a team like T1, if you can't get an advantage in the early game, the subsequent rotation and operation are even harder to handle, and they quickly lost in less than 30 minutes.

And coming to the third game,

RNG chooses to bet on the top lane, banning Fiora on the blue side and first-picking Aatrox for the top lane.

But this hit T1's trap again.

At the same time, it also confirmed that Ye Bo's previous guess was correct.

T1 chose the secret weapon they couldn't use before—top-lane Yone!

You know, before, EDG banning Yone in the second round was seen by everyone as a very inexplicable choice!

Yone is similar to Soraka, almost no one played him this year, and he only appeared in the top lane once, and it wasn't against Aatrox.

This is really not Ye Bo not wanting to share the bottom line with teams in his own region.

But without stage precedent, Ye Bo just made a judgment based on his own understanding of the hero Yone.

He has no evidence and cannot make rash conclusions.

Not to mention that the two teams are not good enough to "share the bottom line with each other."

To put it bluntly, if you really listened to you and banned Yone, and then others didn't pick it and still won, wouldn't you owe someone a trophy?

With the third game's lineup finalized, Ye Bo already felt a bit shaky.

Because he can clearly see,

RNG in the third game has already begun to be completely led by the nose by T1.

Ming directly learns and sells, and also chooses Soraka.

But his understanding of soft supports is really bad, playing Soraka as a hard support, and his record has already reached 1-5, becoming the "King of the Underworld."

Mid-laner Xiaohu is under even more laning pressure, nakedly buying Mercury Treads + Crown as his first item.

"Sylas can't build tank, Brother Hu!" Ye Bo in front of the screen is anxious.

As for top-laner Zeus,

Although he was ganked several times by Wei in a suicide-style manner, he still completed a solo kill on Breathe's Aatrox while trailing 0-2!

The subsequent side-lane split-pushing was even more disastrous. Breathe's Aatrox couldn't even stand under the tower, being teased by Zeus with dance steps like a tango in front of the tower!

Yone's super-strong mobility and standing-and-fighting ability are simply the nightmare of a clumsy hero like Aatrox!

This game: Breathe becomes Suffocate Brother; Xiaohu shows the constitution of a tardigrade; Wei becomes "Wei?"; Ming starts competing for the world's number one reaper.

The chat is full of "Save Gala!"

Finally, in just 26 minutes,

T1, with a 15,000 gold advantage, slashed 27 kills in 26 minutes, a huge disparity of 17 kills.

Completing a one-sided crushing game.

"Three to zero, in this case, we congratulate T1 on being the first to enter the semifinals of this World Championship..."

The tone of the commentary desk is clearly low.

Such a three-to-zero game with almost no ability to fight back, both sides can be said to have obvious gaps from BP to laning to team fighting and operation.

Most importantly, it is too different from the pre-match expectations...

Domestic forums are almost instantly exploding.

【1020! It's today again! Just today!】

【Tell a joke: "Rival opponent"】

【T1 playing RNG is like Grandpa Zhuge Liang capturing Meng Huo seven times. Meng Huo says: "I often fight him, we are rivals!" Grandpa Zhuge Liang says: "I have no impression of him"】

【Damn, it all matches, Meng Huo also found foreign aid, the rattan armor soldiers, and won against Grandpa Zhuge Liang once!】

【Only those with back-and-forth historical records are called rivals, those who always lose unilaterally are called natural enemies!】

【Nine-year-old Zeus, looking at Faker on the screen, leading SKT to zero-seal RNG—eighteen-year-old Zeus, looking at Faker sitting beside him, jointly zero-sealing RNG!】

【Teacher Dafei in the group stage was bad, but these two Akali games in the quarterfinals convinced me, I am willing to return his name, Faker!】

【"This laugh in S8, laughed to S9, S10, S11, S12, S13" (Video link) 【2018 World Championship】 October 20 RNG vs G2】

The forum also has the classic post-match digging-up session.

The scene plays with a boomerang.

"The scene I've been crazily fantasizing about for five years is about to be staged tomorrow! Go for revenge, RNG!"

"Where are you going? Treading on Korea to win the championship!"

"Even if you blacken us again, you can't change the fact that my Hu is the number one domestic mid-laner in honor and the number one person in RNG team history!"

"Still calculating honor here, if you really calculate honor, then the first is Corn and White3zz, you B who has never broken through the semifinals in the World Championship, only deserve to go to sea with successful people!"

The first day of the quarterfinals disappointed LPL viewers.

But there is no time to feel sad for RNG, and the next one to arrive on the battlefield is JDG.

And that night,

JDG took the initiative to find EDG, inviting them to a training match.

The EDG members couldn't train for the first few days, and it wasn't until today, the third day, that they could barely conduct training matches.

After all, their own match is coming soon, so they have to practice no matter what.

But no surprise,

EDG's performance on the first day of resuming training matches can almost only be described as a disaster!

Meiko and Viper, the bot-lane combination once known for laning suppression, are now operating as stiffly as rusted gears.

Even facing JDG's bot-lane combination, which is seen as a weakness, they repeatedly fall behind in health trades, unable to exert any suppression in laning, and even frequently fall behind!

Flandre's situation is slightly better; the low fever only makes his operations slower than usual, but the slippery consciousness accumulated over years of competition still supports him in barely stabilizing in the lane, mixing with 369.

The most surprising thing is Barrier, who still has a high fever of 39.64 degrees, and can maintain relative stability when facing Kanavi.

Although he couldn't perform the reverse invasion performance of the previous playoffs, he was still in place in terms of ganking and counter-ganking.

Of course, this may also be related to the jungle position, which is the one that requires the most frequent interaction with the mid laner.

The problem is,

Kanavi's jungle core is not known for "counter-jungling," but for "development lead," which was originally a relatively easy-to-control idea.

But the day after tomorrow, if Barrier is facing Canyon, who is world-famous for counter-jungling,

Whether he can still perform like this, no one knows.

"Feels like I really can't hold on," Barrier says weakly in the voice channel, and the sound of him unscrewing the fever medicine bottle comes from the headset.

Ye Bo immediately cuts off the training match upon hearing this: "Then let's stop here today! Everyone save your strength, I'll go tell Coach Homme."

JDG coach Homme on the other side receives the message from Ye Bo and seems very regretful.

He really found that the harvest from training matches with EDG was very rich.

And after Ye Bo exits the custom room, he also returns to his voice channel.

"Sorry, it's our bot lane's problem, these games were played too poorly." Meiko's hoarse voice is wrapped in a heavy nasal sound.

"It's mainly my problem, I can't react." Viper also blames himself a bit.

"Don't worry about it, everyone, it's just a training match~"

Although training matches were lost one after another,

Ye Bo's voice sounds very confident.

"Now let's treat it as weight-bearing training. By the day of our match, everyone's state will definitely warm up a lot!"

"At that time, we will directly tear off the bandages on the spot and lift the seal, giving the opponent a big surprise!"

"Let's treat this quarterfinal match as a fever-limited game!"

The sudden cold humor causes coughing laughter to erupt in the voice channel.

And Ye Bo's half-joking, firm tone also eases the bot-lane duo's originally miserable mood.

In fact,

Ye Bo had already discovered during his research on DK in the group stage that DK's bot lane was relatively the easiest position to break through.

EDG had actually already thought about how to win against this DK.

But now, with the bot-lane duo in this state, the original tactics targeting DK's bot lane are like a candle in the wind.

"Originally wanted to have a good fight with Brother Niu, unfortunately..." Flandre's tone is quite bitter.

"Me too..." Barrier, who is swallowing blades, follows with a zombie-like voice.

At this time, Ye Bo's voice in the voice channel sounds exceptionally loud, as if it could pass through the wall and go directly to the next room.

"What are you guys thinking about? I feel that now, the advantage is completely with us!"

"Think about it, getting infected early means the CD is up early. If we get infected in the semifinals or even the finals, that would be scary. But against this DK, we can definitely win even with low health. This is the best arrangement!"

"People from other teams aren't infected yet, look, isn't this the advantage with us!"

Such a tricky angle really stunned the other four teammates who were red-hot.

But thinking about it carefully, it seems to be the case.

The only premise is—they won't fall in the quarterfinals.

"Master Ye, you are too good at comforting people, it would be a pity not to be a coach in the future." Flandre smiles in front of the screen.

"Not being one, I don't boil soup~~"

Ye Bo finishes joking and returns to being serious.

"You know I never lie. Actually, I've already thought about how to win against DK these past two days. This time I have ten thousand percent certainty!"

"And I have a strong premonition that as long as we can win this game, we are already very close to that championship trophy!"

"Believe me, brothers!"

Undoubtedly,

Ye Bo's confident performance truly conveyed great confidence to everyone.

The originally low state of everyone gradually became high-spirited again.

"Then everyone rest first, recover a bit more, and winning will be easier!"

The voice call hangs up.

Ye Bo's confident smile slowly fades, and he lowers his head to look at his notebook.

Clearly, his certainty is still far from "ten thousand percent."

But Ye Bo must say so.

Because he knows his teammates need confidence now, and these fearless worries and pressures are enough for him, a healthy person, to bear.

Of course, Ye Bo didn't tell a groundless lie.

He flips the tactical board, and under the dense red marks are all his hard work and thoughts from these past few days.

The problems on the field,

Can all be found in the Summoner's Rift.

Timing it well,

Entering the trial grounds again at twelve o'clock, Ye Bo begins his own review and analysis of T1's three games today...

The next day, the second quarterfinal match begins.

Unexpectedly, JDG successfully won the first game of red-breaking-blue in a 40-minute battle!

This is a much better start than yesterday's RNG!

And among them, there is indeed a lot of credit to EDG, or rather, Ye Bo.

Ye Bo shared his views and understanding of "Yuumi" with Homme without reservation.

In his view, Yuumi is indeed very strong, there is no doubt about that.

But for some teams—releasing Yuumi might be easier to win than not releasing it!

For example, the supports of the four Korean teams this time.

The supports of Gen. G and DK are the kind who don't have a strong desire to do things, don't have many ideas of their own, and are more of a "support" in the true sense.

It is a perfect match for such players to take Yuumi, especially someone like Lehends who often gets lost and dies while warding; taking Yuumi is an enhancement that plays to their strengths and avoids their weaknesses.

But T1's Keria and DRX's BeryL,

These two are completely different.

Their duties in the team are more like "spears" and "brains," simply existing as a second jungle position.

And giving them Yuumi might restrict their team's overall rhythm by binding the support position.

JDG used this idea to save the ban spot for Yuumi and use it to fully target the mid and top lane hero pools.

Successfully winning the first game!

Coming to the blue side in the second game, JDG strikes while the iron is hot, and Yagao and Kanavi play an explosive mid-jungle linkage rhythm.

Unfortunately, DRX also clearly changed in the second game. Abandoning the red side self-ban of Yuumi, they suddenly showed amazing teamwork, playing a wonderful game of chess in several key mid-game decisions, slowly opening up the advantage!

Fighting again to 40 minutes, DRX seizes the opportunity to solo kill 369 who got lost while split-pushing, and turns to start the Baron!

However,

The most terrifying thing for a summoner happens—

"Kanavi stole the Baron!! Pyosik smited too early! He smited too early!"

"And JDG can strike while the iron is hot, 369 TP flanks!"

"Two to zero!!!"

"JDG has already obtained three match points! Only one last step away from the semifinals! Just one last step!"

From commentators and streamers to audience chat, the LPL is cheering and jumping for joy.

【Could it be?】

【Hoho, who said hard supports don't work? They work so well!】

【If the person doesn't work, don't say the hero doesn't work!】

【Where are those who said my JDG is a fake powerhouse? Stand out! Speak!】

Three match points, it can almost be said that they have already won.

Even Ye Bo thinks so.

Because DRX's BP for two consecutive games didn't make much change, it seems to give people the feeling that they only have so much stuff.

"What hero is this!?"

"Heimerdinger!!"

"BeryL actually picked Heimerdinger support!?"

A super obscure hero, far more obscure than Soraka, at least similar to Nunu, appeared in DRX's bot lane selection.

When DRX was already standing on the edge of the cliff, they pulled out a support choice that no one could understand at all.

Heimerdinger support, this doesn't even need to be a match.

Before this, in any rank, picking this support would definitely be considered throwing the game, and the AD might have already wanted to AFK!

Yet, this hero appeared so grandly in DRX's last pick while standing on the edge of the cliff.

And what's even more terrifying is,

This hero achieved an effect that no one expected.

The idea for JDG to win the first two games was very simple, which was to almost let the bot lane go, let their weakest point "mix" with the opponent's equally relatively weak point, and then look for opportunities in the upper half.

Of course, it is clear that their strategy was not perfectly executed.

Because two consecutive games were dragged to more than 40 minutes, which has proven that their top-mid-jungle confrontation also has no obvious advantage.

But this game is different.

When the director's camera cuts to the bot lane—in just 4 and a half minutes, the first plate of the bot lane is already in jeopardy!

Ashe is originally one of the ADs with the strongest early-game pushing ability, plus Heimerdinger's three turrets, the pushing ability can only be described as terrifying.

The opponent's Miss Fortune and Nautilus have no pushing ability at all, and can only be unilaterally consumed.

Because Missing's Nautilus hooked several times, all were instantly blocked by Heimerdinger's sensitive little turrets!

It made people's mentality almost break.

What's even more uncomfortable is Kanavi.

After pushing the bot lane, DRX frantically cooperates with the jungler to invade Kanavi's jungle, and also harasses the mid lane with ganks.

The commentary desk's description is very appropriate.

"This Heimerdinger... really played out the meaning of the mid-lane Nunu from a few days ago!"

"The two have the same effect!"

Both achieved rhythm breakthroughs that could not be countered through extreme lane-pushing ability.

No one thought of Nunu.

Heimerdinger is the same.

DRX successfully took the third game on the blue side.

Immediately coming to the fourth game—the balance has been broken.

The temporarily appearing Heimerdinger is almost unsolvable, and it is impossible to find a way to crack it immediately, so it can only be sent to the ban list.

JDG therefore has to let go of Sylas, Akali, Aatrox, Sejuani, and Maokai.

DRX successfully got Aatrox and Akali.

The support is still an obscure choice: Ashe!

This support was only used once by EDG when they played G2 in the first game of the group stage.

It didn't seem to attract much attention later.

After all, in everyone's eyes, there was a significant strength gap between the two teams in that game, and it wasn't won by the bot lane, it was simply because Sylas's advantage was too big, tearing the game apart.

But DRX once again proved the ability of Ashe support.

Constant vision detection, constant cold arrows, every shot could lead to a wave of rhythm.

Clearly, BeryL's understanding of Ashe is far above Meiko's.

"69 hit by an arrow!"

"69, where is the W!"

369 chose Fiora to counter Aatrox on the red side in this game, but didn't exert any laning advantage.

JDG's biggest hidden danger finally appeared.

The laning of the top lane!

369 seems very stable, but that is more because of the hero attributes he chose, plus extremely frequent linkage with the jungler.

But a hero like Fiora clearly cannot have much linkage with the jungler.

In the case of choosing a recognized counter matchup, 369 didn't exert any advantage in laning, and was even operated on by Kingen for several waves!

DRX won easily in the fourth game, bringing the score to 2-2.

"Stabilize, must stabilize your mentality..."

Homme tries his best to appease the players backstage.

But the effect is minimal.

The pressure of coming from behind to win three games is too great. By this time, DRX is already on the side of the advantage scale.

Homme's BP ability is still online, making the final BP game at the critical moment.

"JDG also has to fight for their lives." Ye Bo in the hotel vaguely saw the opponent's idea.

"The threat of Ashe and Heimerdinger is very big, which means their BP spots are not enough. They can only choose to grab an Ashe themselves, but this is destined to let go of many heroes, and this hero JDG's bot-lane duo doesn't seem to play well..."

The collapse of the fifth game seems so logical.

Deft confidently pulled out Draven in a desperate situation, cooperating with BeryL's Braum to force a laning phase that was not easy to play, clearly having figured out the opponent's AD's ability.

Logically, JDG only needs to target the bot lane mindlessly, and it should be easy to gank.

But... Kanavi has to help the top lane!

And it rains when it pours. Coming to the fifth game, Yagao's eyelids are already a bit unable to open.

In just six minutes, Yagao's Sylas in the mid lane was found by Zeka's Akali for a fleeting opportunity, completing a solo kill!

Then it was the second solo kill.

Third solo kill, fourth solo kill!

Zeka achieved four "tower-diving" solo kills in one game!

This is absolutely an incredibly rare thing on the professional stage.

The moment JDG's crystal exploded, many fans' sky collapsed.

【I said this JDG is a fake powerhouse! Where are those who just let me speak? Come out and speak!】

【Turtle, Zeka's value after this Bo5 must be ten times higher, right? Does his salary have a fraction of Yagao's?】

【Don't regret letting others go after BLG! Still spending a lot of money to find Scout, I want to laugh】

【Yagao also tried his best in the first few games, there was no way in the last game, let alone Yagao, I guess even if you call Scout, he would be solo killed!】

【Ah? This can also be pulled to my junior, don't be too outrageous!】

【Scout? Si-Gao-Te! Can only say Yagao doesn't deserve this, quarterfinals are better than being at home, you come to the World Championship first~】

【It's over, now there's only a half-blood EDG left, won't everyone be in the quarterfinals this year...】

【If it were before, I would definitely think the person upstairs is a fool, but now this situation...】

The DYS in the second-channel livestream is very emotional about this.

"This should be the most perverted comeback from 0-2 in S-series history I've ever seen! DRX doesn't seem weak at all!" Xika said so.

"Indeed, this seems more perverted than the time brother chased FNC..." Sun Yalong didn't leave his brother in two sentences: "Is this the first time Mr. Dai entered the semifinals?"

"Brother Sun, you are embarrassing black, I remember he entered once when Samsung Blue was there, should it be the second time?"

"Oh my, Mr. Dai is crying, this is really breaking the inner demon."

Deft since the semifinals of S4.

8 years, 5 quarterfinals, never broke through the quarterfinals even once.

Breaking through again after eight years, and in such a way of coming back from 0-2, the emotional Deft shed tears at the scene.

The old friends of EDG in front of the screen in the hotel also have deep feelings.

Everyone is sincerely happy for him.

And Ye Bo's emotional fluctuation is no less than others.

It's just that his bond with Deft is not deep, and more of his thoughts are because of the impact of the opponent's performance in this Bo5.

Ye Bo has to admit that he also underestimated DRX.

The opponent's adjustment ability, team resilience, and the BP strategy clearly decided on the spot, all exceeded expectations.

Especially—this Heimerdinger!

For two consecutive days, the support selections of T1 and DRX, which had never been seen before, all played an unpredictable, and even truly decisive effect on the battle.

This aroused Ye Bo's huge attention.

In such a BP environment, a change in a ban spot could lead to earth-shaking changes, and two consecutive Bo5s are the best interpretation.

Ye Bo's attention to the support position is indeed a bit small, mostly relying on communication with Meiko, using the opponent's experienced judgment.

But now he seems to have discovered that something is wrong?

Fortunately, everything is not too late.

And the "BP paving" that Ye Bo started from the first game of the World Championship has also begun to play a role.

Whether it is the inertial resolution of Caitlyn or the forced breaking of Yuumi, all are adding bargaining chips to EDG's BP confrontation.

At the very least, EDG will not face the situation of being tied to two ban spots like RNG and JDG.

These will undoubtedly become the most important game points of this World Championship.

Thus, the quarterfinal matches are halfway through.

But the LPL only has one EDG seedling left.

At this moment, it is just like that moment, but the plot this time is very different from last year.

Another night of lonely all-nighters.

The third day of the quarterfinals has arrived on time!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 144 =====