Chapter 169: Reverse Covering One's Ears to Steal a Bell

The Blind Monk also recalled the vision information from the start of the game.

Just as they returned to defend the jungle, they happened to come almost face-to-face with Akali.

Based on the details of the "ward duration" scanned, it was 100% certain that it was a ward placed by Akali.

A level-one ward only lasts 90 seconds but has a 240-second cooldown; the second ward wouldn't refresh until nearly four minutes in—so as long as the ward was used at level one, there would inevitably be a gap in vision until three and a half minutes.

This is why, in various level-one setups, "five wards deployed" defenses rarely appear, as it easily exposes new vulnerabilities.

Pyosik toggled his screen to look at the mid lane and chose to rush level three for a gank.

Unlike Viego, the Blind Monk has no crowd control before level six; ganking relies more on his high early-game burst damage and sustained fighting ability. Moreover, it is common knowledge for a Blind Monk to level W first when solo-clearing camps, so he needs to reach level three to achieve his full combat potential.

However, Pyosik also had a little scheme in mind.

After Viego killed the bottom lane, it was practically an open secret that he would head to the Blind Monk's bottom jungle to invade.

It was clearly an attempt to use this opening design to force the lane-swap offensive half-map that EDG loves to use.

Logically speaking.

The best decision for the Blind Monk here would be to immediately run to the opponent's blue jungle to swap, seizing this "safest time."

But Pyosik did not; instead, he chose the fastest route to clear his entire top jungle.

The purpose of doing this was simple: at 2: 0 when the jungle reaches level three, the minion wave that allows the mid laner to reach level three had not yet arrived!

The jungler would have an opportunity to gank a level-two opponent while being level three; during the semifinals, P-kid had used this tactic to launch surprise attacks on Faker in two consecutive games, resulting in one Flash burned and one kill!

The key is, this is very hard to defend against.

If the mid laner chooses to play passively and give up the wave to prevent a gank, the opposing mid laner can capitalize on the level difference, push the wave into the tower, and then roam to support an invasion of the jungle.

And the side with the wave under their tower has no qualification to move at all!

So even if they know this level-two moment is very dangerous, they can only defend by setting up vision and positioning carefully.

But as it happens, there was no ward in the mid lane!

Although Pyosik contributed many "stolen dragon" nightmare scenes during the semifinals, seemingly leaving people with the impression that he is "bad."

But clearly, a team that can make it this far cannot possibly have anyone who is truly bad.

Perhaps he is slightly inferior in smite-stealing ability or luck, but regarding the grasp of gank timing and team offensive coordination, Pyosik is absolutely worthy of the level of a finals jungler.

2: 0.

The Blind Monk successfully reached level three and prepared to move, and top laner Kingen also sent information immediately after seeing Ornn disappear.

"Ornn went to place a ward, in the river."

"OK."

Although he received this information, in fact, before the Blind Monk had even finished clearing his camps, his screen had been locked on the mid lane, his target clear.

He saw Akali's desire to trade health, which had not weakened in the slightest.

Come to think of it.

The mid-lane matchup of Sylas and Akali is a very classic and common one in S12, having appeared in many previous matches.

Both heroes belong to the {melee hero} category that is "strong at fighting" but "weak at pushing waves"; their hero attributes are very similar, and both have the characteristic of weak ranged last-hitting.

Therefore, this is a matchup where it is very difficult to maintain "peace."

Unless both players have an unspoken agreement to only auto-attack for last hits, if one side has a strong desire to fight, the other absolutely cannot back down, otherwise, the lane can easily snowball!

Not to mention, the laning styles of Ye Bo and Zeka had already destined the health trades to be bloody.

"I'll initiate, if I take a chunk of his health he'll have to recall and use Teleport... wait, it seems you can initiate."

Just as Zeka spoke, he noticed that Akali's positioning seemed to have a problem.

The next minion wave had just arrived.

Akali's positioning, however, actively leaned toward the top side.

And that—was exactly the direction the Blind Monk was about to arrive from!

Opportunities in battle are fleeting; they didn't have time to think about why the opponent would move closer while knowing the jungler was likely in this half of the map—this was the perfect moment for the Blind Monk to start!

The originally envisioned scenario was to have Sylas attempt an E-W start, baiting out Akali's displacement E, then the Blind Monk would W to him and get close to land a Q.

Whether ganking or fighting, the most important thing for the Blind Monk is landing the Q skill.

And Akali's position at this moment had already entered the range where the Blind Monk could directly start with a mid-range Q!

The flight trajectory of Sonic Wave is not slow at all, and it is extremely difficult to dodge a "blind vision" shot.

The Blind Monk in the brush aimed and kicked out 【Sonic Wave】, while Sylas took a half-step back and dashed forward!

However.

Just as the bald monk in the brush lifted his toe, Akali moved backward almost synchronously, using the back-kick of her E skill, Shuriken Flip, as if predicting the move, causing the sonic wave to graze past her!

"Huh?" Pyosik's face was full of suspicion.

"His reaction shouldn't be like this?!"

Both of them saw it clearly; it was as if the Blind Monk's sonic wave hadn't even flown out of the brush yet, and Akali had already pressed Shuriken Flip synchronously—this didn't look like a dodge relying on "reaction" at all!

And Sylas's first E was detailedly half a step slower than the Blind Monk's, so Akali had absolutely no reason to use that E!

However.

The next moment, Pyosik knew the answer.

Because at this moment, a withered Stealth Ward at the Blind Monk's feet revealed itself and faded away.

This revealed the fact that the Blind Monk had just been "camping on a ward."

"There's a ward!?"

With a ward, this scene just now seemed to make sense.

After all, the difficulty of dodging with vision versus without vision is worlds apart, and this is not a difficult task for most professional players.

But something even more confusing to Pyosik appeared.

Why was there a ward in this brush?!

They had clearly watched Akali place the ward with their own eyes at level one, and Akali hadn't gone near this brush during the entire laning phase; the two of them had been watching this the whole time!

The answer was obvious, and there could only be one.

This was not Akali's ward.

And the fact that it could last until this moment at 2: 5 to disappear meant it was placed at 1: 5, so it definitely couldn't have been placed by the three people from the bottom lane who wouldn't have had time to return to their lanes.

"Axi... This Ornn is also playing with smoke bombs!" Pyosik, feeling like he was being played for a fool, snorted angrily.

Clearly, Ornn's act of disappearing from the minion wave right on time and deliberately leaning toward the river was just now.

It was like a "reverse covering one's ears to steal a bell"!

Ornn was already a hero not easily ganked, and he "openly" told you that a ward was placed in the river, so any jungler with normal thinking wouldn't want to come to the top—and would also avoid this path.

Beryl didn't know what had happened.

But when he toggled his screen to look, he found that the Blind Monk, who had walked halfway, had suddenly turned back.

"Why haven't you gone to swap jungles yet? This Viego has probably already finished clearing your bottom jungle."

"No, I feel like this Akali's positioning is a bit too arrogant... My Q has ten seconds left anyway, I have to wait." Pyosik wanted to try again.

Although Akali and Sylas were both about to reach level three, their health was indeed not very healthy.

More importantly, Pyosik asked Zeka about the cooldown of Akali's E skill.

He received an incredibly certain and clear "16 seconds"!

With a 6-second cooldown difference, Akali had no key E skill displacement; if hit by the Blind Monk's Q, she would almost certainly have to burn her Flash!

As for 【Twilight Shroud】.

That is—useless to a Blind Monk who is already blind and locates targets through sonic waves!

And Akali also seemed to believe that the Blind Monk had to go to take the Blue Buff and wouldn't dare to delay, and since Sylas also had no E skill, her posture for trading health hadn't changed at all.

Ten seconds passed.

Akali's positioning was clever; relying on the casting range of her Q skill, Kunai, she constantly harassed Sylas. As long as she didn't get greedy for her passive when she didn't have E and W, it was very hard for her to be caught by Sylas's E skill.

But at this moment, Zeka found an extremely tiny gap.

"Come!"

Sylas feigned using his Q skill to hit minions, forcing Akali to move backward; the moment she did, he dashed forward with E, used W to poke and instantly kill a minion, then whipped his chains out through the gap between two minions!

Akali was hit by the chains in the gap and was stunned and knocked up; the Blind Monk immediately followed up with Sonic Wave, successfully landing it!

Although it seemed Sylas used all his skills to hit minions.

But according to the cooldown calculation, Akali's E skill still had at least three seconds left.

Akali couldn't immediately create distance, and with Twilight Shroud unable to protect her, if she wasn't willing to burn Flash, she would have to be beaten for three seconds by two people in place!

But who said the Blind Monk could definitely break invisibility?

In the air as he kicked Resonating Strike, Akali frantically pressed W, and after the 0. 5-second stun, she successfully escaped into the shadows before the Blind Monk landed.

The Blind Monk immediately slammed his E skill, 【Tempest】, onto the ground, wanting to drag the person out of the smoke bomb!

But he only slammed out a fleeting phantom.

The "Roaring Emperor" on the LCK commentary desk had just been shouting "He hit it," but suddenly he leaned forward.

"He can't slam her out!?"

It wasn't that he couldn't slam her out.

In fact, the Blind Monk's E skill does indeed have a {Reveal} effect that is almost identical to the {True Sight} of the Q skill.

The only difference between the two is—{Reveal} must be applied before the unit enters invisibility to reveal the invisible unit.

So as long as Akali enters Twilight Shroud first, and the Blind Monk slams his E afterward, he cannot slam her out!

This is a linkage of the skill mechanics between the Blind Monk's E and Akali's W; Ye Bo had once stolen the Blind Monk's ultimate with Sylas, so he knew this point.

This is also the reason why.

The reason why Ye Bo, knowing full well that the Blind Monk was crouching in the brush, deliberately stepped forward to give away his position.

The Blind Monk was hit by Akali's Q-A-E Electrocute combo within the Twilight Shroud; having been spaced out and lacking further abilities to pursue, he could only give up in frustration.

It was just as Pyosik walked into the brush at the entrance of the jungle.

He finally understood why Akali had been giving him space earlier, as if she knew his exact location.

"How is there a Control Ward here!?"

There was actually a Control Ward in the brush at the jungle entrance!

So the Blind Monk's move of walking halfway and then reluctantly turning back was actually fully exposed under the opponent's vision!

Needless to say.

A simple analysis reveals it—it was Ornn again!

A basic laning technique used by every Ornn is to start with only a 150-gold potion, farm a few minions in lane, and then use 【Living Forge】 to craft a Doran's Shield, thereby maximizing laning advantage.

Therefore, when Sejuani saw Ornn arrive in lane with only a {Refillable Potion}, she wouldn't have the slightest suspicion.

He also had no way of knowing through the equipment panel.

Whether that Ornn had 350 gold left in his pocket, or 275 gold.

"Why do they play like this?" Pyosik was a bit confused, feeling like his CPU was about to burn out.

"What do you mean?" Beryl asked upon hearing this.

"Akali came to ward at level one, then the top laner counter-warded to protect him, and then they placed a Control Ward here, but Akali knew I was there and still gave me an opening?"

While complaining, Pyosik had already started attacking the Blue Buff.

He had already wasted two waves in the mid lane; just waiting for his Q ability cooldown had taken over twenty seconds, and his jungle clearing progress had already fallen behind, so he dared not pause for even a second.

But these words.

Suddenly made Beryl, who was struggling against the turret in the bottom lane, feel uneasy.

"No, something feels wrong."

"Everything is wrong!!"

It was as if a bolt of lightning had passed through Beryl's mind, his voice becoming a bit more urgent: "Hong Changxian, be careful! They might be coming for you!"

"Viego, he might be near you!"

Beryl knew the depth of this opponent; they wouldn't do anything without meaning.

Akali's initial ward could be said to be in coordination with a level-one design to mask their intentions.

Including having Ornn come to the mid lane river to ward before going to lane, and then arriving at the river on time to act, all of this made sense.

But things started to go wrong afterward.

Although Beryl's hands were a bit slow, his brain turned fast—connecting everything, he instantly thought of a possibility.

If Viego, after killing the bottom lane, didn't fully clear the Blind Monk's bottom blue jungle, or even recalled on the spot.

Then Ornn's acting in the river might not just be to cover for the mid lane—it was also to make the Blind Monk voluntarily avoid the top river and force him to enter the jungle from the bottom river entrance.

And that Control Ward at the bottom entrance could monitor and grasp at any moment when the Blind Monk entered his own jungle.

Then the question arises.

Since it was already obvious that they were forcing a jungle swap and the Blind Monk's position was already known, why go to such great lengths to track his movements?

The answer, it seems, still remains the same.

After hearing Beryl's urgent warning, Pyosik also felt uneasy and hurriedly used his reset {Sweeper} to scan the surroundings.

The Sweeper he used for detection at level one, since he hadn't recalled yet, naturally hadn't been changed.

If not for this warning, assuming the opposing jungler was in the bottom jungle, the Blind Monk would have no threat and no reason to use this precious gank-sweeper in such a place.

But right under his feet—inside the Blue Buff brush.

A Stealth Ward, clearly placed just moments ago, was revealed.

The mid-top ward hadn't been reset, and he hadn't left the lane, so there was only one owner for this vision.

"He seems to have found it!"

Hiding behind the wall, Jiejie, who was prepared to Smite-steal the Blue Buff, was somewhat surprised.

In his view, their design this time had gone unexpectedly smoothly!

Due to the positioning deception in the top lane and the Control Ward at the jungle entrance, Viego could easily make various different responses based on the Blind Monk's movements.

Seeing that the Blind Monk didn't come to swap jungles at level two, Viego chose to recall directly after finishing the Blue Buff, preparing to steal with Smite from over the wall at level two.

Later, finding that the Blind Monk had actually turned back to the mid lane—Akali deliberately sold a flaw to delay the Blind Monk's pace, allowing Viego to finish the Wolves and reach level three.

According to the envisioned plot, the Blind Monk should have been finished off by Viego alone after a struggle with the Blue Buff.

But seeing that the opponent seemed to have sensed the movement, Ye Bo immediately realized the plan had changed and rose to support: "Shengqiang-ge, come surround him!"

"The Blind Monk has no wards!"

The DRX mid and top teammates had already sent signals.

At the same time, Viego, having replenished his first-blood equipment and just finished the Wolves to reach level three, had already ridden the Blast Cone to land right in front of the Blind Monk!

Heartbreaker initiated at point-blank range!

Pyosik gritted his teeth, still wanting to forcibly take the buff first.

This wasn't greed.

It was because he had no wards on him, and 【Safeguard】 could not be used for displacement!

His only reliance was having an extra Flash, and facing Viego, who clearly had a combat advantage, the Blind Monk likely wouldn't be able to keep this Flash—since that was the case, he had to consume as many resources as possible before flashing!

"The Blind Monk and Viego are going to contest the Smite... he got it!" Wawa shouted, arms raised.

"The Blind Monk already used his Q, Pyosik didn't win the Smite contest against Jiejie! And the Blind Monk is deep in the encirclement; this might turn into a 3v3 between both sides' top, mid, and jungle!"

"But if they fight a 3v3, DRX is definitely at a disadvantage! Viego has the first-blood equipment, and the Blind Monk is in poor condition; as long as they can kill one, DRX might explode this wave!"

The DRX voice chat was also asking for opinions.

"Fight or not!?"

Beryl once again gave a clear-headed command: "Don't fight! Don't fight! It's best if no one uses Flash; if you can't save him, just sell him!"

The top and mid players, who had originally wanted to rescue, immediately hit the brakes.

And Pyosik, hardening his heart, didn't run outward at all; he Q'd to the Gromp at the corner to displace, drilling directly into the depths of the opponent's jungle!

"The Blind Monk still has Flash; Viego, without Flash, cannot pursue alone. The top and mid players must help surround him."

"The kill is ultimately taken by Viego... although the mid and top didn't even touch an assist, this jungle exchange is still a huge profit!"

The commentary desk concluded firmly, also explaining for the opponent.

"DRX's decision to cut off the limb to save the body was quite decisive. The Blind Monk's trinket is currently a Sweeper, so it's actually very hard to survive! If a real team fight had broken out, it wouldn't just be as simple as the Blind Monk dying!"

Wang Duoduo analyzed seriously: "I mainly feel that EDG's vision control this wave has a lot of substance."

【Like ganking mid, huh! You're in for a treat!】

【P-kid is truly trash; Mr. Dai is really blessed to have him for his final journey~】

【Indeed, can't win the Smite contest for the dragon, and can't win the contest for the buff either?】

【It looks intentional; this is deliberately padding the small pity counter, waiting to stabilize the big pity counter so as not to lose the dragon. Afraid you guys don't know, P-kid is also OP!】

【That makes sense! P-kid is definitely a mole in DRX; after all, a Genshin team can only have four people!】

The chat, not fully seeing through this game of chess, was busy berating the jungler.

But in fact, EDG's major level-one design was because Beryl was too obsessed with lane priority and lost some health, and getting a first blood was an unexpected gain.

And such a painstaking design naturally couldn't just be for the situation in the bottom lane.

The subsequent chain of attacks targeting the jungle was the main point!

Although there were some twists this wave because the opponent noticed, causing both mid and top to lose some minion waves.

Fortunately, the core objective could still be implemented smoothly.

On the other side, Beryl was somewhat alarmed.

He didn't expect it to really be as he thought; he didn't expect the opponent's level-one offensive was just the beginning, one link after another, where one misstep could lead to an abyss!

And he didn't expect that the real offensive had actually just begun.

"Eh? Jiejie isn't clearing his own top jungle, is he going to the opponent's bottom jungle again?"

"A 1v1 in the jungle this time might be hard to say; the Blind Monk isn't actually afraid of Viego in a 1v1. Viego hasn't recalled, the equipment gap between the two isn't big, and the Blind Monk still has an extra Flash..."

"But EDG's bottom lane seems to be able to move!"

The true process of this level-one design was: "Gain bottom lane advantage" → "Drive the opposing jungler back to the bottom jungle" → "Use the bottom lane advantage to 'forcibly radiate' into the jungle" → "Thereby affecting all four people except the top laner"!

At this moment, the Blind Monk, having returned to the bottom jungle, was facing a dilemma.

There were no jungle monsters left in his own top jungle; if the Blind Monk were to head toward the opponent's top jungle again, not to mention whether the opponent would come looking for him, the loss in experience and time alone would be immeasurable!

"Can you guys come!?" Pyosik asked for help urgently.

The DRX bottom lane was struggling to protect itself at this moment.

The minion pressure created at level one in the bottom lane didn't come for nothing; the two standing under the turret were enduring long-range poke from Varus and Heimerdinger every wave, and their health could never be corrected to a space where they could engage in a trade.

However, the support Miss Fortune does have a miraculous effect against Heimerdinger; as long as the level is slightly higher, there will definitely be a day to turn it around.

But now, if they were to forcibly go to the jungle to fight while at a disadvantage, something might really go wrong!

Just as Beryl was still thinking.

The director's camera suddenly cut sharply back to the mid lane.

"Akali and Sylas are both in bad shape, wow; both sides are playing so fiercely in this match!"

Although both were in poor condition, they were still playing very proactively, and neither had recalled first.

Relying on the fact that the opposing jungler had fallen, Akali and Sylas were both stubbornly hugging the lane, with Sylas banking on the fact that Akali couldn't easily coordinate with Viego for a gank.

Neither made any mistakes in their trades, but because of this, they both remained constantly on the edge of the kill threshold, each looking for the other's opening.

"Can mid recall and TP out?" Beryl asked aloud, deep in thought.

"Hard to recall," Zeka replied simply, fully focused and afraid to be distracted.

Akali kept pushing the minion wave forward, specifically to prevent Sylas from having the chance to recall and TP.

If Sylas tried to force a recall, the 8 seconds for the recall plus 4. seconds for TP—a total of 12 seconds—would definitely be enough for Akali to push the wave into the tower.

By then, even if Sylas forced a TP out, he would face a massive wave of tower minions and be unable to move, effectively losing his lane priority and failing to protect his jungle.

"If I want to recall... I have to kill him first to do it." Zeka, who had retreated to wait for his cooldowns, said slowly: "He probably won't initiate a recall."

"Are you confident?" Although Beryl had great confidence in his mid-laner, he remained cautious, "If you're not sure, don't force it. If it really doesn't work, we can accept falling a bit behind and use that system."

Zeka did not reply again.

But it was clear he already had an idea.

A look at the mid-lane health bars would reveal that Sylas's state was actually a notch lower than Akali's.

With neither side making mistakes in their trades, this was the normal state of trading in the early game.

After all, the healing from {Kingslayer} only has an extra bonus when below half health, and since both sides weren't using E and Akali was maxing Q, Akali as an {Energy Hero} definitely had the advantage when relying solely on mutual Q-skill harassment.

Sylas's strength lies in the post-level-six phase, and once he has certain items and levels, a situation arises where Akali cannot kill Sylas in one combo, but Sylas can kill Akali in one counter-combo.

Akali brought the wave forward again.

Sylas, just like before, stood in the center of his minion wave, swaying, and took a kunai to the face to press forward.

If Akali didn't use W to increase energy before level five, she could only cast one kunai; after taking the Q, Sylas needed to press forward even more to force her to use her shroud, so that it wouldn't count as being harassed for free, allowing him to bait out her shroud cooldown and counter-attack.

Akali indeed immediately cast her shroud.

However, Ye Bo had some ideas at this moment, carefully adjusting his position within the shroud.

He pulled out his passive, Assassin's Mark.

Akali suddenly raised her hand for a basic attack!

And Sylas, who had been pre-aiming with his mouse, locked onto the revealed Akali with his W almost instantly for a strike!

But at the very moment the Kingslayer strike was launched, Sylas's body was pulled forward in a sudden dash—which happened to pull Sylas out from the cover of the three front minions!

Sylas's W is actually a "short displacement skill" with a range of 400 yards.

However, if the distance between him and the target during casting is less than 250 yards, Sylas barely moves at all, which is why it often feels like an "in-place W."

And this time, the position Akali adjusted to within the shroud was exactly at that 250-yard mark.

Neither more nor less, just enough to "pull" Sylas out a distance, moving him away from the minion pile!

And at the same time the Kingslayer strike was launched, a Shuriken Flip was thrown forward almost simultaneously, grazing the eyebrows of the minions behind Sylas and hitting him head-on!

But although Ye Bo actively adjusted the distance this time—in reality, it was also a distance Zeka actively maintained!

He only needed to stand 100 yards behind the melee minions to ensure that when Akali could reach him for a passive basic attack, Sylas's W short displacement wouldn't pull him out of the minion pile.

But he wanted to use himself as the bait.

According to Zeka's calculations, the damage from this E wouldn't be fatal... but it might conversely cost Akali her life!

Sylas ran backward violently.

Akali paused in place for a second, as if she finally couldn't resist the devil's temptation, and launched the second part of her E, Shuriken Flip, wanting to kick for that extra bit of damage!

Zeka's eyes flashed.

Sylas didn't move at first, waiting until the second part of the Shuriken Flip was about to hit—only then did he explode into action!

Abduct + Flash, two consecutive displacements to counter-charge into the tower!

Akali's E2 speed was already extremely fast, and Sylas pressed it to the speed of her arrival, bringing Akali into the defensive tower's range—landing and immediately whipping out the {Chain Lash} again!

Intending to interrupt her displacement and pin her under the tower!

There were only two outcomes for this play.

Akali reacts, flashes to interrupt her own E2, but inevitably takes a hit from the defensive tower, her health becomes unbalanced, she is forced to recall first, and she loses the minion wave that failed to push into the tower.

Or, Akali fails to react, and after being pulled under the tower, she takes Sylas's second counter-attack chain, which interrupts her E-skill displacement and {knocks her up} under the tower, followed by an AQ to kill Akali first!

The absolute worst-case scenario is a 1-for-1 trade.

But in a 1-for-1, not only does Akali lose the minion wave, but because the wave wasn't pushed into the tower, Sylas can TP out and go save the lower jungle.

It could be called breaking a deadlock with sheer force!

Except.

Ye Bo made a third choice, a response Zeka hadn't anticipated.

The moment he saw Sylas's body explode into action, Ye Bo had already thought of what the opponent wanted to do—because he had used this move before!

And the moment he saw the chain fly out, Akali's body was suddenly accompanied by the golden light of Flash.

But she didn't flash backward to interrupt her E2—she charged forward!

To be precise, she used a right-angle diagonal "Parallel Diagonal E-Flash" to the left side of Sylas!

Zeka's eyes suddenly turned fearful.

Because the forced kick from the Shuriken Flip not only didn't lose damage, but the clearly "not quite right" output caused Sylas's health bar to plummet... and the {Chain Lash} chain was almost dodged "face-to-face"!

{Since Sylas's "EQ" mechanic was removed in 2019, if the chain lash fails to hit, the Q skill must wait for the chain to complete its full path before it can be cast.

This meant that Sylas's E being dodged didn't just mean the key crowd control failed to land, but he was also unable to perform any other actions for 0. seconds!

Akali took advantage of this half-second time difference, seizing the death trap of Sylas's passive "Chain Lash stiffness."

The moment she landed, she was the first to raise her hand for a clean and decisive QA Electrocute, stabbing straight into his brow!

Sylas clutched his chest and fell in pain.

【Edgye killed DRX Zeka!】

Zeka held murderous intent toward him, and Ye Bo naturally had murderous intent as well.

Both sides were on the edge of the kill threshold; a few dozen points of damage could lead to a massive difference.

Therefore, Akali, who had just reached level four, had kept one skill point unused, just to see if the opponent would give her an opening.

{Every level of Akali's Q only adds 25 damage, but every level of E adds 70 damage.

One extra level in the E skill was almost equivalent to the burst amplification of an extra Q, enough to become the unknown variable in damage calculations!

Akali instantly leveled up E in mid-air to supplement her damage, landed and side-flashed to dodge the chain, capitalized on the stiffness, and struck first, completing this limit-testing solo kill!

And because Akali didn't take Sylas's follow-up EQA damage.

She tanked two defensive tower shots and walked out of the tower with double-digit health!

The clash of assassins.

Is often a matter of a split second, a hair's breadth between life and death!

A difference of one step, a world of difference!

Everything happened so suddenly, truly in the blink of an eye.

So much so that the entire venue, apart from the sudden outburst of noisy commotion, hadn't even seen what happened before they saw the kill result!

"Solo kill!!!"

(End of chapter)