Chapter 221: The Dao is one foot high, the Grandpa is ten feet high

"Looking at the laning situation in this game, I feel BLG will mainly face some pressure in the top and jungle," Guan Zeyuan was still analyzing the team compositions. "However, one must say, Camille is definitely Bin's true trump card weapon!"

"The fact that he still confidently locked it in immediately after seeing Renekton shows his confidence!"

Barrier nodded and added, "As for mid lane, Neeko is rarely seen, so it's hard to talk about the laning situation, but Zoe's early laning ability is still quite strong."

"Uzi, what do you think about this laning situation in the bottom lane?"

Uzi, having the topic thrown at him, also loudly expressed his understanding: "Theoretically, Caitlyn is definitely not afraid of any AD in lane! Plus, this hero doesn't rely much on the support for laning; she can play by herself anyway!"

If nothing else, Uzi is well-known for his signature pure auto-attack marksmen like Caitlyn.

Last year's Worlds was a huge loss because LPL teams couldn't understand the Caitlyn system, and the public opinion environment at the time also brought a wave of discussion to Uzi.

And as the most outstanding Caitlyn user in last year's Worlds, Deft is absolutely beyond doubt.

The BLG team voice chat was communicating nervously.

"You must help me watch the jungle early on; I will gank more this game." Wei, having finally gotten a comfortable hero, was prepared to show off.

Of course, he also knew why V5 chose to leave Sejuani open.

Compared to Vi, Maokai, and Poppy.

Sejuani, whose crowd control is relatively the most unstable, would be at a clear disadvantage in a 1v1 against Kindred in the jungle!

Although Sejuani's damage and fighting ability are not bad, they all require maintaining close-quarters combat. Whether it's her slow Q displacement or her ultimate, it's very easy to be outplayed by the agile Kindred.

"Then you can come mid more." Yagao, whose expression looked slightly listless, immediately responded, trying to perk himself up with a deep breath.

However, Chen Zebin didn't make a sound when he heard this.

Even though he had already seen Kindred's mark hanging over his head.

He had always been very "disdainful" of those top laners who called for help, believing that even if you crushed the opposing top laner that way, it wouldn't prove that you were strong!

Indeed, he never actively called for the jungler.

Especially when he recalled the defeats of the previous two games, thinking of his bold words in the pre-match trash talk, only for his Jax to be solo-killed and his K'Sante to be spun like a top by Akali.

Now, only by using his proudest LoveCamille to slaughter everyone in this third game!

Could he forget the defeat in one fell swoop and prove himself!

Tabe's words during the mid-game break had poked exactly at this guy's psychological trigger point.

Isn't it just a signature trump card?

I am determined to prove that my trump card is no worse than yours!

This was also one of the reasons why he confidently locked in Camille immediately after seeing the Renekton, which is not easy to play against.

In the last game, Ye's hero disadvantage was even greater than this matchup, and he received even more gank targeting, yet it didn't have much effect, did it?

I am determined to prove that if he can do it, so can I!

Fortunately, the BLG members hadn't forgotten Tabe's repeated instructions before the game, and everyone was on high alert as soon as they left the base.

Regarding the defense against Bard at level one.

Beryl's Bard had left such an impressive mark with those strange designs that seeing this hero appear during the draft phase already made people's imaginations run wild.

Especially for the few dangerous positions where Bard might enter, they had made key defensive watch.

However, due to the "five wards at level one" in the second game, it was instead countered by V5 into a key level difference for early jungle invasion—the jungle situation in this game was no better than the last, so BLG naturally couldn't trip over the same stone twice.

In this game, they only adopted a conservative man-to-man positioning.

"Neeko is here, be careful they might be planning to come in from below!" Zoe, who had come to stand at the river entrance, bumped into Neeko appearing from the opposite bank and immediately reported the information nervously.

The three people in BLG's bottom half were suddenly on high alert.

And ON's Rakan, relying on the hero being agile enough, was safe whether he leveled W or E at level one, and walked out of the river to scout for vision.

Subsequently, he saw the Caitlyn and Bard bottom lane duo also appear in the river.

Moreover, the direction those two were heading in was clearly very suspicious; they were moving toward the bot lane minion wave, which made no sense, and when combined with Bard's bizarre portal opening...

"Three people in the bottom half!"

"Could they really be wanting to come... wait, no? What is he pretending for!"

Rakan thought the opponents would give up the idea once they saw him; after all, this kind of design relies on information asymmetry, and if you rashly enter after losing the initiative, you might get countered and ambushed by the opponent!

The V5 bottom lane duo seemed to have indeed given up the idea when they saw Rakan.

Only, they didn't expect that the next moment, Bard would start wiggling his round belly, and Caitlyn would also start spinning her sniper rifle in place to perform acrobatics.

They were actually dancing right in front of Rakan's face!

More importantly, the position Bard was standing in was a bit too far forward.

Even with Neeko behind, this positioning was no different from standing in the middle of the road, with absolutely no place to hide on either side!

ON was already extremely unhappy by this game; his expression during the last game showed he was carrying anger.

For two consecutive games, he thought his bottom lane laning was good, but the opposing bottom lane just kept winning!

Being mocked like this now, he suddenly felt a fire rising in his heart.

"Zhao Jiahao, get him!"

Elk and ON got along very well and instantly understood each other's meaning.

The change in the bottom lane quickly attracted everyone's attention, and Zoe was also walking toward the bottom side at the first opportunity.

And the two of them quietly arrived at the wall, where Bard and Caitlyn were still dancing.

It wasn't until Rakan walked out that the two immediately retreated upward...

Only, what was a bit funny was—the retreating Bard was actually still dancing!

It looked as if the "model had glitched," twitching and shaking his belly in the air; while the movements looked even more ridiculous, the mocking intent was more than doubled!

ON felt an nameless fire rise up even more.

Usually, I am the only one who understands dancing the best!

Mainly because this Bard's dance moves weren't even good!

"I'm going in!"

After ON shouted, he directly and fiercely flashed forward and W 【Grand Entrance】 to knock them up.

Rakan's mobility during the laning phase is clearly much higher than Bard's; even if both sides traded flashes, Bard would definitely be the one hurt more.

But Beryl, whether his reaction was slow or he wanted to save his flash, didn't flash when facing the Rakan crashing into his face, and was still dancing while following the Caitlyn in front to escape.

Grand Entrance directly knocked Bard into the air!

Yagao seized the opportunity to instantly learn E, and using the thick wall on the side of the blue side's bottom triangle brush, threw out a precisely positioned ultra-long 【Sleepy Trouble Bubble】 flying toward Bard!

But...

The bubble missed!

It clearly couldn't be that Yagao threw it crookedly.

The proficiency of Yagao's Zoe is at least in the top three in the LPL; in a situation where a teammate had already initiated control, he could hit it with his eyes closed!

The reason was because—Bard had actually "disappeared"!

To describe it more accurately, it couldn't be said he disappeared.

Because the moment Bard disappeared, a purple light of illusion bloomed on his body, and a voice full of playful mischief came: "They fell for it~~"

"WTF!?"

"Neeko??"

"It's not like we've seen a ghost!"

Of course, ON didn't think at the first moment that one of those two might be Neeko in disguise, after all, Neeko was also in the bottom half just now.

But if it really was a disguise... then that would actually be even better!

Compared to trading for Bard, it's clearly more profitable to trade for Neeko's skills; they were wishing that one was Neeko!

But the fact just shown was—that Bard wasn't the real Bard either, but an illusion clone created by Neeko's W 【Shapesplitter】.

The problem lay right here.

Even if Neeko hadn't appeared on the professional stage for two years before this, she was definitely considered a niche hero, and the low development level was one of the reasons the designers decided to rework her.

But no matter how niche, at least everyone knew that Neeko's W 【Shapesplitter】 could only exist for a very short time!

At most, it couldn't exceed 3 seconds.

But just now... that Bard and Caitlyn, the two of them had danced for at least nearly 10 seconds!

While the three BLG bottom lane members were still full of question marks, there was another shout in the voice chat.

The BLG top and jungle duo, who were staying in the top half, had actually relaxed their vigilance when they saw the three enemies appear in the bottom half.

With only Renekton and Kindred left, what could they do at level one?

And Camille had been crouching in the brush at the entrance of their own blue buff area, and even deliberately adjusted her positioning slightly, making herself stand at the "edge" of the brush...

But who knew.

A Bard who had just walked out from around the corner—threw out a Q skill 【Cosmic Binding】!

Chen Zebin's reaction was already god-like; even though his perspective was watching the battle in the bottom lane, he caught a glimpse of the red dot on the mini-map and immediately pressed the spacebar to switch the screen back.

But Bard had "blindly" Q'd before placing the ward.

It was as if Bard knew Camille would be standing in that position in the brush!

And why was Caitlyn there too!?

"Camille was pinned to the wall by a blind Q and stunned! Caitlyn followed up with a trap, Kindred hung an E, and Renekton walked up to connect with W control! They're going to be controlled to death!!"

"Bin's desire to survive exploded and he flashed, but Xun decisively flashed over the wall, and with Press the Attack plus Mounting Dread, the wolf spirit pounced; the damage calculation was precise, directly killing him with one shot!"

"First blood taken by Kindred!"

"This time, Yuanshen-ge's luck is a bit explosive, can he even 'guess' right like this? The brush actually still has a bit of range; if he were a step slower, Camille might have reacted in time!"

Both the commentary desk and Tabe in the back office thought it was a lucky guess.

Because from the god's-eye view, it could be seen clearly that V5 indeed didn't have vision of Camille's positioning, and Bard clearly used the Q skill blindly.

But, could it really be just good luck?

Of course not!

Beryl guessed Camille would be standing in that position.

It was because in his view, if the opposing coaching staff "knew how to play," someone would definitely be standing in that position!

Beryl's most famous Bard design was the tunnel he placed by brushing the vision limit of the thick wall in front of the bottom lane's first tower.

It was precisely this design that nearly overturned EDG in the final desperate situation.

And the blue side's top lane was exactly the mirror image of the red side's bottom lane.

And it's disgusting to defend against this design, because placing a ward in that position in your own jungle is completely useless, extremely wasteful, and provides no help for subsequent jungle invasions or river scouting.

Then, is there any way to defend against it?

Yes.

Just let a hero stand at the edge of the blue buff entrance brush.

However, it must satisfy three conditions: be a hero, stand in the entrance brush, and be at the edge of the brush.

Placing a ward doesn't work!

Because {a hero's vision acquisition range is slightly further than a vision ward's}!

As long as you test it, you will find that if you want to use vision to detect that thick wall to get the tunnel position, you must have a hero act as a "human ward," standing at the edge of the entrance brush for defensive detection.

This is the only reasonable defensive measure.

It can only be said that fortunately, BLG's coaching staff is not yet at the level of a Koffing-level idiot.

Because this design—I fear the opponent is a noob! They don't know this point!

"Bin, he even flashed this time, this is so painful!" Guan Zeyuan shook his head, heartbroken.

"And Kindred marked the top laner right out of the base; Xun is so comfortable! He got a mark at the very start!"

Barrier noticed Neeko's operation just now: "Master Ye's hat trick is a bit exaggerated; one person disguised as three! He tricked everyone on BLG!"

"This wave can be said to be the real key, because BLG thought the danger was in the bottom half at the first moment, and had no defense for the top half!"

"They never expected that there could be four people in the top half!"

The director also happened to provide a replay from the god's-eye view.

Neeko first deliberately appeared at the river entrance where someone would inevitably be, then took a step to the corner of the vision and disappeared, first transforming into Bard.

Then she summoned Shapesplitter, summoning a "Bard" clone—and then quickly "transformed twice" into Caitlyn!

This is considered Neeko's most practical little trick, using the interaction between passive transformation and W to create the illusion of three people on one side of the map.

But clearly, the point of this wave wasn't this.

The real point is: why could the clone created by Shapesplitter exist for so long?

Although Bard's dance moves weren't good, the key to this wave was that seemingly mocking "dance"!

The designer designed a hidden "entertainment mechanism" for Neeko: {Neeko's clone can extend its existence time by three times when {dancing} and {recalling}}.

It's just that the designer also set a restriction: once the clone dances or recalls, Neeko cannot use the Alt key to control and move the clone afterward.

Theoretically, this would have no strategic significance.

Unfortunately.

The devil is one foot high, the Grandpa is ten feet high!

When Ye Bo was researching, he discovered that as long as you use the follow command on the main body before the clone dances.

You can let the clone execute the last "follow command," and then start dancing.

Although you really can't continue to operate it afterward.

But what does the operation I performed in advance have to do with not being able to operate it later?

As long as you do this, Neeko's main body can "lead" the clone to move—and that's why the movement trajectory of Bard moving while dancing appeared.

{One Qi transforms into three pure ones! Kid! }

{Neeko is really shameless! Master Ye, I'll remember you! How dare you trick my Bin! }

{V5 is too bad, look at what they've teased my BLG into, they're just teasing my great Biluochun. }

{Villain hero! It doesn't count if you win! }

{What does this count as? Neeko can turn into everything in the background story, but in the game, she can only turn into heroes, too weak~~}

{I can only say the designer probably didn't expect Neeko's entertainment mechanism to be used like this; Master Ye is definitely the number one public enemy of the Riot design team! }

Chen Zebin's eyebrows were shaking like lightning; those who didn't know would think he bought Dongting Lake peripherals and his headphones were leaking electricity.

Getting flashed and giving up first blood at the start, he was supposed to prove himself this game!

His last trump card was slapped in the face, and he was with the top laner he looked down on the most...

After struggling for a long time.

He still opened his mouth and said: "Uh, jungler, you can come gank top later."

"OK OK!" Wei naturally responded to the Crown Prince's request and set about changing his jungle path.

And Yagao, who had already agreed to come mid, didn't say anything.

Although he leveled E at level one, he thought there shouldn't be any problems with the laning in mid.

This is his "most familiar" Zoe!

However, when the minion waves clashed.

When Yagao saw a "Caitlyn" walking out from under the opponent's tower that was clearly Neeko transformed, he didn't feel anything at first.

Until the laning started...

"Neeko is crazily crossing the minion wave to poke Zoe! Gao Gao's laning is so uncomfortable!"

"After Neeko transforms into Caitlyn, she simultaneously inherits Caitlyn's number one attack range in the League! Plus the passive three-ring heavy strike effect of W, this level one suppression is too explosive!"

"Looking at it this way, Caitlyn is really Neeko's best partner; this is called the perfect utilization of hero mechanics!"

650 yards of attack range, plus the bonus damage from the Shapesplitter passive, plus Ye Bo's exquisite auto-attack stealing technique.

He suppressed Zoe so hard at level one that life was worse than death.

Making Yagao, who had experienced two games of "unfair laning" before, clearly feel the laning pressure of "parallel confrontation" at this moment.

Most importantly, Zoe leveled E at level one and couldn't fight back at all now!

Because as long as Neeko's W clone is cast properly—it can get close and block the Sleepy Trouble Bubble for Neeko's main body!

Yagao almost used the price of missing the entire first minion wave to barely survive the level one suppression period, and only started normal laning after leveling up to level two and learning the Q skill.

But it seemed even more wrong!

Yagao discovered, why is this Paddle Star so hard to hit the opponent?

Am I not familiar with Zoe anymore?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 222 =====