Chapter 173: Top-Tier Peak Mind Games! Mid-Air Glide Swap! A Lone Warrior

Although the replay doesn't show every detail of the instant counter-kill, the resulting outcome is obvious.

It is enough to bring the surging excitement in the LCK broadcast room to an abrupt halt!

From an analysis of the team compositions, it is not hard to see that DRX is under significant pressure regarding their offensive tempo; they must secure enough of an advantage before the lane-swap phase ends and the Yuumi is freed.

And by the time they regroup and head back out, the Dragon tempo, which was originally scheduled for the five-minute mark, will be delayed by at least a minute—which also means the Dragon Soul tempo will be delayed by a minute as well.

The most critical point is that this mid-lane offensive yielded absolutely no results.

Not only did Yone fail to secure a kill, but Sylas actually ended up with an extra kill's worth of gold!

"Was this..." Pyosik started to say but hesitated, wanting to ask if Yone had given away an opportunity.

However, remembering his own performance in the semifinals, which seemed much worse than this, he quickly hit the brakes and shut his mouth.

"I didn't make a mistake," Zeka hissed through gritted teeth, his voice dull.

But at this moment, he really had no mood to open his mouth to explain.

"It's fine, no worries," Deft continued to comfort him: "A one-for-one trade isn't that bad, the Dragon is just a little bit slower."

Beryl didn't speak, but scanned the mini-map while thinking, his lips moving as if he were mentally calculating something.

With one attempt failing, he wanted to find a new fulcrum.

"Hong Chang-hyeon, go to the Dragon, let Brother Hyeok-gyu cover you."

"Seong-hun, act a little."

The director's camera was drifting toward the top lane, and the commentators were still discussing the unexpected nature of this counter-kill.

Until someone finally noticed that Lux had headed back out and wasn't going to the bottom lane!

"After recalling, Beryl bought a pair of boots and headed straight for the top lane!"

"And he didn't even fully restore his health and mana! What is he trying to do?"

EDG had clearly signaled they were giving up the Dragon, so they were definitely looking to trade for some resources in the top half of the map to relieve some of the early-game pressure on the top lane.

Although Kingen was still being forced to face-tank by Camille and Sejuani, he used his follow-up Aatrox W and a back-stepping E-Q to quickly create distance, keeping his health relatively healthy.

However, it was clear that Sejuani was still in the top half of the map, and Aatrox's positioning was quite cautious.

Flandre had missed quite a few minions in the first few levels to prevent ganks, so naturally, he had to seize the moment while he had support behind him to make up for it.

But Lux.

Had already quietly snuck from behind the first turret to the river wall.

"Beryl is so detailed! He didn't walk through the jungle; he must know that Sejuani is likely invading their jungle, so he specifically avoided it and chose to walk straight along the minion wave!"

"Wait... Flandre's ward just expired! And there are no wards nearby!"

This roam was, of course, not a sudden whim on Beryl's part.

It was precise calculation and deduction!

{Stealth Wards} have a full 3-minute-and-30-second cooldown difference in the early game: one starts in the inventory, the second refreshes at 3: 0, and the third refreshes around 6: 0.

And at this moment, it was just approaching 6 minutes!

Under high-pressure laning conditions, Camille would never allow a vision gap of more than 30 seconds—that is, the duration of one minion wave.

This means that even if Camille didn't place her ward exactly at 3: 0, she couldn't have placed her second ward later than 4 minutes.

And a ward that only lasts 1 minute and 30 seconds must, at this moment, be expired!

There is one more detail.

Generally speaking, because a vision gap is inevitable due to the early-game ward cooldown, especially in long side lanes like top and bottom, players will purchase Control Wards during their second recall to supplement vision.

But don't forget, the Camille in this game is not in a normal matchup!

Flandre was forced to recall and use his Teleport after being ganked at level 3, and the gold-starved Camille had to scrape together enough money just to buy {Health Potions}; it was impossible for him to bear the burden of a 75-gold Control Ward.

After a series of calculations, Beryl was certain, based on his understanding and control of vision, that there would be a blind spot in the top lane!

He directed Aatrox to play extremely cautiously to dispel any thoughts Sejuani might have of a second gank.

Then he raced against time to come and gank!

And the time he gained by leaving the fountain 3 seconds early, without waiting for his health to fully recover, seemed to align perfectly at this moment.

"The last minion, yet Flandre still has no idea of the danger approaching!" Wawa said, feeling anxious.

"Lux didn't flash over the wall; he actually took a huge detour! He walked all the way down from behind the first turret..."

"How does Beryl dare to do this? Isn't he afraid there's a ward, or that Sejuani is camping here? Lux doesn't have Flash either!"

"Light Binding is charging! Camille just finished off the last minion, but with no vision, he's likely going to be unable to dodge in time!"

The steady Flandre, after finishing the last minion, had no intention of moving forward to taunt the Aatrox blocking the lane; he wanted to retreat directly.

But, at the very moment he separated from the minion wave.

The insidious {Light Binding} was fired from the brush with a flash!

The projectile speed of Light Binding is not fast, and Flandre reacted—but at this moment, the distance between Camille and the wall behind him was not enough to use Hookshot!

"Camille's Flash isn't up yet... he hit it!"

Like Morgana's, Lux's Q is a high-risk, high-reward skill; the 2-second crowd control, especially in the early game without tenacity, is enough for one person to complete the task of locking someone down.

Kingen delayed his W with precision, ensuring the slow and pull-back of his Infernal Chains wouldn't "overlap" with the CC, breaking Camille's final chance to escape.

Aatrox's third Q landed firmly on the blade's edge.

Although Camille still forced an E to try and pull away, he was ultimately stabbed to death in mid-air by Aatrox's Flash-enhanced The Darkin Blade!

"There was really nothing Flandre could do here..." Wawa's tone was full of regret, trying his best to speak up for his team.

"This was impossible to predict! Mainly because the opponents were still doing the Dragon, and their own Sejuani was actually in the enemy's top jungle, almost just a wall away from Lux's path!"

"It's acceptable, at least the minion wave was pushed, so the lane won't explode from the death," Miller added, trying to smooth things over.

"It's just that Camille's laning will definitely be even more difficult..."

The wail of the Dragon came from the bottom half of the map.

EDG's bottom lane had just taken one and a half turret plates while the enemy AD was recalling.

And since neither mid-laner had Teleport, and their own jungler was invading the top jungle, they weren't contesting the Dragon anyway, so they simply recalled and naturally had no chance to discover anything unusual.

No one would have guessed.

That ward outside the Dragon pit that hadn't faded yet clearly saw the AD return to lane to help with the Dragon, yet the support was missing again!

Just this one ward had been utilized by DRX twice in a row!

Jiejie had no other choice; after finishing his jungle invade, he recalled on the spot, not daring to linger in the jungle for fear of being surrounded by Lux again.

"No big deal, Flandre, don't be in a rush, the advantage is on our side later!" After Ye Bo finished comforting him, he didn't forget to offer a reminder.

"By the way, if they want to play like this, you have to be careful if they'll keep messing with you; I feel like Lux might be going all-in."

"You have to keep your E near the wall so it's harder for Lux to catch you~"

During the draft, the commentators stated that Beryl's Lux was clearly a disadvantaged matchup that had been countered, almost a "forced pick."

In the bottom lane against Sivir and Yuumi, Lux could neither effectively poke nor realistically force an engage on the AD to set up a gank—after all, theoretically, there was only "one person" in the bottom lane, and they had a spell shield for protection.

With no opportunities in the bottom lane, he naturally had to look for chances in other lanes.

As for why Ye Bo gave the second reminder.

It was simply because he was thinking from "his own perspective." If he were this Lux, he would also want to attack the gap he had finally managed to tear open.

"Yeah," Flandre replied softly: "I can hold steady, my Flash will be up soon."

Having received the reminder, Camille went to the tri-brush to place a Control Ward with extreme caution after returning to the lane.

Then, when returning to the lane, he hugged the wall tightly, slowly inching toward the top lane's first brush—at this distance, if someone were camping in the brush, Camille could immediately force an E onto the wall and then kick back to the safety of the turret!

He nervously probed into the brush; there were no enemies.

He immediately stopped and didn't move forward.

As long as he confirmed that the most dangerous spot, the first brush, was clear, Camille could continue to hug the wall for the rest of the laning phase; even if Lux really came, he could force an E to displace and tank the CC!

The technique of "using Hookshot to override a root," Ye Bo had used when playing Camille as well.

At this moment.

In the second brush, Aatrox was waiting, having teleported out after recalling, crouching alongside Lux who hadn't gone home.

Kingen was a bit hesitant: "Doesn't feel like it's going to work, this guy is too careful, should we just give up if there's no chance?"

"I think so too, if they play like this, they might go to dive Brother Hyeok-gyu," Pyosik added: "Should I go hang out behind the bottom lane turret to protect him?"

"No!" Beryl said decisively: "We must try this Camille; his Flash isn't up yet, if we don't kill him now, there won't be another chance."

"The enemy will likely contest the Rift Herald, we need this Herald!"

Beryl knew very well that due to the disadvantage in the mid lane, Aatrox's top lane advantage at most leveled the playing field; it wasn't enough to guarantee a win in the Herald team fight!

And Yuumi could join the five-man fight for the Herald; since no one was level six yet, unless Lux could Q a key target—otherwise, Yuumi's utility in a five-man fight was definitely greater than his!

"Hong Chang-hyeon, you need to go to the mid lane to keep an eye on Sylas, don't let him have a chance to go bottom for a four-man dive, preferably you can even force his Ultimate or Flash," Beryl said, affirming first, then added with slight hesitation: "As for Brother Hyeok-gyu..."

Deft proactively took over: "Don't worry about me, listen to Geon-hee."

Beryl hummed: "Then get ready, I'll start with a flash-bind."

But at this moment, Kingen saw Camille's wall-hugging position and suddenly remembered something: "Wait, Camille's E can override your Q root; his positioning seems to be consciously defending against you!"

"Is our vision exposed?!"

Kingen clearly knew this mechanic of Camille's, and from the opponent's wall-hugging position, he could see it was clearly a conscious defense.

Beryl shook his head with absolute certainty, knowing it was impossible for the opponent to have vision of their position.

And even after hearing this technical reminder, he still didn't abandon the idea.

It was just that a system message suddenly appeared in the chat box... and Lux waited a few more seconds.

"Are the DRX top and support still camping? They seem determined to move on Camille! But Flandre is too steady!"

"Although Aatrox recalled after greedily taking a turret plate after pushing the wave, it's reasonable to be slow to return if he saved his Teleport, but if he doesn't appear soon, he's been gone too long and will definitely be noticed!"

"Beryl seems to finally be unable to resist making a move!"

Lux begins to charge her Flash.

With his economy already in a poor state, Saint Gun Brother cannot afford not to farm, but he remains cautious with his positioning, ensuring he can hit a wall with his E at any time, and keeps Ye Bo's warning in mind.

Lux repeats the same trick, initiating with Flash and Q!

But Lux's Q projectile speed is truly very slow, and Saint Gun Brother is still able to react—though he does not rush to use his E immediately.

Because Ye Bo warned him that Camille's E1 can be forced to latch onto a wall for displacement, but that is because E1 is essentially not classified as a "displacement skill"—however, E2 is a displacement skill!

That is to say, if he is hit by crowd control and immediately uses E1 to pull away, he still carries the crowd control effect while latched onto the wall, so the E2 kick cannot be used!

Lux's Q can crowd control for 2 seconds, but Camille can only stay latched on the wall for 1 second.

In this situation, Camille is not far from the wall, and the E1 displacement distance is very short, so he is not afraid of being interrupted by Aatrox; what he can rely on is E2 "turning the corner" to instantly create distance.

Saint Gun Brother times it perfectly.

Seeing Aatrox finish his Q1 and the crowd control duration of Light Binding more than halfway over, he immediately uses Hookshot!

Camille's imprisoned figure is forcibly pulled out, expected to have the crowd control end exactly at the moment of landing, and then use E2 to kick back and create distance!

"Saint Gun Brother is so precise today too!"

"The opponent's engage is clearly extremely forced! This Camille can successfully waste a lot of time for the opponent's top and support, and won't have too much..."

But just as Camille kicks out.

There is still a golden light flashing in front of him.

"Lux uses Flash to block Camille's second-stage E!!"

"Wait, what?! How did this Lux use two Flashes!"

Upon learning of this operation, Beryl thought of a solution.

Clearly, if Lux did not use "Flash-Q from the brush" but instead threw a straight long-range Q, with sufficient reaction time, a Camille with steady positioning might have just E'd to the wall and left.

And wanting to use his feet to catch up to the Hookshot after walking out is clearly unrealistic.

So Beryl used two Flashes!

That was the Flash cooldown refreshing, with {Sea Flash} instantly replaced by {True Flash}.

The first wave of Flash was the bot lane Flash-Q distraction, then the top lane two-man gank, plus Lux took {Cosmic Insight}, so Flash had already cooled down quite a bit!

Almost at the moment of Sea Flash, the 3-second cooldown for resetting Flash also immediately began counting down!

Counting the flight time of the Q, it is exactly enough to block Camille's kick-back foot in place!

The system message Beryl just pressed—was using Ctrl+F to check his remaining Flash cooldown.

"Aatrox has a Serrated Dirk and his damage is very high! Camille failed to jump the wall to create distance, and is also slowed and damaged by Lucent Singularity!"

"It's over!!"

When Camille falls again, sighs erupt from the LPL commentary desk.

Li Xuanjun had actually already sensed something unusual.

After all, Aatrox had been missing for quite a while, and he was even stable enough not to farm the minions near the second brush.

But the problem is, in a situation where he is already at a huge disadvantage, can he really just retreat outside the experience range and go AFK without confirming someone is there!?

"B~E~R~Y~L!!!" The Roaring Emperor uses the lung capacity he used to shout for Chovy to scream at the top of his lungs.

"DRX's chain attack finds another opportunity in the top lane! Aatrox gets a double kill, and Camille has no Teleport! He dies as soon as he gets to lane!"

"Camille is about to collapse! There's no way to lane anymore!" CT Brother is even more impatient to gloat: "Although you can find our members in poor condition in the mid lane, we can also find your weak points!"

"This is the battle of a top-tier team! This is our dark horse miracle, DRX!"

Before the words could finish, the perspective cuts back to the mid lane at light speed.

Viego initiates a gank on the mid lane at 7 minutes, but Ye Bo is even more careful after the previous encounter and does not give an opportunity; seeing Yone stack up his wind, he is immediately on high alert.

Neither the DRX mid nor jungle has Flash to surprise him, and Sylas uses a charming 【Abscond】 to dodge Thousand Pierced Stab, walks away with a leisurely pace, and backhands to steal Viego's ultimate to save his life.

And EDG also immediately turns to try to exert pressure on the bot lane.

But another small flaw of Yuumi is utilized—too weak at tower diving!

She cannot tank, has no stable hard crowd control, and her damage-boosting ability is {percentage of Ability Power/Attack Damage}, meaning the stronger the host, the stronger the boost.

The early-game stats are not high to begin with, especially since the AD is Sivir.

If EDG's bot lane wants to tower dive, at least three people must go together; the bot duo alone has no threat at all!

And when Sejuani arrives at the bot lane.

Deft's Varus has already pulled back with full awareness, and uses his range advantage to clear most of the minion wave before it enters the tower, ensuring his development to the maximum extent!

In fact.

Those with a keen eye can already perceive—as an OP hero in the current meta, Yuumi's flaws should never be this obvious, or rather, they shouldn't have such an impact.

And the reason why such an effect can be achieved.

Is entirely because DRX is utilizing these flaws to launch attacks!

Including the design of being weak in level-one team fights, contesting half-maps where they are weak in laning, strong roaming despite having no roaming ability, and the tempo ability of being unable to tower dive alone.

Of course, the chat must have people who only look at the results.

【Can Pichi stop feeding!】

【Oh, awesome, this is called feeding? The opponent's BP is targeting him, the whole team is playing around the top laner, and they are still targeting him like this, plus it's a disadvantageous matchup; who else could hold up against this?】

【Why does Yuumi seem a bit like a trap? Can the opposing support run like this?】

【Feels like it's Meiko's problem, there's a gap between champion supports! He was a bit invisible when playing against DK last year, and he's still invisible today!】

【Damn, can you not look at even a little bit of disadvantage? Do you really think DRX is a soft persimmon that won't fight back? And we're not even that far in, so eager to settle scores!】

【Can only say, really don't be in a rush, EDG looks like they came to get beaten!】

Fortunately, at this moment, a banner appears at the bottom of the stream, and the chat is suddenly purified by a wave of 【OP】.

"KFC brings you the OP player! Player Beryl, who has led two waves of attacks!" Miller quickly inserts a commercial to change the subject.

"We also see that after these two kills, player Beryl has successfully surpassed the second-place Meiko with 667 assists, reaching the highest assist count in Worlds history!"

Wawa follows up with tacit understanding: "Beryl has reached the top of the assist list with only 4 Worlds experiences; one has to say this player really has something."

The director's banner also displays the top three on the assist list one after another.

Besides the top two support players, the third place is the still-vigorous Faker.

However, just as Wang Duo wants to continue chatting along this topic, he is suddenly attracted by the tense changing situation of the battle again.

"Lux didn't recall! Beryl's attack continues, he's going to the mid lane!"

"But his health is very low this time; is Beryl really not afraid of death? This feels like he'll die if he's touched!"

When Lux left the base to catch the timing difference, his health was not fully restored.

This time he used his face to block the Hookshot with Flash, and Camille, seeing no escape, naturally kicked him with all his might.

Lux's health is only one-third left; going to the mid lane like this looks like pure suicide!

No need for much, a well-equipped Sylas only needs one W-A at most, and it is entirely possible to stomp the mere level-four Lux to death!

But the commentary desk did not realize.

Is there a possibility.

That Beryl is intentionally trying to "go to his death"?

"Hekui, you give up one more wave of minions, one wave at most!" Beryl's voice is extremely firm: "Their jungler cannot afford not to go top, otherwise this Camille can't play at all; wait for the two in the bot lane to have no way to deal with you!"

"Hong Changxian, you also come out to help push, go top after hitting level six, I'll be the bait!"

"Force out his ultimate and Flash; once forced out, this Rift is already ours!"

Beryl's thinking is incomparably clear.

Lux has no kills, so he is only worth three hundred gold.

But if he doesn't recall this time, he directly uses this time to "trick" Sylas into killing him, using his life to trade for Sylas's ultimate and Flash—in the Rift Herald fight less than a minute later, the opponent will have no chips left!

Not to mention, if Sylas really comes to kill him, he might even be traded!

And if Ye Bo doesn't come up, and just watches this Lux who can be stomped to death in one kick and doesn't make a move—then Lux can also come to the mid lane to help force a push, and then take Yone and Viego with him to head to the top lane again!

Sylas is forced to push the lane, and with three people on the opponent's side in the upper half of the map, he cannot follow.

You gank my bot, I'll just give it to you, using three people to hard-trade for your top!

Anyway, whether Varus has one more wave of minions or one less, he cannot reach level six.

But if Camille is blocked again this time, it is very likely that an 8-level vs 6-level situation will occur, and the equipment gap for the Rift Herald fight will be equivalent to being down one person!

It is impossible for EDG's three bot laners to push down the first tower with less than two waves of minions before 8 minutes.

As long as the Rift Herald can be taken, DRX can easily snatch the First Blood Tower!

Therefore, whether Sylas takes the bait or not—this is a brilliant strategy!

Lux appears in the mid lane, swaggering.

"Lux has no Flash," Saint Gun Brother says, though his volume is not loud, his tone remains calm.

"Master Ye, should I come? Or should I go save Gun Brother?" Jiejie is conflicted in the bot lane.

Ye Bo glances at Lux's movements; the intention to lure is not even slightly subtle.

And seeing Viego, who also walked out below, he immediately understands the opponent's intention.

Clearly, whether he goes up or not this time, since Sejuani is in the bot lane and it is difficult to cross the map to the top, it is already very difficult to stop the opponent's subsequent actions.

"Don't come, Jiejie, you just help push in the bot lane, we'll snatch the first tower!"

Having said that.

Sylas resolutely dashes forward with E!

On the other side, Beryl is still instructing: "If he uses E or R to kill me, then blow Flash; if he Flashes and Ws, I can stick to his face and Q him..."

"Here it comes!"

It is exactly the start of the 【Unbound Spirit - Pain Piercing the Heavens】!

Lux does not hesitate in the slightest, throwing her Q forward with a death-defying resolve; Yone reacts even faster, immediately casting E, and Viego is also charging his W.

However.

Just as Sylas raises Viego's blade, a flash of golden light shifts his form, blinking at a bizarre angle—and before that, a chain quietly shoots out from beneath him toward the side, flying toward the Viego on the right!

The point-blank, unavoidable Q Light Binding is dodged by a strange "mid-air lane change."

And as Wang Jian stabs into the ground, blooming with a sky full of black mist, Lux is instantly executed.

But the next moment, everyone widens their eyes, seeing that Sylas's form hasn't even landed before he flies toward Viego, unimpeded!

"Spirit-Folding Flash"!

The Thousand Piercing Daggers is interrupted, and the area in front of Yone's dash is also empty.

Originally, according to the plan, if Sylas initiated at close range, he would inevitably land and eat the full crowd-control chain; no matter what, with three people focusing fire on the field, Sylas would surely fall into a dangerous situation!

But at this moment, the battlefield is separated.

Not only that, because the Light Binding was dodged, Sylas's form did not encounter any obstruction, and he did not take a single crowd-control effect the entire time!

"My god, what kind of play is this! It looks kind of cool!"

"Wait a second, Sylas's damage is very high!"

Sylas lands, E2-A-Q hitting Viego, Electrocute procs, the damage is astonishing!

Viego camped the top lane early; although he didn't lose out in terms of gold, he did lose some experience, though not much. Before eight minutes, or after clearing this wave, he would definitely be able to reach level six.

The original plan was for Lux to Q, Yone to follow up with his Q-tornado, and Viego to walk over and continue the CC with his W.

Facing focused fire, Sylas would likely face a situation of being CC-locked and killed!

But because Sylas changed his position, dodging Lux's Q and using E to interrupt Viego's charging W—at this moment, the opponents actually can't hit Sylas for a moment!

"Don't use your ultimate!!" Beryl shouts urgently to remind them.

If Yone also uses his ultimate this time, unless he can guarantee a 100% kill on Sylas, he would truly be "feeding" a kill, and there is no point in wasting the ultimate's cooldown.

But it's not just that Sylas's damage completely exceeded expectations; more importantly, Yone's ultimate might not even hit!

The key is the R-Flash of Pain Piercing the Heavens!

{Although the Unstoppable effect can force displacement, if you are hit by crowd control, you will still be affected by the CC upon landing.

If there were no mid-air folding flash, even if Sylas used this "Universe-Shifting displacement," he would still be snared upon landing.

Then, if Yone turned his R to throw it out, helping Viego block and following up with W for CC, Sylas would still very likely be CC-locked and killed!

But at this moment, no one can initiate to restrict the opponent.

Yone could of course try to cast his R at maximum range, and there is a chance it would hit—if Zeka were choosing for himself, he might do just that.

But hearing the command, Zeka gritted his teeth and held back.

"Viego essentially ate all of Sylas's skills and was beaten to near-death for nothing!"

"Fortunately, Yone's tornado saved his teammate, but like this, Viego seems to have to recall!"

"What kind of acrobatic performance of shifting and swapping is this trickster Sylas! Pain Piercing the Heavens allowed Sylas to perform a magical displacement, flying back and forth in the sky!"

Wang Duo shouts passionately: "One man guards the pass, ten thousand cannot open it! Master Ye single-handedly held off three people! And even plucked the enemy general's head from the midst of ten thousand troops!"

Beryl's plan has deviated.

From his shocked expression, it is clear that he also didn't expect it could be like this.

In this way, Sylas's health is healthy, the mid-lane wave cannot be pushed, and the near-dead Viego must recall.

The top lane also cannot be forcibly interfered with by two people; they couldn't suppress Camille to death, nor could they force Sejuani to come up.

Fortunately, the core objective seems unaffected.

Because Yone held onto his ultimate, at 8 minutes, DRX still holds the key advantage of one extra ultimate, plus the 2-0 advantage in the top lane, giving them a huge advantage in the Rift Herald team fight.

EDG decisively gives it up.

However, the foreshadowing from the previous wave is revealed.

"Sejuani stayed in the bottom lane for nearly a minute! She made Varus miss two waves of minions, and is currently working with her bottom-lane teammates to quickly push the first tower!"

"Although Aatrox has a huge advantage, you are only one person; there is no reason to dive my Camille! The top tower's health hasn't been worn down too much under Camille's protection!"

"After DRX finished the Herald, they wanted to go to the top lane to contest the first tower... but it seems they aren't as fast as EDG!!"

The LPL commentary desk is in high spirits after the kill from a minute ago, their volume extremely high.

The jungler was forced to recall in the previous wave, and the intended plan to have the top lane coordinate to wear down health and force Sejuani to return top failed, directly leading to a huge disparity in the health of the first towers on both sides!

Sylas also runs directly toward the bottom lane; if anyone dares to come defend, they will face a fierce four-man dive.

In the end, EDG's bottom duo takes the first tower with a huge health advantage and can even turn around to be the first to rotate back to defend the top lane!

"The bottom duo is heading to the top lane to help block the Herald, and the second tower isn't threatened by this Herald either; it doesn't seem like they gained much," CT-ge says hesitantly.

"It's not that they didn't gain much; it's that they lost," the Roaring Emperor, who has been keeping an eye on the gold difference, gives a definitive answer.

"We lost six hundred gold in this exchange; besides the first tower, there is also Lux's head."

The first towers on the top and bottom for both sides are broken simultaneously.

Before 10 minutes, they enter the lane-swap phase.

And Yuumi, after reaching level six, begins to attach herself to the jungler to coordinate the tempo.

Aatrox swaps to the most dangerous bottom lane to face the fattest Sylas, Yone runs to the top lane to split-push against Camille, the ADs of both sides are confronting each other in the mid lane, and the supports are running around everywhere.

However, because the opponent's position is uncertain, the two fattest people in the bottom lane have no reason to make a move.

A brief calm.

11 minutes, the second dragon spawns.

All five gather; Camille and Yone also arrive to participate in the battle, clearly both having the will to fight.

"Due to the economic turnaround in the previous wave, EDG even has a slight advantage now! This team fight is definitely worth taking!" Wawa says confidently.

"The advantage is ours!"

And on the other side, the LCK commentary desk.

"DRX must take this dragon! They cannot accept a delay in the Dragon Soul tempo!" The Roaring Emperor also believes that his side has the advantage.

"In terms of combat power, their mid and bottom are very fat, while our top and jungle are very fat... and both sides have initiation capabilities; it feels like it depends on who can start a good fight!"

"As long as Viego can hit a soul, with Aatrox as a fallback, the advantage in this fight is ours!"

Before the battle, both sides confront each other in the upper and lower river areas.

Both are looking for opportunities.

The advantage of EDG's lineup is that Sejuani can boldly stand in front, and all five people have initiation capabilities, while the key carries, Sylas and Sivir, are very hard to be engaged upon!

And the advantage of DRX's lineup is the double-poke in the bottom lane, and all three in the mid and bottom have initiation and counter-initiation capabilities; if it drags on, they clearly have the advantage.

Sylas takes the opportunity to steal the most useful 【Fatal Tempo】 for the team fight, then has Yuumi switch to him, waiting for the right moment.

But DRX shows extremely strong team synergy.

The five people keep an "ambiguous" positioning at all times, fully utilizing the advantages of the double-poke lineup, slowly pushing the distance to the front of the dragon pit, seemingly gradually occupying favorable terrain.

But in fact, this is intentional under Ye Bo's command.

"Q the dragon!"

Yuumi fires a Prowling Projectile, relying on the extended flight distance of the second stage to disturb the dragon!

This causes the DRX members, who had finally occupied favorable terrain in front of the dragon pit, to suddenly face the pressure of the dragon; they either have to retreat and give up their position, or they have to endure the dragon's attacks!

However, the commander on the other side, Beryl, quickly makes a response.

"Use that one!"

The positioning of both sides shifts again; the DRX members, like a pack of wolves, seem to be setting up a stance to withstand the dragon!

Jiejie, having received the command to "Engage on Aatrox and Viego," suddenly discovers that the opponent has a perfect opportunity because they were disturbed by the dragon.

The golden opportunity for a team fight is fleeting; this is not a moment that can be captured by team coordination, but only by the hunter's instinct of the initiator.

Aatrox is standing in front, the backline is forward, and the opponent's three melee champions are still standing in a row—even if someone uses Flash to dodge, he will definitely be able to hit the ultimate and deal area-of-effect crowd control!

Sejuani charges forward and throws her Glacial Prison, but does not use Flash.

The flight path of Sejuani's single QR is actually not very fast, and it is easy to react to.

Just at this moment.

Yone seems to be waiting for this exact moment; he suddenly exerts force to dash forward, taking the lasso for his teammate with one step, then retracts his blade and turns around instantly!

"Zeka! He used the 'Control Cancellation' operation of Yone's E skill to eat Sejuani's ultimate! Using his body as a shield!"

"Varus counter-initiates with his ultimate to bind Sejuani!" Miller is heartbroken.

"This is actually DRX's trap; they used such a bold maneuver to lure the enemy deep!"

Yone has the worst items; at this point, there is no expectation for him to use ER to deal damage, and using his E skill to block the initiation won't affect much.

More importantly... Varus's counter-initiation 【Chain of Corruption】 hitting Sejuani directly separated the battlefield!

The Chain of Corruption will continue to spread to the surroundings; Camille and Sylas, who were just preparing to enter the fight together, cannot stand there stupidly and eat the CC, so they can only retreat at the first opportunity.

This causes Sejuani's position to be instantly isolated from her teammates!

Sivir activates her ultimate to approach, wanting to give Sejuani a speed boost.

But DRX, how could they easily let go of the pork they have in hand.

Lux follows up with her Q skill for control; the five of them don't chase deep, they just want to execute Sejuani first, and by relying on the numbers advantage and the jungler advantage, they will steadily take this dragon!

Everyone thinks that EDG should only be able to sacrifice Sejuani and give up this dragon; this seems to be the best way to stop the losses...

But also because the opponents are focusing fire on the CC-locked and immobile Sejuani.

Ye Bo also sees an opportunity.

Of course, it couldn't be a head-on charge using Yone's ultimate—not to mention that his position had already been forced back by the withering vines, and the distance simply wasn't enough.

Even if he had used it as a direct counter-attack R just now.

Given the extremely long {cast wind-up} of Yone's ultimate, in the eyes of professional players, it is no different from slow motion.

Without terrain assistance, using it head-on like a fool, and without the spirit form of Yone himself returning—with the reaction speeds of those few opponents, they would have more than enough time to use displacement skills; Sylas would just be delivering himself into the Hukou for nothing!

"Watch my position!"

Racing against time, he only had enough time to say these four words.

This new EDG has come all the way to this point, half a year of time, the tacit understanding cultivated through countless actual battles, and the miracles witnessed with their own eyes countless times.

Although no one knew what Ye Bo wanted to do, everyone immediately understood and moved forward to press the attack again.

"Master Ye, what are you doing!?"

"Ye, what is he doing!!!"

Both commentary desks let out sharp screams at the same time.

And the retreating Sylas did not walk back like his teammates, but instead "fled" the battlefield alone, carrying the cat.

A lateral dash, crossing the corner.

The sound of chains breaking through the air exploded against the rock wall of the Dragon Pit!

At the same time, surging sword Qi spread terrifyingly around his body, and the scarlet sword aura condensed out of thin air like a rainbow piercing the sun—but it was aimed at a void direction that was "crooked to the heavens," a one-hundred-percent whiff!

"Ultimate!!!"

The cat on his shoulder instantly opened the 【Final Chapter of the Grimoire】, also in an extremely inexplicable direction, the musical notes seemingly resonating at the same frequency as the sword Qi!

A shocking scene suddenly appeared.

The moment Sylas slid toward the Dragon Pit along the chains, that Fatal Strike which should have missed actually drifted in parallel with his body—a super-long-range strike of a full three thousand yards, the scarlet sword frame and sword Qi completed their charge in the blind spot of DRX's vision!

As Sylas glided through the air, the shocking sword Qi was already like a rainbow piercing the sky, as if using the air as a starting point for leverage, unstoppably kicking back toward the river and crashing down!

"Gliding Displacement Fatal Strike"!

When the Demon-Sealing sword Qi wrapped the three people and twisted them into the high air, the Final Chapter of the Grimoire, released in advance, had already begun to play the second movement.

When the victims fell to the ground, the third segment of binding notes had turned into invisible shackles, popping out the third chapter of {Binding} that could last for 1. 5 seconds as they landed from the knock-up!

The three melee fighters of DRX fell into a stiffness like marionettes, and what greeted them was a bone-chilling whipping, along with a blood-colored storm of flying wheels and steel legs!

"Holy shit!!!"

"Axi!!!"

"What the f***!!!"

The audience was uniformly resounding with something that had different pronunciations but the same meaning.

(End of this chapter)