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Chapter 177

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The originally successful plan was completely disrupted, and Beryl's expression was clearly somewhat distressed.

He always felt that in these three games, such things seemed to be happening constantly; regardless of the draft or the game content, the opponent always seemed able to find a counter-play point amidst their attacks.

Several times it felt like a ship fighting against sea waves, always on the verge of capsizing, yet it narrowly avoided being overturned!

Of course, this is also the charm and joy of professional competition.

The endless stream of strategies from both sides, and the counter-plays and responses made in the moment based on the opponent's designs, ultimately present infinite possibilities and strategic depth.

Just like the Bard in this game, it was a line of thought formed on the spot after seeing the opponent pick Fiddlesticks.

"Like this. Hong Changxian, you look at your own rhythm first; we'll move later." Beryl commanded the jungler: "I'll go help you check the jungle in a bit."

Originally, they intended to force the bot lane's Flash, let the jungler attempt an attack on the bot lane, gain lane priority, and then find roaming capital for Bard.

But now that Nocturne is already doing the Blue Buff, Viego, on the contrary, has to wait for a respawn before walking to the jungle; in terms of speed, he will clearly fall far behind the opponent and has already lost the initiative.

Both sides returned to laning.

"Coming to the first match point, both sides have pulled out things we haven't seen before!" The casting desk also began to re-analyze this selection from both sides.

"Bard... the last time player Beryl used him in his career was actually two years ago in the S10 season!" Miller was quite shocked listening to the broadcast information coming through his headset.

"And Bard has no record of being picked in this World Championship. This player really has a big heart; standing on the edge of a cliff, he still dares to pull out such an extremely niche choice!"

Compared to the Fiddlesticks mid, the rarity of this Bard is actually even greater, especially in this patch.

"We have seen Master Ye's Fiddlesticks before; if I remember correctly, it was against TES. At that time, it was used to counter Lissandra, which really made all of us eyes-light-up!"

"However, in this game, Master Ye seems a bit different from last time; he is carrying {Yu Zhen}."

The last time he used Fiddlesticks, he carried Comet, and the laning strategy was to play against ranged heroes, relying on the super-long and instant 850-yard E skill to poke.

But in this game, Ye Bo saw it very clearly.

Fiddlesticks, theoretically, extremely counters Akali.

This is not just because the Twilight Shroud cannot avoid the ultimate, but more because although Fiddlesticks' W is not explicitly stated in the text description, it is actually a skill that comes with {True Sight}—which means it can keep Akali continuously {revealed}!

Being able to force a reveal, plus two major controls—one fear and one silence—Akali's operation of wanting to play a dragon-roaming assassination of the backline in a team fight is almost equivalent to a pipe dream!

Coming in to eat a control, then being forcibly revealed, she can only be focused down on the spot.

But these are all roles in team fights, and they are also the tactical purpose of EDG building a lineup around mid-game team fights in this game.

And in the laning phase, as long as Akali doesn't make a huge mistake, with her hit-and-run and the displacement of her E skill to pull away, it is difficult for Fiddlesticks to drain a complete W, so the laning threat is not great.

Since that's the case, carrying {Comet} doesn't have much meaning; it's better to carry Yu Zhen to increase laning fault tolerance... and anti-gank ability.

On the player stage, Zeka bit his lower lip hard.

He is a person with extreme pride; being played like this for two consecutive games is simply indescribable for him!

Just now backstage, his teammates were giving him trust and confidence, and he was also thinking about the journey he had taken to get here.

And originally, Zeka had already thought that the opponent might pick LeBlanc to go head-to-head with him, but they actually picked a Fiddlesticks, leaving him with a breath he couldn't vent for a moment!

Thinking of this, it was as if he wanted to give himself a psychological suggestion.

Akali, who was farming well, suddenly started flashing the team logos of other teams above her head.

"Oh? Zeka is flashing logos here!" Wawa couldn't help but laugh: "He's actually started provoking~"

Above Akali's head, from RNG, to TES, to JDG, to T1.

These are the opponents DRX defeated from the Play-ins, Group Stage, Quarterfinals, and Semifinals respectively.

But just as the fifth emote appeared and the black-and-white border had just emerged, a sudden 【Night Harvest】 slash came, and the emote bubble that took hero damage disappeared instantly!

Immediately after, Fiddlesticks' avatar also started to light up.

Akali also wanted to come up to interrupt Fiddlesticks, but it was clear that her level-two range couldn't Q Fiddlesticks for nothing, so she could only watch helplessly as the opponent pulled back.

And flashed two team logos one after another.

First EDG, then DRX.

Ye Bo didn't specifically change his emote wheel, but before the start of this final, all five EDG members had these two team logos in their emote wheels.

Of course, in Zeka's current state of mind, this was simply a provocation right into his nostrils!

"Ha! Didn't interrupt it~" Miller smiled: "Zeka is so anxious!"

"Feels like he really wants to prove himself, still very unconvinced!"

Wang Duoduo, following the broadcast perspective, noticed the bot lane: "Here, due to the advantage gained by the jungler in the early game, EDG's bot lane is pushing the lane unscrupulously, and Nocturne also takes the opportunity to want to invade Viego's jungle."

"Bard is actually going alone to help detect; it looks like they are going to bump into each other!"

Nocturne, coming to invade the Red, bumps into Bard head-on.

"Jie, do we need to come?" Meiko shouted and asked.

"No need, no need. This Bard learned E at level one, it's useless. You guys just push the lane."

Nocturne entered from the F6 entrance, and seeing that the Red Buff was still safe and sound, he immediately knew that Viego must have gone to the top jungle to start farming after respawning—otherwise, the opponent only has level one now and has no threat.

Kalista and Yuumi were at ease, Yuumi hopped off to auto-attack, cooperating to quickly push the minion wave into the tower.

But that Bard was like a fly; although he only had auto-attacks and clearly had no threat, he just stood by the side and kept attacking, not letting you farm the jungle comfortably.

It made Barrier a bit anxious, so he turned around and threw a Q, wanting to chase Bard.

At this moment, Bard directly cast E downwards to open a door, a fast tunnel, and went straight back to the bot lane.

"Beryl plays so saucy!" Wang Duoduo seemed to have also discovered the stage for Bard in this game.

"This late-pick Bard is really a stroke of genius. EDG doesn't have many instant control skills; facing this Bard will be a bit annoying!"

EDG's lineup actually doesn't lack control; in fact, you could say all five people, including the ADC, each have at least one big control!

But the problem is.

Except for Fiddlesticks' Q skill, everyone else's control has a not-short casting wind-up or preparation time, and they cannot instantly control Bard, who can open a door.

"Nocturne is in our bot jungle; his farming speed was delayed by me for a while." Beryl conveyed the information.

"OK."

Receiving the information, Pyosik immediately had an idea.

Nocturne's farming route is clearly to come into the jungle directly after finishing Blue, obviously not wanting to let Viego come to the bot jungle, forcing you to swap jungles.

Viego also knows he can't go back to his own bot jungle... Since that's the case, then seize this opportunity to have a change of pace!

After finishing Blue, Viego also set off directly, not in a hurry to farm the other jungle camps in his own top Blue jungle.

"Viego walked out of the jungle; should be wanting to go to mid lane?"

In Pyosik's understanding, there should be a vision gap in the mid lane this time, and there will be an opportunity to flank.

But just as Viego had just walked past the corner of the river wall—a withered figure of a scarecrow suddenly screamed in the headset, making the motion of a Q skill!

Pyosik cursed lightly, startled by the scare.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly that it was fake, and his footsteps didn't stop: "Chase a bit, chase a bit, can hit him with a combo!"

Anyway, Viego was originally going to enter the opponent's jungle this time, so ganking on the way, it would be a waste not to.

And in the mid lane laning, Akali was playing exceptionally fiercely.

It might be that she was angered by the logo flash just now, or maybe she wanted to vent the resentment of the first two games.

As long as Fiddlesticks stepped up to start draining W to push the lane, Akali would immediately find an angle to throw her Shuriken Flip—unless Fiddlesticks was willing to self-interrupt W, causing the CD reduction effect to disappear, otherwise he could only take it hard.

Under Akali's such forced trading, Fiddlesticks, whose W drain level hadn't come up in the early game, indeed had some health drained.

But when Ye Bo saw Viego walking out from behind, he didn't panic in the slightest.

Waiting for the opponent to charge W and walk out, he turned his head and threw a precise long-range 【Night Harvest】 slash, using {Silence} to interrupt the charge of Heartbreaker!

Then he turned his head and threw a Q to fear Viego.

{Yu Zhen} added a large amount of dual resistances, directly ignoring Akali behind him, and walked back to the tower in a leisurely stroll.

"So this is the role of carrying Yu Zhen? Fiddlesticks really doesn't fear these two people ganking at all in laning." Miller showed an expression of sudden realization.

"Mainly because Master Ye's E is really accurate! And it's still early game, Fiddlesticks' W level hasn't come up; when the level comes up later, I feel Fiddlesticks can easily guarantee his health status against Akali!"

"Pyosik also doesn't dare to delay any longer, hurry to the top jungle to farm, to avoid his level being pulled too far behind by Nocturne."

But Pyosik missed one hit and clearly didn't believe in evil.

Approaching 4 minutes, Viego, after finishing the opponent's top jungle, came to the back of the mid lane again!

However, it can't really be counted as not believing in evil.

After all, it was a foregone conclusion that he couldn't go to the bot lane in the first wave, and Ornn in the top lane was extremely cowardly due to the disadvantage at the start.

Viego wanted to cause trouble, it seemed he could only gank mid.

Yet, Ye Bo's positioning was truly incomparably arrogant.

However, Yu Zhen Fiddlesticks, facing these two melee heroes, is just a rogue.

Even if Viego really caught him with W, Fiddlesticks could simultaneously throw out Q to trigger Yu Zhen, instantly adding nearly 40 points of dual resistances, tanky as hell!

"If you can't gank that Fiddlesticks, then don't gank," Beryl was bored with laning, switched screens to look at the mid lane.

"Take care of the jungle, don't let Nocturne farm too happily, and try to give more laning pressure in mid; we will start the dragon on time at five minutes!"

"Their lineup relies heavily on ultimates; five minutes is our opportunity!"

Although due to the failure of the level-one design, plus the mid lane attracting too many jungle resources, DRX couldn't find a breakthrough before five minutes.

But Beryl discovered a blind spot.

EDG's mid and jungle are clearly both level-six heroes, and under normal circumstances, a solo lane takes at least five and a half minutes to reach level six.

At five minutes, the gap when the first dragon spawns on time is the weakest time for the opponent's lineup!

The facts were indeed so.

5 minutes, DRX went to start the dragon on time.

EDG decisively chose to give it up, letting the jungler go to the top jungle to swap resources.

It's just that Aatrox was clearly very careful in this game, not giving Nocturne a chance; this hero is indeed very difficult to gank before level six, so after finding no results, he could only go to counter-jungle.

And the five-minute push also made DRX finally find an opportunity for rhythm, and after pushing the bot lane minion wave, both returned to base.

"Beryl really started to part ways with the AD after leaving the base, finally going to run!" Roaring Emperor clearly pinned his hopes on the support.

"But we must also notice that Nocturne is almost level six; EDG might really want to make a move on Deft this time..."

EDG was not without action in the first five minutes.

Nocturne had not performed any ganks, almost as if he had disappeared from the map, letting the opponent's jungler attack their own mid lane—naturally, it was to rush to level six with all his might!

Nocturne's ultimate is what DRX's roaming lineup fears the most.

Whether it's taking advantage of your support roaming to gank bot, or counter-ganking when you gank, it's all extremely critical!

Unsurprisingly, Nocturne, relying on the development of eating an extra half jungle, will only reach level six slightly behind the solo lanes.

"Barrier, once you're six, run straight down," Ye Bo reminded while concentrating on laning.

"Brother Shengqiang, you must be careful of Bard this time; I'm not afraid of him ganking me."

Zeka's Akali can be considered worthy of the name of a master, and the laning pressure is the one that gave the most feeling among the three games.

Of course, there is also the reason that Ye Bo's Fiddlesticks still has a lot of room for improvement.

So despite the hero counter, Ye Bo also needs to concentrate fully on laning, relying on his understanding of Akali to constantly pull the distance of the opponent's Q skill and passive...

At this time, the DRX jungle-support duo had already arrived at the top lane.

Aatrox had been whipping Ornn unilaterally; fortunately, Brother Shengqiang had rich experience in resisting pressure, and his health was kept relatively healthy.

And although Aatrox controlled the minion wave well, Ornn's positioning was extremely steady.

The tri-bush had a control ward to prevent flanking, and his own positioning never crossed the river; it could be said that there didn't seem to be any opportunity.

But just at this moment.

Bard led Viego to the front of their own top lane first tower—then diagonally towards the concave pit above, creating a tunnel in the shadows again!

Ornn could see the position of the opponent's first bush.

But this tunnel was a tunnel below the outer edge of the bush!

The level-one team fight had already shown that as long as you can't see both ends of the tunnel in your vision, then the opponent can't see the secret path created in the shadows.

"Viego and Bard successfully sneaked into the pit!" Roaring Emperor's eyes were full of surprise.

"This is Bard! An attack route that only Bard can develop!"

"Even if the opponent's top laner is careful, he doesn't have that many defensive wards; he can't stop him at all!"

As Bard's most soulful skill, this E skill can be said to be truly difficult to guard against.

Not to mention that all the EDG members didn't know Bard had this kind of route.

Even if they knew, Ornn at most had two ward slots, one real and one fake.

But through this tunnel that can "connect any wall in the canyon," the opponent's attack routes are more than just two!

Aatrox started with QEW through the minions; Ornn clearly already felt something was wrong.

Brother Shengqiang's details were maxed out, holding back the {Unstoppable} of his Bellows Breath, and the moment the Infernal Chains tightened, he used Bellows Breath to offset the control—simultaneously hiding his E forced displacement!

If this were someone else, they might have really been forcibly pulled away by Ornn.

But Kingen's Aatrox, as his most proficient hero, knew the little operations of these old opponents like Ornn too well.

After Aatrox cast W, he moved forward with his sword at the first moment, as if he had guessed the opponent's thoughts, and the moment he popped the ram horn charge, he slashed out a precise diagonal Q2, interrupting it!

Viego and Bard above had already come out; Brother Shengqiang didn't dare to have the slightest hesitation and immediately flashed to run away.

"Push the lane!" Beryl shouted: "Brother Hekui, watch yourself!"

"Jin Jianfu, definitely watch the mid lane, don't let him TP, don't die."

This attack had a foreshadowing that seemed to have been ignored by people, but Beryl had always kept it firmly in mind.

The TP Ornn handed over at level one.

The cooldown of TP is reduced according to level; the TP used at level one has a full 420 seconds, which is a 7-minute CD—it definitely hasn't finished turning yet!

This means that Ornn has no way to return to base to replenish his status and TP back again this time.

Aatrox had been pulling laning pressure to the max, which was waiting for this wave.

Bard and Viego pretended to leave, but in reality, they circled back to the minion wave from where their vision disappeared, entering the "concave pit" position again.

And at the same time.

Nocturne, who was counter-jungling in the bot jungle, had already reached level six!

"Dive EZ! They have no one in the bot jungle!"

【Paranoia】 instantly covered the canyon, Nocturne flew directly towards the isolated EZ at the bot first tower!

Deft watched a ball of ghost shadows rushing towards him and immediately sent a signal: "Bot!"

As soon as EZ finished speaking, his hands were extremely steady, waiting for the moment Nocturne landed, he E+Flashed for a second-stage teleport, flying towards the rear!

But Barrier also reacted extremely quickly, followed with a Flash; although EZ had two stages of displacement, he still limitedly didn't let the chain of the E skill 【Unspeakable Horror】 be broken!

Yuumi and Kalista had already followed up; as long as they could land the fear, EZ clearly couldn't escape death...

But how could DRX let EZ die under the tower.

Just in front of where EZ's second-stage Flash jumped, two cups of "Cappuccino" that had been ground long ago were placed there—Bard's W 【Caretaker's Shrine】!

EZ drank a cup upon landing to gain a burst of movement speed, pulled forward and drank another, and with two cups of coffee in his stomach, smoke started coming from the soles of his feet.

He forcibly ran out and broke Nocturne's E skill!

At the same time.

The three people in the top lane who received the confirmed information immediately took action.

Bard, from the wall of the concave pit, aimed at a point under the defensive tower, raised the golden horn in his hand—creating a kill tunnel leading to under the tower!

This wave, DRX had already thought of the intention to kill this Ornn.

If Nocturne was in the top jungle, then EZ could also survive under the tower; Bard's roaming this time would at least not lose, and could even continue to enter the top jungle to cooperate with Viego to disgust Nocturne.

And as long as the bot lane didn't die, EDG's only solution to break the game was Fiddlesticks' TP!

After all, before 14 minutes, you can only TP to your own defensive tower; Akali couldn't follow, and Ye Bo naturally couldn't give the opponent a chance to follow with Shuriken Flip.

Therefore, Beryl shouted the reminder that Akali must watch the mid lane.

"In an instant, both sides suddenly broke out in battle on three lanes at the same time!"

"EZ escaped narrowly, but Ornn..."

"Mid lane! Akali's damage is very high, directly starting with the ultimate, sticking to Fiddlesticks' face to make trouble!"

The casting desk was overwhelmed.

The broadcast director was also a bit flustered, hurriedly switching to the Erlang Shen perspective, wanting the audience to see the outbreak of this three-lane conflict at the same time.

Brother Shengqiang felt something was wrong the moment the tunnel appeared on his face, but his E skill, which lasted 14 seconds, only had two seconds left, so he could only call the ram from afar first!

But Bard landed and pinned Ornn with a Q against the wall, Viego followed up with W control to force Ornn to ram, helping Aatrox slash the full three knives wantonly.

Ornn's health was not full to begin with, clearly he was hard to survive.

"Ornn fell! Beautiful!!" Roaring Emperor was hoarse.

"DRX's joint front handled it perfectly and appropriately, and Akali in the mid lane also performed perfectly, creating pres..." CT brother's cheers stopped abruptly.

"Ah?!"

"Ah???"

The two at the LCK casting desk looked at each other.

It was at the next moment, after the Summoner's Rift resounded with the notification of Ornn being killed, another notification of death sounded.

Nocturne's Paranoia can last for 6 seconds; at this time, everyone's screen in DRX was still pitch black.

No one could see what happened in the mid lane, they could only turn their heads together to look at the computer screen of the person in the middle.

"Brother Jianyou? How did you get..." Pyosik couldn't help but ask.

Zeka's emotions were clearly up, and he couldn't hold back his tone, shouting subconsciously.

"I don't know!!"

Because the broadcast director had just turned on the Erlang Shen perspective, everyone in the OB perspective actually saw how the mid lane died... but everyone, like the person involved, was a bit confused!

"This... this is something that can be counter-killed? I feel like Fiddlesticks was going to be solo-killed this time!" CT brother's voice was still somewhat unbelievable.

The broadcast director, standing in the true God's perspective, pulled up the replay, specifically selecting Akali's perspective, so that everyone could see the clues.

Clearly, it was not that easy for Akali to restrict Fiddlesticks.

Zeka understood the advantages and disadvantages between the two heroes very well, and also because Ye Bo knew too well how to lane against Akali.

To win against the opponent, one could only find an opportunity to start with R, and go all-in with one wave.

So when both sides returned to base for the first time, Akali directly bought the highest damage Alternator—Fiddlesticks, on the contrary, first bought the {Kindlegem} on the {Everfrost} synthesis route.

At that time, the barrage had impatient trolls yin-yanging: "Ye has finally become like Big B!"

But this wave showed Ye Bo's understanding of these two heroes.

Akali started with R but didn't cast E, immediately entered the mist to trick Fiddlesticks into using W, then used the back-kick E to pull away from the range of the reveal, and then re-approached with E2 to output.

The whole set of operation ideas was clear, and the details were impeccable.

And Zeka, of course, also wanted to seek a solo kill, so he deliberately started with an auto-attack in the Twilight Shroud to expose his position, wanting to trick Fiddlesticks into using Q to fear him to trigger {Yu Zhen}... as long as he pulled away from Yu Zhen, there was a possibility of a solo kill!

But Ye Bo just didn't cast Q, just accurately cast E to silence Akali the moment she showed her head.

Then, instead of retreating, he advanced, rushing into the minion pile, waiting for his next W to refresh.

{As long as Fiddlesticks finishes casting W, the CD will be reduced by 60%, plus cooldown reduction, it only has a 3-second CD}

Akali's silence effect ended, and she wanted to come forward to make up damage, but Fiddlesticks' W had already refreshed, and he drained W in the minion pile again!

The key health of the Kindlegem just happened to make Fiddlesticks not trigger Yu Zhen, taking the full set of damage, but his health was still not in the execution range!

This time Akali had no extra means to pull away, knowing she couldn't let Fiddlesticks drain this W fully, so she could only decisively cast R2 to pierce and pull away, while Fiddlesticks remained on the spot with less than 200 health.

Zeka marveled in his heart at how the opponent could hold back control so well, and was so confident in his calculation of damage to this extent!

However, Fiddlesticks definitely had to return to base this time—with this health, he couldn't dare to drain minions in front of Akali, who still had more than half health, and waiting for Akali's next set of skills, E-Flash-E might be able to solo kill him.

However, what Zeka didn't realize was.

Why did Ye Bo hold back Q so dead?

In fact, if he had cast Q directly when Akali showed her head for the second time, and then used the 2.5 seconds of Yu Zhen to hold on and drain the full 2 seconds of W, he could also have forced Akali to use R2 to escape, and his own health could at least have been kept above half.

What Ye Bo was thinking of, naturally, was also the opportunity for a kill!

And just when Akali R2 pierced back and returned to her own minion wave.

Fiddlesticks... actually spread his arms directly and jumped his ultimate on the spot towards the rear!

Akali, however, didn't notice it at all.

"Nocturne! It's Nocturne's ultimate!" CT realized belatedly and exclaimed in surprise.

"Akali's R2 piercing distance just happened to enter the restricted vision range; she couldn't see Fiddlesticks, it was actually at the edge of vision—jumping the ultimate face-to-face!"

Roaring Emperor's tone was solemn: "More importantly, this face-to-face ultimate actually triggered a fear effect!"

"This is a 'remote combo' between EDG's mid and jungle across thousands of miles!"

One of the trigger conditions for Fiddlesticks' Q {Fear} is: "The opponent has no vision of Fiddlesticks".

And Nocturne's ultimate, just happens to be "depriving vision"!

The two naturally have a wonderful cooperation.

As for the damage, there is no need to worry at all.

Although Fiddlesticks bought a Kindlegem and an Amplifying Tome, the panel base damage of the level-one ultimate alone is as high as 750 points!

Plus Fiddlesticks deliberately held back Q, just to wait for the fear effect to be triggered first, so that the Q skill could deal double percentage damage.

Plus the drain of W, finally Akali, who wanted to counter-attack like a dog jumping over a wall, could only struggle in her death throes.

【Don't feed the trash!】

【This wave, this wave is called Fiddle-Dream Space!】

【Another solo kill! How many times is it? This BO5, it seems the mid lane is really being solo-killed in fancy ways!】

【No, we must be rigorous, this wave Nocturne definitely has a big assist, it doesn't count as a solo kill! It doesn't count as a solo kill!】

【Success is also mid lane, failure is also mid lane; without this mid lane, DRX couldn't have walked here. Who could have thought that the mid lane could be so sluggish in the final?】

【Still sluggish? This wave of operation is really okay. How many mid laners have been collected in this World Championship, isn't it enough to prove it? Can only say it's the same for whoever comes!】

However, although he completed the solo kill, Ye Bo didn't relax.

Ye Bo had anticipated Bard's movements, but still underestimated the opponent's organizational attack ability.

This mobilization and layout of attacking on three lanes at the same time, the swiftness of the attack, is no less than the attack rhythm that EDG is good at!

And Ye Bo also clearly felt that this kind of tactical mobilization is different from his own style.

After all, he is a laning style, or breaking the face through points by linking with the jungler, but because he always has to take care of laning, it is impossible to distribute all his energy to global control.

Especially when encountering someone who is good at laning, he has to put most of his attention on laning—this is the other side of the original "Emperor's Understanding".

But support players, especially support players who don't focus on laning, naturally have a lot of free time to carry out these thoughts and games!

"EDG made a small profit this wave..." Miller looked at the situation, a burst of lingering fear.

"Have to say, DRX's attack this wave was quite sharp; if the mid laner hadn't died, Ornn would have missed a lot of experience without TP this wave! That would be a pure loss!"

"And EZ can still steal development in the bot lane; DRX completely calculated the various results of the three-lane attack... but only missed that the mid lane would be killed again!"

Nocturne has no Flash and no R, and the bot lane duo hasn't reached level six, so there is no long-range means to keep people.

Deft can still stand at a long distance and Q, and can even absorb some experience; also as the lane being sacrificed, the loss was suppressed to the minimum.

Because Ornn has no TP to return to the lane, he will inevitably lose a lot.

It can be said that if it weren't for the accident in the mid lane, DRX would definitely have been able to make a full profit this wave!

Of course, Ye Bo also enjoyed eating plating in the mid lane and successfully forced out Akali's TP.

And after Bard finished making trouble in the top lane, he still didn't rush to return to the bot lane, just first picked up the passive "notes" on the map...

DRX can also be considered to have made up for some unexpected gains.

Because Fiddlesticks used his ultimate at 6 minutes, originally DRX wanted to "trick" Nocturne into flying his ultimate with the bot lane failing, to ensure that Nocturne's ultimate could not be turned around at 8 minutes, but at this time there was an extra Fiddlesticks.

Originally it was just Nocturne missing his ultimate, now Fiddlesticks also has no ultimate, so the Rift Herald can naturally be taken steadily.

However, EDG didn't prepare to take this Herald team fight either.

This is the same line of thought as the last game—using the direct abandonment of the Herald to forcibly break the bot first tower, to liberate Yuumi at the fastest speed, which is definitely more valuable to EDG than grabbing the first tower.

The only pity is that because DRX's design for the top lane was very successful this time, Fiddlesticks couldn't TP to save the top lane like in the last game, letting the opponent grind away too much health from the first tower.

The top first tower only needs one head from the Herald to be broken; EDG's bot lane was a step slower and was eventually taken by DRX.

The economic gap between the two sides returned to the same level.

And from the lane transition period, DRX finally showed its true offensive firepower.

Especially the roaming mechanism of the hero Bard started to be exerted to the extreme, bringing great trouble to the opponent!

Bard's attack route is too weird, almost more difficult to guard against than Kayn, and he can also take teammates to attack together; EDG's vision pressure and defensive pressure were suddenly maxed out!

Yuumi's vision problem was magnified again, but fortunately, there was Fiddlesticks in this game, and the scarecrow with a very fast CD made up for a lot of the lack of vision, not letting the defensive line be quickly found a breakthrough.

But the attacks initiated by the jungle-support lane transition were still wave after wave, achieving results on the side lanes respectively.

"Bard transports three people into the jungle, launching a surprise attack on Kalista under the mid tower!"

"At the same time, Aatrox in the bot lane actually wants to dive Ornn directly... It's Bard using a long-range ultimate in the mid lane to pin the bot defensive tower with his ultimate! DRX is attacking mid and bot at the same time again!"

"Fortunately, Viper used both summoner spells this wave to counter-attack under the tower with operation; we discovered earlier that Kalista was leveling QE and not WR, the damage is very high, and he forcibly traded with Viego!"

"However, Aatrox has already completed the kill in the bot lane..."

Nocturne has actually been maneuvering in the top jungle, wanting to see where Bard comes out from.

But Nocturne's level-one ultimate flight distance in the early game is really too short, level-one R is barely one and a half screens.

If he can't accurately detect Bard's position, it's easy to be too late to take off.

But seeing that the mid lane was too late to rescue, Nocturne decisively made trouble for the mid laner who was transitioning to the top lane!

"EDG's mid and jungle launched an attack again, the target is still Akali!"

"Nocturne walked out, although Akali used Twilight Shroud to cover her figure, she was drained out by Fiddlesticks, then instantly followed by a fear, Nocturne chased up at high speed and followed up with a fear effect!"

"Turtle, this combo really seems to have a point!"

Fiddlesticks and Nocturne also have a magical link.

The passive effect of Nocturne's E skill is: {When moving towards a target that is 'feared', gain 90% movement speed bonus}.

And this fear effect, it didn't say it must be triggered by Nocturne himself.

This means that even if Fiddlesticks doesn't use the two's double ultimate combo, as long as he can fear first, Nocturne can quickly stick to him and follow up with the second fear, and the opponent can't escape at all!

"Barrier, you guys dismantle the top first tower, I'll go guard mid!"

Fiddlesticks used the TP saved from the last wave to go back to guard the mid first tower, while DRX, because Akali's TP hadn't turned around yet, had a vacancy in the top lane for a moment.

Nocturne cooperated with Yuumi, and the two forcibly dismantled the top first tower when no one was defending.

But at the same time, the two who finished the kill in the mid lane from DRX also immediately turned to the bot lane.

Opening a door in the jungle, they quickly traveled to the bot lane, cooperating with Aatrox to quickly dismantle EDG's bot first tower.

Not only that, because the main force was in the bot jungle, DRX also logically took the second dragon.

"Although the score fell into a stalemate for a moment, both sides showed amazing tactical literacy! The wave-after-wave offense and defense made people overwhelmed!" Wang Duoduo excitedly raised his peak.

"This is the intensity that the final should have!"

From the perspective of a bystander, this high-intensity head-to-head battle is undoubtedly pleasing to the eye, as if watching who can't hold on first; if one wave doesn't keep up with the rhythm, the situation will be pulled apart.

But Ye Bo, however, faintly saw some hidden dangers.

Their lineup is mainly for 5v5 front-line team fights, and the real rhythm power point is actually relying on the mid and jungle duo.

But the attack frequency of EDG's mid and jungle duo is clearly more dependent on the ultimate.

Really talking about this kind of multi-lane mutual attack, it simply can't compare to Bard, who has already spread out his vision advantage, and can walk wantonly in the jungle with small skills!

If this continues, it is highly probable that they will inevitably be found more opportunities, first be pulled apart in the economic gap, thereby affecting the decisive team fight.

Ye Bo is thinking about how to restrict Bard.

He dragged on the mini-map, looking at the half-jungle where Bard disappeared again, thinking about the way to break the game, thinking about how to hold down this Bard's movement...

And just at this moment.

Ye Bo suddenly saw that under the fog of war, something suddenly "disappeared".

"??"

"Could it be..."

(End of chapter)

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