Chapter 201: A Sky-High Kill Beyond Imagination! The Lightning Seven-Whip Strike

"The Rat has returned to the bottom lane to lane, and thanks to the long-range advantage of Mystic Shot, Ezreal hasn't even missed many minions!"

"The good news is that Jayce can still use Teleport to return to lane, and since the kill went to the jungler, the deficit is barely manageable."

"But it seems he still wants to make a play!"

Because he originally wanted to make a move on the bottom lane, Tian had leveled his E skill at level two, which is not efficient for clearing jungle camps.

Upon discovering the unexpected change in the mid lane and seeing Sylas burn his Flash, he simply headed straight to the mid lane.

Once a champion like Elise is picked, it is clear she cannot afford to just farm against the opposing jungler.

And based on the "either 2 or 3" gank logic for jungle pathing, Elise shouldn't be attempting a gank at this timing; plus, having just killed Jayce, Ye Bo didn't have much preparation.

Of course, it was also because a level 2 Elise had no possibility of killing Sylas.

Tian just circled behind to get in his face, holding his E skill without using it to force Sylas into a position where he couldn't proactively use his own E to dash.

As long as Sylas held onto his E skill, there was no reason for Elise's E to land.

But because of this, Sylas took some damage, which could be considered a forced effort to maintain Jayce's laning advantage in the mid lane.

Elise wasn't satisfied after ganking mid; she continued toward the top lane, similarly forcing some damage onto the opposing laner, which was also a response to the Viego's level-one design.

"My god, Tian is for real, I'm dying!" the big streamer Doinb feigned emotion in his stream for the sake of the narrative.

Beside him, the number one fan of the monkey, the champion jungler without a champion skin, Tian's former substitute Xinyi, also analyzed: "But like this, unless the top and mid can really gain an advantage on their own... otherwise it doesn't feel very profitable."

"By exposing his position like this, Brother's bottom lane will have a hard time; the Viego's position is unknown."

The director's camera cut to the bottom lane.

Thinking back to the World Championship two months ago, these same four IDs in the bottom lane faced each other in the group stage, and that TES game even featured Draven.

And that game, known as "the most filling episode," saw TES lose 2-15 and get taken down by DRX in just over twenty minutes!

To be fair, JackeyLove is not convinced.

After all, even though they were crushed in the first game, didn't they win one back later after losing to Vietnam and confirming they couldn't advance?

Even though everyone said at the time that it was because the rankings were already set and it was a game that didn't affect the results at all, and DRX was intentionally hiding things—but that game was the key battle that established Top Esports as the "Ultimate Top Nine"!

At least they won one game against the runner-up; that is the most valuable "Top Nine" status!

So at the very least, when JackeyLove and Mark lane against Deft and Beryl, they are not intimidated by their opponents at all.

Especially this game.

The opponents actually brought out something as strange as a support Twitch.

But once they started laning for real.

JackeyLove immediately began to feel the disgusting nature of this Twitch.

Draven was just farming normally.

But just as the axe flew toward the minion wave, Twitch suddenly threw a W 【Venom Cask】 toward the landing spot of the axe!

Twitch's W is an instant-effect area slow; not only does Draven have to activate W to gain speed to catch the axe, but he also "actively" eats the full poison gas!

Twitch's E skill damage is actually quite absurd; if he can stack the passive fully, a level-one E deals nearly 150 damage, along with the passive's six-second true damage over time.

If they really traded that hard, Draven truly couldn't handle it.

And Beryl is cunning; he only strikes when Draven's axe flies toward the minion wave—this way, even if he doesn't hit Draven, he can poison all six minions with the W area, forcibly controlling the minion wave!

To break this move, it's actually very simple.

Just don't pick up the axe.

But Draven's entire kit relies on the axes from his Q skill.

Without an axe in hand, this champion's auto-attack ability might not even be as good as an AD Ziggs.

And in terms of economy, dropping an axe doesn't just interrupt the double-stacking of Draven's passive; it's not as simple as losing 1+2 stacks.

Dropping one axe means that during the 12-second cooldown, even if you only attack once every 2 seconds, the lost stacks start at 6!

From any angle, it is almost unacceptable.

The cooldowns of Twitch's W and Draven's Q happen to be exactly the same!

After being disgusted twice while trying to pick up his axes, JackeyLove had no choice but to become Yang Guo, choosing to drop axes to ensure he could stay in lane.

Because he was in the slow zone, Ezreal's skills would also be easier to hit.

Being continuously poked like this would only be more dangerous.

And Beryl clearly has studied playing against Draven well—as long as he wins the race to the wave, he can easily break Draven's fragile "dual-axe balance."

As long as the V5 bottom lane pushes the wave into the defensive tower, Draven will enter a brief vacuum period for the wave, causing the duration of the two axes to naturally expire, leading to only one axe when returning to lane.

Then, facing the poison fog blockade with an equal cooldown, he enters a cycle of dropping an axe for every one he spins.

"I originally thought support Twitch was just for fun, but looking at this laning, it seems there's really something to it?" Jide was a bit surprised.

"It's mainly for laning against Draven, and it just so happens that the TES support picked first, giving them the combo advantage," Guan Zeyuan commented sharply.

At this moment, the problem with Ashe was also exposed.

Ashe support truly has almost no natural enemies in this version, and it is a pick Beryl is extremely proficient with, so it was very reasonable for TES to grab it first.

Even if it doesn't pair that well with Draven, at the very least it's a double-marksman setup, and the laning ability is still there.

But who would have thought it would be a support Twitch!

As a fellow marksman champion, Ashe support does not have an advantage in pushing the wave.

Most importantly, Ashe does not have the ability to help Draven force a fight or lock someone down, posing no threat to that Twitch who hides in the back and throws W!

Of course, Beryl himself chose Twitch precisely because he saw it was Ashe.

The one-armed Draven, who always only has a single axe, not only stacks his passive slowly, but his control over lane priority has also always been a step behind.

The V5 bottom lane, utilizing the lane priority they seized, set up vision in Elise's bottom jungle, helping Viego consolidate his jungle advantage while also building a wall to prevent ganks for the bottom lane.

3 minutes and 50 seconds.

The V5 bottom lane pushed the wave in, gaining the first opportunity to recall.

"Elise wants to launch another attack on Sylas, but Ye Bo is very steady in lane; there's no opportunity if he doesn't proactively use E against Jayce..."

"But Twitch didn't head down after leaving base!"

As soon as Twitch recalled, the members of TES instantly became alert.

It must be said that support Twitch is like having a "hidden" passive skill—as long as he doesn't appear on the map, single-lane heroes will always feel like he is right next to them!

And Elise, at this four-minute mark, only has a mere 16 jungle creep kills, including one Scuttle Crab.

Viego, however, has a full 24 creep kills!

But in reality, if you look at the experience bars of both junglers from the spectator's perspective, you would find that the level gap between the two junglers is not as large as imagined.

This is mainly because Elise inevitably leeches some minion experience during ganks, and there is also some resource compensation from the jungle egg.

"Everyone be careful, Twitch hasn't shown his head yet," Tian reminded them at the right time.

Generally speaking, supports, especially these marksman-style laning supports, won't roam early or even at all during the early game.

But Twitch is clearly an exception!

And at this moment.

The level four Viego is already heading straight toward the Raptors.

That is exactly the direction Elise headed after her failed gank in the mid lane!

Because the Raptors were cleared by Viego at level one and were also the first camp to respawn in Elise's jungle, V5 had complete knowledge of the respawn time!

At 4 minutes and 18 seconds, the Raptors respawned, and Elise started clearing them immediately.

But just as she started, Twitch and Viego walked out from below!

Although Elise's development is not as good as Viego's, relying on the champion's early-game combat power, calling Jayce to play a 2v2 mid-jungle fight would certainly still have a chance—the problem is there's an extra Twitch!

4 minutes is exactly the vacuum period for vision, and Elise hasn't even recalled yet.

Viego appeared right against the wall along with Twitch.

Facing the slow from the poison fog and watching the charged Heartbreaker coming, Elise could only decisively burn her Flash, handing over the half-cleared Raptors!

Tian only felt stifled playing this game!

Jayce can rely on his long-range advantage to still have the initiative while laning against Sylas.

But the disadvantage in the jungle is being widened step by step.

Once the mid-jungle confrontation falls behind, small-scale skirmishes will only collapse completely, which is definitely bad news for the TES lineup!

Tian knows he must find an opportunity to break the deadlock.

"Twitch is here... Jackey, you guys push the bottom lane, I'm coming down directly!"

"Breath, Xiaohu, you guys play cautiously; Twitch might not leave this time, I'm going bottom to dive Ezreal!"

Tian knows the opponent's line of thinking.

Beryl is simply thinking of coming to disrupt the jungler's rhythm; this way, Elise will be too busy trying to catch up on farm and will lose the threat to the bottom lane, while simultaneously relieving pressure on his own mid and top lanes.

In a sense, messing with the jungler is messing with the entire opposing team.

But Tian is determined to do the exact opposite!

He is convinced that since Twitch headed straight for the top half of the map after leaving base, he couldn't just be content with annoying him; perhaps he would even gank on the way.

The opponent must think that Elise will recall after losing her jungle, and then, by timing Elise's return to lane, Twitch would return to defend the bottom lane...

Tian believes he can seize this time window!

When the bottom lane returned to lane, the wave had already reset; Deft was alone in the bottom lane, so naturally, he couldn't push the wave.

The late-arriving Draven and Ashe quickly pushed the wave, while Deft just stood in the back using Mystic Shot to farm from a distance.

Elise traveled through the jungle and arrived outside the tri-bush.

She was detailed enough not to enter directly, in case there was a ward defending it.

She was waiting.

Almost at the very next moment, just behind the top lane Weapon, a wretched Rat indeed appeared!

Can't defend against it, simply can't defend against it.

As a hero without any hard crowd control, Rat support—or even the Rat jungle that was popular before—is viable precisely because this hero's gank ability is too shameless.

Similarly, the Widow, who is considered the hardest to defend against, relies on her {Stealth} ability to establish a foothold in Summoner's Rift.

But at least she has to reach level six, and before level six, one could say she has almost zero gank ability!

The Rat is just a Widow who can go invisible at level one.

Facing a minion wave frozen in the middle, the Weapon's positioning was already wretched enough, but he isn't a hero like Jayce who can farm from a distance.

Facing the Rat circling from the minion brush to his rear, and the Crocodile dashing into his face with a second-stage E, Breath chose to activate Counter Strike, then leaped to the face of the Rat above to stun the opponent.

But the Rat immediately dropped a W on the spot; the landing Weapon took the slow, and in coordination with the Crocodile dashing through the minion wave with a second-stage E, he pulled out a red-fury bite!

Fortunately, the Spider's previous gank had created some laning advantages for the Weapon, so the Weapon's health remained very healthy.

Breath gritted his teeth and walked back under the tower through the damage of the two, saving his Flash, but it was clear he would be forced to use TP.

However, Xiao Tian in the bottom lane saw this and his face was already filled with surprise!

He knew his "variation" had succeeded.

Although the Weapon was forced to use TP, for the top lane still in the laning phase, it wasn't a very big loss.

And this choice by the Rat seemed subtle—helping the top lane force a TP difference, providing a layer of "anti-tower dive insurance" for the subsequent solo laning of the bottom lane EZ.

But because of the Spider Queen's spiritual variation route, even if V5 were decisive to the extreme and let the Crocodile TP down immediately to protect EZ, the Crocodile would still suffer a huge loss!

After all, support minion farming triggers a penalty, and the Weapon could TP back out immediately, making it a wasted gank.

If the Crocodile didn't TP down, as long as TES's bottom lane drove EZ away, their own bottom lane could also take two plating stacks plus an experience advantage.

It can be said that this was a response that guaranteed no losses!

The minion wave had already been pushed into the tower.

The Spider also activated a scanner and walked into the tri-brush; there was indeed a vision ward inside, proving that the previous pause was wise.

But EZ still hadn't left.

"He seems to be getting greedy!?"

"Dive him, it's worth it even if we trade kills for Draven!"

"Come! Get him!"

Perhaps seeing that the Spider hadn't returned to base to replenish items, and relying on having both summoner spells.

EZ couldn't bear to leave this minion wave under the tower.

Because of the concern about the Crocodile's TP, the Spider walked out to block the retreat and acted directly, using a long-range QA in human form to tank the tower!

EZ shivered under the tower, and the Spider walked up to his face before throwing out the unavoidable Cocoon; Draven and Ashe immediately followed up to attack.

The Spider, who hadn't replenished items and was only level three, truly had no damage at this moment; she was just there to be a tower-tanking tool.

EZ activated Barrier to hold on, and once free from the spider silk, he jumped backward under the tower using Arcane Shift.

When the Spider took the third tower shot, she immediately suspended herself in the air to avoid the tower damage, then dropped down instantly to pounce on EZ's face and bite.

But just at this moment, 【Hallowed Mist】 suddenly spread out from behind!

"!?"

"Holy crap!"

For the members of TES, this was a dilemma of whether to advance or retreat!

Because they were chasing EZ, all three were now deep under the tower; Ashe, who was rotating the tanking, would die after at most three pre-warmed tower shots.

More crucially, the Spider, who had no Flash and had E'd into his face, was almost certainly dead facing the Viego at such close range!

At least one person had to die here!

At the critical moment, Top Esports' absolute core and key shot-caller JackeyLove shouted: "Don't care, don't care! Kill him, kill him!"

Draven directly E-Flashed to open his axes, almost charging into EZ's face.

Viego, who hadn't released his W, grabbed Draven at point-blank range.

But Deft, at this moment, displayed his seasoned experience.

Because he was slowed by Draven's E, even if Viego helped him control him for a moment, if he used his Flash, he might still be chased down and slowed to death by Ashe's follow-up Flash.

EZ simply resigned himself to his fate, turned around and Flashed into the tower to output damage onto Draven, trapping the battle under the tower!

"Draven should be able to take down EZ first!"

"But... but how does it feel like Viego is about to kill everyone!!"

The Spider only had three bars of health, and there was still an Ashe behind tanking the tower.

Although Xun's original brain was lacking in terms of the big picture, it didn't affect his muscle memory for battle reactions.

Although he stunned Draven with W, his Q skill, Blade of the Ruined King, pierced through both of them and he chose to stab the Spider to death first, then picked up the soul and turned to attack Draven.

Mark's Ashe had already tanked twice and couldn't tank anymore; facing the EZ who wanted to finish him off, he directly Flashed out of the tower, a rather delicate play.

But this also shifted the aggro onto Draven.

When EZ fell, the first 200% pre-warmed damage tower shot had already hit, and two more shots looked like they would kill Draven!

The Spider body possessed by Viego just took one bite at Draven, then with extreme confidence directly E'd 【Rappel】 to ascend into the air, turning to chase the fleeing Ashe.

A laser shot chasing out of the tower finished off Draven.

But the landed Viego-Spider seemed to have already opened up distance from Ashe.

Yet he continued to chase because the second wave of minions was arriving from behind!

The Viego-Spider's figure leaped high forward, simultaneously dropping Smite in the air, launching a "double pounce" of "Q-Smite-Q double displacement" in mid-air!

Utilizing the {mechanism where Spider-form Q does not enter cooldown when the target dies}, he continuously launched two 615-yard Q 【Venomous Bite】 pounces forward, biting into Ashe!

【Triple Kill!】

"Although Draven got the kill, Viego picked up a triple kill!"

"And at this time, Draven didn't have many stacks; the single axe in the laning phase became a foreshadowing, so the bounty here actually isn't much!"

"Not only that... the dragon is about to spawn!"

"How does it feel like this tower dive by TES was a total loss, like a wrong decision; it would have been better not to dive..."

The commentary desk was also praising this witty move by Viego.

The real point of this wave was that Viego seemed to have guessed the Spider's intention; after finishing the counter-jungle in the top half, he also walked straight to the bottom lane from his own jungle!

The two's movements were almost mirror images!

The so-called variation was actually a symphonic variation.

Of course, even if the Spider hadn't come, Viego's bottom red buff had already respawned, so it wouldn't have affected anything.

It's just that BeryL believed the opponent would come.

Because he knew that Xiao Tian was a jungler who loved to play variations; this had been evident since level two.

And the live chat obviously had all watched the first week's Hero Microphone and were very clear about the inside story.

【This tower dive is so on-brand, I can already guess there was a "Come, get him!" voice in the comms】

【So envious that Director Xun has two brains, it's just that neither of them is the original one ()】

【Wrong! This is a King Ghidorah-type jungler, the head on the far right is Xun!】

【Whether he has a brain is one thing, just tell me if these muscles work!】

【Wait, did I see that wrong? Xiaohu playing Jayce can actually be out-farmed by Sylas? Is this the full-body laning ability of Master Ye after being unleashed?】

【Without Wei, Hu can't hold on either; relying on heaven to eat has no future】

The situation turned around in an instant.

Clearly, the Rat's choice to go to the top lane just now had deep meaning.

For one, it was indeed to harass the jungler.

Secondly, it was mainly to help the top laner gain a laning or TP advantage.

If the Crocodile could secure a TP, the AD would have the final insurance, and the Rat could roam even more unscrupulously.

Thirdly, it was to gamble on whether the opponent would dive the tower.

And the time they finished killing the bottom lane was exactly when the first dragon spawned!

Having reached level five, Viego went to start it alone, although starting the dragon alone in the current version is a bit painful—but anyway, no one could come to stop him.

The director's view switched to the mid lane at this time.

Although his minion count was falling behind, at least on the surface, Jayce had always been slightly suppressing Sylas.

After Sylas reached level six, the "style suddenly changed."

Objectively analyzing, just from the laning before level six, Jayce is indeed worthy of being a counter to Sylas.

Besides the most important long-range vs. short-range advantage, Jayce's early burst is no lower than Sylas's; if he forcibly E's up to trade health and gets hit by Jayce's full combo, it's hard to gain a health lead.

And Jayce has the acceleration gate and the double speed boost from switching weapons, so it's not easy to hit him with a naked Abduct.

Even if he is hit by E, he has the hammer-form E to knock Sylas back and away, then chase and counter-attack!

Oh, and also—the ultimate feels like it's useless.

At first glance, it can be said to be a comprehensive counter.

But, it's different after level six.

Who said Jayce's ultimate is useless?

The fact is exactly the opposite!

At least at the "laning" level.

Jayce's ultimate is not only not useless against Sylas, but it can actually be called one of the strongest "laning ultimates"!

This is simply because it is the most unique "transformation-type skill."

At the same time, it is the most "special" transformation skill among all transformation skills!

{The transformation skills Sylas steals are all fixed forms, unlike the Ruined King, whose possession of a body changes based on the form of the opponent who died.

Among them, stealing heroes like Elise or Nidalee results in turning into their "melee forms."

Only turning into Jayce is a fixed transformation into his ranged cannon form.

For all transformation skills, Sylas can freely use them for a full 5 minutes, possesses an independent set of skills, and can switch back at any time.

However, the reason Jayce is strong is because the two have a marvelous synergy.

When Sylas transforms into cannon-form Jayce, his basic attacks can actually trigger the passive "Ranged: Petricite Burst" on their own!

You must know that at least half of Sylas's early-game damage relies on the Petricite Burst from his 4-skill passive, which is also the foundation of Sylas's extremely high execution threshold.

A single Petricite Burst at level 1 with no items is a full 100 points of damage.

If it were Sylas in his base form, he would need to E into the opponent's face and not be kited away to have a chance to land all four stacks of Petricite Burst.

This is actually quite difficult.

But by transforming into cannon-form Jayce, he can extremely easily use ranged basic attacks to trigger the full passive damage!

To put it plainly.

Sylas transformed into cannon-form Jayce is stronger than Jayce's own cannon form.

And it is more than just a little stronger.

As for why Ye Bo discovered this marvelous synergy, it is mainly thanks to him practicing Jayce recently.

And Sylas's "Level 7 Ability."

Perhaps this is the uniqueness of Sylas; compared to other heroes, he actually has an extra special level 7 ability: "Self-taught association of mastered heroes and potential synergy with Sylas."

And it is very obvious.

The "two Jayces" in the mid lane at this moment have quite a difference in mastery.

"Oh! Master Ye's cannon shot is so accurate!"

"In comparison, Xiaohu's cannon is indeed a bit off..."

"Xiaohu doesn't have Teleport this time, he needs to be careful about trading health. Right now he has no advantage in lane and can't push the wave; he can't voluntarily recall, he can only wait for his respawned teammates to come to the mid lane to help clear the wave."

Xiaohu is extremely focused at this moment, with a faint sense of nervousness.

Because he seems to have sensed killing intent.

Looking at his Flash, which will be up in a dozen seconds, he knows Sylas's Flash is half a minute slower than his own; as long as he waits for his Flash to come up, he should be safe.

Furthermore, he also noticed that the opponent's damage is not quite right. Even though he is an AD hero, he actually cannot out-trade the opponent in basic attacks!

Xiaohu gives up on his thoughts, only wanting to stabilize the lane and try to clear the minions so he can quickly recall.

But just as he spots a gap in Jayce's positioning.

Sylas suddenly erupts!

A QE accelerated Shock Blast, seemingly aimed at the backline minions, actually kills the backline minions to clear the path while also "hitting the cow across the mountain" to blast Jayce on the side!

The next moment, Sylas reverts to his base form.

The instant acceleration from the gate combined with E Abduct, he rushes forward almost to point-blank range!

Xiaohu reacts extremely quickly, placing a gate at his feet and turning to run away with the speed boost.

But Jayce's passive only has a short 0. 5-second speed boost, and Sylas also has the acceleration gate.

Facing the slowing pressure of Sylas's Q skill, Jayce is currently unable to create distance at all, and is even being pulled in rapidly!

Seeing that he has entered the range of Kingslayer, Jayce immediately turns around and uses E to knock him back.

But Sylas uses E almost simultaneously!

One knockback, one pull-in.

His figure instead charges directly into close range!

Even at this moment, Xiaohu does not feel a crisis.

Jayce is already close to walking back under the tower, and his health is still at least two-thirds; how could he possibly die?

Until that ridiculously fast whip-chain, which looked almost like an afterimage, lashed onto Jayce, and Jayce was whipped around in place!

Those who didn't know would think this Jayce's skin had been bleached!

"What kind of damage is that!!!"

"No! So fast! So fast!!"

"What is this, I'm going to use the Seven-Fold Lightning Whip!"

When Sylas's actions end, Jayce's health bar evaporates at an incomprehensible speed, and he collapses under the tower, twitching.

Everyone is stunned.

As everyone knows, Jayce has a basic keyboard-smashing combo: the 3 max-attack-speed hits from his cannon-form W 【Hyper Charge】, then switching to hammer form to jump into the face and smash three times.

This play by Sylas is similar in effect.

The biggest difference is.

Every one of Sylas's attacks is accompanied by the passive 【Petricite Burst】.

Not 3 times of Petricite Burst, but a full 7 times!

But strangely, Petricite Burst should only be able to store 3 stacks at most; how could he use it 7 times?

This involves another marvelous synergy between Jayce and Sylas—because Jayce's transformation is an "independent state," the 3 stacks of Petricite Burst stored by the EQW skills are "retained independently!"

That is to say, when Sylas transforms back to his base form and then QE rushes forward.

The status bar shows {2+3} stacks of Petricite Burst.

It is precisely this marvelous synergy, superimposed with the attack speed of Hyper Charge, that allows Sylas to unleash a terrifying burst of 7 instant passives that is basically impossible to achieve with other heroes.

"EQWREQEW Lightning Seven Whips"!

【You might not believe me when I say this, but he whipped me 7 times in 1 second!!】

【Oh my, that's a manual Phantom Dancer, what kind of Demacia Master Yi is this?】

【Jayce the Councilor? Cotton Councilor!】

【Damn brothers, League of Legends seems to really have a spinning top!】

【Don't say it, the more I look at the Top Esports team logo, the more it looks like a spinning top. Why don't they change their name to the Spinning Top Team? Whoever comes is a spinning top!】

【That's just unfairly blackening my Top Esports brother. Is Hu, who was just beaten by Ye Wusong last year, acting up again? Look at how he got whipped into the air!】

"Another solo kill in the mid lane! V5 has created a small climax in five minutes!" Guan Zeyuan shouted excitedly.

"Xiaohu has recalled and bought Mercury's Treads."

"The good news is that Draven is very fed, so TES still has something to rely on," Jiejie added.

Cat Emperor couldn't help but tease: "Oh? Isn't it time for my favorite 'Believe in Brother' time again~"

TES indeed has no choice but to start believing in JKL time.

There is no other way; Elise has been messed up by V5's jungle and support for several waves since the start, Jayce has been solo-killed and has already started buying the survival three-piece set, and the top lane Jax cannot stand out in the early game.

Draven, who has already cashed in once, is at least in a winning lane.

Unfortunately, as soon as Twitch returns to the lane, Draven enters the disgusting predicament again, unable to exert the suppression Draven should have, and even has to be timid because he has no Flash.

The 8-minute Rift Herald team fight.

Facing Renekton and the 4-0 Ruined King, and then looking at their own 0-2 Jayce with Tear of the Goddess + Mercury's Treads.

TES chooses to give up, quietly heading to the bottom lane to protect Draven while eating plating, and also looking for opportunities to see if there is a chance to tower dive now that Twitch has left.

V5 indeed shook Twitch to the Rift Herald team fight to avoid variables—because this Herald is very important to them.

And the Teleport that Renekton saved earlier became the key.

As soon as Elise walked out, Renekton immediately used Teleport to the bottom lane to protect.

Confirming that the three opponents are in the bottom lane, the three V5 members start the Herald, while simultaneously mobilizing Ezreal to recall on the spot and turn to the top lane to start the lane-swapping period early.

TES also reacts quickly, immediately dispatching the support to recall and go to the lane to support and prevent the first tower from falling too early.

But the combat power of V5's top and jungle is too strong!

Even though they were delayed a little, they still successfully pushed down the top lane's first tower just past 10 minutes.

During this time, there was almost another solo kill in the mid lane; Sylas, who had stolen Ashe's ultimate, used an aerial E displacement to "fly and draw the bow," hitting Jayce with the hidden arrow and stunning him!

Fortunately, Xiaohu was steady to an exaggerated degree.

After Mercury's Treads, the components he didn't build for Eclipse were actually aimed at {Hexdrinker}!

Under the protection of high magic resistance, Jayce barely managed to use Flash into the tower to save his life.

Looking at it this way, this equipment choice was really correct!

But obviously, this equipment choice is not without a price.

The direct impact is that TES, who were originally prepared to follow up in the second dragon team fight, found that because Jayce's combat power at this time was too weak, one cannon shot felt like a small water gun.

For the sake of safety, they still chose to avoid the fight.

V5 gets the second small dragon and officially enters the lane-swapping period.

And entering the lane-swapping period.

Twitch finally starts the game.

A team can have at most five Control Wards, and it will also cause a not-so-small burden on the team's economy—not to mention that Twitch cannot be completely guarded against by Control Wards!

The same tactic: Twitch stealths and turns on the scanner to scout the path, taking the Ruined King all over the map to catch people.

Top Esports has almost centered most of its vision resources around Draven, carrying out the gold content of "Absolute Core."

But this also leads to others suffering one after another.

First, the Weapon was caught, then Jayce, who had nearly been solo-killed again, was flanked and finished off, followed immediately by Elise being spotted in the jungle.

Of course, TES also actively launched counterattacks.

Except for the occasional stroke of luck where they camped a Twitch walking head-on into them and managed to eat a few bites of fragile rat meat.

They were mainly very eager to target Sylas.

But Ye Bo was extremely cunning; first, he reacted with lightning speed to dodge a Crystal Arrow shot from the shadows, and then, facing the three people coming to surround him, he directly countered by stealing Elise's ultimate.

With a Stopwatch in hand and Elise's Rappel available, he forced the opponents to retreat without a drop of blood being shed.

"Sylas is pulling and attracting too much firepower on the side lane, and the advances of Twitch and Viego are going extremely smoothly; this way, Weapon's split-pushing can't even get started!"

"The gold difference between the two sides is already approaching 4k; the only thing to be thankful for is that Draven hasn't died and has already accumulated a massive amount of stacks—if he can cash them out, there's still a chance!"

"It's not easy for JackeyLove to be this steady in this game."

JackeyLove was enduring it very uncomfortably, wanting to go up and taunt several times.

But it was mainly due to the characteristics of the hero Draven.

When he has his grand passive on him, he will play extremely steadily no matter what, but once he cashes out the gold or dies once, then it's game on.

Otherwise, even if surrounded by a sea of Control Wards, he might still give an opening!

As for TES, they originally wanted to fight for the second dragon, but to wait for Jayce to scale, they forced themselves to wait until the third dragon.

At 15 minutes, Jayce finally touched his Mythic item.

The TES troops also began to press into the dragon pit.

"V5's team composition has very strong front-line fighting ability; as long as they can start a good team fight, it's still very easy to win," Doinb analyzed with a straight face.

"But Top Esports' composition actually has an advantage too, which is Weapon; as long as they can drag it out, Weapon will be very threatening!"

"However, for Top Esports to win this team fight, Elise's current combat power is not proportional to Viego's; they have to burst Viego down, they have to wait for the other side to get anxious and come up to start the fight... wait, hold on!!!"

The incessantly chattering Doinb suddenly seemed to have discovered something.

Then he became extremely noisy, screaming and pointing at the screen while shouting.

"It's over! Ye made a huge, huge, huge, huge, huge mistake this time!!"

Beside him, Xinyi looked puzzled, watching the calm match on screen, not knowing what the other meant.

"He stole Elise's ultimate when he was defending against the tower dive last time, but he forgot to use it!"

"My god, what is the use of Elise's ultimate? At most, it just hangs you up to fly for 2 seconds, it has absolutely no combat power; this time Sylas is essentially without an ultimate!"

After hearing this, Xinyi also suddenly realized that Sylas still had Elise's ultimate hanging on him: "Is he worried that if the dragon spawns, there won't be enough time to swap? Getting caught by the opponent's cooldowns?"

Doinb still insisted this was Ye Bo's mistake: "Even if there's no time to swap, he still has to swap! At worst, just kite and wait a bit."

"Oh, or maybe Ashe's ultimate cooldown hasn't come back up yet?"

This game, the TES composition was specifically designed to counter Sylas.

A closer look reveals that there simply isn't that kind of super powerful ultimate.

The strongest is Ashe, and that's just an unstable single-target crowd control.

And looking at the composition, what Sylas should be stealing most is Ashe or Weapon.

V5's composition is good at everything; they have poke when they need poke, combat power when they need combat power, and crowd control when they need crowd control, and the power curve is also very smooth—the only thing is that they lack some engage ability, especially for fighting this kind of positional warfare.

Ye Bo, of course, also knew this.

But on one hand, it was indeed because Ashe's ultimate was still on cooldown.

On the other hand, who said Elise's ultimate was useless?

"Holy Gun God! I'm going to stealth and place a ward; see if there's a chance to flank?"

Beryl prepared to venture alone into the jungle to place a flank ward for Renekton; this was also the simplest way to start a team fight.

However, given Twitch's experience of being bumped into head-on in the jungle several times, the opponent likely had plenty of Control Wards for defense, and he might just end up feeding.

"I'll engage!"

"You guys stand in position; I can reach Draven."

Ye Bo briefly described the crazy idea that had just appeared in his mind.

"Holy crap! Is that really possible!?" Beryl spat out the most articulate sentence after hearing it.

"It should be."

The TES group marched in formation, the five of them standing relatively close together, letting Weapon stand in the front row.

Facing V5's double-marksman + Renekton + Viego, Weapon indeed had a certain ability to counter, so he wasn't afraid of taking the first wave of damage.

And this time, Top Esports' goal was very simple and clear—they had to get the kill for Draven!

Even if it meant a 1-for-5 trade.

Anyway, there was no Baron, and the other side was full of shutdown gold and bounties.

As long as Draven could cash out, it was very likely they could take off in one go!

Stepping into the river, they could see the V5 group standing in front of the dragon pit, and their personnel seemed quite complete.

Ashe shot an arrow to confirm the vicinity was safe, and they scanned the whole way to confirm there were no flank wards before the five of them slowly moved forward to advance.

But just as the Weapon in the front stepped into the river bush.

The murderous intent lurking in the shadows suddenly erupted.

From the wall bank ahead—a chain suddenly flew out, aiming straight for his face!

The Weapon in the front row was hit by the chain and knocked up.

After the brief knock-up, he landed.

Weapon immediately activated Counter Strike, Jayce had already transformed and placed a gate to prepare to escape, and Elise also subconsciously threw out Cocoon forward!

But nothing happened.

They did not see the incoming Sylas.

These control chains, which should have been fatal, now felt like heavy punches hitting the void, all landing on thin air.

"... e might have interrupted his own E! To bait out skills!"

Xiaohu, with his ample experience, thought of a possibility.

"Retreat first, retreat first! Kite a bit first!"

Because they were thinking of using crowd control to burst Sylas down, several key abilities were rushed out; the few people in front of the dragon pit on the other side were also clearly moving to catch up, as if wanting to seize this opportunity.

Fortunately, both sides maintained their distance, and the V5 side looked like they couldn't keep anyone.

But it was just as the five members of TES were retreating back toward that narrow jungle entrance.

A truly terrifying scene appeared.

The five of them felt their hair stand on end almost simultaneously!

They nearly threw their mice away!

At the jungle pass.

A strand of spider silk suddenly descended from the air, carrying Sylas as he inexplicably descended from the sky—landing right on Draven, who was at the back of the crowd!

【Everfrost】's extreme cold was unleashed and solidified at this moment, the ice shards pinning the TES formation, which was retreating in unison, like flies in amber.

Because they had walked into the narrow entrance, the TES group was already standing clustered together.

The erupting pillar of frost caused a 1. -second root, directly freezing the five people's feet so they couldn't move!

"Holy crap!!!"

V5 showed their fangs at this moment.

Sylas violently stabbed Draven in the face with Kingslayer.

The golden wave of Precision Barrage and the full-fire Plague Rat poison mist simultaneously hit the five people standing there in a daze.

Viego directly flashed in and smashed down Heartbreaker!

【Heartbreaker】 automatically targets the lowest-health enemy and knocks back all other units in the area.

Draven was knocked down almost instantly, and at the same time, his four teammates were blasted back in the opposite direction!

The big crocodile ran head-on into them and activated Death Roll!

"Oh my god!!!" the big streamer shouted, spreading his arms exaggeratedly.

"What was that!"

Key control skills like Counter Strike and Cocoon had already been baited out earlier; Draven fell, and the rest of the group took the full force of the terrifying AOE.

What awaited the remaining members of Top Esports was a crushing defeat like a tiger entering a flock of sheep!

The three commentators on the stage couldn't even bother to banter, their eyes wide as copper bells.

"Draven is down! Weapon is also being chased down; Top Esports is about to be wiped out with a zero-for-five trade!"

"Master Ye is simply a genius! Who knew Elise's ultimate could be played like this!!"

"But why..."

Because it was the spectator view, Sylas's entire movement was clear at a glance.

Everyone felt both shocked and confused.

What was shocking was that even watching from the spectator view, no one had thought he would operate like that a second ago!

What was confusing was, couldn't the other side see it?

The director soon provided the answer.

In the replay, they pulled up the first-person perspective of the victim, Draven.

"Can't see! Really can't see!!"

"I think I understand; it must be that if Elise's E is used outside of vision, the opponent cannot see it!"

That chain aimed at Weapon for positioning, Sylas did not interrupt it in any way.

In fact, at that moment, Sylas had already flown over.

And the reason why no warning could be seen from the TES perspective—is because that Sylas flew over from the "sky."

To be precise.

It was before the 【Abduct】 landed.

He used 【Hijack - Spider Form】 to transform, then simultaneously pressed 【Rappel】 to ascend. A parallel displacement initiated from ten thousand meters in the air!

The Rappel ascended from "out of vision" behind a wall; the animation prompt on the ground was invisible to the opponent, and naturally, there were no signs whatsoever.

The true crux of the matter, the coldest of cold knowledge is: {A spider in the state of taking off with Rappel actually uses the "spider's current body" as the center of a circle, which serves as the selectable landing point.

It is precisely because of this mechanism that this maneuver has meaning—otherwise, because the spider takes off from a thousand miles away, even if the person flies over, they could only land in the face of the weapon, rather than being able to land out of thin air behind Draven.

But this, should have been a piece of cold knowledge almost impossible to discover.

Because.

The spider itself has no ability to displace "after taking off."

This remains a method that only Sylas, and no one else, can achieve!

The original 1050-yard diameter landing range of Rappel was shifted forward by 850 yards due to the displacement of Abduct, and the center of the circle changed accordingly.

Sylas.

In this instant, crossed an entire river!

From the red side's wall——————flying to the front of the blue zone's gate!

A range exceeding 1900 yards!

Throughout the entire process, there was no vision visible, and not a single shred of a sign, including sound effects or visuals.

In the true sense.

An unimaginable "Shadow Flying Infiltration · Poison Spider Trickery"!

【Hello? There is a failed man in the jungle! I'm not kidding!!】

【Too exaggerated, he flew across an entire river and then some!? The spider never imagined in its life that it could fly like this!】

【Can only say this is a god! The true God of Sylas!!!】

【I was originally a devout follower of the Zoe cult, but looking at it this way, it'll be hard to wrap up this year without getting a Sylas skin.】

【That foot-slipping imprisoned Poppy is still here pretending to be one of our Zoe cultists!】

【Laughing to death, the monkey just said on the stream a second ago that the spider's ultimate was useless, and the True Lord of Qingyuan Miaodao immediately came to deliver a magical treasure. Is this useless? This is too useful!】

【There is a gap even among champion mid-laners, what is there to discuss about game understanding with an unemployed person~】

The stacks Draven had painstakingly accumulated for over ten minutes dropped by 75% in one go, returning to square one in a single wave.

Coupled with a zero-for-five trade, the gold gap exploded rapidly!

The already collapsing situation had all hope completely torn away.

What followed was basically "mouse catching cat" time.

The mouse was elusive, searching for opportunities all over the map, while Sylas was invincible in the side lanes, creating solo kills one after another, drawing waves of screams and frenzy from the scene.

The frontal battlefield crumbled at the slightest touch!

There was the dual-poke combination of Ezreal + Hijack version Jayce.

The lineup originally envisioned by TES was almost replicated on the V5 side—and isn't this just another form of Hijack?

Finally, with the blessing of the Baron buff, V5 pushed in two waves and smashed the TES base to pieces!

(End of chapter)