Chapter 216: One with the Bear, the Dance of Annie and Bear! Fighting to Sustain the Fight! 【

Five and a half minutes in, due to the intense skirmishes and frequent rotations between the mid and jungle, both mid-laners are only now preparing to hit level six.

And because the Monkey King's team-fight performance relies on level six, even though V5 has a laning advantage in the bottom lane, they haven't proactively started the Dragon.

They are simply using their lane priority to feed back into jungle invasions.

"V5's bottom lane is laning really well this game. It's rare to see BLG's bottom lane get suppressed this badly!"

Remember looked at the bottom lane screen, feeling somewhat surprised.

Among the various statistics from the Spring Split, BLG's bottom lane and JDG's bottom lane were considered the two strongest laning duos.

This is also why no one else from BLG made it into the All-Pro Third Team, while their bottom lane did.

"Looking at it this way, it feels like everyone still has a bit of a stereotype about V5's bottom lane. Deft and Beryl were previously thought to be just team-fight and roaming-style players, but that was just to meet the team's needs!"

Guan Zeyuan analyzed it articulately: "Just like Master Ye now, as long as the team needs it, he can also use all kinds of utility heroes!"

"This proves that the reason V5 was able to perform so outstandingly in the regular season, and even break records, is definitely not just relying on any single point!"

Uzi, however, noticed the laning details in the bottom lane and muttered to himself.

"How come it feels like... Yuumi is a laning hero now?"

Due to the removal of the core design {Adaptive Force} in the playoff patch rework, most people subconsciously assumed she was "trash."

She was only picked when paired with Zeri.

But watching the laning situation in the bottom lane, Uzi gradually sensed something strange.

Tristana is also one of his signature heroes, and he understands the hero's strengths well; in fact, they lie in her "fighting" ability.

Because she lacks long-range poke, she isn't actually that strong in terms of pure laning.

And V5's intent in picking Tristana is also very obvious—they want to use her to support the strength of the top and bottom side lanes and play for jungle control.

Under normal circumstances, even if Varus had a bad start, relying on his formidable poke ability and top-tier laning, plus Renata's Q to interrupt Tristana's jump...

Yet, the current laning situation in the bottom lane—Tristana is almost always at full health!

Elk's skill accuracy isn't low, but Tristana's health has remained very healthy, causing Graves to find no opportunities even when he wants to gank.

This is the ability of the new Yuumi.

Uzi's feeling was correct.

The new Yuumi has changed from a hero that meant "giving up laning" and waiting to switch to a big brother in the mid-game, which was an unhealthy curve.

She has transformed into a top-tier "laning attribute" support!

The reason lies in the W skill, which had {Adaptive Force} removed.

The previously percentage-based Adaptive Force was almost useless in the early game.

But now, W not only increases Yuumi's own {healing and shield strength} with every level, but also provides the attached best friend with an {on-hit lifesteal} effect.

At level 2, W is equivalent to Yuumi helping the ADC buy a 【Vampiric Scepter】!

After the reworked E skill changed from {heal} to {shield}, it was already not as easy to use—healing is a stable benefit, while a shield, if it fails to block a skill, is equivalent to a "wasted skill."

On the contrary, a Yuumi that "maxes W" can provide the ADC with powerful laning sustain!

Compared to maxing Q for poke or maxing E for trading.

Maxing W is clearly the most effective when playing against heroes like Varus, whose main laning method is poke!

This is the difference in patch interpretation and hero understanding.

"Monkey King still wants to continue invading the jungle!" Guan Zeyuan showed off his understanding: "Everyone should have noticed that V5 has been very keen on invading the jungle since reaching the semi-finals. This is an adaptation made according to the latest 13.5 patch!"

"Just like the pre-match speculation, the 13.5 patch jungle is indeed starting to return to an environment of 'heavy confrontation'!"

"This might lead to a further acceleration of the tempo, with small-scale skirmishes breaking out more frequently in the early game. This point is especially evident in the semi-finals of the playoffs, including over in the LCK..."

"It shows that the top teams' understanding of the patch is likely converging!"

Down to a hero, a piece of equipment, or even a small rune, every team's coaching staff and players will definitely have completely different interpretations and ideas for use.

Just like Yuumi and Annie.

But regarding the direction of the major patch environment, generally speaking, "top teams" won't have too much of a gap.

Just like the 13.5 jungle changes, which were once again earth-shattering.

The jungle item buff that only applied to {your own jungle} → {all map jungle camps} now have a 20% damage increase!

Just this one change brought back the "jungle invasion" content that had almost disappeared, making the environment completely different from the regular season stage!

LCK's Hanwha can be called the "biggest victim."

If this change had come two patches earlier, Hanwha, with jungle invasion expert Canyon, might have defeated T1 and DK in the regular season, possessed a higher ranking, and wouldn't have run into Gen. G so early in the playoffs and dropped to the losers' bracket.

Besides this, the gold for all jungle camps has been increased.

At the same time, the ratio of {jungle hero shared lane experience} has been slashed by 35%, and it won't recover until after 14 minutes!

Several combined changes linked together.

It's not hard to see that the designers intend to increase confrontation in the jungle!

The two junglers in this game happen to be jungle-carry-leaning heroes who aren't easy to gank with in the early game, so the best way to limit each other is naturally jungle contention.

And the first element of jungle contention is the support speed of the three lanes.

Understanding this, it's not hard to see the logic behind V5's lineup this game.

"Graves' route... Xiao Wei wants to change the tempo!" Remember noticed Graves' movement.

"He wants to use the opening in his own bottom jungle to trade for an attack on the mid lane, but it feels hard to kill Annie!"

"Previously, the Monkey King constantly invaded the jungle, which already made Graves very uncomfortable. Xun's jungle camp planning is to keep control of his own bottom half. If Graves doesn't get a return, the deficit will expand significantly!"

Guan Zeyuan helped explain: "But if Graves can force Annie to recall first, maybe he could go with Lissandra to counter-gank the Monkey King?"

"What is ON doing!"

Wei knew that this skirmish in the bottom jungle was unavoidable.

His original intention was the same as the god's-eye view speculation: coordinate with Lissandra to first chunk Annie's health, then counter-gank the jungle to catch the Monkey King, and finally take advantage of the momentum to invade the opponent's jungle!

It's just that at this moment, ON in the bottom lane had a clever idea.

Watching the bottom lane push the wave quickly, clearly also intending to support the bottom half.

Renata couldn't get the lane anyway, so she simply moved out early.

Tristana and Yuumi didn't rush, using Explosive Charge to push the wave into the tower before following, forcing the opposing ADC into a dilemma between the wave and supporting.

But under the god's-eye view.

Renata walked to the corner, actually directly popped the Blast Cone to bounce into the river, and then walked toward the Dragon pit...

"Renata Hexflash over the wall, just brushing past the Monkey King on the other side!"

"ON is so bold, he wants to play stylishly!"

"In this case, BLG doesn't seem to just want to play a mid-lane wave; they really want to make a move on the mid lane!"

ON, who was at WBG last year, always gave the impression of being a mechanical kid; for example, he liked to bring {Hexflash} on everything.

It's just that this "mechanical play" doesn't entirely refer to those flashy plays.

Instead, there are many behavioral operations that make people "unable to understand."

And this Renata Hexflash infiltration, going over the wall from the Dragon pit, was actually just one wall away from the Monkey King!

At the same time, the position where she bounced off the wall with the Blast Cone was almost brushing past the V5 bottom duo who were rushing over.

Looking from the god's-eye view, it was almost like Renata passed through the gaps of the three V5 members—if one thing went wrong, she might have been surrounded!

This is a bit like Beryl's occasional flashes of inspiration, except ON thinks less, but is bolder!

However, this move actually had some thought behind it.

He grasped the hero characteristic of Yuumi, who cannot move early like other supports, so he could constantly keep track of the bottom lane's movements.

At the same time, although the vision of the river mid-brush was occupied by V5, there were still BLG defensive wards at the jungle entrance, and the Monkey King's position had already been detected.

This would be a clever time difference.

Because the jungler was preparing to enter the opponent's jungle, and Ye Bo was also quickly pushing the wave in the mid lane...

But Lissandra suddenly moved forward and threw out her Ice Claw!

And at the next moment—from the shadows behind, a 【Handshake】 also suddenly shot out, locking onto Annie!

The revealed Renata flashed an emote: "Gotcha!"

One wasn't enough, she had to flash another "Thumbs Up."

"Renata initiates, Lissandra flies into her face!"

"Annie counter-attacks with Tibbers, this way she can cancel the control with Lissandra's ultimate... Hmm? No control cancel!"

Guan Zeyuan shouted anxiously: "Bad! That was a mistake by Ye! The bear didn't have the passive!"

Because Renata's Q only has {Stun}, Annie could cast skills immediately, which is why she could release her ultimate.

But Annie had exactly 3 stacks of her passive on her just now.

Even Guan Zeyuan knew that as long as she pressed E and R at the same time, Annie could instantly trigger the 【Pyromania】 passive, making the ultimate stun and achieving the effect of canceling control with Lissandra's ultimate.

But Ye Bo didn't do that.

Graves 【Quickdraw】 dashed into her face, skillfully aiming at the stunned Annie, firing shotgun shells wildly...

But the scene that followed made everyone stare in shock.

It was as if they had seen some bizarre behavior!

"The bear? The bear seems to be pathing!?"

"The bear is blocking the bullets!!"

"My god, all three of Graves' auto-attacks were blocked! He can't hit Annie; the two are completely overlapped!"

{While Annie is in a hard CC state like a stun, she can still use Alt+R to control Tibbers}

And.

When Tibbers enters a "frenzied" state, he enters a "ghost state" that ignores collision volume—meaning he can completely overlap with Annie!

As a true loli, Annie has one of the smallest hero models in the League.

She can easily be completely covered and protected by Tibbers' body!

Coupled with the special mechanism of Graves' auto-attacks, even if he uses the {Target Champions Only} setting, he still inevitably has his bullets blocked!

This is why Ye Bo looked so unconcerned.

The moment Annie broke free from the CC, she moved forward to breathe fire, counter-attacking with W 【Incinerate】 accompanied by the Pyromania stun...

And Tibbers, who had already ended his "frenzied state," entered frenzy again!

{Tibbers enters a "frenzied" state when: summoned, when Annie stuns an enemy, and when Annie dies}

Frenzied Tibbers—will gain triple attack speed and double movement speed!

Ye Bo didn't stack the passive at the first moment precisely for this.

The enraged Tibbers received the command and chased after the Lissandra in his face, maintaining the double frenzy buff for a total of six seconds, supporting the terrifying flaming bear paws as they swung wildly!

A pure one-second-three-paws!

However, after all, there was an extra person, and Annie was destined to be unable to kill Lissandra.

Ye Bo just controlled Tibbers to disperse the battlefield, while he himself retreated quickly.

"My god, Annie's bear damage is so high! Lissandra is about to die!"

Guan Zeyuan, who didn't realize it was because the bear had triggered the double frenzy buff, was still shocked by Annie's damage.

The continuously burning aura, Annie's full set of skills, plus the additionally buffed Tibbers, were already exceeding the tolerance range of Lissandra, who had actively jumped into her face.

Level 1 Tibbers has nearly 1500 health; even if Graves uses Smite, it's just a drop in the bucket!

Yagao, watching the bear that he simply couldn't shake off, could only flash backward.

But ON, who had just finished flashing two emotes, was unwilling to give up; he only had eyes for Annie.

"Kill, kill, kill!"

Renata applied {Ignite} and gave Graves a W buff.

Renata's passive skill has a percentage damage increase effect, plus the damage supplement from Ignite, making Annie's health look precarious.

Wei, seeing this, also immediately chased hard.

After all, his mid-laner was not only beaten to a pulp but also had his flash forced out for nothing; naturally, he couldn't let Annie walk away for free.

Yet Annie, at the first moment, seemed to want to save her flash, stubbornly walking forward, taking two shots from Graves, and then 【Quickdraw】 forward for another shot!

Annie, seeing her health drop to an extremely dangerous level, calculated Graves' extremely easy-to-calculate {attack interval}, raised her gun barrel again, and only then immediately flashed into the tower.

And Wei, who sensed the opportunity, reacted with lightning speed.

Almost simultaneously, he followed with a flash and a shot into the tower!

But the next moment... A giant flaming bear instantly stood horizontally in front of Graves, "One with the Bear" with Annie!

Two flashes, the same scene played out again.

But this time it felt even more desperate!

"My god! The Tibbers that teleported back again blocked a fatal bullet for Annie!!"

"Graves cannot kill Annie, and he himself was beaten to a pulp by the defense tower... and the Monkey King has already circled around to catch up, flashing and jumping to knock Lissandra, who has no skills left, to death!"

"The bottom duo is also rushing here early!"

Beryl, who had just walked into the jungle, turned on his sweeper and found something wrong.

There was no defensive ward at the blue zone entrance?

If Renata was really going to support the jungle, it would be impossible not to place vision at this entrance; otherwise, the ADC who finished clearing the wave wouldn't dare to walk here—this doesn't fit warding logic!

Glancing at the opponent's Summoner Spell slot and seeing Hexflash, Beryl immediately vaguely guessed something.

He quickly informed Ye Bo and then walked toward the mid lane early.

So, in fact.

Annie's position was very clever.

As long as she could release her ultimate at the first moment, holding her flash, it was impossible for her to die; dragging it out a little would be enough to wait for the team's support to arrive!

That ON, who was still proudly flashing emotes.

Clearly didn't distinguish who was the hunter!

"It's over! Graves was also lured into the pit by Annie!"

"Renata's flash isn't up yet, they're all going to die this wave, Tristana is about to jump!"

"BLG seems to be facing total annihilation this wave!"

【Holy crap Tibbers! He will always protect little Annie well!】

【OFF! Rhythm Master! Like flashing emotes?】

【My evaluation is that it's a clumsy imitation of the original doctor!】

【Guan Dog actually thought that Master Ye would make a mistake on an operation he knew? What does he know about strategy!】

【I've discovered that Master Ye is so proficient at playing heroes with summons... As expected of the true human-form Azir! Professional clone commander!】

【Master Ye's Annie, he is just operating; even stupid heroes can be operated!】

The bullet comments were a carnival.

On the other side, the T1 members were also somewhat surprised.

"Can Annie be played like this..." Keria, who had recently been playing support Annie, had eyes full of surprise.

With his flexible mind, he immediately thought about whether he could also use this "shifting" trick to help the ADC block skills?

Of course.

There was one more person who only felt a sense of familiarity rushing toward him.

Li Li Xianghe saw that "shifting" trick of Annie, but in his mind appeared the scene of the opponent's LeBlanc solo-killing him in the group stage last year with "Mimic."

Similar mechanisms, different application methods and meanings.

Recalling that scene again, Li Li Xianghe's fighting spirit seemed exceptionally surging, and he felt his palms were a bit hot.

He couldn't wait to sit on the opposite side immediately.

"Three people died, the Dragon is lost, the bottom jungle is lost... BLG lost a fortune this wave!"

"Master Ye's bear control is really something! He can even recall early, and then let the bear help push the wave, saving a TP!"

Tibbers doesn't occupy the background CD reset while alive, which is different from other summons, so naturally, he must be used to the fullest.

BLG's bottom lane laning instantly entered hell mode, which also made Graves, who was already not easy to gank with, even worse off.

Chen Zebin in the top lane watched and just felt anxious.

But it was useless.

No matter how anxious Jax was, he just couldn't do anything about Gragas!

Even if he called Graves over to gank, Jax would turn on his Counter Strike and rush up to keep him, only to be knocked back by Gragas's belly, spinning in place like a top!

Graves seemed to only be able to gank mid.

But Annie, who bought a Rod of Ages, was ridiculously tanky, and in the gap where Lissandra had no ultimate, she was completely unthreatened.

And on the eve of the Rift Herald fight.

As soon as both mid-laners' ultimates were off cooldown—Annie directly and inexplicably smashed Tibbers onto the face of the full-health Lissandra!

A full set of damage naturally couldn't kill Lissandra, just knocking her health down by two-thirds.

But First Strike was stolen comfortably!

Yagao didn't expect the opponent to act so inexplicably.

But soon, he knew the opponent's intention.

Tibbers can exist for as long as 45 seconds; using him early was just the 150-point instant burst of the ultimate, which didn't have much impact on Annie's roaming utility and fighting.

The true combat power of the ultimate is Tibbers' sustained combat power!

And Lissandra had already used her TP to return to the lane in the previous wave; she definitely had to recall in this state, and definitely wouldn't have time to head to the Rift!

Yagao sighed in his heart at the clarity of the opponent's strategy, which was completely taking the "utility" positioning to the extreme—not seeking kills or laning suppression, only pursuing team effects!

Rift Herald refreshed.

V5's top and jungle duo went to start it openly, and Annie just commanded Tibbers to push the wave mid, while she herself moved out early.

Both bottom duos laning normally.

Seeing that Tristana and Yuumi's equipment was too good, and the bottom duo hadn't hit level six, Graves could only take the opportunity to invade the opponent's bottom jungle...

But in the god's-eye view.

Annie, however, did not head to the Rift.

"Annie went to the bottom lane!"

"But BLG does have defensive vision at the jungle entrance, oh my, Annie's position is cutting the distance, Hai flashes over the wall, directly bringing Tibbers to his side!"

"All details!"

If she had Hexflashed over the wall directly, Tibbers couldn't have followed, which would have led to the person and bear being disconnected.

So Ye Bo commanded Tibbers to stand at the edge, and Annie Hexflashed over the wall, with the person and bear crossing the wall together!

"BLG's bottom lane has already retreated into the tower, but Tibbers can enter to tank the tower!"

"Hmm???"

Tibbers replaced the minion wave as the tower tank.

Annie, however, stood at the edge of the defense, repeatedly "going in and out."

And only to see the defense tower's laser constantly emitting a hum, the head turning back and forth, jumping between Tibbers and Annie, yet it didn't fire a single shot, actually controlling the defense tower for nearly three seconds!

A "Dance of Annie and Bear"!

This is the mechanism of {using Tibbers to deal damage, the defense tower will turn to attack Annie's main body}, constantly making the defense tower "switch" targets but unable to complete the "lock," making the laser's heating speed extremely slow, completely unable to protect the person under the tower!

Tristana had already arrived and jumped into the tower!

BLG's bottom duo still wanted to operate.

But facing the Pyromania point-and-click that had no room for operation, and the defense tower that only started firing bullets at this moment, there was simply no extra room for operation.

Renata, having taken the detonation of the Explosive Charge, fell directly to the ground!

"Wow, this tower dive is too desperate! What is this!"

"BLG seems to want to get their revenge at the Rift, but Annie teleported back to mid immediately after killing the bottom lane. The TP saved in the previous wave became a foreshadowing, not giving any opportunity at all!"

"Mainly because Wei was still clearing the jungle and didn't arrive..."

Tabe in the background didn't expect the game to develop like this.

According to their pre-match expectations, as long as Jax reached the split-pushing stage, he could show off his skills, and the bottom lane laning should also be an advantage.

As long as the mid-laner tied up the opponent, the tempo should have been completely in their hands, just like the game they won in the regular season!

But in this game, let alone the bottom lane laning.

The key is that the mid lane didn't tie up the opponent at all, but was instead tied up by the opponent!

Tabe suddenly realized...

—If both mid-laners pick utility mid-laners, the opponent's utility seems to have a greater effect than theirs?

Why can this person still have operations when playing such utility heroes!

And unsurprisingly, the top lane also had an accident.

Chen Zebin, who was driven crazy, just wanted to prove his Jax, just like Ye Bo's Akali "Expert Counter."

He insisted on proving that Jax could beat Gragas!

If it were a Gragas with less proficiency, he might really have found some room for operation.

But this is the oiliest oil barrel in the LPL!

Jax didn't turn on Counter Strike, suddenly Q-ed onto his face, wanting to use the Q CD difference to bait out Gragas's E, but Brother Shengqiang Ge didn't fall for it at all!

Landing steadily, he forced out Counter Strike with QW, and only then did he use his belly to bump him.

Chen Zebin, who really couldn't find an opportunity, had his eyebrows twitching wildly. 【226】 He just felt he was full of anger!

He just felt absolutely furious!

"Brother Bin, are you still going to jump up?"

"Brother Shengqiang Ge is not afraid at all, a precisely distanced Q to bury the retreat, and then uses his belly to knock Jax back into the range of the Q!"

"This health! Could it be!"

Gragas, seeing the health opportunity, continued to chase and kite.

Waiting for the skill CD to be ready, he directly threw his ultimate Explosive Cask forward!

In this position, Jax could actually just flash backward honestly, use the ultimate to blow himself away, and escape, and that would be the end of it.

But Chen Zebin insisted on not—perhaps players from Huanggang all have the "Flash can only go forward" buff.

Or perhaps Chen Zebin was obsessed with killing Brother Shengqiang Ge, choosing to use Flash to charge forward head-on, dodging the Explosive Cask while Q-ing close again to force a face-to-face fight!

And then, he was knocked away by Gragas's belly, spinning in the air for a circle before landing.

Gragas followed up with a smash and Drunken Rage to kill him!

"Solo kill! Brother Shengqiang Ge completed a solo kill on Brother Bin!"

"This avenged the regular season grudge~"

"But I have to say, Gragas really counters Jax a bit..."

The commentary desk still wanted to excuse the top lane, but the bullet comments were already passionately stringing together.

【Brother Bin, why did you lie to us!! (crying voice)】

【Ho ho ho, didn't you say you could win if you picked it, why were you solo-killed, duck 0.0】

【Don't be awkward, my Brother Bin never lies; he only said he could win if he picked it, he didn't say who could win!】

【The truth is the BP problem, the coach is fully responsible! Jax vs Gragas is really speechless, why not ban it? Why pick it first if you don't ban it? I don't understand】

【Didn't you say in the pre-match promo that you dared to pick it if they dared to leave it open? You purely put yourself on the rack!】

【I can only say, there is a gap between experts! Do you really think anyone can be the King of Akali who ignores counters?】

The bottom lane was also reporting victories.

Yuumi's ultimate in this patch is very ridiculous, providing high dual-resistances to her best friend—the fighting and standing-and-trading ability is ridiculously strong!

The demolition team Tristana showed her face whenever she saw someone; Deft was simply playing Tristana as a Yordle Caitlyn.

Cooperating with Annie's crazy roaming, and the point-and-click deterrence of the fire-type cards, the side lane pushing was extremely smooth.

The essence of this utility mid-laner is actually to let the mid-laner do things instead of the jungler, allowing the jungle-carry hero to safely control resources or farm.

Yagao's Lissandra could only follow and run hard.

Neither mid-laner ate many minions, but this revealed another layer of meaning for Annie bringing First Strike.

It can also be considered Ye Bo's unique understanding of utility heroes.

That is, the carry playstyle of utility heroes—"Fighting to Sustain the Fight!"

By 18 minutes, although Annie's CS was about the same as Lissandra's, the equipment advantage had long since widened.

Of course.

BLG being able to become a contender for "LPL's Little King" also has its unique points.

Compared to JDG, BLG's characteristic is that the whole team dares to fight and struggle; they absolutely won't shrink back to farm when at a disadvantage.

Especially mid-laner Feng Xuejuan, who is very willing to proactively look for opportunities and is not afraid of taking the blame at all!

Yagao's multiple physical holds for teammates to trade for kills were pure dedication!

At the same time, Bin's Jax, after getting Divine Sunderer, although still couldn't do anything about Gragas, at least was no longer so afraid in the single lane, and could even circle around with Graves in the jungle.

Elk and ON's bottom lane also dared to operate, constantly trading kills in the disadvantage, so the economy didn't completely collapse.

However, when it came to the unavoidable 5v5 resource team fight.

The "Fire Monkey Combo" began to show its power.

The skill ranges of the two ultimate-flow heroes highly overlapped, and the double control and double burst could compensate for the control chain and output.

Whether it was Xun's Wukong stirring up the situation first, or Annie's flash-fire-bear super hard initiation, they could all connect to a set of terrifyingly bursty hard initiation means!

Renata's ultimate was evaporated before she could cast it many times, and she could only flash emotes with her corpse in place...

That Jax who circled around still wanted to enter the fight—but with Gragas on the field, he could easily complete a "solo defense" against him!

What Gragas really counters Jax with isn't laning.

It's team fighting!

Jax didn't even get within 300 meters of the dual carries the whole time.

And on the front battlefield, the Monkey King was stirring up and sweeping through BLG's formation.

Just at the moment of the knock-up, Annie's Tibbers, carrying hellfire, descended from the sky!

The Pyromania flame shackles.

Fixed four enemies in the center of the destruction cross.

Tristana, in cannon form, began to take off, one by one, smashing heavy hammers onto the tops of the opponent's heads!

Finally, 23 minutes.

V5 members stepped over the wreckage of the enemy generals and headed to crush the crystal!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 217 =====